Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfer.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 3: In the high tech Texan.
Speaker 4: Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan.
Speaker 3: Its to make life easier technology, and Michael Garfild has
Speaker 3: something you might want.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the
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Speaker 1: You know I could start my show by talking about
Speaker 1: some important issues like the Israel Hamases fire, the inauguration
Speaker 1: of the new president, the fires that continue to devastate
Speaker 1: the LA area. You know I could also, you know,
Speaker 1: I probably even should kick things off with this technology
Speaker 1: related news about the potential TikTok shut down this weekend,
Speaker 1: or maybe following up on all the CEES products that
Speaker 1: I'm still playing in reviewing. But nope, because just as
Speaker 1: I turn on this microphone to blast my long running
Speaker 1: talk show across the huge state of Texas and most
Speaker 1: all over the world on the iHeartRadio network and podcast,
Speaker 1: I open my recent bill from Comcast, you know, the
Speaker 1: company that provides my internet and cable to keep me
Speaker 1: entertained and informed. Pretty much every hour of my life.
Speaker 1: It allows the connection to broadcast this show to you.
Speaker 1: Well guess what, yep, they just raised their prices again.
Speaker 1: And all I can today is Comcast is very lucky
Speaker 1: that I have to abide by FCC rules and I
Speaker 1: can't go scorched earth on them by using cuss words,
Speaker 1: not now at least, But I'll dance around that and
Speaker 1: I'll just tell everyone if you have yet to cut
Speaker 1: the cord. Now the word in New Year, people, it
Speaker 1: is finally timed to tell your cable and internet company
Speaker 1: to kiss your grits. I've already paid too much and
Speaker 1: I don't even sometimes I don't even look at my
Speaker 1: belt and I get my bill on email and I'm
Speaker 1: sitting down and I'm clicking, Okay, what's my automatic pay
Speaker 1: going to be?
Speaker 5: This?
Speaker 1: It went up twenty five bones. I am now paying
Speaker 1: over three hundred dollars a month for internet access and
Speaker 1: not even one upgraded HBO ish type of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm ticked. And this is I am the techno for
Speaker 1: twenty four years now. I am the guy who promotes,
Speaker 1: who tells you about everything technological, the king of tech
Speaker 1: in Texas, if not around the world. I used to
Speaker 1: endorse in folk long time listeners who live in Houston, specifically, Well,
Speaker 1: and I'll sell with other parts of Texas too. Do
Speaker 1: you remember when Houston's main cable company used to be
Speaker 1: Time Warner, And we're gonna go back twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty five years. It was Time Warner and Time Warner.
Speaker 1: They were the first ones to introduce high speed internet
Speaker 1: and it was called Roadrunner. People. That's how I got
Speaker 1: my big start. I was the spokesperson for Roadrunner. I
Speaker 1: was on their TV commercials. I was on their billboards.
Speaker 1: I was on their radio spots here, Austin, San Antonio,
Speaker 1: the Valley, wherever there is. Time Warner loved it. Man Again,
Speaker 1: we went from dial up, and I remember I was
Speaker 1: doing the TV commercials that actually made me use that accent.
Speaker 1: I couldn't say just dial up. It's like dial up
Speaker 1: dial up to fast speed. Well, years and years ago,
Speaker 1: Time Warners sold and they swapped their territories. Comcast comes
Speaker 1: in to Houston. I'm like, whatever, okay, and then I'm
Speaker 1: paying my bill one hundred and forty, one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty then it was two hundred. It's just this is
Speaker 1: just stupid. There's no reason I'm paying three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm just out of here. And you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't know anybody at Comcast. This is not serving me.
Speaker 1: I am. I do this show as a public service
Speaker 1: to you. I give you listen, I tell you great products,
Speaker 1: great services to help you. But I am not shine
Speaker 1: when it says, man, you better change. I don't talk
Speaker 1: about Apple a lot because I think there are better,
Speaker 1: better products than Apple, and cheaper products and Apple. I
Speaker 1: don't talk about Sony a lot. I think Sony has
Speaker 1: great cameras and great products, but there's cheaper things. There
Speaker 1: are cheaper things out there. Comcast is not a sponsor,
Speaker 1: never have been a sponsor, and even if they were,
Speaker 1: I would be questioning them too. Just three hundred bones
Speaker 1: for this. Come on, people, time to wake up, and
Speaker 1: this is a good time. At the beginning of a year.
Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty five. Wake up. This is the time
Speaker 1: where people set goals. You want to lose weight. And
Speaker 1: by the way, my gym has been very crowded for
Speaker 1: the past week and a half, so I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: it about another week and a half and then all
Speaker 1: you other people will stop coming. This is the time
Speaker 1: to look at your bills. This is the time to
Speaker 1: look at all your streaming services and saying what am
Speaker 1: I doing? I am paying more for all of these
Speaker 1: services combined that I used to be paying for one
Speaker 1: cable bundle. Maybe it's time to renegotiate your least your
Speaker 1: mortgage to move to check your insurance. My insurance. Listen,
Speaker 1: my insurance rates were just raised. I know this LA
Speaker 1: fire is not helping anybody's insurance rates. Luckily, I have
Speaker 1: a really good insurance company who shops around. They send
Speaker 1: me an email by a week ago, Hey Michael, you
Speaker 1: know your rates are being raised for your car, your auto,
Speaker 1: your home. It's time to look at and they came back.
Speaker 1: They came back and helped me. That shout out capacity
Speaker 1: and insurance company who was in Houston. And by the way,
Speaker 1: they work all around Texas. And again that's not an endorsement.
Speaker 1: These guys have long been great. They're out there working
Speaker 1: for me. Is there an I'm serious? Maybe the high
Speaker 1: tech text and me my brand should start an insurance
Speaker 1: shopping company type of service for cable rates or cell
Speaker 1: phone plans. Cost your getting out of hands. Listen, I
Speaker 1: am not old guy on your lawn. Ironically, I turn
Speaker 1: older in about two and a half weeks at a
Speaker 1: milestone milestone. I got a milestone birthday. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about it right now, but I'm just hear for you.
Speaker 1: I am a consumer awareness guy. That's what I talk about. Listen,
Speaker 1: I got another hour and forty five minutes wherever you are.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the products that I'm continuing
Speaker 1: to test the Consumer Electronics Show. I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: about the TikTok band. What do you do? By the way,
Speaker 1: if you think talk is gonna go bye bye in
Speaker 1: the next probably twenty four hours or whenever you're listening
Speaker 1: to this, I'm gonna tell you how to quickly save
Speaker 1: all your videos so you don't lose them. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk to you about Listen, it's super Bowl season coming up.
Speaker 1: This is the time to buy new TVs. I got stuff,
Speaker 1: I got questions, I got answers. If you want to
Speaker 1: hit me people rant, feel free to rant on your
Speaker 1: expensive bills right now. Here's the number three four six
Speaker 1: twenty nine Texan T e X A N. That's how
Speaker 1: you'll get to me. For some reason, we do not
Speaker 1: pick up. Feel free to leave a voicemail, and we
Speaker 1: will have the rights to play your voice on this
Speaker 1: radio show. And I want you to rant. It's get
Speaker 1: it out because I'm I really am a nice, generous,
Speaker 1: good information bearing gentleman, an eagle scout. True, but sometimes
Speaker 1: if people, if companies rile my skin. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: the right to do it. I have the platform to
Speaker 1: do it two plus decades. I have this microphone, this thing.
Speaker 1: Hear that all you can hear I'm tapping microphone. I
Speaker 1: can help you, not the freaking court. And by the way,
Speaker 1: big companies like Comcast, they monitor, they monitor the airwaves.
Speaker 1: Are they mentioned on social media? Are they mentioned on TV?
Speaker 1: They mentioned on radio? I hope they're listening right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know body. So here's what I'll do. Comcast, Comcast, Comcast,
Speaker 1: Comcast Exfinity, Exfinity, Exfinity Exfinity. Okay, So for all you
Speaker 1: monitoring services, Comcasts and Exfinity, I hope you're listening to this.
Speaker 1: I would love to have somebody on my show so
Speaker 1: we could have one to one talk of why the
Speaker 1: freak you keep raising prices? Okay, because you're going out
Speaker 1: of business. People. If it was up to me, man,
Speaker 1: you ain't. I wouldn't invest in that stock because it's
Speaker 1: just you stop riping off consumers, and it's rip it
Speaker 1: off because my service over the past week and a
Speaker 1: half for some reason has been spotty. Had to reset
Speaker 1: my Wi Fi router and everything. And I am the
Speaker 1: guy who's supposed to recommend good services. I ain't recommending
Speaker 1: you who All right, man? If I if I smoke,
Speaker 1: I would take a drag off a heater right now. Nope,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take a swig of iced t and
Speaker 1: come back. When we come back. Let's talk about post CES.
Speaker 1: I was four plus days a considered electronics show. If
Speaker 1: you watch Great Day Uston on TV last week, it
Speaker 1: was me. I brought six or seven or eight products
Speaker 1: that I've been playing with. I'll tell you some of
Speaker 1: the fun stuff that need, stuff that you may need,
Speaker 1: you may not need, and you may probably can't afford
Speaker 1: because you're paying too high on Comcast Bell coming up
Speaker 1: here on the High Tech Texted show. Hey guys, what
Speaker 1: a great weekend.
Speaker 6: Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: All right, is anybody called down?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: My blood still boiling people, which is good, baby, I listen.
Speaker 1: This is a two hour show. I talk fast and
Speaker 1: when my blood is boiling and I'm caffeinated, up, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shove three hours of content into a two
Speaker 1: hour radio show. That's how we do it here on
Speaker 1: the High Tech ex And Michael is the name. For
Speaker 1: those listening in Dallas and who go back to my
Speaker 1: high school or pre high school days, you probably know
Speaker 1: me as Mike Garfield. Let's let's switch it up.
Speaker 7: Just you know.
Speaker 1: Michael is fine. I've matured well. I have to have
Speaker 1: my last rant in the first segment, and I may
Speaker 1: not be that mature, but it's Michael Garf for those
Speaker 1: who we are very tight with phone number here on
Speaker 1: this illustrious radio show, Consumer Lifestyle three four six two
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Speaker 1: nine text and big Hello and happy weekend to Dallas
Speaker 1: Fort Worth on the Mighty Mighty eleven ninety San Antonio.
Speaker 1: What is up there? In Central Texas News Radio twelve
Speaker 1: one hundred wo AI and the flagship Houston Texas KPRC
Speaker 1: nine fifty AM nine to fifty, all part of the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio Network. Been doing this now twenty four years and
Speaker 1: think they things things aren't getting easier. People without a
Speaker 1: doubt I do. Thank you also for following me on
Speaker 1: the social media, which, by the way, none of that
Speaker 1: social stuff was around twenty four years ago when I
Speaker 1: started it. Trying to kill it right now like my
Speaker 1: kids on Instagram. High tech texit Hi g h T
Speaker 1: e h T e x a N. Last week I
Speaker 1: started this is why you need to follow me doing
Speaker 1: some video showing some stuff I got from CEES last
Speaker 1: week the Consumer Electronics Show, some fun videos, stuff behind
Speaker 1: the scenes when I was on Great Day Houston just
Speaker 1: this past week, showing off the showcasing some things. I
Speaker 1: even gave some things away. I think we gave away
Speaker 1: a pair of headsets, really cool gaming head sets. I'll
Speaker 1: probably do more this week. You gotta follow, You gotta
Speaker 1: follow Hi g h T e c h T e
Speaker 1: x a N follow unless on the CEES twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I have to say this, after going for twenty three
Speaker 1: years to CES. This year, I think the products and
Speaker 1: the things that I saw on the show floor, I
Speaker 1: think it was more and I'm gonna use this term there,
Speaker 1: it was more shoppable than conceptual. Now follow me over
Speaker 1: here because a lot of the times at CES you're
Speaker 1: gonna see companies roll out some crazy stuff that is
Speaker 1: great for media, great for soundbites, great for little TV
Speaker 1: b roll. Oh, here's a robot that's actually cleaning your
Speaker 1: windows when you live in a high rise. Oh, here's
Speaker 1: a you know, here's a drone that you could sit
Speaker 1: into and you could fly to work. Like the Jetsaids.
Speaker 1: I mean had tons and tons and tons of stuff.
Speaker 1: They're concepts people there for people in the ILK like
Speaker 1: me in the media, who who they want headlines from.
Speaker 1: So I can mention Bosh and Sony and Samsung and
Speaker 1: and TCL and everything, But odds are they're not going
Speaker 1: to be on sale. But this year it seems I
Speaker 1: was walking up and down the halls of the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Convention Center and I'm thinking, you know what, a
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff seems to be already on the
Speaker 1: market on sale. I mean, I got prices on this
Speaker 1: and whatever. And I think it's good. It's more real
Speaker 1: that way, and I think it's good for companies who
Speaker 1: are making good on promises of the past years. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's coming out eventually, I think eventually. It's such I
Speaker 1: love over the past years. Hey, this is neat Is
Speaker 1: it my first? When I interview, and I talk to
Speaker 1: people and companies with products. One of if not, My
Speaker 1: first question is is this on the market now? And
Speaker 1: I just don't like when they say no, but it's coming. No,
Speaker 1: but eventually nobody's coming in the third quarter. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I like talking in the now. You want something now,
Speaker 1: because we live in and now society. If I see
Speaker 1: something I want. If you're if you're hungry and you're
Speaker 1: rolling up and down North Central Expressway and now I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're rolling around uh, you know Loop
Speaker 1: six ten and Houston and you're hungry, and you see
Speaker 1: you want a burger, you want a taco? Oh, this
Speaker 1: is this new Feida coming out, the roll up Fida
Speaker 1: coming out. No, we're advertising it, but it's not gonna
Speaker 1: come out to the end of the year. Ain't gonna
Speaker 1: do me good? People. I want something in ow That's
Speaker 1: my analogy. And I saw a lot of I did
Speaker 1: see some neat stuff at cees. Is it available now
Speaker 1: for the most part year of year. I'm seeing this
Speaker 1: year it's out and about and I like that thinking. Yes,
Speaker 1: we saw some concepts too. When it comes to automobiles,
Speaker 1: you know, I saw some concept cars like for the
Speaker 1: past couple years, Sony and Honda got together to create
Speaker 1: Sony Honda Mobility. Oh, we're coming out with a great,
Speaker 1: great car. It's coming. This is like, this is like
Speaker 1: three two years ago at least, it was called the
Speaker 1: Afila A F E E L A one, the Afila one. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what I actually saw on the show floor. I
Speaker 1: saw the Afila one and it's available right now to
Speaker 1: pre order, nearly five years after Sony announced that its
Speaker 1: intent to enter the EV market. I saw. But it's
Speaker 1: the vision S concept car. They unveiled it a few
Speaker 1: years ago, came up with a name just a year
Speaker 1: or two ago, and now I saw it, and now
Speaker 1: the reservations are opening up, and now they're allegedly delivering it.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe next year. It'saw a lot of TVs
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen inch TV. A lot of the
Speaker 1: stuff's on sale right now. These four k led things
Speaker 1: that roll up and they have suction cups to stick.
Speaker 1: They're out there right now, even the smaller things. You know,
Speaker 1: some of these ear some of these robots, there are
Speaker 1: actually robots. There's tons of robots in terms of vacuuming
Speaker 1: and mopping, robots. There's tons of companies out there. They're
Speaker 1: rolling out those products right now. You don't need to wait.
Speaker 1: So I dig that man. And so when people ask me, hey, man, hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: noticed they didn't say, Mike, hey Michael, Hey Garf, I
Speaker 1: need something right now. I want to go get one
Speaker 1: of them robot mop vacuum type of things. What do
Speaker 1: you recommend? Well, instead of me saying why, I want
Speaker 1: to see yes and allegedly it's coming out in the summer,
Speaker 1: I could say, you know what, here's one from Robo Rock.
Speaker 1: Like robo Rock, Uh, it may not be the cheapest thing,
Speaker 1: but this thing has got more suction power and it's
Speaker 1: got it exchanges the dirty water with clean water by
Speaker 1: itself automatically. Go get this thing right now. So I
Speaker 1: do like that. Some of the gudgets that I showed
Speaker 1: off on on my TV hit on Great Day Houston
Speaker 1: CBS earlier this week, I saw I showed off these
Speaker 1: uh ray Bant meta glasses. Now, these these have been
Speaker 1: on the market for a while, but they continue to improve.
Speaker 1: They continue to have different styles in the wayfair style
Speaker 1: and whatever. But RayBan also is coming out with it
Speaker 1: or the meta part of it. Meta, Facebook, Instagram. They're
Speaker 1: coming out with software upgrades and I wore these things,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you, for three hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: these are fun and it has been a long time
Speaker 1: since I've actually seen a product that is kind of
Speaker 1: quote unquote fun. You'll put these glasses on and you
Speaker 1: they do. They do a number of things. They're they're
Speaker 1: Bluetooth at the lowest end. They're Bluetooth, which means they
Speaker 1: have speak is built into the frames, the left frame
Speaker 1: and the right frame, which sit on your ears, and
Speaker 1: so when you connect it with your phone, you could
Speaker 1: listen to music, a phone call comes in, you can
Speaker 1: keep your glasses on. There's sunglasses for the most part.
Speaker 1: I have ones that have changing lenses. So I walk outside,
Speaker 1: they become a little bit more dark, which is nice.
Speaker 1: And that's just the first part. The second part of
Speaker 1: these things, and the really kicker right here is the
Speaker 1: fact that they have a built in microphone and they
Speaker 1: have a built in camera. Yes, allah the original you
Speaker 1: know Google glass, the Google glasses from years ago, this
Speaker 1: has improved. It's got a twelve mixel twelve megapixel camera
Speaker 1: that is always front facing looking out built into the
Speaker 1: glasses and so at your command, you could hit a
Speaker 1: button on the top right hand of the frame, or
Speaker 1: you actually can use a command that says head meta,
Speaker 1: take a picture, and it snaps a photo. You could
Speaker 1: actually send it automatically to your phone. It also takes video.
Speaker 1: It takes up to three minutes of recorded video. But
Speaker 1: you can also live stream video of what you're watching.
Speaker 1: Here's your POV. You content creators out there, it's your
Speaker 1: point of view. You can live stream to Instagram and Facebook. Yes,
Speaker 1: you could do that too. But the cool thing is
Speaker 1: the upgrade is now there's AI built in. You can
Speaker 1: actually look at something and you can ask through your microphone.
Speaker 1: You say, hey Meta, what am I looking at? And
Speaker 1: it will tell you in your ears what you're looking at.
Speaker 1: And I've played it. I looked at an apple, Hey Meta,
Speaker 1: what is this? This is a green apple and you
Speaker 1: can get it at a store like that. If I'm
Speaker 1: looking at a If I'm looking at a car and
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what model that is, Hey Meta,
Speaker 1: what I'm looking at You're looking at a twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two Chevy but whatever. It is even better if you're
Speaker 1: going to another country and you do not know the language,
Speaker 1: and you're looking at a street sign, you're looking at whatever,
Speaker 1: and it's in a foreign language. You say, hey, Meta,
Speaker 1: translate this for me as you look at it. Boom,
Speaker 1: it translates it. Things like that. It's helpful, but they're
Speaker 1: also fun. So there is some joy in Mudville. By
Speaker 1: the way, Rest in peace, Bob Buker, who left us
Speaker 1: at ninety years old. Earlier this week, Classic decent ball
Speaker 1: Actually was a crappy ball player, but dang, what an
Speaker 1: entertainer sitting on the ultimate front row right now. Hey,
Speaker 1: new Year coming up? You want some motivation. Got a
Speaker 1: guy in Dallas who I've known for a long time.
Speaker 1: He is a speaker, he is a trainer, and he
Speaker 1: is just he's got more energy than me. Stand by,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you a fire up session. As we
Speaker 1: open up twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: Five years say Test.
Speaker 1: Two were back at it, Michael Garfield. We continue to
Speaker 1: wish you a happy new Year. I guess we could
Speaker 1: technically still say that. I don't. According to Larry David,
Speaker 1: would you have like a week until after the January?
Speaker 1: But who cares? Baby, It's January, It's dry January. We're
Speaker 1: all getting fit. I'm just actually getting back to town
Speaker 1: man as I reached CAP, my Consumer Electronics show, trip
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas, my trip to the Cotton Bowl, which
Speaker 1: we're not talking about. But I'm finally settled into my
Speaker 1: normal regime here on the High Tech Texan Show. We
Speaker 1: have done this now for twenty See I have to
Speaker 1: add the number. It's twenty twenty five. So I've done
Speaker 1: this for about twenty four years right now, and we
Speaker 1: do want to welcome our relatively new audiences. Is in
Speaker 1: Dallas on A the eleven ninety AM and also San
Speaker 1: Antonio and the Big Stick WAI twelve hundred. Well, it
Speaker 1: is my longtime flagship KPRC nine fifty eight M in Houston,
Speaker 1: all over Texas, and I like talking to people all
Speaker 1: over Texas and especially my hometown of Big d in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And I thought I'd be very apropos to bring in
Speaker 1: someone who, now at the beginning of the year, everybody
Speaker 1: talks about I got to get in shape, I got
Speaker 1: to get my life together, and you know, I got
Speaker 1: to stop puttsing around and putting things off. You know,
Speaker 1: it's I can only motivate you so much. I think
Speaker 1: it's time for me to turn to a real motivator
Speaker 1: or somebody who physically is out there getting your butt
Speaker 1: into shape. But also he knows a lot about the
Speaker 1: subject of not procrastinating. He's an author. He's also a
Speaker 1: keynote speaker. He is a trainer. Ironically, he is a
Speaker 1: very very long time childhood friend of mine in Dallas.
Speaker 1: His name is Doug Rice. He's joining me, Doug, I swear,
Speaker 1: if you tell me you're doing push ups right now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill you because I don't need that pressure.
Speaker 5: No hell, I mean I I just finished about half
Speaker 5: an hour ago.
Speaker 1: Johnny, I know you for you lost count at two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty, right.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to keep up with you. That's all
Speaker 5: I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: You keep up by you do that exactly. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: it's great talking to you. I know what. We connect
Speaker 1: and we stay in touch here quite a bit. We
Speaker 1: both have the Texas Longhorns and Dallas and that just
Speaker 1: so many things in common. Let's not talk about that
Speaker 1: game though. It was a hell of a season, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna it's all ours time, all the time. That's
Speaker 1: all we count.
Speaker 5: We can agree on that our beloved Longhorns will be
Speaker 5: back next year and they'll be back bigger, stronger and better.
Speaker 1: You just describe yourself bigger, longer and better. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get into it right now because at our age, and
Speaker 1: we're just going to call it our age. And my know,
Speaker 1: my listeners generally know my age. They know the age
Speaker 1: of my kids and things. It's not getting easier. It's
Speaker 1: you know, we get up in the morning and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe for some not us because we're in shape, but
Speaker 1: maybe there's cracks and you know, creeks and the bones,
Speaker 1: and then you know, are are we going to rut
Speaker 1: in our life? And you know where do we go
Speaker 1: and stop? And I figured, you know, listen, we're just
Speaker 1: a few weeks into the new year, and you know
Speaker 1: this is the stuff that you talk about. I love
Speaker 1: your book. It's called at Now, procrastinate later, to kick
Speaker 1: us off and motivate us. I mean, pretend you're on
Speaker 1: stage right now. What do you say people to get
Speaker 1: their lives going for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: Well, it's twenty twenty five, perst of all, so that
Speaker 5: should be your biggest motivator. We just started the new year,
Speaker 5: and I don't care what Larry David says. I think
Speaker 5: we're still we still can put together some New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 5: And the reason why people like to get started, you know,
Speaker 5: obviously it's in January and they think, okay, we have
Speaker 5: new goals, it's going to be a new me. Well
Speaker 5: that does it works because we want to have some
Speaker 5: to motivate this, and it's time if you have not,
Speaker 5: you know, if you've been putting off getting in shape,
Speaker 5: or you've been eating everything that everything left and right
Speaker 5: since since Thanksgiving and even I indoles a little bit
Speaker 5: to the holidays, it's time to get started again. And
Speaker 5: that is that's what actually my book ACT now that
Speaker 5: that's an acronym. ACT stands for Attitude plus consistency equals transformation.
Speaker 5: It's something I've been preaching my entire fitness career. So
Speaker 5: first thing you have to do is you have to
Speaker 5: get the attitude that you can do this. Sometimes it
Speaker 5: seems overwhelming, Mike, It's like you can't you feel like
Speaker 5: whatever it is. Let's say, let's say you have an
Speaker 5: aggressive weight loss goal of you know, you want to
Speaker 5: lose twenty five thirty five pounds or more something like that.
Speaker 5: Take something extreme or more. Don't feel like you have
Speaker 5: to get it all in one shot. You just have
Speaker 5: to take the attitude, hey I can do this. And
Speaker 5: then the second part, which is that see for consistency,
Speaker 5: you just have to put in the grind, put in
Speaker 5: the work, consistently, show up, and you'll make the transformation
Speaker 5: that you're looking for. And that can work obviously in fitness,
Speaker 5: it can work in any type of career goal, personal goal,
Speaker 5: spiritual goal, whatever goal that you might have.
Speaker 1: People are making list you know I call a vision board,
Speaker 1: dog or whatever you want to call it right now,
Speaker 1: and they have Okay, I'm gonna talk general categories. We've
Speaker 1: got fitness, we've got business, we've got family, and they
Speaker 1: don't know where to start. How do they What suggestions
Speaker 1: do you do for prioritizing which one to start with?
Speaker 1: Or do you try to tackle all three?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean I guess when you say all three,
Speaker 5: I guess there's so many different categories and it depends
Speaker 5: upon the person. And so since people tend to come
Speaker 5: to me most of all for my background and fitness,
Speaker 5: and then the way that I got into the whole
Speaker 5: keynote speaking area was the fact that I realized that
Speaker 5: no matter what it is that you're doing, the same
Speaker 5: traits and characteristics and daily habits that it takes to
Speaker 5: achieve a fitness goal are the same traits and daily
Speaker 5: habits and characteristics that it takes to achieve any goal.
Speaker 5: And that is first thing you have to do. I
Speaker 5: always call it. I call it the one two punch.
Speaker 5: The one two punch is simply number one is you
Speaker 5: have to set the goal. What is that goal. Let's
Speaker 5: just stay with the fitness right now. All right, let's
Speaker 5: just take that. Most people want to get in shape
Speaker 5: in the way they say they want to get in
Speaker 5: shape is they want to lose x number of pounds.
Speaker 5: So the most probably the most common goal is like
Speaker 5: that ten pound fifteen pound range that most people want
Speaker 5: to lose. So the first thing you do is you
Speaker 5: have to set that goal. What is that goal? And
Speaker 5: then the second part of the one two punch is
Speaker 5: this is the key to the whole thing. Listen up, everybody.
Speaker 5: You've got to get started, Okay, So I say, set
Speaker 5: it and then get it. Set it and then get it.
Speaker 5: So you have to start the program. You can't keep
Speaker 5: you know a lot of people what they'll do is
Speaker 5: they'll go buy a new pair of sneakers, to work
Speaker 5: out it and they'll buy do gym clothes, they'll join
Speaker 5: a gym, but they're doing all this busy work and
Speaker 5: that's basically they're kind of it's kind of a workout
Speaker 5: adjacent you might call it. But you've got to get started.
Speaker 5: That is the key, because once you get started, the
Speaker 5: magic starts to happen.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to steal the nikes.
Speaker 5: Just do it.
Speaker 1: They'll sue me, but just do something. And that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. And listen, I've you know, I run a
Speaker 1: longtime runner, thirty year runner, marathoner. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: what a my secrets do. I picked up peloton, I
Speaker 1: picked up biking, and obviously, which is a different thing
Speaker 1: for me, I still go to the gym. It's funny.
Speaker 1: The past week or two, Oh guess what, I've seen
Speaker 1: some people in the gym I haven't seen in about
Speaker 1: fifty one weeks, and in about another two weeks it'll
Speaker 1: clear out. But that's what they do. But at least,
Speaker 1: you know what, I got to give them some dapt
Speaker 1: because they are there. They are at least they are
Speaker 1: trying to start. We speaking with Doug Rice. Doug is
Speaker 1: based in Dallas. He is a trainer and author, keynote speaker,
Speaker 1: among many other things. Flipping through your book here, act now,
Speaker 1: procrastinate later wherever great books are sold. By the way,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in a few minutes. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at some of the chapters over here. Flex your attitudes,
Speaker 1: slim down your excuses, and act now for leadership and
Speaker 1: the reflection of work life and balance. I love I
Speaker 1: see where you're going the whole thing. How these these excuses.
Speaker 1: I think they're hilarious. I mean, you know, we're always
Speaker 1: going to come by excuses. You know, how do you
Speaker 1: come about that stuff?
Speaker 5: Well you have to Well, first thing you have to
Speaker 5: do is you have to realize that we all do it.
Speaker 5: We all want to make excuses. And I always say
Speaker 5: that excuses are kind of the first cousin to procrastination.
Speaker 5: So you start to think of reasons why you can't
Speaker 5: do something and why, you know why I've got to
Speaker 5: do this first, or I want to take care of this.
Speaker 5: Get past the excuses. My biggest fitness tip that I
Speaker 5: tell people, and I've done this for years, and especially
Speaker 5: when I would get somebody like in the media, like yourself,
Speaker 5: that would call me and say, so give me a
Speaker 5: fitness tip. They're writing an article for a magazine or
Speaker 5: online whatever it is. And I think the best tip
Speaker 5: overall is I say, workout every Monday. Why every Monday? Well, obviously,
Speaker 5: because if you start on Monday, you get that workout in,
Speaker 5: You've got your week started off with some momentum, you've
Speaker 5: got you feel like you've got the win that you're back.
Speaker 5: Now I've got my first workout in. And if your
Speaker 5: goal is to work out, let's say three times a week,
Speaker 5: which is a very solid workout plan, then you've already
Speaker 5: got Monday down. You've only got two more to go,
Speaker 5: and you've got the rest of the week to get those,
Speaker 5: uh those two additional workouts in. So start working out
Speaker 5: and put Monday on your schedule every week.
Speaker 1: It makes it makes sense if you're talking to Doug
Speaker 1: Rice and speaking of Doug Rice and working out. Obviously,
Speaker 1: for those those Dallas listeners you have long toadday. Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it a Sunday morning class that I've been to.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's boot camp on steroids for about an hour,
Speaker 1: tell us, tell us about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's boot camp, and yeah it was. It was
Speaker 5: started gosh. I guess now that that Sunday group started
Speaker 5: about ten years ago and it started off as an
Speaker 5: all guys boot camp. Uh And what happened was during
Speaker 5: during that that whole COVID pandemic. I don't know if
Speaker 5: you've heard about that pandemic a few years ago that.
Speaker 1: I thought the media made it up, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Man still questioning that.
Speaker 5: So I actually changed things around at that point and
Speaker 5: we started we just we made it co ed. So
Speaker 5: now there's ladies involved in it too. I had a
Speaker 5: I had an all ladies boot camp for brides for
Speaker 5: many years and then, uh so we put the two
Speaker 5: together and now for Sunday, it's a co ed boot camp.
Speaker 5: It's here in Dallas over the North Dallas area, close
Speaker 5: over over by the Galleria if you're from the Dallas area.
Speaker 5: And anyway, if you want to go to my website,
Speaker 5: you can go to boot Camp nine O two one
Speaker 5: o dot com. Because the nine O two one oh
Speaker 5: was it started off many years ago in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 5: Uh So, anyway, that's where it is, and we have
Speaker 5: it's a it's a total body workout. You'll you'll burn
Speaker 5: some serious calories really uh, really good group of people.
Speaker 5: We have a we we work hard, but we uh
Speaker 5: we also have a good time.
Speaker 1: I love the attitude, you know, it's funny. I want
Speaker 1: to congratulate you and your success. Again, I've known you
Speaker 1: well over fifty years and you're just You're just can
Speaker 1: continue to kick it. And again, as I always tell people, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, while I still have my hair and
Speaker 1: I'm not that rankly, I'm gonna do what I can
Speaker 1: to keep it in the media over here. But one
Speaker 1: of the nicest compliments that I continue to get, it
Speaker 1: really is it's when they realize, you know, I have
Speaker 1: I have a you know, a kid who's thirty and
Speaker 1: at twenty seven and in twenty four and they realize,
Speaker 1: you know, they put my age together. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: what's your secret? While you're so energetic And I look
Speaker 1: at you and I'm gonna say the same thing. You're
Speaker 1: you know, you're just a few young months younger than me,
Speaker 1: and you're even more energetic, and you're you know, much more,
Speaker 1: you know jacked and than now you're you're you're an
Speaker 1: off of the whole thing. And I tell them the
Speaker 1: secret here and again it's you gotta be from Dallas.
Speaker 1: Dallas is the key.
Speaker 5: Baby.
Speaker 1: We are the We're nice Dallas boys. That's it. So
Speaker 1: take that uston. It's in and done it. No. I
Speaker 1: love everyone. Oh I love all my cities, but I
Speaker 1: don't know down here in Houston, they don't look too
Speaker 1: well on Dallas up there. But yeah, Dallas people. Uh.
Speaker 1: Last question, is there a secret at all? Or just
Speaker 1: keep on keeping on this?
Speaker 5: I get the secrets in your mind that that first
Speaker 5: word of back now is attitude. It's all up in
Speaker 5: your head. You have to have that that attitude that
Speaker 5: you can do it. It's a positive attitude that can
Speaker 5: do spirit. It's not hocus pocus mumbo jumbo positive affirmations.
Speaker 5: That stuff actually does work. The reason why it's been
Speaker 5: around for for for you know, millennia. If you go
Speaker 5: back and look at you know, some of the ancient
Speaker 5: philosophers they were talking about how to They didn't call
Speaker 5: it a positive attitude. They called it different things. But
Speaker 5: it does work. And so you have to believe in yourself,
Speaker 5: have that can do attitude and realize that you've got
Speaker 5: to going back to what I just said, if you
Speaker 5: have a goal, you got to set the goal and
Speaker 5: then get started on that goal and you'll you'll be
Speaker 5: amazed at how that magical happened.
Speaker 1: To put on these microphones run around the block right now.
Speaker 1: The guys fired me up so much. His name is
Speaker 1: Doug Rice. Doug if any you already give out the
Speaker 1: website you gave one of your websites. You have to
Speaker 1: have so many damned businesses. What's the main website? People
Speaker 1: want your book and everything else.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so my for my keynote speaking, it's Doug
Speaker 5: Rice Speaker dot com. Doug Rice Speaker dot com. And
Speaker 5: I speak to corporate audiences, associations, you know, educational groups,
Speaker 5: whatever I have. I have some great messages there, you know,
Speaker 5: about having a positive attitude, change leadership, and of course
Speaker 5: boosting productivity, which is one of my big keynotes. So yeah,
Speaker 5: you can catch me there. And of course if you're
Speaker 5: in Dallas, do you want to check out boot camp
Speaker 5: nine or two one oh dot com. I'm there as well.
Speaker 1: The last thing I'm gonna promote one more crazy side
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Speaker 1: Just keep leaving baby. That's all right. His name is
Speaker 1: Doug Rice. Listen, buddy, it's great to see you. Congratulate success.
Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with you. Don't be shy
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. This year, I have you on
Speaker 1: regularly because you know, I like motivational stuff and we
Speaker 1: got to keep on living because this world ain't treating
Speaker 1: us well. But we got to make sure that we
Speaker 1: come out on the other end other size bull as
Speaker 1: long as we can.
Speaker 5: You bet, hey, appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1: You got it, Doug Rice. If you need I'm all right,
Speaker 1: my friends, all right, we're gonna take a break. It
Speaker 1: is Michael Garfield. That's right, Dallas. I've been living in
Speaker 1: Houston and now broadcasting in San Antonio and everywhere else.
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Speaker 1: You fired up? I do thank Doug Rice for joining
Speaker 1: me for a few minutes. Doug Rice, Dallas based trainer
Speaker 1: and offer and a speaker. Good dude, good dude. I've
Speaker 1: known him for a while and need to take some
Speaker 1: I don't know he and I we continue to share
Speaker 1: some marketing ideas. Baby, come on, you gotta market. If
Speaker 1: you don't market yourself nowadays, people you were gonzo, I
Speaker 1: figured that out twenty five years ago, and I came
Speaker 1: up with a high tech Texan for some reason. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I'm relevant, but I'm still around and I
Speaker 1: am here for you. Number for this show three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine dex At three four six two nine
Speaker 1: te x a n shout out terrestrially Houston, San Antonio, Dallas.
Speaker 1: If you're listening this weekend, a big week coming up.
Speaker 1: We've got uh, We've got apparently there's a new president
Speaker 1: taking office this coming Monday. But also Monday, there's going
Speaker 1: to be a new college football champion Crown. I'd rather
Speaker 1: not talk about it. It's still stinging. I was at
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl last week. I don't know who was that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was about about what eight eight days ago, eight
Speaker 1: nine days ago. I was there on the field in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And for those of you who thought you saw me
Speaker 1: roaming behind the esp ESPN cameras, Yes that was me.
Speaker 1: That was me. Sorry, I was there covering it. I
Speaker 1: did have a media credential. I did not sneak onto
Speaker 1: the field. I was allowed to be there. If you
Speaker 1: follow me on social media or some of the the
Speaker 1: certainly my radio stations and in some of the TV
Speaker 1: stations I con attribute to I was give me the
Speaker 1: play by play of the scene down on the field
Speaker 1: at at and T Stadium, and the scene, it was
Speaker 1: a crazy scene. It was if you're a Longhorn fan,
Speaker 1: which which I am. Sorry, that's what That's what you get.
Speaker 1: Tons of people, Bevo is down there, Worldwide press was
Speaker 1: there and all my ESPN people. And listen, if if
Speaker 1: you listen to my show, you know I talk about technology, cars,
Speaker 1: I give advice, whatever. But everybody, if you listen to
Speaker 1: it for a long time, you know what I really
Speaker 1: have wanted to do in life, and I guess it's
Speaker 1: never too late to start. I need to be in sports.
Speaker 1: I am a sports nut, I'm a sports aficionado. I'm
Speaker 1: a sports historian. I love stories and that's what I do,
Speaker 1: and I live on ESPN. I watch esp I was
Speaker 1: bitching about the price of my cable that went up
Speaker 1: in segment one. If you want to hear Scorched Earth rant,
Speaker 1: go listen to this podcast when we're done and my cable.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is, and people who know me, I
Speaker 1: mean personally know me, who hang out with me at
Speaker 1: my crib, ninety six percent of what I watch on
Speaker 1: TV is on ESPN. It's plain as freaking simple as
Speaker 1: that I live on ESPN. It's like I know the broadcasters.
Speaker 1: I critique them, I laugh at them, I'm a fan whatever.
Speaker 1: So when I'm walking around and there's freaking Rhys Davis,
Speaker 1: Pat mcphe, Nick Saban, Desmond Howard, and there's Herbie and
Speaker 1: there's Herbie's dog, and I'm like, oh my goodness, I'm
Speaker 1: in freaking heaven. So I and luckily I am. Luckily,
Speaker 1: Luckily for me, I'm in the business of media and TV.
Speaker 1: I know how TV. I know how ESPN and TV
Speaker 1: and sports are produced. I know where the cameras are,
Speaker 1: I know where the pre impostcan cameras are. Maybe I
Speaker 1: just happened to walk right in in camera shot of
Speaker 1: when I don't know. Laura Rutledge is interviewing the winning coach,
Speaker 1: Ryan Day for Ohio State. Maybe I just happened to
Speaker 1: be standing right behind the two when twenty point six
Speaker 1: million people were tuning in and happen to see me.
Speaker 1: I then had to go actually exchange my battery from
Speaker 1: my cell phone because my cell phone blew up with
Speaker 1: texting calls from all over the world. It was fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: send the tans of the question. That was me. Wasn't
Speaker 1: happy with the outcome, not displeased that Quinn yours is
Speaker 1: no longer he's going to Let's just put it this way.
Speaker 1: I'm a nice guy. I try to be a nice guy.
Speaker 1: Good luck in the NFL, and I hope he is.
Speaker 1: Nothing makes me happier the watching NFL where a former
Speaker 1: Texas Longhorn where I went does something well, and they
Speaker 1: exactly because every time they do well, they get headlines.
Speaker 1: And I'll be the first to say when Quinn you
Speaker 1: weres you know, goes to the playoffs, go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I'm gonna be testing my boys. I'm like, Quin,
Speaker 1: you were fromp Texas from exactly. So anyway, that was
Speaker 1: me at the Cotton Bowl. So do I at the
Speaker 1: point is big week. We got an inauguration, and we've
Speaker 1: got a National Championship game, which now I don't have
Speaker 1: to go to the National Championship to cover because Texas
Speaker 1: will not be there. I will be this coming week
Speaker 1: in San Jose, California. San Jose now last north California,
Speaker 1: just south of San Francisco, so not in the fires
Speaker 1: and everything, because that's down in LA. I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: have to ask Dion Warwick and Burt Backrack how to
Speaker 1: get there. There's a throwback old school right now that
Speaker 1: I just went over the head of about seventy percent
Speaker 1: of my audience. So I'm going to San Jose Silicon Valley,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, for my first time ever. Now
Speaker 1: I've driven through San Jose. But I'm going up there
Speaker 1: because there is an event from Samsung. Samsung, I am
Speaker 1: going up there to cover a product announcement. And if
Speaker 1: anybody wants to know which product announcement it is, I
Speaker 1: can only speculate because I do not know what it's
Speaker 1: going to be. But I am speculating it is gonna
Speaker 1: be some announcements on some new phones. That is Samsung Unpacked,
Speaker 1: and I am just kind of speculating that it may
Speaker 1: be the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty five, maybe the
Speaker 1: S twenty five Ultra. I don't know. I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: and I really could be wrong. So that is why
Speaker 1: you need to follow me on Instagram because my show's
Speaker 1: are only on the weekend, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I
Speaker 1: have no clue why they need me up there for
Speaker 1: four days. But I get to meet the engineers. I
Speaker 1: get to find out all the new AI built in
Speaker 1: products in what's coming out. Maybe there'll be some laptops
Speaker 1: who know. So that that is my week. So keep
Speaker 1: following me over here high Tech Texan on all your
Speaker 1: social media information. Phone number over here, we'll get to
Speaker 1: your phone calls. And again, if you're calling right now,
Speaker 1: we do thank you for that. Three four six twenty
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Speaker 1: just something. Oh, by the way that I just kind
Speaker 1: of enjoyed. I found at cees there are there are,
Speaker 1: there are too many earphones and headphones and speakers to
Speaker 1: talk about. There's just there're earbuds, there's over the ear headphones,
Speaker 1: there's there's there're boombox speakers, is coming back? I got it.
Speaker 1: Just it goes on and on and on. I have
Speaker 1: I don't know what's the over under. I easily have
Speaker 1: a dozen headphones, earbuds just I'm playing with right now.
Speaker 1: I need a garage sale. I need to go on eBay.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's trade something I don't know. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what Comcast, I will trade you a pair
Speaker 1: of headphones a month if you just freaking wipe my
Speaker 1: bill off because it's so expensive. I know, I'm just
Speaker 1: kidding about that, really not So. I've tried all these earphones.
Speaker 1: Some are comfortable, some have good sounds, some have crappy sounds,
Speaker 1: some of they don't have good battery of life. I
Speaker 1: found that this was like almost a throwaway item. I'm
Speaker 1: going up and down the aisles and here's a booth,
Speaker 1: and I'm familiar with this company. It's called And this
Speaker 1: is not an endorsement I'm just Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's called Soundcore. Soundcore you go to soundcore dot com
Speaker 1: and they've got some headphones and earbuds and speakers or whatever.
Speaker 1: So anyway, they were just they were giving some things
Speaker 1: away and I'm like, well, what is this? And there's
Speaker 1: there's these earbuds. They were different. These don't go in
Speaker 1: your ear allah AirPods or Samsung buds or anything like that.
Speaker 1: These don't go over your ears like we have here
Speaker 1: in the radio cans as we call them. These don't
Speaker 1: go around the back of your head and bone conductive,
Speaker 1: which I love. These are clip on earbuds. And for
Speaker 1: me to describe it, let me see if I could
Speaker 1: do it, because I'm a play by play guy. Left
Speaker 1: right on your radio dot They're like ear rings. They
Speaker 1: these are small, little black little things that kind of
Speaker 1: looks like a U shape and you clip one in
Speaker 1: your left ear, you're one in your right ear, right
Speaker 1: in the middle of the ear, the middle on your
Speaker 1: on your ear lobe, and they look like ear rings.
Speaker 1: Now you wear them up a little higher, you know,
Speaker 1: ear rings, they dangle below. Correct, These were the middle
Speaker 1: of the ear, so look a little different. But I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. They don't fall off to sound great. They're
Speaker 1: Bluetooth for the songs obviously, and also the phones. They
Speaker 1: come in a few different colors. You're different, they're neat.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start using these a little bit a lot likely.
Speaker 1: I think the're about one hundred and thirty dollars. It's
Speaker 1: called the Soundcore Arrow Clip. Again, I have a bag
Speaker 1: full of craft like this that I thought, oh, I
Speaker 1: just I use these, and I thought it worked out.
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Speaker 1: all that other stuff. More stuff I'll give away because
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta give I don't need it one.
Speaker 1: I mean my closets. Man, I live in a freaking
Speaker 1: Best Buyer Amazon warehouse. I have so much stuff, so they,
Speaker 1: you know, companies, will give it to me. I brought
Speaker 1: three extra suitcases. I'm not kidding you. They were foldable,
Speaker 1: so I luckily Southwest Airlines, who I live you two
Speaker 1: bags fly free brought back a lot of Joshke's and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them away. And I'm gonna give away
Speaker 1: also if you're in Houston coming up in about uh
Speaker 1: it's about two weeks right now. It is the Houston
Speaker 1: Auto Show. I'm a big auto show. I'm a big
Speaker 1: auto guy. I every week I review autos. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I uh this, what's Michael driving this week?
Speaker 1: I was in a Alpha Romeo Tonale. Tonale got to
Speaker 1: drive that pretty much halfway around the state when I
Speaker 1: was schlepping from Houston to Dallas for the cotton bowling back.
Speaker 1: I'll give you my thoughts on that may be surprised.
Speaker 1: Alfa Romeo sexy name. I don't know. I got all
Speaker 1: trepidation before I could recommend some of those things. But
Speaker 1: anyway to stand by, But I talk about the cars
Speaker 1: and so many other things. Where was I going with this?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Somebody keeping back on track three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine, Texan. A lot of things that I
Speaker 1: like and I yap about and I talk about in
Speaker 1: one of the ways. I need to start with this
Speaker 1: because this is a big weekend, by the way, not
Speaker 1: just because we got we got football yet. If you're
Speaker 1: in Houston, you got your Houston Dexans here playing the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Good luck with that.
Speaker 5: You got.
Speaker 1: You got a new Dallas Cowboy coach, you got well
Speaker 1: trying to be a new cowboy coach. Got a new
Speaker 1: president being inaugurated. We got the fire still going out
Speaker 1: where my two sons live. They're okay. Thank you for
Speaker 1: not asking people lots of We got a new college
Speaker 1: football team gonna be ground. But if you're a TikTok user, people,
Speaker 1: this may be the only thing that is consuming your
Speaker 1: life right now, because with the clock ticking towards this
Speaker 1: possible US ban for TikTok users of this video sharing app.
Speaker 1: You may be wondering what does it mean to you?
Speaker 1: Long story short, it's parents. It's parent company based in Beijing, China.
Speaker 1: It's called byte Dance. They're reportingly planning to shut down
Speaker 1: the app entirely on Sunday if the federal ban on
Speaker 1: this app goes into effect. All right now, if that
Speaker 1: comes to pass, you could be locked out of your
Speaker 1: favorite videos that you made, that others made or whatever.
Speaker 1: Now to us, somebody needs to find a buyer. And
Speaker 1: I was. I was trying to, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: get a few people bring and brings, you know, get
Speaker 1: our shekels, bringing a coin together, and maybe buy it.
Speaker 1: I had no luck. But I actually don't want it
Speaker 1: because of all the social media apps that I have
Speaker 1: used or currently is, I have never downloaded to use TikTok.
Speaker 1: And there's no reason why it's not specifically because it's
Speaker 1: China owned TikTok. I just at that point, after Facebook,
Speaker 1: after Instagram, after Twitter, after app after LinkedIn after another,
Speaker 1: I just didn't need another one. And when TikTok originally
Speaker 1: came around to me, it was for the younger, younger generation,
Speaker 1: now it's not. It's a great platform for advertisers and whatever.
Speaker 1: I just didn't get into it. So I am not
Speaker 1: crying boo hoo, and really no sweat off my back.
Speaker 1: If TikTok lives or dies, I absolutely feel and I'm
Speaker 1: not happy for people who make their living who make
Speaker 1: a lot of extra cash on TikTok, number one of
Speaker 1: which is my influencer, young Son. I'm not happy about that.
Speaker 1: But people, if it goes bye bye, there are other platforms,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give you one an I'm anna analogy guy,
Speaker 1: analogy guy, let's go to professional football. Four years CBS
Speaker 1: showed the NFL the NFL all back in the days
Speaker 1: in the seventy eighties, the NFL had the NFC package.
Speaker 1: It was Pat Somemraw, Tom Brookshire, it was Pat Somemral,
Speaker 1: it was John Madden. They were great. It was it
Speaker 1: was Sundays, it was NFL football. Terry Bradshaw was doing
Speaker 1: play by play, Firm Lunquist and everything. Well, in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four, I believe CBS lost for the first time
Speaker 1: ever in the history of the NFL television. They lost
Speaker 1: that package lost it. It went to Fox. The upstart.
Speaker 1: People were freaking up. People lost their job, Terry Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: they lost their what do they do? Well, guess what.
Speaker 1: The NFL found a new home on Fox. They picked
Speaker 1: up that NFC package. And you know what you did
Speaker 1: as a viewer. You migrated over to Fox and you
Speaker 1: didn't You didn't care because it's the content that you wanted.
Speaker 1: Didn't matter what the platform was at that point, it
Speaker 1: was the content. There's my analogy. If TikTok goes away,
Speaker 1: don't cry people. There are still platforms for short form
Speaker 1: videos for what I ate for breakfast today, for the
Speaker 1: unboxing videos, for you know, follow me and watch me
Speaker 1: put my makeup on all that stuff. Instagram reels, that's
Speaker 1: what that's for. Facebook has something too. So I can't
Speaker 1: tell you what's gonna happen with TikTok, but what I
Speaker 1: will tell you when we come back from this, if
Speaker 1: you do have tick tock, and if you do want
Speaker 1: to save your videos and everything you watch, I will
Speaker 1: tell you abous do that. After the break that's sounds
Speaker 1: what I am.
Speaker 6: I you segue.
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Speaker 1: night or all we know with that is that's how
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Speaker 1: it's I don't I eat there easily over under two
Speaker 1: point five times a week. Awesome, way too last year,
Speaker 1: too good stuff, Cobo Bob's appreciate the partnership there. As
Speaker 1: we continue the high tech texting show, Michael, is my
Speaker 1: name caffeinated up on iced t if you haven't figured
Speaker 1: that out? Not a TikTok guy, don't know what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen to TikTok. The clock is tict tiktoking to hunt
Speaker 1: intended right there? What do you do if you have
Speaker 1: videos that you uploaded a TikTok? How do you save them?
Speaker 1: Are they gone? Well? Will you be able? Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this. For some reason, TikTok goes away. I remember about
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy million Americans use TikTok. And if
Speaker 1: it goes away because it's you know, there's the law
Speaker 1: that it's owned by a Chinese company. I'm not getting
Speaker 1: into the politics of that, but whatever. But if the
Speaker 1: court does helphold the law, the company doesn't sell the
Speaker 1: app to some body, someome company in the US what
Speaker 1: you could expect on Sunday. Under the law, you will
Speaker 1: not be able to download TikTok to your phone. App
Speaker 1: stores like Apple and Google they will have to remove
Speaker 1: the app from their stores overnight or they're gonna face
Speaker 1: some civil penalties. That means you won't be able to
Speaker 1: download the app to your device, and it also means
Speaker 1: by dance, the company won't be able to issue updates
Speaker 1: to the app. If you already have that app, download
Speaker 1: it to your device, Yes, you can still access it.
Speaker 1: The law doesn't make it illegal to have the app
Speaker 1: on your phone, so yes, you can still have it.
Speaker 1: So don't worry if you get pulled over by a
Speaker 1: cop or something like that. Excuse me, sure, can I
Speaker 1: see your phone? Do you have this TikTok app? Got
Speaker 1: and arrest them? Wreck? Come on, cops, Now it's okay
Speaker 1: to have it on your phone. Will you be able
Speaker 1: to access TikTok from a web browser. No, because the
Speaker 1: law applies to the app stores and internet providers alike.
Speaker 1: Now the question how do I keep posts and videos
Speaker 1: that you like? TikTok actually lets you download your posts
Speaker 1: and post from your favorite creators. You want to know
Speaker 1: how to download the post from your favorite creators before
Speaker 1: Sunday real Quickly open the app, Open TikTok, tap the
Speaker 1: share button on a post. Share It's the arrow on
Speaker 1: the right side of your screen. Then you tap save video.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you see how easily I break things down?
Speaker 1: This is why I'm in the business people, simple as that. Now,
Speaker 1: how do you save your own posts? How do you
Speaker 1: save your own post that you want? Because man, it
Speaker 1: was cry It took me eight hours to come up
Speaker 1: with the script, and you know, I had to reshoot
Speaker 1: this and I had to have my wife hold the
Speaker 1: Now you want to save your own post, Open TikTok,
Speaker 1: Go to your profile, hap a post. You'll see three
Speaker 1: dots on the right side of your screen called the
Speaker 1: Hamburg Just whatever three dots you hit save video. People.
Speaker 1: This is why I've been doing this for two decades.
Speaker 1: I make it simple people. That's it. The apps. Then
Speaker 1: gonna the app is going to save those posts your
Speaker 1: photo library. Hey Michael email coming in. Could I use
Speaker 1: a VPN a virtual private network to access TikTok? Good question,
Speaker 1: because VPNs hide your IP dress. They're very They're very
Speaker 1: smart and useful to use on many occasions. If you
Speaker 1: if you use a corporate account and you log in
Speaker 1: remotely like we do it here at ir Right to
Speaker 1: access a lot of things, we have to use a
Speaker 1: virtual private network, many of them out there. It's worth
Speaker 1: paying for a VPN because some of these freebie ones
Speaker 1: they're a little loose a gracy. If you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you could potentially use a VPN on your
Speaker 1: phone or browser to access TikTok. So yes, that means
Speaker 1: a VPN can make it look like you're accessing TikTok
Speaker 1: from London, but you're really you know, you're in Dallas
Speaker 1: or somewhere. But you could also potentially use a proxy
Speaker 1: server to access TikTok. And a proxy server it's US
Speaker 1: like a VPN, and that masks your IP address by
Speaker 1: sending your traffic through another server first. The main difference
Speaker 1: between the two is that a proxy server doesn't offer
Speaker 1: us how comprehensive privacy protections as a VPN does. Now,
Speaker 1: could the incoming president ELECTROMP save TikTok? Not sure, because
Speaker 1: if the law takes effect on Sunday, one day before
Speaker 1: the president's elects inauguration. So if Trump wants to do
Speaker 1: something about the law, it's going to go into effect
Speaker 1: for at least that one day. Who knows, Again, I
Speaker 1: am I can't. I don't understand politics. I'm not delving
Speaker 1: into it. If the Supreme Court upholds the law, there's
Speaker 1: a chance that TikTok could stop working in the US altogether.
Speaker 1: It could. That means if you have the app in
Speaker 1: your device, it won't work. And if the app are
Speaker 1: to shut down entirely in the US, it would be
Speaker 1: really beyond what the law calls for. It's an interesting situation,
Speaker 1: one of the in the technological digital era that anybody
Speaker 1: can define by any decade or so. Let's just go
Speaker 1: back to mobile phones and apps in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: what the second year of the iPhone when apps itself
Speaker 1: were invented. So we've known apps for what fifteen sixteen
Speaker 1: years right now, it's kind of a first But to me,
Speaker 1: and again I'm gonna spend about another minute over here
Speaker 1: about this thing. There are a lot of Chinese owned
Speaker 1: everything that we use here in the United States. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, the automobile industry. There's some phenomenal, smart, inexpensive
Speaker 1: Chinese electric vehicles that I've seen. I saw cs that
Speaker 1: you could probably buy if they ever got over here
Speaker 1: without tariffs and everything. By these things are under twenty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Nope, last administration said, hey, anything any cars
Speaker 1: from China, We're gonna have a fifty percent or so
Speaker 1: tariff from this thing, which is why they're never gonna
Speaker 1: be twenty thousand dollars. They're gonna be forty fifty sixty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Is it to protect our United States owned
Speaker 1: in our research development, in our own companies? Maybe, And
Speaker 1: I'm down with that. That's cool. Did I love me
Speaker 1: some America? I promote America over any other country without
Speaker 1: a doubt. I just I've always said this, man, America
Speaker 1: said many aspects. When it comes to the tech world.
Speaker 1: In some other industries, we are behind. We are behind.
Speaker 1: So who knows this is we're figuring this out, that
Speaker 1: we are figuring this out. Listen, when I was born,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say many years ago, but it's in
Speaker 1: some years ago. Man. Life was different.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: We had black and white TV channels, and then there
Speaker 1: was the color TV, and then there was the remote
Speaker 1: control and you know, and the internet. As we even known.
Speaker 1: It has been around maybe only twenty five years. Phones
Speaker 1: and Apse has only been around fifteen or so years.
Speaker 1: It's changing, evolving. I love talking about it, I love
Speaker 1: following it. You hear my passion, and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: give you the best information that I can. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take another little side step. We're gonna talk about cars
Speaker 1: and automobiles. The Houston Auto Show is coming up in
Speaker 1: about two weeks. If you happen to be in Austin,
Speaker 1: in Houston, even if you're not, of all the auto
Speaker 1: shows that are in this region of Texas, and I've
Speaker 1: been to San Antonio, I've been to the Dallas, I've
Speaker 1: been to the Terran County Houston, without a doubt, stands
Speaker 1: head and shoulders above the rest. We're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: Rochelle Salinas. She runs the Houston Auto Show, which this
Speaker 1: year is combined with the with the Boat Show. It's
Speaker 1: the Auto Boat of Show. And we're gonna give away
Speaker 1: some tickets too, So stand by we'll see what they
Speaker 1: have coming up their slop Here are lots of time.
Speaker 1: You're back at it. Michael Garfield, Happy January. We thank
Speaker 1: you all for tuning in Open phone lines wherever you
Speaker 1: may be across the state of Texas. Now that we
Speaker 1: are heard not only in h Town, but also in
Speaker 1: Dallas and San Antonio. So truly, the high tech Texans
Speaker 1: moniker has come true. Just the high tech Ustonian that
Speaker 1: can't be happier about that. Hope your ear is get
Speaker 1: off till a good start. You know. One of the
Speaker 1: things that I have done for a long time, fifteen
Speaker 1: to sixteen years, I have covered the automobile industry. I
Speaker 1: talk about cars and trucks. I get to drive them.
Speaker 1: I'm a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association, and
Speaker 1: I do get to go to a lot of the
Speaker 1: auto shows around the country. And it's seriously not trying
Speaker 1: to be biased over here. The Houston Auto Show ye're
Speaker 1: in year out, has always been my favorite. Yes, it's hometown,
Speaker 1: but also they do just a bang up job. It
Speaker 1: is massive, it's very interactive. It's always towards the end
Speaker 1: of January, which means it is coming up, and I
Speaker 1: want to give you a little sneak peak of what
Speaker 1: to expect with that. I want to bring in Rochelle Selena.
Speaker 1: She is with not just the Houston Auto Show, but
Speaker 1: it's also the Houston Auto in boat show. It's called
Speaker 1: the Auto Boative Show coming up. She joins me, Rachelle,
Speaker 1: how many years have we done this? Right now? You
Speaker 1: excited again?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm super excited. This is like my fourteenth auto
Speaker 4: show that I've been working on, and I have to
Speaker 4: tell you that I haven't been this excited about our
Speaker 4: auto shows since prior to COVID. And we've really put
Speaker 4: together a great event, two events in one and filled
Speaker 4: up in our center and we are chuck block full
Speaker 4: out of sold out of space across the whole Hole
Speaker 4: Energy Center, which is really great news compared to last year.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: That really is good to hear. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you why, because I've been coming to this show
Speaker 1: probably as long as you've been running, at fourteen or
Speaker 1: so years. It's always a blast. The COVID era was
Speaker 1: something I know we all want to forget about, you know,
Speaker 1: we weren't getting out as much. And then now auto
Speaker 1: manufacturers you know this that maybe we're not going to
Speaker 1: go to some of these shows. Just exciting news. The
Speaker 1: fact that you guys are booked and you're filled up,
Speaker 1: and I think it was a really fun, smart call
Speaker 1: of joint venturing with the boat show because you know,
Speaker 1: the past few years i've been there, I get to
Speaker 1: see some boats, and I'm not a boater guy, but
Speaker 1: the fact is it's really open to my eyes into
Speaker 1: that you know new you know, new industry, and there's
Speaker 1: some really unbelievable yachts to go along with those big
Speaker 1: land yachts, which are the big cars and trucks that
Speaker 1: you guys also have.
Speaker 4: Exactly, and that's you know, that's what I There's mixed
Speaker 4: reviews on the die hard car efficionados and the boat
Speaker 4: lovers on is this right for both of these events
Speaker 4: to be together, And I am sticking to my guns
Speaker 4: and I think it's really great. You know, if we
Speaker 4: were to have two standalone events, we wouldn't be filling
Speaker 4: an RG Center. And to be able to have two
Speaker 4: events in one and have the yachts to the kayaks,
Speaker 4: to the fishing boats, to your luxury SUVs and electric
Speaker 4: vehicles for test drive, I think it's a full packed experience.
Speaker 1: Oh. I expect it to be as usual for those
Speaker 1: of the folks out there who are on initiated with
Speaker 1: a going to any auto show was certainly the one
Speaker 1: in Houston what can they expect, especially after you kind
Speaker 1: of had a big lead in over there that this
Speaker 1: is going to be one. You're more excited than that
Speaker 1: than you have been in several years from right now
Speaker 1: with the packed house, talk about some of the manufacturers
Speaker 1: and some of the interactive things that are going to
Speaker 1: be happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I have to say Camp Jeep is back.
Speaker 4: You know, they missed last year, but we're super excited
Speaker 4: that Camp Jeep is back, and so is all the
Speaker 4: Stalanta's brands. So we'll have Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge Ram on
Speaker 4: display as well as Camp Jeep there. And for the
Speaker 4: first time in many years, we're bringing back BMW and
Speaker 4: Infinity and also new to kind of the whole market
Speaker 4: is Ineos and so Ineos will have the Grenadier there
Speaker 4: on display too. We'll also have some ultra luxuries available
Speaker 4: and then all the traditionals so Ford, Price, ser Toyota, Subaru, GMC, Honda, Hondai, Kia,
Speaker 4: all of the usuals. So I think it's we have
Speaker 4: about thirty different brands on the auto show side.
Speaker 1: I great news about Camp Jeep. It's always fun being
Speaker 1: able to go back there and you know, being driven
Speaker 1: up you know kind of a mountain, you know, hype
Speaker 1: looking thank us to show they're showing off their vehicle
Speaker 1: how well it takes those hills and the indios. I
Speaker 1: got to drive in an ineos Use. It was last
Speaker 1: last October, so I think it was the Texas Truck Rodeo.
Speaker 1: That thing's a beast. And for people who've never seen
Speaker 1: that suv, I mean that thing is ready for war.
Speaker 1: I mean that is really cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's incredible. And we'll have test drive opportunities out
Speaker 4: front of NRG Center with Ford, Subaru, BMW will have
Speaker 4: all of their electric vehicles for test drive, and then
Speaker 4: we'll also have all of the Stalantis brands available for
Speaker 4: test drive and Evolve Houston is back again test driving EV's.
Speaker 4: If you haven't driven an ev this is your chance
Speaker 4: to get behind the Hummer EV the Chevy options and
Speaker 4: the new Cadillac electric vehicle options too, So there's some
Speaker 4: good variety there of evs to try out.
Speaker 1: Talking to Rochelle Selena, she is with the Houston Auto
Speaker 1: Gotive Show. It is happening here towards the end of
Speaker 1: the month. We're with less than two and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: Stand by because she has graciously donated some tickets that
Speaker 1: we will give away later this hour before the show ends.
Speaker 1: It's funny you're listing all of the EV's and all
Speaker 1: the car the opportunity. It sounds like my house over
Speaker 1: the past year. I am very fortunate to get to
Speaker 1: test drive on a weekly basis some of stuff. And
Speaker 1: you listened. I mean, I was in the Hummer EV
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. That thing is just a monster.
Speaker 1: I mean, nine thousand pounds. It's got three motors in there.
Speaker 1: But it is quiet as you know, get out because
Speaker 1: it's it's an electric vehicle. People are for those that
Speaker 1: are unfamiliar with evs and they've ever seen them, and
Speaker 1: you certainly can't really hear them, they're going to be
Speaker 1: surprised at the number of them on the on the
Speaker 1: marketplace nowadays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, every brand has something available and so there's plenty
Speaker 4: to learn. You know, Evol of Houston will have a
Speaker 4: display space set up to where you can really learn
Speaker 4: about everything you would need to have an EV and
Speaker 4: what EV ownership can look like for you. So it's
Speaker 4: an educational experience too. And then on you know, on
Speaker 4: the boat show side, they're bringing in their professional bass
Speaker 4: caster and he's going to have the bass tank there
Speaker 4: and teach you how to cast. And then out in
Speaker 4: the lobby you'll be able to go and test your
Speaker 4: casting skills, and we'll have some professional fishermen showing you
Speaker 4: how to cast a fishing rod right there in the
Speaker 4: lobby of Energy Center, plus all of their boat displays
Speaker 4: and outdoor adventure experiences and vendors that they have set up.
Speaker 4: And then we have a beer garden this year. That's
Speaker 4: that's back. It'll be in the back of Energy Center
Speaker 4: between the two events, and we're bringing in a celebrity
Speaker 4: robot that should be entertaining for some and a wrote
Speaker 4: remote control racetrack too, so everyone can get behind some
Speaker 4: remote control vehicles and test their skills to get to
Speaker 4: the checkered flag. So plenty of interactive activities to fill
Speaker 4: your whole day with the whole family.
Speaker 1: You're in cars, what could go wrong? Good beer and
Speaker 1: boats that actually they do go together. It sounds like
Speaker 1: we can catch your own dinner. You bring the with
Speaker 1: the fishing, which is really cool. As I hear you
Speaker 1: describe some of these things, sounds like a very family
Speaker 1: friendly atmosphere and so it is this something you want
Speaker 1: to bring the family to and catch out whatever.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I always encourage everyone to bring their family. You know,
Speaker 4: these are big purchase decisions, and that's what you're there
Speaker 4: to do. If you're you're on the boat show side,
Speaker 4: you might go home with a boat that day. You
Speaker 4: can buy a boat at the autist at the Auto
Speaker 4: boat show, and on the auto show you're making a
Speaker 4: family purchase decision, and you want your whole family there
Speaker 4: to get inside of those vehicles. Make sure everyone fits
Speaker 4: comfy in all three rows or in the middle seed,
Speaker 4: or however your family dynamics lay out. So it's definitely
Speaker 4: a family friendly event. We encourage everyone to bring the
Speaker 4: whole family out. One of the other really family friendly
Speaker 4: activities that we're going to have that I'm extremely excited
Speaker 4: about is that we've partnered with NASA, and NASA is
Speaker 4: bringing three space vehicles to the show and they're going
Speaker 4: to have a very dynamic exhibit of the three space
Speaker 4: rovers that they have created to go to the Moon
Speaker 4: and to the Mars, and all three of those will
Speaker 4: be on display for people to see and experience, as
Speaker 4: well as some augmented reality and space suits for people
Speaker 4: to check out.
Speaker 1: You may just have to note for this year round
Speaker 1: and it sounds like six flags on steroids man back
Speaker 1: back in the day. This is good. It is the
Speaker 1: Houston Auto Botive Show, all right, let's go ahead with
Speaker 1: the details. It opens, win closes win.
Speaker 4: So we open in the general public January twenty nine.
Speaker 4: That's a Wednesday through February second Sunday, so you've got
Speaker 4: five days to come experience the whole event. And if
Speaker 4: you're looking for that VIP elevated night out, then come
Speaker 4: on January twenty eighth to our VIP night where we'll
Speaker 4: be honoring mister Tony Gullow and showing off some of
Speaker 4: his private selection and some of those have you even
Speaker 4: come from movies, So it's a really good time to
Speaker 4: come have a VIP experience too.
Speaker 1: I will tell you for those folks who are really
Speaker 1: into cars in boats, to that VIP experience, which is
Speaker 1: the night before it opens. And I think I've gone
Speaker 1: to I don't know every single one you've done for
Speaker 1: the past ten, eleven, twelve years. You got food, you
Speaker 1: got cocktails, not a big crowd. You get to get
Speaker 1: in there before everybody else. That VIP experience is really
Speaker 1: cool and I assume everything ticket wise can be had
Speaker 1: on the website.
Speaker 4: Yes, you can go to automotiveshow dot com or Houston
Speaker 4: Autoshow dot com or Houston Boatshow dot com. We've got
Speaker 4: information on all three of those sites. General admission tickets
Speaker 4: are twenty dollars and right now you can get them
Speaker 4: at a discount and a family four pack gets you
Speaker 4: want to get free, So just sixty bucks for a
Speaker 4: family of four.
Speaker 1: There you go. All right, I'll put all this information
Speaker 1: on my Instagram and also my ex account. Her name
Speaker 1: is Rochelle Salinas. And you do a bang up job
Speaker 1: year after year after year. And this is not just
Speaker 1: coming from me, it's the other of my ilk. Also
Speaker 1: in the auto writing industry, everybody really does love you
Speaker 1: and appreciates everything you do. You put on a great show.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Michael. It means a lot.
Speaker 1: Gotcha. Hey, listen, good luck. I know I'll see you
Speaker 1: here in about a week and a half, two weeks.
Speaker 1: It is again the twenty eighth, January twenty eight Tuesday
Speaker 1: night in RG Center in Houston. That's the VIP Night
Speaker 1: and then for the public that opens on January twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned. I'm going to give some tickets away before
Speaker 1: now on the end of the show, and if you
Speaker 1: didn't win, suck at people, go buy it right on
Speaker 1: the website. She gave me the url, So that's how
Speaker 1: we roll. Rachelle, good luck. I'll see you why in
Speaker 1: the rest of the gang here coming up in a
Speaker 1: few weeks.
Speaker 4: Thank you, take care, got it all right.
Speaker 1: Folks, We continue the High Tech Texan Show open phone
Speaker 1: lines and you can hit me always at Michael at
Speaker 1: high tech Texan dot com. We will be right back
Speaker 1: my old segment of this week show. Thank you to
Speaker 1: Rochelle Salinas. She's with the Houston Auto Votive Show that
Speaker 1: is happening January twenty ninth through Uh what February first,
Speaker 1: coming up at Houston n RG Center. Tell you what
Speaker 1: does promised?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Who wants a four pack of tickets? Four pack of tickets?
Speaker 1: Caller number nine right now. Let me give you the
Speaker 1: number seven one three two one two five five two
Speaker 1: one two five nine five.
Speaker 6: Oh it's all.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take about twenty seconds for that one. If
Speaker 1: you get a busy uh sorry, if not, go to
Speaker 1: the website. What is it the Houston Auto Show Houston
Speaker 1: Automotive show. We thank her for that. And I do
Speaker 1: cover the auto industry every week. I do get to
Speaker 1: you hes drive an interesting vehicle across the board, not
Speaker 1: from a dealership, not sponsored. I am a member of
Speaker 1: the Texas Auto Writers Association, and these come directly from
Speaker 1: the manufacturers. And this past week, what's Michael driving? I
Speaker 1: happened to be in a twenty twenty five Alpha Romeo
Speaker 1: Tonale Tributo Italiano. You know what. I don't even want
Speaker 1: to review it. Oh, I just want to say that
Speaker 1: ten times Alpha Romeo Tonale Tributo at Taliano. Dude, I
Speaker 1: potentially would buy it, just so I could say I
Speaker 1: could own at Alpha Romeo Tonale Troberto at Taliano. That's cool.
Speaker 1: That's a strong name. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: buy it, though, just my two thoughts, and let me
Speaker 1: give you about a minute or so. It was an
Speaker 1: interesting green color. When they rolled it up to my crib,
Speaker 1: it was, uh, well, let's guess what it's called. It's
Speaker 1: called Verde the Verde fangio metallic exterior paint. So it's
Speaker 1: a it was green four doors. It is it. It's
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it a very small s UV CUV
Speaker 1: because it did have a hatchback. It's a performance car,
Speaker 1: and I I'm gonna set that tone right there. Performance
Speaker 1: cars are cool, they're fast, they're they're they're they're locked down,
Speaker 1: they're tight. There's different driving modes, the suspension, it's so
Speaker 1: they're not the most comfortable. It's not the easiest to drive.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to really turn that steering wheel, give
Speaker 1: it a little bit more effort. It's got a lot
Speaker 1: of pick up, it's got a little get up and go.
Speaker 1: It's it's a it's relatively tight quarters. And that's every
Speaker 1: Alpha Romeo that I've test driven over the past many
Speaker 1: many years. It's again, I'm a six foot tall dude,
Speaker 1: and it's not like I'm fat or wide or anything.
Speaker 1: But they've got these huggable seats that keep you kind
Speaker 1: of locked in and they're okay, it's just not as comfy,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I the you walk around, it looks good.
Speaker 1: I like the look, I like the logo. The grill
Speaker 1: is cool, and it does have a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: neat features. But once you get inside, and again, we
Speaker 1: live inside cars, and that's why I concentrate when I
Speaker 1: talk and review about vehicles. I talk about the inside.
Speaker 1: How's the infotainment and is it comfortable? And does it
Speaker 1: have you know, is the steering you know work well?
Speaker 1: Is it easy to program the radio stations? The infotainment
Speaker 1: system which is And again Alpha Romeo is now part
Speaker 1: of the Stalantis group. Stalantis is the overall organization that
Speaker 1: owns Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Fiat, Alpha Romeo, Maserati, all this stuff.
Speaker 1: So this is this is part of that. And I
Speaker 1: remember the old Alpha Romeo. They had their own proprietary,
Speaker 1: horrible infotainment system. Stalantis is they're trying to bring them
Speaker 1: in to their own game. The U Connect, that's what
Speaker 1: their system is called. And I love the you Connect,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. You Connect across the manufacturers my
Speaker 1: favorite infotament system. I think they do a good job.
Speaker 1: The screen is relatively smallish, but again the car is
Speaker 1: relatively small less. And I didn't expect a twelve inch screen.
Speaker 1: This has a you know, the cluster itself is about
Speaker 1: twelve inches. But this is a horizontal screen. It is
Speaker 1: you know, you know, touch screen activated. It had some
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was just kind of glitchy. And
Speaker 1: the steering wheel controls to control the volume and the
Speaker 1: control the favorites of the thing. They you know, they
Speaker 1: were just kind of placed a little differently.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: To me, if you have a volume up, volume and
Speaker 1: channel up and down, to me, should be the same thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: Just like on a remote control for your TV. There's
Speaker 1: an up button, there's a down button. Maybe on the
Speaker 1: left side there's a volume. Maybe on the right side
Speaker 1: there's a volume. It always blows my mind on steering
Speaker 1: wheels when automobile manufacturers, when it comes to volume and channel,
Speaker 1: they've got two different systems, you know. To like, for example,
Speaker 1: on this Alpha Romeo to no, to change the volume
Speaker 1: up and down, there's a little button with a little
Speaker 1: up up up, and you go down down down. You
Speaker 1: have to push these little buttons. But to change the channel,
Speaker 1: it's a thumb wheel. Huh. What's the confusing type of thing?
Speaker 1: The backspace was good, not great. I put my parents
Speaker 1: in it. My dad is a massive man.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: He's like six three sixty four and he bear I mean,
Speaker 1: we had to put that front seat way back for him,
Speaker 1: and he's getting a little older, and so it took
Speaker 1: him a little while to get in there. It's a
Speaker 1: low riding car very loads. It's it's not a high stepper,
Speaker 1: it's a low riding car. My mom was in the back,
Speaker 1: yet she was fine. She didn't luckily interesting enough my mom.
Speaker 1: My mom didn't complain. Forget about it. Are you kidding me? Hey,
Speaker 1: this is a nice car. Maybe I should get it?
Speaker 1: I said, no, maybe you should not get it. Price
Speaker 1: fifty two thousand is the base. I drove it at
Speaker 1: about fifty nine, six hundred and thirty dollars. If you're
Speaker 1: a performance person, you should look at this. If you
Speaker 1: have in schleppel up that maybe you have one or
Speaker 1: two kids who were in a car seat. Probably gonna
Speaker 1: be a little tight. To get things back there, the
Speaker 1: cargo space decent. I was able to get several suitcases
Speaker 1: and I slept from stuffed up to take to my
Speaker 1: parents from Houston to Dallas. It worked, okay. Last thing
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this thing's a gas guzzler. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: just guzzle gas guzzleed. This is a plug in hybrid.
Speaker 1: Didn't even use the plug in hybrid part of it.
Speaker 1: This didn't even use the hybrid. To me, it's worth us.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna get twenty extra miles? Fuel economy.
Speaker 1: I don't know I had to stop between I had
Speaker 1: to stop from Houston. I think I got a full
Speaker 1: tank of gas. Didn't I had to stop in Did
Speaker 1: I stop in Centerville Fairfield? Or did I stop a BUCkies?
Speaker 1: I think it stopped to Madisonville BUCkies. That's not very
Speaker 1: unusually I can get to Houston to Dallas and went
Speaker 1: freaking tank of gas. I stopped twice on the way
Speaker 1: to Dallas to get gas. I think I stopped once
Speaker 1: on the way back. It just it just seemed like
Speaker 1: a guzzled gas. Just not gonna give this thing two
Speaker 1: thumbs up. But again, this is me personally where I
Speaker 1: am in my life. Just I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to get the Alfa Romeo to Alley tribute to
Speaker 1: it Taliano, But I damn do I love saying the
Speaker 1: Alfa Romeo to NALEI tribute to it Taliano. Folks, If
Speaker 1: you want to hear all every single week that I
Speaker 1: do a review on automobiles on iHeartRadio, I specifically have
Speaker 1: a podcast. It's called high Tech Texan. Actually Spotify too.
Speaker 1: I know my bosses don't like that, but this Spotify,
Speaker 1: it's on there. But it's also and Notheart but day.
Speaker 1: We've got to Spotify iHeartRadio. Every week you'll see a
Speaker 1: photo of the vehicle. You'll hear me talking anywhere between
Speaker 1: six to ten minutes of this thing. Give you my thoughts,
Speaker 1: and again I have no problem holding back. None of
Speaker 1: this is sponsored. I am just here as a public
Speaker 1: service announcement a PSA guy. That's actually what I am.
Speaker 1: My real name is Michael Garfield, not Mike Carfield. And
Speaker 1: with that, did I cover everything? Because we're about to
Speaker 1: end this show. We're about to end this show. Whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing this weekend, if you're about to tune on
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Speaker 1: the other markets in the show Areazon Sunday, you got
Speaker 1: your you get the Lion's kicking off. We've got a
Speaker 1: really good, exciting end of NFL season, even if my
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys or Night at Bawayant.
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