WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.400 Is Michael Garfier Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan. 2 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:15.759 Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans items to make life easier, 3 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:26.199 new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might want Xans. Michael Garfield 4 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:33.240 is your high Tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. 5 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:42.840 Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. 6 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:49.320 Well, congrats to everyone who made it through dry January. As a 7 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:56.200 prize, you will all be receiving one extra day of February. That is 8 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:00.640 right the beginning of a leap year. Happy Saturday. Should you be listening 9 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.599 live, It is called the high Tech Texan Show. Michael is my name, 10 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.560 Michael Garfield, Little pep in my voice. I have no clue why. 11 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.159 Maybe the cocktails are flowing brought to you by Papa's pl R rum. 12 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.719 If you got a little something something. You have nothing to do this weekend 13 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.079 really because there is no football. We are in the midst of the not 14 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:23.159 the just dry February, the weekend of drive football. We are kind of 15 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:27.560 sad actually, because we have four more hours left of football this season. 16 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.159 And that's not a good thing, especially for people like me, because that 17 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:36.120 is my escape. Massive, massive sports fan, certainly a football fan, 18 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.040 despite the fact that my team is nowhere near the super Bowl. SIMI near 19 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:42.840 the super Bowl, but I really doesn't matter who's actually playing. I am 20 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:48.560 going to talk about that today, including super Bowl ticket prices. Should you 21 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:53.200 be going out to Vegas with me next weekend? The best deals on Super 22 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.040 Bowl TVs? Is this the right time? Is this the best time of 23 00:01:57.120 --> 00:01:59.959 year to buy a TV? Actually, I could probably make a case that 24 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.040 it is, and I actually found some semi decent prices on TV. Should 25 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.599 you be hosting a big Super Bowl party next week? I will tell you 26 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:12.159 how to watch the Super Bowl, whether you're at home or you're traveling or 27 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.360 your mobile. Some of it costs money, How to watch it in four 28 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:19.840 K, how to watch it and even potentially eight K, and some of 29 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.000 the neat new things that CBS is doing with their technology their cameras on how 30 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:28.520 they're televising the big Game this coming year. Also, not one, not 31 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.919 but two brand new phones I am testing this week, the brand new Samsung 32 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:38.080 Galaxy S twenty four Ultra. By the way, I have to I have 33 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:43.840 to say, Ultra, I have no clue why let's pack with artificial intelligence. 34 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.960 Samsung actually has done some pretty neat features along with Google and also one 35 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:52.280 Plus. I've slowly become a fan of one Plus. It's a Chinese brand 36 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.240 Android. You may not be one hundred percent familiar with it, but for 37 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.599 the past three or four months I've been playing with the one plus open their 38 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:04.680 big fold out foldable phone. I am in receipt of the brand new flagship, 39 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:08.159 the one plus twelve. Really good cameras people, really good cameras, 40 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:10.840 is some neat features, and so I will talk you off the ledge should 41 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.879 you be in the mood or the mode to potentially get a new phone other 42 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.719 than that good senior Callum Reid and everybody else who is on the other side 43 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.759 of the glass. Nothing special today, right guys? Right guys? Is 44 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:24.800 that what? What are you hiding back there? What are you hiding? 45 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:30.560 Are you lighting candles? I'll give you the phone number here to uh to 46 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.599 talk to ask questions because it is a call in show. The last time 47 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.719 we've checked for twenty two plus years, it is seven one three two one 48 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:44.240 two five nine five two one two five nine five zero When we come to 49 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:49.080 you from the world head We actually the Houston headquarters of iHeart Radio, not 50 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:53.560 too far from the Galleria. We will answer number your questions. And this 51 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.479 is what I also do during the week I answer questions, not so much 52 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:00.240 here on the live phone calls that we get on the radio show show, 53 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.639 but people reach out to me on social media. They certainly have my email, 54 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:10.639 website high Tech Texan obviously, and all the socials do. I want 55 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:15.720 to start with this because somebody reached out because they clicked on a link on 56 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:24.920 their phone a few days ago what they thought was an innocuous link to an 57 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:32.480 obituary, and apparently they accidentally downloaded some malware and their phone was freaking out. 58 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:40.879 It's sad that bad people in the world have to prey upon the good 59 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:46.759 fortune and good people out there of pretending to be to pretending to put links 60 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:53.000 on about subjects that about things that we think are very harmless, and one 61 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:58.199 of which was an obituary. And I'll start with this. A gentleman I 62 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.600 knew, and I only met him about six months ago. Six months ago 63 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.720 he passed away semi suddenly over the weekend, and his name Ricky Ford, 64 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:15.240 and Ricky. It's he was out in the Alvin, Texas area, you 65 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.680 know, southwest of Houston, and he ran a company called gentle Ben and 66 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:24.279 it was it's not a it's a liquor distilling company, but he patented a 67 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:28.360 process that takes liquor and it gets a lot of, if not all, 68 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:33.240 of the impurities out of the liquor when you after you distill them. And 69 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:39.079 I met him through another buddy of mine, and it's a showed me the 70 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.240 process because you know, I'm a big obviously alcohol guy, sertainly a bourbon 71 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:45.000 guy. And he was a really really good dude. He was probably in 72 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:49.120 his mid sixties, I believe, and I took him to lunch probably about 73 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.680 four months ago. We were trying to figure out how we could work together 74 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:55.399 because I do talk about liquor and alcohol and spirits and what have you. 75 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:00.399 And in the location they have gentle Ben and you if you go into some 76 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.079 local specs and some total wines, goody goodies and stuff, you'll see gentle 77 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:10.040 Ben jin gentle Bin vodka, gentle Ben Bourbon. After they were fined. 78 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:14.160 It's it's some good juice, it really really is. It's got a great 79 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:16.560 The location of the art's in the middle of gosh, almost nowhere of Alvin, 80 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:20.920 Texas, and it's got a great bar, and you know, we 81 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.720 just kind of hung out a few times. So away he passed away, 82 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.839 didn't neither here nor there, but obviously just you know, condolences for the 83 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.279 people who know him, who knew of them were familiar with gentle Bin Brand. 84 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:36.720 So a one of my Facebook friends who knew I was friends with Ricky, 85 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:43.000 they had sent me U Facebook you know, uh kind of a message 86 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:45.519 and they said, hey, man, I was trying to click on this 87 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.240 link to read Ricky's obituary and look what happened. And they sent me a 88 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.879 screenshot of all this malware being downloaded, and it just it just made me 89 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:57.360 mad. Man, this God misses me off. It's like, were mourning 90 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:01.319 for this guy that we knew, and you want to read the obituary. 91 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.680 You think you're clicking the obituary, and the obituary was in the obituary. 92 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.959 And I've seen this happen a lot, because right when, I'll give you 93 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:14.399 an example, when someone dies all of a sudden, and about a year 94 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:15.800 and a half ago, this happened to be two a friend of mine grew 95 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:19.000 up in Dallas, just was killed all of a sudden, and it's like, 96 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:20.879 oh my gosh, what happened. I want to get the inside info. 97 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:25.639 So you start googling their name and obituary, and all of a sudden, 98 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.959 a few things start popping up and it's like a link, and all 99 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.759 of a sudden it's to form websites. I mean, these people are quick, 100 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.240 these bad hackers, they prey on you. The point I'm trying to 101 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:41.920 make is don't fall for some of this stuff you want to Just it's tough 102 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:45.360 to do on your mobile phone. We now know what to click on and 103 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:47.199 what not to click on. I think when it comes to desktops and laptops, 104 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:51.399 you can take your mouse. You can hover over a link and what 105 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:56.920 should pop up? Pop up? It should give you the website where you're 106 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:01.560 allegedly going to go. And if it's not something legit, don't click on 107 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:03.519 it. I mean, if it's a long URL and it's not a dot 108 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.079 com and it looks like it's for it, just don't click on. Sometimes 109 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.800 hard to do when you're on a mobile phone because you just really can't hover 110 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.120 on anything because you just click on a link. Just try not to do 111 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.600 that, do that stuff. But the point is, and I know there 112 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.360 was like a three four minute build up of this thing. There's actually software 113 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.879 that you should be using on your phone to stop anti virul well, to 114 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.120 stop viruses. It's called it antivirus software. There's several of them out there, 115 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.319 and if you don't have it, please do yourself for forever download them 116 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:35.720 right now, several of them. Norton makes makes one called Norton or Norton 117 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:43.320 Bang Zoom didn't Norton Mobile security. Caspersky very big when it comes to antivirus 118 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.399 on desktops, but they make a mobile antivirus, look Out Security. If 119 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:54.679 you have a Samsung phone, Samsun actually owns I think they bought a company. 120 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:58.360 They may have bought Lookout, I'm not sure. They usually come built 121 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.000 in with an antivirus. So where AVG anti virus. That's a free one. 122 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.600 There's some ads in there, but that's free. Also, Google has 123 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.279 something called Google Play Protect. I don't care which one you use, but 124 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.600 just download it because this can stop your phone. You do not want malware, 125 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.639 You do not want anybody hacking into your phone. Because we rely on 126 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.279 our phones more so, I believe than desktops and laptops and what have you. 127 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:22.200 So there are ways to prevent that. For some reason, you do 128 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.960 have to download it. So we're going to take a break and again condolences 129 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:31.720 to Ricky Ford and friends of his family. The gentle Bin is the name 130 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.240 of the company, the product that he produces, Gone too soon, and 131 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:37.919 just sitting shiva for that good man, and also sitting shiva for all your 132 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.320 phones and desktops and laptops that do have malware. When we come back, 133 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:45.200 we'll talk a little Super Bowl how you can watch it, some really good 134 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.360 deals on TVs and anything else you need, because that's what we're doing here 135 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:58.039 in wet February, because your I January is over. That is right. 136 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.080 It's some mister meet getting gar our Field. How are you happy Saturday? 137 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:07.519 Thank you for listening to Kate PRC nine fifty am terrestrially here all across South 138 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.279 the East, Texas, Houston, DMA, and also all around the world. 139 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.399 If you download the iHeartRadio app you're listening on podcast. I have no 140 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.080 clue where you are, I have no clue what time you're listening to it, 141 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:22.120 But got about hour and forty minutes left to me, and I don't 142 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.399 know if that's a good thing or if it's a bad thing. Phone number 143 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.639 seven one three two one two five nine five, Oh, feel free to 144 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.600 ask away. We are going to talk about little super Bowl week away from 145 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.799 the big Game. Your Houston Texans not and at my Dallas Cowboys not in 146 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.480 it. We've got the Kansas City Chiefs, We've got the San Francisco forty 147 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:43.480 nine ers. It's the shade of red super Bowl. If you will be 148 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:48.519 in Vegas next week, come join us out there for the super Bowl. 149 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.759 Always Vegas is going to be Craig Gray. Now, I'm a Vegas guy. 150 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:56.960 I go to Vegas over under, over under five and a half times 151 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:01.200 per year. I will be there next. I'll be there in March. 152 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.879 I will make four times in four buds for Las Vegas. For me, 153 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.360 I love Vegas. I beg go one since I was nineteen years old. 154 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:13.360 First time ever a super Bowl is being held in Las Vegas. I can't 155 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.919 even imagine the blank show that is going to go on. Parties great it 156 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.759 is, Oh my goodness. So if you are out there, come find 157 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.600 us Radio Row or wherever we are going to be broadcasting. We're going to 158 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:30.120 be parting. Listen. If there's a biggest sporting event, we're going to 159 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.440 take it the month. The high Tech Texan Show is always on the always 160 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.679 on the road for you. Oh, by the way, got to come 161 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:37.240 back. If you take the time to call our email, I'm going to 162 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:41.600 do take the time actually to read it. So look what we got here. 163 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:46.480 You've got mail. Dear Michael, I'm not a stalker, but rather 164 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:52.639 a longtime listener. Got a stat for you. This today is only the 165 00:11:52.919 --> 00:12:00.960 third time in the history of yours show that your birthday falls on the day 166 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.000 of your actual Saturday show. And by the way, you've been doing this 167 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:09.799 show almost one third of your life. That is from Toby in Paarland. 168 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:18.320 Uh oh, somebody's very stockersh oh, somebody new somebody stock Thank you Toby, 169 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.480 Toby a girl or dude, Toby? If your check, won't you 170 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.720 send me a photo? Are we friends on Facebook? Thank you Toby? 171 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:31.000 Yes? Okay, callum, is that what you guys were doing back there? 172 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:35.799 Yes? Today is the day birthday another year old. That's fine. 173 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.759 What is it? What is it with birthday? Listen? I've been getting 174 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.200 a ton of text and emails from a lot of listeners and friends out there. 175 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.399 Thank you very much for your nice wishes. What is it with today 176 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:52.159 that people want? I sign up for a lot of email marketing stuff for 177 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:54.399 restaurants. Hey, it's your birthday, you get this my inbox. This 178 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.360 past week has been has been full, Michael? Is your birthday? Your 179 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:01.600 birthday? Month of February? Come in, but it's always for free dessert. 180 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.919 What's up with? What's up with the dessert stuff? I mean can't? 181 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.919 I mean, does nobody want to throw in a nice chicken sandwich throwing 182 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:11.879 it out a little keso appetizer or something. Well, let's let's go. 183 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:18.879 How about we go through the the emails over here. Let's see Papasitos barbecue. 184 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:22.960 What did what did they send me over here? Yep? I got 185 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.000 a free dessert? What kind of dessert is Papasitos barbecue? I do you 186 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:31.159 like Papasia's barbecue? Papasitos, Michael? You get the free tress lets us 187 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.960 cake? Okay? Good? Exactly, which I don't need even though I 188 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.480 know it's very good. Black Bear diner? Do you like me some Black 189 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.519 Bear diner? This went out in shirt Land, not too far from me. 190 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:43.000 Oh wait a minute standby, I didn't read this. I get a 191 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:50.360 birthday meal. I get an entree, the barest choice, which is eggs. 192 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.240 It looks like waffles and two sausages, which I don't eat sausage. 193 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.799 Callum, when's your birthday? Because I can ford this d for this du 194 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.519 I just I'm going to listen. I at the beginning of the year, 195 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.120 you want to lose weight, and I try to do best as I can 196 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:07.279 in January, but I travel, man, I'm at Ces. There's all 197 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:11.360 these hosted parties and whatever. Okay, so then the remaining two weeks, 198 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:15.799 I'm pretty good knowing that the first week or two in February birthday time, 199 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:20.639 I'm just I gotta go eat something smash Burger, A gift from us to 200 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.720 sweeten your day, A free handspunge shake. I love shakes. People. 201 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.639 If I have one shake a year, I'm lying. I could drink a 202 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.399 shake a day. I just don't. I just can't, man, I'm 203 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.879 just some debts. I just don't want the poundage on there. But it's 204 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:41.480 free. Man, gotta celebrate. Is there any liquor in there, I'm 205 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:43.879 to bring it home and actually put my own cocktails. Enough of that, 206 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.279 thank you so much. If you guys want to get me something, why 207 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:50.080 don't you get me a television so I could I can watch the super Bowl, 208 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.000 even though I will be out there super Bowl. Who's watching it? 209 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.240 Will? I'm gonna tell you how to watch it, But let me give 210 00:14:54.279 --> 00:15:01.440 you the ticket prices. I am on SeatGeek dot com. Sadly no sponsorship 211 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:03.440 or partnership over here, but they have a day to day tracker of how 212 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:09.320 much Super Bowl tickets cost on the resale market. Any clue, any clue? 213 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.720 The average ticket price, the average ticket price, the average ticket price 214 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:18.159 thirty days before the game, which was, you know, almost a month 215 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.639 ago. It was four hundred dollars. And I don't know. I mean, 216 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:24.440 if I could buy a super Bowl ticket for four hundred dollars at any 217 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:28.519 given time of the year, I'd buy a ton of them and resell them. 218 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.080 I don't know where they get that, folks. Right now, right 219 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:37.039 now, the average ticket to the super Bowl a week from right now in 220 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:46.399 Las Vegas secondary market eleven thousand, eight hundred dollars. What is the most 221 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:52.080 you've ever paid for a ticket for anything? Anybody out there? Seven one 222 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.840 three two one two five nine five Ozho, What is the most you've ever 223 00:15:54.919 --> 00:16:02.840 paid for a ticket for anything? I went to the the second game of 224 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:10.360 the World Series this past October in Arlington. It was my Texas Rangers and 225 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.559 me and my two or three best friends. We bought tickets, probably on 226 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:18.600 se geek or something like that. Paid nine hundred and actually it was nine 227 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.480 hundred and fifty dollars. Apparently they knew what station I worked at, so 228 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:25.440 they charged me nine five oh nine fifty nine to fifty. Definitely the most 229 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:26.919 expensive ticket I've ever paid for, and I've been to some. Listen. 230 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:33.120 I've been to four Super Bowls. I've been to countless Final fours. But 231 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:36.559 again, I get very nice. I either have press passes because I'm covering 232 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:38.799 it. Maybe a sponsor, A lot of sponsors will always invite me. 233 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:42.679 But listen, my Rangers are in the Super are in the World Series. 234 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:47.200 I'm gonna go. So I paid nine hundred and fifty I would, I'm 235 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.440 sorry. As big of a Longhorn fan, I am, as big as 236 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:53.519 a Cowboys fan as I am of Dallas Mavericks or Rangers, I'm not. 237 00:16:53.960 --> 00:17:00.639 I mean, I guess a thousand dollars would be my limit and I say 238 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.680 this because I'm leading up to the television. You can see so many things 239 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:10.119 on sports better on TV than you can in the actual stadium. But I 240 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:14.039 love the atmosphere. I just love being there. And it's just it's it's 241 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:18.880 it's the excitement, it's the finality, it's the this is the last game 242 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.880 of the year. Because I love going to the championships, the final four 243 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:23.240 of the Super Bowl, the World Series. This is this is it, 244 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.839 especially if it's my team. But listen, I've had the good fortune of 245 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.400 being there. I've been to see my team win the Super Bowl, super 246 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.319 Bowl twenty eight when the Cowboys be Buffalo. I was there. I've been 247 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.839 to the Vince Young University of Texas game. I was on the sidelines. 248 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:41.079 I was there. I've now seen the Texas Rangers win the World Series, 249 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.039 well, actually a game of the World Series. I always in at the 250 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.880 clincher over there, that man eleven and that's just average. That puts you. 251 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.799 That probably puts you at Mandalay Bay. You're so far away from the 252 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.920 stadium of Las Vegas. Oh good, so do I not gonna not get 253 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.559 into it. But if you're a Kansas City chief or your San Francisco forty 254 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:00.799 nine ers fan. And if you've got some jack, you just go ahead 255 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.599 and do that. Or if you just want to be in the same place 256 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:07.440 to say that Taylor Swift is you go ahead and do that thing. Cheapest 257 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.119 ticket to get in eighty five hundred dollars. But the thing is that right 258 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:14.599 now, it's they're only going to go up. They're only going to go 259 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:18.039 up. Most expensive ticket. I'll drop the subject after this right now on 260 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:25.440 seat Gake forty six thousand dollars. Okay, people, you could buy well, 261 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:30.039 you can't buy a house. You could buy a car, you could 262 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.440 pay your mortgage for a damn long time. You could put your kid through 263 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:37.720 some sort of a college, or you could spend four hours at Allegiance Stadium 264 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:41.519 watching a football game. It's it is up to you. You know how 265 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:44.240 to get a hold of me, you know how to get in contact. 266 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.799 Phones are packed. Very nice wishes for the the birthday. I do appreciate 267 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:52.599 that cocktails are rolling with papas plr rum Best Super Bowl TV deals. I'll 268 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:55.720 start here. We got about a minute to the break, but let me 269 00:18:55.799 --> 00:19:02.160 see what we got. I did some research for you. The if you're 270 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:06.079 looking for a new TV set. This is a good time to do it. 271 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:11.799 A lot of the discounts on TV's stem from the natural pricing cycle of 272 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:17.680 the TV market itself, more than really super Bowl specific sales. But you're 273 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:22.039 seeing a lot of For years, manufacturers have said, hey, listen, 274 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:22.759 you know, if you're having a Super Bowl party, you've got to get 275 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.680 the latest, the greatest, the biggest, the most highest death in whatever 276 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:30.440 it is. So they're happening right now. Let me give I got an 277 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.200 email. Let's see, Samsung had sent me something. They have got a 278 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:38.319 seventy seven inch o led OLED, which is organic light emmuting diode. Here's 279 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:45.400 twenty three hundred dollars. That's an Amazon. Samsung's got the frame. That's 280 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.279 neat because what it turns into like a picture frame when it's not on some 281 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:53.000 artwork. Fourteen hundred dollars. I found that that's a sixty five inch. 282 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:57.559 And then we get to the less expensive. There's brands like High Sense, 283 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:03.400 Hi s N see High Sense. Here's a fifty five inch for six hundred 284 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.799 and ninety eight dollars, and here is a sixty five inch for six hundred 285 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:14.799 and eighty dollars. These are pretty good deal. The thing is you have 286 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.960 to look at some of the features and what features should you be looking for 287 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:19.920 into television. We'll tell you what I'm gonna tell you, but I'm gonna 288 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.799 pull a Ryan Seacrest. Here's a little Ryan Seacrest, one of my people 289 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.319 who work here at right with me, I'm gonna tell you what to look 290 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:37.279 for into TV after the break back at it bottom of the hour. This 291 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:38.720 is the first hour. Still got it hour and a half to go to 292 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.160 kill some time. How are you? Michael garfid Lee. It's called the 293 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.240 High Tech text and show. Glad to be with you? Really here the 294 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:52.440 first Saturday of a February you weary? February February. It's funny how people 295 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.519 jack up this month. This is the shortest month of the year, but 296 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:03.200 it's the hardest to pronounce of all the months. February February. I was 297 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.480 so watching some YouTube video of the correct pronunciation of this month, and a 298 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.200 lot of people had foreign accents and they're in England or you know, they're 299 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:18.559 for I'll show you something fit February. There's an f e b r u 300 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.559 a r what februy It looks like Febrewary, but you don't pronounce the first 301 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.920 R. I don't think then again, I'm I'm Texas. I use Texas 302 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:33.319 English, which is lazy English. February second month of the year. Fab 303 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.759 Just let's just let's just go with fab Happy feb Feb third as we are 304 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:41.440 doing the show Plausaly Live seven one three two one two five nine five. 305 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:47.720 Oh questions or salutations or little celebrations. I'm more than happy to uh read 306 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.480 your emails, take your phone calls going over some of the TV deals for 307 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:55.480 Super Bowl? Do I need a TV? I used to have? And 308 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:59.920 I'm not kidding you. I think I had eighteen televisions in my house. 309 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:03.480 Not hyperbole, not hygh perpole and I know how to pronounce and spell that 310 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:08.599 one actually too. Fifteen twenties, about twenty years about twenty yeah, two 311 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:12.359 kids were yeah, about twenty years ago. It's not like I had a 312 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:15.799 massive house, you know, just a tip. It was a two story 313 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:18.720 ranch house out in the burbs. But I lived for television. I mean 314 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.880 I had a TV in my garage. I had a TV out backyard overlooking 315 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:27.359 the pool. I had a TV in my bathroom, I had a TV 316 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:33.680 in my closet next to my bathroom. I mean, I'd like watching TV. 317 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:36.200 I grew up on TV. I like the sound of TV TVs, 318 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:41.160 like my best friend. It's just background noise. And it's not like I 319 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:45.480 got these TVs for free. I had just was I even I just started 320 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.759 out as high tech text and I just started collecting TVs. And some of 321 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:52.960 these TVs were not flat screen twenty years ago. I mean these were, 322 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:56.240 you know, the big tube TVs. I do not have eighteen TVs right 323 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:03.000 now. I've got four. We got four or five TVs. We're talking 324 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:06.880 about TVs for super Bowl. This is a very good time to actually be 325 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:11.640 looking for television sets. A lot of the manufacturers have them on sale. 326 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:15.960 And again I'm reading an email over here I got from the PR people from 327 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:21.079 Samsung, who have I've I don't think I've ever even had a Samsung television. 328 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:26.720 I know they're nice. Here's a seventy Best Buy seventy seven inch four 329 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:32.200 K for nineteen ninety nine, So you say about sixteen hundred dollars. Here 330 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:37.640 is a fifty five inch at Amazon for one thousand. You say five hundred 331 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:42.519 dollars. Here's a fifty inch for two seventy nine. That's an Ultra high 332 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:47.799 definition UHD four K at Best Buy from Samsung. It's not bad. Here's 333 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:52.920 a sixty five inch UHD four K for six hundred ninety nine dollars. You 334 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:56.039 save two hundred dollars. That's a Target. So the point is you can 335 00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:59.519 go to Walmart, Target, Best by Amazon. I mean a lot of 336 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.799 this thing. You can find these TVs right now. But you think these 337 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:07.039 are high priced. I will tell you this. In two thousand and three, 338 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:11.000 that was the first time specifically, I remember because we just moved into 339 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:17.119 that house. I have a flat screen TV. Flat screen high definition digital 340 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:21.799 TVs just came out. It was a Hatachi, which does not even make 341 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:26.680 TVs anymore. Hitachi. It was fifty inches, which is about almost as 342 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.640 small as you want to go for something on your on your wall if you're 343 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.680 sitting far back, fifty eges. I am not kidding. Hand of God, 344 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:40.759 Retail twelve thousand dollars may have been fifteen thousand dollars if I'm like, 345 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:44.160 I am not kidding you. I remember they were installing it, and this 346 00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:47.599 is like, you needed a team of people to install this thing because you're 347 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:51.160 not hanging something this twelve thousand dollars on the wall, and this thing's gonna 348 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:55.519 fall down. I mean they had to brace. They put a bracket that 349 00:24:55.640 --> 00:25:00.599 was nailed to the studs in the wall. It was that the bracket was 350 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:03.079 so far in there that the guy who installed it that that bracket he was 351 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:08.480 doing chin ups just to show me that it'll handle his weight. That TV 352 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:12.640 lasted quite a while, but then the TV broke and I had a TV 353 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:15.119 repair guy. God, I forgot his name. Man, I haven't talked 354 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.039 to him in twelve years, and I hope he's still around. You don't 355 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:22.319 see a TV repair guy who comes to your house much anymore because TV's nowadays 356 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:27.400 they're relative I say relative, they're relatively inexpensive versus the cost of repairing a 357 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:30.960 TV and buying one. You say, screw it, I'm just going to 358 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.720 buy a new TV. I'm serious. It's they're not worth repairing. But 359 00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:38.920 the guy couldn't replace it, and I mean obviously I disposed of it properly. 360 00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:42.000 Never throw a television out or any electronic gear just in your teeth, 361 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:45.759 just in your typical trash can You got to you know, Hofully recycle or 362 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:49.880 something. But you know, twelve thousand dollars for a fifty inch TV. 363 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:53.640 I just said, this is a Samsung for two seventy nine. You can 364 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:59.839 find other brands probably cheaper for fifty inch TV's. It's amazing how the price 365 00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:03.839 is come down for TVs, but the prices rise for phones. Let's let's 366 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.079 talk about this. And I'm going to segue to phones right now because I'm 367 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:11.880 reviewing two new phones right now, one of which is thirteen one hundred dollars 368 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:18.599 compared that to a fifty inch And I'm just looking at the Samsung television, 369 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:25.759 Samsung TV at best Buy fifty inch two seventy nine. I could buy five 370 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:33.960 TVs for the price of a phone. It's like remember when boomboxes back in 371 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:38.359 the eighties they were getting bigger because you you know, you wanted to you 372 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:41.240 know, jam out, and you know you would break down. I didn't 373 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:48.079 do break It's so funny. How things better it be it size or being 374 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:51.799 priced. They could tell you that they go opposite ways. You know, 375 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:55.559 I want portability. You know Walkman were coming out back in the nineteen you 376 00:26:55.559 --> 00:27:00.000 know, late early eighties. I wanted something small. No boomboxes got bigger. 377 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:06.920 TVs now they're getting thinner, they're getting bigger, and the prices is 378 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:10.720 I just told you they're relatively I mean, they're nothing compared to when they 379 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:14.359 first came out, twelve thousand dollars versus five hundred and four hundred dollars right 380 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:19.920 now. Phones, however, they're not cheap. Is it because they're smaller 381 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:25.079 and they've got more parts in there? I don't know, I hear and 382 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:29.519 I don't know this for a fact that phones are a lost leader. Phones 383 00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:33.079 that are eight hundred dollars, thirteen hundred dollars to some extent, that's what 384 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:37.640 they cost, and sometimes the manufacturers end up losing money what they sell them 385 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.759 for. They make the money up on the back end with deals with carriers. 386 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:45.359 You know, you know, you pay this thing up twenty bucks a 387 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:47.640 month, fifty bucks a month, whatever it is, and paid over four 388 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:52.880 years and the whole thing fourteen hundred dollars for a phone. Let's I just 389 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.720 got finished test in an eighteen hundred dollars phone. That's about as pricey of 390 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:02.279 a phone that I've played with. A foldable phone. Foldable phones, you 391 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:04.599 know, they've got more working parts and what have you. It's a it's 392 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.319 a small phone that becomes bigger when you fold it out or flip it up. 393 00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:15.960 Eighteen hundred dollars. That's what the Samsung the Fold, the Samsung Fold 394 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:19.480 five Z Fold five. Also the one plus open, that's what I've been 395 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.640 playing with for eighteen hundred dollars. What an away? The one plus one 396 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:27.000 plus thege it's a company O N. Don't it's not the number one O 397 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:32.559 N A p l U S one plus great camera. You ever heard of 398 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:36.519 a hassle Blod camera. It's tough to beat the name hassle Blood when it 399 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:41.440 comes to photography lenses and cameras. Got a hassle Blood camera on this thing. 400 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.079 It looks kind of crazy on the back of the phone. It's like 401 00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:45.920 this big circle thing with three lenses. They ain't neither here or there. 402 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:52.119 One plus twelve it's the new flagship. The pr folks at one plus nice 403 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.920 enough to send me. What a test? Your phone a little larger than 404 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.599 an you know, than your iPhone fifteen Pro plus. It's or a Samsung 405 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:04.640 twenty four the Samsung Galaxy S twenty four old Trump, which also is what 406 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.200 I have. But I'll talk about the one plus here for a minute or 407 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:15.160 two. It is. It's a good phone. It's a very good camera, 408 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:22.400 fast processor. If you're a mobile gamer. Graphics really good to play 409 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:32.279 on six point eight to two inch display that's diagonally. You can the refresh 410 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.839 rate, which you know as measured it hurts hz, which is a very 411 00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:38.119 telltale sign of how you can buy televisions. You want something in terms of 412 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:41.720 televisions at least one hundred and twenty hurts, if not two hundred and forty 413 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.920 herts. That's native stuff. But that's how fast the scream refreshes. And 414 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:48.200 so when you're playing games you want that. The refresh rate. You can 415 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.720 actually change it on this phone, the one plus twelve from one hundred and 416 00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:53.880 twenty. You could take it down to one hurts for some reason if you 417 00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:59.880 ever need it. Very smooth, refresh rate works good. Very bright bright 418 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.119 fitness on phones is measured in something called the knits n it as you knit 419 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:11.359 with forty five hundred knits, very very bright easily beats the brightness of a 420 00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:14.880 lot of some of the Apple, the Samsung, and even the Google phones. 421 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:22.079 Snapdragon eight generation three processor, lots of RAM random access memory and a 422 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:25.519 lot of storage too. You do want some storage, especially if you're going 423 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:27.599 to take a lot of videos, and when you have a good camera. 424 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:33.240 This is a wonderful camera. It's a hassleblod camera on this one plus phone. 425 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:34.920 You're gonna take a lot of videos. I take a lot of videos. 426 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:38.920 I take a lot of videos that I actually use on Great Day Houston, 427 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.920 the TV show here that I appear on regularly. I do a lot 428 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.720 of social media videos. I don't need to go out and buy this high 429 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:49.839 end Sony broadcast camera. I do it on my cell phone. Man, 430 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:53.920 So you want a lot of storage because I edit on there. Also, 431 00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:56.680 this is the way the world is. I did not learn this when I 432 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.960 was a radio at Delvision and Film Major back at the eighth No, everything 433 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:06.039 is different right now, man, I just whip out some program editing program 434 00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:11.039 app program an appen and I'm set to go the Uh it's got as. 435 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.480 I like this fact because this has a fan in here. It keeps it 436 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:22.240 cool. Because you know how phones can get hot, There's a fan in 437 00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:26.000 this one plus one plus twelve that actually keeps the cool, which is why 438 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.440 it's a good, actually good gaming phone. Go take a look at it. 439 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.680 If you're an Android fan, and I'm not the guy who averre gonna 440 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.599 tell you switch from Android to iOS iOS Android do what you want. But 441 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:44.799 there are more phones out there than big manufacturers. Samsung, Google, Pixel 442 00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:48.400 one plus very impressed the past four or five months because they've been sending me 443 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.039 some phones that I've had time to play with. Cool stuff. When we 444 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:55.119 come back, I'll tell you a little bit more about that's right, the 445 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:59.519 new Samsung phone. Samsung just two days ago, I think, released their 446 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.319 entire life three camera, three phone smartphones of the new S twenty four, 447 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.039 Galaxy S twenty four. There's the S twenty four, the S twenty four 448 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:08.920 plus, and the S twenty four Ultra comes with the stylust and that maybe 449 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:21.119 thirteen hundred dollars worth it for not I'll tell you after the birthday, continuing 450 00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:28.000 to look through my emails for all the little annual birthday offers that I'm getting 451 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:31.440 other than food from so many of these restaurants I signed up for, and 452 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:37.799 stop giving me crap. People. Listen, everybody should sign up using a 453 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:42.880 not a fake email, obviously, but a separate email. I don't want 454 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:45.240 when you sign up for all these newsletters for anything, whether it's a birthday 455 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:49.519 or just a hey, keep me updated with what's going on in your world 456 00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.440 or whatever. I have so many different emails, you know, generic Yahoo 457 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:58.039 or a Gmail or something, so I think for my birthday clubs or my 458 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.599 restaurant affinity program. Let's just put it this way. I have my own 459 00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:06.480 separate email. So I'm looking through that address and I'm getting if you just 460 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.400 tuned in, yes, it's not about me, Well it is my show, 461 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.799 so it is my birthday today. So anyway, thank you for tuning 462 00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:15.519 in and for all your best wishes and all of your new offers that are 463 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:17.880 coming in. So I'm getting dessert, desert dessert, dessert from all these 464 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:22.480 other restaurants. I just sifted through this one. This came in earlier this 465 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:29.200 week. Happy early birthday, Michael from United Airlines. United is giving me 466 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:36.079 a free Economy plus seat upgrade. It's nice to turn another year older. 467 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:43.720 Thank you United. I rarely fly United. Now Southwest gave me something now 468 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:45.440 that would be something. So I get a free economy. But can I 469 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:50.319 can I sell? Actually I think I could. This is how I have 470 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.279 to. They gave me a code to use, which I'm not going to 471 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:59.039 say right now. Anytime I make a United Airlines, I guess I have 472 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:00.559 to use it this month of worry something. Here's a special code. I 473 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:06.559 wonder if I could sell this code somebody who's flying. You want to code, 474 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:09.000 let me know. I'm at seven one three two two five nine five 475 00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:13.360 O Michael Gorefield. I got about the eight nine minutes before the top of 476 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:17.880 our number one. Continue to talk about the best deals on Super Bowl TVs. 477 00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:23.159 Your questions about phones reviewing phones, I told you I've got two phones 478 00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:28.320 that I'm I'm playing with right now. I just finished talking about the one 479 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:32.199 plus twelve. People think there are two brands of phones. They think there 480 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.760 is Samsung, and they think there is Apple. There there there's many more 481 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:40.719 that there's that Google makes Pixel, which is a very good phone. There's 482 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:47.199 Motorola, There's just Huawei. There there, I mean, there's a there 483 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.119 used to be no used to be no Key. I mean, listen, 484 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.760 there's a ton of them. Pretty much, it's you've got your iOS, 485 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.440 which is Apple, and then you've got everything else, which is Android. 486 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:59.599 I am an Android fan, which is why you hear me talking about Android 487 00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.039 so much more. Pretty much all I talk about is Android and recommendations. 488 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:09.079 I haven't played with an Apple iPhone since I think version two, which I've 489 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:14.519 had, so Apple does a bad job of sending me a review units, 490 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:15.679 so I don't know what to talk about them, So screw it. I 491 00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:20.800 mean, I've got the phones coming out, the YadA YadA YadA from Samsung 492 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:22.039 and from one Plus and all of these others, which is why I'm lapping 493 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:27.960 about it. Speaking of Samsung, somebody is in receipt of the newest Samsung 494 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:34.840 Galaxy S twenty four Ultra. Three new versions just came out, just released 495 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:39.639 I think two days ago. I have had the Samsung Galaxy Ultra for about 496 00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:46.039 two weeks and been talking about it, and I really wasn't under any embargo 497 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:50.559 for about two weeks ago. But I've just been leaking some information because I've 498 00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:52.800 been playing with some of the features, which are pretty pretty cool now. 499 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:59.599 I did not get to go to the Samsung announcement this year of Unpacked and 500 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:04.880 San Jose, so I didn't get the really inside info where I wanted to 501 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:07.159 learn more about it. I wanted to talk to some of the Sansung representatives 502 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:12.199 that did not come through. So at last I'm looking at press releases, 503 00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.320 and I'm I'm playing with myself, which I'm a I think I'm a pretty 504 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.880 good, you know, reviewer in terms of looking at some of the features 505 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.000 of why this could be good or what are some of the features that is 506 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:28.639 lacking. The S twenty four Ultra pretty much the same form factor, if 507 00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:31.519 not the exact same form factor of the S twenty three Ultra, and the 508 00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:37.880 Ultra is the big dog. What a big dog. It is the large 509 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:39.880 one of the three that released. They released the X twenty four, the 510 00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:44.480 S twenty four Plus and the S twenty four Ultra. I'm playing with the 511 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:45.880 Ultra. So this is the one on a yap about a little bit more 512 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:52.480 than the others. It is has a stylust then here it's at the bottom 513 00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:54.039 of the phone. You can click out the styles, which looks it's a 514 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:58.199 mechanical it's like an elect digital pin, digital pencil, if you will, 515 00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:01.719 and a stylus. It's got a nice little holder at the bottom of the 516 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.639 bottom of the phone. Clicks in, clicks out. And this is something 517 00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:09.239 that I personally don't use on a regular basis. I personally don't use I'm 518 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:13.559 not an artist, I'm not a graphical little drawer type of thing. I 519 00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:15.440 don't need to take a lot of notes with the pin, but this is 520 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:19.760 something that you can easily do. There's a number of things you could do 521 00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:22.360 with the pin. As I hold this phone, and this is why I 522 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:27.159 love having so many products. I am going to give you the play by 523 00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:30.000 play in my left hand. Right now, I am holding the Yalaxy S 524 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.599 twenty four Ultrum. As you listen on your radio, dog going left to 525 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:36.000 right on the screen I've got in my right hand. I just popped out 526 00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:38.480 this pin. And as you popped up this digital pin, which is called 527 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:40.639 the stylist, you could touch it and you could do a number of things. 528 00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:44.800 You can write on the screen. You could circle things in the screen, 529 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.400 which I'm going to talk about something one really neat feature about circle search 530 00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:52.920 circle on the screen, and you could take notes. You could jot things 531 00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:55.800 down. You could draw some things. If you're using this for business and 532 00:37:55.880 --> 00:38:00.920 you're taking inventory and you're checking boxes you check on, you can write on 533 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:05.480 calendars. You could do a number of create notes. You can magnify some 534 00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:09.239 things just by using this pen. I should I use this stylus more? 535 00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:14.440 Yeah? I should, probably, I just don't but again, this is 536 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:15.880 me and I'm not mad. You don't call me a power user or not 537 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:20.119 a power user whatever. But I'm going to click this pin back in over 538 00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:23.400 here. But the form factor is very large. I'm not a I'm not 539 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:28.880 the biggest fan of large phones because I carry my phone in my front jing, 540 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:32.880 my front right pocket. And if I'm wearing some title sexy jeans, 541 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.119 you know, the GQ things, when I'm strutting down the red carpet, 542 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.880 man, I got this bulge of this big rectangle thing. Stick it out 543 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:44.760 of my my right pocket. Nice to meet you. My name is Michael, 544 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:46.840 so it's it's pretty big. Now. I love other form I love 545 00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:51.400 the foldable phone form factors that other phones have, including the Samsung you know, 546 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:53.079 Galaxy flip fold, the foot and the fold man. The full five 547 00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:57.440 is pretty big too, but this is big. It is bigger than the 548 00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:00.440 other versions. Sometimes they'll put up my back pop whatever. But I could 549 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:05.320 I go back into the nineteen I don't know, maybe two thousand and two, 550 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:07.400 two thousand and three, where I had my little phone holder clipped on 551 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.920 the right side on my belt. I don't know. I really don't want 552 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:15.079 to do that though, because I don't want to look like that. Though 553 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:16.800 I have a Dad Bob. I don't want to look like dad phone Bob. 554 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:22.280 But anyway, six point eight inches, you know, diagonally and some 555 00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:25.719 of the let me just talk about the features. Galaxy it's coming out and 556 00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:32.480 they have something called the it's called Galaxy AI artificial intelligence now artificial intelligence. 557 00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:38.760 It was something very very big at CES and all of the S twenty fours. 558 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:42.920 They have what's called the Galaxy AI Artificial Intelligence. And some of the 559 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.920 neat things that you can do with it is one of which I kind of 560 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:52.039 had fun with. It's called circle to search what it is anytime on anything 561 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:57.079 on the screen, on any app, on anything you're surfing. What you 562 00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:00.559 do is you long press the bottom of the screen and it kind of freezes 563 00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:06.679 the screen. You take your finger or you can take the stylist and you 564 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:09.760 circle anything on the screene. Circle a photo of a product that you don't 565 00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:14.719 know what it is, circle some words, circle of search item, and 566 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:19.400 then you click a button and boila, it goes out to Google and it 567 00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:22.159 searches for it. So it's it's kind of like a Google lens, if 568 00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:28.440 you will, but Google lens is not that standalone app. So I'm looking 569 00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:30.639 at a product, I'm like, what is this product? How much does 570 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:32.360 it cost? I take a picture of it, I circle on the phone. 571 00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:35.920 Automatically, Google finds the thing and it shows me. It gives me 572 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.320 link of stuff like that. I thought that was pretty I thought that was 573 00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:43.039 pretty neat too, some of the artificial intelligence. They've also got voice translation 574 00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:45.559 on phone calls. It's called chat Assist. I believe when you're on a 575 00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:52.480 phone call, it will live translate during the call in a number of different 576 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.599 languages. I don't know why I would need it. I, you know, 577 00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:00.960 speak a little Espanola, I know a little Hebrew, little Yiddish, 578 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:05.079 and that's all I got. But pretty much one of every person I speak 579 00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:12.119 with on a regular basis speaks speaks Ingerish quite well. But when you're traveling 580 00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.000 it does work good. It does work well. It really does. There's 581 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:19.599 a notes app. It could summarize, it can auto format, it can 582 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.039 spell check, it can translate a file. Not exactly groundbreaking. I think 583 00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:27.039 they're pretty cool though. Listen a lot of these features they're available from services 584 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:34.119 like bar chat, GPT things. But it's nice that it's all neatly built 585 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:37.880 into one real quickly. The S twenty four Ultra made of titanium. I 586 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.480 don't think to me that is a big deal. Does it feel a little 587 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:45.719 lighter than the form of the S twenty three Ultra last year? Maybe so, 588 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:49.639 but just because I know it's titanium. If you think you're getting titanium 589 00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:52.280 because it's stronger, it's bigger's well, guess what your phone should always be 590 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.280 in a case? It should be covered. So it really doesn't matter that 591 00:41:55.360 --> 00:42:00.840 much. But point is, it is a relatively strong the whole grill glass 592 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:04.639 and everything like that. It is not cheap. It is thirteen hundred dollars 593 00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:12.199 is very expensive relative terms, But overall I'm the long time Samsung fan. 594 00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.159 It's got a very bright display, it does have a ton of those AI 595 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.719 tools. It's got really good, I mean really good battery life performance is 596 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:24.360 nice, great telephoto camera lens with a higher resolution of about five times and 597 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:28.960 as lung as. It's got that titanium frame. Other than that, I 598 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.199 don't know. It's just another chocolate bar type of phone. If you need 599 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:35.840 it, great if you have an S twenty three S twenty three Ultra. 600 00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:38.760 Don't know if you need an upgrade. But again, big Android fan, 601 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:42.400 certainly a Samsung fan. Go check it out. Listen top of the hour. 602 00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:44.719 We got to take a break. Coming back on the other side, 603 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:47.519 how to watch the super Bowl, Yes, even in four K. I'm 604 00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:51.159 gonna give you some of the things that CBS is doing with the technology on 605 00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:53.400 their Super Bowl cameras, which I love. And also I'm gonna run down 606 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:59.039 the most valuable brands in the world. I'll explain the word valuable what that 607 00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:14.199 means. Coming up on the High A Dexant Show is Michael garfil Michael Garfield. 608 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.360 Michael Garfield's joining us in the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here 609 00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:22.519 with a high Tech Texans items to make life easier of new technology, and 610 00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:34.000 Michael Garfield has something you might want. Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. 611 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:43.559 Three decades helping you make magic with your gadgets. I heard worldwide on 612 00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:50.519 the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield. Halfway through 613 00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:55.000 the Very Special A year older, Michael Garfield high Tech Dexans job. Is 614 00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:59.239 it very nice? And I am getting for clempt of all the birthday wishes, 615 00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:00.679 all the emails, some of the text I'm getting some of white people 616 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:06.480 out there. They got invites for dinner, funny thing about birthdays, by 617 00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:08.360 the way, by the way, halfway to happy hour, brought to you 618 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:12.159 by Papa's Pilar Rum, which, by the way, I'm having a nice 619 00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.199 little sip right house. I could do that in studio because I am not 620 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:19.199 driving after this, I may just, you know, chill out here because 621 00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:23.239 since there's no football, there's nothing else to do. Papa's Pillar unbelievable rum 622 00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:30.400 Ernest Hemingway family, four different varietels, does not just the blonde rum, 623 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:35.079 not just the dark room, but it's the dark room that's just soaked and 624 00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:38.239 casks of rye whiskey for about a year or so gives it a nice little 625 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:43.159 finish once you've tried to find it at one of your wonderful liquor stores. 626 00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:46.800 And also some great restaurants, including my man Steve Jost, who is the 627 00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:52.880 general manager managing partner of the Capitol Grill by the Galleria. They stock a 628 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:57.360 few bottles of Papa's Pillar. Go buy and have a shot. And if 629 00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:00.960 you see me there as Chica, because I do hang out Capitol Grilled semi 630 00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:02.320 often. If you see me there, I will buy you a shot of 631 00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:07.119 Papa's p I L A R, which, by the way, Papa earnest 632 00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:08.920 himingway. P LR was the name of his boat, and I think it 633 00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:13.000 was the name of his second wife. I think it was the name of 634 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.000 the second wife. And I don't know if he sunk the boat because of 635 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:16.239 the second wife. I'm not gonna get near here, near there, but 636 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.920 it's a wonderful, wonderful drink. Rum is the way to go, certainly 637 00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:25.119 in twenty twenty four. Birthdays are fun because you hear from people, especially 638 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:29.199 if you're on social media. Oh we need to get together, Let's go 639 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:31.719 out for lunch, Let's go out for dinner. Sho a lot of You 640 00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:35.760 can gain a lot of waiter on your birthday, man, especially as I 641 00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:38.360 talked about last last hour, you're getting I'm getting all these emails from all 642 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:44.280 the restaurants that I sign up for for their affinity program, just like redeem 643 00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:46.079 this for your free dessert. And I don't even eat a talk. I 644 00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:51.440 don't even I hardly eat dessert at restaurants, But now forcing me to come 645 00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:57.239 in if you buy an entree, come get your free dessert. Did so 646 00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:00.719 I'm gonna I'm gonna pass on that, but anyway, thanks for the wishes. 647 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:05.440 We continue the Super Bowl scub it up. This is one week from 648 00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:07.599 actually eight days from right now as we're doing the show, Las Vegas is 649 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.280 the place to be. I will be in Las Vegas. Do not know 650 00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:14.719 if I'm going to the actual game as yet, but the Vegas is just 651 00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:16.840 going to be just Craig Cray. I will say that, how do you 652 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:21.239 watch the Super Bowl? And I'm just talking, not talking about Okay, 653 00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:25.920 you turn on CBS at five point thirty in the afternoon on Sunday live stream. 654 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.440 There's so many options right now, especially if you're out and about live 655 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:37.079 streaming, Paramount Plus and now for the first time this year EVA not only 656 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:43.199 CBS but also Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon, also owned by the same company at Paramount 657 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:46.880 the Kids channel is hosting a live, family friendly version of the event and 658 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:52.599 it's got some cool graphics with SpongeBob SquarePants, the cast there door, the 659 00:46:52.679 --> 00:47:00.440 explore, they got it's the meat commentary. I've actually they do this before 660 00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:02.360 now for the Super Bowl. Nickelodeon, over the past two or three years 661 00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:07.360 they have shown one or two games playoff games, I believe, with really 662 00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.639 fun graphics and I'm telling you it, it's entertaining. Every time there's a 663 00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:19.320 touchdown, they slime the end zone. It's really intelligently done, and they're 664 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:21.320 doing it this first time. It will be the Super Bowl, the whole, 665 00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:24.840 the whole, different set of cameras and everything. You can obviously watch 666 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:31.800 it on CBS, CBS coming up Murder, she wrote you, and then 667 00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:36.920 you can stream it a lot of live streaming services, YouTube with live TV. 668 00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:39.400 It does anybody for all the new cord cutters out there, because I've 669 00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:44.559 given you a last hour you can go back. Podcast is a lot of 670 00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:47.360 TV manufacturers have sales because this is a big time of year, one of 671 00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:50.920 the biggest time of the year for new television sales. So we're having a 672 00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.800 Super Bowl part you gotta come watch. That's just part of the equation. 673 00:47:54.719 --> 00:48:01.599 You've got the you've got the device. Now you need a distribution outlet of 674 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:05.920 what the show on your device. Are you gonna go with cable here in 675 00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:09.960 the Houston area, you got Comcast, Inxvinity. Are you gonna go? 676 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.280 Well, I'm not never a big satellite fan, but now you're gonna go 677 00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:19.039 streaming YouTube with live TV. Man, it's up to seventy three bones per 678 00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:21.800 month. Man. When that came out, what was that? It was 679 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:24.880 in the forties. Now it's seventy three dollars per month. Who says cutting 680 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:30.760 the cord is cheap? Run a Hulu with live TV seventy seven dollars per 681 00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:40.639 month. Direct TV stream not the satellite DirecTV is direct TV stream eighty dollars 682 00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:47.119 per month. You can watch the Super Bowl for free? Well kind of 683 00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:52.079 you do? You have to buy an indoor digital antenna. A lot of 684 00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.480 people you may have that right now if you're so fed up by prices. 685 00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:58.960 There is such a thing as free TV. You see, kids built a 686 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:01.199 chair, Uncle Garfi's got way back time, there used to be this thing 687 00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:06.320 where television was free. It was over the year broadcast, and first it 688 00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:10.079 was in black and white, and then there was something called VHF, and 689 00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:15.000 then it was UHF channels two through thirteen VHF, and then you go to 690 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:20.559 the ultra high frequency. You had to go above thirteen and you physically had 691 00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:22.519 to get out of your chair and walk up to the TV and turn the 692 00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:27.159 knobs there were I was the original remote control when my parents said, hey, 693 00:49:27.199 --> 00:49:31.960 man, go turn to ABC. Okay, walk up. Still happens 694 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:37.000 all of the in this obviously it's a broadcasting rule FCC, it's a law. 695 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:39.360 But all of the local broadcasting. Okay. If you're in Houston where 696 00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:42.559 I am right now, you got Channel two, you got Channel eleven, 697 00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:45.280 you got Channel thirteen, you've got Fox twenty six, you've got PBS Channel 698 00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:50.440 eight, and you've got a whole slew of Spanish speaking. You've got Univision, 699 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:55.039 Telemundo and all these others. They are broadcasting right now for free. 700 00:49:55.320 --> 00:50:00.800 You do need a digital antenna. There are some TVs with built in digital 701 00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:02.960 ten tens. If not, you can go get some for I don't know, 702 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:07.119 maybe ten fifteen, twenty dollars. I tell you got a radio shack. 703 00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:08.599 But a last say, I would date myself on that one too. 704 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:15.000 You can watch it on a mobile the NFL Plus mobile app subscription seven bucks 705 00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:20.639 a month, all right, may not be too bad if you're a football 706 00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:23.480 fan, could be worth it. And is it worth tuning in to watch 707 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:27.840 Usher? I'm excited for Usher. I'm a big Usher. I'm a pimp 708 00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:32.320 for Rusher. He is good. He's doing the halftime show Reeba McIntyre doing 709 00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:40.079 the national anthem post malone through in America the Beautiful, And there is an 710 00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:45.639 odd sheet of everything Taylor Swift, from what color her lipstick will be red? 711 00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:52.199 What color is she gonna wear of Travis kelcey shirt or jewelry with his 712 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.920 number eighty seven on it? To what color top is she going to be 713 00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:59.639 wearing when she gets off the plane. I'm not kidding you. I'm not 714 00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:01.199 even going through that stuff. I'm not ragging on it. I think it 715 00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:04.960 is a I think it really is a love story. People need to get 716 00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:07.159 off the whole. I'm sick of the Taylor Swift thing. What she has 717 00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:12.840 done for football in viewing and bringing it to a new audience and crowd. 718 00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:19.639 Absolutely applaud hands up. I think it is whether it's made up romance or 719 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.320 whatever it is, I think it's cute and I think it's sweet. I 720 00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:27.440 wish I had a check who would see would come to all my radio broadcast 721 00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:34.840 wearing and I love garf shirt and applaud me in dance and do all that 722 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.360 stuff. I do not so yay for Taylor Swift, yea for Travis Kelsey. 723 00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:42.840 By the way, I will give you my super Bowl pick next week. 724 00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:45.360 And I know what I'm leaning towards right now. All right, We're 725 00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:46.559 gonna take a break. When we come back, I will tell you about 726 00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:51.360 some of the camp I love. The technology of health. Duff TV shows 727 00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:53.960 are broadcast in football, game sports are broadcasts and really neat stuff that CBS 728 00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:59.960 is doing your phone calls seven one three two one two five nine five oh 729 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.840 oh. And also speaking of streaming, I'm going to give you something I 730 00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:07.800 have obsessed with, my streaming pick of January and now February coming up here 731 00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:15.000 on the High Tech Textan Show. This portion of the long running High Tech 732 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:19.239 Text Show brought to you by Thank you so much to US Coins and jewel 733 00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:21.880 Love US coins and Jewelry. And I just don't say that, man. 734 00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.079 I mean, you know, when I put my mind in my mouth and 735 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:29.199 my brand and my words behind it, I hang out with these with companies. 736 00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:32.599 I know the owners. I will personally make a call on behalf of 737 00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:36.119 any of my listeners. Hey man, long time listen to our show. 738 00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:37.960 You know, make them a deal. US Coins and Jewelry been there for 739 00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:42.079 gosh, three decades or so, started by their father, but now Kenny 740 00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:46.199 and Matt Duncan they head up a large team. Great. It's so fun 741 00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:50.840 to walk through their store, which is continuing to grow. It is on 742 00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:54.880 it Katie Freeway right at Voss next to a Shell station. It is big, 743 00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:58.599 easy to get to. But if you have coin, if you're a 744 00:52:58.599 --> 00:53:02.920 coin collector, a New miss smithist, a new mismit dot coin collect and 745 00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:06.360 you've got tons of coin just sitting there doing nothing, why don't you bring 746 00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:07.800 them in there? Because they will pay you cash. For some reason, 747 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:14.079 you want to buy some coins like class you know, old style United States, 748 00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:17.960 Buffalo Nichols and pennies, and they got that too. Also it's called 749 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:21.440 jewelry too, and that's why I'm sporting right now. What is it? 750 00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:22.840 Oh, I don't know. It's about eighteen minutes after the hour. According 751 00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:25.880 to my rolex that I got. They have pre owned rolexes, which is 752 00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:30.639 I mean, they have a lot of them too, women's jewelry, tennis 753 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:35.039 bracelets, trading cards. Also, it's kind of an all in one fund 754 00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:37.039 shop. But you can trust these guys a lot of security, so don't 755 00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:40.400 worry about going in and bringing in a lot of your viable stuff that will 756 00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:44.280 give you a free quote on pretty much anything that you have. Go check 757 00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:46.159 it out. Tell me you heard it on the Michael Garfield Show. US 758 00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:50.199 coins and Jewelry dot com. You don't even need to be in used and 759 00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:52.480 you can go on their website and you can still trust these folks. They 760 00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:57.639 are very really good phone number. You should know it right now after twenty 761 00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:00.760 eight plus years if you have any questions or calls or salutations seven one three 762 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:06.639 two one two five nine five. Oh. Doing some streaming right now, 763 00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:09.639 And obviously streaming is the technology that so many of us shoes. We're cutting 764 00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:14.039 the cord. A few things in the world of streaming right now. I'm 765 00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:20.760 watching I boring January, the past two weeks of January, and I found 766 00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:24.000 something on Hulu. Actually, let me go back. I signed up for 767 00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:30.119 Hulu. Talk about here's a deal of the year Hulu, which I believe 768 00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:32.159 is owned by Disney. I don't have Hulu plus TV this, I just 769 00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:38.239 have the Hulu. I subscribed ninety nine cents a month. I think that 770 00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:40.360 was it, and it was a Christmas special. If you listen to the 771 00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:43.639 show I told you about it, anybody could have done it. So I'm 772 00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.159 paying ninety nine cents a month. You can't beat that anyway. I'm playing 773 00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:49.320 around in Hulu. I'm like, yeah, what's what's cool? I started 774 00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:52.119 watching The Bear. I've seen two episodes. I just I just did not 775 00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:55.400 get into The Bear, and it won a lot of awards, I think 776 00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:59.599 at the Emmy's not long ago, but I found one that I'm just in 777 00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:02.760 all. I'm on season I just finished season two, started the final season 778 00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:09.000 three. Only Murders in the Building, anyone, anyone hear of this calum 779 00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:12.039 you ever heard of it? Only Murders in the Building? It is. 780 00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:17.480 It stars Steve Martin Martin Short, which are two of the just unbelievable iconic 781 00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:22.800 classic comedians, and Selena Gomez, which I'm still wondering why they put Selena 782 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:27.280 Gomez in there. I mean, I like Selena Gomez, but whatever. 783 00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:34.639 It's a it's a comedy, but it's it is written so well and the 784 00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:38.400 playoff between the three lead actors, especially Martin Short and Steve Martin, it 785 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:43.840 is snappy and it is it's it's funny and it's you know, I don't 786 00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:45.760 I didn't watch I know, I know it's been around for a few years, 787 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:50.400 but I haven't watched it because the word murder turned me off. I 788 00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:54.320 don't do horror, scary movies or TV shows of any any kind of what 789 00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:57.880 if you know me, I don't deal scary things. But it's not that 790 00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:02.599 there is murder one per season and they're trying to sleuth it out of see 791 00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:06.559 what's going on. And it's also about a podcast too. These three people 792 00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:10.440 have a podcast and so they probably you know, stole some of my few 793 00:56:10.679 --> 00:56:14.599 funny ideas that I do on my radio show, which is in turned into 794 00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:16.679 a podcast. But that is my jam for right now. If anybody else 795 00:56:16.679 --> 00:56:20.880 has something else for me to watch, when I finish Only Murders in the 796 00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:23.360 Building season three, and then that's it. That's all they've made. I'll 797 00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:27.320 probably finish that in the next week or so and then feel free to let 798 00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.239 me know that is on Hulu. I also have Amazon Prime Video, and 799 00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:35.559 I have Amazon Prime Video and it's actually called Prime Video. Odds are you 800 00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:38.360 have Prime Video and you may not even know it because it is included when 801 00:56:38.360 --> 00:56:44.199 you have Amazon Prime And there's a lot of people in this world who have 802 00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:46.599 Amazon Prime. Oh, by the way, you get an app called Amazon 803 00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:51.719 Music that you could listen to podcast and music and whatever. And it also 804 00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:55.480 comes with a TV streaming service called Prime Video, which as we know, 805 00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:01.760 has the rights to Thursday NFL football games, which started last ye past two 806 00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:05.719 years, one hundred and thirty nine dollars a year for Prime. You damn 807 00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:07.960 straight, I better get some extra stuff, and you damn straight, I'm 808 00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:12.559 gonna watch some things on Prime. I got Prime not because about five years 809 00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:15.559 ago, not because I wanted to shop on Amazon. It's because I wanted 810 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:19.079 to watch something on their streaming service. It was The Marvelous Missus Masel which 811 00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:22.880 is not on anyway. It's not currently airing because the season wrapped up after 812 00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:28.119 five seasons, but it's still on there. Love that What a way. 813 00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:32.039 Big news in the world of Amazon Prime as of last week starting January twenty 814 00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.599 ninth, which was what was that? This is this past Monday. They 815 00:57:36.599 --> 00:57:40.719 are now showing advertisement. It used to be no ads. Ad free streaming 816 00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:46.079 services are officially a thing of the past. People. Amazon injected the Prime 817 00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:51.400 Videos movies and TV shows with ads as of this past Monday. Now, 818 00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:54.400 if you don't want it, you're gonna have to pay three extra dollars a 819 00:57:54.480 --> 00:58:00.519 month for ad free videos on top of the one hundred and thirty nine dollars 820 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:05.480 a year membership that you already played for Frime. With this, this means 821 00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:12.199 the five largest streaming services in America all have advertisements right now. Amazon pretty 822 00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:17.360 much followed the footsteps of Netflix, Disney Plus Max, and Paramount Plus. 823 00:58:19.559 --> 00:58:23.519 They all introduced ads in the last few years. Streaming services once offered a 824 00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:30.559 really strong alternative to cable, but the landscape out there, it's becoming so 825 00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:35.039 much more competitive, and they've all resorted to being just like their ancestors. 826 00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:40.840 The subscriber models for streaming services, if you think about it, they didn't 827 00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:46.519 last long. We maybe past the golden age of streaming where companies were offering 828 00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:53.880 low price subscriptions for ad free premium content. Every streamer has ads now because 829 00:58:53.880 --> 00:58:58.039 they're all so big and they can't really grow anymore and they need to make 830 00:58:58.079 --> 00:59:02.320 more revenue in some other way. That's what that means introducing advertising. I 831 00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:13.199 saw some industry analysis that Prime could add an additional I don't want to get 832 00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:19.440 this wrong. Was it five billion dollars a year just for ads? Because 833 00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:28.159 there's eyeballs? Prime Video has two hundred million subscribers now. Before you start 834 00:59:28.159 --> 00:59:30.480 calling in and yell at me. There is one major streaming service that currently 835 00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:35.000 does not have ads, and that is Apple TV Plus. Apple TV Plus, 836 00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:37.039 which I do not have, is the one major streaming services that currently 837 00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:40.440 does not have ads. But it's also one of the smallest streaming services. 838 00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:44.599 It has just twenty five million subscribers, again compared to what I said. 839 00:59:44.599 --> 00:59:47.199 Prime Video has two hundred million, and Netflix has a hell of a lot 840 00:59:47.239 --> 00:59:52.920 more than that. I think a large reason that Apple TV Plus can remain 841 00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:58.760 ad free is that it's a perk that you get with Apple TV, so 842 00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:00.960 it really doesn't have to be profit. But then again, that same was 843 01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:06.280 thing that the same was it for Prime Video, but Prime Video just flipped. 844 01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:16.559 Are you going to cancel your Prime Video in this case just because it 845 01:00:16.599 --> 01:00:23.639 shows ads? No, you shouldn't, because I don't want to pay three 846 01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:28.840 dollars much as thirty six dollars a month more. We are used to advertisements. 847 01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:30.519 And I'm gonna say it again. I always use this analogy, and 848 01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:34.559 I know my bosses love it too. The reason you're listening to this radio 849 01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:38.119 show right now in KPRC nine to fifty am, even on iHeartRadio, it 850 01:00:38.159 --> 01:00:40.719 does not cost you a lick. Do you know that, my friends? 851 01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:46.239 Why because we are advertisers supported by the way this portion of the show brought 852 01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:50.400 to you by US coins and jewelry. You see, you just endured a 853 01:00:50.559 --> 01:00:54.039 three second little advertising hit for the sake of getting two hours a beautiful, 854 01:00:54.079 --> 01:01:00.000 free, hilarious content. Yes, I know, we take commercial breaks about 855 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:05.400 four times an hour, but we give you a great idea of where to 856 01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:12.280 shop, we give you news breaks, and then we continue to regular programming. 857 01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:16.000 That's a business model. That's an advertising model that we have been accustomed 858 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:22.280 to since the advent of television and radio and pretty much publishing. Also, 859 01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:27.199 you know TV was free if you go back to the nineteen seventies or you 860 01:01:27.199 --> 01:01:30.559 know, listen. When I grew up, TV was free. There was 861 01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:32.559 no cable. Generally, it was over the air, which I talked about 862 01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:37.639 the last out last segment. And what you did in exchange for watching this 863 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:42.920 great content from everything from NFL to Gilligans, Islond to Brady Bunch, everything 864 01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:47.039 that we grew up with, you endured commercials. A thirty minute show generally 865 01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:52.599 is twenty two minutes of content eight minutes of commercials. That's the rule. 866 01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:55.000 When I went to radio, television and film class in school. That's what 867 01:01:55.079 --> 01:02:00.440 you sacrifice. Radio always over the air radio always and free still is free 868 01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:04.119 over the air radio in your car. Turn a nine fifty AM right now. 869 01:02:04.119 --> 01:02:06.880 You're listening to me. F r ee. You're gonna hear some commercials. 870 01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:09.119 Okay, cool, got it. We understand that the only business model 871 01:02:09.159 --> 01:02:14.119 that really kind of perplexed me was publishing newspapers. When newspapers were a thing. 872 01:02:14.599 --> 01:02:17.119 That was a double based revenue model because number one, you had to 873 01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:22.119 subscribe, and you still have to subscribe to a newspaper. But oh, 874 01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:24.760 by the way, guess what, There's advertisements in the newspaper. So there's 875 01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:30.719 a revenue stream on top of a revenue stream. The world is different, 876 01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:32.880 man. I'll tell you what would I take a different Would I go a 877 01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:37.360 different route if I was studying something in college. That's That's something that continue 878 01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:39.719 to ask and something that parents ask me. Michael, would you recommend my 879 01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:47.880 kids get into broadcast media. It's a long answer that sometimes change and sometimes 880 01:02:47.880 --> 01:02:53.280 go that. Sometimes say yes and sometimes I say no. There are factions 881 01:02:53.320 --> 01:02:57.760 in the broadcast here. I'd say absolutely. Go in sales is a good 882 01:02:57.760 --> 01:03:01.280 one. If you could be a programmer and if you can get a job 883 01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:05.599 with one of the big streamers, a really good job of a content makers. 884 01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:07.400 I'm like that, Yeah, I think it is. But trying to 885 01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:10.000 be a radio host or trying to be a TV anchor right now, that 886 01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:15.000 is not what it used to be whatsoever? And we come back. I 887 01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:16.920 don't know. I hope is it my last radio show? I love my 888 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:20.920 job. Guys, if my bosses are listening. Thirty minutes ago, left 889 01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:27.840 of the High Tech Texting Show, don't go anywhere, Happy to answer emails 890 01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:32.599 or respond to all of your beautiful post comments on all my social media which 891 01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:36.760 you could find high Tech Texts and Hi g h T E C h T 892 01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:39.800 E x A N. Michael Garfield is the name. I hope you are 893 01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:44.320 doing well. On a non football weekend Saturday, I did a lot of 894 01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:49.679 Super Bowl content today. Gave you some of the new ways to watch the 895 01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:53.239 super Bowl, not just in front of your CBS television broadcast here, but 896 01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:58.119 also paramount and your streaming and how much all these iam talk a lot about 897 01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:01.639 streaming too, because that is indeed the new way too well watch television. 898 01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:08.199 It ain't cheap, people, it is getting much more expensive I saw this. 899 01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:11.320 You know what, I'm not going to talk about you. People say, 900 01:04:11.320 --> 01:04:15.159 hey, Michael, what's your thoughts on Apple's Vision Pro. I'm no 901 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:18.280 comment. It's incredibly I'm out. Okay, here's a comment. It's very 902 01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:24.199 expensive. It was just released yesterday, thirty five hundred dollars. It's a 903 01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:28.639 spatial computing virtual reality, big heavy goggle that you put on your face. 904 01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:32.719 Apple did not invite me to play with it, and so I don't know, 905 01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:35.960 and I certainly wouldn't recommend it. Next question seven, one, three, 906 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:40.400 two, two, five, nine to five. Oh, just what 907 01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:46.960 we need? We need another AI powered shopping assistant? Is as if Alexa 908 01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:53.840 and Siri weren't enough. I'm I'm going to ask Alexa to ask Siri to 909 01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:58.840 ask Jarvis, to ask Watson, to ask Claude, to ask Jasper, 910 01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:05.199 to ask Einstein and task chat GPT. If Rufous is a good name for 911 01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:14.480 a new AI powered shopping assistant, because guess what Amazon? Rufus apparently is 912 01:05:14.519 --> 01:05:20.000 the next thing Amazon released something called Rufous. I have no clue where chakra 913 01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:28.719 con is. That is designed to enhance Amazon's mobile shopping experience so they can 914 01:05:28.719 --> 01:05:32.800 go through its extensive product catalog and custom reviews and community questions and answers and 915 01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:39.880 info across the web. So if you ask this assistant, you say, 916 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:46.519 Rufus, what should I consider when buying running shoes? Rufus is apparently conversational. 917 01:05:49.119 --> 01:05:54.519 This is a new day. This is very early days for generative artificial 918 01:05:54.519 --> 01:06:00.480 intelligence. May not get it exactly right. But who comes up with these 919 01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:03.199 names? I mean, I want you to think about this. Siri was 920 01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:06.639 out there a long time. What is Syria a girl or a guy? 921 01:06:06.679 --> 01:06:12.920 And you know what, it really doesn't matter. Alexa generally a female's name, 922 01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:19.960 Jarvis generally a guy's name. Watson from IBM. They must knowing that 923 01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:26.559 when they release this, when Google, when Microsoft, when Amazon, when 924 01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:29.360 Apple, when they sit there in the marketing meetings and they said, we 925 01:06:29.400 --> 01:06:32.519 need to come up with them because this name cannot change, and they're trying 926 01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:35.480 to make it like a real person. Listen, mcintish is the name of 927 01:06:35.519 --> 01:06:40.639 computer iPhone the name of a phone. That's just a that's a product name. 928 01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:45.480 They're trying to make these virtual assistants people because there's voices, they talk 929 01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:48.760 back to us, which is why they come up with I think real person 930 01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:56.239 names Watson, Jarvis, Alexa, Siri, Claude rufus. In this case, 931 01:06:56.960 --> 01:07:00.920 I'd love to be in the room. I mean how they literally must 932 01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:03.599 nowadays they must ask g chat, GPT, what's a name for a special 933 01:07:03.599 --> 01:07:12.840 assistant, A shopping a virtual shopping assistant? And it better stick because executive 934 01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:15.559 use. I hate using the word Alexa because all of your Amazon products are 935 01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:17.800 waking up right now. But let's just after four years, we're so used 936 01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:21.559 to hey Alexa, Hey Alexa, Hey Alexa. You know what Amazon says, 937 01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:24.760 we don't like that name. You know we're gonna, we're gonna, 938 01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:29.280 we're gonna call it Charles. Well, we're already accustomed to using that. 939 01:07:29.519 --> 01:07:35.119 You better I mean you're creating a character. You're creating a Charlie Brown. 940 01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:41.920 I mean when Charles Schurtz came up with Charlie Brown and what the nineteen late 941 01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:45.800 fifties or the early sixties. I mean, that thing's been around three generations. 942 01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:51.199 Now you better come up with root is rufus, it rufus, the 943 01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:57.480 dufis. I have? How many do we need? Like on Samsung, 944 01:07:57.519 --> 01:08:01.960 Sam Samsung has one on his phone called Bixby. I am a Samsung Pampa 945 01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:05.559 I've had. All I use is pretty much Samsung phones. Not once have 946 01:08:05.639 --> 01:08:11.400 I used Bixby. There's a button on here that I don't I don't even 947 01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:16.439 use a lot of this stuff personally. The only the main reason, the 948 01:08:16.479 --> 01:08:19.920 main question I ask my virtual assistants. And I do have Amazon, and 949 01:08:19.960 --> 01:08:25.399 I do have Google. I got several Google nests and a little little video 950 01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:28.000 thing in my kitchen, and I've got one next. I got one to 951 01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:30.640 my bathroom. I've got one next to my bet. Really, the only 952 01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:32.800 thing I ask is what's the weather today? I wake up in the morning, 953 01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:35.119 and before I run, I want to know how to dress, and 954 01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:39.600 so I will say, hey, Google, what's the weather. I will 955 01:08:39.640 --> 01:08:42.279 say, Alexa, what's the what's the weather? Oh? Good, now 956 01:08:42.359 --> 01:08:45.439 they see I just woke up my Google. But by talking right now. 957 01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:49.239 But that's how I really. I don't ask for what's my schedule. I 958 01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:56.079 don't ask what the what the odds of a football game are? I don't 959 01:08:56.079 --> 01:08:59.760 ask what the square root of sixteen is. I just asked the weather. 960 01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:01.119 I'm just I'm a simple person. I'd like to figure it. I'll type 961 01:09:01.119 --> 01:09:05.279 things in almost even before I ask, right now, am I og? 962 01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:11.520 You tell me use the og phone right now. It's seven one three two 963 01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:21.319 one two five nine five oh AI generated voice mimicking celebrities and politicians. It's 964 01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:27.640 it's it's making it harder for the FCC to fight robo calls. There are 965 01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:32.439 AI generated voices that are robo calls that when you pick them up, they 966 01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:40.199 sound like celebrity voices, and the FCC they're now saying it's against the law. 967 01:09:41.319 --> 01:09:45.279 Who would you freak out with most if somebody if you answered a call, 968 01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:51.159 and who would be on the line, Mick Jagger, Trump, Biden, 969 01:09:53.319 --> 01:09:57.840 who would it be? Then you find out it is it is not 970 01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:01.159 them. Matthew Maha, Matthew mccam hey. There's a voice that is incredibly 971 01:10:01.199 --> 01:10:06.680 distinguishable. My buddy of mine in Dallas, kind of a comedian dude. 972 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:12.760 He does he literally he's got an account called fake McConaughey, very close to 973 01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:19.680 Matthew McConaughey. One if they should say they actually but it's not AI generating, 974 01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:25.920 it's actually him. I mean, where's I mean rich Little Now? 975 01:10:26.039 --> 01:10:31.960 This is he was the first AI celebrity mimicking voice. Dude, if you 976 01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:36.600 think about it. So, I don't know if you've got some of those, 977 01:10:36.600 --> 01:10:40.159 but you know it's at the FC. I'll tell you what. It's 978 01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:45.159 election, election year coming up. You're gonna be getting robo calls. And 979 01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:47.119 if you think it's Trump in the line, odds are it may not be 980 01:10:47.199 --> 01:10:50.399 him. But the SEC does need to crack down on some of this stuff. 981 01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:56.640 And I think they they I think they finally are. Oh. Also 982 01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:00.640 this, I raise your hand if you're a Comcast A user, sadly I 983 01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:03.560 am. And it's costed an arm and a leg. But you know, 984 01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:08.920 it's always been kind of taking me off about misleading ads. If you've seen 985 01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:14.760 over the past several months, Comcast has been talking about their Exfinity ten G 986 01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:19.520 network. Have you seen this thing? Exfinity's ten G network. Guess what, 987 01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:27.119 They're discontinuing it because it's misleading. I like this. The National Advertising 988 01:11:27.159 --> 01:11:31.560 Review Board, there's a panel that found the term ten G network could mislead 989 01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:39.640 consumers into thinking that comcasts selling broadband services offer much faster speeds than current generation 990 01:11:39.800 --> 01:11:43.079 networks. You see truth in advertising people, This is why you listen to 991 01:11:43.119 --> 01:11:45.199 BA. I always tell you the truth. I always tell you the facts. 992 01:11:45.319 --> 01:11:47.520 It always bugged me. It's like how are they getting around that? 993 01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:50.000 They said, screw it, you know, because we're on five G right 994 01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:54.279 now. How did they just automatically skip six, seven, eight to nine. 995 01:11:55.960 --> 01:12:00.800 We're already on ting at and t t that to it. Before five 996 01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.159 G was even here, we were still in the fourth generation of cell services 997 01:12:04.159 --> 01:12:08.560 away. Apple said they had the first five G, but they called it 998 01:12:08.640 --> 01:12:13.079 five GE for some reason, five generation equivalency like that. Come on. 999 01:12:13.600 --> 01:12:16.159 I know, listen, I'm a marketing person, but at some point stop 1000 01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:20.359 potentially misleading people. I know you got to get a hold on some things. 1001 01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:21.920 But what are you gonna do? All right, I tell you what 1002 01:12:21.920 --> 01:12:25.039 I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take the final break here at the radio show 1003 01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:27.479 this week. We'll come back, we'll wrap things up. I got some 1004 01:12:27.479 --> 01:12:30.079 car reviews and anything else. Final birthday wishes right here on the High Tech 1005 01:12:30.119 --> 01:12:41.279 Text and Show final few minutes as we wrap up the HTT show with MG 1006 01:12:41.399 --> 01:12:44.600 that's High Tech Text and Michael Garfield, callum, thank you, Thank all 1007 01:12:44.640 --> 01:12:46.760 the boys in the back we were pushing the buttons keeping us on, and 1008 01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:51.399 thanks for everybody to the other the fun wishes right now, Sip it a 1009 01:12:51.399 --> 01:12:56.600 little of Papa's pilar rum little birthday drink. We turn another year older and 1010 01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:00.359 we just don't care. As long as the voice and the hairs there, 1011 01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:04.279 I am all good. Won't give out the phone number because I get some 1012 01:13:04.319 --> 01:13:06.760 things to yap about before we wrap it up here. But if you do 1013 01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:10.920 want to listen to this again, to your heart's extent, it's on podcasts, 1014 01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:15.720 iHeartRadio, Google, Spotify, wherever award winning great radio programs can be 1015 01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:21.880 reheard and reheard again. I really do enjoy reviewing and talking about technology products, 1016 01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:27.800 devices and streaming services, and cookies and girl Scout things good cookies and 1017 01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:30.399 and uncrustables and everything else I you apped about today. Cars, trucks, 1018 01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:34.359 vehicles are certainly a very big part of what I do. For fifteen sixteen 1019 01:13:34.439 --> 01:13:42.039 years I have on a weekly basis, I have test driven manufactured direct from 1020 01:13:42.039 --> 01:13:45.359 manufacturers. I do not these It's unpaid, it's my thoughts. I do 1021 01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:49.079 dealerships. Do not you know a sponsor endorse this show. I'm a member 1022 01:13:49.119 --> 01:13:53.640 of the Texas Auto Writers Association, which means I know that a lot of 1023 01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:58.159 the manufacturers up in Detroit and where have you they ship cars or I'm driven 1024 01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:01.000 cars down and they can. I can rag on them, I can diss 1025 01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:04.560 them, I can love them, I can anything I want. Past few 1026 01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:09.159 weeks, I've been in some really neat ones. Three weeks ago, what 1027 01:14:09.199 --> 01:14:11.800 was I am? I was in a Cadillac. I think I talked about 1028 01:14:11.800 --> 01:14:15.239 this, but just kind of reviewing. January twenty twenty four, Escalat Cadillac 1029 01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:21.039 Escalade Platinum. If you want a monster of an suv, I'm talking probably 1030 01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:27.720 one of the biggest vehicles on the road. Thing is nice. It will 1031 01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:30.279 cost you about maybe what your first house cost you way back in the day. 1032 01:14:31.039 --> 01:14:35.079 As as it was driven everything on it it was one hundred and twenty 1033 01:14:35.079 --> 01:14:39.479 one thousand dollars. But other than that, it's a fine, fine vehicle. 1034 01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:44.319 Despite how big and large it is, it just rides so smooth. 1035 01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:47.119 It's got every piece of technology that you can actually think of. I love 1036 01:14:47.159 --> 01:14:55.079 the ar instrument panel right through. If you you know the instrument panels, 1037 01:14:55.520 --> 01:15:00.319 the instrument display, you look right through your steering wheel, I mean you 1038 01:15:00.319 --> 01:15:03.000 see your speed doometer, your own dometer. You can flip a switch and 1039 01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:06.800 it's got a front facing camera on the front of the grill and when you're 1040 01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:12.439 doing some navigation directions will actually like cartoons pop up and tell you to turn 1041 01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:15.760 right, turn left, start blinking. It's it's augmented reality. I think 1042 01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:17.399 that's one of the really neat things. It's got a ton of different screens, 1043 01:15:17.439 --> 01:15:21.199 the touchscreens. It's it's really really nice. That was the Cadillac Escalade 1044 01:15:21.319 --> 01:15:25.199 Platinum. If you've got the money and the means, feel free to do 1045 01:15:25.239 --> 01:15:30.119 that other spectrum. Two weeks ago, I had the Subaru Ascent A S 1046 01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:35.399 C E N T. Don't sleep on subar Us. They really they are 1047 01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:42.560 very strong vehicles. That's that that will They're great off road. I kind 1048 01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:48.359 of joke that Suberu is the official vehicle of Idaho or Colorado or Utah because 1049 01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:54.079 there's so many people out in those you know states that utilize them because they 1050 01:15:54.119 --> 01:15:57.479 can get through snow and if there's dirt and there's some small hills or even 1051 01:15:57.479 --> 01:16:01.000 some mountains that they really take a lock and keep on ticking. This is 1052 01:16:01.119 --> 01:16:06.199 nice. It was a small SUV, nice hatchback, all wheel drive. 1053 01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:12.680 You know, other neat accruiterments over there in terms of the technology that you 1054 01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:15.880 know, their screens are getting bigger too. It almost I think it has 1055 01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:18.319 got an eleven and a half inch multimedia navigation system, really good sound. 1056 01:16:19.640 --> 01:16:25.600 But this was as driven forty eight thousand dollars forty eight thousand dollars anything. 1057 01:16:25.600 --> 01:16:29.279 I always give the price because whatever you know, mode you're in, it's 1058 01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:31.960 good for good for families. But you can get certainly two and a half 1059 01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:35.520 of these for the price of the Cadillac Platinum, which was nice. And 1060 01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:40.399 this week I am d if you ever if you heard a big loud engine 1061 01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:44.359 zoom passed you, if you live near me, or maybe you're driving around 1062 01:16:44.359 --> 01:16:47.960 the Galleria or wherever. I was playing around the twenty twenty three Dodge Charger 1063 01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:56.039 super B Bee as inzz B. It's the special edition. This thing was. 1064 01:16:56.399 --> 01:17:02.239 It's blue. What was the color of blue? Blue being blue exterior 1065 01:17:03.399 --> 01:17:09.399 paint, and it kind of had a picture of a B superimposed decal on 1066 01:17:09.479 --> 01:17:13.960 the hood. And it's got a scat pack. It was four hundred and 1067 01:17:13.960 --> 01:17:18.079 eighty horsepower six point four leader V eight SRT with street racing technology. It's 1068 01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:21.720 a HEMA engine. You turn this thing on. I woke up my neighbors. 1069 01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:27.359 This is big. It's a four door car. Yeah, you may 1070 01:17:27.399 --> 01:17:30.199 have to be a certain age group to do this. I mean, I 1071 01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:33.000 don't know, there's a lot of it's a good collectible car. This is 1072 01:17:33.039 --> 01:17:35.399 you know, obviously Dodge. At some point they're going to get away from 1073 01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:39.000 all of these gas power vehicles. They're going to go to electric. I 1074 01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:42.239 don't know how they could duplicate the sound over that. It's a beautiful big 1075 01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:46.159 Hemi engine going. But it's a fun drive, especially because the technology in 1076 01:17:46.159 --> 01:17:50.199 there. It's got the Street Racing Technology SRT, so it's got timers, 1077 01:17:51.039 --> 01:17:55.520 it's got so many gauges that can measure you know, how fast you're going 1078 01:17:55.560 --> 01:18:00.760 in a quarter mile and doing everything very fun as priced with sixty three thousand 1079 01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:04.640 dollars. This next week, I'm getting a really nice SUV from Mercedes Bins. 1080 01:18:04.680 --> 01:18:08.159 I will give you that up to update. But I have done this 1081 01:18:08.199 --> 01:18:11.039 for fifteen years or so. So if you are in the mode for car 1082 01:18:11.119 --> 01:18:14.199 shopping and you just want an unbiased opinion, whether you want an suv, 1083 01:18:14.239 --> 01:18:17.600 whether you want a twudor sports car at electric meat or a hybrid, feel 1084 01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:20.399 free to ask me or pop me a note. Michael at high Tech textan 1085 01:18:20.479 --> 01:18:28.159 dot com with that I did see this General Motors. They're actually starting a 1086 01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:33.119 push back at repushing. Let me put this way on hybrids. You know, 1087 01:18:33.279 --> 01:18:39.159 remember the Chevy Vault. Years after GM discontinued the Chevy Bolt, and 1088 01:18:39.199 --> 01:18:42.119 they kind of like left hybrids in the rearview mirror because they were going to 1089 01:18:42.199 --> 01:18:45.640 go all in on evs electric vehicles. GM's kind of putting it in reverse. 1090 01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:54.239 It'll again start offering plug in hybrids that run on gas and electric mode. 1091 01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:57.920 The CEO Mary Barras, she actually said this a few days ago. 1092 01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:02.319 So there's still planning to phase out they're gas cars, gas guzzling cars in 1093 01:19:02.359 --> 01:19:06.800 the United States by twenty thirty five, but hybrids now are going to be 1094 01:19:06.800 --> 01:19:10.399 the stepping stone. And the reason being, as we wrap it up for 1095 01:19:10.399 --> 01:19:15.119 about a minute or two, the electric vehicle rush has not hanned out. 1096 01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:21.159 They're not. There are key dealers in GM around the country that asked them 1097 01:19:21.199 --> 01:19:26.800 to start sending eyebridgs because the demand for electric vehicles it just hasn't been as 1098 01:19:26.840 --> 01:19:32.960 electric has expected. I mean, this is the government incentives and the automakers 1099 01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:39.199 are betting big on battery power cars. The consumers really continue, they're not 1100 01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:44.880 running out for them. I think mini drivers are put off by EV's priciness. 1101 01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:47.640 They're also like me, they're worried about the lack of charging stations. 1102 01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:56.079 Listen. Ev sales grew fifty two percent last quarter. This is for per 1103 01:19:56.119 --> 01:20:01.119 Cox Automotive and mini car makers slash prices and the edy production goals is unsold 1104 01:20:01.119 --> 01:20:05.520 cars. They began collecting dust right there in the lots. But hybrid's, 1105 01:20:05.520 --> 01:20:09.760 however, they've been selling like hotcakes. And GM's biggest competitor, Toyota, 1106 01:20:09.800 --> 01:20:14.840 they're raking in reverord procket record prockets record profits. That's easy for you to 1107 01:20:14.840 --> 01:20:16.319 shave because say, because I don't know, maybe I had a little too 1108 01:20:16.399 --> 01:20:19.640 much of papas pele ark rum. Because we are getting ready to end up 1109 01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:21.920 this show. Hey, listen, I do thank you for tuning in it. 1110 01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:26.319 Listen, it's not I'm happy to actually work on my birthday and it's 1111 01:20:26.319 --> 01:20:29.279 so nice and so many of you out there to continue to send me wishes 1112 01:20:29.640 --> 01:20:33.399 because I've killed almost a third of my life here on this radio show on 1113 01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:36.279 KPRC nine to fifty am. For everybody who's been a part of this show, 1114 01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:42.199 including Callum Red, Eddie Martini, Mark Sherman, Brian Erickson, I 1115 01:20:42.239 --> 01:20:45.039 thank you for keeping me on. See you next week Vegas Super Bowl. 1116 01:20:45.159 --> 01:20:47.239 Let me know if you're going out there, because it is party time. 1117 01:20:47.600 --> 01:20:53.640 The name is Garth, a year older and less wise, and the show 1118 01:20:54.279 --> 01:20:55.520 is oh B