Need a Big TV for the Big Game?

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• Last minute "Big Game" TV buying and viewing tips
• Samsung Galaxy S25 finally released - why you may want to pass on it
• Guess what other job AI is now taking over?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael garfil Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael Garfield's joining.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
In the high Tech Texan.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Michael Garfield is here with a high Tech Texans.

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To make life easier technology and Michael.

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Garfield has something you might like.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Michael Garfield is your high Tech Texans. Three decades helping
you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the
iHeartRadio add now you're high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Another year older, maybe not another year wiser, Still have
the voice, still have the energy. I do. Thank you,
my dear listeners, for all the wonderful emails and okay,
maybe not a lot of gifts for my birthday earlier
this week. But we continue the second weekend of February. Happy,
whatever you're celebrating. There is a big football game later

(01:09):
this weekend, but I am going to ride you right
up until kickoff. Depending when you are listening to this.
Michael Garfield is the name. This is the high Tech
Texan Show. Believe me, if this is the first time
you've listened number one, where the hell you've been number two?
I'm not going to tell you how to fix your computer.
There is so much more to technology. It's what does
Michael want to talk about who can we interview? How

(01:32):
much fun can we have? So strap your seatbelts on, folks,
wherever you are listening to her terrestrially Houston, Texas KPRC
nine fifty am, what's up, San Antonio? We love Yeah,
right there in Central Texas News Radio twelve hundred WOAI
in my hometown, parents may be listening, probably not the

(01:54):
Mighty Mighty Talk Radio eleven ninety. Wherever you are the
iHeartRadio app. You can get a hold of me. All
you need to do, well, heck, let's go. Michael Garfield
at iHeartMedia dot com. Email me, my friends. You can
also call me.

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It's how it works.

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For some reason, we don't pick up the phone. You
can leave a voicemail, and you do give us the
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actually do have a lot of fun things to yap
about here on and a lot of post high tech
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T E x A N and I need me to

(02:53):
start with this. I will tell you number one this show.
There is no tariff nor a tag to listen to
this show. Nope, it is absolutely free. The reason is
free is because we do appreciate you patronizing all of
our partners and all of our sponsors. I'm gonna make
a mention or two of where to shop, give you
some suggestions. I feel free to take care of them

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because they are good and they are gracious. I have
had some partners with me for close to twenty years
that I have been doing this radio program. They are
the ones who keep it fr ee and really, folks,
that should be your favorite four letter word. I know
it's mine, and so I do thank you for patronizing them.
And also I send a little condolences. I send a

(03:36):
little condolences this week because I too, am sitting shiva
for the city of Dallas. What happened a week ago
with our great basketball player Luka Doncik. I know Dallas,
and I hear it. My best friends are in Big
d I talk to my parents. It's just this way.
You talk about the NBA stealing thunder from the NFL, Well,

(04:01):
that's what the NFL gets. The NFL stole Christmas Day
with their football games this past December from the NBA
because the NBA used to own Christmas Day five games.
The ratings were horrible for the NBA games because everybody
watched the two football games on the football David Silver,
the commissioner of the NBA, he said, you know what

(04:22):
screw up. We're gonna take all the headlines from Super
Bowl Week, starting with Luca and the trade, and then
you know, this past week just it was almost all
NBA stuff. My son right now, all this past week
he has been in New Orleans because he covers the
the sports, you know scene, specifically the NFL and college football.

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But there's just hasn't been a lot of buzz about
the game that's happening this week in New Orleans. It's
been about the NBA. Dallas, I feel you. I'm not
happy about it. Luca generational player, a lifetime MAVs fan.
I don't know what I'm gonna do, even though I
in Houston. Now, hey, Michael. I mean, listen, I like
the Rockets. I mean, the Rockets are a very I'm

(05:05):
kind of a fan of the Rockets. I'm not a
Texans football fan. I'm a Cowboys guy. They're dead. The
Rockets good. You know. I was here. I moved here
the first when they won their two back to back
NBA titles, which Michael Jordan wasn't playing those two years.
I happened to be here and the city went crazy
and it was kind of fun. I became semi a fan,
and I go to two games a year or something,

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but my heart's in Dallas. I went to the very
first Dallas Mavericks game in nineteen eighty. My kids get
me a my kids, listen. I told you it was
my birthday. My kids. God loved my three boys. My
gift this year was a Luca don Chik number seventy
seven MAVs jersey, and my birthday was this past weekend.

(05:47):
They bought probably the last Luca Dallas Maverick shirt ever.
I should auction this off somewhere on eBay because they're
not going to make it anymore because the dude is now
a Los Angeles Lakers. I digress, but I just don't
show you. This is what we talk about on the show.
You're not gonna get solid technology. I'm gonna answer your questions.
Oh I've got some stuff. People don't worry when it
comes to new phones, cars and then other news. But

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I'm all over the place. It's just like it's an
all for one. It's an entertainment show. Because if you
don't do a little entertainment, if you don't talk about,
you know, a plethora of things, which I've been doing
for two plus decades, You're not going anywhere. And that's
why I've been hanging around three four six twenty nine
Texan Callum read good to see in my man. He
is here potentially picking up your phone calls, telling me

(06:32):
in my ear, hey, Michael, you should check out your
ex or some of the fun comments that you're getting.
Maybe do some giveaways. And I will start with this.
I got about a minute and a half for two minutes.
There's a big game this weekend. And I got the
annual email for my bosses at iHeart. Everybody did also,
and I want to kind of read it to you.
And I don't know whether to break the rules. If
I really do like my job right now. But I

(06:55):
got this email from iHeart Radio, which is the world's
largest you know, radio conglomerate here eight hundred plus stations
all over the country, and it says this here is
I'm gonna read it and cal let me know if
the bosses are calling. But the email subject was super
Bowl trademark reminder important reminder. Important to be clear on

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the use of trademarks, especially around the game this weekend.
Please see below When it is okay, stations who are
promoting the super Bowl fifty nine YouTube tailgate concert can
reference the word super Bowl when promoting the concert as
we iHeart are the partner for the pregame concert and

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it is included in the event title. That is the
only time you are allowed to reference it by name
unless you have written authorization. Stations cannot use the trademark
super Bowl outside of referencing the concert event unless they
have additional written authorization. The term super Bowl is a
trademark of the unfill may not be used without explicit

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written permission. Now, it is permissible to use the term
Big Game to refer to the super Bowl. So I
could use the Big Game in an advertisement for a
store that is selling items for someone might needing a
party for that day or whatever. It is very important
to know the difference, as still you're to comply can
result in costly penalties. Please review the trademark guidelines before

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you talk about it, Folks, I do not know if
I'm going to make it past this commercial break. If
the phone is ringing, I will try to refrain from
using the term Super Bowl. I will go with Big
Game because I'm going to tell you about last minute
televisions to buy. If you want a party tray of
some wings to watch the screw Big Game? How much

(08:43):
commercials are going for in the big gate where you
can see Big Game commercials before they even air. How
long the over under? How long will Michael Garfield last
on this show? Maybe two and a half commercial breaks?
We shall see people don't go anywhere. It is the
Hi Tech Taxing show on Big Game weekend, Hi Tech

(09:26):
Texan show, by the way, which is trademarked by me,
and anybody can utilize it, not to steal it, not
to endorse it, but if you want to refer to
me by the name, feel free to use high Tech Texan. I,
unlike the NFL, love people saying high tech Texan instead
of that other two words that start with an S
and a B. That Big Game this weekend, which we

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I guess now if you just tuned in, we technically
cannot use it because I do not want to get
in trouble. Phone number here eight it's three four six
twenty nine text and if you do want to get
into the game, three four six twenty nine textan and
we're going to talk about a number of things, including
the Big Game this weekend. Who you got? Who you got?
I got some last minute help buying and setting up

(10:09):
if you're buying and setting up a TV with depending
when you're listening to us, certainly about twenty four hour,
twenty eight hours at the most. If you're in San Antonio,
you got less than twenty four hours. If you're Dallas,
you've got less than that. Wherever you're listening, If you're
setting up a television for your party tomorrow, let me

(10:29):
help you out. You better know what you're doing, because
the last thing you want to do is you want
to run to Costco. You want to run the best
buy It got Sam's wherever you're to get a TV,
and you better have someone pick up that fifty five
inch seventy five inch. You gotta have one hundred inch TV.
You better plug in your cable. Does it work in
the channels come in? Well? Is it set up? Is

(10:49):
it set for ten ADP? I mean you're not gonna
get four I mean there is a way to watch
it four k over the year. If you have cable,
you're probably not gonna be able to watch it in
four k. Makes the last thing you want to do
is you want to have people over. Man, they're ready
for your wings, They're ready for all the food, and
all of a sudden boom, you're not watching. I told
you last week. Set up your TV at least a

(11:12):
week before to get it done. If you need some
last minute help, feel free to try to get in.
I can maybe help you talk you off the ledge
three four six twenty nine Texan. One of the ways
I have long said, if you really want the best picture,
using over the air antenna versus cable or versus god forbid,

(11:33):
you're using satellite. If you are in a big sit well,
if you're in any city, but certainly a large city
like I am broadcasting in Houston and Dallas and San Antonio.
Right now, it is on the Fox TV and your
Fox affiliate depending whatever it is by the FCC. They

(11:53):
it is a law. They are broadcasting a digital signal
over the air right now. And if you got a
digital antenna, which doesn't cost much. Man, these things could
be ten bucks, thirty bucks, no more really than that.
And you hook it into your television, and you point
and aim your antenna, hopefully near a window or outside
wherever that broadcast tower is. You're gonna pull in a

(12:16):
much better TV picture, much better quality than you're getting
than you're getting on cable, quite simply because that signal
it's not compressed like cable does. It is over the
and it's gonna be without delay my cable. The way
I watch it at number one, I play an exhorbited
amount of money. Thank you very much, Exfinity. I'm not

(12:37):
happy with you. But it is sometimes ten to thirty
seconds behind real time, certainly behind some of my buddies
who are texting me. So when my buddies text me,
did you see that play, they're spoiling it for me.
When you're watching over the air, it is almost real
time and the quality is so much better. Take it
from me, You may want to try that There is

(12:59):
a way to stream it this year for fr ee,
Like when it's on CBS CBS is they charge you
for streaming because they want you to get the parentmont
network and everything. For some reason you want to stream
it because you don't have cable well number or you
don't even have in the over the antenna. You could
watch it on two B t ub I. TB is

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owned by Fox. Oh my, how about that? You download
the two B app and you can watch it. And
I believe you can actually watch that stream in four
K and that's pretty big issue. You really can't watch
it in four K because a lot of cable companies
do not allow to not broadcast, do not broadcast or

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do not carry that signal all the way through in
four K. That big game it does start at five
thirty Central time. You can watch it live. But to
be is is pretty cool. There's a lot of There
are a number of different free streamers out there. There,
the free trials of direct TV, which is a stream,
Fubo which is another one. You could sign up I
think for YouTube tv for a week or two before

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it gets here for eighty nine dollars or so. But
twob is hosting the free live stream of Fox's game,
the game day coverage of the twenty twenty five Big Game,
and so questions about that, I am here for you.
We have got to Oh, by the way, for the
first time, people don't care about audio a lot. I'm
not an audio file is what they call them? The

(14:29):
Super Bowl Oop, sorry about that. The Big Game is
being broadcast for the very first time with Dolby ATMOS
ATMs audio. But only if you have Exfinity X one,
which is their even higher service, and if you have
the right year. As I told you, I have Exfinity

(14:51):
for the three hundred whatever dollars I'm paying a month.
Not only should I get this dang game in Dolby atmost,
I should get it in freaking a k you know what,
I should actually be given a ticket to the actual
game in New Orleans. That's how much I'm paying for
this service. So Comcast, which owns Exfinity, they said earlier

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this week that it will not only offer Dobie Vision
as it did a few years ago for the Big Game.
This year, it's also adding Dolby ATMAS Dobie at MISS
and you're gonna need to be an Exfinity xcellent subscriber.
And you're gonna need a checklist of required hardware. You're
gonna need a four K TV, You're gonna need a

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four K hd R set top box. You're gonna need
a four K capable HDMI cord. You're gonna need external
speakers or a soundbar that need to support Dolby ATMOS
for the virtual sound experience. People not worth it. I
do not hear. You don't need to hear Tom Brady's

(15:58):
color commentary. That's that clear to go out and buy
all that stuff. But you know, it's nice to know
the technology is there three four six twenty nine texts
in is how you're going to get to me if
you want to see some of the ads. I have
seen most all of the ads, and I'm a marketing guy.
And for eight million dollars for the high end price

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that Fox is charging, those advertisers want to maximize their
ad buy and so just blowing it all in a
thirty second one time. They've released a lot of their
ads free game, and you can find them on YouTube,
and you can find them on different to very you know,
you go to the websites. I GARF have made it

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easy for you. I have found one site that it's
legal too, that already has posted almost every single of
the major advertiser thirty seconds or even one minute super
Bowl ads. Go to my ex account right now and
you can watch it. It's high tech text, high tec

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h E X A N. Go to It's x dot
com or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. And
there's a link. And I posted it on Friday. It
here's a link, and I've watched them all. Some of
them are off, okay, I haven't laughed out loud for some.
There's a lot of superstars. I saw everybody. Yes, I
know the stupid mayonnaise commercial has that when Harry met

(17:20):
Sally with Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan kind of Cube. I've
seen David Beckham, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, It's Sabrina Carpenter
who goes on and on. Some of them tug your heart.
Some of them don't make sense. There's one with Shaboozy.
I just listen. I love Shaboozy. His song, you know,
Let's get Drunk on Fifth Street. Whatever it is, he's

(17:41):
in a he's in a candy commercial that you don't
if you unless you know what Shaboozy looks like you
don't know who this guy is walking down the street.
That's that's wasted six to seven eight million dollars. I
didn't like that one. So you can go to x
dot com, Twitter, go to high Tech Texan and if
you hurry up, let me know one of your favorite commercials. Now,

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we'll tell you this. This is what these these companies do.
They will tease these commercials beforehand, but then during the
actual game, maybe at the end, they're gonna surprise you.
Maybe there's gonna be a cameo that you didn't know.
That is how you maximize. Oh that's funny. And I
say this is because if you're watching the big game

(18:22):
with friends, and generally you're gonna be with friends, and
generally you're gonna be a big party and everybody's gonna
be talking, and when the commercials kind of gone on,
it's gonna be shut up. I want to hear this.
Just go ahead and watch the commercials beforehand. I like advertisers.
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this show remains free. Tax time's coming up. That's not free.
Got some tax tips coming up. This is what we do.

(19:24):
We're all over the board. Stand by. We're going to
talk to believe it or not, a cell phone wireless
company to give you some tax tips on how to
maximize your week fund and your money. Coming up there
on the high Tech Thatshire we are back at it.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Indeed, Michael Garfield.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
It is the long running high tech text show heard
all across the state of Texas, Trustrilly and around the
world on the iHeartRadio app. We do thank you for
downloading that app. And you know I talk about apps,
but you know I'm gonna go about old school. At
my desk, I actually have a calendar. I have literally
a calendar that I ripped the pages out.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I mean, I listen, I use my Microsoft calendar and
I'm looking at these at the calendar and it's the
beginning of February and i know what that means for me.
It means I'm starting to get all my ten ninety
nine tax forms in the mail right now, and I'm
not happy about that whenever I go out to my mailbox.
But a last people reminder, tax season is upontus. Depending
if your pay quarterly taxes or the April fifteenth tax

(20:38):
it is coming up. And believe it or not, taxes
have a lot to do with with so many things,
the way we spend, what we don't spend. And there's
some you know, some tips and you know ways to
get around some things. And that's one of the things
that I wanted to talk about when it comes particularly
to cell phone in data plans. And I was talking
to to my buds over at Total Wireless, and they said,

(21:00):
this is a very seasonal. It's a perfect time with
some of their prepaid plans to really think about some
of these things when it's tax season. So I wanted
to get some more information about this, and so I said,
let's set up a little chat, which I'm going to
do right now with AJ Paul. He is the new
vice president of sales with Total Wireless, many stores across
the country and a ton of stores, AJ that you

(21:20):
have here in our great state of Texas of Houston,
San Antonio, in Dallas. I do appreciate. Have you done
your taxes? Let me start with that question.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
I have not done yet, but it is on my
to do list.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Michael, I do beg you for you better get on
a brother. I thank you for your time. This is
incorrect me if I'm wrong. Tax season it's a time
when many people reassess their budgets and knowing that how
can your company, how can Total Wireless help customers make
the most of their refunds? And I do like that
word refunds when upgrading their plans.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, absolutely, Michael. You know a single word that defines
for us that Total Wireless is flexibility. So we have
options for our customers for family plans for multi months.
So think about this way. You have a refund, how
do you want a best deploy it you can get
a new device at a great value, or we have

(22:13):
some plans where you can pay three months in advance
for a great value bundle price. Then you don't have
to worry about your wireless plan for three months. Right,
get ahead in your budgeting. So this is a great
time for flexibility in our Total Wireless stores for our customers.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
You know, I'm very familiar with your plans. I use
your service, and I know there's a lot of pluses.
I talk about a lot. I mean you don't have
to have long term commitments, and you just talked about
paying upfront. I guess the words flexibility aj flexibility very
important when choosing a wireless provider. Let me, I'll have
you go over some of the options that Total Wireless

(22:49):
offers when it comes to paying upfront or avoiding those
long term commitments. What do you have?

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah? Absolutely, So think about it this way. When somebody
brings their number over to us Total Wireless, right, we
basically deeply discount a device. Right now, we're running a
great iPhone thirteen promotion right where we a customer can
get a free iPhone thirteen with poured in and where,
and we have bundled three months of service with it.

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So customer comes in, they get a new plan, they
get three months of service already paid, and it's so
much less than if they were trying to get it
anywhere else. And oh, by the way, there's no monthly
payments on the phone. It's all paid off. They own
it free and clear. So it's really just an amazing
time for our customers. Now, if you want to do

(23:39):
like a family plan, we've got a better plan for them.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Right.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
You can get multiple iPhone thirteens or an Android. If
you're an Android person, you know at point of sale
where your total out the door price is affordable, but
the quality of service and plans and phones they're getting
are just unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
We'll talk about androids. I'm an Android guy. You know me,
you love me and all my listeners, and we don't
do iPhones, baby, but I know we can talk about
to bring your own device. That's one of the great things. Man.
You don't even need to purchase the phone from you
guys bring your own device and you can get the service.
But we'll continue what that is. We are talking to
AJ Paul. He is with Total Wireless managing monthly expenses.
It's got to be number one right now for a

(24:21):
lot of people. It's just what's going on in the
economy and the tax time of year. Talk about the
prepaid plans, I mean, how can it help customers stay
in control of their wireless costs?

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, Michael, the way to think about prepaid now is
completely different than what people thought about. Right When we
offer solutions at a Total Wireless store, we're not only
just trying to save them money on their wireless spill. Hey,
we offer home internet. We offer some plans with Disney Plus. Right,
so if you're an ESPN person, if you're a Hulu person,

(24:54):
so we can help you save money not only on
your subscriptions and home internet altogether. The bundled in. So
when you talk about living on a budget, predictability is
the most important thing. You pay up front, you know
exactly what you're getting. There's no surprise fees, no surprise bills,

(25:14):
no overages, and that keeps somebody on a budget long term.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
It makes sense. Listen a lot people. They ask me.
One of the biggest questions I've received twenty plus years
i've been doing this AJ it's like, should I is
it easy to switch providers? Can I keep my own number?
And you know, I mean when I started the show,
there wasn't portability. Now there is portability, you can switch
and keep your numbers. For the people out there thinking
about switching providers, what do they in your give me

(25:41):
the top one, two, three things? What should they consider
when looking for a plan that fits their lifestyle? In there?
Maybe their needs.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Absolutely so really important. Right, Look, everybody offers kind of
similar things, but there's some value propositions that we bring
to the table.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Right.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
We don't data cap our customs, So if you use
unlimited data, well it's truly unlimited. So if you are
a streamer on your Android device because the big screen,
well guess what you can do that?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Right?

Speaker 3 (26:11):
If you want to make sure that there's some friends
and families abroad you want to call, some of our
plans include international calling. So really be sure of what's
important to you, your lifestyle and also kind of your
calling habits, right, because what we'll tell you is on
the surface, all the plans look the same, but when

(26:34):
you look at the fine print, Total Wireless really offers
the best value proposition of all the add ons, the
value added features that we offer.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
I like it to AJ Paul with me here for
another few minutes. He is with Total Wireless one hundred
and thirty Total Wireless locations. Is that over unders? That
pretty close?

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Pretty close?

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so many stores out there, and certainly
in our listening area of Texas. Here. Give me now
that we're going, I'm gonna go back to tax season.
What are some of the common questions you're getting from
customers this time of year, tax season about how do
I find the right plan? How can I save money?
YadA YadA.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, the biggest question is Michael, Hey, how easily can
I switch my family over?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Right?

Speaker 3 (27:18):
I've got four or five lines, they're all with different carriers. Well,
I can tell you our poured in process super simple.
You know, we can set you up, you know, right
in the spot numbers work within fifteen to twenty minutes typically,
and now with our setup and go process at Total Wireless,

(27:38):
we'll get you walk out working right. Your data is transferred,
your apps on the phones, you know, your email's working
We can get you set up on auto pay right
from the store, so you don't have to go back
and have homework to go set up your phone like
many of us used to do, spend hours at home
trying to transfer data. We can do all the all
of that in our stores. And that's the number one question, right,

(28:01):
How easy can you How frictionalists can you make this
for me?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
We like frictionless with out of debt. All right, I'll
get you out of here on this one because obviously
the VP of sales and so I know you know
the inside info any special promotions taxis infromotions going on now,
total wireless that we should know about.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Absolutely. I'm gonna start with Android because you've got an
Android lover here. Yeah, there you go, right right. We
have multiple Samsungs that are absolutely free when you pour
it in your number, right like, so I have a
fifty four, a sixteen, We have options, big screen. You
know it's These are not entry level phones by the way, Michael,

(28:42):
these are really good quality Samsung devices right BYOD. You
mentioned BYOD We have an amazing rate plan offer where
when set up with auto pay, we take fifty percent
off somebody's monthly bill talk about a budget right there.
You've got a hero device you love, bring over to us.
We'll make sure we get it switched over for you.

(29:03):
And then last but not least, I know half the
country loves iOS. We have an iPhone thirteen for free
right now, you know, with with that three month bundle
we were talking about. So if you're an iPhone lover,
it's a great time to get there as well. You know,
we love families here at Total so we have a
red hot ticket promotion going on right now. When you

(29:24):
bring in a family member, you know, do a family plan,
do an Android a family plan. We pay your first
month for you, right so it's it's really a good
time to consider us. And you know we have stores
all over the country, especially Texas, so find us, you.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Know it make it makes sense. Also, listen, whether you're
an iPhone fan, which I'm not, or an Android, I
just do like those favorite four letters, you can get
him free some way, one to be another at Total Wireless. Hey, listen,
I do thank you for your time. AJ Paul. He's
the VP of sales at Total Wireless, one hundred and
thirty stores all across pretty much the country, but also concentrated.

(30:01):
Go check out San Antonio listeners, Dallas listeners, and Ahetown
Houston listeners. Go check it out because I use it.
Services services very fast too, and so uh it's you know,
keep on keeping on taxi now I gotta go to
my taxes now. Ajay, that's the bad news.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
All right. Well, Michael, thanks for having me and appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I appreciate all right, folks questions. I'll tell you what.
This is a good time to talk. I have open
phone lines seven one three, two one two five, nine
to five. Oh you got quote? Why don't you use
your old data plan? Use that number and we could
talk about switching it over to total wireless that I
can answer any questions about phones, data plans or whatever.
It's Michael Garfield. It is the High Tech Texting Show.

(30:42):
Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back, I know, segment

(31:06):
of this first hour of the High Tech Ta Sinsha.
Thank you very much for hanging in here. If you've
got if you've got square pools for the big game tomorrow,
I hope you draw some good numbers. I am in
a square pool. I think I'm at about three or
four different square pools, and the big one I am in,
and I am not kidding you. I am in a
four hundred dollars square pool. And believe me, I'm not

(31:29):
bragging about this because I'm not happy about it. I
was kind of goaded into it. I'm at a four
hundred dollars per square square pool, which means, if you
can extrapolate real quick, the payout is ten thousand dollars
per quarter. It is the most I've ever bought into
a squarepool. I only bought one square and I think
my numbers are seven and nine, and I don't know

(31:50):
for which team. But if for some reason you're watching
the game, think of me. If the last digits are
seven and nine, and it depends, I actually may not
show up for work next week if I win one
of these square pools. I won two years ago, I
won a square pool. It was the one in Los Angeles.
It was when the Rams won it. Who they played.

(32:10):
They played the Bengals. I believe the second quarter, in
the fourth quarter the digits were the exact same, and
I won those two quarters, So I won. And I
think it was a ten dollars square pool. So still
I won a few hundred bucks whatever it was. You
imagine winning one quarter and I get ten gerer. You
imagine winning two or more quarters, and it's just cash.

(32:33):
Our irs don't have to know about that. I digress
here at the Michael Garfield Show, the High Tech Taxis Show. Hey,
speaking of money, if if you're spending an entire paycheck
on a dozen eggs, you might as well prepare them
to perfection. And I saw this. Now scientists now say

(32:55):
they have discovered the recipe to cook the best possible
boiled egg, and it just takes thirty two minutes. I
call bs on that. I'm sorry, man, thirty two minutes
to boil an egg. It is a study I saw.
It's published in Communications Engineering, which is exactly the magazine

(33:18):
I would be reading. To boil an egg. Scientists recommend.
We got scientists in the mix now telling us how
to boil eggs. Scientists recommend putting eggs in a steamer basket,
which actually I do, transferring them between two bowls of
water every two minutes so they can cool off and
cool up, one boiling and the other set to eighty

(33:41):
six degrees until thirty two minutes are up. It's called
periodic cooking and it yields a velvety yolk in a
meaty but soft white egg. You kidding me? I used
to boil eggs for about thirty minutes and the yolk
turns out gray and chalky. And I did I thought
that my mom did it that way. I did it

(34:04):
that way. I mean, passover comes around and I'm boiling
eggs and then they're all gray and chalking. Until a
buddy of mine told me about soft boiled eggs. He
boils his eggs for eight minutes, puts him in water. Dude,
that is the way to go. Do a softboat egg.
Because the yolk it's bright yellow. Sometimes you're gonna get it.

(34:26):
It's a you could taste the yolk. It's not chalky. Man,
let's debate it right now, phone number three four six
twenty nine text and that's how you're gonna get into
the high tech tax and show. By the way, here's
in breaking news. Someone stole one hundred thousand dollars worth
of eggs off a truck in Pennsylvania. I think it

(34:48):
was this week, AE hundred thousand dots. Who carries that
many eggs in a truck? Then again, I guess with
the price of eggs today, it could have been about
four dozen eggs. By the way, police are scrambling to
find the culprit. They're hoping to crack the case soon.

(35:14):
I'm gonna let you know if I hear anything more
about it. Okay, we're done with the puns here on
the High Tech Textion Show. You know how to get
a hold of me. You know how to get a
hold of me. Next hour, I'm gonna talk about the
Samsung Galaxy S twenty five, the S twenty five plus
the S twenty five Ultra. Officially, it took two plus
weeks that I've had the phone. They are now officially

(35:34):
on sale on the market. If you pre ordered and
you have a Samsung Galaxy S twenty five, one of
the three phones they released, you've had it now for
less than twenty four to forty eight hours. Why don't
you use it in call? Mean you tell me your
thoughts because you've heard me talk about it in review
at NonStop for two weeks now three four six, two nine,
te x A N. I will talk a little bit

(35:55):
more to give you some ideas. Is it worth the money?
Is the Ultra worth thirteen hundred? Next hour? If you
don't get the second hour, I think San Antoni, I
think you only get this first hour. If not, you
can go to iHeartRadio dot com listen to the podcast.
Just search for for high Tech Texts and you'll be
able to uh to listen to that second hour of
the the high Tech Texts and show for you Austin folks,

(36:18):
A lot of people go to Austin, San Antonio so
close to Austin. You know what you're getting in Austin.
You are you were you were gonna get way mo
w A y m O. You may have seen these
vehicles on the street and this is kind of scary.
This is the partnership they have with Uber. It is

(36:39):
a self driving robotaxi. Has anybody seen these It's only
in a few cities. Austin got them and they've been
testing them. You may have been driving nearby a car
with this weird looking alien round antenna thing on top
and no, no one has been in there. Well, you

(37:02):
are now one step closer to hailing as self driving
vehicle in Austin through the Uber app. Company announced earlier
this week that they opened up what's called an interest
list so that curious writers can declare their interest in
potentially being matched with a Waimo robo taxi because the

(37:24):
partnership with Uber is launching very quote unquote soon. I
can't tell exactly when it was a few months ago.
In September, Uber and Weimo they announced the expansion of
their partnership in Austin and Atlanta, because they teamed up
already in Phoenix last year before I was in Austin,
I think for it was a football game was watching.
I went up there for a ut football game and
I saw a few waymos rolling around. They had a

(37:45):
launch party, which I was not invited to. Thank you, Weeimo,
and they're getting ready. They're launching an early sometime the
next few months. Early of twenty twenty five. They're one
step closer to join the interest list Uber writers. I
guess in Austin, you go to your account, your settings,
you look for autonomous vehicles under the ride preferences, and

(38:07):
you hit join the interest list. Self driving vehicles are new,
but they've grown relatively stable in the easing years, and
Ram no doubt it's the biggest player. Amazon has something
called Zooks. They're trying to get a piece of that.
Luca depot. There's startups like Nay Mobility, are Avaie they've

(38:31):
expanded and GM they used that one cup cruise they
killed that that's not gonna happen to Before we get
out of here, think about this. Feel free. You all
to chime in on my ex acount I tech X
and are called next Hour. Are you safe? Are you comfortable?
Are you comfortable getting behind the getting in a car
with no driver behind the wheel? Phone number here, three, four, six,

(38:54):
two nine tv X An hour number one is over,
Michael Garthur. We have so much more Next Hour. I
know we have a few minutes of commercial break. It
keeps the show free. Thank you for keeping us right
here on a big weekend of the big game. It's
the high Tech is Michael Garfi.

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Michael Garfield.

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Speaker 2 (40:01):
Halfway through the High Tech Texans Show. Hour one is Zova.
We've got less than an hour ago, which means we
are a halfway through the show. Sale with me, people,
we are a halfway to halpy hour. Call. How come
we don't have a sponsor for halfway to happy hour?
We need a good liquor company. We used to have
Goodie Goodie Liquors Texas based based in Dallas. They used

(40:22):
to sponsor this. We need to do that. I got
a lot of My birthday was this past week, and
thank you very much for all the accolades. So I
guess I'm an easy target of people know what I
want because I am one of the hardest persons that
you would ever know to buy something for. And if
you think about it, it's very simple. I have covered

(40:45):
the consumer lifestyle slash technology industry for twenty plus years.
If I want almost anything in the technologic world, the
gadget world, I'm very honored that I could contact a
company and they're going to send it to me. Now,

(41:06):
when they send it to me, odds are they're gonna
give me just They're gonna let me use it, review
it for about thirty days or so. I'm totally cool
with that before I have to return it. But it
gives me the opportunity to find out do I want it?
Did it change my life? That gives me the content
to tell you this is a great product. This product
is crap. You don't want to use it. So there's

(41:29):
no use anybody getting me anything when it comes to
tech or a kitchen gadget or even a car, Like
anybody's gonna buy me the car. But if you want
to buy me a car, feel free to buy me
a car. I test drive cars every single week. I
don't work with dealerships. I get them directly from the manufacturer.
I have done this for fifteen years. I'm a member

(41:49):
of the Texas Auto Writers Association, and I'm very honored
to be able to get a car. It is not
a paid deal. It is total content, which means when
I roll around in a car, a vehicle, and it
could be an SUV, a CUV, a sports car, an EV,
a Mini van, I get them all. I can tell
you they're great, they're bad. This needs to improve, and

(42:12):
I really do, from the bottom of my heart, I
do appreciate you listening to me and taking my advice
and going out test driving and purchasing so many vehicles
that I've recommended for fifteen years. All right, so you
don't need to get me a car. And by the way,
later this hour, I'm going to talk about the one.
What's Michael driving? This week? I was in a brand
new twenty twenty five Nissan Kicks Get you All Kicks

(42:36):
en Route sixty six. It's a relatively small vehicle, doesn't
cost too too too much. But I'll give you my
thoughts on that sonyway. It's tough to get me things.
And where I'm going with this is I have a
few passions. And if you know who I am, you
know what I do. I am a bourbon guy. I
love Meason brown Water. Very few bourbons. Bourbon whiskey gets released,

(42:59):
certainly the state of Texas without a bottle coming through
this radio studio where I test it. I interviewed distillers.
I will give you the tasting notes. I had a
little caramel on the front end. There's a vanilla, very
oaky woo. This is powerful.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Ah, this is not.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
I have a bourbon collection. I literally have built a
bourbon bar, very personalized bourbon bar, and in my home
out of that thing, too, and so when people want
to give me a gift, and I had a little
I had several kind of little parties. But people through
and they thought, hey, let's be cute. Let's get Michael
a bottle of bourbon, which they probably should know. I

(43:40):
probably have more bourbon than half the state of Kentucky combined.
But I got some really nice bottles of bourbons. I
probably got another. I got about twelve to fifteen new
bottles of bourbon, some of which are my favorites, some
of which I've had before. Some are knew that I
haven't heard, which is nice. You'd think one of these
bourbons can't callum. Let's let's where's our sales folks? Okay,

(44:00):
for iHeart, where's Robert Reese, my guy? Let's let's put
him on halfway to Happy hourre brought to you by
somebody Old Elk. You ever heard of Old Elk. It's
out of Fort Collins, Colorado. Not bad man. They got
four or five different varietels. Very impressed with that. Got
a bottle of Colonel E. H. Taylor That ain't cheap.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Now.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
I got some good friends. One dude gave me a
bottle Scotch. That's gonna be regifted. Phone number here three
four six twenty nine. Text in three four six two
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(44:45):
What other job this week is AI taking over? Well,
here we go. Adobe Acrobat. We like Adobe, you know,
pdf reader and does some things. Adobe a Acrobat apparently
just launched an AI assistant. Pretty cool. Everybody. Everybody has
to have an AI assistant, right, ADOBEAI has an AI

(45:06):
assistant that can now assess contracts for you. That's right, contracts.
It gives the ability to understand contracts and compares them
for you. Somebody says it's going to help you make
sense of complex terms and spot some differences between agreements
between the old ones between the new ones, so you

(45:27):
can understand what you're signing. It's going to be able
to recognize that a document is a contract, even if
it's a scan page. It can identify and list key terms.
From there, it can summarize the document's contents, and it
can recommend questions that you can ask based on what's
in it. It could compare up to ten contracts with
one another, and when it's done checking, you could sign

(45:49):
the document duh directly or request the signatures from your
colleagues or clients. Of course, you have to trust the
AI assistant to actually be able the spot important information.
You've got to catch the both small and the significant changes.
I'm reading this and I'm thinking, if it works properly,
this could be one of of Acrobat AI's most useful features,

(46:14):
seeing as users open billions of contracts every single month
on the Acrobat app. Oh, by the way, this isn't
free the Acrobat Ai Assistant. It's an add on. It's
going to cost you five bucks a month, whether or
not you're already paying for adobees other services and products.
So I'm gonna say in here this is the way
I assess products or services. Is this for you or not?

(46:35):
If you do read contracts, and if you do retain
a lawyer that charges you anywhere from two three four
five hundred bucks an hour to some of my buddies
who are literally charged fifteen hundred, two thousand dollars an hour,
I'm not getting you. I have some high prier I
have some really smart friends five bucks a month. I'd

(46:56):
I'd love to actually have a lawyer challenge. I may
do this. I am one of the few lawyers who
are one of my friends who was not a lawyer.
Most every single one of my really really good friends
for the past forty years, they went to law school.
They were for major firms Chicago, New York, Dallas, there's
a few here in Houston. I should probable, I really
should do it live on the radio. Hey lawyer, here's

(47:19):
a contract. Within five minutes, thirty minutes, I want you
to assess this contract A versus contract B. What are
your thoughts? And then I'm gonna put the I'm gonna
spend five bucks on the Adobe Acrobat AI assistant to
see what they do. Wouldn't that be awesome. Let's embarrass
some lawyers out there. And there you have it, folks,
it's the weekly. What other job is AI taking over

(47:42):
the world with? If you've got something from a pop
me a note Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com when
we come up. AI has overtaken the smartphone world. AI
is prevalent everywhere that you were looking and playing with
the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty five phones. I have
played with it for well over two weeks. It finally

(48:03):
hit the marketplace just this past Friday. Did you spend
thirteen hundred dollars on the Samsung S twenty five Ultra?
Is it worth it for you? I'll do one final
deep dive after the.

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They were kind enough. Well, we got a little partner
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(50:05):
They're just so good. Cobo Bob take my word for
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That is just good food. And why are they closed
on Sundays? I don't know. That's that's two of that's
two of my partners here that are closed on Sunday.
Cabo Bob's are closed. US coins and jewelry are closed
on Sundays. It's a day rs people. But now that

(50:26):
football season is getting ready to be ova this weekend
on a Sunday, why don't you just open on a
Sunday because there's nothing else to do? Just just my
two cents? What else say you're gonna do? Oh real quickly,
I'm gonna end on the AI thing. Lastest segment if
you heard, I did a segment called what other job
is AI taking Over? And I talked about Adobe's Acrobat

(50:46):
AI can now assess contracts for you. You don't even
need to have a lawyer for that. Did anybody watch
the Grammys last weekend? I caught the Grammys and there
were some really neat performances. But did you see who
won a Grammy? There's a It was a band that
you made a lot of my listeners based on their

(51:06):
age and demographics. You may not have heard of. It's
a little It's a band out of little town in England.
They're called the Beatles. They're no longer around and they
won a Grammy fifty five years after they broke up.
Why With the help of modern machine learning technology and AI,

(51:35):
the Beatles released a song in late twenty twenty three.
It's called Now and Then, and that won this Grammy.
And the song contains vocals that were recorded over fifty
years ago and a guitar track from nineteen ninety five.
The technological limitations at that time prevented it from really
seeing the light of day because of the audio issues. Nope,

(52:00):
the demo was first recorded John Lennon's singing and piano
were on the same audio track. John Lennon murdered Rest
of Soul nineteen eighty, separating those two tracks of the
singing a piano. It was impossible back then. AI can
do that now without much bleed, without much loss, and

(52:23):
the surviving Beatles Paul mcartney Ringo starred. They were able
to complete the song by recording a new based new
drum parts, and they released in almost thirty years later,
and it won a Grammy this past year. That's I
guess it got by with a little help from AI.
And that's the week in AI. And I'm almost done

(52:45):
talking about AI, but I'm not because I'm getting ready
to talk about a phone that was just released that
has AI. Folks, if you've listened to this show for
the past two or three weeks. I was in San Jose, California,
in January. I was out there on my half of Samsung.
It was their launch, their big press release, their news
release of the sam Sung flagship up, the Galaxy S

(53:08):
twenty five, three different versions. It's the S twenty five,
the S twenty five plus the S twenty five Ultra.
I was able to get an S twenty five Ultra.
I have had it for two, if not three weeks.
I have played with it. I have showed off to
a number of people who are big Android folks. I
am a longtime Samsung fan. I am not. I am

(53:30):
not on their payroll. Samsung has directly, never not even indirect,
They have never paid me anything. I have sold more
Samsung gear than probably any other technologically technologial the media person.
I should be on their payroll. Nope, that's okay, don't
worry about it. But I will tell you about it.
It's a good phone. The Ultra is a big one,

(53:51):
and it finally hit the market this past Friday. Anybody
have one talk to me, call me on your new
Samsung three fourths nine Texan t e xam. This is
a big one. The big one is what I've had
the Ultra thirteen hundred dollars. They did not up it
from last year. The S twenty four Ultra also thirteen

(54:12):
hundred dollars. It's designed a bit different this year's Ultra.
It feels a little bit. It's a softer, more curvy appearance.
It is not ninety degree angles. You've got the four
corners that are a little bit more curved. I would
recommend putting a case on it, which at that point
you really can't tell. It's curved, rounded corners. It has

(54:32):
a new front and back glass. It's made of corning
a Gorilla armor two that's a new version of the
company's anti reflective coating. Looks great. Allegedly, it's going to
be tougher if you drop it. Don't drop it people.
If you combine it with the bezels on the end,
they're fifteen percent smaller than before, which means you're going
to get a larger phone. Front size. It's about a

(54:56):
six point nine inch display, up from six point eight inches,
but the actual physical size outside to outside from last
year remains the same. Very first versatile phone. The chips
inside a bit more powerful and the AI features that
is what they're touting Yes, it's a faster chip. They've

(55:18):
got a new ultra wide camera, phone sensors for the camera,
got a few cosmetic tweaks. Overall, looks feels pretty similar
to last year's model. Excellent screen, good performance. I like
the battery life. I can dig the ultra wide sensor
went from what was it twelve megapixels maybe twenty five minutes,

(55:41):
it's fifty megapixels this year. Four camera lenses one, two, three, four.
Those are the good things about it. I like it.
If you use last year and know what an spen is,
it's a pins that electronic pen change it this year
this no longer support. Doesn't have bluetooth, so you can't
use it as there's a magical wand it doesn't have

(56:02):
those air actions where you can wave it and do
some things. Doesn't do that, which is fine. I never knew.
I never used it that way. It ain't cheap, it's
not fully comtible, compatible with all the magnetic CHI two accessories.
But make my mistake, this is AI. They are touting
the artificial intelligence features in the software. There's a number

(56:27):
of new and improved features. The general goal. In my opinion,
it seems like it's making all of its tools more power,
more intuitive. They've got something called the Samsung News Brief
adds a very personalized feed weather, local traffic, upcoming calendar
appointments right on that home lock screen. You don't even
need to unlock it. I get one little morning says
good morning, and there's one at night. This is what

(56:48):
you need to know. Pretty handy. They've got an edge
panel you swipe in on the tab the right side
of the screen. There's some more AI features. It could
listen to what it could hit an AI can listen
to a song that's being played. You can hum in
a song that's being played. Yes, I know there are
apps that could do this too, Sound Hound, Shazam, but

(57:10):
it's right here at the AI feature. There's AI features
with the camera. You could generate of edit. You can
remove people and it works well. I did an Instagram
to go to high tech texting on my Instagram a
few days ago. I showed you how the let's remove
somebody or something. You can make a sketch of yourself.
You can make a three D version that you can

(57:31):
make a car two version of yourself. Overall, it's neat.
Should you buy this at the end of the day
as we get to the bottom of the hour. If
you have a Samsung Galaxy S twenty four from last year,
I don't think there's a need to and S twenty
three if it's still in great working order, there's no
cracks and your battery works well. Still nothing. I usually

(57:53):
recommend every two or three versions you get it. I
don't think I see enough upgrades, enough change in this
thing for you to go out and get it. If
you don't have an S twenty three at S twenty four,
if you've got an S twenty one, maybe you've got
an old Samsung Galaxy Note twenty which is about four
years ago. Yeah, I think it's worth you getting. Do

(58:14):
you want to spend thirteen hundred dollars? There are less
expensive versions, Yes, there are. You can get the S
twenty five plus does still it's got a good chip,
doesn't have the nice high high end cameras, but it's smaller.
It is cheaper for about one thousand dollars, and there's
one for about eight hundred dollars. The S twenty five.
It's worth looking at. Walk into some of your stores,

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hold it, feel it. But if you have a version
if you're an Android fan and you're about two or three,
certainly four years or more of a version. You're waiting
for it. They're out right now, go get it. Nothing
is very very bad about this camera or the phone.
I think Samsung has done a good job. We're going
to take a break. Coming back up. How has AI

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affected other areas of technology, including search engine OUP toimization.
We'll talk to an excellent expert in that area on
the High Tech Textan show, Don't go anywhere. We're back

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at it. It is Michael Garfield, d High Tech Texan.
Happy early February. Phone lines are open, but stand by.
I'm not going to take your phone calls yet because
this segment it's a conversation piece. That's actually what we
call an interview here in the radio program. If anybody
has seen my website, which by the way, high Tech
text and h I G H T E C H

(59:52):
T E X A N, feel free to give me
all the kudos that you want. I didn't really do
much about it. There was a company based in Houston
cled Downs with a Z. They are the ones who
helped me put it together. The leader of the pack
who runs that company, I've known him for quite a while.
His name is Steve Winter. Not only do they do
website development, but really big indeed search engine optimization, making

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sure your business, small business meetium business can be found
on the Internet, which helps your business in the long run.
They do so much and I check in with Steve
every few months to see what is up in the world.
And I am going to bring him in right now,
Steve before I say, Hi, is this you or is
this an AI bot I'm talking to?

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
Well, we'll just have to see how we answer those questions.
If you can tell the difference or not.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Should I phrase that in the form of a question
like jeopardy? Oooh, man, I tell you it is. I'm
not going to use the word scary.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Listen, you and I have been talking a few times
the past month. I just got back from the Consumer
Electronics Show. Every company out there had the letters AI
involved with everything, the products, the phones and whatever. I
was thinking. You know, you guys are the kings of
Search engine optimization. You helped so many companies. Has AI

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infiltrated your world your business yet to see if it
has affected for the better for the worst for you guys?

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
Oh one hundred percent. I mean, AI is everywhere, right.
You know, we were at the sphere in Vegas and
you got the AI robots and you know, the whatever
they're called there. It's crazy what it's doing. But you know,
when when we asked the question, what's happening in twenty
twenty five and all that, and then is SEO changed?
You know, in many ways, SEO is still in the

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fundamentals of you've got to do it right technically. You've
really got to set the website up right and and
and all, and then you've got to also have all
the internal linking and backlinks and things like that. So
there's still a lot of work that we're doing. But
AI has fundamentally shifted a lot of things. You know,
there there were companies that would develop content for us

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and all that and help write content for webs sites
because you know, it took a long time to write content.
I don't think there are too many content writer jobs
out there as much anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
You know, Yeah, you got a point. I'm going to
go back to Wooden. You and I and your team
sat down to and we're going to redo my entire website.
I went through a top to bottom. You guys just
do a phenomenal assessment of what are my business goals?
What do I want to do? And then when it
comes down, you do need copy written on your website.
You need to say about us and who's the leadership

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and what's the goal. You know, I can write pretty well,
I don't like to. I got other stuff to do.
And I know you had some copywriters. But it is
amazing what that AI can do to really not only
help it, but speed things up too. And so there
must be certain aspects of your job that of your company.
The AI is helping, well, it is, but but you
what we cannot do, and it's and it is.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
It is amazing as we've all gotten used to it.
You know, if you see AI written content, you know
it's AI written content. We have to everyone uses it.
It helps us get what we need fundamentally started. But
we have to de AI it right because Google knows
and it's amazing what their bots can do and all that.

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They don't like AI content. They want good original content
and our clients want good content. And the one thing
that we've learned about AI, if you ask it a question,
it's going to give you an answer. It may not
be right at all, but it's going to come back
with an answer. And so for those reasons, you know,
we really do have to pay attention to what's going

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on out there and where you do and don't use
AI and all. But you know, now it used to
be that content was king and the fact that if
the competitor had four thousand words, you'd write five thousand
words or whatever. Now everyone can write content until the
cows come home. So now it's actually reverting back a
little bit. It's really well written succinct content, well written

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succinct titles, well written succinct h ones.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
And also we're.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
Writing, you know what, the good news is, we're writing
less and better content for a lot of what we're
doing today from an AI perspective, and you know, Google's
doing its best, right. They want to keep you if
in Google still the gorilla, they want to keep you
on their home page and their results page, and so
they'll bring back AI answers. But a lot of the
AI answer and stuff is more informational, right, it's not transactional,

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and it's not commercial. So if you're looking to buy
a good or a service, you know, AI is not
necessarily bringing back that result and it's like, you know,
there are a lot of times when I go and
look for stuff, I look on YouTube because there's great
instructional videos and things like that out there. If I'm
trying to sell a product or a service. You know,
it was fun. I just had a friend of mine

(01:04:47):
call me today. One of the guys in my breast
club owns a commercial HVAC business. I said, man, how
are things going? He goes, he Lord, he goes too good,
He goes, Really, my concern is is how I afford
payroll right now because we are so busy. He goes,
I just I can't thank you guys enough. You all
have absolutely killed us, you know, killed it for us,

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and we get so much business now. My ideal is
just being able to fund payroll. And I said, well,
that's good. Sales cears, all ills, you know, but I
love getting those having those phone calls.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Steve Winter joining me here for a few minutes. He
is with astounds as t O U N d Z
dot com. If you need a website done, redesign, search
engine optimize, absolutely contact them. They're more than happy to
give you an assessment to see how they could do it.
And they really do work quick. You're right about the
AI stuff, because you know, you know, Steve, I've done this.
I have a certain style of speaking. I try to

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use wit, a little humor, and I try to convert
that when I write. I don't love writing, but when
I'm writing, I don't want to sound like I've never
wanted to sound like a bot or a computer, and
so I try to write the way I speak. AI
is not there yet. It's trying to learn what I'm doing.
And when Michael Garfield wipes in, uh, you know, three
or four times I've tried to have it write some thing.

(01:06:00):
It'll say, is this okay? I will say, punch it up,
make a little bit more humors or whatever it is.
But at the end of the day, whatever it spits out,
I have to edit it. I have to go in
and edit it. And we are at that stage for
I think a while, because listen, it's only been around
for a heartbeat, and you know, humans have been around
for a long, long long time. It's just learning. It
has to continue to learn. So until then, you know,

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it's just better.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
It is machine learning. But it is fascinating. I mean
how quickly it can do things. I was working with
a friend's resume of my son and and ask him
some questions and give me answers and I can put
it in a chat DVD. I said, please add these answers,
all these questions to this resume, and I mean literally
in two seconds it came back. But I then spent
thirty minutes making it great. But it would have taken

(01:06:46):
me three hours to do what I did in thirty minutes.
You know, but AI is, you know, it is changing
the world. There is no doubt about it. You know
from chatbots and how it learns and and you know,
you know the call centers of the world and all that.
I mean, all of this stuff right is getting automated,
and AI is getting smart. Websites will continue to get

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smarter and bring back different results based on the audience
and all. It's going to continue to evolve considerably in
what's going on. But that's what we're here to do.
We're here, you know, I'm not I've never been bleeding
edge and tried to be the inventor. That's why I'm
not worth billions of dollars. But we try to stay
right in the stream and learn and figure out where

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the technology is going. And all that and then bringing
our clients along with us.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
I've seen your house and your golf club and your cars.
I may have to test about the billion Actually I'm
gonnask Ai, a Steve Winter billionaire.

Speaker 5 (01:07:40):
Yeah no, yeah, it'll say no, not this Steam winner anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Yes, exactly, this Steve Winner. Right. Listen, I appreciate time
listening for anybody out there. I know we're now in
some different cities across the state of Texas. The neat
thing about the Internet and what you do, you don't
need to physically be in the same city as you.
You work with companies all over the country. If anybody
does want to contact you about web sites or search
engine optimization, how do they get a hold of you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
Astounds dot com A S t o U N d
Z is in Zebra dz dot com. And you know
we we do work, We truly do all over the
country internationally bilingual you know whatever you need multi lingual
sites and there's hardly an industry we haven't touched. But

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you know, we don't even have to really know your industry.
We just need to know what people are searching for
in your industry and we help you. You know where
we are your salesperson that never sleeps. We're there three
sixty five twenty four seven helping you, helping you sell
your service to your business, and we don't talk back.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
You don't because websites can't talk about AI one day
like Rosie the robot that she's going to talk back
but not you. Yeah, that's right down, Hey pal, thank
you so much for your time. I appreciate it and
anything I can do for you in the meantime. But
if I have any extra callers and I can't answer
any questions about SEO, I'm going to throw your way,
but always appreciate your time.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
Absolutely. Congratulations on your growth, keep it up and hopefully
we'll grow with you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
Let's go both of us growing all right, my friends,
Steve Winter Atis down's a s t O U n
d Z dot com for all your deeds on the
website and search engine optimization. My name Michael Garfield. Not
a robot at least not yet. On The High Tech
Texting Show, don't go to where we are going to
be right back, I know segments of this weekend show,

(01:09:49):
The High Tech Textan Show. Thanks for hanging in there.
I bet you're ready for the big game. If you
make something special. What are you guys eating? You doing
a little wings, a little seven layered dip where you
you go send me a photo, pop me a photo.
Just add it to my high tech texts and you
can go to Twitter x account high tech texts and
hi g h T E c h T E x
A N. That's the link where I already I blew

(01:10:12):
the lead. Really, I put a link to for all
most all of the commercials that you'll see in the
Big Game, and we could talk about those next week. Hey, listen,
for seven or eight million dollars, you better pay attention
of what they're trying to pimp. You're gonna buy some
of those. I don't know a lot of car commercials
right there. Oh, by the way, speaking of car reviews,
better bury the lead over here. What's Michael driving this week?

(01:10:34):
You know, every single week I get to drive in
a in a pretty pretty cool vehicle. Be it's not paid,
it's it's directly from the manufacturer. I don't deal with dealerships.
This past week, I was rolling around in the all
new twenty twenty five Nissan Kicks had a smaller vehicle
in the compact crossover segment and I've always been a

(01:10:57):
Nissan fan. I remember I was driving one of the Kicks.
I think I was down in Miami and they gave
us a Kicks to drive from Miami all the way
down to the Keys and that was kind of fun.
But it seems to me that it's gotten a little larger.
It's a four door vehicle, really nice technology inside, kind
of a street smart designed, very versatile, and there's some

(01:11:22):
neat options over there. Nissan OI does a great job
with its intelligent all wheel drive. That's some tech right there.
It gives you some gives you confidence and control of
a lot of different weather conditions, some road services. If
you're going through snow, which we actually got some in
Houston a few weeks ago, it gives you some added

(01:11:43):
you know, I guess, peace of mind. Good ground clearance.
Got just about eight point four inches of ground clearance
drives up. I like the impression. The design is cool,
maybe for the younger set, very bold, kind of got
a why stance, good fenders. It's a little boxy maybe

(01:12:06):
with the lower half, but overall it's clean and it's modern.
I like it sit inside dashboard, dual screen setup. You've
got one, there's your instrument cluster, which is what you
look at right through this deering wheel, and there's the
infotainment system. Infotainment system is pretty good. It's got about
about the standard measure. It's about seve to seven inches

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the Kicks SR that's an upgraded that's about a twelve
point three inch two display models. So there's different versions
you can get into. They've got two roses seats. I
like the seats. Nissign's got what they call their zero
gravity seats, you know, being in Houston, NASA seats or whatever.
Very comfortable seats distributes the weights in your pressure. So
if you have long rides, like I drive from Houston

(01:12:48):
to Dallas to see my folks Houston Austin. You know,
I go up there a lot totally. It's no fatigue.
I like it a lot. Really nice panoramic moonroof gives you,
you know, always I don't drive with the moon roof
for the sun roof open a lot. I did in
this one. To me, if you're in a relatively smaller car,
if you're not in a massive big suv, sometimes it

(01:13:08):
opens it up when you bring it in some additional light.
I do like this moon roof over here too good comfort.
I like the cargo space. I actually drove it because
I was dry for one of my little birthday swarrays.
I had to actually had to schlep some a number
of different things, some cases of liquor which don't drink
and drive folks. Cargo space is good. I put that

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second row down, really got a good amount of space
in the back. They've got a Kicks S at, a
Kicks SV along with that Kicks SR, so they've got
different versions of that two point zero Leader inline four engine.
It comes in about one hundred and forty one horse power.
On the surface, you'll look at that number, not the

(01:13:51):
biggest number with horsepower, but it's a relatively small and
light car. So if you combine it with the two
point zero Leader in line four, it does have some
good get up and go an extronic transmission, all right,
So it' Scott again. Three levels, the S the SVDSR
two available premium packages. So you can configure this most
any way you want, right and now who wants the price?

(01:14:15):
Tell you what? Listen to this. I happen to be
in the Nissan Kicks SR. Who is the front wheel
drive the MSRP right it twenty set. What is get
some glasses twenty eight thousand dollars or so totally? I
drove it totally with all the options premium package right

(01:14:35):
at thirty thousand people. I'll tell you what. It's relatively
tough to find a decent vehicle for thirty thousand dollars
or less. Definitely it. Listen, who is this for? If
you have teenagers who are relatively tall, you schlep into soccer,
you have a lot of gear, and you have to
do a lot of car pools. I don't know, this
may be a little small if you've got smaller kids.

(01:14:56):
I would say it's pretty easy to get a car
seat in the back. Just starting out. You want to
watch the amount of money that you pay it still,
you know, gives you kind of the sexiness of the
hip hop happiness of your youth. Yeah, take a look
the twenty twenty five Nissan Kicks. Big time Nissan Kicks fan.
Thank you to Steve Parrott Alba with Prestige Otto for

(01:15:17):
letting me drive that and go check it out every week.
That's exactly what I do. I rate and I review
of vehicles and so very happy with that one. Not
going to give out the phone number because we are
almost out of here. Let's see if we can go.
People want my predictions for the Big Game. Told you
I am in a square pool. I really don't care

(01:15:37):
who win.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Well, I.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Don't want Philadelphia to win. As a longtime lifetime Dallas
Cowboy fan, I do not want to see Philadelphia winning it.
I don't mind Kansas City too much. I mean, yeah,
I'm getting a little sick of him, but I like
Patrick Mahomes. He's a great kid. He's a Texas boy,
went to Texas Tech. Might as well just have they went.

(01:16:00):
I'm rooting for my square pool to win. I'm in
a four hundred dollars per square square pool. Each quarter
the winner gets ten thousand dollars. So I think my
numbers are seven and nine, and I don't know which
is which. Believe me, let me let me help you out.
If I win, that will be my first words on
my show next week. And yes, I will even if

(01:16:20):
I win ten thousand. If I win all four quarters
of forty thousand dollars, my dedication to you. After twenty
plus years, I'm still gonna be here. Nope, you can't
retire on forty thousand dollars, even if the government don't
know about it. Get so wherever you're watching the game,
and all the advice I've given, and I did get
some emails going, hey, Michael, tell me again, what's the

(01:16:41):
best way to watch it? What was the name of
the free streaming app? It's called two B by the
way to UBI, which is on by Fox. It is
on Fox. If you have a chance to actually check
it out. If you're using an over the air antenna
versus cable, you're going to thank me and appreciate the
better the better video quality. Because you're local Fox affiliate,

(01:17:01):
they are by they are governed. There is a law
that all local television stations they do have to be
broadcasting a digital signal. And digital signals most always are
better than the compressed cable signals. And so I hope
you do have a good time watching that. I do
want to thank some my guests. Thank you again. Aj.
He is with Total Wireless, Go visit a Total Wireless

(01:17:21):
five G. Not only do they have great phone plans
fifty percent off, I think, as Aj said, in some
cases they have five G home wireless Internet. Thank you
to Cabo. Bob's tell you remember that out on Sunday.
If you if you want some food for your big
game party, you better go today. If four locations in Houston,
one in San Antonio, a ton of Austin, none for

(01:17:42):
you in Dallas yet, go to Cabo Bob's. Put it
in the fridge and heat it up tomorrow. They've got
great stuff. Thank it to Campbell's Compounding Pharmacy. And you're
looking for a compounding pharmacy, Campbell'scompounding dot com US coins
and jewelry. And also thanks to my good friend Steve Winter.
Steve is with the stounds aspo indz dot com. But
you're looking to build a website, optimize your website, search

(01:18:05):
engine optimization and everything beyond. Thank you to Callum Leading
everybody who's put this on. My name is Michael Garfield,
a year older, not a year wiser, still having more
energy than anybody does. We'll talk to you next week.
Thank you so much for tuning me. Goodnight, good weekend,
Texas and beyond. Because my show is over.