Speaker 1: Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield.
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Speaker 2: Technology and Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
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Speaker 2: Why oh boy, do we have a show for you
Speaker 2: this weekend? How are you? Michael is the name Michael Garfield?
Speaker 2: To be exact, Why don't you follow along on all
Speaker 2: social media? Issue? You be too shy to call in?
Speaker 2: If it's you're too lazy to pick up the phone
Speaker 2: and dial ten digits. I am at high Tech Texan
Speaker 2: almost well not TikTok, almost everywhere else that you could
Speaker 2: be found. H I G H T E C H
Speaker 2: T E X A N. What do we have on
Speaker 2: tap for you this weekend? Mother's Day? If I say
Speaker 2: Mother Day, how many people just went don't Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: I forgot mom? Nip do not forget mom. Mother's Day
Speaker 2: is Sunday. I have a few last minute gift ideas
Speaker 2: for you in the tech world that you may enjoy.
Speaker 2: For those of you in Austin who happened to see
Speaker 2: my weekly tech segment on Fox seven, I was on
Speaker 2: set showing off of a few beauty products. It's some
Speaker 2: other interesting ideas. I can tell you where to go,
Speaker 2: where to shop, and also how to really cheat in
Speaker 2: terms of let's go online and give mom an e
Speaker 2: gift card. We've got that. Also, I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: about what the stock up on regarding potential price hikes
Speaker 2: due to the tariff wars. Can we actually say that
Speaker 2: there are tariff wars going on right now? There is tariffs,
Speaker 2: there's the threat of tariffs, and I think the biggest
Speaker 2: question that I am being halted with right now certainly
Speaker 2: what's happening with computers and laptops, graduation, presidents at presidents, cars,
Speaker 2: things that I all of these things. It will fit
Speaker 2: into the consumer lifestyle category that I do review and
Speaker 2: I do recommend. Yes, it seems that most everything is
Speaker 2: and potentially can be raised. So there are things that
Speaker 2: you may want to hoard or stock up on. I
Speaker 2: will get to that. Also. Hope Francis may he rest
Speaker 2: in peace. Just saw that he bequeathed his Popemobile. I
Speaker 2: do review cars on a weekly basis. That is one
Speaker 2: vehicle I never had the opportunity to drive. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you a little bit about that. And also a question
Speaker 2: that I like. We we're going to play a little game.
Speaker 2: What if you were bequeathed any car, any vehicle that
Speaker 2: is famous, what would it be? Would it be the popemobile?
Speaker 2: Pretty cool? I think I heard the popemobil has There
Speaker 2: were several popemcveils, one of which was an ev I've
Speaker 2: got my answers. And also, we are mourning the death
Speaker 2: of another technology service that over the years we just
Speaker 2: have used and used and used. No one has seen
Speaker 2: to have used it, and it actually went dark. We
Speaker 2: say bye bye this past week. I will give you
Speaker 2: the phone numbers should you do want to call in,
Speaker 2: ask some questions, share with me some of your better
Speaker 2: Mother's Day gifts, or is your insights or your dad jokes?
Speaker 2: I am here for you. The number is three four
Speaker 2: six twenty nine Texan three four six two nine t
Speaker 2: e x A N So no matter where you are
Speaker 2: listening terrestrially, be it in Houston on KPRC nine fifty,
Speaker 2: San Antonio. What's up? San Antonio News Radio twelve hundred
Speaker 2: WOAI and in Dallas Talk Radio eleven ninety that I
Speaker 2: kind of hope my parents really aren't listening right now,
Speaker 2: because my mom may be listening to some Mother's Day
Speaker 2: gift that hasn't arrived yet. So you mad, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're listening Susan Garfield up in Big d maybe
Speaker 2: you want to turn this off because she actually I
Speaker 2: was talking to her. Was it this week or last week?
Speaker 2: I'm very proud of them because they generally well number
Speaker 2: one for twenty plus years. My radio show is only
Speaker 2: had only been aired on air in Houston on k
Speaker 2: PERC nine to fifty am. And they live up in Dallas,
Speaker 2: and so they would have to listen online, which they can.
Speaker 2: They have to sit at their computer or they would
Speaker 2: have to download the iHeartRadio app. She now tells me
Speaker 2: that she talks to either Google or her Alexa and
Speaker 2: just says, hey, wake up, ord whatever it is, listen
Speaker 2: to Talk eleven ninety Dallas on iHeart Radio. You can
Speaker 2: do that right now as you walk around the house.
Speaker 2: So talk to your smart speaker, just say hey instead
Speaker 2: of listening to the radio, or if you're driving right now,
Speaker 2: listening to me. You can get home and instead of
Speaker 2: downloading the iHeart Radio app, which we would like if
Speaker 2: for you to do, you can just say hey, blank blank,
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying it because I don't want to
Speaker 2: wake up all your devices. Listen to KPRC nine to
Speaker 2: fifty am on iHeart Radio, listen to news Radio twelve
Speaker 2: hundred on iHeart Radio, and then it'll start playing amazing.
Speaker 2: So technology has infiltrated every generation that I can think
Speaker 2: of Mother's Day some of the things, one of which
Speaker 2: is moms and females over the years when they come
Speaker 2: up and ask me what's the cool device, or if
Speaker 2: they see me using one particular advice that I have
Speaker 2: used over the past few years, that they just seem
Speaker 2: to be, oh, this is so cool, I want one
Speaker 2: of these. They love flip phones. I like flip phone.
Speaker 2: And to be sure, if you're an iPhone user, sucks
Speaker 2: for you because iPhone does not make a flip phone.
Speaker 2: And I don't even know if I even want to
Speaker 2: use the word yet. Who knows what they're going to do.
Speaker 2: I am an Android guy. Samsung is already on their
Speaker 2: sixth generation of their Galaxy Z flip phone, Motorola makes
Speaker 2: a flip phone. Yes, there's foldable phones too, but flip
Speaker 2: phones are very compact. And if you close your eyes
Speaker 2: and I am going to try to describe what a
Speaker 2: flip phone is, ladies, do you know what a compact is? Right?
Speaker 2: And I do this because I remember my grandmother every
Speaker 2: time we went out to dinner. At the end to dinner,
Speaker 2: she would always open her purse very proper wating, she
Speaker 2: would take out her compact. And what it has on
Speaker 2: the top of it. It's a clamshell device like the
Speaker 2: old clamshell phones. And it's got the mirror on top.
Speaker 2: So you think she could look at her blips and
Speaker 2: redo her powder, lipstick or whatever. It's a cop that
Speaker 2: that is the RM factor exactly what a flip phone is.
Speaker 2: So they are small and they fold out to become
Speaker 2: a full size regular six and a half inch diagonal
Speaker 2: screen roughly of an actual phone that most people use,
Speaker 2: the candy bar size phone. Why not make something small
Speaker 2: that fits in a little, tiny black purse when the
Speaker 2: girls are going out on a Friday night. Flip phones
Speaker 2: are cool, they work well. I like them a lot.
Speaker 2: I am a big form factor person. I don't have
Speaker 2: the I don't carry my phone in a leather belt
Speaker 2: holster like I think my father still does that. We
Speaker 2: used to when we first got phones, and it's like
Speaker 2: it looks like it's a pistol. You know, you're in
Speaker 2: needed a license to carry a phone. I generally keep
Speaker 2: it in my pocket and I wear jeans. I wear
Speaker 2: all these you know at leisure type of you know pants,
Speaker 2: stretchy pants from you know, built or fablet X that
Speaker 2: you can they're kind of snug but they're stretchable. But
Speaker 2: you could see where there's a phone in there. A
Speaker 2: phone in your pocket? Are you happy to see me?
Speaker 2: Sometimes like keep in the back pocket. It's much easier
Speaker 2: when you have a smaller device, a smaller phone. They're
Speaker 2: just they're lighter. So anyway, flip phones. That's one thing
Speaker 2: that you potentially can get convinced mom to get into.
Speaker 2: I also when I was on I did my Fox
Speaker 2: seventh video in Austin. If you saw this, beauty in
Speaker 2: cosmetic technology continues to impress me too. I was sent
Speaker 2: a few different products from a company, a Chinese Chinese
Speaker 2: based company called you like Oh you like E? Yes,
Speaker 2: you do like E. But it's the letter you l
Speaker 2: I K E dot com. They send me two devices,
Speaker 2: one of which is a handheld hair removal device. Now
Speaker 2: hold on standby. When I say hair, I'm not talking
Speaker 2: really about the hair on your head, but the hair
Speaker 2: on your arms, the hair ladies under your armpits, the
Speaker 2: hair on your legs, you know, because people want rare,
Speaker 2: so it zaps your hair. This is a nice one.
Speaker 2: They sent me a unit, and this is not that cheap.
Speaker 2: It's about three hundred and fifty four hundred bones and
Speaker 2: it's an IPL and so it uses laser light flashes
Speaker 2: of light that if you use it three times a
Speaker 2: week or so over the first four weeks or month,
Speaker 2: it is supposed to totally remove that you'll never hair
Speaker 2: be gone. So you could do this at home. One
Speaker 2: other one that I've actually been using myself, and I
Speaker 2: haven't seen it, but it's an LED light therapy mask.
Speaker 2: And the mask itselfs that you put it right and
Speaker 2: it just smothers your face then smother you really, but
Speaker 2: it looks like Iron Man and it has LED This
Speaker 2: one has hundreds and hundreds of LED lights and you
Speaker 2: wear this thing for six, seven, eight minutes at a time,
Speaker 2: and these LED lights are supposed to help with blemishes
Speaker 2: and your acne and tighten up your face. Those are
Speaker 2: interesting too. They both come from this. You like things,
Speaker 2: and so the point is, don't sleep with the fact
Speaker 2: that there are cosmetic things that women love, moms live,
Speaker 2: that they can use at home. And so go up
Speaker 2: and take a look at some of those things. I'll
Speaker 2: leave it at that. We have our first break right now.
Speaker 2: Coming up phone numbers, I will get your questions and
Speaker 2: calls three four, six, twenty nine texts and and up next,
Speaker 2: what the stock up on If you're scared that prices
Speaker 2: are going to escalate with these tariffs, I'll give you
Speaker 2: a few of the low hanging friths that you maybe
Speaker 2: you're run out by right now. It's Michael Garkoff, the
Speaker 2: High Tech Texting Show. Not yet, people were not giving
Speaker 2: away anything yet standby. Apparently I do appreciate everybody reading
Speaker 2: MYMX dot com account, formerly noticed Twitter, my Instagram. I
Speaker 2: kind of, you know, was teasing you guys, going, hey,
Speaker 2: we got some few things to give away. Got a
Speaker 2: fifty dollars our gift card to Red River Cantina, Happy
Speaker 2: Laid by the Way, Cinco de Mayo. I went there
Speaker 2: for Cinco de Mayo, the fifth of May, by the way. Well,
Speaker 2: and I used to think Cinco de Mayo was a
Speaker 2: made up, a made up holiday. Actually, I don't even
Speaker 2: know if it was a holiday. I thought it was
Speaker 2: the beer companies and the tequila companies that got together.
Speaker 2: But it actually it did mean something. It celebrates the
Speaker 2: Mexican Army's victory over the Second French Empire at the
Speaker 2: Battle of Puebla back in eighteen sixty two May fifth,
Speaker 2: eighteen sixty two. So in celebration of the wonderful I
Speaker 2: bet that was that. What that was was that televised,
Speaker 2: was that on ESPN two, the Mexican Army's victory over
Speaker 2: that Second French Empire Battle of Peblo. I definitely had
Speaker 2: a a sortvezza or two at the Red River Cantina
Speaker 2: two locations, one down what on the in Richmond, Texas,
Speaker 2: which is on the west side of Houston off of
Speaker 2: the Grand Parkway ninety nine and Harlem Road. That's where
Speaker 2: I was and went down in League City. Man, that's
Speaker 2: a big outfit outdoor patios Red River Cantinas, So I
Speaker 2: thank to Shane Swope has doing it. He's the general
Speaker 2: manager at the one on the west side. I got
Speaker 2: a fifty dollars red River Cantina, so stand by, we
Speaker 2: will give that away here soon. Michael Garfield is the name,
Speaker 2: and he didn't notice note that prices have yet to
Speaker 2: be raised at red River or any of it. I
Speaker 2: don't I don't eat at a ton of restaurants. Really
Speaker 2: has anybody noticed the price going up? And are you
Speaker 2: blaming the tariffs? Are you blaming the government for already
Speaker 2: raising the price of I don't know, avocados, hot sauce, tortillas, lettuce,
Speaker 2: toilet paper or whatever it is. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I do cover this industry. And the fact is I
Speaker 2: just returned from a trip to China speak with a
Speaker 2: meeting with Chinese based technology companies on their thoughts of
Speaker 2: what they think the tariffs, at least in the short term,
Speaker 2: but also sometimes in the long term. Can what's it
Speaker 2: gonna do for their businesses? And they the sound bites
Speaker 2: and I sat down. I mean, I got a really
Speaker 2: really nice conversation at length with the CEO of Lexar.
Speaker 2: Alexar is the company that makes a lot of the
Speaker 2: internal storage drives, the little tiny storage cards that you
Speaker 2: put in that there are in phones that you put
Speaker 2: in cameras. Lexar nice gentlemen. Ryan Lee is his name,
Speaker 2: and relatively young guy too, and he gave me some
Speaker 2: lengthy conversations, very frank that in the short term he
Speaker 2: believes that he could help business because people are stocking
Speaker 2: up on things that they think they may need before
Speaker 2: prices go up. The longer term, over the next six
Speaker 2: months year that at the tariffs do continue the China
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five percent currently right now, how
Speaker 2: that could hurt their business and hurt the economy, the
Speaker 2: lifestyle everything. It's I don't know, are there any winners
Speaker 2: in this right now? So trying to keep the politics
Speaker 2: out of it, but it is politics, there's no matter
Speaker 2: how you cut it down. And right now Trump has
Speaker 2: paused reciprocal tariffs, but they're set to expire in July.
Speaker 2: So businesses they've been scrambling to ensure that they have
Speaker 2: enough product in stock before these double digit tariffs take effect.
Speaker 2: And after that stock runs out, companies are going to
Speaker 2: need to pay more for products made outside the US,
Speaker 2: and those costs almost definitely going to get passed along
Speaker 2: to us the consumers. Tariffs on goods from China they're
Speaker 2: already hitting Chinese total tariff rate currently one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five percent, and price it's for some products they've
Speaker 2: already risen as much as three hundred and seventy seven percent.
Speaker 2: I saw that there is hitchen towels. If you get
Speaker 2: him at how do you pronounce this? This online website
Speaker 2: Timo is one, but the Shine Shi n I don't
Speaker 2: shop on shot kitchen towels went from a buck twenty
Speaker 2: eight to six dollars and ten cents. It's a three
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy seven percent increase. A meat shredder rose
Speaker 2: two hundred and nineteen percent. Timo, which is the Chinese
Speaker 2: e commerce company, they raised their right duds. So we're
Speaker 2: seeing a lot of prices already rise. But what imports
Speaker 2: have companies already stocked up upon. Among the biggest hikes
Speaker 2: in imports that companies are stocking up from number one
Speaker 2: is pharmaceutical goods. There was an increase of about twenty
Speaker 2: billion dollars in purchasing passenger cars, two billion dollars worth
Speaker 2: of that in computer accessories another two billion dollars. Now
Speaker 2: some companies have they've already making the strategic moves to
Speaker 2: avoid the worst of the triple digit tariffs on Chinese goods.
Speaker 2: In March, Apple shipped about two billion dollars a month
Speaker 2: of iPhones from India because they had a temporary twenty
Speaker 2: six percent reciprocal tariff. So point is, what should you
Speaker 2: stock up on. It's unclear wind prices could rise. It's
Speaker 2: unclear on how much prices will rise. But experts warn
Speaker 2: and listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna call myself an expert.
Speaker 2: Do not go out in what we call hannick. Buy,
Speaker 2: don't handic, don't go out and panic. Buy a new
Speaker 2: got it, a who car, a new PC, a new
Speaker 2: something that you fear tariffs are gonna hit in order
Speaker 2: to upgrade. Now, there is a difference between want in need.
Speaker 2: I have taught my three sons this over the years.
Speaker 2: Do you want something I want a lot of things
Speaker 2: versus do you absolutely need this right now? If you
Speaker 2: need something, you you have a car that is just
Speaker 2: it's about to die because it's three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: thousand miles and you've got another kid coming and you
Speaker 2: need more room and you need more safe Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 2: Do you want a new car because oh this is cool?
Speaker 2: Because it's got to know you know, a third you know,
Speaker 2: a third row. Maybe it's got exit into the satellite radio.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's got you know, it's it's a new technology
Speaker 2: with the rear view camera. You just want it because
Speaker 2: your current car is good. Think about that want versus need.
Speaker 2: Don't panic by that's number one. But if you're already
Speaker 2: planning to make a big purchase refrigerator, wash, your dryer, car,
Speaker 2: you can make the purchase without going into debt. Now
Speaker 2: in now, now could be a good time to buy things.
Speaker 2: This trade deficit. Why does this trade deficit? And we
Speaker 2: talked about this trade deficit. The trade deficit sword to
Speaker 2: a record one hundred and forty billion dollars in March
Speaker 2: because businesses tried to stock on these import shipments ahead
Speaker 2: of these tariffs. Trade deficit means we're buying more goods
Speaker 2: from other countries than we're selling abroad. It's not necessarily
Speaker 2: a bad thing. If another country has the resources to
Speaker 2: produce a product cheaper than we can produce it here,
Speaker 2: we can save money by buying an imported good. But
Speaker 2: these tariffs, these trade imbalances, I don't know, it's it
Speaker 2: is tough. So if you want to call in. Are
Speaker 2: you finding I antegochally? I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Three four six twenty nine. Texted it for some reason,
Speaker 2: we don't pick up. He goes to voicemail. Leave a voicemail.
Speaker 2: We have the right day error it online. I want
Speaker 2: to hear what you think. What have you seen that
Speaker 2: prices have already gone up? And maybe food and maybe
Speaker 2: clothing and maybe guards or whatever. Give me something specific.
Speaker 2: Michael is the name Michael Garfield. It is the high
Speaker 2: Tech textan show. When we come back. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: another technology product and service has died. I can almost this.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you've used this over the past twenty years.
Speaker 2: But it is gonzo. How much are you going to missus?
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that on the other side. Big shout
Speaker 2: out to the folks up in the Woodlands, Texas, and
Speaker 2: congratulations to everybody who competed in Saturday mornings Woodlands Triathlon.
Speaker 2: Once again, Yes that was me. If you recognize the voice,
Speaker 2: that was my real voice, not AI voice. I was
Speaker 2: the race announcer mc gosh. I have done that for eight, fifteen, sixteen,
Speaker 2: seventeen years. Great folks the Woodlands, it's spout. We got
Speaker 2: about forty five minutes an hour north of Houston, but
Speaker 2: it attracted man a number of runners and bikers and
Speaker 2: swimmers from all over the country, mostly in Texas, but
Speaker 2: all over the country there do such a nice job.
Speaker 2: Weather was pretty good and I did not do it.
Speaker 2: I'm not a triathlete. I am a runner, and that's
Speaker 2: why they enjoy hiring me to be the race announcer,
Speaker 2: because I understand the concept of races, the mentality of
Speaker 2: the finish line, of hyping people up early in the
Speaker 2: morning to get them started in whatever. But they know,
Speaker 2: no way I am doing a triathlet will I have
Speaker 2: run ten marathons. For half marathons, I run probably four day,
Speaker 2: five days a week. I'm there, man, But Big Daddy
Speaker 2: does not swim, No, sir, does not happen. And I
Speaker 2: just recently about a year ago. I bike, but I
Speaker 2: do a stationary bike. I have a peloton, just not
Speaker 2: I don't have a road bike. So I the respect man,
Speaker 2: Kudos men, women, and some of these kids. Man, these
Speaker 2: kids are like thirteen years old. They were out there
Speaker 2: and they can kick my butt running. Love it that
Speaker 2: people are so just athletic and in shape, but just
Speaker 2: getting any exercise, just any exercise. Just get out and
Speaker 2: do it. Man, even just walk. And I'm happy that
Speaker 2: I took up running thirty plus years ago. But you
Speaker 2: get out there and do something. So anyway, thanks for
Speaker 2: having me out there the woodlands. It's a really fun
Speaker 2: seeing you. And now I still have a little voice left.
Speaker 2: And it's my voice too, not my AI voice. Give
Speaker 2: me about Give me about fifteen minutes. Next segment, I'm
Speaker 2: going to talk about AI voices. There are some news
Speaker 2: this week that it's very interesting because AI artificial and
Speaker 2: tear intelligence. It can be a scary thing. It can
Speaker 2: be useful. You see, I am of I am not
Speaker 2: the dude behind the microphone that says, oh my god,
Speaker 2: you gotta be scared of AI. It's gonna take away jobs.
Speaker 2: It's going to ruin the world. There are some processes
Speaker 2: that AI can greatly help you with. You may use
Speaker 2: AI for a number of different things. Yes, AI can
Speaker 2: and has been cutting into people's jobs. Not happy about
Speaker 2: that whatsoever, especially when it comes to people in the
Speaker 2: media and replicating voices and images. I'll have a story
Speaker 2: about that in about fifteen minutes. In the meantime, we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about something right now that's very sad,
Speaker 2: something that has gone away this past week in the
Speaker 2: world of technology. I'd like to take a few minutes
Speaker 2: right now to give an obituary. Normally I would have
Speaker 2: little background music. Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today. However,
Speaker 2: we you are too cheap to actually pay the licensing
Speaker 2: rights for any music, including friends. So dearly beloved, we
Speaker 2: are indeed gathered here this day, this week to remember
Speaker 2: our good friend, the service that kicked off the Jetsonian
Speaker 2: age of being able to talk and see somebody from
Speaker 2: around the world via your computer. We remember Skype. It
Speaker 2: has been laid to rest, and it is indeed, with
Speaker 2: mixed emotions and an ironic ring tone, that we announced
Speaker 2: the passing of Skype. Aged twenty two, born in two
Speaker 2: thousand and three, died twenty twenty five. Skype died peacefully
Speaker 2: and a forgotten desktop folder under a pile of zoom icons.
Speaker 2: Dipe was once the golden child of Internet communication. In
Speaker 2: its youth, it was the way to yell can you
Speaker 2: hear me now at loved ones across continents while staring
Speaker 2: at pixelated foreheads. It brought families together, ruined job interviews,
Speaker 2: and was the awkward third wheel in many long distance relationships,
Speaker 2: and its prime Skype had a promising future. It introduced
Speaker 2: us to the beauty of buffering mid sentence and the
Speaker 2: thrill of accidental video calls when you definitely weren't camera ready.
Speaker 2: Microsoft adopted Skype in twenty eleven, promising to raise it right,
Speaker 2: but like many step parents with too many kids, the
Speaker 2: love just wasn't the same. Skype was eventually overshadowed by sleeker, younger,
Speaker 2: better dress competitors like Zoom, teams, FaceTime, Discord, and even
Speaker 2: shouting through walls, and its final days, Skype spent most
Speaker 2: of its time popping up uninvited, asking for updates no
Speaker 2: one approved, and confusing boomers who just wanted to talk
Speaker 2: to their grandkids. Skype has survived by vague nostalgia, a
Speaker 2: few IT departments, and that one uncle who still insists
Speaker 2: Skype is just as good now. Memorial service will be
Speaker 2: held online on Zoom and lou of flowers. Mourners rassd
Speaker 2: to mute themselves until called upon. Rest in pixels, Old friend,
Speaker 2: Rest in pixels, My my, my ma. Who use Skype,
Speaker 2: Raise your hand, put your hand down because you're driving
Speaker 2: right now, is anybody really upset that Skype has gone?
Speaker 2: Because who really used it? And it got me thinking,
Speaker 2: guy was cool back in the day. And it started
Speaker 2: in two thousand and three, a few years just after
Speaker 2: I created and I started my brand of the High
Speaker 2: Tech Texan, which I started in two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: and I was, I was, I was on the Skype
Speaker 2: pipe train. I was a skypepiper. Oh, this is the
Speaker 2: coolest thing.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: You gotta go out and you gotta get a two
Speaker 2: thousand dollars desktop computer. But make sure it's got a microphone.
Speaker 2: And if you can go out and also get one
Speaker 2: of these add on you know, video cameras. And then
Speaker 2: on the other end, if your parents are in another city,
Speaker 2: your grandkids are another city, you too can actually pretend
Speaker 2: like you're George Jetson and you know, call your wife
Speaker 2: Jane from work and look at him. How cool is this.
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna pick up the phone again because I
Speaker 2: don't want to pay long distance charges. Who I'm dating
Speaker 2: myself with that one right there? I don't have to
Speaker 2: use MCI or eight No, no, I'm calling for free
Speaker 2: over voiceover Internet Protocol. That's what it was. VoIP it
Speaker 2: was Skype. Baby. It was awesome until it really wasn't
Speaker 2: awesome until things got more impressed, And sadly, it took COVID.
Speaker 2: It took one of the world's most deadly outbreaks of
Speaker 2: a virus five years ago in twenty twenty for masses
Speaker 2: to say, you know what, we can't meet face to face,
Speaker 2: we can't travel. How can we see each other and
Speaker 2: stay saying, well, you know what, my computer, my laptop
Speaker 2: has a built in camera. Yes I know I can FaceTime,
Speaker 2: and yes I know I can do Skype. Yes, but
Speaker 2: Zoom proliferated. Zoom, to be sure, was invented, was around
Speaker 2: before COVID, not too much longer, but it was. But
Speaker 2: somehow someway Zoom not the TV show on PBS that
Speaker 2: I grew up with in the nineteen seventies, but Zoom,
Speaker 2: the teleconferencing for lack of a better term, service, proliferated.
Speaker 2: It's the go to. Yes, Microsoft teams try to come along,
Speaker 2: and it's still there. But now we can video chat
Speaker 2: on our phones via WhatsApp. We could do it on Facebook,
Speaker 2: we could do it so many different ways, but hey,
Speaker 2: you want to zoom. Zoom has become the word, it's
Speaker 2: a verb, it's an acronym. That's what it is right now,
Speaker 2: But we do remember when I got about in a
Speaker 2: minute before we take a break right now? What other
Speaker 2: pieces of technology, what other products? What other services do
Speaker 2: you remember that are no longer here? And maybe it's
Speaker 2: not a specific service, but maybe it's a type of
Speaker 2: media like VHS. Do you does? I mean, I know
Speaker 2: my older folks, my older generation, if you are older
Speaker 2: than listen, if you're older than thirty, you know it.
Speaker 2: VHS is because when you were a kid and I'm
Speaker 2: talking to my son justin right now, who I know,
Speaker 2: he's not listening. In Los Angeles, when I used to
Speaker 2: wake up with you and hold you in my arms
Speaker 2: at three in the morning when you were crying so
Speaker 2: we could let your mother sleep. I popped in a
Speaker 2: VHS of Barney the Damn Purple Dinosaur because there was
Speaker 2: no Barney on CDs or download or streams. It was VHS.
Speaker 2: Who remembers pagers? Yes, I had my first pager back
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety one ninety two. That was cool. You
Speaker 2: could pick up a phone, not a cell phone, but
Speaker 2: a real phone, and you could call somebody's pager number.
Speaker 2: And then you'd hear a beep and you'd type into
Speaker 2: your ten digit return phone number, and then your little
Speaker 2: pager would go beep, beep, beep op. I gotta find
Speaker 2: a phone, maybe put a quarter in it so I
Speaker 2: can call back this person. Casset tapes, Yes, I also
Speaker 2: had vinyl records and eight track tapes, but cassette tapes
Speaker 2: is when I was big man was high school. For me.
Speaker 2: My first cassette tape, Journey Escape had to go out
Speaker 2: and get Michael Jackson Thriller. Yes, because I could take
Speaker 2: that and I could put it in my house with
Speaker 2: my stereo cassette, or I could take that to my
Speaker 2: car and I had just a thump and stereo system
Speaker 2: where I was trying to impress my high school chicks,
Speaker 2: which I had none of. Analog telephones, blackberries, overhead projectors,
Speaker 2: google glass, Apple iPods. We mourn, We sit Shiva, and
Speaker 2: we remember things that we in many cases grew up
Speaker 2: with Skype or went out. It was glad to know
Speaker 2: you what am I forgetting? People give me a shout
Speaker 2: or you talk to me on X because I ain't
Speaker 2: gonna tell you to skype me three four six twenty
Speaker 2: nine texting Michael Garfield when we come back. What else
Speaker 2: can we talk about? Oh?
Speaker 4: We got some millions came of a news over really
Speaker 4: like the direction we was gonna like right here on
Speaker 4: my Hi Tech Techi show, I.
Speaker 2: Teased this subject about fifteen minutes ago and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: pay it off right now as welcome back. It's Michael Garfield.
Speaker 2: It is called the High Tech Textan Show. You can
Speaker 2: follow along online my website high Tech Textan dot Com
Speaker 2: spelled the whole thing out h I G H T
Speaker 2: e c h Texan High Tech Textan dot Com. No
Speaker 2: matter how you're listening, be it terrestrially in Dallas, Houston,
Speaker 2: San Antonio. Thank you, if you're listening on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: app or anywhere else. I am here for you. This
Speaker 2: is my real voice I am. I mean, you can't
Speaker 2: hear me hitting the microphone right now.
Speaker 1: But this is me.
Speaker 2: At some point my voice may not be me, and
Speaker 2: that's scary to me because that is what artificial intelligence
Speaker 2: can be. There was a story a few weeks ago
Speaker 2: that I saw and I don't think I talked about
Speaker 2: it yet, but there was a popular Australian radio station
Speaker 2: that had been using an AI generated DJ just Jackie
Speaker 2: to host one of its segments, and no one noticed
Speaker 2: there was a show. It was a four hour mix
Speaker 2: of hip hop and R and B and pop, no
Speaker 2: indication that the voice of its host was AI generated.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how it came out or something,
Speaker 2: but people didn't seem to be too happy about it
Speaker 2: because maybe they didn't understand it. Now listen to be sure.
Speaker 2: Other radio stations they've experimented with using AI. There was
Speaker 2: an in Portland, Oregon radio station. I think something on
Speaker 2: Serious XM happened, and there was a post station last year.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but as far as I know, this
Speaker 2: is me as far as I know the radio station
Speaker 2: that I'm on, the stations that I'm on right now, iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: I don't think they use AI. They haven't told me yet.
Speaker 2: But when you hear stories like this, it's like, right, row,
Speaker 2: what's happening? Because it's not hard to train AI artificial
Speaker 2: intelligence on a computer, almost a regular PC laptop to
Speaker 2: mimic your voice, speak with the same cadence, maybe you
Speaker 2: have an accent, maybe you have a Texas drawl, y'all.
Speaker 2: You know, it can imitate you and for some people,
Speaker 2: they may not care for some people who make a
Speaker 2: living off it, like me, Hello, nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: It may pick up. Listen, my longtime listeners know that
Speaker 2: I use fun verbiage. You know, I use the word
Speaker 2: ova and eva and let me help you out and
Speaker 2: if you know what I'm saying and p y P
Speaker 2: play by play. All of this is on it's it's
Speaker 2: not on tape, but it's online. It's on my podcast
Speaker 2: You Tell an AI bought to just discour the Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield High Tech Texting podcast over the past year. It's
Speaker 2: going to pick up the way I speak, the cadence,
Speaker 2: my accent if I actually actually have an accent depending
Speaker 2: on where you're from, but also the words it's it is.
Speaker 2: It is scary. And I bring it to this story
Speaker 2: which happened this week, which I found fascinating because as
Speaker 2: scary it is that people can you know, rip off
Speaker 2: my voice, my face or whatever it is. It's interesting news,
Speaker 2: but it's also semi good news, and I can I
Speaker 2: appreciate this. So NBC, if you're an NBA, you're excited
Speaker 2: because next year the NBA awarded part of its TV
Speaker 2: contract to NBA. The NBA will be back on NBC.
Speaker 2: And for those of you of age, you know, certainly
Speaker 2: over thirty five years old, you may remember back in
Speaker 2: the late eighties and the nineties the NBA was on NBC.
Speaker 2: This was the Michael Jordan Hayday and everything that you need,
Speaker 2: and this is where they had John Tesh's theme song.
Speaker 2: That's right. John Tesh wrote a theme song called round
Speaker 2: Ball Rock and it went something like Dun da dun
Speaker 2: da dun Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
Speaker 2: da dunda dunda da da d That's been gone for
Speaker 2: years and years and years because I think NBC owned
Speaker 2: the rights to it. Well, they're bringing it back. I
Speaker 2: love it. There was I saw commercial this past week
Speaker 2: John Tsh man looking good. We're gonna be hearing this,
Speaker 2: I think on Sunday nights or Monday nights. Dun dan
Speaker 2: Dun dun d and dun dun dun dua da Not
Speaker 2: the point. Here's the point where AI comes in. Not
Speaker 2: only is NBC bringing back and paying John Tesh for
Speaker 2: the rights to use that opening, NBA is bringing back
Speaker 2: the original announcer, his voice for the NBA broadcast Next system.
Speaker 2: So if you go back to nineteen ninety or something.
Speaker 2: There is a voice, and I I remember the song.
Speaker 2: Watching NBA on NBC, Marv Albert during the play by
Speaker 2: play with us Zar this tellus straitor Mike Frittello, I
Speaker 2: remember it all. I don't really remember the voice, but
Speaker 2: his name was Jim Fagan. Jim Fagan did the voice.
Speaker 2: It's the NBA on NBC tonight, the Chicago Bills take
Speaker 2: on the New York Next. You know that stuff ool nostalgia?
Speaker 2: What it'sy bitsy little caveat with Jim Fagan's voice. Jim
Speaker 2: Fagan died in twenty seventeen. NBC is using a I
Speaker 2: to generate his voice for the title sequences the show
Speaker 2: opens in the promos for its upcoming NBA covering, is
Speaker 2: that freaky dekey? They're recreating his voice? But they are,
Speaker 2: and they have gotten approval with the consent of his family.
Speaker 2: That is how you're supposed to do it. You ask
Speaker 2: his family, maybe you pay his family, whoever has his estate.
Speaker 2: They're doing it the right way. It softens the blow
Speaker 2: when you hear that AI voice is taking over a
Speaker 2: job that could have gone to me. I'll come in
Speaker 2: be see couldn't hire me. Tonight the NBA on NBC.
Speaker 2: You are Euston Rockets versus the Dallas Mavericks and it
Speaker 2: was host matchup seen only right here tonight a PM, Eastern,
Speaker 2: seventh Central NBA on NBC.
Speaker 3: See that.
Speaker 2: It would have been a gig. I gotta retired on
Speaker 2: that money. Nope, they're using a guy who died eight
Speaker 2: years ago. I don't appreciate that, but they did get
Speaker 2: the rights. But the point I have this is what
Speaker 2: is happening in the world of artificial intelligence. Funny thing
Speaker 2: is this isn't the first time it's happened. This isn't
Speaker 2: the first time that NBC has done it in the
Speaker 2: Olympics last year I think it was last year, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four Olympics in Paris on its Peacock streaming service.
Speaker 2: If you go to Peacock. NBC used in the AI
Speaker 2: version of Al Michaels to offer personalized recaps of the Olympics.
Speaker 2: And al Michaels is still alive. Yes, they got permission
Speaker 2: from Al because al is under contract with I actually
Speaker 2: used to be with NBC, but Al now works for
Speaker 2: Amazon when it comes to football. But using the voice
Speaker 2: of a dead Man as a prominent feature of its
Speaker 2: return to NBA broadcasting. It's an aggressive move. AI continues
Speaker 2: to be a hot button issue a number of different industries,
Speaker 2: and this is just one because this is one that
Speaker 2: is in my wheelhouse thoughts on this. As we get
Speaker 2: to our number two, and I will reassure you this
Speaker 2: is the High Tech tex Show and it really is
Speaker 2: the raspy voice of Michael Garkle the High Tech Texans.
Speaker 2: When we come back on the other side, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk cars. What's Michael been driving this week? Also,
Speaker 2: Pope Francis rest in peace. He bequeathed his Pope mob.
Speaker 2: I guess every time a pope dies his popemobiles they
Speaker 2: go into a museum. He actually bequeathed his Pope m'bile.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you to who. But also, if anybody bequeathed
Speaker 2: a famous vehicle to you, what would it be? Me Batmobile?
Speaker 2: It's in the running. We can have this discussion along
Speaker 2: with some giveaways.
Speaker 4: Next hour.
Speaker 2: Michael garfel the High Tech Textion Show.
Speaker 4: If Michael GARTHI Michael Garfield, Michael Garth Fils joining you
Speaker 4: in the.
Speaker 3: High Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here. With a high
Speaker 3: tech textis to make life easier.
Speaker 2: Technology, and Michael Garfield has something you might like.
Speaker 1: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades helping
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Speaker 2: Halfway to half hour on the High Tech Textian Show,
Speaker 2: which means we are halfway through the end of the show.
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Speaker 2: you really really like me. Maybe you do. Maybe you
Speaker 2: like my two hours of BS, which of course stands
Speaker 2: for Bachelor of Science, which I got from the University
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Speaker 2: I'd like to think is good information, very good news,
Speaker 2: wreck tips if you do want to figure out, Hey,
Speaker 2: what car to drive? What should I buy? What should
Speaker 2: I test? I want this phone? Do I want this
Speaker 2: piece of clothing. I'm kind of a jack of all trades.
Speaker 2: I talk about everything that I play with and test
Speaker 2: and companies send me and and I am not shy
Speaker 2: to tell you this sucks. I am not shy to say,
Speaker 2: you know what, you need to stay away from this whatsoever?
Speaker 2: Like mayna stay away from free, stay away from pork,
Speaker 2: not healthy. See, I am the guy who's going to
Speaker 2: tell you the truth. Tell you the truth. I saw this.
Speaker 2: But also we would like to extend congratulations to the
Speaker 2: new pope. We have a new pope in town. We
Speaker 2: have Pope Leo, Leo the fourteenth, I dig that name.
Speaker 2: He is the first American pope ever from Chicago on
Speaker 2: the South Side, So we have to assume he's a
Speaker 2: white Sox fan, not a Cubbies fan. He is taking
Speaker 2: the reins of what one one point four billion Catholics
Speaker 2: around the world. That's pretty strong, pretty impressive. That's good.
Speaker 2: He among the other perks gets a pope mobile or two.
Speaker 2: And I test drive cars, and I've never seen the
Speaker 2: popemobile in person, certainly never ridden it or driven. It
Speaker 2: could be a goal. I have a I would love
Speaker 2: one day to fly in Air Force one. That's kind
Speaker 2: of a dream. I would like to kind of roll
Speaker 2: around in the popemobile. And I think over the past
Speaker 2: several popes, each of them has had a few different potmobiles.
Speaker 2: I think one of Pope Francis's was even an electric popemobile. Anyway,
Speaker 2: it's you think these popemobiles would get handed down from
Speaker 2: pope to pope to pope. Maybe they do. I'm guessing
Speaker 2: the new Pope Leo, does he want an American made
Speaker 2: popemobile since he's from America. I don't know. It's not
Speaker 2: up to me, but I saw this the one of Pope.
Speaker 2: Pope Francis says, you know, passed away about what three
Speaker 2: weeks ago or so, he bequeathed one of his popemobiles.
Speaker 2: He was a good dude. We were tight, you know,
Speaker 2: we talk about you know, you know, football odds or whatever.
Speaker 2: He passed away, he bequeathed one of his popemobiles to
Speaker 2: a health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip. He
Speaker 2: was fulfilled one of his final wishes and they're transforming
Speaker 2: it into a mobile health clinic. So it was a popemobile,
Speaker 2: which is pretty cool when you look as I'm looking
Speaker 2: at it right. Here's this allows the Pope to stand
Speaker 2: up or sit down in an open air vehicle. But
Speaker 2: it's got this canopy, a glass I'm guessing bulletproof canopy
Speaker 2: that he could stand in and wave to everybody. It's
Speaker 2: it's pretty cool. And it's got a bar you know
Speaker 2: he can hold onto. And it went not not a
Speaker 2: bar bar you know with cocktails, but it's got this
Speaker 2: bar he can hold on too when he's standing up.
Speaker 2: And he donated it, and I'm thinking, how cool is that?
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess the Vatican could put it up,
Speaker 2: could have put it on eBay. How much do you
Speaker 2: think a popemobile would have gone for on eBay? I mean,
Speaker 2: listen this rhetorical wee can you know I mean several
Speaker 2: hundred thousand a million dollar me if the Pope signed it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you know, if you Millski could have donated that
Speaker 2: to health clinics around the world. That's not mean for
Speaker 2: me to say, but I was thinking if if I
Speaker 2: was to bid on a famous vehicle, a famous car,
Speaker 2: famous truck, and then again, I'm opening it up. I'm
Speaker 2: opening this up to you, my dear listeners. If you
Speaker 2: could get mom one of the greatest Mother's Day of
Speaker 2: her the coolest car you've ever seen on TV or
Speaker 2: a movie, or maybe it's a Popemobile, or maybe it's
Speaker 2: the beast as we say that the President of the
Speaker 2: United States drives around in in a Cadillac, what would
Speaker 2: it be. I would have to go number one seed
Speaker 2: for me Batmobile, and only I would pick the Batmobile
Speaker 2: because the Batmobile is actually a real vehicle. It was
Speaker 2: it was you know, starting in the nineteen sixties went
Speaker 2: Adam West was Batman. And you know now in the
Speaker 2: movies they're way cool with all the Batmobile movies. So
Speaker 2: it's it's real. Whether they actually go one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty miles an hour or whatever it is batteries to power,
Speaker 2: turbines to speed, I don't know. The only reason is
Speaker 2: because the greatest vehicle ever designed, schematic created conceptually in
Speaker 2: TV or movies. In my opinion, speed racers mock five.
Speaker 2: There is no better vehicle. Now it's not. I have
Speaker 2: seen a mock up or a version of the mock five.
Speaker 2: It looks like it, but ain't no way. It works
Speaker 2: like the cartoon, the greatest cartoon known to man. Exactly
Speaker 2: what at least known to Michael Garfield. Go look up
Speaker 2: mock five and if you are of age, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. It's got the steering wheel with
Speaker 2: the letters A, B, C, D, E, F and G.
Speaker 2: Trivia question, There actually is a letter H somewhere on
Speaker 2: the mack five. Actually we should do a trivia question.
Speaker 2: First person who calls in at seven one three, two
Speaker 2: one two five nine five? Oh, where was the H?
Speaker 2: At the letter H? There was a button, don't I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what it's not on the steering wheel because
Speaker 2: it was ABC, D, E, F and G and they
Speaker 2: each you press up speed racer pressed the button, they
Speaker 2: did something you pressed A and and I had these
Speaker 2: automatically jumpers and so he could drive and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden he would jump over you know something in
Speaker 2: the rogue dunt dun dun, dum dunk dum. It was
Speaker 2: also a jack that you know, So Sparky can work
Speaker 2: under the car. Uh, and then there was a there
Speaker 2: was a cockpit underwater with the oxygen there. I mean,
Speaker 2: I can go on and on. There was cutters that
Speaker 2: actually came out of the car so he could actually
Speaker 2: cut through the forest. It was beautiful. Okay again it's
Speaker 2: car Tim. You tell me first person, you're gonna get
Speaker 2: a fifty dollars gift card to Red River Cantena in Houston.
Speaker 2: All right, great Mexican food seven one three, two, one
Speaker 2: two five nine five. Oh we got a few lies.
Speaker 2: Where was the letter h J and what did it
Speaker 2: do on the mack five? You see, this is what
Speaker 2: a loser I am. I live vicariously through sports and cartoons.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a break and went listen. Other cars
Speaker 2: I would like listen Scooby Doo's Mystering Machine, the Lory,
Speaker 2: the Ghostbusters, Ecto one, the trans Am, and you know
Speaker 2: the Bandit. Burt Reynolds Action Duke Savazers had a heck
Speaker 2: of a car Zebra one. Uh. You know for star
Speaker 2: Skin Hudge, James Bond had the Aston, Martin Herbie the
Speaker 2: love Bug. There's some famous vehicles, but the Pope Bill's
Speaker 2: pretty iconic. Pe My Bill is pretty kind by the
Speaker 2: end of the show. I actually I am going to
Speaker 2: tell you what vehicle I testro of this week, and
Speaker 2: I'll tell you if it was good or work it
Speaker 2: was bad. Coming up more looks like a stop calling.
Speaker 2: We got a winner. Stop calling. And on the other side,
Speaker 2: I will give you the answer to where the H
Speaker 2: button was on speed Lacer. I'll tell you right here.
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Speaker 2: continue the hi tech textan show got a Triviu trivia
Speaker 2: answered the trivia question and we were talking about Vehicle's
Speaker 2: the most famous vehicle that you've ever seen on TV
Speaker 2: or movies that you would want. I mean, I've never
Speaker 2: really seen the inside of the Beast, which is the
Speaker 2: Cadillact that the President of the United States drives, and
Speaker 2: it looks pretty cool. The Popemobile, which is obviously in
Speaker 2: the news now, the prope Francis. He bequeathed one of
Speaker 2: his potmobiles to become a health clinic in the Gaza strip.
Speaker 2: You could choose from the Batmobile. You could choose from
Speaker 2: Dukes of Hazards, Starski and hut Zebra one. You could
Speaker 2: use your kits Car and Kaga the Dolorian doc he
Speaker 2: made a time machine out of. I mean an I
Speaker 2: would pick. I don't know. Scooby Do's Mystery Machine is
Speaker 2: pretty cool. Actually that this very rudimentary. There was nothing
Speaker 2: in the back, I mean they I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: even think they had seats in the back. I mean,
Speaker 2: you see, you would you would see you know, kind
Speaker 2: of Daphne in the pass in your seat and Fredo
Speaker 2: was driving, and then you know Screw and Shaggy and Velma.
Speaker 2: They were just kind of standing behind them that it's
Speaker 2: cool to speed racers. Mock five period case closed. Coolest
Speaker 2: vehicle ever scene, Absolutely love that stuff. Trivia question that
Speaker 2: was just answered. Who won this? This was Ray Ray
Speaker 2: in just outside of Dallas. He called in here's the winner.
Speaker 2: If you remember the cartoon speed Racer Tricksy Sparky Pops
Speaker 2: Spridle Chim Chim the whole game, speed Racer had his
Speaker 2: most powerful, most sophisticated car ever invented by Pop's Racer.
Speaker 2: They had. He has a steering wheel and it has
Speaker 2: letters on the steer will A, B, C, D, E,
Speaker 2: F and G. G was the middle big one, and
Speaker 2: each button when you pushed it did something special. I
Speaker 2: mean you could go under water. Cockpit would come on,
Speaker 2: oxygen cutters would come out the front and he would
Speaker 2: cut down trees. It would the A button has jumpers
Speaker 2: that you know, he's driving in the middle of the
Speaker 2: road and all of a sudden he's a boulder and
Speaker 2: he junk dunk dunk, dunk dunk, yeah, A B, C, D, E, F,
Speaker 2: and G G was the homing pigeon. That was the
Speaker 2: big one in the center, so he could record a message.
Speaker 2: Hit G OR and there's a little remote control would
Speaker 2: pop up in the center between the driver's seat and
Speaker 2: the passenger seat and he can actually, I don't know,
Speaker 2: defend himself or this little it's like it was like
Speaker 2: a drone. It's electronic homing pigeon. Okay, when a real pigeon,
Speaker 2: but it was electronic hoomit pagion. There was another letter
Speaker 2: H and very few people ever remember this. Congratulations to
Speaker 2: Ray You're you're just an idiot cartoon watcher. Leg me.
Speaker 2: When you hit it was a sub button. When you
Speaker 2: hit the letter G for the homing pigeon that he
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Speaker 2: It is Mother's Day weekend if you're thinking about Also,
Speaker 2: don't forget man, dads and grads are coming up. We
Speaker 2: love you, mom, and I'm not trying to blow off
Speaker 2: mom yet. But we got graduations that are happening. Like
Speaker 2: right now, kids are graduating high school and they're going
Speaker 2: to college. College kids are graduating. They're hope they're moving
Speaker 2: home with their parents, or they're going to work. I
Speaker 2: hope the latter. What can you get them? How about
Speaker 2: a gaming PC a lot of game Well, first of all,
Speaker 2: you can get them a PC. If high school kids
Speaker 2: are going to college, they may need a new computer.
Speaker 2: They may need a new tablet. I can recommend those
Speaker 2: and some of them. If you want a very powerful computer,
Speaker 2: you can get a gaming pc. I don't talk a
Speaker 2: ton about gaming PCs. I know, of my three boys,
Speaker 2: my middle son's a big gamer. He and I built
Speaker 2: his gaming PC four or five years ago, and it
Speaker 2: was it was fun. It was a great dad sun
Speaker 2: spend time, learning experience together. Even though at the end
Speaker 2: of the day we could have bought one and it
Speaker 2: would have saved time. It would have at the end
Speaker 2: of the day may have Actually I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's saved money, because you know, you could build one
Speaker 2: for you know, relatively expensive. I talk about this because
Speaker 2: coming up there's a new gaming pc. I saw that
Speaker 2: as man. The specs are unbelievable, spectrumable. It's from r
Speaker 2: OG Republic of Gamers. It's their new G seven hundred
Speaker 2: gaming pc. I'm going to dial up and I'm going
Speaker 2: to get someone from r OG slash as US to
Speaker 2: call in. What have we got to You gotta give me,
Speaker 2: give me about five or six minutes, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about some of these specs and why these gaming
Speaker 2: PCs are just massively fast, and how they can heat
Speaker 2: up really quickly and this new air cooling system that
Speaker 2: they've got. So just some topics I thought I would
Speaker 2: bring up, which I think is pretty cool. Anybody and
Speaker 2: everybody have their real ID. Yet, as if flying wasn't
Speaker 2: already cray cray in America, if Newark Airport this past
Speaker 2: week wasn't already jacked up because of delayed flights, this
Speaker 2: was the week that we've been waiting for for How
Speaker 2: How long have we known we should be getting these
Speaker 2: real ideas? Was it two thousand and five or something?
Speaker 2: We have known this for a long time. The deadline
Speaker 2: has come. It was last Tuesday. US travelers, they are
Speaker 2: required by law to have a real ID, because God
Speaker 2: forbid you have a fake ID if you want to
Speaker 2: even fly domestically. So if you're traveling, if you've forgot
Speaker 2: to get your real ID, you're actually still going to
Speaker 2: be able to fly, but you may be screwed at security.
Speaker 2: It may take a little bit longer. Give yourself some
Speaker 2: extra time of the airport. I have I have a
Speaker 2: real idea, and you know you have a real idea.
Speaker 2: Look at your driver's license, and on the top right
Speaker 2: hand corner. If you're in Texas or actually almost anywhere
Speaker 2: except California, there is a star. There is a star
Speaker 2: in California. There's actually a bear, a golden bearing, because
Speaker 2: that's that's on the flag. It's the logo of California.
Speaker 2: That's how you got a real ID. I didn't even
Speaker 2: know about this real idea. I've had a real ID
Speaker 2: for years and years and years because the last time
Speaker 2: I got my driver's license, I guess on my birthday
Speaker 2: when it expired a few years ago, went in, took
Speaker 2: a picture, had tod you know, put the makeup and
Speaker 2: the hair on the whole thing, and then they mailed
Speaker 2: me my driver's license and it had the real ID start,
Speaker 2: so I didn't have to worry about it. So, if
Speaker 2: you've gotten your driver's license renewed over the past four
Speaker 2: or five six years or so, odds are you have
Speaker 2: a real ID? I just this has gotten a lot
Speaker 2: of publicity over the past four or five six months,
Speaker 2: certainly over the past ten years. How does anybody not
Speaker 2: have this yet? And what it is? It's an enhanced
Speaker 2: version of your standard state driver's license. I don't know
Speaker 2: how it's enhanced, but it's intended to help authorities crack
Speaker 2: down on terrorism and identity fraud. I don't know. And
Speaker 2: here's the thing. Did anybody when they were underage before
Speaker 2: they could drink or drive. Who had a fake ID?
Speaker 2: And I'm raising my hand. Listen, I was a d
Speaker 2: nice gol. Yes, me and all my buddies had fake ideas.
Speaker 2: If you could fake an ID, can't you fake a
Speaker 2: real ID? Star. I'm just throwing it out there. I'm
Speaker 2: not telling you to do that. I'm not telling you
Speaker 2: that whatsoever. All right, coming up, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: gaming PCs before and then when we come back, I
Speaker 2: will tell you what I was driving this week. Got
Speaker 2: a really really cool card that I had. It is
Speaker 2: not the mock five, but that's what I do every week.
Speaker 2: I actually test draft card, tell you my thoughts right
Speaker 2: here on the High Tech text and chew black at it.
Speaker 2: The long running high Tech text and show. Michael Greifeld
Speaker 2: is the name Open phone lines if you want to
Speaker 2: ask questions. Count down to Mother's Day, big mod man.
Speaker 2: We got Mother's Day. We've got graduations that are happening too,
Speaker 2: which actually is segueing, and I can segue because I
Speaker 2: am a professional media personality. People, I'm gonna segue into
Speaker 2: potential gifts for mom, yes, you better hurry up, but
Speaker 2: also for grads. They're gonna like this next thing we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about. And also dads too. I am a dad.
Speaker 2: I got into gaming and computing because of my three sons,
Speaker 2: and I remember helping them. At least my middle son,
Speaker 2: big gamer, and he always wanted a big, powerful gaming
Speaker 2: PC every few years. And you know, one of the
Speaker 2: things when it comes to gaming PCs, you can build
Speaker 2: these things. You can speck them out, and you can
Speaker 2: go get the motherboard and the components, and you know,
Speaker 2: I know how to do that without a doubt. But
Speaker 2: then again, as I got older, I got lazy. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know what, let's just buy one that's pre built,
Speaker 2: which is exactly well we're gonna talk about right now.
Speaker 2: A big name when it comes to gaming PCs is
Speaker 2: OROG stands for a Republic of Gamers, kind of a
Speaker 2: part to the Asus computers. ROG big name, and you know, listen,
Speaker 2: they make phones and a number of other things. But
Speaker 2: if you want to spect out just out of this
Speaker 2: world big gaming PC. I just saw that they have
Speaker 2: a relatively new one, and I wanted to talk about that,
Speaker 2: just give everybody some ideas that this is out here.
Speaker 2: And with that, I go to the source and that
Speaker 2: source when I need ROG information is wits and Gordon.
Speaker 2: He is the head of content marketing with ROG. Happy
Speaker 2: early Mother's Day, witson just kidding.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. First of all, completely seamless segue, brilliantly done.
Speaker 3: You are indeed a professional, So I do exactly. I
Speaker 3: guess I kind of screwed up on the Mother's Day thing?
Speaker 2: Did you get your mom? Are you getting your mom
Speaker 2: an ROG gaming computer?
Speaker 3: I'm not, but Mother's Day is set around here. I've
Speaker 3: already got my shopping done.
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 3: Otherwise I would have had a panic attack just now.
Speaker 3: So thanks for that. No, but but no matter who
Speaker 3: you are getting gift for. Maybe you've got a mom
Speaker 3: who's a gamer. You got yeah, like you said, a
Speaker 3: grat who needs a computer for college. This is a
Speaker 3: great option.
Speaker 2: Well let's let's start with this. You heard me in
Speaker 2: my opening talk about you know, I have three boys
Speaker 2: and they're big in the gaming. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to gaming PCs A lot of back in the day,
Speaker 2: it's I need something powerful. I mean, I want a
Speaker 2: graphics card, I need everything. So I want to spec
Speaker 2: this out and I want to build it myself. It's
Speaker 2: it's a great parent kid project. What would you say
Speaker 2: are the advantages of a pre built versus a custom
Speaker 2: gaming PC?
Speaker 3: Well, look, both options are great, right, Like, I've been
Speaker 3: building PC for years, and Asus, i mean made its
Speaker 3: name on PC components like motherboards and graphics cards decades
Speaker 3: over decades, right Like, that's that's how we became who
Speaker 3: we are today. But by the same token, like, we
Speaker 3: offer those products if you want to build your own.
Speaker 3: But that's also what makes us so adept at building
Speaker 3: a PC, a pre built PC for you to just
Speaker 3: go and buy. Right, Building a PC is fun, but
Speaker 3: it's not something that everyone's into. Some people just want
Speaker 3: to game, right, they're gamers first. They want to come home,
Speaker 3: plug it in and get up and running. They don't
Speaker 3: want to put it together themselves, and that's totally fine.
Speaker 3: Some people want one all inclusive warranty so if something
Speaker 3: is a little wonky with the PC, they have one
Speaker 3: single place they can go to for support. They don't
Speaker 3: have to kind of piece out each individual part, figure
Speaker 3: out all of that stuff, totally get all of that.
Speaker 3: But really the advantage is you know that we have
Speaker 3: pieced this thing, that we built it from the ground up,
Speaker 3: rigorously tested it, for rock solid stability, reliability.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: We tuned all of the fans and the graphics card
Speaker 3: and all of that to run perfectly right out of
Speaker 3: the box, so you don't have to That's really the
Speaker 3: big benefit.
Speaker 2: Here's I'm gonna say this, and I'll because I did
Speaker 2: it myself later in life when the kids got older.
Speaker 2: It's the lazy way to actually get a good gaming
Speaker 2: PC instead of having to build it and well, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, I forgot to hook this cord up and
Speaker 2: this cord up. But it's nice having a solid brand
Speaker 2: behind it, you know, something like ro And with that,
Speaker 2: we're gonna start leading into this this new I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call it a monster. You call it that. It's just
Speaker 2: a monster of a gaming PC. It's the Rogg seven hundred.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking online. I'm looking at the specs of
Speaker 2: this thing, and you can speck it out a few
Speaker 2: different ways. But oh my goodness, I mean, I never
Speaker 2: thought years and years ago, you know, you can get
Speaker 2: into the numbers of how many terabides and how many
Speaker 2: what I mean it is just fast and super speedy.
Speaker 2: What makes this new Rogg seven hundred stand out from
Speaker 2: other pre built gaming PCs?
Speaker 3: Good question. So, I mean everything that I just mentioned, right,
Speaker 3: We've got kind of our reputation behind this. We know
Speaker 3: how to build a good PC, but really we kind
Speaker 3: of started from scratch with this run, right. We took
Speaker 3: a much more modern approach to the case design. This
Speaker 3: is not a case that we just got off of
Speaker 3: one of our shelves. We designed this case from the
Speaker 3: ground for this PC. It's got a really modern look
Speaker 3: with tempered glass on the front and side so you
Speaker 3: can see the inside of your PC. That's really nice.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of gamers love that. But it's
Speaker 3: also still got enough ventilation from the front. It's got
Speaker 3: these events on the side that draw air in from
Speaker 3: the front and then out the top with our again
Speaker 3: a custom water cooler that we built for the CPU
Speaker 3: in this machine, got a radiator on the top, so
Speaker 3: you get really cool performance, quieter performance because water cooling
Speaker 3: is so efficient, and it's got just an absolute monster
Speaker 3: graphics card in it, depending again on how you spec
Speaker 3: it out, but it's using the latest fifty serious cards
Speaker 3: from Nvidia with the special rog sauce that we put
Speaker 3: on you know, our heat sinks and all that. So
Speaker 3: this thing is quiet and performs like you said, a monster.
Speaker 3: There's only one way to put it.
Speaker 2: Look at the pictures online and by the way, Wits
Speaker 2: and Gordon joining me, the head of content marketing for
Speaker 2: Republic of Gamers, are og issues the pictures are I'm
Speaker 2: going it looks like a disco tech man. I mean
Speaker 2: there's ic led lights. I mean it's dumb. This is
Speaker 2: not your typical PC thing. I mean, this is a
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna I'm gonna use this term. It's a
Speaker 2: conversation piece and it's a piece of art. Also when
Speaker 2: you see it walking in, when sitting on your desk.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're a long way from the beige boxes of
Speaker 3: old you know, twenty thirty years ago. But what's cool
Speaker 3: about this? I mean, you know something that is hard
Speaker 3: to do justice with this is you can look at
Speaker 3: pictures of it online. But once you get it, you
Speaker 3: can still customize it yourself. Right, You can change the
Speaker 3: colors of all those lights to match whatever the rest
Speaker 3: of your setup is, whatever your favorite color scheme is.
Speaker 3: Like you mentioned, you can speck it out online. You
Speaker 3: don't have to build it from scratch, but you can choose. Hey,
Speaker 3: these are the kind of the specs that I want
Speaker 3: that match my budget and the kind of games that
Speaker 3: I play, so you can still really make it yours,
Speaker 3: which is cool. You get a lot of that fun
Speaker 3: part of PC gaming, even if you don't want to
Speaker 3: kind of build it from scratch.
Speaker 2: It talked about cooling and the fan system, and I
Speaker 2: don't want anybody just to kind of gloss over this
Speaker 2: because this is one of, if not the most important
Speaker 2: thing of what makes a gaming PC a gaming PC,
Speaker 2: because this thing can heat up for long gaming sessions
Speaker 2: and you do need some advanced cooling feet. You talked
Speaker 2: about the fan system, the liquid cooler. Why is that
Speaker 2: so important for long game resessions?
Speaker 3: Well, look, you know, when you have a gaming PC,
Speaker 3: especially you're really specking it out to the nines. The
Speaker 3: most powerful components generate heat, right, There's no way around
Speaker 3: that particular law of physics, and one of the things
Speaker 3: that separates a great gaining PC from a mediocre gaining PC.
Speaker 3: You can have two PCs with the exact same you know,
Speaker 3: parts of them, the same Nvidia GPU and Intel CPU
Speaker 3: or a MDCPU, but the cooling can make a big
Speaker 3: difference in how it operates day to day and how
Speaker 3: it you know, feels and sounds when you're playing it
Speaker 3: the right fans in the right places, can mean that
Speaker 3: it's quieter, can mean that it keeps that performance stably
Speaker 3: for a longer period of time. Right, All of that
Speaker 3: stuff does make a difference. So that's why you know,
Speaker 3: we kind of put all of our expertise in designing
Speaker 3: the cooling system to work this way. Whereas you know,
Speaker 3: if you're building yourself and it's your first time, you
Speaker 3: might not get that completely optimal airflow path and things
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Right, we'll compare gaming systems like this computer, but also
Speaker 2: how about the gaming system that we could plug into
Speaker 2: the TV, the Xbox and the PlayStation type of things,
Speaker 2: and the difference in terms of the actual games, the graphics.
Speaker 2: How would you compare that to the layperson.
Speaker 3: So then the great thing about PC gaming is that
Speaker 3: if you want to kind of fiddle with things right
Speaker 3: and kind of make it your own, you can. You
Speaker 3: can fiddle with graphic settings on your computer and dial
Speaker 3: in that exact balance of performance and graphical fidelity that
Speaker 3: you want. Because people's tastes are different. If you want
Speaker 3: higher frame rates, you can do that. If you'd rather
Speaker 3: look really beautiful like a movie and you're willing to
Speaker 3: sacrifice a little performance for that, you can. But you know,
Speaker 3: the other advantage is that just with a PC, depending
Speaker 3: on how you speck it out, you could be way
Speaker 3: more powerful than a lot of those consoles. You can
Speaker 3: get much better performance with crazy fidelity, super high resolutions,
Speaker 3: all of this realistic lighting, that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 3: the other thing that a lot of people don't realize
Speaker 3: is that games are often pound for pound cheaper on PC.
Speaker 3: This is one of my favorite things is that because
Speaker 3: everything's digital and you have multiple stores competing with each
Speaker 3: other on PC, you can get games on sale for
Speaker 3: really inexpensive and there are all kinds of free game
Speaker 3: giveaways and stuff like that, so you end up amassing
Speaker 3: this giant library of games where you could play anything
Speaker 3: you want, anytime you want, which is one of the
Speaker 3: things that I really like about the platform. Is kind
Speaker 3: of unique.
Speaker 2: I like it. No, you're getting on the inside info
Speaker 2: like that, And I know my middle son who's mister
Speaker 2: gamer right now, you know going, Hey, guarantee, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: hang offs, I'm gonna get a text. Hey can you
Speaker 2: get me one of those rogs? I'm like nope, No,
Speaker 2: this is what you work for he works now, and
Speaker 2: so now he can go, but I will tell him
Speaker 2: to get one of these instead of building it, because
Speaker 2: it's much easier. His name is whits And Gordon, the
Speaker 2: head of content marketing with ROG, which is Republic of Gamers.
Speaker 2: I know the website. I'm looking at it right now,
Speaker 2: r OG dot as USA SEUs dot com. If people
Speaker 2: are interested in getting these things, how about are they
Speaker 2: in stores? You got a few stores where people can go.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, these are going to be a multiple retailers
Speaker 3: across to us. I know we've got them at best Buy,
Speaker 3: a New Egg. If you have a microcenter near you,
Speaker 3: you can drive over there and you can pick one
Speaker 3: up in store there as well. We have them for
Speaker 3: sale on our site, and you know, check check your
Speaker 3: local retailers see what squs are available, because at different
Speaker 3: configurations might be available at different stores. You can find
Speaker 3: that perfect one that matches your budget and your needs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they starting at fifteen hundred dollars, I mean
Speaker 2: I would listen, that's a heck of a deal to
Speaker 2: also and nothing because these things can get very very expensive,
Speaker 2: and you know you can still spec this one up
Speaker 2: pretty ten tense. But that's a great starting point and
Speaker 2: it's a great brand. And I do appreciate you always
Speaker 2: here every a couple times a year, of you coming
Speaker 2: on the show and just giving us the update with
Speaker 2: this thing. So I wish you and your family whoever,
Speaker 2: happy Mother's Day. All the grads out there, take my advice,
Speaker 2: take witch AND's advice, and go get a gaming PC.
Speaker 2: But I appreciate your time, my man.
Speaker 3: Hey, I appreciate you. Thanks, Michael.
Speaker 2: All Right, high Tech tex and show people, we will
Speaker 2: talk about I got three or four people on hold
Speaker 2: right now asking me about some of these Mother's Day
Speaker 2: gifts that were showing off on my last TV segment. Yes, people,
Speaker 2: there's a hair removal device which I think I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna keep for myself and not giving it to my mom.
Speaker 2: Seven one three, two one two, five nine five. It
Speaker 2: is the long run in high tech text and chift.
Speaker 2: I'm going thank you too. I'm missed out Whitsony Gordon
Speaker 2: from r OG All you PC gamers out there, maybe
Speaker 2: you've uh you liked that chat that I had with him. Uh,
Speaker 2: I don't talk about I'm not the biggest gamer, you know,
Speaker 2: I I totally you know, listen, it's my kids. I
Speaker 2: had three boys and back in the day man one
Speaker 2: of them had the Xbox. When of them at the
Speaker 2: Sony place, one head Nintendo, and I would get all
Speaker 2: of the games and I would have them on when
Speaker 2: they were young, and they would come on the ear
Speaker 2: and talk about it. They still I think. I know
Speaker 2: my middle son, he's a big Nintendo switch, you know.
Speaker 2: I think my youngest still has the Xbox. But I
Speaker 2: leave that stuff up to them. But I know my
Speaker 2: middle son is really big in the PC gaming. And
Speaker 2: I was, as I was talking to as you just
Speaker 2: heard with the Republic of Gamers, the rog G seven
Speaker 2: hundred gaming PC that just came out for fifteen hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: and it is a piece. It is fast, the graphic
Speaker 2: card is just unbelievable. I mean, sometimes it pays off
Speaker 2: just just get it instead of building one. Because my
Speaker 2: son and I built his, which was a good you know,
Speaker 2: it's a nice bonding experience, but I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: probably just as fun to play games with him on
Speaker 2: that PC rather than building the thing. I mean, I
Speaker 2: could do it. It's okay, But if you're you're lazy,
Speaker 2: if you want to get somebody to get for the graduation. Again,
Speaker 2: it's Dad's and grads and Mom's day and all this
Speaker 2: stuff coming up. So there you go with that if
Speaker 2: you want to final segment over here. And usually at
Speaker 2: some point during the show, I talk about what's Michael
Speaker 2: driving this week? And we still don't have a SoundBite
Speaker 2: for that? Do we call um? We need it? What's
Speaker 2: my No? No, we need to here? He comes, here
Speaker 2: comes Michael gar Field. He's a demon on wheels. What's
Speaker 2: Michael driving this week? Because every week I do get
Speaker 2: to test drive a car, not from a dealership, directly
Speaker 2: from a manufacturer. They do not pay me, sadly, which
Speaker 2: means I can rag on it, love on it, tell
Speaker 2: you the good, the bad, the things to stay away from.
Speaker 2: This week, Michael was driving in a new twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five super Ru Forester Hybrid super super Ru. I hear
Speaker 2: the word super Ru. It to me, it's the official
Speaker 2: car of Idaho, maybe Montana, maybe Colorado. You go, I
Speaker 2: mean it's There's I'm never actually Idaho, have I but
Speaker 2: I just know so many people who live out there.
Speaker 2: They love their super Roots because it's not pretentious, it's
Speaker 2: not ostentatious. It gets you there from a to z
Speaker 2: wherever you want to drive. It could go, you know,
Speaker 2: if it gets snowy, if it gets hilly, if it
Speaker 2: gets a little rocky. These superos are strong man. The
Speaker 2: Forester we're gonna call this a We're gonna call it
Speaker 2: an suv, a very small suv, maybe a Cuvia compact
Speaker 2: utility vehicle. But it's hot. This particular one. It's the
Speaker 2: Forester Premium Hybrid, five passengers, so it's got four doors,
Speaker 2: it's got the hatchback. I was able to fit a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff in that hatchback. Certainly when you fold
Speaker 2: down that second row. It easy to steer, easy to drive.
Speaker 2: One hundred and ninety four horse power. It's good because
Speaker 2: it's not a heavy car. It's a relatively like carts.
Speaker 2: So one hundred and ninety four horse power is gonna
Speaker 2: get you where you're gonna go. What I found is
Speaker 2: got very good gas milage fuel economy thirty five in
Speaker 2: the city, thirty four in the highway, so we got
Speaker 2: about thirty five miles combined. It's also hybrid too, which
Speaker 2: kind of regenerates the breaking too, so it's got forty
Speaker 2: percent better fuel economy than non hybrids. In this same model,
Speaker 2: so I like it a lot. Inside twelve inch full
Speaker 2: instrument cluster, digital cluster. That's when you look through this
Speaker 2: steering will, you could see the odometer, the speed dometer.
Speaker 2: You can configure it however you want. It's got the
Speaker 2: eleven and a half inch touchscreens, got good navinations, not
Speaker 2: the best SUPERU doesn't have, not my favorite infotainment multimedia center.
Speaker 2: It does its job it certainly. It's got Bluetooth, it's
Speaker 2: got Apple CarPlay, Android auDA, the whole stuff. It's just
Speaker 2: I don't know. The graphics are just maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit more rudimentary or just non defined sexiness than a
Speaker 2: lot of the other infotaments that I've seen. Absolutely certainly
Speaker 2: capable with whatsoever. It's available. Just came out spring of
Speaker 2: this year. It's got some really nice standard features, the
Speaker 2: typical auto start and stop, and the auto powered door locks,
Speaker 2: and the dual automatic climate control, rear seat reminder. I
Speaker 2: can go on and on. I don't want to sit
Speaker 2: here and read the MONRONI here for you, but the
Speaker 2: EV drive mode. Hit a button and you're set to go.
Speaker 2: I was. I took this thing from Houston to Austin
Speaker 2: and back, and I didn't have to put gas in
Speaker 2: it until I was back, and that's that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. The other thing as we wind up
Speaker 2: the price Listen, no one is locking down a price,
Speaker 2: especially because the uncertain that we have in the market,
Speaker 2: whether it's tariffs or whatsoever. But the Forester Premium Hybrid,
Speaker 2: as I drew as I drove it, everything packed on there,
Speaker 2: including the destination delivery, right about thirty six thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: That is not bad car as I toss drive on
Speaker 2: the weekly basis that I've done for fifteen years. I mean,
Speaker 2: I was in one that was one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars a few weeks ago. Yes, it was
Speaker 2: a range Rover. But I get some expensive cars. It's
Speaker 2: tough to find a vehicle that is under forty thousand
Speaker 2: without a doubt, certainly underd fifty thousands a but for
Speaker 2: thirty six thousand dollars strong. Absolutely if you're looking for
Speaker 2: a car, which you know, if you got kids and
Speaker 2: you slap them around them with the soccer gear or
Speaker 2: the ballerina gear, and you know, hatchback and you want
Speaker 2: to go a little it's a little off roading. Super
Speaker 2: U has always been strong, and I do like it.
Speaker 2: It's the twenty twenty five SUPERU Forster Premium Hybrid. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to tell you a dealership because I don't
Speaker 2: even know where a superwo dealership is. Just to prove
Speaker 2: the fact that I'm not selling these things. I wish
Speaker 2: I was sponsored by Superode, but I'm not. So absolutely
Speaker 2: like a sixteen point six gallon fuel tank, so you're
Speaker 2: gonna get about five hundred and eighty one mile range. Woo,
Speaker 2: that's far. That's like halfway across Texas or something, depending
Speaker 2: on how you slice it. With that, you're going to
Speaker 2: start winding this down. I do think are good friends
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Speaker 2: locations in Houston also United States Coins and Jewelry, which
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Speaker 2: Houston and it is Saturday, you're listening to this. They
Speaker 2: are open today, the day before Mother's Day. They have
Speaker 2: watches and rolexes and jewelry and a lot of great things.
Speaker 2: If you're a coin collector, this is the place to
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Speaker 2: It's on My Boss Exit right on Katie Freelik Katie
Speaker 2: just outside of Youth sixteen. Tell Michael Garfield, Garfield, Garfield.
Speaker 2: There's a number of Michael's attempt for him and the
Speaker 2: film Garfield Hold you get in there. Thanks also to
Speaker 2: Total Wireless and everybody else who've been a part of
Speaker 2: this show. Happy Mother's Day, and for my mom, Susan Garfield,
Speaker 2: who may be listening live or on podcast after we
Speaker 2: put it up. Thank you very much, Callum Happy Mothers
Speaker 2: two years once you do year round. Thank you moms
Speaker 2: for cooking it, for doing the thing with Alchi. I
Speaker 2: appreciate everybody being a part of the show. My name
Speaker 2: is Michael Garfielder. Right now, my show is over.