Speaker 1: Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield's joining.
Speaker 3: In the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
Speaker 2: To make life easier technology and Michael.
Speaker 3: Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
Speaker 1: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio add now you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: Another year older, maybe not another year wiser, Still have
Speaker 2: the voice, still have the energy. I do. Thank you,
Speaker 2: my dear listeners, for all the wonderful emails and okay,
Speaker 2: maybe not a lot of gifts for my birthday earlier
Speaker 2: this week. But we continue the second weekend of February. Happy,
Speaker 2: whatever you're celebrating. There is a big football game later
Speaker 2: this weekend, but I am going to ride you right
Speaker 2: up until kickoff. Depending when you are listening to this.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is the name. This is the high Tech
Speaker 2: Texan Show. Believe me, if this is the first time
Speaker 2: you've listened number one, where the hell you've been number two?
Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you how to fix your computer.
Speaker 2: There is so much more to technology. It's what does
Speaker 2: Michael want to talk about who can we interview? How
Speaker 2: much fun can we have? So strap your seatbelts on, folks,
Speaker 2: wherever you are listening to her terrestrially Houston, Texas KPRC
Speaker 2: nine fifty am, what's up, San Antonio? We love Yeah,
Speaker 2: right there in Central Texas News Radio twelve hundred WOAI
Speaker 2: in my hometown, parents may be listening, probably not the
Speaker 2: Mighty Mighty Talk Radio eleven ninety. Wherever you are the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. You can get a hold of me. All
Speaker 2: you need to do, well, heck, let's go. Michael Garfield
Speaker 2: at iHeartMedia dot com. Email me, my friends. You can
Speaker 2: also call me.
Speaker 4: It's how it works.
Speaker 2: For some reason, we don't pick up the phone. You
Speaker 2: can leave a voicemail, and you do give us the
Speaker 2: right to play your voice on the show if you
Speaker 2: have questions or comments three four six twenty nine texts
Speaker 2: and you see how simple that is. Just look at
Speaker 2: the put your glasses on, look at the little numbers
Speaker 2: on your phone three four six two nine T E
Speaker 2: X A N, and you will be set to go.
Speaker 2: Also find me on x or as they call it
Speaker 2: Twitter or whatever you want to call it, because I
Speaker 2: actually do have a lot of fun things to yap
Speaker 2: about here on and a lot of post high tech
Speaker 2: texts at h I G h T E C h
Speaker 2: T E x A N and I need me to
Speaker 2: start with this. I will tell you number one this show.
Speaker 2: There is no tariff nor a tag to listen to
Speaker 2: this show. Nope, it is absolutely free. The reason is
Speaker 2: free is because we do appreciate you patronizing all of
Speaker 2: our partners and all of our sponsors. I'm gonna make
Speaker 2: a mention or two of where to shop, give you
Speaker 2: some suggestions. I feel free to take care of them
Speaker 2: because they are good and they are gracious. I have
Speaker 2: had some partners with me for close to twenty years
Speaker 2: that I have been doing this radio program. They are
Speaker 2: the ones who keep it fr ee and really, folks,
Speaker 2: that should be your favorite four letter word. I know
Speaker 2: it's mine, and so I do thank you for patronizing them.
Speaker 2: And also I send a little condolences. I send a
Speaker 2: little condolences this week because I too, am sitting shiva
Speaker 2: for the city of Dallas. What happened a week ago
Speaker 2: with our great basketball player Luka Doncik. I know Dallas,
Speaker 2: and I hear it. My best friends are in Big
Speaker 2: d I talk to my parents. It's just this way.
Speaker 2: You talk about the NBA stealing thunder from the NFL, Well,
Speaker 2: that's what the NFL gets. The NFL stole Christmas Day
Speaker 2: with their football games this past December from the NBA
Speaker 2: because the NBA used to own Christmas Day five games.
Speaker 2: The ratings were horrible for the NBA games because everybody
Speaker 2: watched the two football games on the football David Silver,
Speaker 2: the commissioner of the NBA, he said, you know what
Speaker 2: screw up. We're gonna take all the headlines from Super
Speaker 2: Bowl Week, starting with Luca and the trade, and then
Speaker 2: you know, this past week just it was almost all
Speaker 2: NBA stuff. My son right now, all this past week
Speaker 2: he has been in New Orleans because he covers the
Speaker 2: the sports, you know scene, specifically the NFL and college football.
Speaker 2: But there's just hasn't been a lot of buzz about
Speaker 2: the game that's happening this week in New Orleans. It's
Speaker 2: been about the NBA. Dallas, I feel you. I'm not
Speaker 2: happy about it. Luca generational player, a lifetime MAVs fan.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm gonna do, even though I
Speaker 2: in Houston. Now, hey, Michael. I mean, listen, I like
Speaker 2: the Rockets. I mean, the Rockets are a very I'm
Speaker 2: kind of a fan of the Rockets. I'm not a
Speaker 2: Texans football fan. I'm a Cowboys guy. They're dead. The
Speaker 2: Rockets good. You know. I was here. I moved here
Speaker 2: the first when they won their two back to back
Speaker 2: NBA titles, which Michael Jordan wasn't playing those two years.
Speaker 2: I happened to be here and the city went crazy
Speaker 2: and it was kind of fun. I became semi a fan,
Speaker 2: and I go to two games a year or something,
Speaker 2: but my heart's in Dallas. I went to the very
Speaker 2: first Dallas Mavericks game in nineteen eighty. My kids get
Speaker 2: me a my kids, listen. I told you it was
Speaker 2: my birthday. My kids. God loved my three boys. My
Speaker 2: gift this year was a Luca don Chik number seventy
Speaker 2: seven MAVs jersey, and my birthday was this past weekend.
Speaker 2: They bought probably the last Luca Dallas Maverick shirt ever.
Speaker 2: I should auction this off somewhere on eBay because they're
Speaker 2: not going to make it anymore because the dude is now
Speaker 2: a Los Angeles Lakers. I digress, but I just don't
Speaker 2: show you. This is what we talk about on the show.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna get solid technology. I'm gonna answer your questions.
Speaker 2: Oh I've got some stuff. People don't worry when it
Speaker 2: comes to new phones, cars and then other news. But
Speaker 2: I'm all over the place. It's just like it's an
Speaker 2: all for one. It's an entertainment show. Because if you
Speaker 2: don't do a little entertainment, if you don't talk about,
Speaker 2: you know, a plethora of things, which I've been doing
Speaker 2: for two plus decades, You're not going anywhere. And that's
Speaker 2: why I've been hanging around three four six twenty nine
Speaker 2: Texan Callum read good to see in my man. He
Speaker 2: is here potentially picking up your phone calls, telling me
Speaker 2: in my ear, hey, Michael, you should check out your
Speaker 2: ex or some of the fun comments that you're getting.
Speaker 2: Maybe do some giveaways. And I will start with this.
Speaker 2: I got about a minute and a half for two minutes.
Speaker 2: There's a big game this weekend. And I got the
Speaker 2: annual email for my bosses at iHeart. Everybody did also,
Speaker 2: and I want to kind of read it to you.
Speaker 2: And I don't know whether to break the rules. If
Speaker 2: I really do like my job right now. But I
Speaker 2: got this email from iHeart Radio, which is the world's
Speaker 2: largest you know, radio conglomerate here eight hundred plus stations
Speaker 2: all over the country, and it says this here is
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read it and cal let me know if
Speaker 2: the bosses are calling. But the email subject was super
Speaker 2: Bowl trademark reminder important reminder. Important to be clear on
Speaker 2: the use of trademarks, especially around the game this weekend.
Speaker 2: Please see below When it is okay, stations who are
Speaker 2: promoting the super Bowl fifty nine YouTube tailgate concert can
Speaker 2: reference the word super Bowl when promoting the concert as
Speaker 2: we iHeart are the partner for the pregame concert and
Speaker 2: it is included in the event title. That is the
Speaker 2: only time you are allowed to reference it by name
Speaker 2: unless you have written authorization. Stations cannot use the trademark
Speaker 2: super Bowl outside of referencing the concert event unless they
Speaker 2: have additional written authorization. The term super Bowl is a
Speaker 2: trademark of the unfill may not be used without explicit
Speaker 2: written permission. Now, it is permissible to use the term
Speaker 2: Big Game to refer to the super Bowl. So I
Speaker 2: could use the Big Game in an advertisement for a
Speaker 2: store that is selling items for someone might needing a
Speaker 2: party for that day or whatever. It is very important
Speaker 2: to know the difference, as still you're to comply can
Speaker 2: result in costly penalties. Please review the trademark guidelines before
Speaker 2: you talk about it, Folks, I do not know if
Speaker 2: I'm going to make it past this commercial break. If
Speaker 2: the phone is ringing, I will try to refrain from
Speaker 2: using the term Super Bowl. I will go with Big
Speaker 2: Game because I'm going to tell you about last minute
Speaker 2: televisions to buy. If you want a party tray of
Speaker 2: some wings to watch the screw Big Game? How much
Speaker 2: commercials are going for in the big gate where you
Speaker 2: can see Big Game commercials before they even air. How
Speaker 2: long the over under? How long will Michael Garfield last
Speaker 2: on this show? Maybe two and a half commercial breaks?
Speaker 2: We shall see people don't go anywhere. It is the
Speaker 2: Hi Tech Taxing show on Big Game weekend, Hi Tech
Speaker 2: Texan show, by the way, which is trademarked by me,
Speaker 2: and anybody can utilize it, not to steal it, not
Speaker 2: to endorse it, but if you want to refer to
Speaker 2: me by the name, feel free to use high Tech Texan. I,
Speaker 2: unlike the NFL, love people saying high tech Texan instead
Speaker 2: of that other two words that start with an S
Speaker 2: and a B. That Big Game this weekend, which we
Speaker 2: I guess now if you just tuned in, we technically
Speaker 2: cannot use it because I do not want to get
Speaker 2: in trouble. Phone number here eight it's three four six
Speaker 2: twenty nine text and if you do want to get
Speaker 2: into the game, three four six twenty nine textan and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about a number of things, including
Speaker 2: the Big Game this weekend. Who you got? Who you got?
Speaker 2: I got some last minute help buying and setting up
Speaker 2: if you're buying and setting up a TV with depending
Speaker 2: when you're listening to us, certainly about twenty four hour,
Speaker 2: twenty eight hours at the most. If you're in San Antonio,
Speaker 2: you got less than twenty four hours. If you're Dallas,
Speaker 2: you've got less than that. Wherever you're listening, If you're
Speaker 2: setting up a television for your party tomorrow, let me
Speaker 2: help you out. You better know what you're doing, because
Speaker 2: the last thing you want to do is you want
Speaker 2: to run to Costco. You want to run the best
Speaker 2: buy It got Sam's wherever you're to get a TV,
Speaker 2: and you better have someone pick up that fifty five
Speaker 2: inch seventy five inch. You gotta have one hundred inch TV.
Speaker 2: You better plug in your cable. Does it work in
Speaker 2: the channels come in? Well? Is it set up? Is
Speaker 2: it set for ten ADP? I mean you're not gonna
Speaker 2: get four I mean there is a way to watch
Speaker 2: it four k over the year. If you have cable,
Speaker 2: you're probably not gonna be able to watch it in
Speaker 2: four k. Makes the last thing you want to do
Speaker 2: is you want to have people over. Man, they're ready
Speaker 2: for your wings, They're ready for all the food, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden boom, you're not watching. I told
Speaker 2: you last week. Set up your TV at least a
Speaker 2: week before to get it done. If you need some
Speaker 2: last minute help, feel free to try to get in.
Speaker 2: I can maybe help you talk you off the ledge
Speaker 2: three four six twenty nine Texan. One of the ways
Speaker 2: I have long said, if you really want the best picture,
Speaker 2: using over the air antenna versus cable or versus god forbid,
Speaker 2: you're using satellite. If you are in a big sit well,
Speaker 2: if you're in any city, but certainly a large city
Speaker 2: like I am broadcasting in Houston and Dallas and San Antonio.
Speaker 2: Right now, it is on the Fox TV and your
Speaker 2: Fox affiliate depending whatever it is by the FCC. They
Speaker 2: it is a law. They are broadcasting a digital signal
Speaker 2: over the air right now. And if you got a
Speaker 2: digital antenna, which doesn't cost much. Man, these things could
Speaker 2: be ten bucks, thirty bucks, no more really than that.
Speaker 2: And you hook it into your television, and you point
Speaker 2: and aim your antenna, hopefully near a window or outside
Speaker 2: wherever that broadcast tower is. You're gonna pull in a
Speaker 2: much better TV picture, much better quality than you're getting
Speaker 2: than you're getting on cable, quite simply because that signal
Speaker 2: it's not compressed like cable does. It is over the
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be without delay my cable. The way
Speaker 2: I watch it at number one, I play an exhorbited
Speaker 2: amount of money. Thank you very much, Exfinity. I'm not
Speaker 2: happy with you. But it is sometimes ten to thirty
Speaker 2: seconds behind real time, certainly behind some of my buddies
Speaker 2: who are texting me. So when my buddies text me,
Speaker 2: did you see that play, they're spoiling it for me.
Speaker 2: When you're watching over the air, it is almost real
Speaker 2: time and the quality is so much better. Take it
Speaker 2: from me, You may want to try that There is
Speaker 2: a way to stream it this year for fr ee,
Speaker 2: Like when it's on CBS CBS is they charge you
Speaker 2: for streaming because they want you to get the parentmont
Speaker 2: network and everything. For some reason you want to stream
Speaker 2: it because you don't have cable well number or you
Speaker 2: don't even have in the over the antenna. You could
Speaker 2: watch it on two B t ub I. TB is
Speaker 2: owned by Fox. Oh my, how about that? You download
Speaker 2: the two B app and you can watch it. And
Speaker 2: I believe you can actually watch that stream in four
Speaker 2: K and that's pretty big issue. You really can't watch
Speaker 2: it in four K because a lot of cable companies
Speaker 2: do not allow to not broadcast, do not broadcast or
Speaker 2: do not carry that signal all the way through in
Speaker 2: four K. That big game it does start at five
Speaker 2: thirty Central time. You can watch it live. But to
Speaker 2: be is is pretty cool. There's a lot of There
Speaker 2: are a number of different free streamers out there. There,
Speaker 2: the free trials of direct TV, which is a stream,
Speaker 2: Fubo which is another one. You could sign up I
Speaker 2: think for YouTube tv for a week or two before
Speaker 2: it gets here for eighty nine dollars or so. But
Speaker 2: twob is hosting the free live stream of Fox's game,
Speaker 2: the game day coverage of the twenty twenty five Big Game,
Speaker 2: and so questions about that, I am here for you.
Speaker 2: We have got to Oh, by the way, for the
Speaker 2: first time, people don't care about audio a lot. I'm
Speaker 2: not an audio file is what they call them? The
Speaker 2: Super Bowl Oop, sorry about that. The Big Game is
Speaker 2: being broadcast for the very first time with Dolby ATMOS
Speaker 2: ATMs audio. But only if you have Exfinity X one,
Speaker 2: which is their even higher service, and if you have
Speaker 2: the right year. As I told you, I have Exfinity
Speaker 2: for the three hundred whatever dollars I'm paying a month.
Speaker 2: Not only should I get this dang game in Dolby atmost,
Speaker 2: I should get it in freaking a k you know what,
Speaker 2: I should actually be given a ticket to the actual
Speaker 2: game in New Orleans. That's how much I'm paying for
Speaker 2: this service. So Comcast, which owns Exfinity, they said earlier
Speaker 2: this week that it will not only offer Dobie Vision
Speaker 2: as it did a few years ago for the Big Game.
Speaker 2: This year, it's also adding Dolby ATMAS Dobie at MISS
Speaker 2: and you're gonna need to be an Exfinity xcellent subscriber.
Speaker 2: And you're gonna need a checklist of required hardware. You're
Speaker 2: gonna need a four K TV, You're gonna need a
Speaker 2: four K hd R set top box. You're gonna need
Speaker 2: a four K capable HDMI cord. You're gonna need external
Speaker 2: speakers or a soundbar that need to support Dolby ATMOS
Speaker 2: for the virtual sound experience. People not worth it. I
Speaker 2: do not hear. You don't need to hear Tom Brady's
Speaker 2: color commentary. That's that clear to go out and buy
Speaker 2: all that stuff. But you know, it's nice to know
Speaker 2: the technology is there three four six twenty nine texts
Speaker 2: in is how you're going to get to me if
Speaker 2: you want to see some of the ads. I have
Speaker 2: seen most all of the ads, and I'm a marketing guy.
Speaker 2: And for eight million dollars for the high end price
Speaker 2: that Fox is charging, those advertisers want to maximize their
Speaker 2: ad buy and so just blowing it all in a
Speaker 2: thirty second one time. They've released a lot of their
Speaker 2: ads free game, and you can find them on YouTube,
Speaker 2: and you can find them on different to very you know,
Speaker 2: you go to the websites. I GARF have made it
Speaker 2: easy for you. I have found one site that it's
Speaker 2: legal too, that already has posted almost every single of
Speaker 2: the major advertiser thirty seconds or even one minute super
Speaker 2: Bowl ads. Go to my ex account right now and
Speaker 2: you can watch it. It's high tech text, high tec
Speaker 2: h E X A N. Go to It's x dot
Speaker 2: com or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. And
Speaker 2: there's a link. And I posted it on Friday. It
Speaker 2: here's a link, and I've watched them all. Some of
Speaker 2: them are off, okay, I haven't laughed out loud for some.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of superstars. I saw everybody. Yes, I
Speaker 2: know the stupid mayonnaise commercial has that when Harry met
Speaker 2: Sally with Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan kind of Cube. I've
Speaker 2: seen David Beckham, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, It's Sabrina Carpenter
Speaker 2: who goes on and on. Some of them tug your heart.
Speaker 2: Some of them don't make sense. There's one with Shaboozy.
Speaker 2: I just listen. I love Shaboozy. His song, you know,
Speaker 2: Let's get Drunk on Fifth Street. Whatever it is, he's
Speaker 2: in a he's in a candy commercial that you don't
Speaker 2: if you unless you know what Shaboozy looks like you
Speaker 2: don't know who this guy is walking down the street.
Speaker 2: That's that's wasted six to seven eight million dollars. I
Speaker 2: didn't like that one. So you can go to x
Speaker 2: dot com, Twitter, go to high Tech Texan and if
Speaker 2: you hurry up, let me know one of your favorite commercials. Now,
Speaker 2: we'll tell you this. This is what these these companies do.
Speaker 2: They will tease these commercials beforehand, but then during the
Speaker 2: actual game, maybe at the end, they're gonna surprise you.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's gonna be a cameo that you didn't know.
Speaker 2: That is how you maximize. Oh that's funny. And I
Speaker 2: say this is because if you're watching the big game
Speaker 2: with friends, and generally you're gonna be with friends, and
Speaker 2: generally you're gonna be a big party and everybody's gonna
Speaker 2: be talking, and when the commercials kind of gone on,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be shut up. I want to hear this.
Speaker 2: Just go ahead and watch the commercials beforehand. I like advertisers.
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Speaker 2: Got some tax tips coming up. This is what we do.
Speaker 2: We're all over the board. Stand by. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk to believe it or not, a cell phone wireless
Speaker 2: company to give you some tax tips on how to
Speaker 2: maximize your week fund and your money. Coming up there
Speaker 2: on the high Tech Thatshire we are back at it.
Speaker 4: Indeed, Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: It is the long running high tech text show heard
Speaker 2: all across the state of Texas, Trustrilly and around the
Speaker 2: world on the iHeartRadio app. We do thank you for
Speaker 2: downloading that app. And you know I talk about apps,
Speaker 2: but you know I'm gonna go about old school. At
Speaker 2: my desk, I actually have a calendar. I have literally
Speaker 2: a calendar that I ripped the pages out.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I listen, I use my Microsoft calendar and
Speaker 2: I'm looking at these at the calendar and it's the
Speaker 2: beginning of February and i know what that means for me.
Speaker 2: It means I'm starting to get all my ten ninety
Speaker 2: nine tax forms in the mail right now, and I'm
Speaker 2: not happy about that whenever I go out to my mailbox.
Speaker 2: But a last people reminder, tax season is upontus. Depending
Speaker 2: if your pay quarterly taxes or the April fifteenth tax
Speaker 2: it is coming up. And believe it or not, taxes
Speaker 2: have a lot to do with with so many things,
Speaker 2: the way we spend, what we don't spend. And there's
Speaker 2: some you know, some tips and you know ways to
Speaker 2: get around some things. And that's one of the things
Speaker 2: that I wanted to talk about when it comes particularly
Speaker 2: to cell phone in data plans. And I was talking
Speaker 2: to to my buds over at Total Wireless, and they said,
Speaker 2: this is a very seasonal. It's a perfect time with
Speaker 2: some of their prepaid plans to really think about some
Speaker 2: of these things when it's tax season. So I wanted
Speaker 2: to get some more information about this, and so I said,
Speaker 2: let's set up a little chat, which I'm going to
Speaker 2: do right now with AJ Paul. He is the new
Speaker 2: vice president of sales with Total Wireless, many stores across
Speaker 2: the country and a ton of stores, AJ that you
Speaker 2: have here in our great state of Texas of Houston,
Speaker 2: San Antonio, in Dallas. I do appreciate. Have you done
Speaker 2: your taxes? Let me start with that question.
Speaker 3: I have not done yet, but it is on my
Speaker 3: to do list.
Speaker 2: Michael, I do beg you for you better get on
Speaker 2: a brother. I thank you for your time. This is
Speaker 2: incorrect me if I'm wrong. Tax season it's a time
Speaker 2: when many people reassess their budgets and knowing that how
Speaker 2: can your company, how can Total Wireless help customers make
Speaker 2: the most of their refunds? And I do like that
Speaker 2: word refunds when upgrading their plans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Michael. You know a single word that defines
Speaker 3: for us that Total Wireless is flexibility. So we have
Speaker 3: options for our customers for family plans for multi months.
Speaker 3: So think about this way. You have a refund, how
Speaker 3: do you want a best deploy it you can get
Speaker 3: a new device at a great value, or we have
Speaker 3: some plans where you can pay three months in advance
Speaker 3: for a great value bundle price. Then you don't have
Speaker 3: to worry about your wireless plan for three months. Right,
Speaker 3: get ahead in your budgeting. So this is a great
Speaker 3: time for flexibility in our Total Wireless stores for our customers.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm very familiar with your plans. I use
Speaker 2: your service, and I know there's a lot of pluses.
Speaker 2: I talk about a lot. I mean you don't have
Speaker 2: to have long term commitments, and you just talked about
Speaker 2: paying upfront. I guess the words flexibility aj flexibility very
Speaker 2: important when choosing a wireless provider. Let me, I'll have
Speaker 2: you go over some of the options that Total Wireless
Speaker 2: offers when it comes to paying upfront or avoiding those
Speaker 2: long term commitments. What do you have?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, So think about it this way. When somebody
Speaker 3: brings their number over to us Total Wireless, right, we
Speaker 3: basically deeply discount a device. Right now, we're running a
Speaker 3: great iPhone thirteen promotion right where we a customer can
Speaker 3: get a free iPhone thirteen with poured in and where,
Speaker 3: and we have bundled three months of service with it.
Speaker 3: So customer comes in, they get a new plan, they
Speaker 3: get three months of service already paid, and it's so
Speaker 3: much less than if they were trying to get it
Speaker 3: anywhere else. And oh, by the way, there's no monthly
Speaker 3: payments on the phone. It's all paid off. They own
Speaker 3: it free and clear. So it's really just an amazing
Speaker 3: time for our customers. Now, if you want to do
Speaker 3: like a family plan, we've got a better plan for them.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: You can get multiple iPhone thirteens or an Android. If
Speaker 3: you're an Android person, you know at point of sale
Speaker 3: where your total out the door price is affordable, but
Speaker 3: the quality of service and plans and phones they're getting
Speaker 3: are just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about androids. I'm an Android guy. You know me,
Speaker 2: you love me and all my listeners, and we don't
Speaker 2: do iPhones, baby, but I know we can talk about
Speaker 2: to bring your own device. That's one of the great things. Man.
Speaker 2: You don't even need to purchase the phone from you
Speaker 2: guys bring your own device and you can get the service.
Speaker 2: But we'll continue what that is. We are talking to
Speaker 2: AJ Paul. He is with Total Wireless managing monthly expenses.
Speaker 2: It's got to be number one right now for a
Speaker 2: lot of people. It's just what's going on in the
Speaker 2: economy and the tax time of year. Talk about the
Speaker 2: prepaid plans, I mean, how can it help customers stay
Speaker 2: in control of their wireless costs?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Michael, the way to think about prepaid now is
Speaker 3: completely different than what people thought about. Right When we
Speaker 3: offer solutions at a Total Wireless store, we're not only
Speaker 3: just trying to save them money on their wireless spill. Hey,
Speaker 3: we offer home internet. We offer some plans with Disney Plus. Right,
Speaker 3: so if you're an ESPN person, if you're a Hulu person,
Speaker 3: so we can help you save money not only on
Speaker 3: your subscriptions and home internet altogether. The bundled in. So
Speaker 3: when you talk about living on a budget, predictability is
Speaker 3: the most important thing. You pay up front, you know
Speaker 3: exactly what you're getting. There's no surprise fees, no surprise bills,
Speaker 3: no overages, and that keeps somebody on a budget long term.
Speaker 2: It makes sense. Listen a lot people. They ask me.
Speaker 2: One of the biggest questions I've received twenty plus years
Speaker 2: i've been doing this AJ it's like, should I is
Speaker 2: it easy to switch providers? Can I keep my own number?
Speaker 2: And you know, I mean when I started the show,
Speaker 2: there wasn't portability. Now there is portability, you can switch
Speaker 2: and keep your numbers. For the people out there thinking
Speaker 2: about switching providers, what do they in your give me
Speaker 2: the top one, two, three things? What should they consider
Speaker 2: when looking for a plan that fits their lifestyle? In there?
Speaker 2: Maybe their needs.
Speaker 3: Absolutely so really important. Right, Look, everybody offers kind of
Speaker 3: similar things, but there's some value propositions that we bring
Speaker 3: to the table.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: We don't data cap our customs, So if you use
Speaker 3: unlimited data, well it's truly unlimited. So if you are
Speaker 3: a streamer on your Android device because the big screen,
Speaker 3: well guess what you can do that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: If you want to make sure that there's some friends
Speaker 3: and families abroad you want to call, some of our
Speaker 3: plans include international calling. So really be sure of what's
Speaker 3: important to you, your lifestyle and also kind of your
Speaker 3: calling habits, right, because what we'll tell you is on
Speaker 3: the surface, all the plans look the same, but when
Speaker 3: you look at the fine print, Total Wireless really offers
Speaker 3: the best value proposition of all the add ons, the
Speaker 3: value added features that we offer.
Speaker 2: I like it to AJ Paul with me here for
Speaker 2: another few minutes. He is with Total Wireless one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty Total Wireless locations. Is that over unders? That
Speaker 2: pretty close?
Speaker 3: Pretty close?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so many stores out there, and certainly
Speaker 2: in our listening area of Texas. Here. Give me now
Speaker 2: that we're going, I'm gonna go back to tax season.
Speaker 2: What are some of the common questions you're getting from
Speaker 2: customers this time of year, tax season about how do
Speaker 2: I find the right plan? How can I save money?
Speaker 2: YadA YadA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the biggest question is Michael, Hey, how easily can
Speaker 3: I switch my family over?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I've got four or five lines, they're all with different carriers. Well,
Speaker 3: I can tell you our poured in process super simple.
Speaker 3: You know, we can set you up, you know, right
Speaker 3: in the spot numbers work within fifteen to twenty minutes typically,
Speaker 3: and now with our setup and go process at Total Wireless,
Speaker 3: we'll get you walk out working right. Your data is transferred,
Speaker 3: your apps on the phones, you know, your email's working
Speaker 3: We can get you set up on auto pay right
Speaker 3: from the store, so you don't have to go back
Speaker 3: and have homework to go set up your phone like
Speaker 3: many of us used to do, spend hours at home
Speaker 3: trying to transfer data. We can do all the all
Speaker 3: of that in our stores. And that's the number one question, right,
Speaker 3: How easy can you How frictionalists can you make this
Speaker 3: for me?
Speaker 2: We like frictionless with out of debt. All right, I'll
Speaker 2: get you out of here on this one because obviously
Speaker 2: the VP of sales and so I know you know
Speaker 2: the inside info any special promotions taxis infromotions going on now,
Speaker 2: total wireless that we should know about.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I'm gonna start with Android because you've got an
Speaker 3: Android lover here. Yeah, there you go, right right. We
Speaker 3: have multiple Samsungs that are absolutely free when you pour
Speaker 3: it in your number, right like, so I have a
Speaker 3: fifty four, a sixteen, We have options, big screen. You
Speaker 3: know it's These are not entry level phones by the way, Michael,
Speaker 3: these are really good quality Samsung devices right BYOD. You
Speaker 3: mentioned BYOD We have an amazing rate plan offer where
Speaker 3: when set up with auto pay, we take fifty percent
Speaker 3: off somebody's monthly bill talk about a budget right there.
Speaker 3: You've got a hero device you love, bring over to us.
Speaker 3: We'll make sure we get it switched over for you.
Speaker 3: And then last but not least, I know half the
Speaker 3: country loves iOS. We have an iPhone thirteen for free
Speaker 3: right now, you know, with with that three month bundle
Speaker 3: we were talking about. So if you're an iPhone lover,
Speaker 3: it's a great time to get there as well. You know,
Speaker 3: we love families here at Total so we have a
Speaker 3: red hot ticket promotion going on right now. When you
Speaker 3: bring in a family member, you know, do a family plan,
Speaker 3: do an Android a family plan. We pay your first
Speaker 3: month for you, right so it's it's really a good
Speaker 3: time to consider us. And you know we have stores
Speaker 3: all over the country, especially Texas, so find us, you.
Speaker 2: Know it make it makes sense. Also, listen, whether you're
Speaker 2: an iPhone fan, which I'm not, or an Android, I
Speaker 2: just do like those favorite four letters, you can get
Speaker 2: him free some way, one to be another at Total Wireless. Hey, listen,
Speaker 2: I do thank you for your time. AJ Paul. He's
Speaker 2: the VP of sales at Total Wireless, one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty stores all across pretty much the country, but also concentrated.
Speaker 2: Go check out San Antonio listeners, Dallas listeners, and Ahetown
Speaker 2: Houston listeners. Go check it out because I use it.
Speaker 2: Services services very fast too, and so uh it's you know,
Speaker 2: keep on keeping on taxi now I gotta go to
Speaker 2: my taxes now. Ajay, that's the bad news.
Speaker 3: All right. Well, Michael, thanks for having me and appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate all right, folks questions. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: This is a good time to talk. I have open
Speaker 2: phone lines seven one three, two one two five, nine
Speaker 2: to five. Oh you got quote? Why don't you use
Speaker 2: your old data plan? Use that number and we could
Speaker 2: talk about switching it over to total wireless that I
Speaker 2: can answer any questions about phones, data plans or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's Michael Garfield. It is the High Tech Texting Show.
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back, I know, segment
Speaker 2: of this first hour of the High Tech Ta Sinsha.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for hanging in here. If you've
Speaker 2: got if you've got square pools for the big game tomorrow,
Speaker 2: I hope you draw some good numbers. I am in
Speaker 2: a square pool. I think I'm at about three or
Speaker 2: four different square pools, and the big one I am in,
Speaker 2: and I am not kidding you. I am in a
Speaker 2: four hundred dollars square pool. And believe me, I'm not
Speaker 2: bragging about this because I'm not happy about it. I
Speaker 2: was kind of goaded into it. I'm at a four
Speaker 2: hundred dollars per square square pool, which means, if you
Speaker 2: can extrapolate real quick, the payout is ten thousand dollars
Speaker 2: per quarter. It is the most I've ever bought into
Speaker 2: a squarepool. I only bought one square and I think
Speaker 2: my numbers are seven and nine, and I don't know
Speaker 2: for which team. But if for some reason you're watching
Speaker 2: the game, think of me. If the last digits are
Speaker 2: seven and nine, and it depends, I actually may not
Speaker 2: show up for work next week if I win one
Speaker 2: of these square pools. I won two years ago, I
Speaker 2: won a square pool. It was the one in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: It was when the Rams won it. Who they played.
Speaker 2: They played the Bengals. I believe the second quarter, in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter the digits were the exact same, and
Speaker 2: I won those two quarters, So I won. And I
Speaker 2: think it was a ten dollars square pool. So still
Speaker 2: I won a few hundred bucks whatever it was. You
Speaker 2: imagine winning one quarter and I get ten gerer. You
Speaker 2: imagine winning two or more quarters, and it's just cash.
Speaker 2: Our irs don't have to know about that. I digress
Speaker 2: here at the Michael Garfield Show, the High Tech Taxis Show. Hey,
Speaker 2: speaking of money, if if you're spending an entire paycheck
Speaker 2: on a dozen eggs, you might as well prepare them
Speaker 2: to perfection. And I saw this. Now scientists now say
Speaker 2: they have discovered the recipe to cook the best possible
Speaker 2: boiled egg, and it just takes thirty two minutes. I
Speaker 2: call bs on that. I'm sorry, man, thirty two minutes
Speaker 2: to boil an egg. It is a study I saw.
Speaker 2: It's published in Communications Engineering, which is exactly the magazine
Speaker 2: I would be reading. To boil an egg. Scientists recommend.
Speaker 2: We got scientists in the mix now telling us how
Speaker 2: to boil eggs. Scientists recommend putting eggs in a steamer basket,
Speaker 2: which actually I do, transferring them between two bowls of
Speaker 2: water every two minutes so they can cool off and
Speaker 2: cool up, one boiling and the other set to eighty
Speaker 2: six degrees until thirty two minutes are up. It's called
Speaker 2: periodic cooking and it yields a velvety yolk in a
Speaker 2: meaty but soft white egg. You kidding me? I used
Speaker 2: to boil eggs for about thirty minutes and the yolk
Speaker 2: turns out gray and chalky. And I did I thought
Speaker 2: that my mom did it that way. I did it
Speaker 2: that way. I mean, passover comes around and I'm boiling
Speaker 2: eggs and then they're all gray and chalking. Until a
Speaker 2: buddy of mine told me about soft boiled eggs. He
Speaker 2: boils his eggs for eight minutes, puts him in water. Dude,
Speaker 2: that is the way to go. Do a softboat egg.
Speaker 2: Because the yolk it's bright yellow. Sometimes you're gonna get it.
Speaker 2: It's a you could taste the yolk. It's not chalky. Man,
Speaker 2: let's debate it right now, phone number three four six
Speaker 2: twenty nine text and that's how you're gonna get into
Speaker 2: the high tech tax and show. By the way, here's
Speaker 2: in breaking news. Someone stole one hundred thousand dollars worth
Speaker 2: of eggs off a truck in Pennsylvania. I think it
Speaker 2: was this week, AE hundred thousand dots. Who carries that
Speaker 2: many eggs in a truck? Then again, I guess with
Speaker 2: the price of eggs today, it could have been about
Speaker 2: four dozen eggs. By the way, police are scrambling to
Speaker 2: find the culprit. They're hoping to crack the case soon.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you know if I hear anything more
Speaker 2: about it. Okay, we're done with the puns here on
Speaker 2: the High Tech Textion Show. You know how to get
Speaker 2: a hold of me. You know how to get a
Speaker 2: hold of me. Next hour, I'm gonna talk about the
Speaker 2: Samsung Galaxy S twenty five, the S twenty five plus
Speaker 2: the S twenty five Ultra. Officially, it took two plus
Speaker 2: weeks that I've had the phone. They are now officially
Speaker 2: on sale on the market. If you pre ordered and
Speaker 2: you have a Samsung Galaxy S twenty five, one of
Speaker 2: the three phones they released, you've had it now for
Speaker 2: less than twenty four to forty eight hours. Why don't
Speaker 2: you use it in call? Mean you tell me your
Speaker 2: thoughts because you've heard me talk about it in review
Speaker 2: at NonStop for two weeks now three four six, two nine,
Speaker 2: te x A N. I will talk a little bit
Speaker 2: more to give you some ideas. Is it worth the money?
Speaker 2: Is the Ultra worth thirteen hundred? Next hour? If you
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Speaker 2: able to uh to listen to that second hour of
Speaker 2: the the high Tech Texts and show for you Austin folks,
Speaker 2: A lot of people go to Austin, San Antonio so
Speaker 2: close to Austin. You know what you're getting in Austin.
Speaker 2: You are you were you were gonna get way mo
Speaker 2: w A y m O. You may have seen these
Speaker 2: vehicles on the street and this is kind of scary.
Speaker 2: This is the partnership they have with Uber. It is
Speaker 2: a self driving robotaxi. Has anybody seen these It's only
Speaker 2: in a few cities. Austin got them and they've been
Speaker 2: testing them. You may have been driving nearby a car
Speaker 2: with this weird looking alien round antenna thing on top
Speaker 2: and no, no one has been in there. Well, you
Speaker 2: are now one step closer to hailing as self driving
Speaker 2: vehicle in Austin through the Uber app. Company announced earlier
Speaker 2: this week that they opened up what's called an interest
Speaker 2: list so that curious writers can declare their interest in
Speaker 2: potentially being matched with a Waimo robo taxi because the
Speaker 2: partnership with Uber is launching very quote unquote soon. I
Speaker 2: can't tell exactly when it was a few months ago.
Speaker 2: In September, Uber and Weimo they announced the expansion of
Speaker 2: their partnership in Austin and Atlanta, because they teamed up
Speaker 2: already in Phoenix last year before I was in Austin,
Speaker 2: I think for it was a football game was watching.
Speaker 2: I went up there for a ut football game and
Speaker 2: I saw a few waymos rolling around. They had a
Speaker 2: launch party, which I was not invited to. Thank you, Weeimo,
Speaker 2: and they're getting ready. They're launching an early sometime the
Speaker 2: next few months. Early of twenty twenty five. They're one
Speaker 2: step closer to join the interest list Uber writers. I
Speaker 2: guess in Austin, you go to your account, your settings,
Speaker 2: you look for autonomous vehicles under the ride preferences, and
Speaker 2: you hit join the interest list. Self driving vehicles are new,
Speaker 2: but they've grown relatively stable in the easing years, and
Speaker 2: Ram no doubt it's the biggest player. Amazon has something
Speaker 2: called Zooks. They're trying to get a piece of that.
Speaker 2: Luca depot. There's startups like Nay Mobility, are Avaie they've
Speaker 2: expanded and GM they used that one cup cruise they
Speaker 2: killed that that's not gonna happen to Before we get
Speaker 2: out of here, think about this. Feel free. You all
Speaker 2: to chime in on my ex acount I tech X
Speaker 2: and are called next Hour. Are you safe? Are you comfortable?
Speaker 2: Are you comfortable getting behind the getting in a car
Speaker 2: with no driver behind the wheel? Phone number here, three, four, six,
Speaker 2: two nine tv X An hour number one is over,
Speaker 2: Michael Garthur. We have so much more Next Hour. I
Speaker 2: know we have a few minutes of commercial break. It
Speaker 2: keeps the show free. Thank you for keeping us right
Speaker 2: here on a big weekend of the big game. It's
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Speaker 2: Halfway through the High Tech Texans Show. Hour one is Zova.
Speaker 2: We've got less than an hour ago, which means we
Speaker 2: are a halfway through the show. Sale with me, people,
Speaker 2: we are a halfway to halpy hour. Call. How come
Speaker 2: we don't have a sponsor for halfway to happy hour?
Speaker 2: We need a good liquor company. We used to have
Speaker 2: Goodie Goodie Liquors Texas based based in Dallas. They used
Speaker 2: to sponsor this. We need to do that. I got
Speaker 2: a lot of My birthday was this past week, and
Speaker 2: thank you very much for all the accolades. So I
Speaker 2: guess I'm an easy target of people know what I
Speaker 2: want because I am one of the hardest persons that
Speaker 2: you would ever know to buy something for. And if
Speaker 2: you think about it, it's very simple. I have covered
Speaker 2: the consumer lifestyle slash technology industry for twenty plus years.
Speaker 2: If I want almost anything in the technologic world, the
Speaker 2: gadget world, I'm very honored that I could contact a
Speaker 2: company and they're going to send it to me. Now,
Speaker 2: when they send it to me, odds are they're gonna
Speaker 2: give me just They're gonna let me use it, review
Speaker 2: it for about thirty days or so. I'm totally cool
Speaker 2: with that before I have to return it. But it
Speaker 2: gives me the opportunity to find out do I want it?
Speaker 2: Did it change my life? That gives me the content
Speaker 2: to tell you this is a great product. This product
Speaker 2: is crap. You don't want to use it. So there's
Speaker 2: no use anybody getting me anything when it comes to
Speaker 2: tech or a kitchen gadget or even a car, Like
Speaker 2: anybody's gonna buy me the car. But if you want
Speaker 2: to buy me a car, feel free to buy me
Speaker 2: a car. I test drive cars every single week. I
Speaker 2: don't work with dealerships. I get them directly from the manufacturer.
Speaker 2: I have done this for fifteen years. I'm a member
Speaker 2: of the Texas Auto Writers Association, and I'm very honored
Speaker 2: to be able to get a car. It is not
Speaker 2: a paid deal. It is total content, which means when
Speaker 2: I roll around in a car, a vehicle, and it
Speaker 2: could be an SUV, a CUV, a sports car, an EV,
Speaker 2: a Mini van, I get them all. I can tell
Speaker 2: you they're great, they're bad. This needs to improve, and
Speaker 2: I really do, from the bottom of my heart, I
Speaker 2: do appreciate you listening to me and taking my advice
Speaker 2: and going out test driving and purchasing so many vehicles
Speaker 2: that I've recommended for fifteen years. All right, so you
Speaker 2: don't need to get me a car. And by the way,
Speaker 2: later this hour, I'm going to talk about the one.
Speaker 2: What's Michael driving? This week? I was in a brand
Speaker 2: new twenty twenty five Nissan Kicks Get you All Kicks
Speaker 2: en Route sixty six. It's a relatively small vehicle, doesn't
Speaker 2: cost too too too much. But I'll give you my
Speaker 2: thoughts on that sonyway. It's tough to get me things.
Speaker 2: And where I'm going with this is I have a
Speaker 2: few passions. And if you know who I am, you
Speaker 2: know what I do. I am a bourbon guy. I
Speaker 2: love Meason brown Water. Very few bourbons. Bourbon whiskey gets released,
Speaker 2: certainly the state of Texas without a bottle coming through
Speaker 2: this radio studio where I test it. I interviewed distillers.
Speaker 2: I will give you the tasting notes. I had a
Speaker 2: little caramel on the front end. There's a vanilla, very
Speaker 2: oaky woo. This is powerful.
Speaker 3: Ah, this is not.
Speaker 2: I have a bourbon collection. I literally have built a
Speaker 2: bourbon bar, very personalized bourbon bar, and in my home
Speaker 2: out of that thing, too, and so when people want
Speaker 2: to give me a gift, and I had a little
Speaker 2: I had several kind of little parties. But people through
Speaker 2: and they thought, hey, let's be cute. Let's get Michael
Speaker 2: a bottle of bourbon, which they probably should know. I
Speaker 2: probably have more bourbon than half the state of Kentucky combined.
Speaker 2: But I got some really nice bottles of bourbons. I
Speaker 2: probably got another. I got about twelve to fifteen new
Speaker 2: bottles of bourbon, some of which are my favorites, some
Speaker 2: of which I've had before. Some are knew that I
Speaker 2: haven't heard, which is nice. You'd think one of these
Speaker 2: bourbons can't callum. Let's let's where's our sales folks? Okay,
Speaker 2: for iHeart, where's Robert Reese, my guy? Let's let's put
Speaker 2: him on halfway to Happy hourre brought to you by
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Speaker 2: out of Fort Collins, Colorado. Not bad man. They got
Speaker 2: four or five different varietels. Very impressed with that. Got
Speaker 2: a bottle of Colonel E. H. Taylor That ain't cheap.
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Speaker 2: I got some good friends. One dude gave me a
Speaker 2: bottle Scotch. That's gonna be regifted. Phone number here three
Speaker 2: four six twenty nine. Text in three four six two
Speaker 2: nine t e x A, n oh. You know what
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Speaker 2: is time for this week in what other job is
Speaker 2: AI taking over? That's right, folks, brought to you by nobody.
Speaker 2: What other job this week is AI taking over? Well,
Speaker 2: here we go. Adobe Acrobat. We like Adobe, you know,
Speaker 2: pdf reader and does some things. Adobe a Acrobat apparently
Speaker 2: just launched an AI assistant. Pretty cool. Everybody. Everybody has
Speaker 2: to have an AI assistant, right, ADOBEAI has an AI
Speaker 2: assistant that can now assess contracts for you. That's right, contracts.
Speaker 2: It gives the ability to understand contracts and compares them
Speaker 2: for you. Somebody says it's going to help you make
Speaker 2: sense of complex terms and spot some differences between agreements
Speaker 2: between the old ones between the new ones, so you
Speaker 2: can understand what you're signing. It's going to be able
Speaker 2: to recognize that a document is a contract, even if
Speaker 2: it's a scan page. It can identify and list key terms.
Speaker 2: From there, it can summarize the document's contents, and it
Speaker 2: can recommend questions that you can ask based on what's
Speaker 2: in it. It could compare up to ten contracts with
Speaker 2: one another, and when it's done checking, you could sign
Speaker 2: the document duh directly or request the signatures from your
Speaker 2: colleagues or clients. Of course, you have to trust the
Speaker 2: AI assistant to actually be able the spot important information.
Speaker 2: You've got to catch the both small and the significant changes.
Speaker 2: I'm reading this and I'm thinking, if it works properly,
Speaker 2: this could be one of of Acrobat AI's most useful features,
Speaker 2: seeing as users open billions of contracts every single month
Speaker 2: on the Acrobat app. Oh, by the way, this isn't
Speaker 2: free the Acrobat Ai Assistant. It's an add on. It's
Speaker 2: going to cost you five bucks a month, whether or
Speaker 2: not you're already paying for adobees other services and products.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say in here this is the way
Speaker 2: I assess products or services. Is this for you or not?
Speaker 2: If you do read contracts, and if you do retain
Speaker 2: a lawyer that charges you anywhere from two three four
Speaker 2: five hundred bucks an hour to some of my buddies
Speaker 2: who are literally charged fifteen hundred, two thousand dollars an hour,
Speaker 2: I'm not getting you. I have some high prier I
Speaker 2: have some really smart friends five bucks a month. I'd
Speaker 2: I'd love to actually have a lawyer challenge. I may
Speaker 2: do this. I am one of the few lawyers who
Speaker 2: are one of my friends who was not a lawyer.
Speaker 2: Most every single one of my really really good friends
Speaker 2: for the past forty years, they went to law school.
Speaker 2: They were for major firms Chicago, New York, Dallas, there's
Speaker 2: a few here in Houston. I should probable, I really
Speaker 2: should do it live on the radio. Hey lawyer, here's
Speaker 2: a contract. Within five minutes, thirty minutes, I want you
Speaker 2: to assess this contract A versus contract B. What are
Speaker 2: your thoughts? And then I'm gonna put the I'm gonna
Speaker 2: spend five bucks on the Adobe Acrobat AI assistant to
Speaker 2: see what they do. Wouldn't that be awesome. Let's embarrass
Speaker 2: some lawyers out there. And there you have it, folks,
Speaker 2: it's the weekly. What other job is AI taking over
Speaker 2: the world with? If you've got something from a pop
Speaker 2: me a note Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com when
Speaker 2: we come up. AI has overtaken the smartphone world. AI
Speaker 2: is prevalent everywhere that you were looking and playing with
Speaker 2: the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty five phones. I have
Speaker 2: played with it for well over two weeks. It finally
Speaker 2: hit the marketplace just this past Friday. Did you spend
Speaker 2: thirteen hundred dollars on the Samsung S twenty five Ultra?
Speaker 2: Is it worth it for you? I'll do one final
Speaker 2: deep dive after the.
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Speaker 2: it's nice. When people say, garth Man, you were right.
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Speaker 2: on Sundays? I don't know. That's that's two of that's
Speaker 2: two of my partners here that are closed on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Cabo Bob's are closed. US coins and jewelry are closed
Speaker 2: on Sundays. It's a day rs people. But now that
Speaker 2: football season is getting ready to be ova this weekend
Speaker 2: on a Sunday, why don't you just open on a
Speaker 2: Sunday because there's nothing else to do? Just just my
Speaker 2: two cents? What else say you're gonna do? Oh real quickly,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna end on the AI thing. Lastest segment if
Speaker 2: you heard, I did a segment called what other job
Speaker 2: is AI taking Over? And I talked about Adobe's Acrobat
Speaker 2: AI can now assess contracts for you. You don't even
Speaker 2: need to have a lawyer for that. Did anybody watch
Speaker 2: the Grammys last weekend? I caught the Grammys and there
Speaker 2: were some really neat performances. But did you see who
Speaker 2: won a Grammy? There's a It was a band that
Speaker 2: you made a lot of my listeners based on their
Speaker 2: age and demographics. You may not have heard of. It's
Speaker 2: a little It's a band out of little town in England.
Speaker 2: They're called the Beatles. They're no longer around and they
Speaker 2: won a Grammy fifty five years after they broke up.
Speaker 2: Why With the help of modern machine learning technology and AI,
Speaker 2: the Beatles released a song in late twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: It's called Now and Then, and that won this Grammy.
Speaker 2: And the song contains vocals that were recorded over fifty
Speaker 2: years ago and a guitar track from nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2: The technological limitations at that time prevented it from really
Speaker 2: seeing the light of day because of the audio issues. Nope,
Speaker 2: the demo was first recorded John Lennon's singing and piano
Speaker 2: were on the same audio track. John Lennon murdered Rest
Speaker 2: of Soul nineteen eighty, separating those two tracks of the
Speaker 2: singing a piano. It was impossible back then. AI can
Speaker 2: do that now without much bleed, without much loss, and
Speaker 2: the surviving Beatles Paul mcartney Ringo starred. They were able
Speaker 2: to complete the song by recording a new based new
Speaker 2: drum parts, and they released in almost thirty years later,
Speaker 2: and it won a Grammy this past year. That's I
Speaker 2: guess it got by with a little help from AI.
Speaker 2: And that's the week in AI. And I'm almost done
Speaker 2: talking about AI, but I'm not because I'm getting ready
Speaker 2: to talk about a phone that was just released that
Speaker 2: has AI. Folks, if you've listened to this show for
Speaker 2: the past two or three weeks. I was in San Jose, California,
Speaker 2: in January. I was out there on my half of Samsung.
Speaker 2: It was their launch, their big press release, their news
Speaker 2: release of the sam Sung flagship up, the Galaxy S
Speaker 2: twenty five, three different versions. It's the S twenty five,
Speaker 2: the S twenty five plus the S twenty five Ultra.
Speaker 2: I was able to get an S twenty five Ultra.
Speaker 2: I have had it for two, if not three weeks.
Speaker 2: I have played with it. I have showed off to
Speaker 2: a number of people who are big Android folks. I
Speaker 2: am a longtime Samsung fan. I am not. I am
Speaker 2: not on their payroll. Samsung has directly, never not even indirect,
Speaker 2: They have never paid me anything. I have sold more
Speaker 2: Samsung gear than probably any other technologically technologial the media person.
Speaker 2: I should be on their payroll. Nope, that's okay, don't
Speaker 2: worry about it. But I will tell you about it.
Speaker 2: It's a good phone. The Ultra is a big one,
Speaker 2: and it finally hit the market this past Friday. Anybody
Speaker 2: have one talk to me, call me on your new
Speaker 2: Samsung three fourths nine Texan t e xam. This is
Speaker 2: a big one. The big one is what I've had
Speaker 2: the Ultra thirteen hundred dollars. They did not up it
Speaker 2: from last year. The S twenty four Ultra also thirteen
Speaker 2: hundred dollars. It's designed a bit different this year's Ultra.
Speaker 2: It feels a little bit. It's a softer, more curvy appearance.
Speaker 2: It is not ninety degree angles. You've got the four
Speaker 2: corners that are a little bit more curved. I would
Speaker 2: recommend putting a case on it, which at that point
Speaker 2: you really can't tell. It's curved, rounded corners. It has
Speaker 2: a new front and back glass. It's made of corning
Speaker 2: a Gorilla armor two that's a new version of the
Speaker 2: company's anti reflective coating. Looks great. Allegedly, it's going to
Speaker 2: be tougher if you drop it. Don't drop it people.
Speaker 2: If you combine it with the bezels on the end,
Speaker 2: they're fifteen percent smaller than before, which means you're going
Speaker 2: to get a larger phone. Front size. It's about a
Speaker 2: six point nine inch display, up from six point eight inches,
Speaker 2: but the actual physical size outside to outside from last
Speaker 2: year remains the same. Very first versatile phone. The chips
Speaker 2: inside a bit more powerful and the AI features that
Speaker 2: is what they're touting Yes, it's a faster chip. They've
Speaker 2: got a new ultra wide camera, phone sensors for the camera,
Speaker 2: got a few cosmetic tweaks. Overall, looks feels pretty similar
Speaker 2: to last year's model. Excellent screen, good performance. I like
Speaker 2: the battery life. I can dig the ultra wide sensor
Speaker 2: went from what was it twelve megapixels maybe twenty five minutes,
Speaker 2: it's fifty megapixels this year. Four camera lenses one, two, three, four.
Speaker 2: Those are the good things about it. I like it.
Speaker 2: If you use last year and know what an spen is,
Speaker 2: it's a pins that electronic pen change it this year
Speaker 2: this no longer support. Doesn't have bluetooth, so you can't
Speaker 2: use it as there's a magical wand it doesn't have
Speaker 2: those air actions where you can wave it and do
Speaker 2: some things. Doesn't do that, which is fine. I never knew.
Speaker 2: I never used it that way. It ain't cheap, it's
Speaker 2: not fully comtible, compatible with all the magnetic CHI two accessories.
Speaker 2: But make my mistake, this is AI. They are touting
Speaker 2: the artificial intelligence features in the software. There's a number
Speaker 2: of new and improved features. The general goal. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: it seems like it's making all of its tools more power,
Speaker 2: more intuitive. They've got something called the Samsung News Brief
Speaker 2: adds a very personalized feed weather, local traffic, upcoming calendar
Speaker 2: appointments right on that home lock screen. You don't even
Speaker 2: need to unlock it. I get one little morning says
Speaker 2: good morning, and there's one at night. This is what
Speaker 2: you need to know. Pretty handy. They've got an edge
Speaker 2: panel you swipe in on the tab the right side
Speaker 2: of the screen. There's some more AI features. It could
Speaker 2: listen to what it could hit an AI can listen
Speaker 2: to a song that's being played. You can hum in
Speaker 2: a song that's being played. Yes, I know there are
Speaker 2: apps that could do this too, Sound Hound, Shazam, but
Speaker 2: it's right here at the AI feature. There's AI features
Speaker 2: with the camera. You could generate of edit. You can
Speaker 2: remove people and it works well. I did an Instagram
Speaker 2: to go to high tech texting on my Instagram a
Speaker 2: few days ago. I showed you how the let's remove
Speaker 2: somebody or something. You can make a sketch of yourself.
Speaker 2: You can make a three D version that you can
Speaker 2: make a car two version of yourself. Overall, it's neat.
Speaker 2: Should you buy this at the end of the day
Speaker 2: as we get to the bottom of the hour. If
Speaker 2: you have a Samsung Galaxy S twenty four from last year,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a need to and S twenty
Speaker 2: three if it's still in great working order, there's no
Speaker 2: cracks and your battery works well. Still nothing. I usually
Speaker 2: recommend every two or three versions you get it. I
Speaker 2: don't think I see enough upgrades, enough change in this
Speaker 2: thing for you to go out and get it. If
Speaker 2: you don't have an S twenty three at S twenty four,
Speaker 2: if you've got an S twenty one, maybe you've got
Speaker 2: an old Samsung Galaxy Note twenty which is about four
Speaker 2: years ago. Yeah, I think it's worth you getting. Do
Speaker 2: you want to spend thirteen hundred dollars? There are less
Speaker 2: expensive versions, Yes, there are. You can get the S
Speaker 2: twenty five plus does still it's got a good chip,
Speaker 2: doesn't have the nice high high end cameras, but it's smaller.
Speaker 2: It is cheaper for about one thousand dollars, and there's
Speaker 2: one for about eight hundred dollars. The S twenty five.
Speaker 2: It's worth looking at. Walk into some of your stores,
Speaker 2: hold it, feel it. But if you have a version
Speaker 2: if you're an Android fan and you're about two or three,
Speaker 2: certainly four years or more of a version. You're waiting
Speaker 2: for it. They're out right now, go get it. Nothing
Speaker 2: is very very bad about this camera or the phone.
Speaker 2: I think Samsung has done a good job. We're going
Speaker 2: to take a break. Coming back up. How has AI
Speaker 2: affected other areas of technology, including search engine OUP toimization.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to an excellent expert in that area on
Speaker 2: the High Tech Textan show, Don't go anywhere. We're back
Speaker 2: at it. It is Michael Garfield, d High Tech Texan.
Speaker 2: Happy early February. Phone lines are open, but stand by.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to take your phone calls yet because
Speaker 2: this segment it's a conversation piece. That's actually what we
Speaker 2: call an interview here in the radio program. If anybody
Speaker 2: has seen my website, which by the way, high Tech
Speaker 2: text and h I G H T E C H
Speaker 2: T E X A N, feel free to give me
Speaker 2: all the kudos that you want. I didn't really do
Speaker 2: much about it. There was a company based in Houston
Speaker 2: cled Downs with a Z. They are the ones who
Speaker 2: helped me put it together. The leader of the pack
Speaker 2: who runs that company, I've known him for quite a while.
Speaker 2: His name is Steve Winter. Not only do they do
Speaker 2: website development, but really big indeed search engine optimization, making
Speaker 2: sure your business, small business meetium business can be found
Speaker 2: on the Internet, which helps your business in the long run.
Speaker 2: They do so much and I check in with Steve
Speaker 2: every few months to see what is up in the world.
Speaker 2: And I am going to bring him in right now,
Speaker 2: Steve before I say, Hi, is this you or is
Speaker 2: this an AI bot I'm talking to?
Speaker 5: Well, we'll just have to see how we answer those questions.
Speaker 5: If you can tell the difference or not.
Speaker 2: Should I phrase that in the form of a question
Speaker 2: like jeopardy? Oooh, man, I tell you it is. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to use the word scary.
Speaker 5: Steve.
Speaker 2: Listen, you and I have been talking a few times
Speaker 2: the past month. I just got back from the Consumer
Speaker 2: Electronics Show. Every company out there had the letters AI
Speaker 2: involved with everything, the products, the phones and whatever. I
Speaker 2: was thinking. You know, you guys are the kings of
Speaker 2: Search engine optimization. You helped so many companies. Has AI
Speaker 2: infiltrated your world your business yet to see if it
Speaker 2: has affected for the better for the worst for you guys?
Speaker 5: Oh one hundred percent. I mean, AI is everywhere, right.
Speaker 5: You know, we were at the sphere in Vegas and
Speaker 5: you got the AI robots and you know, the whatever
Speaker 5: they're called there. It's crazy what it's doing. But you know,
Speaker 5: when when we asked the question, what's happening in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five and all that, and then is SEO changed?
Speaker 5: You know, in many ways, SEO is still in the
Speaker 5: fundamentals of you've got to do it right technically. You've
Speaker 5: really got to set the website up right and and
Speaker 5: and all, and then you've got to also have all
Speaker 5: the internal linking and backlinks and things like that. So
Speaker 5: there's still a lot of work that we're doing. But
Speaker 5: AI has fundamentally shifted a lot of things. You know,
Speaker 5: there there were companies that would develop content for us
Speaker 5: and all that and help write content for webs sites
Speaker 5: because you know, it took a long time to write content.
Speaker 5: I don't think there are too many content writer jobs
Speaker 5: out there as much anymore.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, you got a point. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go back to Wooden. You and I and your team
Speaker 2: sat down to and we're going to redo my entire website.
Speaker 2: I went through a top to bottom. You guys just
Speaker 2: do a phenomenal assessment of what are my business goals?
Speaker 2: What do I want to do? And then when it
Speaker 2: comes down, you do need copy written on your website.
Speaker 2: You need to say about us and who's the leadership
Speaker 2: and what's the goal. You know, I can write pretty well,
Speaker 2: I don't like to. I got other stuff to do.
Speaker 2: And I know you had some copywriters. But it is
Speaker 2: amazing what that AI can do to really not only
Speaker 2: help it, but speed things up too. And so there
Speaker 2: must be certain aspects of your job that of your company.
Speaker 2: The AI is helping, well, it is, but but you
Speaker 2: what we cannot do, and it's and it is.
Speaker 5: It is amazing as we've all gotten used to it.
Speaker 5: You know, if you see AI written content, you know
Speaker 5: it's AI written content. We have to everyone uses it.
Speaker 5: It helps us get what we need fundamentally started. But
Speaker 5: we have to de AI it right because Google knows
Speaker 5: and it's amazing what their bots can do and all that.
Speaker 5: They don't like AI content. They want good original content
Speaker 5: and our clients want good content. And the one thing
Speaker 5: that we've learned about AI, if you ask it a question,
Speaker 5: it's going to give you an answer. It may not
Speaker 5: be right at all, but it's going to come back
Speaker 5: with an answer. And so for those reasons, you know,
Speaker 5: we really do have to pay attention to what's going
Speaker 5: on out there and where you do and don't use
Speaker 5: AI and all. But you know, now it used to
Speaker 5: be that content was king and the fact that if
Speaker 5: the competitor had four thousand words, you'd write five thousand
Speaker 5: words or whatever. Now everyone can write content until the
Speaker 5: cows come home. So now it's actually reverting back a
Speaker 5: little bit. It's really well written succinct content, well written
Speaker 5: succinct titles, well written succinct h ones.
Speaker 1: And also we're.
Speaker 5: Writing, you know what, the good news is, we're writing
Speaker 5: less and better content for a lot of what we're
Speaker 5: doing today from an AI perspective, and you know, Google's
Speaker 5: doing its best, right. They want to keep you if
Speaker 5: in Google still the gorilla, they want to keep you
Speaker 5: on their home page and their results page, and so
Speaker 5: they'll bring back AI answers. But a lot of the
Speaker 5: AI answer and stuff is more informational, right, it's not transactional,
Speaker 5: and it's not commercial. So if you're looking to buy
Speaker 5: a good or a service, you know, AI is not
Speaker 5: necessarily bringing back that result and it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: there are a lot of times when I go and
Speaker 5: look for stuff, I look on YouTube because there's great
Speaker 5: instructional videos and things like that out there. If I'm
Speaker 5: trying to sell a product or a service. You know,
Speaker 5: it was fun. I just had a friend of mine
Speaker 5: call me today. One of the guys in my breast
Speaker 5: club owns a commercial HVAC business. I said, man, how
Speaker 5: are things going? He goes, he Lord, he goes too good,
Speaker 5: He goes, Really, my concern is is how I afford
Speaker 5: payroll right now because we are so busy. He goes,
Speaker 5: I just I can't thank you guys enough. You all
Speaker 5: have absolutely killed us, you know, killed it for us,
Speaker 5: and we get so much business now. My ideal is
Speaker 5: just being able to fund payroll. And I said, well,
Speaker 5: that's good. Sales cears, all ills, you know, but I
Speaker 5: love getting those having those phone calls.
Speaker 2: Steve Winter joining me here for a few minutes. He
Speaker 2: is with astounds as t O U N d Z
Speaker 2: dot com. If you need a website done, redesign, search
Speaker 2: engine optimize, absolutely contact them. They're more than happy to
Speaker 2: give you an assessment to see how they could do it.
Speaker 2: And they really do work quick. You're right about the
Speaker 2: AI stuff, because you know, you know, Steve, I've done this.
Speaker 2: I have a certain style of speaking. I try to
Speaker 2: use wit, a little humor, and I try to convert
Speaker 2: that when I write. I don't love writing, but when
Speaker 2: I'm writing, I don't want to sound like I've never
Speaker 2: wanted to sound like a bot or a computer, and
Speaker 2: so I try to write the way I speak. AI
Speaker 2: is not there yet. It's trying to learn what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: And when Michael Garfield wipes in, uh, you know, three
Speaker 2: or four times I've tried to have it write some thing.
Speaker 2: It'll say, is this okay? I will say, punch it up,
Speaker 2: make a little bit more humors or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, whatever it spits out,
Speaker 2: I have to edit it. I have to go in
Speaker 2: and edit it. And we are at that stage for
Speaker 2: I think a while, because listen, it's only been around
Speaker 2: for a heartbeat, and you know, humans have been around
Speaker 2: for a long, long long time. It's just learning. It
Speaker 2: has to continue to learn. So until then, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just better.
Speaker 5: It is machine learning. But it is fascinating. I mean
Speaker 5: how quickly it can do things. I was working with
Speaker 5: a friend's resume of my son and and ask him
Speaker 5: some questions and give me answers and I can put
Speaker 5: it in a chat DVD. I said, please add these answers,
Speaker 5: all these questions to this resume, and I mean literally
Speaker 5: in two seconds it came back. But I then spent
Speaker 5: thirty minutes making it great. But it would have taken
Speaker 5: me three hours to do what I did in thirty minutes.
Speaker 5: You know, but AI is, you know, it is changing
Speaker 5: the world. There is no doubt about it. You know
Speaker 5: from chatbots and how it learns and and you know,
Speaker 5: you know the call centers of the world and all that.
Speaker 5: I mean, all of this stuff right is getting automated,
Speaker 5: and AI is getting smart. Websites will continue to get
Speaker 5: smarter and bring back different results based on the audience
Speaker 5: and all. It's going to continue to evolve considerably in
Speaker 5: what's going on. But that's what we're here to do.
Speaker 5: We're here, you know, I'm not I've never been bleeding
Speaker 5: edge and tried to be the inventor. That's why I'm
Speaker 5: not worth billions of dollars. But we try to stay
Speaker 5: right in the stream and learn and figure out where
Speaker 5: the technology is going. And all that and then bringing
Speaker 5: our clients along with us.
Speaker 2: I've seen your house and your golf club and your cars.
Speaker 2: I may have to test about the billion Actually I'm
Speaker 2: gonnask Ai, a Steve Winter billionaire.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, yeah, it'll say no, not this Steam winner anyway.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, this Steve Winner. Right. Listen, I appreciate time
Speaker 2: listening for anybody out there. I know we're now in
Speaker 2: some different cities across the state of Texas. The neat
Speaker 2: thing about the Internet and what you do, you don't
Speaker 2: need to physically be in the same city as you.
Speaker 2: You work with companies all over the country. If anybody
Speaker 2: does want to contact you about web sites or search
Speaker 2: engine optimization, how do they get a hold of you.
Speaker 5: Astounds dot com A S t o U N d
Speaker 5: Z is in Zebra dz dot com. And you know
Speaker 5: we we do work, We truly do all over the
Speaker 5: country internationally bilingual you know whatever you need multi lingual
Speaker 5: sites and there's hardly an industry we haven't touched. But
Speaker 5: you know, we don't even have to really know your industry.
Speaker 5: We just need to know what people are searching for
Speaker 5: in your industry and we help you. You know where
Speaker 5: we are your salesperson that never sleeps. We're there three
Speaker 5: sixty five twenty four seven helping you, helping you sell
Speaker 5: your service to your business, and we don't talk back.
Speaker 2: You don't because websites can't talk about AI one day
Speaker 2: like Rosie the robot that she's going to talk back
Speaker 2: but not you. Yeah, that's right down, Hey pal, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for your time. I appreciate it and
Speaker 2: anything I can do for you in the meantime. But
Speaker 2: if I have any extra callers and I can't answer
Speaker 2: any questions about SEO, I'm going to throw your way,
Speaker 2: but always appreciate your time.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. Congratulations on your growth, keep it up and hopefully
Speaker 5: we'll grow with you.
Speaker 2: Let's go both of us growing all right, my friends,
Speaker 2: Steve Winter Atis down's a s t O U n
Speaker 2: d Z dot com for all your deeds on the
Speaker 2: website and search engine optimization. My name Michael Garfield. Not
Speaker 2: a robot at least not yet. On The High Tech
Speaker 2: Texting Show, don't go to where we are going to
Speaker 2: be right back, I know segments of this weekend show,
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Speaker 2: I bet you're ready for the big game. If you
Speaker 2: make something special. What are you guys eating? You doing
Speaker 2: a little wings, a little seven layered dip where you
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Speaker 2: A N. That's the link where I already I blew
Speaker 2: the lead. Really, I put a link to for all
Speaker 2: most all of the commercials that you'll see in the
Speaker 2: Big Game, and we could talk about those next week. Hey, listen,
Speaker 2: for seven or eight million dollars, you better pay attention
Speaker 2: of what they're trying to pimp. You're gonna buy some
Speaker 2: of those. I don't know a lot of car commercials
Speaker 2: right there. Oh, by the way, speaking of car reviews,
Speaker 2: better bury the lead over here. What's Michael driving this week?
Speaker 2: You know, every single week I get to drive in
Speaker 2: a in a pretty pretty cool vehicle. Be it's not paid,
Speaker 2: it's it's directly from the manufacturer. I don't deal with dealerships.
Speaker 2: This past week, I was rolling around in the all
Speaker 2: new twenty twenty five Nissan Kicks had a smaller vehicle
Speaker 2: in the compact crossover segment and I've always been a
Speaker 2: Nissan fan. I remember I was driving one of the Kicks.
Speaker 2: I think I was down in Miami and they gave
Speaker 2: us a Kicks to drive from Miami all the way
Speaker 2: down to the Keys and that was kind of fun.
Speaker 2: But it seems to me that it's gotten a little larger.
Speaker 2: It's a four door vehicle, really nice technology inside, kind
Speaker 2: of a street smart designed, very versatile, and there's some
Speaker 2: neat options over there. Nissan OI does a great job
Speaker 2: with its intelligent all wheel drive. That's some tech right there.
Speaker 2: It gives you some gives you confidence and control of
Speaker 2: a lot of different weather conditions, some road services. If
Speaker 2: you're going through snow, which we actually got some in
Speaker 2: Houston a few weeks ago, it gives you some added
Speaker 2: you know, I guess, peace of mind. Good ground clearance.
Speaker 2: Got just about eight point four inches of ground clearance
Speaker 2: drives up. I like the impression. The design is cool,
Speaker 2: maybe for the younger set, very bold, kind of got
Speaker 2: a why stance, good fenders. It's a little boxy maybe
Speaker 2: with the lower half, but overall it's clean and it's modern.
Speaker 2: I like it sit inside dashboard, dual screen setup. You've
Speaker 2: got one, there's your instrument cluster, which is what you
Speaker 2: look at right through this deering wheel, and there's the
Speaker 2: infotainment system. Infotainment system is pretty good. It's got about
Speaker 2: about the standard measure. It's about seve to seven inches
Speaker 2: the Kicks SR that's an upgraded that's about a twelve
Speaker 2: point three inch two display models. So there's different versions
Speaker 2: you can get into. They've got two roses seats. I
Speaker 2: like the seats. Nissign's got what they call their zero
Speaker 2: gravity seats, you know, being in Houston, NASA seats or whatever.
Speaker 2: Very comfortable seats distributes the weights in your pressure. So
Speaker 2: if you have long rides, like I drive from Houston
Speaker 2: to Dallas to see my folks Houston Austin. You know,
Speaker 2: I go up there a lot totally. It's no fatigue.
Speaker 2: I like it a lot. Really nice panoramic moonroof gives you,
Speaker 2: you know, always I don't drive with the moon roof
Speaker 2: for the sun roof open a lot. I did in
Speaker 2: this one. To me, if you're in a relatively smaller car,
Speaker 2: if you're not in a massive big suv, sometimes it
Speaker 2: opens it up when you bring it in some additional light.
Speaker 2: I do like this moon roof over here too good comfort.
Speaker 2: I like the cargo space. I actually drove it because
Speaker 2: I was dry for one of my little birthday swarrays.
Speaker 2: I had to actually had to schlep some a number
Speaker 2: of different things, some cases of liquor which don't drink
Speaker 2: and drive folks. Cargo space is good. I put that
Speaker 2: second row down, really got a good amount of space
Speaker 2: in the back. They've got a Kicks S at, a
Speaker 2: Kicks SV along with that Kicks SR, so they've got
Speaker 2: different versions of that two point zero Leader inline four engine.
Speaker 2: It comes in about one hundred and forty one horse power.
Speaker 2: On the surface, you'll look at that number, not the
Speaker 2: biggest number with horsepower, but it's a relatively small and
Speaker 2: light car. So if you combine it with the two
Speaker 2: point zero Leader in line four, it does have some
Speaker 2: good get up and go an extronic transmission, all right,
Speaker 2: So it' Scott again. Three levels, the S the SVDSR
Speaker 2: two available premium packages. So you can configure this most
Speaker 2: any way you want, right and now who wants the price?
Speaker 2: Tell you what? Listen to this. I happen to be
Speaker 2: in the Nissan Kicks SR. Who is the front wheel
Speaker 2: drive the MSRP right it twenty set. What is get
Speaker 2: some glasses twenty eight thousand dollars or so totally? I
Speaker 2: drove it totally with all the options premium package right
Speaker 2: at thirty thousand people. I'll tell you what. It's relatively
Speaker 2: tough to find a decent vehicle for thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: or less. Definitely it. Listen, who is this for? If
Speaker 2: you have teenagers who are relatively tall, you schlep into soccer,
Speaker 2: you have a lot of gear, and you have to
Speaker 2: do a lot of car pools. I don't know, this
Speaker 2: may be a little small if you've got smaller kids.
Speaker 2: I would say it's pretty easy to get a car
Speaker 2: seat in the back. Just starting out. You want to
Speaker 2: watch the amount of money that you pay it still,
Speaker 2: you know, gives you kind of the sexiness of the
Speaker 2: hip hop happiness of your youth. Yeah, take a look
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Nissan Kicks. Big time Nissan Kicks fan.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Steve Parrott Alba with Prestige Otto for
Speaker 2: letting me drive that and go check it out every week.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I do. I rate and I review
Speaker 2: of vehicles and so very happy with that one. Not
Speaker 2: going to give out the phone number because we are
Speaker 2: almost out of here. Let's see if we can go.
Speaker 2: People want my predictions for the Big Game. Told you
Speaker 2: I am in a square pool. I really don't care
Speaker 2: who win.
Speaker 4: Well, I.
Speaker 2: Don't want Philadelphia to win. As a longtime lifetime Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboy fan, I do not want to see Philadelphia winning it.
Speaker 2: I don't mind Kansas City too much. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm getting a little sick of him, but I like
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. He's a great kid. He's a Texas boy,
Speaker 2: went to Texas Tech. Might as well just have they went.
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for my square pool to win. I'm in
Speaker 2: a four hundred dollars per square square pool. Each quarter
Speaker 2: the winner gets ten thousand dollars. So I think my
Speaker 2: numbers are seven and nine, and I don't know which
Speaker 2: is which. Believe me, let me let me help you out.
Speaker 2: If I win, that will be my first words on
Speaker 2: my show next week. And yes, I will even if
Speaker 2: I win ten thousand. If I win all four quarters
Speaker 2: of forty thousand dollars, my dedication to you. After twenty
Speaker 2: plus years, I'm still gonna be here. Nope, you can't
Speaker 2: retire on forty thousand dollars, even if the government don't
Speaker 2: know about it. Get so wherever you're watching the game,
Speaker 2: and all the advice I've given, and I did get
Speaker 2: some emails going, hey, Michael, tell me again, what's the
Speaker 2: best way to watch it? What was the name of
Speaker 2: the free streaming app? It's called two B by the
Speaker 2: way to UBI, which is on by Fox. It is
Speaker 2: on Fox. If you have a chance to actually check
Speaker 2: it out. If you're using an over the air antenna
Speaker 2: versus cable, you're going to thank me and appreciate the
Speaker 2: better the better video quality. Because you're local Fox affiliate,
Speaker 2: they are by they are governed. There is a law
Speaker 2: that all local television stations they do have to be
Speaker 2: broadcasting a digital signal. And digital signals most always are
Speaker 2: better than the compressed cable signals. And so I hope
Speaker 2: you do have a good time watching that. I do
Speaker 2: want to thank some my guests. Thank you again. Aj.
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Speaker 2: everybody who's put this on. My name is Michael Garfield,
Speaker 2: a year older, not a year wiser, still having more
Speaker 2: energy than anybody does. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for tuning me. Goodnight, good weekend,
Speaker 2: Texas and beyond. Because my show is over.