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Well, congrats to everyone who made it through dry January. As a
prize, you will all be receiving one extra day of February. That is
right the beginning of a leap year. Happy Saturday. Should you be listening
live, It is called the high Tech Texan Show. Michael is my name,
Michael Garfield, Little pep in my voice. I have no clue why.
Maybe the cocktails are flowing brought to you by Papa's pl R rum.
If you got a little something something. You have nothing to do this weekend
really because there is no football. We are in the midst of the not
the just dry February, the weekend of drive football. We are kind of
sad actually, because we have four more hours left of football this season.
And that's not a good thing, especially for people like me, because that
is my escape. Massive, massive sports fan, certainly a football fan,
despite the fact that my team is nowhere near the super Bowl. SIMI near
the super Bowl, but I really doesn't matter who's actually playing. I am
going to talk about that today, including super Bowl ticket prices. Should you
be going out to Vegas with me next weekend? The best deals on Super
Bowl TVs? Is this the right time? Is this the best time of
year to buy a TV? Actually, I could probably make a case that
it is, and I actually found some semi decent prices on TV. Should
you be hosting a big Super Bowl party next week? I will tell you
how to watch the Super Bowl, whether you're at home or you're traveling or
your mobile. Some of it costs money, How to watch it in four
K, how to watch it and even potentially eight K, and some of
the neat new things that CBS is doing with their technology their cameras on how
they're televising the big Game this coming year. Also, not one, not
but two brand new phones I am testing this week, the brand new Samsung
Galaxy S twenty four Ultra. By the way, I have to I have
to say, Ultra, I have no clue why let's pack with artificial intelligence.
Samsung actually has done some pretty neat features along with Google and also one
Plus. I've slowly become a fan of one Plus. It's a Chinese brand
Android. You may not be one hundred percent familiar with it, but for
the past three or four months I've been playing with the one plus open their
big fold out foldable phone. I am in receipt of the brand new flagship,
the one plus twelve. Really good cameras people, really good cameras,
is some neat features, and so I will talk you off the ledge should
you be in the mood or the mode to potentially get a new phone other
than that good senior Callum Reid and everybody else who is on the other side
of the glass. Nothing special today, right guys? Right guys? Is
that what? What are you hiding back there? What are you hiding?
Are you lighting candles? I'll give you the phone number here to uh to
talk to ask questions because it is a call in show. The last time
we've checked for twenty two plus years, it is seven one three two one
two five nine five two one two five nine five zero When we come to
you from the world head We actually the Houston headquarters of iHeart Radio, not
too far from the Galleria. We will answer number your questions. And this
is what I also do during the week I answer questions, not so much
here on the live phone calls that we get on the radio show show,
but people reach out to me on social media. They certainly have my email,
website high Tech Texan obviously, and all the socials do. I want
to start with this because somebody reached out because they clicked on a link on
their phone a few days ago what they thought was an innocuous link to an
obituary, and apparently they accidentally downloaded some malware and their phone was freaking out.
It's sad that bad people in the world have to prey upon the good
fortune and good people out there of pretending to be to pretending to put links
on about subjects that about things that we think are very harmless, and one
of which was an obituary. And I'll start with this. A gentleman I
knew, and I only met him about six months ago. Six months ago
he passed away semi suddenly over the weekend, and his name Ricky Ford,
and Ricky. It's he was out in the Alvin, Texas area, you
know, southwest of Houston, and he ran a company called gentle Ben and
it was it's not a it's a liquor distilling company, but he patented a
process that takes liquor and it gets a lot of, if not all,
of the impurities out of the liquor when you after you distill them. And
I met him through another buddy of mine, and it's a showed me the
process because you know, I'm a big obviously alcohol guy, sertainly a bourbon
guy. And he was a really really good dude. He was probably in
his mid sixties, I believe, and I took him to lunch probably about
four months ago. We were trying to figure out how we could work together
because I do talk about liquor and alcohol and spirits and what have you.
And in the location they have gentle Ben and you if you go into some
local specs and some total wines, goody goodies and stuff, you'll see gentle
Ben jin gentle Bin vodka, gentle Ben Bourbon. After they were fined.
It's it's some good juice, it really really is. It's got a great
The location of the art's in the middle of gosh, almost nowhere of Alvin,
Texas, and it's got a great bar, and you know, we
just kind of hung out a few times. So away he passed away,
didn't neither here nor there, but obviously just you know, condolences for the
people who know him, who knew of them were familiar with gentle Bin Brand.
So a one of my Facebook friends who knew I was friends with Ricky,
they had sent me U Facebook you know, uh kind of a message
and they said, hey, man, I was trying to click on this
link to read Ricky's obituary and look what happened. And they sent me a
screenshot of all this malware being downloaded, and it just it just made me
mad. Man, this God misses me off. It's like, were mourning
for this guy that we knew, and you want to read the obituary.
You think you're clicking the obituary, and the obituary was in the obituary.
And I've seen this happen a lot, because right when, I'll give you
an example, when someone dies all of a sudden, and about a year
and a half ago, this happened to be two a friend of mine grew
up in Dallas, just was killed all of a sudden, and it's like,
oh my gosh, what happened. I want to get the inside info.
So you start googling their name and obituary, and all of a sudden,
a few things start popping up and it's like a link, and all
of a sudden it's to form websites. I mean, these people are quick,
these bad hackers, they prey on you. The point I'm trying to
make is don't fall for some of this stuff you want to Just it's tough
to do on your mobile phone. We now know what to click on and
what not to click on. I think when it comes to desktops and laptops,
you can take your mouse. You can hover over a link and what
should pop up? Pop up? It should give you the website where you're
allegedly going to go. And if it's not something legit, don't click on
it. I mean, if it's a long URL and it's not a dot
com and it looks like it's for it, just don't click on. Sometimes
hard to do when you're on a mobile phone because you just really can't hover
on anything because you just click on a link. Just try not to do
that, do that stuff. But the point is, and I know there
was like a three four minute build up of this thing. There's actually software
that you should be using on your phone to stop anti virul well, to
stop viruses. It's called it antivirus software. There's several of them out there,
and if you don't have it, please do yourself for forever download them
right now, several of them. Norton makes makes one called Norton or Norton
Bang Zoom didn't Norton Mobile security. Caspersky very big when it comes to antivirus
on desktops, but they make a mobile antivirus, look Out Security. If
you have a Samsung phone, Samsun actually owns I think they bought a company.
They may have bought Lookout, I'm not sure. They usually come built
in with an antivirus. So where AVG anti virus. That's a free one.
There's some ads in there, but that's free. Also, Google has
something called Google Play Protect. I don't care which one you use, but
just download it because this can stop your phone. You do not want malware,
You do not want anybody hacking into your phone. Because we rely on
our phones more so, I believe than desktops and laptops and what have you.
So there are ways to prevent that. For some reason, you do
have to download it. So we're going to take a break and again condolences
to Ricky Ford and friends of his family. The gentle Bin is the name
of the company, the product that he produces, Gone too soon, and
just sitting shiva for that good man, and also sitting shiva for all your
phones and desktops and laptops that do have malware. When we come back,
we'll talk a little Super Bowl how you can watch it, some really good
deals on TVs and anything else you need, because that's what we're doing here
in wet February, because your I January is over. That is right.
It's some mister meet getting gar our Field. How are you happy Saturday?
Thank you for listening to Kate PRC nine fifty am terrestrially here all across South
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ask away. We are going to talk about little super Bowl week away from
the big Game. Your Houston Texans not and at my Dallas Cowboys not in
it. We've got the Kansas City Chiefs, We've got the San Francisco forty
nine ers. It's the shade of red super Bowl. If you will be
in Vegas next week, come join us out there for the super Bowl.
Always Vegas is going to be Craig Gray. Now, I'm a Vegas guy.
I go to Vegas over under, over under five and a half times
per year. I will be there next. I'll be there in March.
I will make four times in four buds for Las Vegas. For me,
I love Vegas. I beg go one since I was nineteen years old.
First time ever a super Bowl is being held in Las Vegas. I can't
even imagine the blank show that is going to go on. Parties great it
is, Oh my goodness. So if you are out there, come find
us Radio Row or wherever we are going to be broadcasting. We're going to
be parting. Listen. If there's a biggest sporting event, we're going to
take it the month. The high Tech Texan Show is always on the always
on the road for you. Oh, by the way, got to come
back. If you take the time to call our email, I'm going to
do take the time actually to read it. So look what we got here.
You've got mail. Dear Michael, I'm not a stalker, but rather
a longtime listener. Got a stat for you. This today is only the
third time in the history of yours show that your birthday falls on the day
of your actual Saturday show. And by the way, you've been doing this
show almost one third of your life. That is from Toby in Paarland.
Uh oh, somebody's very stockersh oh, somebody new somebody stock Thank you Toby,
Toby a girl or dude, Toby? If your check, won't you
send me a photo? Are we friends on Facebook? Thank you Toby?
Yes? Okay, callum, is that what you guys were doing back there?
Yes? Today is the day birthday another year old. That's fine.
What is it? What is it with birthday? Listen? I've been getting
a ton of text and emails from a lot of listeners and friends out there.
Thank you very much for your nice wishes. What is it with today
that people want? I sign up for a lot of email marketing stuff for
restaurants. Hey, it's your birthday, you get this my inbox. This
past week has been has been full, Michael? Is your birthday? Your
birthday? Month of February? Come in, but it's always for free dessert.
What's up with? What's up with the dessert stuff? I mean can't?
I mean, does nobody want to throw in a nice chicken sandwich throwing
it out a little keso appetizer or something. Well, let's let's go.
How about we go through the the emails over here. Let's see Papasitos barbecue.
What did what did they send me over here? Yep? I got
a free dessert? What kind of dessert is Papasitos barbecue? I do you
like Papasia's barbecue? Papasitos, Michael? You get the free tress lets us
cake? Okay? Good? Exactly, which I don't need even though I
know it's very good. Black Bear diner? Do you like me some Black
Bear diner? This went out in shirt Land, not too far from me.
Oh wait a minute standby, I didn't read this. I get a
birthday meal. I get an entree, the barest choice, which is eggs.
It looks like waffles and two sausages, which I don't eat sausage.
Callum, when's your birthday? Because I can ford this d for this du
I just I'm going to listen. I at the beginning of the year,
you want to lose weight, and I try to do best as I can
in January, but I travel, man, I'm at Ces. There's all
these hosted parties and whatever. Okay, so then the remaining two weeks,
I'm pretty good knowing that the first week or two in February birthday time,
I'm just I gotta go eat something smash Burger, A gift from us to
sweeten your day, A free handspunge shake. I love shakes. People.
If I have one shake a year, I'm lying. I could drink a
shake a day. I just don't. I just can't, man, I'm
just some debts. I just don't want the poundage on there. But it's
free. Man, gotta celebrate. Is there any liquor in there, I'm
to bring it home and actually put my own cocktails. Enough of that,
thank you so much. If you guys want to get me something, why
don't you get me a television so I could I can watch the super Bowl,
even though I will be out there super Bowl. Who's watching it?
Will? I'm gonna tell you how to watch it, But let me give
you the ticket prices. I am on SeatGeek dot com. Sadly no sponsorship
or partnership over here, but they have a day to day tracker of how
much Super Bowl tickets cost on the resale market. Any clue, any clue?
The average ticket price, the average ticket price, the average ticket price
thirty days before the game, which was, you know, almost a month
ago. It was four hundred dollars. And I don't know. I mean,
if I could buy a super Bowl ticket for four hundred dollars at any
given time of the year, I'd buy a ton of them and resell them.
I don't know where they get that, folks. Right now, right
now, the average ticket to the super Bowl a week from right now in
Las Vegas secondary market eleven thousand, eight hundred dollars. What is the most
you've ever paid for a ticket for anything? Anybody out there? Seven one
three two one two five nine five Ozho, What is the most you've ever
paid for a ticket for anything? I went to the the second game of
the World Series this past October in Arlington. It was my Texas Rangers and
me and my two or three best friends. We bought tickets, probably on
se geek or something like that. Paid nine hundred and actually it was nine
hundred and fifty dollars. Apparently they knew what station I worked at, so
they charged me nine five oh nine fifty nine to fifty. Definitely the most
expensive ticket I've ever paid for, and I've been to some. Listen.
I've been to four Super Bowls. I've been to countless Final fours. But
again, I get very nice. I either have press passes because I'm covering
it. Maybe a sponsor, A lot of sponsors will always invite me.
But listen, my Rangers are in the Super are in the World Series.
I'm gonna go. So I paid nine hundred and fifty I would, I'm
sorry. As big of a Longhorn fan, I am, as big as
a Cowboys fan as I am of Dallas Mavericks or Rangers, I'm not.
I mean, I guess a thousand dollars would be my limit and I say
this because I'm leading up to the television. You can see so many things
on sports better on TV than you can in the actual stadium. But I
love the atmosphere. I just love being there. And it's just it's it's
it's the excitement, it's the finality, it's the this is the last game
of the year. Because I love going to the championships, the final four
of the Super Bowl, the World Series. This is this is it,
especially if it's my team. But listen, I've had the good fortune of
being there. I've been to see my team win the Super Bowl, super
Bowl twenty eight when the Cowboys be Buffalo. I was there. I've been
to the Vince Young University of Texas game. I was on the sidelines.
I was there. I've now seen the Texas Rangers win the World Series,
well, actually a game of the World Series. I always in at the
clincher over there, that man eleven and that's just average. That puts you.
That probably puts you at Mandalay Bay. You're so far away from the
stadium of Las Vegas. Oh good, so do I not gonna not get
into it. But if you're a Kansas City chief or your San Francisco forty
nine ers fan. And if you've got some jack, you just go ahead
and do that. Or if you just want to be in the same place
to say that Taylor Swift is you go ahead and do that thing. Cheapest
ticket to get in eighty five hundred dollars. But the thing is that right
now, it's they're only going to go up. They're only going to go
up. Most expensive ticket. I'll drop the subject after this right now on
seat Gake forty six thousand dollars. Okay, people, you could buy well,
you can't buy a house. You could buy a car, you could
pay your mortgage for a damn long time. You could put your kid through
some sort of a college, or you could spend four hours at Allegiance Stadium
watching a football game. It's it is up to you. You know how
to get a hold of me, you know how to get in contact.
Phones are packed. Very nice wishes for the the birthday. I do appreciate
that cocktails are rolling with papas plr rum Best Super Bowl TV deals. I'll
start here. We got about a minute to the break, but let me
see what we got. I did some research for you. The if you're
looking for a new TV set. This is a good time to do it.
A lot of the discounts on TV's stem from the natural pricing cycle of
the TV market itself, more than really super Bowl specific sales. But you're
seeing a lot of For years, manufacturers have said, hey, listen,
you know, if you're having a Super Bowl party, you've got to get
the latest, the greatest, the biggest, the most highest death in whatever
it is. So they're happening right now. Let me give I got an
email. Let's see, Samsung had sent me something. They have got a
seventy seven inch o led OLED, which is organic light emmuting diode. Here's
twenty three hundred dollars. That's an Amazon. Samsung's got the frame. That's
neat because what it turns into like a picture frame when it's not on some
artwork. Fourteen hundred dollars. I found that that's a sixty five inch.
And then we get to the less expensive. There's brands like High Sense,
Hi s N see High Sense. Here's a fifty five inch for six hundred
and ninety eight dollars, and here is a sixty five inch for six hundred
and eighty dollars. These are pretty good deal. The thing is you have
to look at some of the features and what features should you be looking for
into television. We'll tell you what I'm gonna tell you, but I'm gonna
pull a Ryan Seacrest. Here's a little Ryan Seacrest, one of my people
who work here at right with me, I'm gonna tell you what to look
for into TV after the break back at it bottom of the hour. This
is the first hour. Still got it hour and a half to go to
kill some time. How are you? Michael garfid Lee. It's called the
High Tech text and show. Glad to be with you? Really here the
first Saturday of a February you weary? February February. It's funny how people
jack up this month. This is the shortest month of the year, but
it's the hardest to pronounce of all the months. February February. I was
so watching some YouTube video of the correct pronunciation of this month, and a
lot of people had foreign accents and they're in England or you know, they're
for I'll show you something fit February. There's an f e b r u
a r what februy It looks like Febrewary, but you don't pronounce the first
R. I don't think then again, I'm I'm Texas. I use Texas
English, which is lazy English. February second month of the year. Fab
Just let's just let's just go with fab Happy feb Feb third as we are
doing the show Plausaly Live seven one three two one two five nine five.
Oh questions or salutations or little celebrations. I'm more than happy to uh read
your emails, take your phone calls going over some of the TV deals for
Super Bowl? Do I need a TV? I used to have? And
I'm not kidding you. I think I had eighteen televisions in my house.
Not hyperbole, not hygh perpole and I know how to pronounce and spell that
one actually too. Fifteen twenties, about twenty years about twenty yeah, two
kids were yeah, about twenty years ago. It's not like I had a
massive house, you know, just a tip. It was a two story
ranch house out in the burbs. But I lived for television. I mean
I had a TV in my garage. I had a TV out backyard overlooking
the pool. I had a TV in my bathroom, I had a TV
in my closet next to my bathroom. I mean, I'd like watching TV.
I grew up on TV. I like the sound of TV TVs,
like my best friend. It's just background noise. And it's not like I
got these TVs for free. I had just was I even I just started
out as high tech text and I just started collecting TVs. And some of
these TVs were not flat screen twenty years ago. I mean these were,
you know, the big tube TVs. I do not have eighteen TVs right
now. I've got four. We got four or five TVs. We're talking
about TVs for super Bowl. This is a very good time to actually be
looking for television sets. A lot of the manufacturers have them on sale.
And again I'm reading an email over here I got from the PR people from
Samsung, who have I've I don't think I've ever even had a Samsung television.
I know they're nice. Here's a seventy Best Buy seventy seven inch four
K for nineteen ninety nine, So you say about sixteen hundred dollars. Here
is a fifty five inch at Amazon for one thousand. You say five hundred
dollars. Here's a fifty inch for two seventy nine. That's an Ultra high
definition UHD four K at Best Buy from Samsung. It's not bad. Here's
a sixty five inch UHD four K for six hundred ninety nine dollars. You
save two hundred dollars. That's a Target. So the point is you can
go to Walmart, Target, Best by Amazon. I mean a lot of
this thing. You can find these TVs right now. But you think these
are high priced. I will tell you this. In two thousand and three,
that was the first time specifically, I remember because we just moved into
that house. I have a flat screen TV. Flat screen high definition digital
TVs just came out. It was a Hatachi, which does not even make
TVs anymore. Hitachi. It was fifty inches, which is about almost as
small as you want to go for something on your on your wall if you're
sitting far back, fifty eges. I am not kidding. Hand of God,
Retail twelve thousand dollars may have been fifteen thousand dollars if I'm like,
I am not kidding you. I remember they were installing it, and this
is like, you needed a team of people to install this thing because you're
not hanging something this twelve thousand dollars on the wall, and this thing's gonna
fall down. I mean they had to brace. They put a bracket that
was nailed to the studs in the wall. It was that the bracket was
so far in there that the guy who installed it that that bracket he was
doing chin ups just to show me that it'll handle his weight. That TV
lasted quite a while, but then the TV broke and I had a TV
repair guy. God, I forgot his name. Man, I haven't talked
to him in twelve years, and I hope he's still around. You don't
see a TV repair guy who comes to your house much anymore because TV's nowadays
they're relative I say relative, they're relatively inexpensive versus the cost of repairing a
TV and buying one. You say, screw it, I'm just going to
buy a new TV. I'm serious. It's they're not worth repairing. But
the guy couldn't replace it, and I mean obviously I disposed of it properly.
Never throw a television out or any electronic gear just in your teeth,
just in your typical trash can You got to you know, Hofully recycle or
something. But you know, twelve thousand dollars for a fifty inch TV.
I just said, this is a Samsung for two seventy nine. You can
find other brands probably cheaper for fifty inch TV's. It's amazing how the price
is come down for TVs, but the prices rise for phones. Let's let's
talk about this. And I'm going to segue to phones right now because I'm
reviewing two new phones right now, one of which is thirteen one hundred dollars
compared that to a fifty inch And I'm just looking at the Samsung television,
Samsung TV at best Buy fifty inch two seventy nine. I could buy five
TVs for the price of a phone. It's like remember when boomboxes back in
the eighties they were getting bigger because you you know, you wanted to you
know, jam out, and you know you would break down. I didn't
do break It's so funny. How things better it be it size or being
priced. They could tell you that they go opposite ways. You know,
I want portability. You know Walkman were coming out back in the nineteen you
know, late early eighties. I wanted something small. No boomboxes got bigger.
TVs now they're getting thinner, they're getting bigger, and the prices is
I just told you they're relatively I mean, they're nothing compared to when they
first came out, twelve thousand dollars versus five hundred and four hundred dollars right
now. Phones, however, they're not cheap. Is it because they're smaller
and they've got more parts in there? I don't know, I hear and
I don't know this for a fact that phones are a lost leader. Phones
that are eight hundred dollars, thirteen hundred dollars to some extent, that's what
they cost, and sometimes the manufacturers end up losing money what they sell them
for. They make the money up on the back end with deals with carriers.
You know, you know, you pay this thing up twenty bucks a
month, fifty bucks a month, whatever it is, and paid over four
years and the whole thing fourteen hundred dollars for a phone. Let's I just
got finished test in an eighteen hundred dollars phone. That's about as pricey of
a phone that I've played with. A foldable phone. Foldable phones, you
know, they've got more working parts and what have you. It's a it's
a small phone that becomes bigger when you fold it out or flip it up.
Eighteen hundred dollars. That's what the Samsung the Fold, the Samsung Fold
five Z Fold five. Also the one plus open, that's what I've been
playing with for eighteen hundred dollars. What an away? The one plus one
plus thege it's a company O N. Don't it's not the number one O
N A p l U S one plus great camera. You ever heard of
a hassle Blod camera. It's tough to beat the name hassle Blood when it
comes to photography lenses and cameras. Got a hassle Blood camera on this thing.
It looks kind of crazy on the back of the phone. It's like
this big circle thing with three lenses. They ain't neither here or there.
One plus twelve it's the new flagship. The pr folks at one plus nice
enough to send me. What a test? Your phone a little larger than
an you know, than your iPhone fifteen Pro plus. It's or a Samsung
twenty four the Samsung Galaxy S twenty four old Trump, which also is what
I have. But I'll talk about the one plus here for a minute or
two. It is. It's a good phone. It's a very good camera,
fast processor. If you're a mobile gamer. Graphics really good to play
on six point eight to two inch display that's diagonally. You can the refresh
rate, which you know as measured it hurts hz, which is a very
telltale sign of how you can buy televisions. You want something in terms of
televisions at least one hundred and twenty hurts, if not two hundred and forty
herts. That's native stuff. But that's how fast the scream refreshes. And
so when you're playing games you want that. The refresh rate. You can
actually change it on this phone, the one plus twelve from one hundred and
twenty. You could take it down to one hurts for some reason if you
ever need it. Very smooth, refresh rate works good. Very bright bright
fitness on phones is measured in something called the knits n it as you knit
with forty five hundred knits, very very bright easily beats the brightness of a
lot of some of the Apple, the Samsung, and even the Google phones.
Snapdragon eight generation three processor, lots of RAM random access memory and a
lot of storage too. You do want some storage, especially if you're going
to take a lot of videos, and when you have a good camera.
This is a wonderful camera. It's a hassleblod camera on this one plus phone.
You're gonna take a lot of videos. I take a lot of videos.
I take a lot of videos that I actually use on Great Day Houston,
the TV show here that I appear on regularly. I do a lot
of social media videos. I don't need to go out and buy this high
end Sony broadcast camera. I do it on my cell phone. Man,
So you want a lot of storage because I edit on there. Also,
this is the way the world is. I did not learn this when I
was a radio at Delvision and Film Major back at the eighth No, everything
is different right now, man, I just whip out some program editing program
app program an appen and I'm set to go the Uh it's got as.
I like this fact because this has a fan in here. It keeps it
cool. Because you know how phones can get hot, There's a fan in
this one plus one plus twelve that actually keeps the cool, which is why
it's a good, actually good gaming phone. Go take a look at it.
If you're an Android fan, and I'm not the guy who averre gonna
tell you switch from Android to iOS iOS Android do what you want. But
there are more phones out there than big manufacturers. Samsung, Google, Pixel
one plus very impressed the past four or five months because they've been sending me
some phones that I've had time to play with. Cool stuff. When we
come back, I'll tell you a little bit more about that's right, the
new Samsung phone. Samsung just two days ago, I think, released their
entire life three camera, three phone smartphones of the new S twenty four,
Galaxy S twenty four. There's the S twenty four, the S twenty four
plus, and the S twenty four Ultra comes with the stylust and that maybe
thirteen hundred dollars worth it for not I'll tell you after the birthday, continuing
to look through my emails for all the little annual birthday offers that I'm getting
other than food from so many of these restaurants I signed up for, and
stop giving me crap. People. Listen, everybody should sign up using a
not a fake email, obviously, but a separate email. I don't want
when you sign up for all these newsletters for anything, whether it's a birthday
or just a hey, keep me updated with what's going on in your world
or whatever. I have so many different emails, you know, generic Yahoo
or a Gmail or something, so I think for my birthday clubs or my
restaurant affinity program. Let's just put it this way. I have my own
separate email. So I'm looking through that address and I'm getting if you just
tuned in, yes, it's not about me, Well it is my show,
so it is my birthday today. So anyway, thank you for tuning
in and for all your best wishes and all of your new offers that are
coming in. So I'm getting dessert, desert dessert, dessert from all these
other restaurants. I just sifted through this one. This came in earlier this
week. Happy early birthday, Michael from United Airlines. United is giving me
a free Economy plus seat upgrade. It's nice to turn another year older.
Thank you United. I rarely fly United. Now Southwest gave me something now
that would be something. So I get a free economy. But can I
can I sell? Actually I think I could. This is how I have
to. They gave me a code to use, which I'm not going to
say right now. Anytime I make a United Airlines, I guess I have
to use it this month of worry something. Here's a special code. I
wonder if I could sell this code somebody who's flying. You want to code,
let me know. I'm at seven one three two two five nine five
O Michael Gorefield. I got about the eight nine minutes before the top of
our number one. Continue to talk about the best deals on Super Bowl TVs.
Your questions about phones reviewing phones, I told you I've got two phones
that I'm I'm playing with right now. I just finished talking about the one
plus twelve. People think there are two brands of phones. They think there
is Samsung, and they think there is Apple. There there there's many more
that there's that Google makes Pixel, which is a very good phone. There's
Motorola, There's just Huawei. There there, I mean, there's a there
used to be no used to be no Key. I mean, listen,
there's a ton of them. Pretty much, it's you've got your iOS,
which is Apple, and then you've got everything else, which is Android.
I am an Android fan, which is why you hear me talking about Android
so much more. Pretty much all I talk about is Android and recommendations.
I haven't played with an Apple iPhone since I think version two, which I've
had, so Apple does a bad job of sending me a review units,
so I don't know what to talk about them, So screw it. I
mean, I've got the phones coming out, the YadA YadA YadA from Samsung
and from one Plus and all of these others, which is why I'm lapping
about it. Speaking of Samsung, somebody is in receipt of the newest Samsung
Galaxy S twenty four Ultra. Three new versions just came out, just released
I think two days ago. I have had the Samsung Galaxy Ultra for about
two weeks and been talking about it, and I really wasn't under any embargo
for about two weeks ago. But I've just been leaking some information because I've
been playing with some of the features, which are pretty pretty cool now.
I did not get to go to the Samsung announcement this year of Unpacked and
San Jose, so I didn't get the really inside info where I wanted to
learn more about it. I wanted to talk to some of the Sansung representatives
that did not come through. So at last I'm looking at press releases,
and I'm I'm playing with myself, which I'm a I think I'm a pretty
good, you know, reviewer in terms of looking at some of the features
of why this could be good or what are some of the features that is
lacking. The S twenty four Ultra pretty much the same form factor, if
not the exact same form factor of the S twenty three Ultra, and the
Ultra is the big dog. What a big dog. It is the large
one of the three that released. They released the X twenty four, the
S twenty four Plus and the S twenty four Ultra. I'm playing with the
Ultra. So this is the one on a yap about a little bit more
than the others. It is has a stylust then here it's at the bottom
of the phone. You can click out the styles, which looks it's a
mechanical it's like an elect digital pin, digital pencil, if you will,
and a stylus. It's got a nice little holder at the bottom of the
bottom of the phone. Clicks in, clicks out. And this is something
that I personally don't use on a regular basis. I personally don't use I'm
not an artist, I'm not a graphical little drawer type of thing. I
don't need to take a lot of notes with the pin, but this is
something that you can easily do. There's a number of things you could do
with the pin. As I hold this phone, and this is why I
love having so many products. I am going to give you the play by
play in my left hand. Right now, I am holding the Yalaxy S
twenty four Ultrum. As you listen on your radio, dog going left to
right on the screen I've got in my right hand. I just popped out
this pin. And as you popped up this digital pin, which is called
the stylist, you could touch it and you could do a number of things.
You can write on the screen. You could circle things in the screen,
which I'm going to talk about something one really neat feature about circle search
circle on the screen, and you could take notes. You could jot things
down. You could draw some things. If you're using this for business and
you're taking inventory and you're checking boxes you check on, you can write on
calendars. You could do a number of create notes. You can magnify some
things just by using this pen. I should I use this stylus more?
Yeah? I should, probably, I just don't but again, this is
me and I'm not mad. You don't call me a power user or not
a power user whatever. But I'm going to click this pin back in over
here. But the form factor is very large. I'm not a I'm not
the biggest fan of large phones because I carry my phone in my front jing,
my front right pocket. And if I'm wearing some title sexy jeans,
you know, the GQ things, when I'm strutting down the red carpet,
man, I got this bulge of this big rectangle thing. Stick it out
of my my right pocket. Nice to meet you. My name is Michael,
so it's it's pretty big. Now. I love other form I love
the foldable phone form factors that other phones have, including the Samsung you know,
Galaxy flip fold, the foot and the fold man. The full five
is pretty big too, but this is big. It is bigger than the
other versions. Sometimes they'll put up my back pop whatever. But I could
I go back into the nineteen I don't know, maybe two thousand and two,
two thousand and three, where I had my little phone holder clipped on
the right side on my belt. I don't know. I really don't want
to do that though, because I don't want to look like that. Though
I have a Dad Bob. I don't want to look like dad phone Bob.
But anyway, six point eight inches, you know, diagonally and some
of the let me just talk about the features. Galaxy it's coming out and
they have something called the it's called Galaxy AI artificial intelligence now artificial intelligence.
It was something very very big at CES and all of the S twenty fours.
They have what's called the Galaxy AI Artificial Intelligence. And some of the
neat things that you can do with it is one of which I kind of
had fun with. It's called circle to search what it is anytime on anything
on the screen, on any app, on anything you're surfing. What you
do is you long press the bottom of the screen and it kind of freezes
the screen. You take your finger or you can take the stylist and you
circle anything on the screene. Circle a photo of a product that you don't
know what it is, circle some words, circle of search item, and
then you click a button and boila, it goes out to Google and it
searches for it. So it's it's kind of like a Google lens, if
you will, but Google lens is not that standalone app. So I'm looking
at a product, I'm like, what is this product? How much does
it cost? I take a picture of it, I circle on the phone.
Automatically, Google finds the thing and it shows me. It gives me
link of stuff like that. I thought that was pretty I thought that was
pretty neat too, some of the artificial intelligence. They've also got voice translation
on phone calls. It's called chat Assist. I believe when you're on a
phone call, it will live translate during the call in a number of different
languages. I don't know why I would need it. I, you know,
speak a little Espanola, I know a little Hebrew, little Yiddish,
and that's all I got. But pretty much one of every person I speak
with on a regular basis speaks speaks Ingerish quite well. But when you're traveling
it does work good. It does work well. It really does. There's
a notes app. It could summarize, it can auto format, it can
spell check, it can translate a file. Not exactly groundbreaking. I think
they're pretty cool though. Listen a lot of these features they're available from services
like bar chat, GPT things. But it's nice that it's all neatly built
into one real quickly. The S twenty four Ultra made of titanium. I
don't think to me that is a big deal. Does it feel a little
lighter than the form of the S twenty three Ultra last year? Maybe so,
but just because I know it's titanium. If you think you're getting titanium
because it's stronger, it's bigger's well, guess what your phone should always be
in a case? It should be covered. So it really doesn't matter that
much. But point is, it is a relatively strong the whole grill glass
and everything like that. It is not cheap. It is thirteen hundred dollars
is very expensive relative terms, But overall I'm the long time Samsung fan.
It's got a very bright display, it does have a ton of those AI
tools. It's got really good, I mean really good battery life performance is
nice, great telephoto camera lens with a higher resolution of about five times and
as lung as. It's got that titanium frame. Other than that, I
don't know. It's just another chocolate bar type of phone. If you need
it, great if you have an S twenty three S twenty three Ultra.
Don't know if you need an upgrade. But again, big Android fan,
certainly a Samsung fan. Go check it out. Listen top of the hour.
We got to take a break. Coming back on the other side,
how to watch the super Bowl, Yes, even in four K. I'm
gonna give you some of the things that CBS is doing with the technology on
their Super Bowl cameras, which I love. And also I'm gonna run down
the most valuable brands in the world. I'll explain the word valuable what that
means. Coming up on the High A Dexant Show is Michael garfil Michael Garfield.
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all the emails, some of the text I'm getting some of white people
out there. They got invites for dinner, funny thing about birthdays, by
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the second wife. And I don't know if he sunk the boat because of
the second wife. I'm not gonna get near here, near there, but
it's a wonderful, wonderful drink. Rum is the way to go, certainly
in twenty twenty four. Birthdays are fun because you hear from people, especially
if you're on social media. Oh we need to get together, Let's go
out for lunch, Let's go out for dinner. Sho a lot of You
can gain a lot of waiter on your birthday, man, especially as I
talked about last last hour, you're getting I'm getting all these emails from all
the restaurants that I sign up for for their affinity program, just like redeem
this for your free dessert. And I don't even eat a talk. I
don't even I hardly eat dessert at restaurants, But now forcing me to come
in if you buy an entree, come get your free dessert. Did so
I'm gonna I'm gonna pass on that, but anyway, thanks for the wishes.
We continue the Super Bowl scub it up. This is one week from
actually eight days from right now as we're doing the show, Las Vegas is
the place to be. I will be in Las Vegas. Do not know
if I'm going to the actual game as yet, but the Vegas is just
going to be just Craig Cray. I will say that, how do you
watch the Super Bowl? And I'm just talking, not talking about Okay,
you turn on CBS at five point thirty in the afternoon on Sunday live stream.
There's so many options right now, especially if you're out and about live
streaming, Paramount Plus and now for the first time this year EVA not only
CBS but also Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon, also owned by the same company at Paramount
the Kids channel is hosting a live, family friendly version of the event and
it's got some cool graphics with SpongeBob SquarePants, the cast there door, the
explore, they got it's the meat commentary. I've actually they do this before
now for the Super Bowl. Nickelodeon, over the past two or three years
they have shown one or two games playoff games, I believe, with really
fun graphics and I'm telling you it, it's entertaining. Every time there's a
touchdown, they slime the end zone. It's really intelligently done, and they're
doing it this first time. It will be the Super Bowl, the whole,
the whole, different set of cameras and everything. You can obviously watch
it on CBS, CBS coming up Murder, she wrote you, and then
you can stream it a lot of live streaming services, YouTube with live TV.
It does anybody for all the new cord cutters out there, because I've
given you a last hour you can go back. Podcast is a lot of
TV manufacturers have sales because this is a big time of year, one of
the biggest time of the year for new television sales. So we're having a
Super Bowl part you gotta come watch. That's just part of the equation.
You've got the you've got the device. Now you need a distribution outlet of
what the show on your device. Are you gonna go with cable here in
the Houston area, you got Comcast, Inxvinity. Are you gonna go?
Well, I'm not never a big satellite fan, but now you're gonna go
streaming YouTube with live TV. Man, it's up to seventy three bones per
month. Man. When that came out, what was that? It was
in the forties. Now it's seventy three dollars per month. Who says cutting
the cord is cheap? Run a Hulu with live TV seventy seven dollars per
month. Direct TV stream not the satellite DirecTV is direct TV stream eighty dollars
per month. You can watch the Super Bowl for free? Well kind of
you do? You have to buy an indoor digital antenna. A lot of
people you may have that right now if you're so fed up by prices.
There is such a thing as free TV. You see, kids built a
chair, Uncle Garfi's got way back time, there used to be this thing
where television was free. It was over the year broadcast, and first it
was in black and white, and then there was something called VHF, and
then it was UHF channels two through thirteen VHF, and then you go to
the ultra high frequency. You had to go above thirteen and you physically had
to get out of your chair and walk up to the TV and turn the
knobs there were I was the original remote control when my parents said, hey,
man, go turn to ABC. Okay, walk up. Still happens
all of the in this obviously it's a broadcasting rule FCC, it's a law.
But all of the local broadcasting. Okay. If you're in Houston where
I am right now, you got Channel two, you got Channel eleven,
you got Channel thirteen, you've got Fox twenty six, you've got PBS Channel
eight, and you've got a whole slew of Spanish speaking. You've got Univision,
Telemundo and all these others. They are broadcasting right now for free.
You do need a digital antenna. There are some TVs with built in digital
ten tens. If not, you can go get some for I don't know,
maybe ten fifteen, twenty dollars. I tell you got a radio shack.
But a last say, I would date myself on that one too.
You can watch it on a mobile the NFL Plus mobile app subscription seven bucks
a month, all right, may not be too bad if you're a football
fan, could be worth it. And is it worth tuning in to watch
Usher? I'm excited for Usher. I'm a big Usher. I'm a pimp
for Rusher. He is good. He's doing the halftime show Reeba McIntyre doing
the national anthem post malone through in America the Beautiful, And there is an
odd sheet of everything Taylor Swift, from what color her lipstick will be red?
What color is she gonna wear of Travis kelcey shirt or jewelry with his
number eighty seven on it? To what color top is she going to be
wearing when she gets off the plane. I'm not kidding you. I'm not
even going through that stuff. I'm not ragging on it. I think it
is a I think it really is a love story. People need to get
off the whole. I'm sick of the Taylor Swift thing. What she has
done for football in viewing and bringing it to a new audience and crowd.
Absolutely applaud hands up. I think it is whether it's made up romance or
whatever it is, I think it's cute and I think it's sweet. I
wish I had a check who would see would come to all my radio broadcast
wearing and I love garf shirt and applaud me in dance and do all that
stuff. I do not so yay for Taylor Swift, yea for Travis Kelsey.
By the way, I will give you my super Bowl pick next week.
And I know what I'm leaning towards right now. All right, We're
gonna take a break. When we come back, I will tell you about
some of the camp I love. The technology of health. Duff TV shows
are broadcast in football, game sports are broadcasts and really neat stuff that CBS
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And obviously streaming is the technology that so many of us shoes. We're cutting
the cord. A few things in the world of streaming right now. I'm
watching I boring January, the past two weeks of January, and I found
something on Hulu. Actually, let me go back. I signed up for
Hulu. Talk about here's a deal of the year Hulu, which I believe
is owned by Disney. I don't have Hulu plus TV this, I just
have the Hulu. I subscribed ninety nine cents a month. I think that
was it, and it was a Christmas special. If you listen to the
show I told you about it, anybody could have done it. So I'm
paying ninety nine cents a month. You can't beat that anyway. I'm playing
around in Hulu. I'm like, yeah, what's what's cool? I started
watching The Bear. I've seen two episodes. I just I just did not
get into The Bear, and it won a lot of awards, I think
at the Emmy's not long ago, but I found one that I'm just in
all. I'm on season I just finished season two, started the final season
three. Only Murders in the Building, anyone, anyone hear of this calum
you ever heard of it? Only Murders in the Building? It is.
It stars Steve Martin Martin Short, which are two of the just unbelievable iconic
classic comedians, and Selena Gomez, which I'm still wondering why they put Selena
Gomez in there. I mean, I like Selena Gomez, but whatever.
It's a it's a comedy, but it's it is written so well and the
playoff between the three lead actors, especially Martin Short and Steve Martin, it
is snappy and it is it's it's funny and it's you know, I don't
I didn't watch I know, I know it's been around for a few years,
but I haven't watched it because the word murder turned me off. I
don't do horror, scary movies or TV shows of any any kind of what
if you know me, I don't deal scary things. But it's not that
there is murder one per season and they're trying to sleuth it out of see
what's going on. And it's also about a podcast too. These three people
have a podcast and so they probably you know, stole some of my few
funny ideas that I do on my radio show, which is in turned into
a podcast. But that is my jam for right now. If anybody else
has something else for me to watch, when I finish Only Murders in the
Building season three, and then that's it. That's all they've made. I'll
probably finish that in the next week or so and then feel free to let
me know that is on Hulu. I also have Amazon Prime Video, and
I have Amazon Prime Video and it's actually called Prime Video. Odds are you
have Prime Video and you may not even know it because it is included when
you have Amazon Prime And there's a lot of people in this world who have
Amazon Prime. Oh, by the way, you get an app called Amazon
Music that you could listen to podcast and music and whatever. And it also
comes with a TV streaming service called Prime Video, which as we know,
has the rights to Thursday NFL football games, which started last ye past two
years, one hundred and thirty nine dollars a year for Prime. You damn
straight, I better get some extra stuff, and you damn straight, I'm
gonna watch some things on Prime. I got Prime not because about five years
ago, not because I wanted to shop on Amazon. It's because I wanted
to watch something on their streaming service. It was The Marvelous Missus Masel which
is not on anyway. It's not currently airing because the season wrapped up after
five seasons, but it's still on there. Love that What a way.
Big news in the world of Amazon Prime as of last week starting January twenty
ninth, which was what was that? This is this past Monday. They
are now showing advertisement. It used to be no ads. Ad free streaming
services are officially a thing of the past. People. Amazon injected the Prime
Videos movies and TV shows with ads as of this past Monday. Now,
if you don't want it, you're gonna have to pay three extra dollars a
month for ad free videos on top of the one hundred and thirty nine dollars
a year membership that you already played for Frime. With this, this means
the five largest streaming services in America all have advertisements right now. Amazon pretty
much followed the footsteps of Netflix, Disney Plus Max, and Paramount Plus.
They all introduced ads in the last few years. Streaming services once offered a
really strong alternative to cable, but the landscape out there, it's becoming so
much more competitive, and they've all resorted to being just like their ancestors.
The subscriber models for streaming services, if you think about it, they didn't
last long. We maybe past the golden age of streaming where companies were offering
low price subscriptions for ad free premium content. Every streamer has ads now because
they're all so big and they can't really grow anymore and they need to make
more revenue in some other way. That's what that means introducing advertising. I
saw some industry analysis that Prime could add an additional I don't want to get
this wrong. Was it five billion dollars a year just for ads? Because
there's eyeballs? Prime Video has two hundred million subscribers now. Before you start
calling in and yell at me. There is one major streaming service that currently
does not have ads, and that is Apple TV Plus. Apple TV Plus,
which I do not have, is the one major streaming services that currently
does not have ads. But it's also one of the smallest streaming services.
It has just twenty five million subscribers, again compared to what I said.
Prime Video has two hundred million, and Netflix has a hell of a lot
more than that. I think a large reason that Apple TV Plus can remain
ad free is that it's a perk that you get with Apple TV, so
it really doesn't have to be profit. But then again, that same was
thing that the same was it for Prime Video, but Prime Video just flipped.
Are you going to cancel your Prime Video in this case just because it
shows ads? No, you shouldn't, because I don't want to pay three
dollars much as thirty six dollars a month more. We are used to advertisements.
And I'm gonna say it again. I always use this analogy, and
I know my bosses love it too. The reason you're listening to this radio
show right now in KPRC nine to fifty am, even on iHeartRadio, it
does not cost you a lick. Do you know that, my friends?
Why because we are advertisers supported by the way this portion of the show brought
to you by US coins and jewelry. You see, you just endured a
three second little advertising hit for the sake of getting two hours a beautiful,
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four times an hour, but we give you a great idea of where to
shop, we give you news breaks, and then we continue to regular programming.
That's a business model. That's an advertising model that we have been accustomed
to since the advent of television and radio and pretty much publishing. Also,
you know TV was free if you go back to the nineteen seventies or you
know, listen. When I grew up, TV was free. There was
no cable. Generally, it was over the air, which I talked about
the last out last segment. And what you did in exchange for watching this
great content from everything from NFL to Gilligans, Islond to Brady Bunch, everything
that we grew up with, you endured commercials. A thirty minute show generally
is twenty two minutes of content eight minutes of commercials. That's the rule.
When I went to radio, television and film class in school. That's what
you sacrifice. Radio always over the air radio always and free still is free
over the air radio in your car. Turn a nine fifty AM right now.
You're listening to me. F r ee. You're gonna hear some commercials.
Okay, cool, got it. We understand that the only business model
that really kind of perplexed me was publishing newspapers. When newspapers were a thing.
That was a double based revenue model because number one, you had to
subscribe, and you still have to subscribe to a newspaper. But oh,
by the way, guess what, There's advertisements in the newspaper. So there's
a revenue stream on top of a revenue stream. The world is different,
man. I'll tell you what would I take a different Would I go a
different route if I was studying something in college. That's That's something that continue
to ask and something that parents ask me. Michael, would you recommend my
kids get into broadcast media. It's a long answer that sometimes change and sometimes
go that. Sometimes say yes and sometimes I say no. There are factions
in the broadcast here. I'd say absolutely. Go in sales is a good
one. If you could be a programmer and if you can get a job
with one of the big streamers, a really good job of a content makers.
I'm like that, Yeah, I think it is. But trying to
be a radio host or trying to be a TV anchor right now, that
is not what it used to be whatsoever? And we come back. I
don't know. I hope is it my last radio show? I love my
job. Guys, if my bosses are listening. Thirty minutes ago, left
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doing well. On a non football weekend Saturday, I did a lot of
Super Bowl content today. Gave you some of the new ways to watch the
super Bowl, not just in front of your CBS television broadcast here, but
also paramount and your streaming and how much all these iam talk a lot about
streaming too, because that is indeed the new way too well watch television.
It ain't cheap, people, it is getting much more expensive I saw this.
You know what, I'm not going to talk about you. People say,
hey, Michael, what's your thoughts on Apple's Vision Pro. I'm no
comment. It's incredibly I'm out. Okay, here's a comment. It's very
expensive. It was just released yesterday, thirty five hundred dollars. It's a
spatial computing virtual reality, big heavy goggle that you put on your face.
Apple did not invite me to play with it, and so I don't know,
and I certainly wouldn't recommend it. Next question seven, one, three,
two, two, five, nine to five. Oh, just what
we need? We need another AI powered shopping assistant? Is as if Alexa
and Siri weren't enough. I'm I'm going to ask Alexa to ask Siri to
ask Jarvis, to ask Watson, to ask Claude, to ask Jasper,
to ask Einstein and task chat GPT. If Rufous is a good name for
a new AI powered shopping assistant, because guess what Amazon? Rufus apparently is
the next thing Amazon released something called Rufous. I have no clue where chakra
con is. That is designed to enhance Amazon's mobile shopping experience so they can
go through its extensive product catalog and custom reviews and community questions and answers and
info across the web. So if you ask this assistant, you say,
Rufus, what should I consider when buying running shoes? Rufus is apparently conversational.
This is a new day. This is very early days for generative artificial
intelligence. May not get it exactly right. But who comes up with these
names? I mean, I want you to think about this. Siri was
out there a long time. What is Syria a girl or a guy?
And you know what, it really doesn't matter. Alexa generally a female's name,
Jarvis generally a guy's name. Watson from IBM. They must knowing that
when they release this, when Google, when Microsoft, when Amazon, when
Apple, when they sit there in the marketing meetings and they said, we
need to come up with them because this name cannot change, and they're trying
to make it like a real person. Listen, mcintish is the name of
computer iPhone the name of a phone. That's just a that's a product name.
They're trying to make these virtual assistants people because there's voices, they talk
back to us, which is why they come up with I think real person
names Watson, Jarvis, Alexa, Siri, Claude rufus. In this case,
I'd love to be in the room. I mean how they literally must
nowadays they must ask g chat, GPT, what's a name for a special
assistant, A shopping a virtual shopping assistant? And it better stick because executive
use. I hate using the word Alexa because all of your Amazon products are
waking up right now. But let's just after four years, we're so used
to hey Alexa, Hey Alexa, Hey Alexa. You know what Amazon says,
we don't like that name. You know we're gonna, we're gonna,
we're gonna call it Charles. Well, we're already accustomed to using that.
You better I mean you're creating a character. You're creating a Charlie Brown.
I mean when Charles Schurtz came up with Charlie Brown and what the nineteen late
fifties or the early sixties. I mean, that thing's been around three generations.
Now you better come up with root is rufus, it rufus, the
dufis. I have? How many do we need? Like on Samsung,
Sam Samsung has one on his phone called Bixby. I am a Samsung Pampa
I've had. All I use is pretty much Samsung phones. Not once have
I used Bixby. There's a button on here that I don't I don't even
use a lot of this stuff personally. The only the main reason, the
main question I ask my virtual assistants. And I do have Amazon, and
I do have Google. I got several Google nests and a little little video
thing in my kitchen, and I've got one next. I got one to
my bathroom. I've got one next to my bet. Really, the only
thing I ask is what's the weather today? I wake up in the morning,
and before I run, I want to know how to dress, and
so I will say, hey, Google, what's the weather. I will
say, Alexa, what's the what's the weather? Oh? Good, now
they see I just woke up my Google. But by talking right now.
But that's how I really. I don't ask for what's my schedule. I
don't ask what the what the odds of a football game are? I don't
ask what the square root of sixteen is. I just asked the weather.
I'm just I'm a simple person. I'd like to figure it. I'll type
things in almost even before I ask, right now, am I og?
You tell me use the og phone right now. It's seven one three two
one two five nine five oh AI generated voice mimicking celebrities and politicians. It's
it's it's making it harder for the FCC to fight robo calls. There are
AI generated voices that are robo calls that when you pick them up, they
sound like celebrity voices, and the FCC they're now saying it's against the law.
Who would you freak out with most if somebody if you answered a call,
and who would be on the line, Mick Jagger, Trump, Biden,
who would it be? Then you find out it is it is not
them. Matthew Maha, Matthew mccam hey. There's a voice that is incredibly
distinguishable. My buddy of mine in Dallas, kind of a comedian dude.
He does he literally he's got an account called fake McConaughey, very close to
Matthew McConaughey. One if they should say they actually but it's not AI generating,
it's actually him. I mean, where's I mean rich Little Now?
This is he was the first AI celebrity mimicking voice. Dude, if you
think about it. So, I don't know if you've got some of those,
but you know it's at the FC. I'll tell you what. It's
election, election year coming up. You're gonna be getting robo calls. And
if you think it's Trump in the line, odds are it may not be
him. But the SEC does need to crack down on some of this stuff.
And I think they they I think they finally are. Oh. Also
this, I raise your hand if you're a Comcast A user, sadly I
am. And it's costed an arm and a leg. But you know,
it's always been kind of taking me off about misleading ads. If you've seen
over the past several months, Comcast has been talking about their Exfinity ten G
network. Have you seen this thing? Exfinity's ten G network. Guess what,
They're discontinuing it because it's misleading. I like this. The National Advertising
Review Board, there's a panel that found the term ten G network could mislead
consumers into thinking that comcasts selling broadband services offer much faster speeds than current generation
networks. You see truth in advertising people, This is why you listen to
BA. I always tell you the truth. I always tell you the facts.
It always bugged me. It's like how are they getting around that?
They said, screw it, you know, because we're on five G right
now. How did they just automatically skip six, seven, eight to nine.
We're already on ting at and t t that to it. Before five
G was even here, we were still in the fourth generation of cell services
away. Apple said they had the first five G, but they called it
five GE for some reason, five generation equivalency like that. Come on.
I know, listen, I'm a marketing person, but at some point stop
potentially misleading people. I know you got to get a hold on some things.
But what are you gonna do? All right, I tell you what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take the final break here at the radio show
this week. We'll come back, we'll wrap things up. I got some
car reviews and anything else. Final birthday wishes right here on the High Tech
Text and Show final few minutes as we wrap up the HTT show with MG
that's High Tech Text and Michael Garfield, callum, thank you, Thank all
the boys in the back we were pushing the buttons keeping us on, and
thanks for everybody to the other the fun wishes right now, Sip it a
little of Papa's pilar rum little birthday drink. We turn another year older and
we just don't care. As long as the voice and the hairs there,
I am all good. Won't give out the phone number because I get some
things to yap about before we wrap it up here. But if you do
want to listen to this again, to your heart's extent, it's on podcasts,
iHeartRadio, Google, Spotify, wherever award winning great radio programs can be
reheard and reheard again. I really do enjoy reviewing and talking about technology products,
devices and streaming services, and cookies and girl Scout things good cookies and
and uncrustables and everything else I you apped about today. Cars, trucks,
vehicles are certainly a very big part of what I do. For fifteen sixteen
years I have on a weekly basis, I have test driven manufactured direct from
manufacturers. I do not these It's unpaid, it's my thoughts. I do
dealerships. Do not you know a sponsor endorse this show. I'm a member
of the Texas Auto Writers Association, which means I know that a lot of
the manufacturers up in Detroit and where have you they ship cars or I'm driven
cars down and they can. I can rag on them, I can diss
them, I can love them, I can anything I want. Past few
weeks, I've been in some really neat ones. Three weeks ago, what
was I am? I was in a Cadillac. I think I talked about
this, but just kind of reviewing. January twenty twenty four, Escalat Cadillac
Escalade Platinum. If you want a monster of an suv, I'm talking probably
one of the biggest vehicles on the road. Thing is nice. It will
cost you about maybe what your first house cost you way back in the day.
As as it was driven everything on it it was one hundred and twenty
one thousand dollars. But other than that, it's a fine, fine vehicle.
Despite how big and large it is, it just rides so smooth.
It's got every piece of technology that you can actually think of. I love
the ar instrument panel right through. If you you know the instrument panels,
the instrument display, you look right through your steering wheel, I mean you
see your speed doometer, your own dometer. You can flip a switch and
it's got a front facing camera on the front of the grill and when you're
doing some navigation directions will actually like cartoons pop up and tell you to turn
right, turn left, start blinking. It's it's augmented reality. I think
that's one of the really neat things. It's got a ton of different screens,
the touchscreens. It's it's really really nice. That was the Cadillac Escalade
Platinum. If you've got the money and the means, feel free to do
that other spectrum. Two weeks ago, I had the Subaru Ascent A S
C E N T. Don't sleep on subar Us. They really they are
very strong vehicles. That's that that will They're great off road. I kind
of joke that Suberu is the official vehicle of Idaho or Colorado or Utah because
there's so many people out in those you know states that utilize them because they
can get through snow and if there's dirt and there's some small hills or even
some mountains that they really take a lock and keep on ticking. This is
nice. It was a small SUV, nice hatchback, all wheel drive.
You know, other neat accruiterments over there in terms of the technology that you
know, their screens are getting bigger too. It almost I think it has
got an eleven and a half inch multimedia navigation system, really good sound.
But this was as driven forty eight thousand dollars forty eight thousand dollars anything.
I always give the price because whatever you know, mode you're in, it's
good for good for families. But you can get certainly two and a half
of these for the price of the Cadillac Platinum, which was nice. And
this week I am d if you ever if you heard a big loud engine
zoom passed you, if you live near me, or maybe you're driving around
the Galleria or wherever. I was playing around the twenty twenty three Dodge Charger
super B Bee as inzz B. It's the special edition. This thing was.
It's blue. What was the color of blue? Blue being blue exterior
paint, and it kind of had a picture of a B superimposed decal on
the hood. And it's got a scat pack. It was four hundred and
eighty horsepower six point four leader V eight SRT with street racing technology. It's
a HEMA engine. You turn this thing on. I woke up my neighbors.
This is big. It's a four door car. Yeah, you may
have to be a certain age group to do this. I mean, I
don't know, there's a lot of it's a good collectible car. This is
you know, obviously Dodge. At some point they're going to get away from
all of these gas power vehicles. They're going to go to electric. I
don't know how they could duplicate the sound over that. It's a beautiful big
Hemi engine going. But it's a fun drive, especially because the technology in
there. It's got the Street Racing Technology SRT, so it's got timers,
it's got so many gauges that can measure you know, how fast you're going
in a quarter mile and doing everything very fun as priced with sixty three thousand
dollars. This next week, I'm getting a really nice SUV from Mercedes Bins.
I will give you that up to update. But I have done this
for fifteen years or so. So if you are in the mode for car
shopping and you just want an unbiased opinion, whether you want an suv,
whether you want a twudor sports car at electric meat or a hybrid, feel
free to ask me or pop me a note. Michael at high Tech textan
dot com with that I did see this General Motors. They're actually starting a
push back at repushing. Let me put this way on hybrids. You know,
remember the Chevy Vault. Years after GM discontinued the Chevy Bolt, and
they kind of like left hybrids in the rearview mirror because they were going to
go all in on evs electric vehicles. GM's kind of putting it in reverse.
It'll again start offering plug in hybrids that run on gas and electric mode.
The CEO Mary Barras, she actually said this a few days ago.
So there's still planning to phase out they're gas cars, gas guzzling cars in
the United States by twenty thirty five, but hybrids now are going to be
the stepping stone. And the reason being, as we wrap it up for
about a minute or two, the electric vehicle rush has not hanned out.
They're not. There are key dealers in GM around the country that asked them
to start sending eyebridgs because the demand for electric vehicles it just hasn't been as
electric has expected. I mean, this is the government incentives and the automakers
are betting big on battery power cars. The consumers really continue, they're not
running out for them. I think mini drivers are put off by EV's priciness.
They're also like me, they're worried about the lack of charging stations.
Listen. Ev sales grew fifty two percent last quarter. This is for per
Cox Automotive and mini car makers slash prices and the edy production goals is unsold
cars. They began collecting dust right there in the lots. But hybrid's,
however, they've been selling like hotcakes. And GM's biggest competitor, Toyota,
they're raking in reverord procket record prockets record profits. That's easy for you to
shave because say, because I don't know, maybe I had a little too
much of papas pele ark rum. Because we are getting ready to end up
this show. Hey, listen, I do thank you for tuning in it.
Listen, it's not I'm happy to actually work on my birthday and it's
so nice and so many of you out there to continue to send me wishes
because I've killed almost a third of my life here on this radio show on
KPRC nine to fifty am. For everybody who's been a part of this show,
including Callum Red, Eddie Martini, Mark Sherman, Brian Erickson, I
thank you for keeping me on. See you next week Vegas Super Bowl.
Let me know if you're going out there, because it is party time.
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