WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:06.799 Is Michael Garfer. 2 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:07.679 Michael Garfield. 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:09.320 Michael Garfield's joining in the. 4 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.599 High Tech Texan. Michael garfil is here with a high 5 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:13.320 Tech Texans. 6 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.800 It has to make life easier technologs, So Michael Garfield 7 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:19.239 has something you might like. 8 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:31.559 Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping 9 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:37.200 you make magic with your gadgets, heard worldwide on the 10 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:43.119 iHeartRadio add now your high Tech Texan, Michael Garfield. 11 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:49.159 Why don't you begin the twenty third year of the 12 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:53.320 high Tech Texan show a Happy New Year, Lassia Latova, 13 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.240 however you say it, however you celebrated, we do. Thank 14 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.000 you for tuning in wherever you're listening to restrially Houston 15 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.159 and San Antonio, Dallas for worth, if you're on iHeartRadio, 16 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:07.519 and no matter how you listen, you least listen and 17 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.920 we appreciate that. First time here all we're gonna have 18 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.480 some fun. I swear I'm not gonna tell you how 19 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.159 to fix your computer, despite what you think with the 20 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:19.959 high tech texts and is about, I ain't doing that. 21 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.760 I'm the guy who's gonna entertain you for maybe two 22 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.040 hours unless we're preempted by basketball and whatever market you're in. 23 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:29.359 If not, just go to the podcast iHeartRadio. Look for 24 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:32.480 Michael Garfield, look for high Tech Text and we're gonna 25 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:35.280 give you some tips. We're gonna take your calls, your questions, 26 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.879 because yes, you probably got some holiday gifts that you 27 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:41.599 know what. Yeah, I appreciate my kids. They love me. 28 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:44.680 They gave me a little something something. I don't want this, man, 29 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:47.120 this is a piece of crap. Ah No, no, Michael, 30 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:50.000 what should I return it for? One of the many 31 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:51.760 things that I could do for you? And I just 32 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:54.959 don't do tech gadgets. However, this next week, week and 33 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.519 a half, two weeks are gonna be a little tech 34 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.640 centric and I'll tell you why. But I do. I 35 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:03.799 do trucks, I do fashion. I actually got me some 36 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:08.520 new athletic leisure. It's called athleisure. That's what the word is, where, 37 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:11.159 you know, lose a little weight in that last year, 38 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.199 hoping to keep it off in this new year, so 39 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.080 I gotta look fit. If you don't believe me, you 40 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:18.919 could check out the things I post an I video 41 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:20.919 and I take photos. You can go to the website 42 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.840 high Tech Texan spell the whole thing out. If that's okay, 43 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:29.599 High Tech t e x a n high Tech Texan 44 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:35.039 dot com Instagram close to fifty thousand followers. Can we 45 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:37.319 hit fifty five thousand before the end of the show. 46 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.280 It's up to you. People start off the New Year 47 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.639 right and follow me high Tech Texan. I am on X, 48 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.719 I am on Blue Sky, I'm on threads. I you know, 49 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:49.000 it's a little trepidation of how much I post war 50 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:53.039 and when I am not on TikTok, something I never 51 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:56.680 ever did. Just no reason for the other is just 52 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:01.680 do I really need another social media platform? Plus, is 53 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:04.879 TikTok going to be around? We are less than three 54 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.120 weeks allegedly from it being banned in the United States. However, 55 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:15.080 your incoming future president United States has just asked Congress 56 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:20.680 to push back the January nineteenth date to ban TikTok 57 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.960 until after the inauguration. I don't know, maybe he just 58 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.080 wants people making videos of his inauguration. 59 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:26.719 Me. 60 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.400 I would rather TikTok be around a few extra days 61 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.360 because in the same night of inauguration, it is the NATTY, 62 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:37.240 the National Championship for college football, and let's hope our 63 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:40.840 Texas Longhorns are there. We are just one game away 64 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:45.319 to see if our Horns play in the National championship 65 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.840 woo past few weeks. Man, tell you what I wish, 66 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:52.120 spitz a idea. I had a decent and a nice 67 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.080 holiday season, you know, spin it s all the kids 68 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:56.639 here and there. Well, I'll tell you what my longhorns woo. 69 00:03:56.719 --> 00:04:00.400 They put me my blood pressure, my blood pressure up 70 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:05.360 and down, especially during that last Peach Bowl. It was tight. However, Dallas, 71 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:10.120 the Horns, actually sorry, Arlington Horns are coming to you 72 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.879 later this week in the Cotton Bowl versus the Ohio 73 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.040 State again. Big football guy right over here. Hey, let 74 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:21.480 me give you the phone number. It's an interactive radio show. 75 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.040 Anybody want to call him? It's three four six twenty 76 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:28.600 nine Texan. Can't be easier than that, three four six 77 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:33.399 two nine t e x A N. If we pick 78 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:34.920 up the phone, we decide to pick up the phone, 79 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:36.879 we'll put you on air. If for some reason it 80 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.920 goes to voicemail, we do have the right to record 81 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.560 your voice and then re er it and I can 82 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.199 answer your question. So leave a voicemail saying Garth, you 83 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.040 don't know what you're talking about, saying Garth, this is 84 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:50.839 what I would like you to review and or just 85 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.120 a typical question. How you know is that your real hair? Yes? 86 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:55.800 It is. By the way, how old are you going 87 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:57.680 to be this year? Not going to tell you, but 88 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:59.959 you may even figured it out on my birthdays next month. 89 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.680 It's the milestone. But you know whatever, we move on 90 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:07.000 three four, six, twenty nine t e XA. And with 91 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:08.839 that we are going to start a number of things 92 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:12.800 because these these three months of the year, let's see, 93 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.759 I'm gonna go November, December and January always have been 94 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.959 my busiest of the year, always and generally if you 95 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:21.839 have a real job versus kind of like a fake 96 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.160 job like I do in the media, these are the 97 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.360 slowest month, right, Yeah, it take some time off. We're 98 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.560 gonna vacation, We're gonna go skim, We're gonna go to 99 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.199 Mexico whatever, like, no, no, no. This is a holiday 100 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:36.399 shopping season where I have to pop on a number 101 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:38.920 of outlets all across the country regularly. You know, this 102 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.560 is the great last minute buys. This is the steal today. 103 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:45.079 You know, if you want to buy a car, you 104 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.319 know before December thirty first, this is what you should 105 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:49.879 be looking for. So I have been busy and it 106 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.439 doesn't stop on January first. No, it continues because I 107 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:59.600 am leaving on yet play this weekend once I hang 108 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:01.839 up to my from because I am off to my 109 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:07.759 annual johnt to Alas Vegas folks. It is the annual CEES, 110 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:10.639 which used to be called the Consumer Electronic Show. Now 111 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.360 they just go by CEES. This will be my I 112 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.839 think this is about my twenty second or twenty third 113 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.079 year I have been to Vegas and you have to 114 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:25.720 train for CES. It is the world's largest technology trade show, 115 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:28.720 and actually it's one of the world's largest trade shows period. 116 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.319 One hundred and fifty hundred and eighty thousand people from 117 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.800 all over the world. They do go to Las Vegas. 118 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:37.360 It is not open to the public. You need to 119 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.800 be number one. You need to be a product manufacturer. 120 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:41.680 You need to be a buyer, you know, to buy 121 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.720 the products. You need to be in the media. And 122 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:47.879 I do appreciate the folks at the Consumer Electronic Association 123 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.319 they put it on. They really do treat us or 124 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:55.439 we in the media quite well. They have long built 125 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:59.319 a radio and TV studio for me and many other 126 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.120 media folks and organizations right on the floor of the 127 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:04.959 Las Vegas Convention Center. And I say this is because 128 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:07.240 for those of you who have never been to CEES, 129 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:09.279 for those of you who saying, oh man, I'd love 130 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:14.079 to go to CEES, it's there's good parts and there's 131 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.399 tough parts. With the thing there, it is so much 132 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:20.439 to consume because there's so much walking. It takes up 133 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:24.360 the entire Las Vegas Convention Center. It takes the Venetian 134 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.839 Convention Center over there. There's ballrooms, there's private parties, there's 135 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:32.600 there's suites of just information. There's dinners, there's breakfasts, there's speeches, 136 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.519 there's brunches. You really have to know pan this thing out, 137 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.199 and you know, I've got lot. I literally have a spreadsheet. 138 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.319 So I am going to make it simple and bring 139 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.279 this stuff for you, which is why you should highly 140 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.079 suggested follow me on all the social media's high tech texts, 141 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:49.639 and I'm probably gonna do a lot of the Instagram 142 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.639 because that's cool. It's easy for me to shoot some 143 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.120 video quickly uploaded and show you a lot of the 144 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.439 things that you know, what you probably don't need, don't want, 145 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:02.360 can't afford this coming year. And that's the point of CEES. 146 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:05.600 Every year. It's in early January, is because companies from 147 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.439 all over the world will they bring their products. A 148 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:12.759 lot of them will hit the showroom for so they 149 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:14.759 will be on sale. A lot of them are concepts, 150 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.560 a lot of them are just research and development. A 151 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:18.560 lot of them are just hey, look at me over 152 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.040 here waving a flag. I want you media people to 153 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.360 cover me and mention me. I kind of sift through 154 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:27.319 all that BS. Is this something that you really want, 155 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:29.759 really need? Is it going to change your life? And 156 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:32.279 so I already have an idea of what is going 157 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.080 to be shown there in terms of categories and specific products, 158 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.840 and I'll run through that, and I'll say this before 159 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.159 we take our first break. If you see something to 160 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:45.320 see a report, Hey, you know this is neat Feel 161 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.159 free to reach out to me via some of these 162 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:50.399 social channels and email, which you'll find on my website, 163 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:54.080 high tech Textion dot com. Hey Michael or Garf if 164 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:57.240 we're tight, go buy this booth or did you see 165 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.399 this or did you hop in this concept car or 166 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:01.759 whatever and see if you can check this out and 167 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:04.039 give me the play by play. I will try to 168 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.720 do my best, so coming up stand by what to 169 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.960 expect at see s. Give you a little apple TV Plus. 170 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:11.960 If you want to watch something free this weekend, they're 171 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.759 opening up their gates. Stand by. The name is Ark. 172 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:33.200 We're gonna be happy here if we continued, I kept 173 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.120 that team show. We're not going to geek out. This 174 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:37.960 is not what we do. We have too much fun. 175 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:41.120 Michael's the name, Michael Garfield, my man, Calum ree Callum. 176 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:42.960 Happy New Year to you, brother? Do you have a 177 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.639 good one? You did Santi give anything good? I know 178 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.039 I gave you. Did you kill that? The bottle of 179 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:52.039 hoots that I gave you? Did you like that? I'm 180 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.000 rye Okay, you deserve it. He keeps. He keeps the 181 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.120 machines well oiled and running. If you want to talk 182 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.879 to him, he may callum. Decide you in the mood 183 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.360 to pick up some phone calls? Maybe maybe okay, number here. 184 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.720 It's it's an interactive calling show. If you want to 185 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.759 ask questions of what to buy? Is this a good 186 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.200 Is this a good time of year to get a TV? 187 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:18.080 Knowing that football playoffs, super Bowls about a month away? 188 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:21.559 Good question. I'm more than happy to give you a 189 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.759 model or two or three three four six twenty nine 190 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.679 Texan three four six two nine t e x A N. 191 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:32.440 Michael Garfield. If we don't pick up, the voicemail should 192 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:34.039 pick up and you can leave us a voicemail and 193 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.559 I can listen and play it for you. I will 194 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.320 be I got a busy weekend for me. I got 195 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:48.039 a pack for CEESH the old Consumer Electronics Show, which 196 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:51.480 which it's in Vegas, and it starts well, I fly 197 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:54.919 out Sunday afternoon. I gotta actually watch the Cowboy game 198 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:59.440 on on the plane, hopefully they show it. Uh. And 199 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.279 then it is walking over under the number of steps 200 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.919 I take in a single day walking around the massive 201 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.519 Las Vegas Convention Center, the Venetian Center Center and all 202 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.480 these other parties over under is twenty thousand steps. And 203 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:15.679 I am not kidding you. And I usually take a 204 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:19.720 Screenshotah okay, it's a humble brag of how many steps 205 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.879 I walk on a given day. I've got a train 206 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:27.200 for this thing. Now. I'm a runner peloton watch it. 207 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:30.080 You know. I'd like to think, I mean relatively good shape, 208 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.320 certainly for my age. I'll tell you what this takes 209 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:34.960 a toll. I mean you are go, go go. I 210 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.039 mean it's you know, you had no time to you know, 211 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.120 to change outfits. It's so you know, I got to 212 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.039 wear me some tennis shoes and just just go, go go. 213 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:44.759 But I do it for you people. I do it 214 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.360 for you. I bring and here's something that you're going 215 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.440 to love. If is certainly if you're new to the show. 216 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:55.080 I generally bring one to two empty suitcases and I 217 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:56.960 kind of fold them up, you know, just the soft 218 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:02.799 side of what's to Vegas. Because I bring back toys, golow, 219 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:07.320 I bring back demos. I bring back sample products that 220 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:10.320 companies sometimes will give out the journals like me and 221 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:13.039 they say, hey, listen, this is not for you. Why 222 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.720 don't you give them to your followers on social media? 223 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:17.879 Since we know you have so many followers, maybe you 224 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:19.440 want to give them on the radio. So this is 225 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:22.320 why you follow me. People. You go to High Tech 226 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:25.039 Text and h I G H T E C H 227 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:28.440 T E X A N on Instagram, on as and 228 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:30.440 we give out a lot of stuff there, some of 229 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:32.799 the things that I think, and I'm kind of give 230 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:35.399 you a play by play of all the emails and 231 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.440 invites because I got a media pass and you know, 232 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:40.519 they want me to stop by this booth, that booth whatever. 233 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.799 I think some of the trends that are going to 234 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.480 be around at CES this year, next or this coming week. 235 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:50.639 Certainly in twenty twenty five, AI is going to get 236 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.720 even more pervasive in all areas that I'm walking around 237 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.039 on the on the CEO show floor. I mean, we're 238 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:02.159 going to likely get the slew of new processors and laptops. 239 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:07.919 There's gonna be wearables, trackers, There's gonna be bathroom appliances, 240 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.399 massage chair. Oh, those massage chairs. I'm not getting you. 241 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.440 I gotta I got a press release invite to some booth, 242 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:19.279 and you know, they try to entice you because there's 243 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:25.799 over ten thousand different companies, products, pitches and everything in 244 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:30.519 this four day you know, massive convention across Vegas, and 245 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.399 they have to get our attention. Where are we gonna go? 246 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:35.519 But there's this one company's massage here, uh you know here, 247 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:37.639 dear Michael Hougtak text and no, we want to invite 248 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.399 you to uh this booth at this time. Please make 249 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.879 an appointment for a complimentary massage. We're gonna put you 250 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:44.840 one of our massage chairs and it's gonna do this 251 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:46.759 and this and stretch you and all this other stuff. 252 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.080 It is. It is pretty nice I just don't have 253 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:51.960 a lot of time. I mean it might good. I'll 254 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.120 sit there for five to six minutes and massage here. 255 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.799 I'll take a video and I'll i'll feature some of 256 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:00.240 the new things. Is it heated? Does it? And uh, 257 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:01.480 you know? Does it touch? 258 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:01.679 You know? 259 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.120 Doesn't massage your calves when you're walking. I don't know 260 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.559 what it is, but a lot of massage chairs. But 261 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.600 these it's not just geeky things. It is smart home. 262 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:14.240 There's a massive area that continues to grow for smart homes, 263 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.720 everything from the smart cameras to the even smarter doorbells 264 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:20.879 using AI and so when you ring the doorbell, it'll 265 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.320 recognize somebody's face and it'll announce to you homeowner of 266 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.240 who's there. There's a lot of that stuff. There's going 267 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:32.799 to be TVs too. TV. I think people associate cees 268 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:37.799 with high definition TVs, and it really was to some extent, 269 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.639 even though TV's now are so ubiquitous and you can 270 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:45.720 get TVs relatively inexpensive, but I remember when HDTVs and 271 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.679 flat screens really were first announced to the masses. And 272 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:50.480 I'm let's go back to two thousand and one, two 273 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:52.840 thousand and two or three you know, when digital TV 274 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:58.840 was mandated by the FCC, they were there were fifty inches, 275 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.159 maybe there was a sixty inch one, and they were 276 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.000 very expensive. They were, you know, thicker and heavier than 277 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.519 what they are now. But I mean, you couldn't walk 278 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.159 around the CES show floor in Vegas without getting a 279 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:15.639 sunburn down each aisle because these TVs were just bright 280 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:19.840 and blaring and glaring and right in your face. I mean, 281 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.919 these fifty inch TVs, I'm not kidding you were fifteen 282 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:26.000 thousand dollars back in the day. You can get a 283 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:29.600 fifty inch TV right now for maybe two hundred dollars, 284 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:31.840 two hundred and fifty dollars, probably even cheaper than that, 285 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:35.519 depending on what brand and what time of year. But 286 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:40.000 there's gonna be some you know, a new line of lcdtvs. 287 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.879 LG always does something crazy. I saw this year. They're 288 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:49.399 already you know, they have a bendable oled, a forty 289 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:57.279 five inch bendable gaming monitor, curve screens, screens that will 290 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:00.879 roll up. There's a c through screen that I think 291 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.799 LG is coming up and it turns what it is 292 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.440 is if you live in a high rise apartment, for example, 293 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:08.080 if you live in a beach, have a beach house. Well, 294 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:11.519 and the only place to set a TV is like 295 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:13.279 right in front of the window. Well, you have a 296 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:16.480 picturesque window. What it's going to block your pretty view? Well, 297 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:20.720 when it's turned off, it'll now allow it to be 298 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.600 see through. You could see through it. It's something you need. 299 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:27.279 Probably not. Is it going to be expensive, You dang straight, 300 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:29.440 it's going to be expensive. But this is this is 301 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:32.279 this stuff. This is the candy that they dangle in 302 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.720 front of us our eyes. So we can then go 303 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.279 back on our TV programs like I'm going to do 304 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:39.919 and our radio show is going, oh my goodness, this 305 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:43.039 is you know, absolutely not what I expected. And now 306 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:44.759 I don't think anybody's really going to buy this thing. 307 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:50.159 Cars and Trucks several years ago, to me, Cees turned 308 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.639 into kind of the de facto auto show. Most all 309 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.399 the major auto manufacturers generally have a presence over there, 310 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:59.399 and not just American cars. You're going to see a 311 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.559 lot of the foreign cars, a lot of Chinese companies 312 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:06.160 who have a lot of the inexpensive electric vehicles which 313 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.079 when they if and when through tariffs they're allowed to 314 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.359 be shipped to the United States. There's not going to 315 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:16.960 be as cheap, but uh, they're they're they're interesting to me. 316 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:20.640 I cover the car and truck industry very very closely, 317 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.640 and I'm I'm impressed with love some of this stuff. 318 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.880 But then the world of politics and tariffs and shipping 319 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:29.400 and trade get into the way. It's like, man, can't 320 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.440 we just all you know, we are the world? I 321 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:33.920 mean some of the products that are made outside of 322 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:36.400 the US, and I love me and some America. Do 323 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:39.759 not get me wrong. I will prote promote American products. 324 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:44.039 I will prote American companies. I'll it's certainly Texas based companies. 325 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:46.039 It's in my freaking moniker. I'm the high tech text 326 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:48.640 and so many smart companies in Texas and here America. 327 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.960 But there really are brilliant companies around the world that 328 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:54.839 I think a lot of American companies borrow, for lack 329 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.839 of a better word, from to make their products. But 330 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:01.400 they can be cheaper overseas. Will they be shipped here? 331 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:05.359 In tariffs? I don't know. The new administration in Washington, 332 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:07.680 d C. They they go, you know, they'll move into 333 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:09.000 the White House here in a few weeks. But we 334 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.559 shall see. But I will see some products that I 335 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.119 will be ooing and aweing about uh if anybody still 336 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.200 cares about, you know, micro chips whatever. I don't really 337 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:20.559 get into the geeky what is you know, it's in 338 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:25.440 Vidia versus a m D. There's next generation GPUs and 339 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.759 all these cool new Radion seven thousand cars that are 340 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.640 cards that you put into your computers. I'll look at it, 341 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.640 I'll get into it. I'm pretty much what is it 342 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:37.400 going to mean to you? Is it going to meet 343 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.519 faster computers and cheaper computers and their laptops going to 344 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:44.000 get even lighter without without a do. I expect to 345 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:47.160 see some really neat new ones. I'm a fan of 346 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:52.039 a SU's as US. They are a Taiwan manufacturer of 347 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.359 a laptops that I spent some time with them last 348 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.920 year with their design company of you know how they 349 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:59.319 get things, continue to be thinner, continue to be lighter, 350 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:01.960 continue to have AI in it. I will be going 351 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.599 to a press conference with them to report back and 352 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:09.559 see what's up. And then there's medicine there. I'm getting 353 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:14.240 so many emails and invitations and press releases of new 354 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:18.680 hearing aids and hearing tests that you can get over 355 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.599 the counter there's updates you know for some of these 356 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:25.119 you know ear pods that will help you know with 357 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:30.880 your hearing health for you. You know, the biggest audio 358 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.279 companies around you know, Sendheiser for example, they make great 359 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:37.400 earbuds and great headphones. You know, they launch new models. 360 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.319 You know they're coming out with stuff and you know 361 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:41.240 they're you know, got to have you know, how to 362 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:43.640 improve hearing, and you know to stop it. You know, 363 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:47.240 you know of keeping the tunes you know so loud 364 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:49.240 that can you know, damage your ears, you know how 365 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:51.960 you know however, you know, young or whatever age you are. 366 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.799 I think electricity, the growth of electric cars right now, 367 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.400 it's nearing about ten percent of new models that are 368 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:03.920 sold you know states, but they're gonna be a lot 369 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.039 of new concept vehicles today is going to be all over. 370 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.160 Hyundai is always you know, already sending me emails and emails. 371 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.960 You got to stop by this. But you know there's 372 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:17.319 also these concepts like you know VT o ls, you know, 373 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:21.240 vertical takeoff and landings. These these drones that at some 374 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:27.480 point in our lives will carry people Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation. 375 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:30.960 They're pledging to actually launch these, you know e VT 376 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:35.119 o L services in twenty twenty five air taxis for 377 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:37.279 lack of a better better term, I'm gonna see and 378 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:39.559 sit in some of those things. Uh, there's going to 379 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:42.920 be satellite phones, you know. You know Apple just not 380 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:46.319 long ago they introduced their emergency s OS via satellite 381 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.440 I think that was in the iPhone fourteen a few 382 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:53.079 years ago. Well, now you know they're expanding it. You know, 383 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:55.720 Qualcom a component maker, you know they're trying to bring 384 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:59.880 you know, those similar capabilities to Android devices, to Google 385 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:03.920 as launched a satellite calling in their Pixel nine phones, Starlink, 386 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:08.599 you know SpaceX, you know elon the Texas Man they 387 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:11.920 have you know, gone live already in New Zealand. T 388 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.319 Mobile opened up you know, beta signups for it's Starlink 389 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:18.160 powered satellite cell service. This year, I'm going to see 390 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:21.640 a lot of a lot of those things. Soundbars are big, 391 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:23.640 you know, if you want to add those to give 392 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:26.960 better sound projectors, I expect to come back with at 393 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.000 least one or two or three projectors that are getting 394 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:33.880 really small, really a short throw meanings you can keep 395 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:36.039 them right very close to your wall. For one hundred 396 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:39.279 and twenty inch screen picture. I'm going to give a 397 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:40.680 few of those away. If I get him, I'm going 398 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:42.880 to give them away to you, ladies and gentlemen. There's 399 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:45.799 my cees. What to expect. Follow me all next week 400 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:48.000 right here, high Tech Textan and I'll tell you what's up? 401 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.440