WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:06.799 Is Michael Garfi. 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:10.439 Michael Garfield, Michael Garfields joining in the high Tech Texan. 3 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:13.480 Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans. 4 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:15.320 Its to make. 5 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:18.440 Life easier, new technology, and Michael Garfield has something you 6 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:19.320 might like. 7 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:31.640 Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping 8 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:37.280 you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the 9 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:47.679 iHeartRadio Act. Now you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield, oh names. 10 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:51.240 As the Morning Dude gives way to the afternoon Sun. 11 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.320 We welcome you to the Masters, well, the master of 12 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.039 all radio shows for twenty three years on the weekends 13 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.280 here in Texas. Though I got to chat a bit 14 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:05.879 earlier this week with Jim Nance. That's about as close 15 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.400 as you'll get to him now. At last, Today is 16 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:13.439 moving day at the Masters. The good news My show 17 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:15.959 will end soon enough, so you can watch the TV 18 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:20.319 coverage from Augusta. So until then, let's suck it up 19 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:24.040 and buckle up for some fun, informative few hours of 20 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:28.400 your questions and my musings. My name is Michael Garfield, 21 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:32.280 so let's roll. Well, what a week it was, man, 22 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:34.879 What a week for those of you who went to 23 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.719 the Final four in San Antonio. We got to see 24 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.719 three incredible games. It was really nice to see a 25 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:45.560 lot of people who either I know or who listened 26 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:47.120 to me. You know, my show just started in San 27 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:51.239 Antonio a few months ago. I do live in Houston. 28 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.079 The Houston Cougars were there. I was covering it for 29 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:57.760 a few TV stations. I got some amazing access and 30 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:01.439 so if you are kind of a follower on Instagram 31 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.040 or Facebook, you could see some of the shots that 32 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:08.719 I got from the court, from the pregame parties, the 33 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.560 locker rooms on the good days for the UH Cougars 34 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:14.680 on Saturday night and the very sad ones on Monday night. 35 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:18.479 But congrats to the Florida Gators, and again such a 36 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:21.800 heartbreak for the hometown Houston Cougar's. I did get a 37 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.199 little sleep, you hear my voice is a little wary 38 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:27.840 still after all of the fun stuff, from laughing with 39 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.520 Charles Barkley to acting a fool at the FanFest. It 40 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:35.080 was a major sports event that puts San Antonio in 41 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:39.439 Texas in the spotlight. Whether it was perfect and overall 42 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.520 was a fun weekend. Now we move on, we have 43 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.360 the Masters weekend and as a longtime listeners should know 44 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:51.319 right now the only major sporting event that is left 45 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:54.960 on my bucket list to attend. Not yet, not this year. 46 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.080 We shall see. Also this weekend we have the start 47 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.680 of Passover. For those of you that celebrate the holiday 48 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.479 and tradition. I hope you have luck in finding matza, 49 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.159 as every grocery store I visited it seemed to be 50 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:09.879 out of it, or maybe it's just too expensive due 51 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:12.680 to the tariffs imposed on Israel. Oops, did I go there? 52 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.599 Good Friday? Easter there next week, which leads to one 53 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:22.039 of my favorite days of the year, the Monday after Easter, 54 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.280 when the Reese's eggs go on sale for at least 55 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.439 fifty percent off. So, my friends, let the games begin, 56 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.159 Let the show begin. Here comes the phone number. We 57 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:34.439 are here for you. Should you have comment, should you 58 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.639 have questions about what to buy and what to hurry 59 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:40.039 up and buy, because people seem to be very scared 60 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:44.199 about the prices on many things, certainly electronic devices going up. 61 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.400 It is three four six twenty nine texts and that's 62 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:50.280 three four six two nine t e x A M 63 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.240 we do list. Thanks listeners for tuning in over the 64 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.960 air on our flagship station in Houston. KPRC nine fifty 65 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:02.159 News Radio twelve hundred WAI. I met a lot of 66 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.520 you local listeners this past week when I was there 67 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:07.400 for the Final four, and everybody up in Dallas, the 68 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:10.599 Mighty Mighty eleven ninety Talk Radio eleven ninety. If you're 69 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:14.840 listening to the iHeartRadio app, we're live plausibly live the 70 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:20.600 replay on the podcast. If you do get a voicemail 71 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.560 when you call three four six twenty nine Texan, well 72 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.120 all you need to do is leave a voicemail. You 73 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:26.959 do give us the right to replay it and you 74 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.439 can answer, ask me in many questions or just comment 75 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:32.639 on anything that you need. You don't need to give 76 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.879 me crap to my Texas Longhorns. We're not in the 77 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.639 Final four, but at least we did have one almost 78 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:42.279 at two teams. Texas Tech actually made the Final four. 79 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.720 But it is good. Houston is not on the docket. 80 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.519 San Antonio is not on the docket for the Final 81 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:53.639 four to return. However, North Texas Arlington actually is on 82 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:55.680 the docket about I think it's about four years. It 83 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.240 will be there. And so there you go. There is 84 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.759 your sports update, your holiday update. It is now time 85 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:07.480 to talk ah the word of the year so far. Tariffs. Woo, 86 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:12.279 What a week baby. It was this past Wednesday, right 87 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:16.040 at midnight, or maybe it was eleven eight pm Central 88 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.439 Time when the tariffs on eighty plus whatever countries were 89 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.079 supposed to go into effect. They actually did for about 90 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.560 ten or twelve hours until your President Donald Trump pressed 91 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:34.920 pause on reciprocal tariffs. Except he upped the levy on 92 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:39.439 goods from China to one hundred and twenty five percent 93 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:43.000 in the latest escalation of the two countries trade war. 94 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.399 Bottom line, people, you should expect to pay more for 95 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.519 your next iPhone should you get an iPhone. Trump announced 96 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.720 there was a ninety day pause ninety day because he 97 00:05:54.800 --> 00:06:00.160 said China has not as strong suggestion retaliated in any 98 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.079 shape or form. That is a quote. China, by the way, 99 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.040 is where Apple produces most of his products. They've responded 100 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.920 to each of Trump's tariff hikes this year by increasing 101 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:13.240 tariffs on US products. Telling you right now and first 102 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.519 time I've let you know, the plans are in place 103 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.079 as of right now, I am planning to go. This 104 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.360 is not a joke. I am planning to go to 105 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:22.959 China in about a week. I have never been to China. 106 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:27.439 I am going as part of a journalistic tour to 107 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.920 a city or two where a lot of Chinese products 108 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:35.079 are made. There's a number of different agencies who are 109 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:39.560 taking public relations agencies there who want to have a 110 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:42.600 little meat and rate and show me for one, as 111 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.800 a technology journalist and someone who really oversees and reviews 112 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:49.120 a lot of products in the technology world that are 113 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.199 made in China. The plan is for me to go 114 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.519 over there. Hopefully they do not teariff my return to 115 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.959 the United States because they may not be able to 116 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.680 afford to come back. That is how bad this hardball 117 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.040 is with China right now. Apple, let's get it back 118 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:05.079 to this has started to move some of its manufacturing 119 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:09.279 to other countries, including India and Vietnam. Those countries were 120 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.759 supposed to be hit with their own tariffs also Vietnam 121 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.879 with the forty six percent tariff, India with the twenty 122 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:18.759 six percent increase, but those were among the reprieved on trees. 123 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.600 As of last Wednesday, Trump did leave in place at 124 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.519 ten percent baseline tariff on imports. This is tough. It's 125 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:29.079 tough to figure out. I don't know any answers. If 126 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.399 you're in the market for a new Apple device. If 127 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.879 you are in line, then you're waiting to sign up 128 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:39.199 for the new Nintendo Switch to waiting list that is 129 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.879 supposedly going to be released in June, that has been 130 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.160 hot on hold. So the question, and I'm getting right 131 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:47.839 now an email. I'm look at him coming in. Dear Garf. 132 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:50.680 Love your show. I love how you stay away from politics, 133 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.319 but I understand how you have to weave them in. 134 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.000 My name is Jesse. I live in San Antonio. Sorry 135 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:57.160 didn't get to meet you this past weekend in Final four. 136 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.800 But question how much could iPhone prices go up with tariffs? Well, 137 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:06.639 here's my guess. If the full cost of tariffs are 138 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.560 passed on to shoppers, we'd probably see a one hundred 139 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.360 and twenty five percent increase in prices on Apple products 140 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:17.160 that are produced in China. How could tariffs on China 141 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.560 increase iPhone prices? Well, let's put it this way. iPhone 142 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:27.279 sixteen promax right now, twelve hundred dollars here in the US. 143 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.279 It's not it's not even cheap to start with. If 144 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:34.600 you get the full promax, it's twelve hundred dollars. You 145 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.720 add a one hundred and twenty five percent tariff, which 146 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:43.120 adds fifteen hundred dollars. Ladies and gentlemen, my dear listeners, 147 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.279 the new price of an iPhone sixteen Pro Max could 148 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:52.679 be twenty seven hundred dollars for a freaking phone. Right now, 149 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:55.559 it's twelve hundred. It could go hood go up to 150 00:08:55.639 --> 00:09:02.120 twenty seven hundred dollars if Apple passes that entire tariff 151 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:07.360 to consumers are they don't know? There's a lot more 152 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.000 that goes into the price of an iPhone. That's simply 153 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.159 where it's manufactured. Apple sources components for its products from 154 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.000 just the long list of countries. They could face tariffs 155 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.000 after the pause too. We don't know what. Quick question 156 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.600 for the break garf well, other tech products also see 157 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:24.240 price hikes. Smartphones probably not the only device expected to 158 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:27.159 see prices increase because of the tariffs. Best Buy and 159 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.000 Target they warned consumers last month to expect higher prices 160 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:33.480 for everything. Apple announced one hundred percent price cut on 161 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:35.559 its new MacBook Air last month. All right, that's a 162 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:38.279 day after the last round of tariffs took effect. All right, 163 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:42.720 what's going on? We'll talk more about that. Should you 164 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:46.039 buy tech now to avoid tariffs? Later. I'm gonna let 165 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:47.639 you steal on that for another three and a half 166 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:49.759 minutes until we come back. My name is Michael Garfield. 167 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:51.720 This is the I Teck contention. 168 00:09:51.480 --> 00:10:16.399 Show, Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. 169 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:19.120 Big question that I'm getting other than hey, Garth, how 170 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.279 do you think the Cougars are gonna do next year? 171 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:23.559 Since they came oh so close in the final four 172 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:27.240 this year, the poll says, other than Duke Houston Cougar's 173 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.360 They're not They're not losing a ton of starters. They 174 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.360 could come back again, and they are ranked number two 175 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:34.200 to actually take it all the way. By the way, 176 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.639 I like gambling and I love sports. That's why I 177 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:41.399 talk about sports just as much as I do technology. 178 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.639 Here on the High Tech Text and Show. Michael Garfield, 179 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:45.840 nice to have you here, Thank you for returning and 180 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:50.879 coming back. Three weeks ago, I went to my annual 181 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.159 March Madness trip in Las Vegas, thirty six straight years 182 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.960 of me and eight college guys. We always go the 183 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:01.200 first weekend of March Madness. I place a future bets 184 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:03.759 because I think that's the you know, listen, I place 185 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:05.519 a lot of bets on like in game bets and 186 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:07.080 what's gonna happen, you know, to this game. But I 187 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.600 do place before the tournament starts with the odds of 188 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:11.960 the longest because they still you know, they still have 189 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:13.519 to get the winners, still has to get through, you know, 190 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:17.559 six opponents, six games. I put two bets down. I 191 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:22.480 put two bets down. I bet University of Houston to 192 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.440 win it all. I bet University of Florida Gators to 193 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:30.240 win it all. Boom. So by the time Saturday night 194 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:32.360 rolled around and we knew who was going to be 195 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.320 in the championship, it was Florida and uh, I was 196 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.639 guaranteed to win. Now I was hoping you h would 197 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:41.279 win because there was longer, I had more, a bigger payout. 198 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:46.039 UH was six to one, six to one, all right 199 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:49.759 to win the championship. When I put money down Florida Gators, 200 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.639 I got a plus three fifty. So now I'll take 201 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:55.480 the money and run. I would love to have the 202 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:58.279 UH Cougar's one, but that's how you do some gaming. 203 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.360 So in no way, I'm buying beers next time I 204 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:03.360 see it, people, uh, until I actually uh. Let me 205 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.200 put it this way, I have to go to Vegas 206 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.080 to cash the ticket out or actually may have to 207 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:10.919 mail it in then I will be buying buying beers 208 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.320 phone number here if you it's an interactive radio show 209 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:18.600 on a weekend, Master's Weekend three four six twenty nine 210 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:21.039 text and three four six two nine te x a 211 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.120 N Callum Reid. He is on the other side of 212 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:25.759 that glass. Potentially Callum if you feel like picking up 213 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:27.879 the phone having me talk to some callers. If my 214 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:31.879 voice holds up, we're potentially happy to talk to him. 215 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.240 I do want to continue the tariff issue as I 216 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.600 did in segment number one. If you are planning to 217 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:44.639 buy a new iPhone, maybe a gaming console, MacBook, other technology, 218 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:50.879 buying it now could save you money if you don't 219 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:53.799 have the cash on hand and you need to use 220 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:57.000 a credit card to buy it now, pay later type 221 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:01.399 of thing, just to avoid the tariffs. Make sure you 222 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.879 have the money to cover the cost before you start 223 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.519 accruing interest. Credit cards average right now is more than 224 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:08.559 twenty percent. You know the whole thing. Listen, I'm not 225 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:11.679 a financial guy, but I'm just telling you what's going on. 226 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:16.399 One way to save on products, maybe Apple products, maybe 227 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.799 other products, even if prices go up. This is something 228 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:22.960 that you probably know and I talk about it, but 229 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:28.360 I'll remind you again by last year's model instead of 230 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:32.440 the newest release. If you're if you aren't planning to 231 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:35.200 upgrade in the next year, there really is no reason 232 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:40.440 to rush out and bias new smartphone. So think about it. 233 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:44.399 I told you before the break. If they're right now, 234 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:46.399 China has what a one hundred and twenty five percent 235 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.000 tariff that that's solid. Everything else kind of went down 236 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.440 or is on hold. But right now China one hundred 237 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:57.639 and twenty five percent. So iPhone sixteen promacs current price 238 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:01.519 twelve hundred dollars add the tariff. Should they pass that 239 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:04.919 entire tariff along to consumers, that phone is gonna go 240 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:08.200 from twelve hundred dollars to twenty seven hundred dollars. If 241 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:11.840 Apple passes that price on the entire way to the consumers. 242 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.679 I don't know if they can do that, But that's 243 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:17.360 an iPhone sixteen. Look at the iPhone fifteen. iPhone fifteen 244 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:22.080 currently is seven hundred dollars. Now, if they do pass 245 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:25.360 that one hundred and twenty five percent tariff, the seven 246 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:27.720 hundred dollars phone is gonna be fifteen hundred and fifty 247 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.840 dollars or so, but fifteen hundred and fifty dollars is 248 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.679 a heck of a lot less than twenty seven hundred 249 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:36.240 dollars by last year's model. Maybe buy a used phone. 250 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.279 This may be the era of let's go on some 251 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:44.159 of these online sites that have trade in models, where 252 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:49.000 you could people trade in their devices, laptops, tablets, it's 253 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:51.799 not even it's more than technology. They may trade in lawnmowers, 254 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.600 do the eBay thing. Maybe it's time that we're not 255 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.919 gonna buy anything new, We're gonna pause on that stuff 256 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.679 and maybe just maybe we could actually buy things at 257 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:08.080 a discount of price because they're used, slightly legently used. 258 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:10.440 Should you do that? You want to do your research. 259 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:13.600 You want to look at photos. You want to see 260 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.159 that the seller either a whether you have bought from 261 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:19.879 that cellar before, where that is a trusted seller. You 262 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.519 want to you know, do some research. Don't just say, 263 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:24.039 you know, look at a price, going oh, here's an 264 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.720 iPhone fifteen, it's only four hundred dollars or something like that. 265 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:28.480 It could be cracked, it could be smashed. You want 266 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.080 to look at the condition and so again tips on 267 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:33.159 what you need to do, because now I think people 268 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.639 are realizing. I think they've realized it this year. I mean, 269 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.279 starting with the eggs. You know, the cost of a 270 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.080 dozen eggs went up to eight bucks. They're a little 271 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:42.759 cheaper right now since we're an egg heaven between passover, 272 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:45.360 the hard bowled eggs and you know, hard boiling and 273 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:47.919 dyeing eggs for Easter. Right now, I mean now they're 274 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:51.279 down a smidge, but there's still expensive. People are really 275 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:55.720 minding their money on what they're doing. And actually, I 276 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:59.799 got some numbers. This is what I do, numbers, buying 277 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:03.399 howbits I'm learning right now and reading some studies on 278 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:08.639 US adults buying habits. Right now, US adults feel most 279 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:14.519 pressured to buy electronics, smartphones, laptops. Home impliance is out 280 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.000 of fear that tariffs are going to lead to price increases. 281 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:20.759 Thirty eight percent of shoppers have felt pressure to make 282 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:27.279 purchases before tariffs raid prices. One in ten shoppers made 283 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:31.399 big ticket purchases late last year or early this year 284 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:36.720 to try to avoid tariff induced price jumps. Twenty seven 285 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:41.480 percent of shoppers are delaying big purchases over five hundred dollars. 286 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.960 On the other hand, eighteen percent are planning to shop 287 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.600 sales this year. Sales. You have to look at sales. 288 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:57.200 Those are adults now compared to Gen X and Baby boomers, 289 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:00.960 who are older adults. Let's call my age. I'm gen X. 290 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:05.039 Younger generations are feeling even more pressure. Forty eight percent 291 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.480 of Gen C forty five percent of millennials said they 292 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:12.119 felt pressure to make purchases to avoid If I understand 293 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:19.839 the pressure, I understand the anxiety. This now becomes common 294 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:25.119 consumer sense. Do you need it? And I use these 295 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.519 two terms often. I tell you as a father, I've 296 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.839 taught my three sons best too. There's a difference between 297 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:36.680 needing and wanting, right, do you need it or do 298 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:41.000 you just want it? A lot of the things, the gadgets, 299 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:44.119 the the shiny stuff, the things that I talk about, 300 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:50.039 the things that I review, their want their want. I mean, 301 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.839 if you really place it. Do you want or do 302 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.240 you need? A mobile phone? And that's a serious question. 303 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.119 When they first came out many many, many years ago, 304 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.640 it was just a want because we needed communication and 305 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.559 we had wired phones, and we had office phone numbers 306 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:08.559 and home phone numbers. Did we need mobile phones? When 307 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.880 they became necessities back in the mid to late nineties, 308 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.720 we didn't need them. Now they're wont not obviously that 309 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:19.720 it's going down. We that has become our normal and 310 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:24.759 only communication when it comes to talking on things right now, well, yes, 311 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:26.680 you know, we could you know, do things now via 312 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.960 the internet. You could use you know what's app on 313 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.680 your You could use Facebook Messenger on your computer, on 314 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.279 your laptop. Do you need a phone per se? No, 315 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:39.000 you do actually need connectivity. You need you need a 316 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:43.359 cell data connection or you need an Internet connection. So 317 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.640 buying you need to stop, you need to wait. So 318 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:48.720 we're gonna take a break, you know. The phone number. 319 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:50.720 Try to move on to different subjects because it seems 320 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:52.480 like I'm ragging on people and I'm just making people 321 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:54.440 the more depressed. I don't know, I'm still depressed. I 322 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:57.240 still have yet to be gone to a master's and 323 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:58.799 thus I have to suck it up and watch it 324 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:01.720 here on TV. But that is life people, phone number 325 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:06.240 three four six twenty nine, Texsan three four six two nine, Texsan. 326 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.559 My name is Michael Garfield. Then we do thinks we're listening. 327 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:35.720 We're gonna be right back. When's the last time anybody 328 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:37.680 has been to Vegas? I was there about the three 329 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.720 weeks ago, right at the start of March Madness, and 330 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:44.160 it was fine. And people ask me, I go to 331 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:47.279 Vegas generally three to four times a year, and I've 332 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:49.920 done that for four held, am I right now for 333 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:53.319 forty one years. I've been in Vegas four decades. Man 334 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:56.519 that that place has changed generally when I got I 335 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.440 can count on one hand the number of shows that 336 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.200 I've seen. You know, everybody goes to Vegas for shows, 337 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:07.319 and let's you know, then whatever. I go with buddies 338 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.079 generally and we go March Madness. All we do is 339 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:12.480 sit there and we watch basketball games. 340 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:12.759 We go. 341 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:15.240 I go to a ces cous from electronic show. I 342 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:16.720 go up and down the aisle as I walk. It's 343 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:18.160 a lot of work stuff. Maybe I'll go in the 344 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:20.039 summer again with buddies, will sit by the pool and 345 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:22.319 do nothing. I don't really care to go to shows. 346 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:24.480 I want to gamble. I want to stand at a 347 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:28.400 craps table, have a few cocktails, get some sun, and 348 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:32.839 that's it. And and if people who truly truly know me, 349 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.319 you know me, that's it. I don't go. I don't 350 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:37.400 really don't go off the strip. I don't go in 351 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.759 to go in near ill advised places I'm not supposed to. 352 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:46.759 I'm I'm that's about it. The Sphere was built and 353 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.039 complete it about what finally about the year and a 354 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:50.039 half of the game. It was about a year ago. 355 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:51.240 I think it was a little like fourth last year. 356 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:53.240 It was two years ago. But I saw that thing 357 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:55.200 being built for years and years and years. Has anybody 358 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:59.359 been to the Sphere? So I've been to the sphere 359 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:03.359 one and it was CEES a year and a half ago, 360 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:05.920 which now I think about it, it's the Sphere has 361 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:09.039 been opening a year and now two years the Samsung 362 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:11.920 had an event at CES and I went there and 363 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:14.359 it's it's it really is an amazing place. It's that 364 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.720 it's it's owned by Madison Square Garden out of New York, 365 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:22.400 Jim Dolan. He created it, spent billions of dollars. It's unbelievable. 366 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.079 It's still at two hundred and seventy degrees. You know, 367 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:28.519 of just projection and you got concerts, you got you too. 368 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:30.400 You got the Eagles there right now, the grateful Dead. 369 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:35.799 Whatever the point is, did you see what they what 370 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:39.920 they're doing right now? They're going, I say they and 371 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:44.920 I it's it's really Google and the Sphere folks Spear Studios. 372 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.079 They've partnered with Google along with a few other companies 373 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:51.039 over here, and they are getting ready to release a 374 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:55.279 special version of The Wizard of Oz to be shown 375 00:21:55.680 --> 00:22:00.319 inside the Sphere. And it's not really it, but they 376 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:02.599 have to remaster the film. I mean the film was. 377 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:05.559 I think it came out with nineteen thirty nine black 378 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:08.599 and white in color. Everybody knows The Wizard of Oz. 379 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:11.680 It's it's really not a remastering the film. It's it's 380 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:14.759 actually more of a reinvention because they have to really 381 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:20.039 rebuild the film seen by scene to feel the spears 382 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:24.680 gigantic one hundred and sixty thousand square foot wrap around 383 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:28.079 led screen. And it was a pretty big technological challenge. 384 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:29.680 And I was reading about it, and I think they 385 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:32.519 had a preview. Google had a preview a little snippet 386 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.079 last week, and I don't know. The original film was 387 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:41.319 shot in four x three, which is how you know TV. 388 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:44.319 You know, ratios used to be kind of a square 389 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:46.079 type of thing. Obviously you see a lot most all 390 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:48.400 TVs right now are sixteen by nine, which is more 391 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:52.480 horizontal high definition. I mean it was when they shot it, 392 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:54.720 it was never intended for a two hundred and seventy 393 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:57.839 degree immersive experience. So what Google had to do they 394 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:02.000 had to what's called out paint to generate the visuals 395 00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:07.759 way beyond the original frame and more than ninety percent 396 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:10.079 of the movie I believe was altered or extended to 397 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:13.039 really transform this, this movie into the sphere as a 398 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:17.359 unique format. I mean, you talk about an ambitious project 399 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:20.720 and I don't know when it's coming out, but I'm 400 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:25.880 sitting here thinking, let's back this up. It's Wizard of 401 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:29.920