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Speaker 4: If we had any budget for bump music or songs,
Speaker 4: without a doubt, we'd start this show with one Shining Moment, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, the greatest sports song ever made. It
Speaker 4: is final four weekend. This is the high Tech Texan Show. Yes, terrestrially,
Speaker 4: We're on Houston and KPRC Radio, Dallas Talk Radio eleven
Speaker 4: ninety and San Antonio News Radio twelve hundred WAI And
Speaker 4: guess what you are listening plausibly live from San Antonio
Speaker 4: taking the show on the road. What is up, my
Speaker 4: San Antonioites? San Antonio ons SA keeps We are here
Speaker 4: because I am a sports nut. Yes, I know it's
Speaker 4: kind of a consumer technology type of show, but listen.
Speaker 4: If you have listened to my show for well over
Speaker 4: twenty years. I talk about anything I want to. And
Speaker 4: if there is a big event, a big sporting event somewhere,
Speaker 4: certainly in the United States, and absolutely in the great
Speaker 4: state of Texas, odds are I'm there. I am here.
Speaker 4: Love to hear your call, San Antonio. I need me
Speaker 4: some breakfast, tacos and some casadillas and everything. Even though
Speaker 4: I've been to San Antonio many times. It is time
Speaker 4: to hoop it up. And how ironic that the University
Speaker 4: of Houston cou guys where I live in Houston, happened
Speaker 4: to be playing this week for just the first time,
Speaker 4: my friend, since two thousand and eight, and the second
Speaker 4: time in NCAA tournament history. The final four teams here
Speaker 4: all number one seeds. It is Houston versus Duke. It
Speaker 4: is Florida versus Auburn. The Gators. Last week they booked
Speaker 4: their spot with a memorable Elite eight comeback against Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: Would have been awesome to have even another Texas team
Speaker 4: in there. Duke very dominant in shutting down Alabama and
Speaker 4: h down. They bullied those number two Tennessee balls. Auburn
Speaker 4: pulled away from Michigan State. How about that it is
Speaker 4: tip off on Saturday. One shining moment will be Monday night.
Speaker 4: I got a lot of time to kill and play
Speaker 4: around in San Antonio, and I do hope I see
Speaker 4: you for some reason. You see me walking around the
Speaker 4: Alamoe Dome, all the pregames, the Henry B. Gunns a
Speaker 4: Les Convention Center, walking down the river walk. Come over,
Speaker 4: say hi, you know what I look like? Google me.
Speaker 4: I got a lot of hair, that's me. Odds are
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have a cocktail in my hand. Yes, we
Speaker 4: could talk about that, but there are other things to
Speaker 4: yap about, including we are still terra free from listening
Speaker 4: to this radio show. Doesn't cost you anything, at least
Speaker 4: as it right now. iHeartRadio keeps it free to listen
Speaker 4: to me over the year. And also on the podcast
Speaker 4: no I Am gonna talk about tariffs very big week,
Speaker 4: which does impact a lot of the things that I
Speaker 4: do talk about. I do talk a lot about vehicles
Speaker 4: and cars. Whoo, people, I hope you took my advice
Speaker 4: last week. I gave you a countdown man, because the
Speaker 4: price of cars, at least temporarily probably gonna go up
Speaker 4: a little, along with computers and phones and televisions, groceries,
Speaker 4: and a lot of things. Listen, I'm trying not to
Speaker 4: get into politics. This is what it is, and I
Speaker 4: hate that term. But what are we gonna do. We're
Speaker 4: gonna suck it up, We're gonna bend over whatever we're
Speaker 4: gonna do. But I will tell you what this means
Speaker 4: in the short term and what it could mean in
Speaker 4: the long term about purchasing some products. If you've got questions, Hey,
Speaker 4: last I check. We still are able to take phone
Speaker 4: calls thanks to our good friends Callum and Will back
Speaker 4: in studio. Here it comes three four six twenty nine
Speaker 4: Texan three four six two nine t e x A
Speaker 4: in call say Hi, give me your suggestions. Where should
Speaker 4: we hang and drink? Prequel? I know I'm gonna be.
Speaker 4: I got a few pre game parties, just you know
Speaker 4: what else to do in San Antonio. Actually hopping up
Speaker 4: to Austin Monday morning to do some Fox seven TV.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to be I'm driving the highways and
Speaker 4: byways of the state of Texas, which I do love.
Speaker 4: Speaking of which, testing a lot of vehicles lately. This
Speaker 4: week I am in a twenty twenty five Ford Explore.
Speaker 4: I don't do a lot of Fords but it got
Speaker 4: me from Houston to San Antonio quite well. It is
Speaker 4: very company, It's got some neat techn I'll give you
Speaker 4: a quick play by play on that. But also one
Speaker 4: of my favorite vehicles. And I'll talk about this maybe
Speaker 4: my second hour. Every week I get the test drive
Speaker 4: a vehicle, not from a dealership. I work directly with
Speaker 4: the manufacturers. You know this. I don't get paid to
Speaker 4: do it. It is just content so I can just
Speaker 4: rag on them and I could love on them too.
Speaker 4: Nissan one of if not and listen, I have worked
Speaker 4: with Nissan, not work with I've been the recipient of
Speaker 4: letting me, along with some other automobile journalist, utilize test
Speaker 4: drive vehicles for fifteen years. I probably I don't think
Speaker 4: I've been more excited or more pleased to be in
Speaker 4: a Nissan vehicle that I was last week. I was
Speaker 4: in a twenty twenty five Nissan Armada. I've long said
Speaker 4: that the Nissan Armada, pound for pound and I'm talking
Speaker 4: dollar for dollar, is one of the best deals you
Speaker 4: could get for a three row vehicle. All right. It
Speaker 4: is big, all right, the same platform as it's sister
Speaker 4: company in Infinity, in the Infinity QX series, but I
Speaker 4: was in the Nissan or Model, but this one was
Speaker 4: pimped out. This was the Nissan or Model Pro four x,
Speaker 4: which generally they do on their upper model when they
Speaker 4: used to have the Nissan Titan the pickup trucks. But
Speaker 4: there was very little, if anything, I did not like
Speaker 4: about this Nissan or Model Pro for Rex. I will
Speaker 4: talk about that. I'll give you the price if you're
Speaker 4: looking really for any tips when it comes to any
Speaker 4: type of vehicle. And yes, I do sports cars, I
Speaker 4: do evs, I do mini vans, do I do cuvs,
Speaker 4: I do Sedan's. I'll give you the play by play.
Speaker 4: I'll also later this this show talk about Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna talk about another Texas based company, text Tesla had
Speaker 4: a little slump. Not making fun of anything, but Tesla
Speaker 4: had a little slump and been their production and their
Speaker 4: sales this past month and it looks like they continue
Speaker 4: to slide. I'll let you decide if you want an EV,
Speaker 4: but I will give you my thoughts that. So those
Speaker 4: are the things that we're going to talk about, along
Speaker 4: with kids who wants the new Nintendo Switch to announced
Speaker 4: earlier this week. It's not coming out until June. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna give you or your parents the details and also
Speaker 4: maybe some tips of how to buy or how to
Speaker 4: get on the waiting list for one of these things.
Speaker 4: Something tells me that this Nintendo is going to be
Speaker 4: like back in the days when some of those early
Speaker 4: Nintendo's were released, you know, the home gaming systems, and
Speaker 4: they were hard to find, they were scarce, you had
Speaker 4: to wait in line forever, you had to get them
Speaker 4: on the secondary market. This may be just as big
Speaker 4: in terms of the specs that I saw in this
Speaker 4: Nintendo switch to, which is very, very big. So I've
Speaker 4: got that when we come back, we're going to talk
Speaker 4: a little bit more sports, especially if you're an NFL fan.
Speaker 4: And trust me, this does have to do a technology.
Speaker 4: NFL had an owner's meeting this week in the NFL. Finally,
Speaker 4: and I mean finally, they are adopting a key piece
Speaker 4: of technology that has long frustrated many fans. We'll see
Speaker 4: how it plays out this coming football season, but I
Speaker 4: gotta give it up to Roger Goodell and the owners
Speaker 4: were finally saying, you know what the technology is there,
Speaker 4: maybe we're gonna try it. I'll tell you what that is.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have so much fun. All right, Final four
Speaker 4: right here in San Antonio and heard all across Texas.
Speaker 5: Michael Garfield, he named it is the that's right, high
Speaker 5: Tech Texan Show.
Speaker 4: What happens if I actually sang a song that we're
Speaker 4: not licensed to play. I'm looking at Callum Calum Raid.
Speaker 4: He is running the board and he does so much
Speaker 4: here at our radio stations to keep the High Tech
Speaker 4: Texans Show running. Welcome back, Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 4: I want to play one Shining Moment. We can't, Callum,
Speaker 4: we can't do that. I heart just did we just
Speaker 4: it's it's the podcasting licensing or something. Because my show,
Speaker 4: which is heard over the air in Houston and San Antotio,
Speaker 4: in Dallas back of the day, Man, I could just
Speaker 4: tell you, Calum, remember this, I said, hey, play this song,
Speaker 4: play this song out anything. But now it's like, oh no,
Speaker 4: we're going to repodcast this thing. We don't have rights.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, One shining moment will be crowned Monday night,
Speaker 4: right here in San Antonio where we're doing the show,
Speaker 4: just this weekend. I am based in Houston, but I
Speaker 4: am a big sports fan. If there's a big sporting event.
Speaker 4: I'm generally there, so I will be there rooting. Yes,
Speaker 4: I have a rooting interest. I'm rooting for the University
Speaker 4: of Houston Cougar's number one. It's the Texas team. One
Speaker 4: of my three sons graduated from the University of Houston.
Speaker 4: I'm based in Houston, and so so let's go Koog's.
Speaker 4: So we shall see how that plays out. Phone number
Speaker 4: here where you can beg Callum to actually play real songs.
Speaker 4: I doubt he's going to do it. Three four six
Speaker 4: two nine Texan. Spell the whole thing out. Three four
Speaker 4: six twenty nine Texan. You can ask me anything. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't care. Listen. I we're on a
Speaker 4: seven second delay. Ask me anything. We can either bleep
Speaker 4: you out or I'm just not going to pick up
Speaker 4: the foam. Speaking of sports and speaking of technology, which
Speaker 4: I actually kind of kind kind of was if there's
Speaker 4: one sport that I that is it for me and
Speaker 4: I think mostly Texans too, if not the country, it's football.
Speaker 4: We're football football fanatics. Y. San Antonio does not currently
Speaker 4: have an NFL team. I know Houston, does, I know Dallas?
Speaker 4: Does that? The cities that I broadcast in San Antonio.
Speaker 4: I know the Cowboys used to practice they back of
Speaker 4: the early two thousands. They used to hold their training
Speaker 4: camp here for a little while Austin. They actually held
Speaker 4: their training camp in Austin, just up the road, not
Speaker 4: too long ago. So I know we're football freaks. One
Speaker 4: of the things that I think people NFL fans kind
Speaker 4: of a number of things they you know, first of all,
Speaker 4: I think the they think the NFL roots for the
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs. They're pulling for this, they pull for
Speaker 4: superstars or Taylor Swift. They think it's you know, scripted
Speaker 4: or whatever. But for years, and actually since the dawning
Speaker 4: of the NFL and football, you know, started what in
Speaker 4: the nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties up in the the Ohio
Speaker 4: and the Pittsburgh era, when you measure ten yards for
Speaker 4: a first down, it is done by two people the
Speaker 4: chain gang. There is a ten yard chain that when
Speaker 4: the ball is moved and it is placed by the
Speaker 4: referee and it's close to a first down, they bring
Speaker 4: this ten yards and yard chain out and they guestimate,
Speaker 4: and they guesstimate whether it is well. Listen, there has
Speaker 4: been Listen, there is technology right now that could tell
Speaker 4: in baseball if there's a ball or strike. There is
Speaker 4: technology a long time in tennis called the Hawkeye camera
Speaker 4: where they could tell if the ball hits the line
Speaker 4: or out of the line. Of all the cameras, the
Speaker 4: high end, the four K, the eight K cameras that
Speaker 4: are in use in football stadiums, how come they can't
Speaker 4: use that system to tell where the ball should be placed.
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the twenty first freaking century.
Speaker 4: Because starting with this year's football season, just to prove
Speaker 4: this week by the NFL owners, the NFL is going
Speaker 4: to use Sony's Hawkeye cameras to measure the line to gain.
Speaker 4: And this is the process that that chain gang has
Speaker 4: done manually for decades and decades. These are eight K
Speaker 4: cameras and they're going to use virtual measurement technology to
Speaker 4: I love this quickly, and I'm using air quotes quickly
Speaker 4: and accurately. I can probably use air quotes on that
Speaker 4: one too, determine whether the ball traveled ten yards for
Speaker 4: that first down. Now, let me explain how this works,
Speaker 4: all right, I know you're getting excited. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4: The Hawkeye system it's made up of six eight K
Speaker 4: cameras that use optical tracking to determine the ball's position.
Speaker 4: So when the officials receive a measurement, the system is
Speaker 4: going to create a digital recreation of the measurement that
Speaker 4: the NFL is going to show inside the stadium. Oh,
Speaker 4: I can't wait for that. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 4: of booze. But also on TV now, measuring the ball
Speaker 4: with the system, they say it takes around thirty seconds,
Speaker 4: which the NFL says is forty seconds less than the
Speaker 4: Chain Gang takes. Because the Changgang has to go out
Speaker 4: to the middle of the field, They've got to run
Speaker 4: off the field. Now, this does not spell the end
Speaker 4: as of now of the Chain Gang. They're still going
Speaker 4: to remain in the field for the secondary capacity, which
Speaker 4: is actually good because I actually know a dude in
Speaker 4: Houston who is part of the Chang Gang. His name
Speaker 4: is Joe Good Dude. I always see him in the
Speaker 4: background of the Texans games. He works for the Houston
Speaker 4: Texans sidelines of the gang. I was scared for his job,
Speaker 4: But he's still going to be there along with everybody
Speaker 4: us with the secondary capacity. Now, how long is that
Speaker 4: going to last? We don't know whether you knew this
Speaker 4: or not. The NFL began testing this hawkeye last year.
Speaker 4: It will be deployed in all of the US NFL
Speaker 4: stadiums and the international venues that the NFL plays in.
Speaker 4: So many already works with the NFL to power multi
Speaker 4: angle replay technology and whatever thoughts on this, just as
Speaker 4: you think it still could be manipulated three four six
Speaker 4: twenty nine. Texan. I'm a football fan, I am a
Speaker 4: proponent of technology. Hints the name of my moniker, hints
Speaker 4: the name of the show, the High Tech Texan. If
Speaker 4: technology exists, use it. It's not costing us the consumer,
Speaker 4: the viewer anything really in the short term to watch it,
Speaker 4: even though the cost of our cable in whatever, the YouTube,
Speaker 4: TV and everything going up. But utilize this thing. Is
Speaker 4: this the end all be all? No, I want to
Speaker 4: see how this works. This is a little different moving
Speaker 4: a ball of football and placing it where it absolutely
Speaker 4: finished its forward progress. It's different than measuring where a
Speaker 4: tennis ball lands. When a tennis ball lands, there generally
Speaker 4: is no player around it. You've got two players at
Speaker 4: any given time, and that's it on a tennis court.
Speaker 4: And so we've got cameras surrounding on the line, so
Speaker 4: there's no person really blocking it. On a football field,
Speaker 4: you've got twenty two players, you've got at least what
Speaker 4: three to four officials, Then you've got the sideline officials.
Speaker 4: And if you've got a fourth and short, down and
Speaker 4: short and you're just trying to do a push push
Speaker 4: or something which also may be illegal too, we don't
Speaker 4: know that yet. And you're at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 4: and you've got eleven twelve guys just on top of
Speaker 4: each other. I don't care how many cameras you got,
Speaker 4: how are they gonna know exactly where it is? Now
Speaker 4: to me, if you want absolute and I think the
Speaker 4: NFL has tried this, and you need to put an
Speaker 4: RFID chip inside the ball. Now, listen. R FID chip okay,
Speaker 4: radio frequency identification. This is the chip that goes in
Speaker 4: toll tags. This is the chip that goes and a
Speaker 4: lot of the tags that are on clothing tags to
Speaker 4: know if you're walking in and out of stores or
Speaker 4: everything like that. They're very small, they are very lightweight.
Speaker 4: You can embed these, let's just say in football, okay,
Speaker 4: then at one but you know exactly where that ball
Speaker 4: stops where the ball goes. You can see how fast
Speaker 4: that ball is moving, which means how fast it's thrown,
Speaker 4: how fast a runner is actually running with it. However,
Speaker 4: you need to put that chip in all points of
Speaker 4: the ball because that football is oblong, right, and then
Speaker 4: is it on the point of the football that is
Speaker 4: on the ford part? Is the point of the football
Speaker 4: is in the back part? You need it exactly it's
Speaker 4: going to get there. This is a it's a good step.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit more than a baby step. But
Speaker 4: I'm giving some DAP to the NFL. There's your technology.
Speaker 4: I can't wait. This is how bad I'm missing football.
Speaker 4: Before we get to a break, man, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: Once one shiny moment plays late Monday night after the
Speaker 4: final game, and then Natty is handed over to one
Speaker 4: of the four teams that are playing here in San Antonio,
Speaker 4: my next five months are It's pretty sad. I'm not
Speaker 4: the biggest baseball fan. NBA basketball, yes, I'll watch it
Speaker 4: as it gets towards the finals. Hockey, I'm a Texan,
Speaker 4: so now just doesn't work for me. Soccer ain't happening.
Speaker 4: I mean, we live for football, people, and the fact
Speaker 4: is this is I'm yapping about football here when I'm
Speaker 4: sitting here getting ready to go inside the Alibu, don't
Speaker 4: to watch tip off of the final for I'm still
Speaker 4: talking about football. Thoughts on this. When we come back,
Speaker 4: all right, I'm going to talk about the tariffs. I
Speaker 4: know you've been waiting for this tariffs earlier this week
Speaker 4: by the folks in our government who run our country.
Speaker 4: Right now, how does this impact you? How does this
Speaker 4: impact cars? Now? How does it impact telephones, TVs and
Speaker 4: everything else that are that are imported? And we have
Speaker 4: a lot of imported technology that we utilize. We'll talk
Speaker 4: about that. Plasher calls three four, six, twenty nine Texans
Speaker 4: visit the Ident Texan Show. Michael Gardfield is the name
Speaker 4: I'm going to you from that final four city of
Speaker 4: San Antonio. What's up san Antonians? Someone correct? Is the
Speaker 4: San Antonians or San Antonio Rights? And I'm being respectful.
Speaker 4: I love San Antonio. It is a fun, fun city
Speaker 4: to visit. One of my best friends lives here in
Speaker 4: San Antonio. I'm originally from Dallas. I've lived in Houston
Speaker 4: for thirty years now. My show is heard in San Antonio.
Speaker 4: W o A. I twelve hundred, also in Dallas and
Speaker 4: Houston too. I don't come here enough. This it's at Riverwalk.
Speaker 4: It really is a good city, which which is why
Speaker 4: big events like the Final Four come to San Antonio.
Speaker 4: So if you're out about pregame and and if you're
Speaker 4: if you know me, if you got my text, text
Speaker 4: text me up. If not, you can find me or
Speaker 4: DM me find me on Instagram or Twitter, slash x
Speaker 4: blue sky or threads whatever you got high tech text
Speaker 4: and h I G H T E C h T
Speaker 4: e x A n go poops. That's who I am
Speaker 4: rooting for this this Final four weekend four tickets aren't cheat, however,
Speaker 4: one of the few things right now, at least this
Speaker 4: weekend that I don't think has a terra fun tickets
Speaker 4: to sporting events don't think have tarifts tariffs, But I'm
Speaker 4: not sure, and it is time to talk about this
Speaker 4: thing because I'm getting a lot of questions. I did
Speaker 4: a number of different media hits this past week because
Speaker 4: tariffs are very very closely associated with technological products. Yes,
Speaker 4: automobiles and everything. I talk about everything I review, I'm
Speaker 4: talking phones, I'm talking TVs. I mean, it's just so
Speaker 4: many things made holy or made in part from outside
Speaker 4: the country. And so let's see if I could break
Speaker 4: this down for you. Okay, and again, not a political guy,
Speaker 4: I'm honestly not. If you've listened to my show for
Speaker 4: well over twenty years. I'm an American citizen. Love me
Speaker 4: some America. In the long run, I hope what's going
Speaker 4: on helps America, helps jobs, helps manufacturing. So despite the
Speaker 4: fact that the stock market's kind of tanking after these
Speaker 4: announcements and things are going down, I got hope people.
Speaker 4: I am an optimist, I really really am. So after
Speaker 4: months of delays, your president had this contentious tariff barrage
Speaker 4: now in effect. That was earlier this week. It was
Speaker 4: a liberation day. Libertad, libertad. I'm also a scarface fanto.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: President Trump proposed a wide variety of steep tariffs during
Speaker 4: his re election bid, and it looks like they came
Speaker 4: to fruition tariffs against China. For example. It prompted Acer,
Speaker 4: which makes laptops already to announce impending price hikes, and
Speaker 4: there's similar price increases from other companies expected soon on
Speaker 4: things like smartphones and laptops and tablets and TVs. Saw
Speaker 4: recent report popular insurance comparison site. It's called insurify. It predicted,
Speaker 4: based on whatever data they had, that tariff's in Canada
Speaker 4: and Mexico could cause an eight percent increase in auto
Speaker 4: insurance insurance costs by the end of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: I haven't got to the cars itself yet, So questions,
Speaker 4: what exactly are these terriffs? Why is all this such
Speaker 4: a frenzy? More to the point which I'm getting specifically, Hey, Michael,
Speaker 4: what do they mean for the prices you're going to
Speaker 4: see when crossing things off your shopping list? Here's my
Speaker 4: quick answer, expect to pay more for at least some
Speaker 4: goods and services. Hey, what exactly is it? Tariff? I'm
Speaker 4: really going to take you to school over here? All right?
Speaker 4: Tariff one oh one? I did some research. A tariff
Speaker 4: is attack and the cost of importing and exporting goods
Speaker 4: by a particular country. Therefore, a sixty percent tarify on
Speaker 4: Chinese imports would be a sixty percent tax on the
Speaker 4: price of importing computer components from China. Right, So well,
Speaker 4: Trump actually deployed tariffs and is notably against China, and
Speaker 4: he ramped up his plans even more significantly promising sixty
Speaker 4: percent tariffs against China and a universal twenty percent tariff
Speaker 4: on all ports into the US. Now he stopped short
Speaker 4: of there. I think he went roughly around thirty or
Speaker 4: thirty four percent when he announced it earlier this week.
Speaker 4: But who pays the cost of this tariff? Who pays
Speaker 4: the cost of this I remember when he was campaigning,
Speaker 4: Trump repeatedly claimed that the country from which an imported
Speaker 4: good is coming pays the cost of the tariffs, and
Speaker 4: then Americans would not see any price increase from them. However,
Speaker 4: economist fact checkers said not always the case. Now, the
Speaker 4: company's importing the goods pay the higher cost. But there's
Speaker 4: compensation to compensate for these new cost companies, they can
Speaker 4: raise their prices to absorb the additional cost themselves. Think
Speaker 4: about it. This is what happens with the TV sports industry.
Speaker 4: Rights to televise and have the rights to NFL games,
Speaker 4: or the March Madness, the cbstn T or do you
Speaker 4: know you know WBT. They continue to go up. What
Speaker 4: does that mean? Well, your cable price goes up, where
Speaker 4: your YouTube TV price they're passing it on to the
Speaker 4: customer that way, call it a tariff or not, but
Speaker 4: companies pass it along to consumers. We as consumers, and
Speaker 4: I say, well, I'm in this boat too. We're gonna
Speaker 4: feel pain financially as these tariffs take effect. Now, some
Speaker 4: companies they may eat the new cost resulting from tariffs
Speaker 4: themselves rather than pass it on to consumers. Maybe temporarily.
Speaker 4: I like that. Yay, schooner tuna people the cost. Who's
Speaker 4: a mister mom fan what Terry gar who is the
Speaker 4: campaign she came back with with the schooner tuna. Temporarily
Speaker 4: we're gonna raise prices, but when they come down, this
Speaker 4: is good for America. All right, they passed that's the
Speaker 4: cause idea. That's that's awesome. That was the I don't
Speaker 4: I don't know where I pulled that one out. That
Speaker 4: was the first schooner tune reference. That's what a terriff is.
Speaker 4: That they're very prescient back in the day. Ah so
Speaker 4: do I. Here's the here's the delio. There was a
Speaker 4: sweeping overhaul ten percent tariff on all imported goods that
Speaker 4: takes effect now pretty much this week in April fifth
Speaker 4: for a certain number of countries which Trump claimed were
Speaker 4: more responsible for the US trade defercent. That number was
Speaker 4: set higher, thirty four percent for China, twenty percent for
Speaker 4: the twenty seven nations that make up the European Union.
Speaker 4: You got twenty six percent for India, twenty four percent
Speaker 4: for Japan. It goes on and on and on. I'm
Speaker 4: not going to read the whole list. There was a
Speaker 4: twenty five percent on all foreign made cars and auto
Speaker 4: parts that has already took an effect. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 4: stop you here because I do cars. I review cars.
Speaker 4: I know a few dealers, and I definitely know a
Speaker 4: lot of the manufacturers. I review cars for fifteen years.
Speaker 4: I will tell you right now in the probably the
Speaker 4: number one question I got, Okay, twenty five percent tack
Speaker 4: tariff on form made cars. I am gonna go get
Speaker 4: a car, Michael, that is one hundred percent made the
Speaker 4: United States, Ladies and gentlemen, man, I hate breaking this
Speaker 4: news to you. There is not one vehicle that is
Speaker 4: purely solely made in the United States or has one
Speaker 4: hundred percent the United States parts. Every manufacturer, including Tesla,
Speaker 4: would made it right here in Texas, all right. For
Speaker 4: the most part, fifteen percent to maybe thirty to forty
Speaker 4: percent have some parts that are made outside of the country,
Speaker 4: so I can stop. Listen. I go on and on
Speaker 4: about tariffs. But let's talk about this for vehicles. How
Speaker 4: much the average price of a vehicle sold? And again
Speaker 4: I do that some research for you last month or
Speaker 4: two forty seven thousand dollars. Now, if a manufacturer or
Speaker 4: a dealership charge you you twenty five percent more, who
Speaker 4: are you going? What do dealers do? I don't know
Speaker 4: the answer. Probably should get one of my dealer buddies
Speaker 4: to come on. I don't know if they want to
Speaker 4: make a comment. Can manufacturers give incentives to help? Yes,
Speaker 4: they can. And I did see last week knowing everybody
Speaker 4: knew this was coming. There was the end of March,
Speaker 4: last minute, last weekend. Let's give you some deals of
Speaker 4: these incentives before the tariffs come in. I'm watching this closely,
Speaker 4: I mean, in this conversation right now. Okay, I can
Speaker 4: take your calls if you want to. I don't have
Speaker 4: the answers. I don't know the goal the goal of
Speaker 4: the White House tariffs. I think the typical goal behind
Speaker 4: terrorist is to discourage consumers and businesses from buying the
Speaker 4: tear off goods. I think in this case, Trump has
Speaker 4: claimed that the tariffs will encourage more people to buy
Speaker 4: American made products and maybe more company to create jobs
Speaker 4: in the US, and will quote unquote punish overseas producers
Speaker 4: with shoddy working conditions. Okay, coolio. If that works, dude
Speaker 4: is a genius. How long is that going to take
Speaker 4: and is that ever going to come to fruition? It's
Speaker 4: it's not a question. No one knows that. If I
Speaker 4: knew that, I would not be sitting here behind a
Speaker 4: microphone wasting two hours of my time in your time,
Speaker 4: I'd own an island. But I think economist warning these
Speaker 4: tariffs could instead lead to a sustained price increase and
Speaker 4: job losses right here in the domestic labor market, and
Speaker 4: retaliatory tariffs on US exports by foreign countries which are
Speaker 4: already starting, that could hurt American business. I think in
Speaker 4: short term it's going to be painful. Long term, wish
Speaker 4: I could tell you, But as of right now, through
Speaker 4: the summer, through back to school season, maybe through the
Speaker 4: holiday shopping season, maybe through then the end of this term,
Speaker 4: with what's going on, why, we may be hurting. But
Speaker 4: at the long run, I don't know. Maybe this is
Speaker 4: going to be the Trump administration's everlasting legacy that it
Speaker 4: is going to bring America back with manufacturing. I hope
Speaker 4: that's the case. I really don't, because America should be
Speaker 4: we are the greatest country in the world. We should
Speaker 4: be buying all American and I want to buy everything
Speaker 4: all Amoric. I want to buy everything in Texas here
Speaker 4: no stadium contacts, by the way, on a number of
Speaker 4: different things. My thoughts on it. Let's hear from you.
Speaker 4: Keep the politics up, because I ain't gonna deal it.
Speaker 4: But those are the facts, at least according to Garth.
Speaker 4: All right, one more subject, one more subjects a segment
Speaker 4: this coming hour here in San Antonio for the Final four.
Speaker 4: When we come back, I will talk about the Nintendo Switch, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, Nintendo based in Japan. The Switch too.
Speaker 4: It's the new gaming console that there was information was
Speaker 4: just announced this week. I'll tell you how much it's
Speaker 4: gonna cost. I'll tell you when it is going to
Speaker 4: come out. I'll tell you how do you get on
Speaker 4: the list to buy it. Our terro is gonna affect
Speaker 4: the price on that. Oh, we got a lot to
Speaker 4: talk about here on the High Tech Texting Show. It
Speaker 4: is Garth right here in San Antonio. I told you
Speaker 4: I take the show on the road. Michael Garfield is
Speaker 4: the high tech text and based in Houston. Heard in Houston,
Speaker 4: heard it Dallas, heard in San Antonio. Terrestrially, also on
Speaker 4: the iHeartRadio app if you're listening somewhere around the country.
Speaker 4: We started on WAI twelve hundred. Was this so this
Speaker 4: is November or December of last year. I couldn't be
Speaker 4: more thrilled. WAI Man. That's part of the Ihearts team
Speaker 4: and system, which I've been on for twenty three years.
Speaker 4: And it's a blowtorch man. I mean, that's fifty thousand
Speaker 4: watts my voice right now. If you're listening on OI,
Speaker 4: I mean it's probably heard in Mexico for all we know.
Speaker 4: I told you at some point I'm gonna come up
Speaker 4: and do the show from San Antonio. I am here,
Speaker 4: but I announced that and people are like, oh, let
Speaker 4: me know when you're here, Garth, We're gonna give you
Speaker 4: some restaurant choices, which I'm getting right now now. Don't
Speaker 4: get me wrong. Listen, I'm in Texas pretty much all
Speaker 4: my life, and I do love me some text Max,
Speaker 4: and I know where to get some text mechs in
Speaker 4: where I live in Houston area, and certainly I visit
Speaker 4: you know in Dallas. My parents are up there where
Speaker 4: I live San Antonio. I got a few spots. Funny,
Speaker 4: I just got one email, Garth, listened to your show
Speaker 4: for a few months here in San Antonio. I know
Speaker 4: you're a big Cabo Bobs fan. Cabo Bob's Burritos because
Speaker 4: you always talk about it and give away gift cards.
Speaker 4: There is one in San Antonio. It's right on the
Speaker 4: loop on the door side. Actually, I actually knew that.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what I'm trying to think. I
Speaker 4: don't have time today. It's Saturday, when I'm doing the
Speaker 4: show live. Sunday Cabo Bob's is closed. They doe a
Speaker 4: Chick fil a copy of their business model. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'll eat at Cabo Bobs anytime itny day the week
Speaker 4: except Sunday, which I can't. Monday, I could do lunch
Speaker 4: because the Monday night tip off doesn't happen till like
Speaker 4: what seven o'clock at night or something eight o'clock at night.
Speaker 4: Could do that anyway, Thank you for your suggestions of
Speaker 4: where to eat in San Antonio. Bye. By the way,
Speaker 4: Cabo Bobs who wants to win a twenty five dollars
Speaker 4: gift card to Cobo Bob's. I was hanging out with
Speaker 4: Lori Rios. I was at a clay shoot tournament earlier
Speaker 4: this week. I saw her. She is the catering and
Speaker 4: marketing director and uh, just her and her husband Arnold,
Speaker 4: just the coolest people.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And they give me twenty five dollars gift cards to
Speaker 4: give away. So technically, if you're in San Antonio you
Speaker 4: could use them. If you listen in Austin you can
Speaker 4: use them because that's where they're based. Houston you can
Speaker 4: use them. Dallas sucks for you. There's no Combo Bobs
Speaker 4: there yet. Tell you what caller number ten. Let's do this,
Speaker 4: I get things away. It's radio. Here's the number seven
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Speaker 4: five Oh caller ten. You are go get a twenty
Speaker 4: five gift dollar gift card to Cabo Bob's, which you
Speaker 4: could use right here in San Antonio at their one
Speaker 4: location on the North Loop is what they called they
Speaker 4: called the North Loop here, or you can use it
Speaker 4: to any of the Cabo Bob's locations. Stop. We have
Speaker 4: a winner. This is people, That's what radio is about.
Speaker 4: Man promotions and giveaways, and I say something, We're gonna
Speaker 4: give it away. We're here for Oh, by the way,
Speaker 4: we still have we have we have a more. Last
Speaker 4: week we went nuts on this and we had a
Speaker 4: number of different entries to celebrate. I'm in a position
Speaker 4: in this way. You still have time to enter to
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Speaker 4: These are the wet and dry vacuums. They just came
Speaker 4: out Robo Rock, which is the world's leader when it
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Speaker 4: I'm a big fan, so I can give away to
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Speaker 4: t e x A N and kind of scroll down
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Speaker 4: All you need is your email and your name. Nothing else,
Speaker 4: no phone number, no nothing. They promise not to spam you,
Speaker 4: but just robo Rock wants to do it, so I'm
Speaker 4: gonna position it this way. So far, the Houston Cougars
Speaker 4: have had a clean sweep through March madness. You see
Speaker 4: what I did there. And to celebrate that, robo Rock
Speaker 4: is giving away a one of three electronic vacuums. I
Speaker 4: like that. That's uh. I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: All right, Now on to tariffs and new tech gear
Speaker 4: coming out For all of you parents out there whose
Speaker 4: kids are already bugging you mom, dad, Nintendo's coming out
Speaker 4: with the switch Too. It's just announced. Can I get one?
Speaker 4: Can I get one? Parents? Did you even know about
Speaker 4: this console switch? Which has been out for years? But
Speaker 4: the newly announced switch To, and it's coming out in June,
Speaker 4: And I will tell you the price here, and I'll
Speaker 4: tell you how to get actually how to pre order one,
Speaker 4: because your kids are gonna want this, all right. So
Speaker 4: now let me give you the quick play by play,
Speaker 4: because I do remember when the early Nintendo games came
Speaker 4: out back in the day the consoles, there was there
Speaker 4: was long lines at stores and Best Buys and and whatever,
Speaker 4: and then you know, there were secondary market places and
Speaker 4: parents were like, it was like a cabbage patch doll
Speaker 4: if you think about it. And I just dated myself.
Speaker 4: That's pretty old, okay. And so there's the you know,
Speaker 4: where can I get one of these things? My kids
Speaker 4: need it, so it's nice that they're doing it in
Speaker 4: summer versus the holiday season. But here the deal. After
Speaker 4: years and years of rumors, Nintendo finally announced a release
Speaker 4: date for the switch To, which is the long away
Speaker 4: To successor to the Switch. The date June fifth, June fifth,
Speaker 4: The price four hundred and fifty bones. I actually didn't
Speaker 4: freak out about that, because there's other gaming consoles packages,
Speaker 4: the xboxes, the PlayStations that I've seen them more expensive
Speaker 4: than that, but four UNO fifty dollars. It's going to
Speaker 4: be available for pre order here at select retailers starting
Speaker 4: this coming week as a standalone console, but there's also
Speaker 4: a limit edition bundle with Mario Kart World for another
Speaker 4: fifty dollars. All right, so let me give the specs
Speaker 4: over here the Switch too. It features a larger seven
Speaker 4: point nine inch LCD display, so it comes with the display,
Speaker 4: but it also has support for ten eightyp resolution and
Speaker 4: h DRS. When you plug it into your monitor TV,
Speaker 4: it's gonna look great. It's got more built in storage,
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty six gigs of storage and six
Speaker 4: and a half hours of battery life. That's right. It
Speaker 4: works on batteries too. There are these joysticks, which they
Speaker 4: don't called joysticks, they're called joy con cons. They're bigger
Speaker 4: this time around, and they're magnetically attached to the console.
Speaker 4: Because that used to be the You would slide these
Speaker 4: and snap them into the rails on the side. I
Speaker 4: can pick the magnetic thing. So for games, if anybody cares,
Speaker 4: Switch to is going to launch with Mario Kart World,
Speaker 4: along with some other third party games Split Fiction Cyberpunk
Speaker 4: twenty twenty seventy seven. Did I lose anybody right now
Speaker 4: with all this stuff? But one of the things that
Speaker 4: I liked about this good for Nintendo. The console is
Speaker 4: going to be backwards compatible, which means it's going to
Speaker 4: be able to play the original Switch games. That means
Speaker 4: you don't need to throw away or get new versions
Speaker 4: of the games that you bought for the original Switch. Good.
Speaker 4: There's a little break for us because I remember some
Speaker 4: of these other consoles back at that day coming out. Oh,
Speaker 4: they're not gonna be backwards compatible real quickly. You can
Speaker 4: pre order it if you're on the my Nintendo store,
Speaker 4: all right, you have to register your interest in advance
Speaker 4: of April ninth. You gotta go and sign it with
Speaker 4: your Nintendo accounts and whatever. If your kids already have
Speaker 4: a Nintendo, get to the Ninda Canada. It's going to
Speaker 4: be at best Buy, right the pre order at best Buy,
Speaker 4: So April ninth, go to best Buy dot Com. Don't
Speaker 4: know much more than that, but that works too. Walmart's
Speaker 4: gonna have them too. They haven't officially said with the
Speaker 4: details regarding Switch to launch, but I do believe they're
Speaker 4: gonna be at Walmart. If you have a Walmart Plus account,
Speaker 4: get on walmart dot com target same thing. Targets like Walmart,
Speaker 4: they've published already retailer listings for that standalone Switch to en.
Speaker 4: Mario Kart doesn't have any details on how you can
Speaker 4: pre order. But it's gonna be at the target. It's
Speaker 4: going to be a game to believe it or not.
Speaker 4: If you can find a game stop, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: there too. So utilize a regular retailer. Hopefully you're getting
Speaker 4: a pre order list, and when it comes out on
Speaker 4: June fifth, go to town. Maybe I may hire one
Speaker 4: of your kids actually to call and actually give me
Speaker 4: a review. So there you go. Questions about that, you
Speaker 4: let me out. You have one more hour to talk
Speaker 4: about this. It is Michael Garker. It's the High Tech
Speaker 4: textan show in San Antonio for March Madness with the
Speaker 4: final four. We will continue after this big break right
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Speaker 4: You're getting into the second hour of two hours of
Speaker 4: the High Tech Texan Show. That's that's right, it is
Speaker 4: Michael Garfield. I am not in studio in Houston because
Speaker 4: I am in San Antonio as we partner, as we
Speaker 4: are heard on WAI twelve one hundred am the Big
Speaker 4: blow Torch. Actually I'm here for another reason because it
Speaker 4: is the Final Four. What a fun city, man, San Antonio.
Speaker 4: Just a cool place to visit if you've never had
Speaker 4: a chance to come to San Antonio, the river Walk.
Speaker 4: Very big city too, one of the top three most
Speaker 4: populous cities in the United States. Proud to have my
Speaker 4: radio show actually heard here here for the Final Four
Speaker 4: tip off later today Saturday, as I'm doing the show.
Speaker 4: Depending on when this show airs in all of my
Speaker 4: markets and Houston Cougar's big Koog fan. One of my
Speaker 4: three sons went to University of Houston Coog. So I'll
Speaker 4: be wearing some red. So if you see me walking
Speaker 4: up and down the Riverwalk, say hi. By the way,
Speaker 4: if you're new to the show, we are halfway through
Speaker 4: the show, so it is halfway to happy hour. Let
Speaker 4: me help you out. It's party time here in San Antonio.
Speaker 4: And if you're on the river Walk, I think it's
Speaker 4: always happy hour. And I hear let me hear from
Speaker 4: a SEMITI from San Antonio. Three four six twenty nine,
Speaker 4: Texan is there. This is a fun city. It's a
Speaker 4: party city, specially down you got big events that come through,
Speaker 4: great conventions. It's it's allge party, all the time. Best Okay,
Speaker 4: We're gonna have some fother best place to hang in
Speaker 4: pregame somewhere downtown walkable to the Alamodon. I know a
Speaker 4: few because I've been walking around here for I don't
Speaker 4: know half a day. But three four six twenty nine, Texan.
Speaker 4: Give me some suggestions on my either Facebook of her
Speaker 4: friends or also on my ex Twitter account high Tech
Speaker 4: Texan h I G h T E c h T
Speaker 4: E X A M A lot of people over here,
Speaker 4: a lot of people from out of out of state.
Speaker 4: What's up, Duke? Got some lease coasters over here, Auburn.
Speaker 4: Anybody see anybody who's seen Charles Barkley floating over the city.
Speaker 4: Charles Barkley not not a big fan of the city
Speaker 4: of San Antonio and probably the Convention of Visitors Bureau.
Speaker 4: I love Charles Barkley in terms of a broadcast. Dude
Speaker 4: is funny, but he has been He's kind of been
Speaker 4: a little harsh for some residents of San Antonio, and
Speaker 4: I'll just keep it to that. But it's funny. He's
Speaker 4: got his blimp with the partnership with a credit card.
Speaker 4: He's it's floating over the city. Surprised somebody has not
Speaker 4: actually tried to do something about that and bring it down.
Speaker 4: But there's lots of stuff going on here. Phone number
Speaker 4: is three four six two nine te x A n
Speaker 4: last hour, we talked number of things. Okay, we talked
Speaker 4: about technology and sports. NFL finally adopting the Hawkeye camera
Speaker 4: technology to measure their first downs that just passed this week,
Speaker 4: just like tennis and everything. But that's gonna happen this
Speaker 4: coming season in the NFL which is good. Talked about
Speaker 4: tariffs too, tried to be un or non political. I
Speaker 4: think I towed the line. But what does it mean
Speaker 4: for technology? Bought it? What does it mean for cars
Speaker 4: and trucks in the short term and the long term?
Speaker 4: What does it mean for the phones and the TVs
Speaker 4: and everything that has made from parts that are shipped
Speaker 4: from foreign countries to the United States. It doesn't mean
Speaker 4: I don't think it means anything good news. In the
Speaker 4: short term, there may be a trade war. We don't know.
Speaker 4: I wish I didn't know. But hang on. If for
Speaker 4: some reason, you see something that you've had your eye on,
Speaker 4: maybe it's a refrigerator, maybe it is a car, maybe
Speaker 4: it's a TV. If you check the price now and
Speaker 4: it really hasn't gone up yet over the past week,
Speaker 4: you may want to consider purchasing it because I think
Speaker 4: over the next few months, maybe towards end of the year,
Speaker 4: the price these companies who do solely make products out
Speaker 4: of the country in the United States, or parts that
Speaker 4: shipped in the United States, they may pass on that
Speaker 4: cost to the customer, which is you, and that cost
Speaker 4: could go up. So if you have anything specific, I'm
Speaker 4: happy to try to answer it. See if I can
Speaker 4: give you my insight. I haven't seen anything again, I mean,
Speaker 4: busy week between Wednesday when Trump did the whole tariff
Speaker 4: thing and then I drove to San Antonio and I'm
Speaker 4: here and a lot of commitments with sponsors. I haven't
Speaker 4: really seen anything going up. But if you've seen something,
Speaker 4: feel free to share it with me. Right now three
Speaker 4: four six twenty nine textan here is another thing that
Speaker 4: me man. There's a lot of stuff going on with
Speaker 4: the government, and for a non political talk show, a
Speaker 4: lot of things are affected. The TikTok ban is happening
Speaker 4: this weekend. Now. There was an inauguration weekend in January
Speaker 4: when TikTok actually was removed from the Apple Store, Google
Speaker 4: Play Store, and for like three days, four days, no
Speaker 4: one could use any app from byte Dance. Byte Dance
Speaker 4: is the Chinese own company that our country believes should
Speaker 4: not be utilized. I have no clue. There's many other
Speaker 4: Chinese apps out there that we use on a regular basis. However,
Speaker 4: we went. They went after byte Dance, which is, as
Speaker 4: you know, TikTok, but three days later, welcome back. It's
Speaker 4: save Well, guess what they extended the deal to either
Speaker 4: a a company better buy a US company, better purchase
Speaker 4: Byte Dance, which does own TikTok and cap cut a
Speaker 4: number of things. A lot of rumors who potentially could
Speaker 4: do it. I don't know, So by Sunday of this weekend,
Speaker 4: we may not be able to use TikTok or cap
Speaker 4: cut in the United States. It's I have no clue
Speaker 4: why all this stuff is just just happens. Can't we
Speaker 4: just have fun? This is why we can't have nice things? Man,
Speaker 4: So I don't have TikTok one of the only social
Speaker 4: media platforms that I personally don't have no particular reason,
Speaker 4: and it's not because it's directly it's a Chinese own company.
Speaker 4: It's a very popular social media platform. All three of
Speaker 4: my kids unize TikTok. My youngest son is like a
Speaker 4: major sports influencer on TikTok and Instagram. Just he was
Speaker 4: scared last January that a lot of his income was
Speaker 4: going to go away because you get sponsored in the
Speaker 4: whole thing. So TikTok for me didn't matter. What mattered
Speaker 4: to me is another company and another app that is
Speaker 4: owned by Bydance, which, by the way, if that goes
Speaker 4: by by what are we going to do? And that
Speaker 4: is a video editing app which I edit videos on
Speaker 4: a very regular basis for my Instagram and my Facebook.
Speaker 4: If you're a longtime follower, which I do, thank you.
Speaker 4: One of the easiest, if not the easiest, in my favorite,
Speaker 4: in so many people's favorite around the world. Editing app
Speaker 4: is called cap Cut. Cap Cut, very popular social media.
Speaker 4: Could not be easier. I mean, I studied radio intelligience film.
Speaker 4: I have a degree in it from the University of Texas.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, in the eighties, when I studied
Speaker 4: editing and filmmaking, TV editing, radio editing, we had to
Speaker 4: edit man in radio. We literally had to use a
Speaker 4: razor blade to splice actual tape analog tape tape it together. Yes,
Speaker 4: we've come a long way. There's Final Cut Pro, there's Adobe,
Speaker 4: all this O this stuff like that. But now there's apps.
Speaker 4: It is so simple to do. I've actually I do
Speaker 4: a lot of TV. Also, I'm on Fox seven in Austin.
Speaker 4: I'm on a Great Day Houston CBS in Houston. I
Speaker 4: had a lot of my own packages. I do. I
Speaker 4: can do. It doesn't take too long. My kids they
Speaker 4: can probably it takes me a bit. It takes me
Speaker 4: an hour an hour and a half to edit, you know,
Speaker 4: a four or five six minute thing to make it
Speaker 4: really sexy. My kids could probably do it in twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: Not the point. Cap Cut has two hundred million active
Speaker 4: users as about a year ago. Okay, it's a very
Speaker 4: big favorite among influencers, social media creators. It's versatile, it
Speaker 4: does have a free plan, it does have a paid plan,
Speaker 4: all right. However, the US thinks it's the threat to
Speaker 4: national security because it is owned by bit Dance, which
Speaker 4: is a Chinese company. We shall see. But when we
Speaker 4: come back and I gotta take a break, if for
Speaker 4: some reason cap cut goes bye bye and TikTok goes
Speaker 4: by by, I will give you some alternative apps that
Speaker 4: I have found that maybe just as good, maybe just
Speaker 4: as easy, and maybe just as inexpensive, if not free.
Speaker 4: So when we come back, I got that, I got
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Speaker 4: on the river walk. I have here for March Madness.
Speaker 4: I have a I got a question for you, and
Speaker 4: I need some input here, need some input. It's a
Speaker 4: very simple question, because I had an issue this week
Speaker 4: that so many of you listeners around everybody's if you're
Speaker 4: a breathing person, especially I don't as an adult that
Speaker 4: utilizes some services that you think are absolutely must needed
Speaker 4: and must have in life. Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 4: What services are so must have now must need now
Speaker 4: that if it's broken and you don't have it fixed,
Speaker 4: almost immediately. Your life has turned upside down. I want
Speaker 4: you to think about that. It's a staple of your
Speaker 4: everyday life. All of a sudden, boom, something goes cabluey,
Speaker 4: all right, something there's a snaffoo doesn't work. Some things
Speaker 4: you can put off. Okay, well maybe it is. I'll go.
Speaker 4: You know, I can wait to get some batteries to
Speaker 4: replace it whatever like. But but there are some things
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Speaker 4: three four six twenty nine, Texan host it. If you're
Speaker 4: too shy to talk to me, post it online. Go
Speaker 4: to my ex account high tech text and h I
Speaker 4: G H T E C H T E x A N.
Speaker 4: My AC was on the fritz. Folks, if you live
Speaker 4: in Texas almost any time of year, but starting right
Speaker 4: now in early April. Oh, and it's gonna get much
Speaker 4: worse if your AC goes down, you better fix that
Speaker 4: thing immediately. Am I wrong? Don't even that's a retort question.
Speaker 4: I am not wrong that if I had to rank them,
Speaker 4: number one, your air conditioning goes down you better figure
Speaker 4: out what's wrong. You better find somebody to fix that thing.
Speaker 4: You better hope it's not replacement of the whole thing. Luckily,
Speaker 4: my quick story, this is not an ad, this is
Speaker 4: not a debt. I wish I endorsed an air conditioning company,
Speaker 4: and I should be endorsing air conditioning company because I
Speaker 4: have so many listeners, and this is Texas.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 4: I kind of know my way around over the years
Speaker 4: because I like studying things, and over the years when
Speaker 4: I had an air conditioning repair company, I just I
Speaker 4: watch them. I sweat in the attic and I go outside.
Speaker 4: I just want to see what's going on. So I
Speaker 4: kind of know my way around in air conditioning. My
Speaker 4: air conditioning just stopped working. It stopped working earlier this week,
Speaker 4: so I had to do some Okay, let's see what's wrong.
Speaker 4: Let me tell because well, I'm gonna call an air
Speaker 4: conditioning repair company. I want to tell them exactly what's wrong,
Speaker 4: so they don't they can narrow narrow it down and
Speaker 4: it makes their job easier. The outside compressure was not working.
Speaker 4: Everything was shut off. I go in the attic where
Speaker 4: my air conditioning, my HVAC system is and the first
Speaker 4: thing that I see, and this is an every HVAC system,
Speaker 4: there is a drip pan underneath your presser. It's like
Speaker 4: this metal drip pan. If there is water in there,
Speaker 4: Number one, you got a problem because that is your
Speaker 4: backup emergency drippand that's if something goes wrong with the
Speaker 4: main drain, it's then gonna back up and it starts
Speaker 4: dripping into this pan. Now, if you don't know it's dripping,
Speaker 4: and you don't have a sensor or an alarm to
Speaker 4: let you know or automatically shut down your system, which
Speaker 4: luckily happened to me, that water is gonna overflow from
Speaker 4: your pan and it is gonna seep down in that
Speaker 4: It is gonna seep into your ceiling, and then you're
Speaker 4: gonna have an issue. What you should have and what
Speaker 4: I do have. I have this electronic sensor that is wired.
Speaker 4: It's like an automatic trip switch. When it sits in
Speaker 4: my drip tray, when it senses moisture, when it senses water,
Speaker 4: it will shut down my system. That's what happened. There
Speaker 4: was probably half an inch of water in my drip tray.
Speaker 4: Something was happening with my main drain, so it started
Speaker 4: dripping to the tray. So my alarm censor went off,
Speaker 4: shuts down the system. And I'm glad it did that
Speaker 4: because if it didn't shut it down, the pressure would
Speaker 4: have still been running. Drippan would have filled up, would
Speaker 4: have overflowed my drip hand would have flowed through my ceiling.
Speaker 4: Not gonna happen. So anyway, called the ac company and
Speaker 4: I said, here's what's going on. My best guess is
Speaker 4: I need my drain flushed, the air conditioning drain flushed
Speaker 4: because it's using the auxiliary backup overflow in the pan. Luckily,
Speaker 4: and I won't even name it the I want moanium
Speaker 4: and mentioned the name of the company and hopefully I
Speaker 4: could not believe that they got there within about four
Speaker 4: or five hours, which is fine. Guy comes over, could
Speaker 4: not have been nicer. Was here about three hours and
Speaker 4: I had him flush the drain. I saw how he
Speaker 4: did it. I got some tips auso, which I'll give
Speaker 4: for you for free too. Flush the drain at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, as far as I can tell,
Speaker 4: because of the next four or five because it's been
Speaker 4: it's it's been working for the last four or five days.
Speaker 4: That was the issue. And I don't think my drain.
Speaker 4: My air conditioning upstairs drain has been flushed out, cleaned
Speaker 4: in years and years and years. It was backed up
Speaker 4: with whatever and that was it. Luckily did not need
Speaker 4: a new compressor, did do anything. So found a tip actually, though,
Speaker 4: if you can get up and you're capable, you gotta
Speaker 4: be careful to go to your air and not everybody's
Speaker 4: is in their attic. Sometimes it's in their garage or something.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's reachable somewhere else. Go find your drain and
Speaker 4: generally it's an open upright PYPE TVC pipe and that
Speaker 4: drain leads either a outside because whenevery air conditioning is running,
Speaker 4: there's a little drip, drip drip, it's commondensation, whatever, and
Speaker 4: you want that draining outside or you want it draining
Speaker 4: into a pipe. Mine, particularly because it was in the attic.
Speaker 4: There is a PVC pipe that leaves to my guest
Speaker 4: bathroom sink. That's where mind drains. There was a block
Speaker 4: up of something. Dude could not have been nicer, flushed
Speaker 4: it out, used a wet dry vacuum, blew everything out.
Speaker 4: Then he puts some do not put draino in it.
Speaker 4: I thought draino was a great fix. Those are different pipes.
Speaker 4: Doesn't have a U shaped pipe like underneath your sink
Speaker 4: when you use DRAINA don't use DRAINO. Here's what you
Speaker 4: need to do. Every few months. Use a mixture of
Speaker 4: vinegar and water. Take like a sixteen ounce squeeze a
Speaker 4: little you know, a bottle of a water bottle, right,
Speaker 4: but half vinegar half water. Mix it up. Four that
Speaker 4: down that open pipe if it's open, or maybe there's
Speaker 4: a little cap in your pipe, that will help clear
Speaker 4: things or keep that drain relatively unclogged. It's not the
Speaker 4: end I'll be all. I'll still could get clogged. That's
Speaker 4: something I am going to do pretty much for the
Speaker 4: rest of my time that I have my house. That's
Speaker 4: number one. The other the other one is go outside
Speaker 4: to your compress sir, and I haven't done this, I
Speaker 4: don't think in five years, six years. Go take a
Speaker 4: hose and hose down the outside sides of that air
Speaker 4: compressor because it could get there's dust, there's pollum that
Speaker 4: builds up. That means that compressor works harder to suck
Speaker 4: in the air for that fan to go around and
Speaker 4: that noise to happen. Man, he was out there, he
Speaker 4: took my hose and he might It took him twenty
Speaker 4: minutes to clean all the crapol of that just came
Speaker 4: out dirt water everywhere. So now it's like a it's
Speaker 4: cleaner suction. It comes in air conditionings. Is it's fine?
Speaker 4: Right now? Knock? What didn't need a compressor? There you go.
Speaker 4: The point is and I got another metete over here too.
Speaker 4: Where was I going? What are some services that you
Speaker 4: if you don't have it fixed immediately, that turns your
Speaker 4: life upside down? Number one, It's got to be air conditioning.
Speaker 4: Number two, if you got a flat tire. If you've
Speaker 4: got a flat tire, you generally don't wait around and
Speaker 4: say it's gonna fix itself. That'll be wait a week. Okay,
Speaker 4: you need a flat tire fixed? All the ones I
Speaker 4: could think of. If you lose your cell phone, your
Speaker 4: cell phone is pretty much your life right now. I
Speaker 4: would rather lose my wallet than lose my cell phone.
Speaker 4: Never thought I'd say that that's my that's generally your
Speaker 4: only connection to the world. A lot of people don't
Speaker 4: even have hard wire phones at home. All of your
Speaker 4: your website, your passwords, your banking, you do so much
Speaker 4: your cell phone. So you got to go replace that,
Speaker 4: find it, find my phone, get a new phone, whatever
Speaker 4: it is. What am I missing is we take a
Speaker 4: break over here. What are some services that you absolutely
Speaker 4: must have now? You need now that. If it's not
Speaker 4: fixed immediately, your life is just over. Air conditioning, flat tire,
Speaker 4: cell phones. Talk to me phone number here. If you
Speaker 4: still have your cell phone three four six twenty nine
Speaker 4: Texan three four six twenty nine textan when we get back,
Speaker 4: and I apologize for this. I will give you some
Speaker 4: options if cap cut, if you're video editing app goes
Speaker 4: down this weekend because of some government regulated issue, I
Speaker 4: will tell you what to do.
Speaker 6: It is Michael Rachel Behide tempt the show.
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Speaker 4: crowned right here where I am doing my show this weekend.
Speaker 4: San Antonio, Texas. Hello San Antonio and my terrestrial listeners
Speaker 4: on news radio twelve hundred WAI also generally I do
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Speaker 4: Texan or Michael Garfield you can listen and then after
Speaker 4: the show, so I guess at about twenty five or
Speaker 4: thirty minutes, this show will be put on the podcast
Speaker 4: right Callum Calum Rain who has done it for so
Speaker 4: many years. Thank you so much for doing that. Will Will,
Speaker 4: I don't even it's gonna last that long. Today is
Speaker 4: Saturday is the deadline that TikTok if it's not bought
Speaker 4: or sold to a US based company, that TikTok could
Speaker 4: be banned because it is owned by the Chinese government
Speaker 4: along with cap cut, which is my favorite and one
Speaker 4: of my most used apps. By the way, cap cuts
Speaker 4: great video editor app. And I talked about that about
Speaker 4: a segment ago. It happened last January. It was right
Speaker 4: on inauguration weekend where the TikTok band did go into
Speaker 4: effect for like what was it three days, TikTok cannot
Speaker 4: be accessed cap cut. I don't care. I don't have TikTok,
Speaker 4: but I use cap cut. A lot of people use
Speaker 4: it because it is one of the easiest video editing apps,
Speaker 4: especially for social media. That's how I edit all my apps.
Speaker 4: And it came back online three days later. But allegedly
Speaker 4: it's I don't know, maybe the government is going to
Speaker 4: push it back again. They're trying to divest it from
Speaker 4: China and have somebody if you I don't know, I'll
Speaker 4: chip in a few bucks if I want to buy
Speaker 4: the thing. I'm not sure. I just don't want cap
Speaker 4: cut to go away. So I was promised, what do
Speaker 4: you use for all it? Because social media? I've done
Speaker 4: the show for twenty three years and social media it
Speaker 4: literally did not exist when we began this show. If
Speaker 4: people wanted to contact me, it was a phone number,
Speaker 4: which we still use, and they could send snail mail.
Speaker 4: They get sense now. I used to get hate mail
Speaker 4: in the mouth. People used to spend what was it,
Speaker 4: twenty six, twenty six cents a stamp. I don't know
Speaker 4: what it was, way back a quarter of a century ago,
Speaker 4: and they used to say Michael who were you? I
Speaker 4: hate you. I hate your voice. You don't know anything
Speaker 4: about technology, that's right. It was so tough, much tougher
Speaker 4: back in the day to rag on me. Nowadays you
Speaker 4: send an email. It's so much it's so much easier.
Speaker 4: But there was certainly no social media. Twitter came along,
Speaker 4: Facebook came along, and then now there's there's so many
Speaker 4: of them right now. But we utilize social media. We
Speaker 4: are encouraged by our employers. My TV stations that I
Speaker 4: work with or radio stations got to be on social media.
Speaker 4: Do some video, do some video well? I like editing video.
Speaker 4: I wanted to make a look professional. That's my background.
Speaker 4: Got a radiotelligience film degree, so I use it. So
Speaker 4: if cap cup gets cap cut gets banned, what do
Speaker 4: you do? Well, if you're an Apple user, you could
Speaker 4: use Final Cut Pro. There's a Final Cut Pro eleven.
Speaker 4: It was just up last November. Some AI enabled tools.
Speaker 4: I have not used it. I don't. I am not
Speaker 4: in the Apple Eco Apple ecosystem. It is a pro
Speaker 4: video editing program. I know my my middle son who
Speaker 4: is a video editor. That's what he does. And if
Speaker 4: anybody needs podcast or anything edited, I'm more than happy
Speaker 4: to put you in touch with him. He uses Final
Speaker 4: Cup Pro. He likes it. I could figure it out,
Speaker 4: I'm sure, because I'm sure as well latively simple. But
Speaker 4: I don't have an Apple, So that's that, all right.
Speaker 4: So that's one. Adobe has something called Adobe Premiere Pro. Right.
Speaker 4: There's also another one, Adobe Premiere Rush could be a
Speaker 4: good option. There's a free one. There's Adobe Premiere Pro Light.
Speaker 4: You can use that on your phone or your desktop.
Speaker 4: Premiere Rush, by the way, it's designed specifically for career
Speaker 4: beading social videos. There's even an in app camera that
Speaker 4: you can shoot with. I haven't used it. Dobe Solid
Speaker 4: Company that's something else. Here's one. I haven't tried it yet,
Speaker 4: but anecdotally I've been asking people about it because I
Speaker 4: see ads on my Instagram account. It's called v'd v eed.
Speaker 4: I if anybody any of my listeners, and I love
Speaker 4: you listeners out there because you do provide so much
Speaker 4: content for my show. And I'm serious about this. If
Speaker 4: you've used VD, if you like VD, if you hate VD,
Speaker 4: did you let me know I may need to try it?
Speaker 4: My phone number three four six twenty nine, Texan. You
Speaker 4: could email me Michael at high Tech textan dot com
Speaker 4: go on my social feeds, which is high tech Textan.
Speaker 4: They've been advertising a lot and it looks pretty cool
Speaker 4: and it's meant for as I've did some research v'd
Speaker 4: it's meant for the up and comer, the person really
Speaker 4: just trying to get started. And it's got some AI
Speaker 4: features that I see, so the very beginner friendly things
Speaker 4: that allegedly AI can actually do the video editing for you,
Speaker 4: which I can dig. That's cool. Apparently it does offer
Speaker 4: a free plan, but there's a lot of limitations on
Speaker 4: the features that is going to probably cause you to
Speaker 4: upgrade to the pay plan, which is anywhere between twelve
Speaker 4: to thirty dollars per month. That's that's kind of steep.
Speaker 4: I mean, even the paid plan on cap cut, I
Speaker 4: don't think it's that much money. There's a if you
Speaker 4: do a free video, there's a watermark. I don't want
Speaker 4: a watermark on there. I don't need this is feed
Speaker 4: I don't need that. So it's probably one of the
Speaker 4: reasons having huge VT. But I would like to hear
Speaker 4: some feedback on But there's another option over there. There's
Speaker 4: one called splice. I think I asked my son when
Speaker 4: cap cut and TikTok went down in January. I asked
Speaker 4: my social media influencer son, my young one, what else
Speaker 4: is there? I think he told me to download Splice.
Speaker 4: I think I used it or try to use it
Speaker 4: once and then cap cut was back online. Very beginner
Speaker 4: friendly program walks through how to use the tools, really
Speaker 4: doesn't overload you with features. You can manually edit your clips.
Speaker 4: You can maybe use some AI to let it do it.
Speaker 4: There's a seven day free trial before you have to
Speaker 4: upgrade to the pro version of Splice. It's about seventy
Speaker 4: bucks annually. I guess that's not big of a deal.
Speaker 4: If you do it annually, that's called Splice. If anybody's
Speaker 4: use Splice, let me know if that's good. And the
Speaker 4: one I want to talk about before we take a
Speaker 4: break over here, that was that that's coming soon. It's
Speaker 4: not out yet. It's from Instagram. It's from Instagram. Instagram.
Speaker 4: There's Instagram announced. This is where Instagram to me screwed
Speaker 4: up Instagram. You can use Instagram to rudemntry edit your videos,
Speaker 4: but nothing compared to some of these other video apps.
Speaker 4: Instagram is going to launch a free video editing app.
Speaker 4: It was announced a while ago go it's gonna be
Speaker 4: called Edits, and pretty much from when I heard it's
Speaker 4: gonna be a cap cut copycat edit was supposed to
Speaker 4: be released mid March, not launched yet. Now it says
Speaker 4: it could be as late as the end of this
Speaker 4: month April. According to the head of Instagram Adam Mussi,
Speaker 4: who I follow also on threads Threads same company, by
Speaker 4: the way, from Meta, Edits is gonna have an n
Speaker 4: app camera, a full suiteter creative tools, captions. You're gonna
Speaker 4: be able to share the drafts of your videos with friends.
Speaker 4: I can't judge it yet, but this was announced I
Speaker 4: think right around January when TikTok and cap cut went down.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the announcement. Instagram, what you should have done.
Speaker 4: You should have had this bad boy released because this
Speaker 4: would have been the marketing of all marketings. Because for
Speaker 4: three days or so we couldn't use TikTok. But I
Speaker 4: know I couldn't use my cap cut video video editing
Speaker 4: app for my Instagram videos. If Instagram had this edit
Speaker 4: program that was built in and it did almost the
Speaker 4: exact same thing, if not more than cap cut and
Speaker 4: was free, I never would have ever gone back to
Speaker 4: cap Cut, and I still may not when it's released.
Speaker 4: That was a perfect opportunity, but I could appreciate it.
Speaker 4: It wasn't ready yet. And the last thing you want
Speaker 4: to do is release a product, software or a hardware
Speaker 4: product that's not ready before it's time. It's like a
Speaker 4: fine wine. So I wasn't ready yet, but that would
Speaker 4: have been killer. So I am going to keep an
Speaker 4: eye on this, and I hopefully I'm going to get
Speaker 4: a little Beata version of this thing. And if anybody
Speaker 4: else tries the beta version, but it is from Instagram,
Speaker 4: it is called edits coming out soon. If it works
Speaker 4: as advertised and it's got features, this could be the
Speaker 4: cap cut killer. A lot of alliteration going over here
Speaker 4: in the high tech textan show stand by for that.
Speaker 4: I will let you know next week if TikTok and
Speaker 4: cap cut are still standing, if a US based company
Speaker 4: buys it, if tariffs are coming in, and who will
Speaker 4: be crowned the champion of the NCAA basketball tournament, We'll
Speaker 4: we'll all know that here in this coming week. We
Speaker 4: got one more segment. Don't go anywhere. I'm gonna give
Speaker 4: you the quick rundown of what I was driving last week.
Speaker 4: Some news on Tesla and how this Texas based company
Speaker 4: is in a big slump right now. And also if
Speaker 4: you have an EV, did you know there are actually
Speaker 4: some charging options that may not cost you anything. I
Speaker 4: bet you didn't know about. So we'll do a little
Speaker 4: car information here as we closed the show. From San
Speaker 4: Antonio on the Final Four is Michael Gargil High Tech
Speaker 4: Text Final, Final segment of the High Tech Text Show
Speaker 4: this weekend. We come to you from San Antonio, home
Speaker 4: of the Final Four. Excited to be here, Love you
Speaker 4: San Antonio. You could hear me every weekend on WAI
Speaker 4: twelve hundred along with Dallas and also Houston. Tersturly and
Speaker 4: thank you for downloading the iHeartRadio app less than what
Speaker 4: ten minutes, I'm hanging up this microphone and I am
Speaker 4: partying up and down the river walk. Go Coobs people.
Speaker 4: I'm just a Texas based team. We got a root
Speaker 4: for a little sad news. By the way, before we
Speaker 4: get into the final subject, a great actor passed away
Speaker 4: earlier this week. You've sure heard of it. Val Kilmer.
Speaker 4: Val Kilmer really quickly in my age group. He back
Speaker 4: in the eighties. He was intense. He was an amazing
Speaker 4: actor who just soaked his entire life up and down
Speaker 4: in every single character. Died at sixty five years old.
Speaker 4: He was diagnosed with throat cancer many years ago. He
Speaker 4: died of pneumonia. There's a number of different movies that
Speaker 4: you may remember him from, and I think there's essential
Speaker 4: some of his essential movies. His first one, I think
Speaker 4: was back in what eighty four was Top Secret. It
Speaker 4: was kind of a sendoff of of just a funny
Speaker 4: spy movie. It was a Zucker Abraham Zucker comedy. He
Speaker 4: was great. He was in Real Genius in nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 4: but to me, the greatest role, the most memorable role,
Speaker 4: without a doubt, was his Third Win in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 4: He was and will always be Iceman in Top Gun,
Speaker 4: one of the greatest movies in my lifetime. Absolutely love it.
Speaker 4: He was the nemesis of Maverick of Tom Cruise. He
Speaker 4: reprised his role in Top Gun Maverick a few years ago,
Speaker 4: which is an amazing way. They brought his character back
Speaker 4: in Top Gun Maverick in twenty twenty two and almost
Speaker 4: foreshadowed of his impending death in real life because he
Speaker 4: was sick with throat cancer and it was very, very touching.
Speaker 4: There are some people who loved him in Batman Forever.
Speaker 4: There are some people who still think Tombstone was as
Speaker 4: Doc Holliday was his greatest movie. Breaking News. Never saw Tombstone.
Speaker 4: Don't have time to get into it. And some people
Speaker 4: think the Doors when he was Jim Morrison back in
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety one, I mean he immersed himself with that.
Speaker 4: He was great. Rest in peace. Great actor, that is.
Speaker 4: Val Kilmer just wanted to talk about that. We can
Speaker 4: bait next week, which was your favorite Vell Kimber movie.
Speaker 4: Got a few minutes over here. And I do talk
Speaker 4: a lot about vehicles. I test try vehicles. Thanks again
Speaker 4: to the great folks at Nissan also for helping me
Speaker 4: get to the final four. They are a big partner
Speaker 4: of the NC double A. Last week I was test
Speaker 4: driving in a Nissan, the new Nissan Armada Pro four X.
Speaker 4: Easially in the fifteen years that I've been test driving vehicles,
Speaker 4: and I know so many Nissans, the trucks, the cars,
Speaker 4: the Sedan's. This is their big one. It's a three
Speaker 4: to three row suv pound four pound dollar for dollar.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite is not the favorite suv I
Speaker 4: would always recommend, but this was the Pro four X version. Man,
Speaker 4: it is the upgraded things there are, seats, their technology.
Speaker 4: I really couldn't find anything anything bad to talk about
Speaker 4: or drive it. It is great, phenomenal and if you
Speaker 4: ever have the chance to drive it again. This is
Speaker 4: not an endorsement. I don't do endorsements for cars or dealerships.
Speaker 4: Go find a Nissan and drive it. If you want
Speaker 4: an suv. I don't know. There are no dealerships for Tesla.
Speaker 4: Tesla doesn't deal with dealerships. You just got to go
Speaker 4: straight and buy one directly, well from Tesla, going to
Speaker 4: the gallery and buy one of these things. Tesla, Texas
Speaker 4: based company. We'll release their company sales. They dropped thirteen
Speaker 4: percent year over year. I'm not making a political statement.
Speaker 4: I'm giving you facts here. Okay. There is fallout with
Speaker 4: Elon Musk, involvement with what's going on in the administration.
Speaker 4: Whether you want to blame it on whatever this or not.
Speaker 4: Maybe you don't like Tesla, maybe you don't like the batteries,
Speaker 4: maybe you don't like something. Tesla' fell staggering. It really
Speaker 4: is thirteen percent in the first quarter of this year.
Speaker 4: Year over year, it produced three hundred and sixty two
Speaker 4: thousand vehicles in the first three months of this year.
Speaker 4: That's the Model three, that's the Model Why all right,
Speaker 4: along with seventeen thousand other vehicles which maybe have been
Speaker 4: the cyber truck. It was Tesla's worst production and delivery
Speaker 4: report in three years. Please note, I am not a
Speaker 4: Debbie downer. I am not the guide, and if you've
Speaker 4: listened to me for two decades, I am the most
Speaker 4: opt to. I make Annie look like a pessimist. I'm
Speaker 4: an optimist people. I don't like report and bad news.
Speaker 4: But analysts had expected Tesla's to report to deliveries to
Speaker 4: go down, and they did. The deliveries were impacted by
Speaker 4: the production changeover for the refreshed Model Why that just
Speaker 4: recently started making its way to customers. Maybe it's going
Speaker 4: to pick up again, but there were some struggling and
Speaker 4: troubling signs for the Eve Automaker. Stock price fell forty
Speaker 4: six percent of its value since the beginning of this
Speaker 4: here alone right, there's now all manufacturers with the tariff,
Speaker 4: and I've talked about it is not Tesla is not,
Speaker 4: despite which you think a one hundred percent made American car.
Speaker 4: It's yes, it's final assembly right here in this great
Speaker 4: state of Texas, not far from I'm broadcasting from in
Speaker 4: San Antonio, just up the road in the Austin area.
Speaker 4: They get fifteen to forty percent of its parts from
Speaker 4: outside of the United States. So there's going to be
Speaker 4: some tariff potentially a price increase on that thing too.
Speaker 4: But that was relatively bad news. But speaking of evs,
Speaker 4: one of the reasons and this is anecdotically, a lot
Speaker 4: of people don't purchase evs, and they say it's until
Speaker 4: the range gets better, until it's more than two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty or three hundred miles of range, they don't
Speaker 4: want to buy it. And I say this, it's not
Speaker 4: the range that you should be worried about, because there
Speaker 4: are some cars right now that don't even get three
Speaker 4: hundred miles or so, maybe even on a gas tank,
Speaker 4: smaller cars with smaller tanks. Right it's not the range.
Speaker 4: Fine with a three hundred mile three hundred fifty mile
Speaker 4: range of an EV even at the top level. To me,
Speaker 4: it's the battery charging infrastructure that we have in the
Speaker 4: United States. I am not waiting one hour or more
Speaker 4: to charge my freaking battery. Sorry, I got ADHD. I
Speaker 4: don't puts around. I want to pull up to a
Speaker 4: gas station. I want to fill my tank in five
Speaker 4: days seven minutes, and I want to be on my road.
Speaker 4: You tell me where I could charge my battery in
Speaker 4: five to seven minutes. I'm down. I'm gonna get this thing.
Speaker 4: So nomenclature or the way you say it, it's the batteries,
Speaker 4: not the range itself. But I also found out there
Speaker 4: are some ways that you don't know where you actually
Speaker 4: can get free charges. If you look, if you're going
Speaker 4: to cinemag by the way, if you ever go to
Speaker 4: see an actual real movie, there are a lot of
Speaker 4: cinemaks who actually have free chargers right outside. They may
Speaker 4: not be the fastest charger, but I saw these. They
Speaker 4: have one hundred and sixty free EV charging stations available
Speaker 4: at select locations, maybe one near you go check that out.
Speaker 4: There are some hotels if you stay at a hotel,
Speaker 4: that have free charging for EV all right by the way.
Speaker 4: If you go to like Charles, which I do sometimes
Speaker 4: once in a while, the two big actually the three
Speaker 4: big hotels, Gold Nugget, the Era's New Casino, which is
Speaker 4: out there too, and Le Burge du Lac. To the
Speaker 4: best of my knowledge, and I saw this in December.
Speaker 4: None of them have an electric charger. People, get your
Speaker 4: stuff together. I'd be going there much more often. You
Speaker 4: have to look, you have to hunt, because there are
Speaker 4: ways to do this. There are some schools, some universities
Speaker 4: that will give students, professors and staff free charging. All right,
Speaker 4: So if you're a student who has an EV, your
Speaker 4: money is going away. She actually should be paying for
Speaker 4: your education other than buy an expensive EV. I saw
Speaker 4: that too. There are some free places like visiting parks,
Speaker 4: museums or other public spaces. If there's there's some in
Speaker 4: them all that if you sit there and watch a
Speaker 4: commercial on the outside of the screen, you're gonna get
Speaker 4: thirty minutes of free charging too. To a map. Charging
Speaker 4: services like charge hub, charge Finder, plug Share, they have
Speaker 4: maps that actually can show you where you can get
Speaker 4: free charging. Some of them you do have to pay for.
Speaker 4: So there is your update when it comes to charging.
Speaker 4: I know I don't have a lot of time. I
Speaker 4: drove up here. Did not I specifically because I knew
Speaker 4: I was driving Houston to San Antonio this weekend, where
Speaker 4: I lived to the Final Four. I specifically asked the
Speaker 4: company that actually delivers me these test cards. I said,
Speaker 4: do not give me an EV this week. I am
Speaker 4: not stopping halfway on I ten to charge in this thing.
Speaker 4: I want a gas charger. Maybe one day before I
Speaker 4: end this show. We're going to have a battery charging
Speaker 4: infrastructure the United States that's going to allow me to
Speaker 4: drive from Dallas to San Antonio to Austin to Houston backward,
Speaker 4: like on a place a way that I could stop somewhere,
Speaker 4: charge up in ten minutes or so, and I'll be
Speaker 4: on the web by.
Speaker 6: The last an PAP.
Speaker 4: You know, it's time for it's time for me to
Speaker 4: say goodbye. I for me to thank you for doing me.
Speaker 4: It is time for me to go up and down
Speaker 4: the river walk of San Antonio and get ready for
Speaker 4: tip off of the first game is the Final Four.
Speaker 4: You're a Houston Cooper fan, the only Houston team in
Speaker 4: the Final Four.
Speaker 1: Go Coogs.
Speaker 4: I do thank you for tuning in. Thank you Brian
Speaker 4: ericson Mad Martini, Paul Lambert, everybody who else runs these
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Speaker 4: talk to you next week. Happy April my friends. My
Speaker 4: name is Garth and right now my show is over.