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have more important technology news that is going in the

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going around the United States with worldwide ramifications. People, Have

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you joined? Have you been asked to join the text

3:31

chat from the US government when it comes to that

3:36

signal app? Oh we have an issue here people, Yes,

3:40

we do. If asked or automatically invited to join a

3:46

groupe text chat that you know you're not supposed to

3:50

be in and it has got massively classified information like oh,

3:56

when the US is going to bomb another country, do

4:00

you want to get out or do you want to get in? I'll talk about that second, but let me

4:04

give you some context here. A journalist was accidentally added

4:09

to a Signal Group chap, and I'll explain what signal

4:13

is that was intended only for classified military discussions. Listen,

4:19

I'm going to give people keep all the benefit of

4:21

the doubt. It happened. Mistakes happen. Everybody makes mistakes, and

4:27

that's exactly why security protocols exist to prevent human error

4:33

from becoming a systematic failure. Security systems are only as

4:39

effective as the people who use them. I mean, you

4:43

can have military grade encryption and zero trust architecture, but

4:48

if someone writes a password on a post it note

4:51

and sticks it to a monitor, boom, the whole system

4:55

is compromised. And that's apparently what happened here. This was

5:00

not a hack. This was not a breach of technology.

5:04

It was a breach of process or protocol. In common sense,

5:10

let me break it down. Signal which is an app,

5:14

an encrypted app. It's fine for securing personal messages, not

5:20

for classified information or proprietary business data. There are enterprise

5:25

grade systems that can enforce access rules by design. Now,

5:29

if you're a communication platform doesn't know who's supposed to

5:32

be in the room, either it's the wrong platform or

5:35

people aren't using it correctly. This journalist didn't hack the group.

5:42

He was invited to join the group. Hey man, what's

5:45

going on? You want to come over for a cocktail? He was invited, And without identity verification, access is a

5:53

guessing game. So whether it's a group Chad or a

5:56

shared drive, knowing who's on the thread, it's not optional.

6:02

On a secure platform, a name without proper clearance wouldn't

6:06

even appear as an option. So this wasn't a system failure.

6:10

It was a failure to use a system designed to

6:12

prevent exactly this kind of mistake. So right now everybody

6:17

is scrambling to protect proprietary data and the fear is

6:21

that sensitive data might be leaked or stolen or used

6:24

with out permission. But the real threat isn't always a

6:26

sophisticated hack. It's somebody skipping the steps. It's someone hard

6:33

coding the credentials, failing to restrict database access or assuming

6:38

internal meaning secure. Remember this security isn't a product. Security

6:46

is a practice. Thoughts on that when it comes to

6:50

signal real quickly before we take a break, and we're

6:53

going to continue about this, And by the way, I'd love to hear from you. This is an interactive talk

6:57

show Michael Garfield is the name. It is three four

6:59

six two nine te x An three four six twenty

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nine textan if you went away on this, but real quickly,

7:05

let me tell you what Signal is. You may have

7:07

never heard of Signal. You may have heard of Facebook

7:10

or I Message or What's App. There are a lot

7:13

of these chat messaging apps, but Signal has been around

7:18

since twenty fourteen. It's a very popular messaging chap and

7:21

it obviously was the preferred communication platform for top officials

7:25

in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. That's right,

7:31

the plan of the Iranian back militants and Yemen. Now

7:35

we never would have known this if a if the

7:37

journalist wasn't inavertly added to the group. Signal is encrypted,

7:42

just like I Message and just like What's App. No

7:46

clue why they didn't use, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, since he,

7:49

you know, gave so much to the campaign. But it's

7:52

become widely used in the last decade because it's very

7:56

good when it comes to privacy. It provides customers. Now,

7:59

this doesn't automatically make it lawful method for elected and

8:01

appointed officials to communicate. Signal is an encrypted commercial messaging app,

8:07

and it's available to anyone in the Apple and Android

8:10

app stores. It's got a great reputation one of the

8:13

most secure messaging platforms in the world, because you know why.

8:16

It has no ads, It does not use trackers track

8:19

it doesn't track users data. It doesn't store any metadata

8:22

like time stabs, Internet addresses, or group names because everything

8:26

is stored on It's not being stored in a server.

8:29

All the data share through Signal is saved only on

8:32

the user's devices, all right. Signal also gives users the

8:36

possibility to hide their phone numbers from others. Okay, Other

8:41

than that, it's similar in concept to other pervert instant

8:44

messaging services, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp. You could send text, you

8:48

can make video and voice calls, you could send videos

8:50

and pictures and stickers and jeffs and everything. It's become, however,

8:55

popular among activists and revolutionaries and politicians and journalists and

8:59

even criminals who may have an interest in keeping government

9:02

agencies from intercepting or subtaining their message. It's a good

9:07

personal use app. No clue why it was being used

9:13

at this high level, because the government already does have

9:18

internal high level encrypted messaging services. Anybody whose signal Before

9:25

we take a break, tell you what. I wasn't on

9:27

Signal until a few days ago. I wanted to test

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it out. I joined Signal. You can find me at

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Michael Garfield. Let's play around. If you want to join

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my Signal chat app, I will tell you who shot JFK.

9:41

You see, let's just have some fun with this thing.

9:44

It is Michael Garfield. It is the high tech dex and shows three four to six twenty nine tex and

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we'll give you this and so much more coming back.

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You ask man.

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I mentioned at once, like how many people are just requesting my friendship on Signal, the now famous app you

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may have never heard of, despite the fact that it's been around for like eleven years. Michael Garfield, you can

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find me on Signal, join my group chat, and I will tell you the secrets behind who killed JFK. Dah,

10:29

just kidding, just kidding. Was it was it Lee Harvey?

10:31

I don't know, but at some point, man, and that's

10:34

what we're yapping about over here, Signal was you gotta

10:38

use ENCRYPTID forms of that. And the Signal is wonderful

10:42

just like What's app, just like Facebook, Messenger and even

10:45

your imassage. These are encrypted, but at some point people

10:48

you don't want to give not only company but freaking

10:50

government secrets out here. Inadvertently asking a journalist, the editor

10:56

in Cheap of the Atlanta to be on there. Michael

10:59

Garfield is the day. But it's called the High Tech Texan Show. I will tell you what to stay away

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from services like this. I will tell you services to

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actually join services like this. If you just have personal messaging,

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what chat app do you use? Do you listen? There's

13:40

so many people who use their iPhone and the iPhone.

13:43

You've got I Message and I've iPhone I Messages. They

13:46

are encrypted. But for people like me who use Android,

13:51

the default is I use Google Messages and Google Messages

13:55

for what it's worth, they're not in to end encrypted,

13:58

which means they are stored in a certo. Encrypted if

14:01

you're just tuning in means well, nothing is stored in

14:04

a server. It just goes from your phone to your phone,

14:06

all right, on your user device, if you will, right,

14:09

So that is what it means. Now What's app that

14:15

I have What's App, I don't use it nearly as much,

14:18

and I use What'sapp when I travel internationally. That's an

14:21

easy way to do it. I'll also use Facebook Messenger

14:24

that's also encrypted. I probably should get in the habit

14:27

of using those things more than just my typical you know,

14:30

Google messages Google message that are not encrypted. But how

14:34

about this do the editor in chief of the Atlantic

14:40

was accidentally added to this chat with the Vice President

14:46

of the United States, and you know, Michael Waltz and

14:50

and all these people up there, so he knew what

14:52

was going on with his bombing and Yemen. We debate

14:56

about that it was a user error, because I want

15:00

you to think about this. Have you ever accidentally texted

15:04

or emailed someone you're not supposed to because you started

15:08

typing a name and all of a sudden there was

15:11

auto fhill and all of a sudden you realized, oh no, man,

15:14

I just texted my ex that's not her name, all right,

15:18

Or if you're added to a chat, if you use

15:21

somebody's initials, like in this case the dude whose editor

15:25

in chief. His name is Jeffrey Goldberg. So if you've

15:27

got a jag his initials and you're trying to add

15:31

people because it could have been, you know, just as somebody, Well, yeah,

15:37

that's how inadvert happened. And I'm blaming this one on

15:40

user error. I really am nobody was hacked or anything,

15:45

but I want to think about this. I'm the editor

15:47

in chief of The Atlantic. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg. I am

15:53

a journalist who has been in this position since twenty sixteen.

16:00

This dude has worked at Bloomberg. This dude has worked

16:03

at The New Yorker, published stories, does a lot of

16:07

government stuff. He's put on this very small group chat,

16:13

and he realized, and I'm gonna give you a quote. I'm gonna give a quote from him quote. The Signal

16:18

chat group, I concluded was almost certainly real. Having come

16:23

to this realization when that seemed nearly impossible only hours before,

16:28

I removed myself from the Signal group, understanding that this

16:32

would trigger an automatic notification to the group's creator, Michael Waltz,

16:35

that I had left. No one in the chat had

16:38

seemed to notice that I was there, and I received

16:41

no subsequent questions about why I left, or more to

16:44

the point, who I was. This dude had the ultimate

16:49

he was a fly on the wall. Well, I got

16:53

questions for you, Jeffrey Goldberg, mister journalist, Why in the

16:59

world did you leave the chat? This is inside info

17:05

people that any journalist for his or her salt would

17:14

love to find out what goes on the inner workings.

17:18

Why did he leave this thing? Let me help you out.

17:22

I don't think it's an If I was inadvertently I

17:26

would not have left this chat a second before I had to. No one realized I was there. Who knows

17:33

what they were going to say after their little bomb party planning SASH was all wrapped up. Why did this

17:38

guy bail? What is the deal? He said? Uh, you know,

17:46

you know I didn't. I didn't need to find out

17:49

what was going on? What kind of journalists are you? People?

17:55

You knew you had to publish what you already had.

17:57

I got that you bore witness firsthand the outrageous, sloppy

18:01

methods of this of what's going on in the administration. No,

18:07

I'm on people. You got Secretary Hegseeth and Secretary Mark

18:10

Rube Marc or Rubio. You got jd Vance. This is

18:12

big time, man. I mean, at some point you chimed in,

18:15

Hey man, anybody want to, you know, take a taco

18:18

bell break. I'll go pick up some orders over here,

18:21

because you know this, all this information and bombing here

18:24

is making me hungry. We need to know this info. People.

18:28

Would you leave and I'm gonna leave this as we get to the bottom of the hour and listen, we

18:31

have so much more to talk to too. Three four six

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twenty nine texted and I'll leave you this with I

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put this one mile on my Twitter too. If for some let's get this government stuff out of here. If

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for some reason you have been asked or you are

18:45

inevertly included in any chat text group of any people

18:52

or any subject, what would you choose? I'm gonna I'm

18:56

gonna I know what I would choose, and I'm gonna make you hang on to the other side of this break.

19:00

Didn't take me three seconds to figure this one out.

19:02

Doesn't matter what it is. I mean, it could have

19:05

been back in the day. Hey, I'd like to blame the planning session for the Coca Cola people when they

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plan the new Coke I mean anything, what would you

19:12

choose to be a fly on the wall. I'll tell

19:14

you what I would choose. Will you tell me what

19:17

you would choose? After this?

19:18

The bottom of the hours Michael Garfield, the bottom of.

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That first hour of the Ditection Show, Michael Garfield, whether

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our subject last segment and we'll finish the subject on

21:12

the group text chat on signal that the government inadvertently

21:16

invited a journalist to join so that journalist could find

21:22

out for the first few minutes of the United States

21:24

was bombing Yemen. If you were if you could be

21:29

a fly on the wall like that journalist was on

21:32

any chat that they didn't know you were on, what

21:37

would it be anything? First thing for me that came

21:42

to mind, I would love to be on a group chat with the NFL commissioner and the executives in the

21:48

TV networks about who is going to win the Super

21:52

Bowl this coming year. Because you know that stuff is scripted. Man,

21:57

I'd let man Roger Goodell, NFL commissioners throwing out f

22:00

bombs or something like that. No, no, no can The

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city Chiefs have had too long of a run. We need to spice it up. Philadelphia is a big market.

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That'd be awesome. Three four six twenty nine text and

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22:25

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22:28

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twenty three in me. Oh, my DNA. I want to

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find out my heritage, baby, I want I need to

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Part Jewish? What some of my family is from Scandinavia?

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23:43

because one of the biggest names in at home genetic testing,

23:48

they filed for bankruptcy this week. That's right. They announced

23:51

the immediate resignation of its CEO after plumbing from unicorn status,

24:00

nearly being worthless in less than four years. Company is

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called twenty three and Me. They've lost ninety nine percent

24:09

of its value since it peaked at six billion dollars

24:15

when it went public in twenty twenty one. Still has

24:19

a market cap of about twenty million dollars. They also

24:22

claimed to have about one hundred to five hundred million dollars in assets, along with one hundred million to five

24:27

hundred million dollars in debt. Let's go back in time.

24:31

I remember when twenty three of Me was there. It was the first at home DNA ancestry test kit. All right,

24:39

they mailed you something, you swabbed your saliva, you spit

24:43

in something, you mailed it back. They'd come back with

24:46

the whole history of this is where I'm from, and oh my god, are you the real father? I mean,

24:50

it's just it was crazy. But the company struggled to

24:54

grow revenue on a business model that really relied on

24:58

a single use test kit. They try to sell subscription

25:02

services and maybe into research and drug therapies. That didn't

25:06

really happen. Okay, nothing. So there was a data breach

25:12

in twenty twenty three that affected about half of all

25:14

twenty three and me users, which are about seven million people,

25:17

and that undermined the trust there, and then customers pulled

25:20

out from the platform. Company paid thirty million dollars settlement.

25:27

So right now, your genetic data could be up for grabs.

25:33

But people you want personal information, they've got your freaking

25:37

spit in your entire family tree. Going back to George

25:40

Washington era, what do you do? Well, I will tell

25:43

you what to do, because this is what the high tech textan does. How to protect and get your data?

25:49

Well back, let me put it this way to delete it?

25:52

Let me give you a few steps. I will say

25:54

it slowly, maybe repeated again. How do you delete your

25:58

genetic data from twenty three because consumers can delete their

26:03

account and the personal information by doing a few things.

26:07

Number one, log into your twenty three and Me account

26:11

on their website. Okay, once you're there, go to settings.

26:16

Everybody with me so far? You scroll to a section

26:21

that says twenty three and meter data. Then you click

26:26

view let's view it. Now. You could download your data

26:32

if you want to copy of your genetic data for your personal storage. I kind of would choose to download

26:37

it before proceeding. And then after that you scroll to

26:43

a little thing that says delete data, and then you

26:47

click permanally delete data. You should receive an email from

26:53

twenty three and Me. I click the link in the

26:56

email to confirm your deletion request. It's not that hard.

27:00

Log on to the website settings, look for your data,

27:06

view it and download it delete it permanently. Yes, you

27:09

can do that. Anybody got questions, I am here for you.

27:13

I never did it. My youngest son did it. He

27:18

wanted that as a gift and was a birthday gift

27:21

about two or three years ago. And he did it.

27:26

And you know what, I don't even know. And I

27:29

gave it to him, said, I gave him a subscription. What was it? Forty fifty sixty bucks? I don't know.

27:33

I don't even know if I ever followed up and asked him, hey, if I'm a real dad, yes, I

27:39

am a real dad, But what's our ancestry? It reminds

27:44

me I should do that right now, man. But you

27:47

talk about your personal info. I mean that's big stuff.

27:55

This is what it wasn't hot. It's just who is

28:01

going to buy the remains of twenty three in me?

28:04

Because they're going to sell it for scraps? And is

28:07

it the data or is it just the website url?

28:11

Government gonna come in and do it, government ought to

28:13

already knows so much about it. That's a big one. People,

28:17

protect yourself. This is why I am here. Michael Garfield,

28:20

the high tech Texan who I do know is at

28:22

least a fifth generation Texan. And that's just because I

28:25

did my own research by talking to my grandparents and

28:27

my parents. That's about the only thing you got, onlynd

28:30

thing you got. I know who my parents are. I

28:32

do believe them, and I know I have three kids, and I can testify that I was in the birthing room,

28:37

all from the same mom. And they are my kids.

28:40

Despite the fact that one is a redhead, one is the blonde, and one is a brunette. They are all

28:44

my kids. Great boys that I got, great boys. I

28:47

need to talk to one of my boys to find out the rest of my history because he did twenty

28:50

three in May day when we come back, A lot

28:53

of questions of actually when we come back, I finally,

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I finally found a smart use for AI and if

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you were a baseball fan, which, by the way, baseball

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season has started a few days ago. People, there's a

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fun promotion, and I love promotions. I'm a marketing guy.

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I mean, hell, I'm giving away some robo rock vacuums

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way to use AI and it's gonna get you a beer.

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If that doesn't allow you to hang on to this

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so commercial break, I don't know that it is Michael

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one of three four hundred dollars value and I have

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one of these. It is cool because I got a

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lot of wood floors and I'm a pretty clean dude.

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So this thing vacuums it self, propels, it's not heavy,

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and then it goes back and it mops it right after that. Love this thing? Who needs a maid? I

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don't need a maid. Do not meet a maid? AI

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also scary, right, Artificial intelligence? So no, that's worse than

31:14

actually being asked to join a signal chat by the government. No, no, no, AI?

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found something and it's called a stunt, A promotion that

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week and a half ago in Japan, but here in

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the United States it actually started a few days ago.

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pretty good. If you go to a game and I

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think it just starts for the New York Mets, I

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guess as it was, it just the Mets game, and I hope they expand this. This is beautiful an opening

32:10

day here. If you're sitting and you've got a bad seat,

32:14

if your view is obstructed, maybe by a foul pole

32:17

or an overhanging deck or a concrete pillar, and you've

32:20

been I know I've been there, This is beautiful. Cors

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they have launched a promotion called obstructed Bruise, not obstructive views,

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So if you are a fan who finds themselves with

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an obstructed view, you could snap a photo. You could

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upload it to the cores Light AI powered tool. Okay,

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the crappier the seat, the better pay off, because AI

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less of the game you see, the more cores Light

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you can get. This is I'm not doing an ad for cores Light. I'm giving them free level right here.

33:14

I wish Corslight payby to talk about this. It's actually funny.

33:16

I like this stuff. By the way, it doesn't give

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you product right on the spot. It does supply VENMO

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payments to winners if you are twenty one and older

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on your next persage, next purchase, and the average prizes

33:31

will fall somewhere between eighteen to twenty four dollars. People.

33:35

This is what This is what technology is supposed to be.

33:40

I wonder how many people a know about this, but

33:42

this is why I'm here. I wonder how many people

33:45

are actually going to find the worst spot and take

33:49

a photo, because if this was me, I would walk

33:53

into the bathroom at dyk In Park where the Astros

33:58

now play, and stand in a urinal and take a

34:01

picture because I can't see a dang thing. All right,

34:03

that's he's one of the things. It's it's it's fun.

34:09

I hope they expand this. They kind of did a

34:14

they did a Super Bowl campaign corpse, and they did

34:17

something called the Case of the Mondays. But I like,

34:20

I like what they're doing over there. Good for you, AI, this is where I can trust a hi obstructive. Buddy,

34:25

Mine's got da season tickets at wrigley Field, Chicago years.

34:29

It's really weird first row upper deck. But the way

34:33

if you've ever been to Wrigley Field and actually kind of walked around it is incredibly It's one of, if

34:38

not the oldest, other than Red Sox ballparks. And the

34:42

seats don't face many of the seats don't face the

34:46

field directly. So we're down the first we're right above

34:49

first base. He's right above first base. We're on the

34:52

first row upper deck, and the seats are angled toward

34:58

home plate. They don't face straight out. It's it's it's

35:01

very odd. Not that that's destructed. Was so I just

35:03

this is this is this is what we talk about.

35:06

This is this is where good technology actually comes into play,

35:10

actually comes into play. Got a lot more of this

35:14

next hour. Uh oh well, let me hit one more

35:16

of these things. Anybody played. I just got back from Vegas.

35:21

I was there for the very first weekend of March Madness for my thirty six years. I go with the

35:24

same college buddies. We had a good time. I did the show from out there. Thanks to the folks at

35:29

Happy Camper in fashion show, mall, great pizza, great place

35:33

to watch games. It was packed, good cocktails. Ryan Richardson

35:36

runs the place could not have been more gracious. He

35:39

was really cool. So no, I'm a gambler, and you

35:42

know you're really may you have a problem when you

35:44

don't even call it gambling, you call it gaming. So I'm a gamer. Played a lot of Crafts, bet on

35:48

a lot of the games. Nowadays, you can use your phone.

35:51

There's an app out there. It's not Draftking. You can't.

35:53

You're not allowed to use DraftKings or fan Duel or anything in Nevada. That's they know your GPS and you

36:00

can't use it out there. So I use like what betching, bet MGM and Seeser's Reward. But anyway, it was fun stuff.

36:05

One of the things you can't do in Nevada is

36:07

play Mega Millions. You can't lotto out there. Apparently you

36:10

can win other ways like that Mega million. Did you

36:13

hear what they're doing. They're jacking up their ticket prices.

36:16

I've laed Mega Millions before. I drive around the highways

36:19

and byways of Texas. I see it gets near a

36:21

billion dollars. I'm like, okay, I'll spend two bucks. Ticket

36:25

prices were two bucks. Nope, sorry, breaking news for ay

36:29

you Texans anywhere around the world. There's a new game

36:32

they're overhauling. They're doing a mega overhaul on the Mega Millions,

36:37

and they're raising the ticket price, but they're also increasing

36:40

chances to win with bigger jackpots and whatever. Starts April eighth.

36:44

The new ticket price per ticket goes from two dours

36:49

to five dollars. Man starts Friday April. The final drawing

36:55

of the current game Friday April fourth. The next one

36:58

will be April eighth, more than double the price. How

37:05

many tickets you're gonna buy? Is? This is gonna stop your spending right now. This is the second time, by

37:10

the way, Mega Million's tickets have increased. First time was

37:13

in twenty seventeen and went from one buck to two bucks.

37:15

Now five bucks. It's gonna include some multiplier increase the

37:20

non jack buy prizes by two or three or four

37:22

or five times to justify it. But uh, man, five

37:26

bucks a ticket. I mean I usually buy ten bucks

37:29

of tickets, which is five tickets. I may buy two

37:33

right now. I don't know about this man whose idea

37:38

was this? Just buy a ticket. Could you buy tickets

37:41

online or something? I always do it quick. I do

37:44

a quick pay. I don't have any special ten specials.

37:48

The only numbers I got right now the phone number

37:50

here three four, six two nine texts and which is

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some letters too? Three four to six twenty nine texts in hour number one is oba hour number two? When

37:58

do we come back? If you buy the products some

38:02

products right now before more tarriffs and more price hip

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start to come in, I will tell you what the industry,

38:12

what categories you look products, and you probably should look

38:15

them getting out and buying the like down all right?

38:19

You know the phone number? You know my name is Michael Garfield. Don't go anywhere. We get a little longer

38:23

break over here. Thank you for patronizing and taking care

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39:27

Halfway through the high Tech Taxi Show Hour one over

39:30

hour two starting right now, so we are a halfway

39:33

to happy hour. It is uh where whatever day you're

39:36

listening to, this is the last weekend in March. Big

39:39

what's up to Houston, San Antonio and Dallas terrestrially if

39:43

you listen on those wonderful radio stations over the year,

39:46

but if not, you could be listening on the iHeartRadio app.

39:49

We do thank you for downloading lots of stuff in

39:52

the world of sports happening this week in Houston. We've

39:54

got the Texas Children Houston Open, so we've got Rory

39:58

McRoy text Scottie Scheffler playing next week. I don't know

40:03

if those guys particularly will be in San Antonio, but

40:06

the PGA Tour goes to San Antonio next week. I

40:08

think that's what the Valero Open, along with oh a

40:12

few basketball games called the Final Four San Antonio. Baby,

40:15

you were on the map. Next week, WAI what's up?

40:18

I will be in San Antonio next week. If anybody

40:20

has ideas of breakfast tacos where to go, maybe you

40:25

want to hang out for a beer on Sundays. Since

40:28

the games are Saturday and Monday, I have a whole

40:31

day to kill. Pop me a note Michael Garfield at

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iHeartMedia dot com. You can go on my Twitter account

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and DM me or just post Hey Garf, let's go

40:41

here and Daniel listen, don't give me any of these

40:44

riverwalk stuff, and listen. I think San Antonio's a fun

40:47

really is a fun city. Parents used to take me

40:49

there when I was a kid and went to school

40:52

on Austin and we used to shoot down you know, I thirty five so often just to go to Fiesta

40:57

and you know, some great dinners and things. But you

41:00

for walk, it's gonna be crowded with the tourist. You know.

41:02

Give me something, you know out by the looper or things,

41:04

and so San Antonio, if you, by the way, I'm

41:07

looking for a place to stay. I got one extra

41:10

ticket sponsor ticket, good tickets for the Final four. I

41:13

got two games on Saturday and then one game in

41:15

the National Championship on Monday night. I may if you

41:20

make me a good offer. Maybe I will give you

41:23

one of my tickets. If you've got an airbnb or

41:25

an extra bedroom. You can do my background check. You

41:28

can check my twenty three in me. Yeah, I've got

41:30

a good background. Which one of the things that we

41:32

talked about last hour emails coming in and also phone

41:37

calls too. By the way, speaking of emails, you can

41:39

go to my website high Tech Texan high Tech te

41:44

xa in dot com. You can email me here like a lot of people are doing it. No matter what.

41:48

If you were too shy to call, you could send

41:50

me an email like the one I just got. Right now,

41:54

you've got mail. That's right, I do have mail. This

41:57

actually is coming from San Antonio. This guy's name is Jasper.

42:01

That's a cool name. Man, what's up Jasper? Twenty three

42:05

years I've been doing this show. I don't think I've

42:07

had a Jasper call in or a Jasper email. What's up? Jasper?

42:10

Jasper said, Hey, by Michael, I was just listening to your show last hour. You were talking about AI. I

42:16

got a question because I don't like using my fingers

42:19

and my keyboard when I text. Is there something where

42:22

I could dictate or use my voice? That converts it

42:25

into text. I'm sure something with AI has that. Love

42:29

your show. Thanks for the easy help, Jasper. Jasper, there

42:33

are a number of things like that. Actually transcriptions, that's

42:37

what it is. It'd be nice if you had a

42:40

secretary an assistant. They're few and far between, and they're expensive,

42:46

and nowadays you can use productivity tools and apps to

42:49

make it very simple and actually free. One off the

42:53

top of my head, I want you to try this one, Jasper.

42:56

It's called whisper flow. Hang on, let me spell this.

43:01

Whisper is wispr wispr flow, whisper flow, all right, and

43:14

you can go to whisperflow dot ai. All right. It's

43:18

a really easy to use voice to text app. You

43:23

install it. You actually can set a hot key somewhere

43:27

on your keyboard where you push it. Once you press

43:30

and hold it, kind of like you're doing a walkie talkie and you just talk it to your microphone on

43:34

your computer, your laptop. You dictate and guess what It

43:39

types it out. You released the button, The app transcribes it.

43:45

It pastes your words wherever that cursor is blinking. You

43:50

can cut and paste it, put it in text, make

43:52

anything you want, But then I've tried it a few

43:57

times and it works me. The one thing I like

44:02

about this and this is how well AI, how smart

44:04

AI is getting. I always say this when it comes

44:07

to texting emailing. It's very tough to understand the tone

44:11

of the person who wrote it. They could be using

44:13

a sarcastic tone which doesn't come across in words. They

44:16

could be using a mad a happiest set. This seems

44:21

to understand the tone of your voice, and it adds

44:25

punctuation automatically, and it even smooths out stumble. So if

44:30

you're one of those, or if you pause, or if

44:34

you correct yourself, the final output still sounds clean and

44:39

pretty professional. It is mostly free jasper. I think it's

44:44

up to two thousand words a week without paying, and

44:48

that's a lot. I don't even know if I use two thousand words at an entire two hour show. Uh

44:52

if not, I think it's fifteen bucks a month. So in a way, it's called whisper flow. You see. This

44:56

is all you people need to do is ask me about something and I'm gonna research. I'm going to find it.

45:00

And that was that was hopefully pretty quick, And you

45:02

can use it whisper Flow. I wonder if I can

45:05

actually like pre record radio show. Well that's not that's

45:10

not the point really, and then it transcribes it because

45:12

I think if you download my show on the iHeartRadio app,

45:16

I think there already is a transcription. I wonder if

45:19

the iHeart our iHeart company actually uses whisper flow to

45:23

transcribe it anyway wisp r F l o W. What

45:29

else you got Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com, Or

45:33

if you actually want to talk and I'm not going to transcribe it for you. If you want a phone call,

45:38

call me three four six twenty nine, text and T

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45:46

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45:54

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you could put in there too. Phenomenal four hundred dollars value.

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I'm giving away three. They are giving the mo They're

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letting me give away three just for my listener. So

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this is not some worldwide competition. It's just for high

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tech texts and listeners. I put the link to download

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the whole thing out h I G h T E C h T E x A N or real quickly

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jot this down before we take a break. Pull over

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the side of the car and I want you to enter. We just need your name and email. That's it. Nothing else.

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signing up. People check that out. What else can I

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do for you? But when we come back, what products

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should you buy now? Before tariffs and price hikes kick in, Well,

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text and show if this is a big one. Uh.

49:39

I know what the word tariff is. I don't use

49:41

the word tariff a lot. No one used the word

49:43

tariff a lot over the past three months. The word tariff has been used quite often. It's coming out of Washington, DC.

49:49

I don't know if I don't know if it's a threat. Sometimes it is, but at some point we got we're

49:55

not making friends with other countries, and if we raise

49:58

a tariff, they're gonna wearse it he is a tariff, and that's what point is. I'm getting questions, mister consumer

50:03

lifestyle guy. Uh hey, Michael, should I buy anything, particularly

50:09

like right now before tariff prices start hiking up because

50:15

I saw a little something. One in three shoppers feel pressure to make purchases right now, right and the top

50:21

of their list laptops and smartphones. So it all starts

50:27

with some government stuff. Because your president Trump, you starts

50:30

shifting tariffs. It's got consumers taking precautions on purchases like electronics.

50:35

Right the past two months, I think government has enacted

50:39

not one, but two rounds of ten percent tariffs on

50:41

imports from China, and that's likely going to hype prices

50:46

on imported technologies. So let me give an example here

50:52

how tariff can impact your wallet. If there's ten percent

50:56

tariffund smartphones, that means US based companies have to pay

51:01

ten percent more to get the products from overseas, and

51:05

that extra ten percent has to come from somewhere. And

51:07

my guess is that most companies are going to pass

51:09

it along to the consumer, which is pretty much what

51:12

they've done in the past. Laptop prices have already seen

51:17

increasing by a little bit more, so they are impacting

51:20

buying habits without a doubt of adults, and adults are

51:24

feeling the most pressure to buy electronics, big home appliances,

51:29

wash air dries because they're feeling that terrors are going

51:31

to lead to more price increases. So younger generations, let's

51:38

look at the gen X and boomers. They're feeling pressure too.

51:42

And I'm good, I'm looking at results. I'm on set

51:45

dot com just just to get some stats over here about pressure to make purchases to avoid tariff related price sike.

51:51

So I'm responding to everybody right now. Most US adults

51:56

right now, they are making changes to their budgets to

51:59

prepare for these terror related price changes. I think consumers

52:03

they're also cutting back on non essential spending like dining out, traveling,

52:09

and they're trying to save more from every paycheck. So

52:14

by the numbers, and again i'm looking at this from

52:18

c NET, forty eight percent of US adults plan to

52:21

buy or have already bought smartphones forty two have already

52:26

done the same for laptops. Other shoppers they're concerned about

52:32

home appliances, TVs, smart home device devices. It doesn't surprise

52:38

me that a lot of US consumers they're delaying big

52:43

purchases that are over five hundred dollars. If you're worried

52:47

about prices going up and you already have the money saved,

52:51

my thought it may be best to buy the items

52:54

you're planning for right now. If you think it's going

52:58

to be more expensive than the future, it probably would

53:00

make sense to go ahead and buy it. But let's

53:04

go back to the pandemic. What the pandemic show is

53:07

supply and demand constraints. If everybody buys it now, the

53:11

item is going to become more expensive. Anyways, Could you

53:16

buy new tech right now? Should you wait? It's a

53:19

big question. I wish I can give you to you

53:22

one hundred percent absolute answer. Is it better to spend

53:25

money on electronics now to avoid potential tariff induced price chomps?

53:29

I'll say it again. If you already have funds here, mark for a purchase shopping now or during an upcoming

53:33

shopping event, maybe the upcoming Amazon sale, maybe Mother's day sales.

53:38

Whatever it is, it could help save you money. It's

53:41

going to give you a peace of mind. But if you don't have the money saved, I don't know. I'm

53:47

not a finanswer. I don't like financing things. Don't buy

53:52

it in anticipation. The price is going out because no

53:55

one knows what the ultimate outcome is going to be.

54:00

For example, laptops, when should you buy a new laptop?

54:04

Things that I cover go in cycles. If you want

54:07

to buy a new laptop, it depends on your needs,

54:09

depends on your budget. Laptops generally go on sale Dad's

54:15

and grads days. Oh I'm graduating from high school, I'm

54:18

going to college. You need a new laptop. Think about it.

54:21

August back to school sales, big time for computers and laptops.

54:25

Two TVs, big time December January for Super Bowl and

54:29

what have you. We will tell you this now is

54:35

the time to buy last year's TV models. If you're

54:40

in the market for a new TV, we'll look for

54:43

last year's model now. The twenty twenty four probably at

54:46

some of their lowest prices because retailers are getting rid

54:49

of last year's inventory. The new ones. The twenty twenty

54:52

five TVs coming out. Prices probably going to remain high

54:56

on the newer models until the holidays. But if you

54:58

don't need a TV, don't worry about it. I mean health,

55:01

football season ain't happening for another five minutes, five months. Okay,

55:04

don't let me hear it from you, baseball honks. Our

55:08

phone deals are out there. I just told you about tar total wireless. That's a pretty good deal too. Don't

55:15

take my advice as gospel. But I have seen trends,

55:20

and you may want to go ahead and purchase cars

55:22

real quickly, and I'll end this conversation. We don't know,

55:27

but tariffs on parts that come from other countries potentially

55:34

could make the price of cars go up much higher.

55:37

Look at that, man. Remember I remember during COVID there

55:40

was no new so few new cars on dealership lots

55:45

supplying demand. Prices were way up. Dealerships were they were

55:49

giving you top dollar for your used vehicles. It's crazy

55:53

economy living. I'm trying to steer you through it, and

55:56

I hope you took that. And if you've got your thoughts, we're going to take a bottom of the hour break.

56:00

Call me. Maybe somebody's a finance major or someone is

56:03

a I don't know, a future Ford truth seeker. You

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tell me three four six twenty nine. Text and love

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to hear from you. If you get a voicemail, leave

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a voicemail. Hey, Michael, I got a question for you. Michael.

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Textis show the hungry people. At least I know I

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am as I am doing the show. No matter if you're listening during lunch or dinner, you know what, it's

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happy hour on a weekend. Hope you're drinking watching a

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little march madness. All right, as it counts down to

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know there's one in San Antonio. Matter of fact, I

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need to find out where the one in San Antonio is because when I'm there for the Final four next week,

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maybe I'll do a little meet and greet. You know,

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I'll buy a round of God they got the best chips.

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Man you want chips in cases, Cabo Bobs has the

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But there's only They're only in San Antonio, Austin, in Dallas,

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That's where they are. But they're chips. They're like double thick,

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crunchy tortilla chips. I go over under two and a

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half times a week where I either eat there take it home. But I will always get towards the weekend,

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I will get a to go bag of their chips

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and to go k so keeping the fridge and game

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is on. Love it, Cobo Bob is You're great. You

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go up and down the line, you order whatever you want. They pack chicken, Barberaca steak, put the cheese put the rice,

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put the lettuce. You tell them what you want in it. But the neat thing is you can pick your tortilla.

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I mean, they've got the cilantro, they've got your buttermilk flour.

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They've got five you can choose from. You can watch them press it right in front of you. But it's

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good stuff. Keso Casadia and everything. So Cobo Bob's up.

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tell me who won. Actually, you don't need to tell me who won. We're gonna send you a twenty five

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Houston area. I hang out at the one on the

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southwest side, the meadows near Sugarland and Stafford. Great plus.

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Shout out to Arnold and Laura and Bob, even though

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there is no Bob. What's up? Don We love you guys.

58:57

Michael Garifield all over the State of Time Exis. It's

59:00

called the High Tech Text and Show. I know, I made myself hungry right now. You know it's been around

59:05

a long time, but they just they did it. They

59:07

did it change. It's amazing how a logo change, or

59:10

a color change really freaks people out. I want to

59:14

I should have a contest. If you still use AOL,

59:21

they should give I should give you a twenty five dollars gift card because you are clearly living in the

59:26

past and twenty five dollars would spend like fifty dollars

59:29

right now. I don't know if anybody still have if

59:32

you listen to AOL, if you're using AOL, why are

59:35

you listening to my show? With all due respect, you

59:39

may be bordering on a luddite. All right, it's still

59:44

out there. And I know I've had my email address forever, Michael,

59:48

I don't want to change it. I mean, I get you. I mean really doesn't matter. I mean, if it's your

59:53

email client, you still get your email? Why not? I

59:56

think the biggest But and I don't want to rag on AOL because AOL Almo created my job of whatever

1:00:02

I do. I mean, when AOL was around thirty years ago,

1:00:07

AOL brought Time Warner, Steve Case. I mean, it was

1:00:10

the world's largest communication company. It was big man, and

1:00:16

they used to and kids, you don't understand this. Man.

1:00:18

You would hope your mailbox and there was a CD

1:00:21

and you would pop it in your computer and I probably lost a half my audience right now. These kids

1:00:24

don't understand. And it would it would download, you could

1:00:27

install AOL and you would connect to the internet and

1:00:30

it was beep, You've got mail, the whole thing. But

1:00:33

having an AOL email address and then using aim AOL

1:00:38

instant messenger, Oh man, I'm in the garf wayback machine

1:00:42

right now. Anyway, if you still got it, I don't want to rack on you too much. If you still

1:00:46

use it. Did you notice something kind of a little bit crazy this past week with your AOL app? Yes,

1:00:50

there is an AO app. AOL changed its color. It

1:00:54

used to be a big blue logo interface. They changed

1:00:59

it to a big right yellow color on its app.

1:01:03

Don't know why, but it happened. And apparently a lot

1:01:06

of people who use AOL they're really not that happy.

1:01:09

They're not an appy because they know where they're at. If you could figure figure the demo of the people,

1:01:15

the demographic of the people who use AOL, Odds are

1:01:18

they're a little older. Odds are they're stuck in the ways.

1:01:22

They know how to open their phone, they know to look for that big blue app right there on there

1:01:25

front and wait a minute, it's not here. Why is it yellow? I figure, I don't know a lot of apps.

1:01:33

As I look at my phone right now, there's a lot of apps that are kind of blue. I guess this.

1:01:38

The AOL logo sticks out right now, kind of like

1:01:40

a thoro thumb store sore thumb. Is that what they want?

1:01:45

I don't know the logic, the motivation behind us. I mean,

1:01:49

it's tough. If it's it's tough with logos in trademarks. Man,

1:01:53

you just you know what it is. I mean, you're

1:01:55

going somewhere and you glance. I mean, you know what the Coca Cola logo, you know what PEPSI looks like.

1:01:59

You know what the Nikes whoosh is. And I'm not

1:02:01

saying AOL change the letters. AOL still says, Hey, I'm

1:02:04

looking at the new logo right here. It still still

1:02:06

says AOL. But if you're use this blue logo now,

1:02:08

it's like bright yellow, it's like what And I do

1:02:11

not believe you can depending on your phone. By the way,

1:02:14

did you know you could change the shape of your apps?

1:02:17

You can make an app, at least I know in my Samsung you can make it circular. You can kind

1:02:22

of make it ovally type of shape or rounded corners.

1:02:27

You could keep kind of make them squarish. But I

1:02:30

don't think you can change in color because it's branding.

1:02:35

That's what they want. That's what they're gonna give you. AOL.

1:02:41

Here's a trivia question, what does AOL stand for? I'm

1:02:44

not giving away anything anyone. This is a chance for

1:02:47

mom and dad, if you're listening to the car, to

1:02:50

prove to your kids that you're hip hop and happening.

1:02:53

AOL stands for America Online. It was a computer survey

1:03:01

and that turned it into an Internet service provider all

1:03:04

the way back in nineteen eighty five, and it was

1:03:07

nineteen ninety three that they introduced its own version of

1:03:10

electronic mail services we call it email Kids, a Windows

1:03:17

version and access to the rest of the Internet. It

1:03:20

was two thousand, just when I created the high tech

1:03:23

text and brand itself that I've been around twenty five years.

1:03:26

It was the nation's biggest Internet provider. The company is

1:03:29

worth one hundred and twenty five billion dollars. Back then

1:03:31

they merged with Time Warner. Was not smart because by

1:03:36

two thousand and nine, financial strain slowing subscriber growth declining

1:03:40

aver at revenue, it was gone, but AOL it just

1:03:46

chugs along. Man. It continued to chug along, making money

1:03:50

off its dial up business. They acquired some media properties

1:03:54

like the Huffington Post back in the day. But then

1:03:57

Verizon purchased AOL. Verizon also purchased Yahoo was about twenty

1:04:03

fifteen or so. Now they are both privately owned by

1:04:06

a private equity group, Apollo Global Management. So whoever the

1:04:10

marketing genius is at Apollo Global Management, they changed your icon.

1:04:14

I just thought that was this is what I do. I just I look at things and I report it

1:04:18

to you. I do by the way, I want to follow up real quickly. I got about two or three

1:04:21

minutes talk last segment about tariffs, what products should you buy?

1:04:26

What should And then I get into cars. Something tells

1:04:29

me the price of cars are going to go up, whether the auto manufacturers are going to say, oh, it's

1:04:35

because if terrorists were raising prices or whatever. And I

1:04:39

test drive cars for twenty eight for fifteen years, I

1:04:41

am an official car reviewer. I belong to the Texas

1:04:45

Auto Writers Association. Every single week, every single week, I

1:04:48

get a brand new vehicle to drive. I don't deal

1:04:51

with dealerships. I work straight with manufacturers. They don't pay me.

1:04:55

This is my thoughts. I can tell you they're crap.

1:04:58

I can tell you they're great. I go through elect I go through SUV, sports cars, whatever. Right also get

1:05:05

to drive foreign cars. I'm a big fan of Kia.

1:05:07

I like Genesis. They're good cars. China. Something tells me

1:05:12

there's tariffs coming down on that one. I liked some

1:05:16

news coming out of China. I will say this. I'm

1:05:19

just saying I like news coming out of China. There is a car manufacturer company from China. It's called BYD.

1:05:25

You probably have never heard of it here. It's not massively big in the United States. But BYD they just

1:05:32

unveiled a new platform for electric vehicles that could charge

1:05:37

evs as quickly as it takes to pump gas equal

1:05:44

if you want, in my opinion, if you want some

1:05:47

of the biggest news in the auto industry or the

1:05:50

business industry, this is it. Because the reason I'm not

1:05:54

a big EV guy, it's because I have ADHD. I

1:06:00

want to get my car and I want to drive from San Antonio to Dallas. I want Dallas to Houston.

1:06:04

I want to go to Austin. The ain't no way

1:06:06

I'm stopping halfway through and waiting an hour and a half to charge my car. Nope, for what if forty

1:06:13

four years I've been driving a car. Hey, I can

1:06:16

fill up my tank at five to six seven minutes and I'm on my happy little way. And the reason

1:06:21

I don't get evs here because our charging platform in

1:06:23

the United States is just not there yet. I don't

1:06:25

want to wait in line for somebody to finish their car charging because there's only four charging ports, and then

1:06:30

I don't want to wait an hour. I like this bid.

1:06:35

It's called a super e platform. And again, this is

1:06:38

just an announcement capable of peak charging speeds of a

1:06:41

thousand kilowatts that can travel two hundred and fifty miles

1:06:47

or so on a five minute charge. That's twice the

1:06:51

charging speed of Tesla's superchargers. Right now, Oh no, when

1:06:58

this is gonna happen. But there's all this is a

1:07:01

big manufacturer in in China. I don't want to move

1:07:05

to China. We get a lot of our products from China.

1:07:09

We're gonna play tariffs on things from China. But they're

1:07:11

building a charging network in China. That could charge things

1:07:13

in five minutes. I dig it smart, just letting you know,

1:07:17

calls questions. We have one more segment to go. Talk

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an asterisk and update you. Last segment I was talking

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about tariffs and cars, cars not made in the US.

1:09:00

I cover the car the automobile industry. If you missed

1:09:03

it earlier this week Wednesday, President Trump, your president, said

1:09:08

he is going to start imposing guess what, a tariff,

1:09:12

a twenty five percent tariff on all cars that are

1:09:16

not made in the United States. Is this something to

1:09:20

cheer about? This is a serious question. I love me

1:09:23

see the United States. I am proud to be a

1:09:26

US citizen and I would probably never move away and

1:09:30

have citizenship in another country. I don't know. Switchland's kind

1:09:33

of nice. But point is new tariffs hot to fight

1:09:38

in the presidential population that Trump signed in the Oval

1:09:41

Office on Wednesday. Did he say this White House? I

1:09:49

guess he said this through an aid. It's going to

1:09:51

result in over one hundred billion dollars of new annual revenue.

1:09:54

Now two ways to look at this. Yes, by American

1:09:58

yay America. Okay, but shares a GM fell about four

1:10:04

percent on the announcement. Stillantis, which has the Jeep, the

1:10:07

Dodge and Fiat and all these other brands that went

1:10:12

down three percent, four went down one percent. Is this

1:10:18

insenting people to buy US cars knowing that if it's

1:10:22

built anywhere else, just like I said, byd other Chinese

1:10:26

maids cars. I don't know Kia, which is a South

1:10:29

Korean company, a lot of their cars are made right here in the United States. Is this going to cause

1:10:32

countries who do make foreign automobiles create manufacturing hubs in

1:10:39

the United States, which would be good to because they

1:10:41

create jobs. That's above my pay grade. I don't get

1:10:44

into the politics. But April second, that's the day reciprocal

1:10:51

tariffs in all countries that have their own import duties

1:10:53

on US goods, and that's what's gonna happen. It's very

1:10:56

smart that not doing unless in April first, because it's

1:10:58

way too confusing and you'd think it's a joke, funny.

1:11:01

I've been talking about it. I just want to make sure because I did remember it. Wanted to talk about

1:11:04

that twenty five percent on tariffs of cars not made

1:11:07

in the US. A few segments ago I talked about

1:11:10

consumer buying. Are you worried about tariffs when it comes

1:11:14

to smartphones and prices of smartphones and home appliance and

1:11:17

house appliances and cars, you should be. I don't know.

1:11:20

I don't have a crystal ball, but I guess now what,

1:11:25

go out and buy a US made car, or you

1:11:28

got about a week to go out, get one more

1:11:30

that you know is not made in the United States, Or if you've got enough money, you just don't give

1:11:35

a bleep. Just up to twenty five percent. I'm not

1:11:39

gonna give you out the phone number anymore because I only got a few more minutes here. Of the of

1:11:42

the high tech Texan who have we missed over here

1:11:46

that I talked about the charging network? Oh do I

1:11:50

want to I don't want to end in this sad story.

1:11:54

But this is sad and this is technology?

1:11:58

Was it?

1:11:59

It was a Houston last week, three teenage girls are

1:12:05

in custody after allegedly planning to kill their mother because

1:12:12

mom turned off the Wi Fi in their home. I

1:12:18

couldn't even make up a story like that. Fourteen fifteen

1:12:22

and sixteen year old girls. Apparently they grabbed kitchen knives

1:12:26

and they chased their mom through the house and into

1:12:29

the street, attempting to stab her. One of the teens

1:12:35

struck the mother with a brick. Their grandmother was also

1:12:38

knocked down while trying to protect the mother. No ins

1:12:45

the sayings serious injuries. Three teens were arrested charged with

1:12:48

aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. They were booked in

1:12:52

the Harris County Juvenile Facility. I don't want to hear

1:12:54

stories like this turning off the Wi Fi. These are

1:13:02

problems that I did not have to live through when

1:13:06

I was growing up as a kid in the seventies or even the eighties, when I was still living at

1:13:09

home or going in college. I'm trying to wonder what

1:13:13

would be so egregious that my parents did that I

1:13:18

would have to get a kitchen knife. I can stop

1:13:21

you right there and saying nothing. The only if they

1:13:26

did something egregious, and I know my parents are listening

1:13:28

right now and up in Dallas. What's up Larry and Susan.

1:13:33

Maybe I would snap back and talk back, but I

1:13:35

never would use cuss words. I mean, really, Wi Fi

1:13:44

turn off to the if the kids listen. I don't

1:13:47

know a lot of questions about this, but I mean I not investigative reporter, but I do investigate it. My

1:13:52

aunt job is to ask questions. Mom, turn off the

1:13:55

Wi Fi in these kids' homes? Do these kids who

1:13:59

are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen? Do they not have a cell

1:14:01

phone plan? I just told you where to get a

1:14:05

very inexpensive cell phone plan from Total Wireless twenty five

1:14:07

bucks a month per line. You can't beat that at

1:14:11

that age. Maybe they just have phones and they were

1:14:14

just using Wi Fi. They don't have a cell phone plan. I can understand that. Do these kids not know how

1:14:19

to walk down to the public library, almost any store,

1:14:23

any coffee shop and use the Wi Fi? They had

1:14:25

to result into something like this? This, This is sad.

1:14:29

I don't want to end the show like this. But is this what the world is coming from? Now? I

1:14:37

will tell you this. Don't know it ever, Jack with

1:14:43

my cable service or my streaming at ESPN, then things

1:14:46

are going to get nasty, especially during football season. I'm

1:14:50

gonna leave you with that note. Michael Garfield, Hey San Antonio,

1:14:54

see you next week. People from March Madness, If you

1:14:57

got from you. If you got a place for me to stay, I've potentially got a ticket for you to

1:15:00

the Final four two game Saturday, one game on Monday,

1:15:03

San Antonio. Let me know some great places to eat.

1:15:05

Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia Dot, Come Great City, can't wait

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to play. Still at this point as we're talking to

1:15:13

doing the show, love, we don't know who's going to be there. Just hope you just have a safe week.

1:15:18

Don't worry about Wi Fi. If Wi Fi goes down,

1:15:20

life anking, life, anger, Scott, people just smile and beat

1:15:24

them to one another. That's how it works. Thank you,

1:15:26

my bosses for keeping me and the Wi Fi and this radio show. I'm here. That's Mark Sherman, Brian Erickson,

1:15:31

Paul Lamberdaddy Martini and everybody else who's associated with wai

1:15:35

kp r C. And I let him know you talk later in all these three great bag cities in Texas.

1:15:39

My name is Michael Garfield. This has been the high

1:15:42

Tech Texan Show. And enjoy the rest of the weekend. People march madness and you don't talk to you in