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Plain tech talk with Texas weekend energy.
Michael Garfield's High-Tech Texan Show is consumer technology with the studio door left open. Product opinions, Q&A, Texas radio resets, car talk, barbecue tangents, sports chatter, and practical privacy warnings all move through the same rapid, conversational show.
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Michael Garfield's High-Tech Texan Show is consumer tech radio with a Texas weekend heartbeat. It moves fast. The program uses gadgets as the starting point, then lets real life barge in: Mother's Day gifts, graduation presents, cars, barbecue, March Madness, restaurant phone bans, smart doorbells, Apple laptops, Waymo, travel, cocktails, weather, and whatever else is sitting on the desk. It is not polished product-column talk. Michael Garfield's recurring stance is practical and personal, with products judged by daily usefulness, value, annoyance, privacy risk, and whether ordinary people can understand them without a manual. The tone is loose. Episodes often begin with radio housekeeping, jokes, station references, sports timing, and Texas geography before landing on the useful consumer point. That structure gives the show a live-wire feel, closer to a weekend call-in monologue than a tidy review feed. It also means the tech advice arrives with texture. A listener might hear about a new laptop beside Oscar predictions, a video doorbell privacy setting beside a Ring ad controversy, or autonomous driving beside Houston barbecue judging. The program repeatedly pushes back against geekiness. It wants technology to feel usable. Garfield leans on hands-on testing, long experience, plain analogies, and a willingness to say when a product does not seem worth the money. He is also comfortable making the show bigger than tech. Cars and vehicle reviews recur often, sports seasons shape the calendar, food and Texas travel keep showing up, and local radio markets such as Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio give the whole thing a grounded broadcast identity. The podcast version carries some of that live-radio clutter with it. There are resets, sponsor-adjacent moments, repeated intros, phone numbers, and end-of-show thank-yous. For the right audience, that makes the show feel familiar instead of overproduced. The best use case is casual consumer discovery. It helps people who want to know what gadgets, features, privacy settings, and lifestyle tech might matter, without needing a dense technical explanation. The edge is the combination of product access, talk-radio momentum, Texas local color, and a show figure who treats tech as something wrapped around daily life. It is useful, noisy, opinionated, and rarely still.
Made for: For casual tech buyers, gift shoppers, drivers, sports fans, and Texas radio regulars who want practical gadget opinions without dense specs. It also suits listeners who enjoy local color mixed into consumer advice.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by blending hands-on consumer tech judgment with live-radio pacing, call-in energy, and frequent detours through Texas food, sports, cars, and travel. Its advice feels lived-in rather than lab-tested.
Michael Garfield's High Tech Texan program is heard 11 am to 1 p.m. weekends on KPRC AM 950.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Michael Garfield connects gadget news to practical choices about what to buy, what to trust and which settings deserve a closer look.
Michael Garfield turns consumer technology into a lively call-in conversation, moving between buying advice, device testing and the privacy questions hidden inside everyday conveniences.
Michael Garfield makes that video doorbell on your porch a question about who keeps the footage.
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A practical home-privacy segment that gets to the point after some wandering.
Michael Garfield turns a wandering radio segment into a clear home-privacy takeaway. He moves from Apple chatter to video doorbells, then explains why Ring and Nest devices can raise privacy concerns, including how some features may share more than listeners expect.
A long-running radio voice makes gadget advice feel practical and personal.
Michael Garfield frames gadget history as a lesson in making new technology feel ordinary, from lugging 10-pound laptops to explaining Wi-Fi when it was still unfamiliar.
A public-use tech question drifts through Houston barbecue, San Antonio tips, and easygoing Texas radio.
The episode turns on a public-use question for a technology already in public view: will people actually choose to use it? Michael Garfield folds that into the loose, call-in shape of The High Tech Texan Show, treating radio as part of the story while explaining how listeners…
Michael Garfield keeps self-driving cars plainspoken, turning a technical subject into an easy Texas radio hour.
Michael Garfield frames self-driving cars as a choice rather than a mandate, and that keeps the hour grounded in a calm, practical register. The broadcast moves with an easy radio-first rhythm, letting gadgets, cars, plane talk, and listener questions sit beside his…
A porch-camera privacy talk that turns convenience into a sharper question.
Michael Garfield starts with light banter about Valentine's Day and the Super Bowl, then quickly shifts into a more pointed privacy question about video doorbell cameras.
A loose Final Four memory about recognition, broadcasting, and being remembered in a crowd.
The episode turns a brief Final Four run-in with Jim Nance into a compact sports-media anecdote. Set between the Houston-Duke game and the earlier action, it follows the host spotting Nance on the court, getting recognized from about 10 feet away, trading a quick exchange, and…
A loose, listener-driven tech rundown with TV-buying advice before the big game.
Michael Garfield turns the final weekend of January into a shopping-minded look at buying a new TV before the big game, then broadens the discussion with the price of gold, a quishing explainer, the Samsung Galaxy Z trifold seen at CES, and listener email.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
Final weekend, January.
First, the ads pile up.
Michael Garfield, the High-Tech Texan, hosts a show discussing technology, streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, and engaging with listeners through trivia and questions.
This episode of The High Tech Texan show features Michael Garfield introducing his interactive weekend radio program that discusses technology and lifestyle topics, with a focus on car reviews like the Nissan Z and Ford Mustang Mach-E.
This episode discusses the possibility of buying a car on Amazon, exploring consumer technology and lifestyle products with honest reviews and gift ideas.
This episode of the High-Tech Texan show discusses restaurants banning phones and features Q&A sessions on technology topics.
Michael Garfield introduces his high-tech show, discussing the first week of April 2026 and his focus on consumer topics while avoiding politics.
This episode introduces MLB's new Automatic Ball-Strike technology, discussed by Michael Garfield on the High-Tech Texan show, blending sports and accessible tech insights.
The host introduces the March Madness season, discusses the show's evolution from tech-focused to broader topics like sports and Texas culture, and teases upcoming content.
Michael Garfield opens with the loose, fast radio monologue his audience expects.
Michael Garfield opens by naming himself and The High Tech Texan Show.
["Michael Garfield opens The High Tech Texan Show by saying the program has run for 24 years, then points listeners toward the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the World Championship Barbecue Contest at NRG Park.", "He says he spent Sunday at Rodeo Uncorked Best Bites, Friday judging the junior barbecue steak cookoff, and Saturday getting ready to sample brisket from roughly 250 cook-off teams.", "Garfield reviews a 2026 GMC Sierra EV with about 450 miles of range, an 18-inch vertical infotainment screen, and a front trunk, and says the truck handled a Houston-to-Columbus, Texas drive without the usual range anxiety.", "He also discusses Waymo launching in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, Burger King's AI assistant named Hattie, and an Apple PR email tied to rumored March 4 product reveals."]
Michael Garfield opens as the High-Tech Texan.
Michael Garfield opens with Valentine's Day, Super Bowl Sunday, and a few jokes before settling on video doorbell cameras.
Michael Garfield hosts a casual tech show discussing new technology, streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, and engaging with listeners through trivia and questions.
This episode appears to be about installing a pool in your yard quickly, but the transcript primarily consists of advertisements and introductions without substantive content on the topic.
This episode discusses how to prevent trackers from collecting your health data, with mentions of technology deals and Trump mobile phones.