Speaker 1: Is Michael Garfi.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield, Michael Garfield's joining in the high Tech Texan.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.
Speaker 1: To make life easier, new technology, and Michael Garfield has
Speaker 1: something you might like.
Speaker 2: Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans, three decades helping
Speaker 2: you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio add now you're high Tech Texan Michael Garfield.
Speaker 1: And we are off on a very hot and toasty
Speaker 1: weekend mid May. Just like that big opening said, Michael
Speaker 1: Garfield is the name in this is the long run
Speaker 1: high Tech Textan show. Rest assured. Yes, we are going
Speaker 1: to talk a little about technology. It will guarantee not
Speaker 1: to be above your heads, because that's not how I roll. Baby,
Speaker 1: I talk, and I make it things sweet and simple.
Speaker 1: But we also cover many other things. We've got car reviews,
Speaker 1: We've got news about the US China tariff pause. Ironically,
Speaker 1: just after I get back from China, what a Cowinki dank,
Speaker 1: Samsung announces and soon to release their thinnest phone ever.
Speaker 1: Thin is good, but is it necessary? And at what price?
Speaker 1: And oh my goodness, the streaming wars they are heating up.
Speaker 1: They are changing, and if you haven't cut the cable yet,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1: But you're getting more reasons to cut that cable as
Speaker 1: companies are rolling out and bundling their own products together.
Speaker 1: I will take your questions and cause your thoughts about
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Who knows we probably have some stuff
Speaker 1: to give away because it's a radio show man. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. This is what we do in radio.
Speaker 1: How do you I had this conversation the other day.
Speaker 1: Somebody was asking me how to start a podcast, and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm doing some consulting here. It's you know,
Speaker 1: we can come up with the podcast. We could get
Speaker 1: a nice production studio facility. We can get some nice microphones,
Speaker 1: we can get some mixers, come up with a logo,
Speaker 1: come up with a catchy, sexy name. But how do
Speaker 1: you get people to listen to it? And I say listen,
Speaker 1: I go, I harken back to the day's of radio.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this radio thing for well over twenty
Speaker 1: three years. Radio it's about storytelling. Radio is about personality.
Speaker 1: Radio is content. You have to give the listeners something
Speaker 1: that is at least semi interesting. They want to hear.
Speaker 1: But don't kid yourself. Man, if you give some stuff away,
Speaker 1: the phones will light up, and so we shall see.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of fun partners and restaurants and
Speaker 1: what have you meant? Well, we may give a few
Speaker 1: things away, so you never know. I will start with this,
Speaker 1: how was your mother's dad? How was Mother's Day? Baby?
Speaker 1: Did you get some happy Mother's Day? Doll you mother's
Speaker 1: out there and mine included Susan Garfield. I didn't get
Speaker 1: her any technology. I don't think she needs technology. She
Speaker 1: gave her a gift card to a restaurant in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And so if you happen to see my mom, if
Speaker 1: anybody has a clue what my mom looks like my parents,
Speaker 1: they will go out and use that gift card. Hopefully
Speaker 1: they may be listening right now via the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: And if so, if you wherever you are listening, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're in San Antonio or Houston or Dallas. Terrestrially,
Speaker 1: you can listen on those great radio stations, but you
Speaker 1: can also listen all over the world, even in China.
Speaker 1: If you're using a VPN. I went over this. You
Speaker 1: could just de lug onto the iHeart radio app and
Speaker 1: search for Michael Garfield and then or high tech text
Speaker 1: and then you should be good to go. Mom's So,
Speaker 1: you did you get anything you didn't want? Did you
Speaker 1: get a phone that you want to expecting that to
Speaker 1: be that phone? Did you get a printer? Did you
Speaker 1: get a TV? Did you get a tablet? And you're thinking, nice,
Speaker 1: I really don't need it. I didn't want this brand.
Speaker 1: This is where you can confide in me. You know
Speaker 1: you're never gonna dish your kids because you're gonna say, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you, honey, I appreciate it. But if they're not
Speaker 1: anywhere around the room right now, pick up the phone,
Speaker 1: give me a call. It's an interactive radio program and podcast.
Speaker 1: I guess if you're listening to it, uh not Live
Speaker 1: three four six twenty nine Texan three four six two
Speaker 1: nine t e X A M. Are not going to
Speaker 1: hurt you, Calum Reid. Happy Mother's Day to you. I'm
Speaker 1: kidding me, Calum Reid. He'll may pick up your phone call,
Speaker 1: it may go to voicemail, which you're going to leave
Speaker 1: a voicemail and we are allowed to reuse and replay
Speaker 1: your voice if you do leave a voicemail Hey, Michael, uh,
Speaker 1: you know what? My kids were so sweet they got
Speaker 1: me this. I don't want this model of this product.
Speaker 1: Is there a better one? Is I didn't want them
Speaker 1: to spend this much money? Can I return it for
Speaker 1: something cheaper but still works as good. I probably can
Speaker 1: help you with that. That's what I do. I'm your
Speaker 1: consumer enthusiast. I actually I should probably come up with
Speaker 1: the monarch or the high consumer enthusiast Texan. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not high. I just have built in energy three four
Speaker 1: six twenty nine Texan. If you want to upload or
Speaker 1: share it with the world what you got and you know,
Speaker 1: make fun of your kids forgetting you something you didn't want,
Speaker 1: you can hag me on x Instagram. Just follow the
Speaker 1: old Moniker high tech text and h I G H
Speaker 1: T E C h T E x A M. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of mothers in Dallas got a late
Speaker 1: on Monday night Mother's Day present with the number one
Speaker 1: pick in the NBA draft. Do you see this? I'm
Speaker 1: a Maverick fang because I'm from Dallas originally, all right,
Speaker 1: they weren't around when I was little they launched. I
Speaker 1: was about fifteen years old when Don Carter created the
Speaker 1: Dame and bought the Dame. The the whole Mavericks fan.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely a Maverick fan. Certainly twenty eleven with Dirk
Speaker 1: got the whole World Championship, NBA Championship, which is good.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying MAVs are gonna win it again. I
Speaker 1: was absolutely like everybody devastated in February with the whole
Speaker 1: Luca trade. But now is their hope? Is their hope?
Speaker 1: And isn't it. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and it's
Speaker 1: so funny because I'm a boys up at Dallas, so
Speaker 1: you know we're on text chain, you know, Monday night.
Speaker 1: Are you getting me? The Mavericks got the number one pick.
Speaker 1: This is the greatest thing in the world. We we
Speaker 1: lead off our conversations with I'm not a conspiracy theorist,
Speaker 1: but it was very interesting. The Mavericks had a one
Speaker 1: point eight percent chance of landing the number one pick.
Speaker 1: One point eight percent chance. Nope, Well, the Mavericks had
Speaker 1: a This Maverick had just a wild of a ride
Speaker 1: since Tom Cruise flew his F eighteen super Hornet at
Speaker 1: low Altahude and a narrow canyon. Because this Maverick was
Speaker 1: just as daring and crazy as the Dallas Mavericks. Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? One point eight percent chance? They did
Speaker 1: it first time in the history of the MAVs. That
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna say we, because I'm a professional,
Speaker 1: we don't use the word we. But the MAVs won it.
Speaker 1: They jumped ten spots from where the odds placed them,
Speaker 1: the biggest lottery leap in NBA history, and the team
Speaker 1: is pretty much almost certain to select Dukes Duke Cooper
Speaker 1: flag Listen. I'm a big sports fan. You listen to me.
Speaker 1: You know me, you love me, you know I was
Speaker 1: at the Final four. I saw Cooper flag play. I
Speaker 1: saw him lose to New Jersey of Houston in the
Speaker 1: first round of the Final four. Up. He's a franchise
Speaker 1: changing talent. But you look at the Utah Jazz and
Speaker 1: Washington Wizards. They had a fourteen percent shot at landing
Speaker 1: the top pick. They didn't get in the top four.
Speaker 1: Improbable conspiracy. I don't know. I'm not gonna go back
Speaker 1: to the Patrick Ewing. Did David Stern the commissioner back
Speaker 1: then you freeze the envelope to get Patrick Stern to
Speaker 1: the Patrick st Patrick Ewing to the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go that far. It's just a big kouinkiding,
Speaker 1: But who cares. The Mavericks are back. And for all
Speaker 1: you Mavericks fan including all you moms out there who
Speaker 1: burned your Mavericks gear, burned your jerseys, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do now? That's right, hit Academy, You're gonna start
Speaker 1: buying the jerseys again with Cooper flags number. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: all you moms out there. All right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about US China tariffs. Will they go down?
Speaker 1: It looks like they're on pause. What's the deal? And yes,
Speaker 1: I am gonna take a little credit for it right here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take.
Speaker 3: Gregson Show.
Speaker 1: Brisk miss in May. That's what we're calling it.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 1: As we welcome you back to the High Tech Textan Show,
Speaker 1: I'm Michael Garfield. Nice to have you here. Twenty plus
Speaker 1: years I've been doing it big. What's up to my peeps?
Speaker 1: Not only in Houston where I am based KPRC nine
Speaker 1: to fifty, but also San Antonio. I was there what
Speaker 1: month and a half ago, Final four Great City News
Speaker 1: Radio twelve hundred WOAI and also my hometown of Dallas
Speaker 1: Talk Radio eleven ninety if you could pick up that signal,
Speaker 1: and if you're in neither of those cities, you may
Speaker 1: be listening on the iHeartRadio app either live here on
Speaker 1: the weekend of what May seventeenth, May eighteenth, and also
Speaker 1: you could repeat it to your heart's content. Could you
Speaker 1: just love my content? You just love me? If you
Speaker 1: want to get in and say hi, I ask questions.
Speaker 1: We're to return your Mother's Day guests. What you should
Speaker 1: get mom, because you're about a week late. I am
Speaker 1: at three four six twenty nine Texan. Spell the whole
Speaker 1: thing out three four six two nine Texan are also
Speaker 1: at high Tech Texan. If you spell the whole thing
Speaker 1: on X on Twitter, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: I was speaking which speaking of renaming, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: into renaming. Is it about time that X goes back
Speaker 1: to Twitter? I will tell you why. Here's a hint,
Speaker 1: hbo Max, if you'd hear did not hear that news,
Speaker 1: but I got I got a whole spiel coming up
Speaker 1: later in the hour with that, I do want to
Speaker 1: talk about the US in China. Isn't it interesting that
Speaker 1: if you're a longtime listener, if you listened recently to
Speaker 1: I went to China not long ago. It was it
Speaker 1: was it was a mission. It was a technology mission
Speaker 1: where I met a number of different Chinese companies. I
Speaker 1: met their CEOs. It was kind of a fact finding
Speaker 1: tour with other tech journalists from around the world, where
Speaker 1: we got to see how a lot of these companies
Speaker 1: produce their products, do the research and development, and how
Speaker 1: in the world can China, along with some other countries too,
Speaker 1: how can they make these products so cheap, so inexpensive,
Speaker 1: and then ship them all around the world. I mean,
Speaker 1: so many things in our homes are made from other countries,
Speaker 1: certainly China. I saw a stat was the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: Ninety nine percent of all toaster rovens in our kitchens
Speaker 1: are made in China. Fifty one percent of all gas
Speaker 1: stoves are made in China. Blenders, I don't know, was
Speaker 1: it seventy percent of all blenders? Are many? I mean,
Speaker 1: just goes on and on and on. Well, it was
Speaker 1: nice meeting a lot of these companies, and you know
Speaker 1: how they market their products here there and sell them
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But China has been on our lips
Speaker 1: and minds here the United States and vice versa, because
Speaker 1: of the possible tariffs that the President of the United
Speaker 1: States said he was going to tax and tariff up
Speaker 1: to one hundred and forty five percent. Well, guess what happened.
Speaker 1: Guess what happened this past Monday. The US and China,
Speaker 1: they said they agreed to a deal to slash reciprocal
Speaker 1: tariffs for now they are the world's too biggest economies.
Speaker 1: They want to end the trade war because it really
Speaker 1: has disrupted the global outlook and really set financial markets
Speaker 1: on the edge. And apparently they got together in Geneva
Speaker 1: after I visited China. You know, I had some backdoor dealings.
Speaker 1: I was talking to some people. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: how can we get this because the economy is taking
Speaker 1: I mean, from cars to everything. Everybody's freaking out. I'm
Speaker 1: blaming the price of eggs. I don't even know who
Speaker 1: I've blamed the price of eggs on.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I almost gotten an egg we almost got an egg
Speaker 1: throwing fight. But at least for ninety days it's done.
Speaker 1: So now they've backed down the tears from one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty five percent, so I think it's forty percent
Speaker 1: from China, and then they are going to teariff the
Speaker 1: United States ten percent going into China. I know we
Speaker 1: as a country of the United States, and I'll say
Speaker 1: it again, I love America. I am so red, white, blue,
Speaker 1: and burn orange. I bleed it. This is I'm not
Speaker 1: pro China. Love my country. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that are made outside of China that are much
Speaker 1: better in the United States. But United States still make
Speaker 1: some good stuff. What does what does I'm trying to think,
Speaker 1: what do we make that China imports three four six
Speaker 1: twenty nine text and do me a favorit because I
Speaker 1: don't want to google. Okay, I can't google and talk. I mean,
Speaker 1: i'm I'm i'm ambidexerst but I bet I can go
Speaker 1: only go that far. But relatively good news. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did you see prices coming down though? I mean I
Speaker 1: see newsday travel? Oh my god. Actually there as a lot
Speaker 1: of travels. We've got Memorial Day coming up next weekend,
Speaker 1: and it's what we've we've got. I saw airline fair.
Speaker 1: I saw Southwest Airlines was offering thirty percent off. There
Speaker 1: was a there was a kind of a fair sale,
Speaker 1: which was good. Actually, I took advantage of that for
Speaker 1: a upcoming flight. Uh, but there are tours who are
Speaker 1: now not coming to the United States because they fear
Speaker 1: that they're from other countries like Canada ain't coming to
Speaker 1: the United States. Canada. There's a lot of Canadians go
Speaker 1: to New York City in masses. They're staying away other countries,
Speaker 1: like yeah, oh my goodness, if I come to the
Speaker 1: United States, I'm gonna be detained. It's just and that's
Speaker 1: hurting the economy because we there's a lot of cities
Speaker 1: that Orlando, as you certainly can imagine, they relying on tourists.
Speaker 1: So I'm just it's like it's I'm of age that
Speaker 1: I love saying, and I don't want to be get
Speaker 1: off my lawn guy, but I want to go back
Speaker 1: to the days, man, where the trade was just you know,
Speaker 1: times were nice and we could ride our bikes at
Speaker 1: night and didn't have to worry about anything. We're we're
Speaker 1: never gonna go there, so anyway, your thoughts and that
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from him. Of hopefully this ninety day,
Speaker 1: you know, let's let's sim a down period. That's what
Speaker 1: we're going to college with the US and China. It
Speaker 1: is going to be a long term deal, so we're
Speaker 1: not we can just go back and the economy is
Speaker 1: going to be okay. Speaking see, No, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do the old I'm not gonna do the streaming. Give
Speaker 1: me about five minutes the next the next epit we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about streaming. Man. By the way, I did
Speaker 1: see coming up. I saw a new streaming a movie
Speaker 1: that was really straight to I think was it Netflix?
Speaker 1: I forgot I even forgot it was. It was great,
Speaker 1: and I don't see I don't see a lot of
Speaker 1: great things. I'm gonna give you a movie to watch.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a movie to stream that I
Speaker 1: really really enjoyed, starring one of my favorite comedians, but
Speaker 1: it actually wasn't a comedy. And he guesses and he
Speaker 1: guesses standby for that. Speaking of shifting, of making things
Speaker 1: overseas and shipping him around the world of the United States,
Speaker 1: there is a new phone that was just an announce Samsung.
Speaker 1: And you know I'm a Samsung guy. I am a
Speaker 1: Samsung guy. I have probably sold more Samsung phones over
Speaker 1: the past fifteen years. And I've done the show radio
Speaker 1: show for twenty three years. Because I am an Android guy.
Speaker 1: I am not a big fan of Apple. Android. More
Speaker 1: users around the world use the Android operating system than
Speaker 1: the iPhone system at least two to one, if not
Speaker 1: three to one. Fact, look it up, Samsung. Very nice.
Speaker 1: I got to go to the January earlier this month year,
Speaker 1: I went up to Silicon Valley area. I went to
Speaker 1: there Samsung Galaxy S twenty five launch event. I'm using
Speaker 1: the S twenty five Ultra. Love the camera, It's great.
Speaker 1: At the end of the big event in San Jose,
Speaker 1: California area, they teased a brand new phone, very very sly.
Speaker 1: They showed off one of the thinnest phones Samsung ever made,
Speaker 1: and they said it's coming soon. They called it the
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy Edge. Folks officially just annnounced this past week.
Speaker 1: All I got was a press release. If they had
Speaker 1: another event, I would invited to. I'm gonna be pis
Speaker 1: seed man, because I all I do is talk about it.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. I haven't touched it, so I
Speaker 1: can't give you the hands on review. But they announced it.
Speaker 1: It starts at eleven hundred bones. Eleven hundred bones all right,
Speaker 1: it goes up to twelve hundred dollars or more if
Speaker 1: you even want the higher one with even more storage.
Speaker 1: It ships on May thirtieth, all right, But it is
Speaker 1: from all accounts so thin you can see throw it
Speaker 1: just like a nice slice of turkey. Now I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding you about that as a six point seven
Speaker 1: inch screen, which is about obviously if you hold your
Speaker 1: phone up, that's generally the the you know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get in terms of the screen size. But it's
Speaker 1: just point to two inches stick according to some of
Speaker 1: these stats. I'm getting point to two inches stick, right,
Speaker 1: and that's slightly less surface area than the current you know,
Speaker 1: twenty five Ultra. But it's a full I don't know
Speaker 1: what is it about one point one inch thinner. It
Speaker 1: weighs just and it says just one sixty three grams.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at pictures compared to other phones, and
Speaker 1: it is thin. It's only got two lenses, two camera lenses,
Speaker 1: not three. Very interested to see how this thing works,
Speaker 1: because I'm used to three, if not four, lenses on
Speaker 1: a Galaxy as twenty five got the same two hundred
Speaker 1: mega two hundred megapixel sensor as the S twenty five
Speaker 1: Ultra which I love, but Samsung says it captures about
Speaker 1: forty percent brighter images in low light situations. Again, haven't
Speaker 1: seen it. They don't want me to have it. Are
Speaker 1: they embarrassed? No clue. I don't know about the battery life.
Speaker 1: If you have a thinner phone, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: thinner battery. Is it a smaller battery. These are the
Speaker 1: things that I am hoping to one day get my
Speaker 1: hands on in try it all right. Saw some announcements
Speaker 1: from Verizon a few other mobile carriers. They're gonna cure
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But the question is this is we
Speaker 1: take a break? Is this important? Is thin to win
Speaker 1: important to you? I kind of prefer foldable phones. Actually,
Speaker 1: let me take the back. I prefer a flippable phone,
Speaker 1: not a foldable phone. I like foreign factors. I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna put a case. I'd still put a case on
Speaker 1: the S twenty five edge. It's gonna make it a
Speaker 1: little thicker. But want to hear from you. What would
Speaker 1: you like if you had to decide your own phone?
Speaker 1: Talk to me, Michael Garfield's the high Tech text and
Speaker 1: all around the world, Samsung. I'm talking to Michael okay
Speaker 1: three four six twenty nine text and about the first
Speaker 1: hour of this WORI is don winning radio show. It
Speaker 1: is Michael Garfield. It's called the High Tech Text and show,
Speaker 1: what are you doing this summer? This summer where it's
Speaker 1: it's already blazing hot, it's it's it's certainly not memorial there.
Speaker 1: We got a week to go before that. And it's
Speaker 1: so you used to stay inside and just just watch
Speaker 1: TV and the air conditioning. We're gonna use so much
Speaker 1: air conditioning. I hope our freaking Texas power grid holds up.
Speaker 1: But that's neither here nor there. Point is should you
Speaker 1: stay inside and should you do nothing but just watch
Speaker 1: streaming services? I got a movie for you, got a
Speaker 1: movie for you. This is I'm just happy to see it.
Speaker 1: And actually I don't even have I think it's on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I don't even have Netflix. I had to borrow somebody's Netflix.
Speaker 1: But that's let's not talk about that. So I saw
Speaker 1: a movie and I knew a little about it. It's
Speaker 1: stars one of my favorite actors who's a very comedic actor.
Speaker 1: But this wasn't a comedy. Vince Vaughn. Vince Vaughn. You
Speaker 1: think of Vince Vaughn, Man I think of wedding crashers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you think of swingers. I mean it just
Speaker 1: it goes on and on. Phenomenal stars in this very
Speaker 1: sweet movie. It is called Nona's nas. I want you
Speaker 1: to check it out. You don't have to check it out.
Speaker 1: You can do anything you want. Check it out. Nona's
Speaker 1: I believe means grandmother an Italian and it's a story.
Speaker 1: It's a true story about a dude in Staten Island
Speaker 1: who's's Italian, grew up with a good Tian grandmother, saw
Speaker 1: her cooking and everything. Grandmother passed away. His mother passed away.
Speaker 1: He opens a restaurant, doesn't have a lot of money,
Speaker 1: but it opens a restaurant and he hires real grandmothers
Speaker 1: to come in and be chefs and cooks. True story,
Speaker 1: and so much so that the actual real dude who
Speaker 1: Vince Vaughn plays is it makes a cameo in the movie.
Speaker 1: It was a great movie. It was sweet, it was sentimental. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a little for clympted at the end. It
Speaker 1: was it was very nice in Vince Vaughan. Interesting choice
Speaker 1: because to me, he's like boom boom boom, boom boom, Dodgeball,
Speaker 1: you know whatever? Got No, he actually did. It was
Speaker 1: it was very nice. It's it's really good actors and
Speaker 1: actresses in there. So anyway, check that I and I
Speaker 1: guess it's on Netflix. I saw another one I got
Speaker 1: apparently I was bored with the NBA playoffs this week
Speaker 1: and I watched Finally, I watched Conclave. Anybody seen that? Callum?
Speaker 1: Have you seen Calum Reid producer? Did you see Conclave? Conclave?
Speaker 1: It's about the Pope and it came out late last year.
Speaker 1: It was nominated for a few Academy Awards. It won
Speaker 1: like one one award for Adapted Screenplay or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. But Raith Fines and Stanley Tucci
Speaker 1: and a few other good actors in there. And I watched.
Speaker 1: But ever since the Pope Francis died what a month ago,
Speaker 1: a month and a half ago, became very popular on streaming.
Speaker 1: So I watched it. It was very Yeah. Now I'm
Speaker 1: doing movie reviews. Hey, it's Michael Garfield. Two thumbs up.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give it. I'm not gonna give a
Speaker 1: Conclave two thumbs up. I'm gonna give it one thumb up.
Speaker 1: One thumb down. It was. It was beautifully shot, all right.
Speaker 1: I like the colors, the camera movement. You know, I
Speaker 1: just told you, you know it was. It was done well.
Speaker 1: The wardrobe, the lighting very good. I think the acting
Speaker 1: was very good. I think Ray Fines, who was the
Speaker 1: lead in it great. Stanley Tucci always a fan of
Speaker 1: He was good. John Lithgap. The story not really there,
Speaker 1: the story, especially at the end with the twist. And
Speaker 1: I say it's a twist. I mean it's not like
Speaker 1: there was a murder or any freaky dieky thing. It
Speaker 1: was just we're I didn't see that one kind of
Speaker 1: coming it was. It was okay, So conclave it point
Speaker 1: is what else you got? Because the summer is gon't belong.
Speaker 1: People may sit out in the sun. I want you
Speaker 1: to laugh her up with your with your SPF and
Speaker 1: then you tell me phone number here is three four, six,
Speaker 1: twenty nine texts and what else do you watch it?
Speaker 1: And we only got about it? What about three more
Speaker 1: weeks of the NBA and that's done. And I'm just
Speaker 1: not the biggest baseball fan. Really, I'm just not man.
Speaker 1: And so all we do is I just sit here
Speaker 1: and look at the calendar tck tck tck. Dictate, we
Speaker 1: got three freaking more months to football, baby, hang on,
Speaker 1: hang on, Just just suck it up. That's what we got.
Speaker 1: Speaking of streaming, streaming is technology. Streaming is the It
Speaker 1: is getting very convoluted. If any of you have yet
Speaker 1: to cut the cord, which means cable, and you know
Speaker 1: technically you really wanted to, you can just pull the
Speaker 1: cord out, but you can take scissors to the court
Speaker 1: if really want to. And you don't want to pay
Speaker 1: the exorbitant fees that a lot of us are still paying,
Speaker 1: like in like idiots to Comcast. Maybe you just want
Speaker 1: a streaming service. Yes, you still need to pay for
Speaker 1: an internet connection. But how many streaming services do you have?
Speaker 1: This is a good time as summer approaches. Oh wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I didn't know have like eight streaming services.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. You may be paying more than cable.
Speaker 1: But the point is there's a lot of cable companies
Speaker 1: that are doing some some rebranding and some packaging. Let's
Speaker 1: try to get into this thing here real quick. Number
Speaker 1: one HBO. Oh I'm sorry it wasn't HBO. It started
Speaker 1: out as HBO in the nineteen seventies, HBO became a
Speaker 1: very wonderful It's just a high level place to watch movies,
Speaker 1: you know, comedians and other cool things, you know, like
Speaker 1: today comedy specials, that movies, and you know, that was
Speaker 1: the place to watch them different veep to to entourage
Speaker 1: and to all this other stuff. Nope, they changed the
Speaker 1: name a few two years ago. It was no longer HBO.
Speaker 1: They changed it to Max. Well, guess what their marketing
Speaker 1: team now is pulling their hair out because just this
Speaker 1: week they re re re renamed it. It is now
Speaker 1: called HBO Max, HBO Max. I have no clue, so
Speaker 1: it was a reversal. It could be I don't even know.
Speaker 1: But it's owned by Warner Brothers Discovery. Because Warner Brothers
Speaker 1: merged with Discovery, they lost the NBA. That because you
Speaker 1: know TNT is a part of that. So inside the
Speaker 1: NBA is Levia is just I don't even know what.
Speaker 1: I don't even think they know what they're doing. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's one. And by the way, I need to pull
Speaker 1: her ready for a poll question. Callum, I'm gonna open
Speaker 1: the phone lines if anybody wants to join me on it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many times are feckless over lords
Speaker 1: try to wipe away history and change the names of
Speaker 1: things that they own or they control. I think we're
Speaker 1: always gonna call these things by their original names, because
Speaker 1: when it changed to Max, I still think I called
Speaker 1: it HBL all right. How many people in Houston still
Speaker 1: call the Compact Center the Compact Center whether even though
Speaker 1: it's the Church of right now? How many people call
Speaker 1: it the Summit? How many people now still are gonna
Speaker 1: call Minute Made Park Mint May Park with the Astros
Speaker 1: because it just changed names two months ago to dyke
Speaker 1: In Park If you didn't know that? How many people
Speaker 1: call it the Gulf of Mexico, the Golf of America.
Speaker 1: It may be, you know, temporarily the Golf of America,
Speaker 1: but come on, man, it's the Golf of freaking Mexico.
Speaker 1: When is X gonna learn it needs to go back
Speaker 1: to Twitter because we still tweet. We don't X we
Speaker 1: tweet on Twitter. I mean it goes on and not
Speaker 1: Shase Stadium And said, I mean it just what am
Speaker 1: I missing here? What am I missing? Because this could
Speaker 1: be a fun game? Three four six twenty nine Texan?
Speaker 1: What has changed its name but you still call it? Save?
Speaker 1: Yourself some time, because every stadium name, most every stadium
Speaker 1: that we've known and grown up with has changed the
Speaker 1: title sponsor. So that's really not fair because we can
Speaker 1: go on and on every single day. Right. So, yes,
Speaker 1: I know I threw out the minimate park in the
Speaker 1: dayk and Park, but you name a stadium and it's
Speaker 1: probably changed. But give me something else. HBO is Max,
Speaker 1: Twitter's X Golf of Mexico, Golf America. I'm sick of
Speaker 1: this stuff away, that's number one streaming. How about this
Speaker 1: ESPN which I live on my soul being is watching ESPN?
Speaker 1: If I could have one channel versus the five hundred
Speaker 1: channels that I don't watch and still pay three hundred
Speaker 1: plus dollars, I need to watch ESPN. Guess what, ESPN
Speaker 1: just not launched something. They just announced something they're launching
Speaker 1: later this year that may change my life. This may
Speaker 1: finally get me to cut the cord because ESPN is
Speaker 1: getting ready to launch a direct to consumer offering, which
Speaker 1: means you do not need cable as long as you
Speaker 1: have streaming. ESPN. The Linear Network is going to be
Speaker 1: available directly to fans early this fall. It's gonna conclude.
Speaker 1: It could include Disney Plus, it could include Hulu, all
Speaker 1: owned by the Disney Company. All right, it's all gonna
Speaker 1: be there, all for lol lit Goo discount of thirty
Speaker 1: dollars per month at thirty bucks a month. They're gonna
Speaker 1: bundle ESPN, ESPN two, ESPN plus Disbit for thirty bones
Speaker 1: a month, and all you need to do is just
Speaker 1: download the app, kind of like a netflixy type of thing.
Speaker 1: So no longer if I want to get my ESPN,
Speaker 1: do I have to have five hundred channels and pay
Speaker 1: Comcast and Exfinity all this other crap like that. This
Speaker 1: may be the thing to do. This is what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: Fox just announced something similar. Fox now is bundling a
Speaker 1: lot of their channels together and it is gonna be
Speaker 1: called Fox One. NBC also owns Peacock. Don't forget about that. Peacock.
Speaker 1: Great way to watch the Olympics. All right. Actually, by
Speaker 1: the way, I just did see this. If you don't
Speaker 1: have Peacock, it's on that there's a sale price coming.
Speaker 1: It's a Memorial Day sale twenty five bucks a year
Speaker 1: for the entire Just make sure I get this right.
Speaker 1: Peacock Premium twenty five dollars that's fifty five bucks off
Speaker 1: the standard annual price. That's right, yeah, standard annual price.
Speaker 1: I think you use the code Spring savings. I don't
Speaker 1: even know how. I don't know. I have expendity, so
Speaker 1: I get Peacock and Peacock Premium. But for twenty five
Speaker 1: bucks a year, that's not bad. It's truly not. It's
Speaker 1: a new way to watch things, it's a new way
Speaker 1: to consume things. We're still grasping and getting our hands
Speaker 1: on it. But we can open up this bag of worms.
Speaker 1: How many do you have? How much is too many?
Speaker 1: What's your solution? How come we can't go back? Listen?
Speaker 1: TV is free over the year the local channels mandated
Speaker 1: the FCC. We're broadcasting right now. Houston alone has over
Speaker 1: sixty free channels. Yes, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, everything and
Speaker 1: a ton of Spanish speaking to but it doesn't happen
Speaker 1: ESPN's and it doesn't have the Netflix.
Speaker 3: It good.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that coming up here. High tech texting.
Speaker 4: Show, it's not a que emails.
Speaker 1: Just now checking during the commercial break, I got my
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Galaxy Samsung Samsong Galaxy S twenty five Edge.
Speaker 1: I told you about the announcement, which I got a
Speaker 1: press release. I didn't get invited in any press conference,
Speaker 1: any launch don't have the phone to play with. Kind
Speaker 1: of odd. Used to hope I didn't have a falling
Speaker 1: out with Samsung. I sell too many of them for him.
Speaker 1: It comes out later this month, and if you want
Speaker 1: to pre order, you could actually pre orders already happening
Speaker 1: right now. You go to Amazon, best Buy, Samsung dot com,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the carriers nationwide. Again I got,
Speaker 1: I got some press announcements also from for and a
Speaker 1: few others. Generally gonna be available starting May thirtieth. May thirtieth. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, customers who pre order now through May thirtieth,
Speaker 1: I'm just reading this here on Samsung dot com or
Speaker 1: shop Samsung App, eligible to receive up to eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars in total saving. Okay, I can dig that. I
Speaker 1: can dig that. Since the phone starts at eleven hundred bones,
Speaker 1: I can do that. I want to see this thing
Speaker 1: because I like flippable phones. I like the form. I'm
Speaker 1: big into form factors. I really really am like flippable phones.
Speaker 1: They'll love fold The phones are a little thick, But
Speaker 1: this thing's supposed to be fifth and thin thin to
Speaker 1: win people is what we call it, Thin to Win Samsung,
Speaker 1: You go ahead and use that in your marketing. Michael
Speaker 1: Garfield the long winning High Tech Text and Show. If
Speaker 1: you just listening to the radio, cool if you want
Speaker 1: to see me on TV and some of the tech
Speaker 1: products and show and tell, and wherever I get to
Speaker 1: go to a launch, I make sure we do a
Speaker 1: really fun TV segment on that thing to give you
Speaker 1: the inside play by play. Got back from China, did
Speaker 1: a log down of a four or five minute segment
Speaker 1: Fox Austin. Hello, people who are listening up in Austin.
Speaker 1: That's my Monday segment on Fox. Also, I was on
Speaker 1: Great Day Houston, CBS earlier this week with what was
Speaker 1: I doing? Oh yeah, some of the products are brought
Speaker 1: back from China. Some of the really cool Chinese products
Speaker 1: pretty smart too. Gotta start doing some dads and grads stuff.
Speaker 1: Will I recommend the Samsung Galaxy as twenty five Edge
Speaker 1: for dads and grads. Don't know because I haven't touched
Speaker 1: it or seen her to play with it. Maybe one day.
Speaker 1: Who knows? Phone number here? If you want to get
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Speaker 1: born when I started this show. Feel free to talk
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Speaker 1: I'm also getting about cars too, I had it. I
Speaker 1: review cars also headed in Infinity at QX eighty this
Speaker 1: past week. Phenomenal. Ain't cheap the autograph version, the autograph edition,
Speaker 1: it's six figures. But an I did an Instagram video
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to talk about that next hour, about
Speaker 1: some of the some pluses, maybe some of the things
Speaker 1: they could approve, maybe lowering the price they could do it. Hey, Garf,
Speaker 1: put your thoughts on Pete Rose getting back into Major
Speaker 1: League baseball. Yeah, listen, you know him, a sports guy.
Speaker 1: You know him, sports guy? I got, I I have
Speaker 1: some thoughts. Number one, Pete Rose was not elected to
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. That is not what happened. Okay,
Speaker 1: read carefully, It was not what happened Pete Rose. Maybe
Speaker 1: one day he is potentially eligible for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Quite simply, the commissioner, Rob Manfred did not directly and
Speaker 1: then listen to my word, directly reinstate Pete Rose. Per se.
Speaker 1: He altered a rule. He altered a rule in which
Speaker 1: deceased players are removed from the permanently ineligible list. What
Speaker 1: he said, he goes these players could not harm the
Speaker 1: game any further now that they're dead. I think that's bs.
Speaker 1: It's we all know what Pete Rose did. He admitted
Speaker 1: to it. I wasn't around when Shoeless Joe Jackson played
Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen or whatever like that, but we hear stories.
Speaker 1: Pete Rose didn't do anything with baseball, so him dying
Speaker 1: doesn't change what he did. Pete Rose and sixteen other players,
Speaker 1: including Shoeless Joe Jackson, they were reinstated with this move.
Speaker 1: That's number one. The timing is very curious because Rob Manford,
Speaker 1: again my thoughts over here, and I know you appreciate
Speaker 1: these like other MLB commissioners before him. He had rejected
Speaker 1: Pete Rose's petitions for reinstatement while Pete Rose was still alive,
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden he kind of changed course
Speaker 1: after meeting with President Trump, who very loudly which he
Speaker 1: likes doing that, argued that Pete Rose should be reinstated.
Speaker 1: H So what sort of precedent is this reinstatement gonna set?
Speaker 1: Number three? As I said, this does not mean Pete
Speaker 1: Rose goes directly into the Hall of Fame. He will
Speaker 1: be considered by the Historical Overview Committee, which would decide
Speaker 1: if Pete Rose or any of the other players who
Speaker 1: are now eligible warrant a hearing. And so there's another
Speaker 1: committee the era. The Eras Committee will vote on election
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame, and Pete Rose needs twelve
Speaker 1: of sixteen votes if all this happens, earliest is going
Speaker 1: to be twenty twenty seven. By on field my thoughts
Speaker 1: by on field merits alone. And again I told you
Speaker 1: I'm not a big baseball fan, but growing up, baseball
Speaker 1: was much bigger as a kid than it is right now.
Speaker 5: It just was.
Speaker 1: I mean, I followed baseball stats as much as my
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers just absolutely sucked back in the day. And
Speaker 1: the Asters weren't that great. They were better than my Rangers.
Speaker 1: But the stats and the Cincinnati Reds and Pete Rose,
Speaker 1: he has more hits than anyone in Major League Baseball history,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six hits. I know that stature,
Speaker 1: but it does slam dunk. Yes, he absolutely deserves induction
Speaker 1: to the Hall by on field merits alone, but he
Speaker 1: bet on baseball he did. He also allegedly had a
Speaker 1: sexual relationship with a girl on sixteen years old in
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies. He was in prison for five months
Speaker 1: for tax evation in nineteen ninety. That's off the field,
Speaker 1: but it seemingly there seems to be a semi positive
Speaker 1: sentiment to Round Baseball about Pete Rose earning a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame plaque. Put him in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Put people in incidents like this, Maybe in another section
Speaker 1: of the Hall of Fame. Maybe make it on this
Speaker 1: on the put it in the basement. But yes, dude,
Speaker 1: he's one of the greatest baseball players. EVA. Charlie freaking
Speaker 1: now Sault. We can all bring it about this that
Speaker 1: this is what I do real quickly, quick Pole because
Speaker 1: Pete Rose deservedly in the Hall of Fame. Nope, not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Yes, because he's the hit game. He is
Speaker 1: the hit games that make your voice heard here three four, six,
Speaker 1: twenty nine text good, See what I did?
Speaker 4: I just killed the entire segment.
Speaker 1: When we come back and the talk cars, we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Take your calls.
Speaker 1: I got said yes, including I got you get some people. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: heard your show and I saw you on TV. I
Speaker 1: saw you on Channel eleven and Houston earlier this week.
Speaker 1: You were talking about vp ms and getting ready to
Speaker 1: travel across the country. Just how important is a VPM?
Speaker 1: Because I have a few freebies? Are they worth it
Speaker 1: instead of paying money? Great questions.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna aswer that. Let me come back to high TECHNX.
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Speaker 1: It's exactly right. Hey, it is a hot weekend in Texas.
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Speaker 1: just because I appreciate you so much, it is why
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Speaker 1: them the business because once it gets down to the
Speaker 1: end of the brito, that burrito inside is so stuffed.
Speaker 1: I start going, there's no way you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to roll that up. There's no way you're gonna roll
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Speaker 1: I got a surprise for you. Well, it's done, a
Speaker 1: surprise international travel gear travel. You know what? Oh, speaking
Speaker 1: of travel, I saw this United Airlines. She United they
Speaker 1: plan to add a feature in their planes next year.
Speaker 1: They already have economy and they have I guess premium,
Speaker 1: and then they have the Polaris. I don't think, well,
Speaker 1: they have first class, but then in the international, the
Speaker 1: long haul planes, they've got something called the Polaris. Those
Speaker 1: are the lay flat seats, which I did not have,
Speaker 1: massively unfortunate on the way to China, because I would
Speaker 1: have enjoyed that China fifteen freaking hour and actually NonStop
Speaker 1: from San Francisco to Hong Kong a lot more than
Speaker 1: sitting up in an economy class. Did not have a
Speaker 1: life flat seat, didn't fairly. Life flat seats are not
Speaker 1: good enough. Not for United. They are getting a little fancier. Nope,
Speaker 1: it's not just the pajamas. Nope, it's not just those
Speaker 1: little noise canceling headphones. It's not as little socks they
Speaker 1: give you on these long haul flights. They are putting
Speaker 1: in some new seats on top in better then they're
Speaker 1: Polaris suites. They are called the Polaris Studio suites. This
Speaker 1: is super premium. I mean, at this point, why don't
Speaker 1: you just buy your own private jet. It is an
Speaker 1: upgrade from the United's existing top tier seating option. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a refresh cabin design it's gonna be an
Speaker 1: all of the new Boeing seven eighty seven Dreamliner, and
Speaker 1: you can actually they're initially gonna be on San Francisco
Speaker 1: to Singapore. Ah, I may have to go to Singapore
Speaker 1: or London. I do like London. Each plane are gonna
Speaker 1: have eight, that's it, just eight of these new Polaris studios,
Speaker 1: and apparently they're gonna be the size of a small apartment.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be twenty five percent bigger than United standard
Speaker 1: Polari seats. They're gonna have privacy doors, privacy doors. Some
Speaker 1: of them are gonna have an extra ottoman with a
Speaker 1: seat belt for visitors. Who has a visitor on a plane,
Speaker 1: because like you remember, you know Bridesmaids Great, you know
Speaker 1: Kristen Wigg, she's sitting in economy. All of her friends
Speaker 1: are sitting in first class. She tried to sneak the
Speaker 1: first class. They will not hit let her even sneak
Speaker 1: up the first class. Who can sneak up into a
Speaker 1: Polaris studio suite. But I'd sit in that instead of
Speaker 1: an economy seat all the way to China in back,
Speaker 1: I would sit on an ottoman in a Polaris studio suite.
Speaker 1: At least you get free drinks. No price tag yet,
Speaker 1: no price tag. Oh and by the way, they're adding
Speaker 1: caviar service and luxurious soft pajamas. Oh, this is a
Speaker 1: this is an apartment, Javier sir, Well, what kind of
Speaker 1: cave are man? The Russian caviar, A lot of different
Speaker 1: types of caviar pajamas. How do they know what size
Speaker 1: you are? Can you keep them? I assume? So I
Speaker 1: know the United folks and actually know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see if I can get the United folks United air
Speaker 1: Lines on my show next week. Travel season's coming up,
Speaker 1: and I do know, and i'd listen. They were very kind.
Speaker 1: I did an interview with him about a month and
Speaker 1: a half ago, knowing I was going to be in
Speaker 1: a long haul flight all the way around the world.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of technology that they utilize in
Speaker 1: terms of apps and how to track your baggage and
Speaker 1: if there's a weather delay. They do some good stuff.
Speaker 1: They're also rolling out the what Starlink Wi fi, which
Speaker 1: I told them I need to be one of the
Speaker 1: first ones to test that. Apparently they tested it in
Speaker 1: the Chicago market. I'm playing with some tech journalists and
Speaker 1: I was not invited. Not happy about that. Not happy.
Speaker 1: I needed because I want to do my radio show
Speaker 1: from the year ultimate goal Listen. I don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of bucket list items. One bucket list items. I
Speaker 1: would love, absolutely love to fly on Air Force one.
Speaker 1: I dig that stuff. It's so cool. I just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: If I can't, I want. I need to fly in
Speaker 1: a United Polaris studio apartment suite with Starlink Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: With Wi Fi so fast, I can bring my gear
Speaker 1: and actually do my radio show live from the plane.
Speaker 1: That would that be cool? Then I can actually have
Speaker 1: an ottoman with a visitor and a guest. There's your flight.
Speaker 1: Who's flying? Anybody have any international questions? Well, actually, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna answer this question. I'm gonna I tease it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tease it one more time over the next one.
Speaker 1: Got an email, gar if I heard you were in China.
Speaker 1: I heard you use the VPN. I'm traveling also myself
Speaker 1: across the across the world. Do I really need a VPN?
Speaker 1: And if so, I got a couple of free ones
Speaker 1: I can use as it worth getting a free one
Speaker 1: versus the paid one. Hi, I'm more than I can
Speaker 1: answer that question on the.
Speaker 6: Other side.
Speaker 1: Echel Guardfield. It is the high Tech Texans show. You
Speaker 1: missed it. We just gave away a gift card to
Speaker 1: Cabo Bob's four locations in Houston, several of them, many
Speaker 1: of them the headquarters in the Austin area, San Antonio,
Speaker 1: w Ai. There actually is one there. Dallas sucks for you. You're
Speaker 1: missing out on Cabo Bob. Should you ever get down
Speaker 1: to those other cities check out Cobo Bobs. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: give away another one later this hour. I did see
Speaker 1: in more in more food News, anybody ever eaten at Portillo's?
Speaker 1: Serious question? Callum Callum read here behind the Glass. You
Speaker 1: ever heard of Portillo's. It's it's a Chicago based restaurant.
Speaker 1: I believe it's at Chicago, and they're famous for their
Speaker 1: hot dogs. A Chicago dog. I've never there's. They're starting
Speaker 1: to build them in Texas. I know there's a few
Speaker 1: in in Dallas. I know my parents eat them and
Speaker 1: they like them. I think that there's one way out
Speaker 1: on the west side of Houston, and they're building one
Speaker 1: not far from me on the southwest side of Houston
Speaker 1: on Highway fifty nine. In Stafford. I believe near sugar Land.
Speaker 1: They've been building it for a while. I see the
Speaker 1: sign and so it's opening up. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: eat hot dogs, really, but I hear their shakes are great.
Speaker 1: And whatever I bring this up is because they just
Speaker 1: good job. Portilla's because it piqued my interest and I
Speaker 1: saw this story and I'm giving you about a minute
Speaker 1: of free love here on my radio show. They they
Speaker 1: came up with a new sandwich in honor of the
Speaker 1: Chicago born Pope, Pope Leo. Guess what the sandwich is called.
Speaker 1: It's called the Leo. Actually, all they did they renamed it.
Speaker 1: They had an Italian beef sandwich, and I guess in
Speaker 1: the month of May it is now called the Leo
Speaker 1: the Leo. I probably will not try the Italian beef sandwich.
Speaker 1: I don't need a lot of beef. I don't eat
Speaker 1: a lot of red meat. I mean, I'll eat meat.
Speaker 1: That's not like I'm a vegan or a vegetarian. But
Speaker 1: I but I don't know it is called the Leo.
Speaker 1: I mean, does a portion go back to the church
Speaker 1: or something? I mean they should, I mean, did he
Speaker 1: license his name? If is the is this something the
Speaker 1: Pope should be proud of uh having I mean, I
Speaker 1: think so. I had a cocktail name after me back
Speaker 1: in the day. It was it where was it? Was
Speaker 1: it a ConA grill? Remember I like ConA grill. It
Speaker 1: was one of Galleria one in Sugar Lambs. They had
Speaker 1: a high Tech teeny and I got to make it.
Speaker 1: Was part of a nice It was a charity thing
Speaker 1: and uh a portion of the proceeds. I think they
Speaker 1: went to the fort beIN women's shelter or something. This
Speaker 1: is way back. But I got to mix and match
Speaker 1: and and come up with my own cocktail. Was called
Speaker 1: the High Tech teeny. If you had a food woud
Speaker 1: named after you? What would it be? Would it be
Speaker 1: a sandwich like the Leo an Italian beef? Would it
Speaker 1: be a hot dog? Would it would it be a cocktail?
Speaker 1: Would it be a hamburger? Would it be a steak? Whatever?
Speaker 1: I I mean, cocktails are fun. I like that because
Speaker 1: I you know, I can go. It'd be nice to
Speaker 1: walk into a bar and have those little table tent cards.
Speaker 1: And this is what they did. It said, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: there was a picture of my name and meant my
Speaker 1: face and say try the high tech teeny. That was
Speaker 1: pretty flattering. That was pretty cool. Was also cool they
Speaker 1: raised thousands of dollars over a period of time to
Speaker 1: the to a charity. I think I was very proud
Speaker 1: of that. Nachos. Yeah, I can go for some nachos. Nacho,
Speaker 1: Nacho Man, garf Nacho's, Michael's meat ball. No, I don't
Speaker 1: eat me. See, I would have to eat eat it
Speaker 1: like I like fish and chicken. I like a literation,
Speaker 1: you know, so Garf's garb, bonzo beans non, no, no good Garfu.
Speaker 1: I asked you geanut butter and chocolate. Maybe we come
Speaker 1: up with a dessert. Pinut butter the chocolate, two greatest
Speaker 1: flavors known a man period. I mean it's sort of
Speaker 1: a blot. Oh. I need a blizzard named after me.
Speaker 1: Nah see, there's already a recent blizzard. Help me out
Speaker 1: over here, folks. Three four six twenty nine text. And
Speaker 1: if you were to name or have your name named
Speaker 1: after a food, what would it be? Three four six
Speaker 1: twenty nine Textan I love hearing that from you. All Right,
Speaker 1: We're finally gonna answer the question that I've been holding
Speaker 1: there for two segments. Got a caller, Garf, I heard
Speaker 1: your subject over flying over to China. You used a VPN,
Speaker 1: which is a virtual private network when you logged onto
Speaker 1: your phone and your computer, and also I think you
Speaker 1: said your tablet. I have a number of different free
Speaker 1: ones that are out there too, However, I've heard that
Speaker 1: they may not be reliable. Should I spend money on
Speaker 1: an actual VPN instead of getting a free one just
Speaker 1: to discuss my location when I travel? It's a good question.
Speaker 1: That was from Leonard. Leonard, Can I call you Leo?
Speaker 1: We're tight? Go go get your go to Portillo's and
Speaker 1: get it Italian beef sandwich named after you, Uh, Leonardo,
Speaker 1: I would recommend number one. Yes, I never really utilized
Speaker 1: a VPN when I traveled. You know, you go to
Speaker 1: Mexico and need to let's wherever I go. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been, I've been abroad, you know quite a bit. China.
Speaker 1: You needed one. China does not like Western media is
Speaker 1: in the United States, and you have to disguise your location.
Speaker 1: A VPN does many things. You may use a VPN,
Speaker 1: a virtual private network to log in from your house
Speaker 1: right now to get into your office offices. Don't want
Speaker 1: any third party hackers or anybody to get it that's
Speaker 1: what a VPN does. So they're going to give you
Speaker 1: the VPN software which actually works. And so if your
Speaker 1: company has a VPN, odds are wherever you are around
Speaker 1: the world. Your heads on your laptop, it's on your phone.
Speaker 1: You just use it. You're set to go the the
Speaker 1: Leonard answer your question. Yes, it's worth paying for one.
Speaker 1: There are some free ones. Proton VPN for one. That's
Speaker 1: a free one. All right. I've used it, not bad,
Speaker 1: but I've also read and heard that it could also
Speaker 1: potentially put some viruses on your computer and pop up
Speaker 1: ads and whatever. It also doesn't allow you some features
Speaker 1: that a paid VPN does. Now I say paid VPN,
Speaker 1: they're not that expensive. I actually used a paid one
Speaker 1: in China. I used Express VPN thirty bucks a year maybe,
Speaker 1: and I may be wrong. Go go check out. I
Speaker 1: wish I could give you discount code. I don't know
Speaker 1: any of that stuff, but I used Express VPM. What
Speaker 1: you could do you actually can choose where your server
Speaker 1: that you're dialing, that you're connecting through the Internet is located,
Speaker 1: and you could pick one of two hundred plus countries. Obviously, well,
Speaker 1: for me, I want to make I want to pretend
Speaker 1: like I'm in the United States because I'm in Japan.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm in China. And I log in from
Speaker 1: my phone, and I log on from my laptop, and
Speaker 1: I looking for a computer that my device. Even though
Speaker 1: I'm physically in China, it thinks I'm in the United States,
Speaker 1: which then allows me to log onto iHeartRadio. You see,
Speaker 1: there's the workaround, because if you just log on iHeart Radio,
Speaker 1: if you're on the Chinese Internet, Uh huh, not happening. Nope,
Speaker 1: we don't, we don't. We don't like those green goes
Speaker 1: over in America. No, no, we're not doing it. Disguise it.
Speaker 1: So VPNs you actually can say, hell, listen, I'm from Canada.
Speaker 1: I want I want a server somewhere else. I think
Speaker 1: it's probably worth it to spend I don't know it
Speaker 1: what X number of dollars per year. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: certainly under a hundred dollars, and I think they're under
Speaker 1: fifty dollars. But the thing is, though you don't need
Speaker 1: to just use them when you're traveling. It's not going
Speaker 1: to hurt you to use a VPN all the time.
Speaker 1: If you're in a coffee shop, how many times have
Speaker 1: people said, hey, don't log You're in an airport with
Speaker 1: free WIPI, you're your fire Wi Fi, You're in a mall,
Speaker 1: you're in a library. How many times are you for
Speaker 1: somebody else who's nearby to actually log on to your WiFi?
Speaker 1: All right? It is it is more than just you're saying.
Speaker 1: It's more than just you know, stealing your WiFi password.
Speaker 1: It's like it's it's creating a end to ind secure tunnel,
Speaker 1: especially if you do banking, especially if you have a
Speaker 1: use a VPN. I started using because I bought this
Speaker 1: VPN before I went to chint. So for the past
Speaker 1: what three weeks right now, I've been using it here.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to slow it down, but I kind
Speaker 1: of I have that little lock on top of my
Speaker 1: you know, laptop or on the top of my phone
Speaker 1: kind of gives me a little piece of mind. So, Leonardo,
Speaker 1: thank you for the email. You can email anybody can
Speaker 1: email me Michael at high Tech Texting dot com if
Speaker 1: you're too shy to call. If you do want to call,
Speaker 1: easy you don't, you can do it. Calum's bored, Calum,
Speaker 1: are you still light? Yeah? Three four six twenty nine
Speaker 1: textan you can ask me questions like that. But international
Speaker 1: travel is happening if you're in Austin. Uh, and actually
Speaker 1: I'm gonna actually it's great. If you're in Austin. You
Speaker 1: can watch my Fox seven segment every Mondays at seven
Speaker 1: forty five in the morning, about four minutes long, and
Speaker 1: generally I bring products and I answer questions and you know,
Speaker 1: give you some tips. This coming Monday, I ought to
Speaker 1: be showing off some some travel products, tech products that
Speaker 1: are good when traveling. And these are you know, international
Speaker 1: chargers I have, you know, because there's I think there's
Speaker 1: something like fifteen sixteen different types of chargers all over
Speaker 1: the world, different plugs. Is it a one is it
Speaker 1: a two ten volt? A to twenty volt? A one
Speaker 1: ten volt? The different types of plugs. Is it a VPN,
Speaker 1: Is it a SIM card? Is it an E sim card?
Speaker 1: I have some answers. And then, by the way, if
Speaker 1: you're not an Austin to watch it this coming Monday morning,
Speaker 1: you can log onto my website Hi Tech Texan and
Speaker 1: you can actually see the video, which I'll put up
Speaker 1: early next week. All right, when we come back. We
Speaker 1: got some more emails over here, and oh it's time
Speaker 1: to talk about cars. What's Michael driving this week? Well,
Speaker 1: I told you last hour Infinity. If you want an
Speaker 1: SUV that is a unstopped I mean a massive seven
Speaker 1: or eight passenger the QX eighty. Specifically, I had the
Speaker 1: autograph version, the autograph that's right, and it was is loud,
Speaker 1: it it's proud, it is big, and it's got some
Speaker 1: cool tech features. If you want to actually bury the
Speaker 1: lead during the break, go to my Instagram. High Tech
Speaker 1: Texting spelled the whole thing out. Look at one of
Speaker 1: my most recent videos that I shot, he showed out
Speaker 1: three of the coolest features.
Speaker 5: I've seen inside the and Kennedy t X eighty. I'll
Speaker 5: talk about that when you come back.
Speaker 1: Who needs a car, who wants a car, Well, this
Speaker 1: is the place to come because every single week I
Speaker 1: do with the past fifteen years, I also talk and
Speaker 1: review cars Michael Garfield. This is called the High Tech
Speaker 1: Textan show. We talk about that because cars, trucks, SUVs,
Speaker 1: they're pretty much all technology. I realized that about a
Speaker 1: decade decade and a half ago, and so I started
Speaker 1: reviewing a lot of these vehicles. And I am honored
Speaker 1: enough to work with manufactured. Actually I work with a
Speaker 1: third party company, but they deliver me on a weekly
Speaker 1: basis a new vehicle to drive. I have for the
Speaker 1: past fifteen years. Every single week, I drive around and
Speaker 1: give you my thoughts. This is not pay this is
Speaker 1: not a dealership. I'm not going to tell you where
Speaker 1: to go, so I can tell you it sucks. I
Speaker 1: can tell you this is the coolest ride you've ever had.
Speaker 1: So please trust me for this thing. And so I'd
Speaker 1: done almost again, well over fifty five sixty sixty five
Speaker 1: different vehicles in a given year. This past week, what
Speaker 1: is Michael driving? I was in an Infinity q X eighty,
Speaker 1: the new twenty twenty five version of it. Specifically, I
Speaker 1: had the autograph version. Now, this is the upgraded all
Speaker 1: wheel drive version of the Infinity QX eighty. Infinity, as
Speaker 1: you know, is the let's just say, the high end
Speaker 1: arm leg wheel of Nissan. Nissan and Infinity one in
Speaker 1: the same in terms of how a lot of their
Speaker 1: vehicles are built. A lot of them are on the
Speaker 1: same frame. So let's specifically talk about their large suv.
Speaker 1: If you look in an Infinity QX eighty, it resembles
Speaker 1: incredibly close the Nissan Armada because pretty much it's the
Speaker 1: same frame. However, when you talk about Infinity, just like
Speaker 1: other brands have their kind of high level thing. We
Speaker 1: got Toyota Alexis, and we can go on and on
Speaker 1: and on. There's a lot of upgrades in there. We're
Speaker 1: talking the seats and the leather, and the suspension and
Speaker 1: the wheels. You can go on and on and on.
Speaker 1: This version, the Infinity QX eighty autograph is incredibly luxurious.
Speaker 1: It's incredibly large. Let's start with that third row. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna work it backwards right now. Normally you have a
Speaker 1: third row in an suv. It's very tough getting back
Speaker 1: there for kids. Don't even talk about adults. I am
Speaker 1: an adult who's six foot tall. Very simple to get
Speaker 1: into that third row because this thing is so big.
Speaker 1: You step up onto the little, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: shelf that you know, when you open the door, it
Speaker 1: pops up. There's the step that automatically comes in. There's
Speaker 1: a button on the second row seats one click. It's
Speaker 1: an automatic button on the top of it that slides
Speaker 1: that second row seat up, which gives your room to
Speaker 1: step up and right into the back seat of that vehicle.
Speaker 1: I was sitting down in the back. My head did
Speaker 1: not touch the roof. That's how big it was. It
Speaker 1: was great. Let's move up to the second row. In
Speaker 1: the second row seats, these had captain's chairs. My guess
Speaker 1: is I believe you can actually put a bench there
Speaker 1: to actually even make it eight people seating, but this
Speaker 1: was for seven people. The bench seats incredibly soft, luxurious,
Speaker 1: tons of leg room, even more head room between the
Speaker 1: two seats in back, the two captain chairs. It had
Speaker 1: a programmable LED screen where you can control the air
Speaker 1: conditioning in the back seat, the audio in the back seat,
Speaker 1: the back seats. That second row seats, it had air
Speaker 1: conditioning seats easily charge at a number of different USB outlets.
Speaker 1: Really convenient. I like that. Then we moved to the
Speaker 1: front seat. Needless to say, even justice comfany the same
Speaker 1: types of seats, fifteen or sixteen different ways that you
Speaker 1: can go up down, back. The chairs are air conditioning,
Speaker 1: the chairs are heated, leather, steering will It's got all
Speaker 1: the safety features in this one. Not only did it
Speaker 1: have a wireless charger in that front seat for your phone.
Speaker 1: I'm going to paint the picture here, all right, this
Speaker 1: is I'm a storyteller. There's generally where the driver rest
Speaker 1: his right elbow. There's a storage bend. You can flip
Speaker 1: it up, store a little something in the air, your keys,
Speaker 1: your wallet, your purse, whatever it is. This one denied
Speaker 1: to have a storage bind. This had a freaking refrigerator. People,
Speaker 1: I cannot make this up. It's called a cool box,
Speaker 1: and it is for all practical purpose. It is a
Speaker 1: refrigerator that holds, if you stack them up, easily holds
Speaker 1: a six pack probably eight or nine different cans of
Speaker 1: coke or soda. Do not put beer in there, because
Speaker 1: it's a moving vehicle. You got going to the store up,
Speaker 1: you got baby bottles, you need something, you need chocolate,
Speaker 1: and you're driving around in the hot summer. There's an
Speaker 1: odd and off switch. You don't need to use it
Speaker 1: as a refrigerator. It actually couldn't be a storage bin.
Speaker 1: But heck, yeah, man, I'm driving around. It's almost one
Speaker 1: hundred degrees already here in the second week of May,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm I'm chilling. You know, I think I
Speaker 1: had some seltzer in there. It was great. That was
Speaker 1: pretty neat, easy to turn, easy to easy to handle,
Speaker 1: twenty two inch aluminum alloy wheels, three point five liter
Speaker 1: V six engine, three point five liter V six the
Speaker 1: V six turbo. Man, if it wasn't turbo, I would say,
Speaker 1: you know what this needs more, get up and go.
Speaker 1: It's a big car, it's a heavy car. Well it's
Speaker 1: it's not even a car. We're gonna go SUV. But
Speaker 1: it does have that turbo, and it has something like
Speaker 1: four hides close to four hundred and fifty horse power.
Speaker 1: So it does give give you that it does toe
Speaker 1: I think around eight thousand pounds or so if you
Speaker 1: do have a little boat or if you don't want
Speaker 1: to tow something in the back. Now, one of the
Speaker 1: things that I didn't love does not get the greatest
Speaker 1: gas mileage as you can imagine. Well certainly not a electric,
Speaker 1: but uh the gas mileage. I had to fill it
Speaker 1: up a few times. And I rarely fill up, you know,
Speaker 1: I get these vehicles for a week. Generally I rarely
Speaker 1: go to a gas station. I don't drive these things
Speaker 1: a ton, and I don't take them on you know,
Speaker 1: big road trips. But I probably had to pull into
Speaker 1: a gas station. I didn't have to fill it up
Speaker 1: more than once. But I probably had to top it
Speaker 1: up like two times because it kept us sucking him
Speaker 1: down price on this one sit down one hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand dollars. I know it's the autograph version. You
Speaker 1: can get in a Finny q X eighty for cheaper
Speaker 1: than that. But I've when I said this, let me
Speaker 1: give you my recommendation because it's built on the same
Speaker 1: frame as Kniisangans Armada, which is still three rows, which
Speaker 1: is still big. You're not gonna get the bigger, the
Speaker 1: coolest wheels unless you upgrade them. You're not gonna get
Speaker 1: the refrigerator. You're not gonna get you know all that,
Speaker 1: the UPLTD of the listen, you could upgrade those things.
Speaker 1: It's relatively the same vehicle. It drives well, it handles well.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna save you at thirty thousand dollars or so.
Speaker 1: Take a look at the Nie Armada. Nothing's wrong with
Speaker 1: the Infinity Kubex eighty. I think it's one of the easiest.
Speaker 1: This is what mid May four five, I've done what
Speaker 1: twenty five thirty vehicles already this year, easily the top
Speaker 1: six or seven vehicles that I've driven so far in
Speaker 1: terms of luxury in terms of the handling, in terms
Speaker 1: of the comfort, And that's how I judge this stuff on. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not gearhead guy. I'm not saying what's the power
Speaker 1: to weight ratio and what's the torque? I don't measure
Speaker 1: on that. If you want that, read cart and driver. Okay,
Speaker 1: ghost somewhere else. I'm like, mom's out there. Is this
Speaker 1: comfortable enough to schlep my kids for the next eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten years? Is it sturdy? Does it have a nice
Speaker 1: cargo room where you know we could fit all the
Speaker 1: kids baseball, softball? Get That's the stuff that I rate
Speaker 1: this thing on. Love the Infinity QX eighty really, don't
Speaker 1: love the price, don't love the gas mileage. Take a
Speaker 1: look at the Nissan ar Mode. It's the same company,
Speaker 1: It's the same everything either one. If you got the cash, sure,
Speaker 1: go ahead get the qxaighty. And if you got a
Speaker 1: cash for an Infinity QX eighty, why don't you pick
Speaker 1: me up one two? I kind of like Midnight Blue
Speaker 1: little Tan interior set to go. Just program KPRC nine
Speaker 1: to fifty am. If you're in Houston twelve hundred WAI,
Speaker 1: if you're in San Antonio, and eleven ninety talk radio
Speaker 1: if you're in Dallas, and if not, download the iHeart
Speaker 1: Radio app and then just stream it directly to your
Speaker 1: infotainment system. The infotainment system from Nissan and Infinity pretty
Speaker 1: much the same thing. There you go, anything else evs,
Speaker 1: I've done evs. What's my thought. I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of EE discussions since I've been back from China. China
Speaker 1: has a ton of EV's. We talked about three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I had a really interesting in depth interview with someone
Speaker 1: who was with a Rice University professor. Smart dude who
Speaker 1: knows a lot about EV's, you know, saving you know,
Speaker 1: the Earth and whatever like that, why they can be better.
Speaker 1: I just don't have the patients for EV's. I don't want.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna recommend an EV not because I don't
Speaker 1: love EV's, because I do not like our battery charging
Speaker 1: infrastructure here we have in the United States, it takes
Speaker 1: too long. In China, one of the manufacturers coming out
Speaker 1: with five a battery that will charge in five minutes.
Speaker 1: We are still not there. But on the other side,
Speaker 1: when we come back America, an American institute, an American manufacturer,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the news is getting on
Speaker 1: it to come out with a new EV battery. I
Speaker 1: will give you all of that information because this is
Speaker 1: the question, could this be the thing that gets me
Speaker 1: to potentially purchase and recommend an EV? Anxious ears away
Speaker 1: right here on the high Tech Texans Ship final segment
Speaker 1: of this weekend show, the high Tech Texting Show. Hanging
Speaker 1: there people, six or seven minutes, I will release you.
Speaker 1: You can tell me what you learn from these two
Speaker 1: hours and just go enjoy your happy hour and sit
Speaker 1: by the pool. Because it is pool, brother, no doubt
Speaker 1: you're in Texas. It is a nasty hot I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna give out the phone number anymore because we got
Speaker 1: a few things to wrap up over here. I want
Speaker 1: to do the finished thought on evs. Just gave you
Speaker 1: my ten minute impression on the Infinity QX eighty and
Speaker 1: the what's Michael driving this week segment? I do once
Speaker 1: every month and a half two months during my rotation
Speaker 1: of test reviewing cars in vehicles, I do get an EV.
Speaker 1: And the first thing I think of when an EV
Speaker 1: pulls up, because I can't request it, it's this, it's
Speaker 1: one company who works with a dozen manufacturers. I mean
Speaker 1: you BMW, GM, Mercedes Infinity, whatever it is. I do
Speaker 1: not know what's coming, but just fine, okay, because I
Speaker 1: just run the gamut because there's so many vehicles out there,
Speaker 1: I want to test them all. So it shows up,
Speaker 1: shows up, an EV shows up. My first thought is
Speaker 1: am I driving anywhere out of town this week while
Speaker 1: I have it? Because at that point I started thinking,
Speaker 1: oh God, I'm gonna have to It's not gonna make
Speaker 1: it because I do not want to stop halfway between
Speaker 1: Houston and Dallas. Fray that I find a vehicle charger.
Speaker 1: Hope that no vehicle is using no vehicles are using
Speaker 1: all four of the charging units. Then if that even happens,
Speaker 1: you know, shot number three is I have to sit
Speaker 1: there for thirty minutes forty five minutes an hour, killing
Speaker 1: time doing nothing while I charge the battery. I just
Speaker 1: I eighty HD people, I don't do that. That's why
Speaker 1: I just don't recommend EV's unless it's maybe your second vehicle.
Speaker 1: If it's your second car, okay, cool, Use the EV
Speaker 1: in the city, going on a roadie, going up to
Speaker 1: Austin for the Horns game. Use the gas mobile. Perfect.
Speaker 1: Maybe you live and work within thirty forty miles of
Speaker 1: each other. Maybe you have a charge at home, maybe
Speaker 1: your office has a charge. You're always gonna keep that
Speaker 1: things charged it up, and that's it. Maybe you are
Speaker 1: gonna do nothing but go in a four mile radius
Speaker 1: of your home because you're just taking the kids to school,
Speaker 1: You're taking the kids to the grocery store, you're taking
Speaker 1: them to the ballet or the ball arena, class, you
Speaker 1: take it to the soft buff field. That's it. Go
Speaker 1: home and charge it for me in my lifestyle, and
Speaker 1: you have to when I recommend things. Yes, I am
Speaker 1: a male who's over fifty, who's kids are grown, and
Speaker 1: it's just me and that's the way I am. I
Speaker 1: when I get questions about Michael, is this car good
Speaker 1: for me and my future husband because we're gonna get
Speaker 1: married soon and we're going to have a baby. Is
Speaker 1: this car big enough for a car seat? Absolutely? I
Speaker 1: will put myself in your shoes. But for me right
Speaker 1: now and EV doesn't make sense because of the snap
Speaker 1: of my fingers. As I live in Houston now, I
Speaker 1: want to go to Austin, and I go to Austin
Speaker 1: on a monthly basis to do TV football season. I
Speaker 1: go to the ut games. My parents live in Dallas,
Speaker 1: so I live up and down I forty five, I
Speaker 1: go up and down on you know, seventy one in
Speaker 1: iten whatever it is, So I don't want to worry
Speaker 1: about it. The point is when, and I say when,
Speaker 1: maybe in my lifetime. I'm not sure. Batteries get better
Speaker 1: where it's faster charging. I will get an EV in chain.
Speaker 1: Now BYD which is the name of a manufacturer over there,
Speaker 1: which has like six different brands, and there's so many
Speaker 1: and they are very inexpensive over in China. They BYD
Speaker 1: is just coming out with a battery that will charge
Speaker 1: allegedly from what I hear, in five minutes. Five minutes
Speaker 1: now we're talking. Now we're talking five minutes is almost
Speaker 1: faster than I can fill up a tank with gas.
Speaker 1: I like it. But I bring this down to Earth.
Speaker 1: I bring us to the United States because as I
Speaker 1: read a press release, General Motors GM just unveiled a
Speaker 1: new quote and it's actually in quotes groundbreaking EV battery technology,
Speaker 1: and they're saying this could be the first to market.
Speaker 1: The first to market says it's going to reduce cost
Speaker 1: and boost profitability of the large electric SUVs and trucks
Speaker 1: that GM makes. What it is, it's a new type
Speaker 1: of battery. It's a lithium maiden use rich prismatic battery
Speaker 1: cell LMR. We're just gonna go LMR lithium manganese rich,
Speaker 1: and you do have to be rich. You get an
Speaker 1: ev right now. If you know what I'm saying, ha
Speaker 1: ha should be around in twenty twenty eight. Apparently they're
Speaker 1: gonna be more prevalent, less expensive minerals. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: lighter and more cost effective. The thing that is the
Speaker 1: one of those adjectives that just popped in my mind.
Speaker 1: It's not the cost effective it The fact is the
Speaker 1: lighter batteries are heavy. Batteries are heavy, and if you
Speaker 1: think about it, the batteries are powering a car, but
Speaker 1: they're carrying themselves because as you're driving, the battery is
Speaker 1: always in the car, So the battery weighs. It weighs
Speaker 1: down half the car. If you can light that up,
Speaker 1: the battery is gonna get you further. It's as simple
Speaker 1: as that lithium manganese rich battery cells. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the Escalade IQ, the Chevallet Silverado beginning in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Okay, I could dig it. I like the
Speaker 1: announcement bored Actually, if I remember earlier this month, they
Speaker 1: announced its intention to launch a game changing LMR battery
Speaker 1: sometime before twenty thirty. But GM says they're gonna actually
Speaker 1: do it quicker. They're being developed in partnership with LG
Speaker 1: Energy Solutions. Okay, that's good. Listen, all I did was
Speaker 1: read a press release. I've learned to read press releases
Speaker 1: and read between the line of press releases over the
Speaker 1: three dozen years I've been doing this whole media thing.
Speaker 1: It sounds sexy, sounds exciting, and then I start seeing
Speaker 1: things that are three years away, two years, five years away,
Speaker 1: ten years away. It's like, why did you even send
Speaker 1: out a press release because I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be around in one day, much less two years.
Speaker 1: Don't get me excited right now? Are they? I know
Speaker 1: the reasons they're doing it. It could help stock price,
Speaker 1: It could help even though think of a two year
Speaker 1: weight cycle for a car is almost not that big
Speaker 1: of a deal. You know, cars can last hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of miles. Cars last. My last car that actually
Speaker 1: bought last eighteen years. So if you're thinking about getting
Speaker 1: a new car, you may not even be in the
Speaker 1: shopping mode for another two years. Oh you remember what
Speaker 1: Garfield talked about on the show. Oh yeah, in about
Speaker 1: two years or twenty twenty seven, GM is probably coming
Speaker 1: out with an LMR battery. Well, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: look for another car for two years, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to go buy a GM because it's going to have
Speaker 1: this new LMR battery that he was talking about. I
Speaker 1: understand whether saying it they can also promise it. I
Speaker 1: love these numbers. GM expects these new LMR battery sales
Speaker 1: to have thirty three percent higher energy density, providing additional
Speaker 1: miles of range. Okay they expect him to have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want real world stuff. So I look these things,
Speaker 1: I read these things. I take it with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt. See the fact that maybe the United States
Speaker 1: is looking to other countries and saying, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: how can they do this? Let's just maybe take a
Speaker 1: baby step working with other countries man finding it hopefully
Speaker 1: there's no tariffs, and making the entire world a better place.
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