Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfild.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 3: Us in the High Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here
Speaker 3: with a high Tech Texans items to make.
Speaker 2: Life easier technology.
Speaker 1: So Michael Garfield has something you might wanta.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: I have two hours for you, my friends again in
Speaker 1: the middle of summer. It is Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 1: It's called the High Tech Taxi Show. I'm gonna touch
Speaker 1: on some technology, but so much more. He's watching the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Got a hot new restaurant, some in club in Houston
Speaker 1: to just open. A little fashion stuff going on. I
Speaker 1: got a big upcoming trip that I may need some
Speaker 1: advice on, certainly in terms of which airline should I
Speaker 1: fly for all you world travelers. Also some giveaways and
Speaker 1: fun stuff. One hundred and twenty minutes. That's how we
Speaker 1: do it. We've done it for about two decades, and
Speaker 1: I do think all of you folks, and including my bosses.
Speaker 1: It's nice that my bosses really don't listen to our
Speaker 1: radio show our station on Saturdays. They really I don't
Speaker 1: think I have any They may not even have a
Speaker 1: clothe that I'm still on, which is actually a good
Speaker 1: thing as long as I don't say anything bad that
Speaker 1: really pisses off the FCC actually say it pisses off.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure on podcasts we could, but we are
Speaker 1: over the year nine to fifty kprc AM. That's how
Speaker 1: we do it. Callam Reid, how are you, my man?
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a nice, cool summer, even though
Speaker 1: it has just been raining. Man, it is just we
Speaker 1: need some boats. We need some floats, boats and hoes.
Speaker 1: There is what is going on. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: laying out, a lot of pool time, not a lot
Speaker 1: of golf, not a lot of anything outside. Welcome to Houston.
Speaker 1: But at least I like to think most of us
Speaker 1: have air conditioning right now. And if you still don't
Speaker 1: have air conditioning, I saw stories even last night Friday
Speaker 1: night on a center point, you know, just ticking people off,
Speaker 1: and so many people lost their lives because there was
Speaker 1: flooding but also no air conditioning and they got heat.
Speaker 1: And am I wrong if my house has not had
Speaker 1: air conditioning for two weeks. Right now I'm living in
Speaker 1: like Aisle four of HGB. I mean, I'm going with
Speaker 1: a friend. I'm finding air condition where I could find it.
Speaker 1: So whatever you do, wherever you are, I hope you
Speaker 1: are okay. Football season is near ess the only sporting
Speaker 1: events we have going on. Opening ceremony of the Olympics
Speaker 1: was yesterday and last night pretty interesting spectacle. Did you
Speaker 1: watch it on NBC? Did you watch it live in
Speaker 1: the afternoon, did you watch it on a night? Did
Speaker 1: you watch it on NBC or did you watch it
Speaker 1: on peacock You see, those are some of the things
Speaker 1: that I talked to you about. Because there are streaming
Speaker 1: and streaming is technology. I'm gonna give you some good ideas,
Speaker 1: maybe some bad ideas of how to save money on
Speaker 1: your bill each month, but also some better ways to
Speaker 1: watch some things. I will start with this. I have
Speaker 1: now spent two solid weeks now with some of my
Speaker 1: new Samsung foldable phones, and I can honestly say I
Speaker 1: can talk about it and you could talk about it
Speaker 1: because finally, even though I do know some people, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, and I'm in the media and I
Speaker 1: do get the pre release versions for two weeks. They
Speaker 1: officially were launched a few days ago. If you do
Speaker 1: have the Galaxy Z Flip six, the Galaxy Z Fold six,
Speaker 1: maybe you have the new watch from Samsung or the
Speaker 1: new ring, which I do not have the ring or
Speaker 1: the watch, so I can't talk much about that. Love
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Use your new phone to give
Speaker 1: me a call. Seven one three two one two five
Speaker 1: nine five. Oh. I say that number because guess what's
Speaker 1: actually a uh, it's a radio show where we take
Speaker 1: your phone calls.
Speaker 4: UH.
Speaker 1: Not going to talk about politics because really, if you
Speaker 1: think about it, nothing's going on in politics. Right from
Speaker 1: the last time we spoke, nothing has happened in the
Speaker 1: world of politics. We stay away from that. We'll let
Speaker 1: the people on the Monday through Friday shows worry about that.
Speaker 1: That's why I, uh, that's why I keep young and
Speaker 1: I look relatively young, and I have the attitude politics
Speaker 1: you do. You do what you need to do about that.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about sports. We're talking about technology and food
Speaker 1: and travel and other fun things for all you Apple honks.
Speaker 1: Here comes your moment in the sunshine. Because I do
Speaker 1: not talk about Apple a lot. Apple has no clue
Speaker 1: who I am. I've had no Apple products has since
Speaker 1: maybe the very first iPhone, which was many many years ago.
Speaker 1: I am an Android guy because fact, much more people,
Speaker 1: many more people in the world use in Android, then
Speaker 1: they do iPhone on the iOS, and so I like
Speaker 1: to talk to the majority of my folks. But Apple,
Speaker 1: once again maybe taking a queue finally a rumor that
Speaker 1: they're going to have their own flip phone. They could
Speaker 1: be taking us back to two thousand and six when
Speaker 1: annoying calls were ended by snapping your cell phone shut.
Speaker 1: That's right. Apple is potentially charging a head with creating
Speaker 1: a flip phone that you still can be addicted to.
Speaker 1: It is an iPhone that folds like a clamshell. No,
Speaker 1: this is according to something online. There's a information website
Speaker 1: called The Information And you know what, most rumors when
Speaker 1: it comes to Apple, they they do turn reel. It's
Speaker 1: like Disney Everything. Rumors turn reel when you wish upon
Speaker 1: a star. The more pocket friendly flip iPhone. It's a
Speaker 1: concept that a lot of geek types have speculated about
Speaker 1: for years, but it does now finally sound like it
Speaker 1: is a concrete plan. Apple recently allegedly contacted suppliers in
Speaker 1: Asia about manufacturing components for an iPhone that would fold
Speaker 1: along its width, and the company also reportedly gave the
Speaker 1: new product an official code name, and it was granted
Speaker 1: a patent for the foldable screen just this last month. Now, listen,
Speaker 1: sim it down. Plans could change, but if they do
Speaker 1: proceed Apple's engineering, we need to figure out how to
Speaker 1: avoid a crease on the screen and really make the
Speaker 1: phone significantly thinner. Now, as with most of Apple's product releases,
Speaker 1: a flip iPhone is not going to be the first
Speaker 1: foldable smartphone in the market. I just told you. Samsung
Speaker 1: has had theirs for six generations. Right now. Google has
Speaker 1: a flip phone, Moola has a flip phone, and they've
Speaker 1: been selling them for years now. I'm not ragging on Apple,
Speaker 1: but they sometimes do take away and see. But when
Speaker 1: Apple does come out with some then they do it well,
Speaker 1: I will say that, and they do something for a nice,
Speaker 1: pretty penny. And the funny thing is, there are so
Speaker 1: many people right now despite you listening to me that
Speaker 1: I've told you that this is the sixth generation of
Speaker 1: a Samsung's phone. Google's had several generations. But when Apple
Speaker 1: comes out, let's just say they do. One day with
Speaker 1: the foldable phone, the world's gonna come to its knees.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I can't believe. And somebody came out
Speaker 1: with a foldable phone. I've never seen like this in
Speaker 1: my life before. Shut up, listen to me. And there
Speaker 1: are already products in the market and they're not bad
Speaker 1: at whatsoever. Experts say the foldable iPhone could drop no
Speaker 1: earlier than twenty twenty six, and so think about that.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we have a breakover here. I
Speaker 1: am going to give you a little bit more inside depth.
Speaker 1: I do have some prices on the foldable and the
Speaker 1: flippable phones because they have hit the market. And if
Speaker 1: you're a Verizon customer, I do have some good news
Speaker 1: because it ain't going to be that expensive. I will
Speaker 1: tell you that. Listen, love to talk to you, Thank
Speaker 1: you for having and around. My name is Michael. I'm
Speaker 1: the friendly Michael, the original Michael Hero and is APRC
Speaker 1: ninety fifty Heart Media, Houston. We're gonna be right back.
Speaker 1: Happy Olympics opening ceremony weekend. I guess that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that's going on. Listen. Houston is relatively clear of
Speaker 1: a hurricane at least today, even though we're getting drenched
Speaker 1: by rain, but it's always sunny here on the radio
Speaker 1: and on iHeartRadio, Michael Garfield, the King of Technology of Texas.
Speaker 1: I came up with that one. Actually. I had a
Speaker 1: funny conversation, does anybody still have business cards? In terms
Speaker 1: of a generation? Our business just followed me over here.
Speaker 1: Our business cards a generational thing because I have three
Speaker 1: boys that are all in their twenties and they're all employed.
Speaker 1: To my knowledge, none of them have a business card.
Speaker 1: And I'm in two business meetings earlier this week, one
Speaker 1: of which is with a dude out of my age.
Speaker 1: He's in the fifties, and there's another partner of his.
Speaker 1: He's kind of like adventure capital fundraising, you know, era.
Speaker 1: He's twenty four sharp kit and we're exchanging information and
Speaker 1: we're talking about business cards. And I have at least
Speaker 1: two business cards, one of which is I have a
Speaker 1: high tech textan business card, and then I also have
Speaker 1: an iHeart Radio business card that, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: that is the one perk that I think my company
Speaker 1: still gives me. They're pretty old though, so the high
Speaker 1: tech texting is my official trademark. Moniker, and I have
Speaker 1: my logo, you know, with the cowboy hat and the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi thing. I've got my cell phone on at
Speaker 1: my email and whatever. And then I have my iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: and it's got the iHeart logo, which is pretty powerful.
Speaker 1: It does open up some few doors. I must say.
Speaker 1: It's got my name, it's got our company address here
Speaker 1: in Houston. It's got my phone number, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: say the high tech. I was cocky, and I was
Speaker 1: I'm a marketing guy. It's as simple as that. So
Speaker 1: I came up with another marketing moniker for me years ago,
Speaker 1: and it's on my iHeart card. And I was explained
Speaker 1: I didn't have that along me because I always give
Speaker 1: two cards. So I was telling these people, one of
Speaker 1: which is a kid who doesn't have a business card.
Speaker 1: I said, my iHeartRadio card has the title. It says
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield, Ambassador of Cool. I came up with that one.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 1: Don't don't try to steal that, and it says I'm
Speaker 1: a business card. So he goes, I don't have a
Speaker 1: business card. Here's my QR code and he shows me
Speaker 1: his phone. He wants me to scan his QR code,
Speaker 1: and we got into we kind of laugh, we got
Speaker 1: into it about it, you know, ninety second conversation and
Speaker 1: he's twenty four. I'm like, do you have a business card?
Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, I do have a business card,
Speaker 1: but I just don't have with me. And I believed him,
Speaker 1: but I get it. It is so much easier to
Speaker 1: not carry business cards. To create a QR code, you know,
Speaker 1: the QR codes like you see on restaurant menu. That's
Speaker 1: the easiest way for me to describe it. And if
Speaker 1: another phone scans it, it'll download the name, the contact,
Speaker 1: and it'll put it in your contacts. It's just that's
Speaker 1: a paradigm shift that a generation above the twenty year
Speaker 1: old punks don't understand yet. Alas I'm a technologically advanced dude.
Speaker 1: I took my camera out, I scanned his QR code.
Speaker 1: He's now in there. The next day we met again
Speaker 1: and he brings me his business card and he gives
Speaker 1: me his business card which looked like it just came
Speaker 1: out of the washing machine, and it says to me,
Speaker 1: he goes, hey, I just wanted to prove to you
Speaker 1: I really do have a business card. And I apologize
Speaker 1: if it's all wrinkly because this is like the only
Speaker 1: one I got. It was in my pants pocket. It's
Speaker 1: so like the dude probably got I got one business card.
Speaker 1: I just thought that was funny. And so this is
Speaker 1: the high tech text and slash ambassador of cool radio show.
Speaker 1: If you would like to get in, say hi, tell
Speaker 1: me what's going on. You want some recommendation on cars,
Speaker 1: man driven or driving a lot of really cool cars.
Speaker 1: I had a Jeep Wrangler camped up souped up, the
Speaker 1: three ninety two version if you're familar with Wrangler retractable Ruth.
Speaker 1: The wheels were as big as my first apartment one
Speaker 1: hundred and eight thousand dollars. This Jeep Wrangler only seats
Speaker 1: four off roading machine one hundred and eight thousand, which
Speaker 1: was more than my first apartment, maybe my first house.
Speaker 1: It was fun to drive, but dang man, the cost
Speaker 1: of this stuff. So I will tell you my pros
Speaker 1: and cons of that. I've been in the Chevy tracks,
Speaker 1: I've had a KEYI this is another thing I do.
Speaker 1: I actually do drive cars, but has promised I am
Speaker 1: going to talk a little about phones and foldables. I
Speaker 1: did tell you a little story how Apple rumored to
Speaker 1: at one point soon that within the next two years
Speaker 1: maybe come out with their foldable phone. Nice playing catch
Speaker 1: up Apple because there are several other companies who have
Speaker 1: them out, and as of two days ago, Samsung their
Speaker 1: new Galaxy z flipfold, the z Flip, the z Fold six,
Speaker 1: the z Flip six, they have officially hit the stores.
Speaker 1: I have fortunately, because I know people. Thank you. Nicole
Speaker 1: Montana with Berlin Rosen, the esteemed PR Company, one of
Speaker 1: the companies of Samsung, she was able to get me
Speaker 1: some of these devices like she always does, and I
Speaker 1: really been having a fun time with the z Flip six,
Speaker 1: the z Flip Sex. I like the form factor. It
Speaker 1: is a clamshell phone. It is half the size of
Speaker 1: your typical Galaxy phone, which I've also carried for years
Speaker 1: and years. They have improved the camera. It's a fifty
Speaker 1: megapixel outside camera versus their twelve megapixel outside camera from
Speaker 1: last year. I have been using it as my regular
Speaker 1: daily phone, which says a lot because I take a
Speaker 1: lot of video for my TV Great Day Houston, I
Speaker 1: edit things on my Instagram and what have you, and
Speaker 1: I do need a high camera. So far, so good,
Speaker 1: so far, so good. The z Fold six get decent reviews.
Speaker 1: The z Fold six. The fold is the one that
Speaker 1: folds left to right like a book. It is larger,
Speaker 1: it's a little heavier. Not many changes from last year,
Speaker 1: and these babies are not cheap. The z Fold six
Speaker 1: starts about nineteen hundred dollars from Samsung that's official without rebates,
Speaker 1: and the z Flip six that's about one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: starting from Samsung. Now hold on, hold on. Within two
Speaker 1: minutes after I got this beautiful email with the update
Speaker 1: that their official release from the cold, I got a
Speaker 1: note from one of my contacts at Verizon and Verizon
Speaker 1: if you're a Verizon customer, they are greatly discounting these things,
Speaker 1: and so they have a really smart trade in program.
Speaker 1: They current and new customers can get eight hundred bones
Speaker 1: off of the new z Fold six or the z
Speaker 1: Flip six if they trade in any Samsung smartphone, any model,
Speaker 1: any condition, and they guarantee that you do have to
Speaker 1: get unlimited Ultimate one or some select business unlimited plans,
Speaker 1: which I'm not getting into, but that's pretty strong. So
Speaker 1: now you can get the z Flip six normally a
Speaker 1: thousand trade into phone eight hundred dollars. Off ain't a mathematation,
Speaker 1: but that's about two hundred dollars for a Flip six.
Speaker 1: Pretty good deal. Pretty good deal. They also have some
Speaker 1: other things. If you purchase a Samsung a Fold six,
Speaker 1: the Flip six, you sign up for the a new
Speaker 1: line on the Ultimate Plus or the Ultimate, you can
Speaker 1: get NFL Sunday ticket from YouTube and UTV. That's actually good.
Speaker 1: I may do that because I don't have Verizon, and
Speaker 1: then you can upgrade your Galaxy. Why they have a
Speaker 1: number of different things. So that is just from Horizon.
Speaker 1: I have not heard any press releases or what have
Speaker 1: you from the other carriers. But because I have contacts,
Speaker 1: if I have contacts at companies, I do appreciate them
Speaker 1: sharing them with me, and I will share that news
Speaker 1: with you. Going back to the other press release from Nicole,
Speaker 1: Nicole Nicole's in New York. Nicole releases, Well, she didn't release,
Speaker 1: but they have a new Galaxy ring. It's one of
Speaker 1: these wearable rings you know that helps with the health.
Speaker 1: They start at four hundred dollars and they have two
Speaker 1: new watches. They have a Galaxy Watch seven starts at
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars and a Galaxy Watch Ultra. That's six
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. That's that's that's quite a tasty
Speaker 1: price for a smart watch. I will I will tell
Speaker 1: you that. So I don't I cannot give you my
Speaker 1: review of the watch, the watches of the ring because
Speaker 1: I did not receive those. Maybe they don't work, maybe
Speaker 1: they're embarrassed to give them to the media. I cannot
Speaker 1: comment on that thing. But they're they're good. Every time
Speaker 1: I have shown off my Flip six, people say, oh,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a flip I'm like, I showed you
Speaker 1: one last year when I had the Flip five for
Speaker 1: a bit and the Flip four and the Flip three.
Speaker 1: They are they are pretty neat, and I think I
Speaker 1: think women like them a little bit more just because
Speaker 1: the size. They look like a compact and they get
Speaker 1: bit in your purse and the whole thing like that.
Speaker 1: But they are out and that that's that's as of
Speaker 1: right now. That seems to be the biggest technology news
Speaker 1: of the summer. So if you are interested in what
Speaker 1: or you got one, call me and tell me how
Speaker 1: you like it. All power with Galaxy AI seven one three, two,
Speaker 1: one two five, nine to five o Michael Garfield all
Speaker 1: over the country on iHeartRadio's the High Tech Tech and Show,
Speaker 1: or to come back, just like Wan you always said,
Speaker 1: Michael is my name. You don't have to call me
Speaker 1: Michael Garth is good. It's G A R F fort
Speaker 1: four letters of my last name.
Speaker 4: You can hit me up with your.
Speaker 1: New flip phone if you like answering. Uh, ask me
Speaker 1: any questions anything, Ask Michael Lennyth. Not that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: answer it. Seven one three two one two five died
Speaker 1: in five. Oh. Anybody see the calumn? Did you see
Speaker 1: the Olympic opening Ceremony? And by the way, it's the
Speaker 1: official term the Olympic Opening ceremony. It's not ceremonies, just
Speaker 1: like it's the Stanley Cup Final. It's the opening ceremony.
Speaker 1: You see it. I actually saw, I started watching it.
Speaker 1: I liked it. Let me tell you what, I really
Speaker 1: don't care about the Olympics. It's just it's whatever I
Speaker 1: care about Paris. I've never been to Petty but the
Speaker 1: fact that they held the opening ceremony on instead of
Speaker 1: the walkthrough for the stadium, they put the athletes on
Speaker 1: the river sin down boats and they showed it live
Speaker 1: as it was actually life usually because it's in such
Speaker 1: a foreign place, sixteen hours ahead. Paris is seven hours
Speaker 1: ahead of Central time here in United States. So at
Speaker 1: about eleven thirty on Friday afternoon, a Friday morning, I
Speaker 1: watched it live. Then they repeated it on Friday night,
Speaker 1: so it actually it was pretty cool. I watched it
Speaker 1: on NBC. But I also, because I pay a butt
Speaker 1: load to Exfinity, like a idiot that I am, I
Speaker 1: also get Peacock. And Peacock is carrying up pretty much
Speaker 1: almost every single live minute of live coverage of the Olympics.
Speaker 1: And so if you have peacock, you might as well
Speaker 1: use it because you're probably not going to use it
Speaker 1: again unless they have another NFL game, which I think
Speaker 1: they are later this year, maybe the day after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: But their peacock is betting big, and I talk about
Speaker 1: it's streaming, so bear with me. And this is one
Speaker 1: of the things that I do cover peacock. It's betting big.
Speaker 1: They have some plan. They launched peacock four years ago
Speaker 1: at the Tokyo Olympics. It was twenty twenty. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen came around and it just flamed out. After that,
Speaker 1: I mean the world had other things to worry about.
Speaker 1: But apparently, according to mac Mark Lazarus, the president of Peacock,
Speaker 1: they learned their listen and the batty Olympics on Peacock
Speaker 1: is it's allegedly going to be everything, every sport, every ceremony,
Speaker 1: every NBC broadcast, the works. A lot of it's going
Speaker 1: to rely on the IOC FEE, which is the International
Speaker 1: Olympic Committee world feed. So if you want to watch
Speaker 1: badminton or the canoe sprint, it's going to be somewhere
Speaker 1: on Peacock. They're going to have a multiview option and
Speaker 1: that's gonna let you watch up till four events at once.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a whip around studio show called the
Speaker 1: Gold Zone. And for all you NFL or fans, you're
Speaker 1: gonna like this because it's hosted by Scott Hansen. He's
Speaker 1: the dude who does that whip around NFL Red Zone
Speaker 1: and so that's it's called the Gold Zone. That'll be
Speaker 1: on Peacock too. The stars are funny, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is it's not just a sporting event. Right now. They
Speaker 1: have shockingly Kevin Hart, because Kevin Hart literally maybe everywhere
Speaker 1: a little. That dude is everywhere in the world. Kevin
Speaker 1: Hart is there. He's gonna host an Olympics highlight show.
Speaker 1: They got some podcaster Alex Cooper never heard of. They
Speaker 1: got Snoop Dogg carrying the flame. The opening ceremony not
Speaker 1: only had Mike Turrico, but Kelly Clarkson and Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: were the co host. They were the co host of
Speaker 1: this thing. They're even using an AI version of al
Speaker 1: Michaels The Great Broadcast or he is going to have
Speaker 1: customized Olympic recaps, not the real al Michaels, the artificially
Speaker 1: intelligent ist al Michaels, which he actually signed off on.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see that too. So Peacock is betting
Speaker 1: a lot on this streaming platform. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of content. And I'll tell you one time, I
Speaker 1: think the depending on where it is, it's never the
Speaker 1: same exact dates. One time I think the maybe it
Speaker 1: was coed it was in September, which butts up into
Speaker 1: football seasons. But there's nothing going on. Okay, So for
Speaker 1: all you Astros arrangers, fans and whatever like that, you know,
Speaker 1: you can kind of go back and forth. Football's over
Speaker 1: I know it's kind of training camp, but this is
Speaker 1: actually very I believe it or not. Do expect pretty
Speaker 1: decent ratings, certainly the highest summer ratings in the past
Speaker 1: four years, you know, during the pre tow COVID or
Speaker 1: at least the last Tokyo Summer Olympics and even the
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics too that were during COVID. This is going
Speaker 1: to do. It's pretty big. Simone Biles, yay, Simone yay.
Speaker 1: All the Houston and the Texas or any when there
Speaker 1: are like thirty two or thirty five University of Texas
Speaker 1: students or former students who are competing horns up. I'm
Speaker 1: very excited about that. So that actually should be interesting.
Speaker 1: But I got some trivia for you here. Obviously, when
Speaker 1: the Olympics started, it was for amateurs amateurs only, and
Speaker 1: it was nineteen ninety two. Is that it when the
Speaker 1: Dream Team, the basketball team first allowed professional athletes, And
Speaker 1: obviously there are a lot of professional athletes because of
Speaker 1: NIL you can get paid right now, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: play a game and callum you can play. Also, I
Speaker 1: guess we can open some phone lines. I'll go slow,
Speaker 1: take a guess. I have a list here in front
Speaker 1: of me. I have a list, and if I didn't
Speaker 1: have a list, I couldn't make a sound like this.
Speaker 1: I printed out this list. Who is the top paid Olympian?
Speaker 1: I want you to think? And I know who you're
Speaker 1: thinking of, and I bet you're wrong. The highest paid
Speaker 1: Paris Olympic athletes. Think about it. I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: The top twenty earn one point three billion dollars. One
Speaker 1: point three billion dollars the top paid athlete. Anyone? Callum?
Speaker 1: Who's your guess? Callum? Do you talk of my ear?
Speaker 1: You see I get ninety eight percent of the people
Speaker 1: just said Lebron James Long, my friend, you are incorrect.
Speaker 1: Lebron is number two. Lebron is I had. The top
Speaker 1: twenty went to three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Speaker 1: I think this is the entire team. Twelve of the
Speaker 1: top twenty do play NBA basketball. Actually yet they do
Speaker 1: play NBA basketball. They're from all over the world. Number
Speaker 1: one is Lebron the highest paid NBA Lebron, Steph Curry, Jannie,
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, hook horns. It goes on and on. Lebron
Speaker 1: makes a total between salary and endorsements, of one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty seven million dollars a year, still nowhere near
Speaker 1: the number one highest paid athletes? Should I should I
Speaker 1: tease this over over the break? Okay, I'm not that
Speaker 1: bad the number one highest paid athlete blowing away Lebron James.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you five more seconds. Dick Dick, Dick, Dick, Dick, Dick,
Speaker 1: Dick Dick rep presenting Spain. Not a soccer player, Nope.
Speaker 1: Golfer John Rohm genre salary winnings one hundred ninety million,
Speaker 1: plus his endorsements of twenty million pluses. Live contract he
Speaker 1: makes two hundred and ten million dollars. Who had eighty
Speaker 1: million dollars more so than than the Lebron James at
Speaker 1: number two? Genre? Is he going to take home to
Speaker 1: the Golden golf we Selsea money man so much for
Speaker 1: amateur Olympics. So I guess very few of you guessed,
Speaker 1: gen Ram. We've got a lot of golfers. Rory McElroy.
Speaker 1: He's the sixth highest paid athlete who has participated in
Speaker 1: this year's Olympics. Sketty hook them horns. There's there's two
Speaker 1: in the top seven. We got Kevin Durant Scotti Scheffler
Speaker 1: who went to Texas. He made sixty two point six million,
Speaker 1: so he's uh he I hope he wins the USA Gold.
Speaker 1: We like Scottie Dallas boy, Victor Hovlin, another golfer. Here
Speaker 1: we go the first tennis two tennis players in the
Speaker 1: top twenty. Carlos Alcarez just won Wimbledon. He's number thirteenth
Speaker 1: highest paid. And Joker Novak a joke of it cheese
Speaker 1: the eighteenth highest paid two. And then Xander Shaftley he
Speaker 1: just won the British Open. Everybody else is a basketball player.
Speaker 1: It's just Simon Biles make apparently less than thirty six million,
Speaker 1: because that's the lowest on this list. Man, I should
Speaker 1: have I should have played golf. I should have put
Speaker 1: golf clubs in my kids hands. Oh man, did I
Speaker 1: screw up? No? I got great kids, by the way,
Speaker 1: So there you go. So if you're watching the Olympics,
Speaker 1: no longer do we live in the the era of
Speaker 1: when they it was just all amateur. The modern Olympics
Speaker 1: started in eighteen ninety six and it goes by the
Speaker 1: way to August eleven. It's a lot of money, John Ram,
Speaker 1: there you go. I think some countries actually pay the
Speaker 1: athletes who win medals. So if you win a gold medal,
Speaker 1: you get obviously X. If you win the silver you
Speaker 1: get a little less you. If you win the bronze
Speaker 1: you get a left i'd just what Jen rom needs,
Speaker 1: I mean how much get How much can Spain pay
Speaker 1: John Rahm, who by the way, lives in the United
Speaker 1: States to win the Olympics that he's gonna care. Dude
Speaker 1: made two hundred and ten million dollars this year, has
Speaker 1: a contract in live for what three hundred four hundred
Speaker 1: and five hundred million dollars They're gonna pay pay them
Speaker 1: what fifteen thousand dollars to win a gold medal? Like it,
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Speaker 1: more sement left in this first hour. Love to hear
Speaker 1: from you when I come back. Southwest Airlines Fans, Texas Base.
Speaker 1: Good news, bad news, you know what's going on. I'll
Speaker 1: update you with that, and I'll set my review of
Speaker 1: the Samsung Galaxy Buds three. Those are the new tiny
Speaker 1: earbuds that Samsung came out. And I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: pretty pretty impress. Right here, I te last seventh where
Speaker 1: I can say good morning people. As we approach the
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock new hours, we do the show plausibly live
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Speaker 1: kids out there. This is actually radio. And you know
Speaker 1: on traditional radio here there's been AM amplitude modulation FM
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Speaker 1: want to do. A big called the high tech Textan show.
Speaker 1: I call it because I am a Texan, I am
Speaker 1: from Texas. I am at least a fifth or sixth
Speaker 1: generation Texan. I don't have the accent, which is kind
Speaker 1: of a plus. And anything that is Texas based, a
Speaker 1: Texas based company, I will try to lead with it.
Speaker 1: I'm a big pro Texas pimp for the state, which
Speaker 1: is you know, I'm very very proud of Texas company
Speaker 1: that I have been a personal brand pimp. Brands are
Speaker 1: it can be very personal whether you enjoy. Again, I'm
Speaker 1: throwing this out. I'm not paid for this Coca cola.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're a pepsi person. Are you a doctor Pepper?
Speaker 1: Speaking of Texas, which is created and founded in Waco,
Speaker 1: you could have a certain clothing brand, a store that
Speaker 1: you shop at. Well, when it comes to airlines, there
Speaker 1: are well, there's a few big ones that are based
Speaker 1: here in Texas, one of which is American Airlines, which
Speaker 1: is based in Port Worth, and then Southwest Data's based
Speaker 1: where I'm actually from. I have been a fan of
Speaker 1: Southwest since I was a little tiny kid. I remember
Speaker 1: my first I can't guarantee my first flight ever was
Speaker 1: Southwest because I think I flew from California to Florida.
Speaker 1: I got I gotta check with the parents. I don't know.
Speaker 1: My parents are listening in Dallas and iHeartRadio. They can
Speaker 1: call in right now. But anyway, a longtime fan of Southwest,
Speaker 1: it just to me, I love it. And there are
Speaker 1: skeptics because it's the quote unquote discount airline. They don't
Speaker 1: they don't have a signed seats. It's a cattle call,
Speaker 1: it's a flying bus. They had a massive outage. Weird
Speaker 1: snaffoo what a year and a half ago, which actually
Speaker 1: I was caught in right around Christmas time. But I
Speaker 1: like Southwest, and again I say this, this is not
Speaker 1: an endorsement. South Hoost does not pay me. They should.
Speaker 1: I talk about them all the time. I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you what is in the news. Last Thursday they came
Speaker 1: out and this was not unexpected to me because I
Speaker 1: followed the industry, because I do love flying, because I
Speaker 1: am a less preferred and I got a companion pass
Speaker 1: alas I have no companion. It's a whole nother sob story.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. Southwest very soon is coming out
Speaker 1: with a number of changes, a number of changes the airline.
Speaker 1: If you think that's not like most airlines, it's reversing
Speaker 1: its course after fifty years of being different, and it's Southwest.
Speaker 1: They announced it's getting rid of open seeding, which has
Speaker 1: been a hallmark of the company. But they're doing it
Speaker 1: because they've their profits has slowed down. South'swest decision to
Speaker 1: do this is twofold one to one. The change means
Speaker 1: it can charge customers more for premium seats with things
Speaker 1: like Exeter leg room. All right, and the airline thinks
Speaker 1: customers are gonna like it. Allegedly they had a survey
Speaker 1: and allegedly they say eighty percent of its flyers favor
Speaker 1: assigned seats. I don't know. They didn't ask me because
Speaker 1: I have no problem with the seating situation right now.
Speaker 1: But then again, I may let's prefer and I get
Speaker 1: to go on first. That says that's the number one
Speaker 1: reason they switched to a competitor, some of these people. Now,
Speaker 1: Southwest is going to keep the current seating model okay
Speaker 1: while it retrofits planes with the new seating, but they
Speaker 1: also have to wait for regulatory approval, and that allegedly
Speaker 1: it's gonna be sometime next year. Now. They're also going
Speaker 1: to be offering red eye flights in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that. Because Big Daddy Garf does
Speaker 1: not do red eye flights.
Speaker 4: I cannot.
Speaker 1: I can't sleep on a plane. So if I'm on
Speaker 1: a red eye flight, which I've maybe taken two in
Speaker 1: my life, I ain't like. Everybody in the plane is
Speaker 1: sleep and except me the pilot's hell fraud. No maybe sleep,
Speaker 1: But because I was an autopile, I can't sleep on
Speaker 1: a plane. I don't like red eye flight. So it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. From what I hear, though, Southwest is keeping
Speaker 1: its policy of free check bags for now, which is good.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of revenue they have not realized by
Speaker 1: charging for bags. Man United, I mean dells, everybody who
Speaker 1: charges for bags twenty five of bag. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of money. Southwest two bags fly free, another reason why
Speaker 1: I love that freaking airline. Will they go down to
Speaker 1: one bag fly free? I don't know, but as allegedly
Speaker 1: right now, they're it's it's it's it's gonna change. They're
Speaker 1: forty six percent drop to three hundred and sixty million
Speaker 1: dollars in Q two profit. It's a drop, but still
Speaker 1: they made three hundred sixty seven million dollars, And I
Speaker 1: don't know it's it's value. They're gonna overhaul it. I
Speaker 1: hope it turns out well. We as Southwest, and I've
Speaker 1: heard this because people know I Southwest. Guy, Michael, what
Speaker 1: do you think is gonna happen to all of our
Speaker 1: rapper rewards points? I got to me a lot of
Speaker 1: rapper reward points. They're not gonna take those away. I
Speaker 1: don't know how we're gonna use them. I do not
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: gonna take a less preferred a way, a less preferred away.
Speaker 1: We're I think gonna find out in September. So Southwest,
Speaker 1: I know my show is heard in and around the
Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth area, that is where I'm from. Feel
Speaker 1: free to lean on me, bouncings off of me, because
Speaker 1: I'm your ultimate consumer. I am a fan. I will
Speaker 1: take it with a grain of salt. I can help
Speaker 1: spin it. And as of right now, I do plan
Speaker 1: to continue on flying on Southwest, plan on Southwest. Southwest
Speaker 1: They've opened you know, Southwest flies to a lot of
Speaker 1: countries right now. They fled Hawaii, of course that is
Speaker 1: our country. But God Jamaye, I was on when Southwest
Speaker 1: opened their international flights. I was on their PR list. Southwest,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you right now in your public relations company.
Speaker 1: They invited me to go on the very first inaugural
Speaker 1: flight out of the Houston h Airport because Hobby Southwest
Speaker 1: themselves spent one hundred and seventy or so million dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm building an entire new like wing and Hobby and
Speaker 1: in an international terminal, and you know they have flights
Speaker 1: going to Costa Rica and Jamaica. So anyway, they invited me,
Speaker 1: which I went on and I was on the inaugural
Speaker 1: flight from Houston to Jamaica and that was fun. I
Speaker 1: was with a Southwest exec. He was a cool dude.
Speaker 1: I think his name was Chris. And when we landed,
Speaker 1: I've never actually it was the first time and only
Speaker 1: time I've ever gotten one of those showers. You know,
Speaker 1: they have fire trucks out there and they like they
Speaker 1: they flow water on top of the plane like a
Speaker 1: and you go underneath it whatever they could. Those thought
Speaker 1: that was fun. That was fun. And so since I
Speaker 1: have been on now they flight a Cabo and whatever.
Speaker 1: So Southwest I I'm here for you. Do you want
Speaker 1: me to fly on the inaugural when you have actual seats?
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't want to give away my tip,
Speaker 1: because there is on the newer seven thirty seven, eight hundreds,
Speaker 1: there are two seats that are the best seats in
Speaker 1: the house that have extra legroom. I'm I don't want
Speaker 1: to blow away. I don't want to blow my cover
Speaker 1: because I know exactly where they are and those are
Speaker 1: the seats that I go to. And I've been very
Speaker 1: very I've got a ninety percent success rate of getting
Speaker 1: those two seats with extra legroom. You have to find
Speaker 1: them for yourself. It's like a hunt and seat. So
Speaker 1: Southwest don't know what to say, but there you go.
Speaker 1: The app work's great and there you go. I do
Speaker 1: talk about consumer lifestyle, consumer products and technology, and so
Speaker 1: I do have that. I will tell you this. I
Speaker 1: got about a minute Togo. Well you know what should
Speaker 1: I tease it? I am not going to be able
Speaker 1: to fly Southwest on my next flight. I am going
Speaker 1: somewhere across the globe, whereas of now, Southwest does not fly.
Speaker 1: I need your help because I need to make this
Speaker 1: reservation really quickly for all you international travelers. Travelers, I'm
Speaker 1: debating between two different airlines. You've got to help me.
Speaker 1: But if Southwest I can make I don't know if
Speaker 1: Vince Young I think chartered an entire Southwest yet back
Speaker 1: of the day, maybe I can get one to help
Speaker 1: me charter that tell you more about that as we
Speaker 1: begin hour two after this, my high tech texting Jim
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield, Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 3: In the high tech Texan Michael Garfield is here with
Speaker 3: a high tech Texans who items to make life easier
Speaker 3: new technology.
Speaker 1: So Michael Garfield has something you might like about.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. I heard worldwide on
Speaker 2: the iheartwareio. Add now your high tech Texan, Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Jack the clock. We're halfway through the Tech Texan show.
Speaker 1: You know what that means. We're a half way at
Speaker 1: a happy hour as the clock is just after twelve
Speaker 1: pm Central time here. As I am based in Houston,
Speaker 1: but heard all over the world, I do thank you
Speaker 1: for downloading the iHeartRadio app. Terrestrially kp rc AM nine
Speaker 1: to fifty radio for twenty two years. Honored to have
Speaker 1: your longest running radio, live radio local show in the
Speaker 1: one hundred year history of this wonderful radio program. Part
Speaker 1: of iHeart iHeart Radio Station seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two five nine five ohs. How you Can Talk to Me?
Speaker 1: Covered a lot of things. I've been playing with Samsung's
Speaker 1: foldable phones flippable phones for two weeks. They are now
Speaker 1: on sale officially. Verizon I Saw offers a pretty big
Speaker 1: discount on those if you trade in any other Samsung phone,
Speaker 1: you can get those for as low as two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for the fl phone or so much. I think
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. Other news, we talked Southwest Airlines, big
Speaker 1: changes of common people. I know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: Southwest Hanks and fans here and around Houston and Dallas
Speaker 1: and wherever my voice goes in State of Texas, including
Speaker 1: me better not Better not Jack and my lists preferred people.
Speaker 1: So we are going to have as signed seats right now.
Speaker 1: Don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing.
Speaker 1: You can still call and tell me what it's up.
Speaker 1: I am taking a trip in about a month and
Speaker 1: a half because I am going abroad and it's sadly
Speaker 1: someplace that Southwest does not fly yet hope they do.
Speaker 1: And I need some help from my international travelers. You know,
Speaker 1: I know my demographic. You guys, A lot of you
Speaker 1: have disposable income, a lot of you travel all over
Speaker 1: the world. And I am going to a big international
Speaker 1: technology conference in September now. I have been going to
Speaker 1: CEES as everybody knows for twin plus years, and that's
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Last I check, it's in this country
Speaker 1: and generally I fly Southwest, oh. I got a buddy
Speaker 1: of mine. We fly private and I meet a lot
Speaker 1: of companies and that's where the world introduces new technology.
Speaker 1: It's every January. Now there has been another international technology
Speaker 1: conference that I've known about for many years and I
Speaker 1: have never been, never thought about going, but I am
Speaker 1: going this year. It is called IFA, the International I
Speaker 1: don't even know what the FA stands for. And this
Speaker 1: allegedly is just as big as CE as we're worldwide companies.
Speaker 1: They're going to show off their technologies and so without
Speaker 1: a doubt follow me on iHeartRadio. I will be reporting
Speaker 1: back live Great Day Houston Channel eleven CBS. And while
Speaker 1: I'm there, I want to do some I'm going to
Speaker 1: be flying a long time because here it is bearing
Speaker 1: the lead. It is being held in Berlin, Germany. They
Speaker 1: can let me into Germany, I hope. So never I've
Speaker 1: actually been to Dream, I've been to frank for years ago.
Speaker 1: Going to Berlin, Germany, Uh excited about that. Gonna spend
Speaker 1: an extra day round, got the TV cameras gonna be
Speaker 1: doing so. But I also want to document flights. I
Speaker 1: got it's you know flights now they're you know they're faster,
Speaker 1: they're a little easier in Southwest. If I was on you,
Speaker 1: I would talk. I would talk about how hey at
Speaker 1: seven thirty seven eight hundred can make it all the
Speaker 1: way from Houston to Berlin, which I physically don't think
Speaker 1: it can. But anyway, there's two options I have. There
Speaker 1: is out of Houston, United which is a big hub.
Speaker 1: Shout out to United formerly Continental and uh Lufthansa. And
Speaker 1: I need to make a reservation like asap. What do
Speaker 1: I go with? Seven one three, two one two five
Speaker 1: nine five Oh, hit me up Michael at High Tech
Speaker 1: text and find me online social media High Tech Texts
Speaker 1: and Hi, g h T E C h T E
Speaker 1: x A N.
Speaker 4: What do you do I have?
Speaker 1: I'm like a little tiny status on United, which is
Speaker 1: not gonna get me really anything. I mean economy, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm like a six foot tall dude, and you need
Speaker 1: these long flights. It's it's kind of crampy thing. And
Speaker 1: I know my sponsor's over here, and then the radio
Speaker 1: and the TV stage. They ain't gon be paying me
Speaker 1: for one of them. Get in one of them beds
Speaker 1: delay flat. I heard they're pretty cool. If Luftansea said,
Speaker 1: I've heard nice things about it. Okay, I need to
Speaker 1: know by like the end of the show. So you
Speaker 1: got about forty five minutes luftansa United. If I'm flying
Speaker 1: all the way to Berlin and I got to stop somewhere,
Speaker 1: got to stop either in Jersey, Newark, I gotta stop
Speaker 1: in Munich, or I think I could stop in London,
Speaker 1: or actually I can stop in Frankfurt. Help me out here,
Speaker 1: Help me out okay, because I'm going to be a
Speaker 1: documenting just to see how a six foot tall guy
Speaker 1: enjoys a fly flying all the way over there. Got
Speaker 1: a new passport, They've only got a new past recently.
Speaker 1: The new passports were different looking than the old passports.
Speaker 1: My passport expired in April, and I was scared, it's
Speaker 1: going to take me months. I expedite. I went online.
Speaker 1: I did it just I didn't go through the third
Speaker 1: party service. I went to the US Dove whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and I think I paid like ninety extra bucks to
Speaker 1: expedite it. Dude, this top to bottom this thing came
Speaker 1: and like I think it was thirteen days. It was quick.
Speaker 1: It's got like this plastic piece of plastic in there.
Speaker 1: So I guess you can't counterfeit it, or something's got
Speaker 1: a plastic divider. It's pretty nice. It's pretty I must say.
Speaker 1: When I got my picture taken, I went the Walgreens
Speaker 1: or something and I made him taken like three times.
Speaker 1: I needed to get them, you know, one of my
Speaker 1: good side of the whole thing. But I got the passport.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. Now I need to figure out
Speaker 1: how get over there. So that is a major worldwide
Speaker 1: tech conference that I'm looking forward to going to in Germany.
Speaker 1: And then I will give you the update of everything
Speaker 1: I see and everything that is released. I have about
Speaker 1: a minute before this break, but I do promise this.
Speaker 1: I did tell you that I've been playing with some
Speaker 1: more new gear that I was able to get when
Speaker 1: I met the Samsung folks at the super secret media
Speaker 1: preview of their new it's called Samsung Unpacked two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I was in New York and I was able to
Speaker 1: get the new Galaxy Flip six, the Galaxy Fold six,
Speaker 1: which I've given you my thoughts. They also let me
Speaker 1: play with the Galaxy Buds three. This is the third
Speaker 1: generation of their buds. These are the earbuds, and for
Speaker 1: the first time, ever, and Samsung has had earbuds.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: These are the ones that totally bluetooth wireless. They fit
Speaker 1: inside your ears. They're not big, you know, over the
Speaker 1: year headphones as we usually use in radio over here,
Speaker 1: cans as they call them. These are different because they
Speaker 1: actually have little I call them stems, which are very similar.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna use this term because I don't use
Speaker 1: the term Apple little lot you've seen for years the
Speaker 1: Apple air pods tell what they're called, the little white
Speaker 1: stems that look like they're dripping out of your ear.
Speaker 1: They Samsung actually has borrowed that idea. Usually Apple borrows
Speaker 1: from Samsung. Samsung borrowed the idea of having these. I
Speaker 1: must say, I'm quite impressed. They're very light. I will
Speaker 1: talk about the active voice cancelation how much they are.
Speaker 1: There are two different versions than all this. If you
Speaker 1: just hang around mad, just hang around for a few minutes,
Speaker 1: this is what I do. I have fun, you know,
Speaker 1: don't take ourselves too seriously. I'll tell you what's the
Speaker 1: good and what's the bad.
Speaker 4: Michael Barsa, I love to welcome you back.
Speaker 1: And I say that because I've done this so long.
Speaker 1: I'm very formal We welcome you back. Thank you for
Speaker 1: wearing a black tie and using a knife and fork
Speaker 1: in your correct hand, which I'm really not sure how
Speaker 1: to do that, but it is. It's Michael le Garfield.
Speaker 1: As you heard that Big Booby Boy say. It is
Speaker 1: the long running high tech textan show. It's after a
Speaker 1: noontime here in the city of Houston on Saturday. If
Speaker 1: you are hungry, I'll tell you what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: It's time to eat. Who's hungry? It is lunchtime? And
Speaker 1: why not give away some lunch? Radio is all about giveaways.
Speaker 1: And I had a nice little relationshap peer with the
Speaker 1: Hobbo Bobs. Cabo Bobs four locations in the Houston area.
Speaker 1: They are out of Austin once again, it's a Texas
Speaker 1: based company. Out of this world. Burritos and tacos, bowls,
Speaker 1: salads and case of dias. You go down the line,
Speaker 1: you tell them what you want on it. You look
Speaker 1: back there. They actually take their meat, they take their barberco,
Speaker 1: they take their brisket, their chicken and their beef and
Speaker 1: they cook them on Camata Joe's, you know that outside
Speaker 1: smoker thing, which they actually at there. So good. Love
Speaker 1: the fact that they have five different Dowarthias you could
Speaker 1: choose from different tortillas. They got some key cheddar they
Speaker 1: got in Joe Chili. It's so great. Uh Met a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine. The one on Mason Road out in Katie.
Speaker 1: The other day, they've got one in Stafford, Texas. They've
Speaker 1: got one on the northwest side in Copperfield, this Shrah area.
Speaker 1: And also not too far from the galleria Sam Felipe
Speaker 1: near I guess I'm Chimney rock as Era right across
Speaker 1: from that AGP. Who wants to win twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: gift card? Let's give it away? Caller number nine. Why
Speaker 1: not seven one three two one two five nine five Oh,
Speaker 1: caller number nine two one two five nine five oh.
Speaker 1: And if you get a busy signal or no one answers,
Speaker 1: that means sucks for you. You didn't win. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go buy your own burrito. And I always
Speaker 1: it's I videotape this one through twice. It's almost a
Speaker 1: game when you're watching the last person try to roll.
Speaker 1: They put so much in this burrito. You you have
Speaker 1: to play a game. There's no way they can fold
Speaker 1: that burrito. And every single time they fold that burrito.
Speaker 1: It is looks like a small bowling ball. That's how
Speaker 1: big it is. All call a number nine, you know
Speaker 1: the phone number. You get twenty five dollars in Cobo
Speaker 1: Bob's gift card that we are going to send to you. See,
Speaker 1: you're not wasting your time at all doing this. I
Speaker 1: actually give you some good idust. How do you get
Speaker 1: the Cabo Bobs? Do you drive? We're a driveable city
Speaker 1: when you're in Texas, and I grew up in Texas.
Speaker 1: I don't taxi cab a lot, actually hardly ever. I
Speaker 1: don't use ride sharing, uber lifts and what have you,
Speaker 1: because I have a car. Actually I always have a
Speaker 1: car that i'm test driving. I drive to a grocery
Speaker 1: store with a big parking lot. I drive to a
Speaker 1: shopping mall where we park for free. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of free parking, unless you say downtown or so. This
Speaker 1: is a drivable state. But apparently there are taxis over here,
Speaker 1: and I need your opinion. I need you to call
Speaker 1: in if you've seen this. Apparently there is a test
Speaker 1: program from GM General Motors. They have a division called
Speaker 1: Cruise Cruse Taxi. Apparently it's a self driving taxi they
Speaker 1: are testing right now here in h doubt also in Dallas.
Speaker 1: If you're listening and Phoenix, has anybody seen a taxi
Speaker 1: driving itself? Seven one three, two one two five nine five.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, because we're probably already got the
Speaker 1: winner for the other gift cards. I need to know.
Speaker 1: I wonder I review GM cars. I know people GMGM.
Speaker 1: Why haven't you offered me the chance to be driven
Speaker 1: by nobody?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: Because I I would be I have some trepidation about that. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this, my dear listeners, Are you willing
Speaker 1: to be driven driven around and a self driving car? No?
Speaker 1: It says human drivers will supervise the cars. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: a human driver who's sitting there reading the paper. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but at some point, and I've seen it.
Speaker 1: I have been in a self driving car. I've tried
Speaker 1: it at CES in Vegas, and I think I've tried
Speaker 1: it once or twice in the San Francisco area where
Speaker 1: they're all over the place. Man. The thing is, it's
Speaker 1: a It is one of the biggest paradigm shifts that
Speaker 1: we will see in our lifetime, a driverless car, and
Speaker 1: it's scary you see it. It's like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: is this thing gonna veer in my lane? Is it
Speaker 1: gonna And they've had an accident. GM Cruise they did
Speaker 1: have an accident last year. They're slowly redoing it again.
Speaker 1: So that's why there's a test market in Dallas, Houston
Speaker 1: and Phoenix. But there's a lot of questions. I know
Speaker 1: I have, and I covered the car industry extensively. I
Speaker 1: test drive cars. I'm gonna review cars over here. That's
Speaker 1: something that I'm driving. But you know, I think the
Speaker 1: debate right now has continued to be is it gas
Speaker 1: versus electric? Or now is it hybrid. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of manufacturers who are backing off of their EV promise,
Speaker 1: especially after we lost electricity through Hurricane Barrel. If you
Speaker 1: had an EV, how did you charge your card during
Speaker 1: Hurricane Barrel? That's another topic. But now it's how do
Speaker 1: we as humans get comfortable allowing ghosts for all, you know,
Speaker 1: intensive purposes drive us around because it is very very
Speaker 1: odd if it gets in a wreck. Who's liable the
Speaker 1: are you as the passenger? Is it the company in
Speaker 1: this case GM Cruise, is it the person who maybe
Speaker 1: had the accident? With the tax A lot of questions. Man,
Speaker 1: I need an insurance person to come on and even
Speaker 1: decide for this for me. I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: going to see this in mass form in my lifetime,
Speaker 1: But then again, I hope I do live a long time.
Speaker 1: And I think it's because not that the technology is
Speaker 1: not there. Because the technology is there. They use a
Speaker 1: combination of lidar which is a type of radar for
Speaker 1: all practical purpose on star or, and they use cameras,
Speaker 1: they have sensors, they can see what's going wrong. It's
Speaker 1: not technology. I believe the technology is there. It's human interaction.
Speaker 1: Are we comfortable of utilizing and using and taking a
Speaker 1: vehicle that does not have a human driver? That I
Speaker 1: think is what we have to get over, And to me,
Speaker 1: that takes time. It takes a massive pr campaign, which
Speaker 1: is in this case maybe what GM is trying to do.
Speaker 1: They're just testing it out in these cars. But if
Speaker 1: you've seen one of these things, I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: from you. Hit me seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: five nine to five zero. So if you've seen one,
Speaker 1: got a picture, tag me on Instagram or on x
Speaker 1: or threads. High tech text and spelled the whole thing
Speaker 1: out because I actually i'd like to see I would
Speaker 1: like to would like to try this. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: I would be documenting it. I bring, you know, my cameras.
Speaker 1: I'd probably do a segment on Great Day Houston or
Speaker 1: something like that. But I'd have to buckle in, man,
Speaker 1: I better check my life insurance policy. And that's and
Speaker 1: I'm a daredevil. I've jumped out of a plane. I
Speaker 1: have scuba dived. I have driven high speed car like
Speaker 1: a racecar around a racetrack. I've done my ten marathon.
Speaker 1: I've done all this, but I'm still like early going, I,
Speaker 1: you know, get into a driverless car. I think they've
Speaker 1: got to win me over, so then I can convince
Speaker 1: you to win you over. So do I make it? Yep?
Speaker 1: About that over there too? Do you want to follow
Speaker 1: up on one big news from last week too? Who
Speaker 1: was affected by the big Microsoft Windows slash crowd strike
Speaker 1: Windows computer going down. It's been eight days since a
Speaker 1: lot of the business computers, not so much personal Windows computers.
Speaker 1: Eight and a half million Windows computers went down a
Speaker 1: week ago. It was a software bug, and it turns
Speaker 1: out it wasn't Microsoft, and so I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: blaming them, but it was a company, a third party
Speaker 1: company called crowd Soft. Crowd Soft they took the blame.
Speaker 1: They were trying to upload a piece of test software,
Speaker 1: but it was a buggy software and it didn't validate
Speaker 1: correctly with the contip with the content, and it was
Speaker 1: pushed out to millions of people. Eight and a half
Speaker 1: million computers going down from Australia. They shut down a
Speaker 1: ton of things, including a lot of airlines, including Delta.
Speaker 1: Delta got just snag man, and I know I've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about airlines this show so far by Delta
Speaker 1: did not have a good a good week. Certainly at Atlanta,
Speaker 1: people were like sleeping on the floors. It's it's just
Speaker 1: bring those computers up. And no, I'm not ragging. I
Speaker 1: went I have a Windows I have. Everything I have
Speaker 1: is when I have Windows laptops, I have Windows Desktop
Speaker 1: I'm looking at right now. Didn't go down because I
Speaker 1: don't have the fur print or the business version of it.
Speaker 1: I have a personal one. So if it did affect you,
Speaker 1: it should be over. And what can you expect from it?
Speaker 1: A little funny anecdote. CrowdStrike was trying to make make
Speaker 1: things up to businesses. So they sent businesses who were affected.
Speaker 1: And again I read this on the internet, but I've
Speaker 1: got got two or three sources. They sent businesses a
Speaker 1: ten dollars door dash card. I think it was a
Speaker 1: Uber eats. They sent them a ten dollars Uber We're
Speaker 1: sorry for the trouble that this coused you. Here's ten
Speaker 1: bucks at uber eats. If that's not a slap of
Speaker 1: the face. A lot of those Uber eats gift cards
Speaker 1: or gift cards they weren't delivered because they ordered so much.
Speaker 1: They were the servers were overwhelmed that. I think Uber
Speaker 1: eats thought it was a hack, so they tried to
Speaker 1: do a little good will, which was not too good
Speaker 1: with ten bucks for having my company bruly brought to
Speaker 1: its days. They didn't even get the ten dollars Uber eats. Bat.
Speaker 1: Who's that a bad week? Let's say CrowdStrike. Anybody else
Speaker 1: talk to me. We're gonna take a break over here
Speaker 1: as we come back with a few more segments of
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Speaker 1: only been through the opening ceremony, which was it was
Speaker 1: pretty entertaining last night. If you happened to see that.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is the name. If you're listening to me
Speaker 1: on in the radio via your app or through your smartphone,
Speaker 1: are you listening to me through your headphones or your
Speaker 1: little tiny earbuds? I have been playing with a new
Speaker 1: set of earbuds from Samsung. They are and now I
Speaker 1: believe officially on sale. I've had him for about two
Speaker 1: weeks right now, the Samsung Galaxy Buds three and the
Speaker 1: Buds three Pro, two different versions. I have the Buds
Speaker 1: three Pro and this is the first time, and I've
Speaker 1: had most every other version of Samsung's Galaxy Buds they've
Speaker 1: been The design is a little bit weird. One of them.
Speaker 1: They actually called it the Bean and it looked and
Speaker 1: looked like and it was shaped like a bean, just
Speaker 1: did not stay in my ear that well, So this way,
Speaker 1: there's no way around it. Samsung pretty much copied Apple
Speaker 1: on its new Buds three and Buds the Pro. The
Speaker 1: physical design looks like the newest generation of the AirPod,
Speaker 1: the air Pods Pro, because they've got those little stems.
Speaker 1: Comes in a little carrying case. However, however, Samsung has
Speaker 1: taken it to new heights. Some of my thoughts the
Speaker 1: Galaxy Buds. They do have active noise cancelation, they have
Speaker 1: an adaptive equalizer, and they have voice detect all right,
Speaker 1: so does Apple too, But I like the form factor
Speaker 1: and I've never in my life had a pair of
Speaker 1: air pods in my ear because I don't do Apple.
Speaker 1: Sorry about that. These are lightweight, their solid performance. Comes
Speaker 1: with three or four different sizes for your ears. The
Speaker 1: first one that I tried on was perfect. Connects in
Speaker 1: a snap so you open the box. Comes in a
Speaker 1: little shell which acts as a battery case, and they
Speaker 1: have lights on them too. This is what I like.
Speaker 1: There is as I grab it over here, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the play by paid what I have a
Speaker 1: white case the left when you when you pick the
Speaker 1: left and right little pods up. There's a light that
Speaker 1: goes up and down. The stem that lights up shows
Speaker 1: you that the batteries charge, and the there's a there's
Speaker 1: a blue light on the left one. There's a red
Speaker 1: right on the right one reminds you of what ear
Speaker 1: they go into. As I always say red right, Remember
Speaker 1: that one red right. So it's very very very simple.
Speaker 1: Battery life seems to be okay. I haven't had too
Speaker 1: much of a problem. It's a USB connector right directly
Speaker 1: into the case when you open the case, and you
Speaker 1: do have a Samsung phone, and by the way, for
Speaker 1: the best features, you do need a Samsung device. They
Speaker 1: connect automatically. I mean you don't even have to have
Speaker 1: your Bluetooth Pluetooth on. You open it up and your
Speaker 1: Samsung phone will say, hey, are you trying to connect
Speaker 1: the blood straight? Very simple to do, very simple do.
Speaker 1: Sound quality is great, Humphy fit good ambient sound and
Speaker 1: believe it or not, I have tried a number of
Speaker 1: different air pod pod like devices, not the over the ear,
Speaker 1: big headphone, beat through cans, whatever you want to call
Speaker 1: the active noise cancelation see to me to get true
Speaker 1: active noise cancelation which means canceling out all the surrounding
Speaker 1: noise around you, which is great for listening on planes,
Speaker 1: which is you got a crying baby, you got whatever.
Speaker 1: Those are great to me. You have to have the
Speaker 1: over the ear design. Gotta tell you. These are not
Speaker 1: over the ear. These are in ear Galaxy Buds three
Speaker 1: and Galaxy Buds three Pro. The active noise canceling works
Speaker 1: very very well, and you could set there's a setting
Speaker 1: on there that lets noises go through, which is very important.
Speaker 1: I'm a runner. When I'm using these to walk or run,
Speaker 1: there is a siren coming, there's a cop that's trying
Speaker 1: to give me directions, there's someone yelling, hey, garb man,
Speaker 1: it'll actually open up. You can set a level that
Speaker 1: you can hear what's going on on the outside. So
Speaker 1: there are a number of these on the market that
Speaker 1: actually do this, but I just I do like the
Speaker 1: way they look. They're called they don't. I call them stems,
Speaker 1: but Samsung calls them blades. It's a blade stem. You
Speaker 1: could swipe on them to adjust the volume. You can
Speaker 1: pinch them for playback, you can pinch them for noise control.
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty pleased. Let me give you a price
Speaker 1: on these if that's okay to you, along with the
Speaker 1: sound quality. Oh, by the way, they actually you can
Speaker 1: make calls of these things, and the quality and transparency
Speaker 1: of the calls are great, so much so when I'm
Speaker 1: in a car and I'm trying out Bluetooth, the quality
Speaker 1: is better than listening in Bluetooth on a car. I
Speaker 1: like that. That actually was was was pretty good. I
Speaker 1: like that a lot also, So the gallay actually only
Speaker 1: go back to my Nicole Montana when she sent me
Speaker 1: a press release because I believe I have the two
Speaker 1: different prices on these Galaxy Buds pro these things they're not.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to tell you how they
Speaker 1: compare to the price of the apples, because I don't
Speaker 1: know there are, you know, some differences. Obviously, what phone
Speaker 1: do you have? Does it work with your phone? You
Speaker 1: want to do some research on this thing. But for
Speaker 1: some reason, you have a Samsung and you want some
Speaker 1: really strong ear pods, probably the best EarPods that I
Speaker 1: have ever used from Samsung. That is an unpaid endorsement,
Speaker 1: which does not happen a lot for me. So I
Speaker 1: really really like it. Prices we have got the regular
Speaker 1: Galaxy Buds three one hundred and eighty dollars, and then
Speaker 1: we have got the upgraded Galaxy Buds three Pro. Those
Speaker 1: are the kinds I have two hundred and fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars. There there could be some
Speaker 1: trade in. It looks like if you go to the
Speaker 1: Samsung site you can get one hundred dollars instant trade
Speaker 1: in credit. I believe it looks like you can do that.
Speaker 1: You can pay it off over time. I like that.
Speaker 1: I think they've done a good job. So again, I
Speaker 1: can't comment on the two new watches. I can't comment
Speaker 1: on the cool new Galaxy ring that allegedly tells you
Speaker 1: everything about your health. Can't do that, uh because I
Speaker 1: haven't got those yet. But other than that, go check
Speaker 1: out your your butts. If anybody has some comments of
Speaker 1: what your favorite earbuds and ear pods are, open phone
Speaker 1: lines here at seven one three, two one two, five
Speaker 1: nine five. You can get these at retail stores. I again,
Speaker 1: not in the door. I just want to let you
Speaker 1: know where I shop. I walked in to a Best
Speaker 1: Buy for the first time maybe two years, three years.
Speaker 1: They used to love best Buy. I used to love
Speaker 1: walking into best Buy Technology City. I used to go
Speaker 1: get my ideas of what to talk about, and hey,
Speaker 1: this looks neat, and let me go contact this company.
Speaker 1: Maybe they see if they have any press demo reviews.
Speaker 1: It was. It was neat wal in there. Because I
Speaker 1: had one of my cousins here in town needed help
Speaker 1: getting a new printer and laptop and stuff. And she
Speaker 1: wanted immediately, and so she lived near best by. Michael,
Speaker 1: can you meet me a best Buy? So we went
Speaker 1: the best Buy and we ended I ended up getting
Speaker 1: everything and setting it up for It was fine. Best
Speaker 1: Buy is different, man. It's clean store, you know, pretty
Speaker 1: well organized. They still got refrigerators and their microwaves or whatever,
Speaker 1: tons of TVs and the computers over there too. I
Speaker 1: would have loved to been the spokesperson for best Buy.
Speaker 1: I think I could have brought them a ton of business.
Speaker 1: I remember, my good dear friend, May rest in peace.
Speaker 1: Randy Lemon, the garden Guy, the garden Gooper on our
Speaker 1: sister radio station seven forty. I'm going back about fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago. I'm Randy needed help buying a TV. And
Speaker 1: I'm on air on this show. Randy is walking through
Speaker 1: a best Buy. He calls the show live on air,
Speaker 1: true story, and he goes, Garth, I'm standing at the tea.
Speaker 1: I need your help. Should I go with this Sony
Speaker 1: over here? Or should I go with this Samsung over here?
Speaker 1: Here's the prices. I'm literally giving him play by play
Speaker 1: of what you bought. And of course, knowing it's one
Speaker 1: of my best friends, I had to dish him his
Speaker 1: own medicine. If you've ever listened to Randy Lemon show
Speaker 1: when he did the guarden line, we actually he would
Speaker 1: over and overtell you he Sometimes he would not tell
Speaker 1: you the answer. His answ would be, read my schedule,
Speaker 1: go online, download my schedule of when to plant the
Speaker 1: pagonias and when to put the roses and what to do.
Speaker 1: So instead of telling him on air what to do,
Speaker 1: I said, Randy, go read my schedule and go look
Speaker 1: at my website I tech Texan dot com, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you which one to buy. A best Buy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did not appreciate that. I actually I ultimately gave
Speaker 1: him what the boy. I say this about the spokesperson
Speaker 1: because best Buy just came best by. Apparently it's still relevant.
Speaker 1: Apparently they still have ad dollars. They just refreshed the brand,
Speaker 1: and they came out with a new spokesperson. Stockingly enough,
Speaker 1: it is not Ryan Seacrest. They have come up with
Speaker 1: a hollow graphic spokesperson. I am not kidding you. It
Speaker 1: is called a spokes hologram, and it is a dude
Speaker 1: who is in an all blue uniform. I guess that's
Speaker 1: what Best Buy Geek Squad or something uniform is. And
Speaker 1: it's a TV commercial or two whatever, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: be seeing a spokes hologram whatever. You're listening to the
Speaker 1: real spokesperson for all technology right here on The High
Speaker 1: Tech Text Show seven one three two one two five
Speaker 1: nine five up when we come up, come back. It
Speaker 1: is the last segment this week. We'll wrap up some
Speaker 1: of your questions. I will tell you some of the
Speaker 1: cars I've been driving. And if you're looking for a
Speaker 1: new another new bundle on your cable to potentially save
Speaker 1: money because you don't have enough bundles and streaming of services,
Speaker 1: I will tell you three companies that I've come together
Speaker 1: to create another bundle. It is so confusing that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make some sense to this right here on The
Speaker 1: Micro Darker Show, final nine minutes of the show. Thank
Speaker 1: you for hanging around with me. Congratulations to all the
Speaker 1: winners of the stuff that we have given away. We
Speaker 1: do this every week. We have done it for twenty
Speaker 1: two years. The longest running radio program in KPRC nine
Speaker 1: to fifty am history used to be called Clear Channel
Speaker 1: when I started. Now as iHeartRadio. Got to thank my
Speaker 1: bosses who don't listen to the weekend show, probably forgot
Speaker 1: I even do a show for keeping me on, Eddie Martini,
Speaker 1: Brian Ericson, Mark Sherman. Those are the dudes who sit
Speaker 1: in the carpeted offices down down the hall. So all
Speaker 1: very nice for letting me keep this on. Twenty two
Speaker 1: years ago, we did not know the name, the word,
Speaker 1: the meaning of streaming. We knew pretty much what cable was,
Speaker 1: and we still a lot of us watched over the
Speaker 1: air Ota Television's that's following by the wayside, people, I mean,
Speaker 1: people are cutting the cord. We're we're streaming. All you
Speaker 1: need is the Internet access and it's getting just as
Speaker 1: confusing and just as expensive as as cable. I will
Speaker 1: tell you this again, but breaking news. There are free
Speaker 1: ways to watch television here in Houston, and almost every
Speaker 1: major market. It is over the air TV. The FCC, Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: the FCCA, they do mandate that television stations broadcast over
Speaker 1: the air programming and so what you watch on your ABC, CBS, NBC,
Speaker 1: Fox affiliates, they broadcast that over the air. You do
Speaker 1: need an antenna, and nowadays it's a digital antenna to
Speaker 1: receive it on your new digital TVs. These digital antennas,
Speaker 1: they can go inside your home. They can fit on
Speaker 1: your little tabletop or a desktop. They're relatively small. Get
Speaker 1: them online, get them, get your you know, big stores.
Speaker 1: They could be as inexpensive as fifteen twenty dollars. You
Speaker 1: can go upwards of one hundred dollars. Sometimes you want
Speaker 1: to put them towards your window. Sometimes you want up
Speaker 1: face them towards where the massive broadcast antenna in your
Speaker 1: city is the signals are coming from. Uh you can
Speaker 1: go to I think the website is antennaweb dot org.
Speaker 1: That's one of the many ways that you can see
Speaker 1: where the here in the Houston area, the major television
Speaker 1: or radio stations are broadcasting from very tall antenna towers
Speaker 1: on the southwest side of the city. It's technically it's
Speaker 1: in Missouri City, so if you know where the southwest
Speaker 1: side of your home is, you point your digital TV
Speaker 1: antennas that way. You're gonna get a better reception. All right,
Speaker 1: So there you go. If you cut the cable, How
Speaker 1: many streamers do you have? How many? By the way
Speaker 1: over the era, you ain't going get ESPN, You ain't
Speaker 1: gonna get any streaming. You're gonna get You're probably gonna
Speaker 1: get about one hundred and twenty one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: channels free. Now a lot of them are Informed language,
Speaker 1: Spanish speaking Asian languages or whatever. You're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of repeats of the Andy Griffiths Show. But you
Speaker 1: will get the over the year major TV networks where
Speaker 1: you can watch primetime in your general hospital on ABC
Speaker 1: and whatever. Now, if you want the real stuff, I
Speaker 1: say real stuff. Now, we got streaming. There are so
Speaker 1: many streamers every single week or month, you should at
Speaker 1: least go back and see how many streamers that you
Speaker 1: and your family are paying for, because odds are you're
Speaker 1: paying for too much. Eight bucks here, fifteen bucks here,
Speaker 1: twenty bucks for this Netflix. It adds up. So in
Speaker 1: a lot of these companies are partnering together and they're
Speaker 1: called bundling together. That's gonna save you some money. And
Speaker 1: the latest bundler that I saw get this Disney Plus,
Speaker 1: Hulu and Max. They have now partnered together in some
Speaker 1: extent and they're bundling all three of those together. We
Speaker 1: knew it was coming because Disney entered a partnership with
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Discovery, which includes Disney Plus and Hulu and Max.
Speaker 1: Th of these is going to cost you thirty dollars
Speaker 1: a month, which they say is a savings of six
Speaker 1: dollars per month when you add it all up. But
Speaker 1: this is what I'm here for. If you want to
Speaker 1: save even more money and you don't mind watching some
Speaker 1: advertising in between those breaks during your dramas, there is
Speaker 1: an advertisement filled version of this bundle that's seventeen bucks
Speaker 1: per month. Okay, now we're talking because who doesn't love ads?
Speaker 1: We love ads on radio. The reason you are listening
Speaker 1: to this radio show on this radio station because it
Speaker 1: is fr ee. It don't cost you nothing other than
Speaker 1: maybe listening to a few ads during our commercial breaks.
Speaker 1: You're used to it. You're used to watching television with ads,
Speaker 1: So why why not save money? Pay seventeen bucks a
Speaker 1: month for this bundle instead of thirty dollars a month,
Speaker 1: watch a few advertisements. It's a budget friendly way to
Speaker 1: do it. Plus, it's the home to everything that's Star
Speaker 1: Wars and all their new TV offshoots or whatever. Max.
Speaker 1: You know the drill. You know it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: technically it's HBO and they rebranded it for no stupid reason. Whatever, Sopranos,
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones, the wire House and Dragons and everything.
Speaker 1: Disney owns ESPN and ESPN. They're currently prepping a new
Speaker 1: streaming sports service too that they're going to team up
Speaker 1: with Fox Sports and Discovery Warner Brothers Discovery, which is TNT.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be able to bundle this thing and you're
Speaker 1: going to get the NFL, the Major League Baseball, National
Speaker 1: Hockey Loutue League, NBA and more when it launches, and
Speaker 1: that's coming later this year. No pricing on that. That
Speaker 1: thing is estly going to be forty five fifty five
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars. Stuff ain't cheap, So I will remind
Speaker 1: you go through the streaming services, figure out how much
Speaker 1: you're paying. May want to delete if you don't watch it,
Speaker 1: your kids have moved out or whatever, just just just
Speaker 1: just delete some of that stuff. I am here to
Speaker 1: save you money. Find off few of for thirty minutes
Speaker 1: of the show. I'm not going to save you, honey.
Speaker 1: When I talk about some of the automobiles that I
Speaker 1: actually have been driving. Every week, I do get to
Speaker 1: test drive a brand new automobile. They it does not
Speaker 1: come from a dealership, comes directly from the manufacturer, which
Speaker 1: means I don't have to promote it going this is
Speaker 1: the greatest car in the history of the world. Come
Speaker 1: you know, we're on sale right now. Gas for my
Speaker 1: buddy at this dealership. Now I get it from the manufacturer,
Speaker 1: which means I can rag on it, I can love
Speaker 1: on it. I can tell you the good or bad
Speaker 1: past two or three I've been playing with this week
Speaker 1: or two. Had a really, really fun time and a
Speaker 1: brand new Jeep Wrangler three ninety two. And that's that's
Speaker 1: the engine size and capacity. I play. Hell, it may
Speaker 1: be the horsepower. This thing was loud, it was fast,
Speaker 1: It had massive tires. It is great for off roading.
Speaker 1: It had one touch retractable roof sawt roof which goes
Speaker 1: all the way back. Very fun to take the top off.
Speaker 1: I wrote it to Austin. The hair was flowing. It
Speaker 1: was great everything about this Jeep. It was very spacious.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. Oh, by the way, retail value of
Speaker 1: the way I tested it, one hundred and eight thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for a Jeep Wrangler. I know Jeeps hold their
Speaker 1: value one hundred and eight bones. If you want, if
Speaker 1: you can afford it, then don't even bat an eye
Speaker 1: out of it. Go find yourself a Jeep dealer somewhere.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you which one. Go check that out.
Speaker 1: You want something relatively affordable. I'm currently this week in
Speaker 1: a Chevy Trax. Trax hey don't laugh, twenty eight thirty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I could buy easily three of these things
Speaker 1: compared to the Jeep sits five people, nice technology, has
Speaker 1: decent pickup, very comfy, it's a good starter car. It's
Speaker 1: good for all the older generation. I'd like that. The
Speaker 1: Chevy tracks is very good. Was it an accurate Integra?
Speaker 1: Also a stick shift?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I hate stick shifts. Stick shift is the is the
Speaker 1: hardest thing to drive. It's the worst thing to drive
Speaker 1: in traffic and Houston traffic having a stick shift, it's
Speaker 1: not fun. I get about three manual stick shifts a year,
Speaker 1: the Acur and Teger. It's sexy four door. This thing
Speaker 1: was like racing blue stick shifts. Manuals are very fast.
Speaker 1: I don't get to drive on a lot of Accurates. Hey,
Speaker 1: I liked it. Priced around the upper forties, lower fifties,
Speaker 1: I would get the automatic one instead of manual one,
Speaker 1: but that really did open my eye. I mean, I
Speaker 1: do a lot of Stilantis models. I do a lot
Speaker 1: of the the Chevy, the Dodge, the Jeep, the Ram,
Speaker 1: the Ring. I do a lot of the GMS. I
Speaker 1: do a lot of the GMC's and everything. I don't
Speaker 1: get to do a lot of the Hondas. I don't
Speaker 1: do a ton of the Toyotas. I don't do a
Speaker 1: lot of the Lexus, and I don't do a lot
Speaker 1: of the Accurates. But I really was impressed with the
Speaker 1: with the Accura of the Accurate Integra point is I
Speaker 1: have a podcast. Also if you go to iHeart certainly
Speaker 1: Spotify too. You look at high Tech Texan. I specifically
Speaker 1: upload a lot of my chat and chatter and conversation
Speaker 1: on automobiles there. So if you're looking for some sort
Speaker 1: of a model, go listen to what I have to say.
Speaker 1: They're only about eight to ten minutes long. And I
Speaker 1: will give you the good, the bad, and not so good,
Speaker 1: and absolutely by this one or absolutely stay away from
Speaker 1: this one that is on my podcast. Speaking of podcasts,
Speaker 1: this two hour show is about to be podcasted, which
Speaker 1: you can find on iHeartRadio because calimbered man, I do
Speaker 1: appreciate you keeping me on the air and punching the
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Speaker 1: we're going end it up and have fun watching the Olympics,
Speaker 1: whatever you're doing, staying dry and counting down till the
Speaker 1: school begins in life as we know it sucks and
Speaker 1: begins again. I will be doing some back to school
Speaker 1: play by play some of the better year to buy
Speaker 1: laptops dorm room accessories in the next week or two.
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