Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfi Michael Garfield, Michael Garfields joining in the
Speaker 1: high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with a high
Speaker 1: Tech Texans. I used to make life.
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Speaker 3: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
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Speaker 2: Now let's go back a few years. I used to
Speaker 2: have a daily radio show, more than just this weekend
Speaker 2: radio show, and the name of the daily show was
Speaker 2: called The World a core to garf all right, you
Speaker 2: have to be of age to understand the you know,
Speaker 2: the inside joke over how that works. It wasn't so
Speaker 2: much about technology. It was about well, what's going on
Speaker 2: in my world? What's going on with the world. And
Speaker 2: it was not politics, because you know me, I don't
Speaker 2: do that. It's just you know, anecdotal funny things stories,
Speaker 2: business stories, and you know, yes, I did review technology
Speaker 2: and cars, talked a lot about sports, and that was
Speaker 2: Monday through Friday show while I also still had the
Speaker 2: weekend High Tech Texan show. And at some point I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know what, it's this this Monday through Friday thing.
Speaker 2: It's at the end of the day, the ROI it's
Speaker 2: not worth it, so I stopped it. But the name
Speaker 2: still resonates, and you know, I should do my own podcast,
Speaker 2: a different one than this one called the World according
Speaker 2: to Garf, and I bring it up is because this
Speaker 2: indeed is the world. And over the years, I've done
Speaker 2: this twenty three years in the radio, along with some
Speaker 2: television and now social media, and thanks to iHeart, the
Speaker 2: show is heard around the world, almost everywhere around the world.
Speaker 2: I've done the show from so many places around the world.
Speaker 2: I have been to four or five different spots in Mexico,
Speaker 2: I have been to Amsterdam and Iceland, and I've done
Speaker 2: the show in London and everywhere from California to Florida.
Speaker 2: Just it goes on and on and on. And I
Speaker 2: just returned from a place that I didn't think I
Speaker 2: ever would be in my life. I am at the
Speaker 2: point of my life where listen, the kids are grown,
Speaker 2: they're out, I don't have any pets. I could just travel, travel, travel,
Speaker 2: and it's kind of bye opening right now. And if
Speaker 2: you've been following and listening, you know exactly where I
Speaker 2: have been, and now it is time to do a
Speaker 2: really in depth, deep dive recap, not only about my trip.
Speaker 2: And this is not an old look at me. I
Speaker 2: guess where I you know, I went. This was this
Speaker 2: was a business trip people. I mean I didn't wear
Speaker 2: a suit and tie, but this is a business trip
Speaker 2: because I explored, I talk with companies, I discovered new products.
Speaker 2: I've met some new friends and counterparts when I visited China.
Speaker 2: That is right. I am back from a whirlwind worldwide
Speaker 2: trip to China, and I've been, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: counting it down here on the show, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little trepidation, you know, you hear about China.
Speaker 2: I grew up in the era where China's like, we
Speaker 2: don't know really what's what's going on over in China.
Speaker 2: I mean, they allegedly blocked the Western world from media.
Speaker 2: You can't get communication in or out. I mean I
Speaker 2: didn't know what to expect. I didn't know it. You know,
Speaker 2: it's it's is it overpopulated? Is what's the climate? Do they?
Speaker 2: Like Americans right now? Didn't know? And so we will
Speaker 2: give you the play by play over the next two
Speaker 2: hours of of what happened. But one of the things
Speaker 2: that one of the many things that we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about today, we're going to talk about some of
Speaker 2: the companies, the culture that I saw. Why is China
Speaker 2: one of, if not the worldwide leader when it comes
Speaker 2: to R and D creating and producing products, technology products, automobiles,
Speaker 2: and so many other things that make them in some
Speaker 2: ways so far ahead of every other country. I'm going
Speaker 2: to stop right now, and I'm gonna give you an asterisk.
Speaker 2: And before I get phone calls, before I get emails,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this, hand to God, hand my mouth
Speaker 2: microphone right now. MY name is Michael Garfield. I am
Speaker 2: an American. I always will be an American. I bleed red, white, blue,
Speaker 2: and burnt orange from my University of Texas. I don't
Speaker 2: think there is a better country than the United States
Speaker 2: of America. Okay, I'll say that up from I'm not
Speaker 2: shilling for any other country ever, certainly during this show.
Speaker 2: But what I am I am not afraid to actually
Speaker 2: give you my thoughts that go right down the line,
Speaker 2: all right, a bipartisan thing that listen, I am not
Speaker 2: afraid to say this product is better than this, this
Speaker 2: company is better than this, this team is better than this, whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm embarrassed about it. Sometimes I think competition only
Speaker 2: drives up excellence, and so these are gonna be my thoughts.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to hear the oh man, did
Speaker 2: Chinese pay you to talk about this? Now? No, Sadly,
Speaker 2: I didn't make one freaking penny. Sadly, I sat on
Speaker 2: an airplane twenty two thousand miles. My nickname to the
Speaker 2: other people, the other journalists who were on the trip
Speaker 2: with me, was Magellan. Now I know my initials are MG,
Speaker 2: but I also have an Imgella Magellan. I literally left
Speaker 2: from Houston, stopped in San Francisco, San Francisco, directed a
Speaker 2: Hong Kong, took a ferry right across to the southernmost
Speaker 2: point of China. That was that's gonna be a that's
Speaker 2: gonna be a ten minute segment alone stand by for
Speaker 2: that was in Shinzhen, China, four and a half days
Speaker 2: or so, A lot of great meetings, a lot of
Speaker 2: introductions and the culture and everything. I then leave from China.
Speaker 2: You think I would come back east, Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 2: the way they booked me, I continue to go west
Speaker 2: I went from China to Qatar in the Middle East.
Speaker 2: It's only a nine hour flight, go to the Qatar
Speaker 2: Doha Airport, one of the nicest airports in the world.
Speaker 2: I then get on a sixteen hour flight west again
Speaker 2: direct Doha, Qatar to Houston. The circumference of the Earth,
Speaker 2: I believe is roughly around twenty four thousand miles. I
Speaker 2: traveled twenty two thousand miles in freaking economy. That was
Speaker 2: That was one of the low lights of the trip.
Speaker 2: But I do think United and I mean maybe Katar.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll give you thoughts to that. Listen
Speaker 2: if you have questions, and I know you do, I'm
Speaker 2: going to give you the number. It's three four to
Speaker 2: six twenty nine texts and we're going to have really
Speaker 2: interesting breakdown of play by play that does include tariffs.
Speaker 2: I was able to sit down and speak with the
Speaker 2: heads of Chinese based companies on their candid thoughts on
Speaker 2: what they think in the short term and the long
Speaker 2: term of the potential tariffs that keep on moving on
Speaker 2: a regular basis. It seems of how it's going to
Speaker 2: affect their company and how they ship will they ship
Speaker 2: products to the United States based on the cost of
Speaker 2: tariffs and how at the end of the day it
Speaker 2: is going to affect you, my dear Lestern. We've got that.
Speaker 2: We've got news that Amazon has now launched some satellites
Speaker 2: that actually can help communication around the world. National Password
Speaker 2: Day was this week. We're going to get some password
Speaker 2: information and anything else that you want to hear. Michael
Speaker 2: at high Tech textan dot Com. I've done it for
Speaker 2: almost a quarter century right now. It's great to be able.
Speaker 2: It's an honor to be able to talk to you
Speaker 2: over the air Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, all across the
Speaker 2: state of Texas, and I will tell you for you
Speaker 2: for the length of my show. I've always said that
Speaker 2: the this is a worldwide radio show, and I can't
Speaker 2: maybe not. I may not be able to say worldwide
Speaker 2: because from what I understood, China does not elect allow
Speaker 2: Western media, including iHeartRadio, into their country. When we come back,
Speaker 2: I will answer the question can my show be heard
Speaker 2: in China? And the answer may shop get is Michael
Speaker 2: Garfield the High Tech Texting Show. Only two thousand miles later,
Speaker 2: I have returned to the United States after a long,
Speaker 2: long trip, not actually a lot of time in China.
Speaker 2: Is it still called the People's Republic of China? Canse
Speaker 2: some we checked that it's every time they're in the Olympics,
Speaker 2: they call themselves something it. So I was in shin Zin, China,
Speaker 2: which and the reason I was there it was a
Speaker 2: fact finding business trip that I went with probably about
Speaker 2: fifteen other I'm gonna call myself a journalist that covered
Speaker 2: the technology industry because shin Zen, which is the southernmost
Speaker 2: point of China, I mean so southern. Then there's water,
Speaker 2: and then there's Hong Kong. All right, it's the Silicon
Speaker 2: Valley of China. It's I didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 2: I did not know because I've I have gone to
Speaker 2: South Korea. I went to South Korea two years ago,
Speaker 2: which is the furthest I've ever been west. You say
Speaker 2: that's in Asia, this is even further west. So I
Speaker 2: flew into Hong Kong and then I popped over to
Speaker 2: to China. And I think of China, and you think
Speaker 2: of China. I don't know, maybe, and I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to seriously, I'm not trying to do anything stereotypical, but
Speaker 2: I've been to chinatowns in the United States, I've been
Speaker 2: in San Francisco. I love Chinatown in San Francisco. I've
Speaker 2: been in Chinatown in New York. There's a Chinatown in Houston,
Speaker 2: where I'm based. There's a lot of China. When you go,
Speaker 2: there may be a little bit kitchy. There's you know,
Speaker 2: the umbrellas, there's the Chinese, the mand in writing and
Speaker 2: the signs, and you look in the store windows and
Speaker 2: the restaurants and there's hanging chickens and HIGs feed and
Speaker 2: what facts. Man, I'm not making I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: make fun. There's inexpensive items and chowshky's that you'll never need.
Speaker 2: It's very narrow streets, and I'm thinking, that's what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna see. Ay. Shenzen is one of the newer cities
Speaker 2: in the country of China, so much so that has
Speaker 2: really been built up over the past only and I say,
Speaker 2: only sixty or seventy years now. You think about Beijing,
Speaker 2: which has been around what ten thousand years, Shanghai that
Speaker 2: which is up north, right, I was down south. If
Speaker 2: you blindfolded me in this city and you put me
Speaker 2: on a city street in Shenzen, you didn't tell me
Speaker 2: where I was and I didn't happen to see the
Speaker 2: Chinese street signs that are written to dead or that
Speaker 2: hadre written a foreign language. I could have told Joe
Speaker 2: was in Manhattan. I was in the heart of New York.
Speaker 2: New York Hall buildings. Everybody lives in these high rise apartments,
Speaker 2: big boulevards, cars, motorbike, scooters, parks, trees, people just walking.
Speaker 2: It wasn't overcrowded and overpopulated like I thought China was,
Speaker 2: at least not where I was in downtown or this
Speaker 2: business district of Shen's in China. I thought I stayed
Speaker 2: at a Western hotel. I stay at a Marriott hotel.
Speaker 2: It's like forty The lobby was like on the forty
Speaker 2: third floor, overlooking these massive buildings. I look south, I'm
Speaker 2: looking directly at Hong Kong. I mean it was cool.
Speaker 2: It was It was this Texas boy. It's like, man,
Speaker 2: what am I doing over here? And then there's the culture.
Speaker 2: But let me start with this. What did I miss?
Speaker 2: What did I miss? The last week of April? Well,
Speaker 2: from what I gathered, Hope died, Shannon Sharp got canceled
Speaker 2: or something shed where Sanders fell in the NFL draft
Speaker 2: bill Belichick had a week, didn't he. You know what
Speaker 2: else I missed? I missed me some text Max. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness. You know I'm not I am not a foodie,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm I'm I'm a picky dude, I really
Speaker 2: really am. I mean, I don't eat pork and I
Speaker 2: don't eat a lot of red meat. I'm a fish
Speaker 2: chicken guy. But there, it's funny there. There was there
Speaker 2: was KFC outlets. There, there was a dairy queen there, Uh,
Speaker 2: Starbucks everywhere. I don't drink coffee, but it's very There
Speaker 2: was a lot of americanized type of food, which we
Speaker 2: never ate at because I was the part of this
Speaker 2: tour and they wanted to show us traditional you know,
Speaker 2: Chinese meals and things. Chinese are big on food. They
Speaker 2: have these massive round tables with lazy susan, you know,
Speaker 2: those big kind of movable roundtables, and they just bring
Speaker 2: out food and they just spin it and spin it
Speaker 2: and then they bring out more food. And the problem is,
Speaker 2: I have no clue what the hell is in the
Speaker 2: in those dishes. And I had and and I needed
Speaker 2: a translator, and luckily we had people who spoke, you know,
Speaker 2: Chinese Mandarin and you know, obviously English. It's like at
Speaker 2: some point and day three it's like garf, don't even ask,
Speaker 2: don't even ask? Did those are worms on skewers? Not
Speaker 2: a stereotype, I kid you not. I went to a
Speaker 2: restaurant they served barbecued worms. I got a video. But
Speaker 2: dude from London who I met eating one of these
Speaker 2: things not happening. And I don't care if it tastes
Speaker 2: like chicken, and I don't care how many grams of protein.
Speaker 2: It's just not happened. I think I lost weight on
Speaker 2: this trip. I think I lost weight on this trip.
Speaker 2: So the culture was kind of crazy. The airline travel
Speaker 2: listen United was a United Airlines. I went there on United.
Speaker 2: Very cool, you know, coming into dinner. Continental Airport I
Speaker 2: was there. I left so early that I've never done this.
Speaker 2: I did not know that Bush Intercontinental Airport they're closed.
Speaker 2: They don't open until four in the morning. I guess
Speaker 2: assumed airports were open twenty four hours. I literally had
Speaker 2: to wait till the gate and TSA were open to
Speaker 2: let me in at four am. I had a five
Speaker 2: a m flight, but I met a number of people
Speaker 2: from the United communications team. I just wanted to say hi.
Speaker 2: They showed me around. They could not have been nicer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess they could have. I guess they could have
Speaker 2: upgraded me to a lay flat seat, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: I love travel. I love traveling overseas, but in my
Speaker 2: age and just there's no way I can travel that
Speaker 2: far again without in those one of those beds is
Speaker 2: just just not happening. So I got there. It was
Speaker 2: a long flight, long layover in San Francisco. Luckily I
Speaker 2: was in a United Club. United clubs fairy comfy, highly
Speaker 2: recommend cocktails, relax a little, and then I was on
Speaker 2: a very very long flight get there. I must say,
Speaker 2: Sin's in in terms of the climate, very much like Houston.
Speaker 2: It was starting to get a little humid. Wasn't too overpowering, overbearing.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is, obviously I'm based in Houston. I
Speaker 2: know what humidity is. There are a lot of people
Speaker 2: from London. There was someone from Pakistan, there was some
Speaker 2: dude from Carolina, someone from New York, and they warned me.
Speaker 2: They were like, oh my god, the humidity is going
Speaker 2: to be so bad. I'm like, bro, let me help
Speaker 2: you out. I'm from Houston and I get there. It's like,
Speaker 2: this is nothing. This is like winter to me. They
Speaker 2: thought it was, Oh, it's so hard human, I'm like,
Speaker 2: shut up. You know, may have been high seventies, low eighties. Yes,
Speaker 2: there was a smidge of humid in the air, but
Speaker 2: come on, yeah, my hair did get a little poofy
Speaker 2: and humidity curly. But I could dig it. I could
Speaker 2: dig it. But other than that that, people were very nice.
Speaker 2: Massive shopping malls, galleria type of things in one section,
Speaker 2: and I did, and I'll talk about this later in
Speaker 2: the show. There are I was looking for some cheap
Speaker 2: stuff because I also heard that China has got some
Speaker 2: really inexpensive products. I mean, you can get some cheap watches,
Speaker 2: some cheap clothing, some cheap technology. You can. However, buyer beware,
Speaker 2: buyer beware, because a lot of this stuff you have
Speaker 2: to look closely. They are knockoffs. It's Rolexes ninety dollars.
Speaker 2: B I know. I work with US coins and jewelry
Speaker 2: here in Uston. I know the price of a Rolex.
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody selling a real Rolex for ninety dollars. I
Speaker 2: saw a triple I sold. I saw I saw some
Speaker 2: phones that are not sold the United States because technically
Speaker 2: they can't be sold in the United States. Companies like
Speaker 2: wah Wi Uhawei very controversial obviously because it's a Chinese
Speaker 2: based company. I think the I think Trump in his
Speaker 2: first term he had said no, no, no, no, Wahwei
Speaker 2: products can be sold here in the United States because
Speaker 2: they could have spyware or whatever. There's Huawei stores on
Speaker 2: every street corner. And the technology is amazing, it really is.
Speaker 2: They have You've seen foldable phones, flip phones, fold off phones.
Speaker 2: They have a trifold phone. They have a phone that
Speaker 2: I saw. I saw and I didn't get to touch it,
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you what. That folds out one, two,
Speaker 2: three times it becomes a tablet. Technology is amazing. I
Speaker 2: say this because I went to a technology based I
Speaker 2: went to a tech mall. We just were just exploring
Speaker 2: where they were selling, you know, stuff like you know,
Speaker 2: ten cents in the dollar. There was this trifold phone
Speaker 2: sitting in a glass case and we asked how much
Speaker 2: it was, and it was normally these things easily are
Speaker 2: two thousand and three thousand dollars if you could find
Speaker 2: them right, and I think there were some of these
Speaker 2: things for six hundred dollars. I say, cool, can you
Speaker 2: bring it out of the case. Let me touch it.
Speaker 2: I just want to see it, hold it. They would
Speaker 2: not even let me touch it. No, And I'm like,
Speaker 2: you want people to buy this phone for six hundred
Speaker 2: and seven hundred, maybe one thousand US dollars. I don't
Speaker 2: know what it was selling for. You won't let people
Speaker 2: touch it you want me. It's like sight unseen, touch unseen.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a negative. It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2: But one of the other things that blew me away
Speaker 2: are the cars, the cars, automobile situation. And now I'm
Speaker 2: gonna talk extensively about that. You know, I do dig
Speaker 2: the cars. I'm an auto reviewer. Some of the cars
Speaker 2: over there unbelievable. A lot of electric vehicles, a lot
Speaker 2: of brands and models I have never heard of, and
Speaker 2: a lot cheaper than you could ever imagine. Certainly nothing
Speaker 2: that you ever fight in the United States. Listen, I
Speaker 2: got that so much more coming up, don't go anywhere
Speaker 2: bottom in the first hour it is Michael Barfield high
Speaker 2: Tech Dutch three are back at It. Michael is the
Speaker 2: name Michael garfielding long running high tech text in show
Speaker 2: Back in the USA, still haven't caught up on my
Speaker 2: sleep from my around the world trip to China, which
Speaker 2: we have been talking about. Without a doubt, it was
Speaker 2: an eye opening experience for me to see another part
Speaker 2: of the world, another culture. And I'll tell you what,
Speaker 2: China is a different that's a different cat man, that
Speaker 2: is a different country when it comes to everything that
Speaker 2: we've been talking about, including the food, which I could
Speaker 2: do an entire two hour segment on the food. But
Speaker 2: you know, one of the things that I that I
Speaker 2: noticed and I knew I was going to notice as
Speaker 2: I was walking around and driving around the city, specifically
Speaker 2: the city of Shinsen where I was was the car,
Speaker 2: was the automobile situation in the vehicles. And I just
Speaker 2: know that that Chinese they really really adore their evs
Speaker 2: or electric vehicles, and that's that's a big part of
Speaker 2: what's going on in the world right now in terms
Speaker 2: of tariffs. You know, I know for a fact that
Speaker 2: Chinese made cars. They can be made very very inexpensive.
Speaker 2: As it is a compared her to the United States,
Speaker 2: it's almost unheard of when you convert the price, and
Speaker 2: some of the ones I actually went into a dealership
Speaker 2: or two not my eyes. We're just we're bugging out,
Speaker 2: freaking out. How can this be? And you know, why
Speaker 2: can't they be shipped to the US If they can, well,
Speaker 2: they're going to be just as expensive, if not more
Speaker 2: than the cars we have in the US. And so
Speaker 2: I wanted to kind of have a little discussion about that,
Speaker 2: kind of comparing Chinese vehicles, American vehicles and everything else.
Speaker 2: And with that I go to the experts. I'm the
Speaker 2: semi experts, but that we have people who really know
Speaker 2: the insight information. With that, I bring in Daniel Cohan.
Speaker 2: Daniel is a professor of environmental engineering at Rece University.
Speaker 2: I say, Rice Universe. You know he's brilliant. First off,
Speaker 2: right there, he joins me. Daniel, you have been to
Speaker 2: China and this is your bag. You study everything when
Speaker 2: it comes to the environment, in electricity, not just in cars,
Speaker 2: but in homes. The disparage between the countries. What goes
Speaker 2: on in America and almost so many other countries around
Speaker 2: the world. How do you read that and why are
Speaker 2: we do? I say America is so far behind other countries?
Speaker 2: Is that a fair as a statement? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I was blown away by the electric cars that I
Speaker 4: was seeing in China. When I visited in October, I
Speaker 4: had two weeks there, and it had been since two
Speaker 4: thousand and eight when I was there last, and there
Speaker 4: were hardly any electric cars. Back in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4: The air pollution was much worse, and they.
Speaker 5: Decided to go all in on electric cars.
Speaker 4: They decided to do a Made in China twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five initiative where they were going to try to make
Speaker 4: certain products more in China than had ever been made before,
Speaker 4: and electric cars was one of those. And they got
Speaker 4: to the point last year where electric car sales topped
Speaker 4: gos Lean car sales for the first time, and that's
Speaker 4: something that no other country besides Norway had gotten to
Speaker 4: and it means that they've just got the dominant electric.
Speaker 5: Car market in the world.
Speaker 4: They are far more electric cars being sold in China
Speaker 4: than the rest of the world combine. And like you
Speaker 4: were seeing on the roads, there are so many more
Speaker 4: choices that we have here, about one hundred companies making
Speaker 4: electric cars in China, many.
Speaker 5: Of them that.
Speaker 4: Aren't available at all in US and some other countries.
Speaker 2: As a walker, und I was looking at these nameplates.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm US and for fifteen years. I'm really
Speaker 2: into cars and trucks, and I thought, I know a
Speaker 2: lot of the brands around the world. I'm turning my
Speaker 2: head and I'm taking pictures of all of them. Never
Speaker 2: heard of it, never heard of it, never heard of it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, these are crazy. They're beautiful looking
Speaker 2: cars from the outside. I walked into some dealerships and
Speaker 2: I actually got to sit into some. They are absolutely
Speaker 2: futuristic and everything from the accrupiments that the large infotainment
Speaker 2: screens and how nice and the leather seats are. And
Speaker 2: they recline and then I ask how much they are
Speaker 2: and they tell me the price in you know, yin
Speaker 2: or no. I'm sitting in there converting at my calculator
Speaker 2: and I'm like, no, way, yes, yes, yes way. I'm like,
Speaker 2: can I get this in my suitcase and bring it
Speaker 2: back to America? And they sit here laughing at me,
Speaker 2: going there's no way, that way possible. Daniel. How is
Speaker 2: it that you could make all these electric vehicles. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of electric vehicles that are made and trying
Speaker 2: to be sold in America. Americas just start buying them
Speaker 2: at the rate that the Chinese are. Is there a
Speaker 2: mandate in China is why are the Chinese just so Yep,
Speaker 2: we're gonna make them and we're gonna buy them too.
Speaker 2: I mean, what is the incentive?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the government had a lot of incentives there that
Speaker 4: push this forward, but they're actually at a point where
Speaker 4: this industry is self sustaining, and they've actually ramped back
Speaker 4: a lot of their incentives, not the ones that they
Speaker 4: had for the previous ten years, and they have a
Speaker 4: lot of smart policies that get the market to move
Speaker 4: towards electric car without necessarily costing the government a lot
Speaker 4: of money. For example, as you're on the roads in China,
Speaker 4: you might have noticed that there are some blue license
Speaker 4: plates and green license plates.
Speaker 5: The blue ones are what you have to buy.
Speaker 4: If you have a gasoline or diesel car, and the
Speaker 4: biggest cities where they're really trying to control the air pollution,
Speaker 4: those will set you back about fifteen thousand dollars. Once
Speaker 4: you get a chance to buy one. You might need
Speaker 4: to wait a year or two in a waiting list
Speaker 4: or in a lottery to be able to pay fifteen
Speaker 4: thousand dollars for a license plate just for the privilege
Speaker 4: of buying a polluting car. If you want a green
Speaker 4: license plate for an electric car that's going to be
Speaker 4: free or just a negligible cost, and so the government
Speaker 4: is net making money and yet pushing the market towards
Speaker 4: electric cars. They do exempt electric car buyers from some taxes,
Speaker 4: but they don't give anywhere near the subsidies that the
Speaker 4: US gives to our electric car buyers, and it's just
Speaker 4: become a self sustaining industry. The other thing that's really
Speaker 4: been key is on the technology side. They've gone all
Speaker 4: in and on automation. I went to Byde's headquarters when
Speaker 4: I was in Tenshin and they had a mock up
Speaker 4: of their factories, and nearly all of their processes are automated.
Speaker 4: You have robots lifting up the battery to drill it in,
Speaker 4: and then robots lifting up the car to bring it
Speaker 4: through to be spray painted. And so there's far more efficient,
Speaker 4: far more automated, far more robotics oriented manufacturing processes, and
Speaker 4: that means that they can produce cars more cheaply than
Speaker 4: almost anywhere else in the world.
Speaker 2: Take away, Daniel Cohan, he's a professor Rice University of
Speaker 2: Environmental Engineering. I'm going to go back you talk about
Speaker 2: this license plate thing. You talk about an incentive or
Speaker 2: a decentive. You're saying that these blue license plates, which
Speaker 2: are gas powered cars, a you have to buy the car,
Speaker 2: then you have to wait to get the right to
Speaker 2: buy a blue license plate, which alone the license plate,
Speaker 2: as you said, is roughly fifteen thousand dollars versus the
Speaker 2: green electric plate is free. I mean, that's the biggest
Speaker 2: decent of incentive I've ever heard. I'm no wonder the
Speaker 2: eed sales took off. That's actually a very very intelligent
Speaker 2: way to do things right.
Speaker 5: Enormous difference.
Speaker 4: And the electric cars have gotten so cheap there that
Speaker 4: you can buy a very decent electric car for cheaper
Speaker 4: than the blue license plate that you need for a
Speaker 4: gasoline car.
Speaker 2: You're right, no, I mean I saw some cars and
Speaker 2: I was doing some research. There are cars that are
Speaker 2: cheaper than fifteen thousand dollars. Now, there are nicer luxury
Speaker 2: ones that were sitting in but I think the most
Speaker 2: in terms of American dollars. You know, I saw one
Speaker 2: for twenty five thousand, maybe twenty eight thirty thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: and it was unbelievable. I mean, this is considered incredibly
Speaker 2: luxury here in the United States, which I think the
Speaker 2: equivalent would be anywhere between eighty ninety thousand dollars US
Speaker 2: American if they were American made cars. I mean, they've
Speaker 2: got this system. I want to go to the battery
Speaker 2: infrastructure because to me, this is the hindrance that we
Speaker 2: have here. I think in the United States or it's
Speaker 2: a big issue, but I think China has slowly figured
Speaker 2: this thing out. I don't have anything against electric cars,
Speaker 2: and my longtime listeners know I like electric cars. I
Speaker 2: test drive one probably once a month. They are super speedy,
Speaker 2: they are super fast, They indeed are sexy. The problem
Speaker 2: is the infrastructure of charging batteries here in the United States. Daniel,
Speaker 2: you've known me all my life. I have adhd like
Speaker 2: waiting for anything, all right, And if I get in
Speaker 2: the car to go from Dallas, it's to go from
Speaker 2: Houston up to Dallas and I forty five. At some
Speaker 2: point I'm gonna have to stop somewhere and find a
Speaker 2: battery charger. I'm gonna have to cross my fingers maybe
Speaker 2: somewhere in Centerville that there is a level three battery charger.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to cross my fingers that of the
Speaker 2: four different charging pods. All four of them are working
Speaker 2: at their proper level of level three. I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to cross my fingers that none of those pods are
Speaker 2: currently in use by another car. If so, I have
Speaker 2: to wait, I then have to put my car in
Speaker 2: that stall and wait forty five minutes to an hour
Speaker 2: to charge it up, hopefully to one hundred percent. There
Speaker 2: is an hour and a half two hours of my time.
Speaker 2: We don't do that in the United States, I mean,
Speaker 2: and that's my issue right now. But I think China,
Speaker 2: and specifically byd which is that major major manufacturer there,
Speaker 2: they're coming up with it with processes or technology to
Speaker 2: speed up that battery charging process. Is that right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean I face that same range anxiety, that same
Speaker 4: concern about the charging system in the US.
Speaker 5: I drive a plug in hybrid car.
Speaker 4: I have a Honda Clarity because that means I can
Speaker 4: be all electric when I'm in town and I can
Speaker 4: use the solar on my roof to charge.
Speaker 5: Up my car.
Speaker 4: But my wife drives an all electric car, and when
Speaker 4: we take it to Austin, Yeah, we have to plan
Speaker 4: everything out just right. We have to make sure that
Speaker 4: the charging station halfway there has its chargers working. If not,
Speaker 4: we have to go a different route. It's a mess.
Speaker 4: It's not nearly as convenient is driving a gasoline car
Speaker 4: in the US. But that's because the United States we
Speaker 4: only have two hundred thousand public chargers scattered across the
Speaker 4: entire country.
Speaker 5: In China they have fifteen times that number.
Speaker 4: They have over three million public car chargers, many of
Speaker 4: them that are actually the DC fast chargers where you
Speaker 4: can charge up your car very quickly.
Speaker 5: Ten million chargers in China overall.
Speaker 4: When I was giving a talk at one of the universities,
Speaker 4: the professor took me to her parking lot. Every single
Speaker 4: spot in that parking garage had a level two charger
Speaker 4: in it, so it was far easier to charge up
Speaker 4: a car than it is to find a gas station
Speaker 4: for a gasoline one. So they don't have range anxiety
Speaker 4: issues at all. The one hurdle there is that Traditionally
Speaker 4: it's taken a bit of time to charge in a car.
Speaker 4: It might take fifteen minutes, might take thirty minutes. Now
Speaker 4: they're introducing new technologies that a couple of the car
Speaker 4: models can charge upmpletely in five minutes time, something that
Speaker 4: you just can't do in the United States for most
Speaker 4: of the rest of the world. So they're designing cars
Speaker 4: for all purposes. They're designing plug in hybrids for people
Speaker 4: who still want that gasoline for certain purposes. They're designing
Speaker 4: very very long range cars, cars that go over four
Speaker 4: hundred miles to a charge, and they're designing a few
Speaker 4: that get very very quickly charging. So there's something for
Speaker 4: everybody in the electric car market there because they have
Speaker 4: a couple hundred different models of cars available for sale.
Speaker 2: Minutes and that there's a magic number. I don't know
Speaker 2: there's a magic minute. But you tell me that I
Speaker 2: can recharge my electric vehicle in five minutes, now you've
Speaker 2: got my attention. And I am a very consumer friendly.
Speaker 2: My job over twenty plus years has been a look
Speaker 2: at products and decide are they good or bad for consumers?
Speaker 2: Are is this going to help your life? Improve your life?
Speaker 2: That's why I've never given the green light going, oh,
Speaker 2: you've got to get an electric vehicle. It's the charging
Speaker 2: infrastruct You tell me five minutes, that's almost a green light.
Speaker 2: And is that something? And it's great to hear there's
Speaker 2: technology like that. Do you ever see this coming? If
Speaker 2: and when to America.
Speaker 4: For now, we've set up this great wall of tariffs
Speaker 4: that keep it out. We've put more than one hundred
Speaker 4: percent tariffs on Chinese electric cars, and so these cars
Speaker 4: that you and I were seeing over in Shenzen, we.
Speaker 5: Can't buy them here.
Speaker 4: I would have loved to bring back the fifteen thousand
Speaker 4: dollars SUV, beautiful leather seats, everything else. It would cost
Speaker 4: me over forty thousand dollars in the United States. With
Speaker 4: these technologies being developed, I don't think even a great
Speaker 4: wall of tariffs can keep them out forever. Eventually, those
Speaker 4: technologies are going to be shared with other countries. A
Speaker 4: lot of these Chinese companies are setting up joint ventures
Speaker 4: with American companies, with European companies, and so you're going
Speaker 4: to start seeing them in other parts of the world
Speaker 4: byd is exporting a lot of their cars and setting
Speaker 4: up factories in other countries.
Speaker 5: Most other countries are doing one of two things.
Speaker 4: They're either countries that don't have big automotive manufacturing industries
Speaker 4: and so they're just allowing these cars into their markets,
Speaker 4: or they're having their companies partner and get these technologies
Speaker 4: where they can be built in their countries. The US
Speaker 4: is one of the few countries that's doing neither of those,
Speaker 4: and so we don't have the quality of electric car
Speaker 4: choices that the China and soon most of the rest of.
Speaker 5: The world will be able to enjoy it.
Speaker 2: It's a question before I get you out of here,
Speaker 2: Professor Daniel Cohen, Wrice University, with Environmental Engineering. You did
Speaker 2: mention the word tariffs without a doubt. I did have
Speaker 2: a number of different discussions with the heads of Chinese
Speaker 2: companies what is going on or getting their current take,
Speaker 2: even though no one knows what the future is about
Speaker 2: the tariffs, the Chinese America tariff trade war for lack
Speaker 2: of a better term, when many other countries obviously what
Speaker 2: that can do to affect cars and so many other
Speaker 2: pieces of technology that I saw. What are your general
Speaker 2: thoughts of how this is going to shake out in
Speaker 2: the short term and in the long term.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the short end, medium term at least, there
Speaker 4: are certain parts of the electric car supply chain that
Speaker 4: you can virtually only get from China, certain rare earth metals,
Speaker 4: certain magnets, certain of the cathodes and anodes that are
Speaker 4: needed for the batteries that even if you wanted to
Speaker 4: make most of the car in the United States, you
Speaker 4: would need to be importing those parts if those are
Speaker 4: coming with one hundred and forty five percent tariff on it.
Speaker 4: Even made in the USA cars or cars rolling off
Speaker 4: of American assembly lines aren't going to be competitive on
Speaker 4: the global stage if they're paying huge tariffs on these parts.
Speaker 4: No country is completely self sufficient. Every country needs to
Speaker 4: import and export some of its parts, and our manufacturers
Speaker 4: or a disadvantage if they can't access or pay huge
Speaker 4: tariffs on on parts that they need for their operations.
Speaker 2: The magic word of the day, folks, if you're thinking
Speaker 2: about transportation, is this one word. Bicycle only way to
Speaker 2: get around. That's my only thought. His name is Daniel
Speaker 2: Cohan and he is a professor at Rice University, a
Speaker 2: professor of environmental engineering. Without a doubt, in the twenty
Speaker 2: three plus year history of this show, the smartest person
Speaker 2: who has ever appeared on my show, Daniel, I do
Speaker 2: thank you for your time and for your expertise.
Speaker 4: Thanks Michael gre you talking about you got it all.
Speaker 2: Right, folks. We do have some open phone lines here.
Speaker 2: We'd love to hear from you about continuing this discussion. Hey,
Speaker 2: and I'll say it one more time. There's nobody who's
Speaker 2: more red, white and blue than me. I am pro America.
Speaker 2: But again, after troving the world to seeing the world,
Speaker 2: it is interesting to get another concept of how sometimes
Speaker 2: some countries are a little head some countries are a
Speaker 2: little behind others, and how I wish we could all
Speaker 2: get along. It is Michael Garfield and you're listening to
Speaker 2: the High Tech Texans Show. Appreciate Professor Daniel Cohan from
Speaker 2: a Rice University joining me for a few minutes. It
Speaker 2: just it just adds a little air of omph, like
Speaker 2: you know, we've got some stuff going on in this show.
Speaker 2: It's not just idiot me talking. Man. I get I
Speaker 2: get Rice University professors talking about smart things. I appreciate
Speaker 2: that phone number here is seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two five nine five oh up against the top of
Speaker 2: the hour. Here in a few minutes, uh next hour,
Speaker 2: I want to talk about the tariffs of what I
Speaker 2: discovered by talking to a lot of heads of Chinese
Speaker 2: companies while I visited in China, of what they thought
Speaker 2: of what the US is doing potentially doing backtracking, how
Speaker 2: are they looking at things in the short term and
Speaker 2: the long term. And it's also I just had some
Speaker 2: anecdotal conversations with people who who found out I'm from Texas,
Speaker 2: and it's really fun. They find out I'm from Texas
Speaker 2: and the first and they find out her from I
Speaker 2: live in Houston right now. And the first thing. A
Speaker 2: lot of these Chinese people think I'm not kidding. I
Speaker 2: say Houston. They go, Yao Ming, unbelievable. How Yao Ming
Speaker 2: who has not played in the NBA or for the
Speaker 2: Houston Rockets in ten years? Maybe how Yao Ming is
Speaker 2: associated with Houston and the Houston Rockets, which is great.
Speaker 2: I mean the NBA, I mean sports are the American
Speaker 2: sports are That's one export that we are the kings
Speaker 2: of in the NBA is going to continued a good job.
Speaker 2: But China and the Houston Rockets are so all attached.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, yeah, we're tight, you know whatever. I
Speaker 2: thought that was fun. More Sports World. One of the
Speaker 2: things I missed is the NFL draft. The I know
Speaker 2: cam Ward went number one, which was not the story.
Speaker 2: The interesting and the sad part of the story was
Speaker 2: Shudoor Sanders, who was allegedly supposed to be drafted relatively high.
Speaker 2: He fell all the way to day three and the
Speaker 2: fifth round, and then that that's not the biggest story
Speaker 2: is that the Shudoor Sanders that this is not even
Speaker 2: funny that he got cranked called. If you haven't heard
Speaker 2: about this, the Atlanta Falcons coach, the defensive coordinator, his
Speaker 2: son got a hold of Shador Sanders. Frank called him.
Speaker 5: And the stupidest thing it.
Speaker 2: Was, they put it on the internet. Somebody recorded it.
Speaker 2: If they never done that, and he would have been invested.
Speaker 2: But the NFL just fined the Falcons two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars for this breach of security. But they
Speaker 2: also find this defensive coordinator one hundred girl just because
Speaker 2: his son found this number. And I'm thinking, remember, I
Speaker 2: have three boys, what would happen if one of my
Speaker 2: boys did something that caused me and my boss to
Speaker 2: find me one hundred thousand dollars. It's been eating me
Speaker 2: up for a few days and I wanted to get
Speaker 2: into the bottom of this. Joining me right now is
Speaker 2: the youngest of my three sons, Adam Garfield, joining me,
Speaker 2: What is what is the worst thing that you ever did?
Speaker 2: And what punishment did I give you? Can you think
Speaker 2: of anything like that.
Speaker 7: I don't think I ever did anything wrong.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: Say this is my kid, this is it cock hockey pumpident?
Speaker 2: All right? Of all the boys, your two brothers. Did
Speaker 2: anybody do anything just stupid that out of your mom?
Speaker 5: And I just did to do it?
Speaker 2: Remember punishing you for doing anything? Did anything stick up?
Speaker 7: I remember justin threw a rock at Josh and I's
Speaker 7: bedroom and it made put a hole in the wall.
Speaker 2: Did did what was ramifications?
Speaker 7: Probably nothing I said. Don't you probably said don't throw
Speaker 7: a rock at your brothers?
Speaker 5: What do you think?
Speaker 2: I mean? You never, I know, any of you guys
Speaker 2: never would have done this. If you did something like
Speaker 2: this with this kid? Did and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: I got busted for one hundred thousand dollars? What do
Speaker 2: you know?
Speaker 1: Me?
Speaker 2: What do you think I would have done to you?
Speaker 7: Probably would have sent me to like a boarding school,
Speaker 7: maybe military, you know, troubled teen camp or something.
Speaker 2: It depends, because I would have no money left. Are
Speaker 2: those free schools? I'm not sure? Probably not a hundred.
Speaker 2: I mean you, I don't think we ever gave you
Speaker 2: an allowance?
Speaker 7: Did we maybe like ten dollars once or twice? Like
Speaker 7: do the I don't know, not one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Yes, So it's like I couldn't even take it out
Speaker 2: of your allowance. I mean I would have had to
Speaker 2: take out of a bank loan. I mean, you know
Speaker 2: the story because obviously you're, you know, in the sports
Speaker 2: marketing world like that, he's in college right now? Then
Speaker 2: you go to old miss what's the stitch?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he goes a old miss or he
Speaker 7: plays football at some smaller school.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think this kid he goes to
Speaker 2: Barry College. Oh okay, so you don't think he's got
Speaker 2: nil money to cover the one hundred girls? Yeah? No,
Speaker 2: I mean I would have to take out a loan
Speaker 2: or call my boss in this case, Arthur Blank, who
Speaker 2: owns the Atlanta Falcons, say hey, you know, could you
Speaker 2: have like a twenty year payment plan? And then it's
Speaker 2: coming out of your money? Heard this? Did you at
Speaker 2: least think it was initially just a joke or did you?
Speaker 2: Could you believe that some kid did this? I believe it.
Speaker 7: I think it's not entirely fair that Jeff Oulbrick is
Speaker 7: getting the blame for it, because he really didn't do anything.
Speaker 7: He so apparently got the phone number off of his iPad.
Speaker 7: But in terms of the NFL, they said that he
Speaker 7: didn't predict confidential information, which is which is true. But
Speaker 7: I think he's handled it really well. He took all
Speaker 7: the blame, he didn't deflect any of it, and he
Speaker 7: accepted the consequences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did. But I mean, I'm gonna put myself
Speaker 2: or us in this situation because you know, I I'm
Speaker 2: on my desktop and all the time it's in my
Speaker 2: office and home.
Speaker 5: You have access.
Speaker 2: All you guys have access. You know, obviously all the
Speaker 2: three of you guys have moved out, but you know,
Speaker 2: if you're in the house, I'm not hiding anything from you.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't have any really, you know, you
Speaker 2: know if my screen is on, his screen is on.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, trust you. I totally put the
Speaker 2: blame on this kid. But I mean, this dude had
Speaker 2: some onions to actually pick up that phone and call
Speaker 2: Shador Sanders. I mean, and he fell for this thing too.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't even know how to do
Speaker 2: a Mickey Loomis impersonation like he did.
Speaker 7: I don't even think it needed to be a good impression.
Speaker 7: It's just the fact that nobody has those phone numbers,
Speaker 7: because most of them will have like a second phone
Speaker 7: or something just for the GMS.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm open up some phone lines right now.
Speaker 2: Seven one three, two, one two five nine five. Oho.
Speaker 2: If you're a parent and your kid did say they
Speaker 2: may have actually, feel free to disguise your name, because
Speaker 2: I want to hear how crazy that your kids have been,
Speaker 2: because I have been blessed three wonderful boys. What did
Speaker 2: the ramifications? I mean, have they been kicked out of school?
Speaker 6: Did you take.
Speaker 2: Away there r for a week? Did you I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is? I mean, did you
Speaker 2: disown This may be a disowning from the family. This
Speaker 2: may have been ripping the name Garfield off of your
Speaker 2: last name. If you did something like this to me,
Speaker 2: all right, kind of thank you very much for your time,
Speaker 2: and just to prove I have one, two, three and
Speaker 2: wonderful boys who would you never call is made any
Speaker 2: harm or monetary harm? And they better be taken care
Speaker 2: of him one day, I fighter if I ever can retire.
Speaker 2: Michael garfiel howerd Number one is OVA. On the other side,
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Speaker 2: Y just starting our number two. We are halfway through
Speaker 2: the show. Hour one done. We have one more, which
Speaker 2: means we are halfway to a happy hour. And what
Speaker 2: a happy hour it is. If you are listening Saturday,
Speaker 2: We've got the Kentucky Derby coming up pre Sinco de Mayo.
Speaker 2: This is absolutely a happy hour weekend and I do
Speaker 2: thank you for tuning in to the worldwide audience of
Speaker 2: the High Tech Textan Show. I just returned. If you
Speaker 2: missed our one, I was recapping my trip to Shins
Speaker 2: in China. That's what I wasn't a good will. I
Speaker 2: was on a peaceful mission. My first time to China.
Speaker 2: It was an interesting ship. It was a business trip
Speaker 2: without a doubt, and a bunch of journalists went over
Speaker 2: there to talk to Chinese company, meet with Chinese companies,
Speaker 2: find out how how can China and other countries for
Speaker 2: that matter, produce goods some of them high quality, some
Speaker 2: may not, some up but it's so inexpensive compared to
Speaker 2: America in other countries, and what's going to happen with
Speaker 2: the volatile marketplace, with the tariffs that are going up
Speaker 2: and down and up and down. And you can see
Speaker 2: some of the photos on my silver and social media
Speaker 2: social media accounts. Check it out, high tech text and
Speaker 2: hi gh t e h T e x a N.
Speaker 2: That is how you're going to get to me. The
Speaker 2: talk about the food. I lost some weight over there.
Speaker 2: The food in China was I mean it's certainly it's edible.
Speaker 2: I mean they've got more people over there than I
Speaker 2: think the other country per capita or whatever it is, Uh,
Speaker 2: just maybe not for me. First of all, I'm a
Speaker 2: picky dude. I'm a very picky eater. If you know me,
Speaker 2: you know how interesting before I put something in my
Speaker 2: pie hole. I don't eat pork. Just because I don't
Speaker 2: eat pork. I'm not a big red meat guy. I
Speaker 2: love fish and chicken. Uh, there's rice and noodles over
Speaker 2: there the U. I saw some stuff. I saw worms.
Speaker 2: We were at a dinner and they served I guess
Speaker 2: they were barbecued worms and a skewer. Everything was served there.
Speaker 2: On one meal. We were at this Chinese barbecue family place.
Speaker 2: It was skewer screw. They had skewed corn kernels. They
Speaker 2: hate somebody, I guess at a restaurant to take and
Speaker 2: peel corn kernels off a cob and then put them
Speaker 2: on a skewer and then they they grill them. I
Speaker 2: am not kidding you. And then there's chicken legs and duck.
Speaker 2: There's duck tongue. What is duck tongue? I'll making fun
Speaker 2: of anything. I am giving you fact facts, man, just
Speaker 2: don't do it. At least I stayed at a nice hotel.
Speaker 2: I stayed at a Marriott hotel where they had a
Speaker 2: nice Western style, Oh you can eat breakfast, and even then,
Speaker 2: you know, they had eggs and whatever. But they I
Speaker 2: mean they still had like dim sum hot pot some bread.
Speaker 2: It was. It was okay, but I every time I
Speaker 2: travel I certainly internationally, I think I'd lose weight, to
Speaker 2: which I should I actually should do that more. Phone
Speaker 2: number here seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh,
Speaker 2: I am not taking prank calls. Just if you just
Speaker 2: listened to the last segment last hour, uh story that
Speaker 2: one of the Atlanta Falcons coaches sons did a very
Speaker 2: infamous now prank call to Shader Sanders, who was finally
Speaker 2: drafted in the NFL. But he frank called him, pretending
Speaker 2: to be another team saying he would is going to
Speaker 2: be drafted, and that was just that's very bad to do,
Speaker 2: very bad to do. But anyway, the dad, the assistant coach,
Speaker 2: was fined one hundred thousand dollars. I dialed up my
Speaker 2: son about ten minutes ago. You can go listen to
Speaker 2: that on the podcast. When we're done, Callum Reid. He's
Speaker 2: gonna put this on our podcast at iHeart Radio. Listen
Speaker 2: to it and you can hear my son's thoughts of
Speaker 2: what I would have done to him if he cost
Speaker 2: me one hundred thousand dollars for doing something stupid. The
Speaker 2: speaking of Worldwide, I found it interesting. Let me give
Speaker 2: you a little play by play of how China works. China,
Speaker 2: I think notoriously they of all the countries I traveled to.
Speaker 2: I mean last year, I went to Berlin, I went
Speaker 2: to London, and I'm not country dropping. I'm just telling
Speaker 2: you again facts, facts of where I travel around the world.
Speaker 2: You travel in the world, and I give you tips
Speaker 2: on how to stay connected. Do you light up your
Speaker 2: international calling plan? Do you just find Wi Fi? Do
Speaker 2: you go out and find a Do you get a
Speaker 2: SIM card or an e SIM card for the country
Speaker 2: tree you're in, you get a hot spot that works
Speaker 2: in the country. There's a lot of different ways to
Speaker 2: do it. It's a little bit more difficult than China they are.
Speaker 2: I did download an e simcard before I went, and
Speaker 2: it wasn't that much. I didn't get a lot of gigs.
Speaker 2: I knew I was going to be in Wi Fi,
Speaker 2: so when I got over there, I turned my you know,
Speaker 2: my cell data plan off and I used my e
Speaker 2: simcard for China. I was in Wi Fi a lot.
Speaker 2: But also it's not just okay good. I'm on Wi
Speaker 2: Fi in China, which means I could go to some
Speaker 2: websites China really don't like out of country or American
Speaker 2: websites like ESPN dot com blocked, NBC news dot com block,
Speaker 2: high tech text in dot com block. They don't like things,
Speaker 2: and so what's the way around it, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: I present to you the Great Firewall of China. That
Speaker 2: is right. I was told smartly so that you need
Speaker 2: to download a VPN virtual Private network. It's software that
Speaker 2: you can put generally on your desktop computer, your laptop computer,
Speaker 2: your tablet. And oh, by the way, yes, you could
Speaker 2: download a VPN on your phone. And what a VPN
Speaker 2: is at the highest rudimentary level that I'm gonna explain
Speaker 2: because this is how I do it. It disguises where
Speaker 2: you physically are, because where you physically are on the Internet,
Speaker 2: it goes out and it connects to a server, usually
Speaker 2: a very nearby server physically of where you are. If
Speaker 2: you're in Houston, if you're in Dallas, here, in Austin,
Speaker 2: wherever you are, it's going to go find a server
Speaker 2: generally near that city. So if I'm in China and
Speaker 2: I don't have a VPN, it's going to assume it's
Speaker 2: going to know that I'm in China and China blocks
Speaker 2: all these other countries out of there. So you put
Speaker 2: a VPN, and if you pay for a nice VPN,
Speaker 2: which you probably should, they're freebe VPNs. I do recommend
Speaker 2: paying for a VPN because you're guaranteed now I'm not
Speaker 2: well almost guaranteed, not to get a lot of spiderware.
Speaker 2: You can actually say I want a server in the
Speaker 2: United States, I want a server in Canada. I want
Speaker 2: a server in Switzerland. It disguises where you actually are,
Speaker 2: pretends that you're in the United States, which means you're
Speaker 2: allowed to actually get United States websites. So for the
Speaker 2: longest time, I was told that I Heart Radio, the
Speaker 2: app and everything doesn't work in China. So every time
Speaker 2: I say, hey, my show is worldwide because you can
Speaker 2: listen to iHeartRadio anywhere, well you really can't, legally, as
Speaker 2: the Chinese defined, legally listen to it in China. Aha, mister, workaround.
Speaker 2: I was able to get iHeartRadio in China. I could
Speaker 2: say this now that I'm back in the United States,
Speaker 2: right am I okay? And no one's listened to this
Speaker 2: show anyway. I downloaded a VPN on my phone. It
Speaker 2: thought I was in Texas and I was able to
Speaker 2: listen to iHeartRadio, iway was listened to a number of
Speaker 2: my favorite other radio stations in podcasts and I just
Speaker 2: to confirm I was listening to my radio show. Actually
Speaker 2: I was. I was doing my radio show when you
Speaker 2: go to China, and again, not listen anybody. Every government
Speaker 2: can have their own rules, be whatever you are, but
Speaker 2: thanks to technology, there are generally ways around things. I
Speaker 2: would recommend getting a VPN everywhere you travel, even when
Speaker 2: you don't travel. If you are here in America and
Speaker 2: you are in a public Wi Fi space and you're
Speaker 2: in a grocery store, you're in a library, you're in
Speaker 2: a coffee shop, and you think you're going to do
Speaker 2: some banking, and if you think you're going to send
Speaker 2: a private information baby doll, just download a VPN, a
Speaker 2: virtual private network, and your set. The one I use
Speaker 2: was Express VPN. I mean, this is not an endorsement.
Speaker 2: I can't. I mean, I guess if you use my
Speaker 2: name to sign up, I think you can get thirty
Speaker 2: three days. If you want me to send you that link, Hey,
Speaker 2: send me an email Michael at high Tech textan dot com.
Speaker 2: Not a big deal, but there's a lot of them
Speaker 2: on the market out there. Use a VPN. Be careful.
Speaker 2: I was able to get out of China where no
Speaker 2: one confiscated my phone, and as of right now, the
Speaker 2: only issue that I have is my time lag that
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to catch up on time. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we're going to take a break right now
Speaker 2: here on the Michael Garfield Show. I am going to
Speaker 2: talk about tariffs and taxes and what a lot of
Speaker 2: the Chinese companies said their thoughts, what they were doing,
Speaker 2: and you may want to hear this, especially if you're
Speaker 2: about ready to hoard some products because you don't.
Speaker 8: Know the price and what is going to happen to
Speaker 8: see that they were about, is right? Michael is the name.
Speaker 8: We continued the High Tech Texan Show. Happy first weekend
Speaker 8: of May. Who's your horse in the Kentucky Derby? All
Speaker 8: I know is get your mint Julibs ready.
Speaker 2: To roll people because it's official? Is it official? Unofficial?
Speaker 2: Bourbon Day? I don't know, did not have haven't had
Speaker 2: bourbon in a while. Bourbon is does not seem to
Speaker 2: be a big thing in the country of China. A
Speaker 2: lot of beer, A lot of beer, some whiskey. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's all some scotch there, but I just I stuck
Speaker 2: with beer. I go to the duty Free Chops over
Speaker 2: in China and I see Jack Daniels. I'm like, why
Speaker 2: in the why would I who lives in the greatest
Speaker 2: country in the world of America, where in this case
Speaker 2: Jack Daniels has made buy a bottle of Jack Daniels,
Speaker 2: which obviously had to be shipped from the United States
Speaker 2: all the way to China for me a the bottle, which,
Speaker 2: as I converted the dollars, was no cheaper than I
Speaker 2: can get it at total line here and then slep
Speaker 2: it back to the United States. The point is, it's
Speaker 2: said a lot of Singh Tao and whatever. Just what's
Speaker 2: over there? I did not see any carbock either. When
Speaker 2: you need to talk to my buddy Blake robertson they
Speaker 2: getting carbok over in China, I don't know. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they tear if that thing too, be like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: twenty dollars for a pint. As we continued the Guard Show,
Speaker 2: I did talk about tariffs and taxes a lot on
Speaker 2: a very serious note. One of the reasons that I
Speaker 2: went over there with a number of other knowledgy being
Speaker 2: journalists who covered the tech industry is what these companies
Speaker 2: thoughts were when it comes to their companies. I mean,
Speaker 2: are they going to have to charge more to make more?
Speaker 2: Are they going to make as much money? Or are
Speaker 2: they going to halt all of these products that they're
Speaker 2: not going to be able to ship over here? I mean,
Speaker 2: if you think about it, Amazon Prime Day, it's coming
Speaker 2: in a few months again, it's in July, the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five edition of the big two to three day
Speaker 2: summer shopping event. The looming price hikes due to tariffs,
Speaker 2: it could impact of how much of a saving shoppers
Speaker 2: can't expect and prices on everything electronics they're expected to
Speaker 2: rise as a result of Trump's sweeping tariffs that originally
Speaker 2: announced on April second. Now, he did quickly follow up
Speaker 2: with a ninety day pause for most of the tariffs,
Speaker 2: but he did leave triple digit tariffs in place for
Speaker 2: China and a ten percent baseline tariff for goods imported
Speaker 2: from other countries. They're trying to make deals and figure
Speaker 2: it out, but if the ninety day tariff pause is
Speaker 2: lifted before agreements can be reached, they would take effect
Speaker 2: in July. Oh by the way the same month as
Speaker 2: Amazon's Prime Day event. But if retailers passed along the
Speaker 2: full cost of the tariffs would mean will be paying
Speaker 2: double or more for products that are manufactured in other countries.
Speaker 2: I mean, you look at bargain sites right now, like
Speaker 2: Timu and Shine, they've already seen prices skyrocket as much
Speaker 2: as three hundred and seventy five percent or so ahead
Speaker 2: of the tariffs. It's a tough situation, so I try
Speaker 2: to get to the bottom of it. We were able
Speaker 2: to visit with a number of different companies, in one
Speaker 2: of which we took a tour about an hour north
Speaker 2: of Shinzen, which is the Silicon Valley of China, to Lexar.
Speaker 2: Lexar is a company that makes the memory and storage
Speaker 2: devices and SSD cards and all that for so many
Speaker 2: products that are found in almost every electronic product around
Speaker 2: the world, cameras, phones, computers, and laptops. And it was
Speaker 2: just amazing to see the production facility and it was
Speaker 2: a great access and kudos to the folks at the
Speaker 2: Global Connect conference who who put this thing together that
Speaker 2: we got to spend time with a CEO himself of Lexar.
Speaker 2: His name is Ryan Lee Li. Relatively young man, gentleman,
Speaker 2: very well spoken, and I sat down here. He took
Speaker 2: all of this. I don't know, fifteen or so journalists
Speaker 2: got to have lunch in his executive dining room and
Speaker 2: just one on one and asked him questions, and I
Speaker 2: put a microphone in his face, and he was very agreeable.
Speaker 2: You know that you didn't have pr people around him.
Speaker 2: And I quite simply asked him, Ryan Lee, the president
Speaker 2: of Lexar Worldwide Company, what his thoughts were on the
Speaker 2: short range and long term ramifications of the potential tariffs
Speaker 2: that are coming down with the United States.
Speaker 6: Actually, I think it's challenge is a big challenge, but
Speaker 6: also a very great opportunity because we know that Alexa
Speaker 6: we have like the global supply chain and also the
Speaker 6: global sales. Now the US market definitely it's the most
Speaker 6: important market for Lexa. So right now the trade war
Speaker 6: will increase more challenge for Lixa. But I think in
Speaker 6: the short term, as we just discuss, it may be
Speaker 6: a benefit. It may be an opportunity for Lexa because
Speaker 6: more demand is coming coming up because we know that
Speaker 6: some consumer they maybe they afraid of cannot buy or
Speaker 6: have to pay higher price in in the in the
Speaker 6: in next month or in the next three months.
Speaker 5: So people are more.
Speaker 6: Willing to to to purchase goods right now. So we
Speaker 6: can see that the buying power or like the consumer
Speaker 6: demand is increasing during these two months. So it's good
Speaker 6: for the short term sales. But in a let's say,
Speaker 6: long term, uh, maybe it will increase some uncertainty because
Speaker 6: we don't know that the new policy terraft policy, we
Speaker 6: cannot predict. Maybe trumpetwell changes his mind again. So what
Speaker 6: we can do is how to satisfy the requirement the
Speaker 6: demand right now and how we can keep more inventory
Speaker 6: for the future of sales in the States.
Speaker 2: That was Ryan Lee, the CEO of Lexar Media. And
Speaker 2: you know again as he stated, America their number one
Speaker 2: country that is most important to their business. That these
Speaker 2: the memory and the storage and these little tiny microchips
Speaker 2: that they put in laptops and desktops and cameras and
Speaker 2: phones and so many things they are produced in China.
Speaker 2: But the uncertainty is there. He was. It was very
Speaker 2: willing and fourth right when I asked him that question
Speaker 2: point blank and listen, he took two solid minutes, look
Speaker 2: at me right in the eye, said that that was
Speaker 2: an unaltered clip and he said all the right things,
Speaker 2: not trying to upset or incent any more trade war.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, he doesn't know.
Speaker 2: He assumes that in the short term it could actually
Speaker 2: benefit the company because right now, before prices skyrocket, he
Speaker 2: thinks there's going to be demand of companies that are
Speaker 2: gonna want his his products. But in three months, who
Speaker 2: knows what's going on. And this, in the sense, is
Speaker 2: what I got from all these other companies that I
Speaker 2: met with, and I met no less than a dozen
Speaker 2: other companies that are based in shins In or near
Speaker 2: sins in China. They're fueling the same way. It's interesting
Speaker 2: because they didn't they didn't seem mad. And again this
Speaker 2: is they know I'm based in America, and they know
Speaker 2: I have a big microphone. And this is I'm also
Speaker 2: using that clip the video for the TV segments that
Speaker 2: I do on Channel eleven in Houston and Fox and
Speaker 2: Austin too. They're not gonna, you know, kick me off,
Speaker 2: which obviously is gonna you know, that could go viral.
Speaker 2: It was a well thought out answer, but it's looming
Speaker 2: that on his mind and to his company and to
Speaker 2: his workers. And I don't know if it's a public company,
Speaker 2: his shareholders. I don't know if the government owns it.
Speaker 2: But this is what we're going through right now. It is.
Speaker 2: It is weird in odd times, but there seems to
Speaker 2: be a calm. And as I said before, not one
Speaker 2: time during my entire six day visit in China did
Speaker 2: people look at me and point fingers, going on matter again,
Speaker 2: we don't like you get out of our country. Didn't
Speaker 2: say that at all. I never once heard the word Trump.
Speaker 2: I never No one talks about politics over there, which
Speaker 2: is one of the reasons I kind of dig China.
Speaker 2: I like it. I don't. I rarely talk politics. I
Speaker 2: don't want to talk politics, but politics right now, it's
Speaker 2: there is an intersection of what I do and politics
Speaker 2: because I talk about electronics and devices in cars, which
Speaker 2: are directly affected. So more discussions. If you've got questions, thoughts, answers,
Speaker 2: or you know, even want some of my other you know, opinions,
Speaker 2: you know what I anecdotally saw. I am here for
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Speaker 2: and questions, we have got one over here. This is Brian. Brian,
Speaker 2: how you doing to Michael Garfield? You are on the
Speaker 2: High Tech Texan Shit. Hey, Michael, it's Brian love your show.
Speaker 2: Without dropping my phone in the toilet, how can I
Speaker 2: tell what the waterproof rating is? I see IPX, I
Speaker 2: don't really understand what that means. I yes, the old
Speaker 2: IP rating that you see on so many products. Brian,
Speaker 2: I appreciate that call. If anybody has ever spilled a
Speaker 2: little beer, a little water, or in Brian's case, maybe
Speaker 2: drop your phone into the toilet. You know the importance
Speaker 2: of water resistance. I mean it can mean the difference
Speaker 2: between a quick wipe with a cloth or a very
Speaker 2: expensive trip to buy a brand new phone or a product.
Speaker 2: Waterproofing used to be something found only on big, rubber
Speaker 2: sealed phones designed for construction workers or mountain bikers, but
Speaker 2: water resistance has become pretty much the norm in everything,
Speaker 2: including phones iPhone sixteen, the Pro, the Pixels, the Galaxy
Speaker 2: S twenty five's, whatever it is. I will say this,
Speaker 2: not all phones can withstand and a dunk in water,
Speaker 2: and they shouldn't be near liquids at all. Almost no
Speaker 2: phone should be taken in a swimming pool, ocean swimming,
Speaker 2: no sir, salt water, unless you're using a water tight
Speaker 2: case of some kind. But if you shop for a
Speaker 2: phone recently, you've probably come across the terms like water resistant.
Speaker 2: But also you're going to see some ratings in some
Speaker 2: numbers in letters. IP sixty seven, IP sixty eight, IP
Speaker 2: x eight. What does it mean? IP stands for ingress protection.
Speaker 2: It's an International Protection rating ingress protection and it's their
Speaker 2: standard set by the International Electro Technical Commission. Look at
Speaker 2: that all right. So the first number in the rating
Speaker 2: code represents the amount that protection provided against entry of
Speaker 2: foreign solid objects like sand or dust, and that protection
Speaker 2: level it ranges from a low of zero to a
Speaker 2: high of six. So when you see something that says
Speaker 2: IP sixty eight, well six first number, that's the highest
Speaker 2: it does prevent sand and dust from getting in there.
Speaker 2: The second number represents the degree of production against moisture
Speaker 2: or liquids, with a range from a low of zero
Speaker 2: to a high of eight. Again, let's go back to
Speaker 2: IP sixty eight. Now we have topped out at both
Speaker 2: the sand and the dust with the number six, and
Speaker 2: we have topped it out at the eight rating, the
Speaker 2: highest level number for moisture and liquid. Now, sometimes you're
Speaker 2: going to see an IP rating with a number replaced
Speaker 2: by an X the letter X, such as ip X eight. Well,
Speaker 2: this instance, a company hasn't provided testing details, so the
Speaker 2: rating number is replaced by racer X. The masked racer
Speaker 2: unknown to speed it's his older brother. So an ip
Speaker 2: X eight rated device it can survive being submerged in water,
Speaker 2: but it really hasn't been rated for any other protection
Speaker 2: from dust and other particles. Let me throw you out
Speaker 2: some good examples. The iPhone sixteen Pro IP sixty eight, right,
Speaker 2: Galaxy S twenty five Ultra iPhone that I use IP
Speaker 2: sixty eight. They're water resistant. Maybe maybe not, And that's
Speaker 2: where it gets confusing. For an eight on the IP
Speaker 2: rating this IEC council, they demand the device with stand
Speaker 2: being submerged in at least one meter of water for
Speaker 2: thirty minutes, and beyond that, well, it's up to the manufacturer.
Speaker 2: So the S twenty five Ultra it could be submerged
Speaker 2: in about three feet of water for thirty minutes, while
Speaker 2: Apple says the iPhone sixteen Pro is safe and about
Speaker 2: twelve feet of water fro up to thirty minutes. So
Speaker 2: while any phone with an IP six' eight rating well
Speaker 2: had to have that one meter or three feet thirty minute,
Speaker 2: threshold it is important to check the fine print to
Speaker 2: see exactly what your phone. Offers bottom, Line brian and everybody,
Speaker 2: else don't go swimming with your. Phone just just don't put.
Speaker 2: IT i don't even. Care. LISTEN ip tests are done
Speaker 2: using fresh water your pool generally does not have fresh,
Speaker 2: Water your pool has, chemicals, chlorine, salt. Whatever and if
Speaker 2: your phone doesn't have AN ip, rating can't it get?
Speaker 2: Wet sure can get. Wet can't guarantee it's gonna. Work
Speaker 2: use a case for people who are around the water a.
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Speaker 2: is you can get a cover of, protection a little
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Speaker 2: Phone you've seen these cases that Will it's kind of
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Speaker 2: if you're going on a cruise or. Something it in.
Speaker 2: There it's worth. It So, brian thank you very much
Speaker 2: for that. Call if anybody wants to get in phone
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Speaker 9: Show final segment of this week's, show we thank you
Speaker 9: for welcoming back To america with open arms after a
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Speaker 2: twenty five years. Ago create a long. Password make sure
Speaker 2: it's maybe sixteen. Characters use random. Characters don't just use
Speaker 2: letters in. Numbers use an asterisk or parentheses or hyphens
Speaker 2: or dashes or THE at. Symbol change it on a regular.
Speaker 2: Basis log out of your shared, device you know. DEVICES
Speaker 2: i mean this is before social. Media, NOW i say
Speaker 2: keep your details off social. Media don't tell people what
Speaker 2: your favorite what your first concert, was or any of
Speaker 2: your other privates becau odds are that's in your. Password
Speaker 2: there was no such thing as two factor authentication back. Then,
Speaker 2: nowadays always use two factor. Authentication that's the second layer of.
Speaker 2: Protection call it multi factor, authentication whatever it. IS i
Speaker 2: know it can be a little, pain but the fact
Speaker 2: is do. It which means when you log into something,
Speaker 2: once it's going to text you or email you something that, says,
Speaker 2: hey was this really you trying to get into your? Account,
Speaker 2: WELL i want you to enter this six digit code
Speaker 2: or click this link just to make sure it's. USED
Speaker 2: i know it's an extra, step but you know what
Speaker 2: It's it is generally. Worse but how about a password
Speaker 2: manager or pass? KEYS i just want to, know we've
Speaker 2: been doing this for so. Long it's. Crackable we can
Speaker 2: actually steal. Passwords there are new and better technology out,
Speaker 2: there but passwords they're just not going. Away there's sometimes
Speaker 2: a pain to remember every time you log into one
Speaker 2: to connected devices and, accounts they could be. Cracked but
Speaker 2: there are password, managers it's software pass. KEYS i, mean
Speaker 2: they can go a long way towards reducing the need
Speaker 2: for passwords in your daily. Life BUT i just don't
Speaker 2: think they've caught on with a lot of companies or.
Speaker 2: Consumers AND i think it's a comfort. Level so many
Speaker 2: people have grown up with. Passwords they're easy to. Implement
Speaker 2: so it Was may, ONE i guess it was this The,
Speaker 2: THURSDAY i guess.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 2: There it was kind of like A. Psa it's a
Speaker 2: public service. Announcement, hey there's other ways to do. It
Speaker 2: get a password, manager and what's the password. Manager there's
Speaker 2: things go one, password the number one, password and again not,
Speaker 2: recommending feel free to try. These Bit, warden b it, T,
Speaker 2: bitwarden Nord, pass a r d P a S. S
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Speaker 2: a ChIL ay Anny Keeper, security and some of them are,
Speaker 2: free some may cost. MONEY i think Bit warden they've
Speaker 2: got a free plan which is good for your. BUDGET
Speaker 2: i actually haven't used, Bitwardens so don't take my. ADVICE
Speaker 2: i mean you. COULD i want you to take my,
Speaker 2: advice but you could take that. Suggestion they offer premium
Speaker 2: plans To but this is a good, time especially when you're,
Speaker 2: traveling especially it's summer's coming up and you're logging. In
Speaker 2: i've already talked about VPNs when your travel certainly international
Speaker 2: e sim cards a way to connect or hotspots or.
Speaker 2: Whatever and AND i think have passwords and using password
Speaker 2: managers may be the thing to, do because your password
Speaker 2: the least of which the least of which do not
Speaker 2: use these same password on every single one of your.
Speaker 2: Accounts change at least a. Letter say you're using, something
Speaker 2: say you're using your the combination of your kids' names
Speaker 2: for everything will do me a. Favor if you're Using Wells,
Speaker 2: fargo use all your kids' names and then at the
Speaker 2: INPUT Wf Wells. Fargo and if you're using another, bank
Speaker 2: A Chase, bank use your kids' names in the LETTER
Speaker 2: c or just type In. Chase if you're logging onto your,
Speaker 2: school use or you, know if you're a Good Hears
Speaker 2: county's Or Lamar Lamar High, school use all your kids'
Speaker 2: Names Lamar High. School at least use something that's that
Speaker 2: you're gonna, remember and then when you're on that particular,
Speaker 2: site use the. SITE i, mean just use a trick like,
Speaker 2: that and hopefully you're gonna be. SAFE i know you're
Speaker 2: safe with me because you have been for a quarter of. Century,
Speaker 2: hey it's time to wind.
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