Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan. It was to make life easier of new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want, Texas. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan, Michael Garfield. You know how I always start the second hour of
the show, which is pretty much halfway through the show. You listen to me a long time, twenty plus years. I got my stick? How do I start the second hour of my show? It's halfway to happy Well, guess what. This is the time of the year where I can finally say it's halfway through Happy Hour of twenty twenty four. That's right, people, it is finally the first part of July and we are halfway through this year. How's your year been? Talk to me here? Seven one three,
two, one two, five, nine to five. Oh, listen, I know it's slow, it's hot, it is nasty, it is slow. You have nothing else to do? Why don't you join me? As we do? Kind of a mid year update of the High Tech Texan Show. Not a ton of things going on in the technology world. We are about to hear some announcement officially of some new Samsung Bubble devices. I for one, as a Samsung Android fan, I'm very excited about that. But other than that, it's the dol drums of summer. I mean,
sports kind of suck right now overall. I mean football, you know, training camp's not even started. Basketball, NBA is Ova. Not a hockey fan, but the Stanley Cup is actually kind of that's done. I mean, yeah, We've got the Paris Olympics coming up at a week or two or three, whatever it is, and I'm not really excited. Yeah, Simon Bile's local Houston girl. She does well, but it's the Olympics. I hardly know anybody even participating in the thing. So what do we do?
Man? We just sit inside the air condition, We do a radio program, you call me, you tweet me, you x me, you threads me, you Facebook me, and we or we sit in the pool sipping some sides. And throughout these two hours, I'm probably gonna give you an opportunity, an idea or two of giving you some nice recipes. You see. The show is so much more than technology. It started out as the High Tech Texas Show. Actually, officially the name is still the High
Tech Texan. But if you do follow me on social media unless you're blocked, you will find out I do so much more than just technology. I test drive car. Oh, I've got a beautiful vehicle that I've been test driving this past week. It is it is. It is luxury. Actually, one of the most interior, interior luxurious vehicles that I have ever been in. And I've been testing vehicles for well over fifteen years. It is awesome. Stay tuned, I'll tell you what that is. We've got if
you're a gamer, a few interesting games. How about a streamer, I'm nothing but a stream right, anything good to watch? I guess we've got Hard Knocks just started. I don't know if you care about the New York Giants, but I'm finding myself rewatching. This is how bored I am. I'm rewatching old shows that have been on for the fifteen sixteen years. I don't know why I'm flipping through Max and I found one of my favorite shows
of all time. Actually, I love this show so much that the opening theme song to the show I stole for about five or six years the opening theme song for my show. It is Entourage. I'm watching that again. I mean, that's how bad it is. Anybody did anybody see the new Beverly Hills top not so f just came out on Netflix, and my buddies using a password that I was borrowing, I expired, so I still haven't seen ax l F. So somebody that can give me the play by play
on that, I'd love to hear from you. Calum calub Is, my man, he is you have nothing else to do on the first, you know, first few weeks of July, My man, you just sit here. Yeah, you're right. This is at least IR pays the er conditioning. This is not a this is not a bad deal. If you're hot and you're schmitzy outside, let's just come inside the iHeart Radio studios and we're
all good. I do want you mentioned something that I guess we should say happy birthday or happy anniversary too, because it was almost one year ago exactly. Do you remember what happened one year ago? The first week or two of July, there was a new launch of a new app that out of the Blue really set the wor on fire. Amazing amount of downloads overnight. It just appeared on your app store or your iTunes or whatever you call it, and you downloaded. And this was gonna be the killer. This was
gonna be the Twitter killer, the ex killer. Folks. Do you remember it was one year ago that we were introduced to Threads. It's it's from Meta, which is the the over the big corporation, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram and what's app. It's called Meta, and they pushed out Threads, the app, and an attempt to take on the platform that we now know as X and at a time, mister Zuckerberg he said that he hoped it would turn into a public conversations app with over a billion people on
it. And that was a quote right there. What was in California? And I don't even know why I thought. I think I got a press release. Somebody inside Info gave me the idea that Michael he got a download this thing. Within hours, I was watching the account of how many millions of people signed up, and in the first day, Threads saw over thirty million sign ups. Had to be a record of some some time. The app now one year in has over one hundred and seventy five million monthly users.
And this is according to Zuckerberg. Yay, but x mister Elon Musk says there's over six hundred million monthly users on map. And I'm not going to go back and board, but I want to talk about threads. Did you sign up for threads? Because I signed up for threads and I spent the next day or two and I was listen. I'm never on vacation, but I was out in Cali on the left coast, and I was doing a lot of interviews. Michael, is this going to be the Twitter killer?
It was tough to evaluate, and I remember my first thoughts were because so many people. I mean, this was the talk for about a week, week and a half. I mean, this was the summer dull drums work. I mean it was over. I mean it took up a good part of July. All people were talking about was threads. Because then again I just told you there's nothing going on sports or you know, just nothing's happening. There's no big packt lodges. I believe I kept saying this.
Finally, because I've seen a number of different attempts of other companies trying to dethrone Twitter, and when Elon Musk took it over man, it was getting dog. People were dropping off, he was ticking off advertisers. There was too much politics nor one of that, and Threads was the sweet place, the nice place where you didn't have to read about COVID nineteen. You didn't have to read about politics. And for the first month or two or the
rate, I didn't see anything quote unquote bad about it. There was nothing controversial. Come to think of it, I'm trying to think what was even on there because that earliest version, the earliest iteration of threads, to me now feels a little bit off, maybe a little bit broke. Okay, there wasn't a web version. There was a number of different missing features. If indeed it was going up against Twitter or X and a year in,
I'm still really not clear what threads actually is for. I actually had this conversation with somebody about a week ago too. Do you use threads? I downloaded Threads. Threads is on the homepage of my phone, right next to X and my Instagram and my Facebook. How many social media outlests we need? Because Hound for pound Dolliver if you look at it Threads, it really is almost exactly to some extent on the surface, just like Twitter X you're
right, eat something. It's two hundred and forty characters or so. You put a picture and you wait for comments. And I remember saying, man, we may never use Twitter. People are saying I'm done. Twitter's gone. X is gone. I'm sorry. A year later, one of the first apps that I use in the morning. I wake up in the morning to get my new I just kind of scroll through Twitter. I can't tell you the last time I opened Threads. Maybe it's not going to be that
quote unquote public square for less angry conversations. How do we fix that. I'm gonna take a break right now. If you indeed are on Threads, why don't you juicer jump up? And then maybe I'll start reading it again. At High Tech Text and I was able to grab that same moniker like I have across social media. H I G H T e H T e x A at High Tech Text and hey, we got a big show, fun show. We got a gift card too, to give way. We are going to have a really nice interview of how to really dress nicely.
You ever had a custom suit, a custom sport code made, got a gabin dasher, got a guy who's gonna give us the inside secrets. So what's so special about having closed made specifically for you. I'll give you a review of an unbelievable vehicle that I've been driving here with the past week. And who knows what I'm gonna talk about because I have to fill two hours.
Michael garthon it is called the High Tech Text Show. I hope you're inside over you're to pool as we are the halfway point of twenty twenty four, halfway to half the hour, and I don't hope everybody had a very good July fourth holiday, hope. I hope everybody's having a good summer as we're in the middle of the dol jums of the summer. You got ready for you're ready for football season. I mean, the NFL is trying to jump start the NFL. Really it's in a cycle of twelve months a year,
but I would say it's about eleven months. I ain't not much happened in the world of NFL. I do know that Hard Knocks. What is it about a six week program on max HBO that started I don't care. This year it's the New York Giants. Does not matter to me. I did see something that's very interested interesting. I guess for the July fourth weekend, most people who work, if you do work, you got July fourth
off, and it was weird. It was a Thursday this year. I know a number of people, just anecdotally, who had to work that Friday, July fifth? Did you have to work? Did anybody have to work that for? So you get off, you get a day off on Thursday, and you're laying around, You're putts around, it's one hundred and five degrees in the sun. You're having a few coldy you're having a lot of coldies, some marks and bruskies. Whatever you're having. Oh man, we're
gonna have a good day. Oh I gotta go to work the next day. And for those of you who drive to work, I guess the good point is there was not a lot of people on the road on Friday, July fifth. Getting doing it from your office number one in Houston. There's not a lot of people on the road in the summertime because people get the hell out of town as they should. They go to Colorado or something. But then you get Saturday and Sunday off. I was on man, that
was I should have been a four day weekend. Should have been dad. I guess the only thing worse is is when July fourth falls on a Wednesday. July fourth and I guess New Year's Eve helped me when am I missing over? Here are the only two. They're the two most celebrated holidays where Americans for the most part do get off of work. But it's not on a specific day of the week. I guess obviously. I guess Christmas is in there at Christmas in there too, but people usually get the whole week
off for Christmas date tickets the end of the year. So New Year's Eve can fall on in New Year's Day can f on a Wednesday. July fourth can fall on Wednesday, and you still have to work either the two days before two days after Thanksgiving, we know allys is on that Thursday. Generally we get the Friday off. Christmas people usually get that last week off.
Ah, what about two by Shava passover? Young Kipper always falls Dude, Young Kipper is on Texas Oklahoma weekend, And what there's a dilemma for me now in the world am I gotta go to the Texas. Oh you go, oh you get and not have a futcher scorny dog. There's my dilemma that I'm worrying about three months ahead. I digress people, And the reason I bring this up? Where was I going? The reason I bring this up, it's how many days a week do you work? Generally? Here
in America, we work five days a week. That's what my father did, That's what his father did. For nations. Generally, people are five days a week. If even here at our radio program on Monday through Friday. If you have a week day program like my buddy rod Ryan at our sister station here at the Buzz Dana Tyson here at Sunday ninety nine, we go on and on and on. I used to have a weekday talk show also here, Monday through Friday. You have five days. Well, guess
what. There's a country who said, screw it, we're doing a six day week. Then he guesses, calub alum, that's you have talked to you about. Come on, Helm, did he ask which country introduced just introduced a six day work week? Now? I love this country. I visited this country once. It is parts of it are the most beautiful places I've ever been to an earth, and parts of it are old and ugly, so I'm still debating whether I should move there. Ladies and gentlemen,
A six day work week has just been instituted in Greece. Do you know why? Because it's the word Greece. If you think about it, They've given us some pretty good ideas in the past. I think they gave us democracy. I think they created geometry. I'm kind of hoping this latest invention does not catch on. It's a six day work week, I'm not kidding yet. New regulations took affecting Greece just about a week or two ago. It extends the typical forty hour work week to forty eight hours per week for
private businesses providing around the clock services. Okay, now let's break that. What is a private business providing round the clock services? Well, I mean here in media radio we broadcast twenty four to seven. Actually, the iart is private business, is not a publicly owned company. Okay, so there's one. Oh good. So now instead of working two hours a week,
I'm a good to forty eight hours a week. This is the first of their kind rules in the European European Union, and they're doing this to boost the Greek economy, because I still think the economy and Greece sucks from it's in a decade long slump. It's good or bad. I think that the new rules really flying the face of a broader trend towards shorter work weeks. Because here I think the four day work week is gaining with some mo it's
getting some momentum. Am I wrong? Almost one third of US businesses are considering cutting their work week down. This is according to a survey of CEOs by KPMG. This is a few months ago. I have different I have questions. This is why I am here for you. If you're going to cut down to a four day work week, are you only paying for four
days? I assume you are your sallets, I mean for years salo He said this based on a five day work week and maybe two weeks vacation, you know, on the first year, and it goes on and on and on. Well, if you're only four days a week, maybe you're I mean, you're going down what twenty percent? You're gonna cut your Are you're gonna cut your salary? Twenty percent? Would you be willing to take that seven one three, two one two five nine five ooh Snichel Garfield. I
get down to the hot topics, the hard hitting topics. Speaking away, I also do travel. I said, Greece has is one of the most beautiful spots I've ever been to. But also it's it's like that there's spot that I did not like. Hey, listen, my job is to throw up my opinion. I give a review and recommendations. Two thousand and eight, I believe, yeah, two thousand and eight. I want on a cruise. I wanted a uh it was. We went out of bars It
was a family cruise. Kids were relatively young. Went out of Barcelona. We went to like twelve countries. I mean, I don't know, it's been eight countries in twelve days. Twelve countries and eight days. I forgot what it was. We go to Greece and we went to two Greek islands. We went to Santorini and Miconos. Absolutely two of the most gorgeous spots I have ever been to, Like gorge Santorini built up on top of a hill, but in Micanos it was just clean. It's all white, very
greeklike stuff. It was awesome. We didn't go to Athens. E times is an old, dirty town. It's like an odt, you know what I'm saying, not an ODB. It's just old and dirty. Of course it's old. I'm not freaking. We drove by where the Olympics started. We saw the Parthenon, which was you know, it was neat Hey, we saw the Parthenon. You know something I studied as a kid in school. It's just it was just kind of a if you're if you're from Greece.
I'm not trying to rag on you, because there are some absolutely horrific places here in the United States. I was just not a big fan of Athens per se. Other than that, Greece it's the word. I love to go back, and I love to broadcast my program for me. He's seven one three two one two five nine five zero brapa le Mitchello from Italy olive oil. I remember the whole thing. It was most of it was good. Where am I going? This is what we do here in the
middle of summer eight? Well, well, I will take a break when we come back. Count on as on because Amazon Prime days. Amazon's pretty smart Amazon used to have one day in the middle of summer called Amazon Prime Day, where pretty much that everything was discounted for Amazon Prime members. It's a garage sale to clear the garage, to clear their warehouse and get ready
for the holiday. Zazon now it's Prime Days, it's two days, and it's perfectly situated right here in the middle of July where there's no football and no more the real sports bej now, so I'm gonna saw some of the deals, even though it doesn't start to July sixteenth and seventeenth. I will give you a deal or two that that you need to be watching out work should you be a Prime member. Garf is the nickname. It's called the
High Tech Text and shows name is Michael Garfield. But you probably know that since that big booming voice that just introduced me out of the commercial that's here, that is Calum Reid. He is pushing the buttons, enjoying the year, conditioning as we all should have no clue when rain is gonna come. Uh, why don't you make an interactive and call me say what's up? A big shout out right now to us coins and jewelry. Hey, you know what if you don't have a lot of things to do. How about
taking up a hobby coin collecting? Hellum, you know what coin? Do you know? The official word of a coin collector, a coin expert is it's a new mismatist. Mit no, no, you can still wear clothes. No, no, it's a new mismatist versus a philatal list, which is what I am. That's someone who collects stamps. Okay, easy does it? Easy? Does it? In US coins and jewelry. It has been around for two generations. I happened to Roll and why I'm on there
at least once a month, Bobby once every three weeks. Kenny and Matt Duncan. They are the two partners. They're the sons of the owner that has been around since nineteen eighty five. I did a video on Instagram and I actually it was kind of a test. I like having fun with these guys. I just walk it in and looking at the watches, jewelry obviously,
but they're really unbelievable when it comes to coins. They are some of the country's leading new mesmatist in terms of you bring your coins in and they can look at them and they could give you a value of what those coins are. And I was always wondering how do they do that? I mean, is there a machine? But they they are years and years and years
and they study it. So I made a ninety second video. If you haven't followed me yet on Instagram high tech texting h I G h T E C h T e x A N follow me unless I've already blocked you, you can't. I did a video and I brought coins in to Matthew Duncan and I plopped them on the counter and I said, I just asked him. I said, hey, what are the first things that you look at to value a coin? And you know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna blow the lead right here. I'm actually gonna got ruin it for
you. Even though you should watch the video because I'm losing weight and I had a really nice shirt on. They he looks at the year and if it's a silver coin, if it's a silver half dollar, and if it's it's a quarter, it's a higher percentage of silver for coins that were minted before nineteen sixty five, so right before Generation X there were something. So if you have a quarter that was minted three nineteen sixty five. Instead of
being worth a quarter, it's probably worth almost five dollars. You laugh, but you don't know. And I have a ton of chit. I don't know why, but I have one of those change coin holders in my closet, and over the year, every time I come home, I empty my pockets and they go into the little wrappers of the pennies and the dimes nickels. I'n't got a ton of quarters. I swear, I'm holding my hand up right now. I come home from US Coins and Jewelry and I go
through all my quarters to fought to see if anything was from ninety. The closest I can was nineteen seventy. I had a nineteen seventy quarter on me. But I'll tell you what It's something if you do have a coin collection, if you want to sell your coins to see what they're worth, they go to US Coins and Jewelry dot com. Go in and say you've heard it on the Garfield Show. Because there's maybe another Michael or two or three who actually promotes it. But let him know that you listen to the garf
Show. Go look at the rolocks is, Go look at the Texas memorabilia. Go look at the sports cards and memorabilia. They are great. They're on Katie Freeway write at vass the south side of Austin, and they're just awesome. They are not open on Sundays. They obviously have Chick fil A actually still their business model, but they are open six days a week, and they are listening to me right now. So I appreciate the nice folks
at US Coins and Jelry. They will not be participating in Amazon Prime Days, even though they do give you some great deals at US Coins and Jewelry. For Amazon Prime Days, we have to call it plural, call listing plural right now because it is two days this year, July sixteenth, July seventeen. People, if you were an Amazon Prime Time remember you are going to get some discounts and some things. It was about a week or two
ago. They're already releasing. You know. There's some sits online that says, hey, you know, they get ready because these are some early deals that you can get, and a lot of the deals that you can get are the best deals that you're going to get out to tea right now are Amazon products themselves made by Amazon, including the Amazon Fire stick, the Amazon Fire TV, the Amazon Kindle, the Amazon Echo which is all exa sorry to just set off your ale accepp. Those are going to be discounted the
most. I see a little of Apple stuff coming down here, which I really don't care about. Amazon has a fire TV down bar. Soundbars are good, gives you some great sound. Little, you know, kind of a center speaker. Generally one hundred twenty dollars. One is gonna be on sale for one hundred dollars, so you get a little percentage off there. Here is an Amazon Fire TV forty three inch four K TV, normally for fifty four hundred and fifty bucks. It's gonna be sliced ninety dollars down to
three hundred and sixty bucks. You can imagine how TVs are so cheap nowadays. They are so inexpensive nowadays. My first I had a fifty inch I love telling this story. My kid did two thousand and three. Two thousand and three, digital TVs first came out. In the first some of the first flat screen high def TVs came out. I had a fifty inch Hitachi retail twelve thousand dollars. I am not using hyperbole. Look that word up. It was I didn't pay twelve thousand. It was twelve thousand for a
fifty inch. You're gonna get a fifty inch now easily for four hundred dollars if it's on sale. So that's another Prime one other Prime Day deal. I saw this. There is a Kindle maybe, but Kindle maybe. I read books Kindle. This sax is a pretty good deal. You know. Kindle was the very first e reader. It wasn't really sexy. It's it's really there's a nice handheld, small size, and it uses e or digital ink. It's not color. It's kind of black and white, which makes
it actually very simple to read outside the sun. People want to listen. Hey, if you read books, Michael, it's the best, you know reader. Should I get a tablet if you want it? Just for books? Don't don't laugh, do not sleep on the Kindle. And there's several different versions of the Kindle. But on Amazon Prime Day on July sixteenth, there's a really good offer here. Prime members you can have three months of a free Kindle unlimited subscription. That's an exclusive deal. It's gonna save you
thirty six dollars. Thirty six dollars you get three months of Kindle unlimited for us, all the books you could read. There's four million book titles. Win. I'm gonna be a little tip if you're deciding on what and this is a tip I give we probably ten eleven, twelve years ago when these kindles first came out, and then the iPad came out. Should I get an iPad? Should I get a Kindle? Should I get a Google tablet or something like our Samsung Tap. Look at the app store, look at
bookstore, find out what titles they have. To me, that's the way to go, because maybe there's a certain publisher that doesn't work with a tindle or work with Apple. Look at the titles. I will tell you in the Kindle library they have about four million book titles. They have access to magazines and comic books, and I mean they have audio books over there. The three months. I think once the three months are up, the subscription
is gonna renew at the usual rate of twelve dollars per month. But I'll tell you what three months is three months, and so that that's one of the things you should look at. So I give me another week, how about this? Because I'm not gonna I get press releases. Hang on and make sure you follow me on threads. May make sure you follow me on x high Tech text and I will be putting links to some of the better at least in my opinion, Amazon Prime Days that will be happening July sixteenth
and seventeenth. One of the few subscriptions I have streamers I have, I do have Amazon Prime. I rarely buy anything from Amazon Prime. I actually use Amazon I watch Prime Video. That's pretty much what I mostly use it for, certainly knowing that the NFL has the Thursday Night games and a few Christmas Day games coming up on Amazon Prime Video. All right, we're gonna take a break, final break of the first hour. Hope you were cool. I do, thank you for hanging in. Guess what company filed for
bankruptcy. Something tells me you used this company. You use the services of this company, and you still may walk by this every time you walk into a grocery store. It's still there, but it may not be working because they are bankrupt. I'll tell you what that is after the break. Going through some emails and some people who are xing and tweeting and sending me dms and what have you, while I do a radio show. You see I
can do that. People, It's amazing what Adhd does. See. I don't know, you know, I've always you know, I've always also wanted to be ambidextrous too. You know what, I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous. Dad jokes here all the all day, all the time. Here on the Michael Garfield Show. Happy Midsummer. It's our Midsummer high tech textan show where not a lot of things are happening in the world of its Actually, well, are a lot of things happening in the world other than
the heat and hurricane season. There's an election coming up, but the sports are kind of quiet. But we are here for you. Gotta give away a gift card to Cabo Bob's Cobo Bob. I haven't been eating a lot lately, but when I eat, man, I'm a Cobo Bob's two three times a week. Great. It's out of Austin for locations here. Tell them what you want on your burritos, your tacos, You take it to
go, you eat in the wh there's but oh it's so good. Next down, Raya have a twenty five dollars gift card to Cabo Bob's thank them for h hokuss up with that? Uh, let's see Samsung Unpacked is happening. Well, it's they're they're getting ready to release some information on their new mobile devices. I kind of got a sneak peak, which I can't say. I'm under embargo, but I will be playing with some of their mobile devices, some that could be regular, maybe they'll full I don't maybe sympletel
time, maybe some of this jewelry. I don't know a lot of rumors out there, so I never really can't say anything, Like I really can't say anything but that. Maybe I could be bribed and someone's got it's got a nice cold beer for me. You know where to find me right now? Bad news man. Guess guess who went bankrupt? Guess who went bankrupt? Yeah, we talk about I talk about streaming. I was just talking about streaming before the break. You know I have Amazon, which includes Prime
Video. Uh, there's so many other streamers. You got Disney, Disney Plush, you got Hulu, you got Roku, you got Netflix, you got Max, HbA, you can get a you got Boo, you got Peacock Olympics. You're coming up before there was streaming. How would you watch your movies? You probably watched them on DVDs, which you probably got through the mail from Netflix. That's how Netflix started. People think, oh, Netflix is the streamer. Well, Netflix actually started by mailing DVDs and red
envelopes that you had to watch and return within three days. Remember those old at Bultman chair. Uncle Garfy's got some stories for it. That's how it worked. But along with Netflix, there was another service that you can get immediately by just going to a local grocery store, convenience store, walking right up to it, putting a dollar, two dollars, three dollars in, and boom, it was a vending machine. It would pop right out. How many times do you still walk into HB or I don't know, some
convenience store and see Fox. Yes, that red vending machine. That was you pick what I said. I didn't. They were outside of McDonald's, I think, correct me if I'm long people, do you remember them being outside of McDonald's, which I think McDonald's owned a large percentage or a certain percentage of that company, which is pretty It was smart back then. You hey, man, hey, honey, kids, you want to go to White what movie you want to watch. Let's go get a DVD. Well,
blockbusters are dead. Let's go to the vending machine. Oh, there's one right up here at McDonald's. Oh let's just go in and get a few Big Max and some freaking McNuggets while we're at it. It was like a lost leader. It was brilliant. I go to a chip, I got one of my agp's that I go to. I'm not kidding you. It still has a red box that I have used. Well, I've walked PI. It's been there for fifteen plus years. I'm not twenty years.
It's bankrupt. It's bankrupt. Red Box itself was acquired by another company about a year ago, and now it's over. They have filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. They had a net loss last year of six hundred and thirty six million dollars. Wonder why it's not a joking matter, because they have there's obviously if it's so many people. They laid off a lot of people, They suspended their medical di benefits, they miss payroll, people didn't get
paid, So certainly not a joking matter. When any company goes belly out some point, it seems companies have outlived their time. I made a reference to Blockbuster. There are very few people right now who are over certainly twenty years old. Let's put it this way, sir, under twenty years old, who have a clue what the word blockbuster is. They don't remember Blockbuster. My youngest son's twenty four, just turned twenty four. He I don't know. I don't know. I should ask him. I don't think he
remembers Blockbuster. My oldest son, he'll be thirty coming up soon, and he'll probably remember going to Blockbuster with me on a Friday night, like pretty much the whole country did, browsing through the section in trying to get a VHS that we had to be kind and rewind to return. They're gone,
and it looks like we're doing the same of DVDs. Who has I mean, do you still does anybody still have a DVD player that is not in their garage, that's actually plugged into their TV set, their audio video system, and you use it on a semi regular basis. Do you use it three times a year? Man? I don't know. I'm pretty sure I have a DVD player somewhere in my garage. Then again, I also have a record player. Somewhere in my garage. I still have my cassette deck.
What we called a jam box back in the eighties, was it, man? That was it? If you didn't have a jambox, a Panasonic jam box, you popped your cassette in and you walked around. Man, you were pimp king strutting doing some breakdancing. I didn't know the break dancing. That somewhere still in my garage. I know. I'm a hoarder. Red Box dats around nine hundred and seventy million dollars. What am I missing? We got a really about two more minutes left in this hour seven one
three two one two five nine five. Oh, if you're too shy to call follow me, go to X, go to UH, I guess, just go to X, go to threads. Maybe I'll open that too. High tech textans bubble whole thing out h I G H P E H T E X A M. What is something that you liked, you used, maybe you grew up with for several years, maybe a generation, maybe a half a generation. And I'm gonna call red Box in there too. That is just it's just not there anymore. And why are there still? Right?
I mean I'm not chelling you. I walk into HGB. There's this one I go to on the southst side of the HOTWN and there's a red box. Look at it. Sometimes I don't stop. I'm like, oh, there's the red box, and I don't think about it. I've never seen anybody use it. Why is it still there? I mean, if you break into the we I mean listen. I mean I on a hot day and I don't have it. I don't I don't have a dollar, two dollars? How much? It's like, how much is a sod?
How much is a coke? Cost? Now too? But I break into the vending machine if I was thirsty, and break into the red box actually to return all my DBDs. Times are changing, people, Times aren't changing. Twenty two years though, I'm still here, not a lot of cracks in my face though. One hour down or jazz about halfway to half the hour of the high de Dex and show I take it is Michael Garfield.
Michael Garfield. Michel our Field's joining us and the high tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high tech Texan items to make life easier, your technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield, is your high tech Texan three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. I heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan, Michael Garfield. Just like it's halfway through the year of twenty twenty four, halfway through
the halfway to happy hour on the show. Also what is up? Thank you for tuning in the middle of the summer. It's our summer special brought to you by actually nobody. We need to find a sponsor for that, colum so let's let's work on that. Seven one three two point two five nine five zero. Michael Garfield, thanks for you. In the first hour, had a lot of fun, talked a little about the upcoming Amazon Prime Days just in case you want to spend some of your hard earned money on
really just maybe a deal or two, but a lot of crap. As I say, the Amazon Prime Days is something that's Amazon's done almost every single year, right in the dead middle of summer as a garage sale. They got they got to move this stuff out of the warehouses that just doesn't sell year round, so they can make more room for other crap that we don't need. During this upcoming oh A Day season. I know, I'm marsh some things we actually do need and I get asked so often and in so
many places, by so many different people in so many different ways. Technology advice, Yes, it's it all started here. It actually started on TV where people used to write letters into the tvst I was on channel too, KPRC, the NBC affiliate here when I started the illustrious media career of mine in the year two thousand. That email was certainly around. I didn't get a ton of it, but people used to write emails to the station. Hey, Michael, what do you think about this? Can you further explain
what Wi fi actually is? Then I moved over to radio clear Channel Radio, which is now iHeart Radio, and I was on all eight of our local stations, including KPRC Radio, which is no affiliation currently with kp r C TV. It's a long story. Emails started to come in, even though I did get some hate mail, emails started to come out. And then when I'm out and about, I do a lot of things in and
around not only the city of Houston, but across the country. I speak, I had motivational sales speeches, whatever, and Obviously it's based on technology. So I get a lot of tech questions, and I kind of liken myself to a doctor. You know, you're at a party. You go up and you meet a doctor. Oh you're a doctor, Hey, doc, let me ask you a question. You know, I've got this kind of pain in my arm. It's the same thing high tech texting. Hey man, what kind of phone you have? Hey, I'm trying to get
a computer. You know, what what should I get? Listen. I don't lie whatsoever. I this is what I want to do. I'm more than happy to help if I can't. And I say this, it's because I got asked about a laptop computer. And I don't get that question too often either. People they're keeping their laptops longer. Laptops are relatively inexpensive. They don't need my assistance or whatever. But this one came from my cousin. My cousin, she lives here in Houston, and well, absolutely,
she's my I guess she's my second cousin. She's my mom's first cousin. So she's she's in her late sixties. I believe she could be early. Said no, no, no, no, no, she's late sixties, I guess, and she texted me, and you know, she's so cute, funny, she seems to him, Michael, this is your cousin. I'm like, I know this, got a question. I need a laptop, and I need something really simple. I really just kind of want to go online and do a few things and whatever, and then what can you
do to help me? So obviously I'm the guy who's trying to I always show the answer where I give you some products, I don't want to give you the most expensive thing out there, because there's there's so many opportunities to save money for this product. For the product. So I set there in thought for a minute or two, I'm thinking, well, she may be she may want a chromebook. Now, if you don't know what a chromebook is, a chromebook, it's a form factor of a laptop. But a
chromebook uses the Google operating system. It's not Microsoft operating system, and it's not an Apple operating system. So it's cheaper, it's more affordable. It's an affordable laptop. They are lightweight. They're made by several manufacturers. Google HP makes one, Lenovo makes one, Acer makes one, Dell makes one, Asis makes one, there's there's a number of different ones, and they're just not They don't come with a lot of blokeware. They don't come with
all the other software that that Microsoft Windows may be packed with. But when you're using you know, generally you think there's two types of laptop computers. There's Microsoft Windows and there's there's Apple with the Mac MacBooks. Those have specific software which obviously you have to license what have you. Well, if you don't have you have to need those licenses, the software licenses, they become cheaper. In fact, I'm just playing around on a search right now.
I see this cannot be right. I see a del phone book. I'm clicking on this just to make sure because I don't want to give out bad information. This, this honestly can't be true. Here is a Dell laptop from Walmart dot com for fifty three dollars. This is used though this is okay. I knew that was going on, So that's used. Here is here's an HP Chromebuck for sixty dollars. All right, there may be used at the point. At the point is you can get brand new ones for
easily one hundred and fifty dollars. One hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars where to eat the day day cheap on those things. So no, I text her back. I said, hey, hey, what do you think about this? Here's a growbuck. Apparently she knew what a chromebuok goes, and she says, well, I'm actually may want to use a little Microsoft Excel and some Microsoft word. Oh okay, cock dog, no, now
you tell me. So at that point we have to go up in price, and so I did some research and it's then you get to go to you know, you got a price point of still not too bad. You can get a Windows based where I am not said, she's not getting an Apple that nobody needs an Apple, No one needs to pay that much and they're more confusing. So obviously I'm sticking to Microsoft Windows. It's something for two fifty three fifty. If you really want something, you can get a
three thousand and five thousand dollars laptop. She doesn't want that because she's not a gamer. At least I didn't ask her if she's a gamer. So no, I don't know what she ended up getting, but there are there are a ton of different opportunities when it comes to different products and I have to, you know, figure out, you know, what's right and what's not right for people. And I have to, you know, I have to qualify that question. But asking more questions. She also says she wants
a printer too. Printers gets in a whole nother gang. And the first question is I answer, or even I ask myself, is how much do you want to print? I have a wireless printer at home. I've got a really neat total compack small. I don't even sometimes I lose it on my shelf. It's an HP Tango. If you could take a look at it, it's not expensive whatever. If I print a ten pages a month,
maybe a lie, I don't print that that much at all. If you have an office, if you have a smaller business that you meant to print, you need to sign things. Yeah, you're gonna need you know something that you're not going to be drinking the ink. Had another question. I was talking to a good buddy of mine, the eye doctor to the Stars, doctor Alan Panzer, Uh doctor P calls me earlier this week,
and he was talking about printing. He actually uses these tanks, these printing tanks, and he was having an issue that they weren't working, and I told him I have actually never used those printer tanks because I don't print that much. I generally stick with the printing cartriges that come with it. I have an HP because I don't use a lot of ink. I have a I have the black ink cartridge, and I have the coloring cartridge. I've
seen those printer you know ink. They're containers. I think what Shaquille O'Neil I think was what I did the EPs and commercials or something. But they're big tanks. Has anybody actually had luck with those printer tanks. They're larger bottles of different colors that you can hook up to your printer, and they don't cost nearly as much. Because printer ink or printer cartridges are akin to razor blades, buy the razors, actually give away the razors and sell the
blades. That's a phenomenal business. BALL usually give away printers HP. Every episode should give away the printers, just to make sure you're gonna write the printer inc the same thing. So anyway, that's how kind of I determine what type of advice and if you have any advice on printer even printers, I'd actually like to hear from you. You see what you think? We're
gonna take break number one a hour number two. Mister Michael Garfield coming back and has promised I got to get rid of one of these gift cards ers. So who wants to win something? Calum You ready for the phones to light up? Owl about a twenty five dollars gift card Totabo Bob's. What a fun, great restaurant. Some of the best freshly made steak or chicken, tacos, fajitas you we can call it. It's a quick service restaurant. It's out of Austin. If you're familiar with the four or five locations
at Austin, I think there's one in San Antonio. There are now at least four here in the Houston area. I am there at least twice a week. If you follow me on Instagram, you can see how I go through the line. I tell them I want the chicken, maybe I want a little of the fried fish. But the neat thing is five different types of tortillas that they press and heat right in front of you. Oh my, the tomatillo. They have a smoky cheddar. It's it is so good.
Twenty five dollars gift card Cobo Bob's seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh, calling Humber nine, how about that calem give that thing away? Two one two five nine five Oh you are the next winner of a Cobo Bob's gift card. I do thank you to their Uh they're I'm not gonna say it's a partnership there. We're just kind enough. They know I'm a big fan. So they said, Michael, we're not going to feed you because you're not eating a lot, you're losing a little white.
You're looking great. And once you just give this way, make somebody else, uh you know, give them some protein, happy to do it, happy to do it, so we'll get a winner on that thing. Time to talk about cars and trucks right now. You know. One of the things that I do is I get to test drive some really brand new sometimes never seen sometimes not even on the market yet really need cars. I'm in trucks. I'm a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association, which means
I deal with manufacturers. I mean the you know the previous segment I was telling you about. My job is to give advice of telling you what to buy and sometimes where to buy it. When it comes to cars and automobiles, this is and it's it's totally it's my opinion. It's unpaid endorsement, which I really don't like dealing. But alas, I don't deal in dealerships. Okay, if you like what I said that no dealing in dealerships.
I can review vehicles. They come straight from the manufacturers, which means I use, I can dis on them, I could love on them, but I'm not going to recommend a dealership. I don't endorse a dealership. I don't have deals with dealerships, and so it's totally up to me. So if you like something I hear about, go figure out where dealership is. And so I'm gonna give you the true ups and downs of the things that
I did, the things that I like and that I don't like. This past week or so, I've been riding around one of the most luxurious vehicles I have been in in a long time, Mediavior. Certainly on the inside. I have been riding around at a twenty twenty four Lincoln. Let's write a Lincoln Nautilus. Now, if you haven't seen a Lincoln Nautilus, it's an suv. It's a two row suv. Several different levels of Lincoln.
You can you can start yourself with a Lincoln, you know, get these things for around fifty to fifty five thousand dollars, and then at some point you start getting the upscale, upgraded versions, the different badges, if you will. Well, I happen to be in the Lincoln Nautilus black label. They caught a bla it sounds like a Scotch, doesn't. No, it's
not. It's not a Scotch, but it is a black label rolls up in front of my house because it's delivered each each Thursday, I get a car that rolls up, a vehicle that rolls up in front of my house, and they give me the keys, and I get to have it for a week. And I'm looking at it and it's it's kind of a it's a monotone color, kind of a dark grayish type of thing. Well, I love the grill, the twenty two inch wheels. They're very big,
kind of nondescript. And maybe it's just because it's just one monochrome to me, dullish color. All right, anyway, get inside, man, I stepped inside a freaking rocket ship to the future. This is I can't say I'm looking into the future because the future is now. The display on how
everything is laid out on the dashboard it's crazy. And I took some video and I posted it on my Instagram high tech text and h I G h T E C H T E T E x A N. This looks like it could be an electric vehicle, because electric vehicles they do kind of go all out on how they're laid out internally. Then you know, they got a big twelve inch touchscreen, which now we're kind of used to seeing. This is totally different. This does have a center infotainment touchscreen. I believe
it's ten to twelve inches, but that's not what's crazy. It has. Now I'm gonna try to give you the play by play, but this is what we professionals do. We're to explain it on the radio. Imagine you're sitting in the driver's that you're sitting in the passtreet and you're looking out of the windshield. All right, Well, you have a dashboard, and the dashboard generally it's it's a little curvature, just the way the cars are built, and it's kind of flat. Most of them are flat. Right on
top of the dashboards, you could see right out the window. Well right on the dashboard left to right, there is an elongated, very horizontal, if you will, forty eight inch screen that goes from the left side of the vehicle, right where the the state inspectrum goes, all the way to the right side the right a pillar where the passenger seats sits. It's maybe only five inches high, but it is forty eight inches long. People, it is a four foot long display, and it is gorgeous. It is
bright, and you can make this thing do anything you want. So right in front of you, Yes, you've got the odometer, you've got the speed dometer, you've got got all the info that you need. A little right of that, you've got your map, your navigation map, and the navigation map. Now it's a little bit more on the on your eye level, because it's right on. It's on the lower part of the windshield. Now correg me, this is not projected onto the windshield. It's actual a
video screen that is built into the car. So technically you can call it part of the dashboard because right above that there is the windshield. Then after that you could configure anything you want. You could put the weather, you could put the time, you could put a clock up there. You've got the radio, you've got the trip monitor, maybe the trip one oh domeinter
the trip too O dometer. But it is right displayed in front of you like you're as you see in movies that you're in an airplane or a rocket ship, and it just blew me away. At that point, you can set the color scheme. Now this isn't new, and you getn't get the higher end cars with the ant. It's called ambient lighting, and you're mostly gonna see this at night when it's dark, but you could set the ambient lighting to kind of a more purple hue. Maybe it's an orange, maybe
it's a yellow, maybe it's a great It changes everything. It's it's unlike anything I've seen. So I gotta give some props to Lincoln on their Nautilus for having this just really incredible display. And to me, it's like this is it's very futuristic. We're gonna see the things on more and more vehicles, and Lincoln just did one heck of a job. The steering wheel is interesting. It's not a round steering wheel, and it's not a racing steering
wheel. A racing steering wheel. Generally, the the top art is round, but the bottom is flat. Gives you a better grip, it doesn't, You know, when you turn it you can get your hands around that, you know, a little easier, you know, when you're turning corners. This is kind of a it's almost a bow tie shape, if that makes sense. It's a little bit more rounder than a boat, more rounded. It's more round than a bow tie. But it's kind of an elongated
horizontal of handlebar. Point is there's a theme that goes inside. I think I have a redwood theme. It's a calming presence that makes you think just because it's a dark it's not a dark, it's it's kind of an off red maroon pattern on the seats. It is interesting some of the crazy features it has built in, Like I'm not gonna call it perfume, but since not dollars and cents but sc nts. It's got three different scent cartridges that
you can interchange, and it'll make your cabin smell like a forest. It'll smell like fresh linen, it'll smell like clouds. If you don't clouds, I mean this thing is pimp pimp. This is the black label. We'll tell you it runs about seventy eight thousand dollars eighty thousand dollars. But it's a very nice, luxurious vehicle. Is it worth it? Not sure? It rides very well, it's got very good pickup, it's got a nice
engine. But it is two rows. It's almost large enough if you look at it from the outside that it could have a small third row seat. It doesn't, but it does allow for a very large cargo space. It's got the automatic tailgate that lifts up when you put that. Even when you put the second row down, you could fit a lot of cargo space in there. But overall, it's been a while since I've been in a Lincoln, which is part of the Ford family, the Lincoln Nautilus black label.
It's neat. If you ever happen to drive by a Lincoln dealership, go inside and just take a look at the Nautilus and order take a look at some of the stuff that I'm putting on my social media because it's actually very interesting. Good job, Lincoln Nautilist. I applaud you. Speaking of luxury coming up, you ever thought about getting anything custom a custom made suit,
a custom made coat. They're not as expensive as you would think. And I'll tell you what the quality and the way that actually you could design your colors, the lapels and things are very interesting to actually make it look like you no need to buy anything else off the rack. I found a great habitashery over here. We're gonna go through the process of how he makes his
clothes and what makes me look so good when I'm walking around. I'm pimping on stage coming up here on the High Tech TEXTI show, we are back at it. Michael Garkiels is the name Summer or whatever day you may be listening to it. Should you be live, happy Saturday, if you're listening to this on iHeartRadio or podcast, don't matter when you're listening to it, but that's from listening. That's what counts. I have so many followers and
which I'm grateful for. Thank you for everybody out there following me at High Tech Text and on Instagram and Facebook. And I get a lot of comments over the years about my clothes, and I you know, it's not that I'm a clothes horse, but I want to make sure I have always worn really nice clothes. And one of the reasons why is because I talk a lot about technology, and you think about it, you know, you think I would dress like a geek, right, Well, I do so much
TV. I get on you know, on stage and stuff. It's the last thing I want to do is you know, look like a geek. And so I you know, I put a lot of effort and time and money and style, you know, information into what I wear, including some of these sport codes. And over the past few months, I've been collecting some really need sport codes that have been custom made for me. And I never in my life but I actually would have anything custom made for me.
But at the end of the day, it sits unbelievably, they're not nearly as expensive as I thought, you know, custom suits or coach would wear. And I get him right here by a gentleman who is mister Houston, and he's so mister Houston, and he's so mister habitat Serie. I love the moniker, I love his website. I love the name of this company. It quite simply is Houston Suit Guy aka Steve Springer, who I've known for quite a while. I want to bring him in and we're going to
talk a little fashion here in the middle of summer. Steve something telling me right now, you're wearing a sport coat, correct or not? You know, it's it's the job. You've got to always have a sport code. I can't go I can't go to the grocery store and not have a sport coat because you never know who you're going to run into, and you want that best first impression every time matter which it is by the way, here in July of twenty twenty four, it's very hot. But how often do
you get stopped by people going, hey, nice coke? Because I know it's happened to me a lot lately, you know it does. It happens a lot. And it's not because necessarily that the jackets that I make or wear are flashy or in any way crazy. It's just that when somebody is wearing something that looks nice, is put together well, people notice, and so I think that's important. Biggest compliments I think I continue to receive.
And this is years and years and years. It's nice when I wear I love really cool, fashionable shirts, lots of buttons, and you see how I dress, and then I may not wear a ton of sport coades. Even though I'm doing it now, I really find it a compliment when not women come up and tell me that the suit or the shirt looks good. It's when dudes come up and seriously say, hey, where'd you get that?
Because I know for a lot of men, a lot of them don't care, especially here in Houston, they wear T shirts and it's just kind of a town where you wear blue jeans. Ever, But when they sincerely say, at a sharp board, did you get it? Do you find more in your business? Is it the men? Do they not care as much? Do they care as much as the women? But I think it's odd that it's I find it more flattering when the guys say, hey,
man, nice stuff. Absolutely, you know, I think, like you said the Moniker Houston suit guy on Instagram, I actually get more comments, more questions from guys all the time, because quite honestly, when a guy walks in the store, if you've ever thought about it, you go clothes shopping, what do you do? You see things on mannequins and you say, wow, that looks really good. I want that. For most guys, it's hard to go and find things, put things together kind of sort
it out in a way that makes sense. And a lot of guys we're really busy. So when you go into your closet, you want to know that the first thing that you grab is going to look really, really good, no matter what it is. Most of us have three or four outfits, maybe even just two or three. That is kind of our go too, And it doesn't matter where we're going, what we're doing. Why do we grab those two or three outfits over and over. It's because that's what
we feel good in. We feel confident when we wear it. And so I always ask people when that they, you know, kind of start the consultation process with me and learning about custom clothing. I said, what would it be like for you? Would it be mind blowing? Would it be life changing if that every item in your closet you had that same confidence and feel about every time you grabbed it out of there, no matter what it was, And it would open up your world to a much larger wardrobe.
And you know, it's it's kind of that Dion Sanders thing. You'll look good, you feel good, you feel good, you play good, you play good, they pay good. That's kind of that's kind of that whole world of having that first impression and being confident when you meet somebody. It doesn't matter if it's in business, doesn't matter if it's just in person, talking to new people, meeting new people, relationships, whatever it is. When you when you look good and feel good, you're more confident and it
shows is proving time. Steve Springer is his name, Houston Suit Guy. You can google it and social media everywhere you'll find and we'll get more than that. How'd you get started in this business? So for years I actually spent time in kind of the kind of the menswear world, big box stores, you know, and I got a little bit of a little bit of taste of what custom men'swear was like at some level, and I realized that
custom menswear is where that you get to actually build relationships. I get to sip with someone like yourself like we did, and understand about you, how you wear clothes, what you do when you put a sport code on. Is it just date night? Is it that I'm in front of a camera, Is it that I'm you know, I just want to elevate my game. I would just want to better feel better. So all of those things
are very important. You know, somebody might come in and say, you know, hey, I'm I sell BMW's, you know, for instance, and I have to be in a suit every day, and I want the best looking suit out there, and so they picked these really expensive, beautiful fabrics and I'll tell them, look, you know, that might not actually be the right fabric for you. And the reason is you're in and out
of cars all day. I'm going to make you a suit that's really beautiful, that's going to show you off in your best light, but it's not going to be maybe quite as expensive because we need something that's a little bit more bulletproof for what you do. So it's all about the personal experience and being able to understand what you want, what your goals are in developing a
wardrobe. And so you know, for me, like I said, it's transitioning from those those big box stores and really stepping out on my own. You know, COVID was was really that that factor that made it all happen. And you know, it's it's interesting. My very first client, very first client as a with Bluefine Men's Wear was actually a KPRC Frank Billingsley Rank. He he you know, had known him for several years and he called
me and said, hey, it looks like your stores closed. Man, I we know what's going on. And I said, well, they've closed down all these stores, you know, due to COVID, but just so happens, you know, in the background. I've been working on this for a while now and I've got all my fabrics from Italy and England. And he said, well, can you come over? And so I went over to his house and he bought a couple of suits. And that has just
absolutely become, you know, kind of the best ever. Building on those relationships and having clients that have really really good experiences that have become honestly some of my best friends. Love Frank. I don't think he's gonna be wearing a lot of suits anymore. Has he just retired? Very very lucky guy Steve Springer joining me here for the next few minutes, known as the Houston Suit Guy custom made Suits. Talk about the process. I like the process.
I have never been through a custom making a sport code or suit process, and I tell you what it was. It was simple. But Steve, I got to say, it was kind of fun because I got along with you to design some stuff. Obviously you took my measurements, and at that point it was let's go shopping through all of these fabrics. And in your office, I know you just have swatches and swabs and books and books
and books of different fabrics thick than the color patterns. I know what colors I like and which was awesome because when I go used to go shopping off rack in stores, it's like I'm gonna have to buy something they got here. That's it. It may not have been truly truly garf stop. You made design. Let's put it this way. You do you help me design garf sport codes because I like color. I like things because I'm on stage
and I'm on TV. I need something that pop. And so whether it say a purple, which is my favorite color, a purple sport coder blazer beautiful and uh and then you talked about, well this one has you know, a little you know, patch style of pockets on the whole thing. It's you actually guide me through the process. You look at my skin tone, this is gonna pop. That was the neat one on win experience. And that's I think what you profess. You are one on one you custom
make these for everybody. But yes, from the from the way that we started is we we basically say, like I said, the the consultation piece, let's figure out what you're looking for. And then once we've kind of got that built out in our mind what your your goals are, then we
start to select fabrics. And these are all fabrics that are imported from Italy and England like Xenia, Laura, Piana and you know all those really really great fabric mills, Fox Brothers out of England, Hudtersfeld, really really great you know, cloth, top quality, beautiful, beautiful cloth, and so we start from a quality product and then and then we start to build out
the design together. Houston Sue guy. I'll tell you what, Steve, We'll get you out here on this and we're going to go to the email over here. So it's funny, I got it. This is from Jeanette, which is a female. She goes great topic right now because my husband dresses like generally, how long does it take to make a sport code? Which is actually I think it's a fair question. Sure, typically I want to have about six weeks. That's that's you know, So it's a real
easy process to set up an appointment with me. Most the best scenarios to set up appointment with me and my design center which is in the Houston Heights, and that's that's just a really easy process there. And after we design it and I start into the production. It takes typically about six weeks. And then as soon as everything is I've done the whole QC process on the finished garments, then I will send you a message to schedule a final fitting
appointment, which you know ninety nine percent of the time you want. You try it on in the dressing room, everything is perfect and you'll leave with the garment that day. If there's any tweaks or adjustments that are needed, typically takes two to three days, and then you'll have your your suit or tucks makes sense, and we end it with this, as we quote Saturday Live, it is better to look good than to feel good, and I
absolutely look good. You look good every time we're wearing anything that is made by you. People want to get a hold of you. What's the easiest way. So the easiest way is to go either to Instagram through Houston suit Guy, or you can go directly to my website houstonsuit Guy dot com, or you can go to bluefinemenswear dot com. Either way works. You'll get there. There's a there's a message button, or you can call me. I'll put my put my phone number out there, seven one, three,
six five nine ninety twenty eight. You can call or text that number. Texting is better obviously just because of volume. But if you can send me a text or or just go straight to the website, there's a way to contact me right there, or you can send me a direct message on Instagram. Houston Suit Guy, Suit Guy, and for all the people. Every time I happen to wear some of these sport codes out there, when people
do come up and say where did you get that? I have a pocketful of your business starts that I give him, and you know I do because I get a lot of comments every time I'm out in one of your great sport codes. Steve Springer, Houston suit Guy. Loved the branding and love what you do. Congrats and your success, my man. I can't wait to order a few more coming up here. Thank you for your time and dress well. Mia Migo, you too. Take care Michael. That is
Steve. What cool is that? I mean literally, people, I mean I never thought I'd have anything that was custom and it was so freaking simple. And I'm not going to, you know, give out his government or information. But he's got some other than Flank. He's got some pretty famous clients, some of which I just want to hang around his shop to just watch him come in and out. Steve Springer check it out of Houston suit Guy. All right, this is called the High Tech Text Show KPRC Radio
nine fifty am, not only in Houston but around the world. And iHeartRadio. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. We made it almost. We got about eight more minutes of the show. Oh man, indulgence of summer. I do thank you for hanging in there. Hey, also, thanks so much to Houston Suit Guy. If you just turned our chat, it's it's pretty listen. I talk so much more about technology. It's it's you know, it's the world according to Garf. It's whatever I want to
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Really good stuff. Not going to give out the phone number anymore. We do have a winner for the Cabo Bob's gift card we gave away two segments ago. Congratulations to the winner, whoever that is. That You're going to be eating well at one of the four Houston area Cabo Bob's location. It's actually almost lunchtime for me. I actually may have to run up there. And get a little snacky poo if I need to what other things I want to head, I'm gonna go through some emails. Oh my, a lot
of it, a lot of traveling going on. And I got two three emails, one of which in the last hour asking me about international phone plans. One of the best phone plans because they're traveling internationally. It's the third question, similarly like that that I've got this pass week using your phone internationally. It's a little it's it's no longer as simple as just popping in a different SIM card. And if you know what a SIM card, the sim
card is a little tiny, physical little card. It's a little electronic card that you can pop in and pop out of your phone. That's something you have to use, a little pen, a little almost like a needle that comes with it. That for years and years phones at that actually is your phone number. So whoever your carrier is, Verizon, T Mobile, eighteen T whatever it is, they send you this little tiny card and you pop it in and that's the phone number, and it keeps a lot of your
data and things on there. And so when you get a new phone, quite simply over the years, all you need to do is pop that little SIM card out which is your phone number, put it into phone, and you're set to go. Now, newer phones now have don't have the physical card. They have an electronic sim. It's called the E's an e SIM. It's not an E SIM. Car is just an e SIM. It is kind of confusing. But as summer travel heats up, you do have
some questions on what's the what's the best phones with international plans. I'll try let me see if I let see if I can take two or three minutes before we get out of here to explain this. I'll focus on US carriers, United States carriers, UH, and a lot of that could be applied to traveling in other countries. I have this is there. I have no skin in the game. I have no endorsement with anybody. I'm just looking
at rates. I don't care who you use, all right, you may like one, you may not like one, but just just quickly anecdotal scanning the if you really Globe Trot frequently take a look at Verizon's unlimited Ultimate Plan. It's their most premium plan. It's unlimited kind of takes a page from T Mobile's playbook. As international texting has data and over about two hundred country all right, now, it's data and texting. It does not include voice.
But here's the thing you can get around voice because nowadays, really if you ask me, and I haven't traveled a ton internationally, but I've never done anything. I've never upgraded my phone because Wi Fi is so over existed, it's so ubiquitous in libraries, cafes, restaurants, airports, hotels, resorts. If you're on Wi Fi, you can use WhatsApp, you can
use FaceTime. Other messaging apps has voice culling features. I used to get a Wi Fi calling Verizon has something called mix and match plans for different lines on your account, and that could be helpful for you. If you're on a family plan. That means if you have one line on an ultimate for the month you'll be traveling, you can keep the other lines on a more
affordable plan, So that that's one opportunity too. So to determine where you want to go, do a little Google search, what country you're traveling in. Who's your provider? If it's If it's T Mobile, go to the T Mobile website. Does it work? Does it include extra minisc a lot if you're going to Mexico or Canada. I believe I don't quote me, but some of these plans actually include Mexico in Canada, so you don't even need to upgrade. There's another good one for international plans. T Mobile has
something called the Magenta Max. The Magenta Max, it has a high speed. The other thing is you may if you get a hot spot. If you know what a hotspot is, If your phone has a hot spot and it's included maybe in your unlimited plan, you can actually light up your phone to become a hotspot. And your party who travels with you, maybe at your family kids, whoever, they can actually glomb off of your hot spot. Tell them to turn on their Wi Fi. Get onto your Wi Fi
because you're broadcasting from your hotspot. That's another secret too, Latin America. If you're going to Latin America, Number one, take me. I got a new passport at and T Unlimited Premium maybe the best for you. And it's and then there's roaming versus local sim cards. The big reason that I'm come to talk a little bit about roaming is because most common ways US people
you probout United States consumers still buy their phones. It's through wireless carriers and installment plans, and to keep people from taking advantage of subsidized phones leaving for other providers, the carriers lock their phones to their networks until you finish your two or three year installment plans. And so sometimes you can go to another country if you have a lock phone, and you could go get a SIM card to temporarily put in point is the world is getting smaller when it comes
to communication. Well, last year I went to South Korea and I didn't do a derned stand and I use mint Mobile. I don't even use one of the big three. I use mint Mobile. By the way, if you want a discount for mint Mobile, pop me a direct message or send me an email, because I have a discount for you, because it's already inexpense enough. Now mint Mobile is now solely owned by T Mobile, but
mint Mobile, I have a discount that i'd probably get you. Just happy to actually share that with you, but it's I'm not gonna blast it out right now. But I didn't even upgrade a mint Mobile because I knew on the airplane I flew United they had Wi Fi and that actually got when I got on Wi Fi. It lasted all over the Pacific Ocean until I landed in South Korea. South Korea got to the airport, there was Wi Fi. Didn't have Wi Fi and the bus of the cab, but once I
got to my hotel resort, I had Wi Fi. I went to a convention center because it was a big press conference I went to for Samsung. They had Wi Fi. I went to restaurants, they had Wi Fi. You just don't need a ton of that stuff. The world is getting smaller. And I'll tell you what, in the twenty two plus years I have been doing this pace, the world continues to get small. This what used to be a local radio station, a local radio program here in Houston on
KPRC, the signal. We have a five thousand watt station. Yes, it was barely able to reach north of the Woodlands. It got halfway to Austin. Certainly, it covered Galveston, and it got not to the Louisiana border, and that was it. Nowadays, you download the iHeartRadio app and I have a worldwide radio show. And I do thank you for listening that for all these years, twenty two years and going. I want you to continue to have a great summer. Thank you Callum Read for putting this on
the podcast. I'm going to take a few days off. I'm doing some traveling. Don't stalk me, people, but follow me on social media because I'm doing more and more videos and tips to that don't keep you happy, not just about tech, but cars, travel, bourbon, clothing, fashion, or whatever else I actually feel like doing. Hey, stay fool, seriously, drink hydrate. For all of us who've been a part of the
show, I do thank you for tuning in. My name is Garth Garfield, and she is the High Detection show Happy Middle of Summer because right now, this particular episode is over.