Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfi.
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Speaker 1: As the Morning Dude gives way to the afternoon Sun.
Speaker 1: We welcome you to the Masters, well, the master of
Speaker 1: all radio shows for twenty three years on the weekends
Speaker 1: here in Texas. Though I got to chat a bit
Speaker 1: earlier this week with Jim Nance. That's about as close
Speaker 1: as you'll get to him now. At last, Today is
Speaker 1: moving day at the Masters. The good news My show
Speaker 1: will end soon enough, so you can watch the TV
Speaker 1: coverage from Augusta. So until then, let's suck it up
Speaker 1: and buckle up for some fun, informative few hours of
Speaker 1: your questions and my musings. My name is Michael Garfield,
Speaker 1: so let's roll. Well, what a week it was, man,
Speaker 1: What a week for those of you who went to
Speaker 1: the Final four in San Antonio. We got to see
Speaker 1: three incredible games. It was really nice to see a
Speaker 1: lot of people who either I know or who listened
Speaker 1: to me. You know, my show just started in San
Speaker 1: Antonio a few months ago. I do live in Houston.
Speaker 1: The Houston Cougars were there. I was covering it for
Speaker 1: a few TV stations. I got some amazing access and
Speaker 1: so if you are kind of a follower on Instagram
Speaker 1: or Facebook, you could see some of the shots that
Speaker 1: I got from the court, from the pregame parties, the
Speaker 1: locker rooms on the good days for the UH Cougars
Speaker 1: on Saturday night and the very sad ones on Monday night.
Speaker 1: But congrats to the Florida Gators, and again such a
Speaker 1: heartbreak for the hometown Houston Cougar's. I did get a
Speaker 1: little sleep, you hear my voice is a little wary
Speaker 1: still after all of the fun stuff, from laughing with
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley to acting a fool at the FanFest. It
Speaker 1: was a major sports event that puts San Antonio in
Speaker 1: Texas in the spotlight. Whether it was perfect and overall
Speaker 1: was a fun weekend. Now we move on, we have
Speaker 1: the Masters weekend and as a longtime listeners should know
Speaker 1: right now the only major sporting event that is left
Speaker 1: on my bucket list to attend. Not yet, not this year.
Speaker 1: We shall see. Also this weekend we have the start
Speaker 1: of Passover. For those of you that celebrate the holiday
Speaker 1: and tradition. I hope you have luck in finding matza,
Speaker 1: as every grocery store I visited it seemed to be
Speaker 1: out of it, or maybe it's just too expensive due
Speaker 1: to the tariffs imposed on Israel. Oops, did I go there?
Speaker 1: Good Friday? Easter there next week, which leads to one
Speaker 1: of my favorite days of the year, the Monday after Easter,
Speaker 1: when the Reese's eggs go on sale for at least
Speaker 1: fifty percent off. So, my friends, let the games begin,
Speaker 1: Let the show begin. Here comes the phone number. We
Speaker 1: are here for you. Should you have comment, should you
Speaker 1: have questions about what to buy and what to hurry
Speaker 1: up and buy, because people seem to be very scared
Speaker 1: about the prices on many things, certainly electronic devices going up.
Speaker 1: It is three four six twenty nine texts and that's
Speaker 1: three four six two nine t e x A M
Speaker 1: we do list. Thanks listeners for tuning in over the
Speaker 1: air on our flagship station in Houston. KPRC nine fifty
Speaker 1: News Radio twelve hundred WAI. I met a lot of
Speaker 1: you local listeners this past week when I was there
Speaker 1: for the Final four, and everybody up in Dallas, the
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Speaker 1: listening to the iHeartRadio app, we're live plausibly live the
Speaker 1: replay on the podcast. If you do get a voicemail
Speaker 1: when you call three four six twenty nine Texan, well
Speaker 1: all you need to do is leave a voicemail. You
Speaker 1: do give us the right to replay it and you
Speaker 1: can answer, ask me in many questions or just comment
Speaker 1: on anything that you need. You don't need to give
Speaker 1: me crap to my Texas Longhorns. We're not in the
Speaker 1: Final four, but at least we did have one almost
Speaker 1: at two teams. Texas Tech actually made the Final four.
Speaker 1: But it is good. Houston is not on the docket.
Speaker 1: San Antonio is not on the docket for the Final
Speaker 1: four to return. However, North Texas Arlington actually is on
Speaker 1: the docket about I think it's about four years. It
Speaker 1: will be there. And so there you go. There is
Speaker 1: your sports update, your holiday update. It is now time
Speaker 1: to talk ah the word of the year so far. Tariffs. Woo,
Speaker 1: What a week baby. It was this past Wednesday, right
Speaker 1: at midnight, or maybe it was eleven eight pm Central
Speaker 1: Time when the tariffs on eighty plus whatever countries were
Speaker 1: supposed to go into effect. They actually did for about
Speaker 1: ten or twelve hours until your President Donald Trump pressed
Speaker 1: pause on reciprocal tariffs. Except he upped the levy on
Speaker 1: goods from China to one hundred and twenty five percent
Speaker 1: in the latest escalation of the two countries trade war.
Speaker 1: Bottom line, people, you should expect to pay more for
Speaker 1: your next iPhone should you get an iPhone. Trump announced
Speaker 1: there was a ninety day pause ninety day because he
Speaker 1: said China has not as strong suggestion retaliated in any
Speaker 1: shape or form. That is a quote. China, by the way,
Speaker 1: is where Apple produces most of his products. They've responded
Speaker 1: to each of Trump's tariff hikes this year by increasing
Speaker 1: tariffs on US products. Telling you right now and first
Speaker 1: time I've let you know, the plans are in place
Speaker 1: as of right now, I am planning to go. This
Speaker 1: is not a joke. I am planning to go to
Speaker 1: China in about a week. I have never been to China.
Speaker 1: I am going as part of a journalistic tour to
Speaker 1: a city or two where a lot of Chinese products
Speaker 1: are made. There's a number of different agencies who are
Speaker 1: taking public relations agencies there who want to have a
Speaker 1: little meat and rate and show me for one, as
Speaker 1: a technology journalist and someone who really oversees and reviews
Speaker 1: a lot of products in the technology world that are
Speaker 1: made in China. The plan is for me to go
Speaker 1: over there. Hopefully they do not teariff my return to
Speaker 1: the United States because they may not be able to
Speaker 1: afford to come back. That is how bad this hardball
Speaker 1: is with China right now. Apple, let's get it back
Speaker 1: to this has started to move some of its manufacturing
Speaker 1: to other countries, including India and Vietnam. Those countries were
Speaker 1: supposed to be hit with their own tariffs also Vietnam
Speaker 1: with the forty six percent tariff, India with the twenty
Speaker 1: six percent increase, but those were among the reprieved on trees.
Speaker 1: As of last Wednesday, Trump did leave in place at
Speaker 1: ten percent baseline tariff on imports. This is tough. It's
Speaker 1: tough to figure out. I don't know any answers. If
Speaker 1: you're in the market for a new Apple device. If
Speaker 1: you are in line, then you're waiting to sign up
Speaker 1: for the new Nintendo Switch to waiting list that is
Speaker 1: supposedly going to be released in June, that has been
Speaker 1: hot on hold. So the question, and I'm getting right
Speaker 1: now an email. I'm look at him coming in. Dear Garf.
Speaker 1: Love your show. I love how you stay away from politics,
Speaker 1: but I understand how you have to weave them in.
Speaker 1: My name is Jesse. I live in San Antonio. Sorry
Speaker 1: didn't get to meet you this past weekend in Final four.
Speaker 1: But question how much could iPhone prices go up with tariffs? Well,
Speaker 1: here's my guess. If the full cost of tariffs are
Speaker 1: passed on to shoppers, we'd probably see a one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five percent increase in prices on Apple products
Speaker 1: that are produced in China. How could tariffs on China
Speaker 1: increase iPhone prices? Well, let's put it this way. iPhone
Speaker 1: sixteen promax right now, twelve hundred dollars here in the US.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not even cheap to start with. If
Speaker 1: you get the full promax, it's twelve hundred dollars. You
Speaker 1: add a one hundred and twenty five percent tariff, which
Speaker 1: adds fifteen hundred dollars. Ladies and gentlemen, my dear listeners,
Speaker 1: the new price of an iPhone sixteen Pro Max could
Speaker 1: be twenty seven hundred dollars for a freaking phone. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's twelve hundred. It could go hood go up to
Speaker 1: twenty seven hundred dollars if Apple passes that entire tariff
Speaker 1: to consumers are they don't know? There's a lot more
Speaker 1: that goes into the price of an iPhone. That's simply
Speaker 1: where it's manufactured. Apple sources components for its products from
Speaker 1: just the long list of countries. They could face tariffs
Speaker 1: after the pause too. We don't know what. Quick question
Speaker 1: for the break garf well, other tech products also see
Speaker 1: price hikes. Smartphones probably not the only device expected to
Speaker 1: see prices increase because of the tariffs. Best Buy and
Speaker 1: Target they warned consumers last month to expect higher prices
Speaker 1: for everything. Apple announced one hundred percent price cut on
Speaker 1: its new MacBook Air last month. All right, that's a
Speaker 1: day after the last round of tariffs took effect. All right,
Speaker 1: what's going on? We'll talk more about that. Should you
Speaker 1: buy tech now to avoid tariffs? Later. I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: you steal on that for another three and a half
Speaker 1: minutes until we come back. My name is Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: This is the I Teck contention.
Speaker 5: Show, Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs.
Speaker 1: Big question that I'm getting other than hey, Garth, how
Speaker 1: do you think the Cougars are gonna do next year?
Speaker 1: Since they came oh so close in the final four
Speaker 1: this year, the poll says, other than Duke Houston Cougar's
Speaker 1: They're not They're not losing a ton of starters. They
Speaker 1: could come back again, and they are ranked number two
Speaker 1: to actually take it all the way. By the way,
Speaker 1: I like gambling and I love sports. That's why I
Speaker 1: talk about sports just as much as I do technology.
Speaker 1: Here on the High Tech Text and Show. Michael Garfield,
Speaker 1: nice to have you here, Thank you for returning and
Speaker 1: coming back. Three weeks ago, I went to my annual
Speaker 1: March Madness trip in Las Vegas, thirty six straight years
Speaker 1: of me and eight college guys. We always go the
Speaker 1: first weekend of March Madness. I place a future bets
Speaker 1: because I think that's the you know, listen, I place
Speaker 1: a lot of bets on like in game bets and
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen, you know, to this game. But I
Speaker 1: do place before the tournament starts with the odds of
Speaker 1: the longest because they still you know, they still have
Speaker 1: to get the winners, still has to get through, you know,
Speaker 1: six opponents, six games. I put two bets down. I
Speaker 1: put two bets down. I bet University of Houston to
Speaker 1: win it all. I bet University of Florida Gators to
Speaker 1: win it all. Boom. So by the time Saturday night
Speaker 1: rolled around and we knew who was going to be
Speaker 1: in the championship, it was Florida and uh, I was
Speaker 1: guaranteed to win. Now I was hoping you h would
Speaker 1: win because there was longer, I had more, a bigger payout.
Speaker 1: UH was six to one, six to one, all right
Speaker 1: to win the championship. When I put money down Florida Gators,
Speaker 1: I got a plus three fifty. So now I'll take
Speaker 1: the money and run. I would love to have the
Speaker 1: UH Cougar's one, but that's how you do some gaming.
Speaker 1: So in no way, I'm buying beers next time I
Speaker 1: see it, people, uh, until I actually uh. Let me
Speaker 1: put it this way, I have to go to Vegas
Speaker 1: to cash the ticket out or actually may have to
Speaker 1: mail it in then I will be buying buying beers
Speaker 1: phone number here if you it's an interactive radio show
Speaker 1: on a weekend, Master's Weekend three four six twenty nine
Speaker 1: text and three four six two nine te x a
Speaker 1: N Callum Reid. He is on the other side of
Speaker 1: that glass. Potentially Callum if you feel like picking up
Speaker 1: the phone having me talk to some callers. If my
Speaker 1: voice holds up, we're potentially happy to talk to him.
Speaker 1: I do want to continue the tariff issue as I
Speaker 1: did in segment number one. If you are planning to
Speaker 1: buy a new iPhone, maybe a gaming console, MacBook, other technology,
Speaker 1: buying it now could save you money if you don't
Speaker 1: have the cash on hand and you need to use
Speaker 1: a credit card to buy it now, pay later type
Speaker 1: of thing, just to avoid the tariffs. Make sure you
Speaker 1: have the money to cover the cost before you start
Speaker 1: accruing interest. Credit cards average right now is more than
Speaker 1: twenty percent. You know the whole thing. Listen, I'm not
Speaker 1: a financial guy, but I'm just telling you what's going on.
Speaker 1: One way to save on products, maybe Apple products, maybe
Speaker 1: other products, even if prices go up. This is something
Speaker 1: that you probably know and I talk about it, but
Speaker 1: I'll remind you again by last year's model instead of
Speaker 1: the newest release. If you're if you aren't planning to
Speaker 1: upgrade in the next year, there really is no reason
Speaker 1: to rush out and bias new smartphone. So think about it.
Speaker 1: I told you before the break. If they're right now,
Speaker 1: China has what a one hundred and twenty five percent
Speaker 1: tariff that that's solid. Everything else kind of went down
Speaker 1: or is on hold. But right now China one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five percent. So iPhone sixteen promacs current price
Speaker 1: twelve hundred dollars add the tariff. Should they pass that
Speaker 1: entire tariff along to consumers, that phone is gonna go
Speaker 1: from twelve hundred dollars to twenty seven hundred dollars. If
Speaker 1: Apple passes that price on the entire way to the consumers.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can do that, But that's
Speaker 1: an iPhone sixteen. Look at the iPhone fifteen. iPhone fifteen
Speaker 1: currently is seven hundred dollars. Now, if they do pass
Speaker 1: that one hundred and twenty five percent tariff, the seven
Speaker 1: hundred dollars phone is gonna be fifteen hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars or so, but fifteen hundred and fifty dollars is
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot less than twenty seven hundred
Speaker 1: dollars by last year's model. Maybe buy a used phone.
Speaker 1: This may be the era of let's go on some
Speaker 1: of these online sites that have trade in models, where
Speaker 1: you could people trade in their devices, laptops, tablets, it's
Speaker 1: not even it's more than technology. They may trade in lawnmowers,
Speaker 1: do the eBay thing. Maybe it's time that we're not
Speaker 1: gonna buy anything new, We're gonna pause on that stuff
Speaker 1: and maybe just maybe we could actually buy things at
Speaker 1: a discount of price because they're used, slightly legently used.
Speaker 1: Should you do that? You want to do your research.
Speaker 1: You want to look at photos. You want to see
Speaker 1: that the seller either a whether you have bought from
Speaker 1: that cellar before, where that is a trusted seller. You
Speaker 1: want to you know, do some research. Don't just say,
Speaker 1: you know, look at a price, going oh, here's an
Speaker 1: iPhone fifteen, it's only four hundred dollars or something like that.
Speaker 1: It could be cracked, it could be smashed. You want
Speaker 1: to look at the condition and so again tips on
Speaker 1: what you need to do, because now I think people
Speaker 1: are realizing. I think they've realized it this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: starting with the eggs. You know, the cost of a
Speaker 1: dozen eggs went up to eight bucks. They're a little
Speaker 1: cheaper right now since we're an egg heaven between passover,
Speaker 1: the hard bowled eggs and you know, hard boiling and
Speaker 1: dyeing eggs for Easter. Right now, I mean now they're
Speaker 1: down a smidge, but there's still expensive. People are really
Speaker 1: minding their money on what they're doing. And actually, I
Speaker 1: got some numbers. This is what I do, numbers, buying
Speaker 1: howbits I'm learning right now and reading some studies on
Speaker 1: US adults buying habits. Right now, US adults feel most
Speaker 1: pressured to buy electronics, smartphones, laptops. Home impliance is out
Speaker 1: of fear that tariffs are going to lead to price increases.
Speaker 1: Thirty eight percent of shoppers have felt pressure to make
Speaker 1: purchases before tariffs raid prices. One in ten shoppers made
Speaker 1: big ticket purchases late last year or early this year
Speaker 1: to try to avoid tariff induced price jumps. Twenty seven
Speaker 1: percent of shoppers are delaying big purchases over five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, eighteen percent are planning to shop
Speaker 1: sales this year. Sales. You have to look at sales.
Speaker 1: Those are adults now compared to Gen X and Baby boomers,
Speaker 1: who are older adults. Let's call my age. I'm gen X.
Speaker 1: Younger generations are feeling even more pressure. Forty eight percent
Speaker 1: of Gen C forty five percent of millennials said they
Speaker 1: felt pressure to make purchases to avoid If I understand
Speaker 1: the pressure, I understand the anxiety. This now becomes common
Speaker 1: consumer sense. Do you need it? And I use these
Speaker 1: two terms often. I tell you as a father, I've
Speaker 1: taught my three sons best too. There's a difference between
Speaker 1: needing and wanting, right, do you need it or do
Speaker 1: you just want it? A lot of the things, the gadgets,
Speaker 1: the the shiny stuff, the things that I talk about,
Speaker 1: the things that I review, their want their want. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you really place it. Do you want or do
Speaker 1: you need? A mobile phone? And that's a serious question.
Speaker 1: When they first came out many many, many years ago,
Speaker 1: it was just a want because we needed communication and
Speaker 1: we had wired phones, and we had office phone numbers
Speaker 1: and home phone numbers. Did we need mobile phones? When
Speaker 1: they became necessities back in the mid to late nineties,
Speaker 1: we didn't need them. Now they're wont not obviously that
Speaker 1: it's going down. We that has become our normal and
Speaker 1: only communication when it comes to talking on things right now, well, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, we could you know, do things now via
Speaker 1: the internet. You could use you know what's app on
Speaker 1: your You could use Facebook Messenger on your computer, on
Speaker 1: your laptop. Do you need a phone per se? No,
Speaker 1: you do actually need connectivity. You need you need a
Speaker 1: cell data connection or you need an Internet connection. So
Speaker 1: buying you need to stop, you need to wait. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break, you know. The phone number.
Speaker 1: Try to move on to different subjects because it seems
Speaker 1: like I'm ragging on people and I'm just making people
Speaker 1: the more depressed. I don't know, I'm still depressed. I
Speaker 1: still have yet to be gone to a master's and
Speaker 1: thus I have to suck it up and watch it
Speaker 1: here on TV. But that is life people, phone number
Speaker 1: three four six twenty nine, Texsan three four six two nine, Texsan.
Speaker 1: My name is Michael Garfield. Then we do thinks we're listening.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back. When's the last time anybody
Speaker 1: has been to Vegas? I was there about the three
Speaker 1: weeks ago, right at the start of March Madness, and
Speaker 1: it was fine. And people ask me, I go to
Speaker 1: Vegas generally three to four times a year, and I've
Speaker 1: done that for four held, am I right now for
Speaker 1: forty one years. I've been in Vegas four decades. Man
Speaker 1: that that place has changed generally when I got I
Speaker 1: can count on one hand the number of shows that
Speaker 1: I've seen. You know, everybody goes to Vegas for shows,
Speaker 1: and let's you know, then whatever. I go with buddies
Speaker 1: generally and we go March Madness. All we do is
Speaker 1: sit there and we watch basketball games.
Speaker 5: We go.
Speaker 1: I go to a ces cous from electronic show. I
Speaker 1: go up and down the aisle as I walk. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of work stuff. Maybe I'll go in the
Speaker 1: summer again with buddies, will sit by the pool and
Speaker 1: do nothing. I don't really care to go to shows.
Speaker 1: I want to gamble. I want to stand at a
Speaker 1: craps table, have a few cocktails, get some sun, and
Speaker 1: that's it. And and if people who truly truly know me,
Speaker 1: you know me, that's it. I don't go. I don't
Speaker 1: really don't go off the strip. I don't go in
Speaker 1: to go in near ill advised places I'm not supposed to.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm that's about it. The Sphere was built and
Speaker 1: complete it about what finally about the year and a
Speaker 1: half of the game. It was about a year ago.
Speaker 1: I think it was a little like fourth last year.
Speaker 1: It was two years ago. But I saw that thing
Speaker 1: being built for years and years and years. Has anybody
Speaker 1: been to the Sphere? So I've been to the sphere
Speaker 1: one and it was CEES a year and a half ago,
Speaker 1: which now I think about it, it's the Sphere has
Speaker 1: been opening a year and now two years the Samsung
Speaker 1: had an event at CES and I went there and
Speaker 1: it's it's it really is an amazing place. It's that
Speaker 1: it's it's owned by Madison Square Garden out of New York,
Speaker 1: Jim Dolan. He created it, spent billions of dollars. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's still at two hundred and seventy degrees. You know,
Speaker 1: of just projection and you got concerts, you got you too.
Speaker 1: You got the Eagles there right now, the grateful Dead.
Speaker 1: Whatever the point is, did you see what they what
Speaker 1: they're doing right now? They're going, I say they and
Speaker 1: I it's it's really Google and the Sphere folks Spear Studios.
Speaker 1: They've partnered with Google along with a few other companies
Speaker 1: over here, and they are getting ready to release a
Speaker 1: special version of The Wizard of Oz to be shown
Speaker 1: inside the Sphere. And it's not really it, but they
Speaker 1: have to remaster the film. I mean the film was.
Speaker 1: I think it came out with nineteen thirty nine black
Speaker 1: and white in color. Everybody knows The Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 1: It's it's really not a remastering the film. It's it's
Speaker 1: actually more of a reinvention because they have to really
Speaker 1: rebuild the film seen by scene to feel the spears
Speaker 1: gigantic one hundred and sixty thousand square foot wrap around
Speaker 1: led screen. And it was a pretty big technological challenge.
Speaker 1: And I was reading about it, and I think they
Speaker 1: had a preview. Google had a preview a little snippet
Speaker 1: last week, and I don't know. The original film was
Speaker 1: shot in four x three, which is how you know TV.
Speaker 1: You know, ratios used to be kind of a square
Speaker 1: type of thing. Obviously you see a lot most all
Speaker 1: TVs right now are sixteen by nine, which is more
Speaker 1: horizontal high definition. I mean it was when they shot it,
Speaker 1: it was never intended for a two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: degree immersive experience. So what Google had to do they
Speaker 1: had to what's called out paint to generate the visuals
Speaker 1: way beyond the original frame and more than ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the movie I believe was altered or extended to
Speaker 1: really transform this, this movie into the sphere as a
Speaker 1: unique format. I mean, you talk about an ambitious project
Speaker 1: and I don't know when it's coming out, but I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here thinking, let's back this up. It's Wizard of
Speaker 1: Oz alone is a freaky, deky movie, especially as a kid.
Speaker 1: I remember it in probably most every one of my
Speaker 1: listeners remember watching it, and it would it used to
Speaker 1: be on television. I believe it. It was on CBS
Speaker 1: every single year, right around the end of March. I
Speaker 1: remember this from the seventies and eighties. It was the
Speaker 1: end of March. I don't know why I was into March,
Speaker 1: but they just showed it that It was right before
Speaker 1: Easter is something I nothing new with Easter, but that
Speaker 1: was it. All I know is can you imagine sitting
Speaker 1: in this sphere with one hundred and sixty thousand square
Speaker 1: foot wrap around led screen with the freaking flying monkeys
Speaker 1: coming straight at you. Hell no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. I who is not scared of flying monkeys.
Speaker 1: No one likes flying monkeys. No, I don't want to
Speaker 1: see that. I do not need a flying monkey the
Speaker 1: size of a house flying at me. So I would
Speaker 1: debate you. So it's if I was invited to this thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know, I know the movie top
Speaker 1: to bottom. I know when the flying monkey scenes are.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have to close my eyes. Anyway, that's
Speaker 1: neither here nor there. Michael Garfield is the name. This
Speaker 1: is the high tech texting show Again. Things I talk
Speaker 1: about to start a conversation and you could finish the conversation.
Speaker 1: Three four six twenty nine Texan. Three four six two
Speaker 1: nine Texan. That's how you do it with me. Speaking
Speaker 1: of kids, you let your kids or if you're a kid,
Speaker 1: how young were your kids or how young were you
Speaker 1: when you started doing social media? I think when Facebook
Speaker 1: came out there was a minimum eight there's still maybe
Speaker 1: a minimum there's a minimum age. Was it twelve years
Speaker 1: old or something? Or do I saw this one? This
Speaker 1: is interesting parents, if you're worried about your kids on
Speaker 1: social media, Meta, which is the company who owns Facebook
Speaker 1: and Messenger and Instagram and all that stuff. They are
Speaker 1: bringing what's called teen accounts. Instagram already has it, but
Speaker 1: they're going to automatically move younger teens to these new accounts,
Speaker 1: and they come with mandatory periphtal control features and restrictions
Speaker 1: on who they can message and interact with. And from
Speaker 1: the last I heard, you're not going to be able
Speaker 1: to interact with flying monkeys. They first introduced this feature,
Speaker 1: I think it was last fall on Instagram and now
Speaker 1: fifty four million teens have the more lockdown accounts, and
Speaker 1: I think the teen accounts on Facebook and Messenger are
Speaker 1: going to operate similarly, so the teens won't be able
Speaker 1: to interact with unknown contacts. They're not going to change
Speaker 1: certain private privacy settings unless a parent approves the action.
Speaker 1: And parents, by the way, you're also gonna be able
Speaker 1: to monitor their child's screen time metric and their friends' list.
Speaker 1: Man big brothers looking at you, teens under sixteen? Are
Speaker 1: you under sixteen? So driver's license and you get to
Speaker 1: have your full account on Instagram and Meta owned services
Speaker 1: when you're sixteen. That has something to countdown for teens
Speaker 1: under sixteen are going to need printal permission to start
Speaker 1: a live broadcast. Okay, I get it, and listen. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm fine with this. I say, I'm fine with this
Speaker 1: because all my boys are well over sixteen years old.
Speaker 1: I have passed the point where personally, and I'm just
Speaker 1: saying personally, I don't really need to concern myself. I
Speaker 1: have three and they're they're in their twenties and ones
Speaker 1: there and when's thirty? I asked, we'll call them adults.
Speaker 1: Probably the way that we raised them, good decisions, never
Speaker 1: any issues or troubles because they grew up maybe towards
Speaker 1: they were older, before social media really got really interesting.
Speaker 1: And now my kids, like at least my youngest now
Speaker 1: is an influencer, ironically, is that? So think about this
Speaker 1: A little question for you over here. We got about
Speaker 1: another minute or two before the end of the segment.
Speaker 1: Sixteen years old when I was going up in Texas,
Speaker 1: and again, you can get a driver's license at sixteen
Speaker 1: years old, at least in this state. That was the
Speaker 1: countdown to when life began. At least for me, it
Speaker 1: was TikTok, TikTok. And the only reason I wanted. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why, but the only reason I wanted
Speaker 1: a driver's license and I was I'll go back to
Speaker 1: when I was ten, eleven, twelve thirteen. I wanted to
Speaker 1: be able to drive to Burger king myself to a
Speaker 1: burger I'm an idiot, I know, but that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, my my birthday's in February, so my birthday
Speaker 1: came kind of in the middle of the school year.
Speaker 1: So I had friends who were several months old to meet,
Speaker 1: so they got their driver's license. And my best friend
Speaker 1: growing up, he had a hardship license. He got his
Speaker 1: license at fifteen, so he was driving me around, hanging
Speaker 1: out doing whatever a year before I could. But sixteen
Speaker 1: was the age. Now here's the question three four, six,
Speaker 1: twenty nine Texan at sixteen, would you rather and you
Speaker 1: got one choice, would you rather drive or have full
Speaker 1: usability on all social media platforms. I want you to
Speaker 1: think about this right now. Times have changed. I say
Speaker 1: times have changed me because here's another analogy. I would
Speaker 1: rather lose my wallet than lose my phone. And I
Speaker 1: never thought I would say that years ago, because if
Speaker 1: you ever lost your wallet, I've lost my wallet. Maybe
Speaker 1: once or twice in my life. Credit cards, driver's license,
Speaker 1: you got to start a new cancer credit cards. I
Speaker 1: thought your life was over. I mean it just takes months. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: it's your phone. If you lose it's just as valuable,
Speaker 1: if not more valuable, than you're will Let's go back
Speaker 1: to my original question at sixteen, would you rather have
Speaker 1: your driver's license or just say I am an adult
Speaker 1: on social media. I could do live broadcast, I can
Speaker 1: have my contact list, my friends list, I could do
Speaker 1: anything you want. I'm gonna tell you right now, I
Speaker 1: bet it's the social media because there are some kids
Speaker 1: right now. And if I don't know, if you're let's see,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back ten years ago when my kids
Speaker 1: kind of were around sixteen years old. My middle son
Speaker 1: did not want to get his driver's license. We had
Speaker 1: to force our middle son to get his driver's license
Speaker 1: at sixteen, just didn't want it. First one got it
Speaker 1: on his birthday when he was sixteen. Second one comes
Speaker 1: around it's like, eh, I really don't care, It's like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And then the third one he
Speaker 1: certainly got it when he probably on his birthday when
Speaker 1: he was six Dan, what there are some kids who
Speaker 1: just don't even care about driver's lizes right now, it's
Speaker 1: I listen. Every every kid is different, and I know
Speaker 1: my kids are goofballs and oddballs like their father, But
Speaker 1: I know there are more people out there. I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on this. Which one would you choose?
Speaker 1: Three four six two nine T E x A N.
Speaker 1: That is the phone number. If not, you can go online,
Speaker 1: go to your ex, Twitter and all that other fun
Speaker 1: stuff on social media where I am over sixteen and
Speaker 1: you could comment. Just look for high tech text at
Speaker 1: h I G H T E C H T E
Speaker 1: x A N. We'll come back with some answers, response
Speaker 1: and more stories right here on the high tech text and.
Speaker 4: Showed it is Michael.
Speaker 1: I do thank you were just a few minutes before
Speaker 1: the top of the hour here, and I hope you're
Speaker 1: having a wonderful Master's weekend. I will hopefully. Actually, you
Speaker 1: know you can keep one eye on the actually you
Speaker 1: can keep two eyes on your TV in one ear
Speaker 1: at least two years right here live radio broadcast in Houston,
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Dallas. If not, just take one of the
Speaker 1: earbuds out and you can listen to me while you're
Speaker 1: listening to the sultry voices of sultry voice of Jim Nantz.
Speaker 1: Hello friends, how are you? Hello? Friends? I am Michael
Speaker 1: Garfield Travel I mentioned earlier this hour. I as of
Speaker 1: right now, I probably am going to China next week
Speaker 1: for a week or so for a business journalistic type
Speaker 1: of trip to do some research over there. I don't
Speaker 1: know't they're gonna let me back into the United States
Speaker 1: because of the tariffs. I so I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay a lot, and if it's a lot, lot lot,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna be stuck in China. But neither here
Speaker 1: nor there. This is the start of travel season. We
Speaker 1: got spring, we got summer, and I get the questions
Speaker 1: all the time, Hey Garf, what what's the best way
Speaker 1: to keep in touch your cell phones? Do I need
Speaker 1: roaming fees if you travel, especially if you travel internationally?
Speaker 1: So and I need to worry about this myself right now,
Speaker 1: I at least think about it and not worry. But
Speaker 1: if you're headed overseas and you don't want to rack
Speaker 1: up roaming charges, there are a few ways to stay connected,
Speaker 1: all right. The easiest option is look at your current
Speaker 1: wireless plan, keep your current wireless plan because if you
Speaker 1: have a major carrier sometimes they offer some of them
Speaker 1: offer international day passes. I means you can keep your
Speaker 1: number and you can keep your data plan while you
Speaker 1: were brought. Now roughly, I think they're around like if
Speaker 1: you have AT and T, if you have Horizon, I
Speaker 1: believe you can get something for like twelve dollars per
Speaker 1: day for an international day pass or travel paths or
Speaker 1: something like that. I think T Mobile has a number
Speaker 1: of different international roaming at no extra charge. Now, the
Speaker 1: speeds may vary, so you do need to check some plans.
Speaker 1: Whatever you have, check your plan because they could include
Speaker 1: some roaming days and that makes the option pretty good
Speaker 1: for short trips, all right. Now, then there are you
Speaker 1: know virtual you know, you know m V and o's
Speaker 1: virtual carrier carriers moment Mobile and Visible. They also international
Speaker 1: offer international book plans too. When I went last year,
Speaker 1: I did too back to back international trips. I was
Speaker 1: in Germany and then I went to where I was.
Speaker 1: I was in London and I actually got an e
Speaker 1: SIM card. I did that for the first time ever.
Speaker 1: They're digital SIM cards that you can download right on
Speaker 1: your phone. Now we know what a SIM card is.
Speaker 1: I think you do. It's a little tiny physical card
Speaker 1: is the size of like your pinky fingernail, that flip
Speaker 1: that fits into your phone. Most all phones have these.
Speaker 1: That's technically that is your phone number on that card.
Speaker 1: You can take that card and you could pop it out,
Speaker 1: use that little device, that little pen thing that comes
Speaker 1: with it, and you could take that little card and
Speaker 1: pop it from phone to phone to phone, and it
Speaker 1: transfers your phone number. That's how I flip phones all
Speaker 1: the time. I get new phones to test. I want
Speaker 1: my regular number. I just popped my SIM card out
Speaker 1: and I put it in. But there's also an e
Speaker 1: SIM card, and phones nowadays allow you to have an
Speaker 1: actual SIM card but also one, if not two, E
Speaker 1: SIM or digital SIM numbers. We're not going to call
Speaker 1: them cards because they're physically not a car. So if
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone over the past i'd say four
Speaker 1: or five years, Samsung Galaxy of the past four or
Speaker 1: five years, you're good to go because they do have
Speaker 1: these digital SIM opportunities. I believe there's tons of companies
Speaker 1: out there. One is called s A I l Y.
Speaker 1: There's Gigsky. I think that's the one I use. I
Speaker 1: use gigsky g I g sky erro low Ai r Alo.
Speaker 1: Just do your little Google search for E S I
Speaker 1: M E SIM cards over there. Now, most E SIM cards,
Speaker 1: and I remember, I think I fell into this trap.
Speaker 1: Most E SIM cards they're data only data versus voice calling.
Speaker 1: So when you arrive at your destination and you turn
Speaker 1: on your phone, data is gonna start coming out, which
Speaker 1: means you can get email, which means you can serve
Speaker 1: the Web. But generally, if you just get the data
Speaker 1: only pans, you're not going to get any phone calls.
Speaker 1: Now at that point, what you want to do to
Speaker 1: make calls? Number one, you could pay more. You could
Speaker 1: pay more for voice so you could talk, or you
Speaker 1: could start using other things like Wi Fi calling. I
Speaker 1: did this lot. I remember, I had data only. It's
Speaker 1: kind of old school, but that's about the cheapest thing.
Speaker 1: You put your phone in airplane mode, you turn Wi
Speaker 1: Fi on, and you start walking around looking for hotspots.
Speaker 1: There are hotspots in most I don't want to say most,
Speaker 1: every place on Earth right now. No, if you're going
Speaker 1: to go to the Seringeti in the middle of Africa
Speaker 1: or something late in no, No, you're not going to
Speaker 1: do that. But if you're in a big city, you're
Speaker 1: going to walk into an airport, a cafe, a restaurant,
Speaker 1: a hotel, a library, a shopping mall store. It is
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, ubiquitous, Wi Fi, Wi Fi Wi Fi. When
Speaker 1: you're on Wi Fi, and if they're free networks, which
Speaker 1: is phenomenal, you should be able to use your I Message,
Speaker 1: your Google Message, and if you have enabled Wi Fi
Speaker 1: calling and texting on your phone, you're set to go.
Speaker 1: I use What's app. What's app is I'm not calling
Speaker 1: it a lifesaver. Whats app is incredibly useful. What's app
Speaker 1: is like it's also you can use Facebook the messenger too.
Speaker 1: You could do video calls. But again you do need
Speaker 1: to have the connectivity. And so before you travel you
Speaker 1: need to, you know, think about what your game plan is.
Speaker 1: Where you're going. Are you in a country that's you
Speaker 1: know it's big. Are you going to you know, Rome,
Speaker 1: Are you going to go to you know, somewhere in Canada?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna go wherever it is that you know
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be walking around in a city or
Speaker 1: in areas where there's gonna be Wi Fi. At that point,
Speaker 1: you really don't need to get any other types of
Speaker 1: you know, you know, sell extra service that you know
Speaker 1: it's going to give you the data plane if you're
Speaker 1: if you're fine with that, So before you go, look
Speaker 1: for some apps like that. There's those Wi Fi maps
Speaker 1: that can help you find free networks that are nearby.
Speaker 1: Look like download offline maps, Google maps or Apple maps
Speaker 1: for the suit of your business so you can navigate
Speaker 1: you you know before even if you don't have a
Speaker 1: cell phone signal live fi. Just a few tips before
Speaker 1: you go, make sure you have a passport and make
Speaker 1: sure you got this. You know, you've got to star
Speaker 1: on your driver's license because you know you've got to
Speaker 1: be good to go and offer. So by the way,
Speaker 1: if you do have an extra seat next to you
Speaker 1: and you want a companion, I'm pretty I'm available. I
Speaker 1: can do my show from anywhere. My kids rolled up,
Speaker 1: I don't have any dog.
Speaker 6: I can just leave.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gone in a snap. It's giving me a
Speaker 1: head up. I should be good to go. One hour
Speaker 1: of the book, one more hour ago. The high Tech
Speaker 1: Texans Show. Michael Garfield is the name.
Speaker 2: Is Michael Garfer, Michael Garfield, Michael Garfields joining.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
Speaker 1: To make life easier technology and Michael Garfield has something
Speaker 1: you might like.
Speaker 2: On Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans three decades
Speaker 2: helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio after Now You're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: Halfway through the high Tech Texan Show, say with me,
Speaker 1: my friends. We are a halfway to halfy hour. And
Speaker 1: it is a great weekend to celebrate a happy hour
Speaker 1: because it is the Masters weekend. I think I've lost
Speaker 1: a little of my voice, so I can't do my
Speaker 1: big Hello friends, Jim Nance. But I actually I saw
Speaker 1: Jim Nantz last weekend I was in I was in
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Hello, San Antonio. WAI News Radio twelve hundred,
Speaker 1: where my show is broadcast every weekend. It's up there
Speaker 1: for the final four and Jim Nance and esteemed alumnus
Speaker 1: of the University of Houston Cougar's where they were in
Speaker 1: the final four and and over the you know, just
Speaker 1: quick celebrity siding, several mini celebrity sidings. Actually in the
Speaker 1: world of sports, mostly the I've thought if there is
Speaker 1: a big sporting event somewhere. I mean, I'm into that stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been to four Super Bowls. I've been
Speaker 1: to probably this is my tenth final four. I have
Speaker 1: been to US Open Tennis a few times, Kentucky Derby, Preakedness,
Speaker 1: probably four or five National Championship football games, countless bowl games.
Speaker 1: It just goes on and on and on. I've had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do that, and I just love sports. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love technology too, so anyway, but I also am
Speaker 1: in the media industry, and so I am enamored, I
Speaker 1: am a wanna bee, I am jealous. I am you
Speaker 1: would ever ever call it. But if there is a
Speaker 1: famous sports broadcaster, because those are the voices in the
Speaker 1: faces of of how I grew up and what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do and what I still want to do,
Speaker 1: I mean I'll go back. You know Jim Nantz, who
Speaker 1: is mean poundful Hound easily one of if not with
Speaker 1: this well over thirty year illustrious career of doing football,
Speaker 1: of doing basketball, of the March Madness, calling, of doing golf,
Speaker 1: of the Masters, and we can go on and on
Speaker 1: and on so over the over the years, every time
Speaker 1: I've had an event, Super Bowls, I've had a media credential.
Speaker 1: I got to interview him. The Final four was in
Speaker 1: Houston two years ago, and the day I think there
Speaker 1: was an off day and there was a pregame and
Speaker 1: I was roaming the the NRG Stadium floor. He couldn't
Speaker 1: have been a nicer guy. I just went up to
Speaker 1: him and Jim Nantz actually because he went to the
Speaker 1: University of Houston, he got his one of his first gigs.
Speaker 1: I believe it was on Channel two, which is where
Speaker 1: I got my first TV gig here many years ago,
Speaker 1: but he was also on seven forty, our sister station,
Speaker 1: seven forty, a m in Houston news radio station. So
Speaker 1: that my lost leader of going up to him is like, Jim,
Speaker 1: how are you. It's Michael. You know I worked at
Speaker 1: you know, I work at iHeart and yet at seven
Speaker 1: forty and Channel two just sits there. The last few
Speaker 1: years ago, I had a four or five six minute
Speaker 1: conversation with me. I asked him a few questions about
Speaker 1: retiring from the March Madness boy. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: just he could not have been nicer. And I've seen
Speaker 1: him a few other times walking the streets of New
Speaker 1: Orleans when there was a Final Four, all I know.
Speaker 1: And again I'm not bragging over here, because if he
Speaker 1: does not know my name, but he recognized my face.
Speaker 1: And so it was Saturday night, it was the Final four,
Speaker 1: Houston versus Duke. We're getting ready to play in that
Speaker 1: second game that night. And so between the two games,
Speaker 1: I was on the court and you know, there's sixty
Speaker 1: four thousand people here in the in the in the
Speaker 1: Alamo Dam, and sure enough, here comes Jim Nance. He's
Speaker 1: wearing his University of Houston cougar's a sweatshirt. He's got
Speaker 1: his young son with him walking around, and people start
Speaker 1: recognizing when he was on the court, and they're yelling Jim, Jim, Jim,
Speaker 1: and everybody's hugging him. You know. You know, he used
Speaker 1: to work for CBS, you know, right there, so he
Speaker 1: knows the crew, he knows everybody. And I'm about I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm about ten feet away, and I'm shooting
Speaker 1: video obviously because there's Jim Nance. I want to get,
Speaker 1: you know, photo like that true story. He sees me
Speaker 1: and his eyes lit up and he points at me.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, what are you doing here? Hey, good
Speaker 1: to see you don't know my name? But I know
Speaker 1: he recognized my faith. Comes over to me. I am
Speaker 1: not making this up. How you doing? Good to see you,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what you're supposed to say when you
Speaker 1: don't know somebody's name, and I'm like, Jim, how are you?
Speaker 1: And we talked for maybe ten seconds because everybody's pulling around.
Speaker 1: I got a picture, of course I did. I got
Speaker 1: a selfie I post. If you follow me online, go
Speaker 1: to my Instagram high tech texting and you can see
Speaker 1: that stuff. But anyway, Jim was. I then walk up
Speaker 1: and could not have been nicer. I walk out. There's
Speaker 1: Iron Eagle. Iron Eagle took us place. Iron Eagle is
Speaker 1: phenomenal play by play. He's the second lead announcing team
Speaker 1: on CBS Football, right behind Jim Nansen, Tonio Romo. Iron
Speaker 1: Eagle now does the lead play by play for the
Speaker 1: Final Four in the March Madness, along with the basketball
Speaker 1: and many other things. I go up to Iron literally
Speaker 1: twelve minutes before tip off. He is about the broadcast
Speaker 1: the biggest game that he does any given year, where
Speaker 1: the world is watching, well, a lot of people are watching,
Speaker 1: and I just said, I went up some high ario.
Speaker 1: I introduced him. He's sitting in his seat, headset on.
Speaker 1: He spent two minutes talking to me. It's just they're
Speaker 1: nice people over there, so that's what. And then you
Speaker 1: know there was Charles Barkley. I saw Will Fortey from
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live. He's actually starting in one of the
Speaker 1: Capitol one commercials. And I actually saw the Capitol one guy.
Speaker 1: He was there because Capital one like owns everything, I
Speaker 1: mean everything ever where you go is Capitol one. Capital one,
Speaker 1: Capital One with all the commercials and everything. But they
Speaker 1: had a big presence in San Antonio. So I met
Speaker 1: the Capital one guy. A tall dude is like six
Speaker 1: six or something, very nice. I got a really weird
Speaker 1: looking selfie with him because he's so dang tall. And
Speaker 1: who else? Oh Kim Jong mister Chow from the Hangover,
Speaker 1: Big Duke fan. He went to Duke. He there that
Speaker 1: Saturday night rooting on his his his duchies. He's he
Speaker 1: was on the floor somehow. And this you talk about
Speaker 1: the Capitol Watt Capital one guy being tall, Ken Jung
Speaker 1: is so much shorter in real life than you would
Speaker 1: ever imagine. I'm not making fun because I could make
Speaker 1: a fun of a tall guy. I'm not making fun
Speaker 1: of a short guy. But oh my goodness, he was
Speaker 1: like this tiny little man, very nice. And I go
Speaker 1: up to him, because I'm not shy. I go up
Speaker 1: to him and I said, Leslie chow, Oh, but did
Speaker 1: you die? I mean, I'm quoting Hangover lines and he
Speaker 1: truly it wasn't even a ha. He really was laughing.
Speaker 1: He was really laughing, how are you? And I shook
Speaker 1: his hand. Good of course, I said good luck to Duke.
Speaker 1: I you know, of course I have to say that
Speaker 1: to him. I took a picture with him too, and
Speaker 1: again that's on there also. But it's evinced like this.
Speaker 1: They bring out fun stuff. It was. The point is
Speaker 1: it was great to have it in the state of
Speaker 1: It was great to have the Final Four in San Antonio,
Speaker 1: San Antonio. And I'll say it again, I have been
Speaker 1: to San Antonio visiting all my life as a Texas boy.
Speaker 1: Grew up in Dallas. My grandparents from Austin. We would always,
Speaker 1: you know, shoot from Austin to San Antonio. We would
Speaker 1: go to the Pearl Brewery where they would serve kids
Speaker 1: a little root beer instead of beer samples. We would
Speaker 1: go on the river, the river walk the boats and
Speaker 1: everything you do. I have not been to San Antonio
Speaker 1: in years other than this past weekend. It's been it's
Speaker 1: been a while, but this it is one of the
Speaker 1: best cities in the country to host events like this
Speaker 1: because every single thing is walkable. I mean, the if
Speaker 1: it brought people from all over the country, if not
Speaker 1: the world media basketball fans to the city. The city,
Speaker 1: the weather was phenomenal, but the fact is you can
Speaker 1: walk to the Alamodome to almost every single downtown hotel.
Speaker 1: The four different teams stayed at four different hotels, and
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's buses. You know, they wrapped the
Speaker 1: bus with the logos. There's the Duke, there's the there's
Speaker 1: the Auburn, there's the Florida buses. And I bet the
Speaker 1: teams were surprised because normally when you stay at a
Speaker 1: team hotel, I mean you've got a twenty minute drive,
Speaker 1: you're staying in the outskirts. The drive from their hotels
Speaker 1: to the Almodome could not have been more than three
Speaker 1: minutes with and that's even with a police escort. I mean,
Speaker 1: They're like, what is this? How cool is this city?
Speaker 1: It was very, very fun. So San Antonio, I love
Speaker 1: you all. You're listening and also I appreciate all the
Speaker 1: San Antonio and San Antonio whites of giving me some
Speaker 1: ideas of where to eat, get the breakfast tacos and
Speaker 1: some really nice and strong margaritas and some queso flamiato.
Speaker 1: If you I'm going to be traveling a lot this summer,
Speaker 1: probably gonna do a tour of Texas. If you want
Speaker 1: me to come hit your town, let me know and
Speaker 1: then maybe we can hook that up. All right, there
Speaker 1: you go. See how much we talk about technology. This
Speaker 1: is just a conversation between me and you. Phone number
Speaker 1: here is three four six twenty nine, Texan. Three four
Speaker 1: six two nine, Texan. When we come back, it's time
Speaker 1: to talk about cars. That's right. Cars are technology. And
Speaker 1: for fifteen plus years I do get to test drive cars, books, SUVs, cuvs, evs.
Speaker 1: If you want me to test drive something, I will.
Speaker 1: I will tell you what car I had this week.
Speaker 1: Every single week for fifteen years, I get a brand
Speaker 1: new car directly from your manufacturer to drive. It is
Speaker 1: not a paid endorsement. I can just rag on them
Speaker 1: or I can love them. I'll tell you what I
Speaker 1: drove all the way to San Antonio and how impressed
Speaker 1: I was with it. So I'm a hih check backing the.
Speaker 3: Show number here because it's a call in radio show.
Speaker 1: If you haven't figured that out, Michael Garfield is the name,
Speaker 1: and that number is three four six two nine T
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Speaker 1: hear some of my previous and past reviews, you can
Speaker 1: go to Spotify and maybe on Apple, maybe on another
Speaker 1: a few other podcast sites, but you'll listen to there
Speaker 1: may be eight nine minute reviews where I will tell
Speaker 1: you the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the
Speaker 1: things about out to so many of the vehicles that
Speaker 1: I get. This past week, I have been rolling around
Speaker 1: in where I went to San Antonio and I'm driving
Speaker 1: up to Cobo Bob's here soon in a new Ford Explorer.
Speaker 1: It is it's been a while since I have test
Speaker 1: driven a Ford Explorer. This is the twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: version that I that I'm in, and specifically because there's
Speaker 1: so many different models of the Ford Explorer. I mean
Speaker 1: there's the guy, you got the XLT, you got the Limited,
Speaker 1: you got the Platinum, I happen to be in the
Speaker 1: Ford Explorer. St Line st dash l I n E.
Speaker 1: St Line. What it is. This is their sportier performance style.
Speaker 1: It's got some blacked out accents. It's got a pretty
Speaker 1: unique different grill. It's got that st Line badge right there.
Speaker 1: You could see it. But it's it's pretty strong and
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty fast too, four hundred horse powers. So
Speaker 1: I was able to get up and down it in
Speaker 1: relatively quickly to get to San Antonio before I Columbus
Speaker 1: or wherever I was. That was like freaking horrible. Went
Speaker 1: down to one lane. I ten, come on text dot.
Speaker 1: You know you got pretty much half of Houston shooting down.
Speaker 1: I ten to go to San Antonio to watch the cougars.
Speaker 1: This is the weekend. You couldn't say, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's just kind of stop. You know, it's some repairing
Speaker 1: and building on I ten. I know I can neither
Speaker 1: here nor there. The Ford Explorer got me over there.
Speaker 1: It's but it is a neat trim level. It's a
Speaker 1: good sporty appearance, very sport tune, a powerful engine. The
Speaker 1: Ford Explorers the st line. They start around forty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. You're gonna get about twenty miles to break
Speaker 1: down in the city twenty nine on the highway. It's
Speaker 1: got a two point three liter four cylinder engine, all right,
Speaker 1: tose about five thousand pounds too, which is not bad.
Speaker 1: The uh it's very roomy, and I like what Ford
Speaker 1: has done. I'm all about in terms of the technology
Speaker 1: in these vehicles. I'm all about what I call screen
Speaker 1: estate or dashboard real estate. If you've got a larger
Speaker 1: vehicle and you've got a relatively large dashboard, if it's
Speaker 1: an SUV or CUV, don't give me a stupid dinky
Speaker 1: five inch six inch eight inch touchscreen and Fotama system.
Speaker 1: You better max that thing out, And nowadays they do so.
Speaker 1: This particular one on the Ford, the Explorer of the SD,
Speaker 1: it has got a very nice I think it's about
Speaker 1: a twelve inch touchscreen. And it's got an app too.
Speaker 1: Do you know that it actually has an app to
Speaker 1: control it? You know, you can remotely start the car
Speaker 1: and see what's going on. But it's front row heated seats,
Speaker 1: which I did not use. See I'm an AC guy.
Speaker 1: See we're in Texas right here. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's so funny. It's all we got heated seats. It
Speaker 1: feels good like that. I get some vehicles with heated
Speaker 1: steering wheels, you know, meat whatever like that. You better
Speaker 1: blow some AC up my takas. I want some air
Speaker 1: conditioning seats. But anyway, it's got the it's a twelve
Speaker 1: inch digital cluster. Digital cluster means when you're driving as
Speaker 1: a driver, and you're looking through your steering wheel and
Speaker 1: you're looking at the odometer or this speed dometer and
Speaker 1: all that that's called the digital cluster. This is twelve
Speaker 1: point three inches, just crystal clear. It looks great. Then
Speaker 1: when you go look at the enfotainment touchscreen that is
Speaker 1: thirteen inches. It's a thirteen inch in the Ford explore
Speaker 1: st line. So it's got everything from a head of
Speaker 1: Bang and Oliphant's Bang and Oliver Bang and Olsen sound system,
Speaker 1: ten speakers, it's got Hill Start Assist connect. And I'm
Speaker 1: looking at some of my notes over here. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: got your typical wireless Apple car Play in your Android Auto,
Speaker 1: which I actually don't use. I am not, I'm an Android. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's got Apple car Play and Android Auto. A lot
Speaker 1: of people like that. I for some reason, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. I don't use my Android Auto.
Speaker 1: I have an Android phone, and if I had an
Speaker 1: Apple I would not use Apple CarPlay either. I just
Speaker 1: what it does when you plug it? Actually why wireless? Now?
Speaker 1: It replicates a lot of things on your phone, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to physically look at your phone, which
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be looking at your phone when you're driving.
Speaker 1: You now see it on the big thirteen inch touchscreen.
Speaker 1: I don't use it for some reason. This actually did
Speaker 1: have and I'll kind of in the chat with this.
Speaker 1: This had Ford's Blue Cruise. And if you don't know
Speaker 1: what Blue Cruise is, Blue Cruise that is the semi
Speaker 1: autonomous semi way that you can drive a vehicle without.
Speaker 1: And you know, and you know what cruise control is
Speaker 1: where you could take your foot off the gas, you
Speaker 1: push a button. That thing has been around for probably
Speaker 1: thirty to forty years. But this is a different type
Speaker 1: of crew system that General Motors GM. They call it
Speaker 1: Super Cruise. Ford calls it Blue Cruise because a third
Speaker 1: party company has mapped out about seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand miles of divided highway systems across the country. And
Speaker 1: so thanks to your GPS, your car knows where your
Speaker 1: vehicle knows where you are. And once you're on one
Speaker 1: of these highways and I'm talking it ten, you can
Speaker 1: talk you know, US fifty nine in Houston, er wherever
Speaker 1: you are, a lot of these are already mapped. What
Speaker 1: you do is you hit the button on the steering
Speaker 1: wheel and then you could take your foot off the gas,
Speaker 1: but you could also take your hands off the wheel,
Speaker 1: and your vehicle using a camera system and radar, light
Speaker 1: ar and all this other things, it will as safe
Speaker 1: as it can. And you have to give it some
Speaker 1: trust because the first time I used this thing about
Speaker 1: two years ago, is like, this is whoo's freaky. It'll
Speaker 1: start driving and it's crazy, and it really blows the
Speaker 1: minds of your passengers who have never seen it. You
Speaker 1: take your hands off the wheel. Now, how does it
Speaker 1: know that you're not sleeping? How does it know that
Speaker 1: you're not looking at the road? Do you have to
Speaker 1: keep your eyes in the road. All of these vehicles
Speaker 1: they have a camera that is installed that is looking
Speaker 1: at your face. There is a camera looking back at
Speaker 1: you that's mounted on the steering wheel column. So if
Speaker 1: you turn your head to talk to your passenger or
Speaker 1: you start nodding off, it knows to turn off that
Speaker 1: automatic driving system. It could change lanes without you touching
Speaker 1: this steering wheel and that still and I've driven this
Speaker 1: thing for two these vehicles equipped with these crew systems
Speaker 1: like this, it still blows me away for a while.
Speaker 1: It knows if there is cars behind you on the
Speaker 1: left behind you on the right. If it's clear and
Speaker 1: you want to immate, it will automatically start switching lanes
Speaker 1: without you. This particularly one has the what's Ford calls
Speaker 1: it the blue Crew system. Generally, sometimes it's an upgrade.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's about three hundred three thousand, maybe thirty five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Is it worth to you if you drive
Speaker 1: the highway system a lot, if you commute a lot
Speaker 1: on the highways and freeways, yes, it could be worth
Speaker 1: the extra money. If you don't get on the freeway,
Speaker 1: if you don't trust Big Brother AI computers or whatever,
Speaker 1: probably not worth it for you to spend the extra money.
Speaker 1: But I thought that was pretty cool. Overall, it's a
Speaker 1: very I mean, I did Ford Explorers have been around
Speaker 1: for a long time, and there was the Eddie Bauer
Speaker 1: version of this, and remember these things. But good job
Speaker 1: on Ford. This happened to be the Ford st line
Speaker 1: for starting about forty five thousand dollars forty five fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. So again I am not I don't indoors dealerships.
Speaker 1: I'm not even going to tell you a dealership to
Speaker 1: go to. I personally like it. If you're in the
Speaker 1: mood in the mode for a vehicle and hopefully it's
Speaker 1: not going to be tariffed out that you know what,
Speaker 1: go check it out. Love to hear your thoughts. If
Speaker 1: you think I'm wrong, call me three four six twenty
Speaker 1: nine text And when we come back, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about fully autonomous self driving vehicles that happened to
Speaker 1: be in Austin that I saw this past weekend when
Speaker 1: I popped up there from my round the World at
Speaker 1: Texas and four day's trip. Michael Garfield, it is the
Speaker 1: high Tech Texting Show. We do continue the High Tech
Speaker 1: Texting Show about thirty more minutes left. Love to hear
Speaker 1: from you to talking about cars still. You know, I
Speaker 1: was just giving a little quick review of my twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Ford Explorer, and again just let you know,
Speaker 1: none of this stuff is paid they I just get
Speaker 1: to drive these cars on weekly basis and I can
Speaker 1: just rag on them like there's nobody's business, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I do. I actually did like the new Ford Explorer
Speaker 1: the st line. I was talking about the semi autonomous
Speaker 1: driving and if you have a Ford, the Ford calls
Speaker 1: it Blue Cruise. I understand because blue that's their logo.
Speaker 1: The oval shaped logo. It's the same type of system
Speaker 1: that's in GM that GM uses, which is called super Cruise,
Speaker 1: and it's semi autonomous versus autonomous. And I just got
Speaker 1: an email over here and Michael, what's the difference between
Speaker 1: semi autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles? Well, yeah, as the
Speaker 1: name in suggest, you could probably guess fully autonomous vehicles
Speaker 1: is baby. Now you've got your hands off, you got
Speaker 1: your foot off the gas. You ain't doing nothing. I
Speaker 1: mean you're almost like a passenger where there's no driver there.
Speaker 1: And that's actually what's happening right now. It's if you've
Speaker 1: been I was in Austin this past Monday. I popped
Speaker 1: up there to do my stuff on Fox seven TV
Speaker 1: and I was downtown and I was behind a Weamo vehicle.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know what weaimo is Waymo and
Speaker 1: Weimo has been around for several years and there they
Speaker 1: just expanded it into Austin. But what it is it
Speaker 1: is a Uber for lack of but it's a self
Speaker 1: you know, hailing ride sharing service. I apologize for using Uber,
Speaker 1: sorry left and everything else, but it's a self driving
Speaker 1: vehicle that you can hail a ride from point A
Speaker 1: to point B and self driving cars. They're becoming less
Speaker 1: sci fi and very real world with companies like Waimo,
Speaker 1: which is actually part of Google's parent company called Alphabet.
Speaker 1: They're expanding into cities and countries. They expanded into Austin.
Speaker 1: They actually just expanded it for the first international location
Speaker 1: into Tokyo. If you ever make it out there, and
Speaker 1: what you do is you they use Jaguars. They use
Speaker 1: Jaguars Ipace. It's an EV vehicle. They did just announce
Speaker 1: they're going to start partnering with Hyundai to bring its
Speaker 1: Ionic five SUVs coming in there. But Weimo says it
Speaker 1: already provides more than two hundred thousand paid trips each week.
Speaker 1: Obviously kicked off in San Francisco. But if you're watching
Speaker 1: or driving and you see these in the road, which
Speaker 1: I did last Monday, and I was behind one in
Speaker 1: a stoplight or a traffic light, it's kind of odd.
Speaker 1: You know what they are, and they look a little
Speaker 1: You certainly can tell what they are, it says Weymeo.
Speaker 1: On the side, but you can see these radars and
Speaker 1: cameras really popping out, protruding all along the cars. Because
Speaker 1: these cameras and radars and light ours. They need to
Speaker 1: use that to steer, to drive, to break into gas.
Speaker 1: And you know, every time I talk about it, I
Speaker 1: kind of asked this question, are you comfortable riding in
Speaker 1: a fully autonomous self driving car? And I've done it
Speaker 1: a few times, and you really have to kind of
Speaker 1: I don't know. You may have to take a cloniprit
Speaker 1: or something. You may have to just take a chill pill.
Speaker 1: And it's like, okay, let me just trust the future,
Speaker 1: big brother AI. A lot of people won't do it
Speaker 1: for some reason. You are in Austin and you see
Speaker 1: these things, though you have to go through Uber. There
Speaker 1: is an Uber app because Uber partnered with Way specifically
Speaker 1: in Austin, and you can request an Uber X or
Speaker 1: an Uber Comfort or an Uber Comfort Electric and you
Speaker 1: could be matched with a Weaimo vehicle. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: be upcharged. If you don't want to take a driverless ride,
Speaker 1: you do have the option to switch to a standard one.
Speaker 1: But if you want to boost your chances of being
Speaker 1: matched to a self driving car just for the heck
Speaker 1: of it, you can go to your account in settings
Speaker 1: and you can click autonomous vehicles and then you can
Speaker 1: hit the toggle that says get more Weaimo rides. It
Speaker 1: may be worth it just for you know, just the
Speaker 1: giggles to drive in the thing. But we are going
Speaker 1: to be seeing more and more of these driverless vehicles
Speaker 1: all over the place, so off of the country and
Speaker 1: all over the world. Amazon has its own company and
Speaker 1: they planning to start their fully autonomous driving late this
Speaker 1: summer in Los Angeles. They've got an interesting one called
Speaker 1: zooks z X and these are weird looking machines. They
Speaker 1: do not look like a car. How do I describe this?
Speaker 1: I actually should put up a photo on my high
Speaker 1: Tech texan x account if you want to go check
Speaker 1: it out. High Tech Textan Zookes is the self driving
Speaker 1: company that is owned by Amazon, and they it's like
Speaker 1: a pod like Robotaxi. There's no steering wheel, there's no driver.
Speaker 1: It's like a car. It's like a cabin car. It's
Speaker 1: got four wheels and it's it looks like a pod
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term. No no pedal, no
Speaker 1: drivers say know anything, and they are gonna lost. Shockingly,
Speaker 1: they're kind of following way mo'slee. They're gonna do it
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, Vegas, Seattle, Miami, and Austin. These things
Speaker 1: are head turners when you look at them, because they
Speaker 1: certainly absolutely do not look like cars in these pod vehicles.
Speaker 1: And it's it, I'll say it again, the self driving scene.
Speaker 1: It's small, but it's becoming competitive. Zookes Waymo. There are
Speaker 1: some of the bigger names in the game. Tesla, they
Speaker 1: unveiled its service called Robotaxi. They announced it and unveiled it.
Speaker 1: But the Legilist starting in the summer too in Austin.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, if you're in Austin, you
Speaker 1: better watch out this summer because that's at least three
Speaker 1: that I've even mentioned already that are going to Austin.
Speaker 1: There may not be a drive a car or a
Speaker 1: vehicle with an actual, living, breathing driver in Austin come
Speaker 1: later this year. But the question is why aren't they
Speaker 1: more prevalent? Would you do it? And the answer quite
Speaker 1: simply to me, it's a paradigm shift. As we have
Speaker 1: known vehicles since Henry Ford created his little black Model
Speaker 1: te we have had drivers. A human has been in
Speaker 1: control of steering and looking and turning and switching lanes
Speaker 1: and breaking and everything certainly not perfect, very fallible. Rex
Speaker 1: there's crashes, there's incidents. But now we're leaving this up,
Speaker 1: we're turning it over to machines with what we hope,
Speaker 1: and I use the word hope, very smart technology. Software,
Speaker 1: hardware that can sense from the fact, that can sense obstacles,
Speaker 1: that can sense issues. But if you think about it
Speaker 1: at at its top level, you're in the back of
Speaker 1: a cab. Everybody's been in a cab generations, all right,
Speaker 1: So you're feeling comfortable with, you know, a dude, a lady,
Speaker 1: whoever it is. You don't know if they've just got
Speaker 1: through driver's license, you don't know if they're eighty years old,
Speaker 1: that they don't have quick wing flexes. The cab is generally,
Speaker 1: I don't know, sometimes dirty. There's a you know, plexiglass,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of barrier between the front seat and
Speaker 1: the back seat. Your comfany that that person the driver's
Speaker 1: not talking to you versus. And again I'm not endorsing
Speaker 1: these fully autonomous driving cars, but now you're using the
Speaker 1: best in what it is hopefully the safest autonomous cameras. Software,
Speaker 1: clean cars, very clean that is that are going to
Speaker 1: get you to the same places. It's that paradigm shift
Speaker 1: we are used to someone driving us. We need as
Speaker 1: a as a species, yeah, able to let robots, for
Speaker 1: lack of a better term, drive us around and do
Speaker 1: that job, just like we let robots do a lot
Speaker 1: of other things. Did you ever is it? I get yes.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna use this analogy. It's not exactly
Speaker 1: the same. A lot of people have robotic vacuums. I
Speaker 1: have a robotic vacuum. I love robotic vacuums, robo rock.
Speaker 1: I've got several robotic vacuums in mops. It saves me
Speaker 1: time because I don't have to sweep and mop. The
Speaker 1: robot just walks around. Or I'm holding up an upright
Speaker 1: vacuum slash mop and I'm doing it in there. It's
Speaker 1: helping me. It's different because I'm still if I'm driving,
Speaker 1: I still need to get point A to B. Is
Speaker 1: it going to be a person or is it going
Speaker 1: to be a robot? That really doesn't save me a
Speaker 1: bunch of time. But we're trusting, and that's the point
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make. We're trusting these robots, We're trusting software,
Speaker 1: we're trusting hardware. To do things. We have long We
Speaker 1: trust our video door bells, we trust our alarm systems.
Speaker 1: We trust a lot of things. And I don't know
Speaker 1: when that's gonna be. I have three boys. They're all
Speaker 1: pretty much in their twenties. Let's just say they is
Speaker 1: it their generation, not immediately, but certainly by the time
Speaker 1: that they have kids. Yeah, they we are. I think
Speaker 1: it could be much more trusting and much more open
Speaker 1: to robots and paradigm shift of what's going to happen
Speaker 1: again scenario. This is what I talk about. I like
Speaker 1: creating and storing up not controversy, but just discussion, which
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Speaker 1: reviewing cars, thinking about the EV right now, and I
Speaker 1: know I need to get one quick with all the
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Speaker 1: the EV, you need to find out where you need
Speaker 1: to install your charger at home? You do need one,
Speaker 1: You don't need one if you have a charger at work,
Speaker 1: if you live near a charging station or a whole
Speaker 1: foods or a dealership. No, but it's very dang convenient
Speaker 1: if you have one at home, because you pull your
Speaker 1: ride into your garage at night, you plug that in
Speaker 1: and you're set to go. Now, the best way to
Speaker 1: charge your EV is probably to install that EV charger
Speaker 1: at home. It's it's not as simple as you think
Speaker 1: because it does depend on what type of vehicle you have,
Speaker 1: what kind of charger you want, and how fast you
Speaker 1: want it to charge. So there's a lot of options.
Speaker 1: So the first thing you need to do figure out
Speaker 1: how much you're going to be driving your EV and
Speaker 1: how quickly you'll need to recharge at home. Think about
Speaker 1: how long your commute is. Are you going to be
Speaker 1: coming home each night with the EV battery drained or
Speaker 1: is it going to be maybe only thirty or forty
Speaker 1: percent drained. Whatever questions you have, you need to site
Speaker 1: if you want to level one charger or a level
Speaker 1: two charger, And I'm just gonna keep it real simple
Speaker 1: with terms like level one level two. A level one
Speaker 1: charger is a standard electricity plug that can go into
Speaker 1: any outlet in your home. You've got dozens and dozens
Speaker 1: inside and outside your home. You know what it looks like.
Speaker 1: Plug your blender into one. They are not the fastest charger,
Speaker 1: as matter of fact, I'm gonna use the word slow.
Speaker 1: They can give your vehicle maybe five miles of range
Speaker 1: per hour of charging, if that does depend on your
Speaker 1: charger and your vehicle and another factors. You want something faster,
Speaker 1: you look at level two Level two charger. Much faster
Speaker 1: charging output gives you about twenty five miles of range
Speaker 1: per hour of charging, and that could potentially charge your
Speaker 1: battery from zero to one hundred percent overnight. So if
Speaker 1: your daily driving needs are under twenty miles, you probably
Speaker 1: could do just fine with a level one. Anything more
Speaker 1: than that, you probably want to go level two. If
Speaker 1: you want a level one, you don't need any special
Speaker 1: anybody or anything. You don't need an electrician simply buy
Speaker 1: the right charging core for your vehicle, probably comes with it.
Speaker 1: You plug it into the wall outlet, and you're set
Speaker 1: to go, and then you wait, wait, wait, wait wait,
Speaker 1: Level two your most likely want to call a professional. Now,
Speaker 1: if you already have a special two forty volt outlet
Speaker 1: in your garage, you could be good to go because
Speaker 1: you simply plug that level two charger into that. And
Speaker 1: what a two forty volt outlet is. Go look at
Speaker 1: your dry your washer, dryer, Go look at your dryer.
Speaker 1: That's the big semi round plug that has three prongs
Speaker 1: in there. Stoves also have it too, and again we're
Speaker 1: talking obviously electric stoves, electric dryers. That's a two forty.
Speaker 1: If you don't have that installed in your garage or
Speaker 1: one mighty manning, mighty long cable, which I don't recommend,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna go after an electrician come out, get
Speaker 1: to your electricity box and install a level two charge.
Speaker 1: All right. At that point, cost real quickly, because I'm
Speaker 1: running out of time over here. Maybe one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: an hour for labor. It's gonna take a few hours
Speaker 1: to install it.
Speaker 6: You're gonna we defy the the charger, depending what it
Speaker 6: is it could be four hundred and six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: It's gonna cost one thousand dollars yourself for that for
Speaker 1: installing the charger. Again, that's just spitballing right there. And
Speaker 1: so that's from gen Geena's in Dallas. Jean, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for that point. With that, I am gonna
Speaker 1: have to shut up and I can finally, you know,
Speaker 1: take some losses for my boys or some nice big
Speaker 1: urban jewlip season coming up. As we get to the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby, folks go enjoy the Master's friends and let's
Speaker 1: just help. Maybe a Texan one by Scotty Shebook, it's
Speaker 1: a shepbook or somebody like that. People. Thank you to
Speaker 1: Brian Erickson, thank you to Callum Reid and Will and
Speaker 1: everybody Else's.
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