What to buy NOW to prepare for tariffs and price hikes

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• What to buy NOW to prepare for tariffs and price hikes
• How to delete your 23andMe data now that the company is bankrupt
• WIN one of 3 Roborock wet-and-dry vacuums!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael Garfi of Michael Garfield, Michael Garfields joining.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
In the high Tech Texan. Michael Garfield is here with
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And Michael Garfield has something you might like. Michael Garfield
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Now you're high tech Texan. Michael Garfield.

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I know weekend in March, and I do thank you
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(01:11):
because it is gonna get hot. Tell you what this
is a these next week two weeks or so, Man,
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have got not one, but two PGA tour stops. We've
got Houston this week at the Texas Children's Open Houston.
Next week very big San Antonio. Not only do you

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have the Valvespar Open, but also you got the final four.
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international company that just went bankrupt that, oh, by the way,
just has every single thing about your DNA. How do
you get your information back to that? The data could
be out there float round the internet. Questions from people Michael,

(02:13):
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chance of winning, and we'll talk about that. However, we
have more important technology news that is going in the
going around the United States with worldwide ramifications. People, Have
you joined? Have you been asked to join the text
chat from the US government when it comes to that

(03:36):
signal app? Oh we have an issue here people, Yes,
we do. If asked or automatically invited to join a
groupe text chat that you know you're not supposed to
be in and it has got massively classified information like oh,

(03:56):
when the US is going to bomb another country, do
you want to get out or do you want to
get in? I'll talk about that second, but let me
give you some context here. A journalist was accidentally added
to a Signal Group chap, and I'll explain what signal
is that was intended only for classified military discussions. Listen,

(04:19):
I'm going to give people keep all the benefit of
the doubt. It happened. Mistakes happen. Everybody makes mistakes, and
that's exactly why security protocols exist to prevent human error
from becoming a systematic failure. Security systems are only as

(04:39):
effective as the people who use them. I mean, you
can have military grade encryption and zero trust architecture, but
if someone writes a password on a post it note
and sticks it to a monitor, boom, the whole system
is compromised. And that's apparently what happened here. This was

(05:00):
not a hack. This was not a breach of technology.
It was a breach of process or protocol. In common sense,
let me break it down. Signal which is an app,
an encrypted app. It's fine for securing personal messages, not
for classified information or proprietary business data. There are enterprise

(05:25):
grade systems that can enforce access rules by design. Now,
if you're a communication platform doesn't know who's supposed to
be in the room, either it's the wrong platform or
people aren't using it correctly. This journalist didn't hack the group.
He was invited to join the group. Hey man, what's

(05:45):
going on? You want to come over for a cocktail?
He was invited, And without identity verification, access is a
guessing game. So whether it's a group Chad or a
shared drive, knowing who's on the thread, it's not optional.
On a secure platform, a name without proper clearance wouldn't

(06:06):
even appear as an option. So this wasn't a system failure.
It was a failure to use a system designed to
prevent exactly this kind of mistake. So right now everybody
is scrambling to protect proprietary data and the fear is
that sensitive data might be leaked or stolen or used
with out permission. But the real threat isn't always a

(06:26):
sophisticated hack. It's somebody skipping the steps. It's someone hard
coding the credentials, failing to restrict database access or assuming
internal meaning secure. Remember this security isn't a product. Security
is a practice. Thoughts on that when it comes to

(06:50):
signal real quickly before we take a break, and we're
going to continue about this, And by the way, I'd
love to hear from you. This is an interactive talk
show Michael Garfield is the name. It is three four
six two nine te x An three four six twenty
nine textan if you went away on this, but real quickly,
let me tell you what Signal is. You may have
never heard of Signal. You may have heard of Facebook
or I Message or What's App. There are a lot

(07:13):
of these chat messaging apps, but Signal has been around
since twenty fourteen. It's a very popular messaging chap and
it obviously was the preferred communication platform for top officials
in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. That's right,
the plan of the Iranian back militants and Yemen. Now

(07:35):
we never would have known this if a if the
journalist wasn't inavertly added to the group. Signal is encrypted,
just like I Message and just like What's App. No
clue why they didn't use, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, since he,
you know, gave so much to the campaign. But it's
become widely used in the last decade because it's very

(07:56):
good when it comes to privacy. It provides customers. Now,
this doesn't automatically make it lawful method for elected and
appointed officials to communicate. Signal is an encrypted commercial messaging app,
and it's available to anyone in the Apple and Android
app stores. It's got a great reputation one of the
most secure messaging platforms in the world, because you know why.

(08:16):
It has no ads, It does not use trackers track
it doesn't track users data. It doesn't store any metadata
like time stabs, Internet addresses, or group names because everything
is stored on It's not being stored in a server.
All the data share through Signal is saved only on
the user's devices, all right. Signal also gives users the
possibility to hide their phone numbers from others. Okay, Other

(08:41):
than that, it's similar in concept to other pervert instant
messaging services, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp. You could send text, you
can make video and voice calls, you could send videos
and pictures and stickers and jeffs and everything. It's become, however,
popular among activists and revolutionaries and politicians and journalists and
even criminals who may have an interest in keeping government

(09:02):
agencies from intercepting or subtaining their message. It's a good
personal use app. No clue why it was being used
at this high level, because the government already does have
internal high level encrypted messaging services. Anybody whose signal Before

(09:25):
we take a break, tell you what. I wasn't on
Signal until a few days ago. I wanted to test
it out. I joined Signal. You can find me at
Michael Garfield. Let's play around. If you want to join
my Signal chat app, I will tell you who shot JFK.
You see, let's just have some fun with this thing.
It is Michael Garfield. It is the high tech dex

(09:46):
and shows three four to six twenty nine tex and
we'll give you this and so much more coming back.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
You ask man.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mentioned at once, like how many people are just
requesting my friendship on Signal, the now famous app you
may have never heard of, despite the fact that it's
been around for like eleven years. Michael Garfield, you can
find me on Signal, join my group chat, and I
will tell you the secrets behind who killed JFK. Dah,
just kidding, just kidding. Was it was it Lee Harvey?

(10:31):
I don't know, but at some point, man, and that's
what we're yapping about over here, Signal was you gotta
use ENCRYPTID forms of that. And the Signal is wonderful
just like What's app, just like Facebook, Messenger and even
your imassage. These are encrypted, but at some point people
you don't want to give not only company but freaking
government secrets out here. Inadvertently asking a journalist, the editor

(10:56):
in Cheap of the Atlanta to be on there. Michael
Garfield is the day. But it's called the High Tech
Texan Show. I will tell you what to stay away
from services like this. I will tell you services to
actually join services like this. If you just have personal messaging,
that's what I do. You can you can hit me
up four number here is three four six twenty nine Texan.
You could follow me online high Tech Texan dot com.

(11:19):
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I'm absolutely a giver, and I'm gonna give you some
good advice too. I'm gonna give you a what what
what chat app do you use? Do you listen? There's
so many people who use their iPhone and the iPhone.
You've got I Message and I've iPhone I Messages. They
are encrypted. But for people like me who use Android,

(13:51):
the default is I use Google Messages and Google Messages
for what it's worth, they're not in to end encrypted,
which means they are stored in a certo. Encrypted if
you're just tuning in means well, nothing is stored in
a server. It just goes from your phone to your phone,
all right, on your user device, if you will, right,
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,
and I use What'sapp when I travel internationally. That's an
easy way to do it. I'll also use Facebook Messenger
that's also encrypted. I probably should get in the habit
of using those things more than just my typical you know,
Google messages Google message that are not encrypted. But how
about this do the editor in chief of the Atlantic

(14:40):
was accidentally added to this chat with the Vice President
of the United States, and you know, Michael Waltz and
and all these people up there, so he knew what
was going on with his bombing and Yemen. We debate
about that it was a user error, because I want

(15:00):
you to think about this. Have you ever accidentally texted
or emailed someone you're not supposed to because you started
typing a name and all of a sudden there was
auto fhill and all of a sudden you realized, oh no, man,
I just texted my ex that's not her name, all right,
Or if you're added to a chat, if you use

(15:21):
somebody's initials, like in this case the dude whose editor
in chief. His name is Jeffrey Goldberg. So if you've
got a jag his initials and you're trying to add
people because it could have been, you know, just as somebody, Well, yeah,
that's how inadvert happened. And I'm blaming this one on
user error. I really am nobody was hacked or anything,

(15:45):
but I want to think about this. I'm the editor
in chief of The Atlantic. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg. I am
a journalist who has been in this position since twenty sixteen.
This dude has worked at Bloomberg. This dude has worked
at The New Yorker, published stories, does a lot of

(16:07):
government stuff. He's put on this very small group chat,
and he realized, and I'm gonna give you a quote.
I'm gonna give a quote from him quote. The Signal
chat group, I concluded was almost certainly real. Having come
to this realization when that seemed nearly impossible only hours before,

(16:28):
I removed myself from the Signal group, understanding that this
would trigger an automatic notification to the group's creator, Michael Waltz,
that I had left. No one in the chat had
seemed to notice that I was there, and I received
no subsequent questions about why I left, or more to
the point, who I was. This dude had the ultimate

(16:49):
he was a fly on the wall. Well, I got
questions for you, Jeffrey Goldberg, mister journalist, Why in the
world did you leave the chat? This is inside info
people that any journalist for his or her salt would

(17:14):
love to find out what goes on the inner workings.
Why did he leave this thing? Let me help you out.
I don't think it's an If I was inadvertently I
would not have left this chat a second before I
had to. No one realized I was there. Who knows
what they were going to say after their little bomb

(17:35):
party planning SASH was all wrapped up. Why did this
guy bail? What is the deal? He said? Uh, you know,
you know I didn't. I didn't need to find out
what was going on? What kind of journalists are you? People?
You knew you had to publish what you already had.

(17:57):
I got that you bore witness firsthand the outrageous, sloppy
methods of this of what's going on in the administration. No,
I'm on people. You got Secretary Hegseeth and Secretary Mark
Rube Marc or Rubio. You got jd Vance. This is
big time, man. I mean, at some point you chimed in,
Hey man, anybody want to, you know, take a taco

(18:18):
bell break. I'll go pick up some orders over here,
because you know this, all this information and bombing here
is making me hungry. We need to know this info. People.
Would you leave and I'm gonna leave this as we
get to the bottom of the hour and listen, we
have so much more to talk to too. Three four six
twenty nine texted and I'll leave you this with I
put this one mile on my Twitter too. If for

(18:39):
some let's get this government stuff out of here. If
for some reason you have been asked or you are
inevertly included in any chat text group of any people
or any subject, what would you choose? I'm gonna I'm
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.
Doesn't matter what it is. I mean, it could have
been back in the day. Hey, I'd like to blame
the planning session for the Coca Cola people when they
plan the new Coke I mean anything, what would you
choose to be a fly on the wall. I'll tell
you what I would choose. Will you tell me what
you would choose? After this?

Speaker 3 (19:18):
The bottom of the hours Michael Garfield, the bottom of.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
That first hour of the Ditection Show, Michael Garfield, whether
you want to talk tech or not, I'm all about
the consumer lifestyle and just what's going on in the
world big sports or here going on in the next
well this weekend. If you're in Houston, we've got the
Houston Open, We've got the March Madness, We've got the
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(20:01):
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Baby?

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It's all I need? Man, game on? You ever been
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Championships Final four coming to Big Texas, coming to Texas.
Let me know. You can email me Michael Garfield at
iHeartMedia dot com. Roomy. I am here for you, continuing
our subject last segment and we'll finish the subject on
the group text chat on signal that the government inadvertently
invited a journalist to join so that journalist could find

(21:22):
out for the first few minutes of the United States
was bombing Yemen. If you were if you could be
a fly on the wall like that journalist was on
any chat that they didn't know you were on, what
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
TV networks about who is going to win the Super
Bowl this coming year. Because you know that stuff is scripted. Man,
I'd let man Roger Goodell, NFL commissioners throwing out f
bombs or something like that. No, no, no can The

(22:03):
city Chiefs have had too long of a run. We
need to spice it up. Philadelphia is a big market.
We need to make them it's good ratings. That'd be awesome.
That'd be awesome. Three four six twenty nine text and
that's my phone number three four six two nine text.
And if you can't get in, leave a voicemail message.
We do have the right to play your voicemail message.
If you could be a fly on the wall of
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We got some bad news man another bankruptcy who used
twenty three in me. Oh, my DNA. I want to
find out my heritage, baby, I want I need to
find out where I'm from? Am I what I'm like?

(23:31):
Part Jewish? What some of my family is from Scandinavia?
Uh oh, it was fun while that surprise heritage lasted
because one of the biggest names in at home genetic testing,
they filed for bankruptcy this week. That's right. They announced

(23:51):
the immediate resignation of its CEO after plumbing from unicorn status,
nearly being worthless in less than four years. Company is
called twenty three and Me. They've lost ninety nine percent
of its value since it peaked at six billion dollars

(24:15):
when it went public in twenty twenty one. Still has
a market cap of about twenty million dollars. They also
claimed to have about one hundred to five hundred million
dollars in assets, along with one hundred million to five
hundred million dollars in debt. Let's go back in time.
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
in something, you mailed it back. They'd come back with
the whole history of this is where I'm from, and
oh my god, are you the real father? I mean,
it's just it was crazy. But the company struggled to
grow revenue on a business model that really relied on
a single use test kit. They try to sell subscription

(25:02):
services and maybe into research and drug therapies. That didn't
really happen. Okay, nothing. So there was a data breach
in twenty twenty three that affected about half of all
twenty three and me users, which are about seven million people,
and that undermined the trust there, and then customers pulled
out from the platform. Company paid thirty million dollars settlement.

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So right now, your genetic data could be up for grabs.
But people you want personal information, they've got your freaking
spit in your entire family tree. Going back to George
Washington era, what do you do? Well, I will tell
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?
Let me give you a few steps. I will say
it slowly, maybe repeated again. How do you delete your
genetic data from twenty three because consumers can delete their
account and the personal information by doing a few things.
Number one, log into your twenty three and Me account

(26:11):
on their website. Okay, once you're there, go to settings.
Everybody with me so far? You scroll to a section
that says twenty three and meter data. Then you click
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
it before proceeding. And then after that you scroll to
a little thing that says delete data, and then you
click permanally delete data. You should receive an email from

(26:53):
twenty three and Me. I click the link in the
email to confirm your deletion request. It's not that hard.
Log on to the website settings, look for your data,
view it and download it delete it permanently. Yes, you
can do that. Anybody got questions, I am here for you.
I never did it. My youngest son did it. He

(27:18):
wanted that as a gift and was a birthday gift
about two or three years ago. And he did it.
And you know what, I don't even know. And I
gave it to him, said, I gave him a subscription.
What was it? Forty fifty sixty bucks? I don't know.
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
me I should do that right now, man. But you
talk about your personal info. I mean that's big stuff.
This is what it wasn't hot. It's just who is

(28:01):
going to buy the remains of twenty three in me?
Because they're going to sell it for scraps? And is
it the data or is it just the website url?
Government gonna come in and do it, government ought to
already knows so much about it. That's a big one. People,
protect yourself. This is why I am here. Michael Garfield,
the high tech Texan who I do know is at

(28:22):
least a fifth generation Texan. And that's just because I
did my own research by talking to my grandparents and
my parents. That's about the only thing you got, onlynd
thing you got. I know who my parents are. I
do believe them, and I know I have three kids,
and I can testify that I was in the birthing room,
all from the same mom. And they are my kids.
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
need to talk to one of my boys to find
out the rest of my history because he did twenty
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think it just starts for the New York Mets, I
guess as it was, it just the Mets game, and
I hope they expand this. This is beautiful an opening
day here. If you're sitting and you've got a bad seat,
if your view is obstructed, maybe by a foul pole
or an overhanging deck or a concrete pillar, and you've

(32:20):
been I know I've been there, This is beautiful. Cors
Light wants to help you out. They want to make
amends in the form of ice cult refreshment. Right, so
they have launched a promotion called obstructed Bruise, not obstructive views,
Obstructed bruise as a reward for less than ideal seating.

(32:44):
So if you are a fan who finds themselves with
an obstructed view, you could snap a photo. You could
upload it to the cores Light AI powered tool. Okay,
the crappier the seat, the better pay off, because AI
scanned your situation and it doles out beer accordingly. The

(33:08):
less of the game you see, the more cores Light
you can get. This is I'm not doing an ad
for cores Light. I'm giving them free level right here.
I wish Corslight payby to talk about this. It's actually funny.
I like this stuff. By the way, it doesn't give
you product right on the spot. It does supply VENMO
payments to winners if you are twenty one and older

(33:28):
on your next persage, next purchase, and the average prizes
will fall somewhere between eighteen to twenty four dollars. People.
This is what This is what technology is supposed to be.
I wonder how many people a know about this, but
this is why I'm here. I wonder how many people
are actually going to find the worst spot and take

(33:49):
a photo, because if this was me, I would walk
into the bathroom at dyk In Park where the Astros
now play, and stand in a urinal and take a
picture because I can't see a dang thing. All right,
that's he's one of the things. It's it's it's fun.
I hope they expand this. They kind of did a

(34:14):
they did a Super Bowl campaign corpse, and they did
something called the Case of the Mondays. But I like,
I like what they're doing over there. Good for you, AI,
this is where I can trust a hi obstructive. Buddy,
Mine's got da season tickets at wrigley Field, Chicago years.
It's really weird first row upper deck. But the way
if you've ever been to Wrigley Field and actually kind

(34:35):
of walked around it is incredibly It's one of, if
not the oldest, other than Red Sox ballparks. And the
seats don't face many of the seats don't face the
field directly. So we're down the first we're right above
first base. He's right above first base. We're on the
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
very odd. Not that that's destructed. Was so I just
this is this is this is what we talk about.
This is this is where good technology actually comes into play,
actually comes into play. Got a lot more of this
next hour. Uh oh well, let me hit one more
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
same college buddies. We had a good time. I did
the show from out there. Thanks to the folks at
Happy Camper in fashion show, mall, great pizza, great place
to watch games. It was packed, good cocktails. Ryan Richardson
runs the place could not have been more gracious. He
was really cool. So no, I'm a gambler, and you

(35:42):
know you're really may you have a problem when you
don't even call it gambling, you call it gaming. So
I'm a gamer. Played a lot of Crafts, bet on
a lot of the games. Nowadays, you can use your phone.
There's an app out there. It's not Draftking. You can't.
You're not allowed to use DraftKings or fan Duel or
anything in Nevada. That's they know your GPS and you
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
play Mega Millions. You can't lotto out there. Apparently you
can win other ways like that Mega million. Did you
hear what they're doing. They're jacking up their ticket prices.
I've laed Mega Millions before. I drive around the highways
and byways of Texas. I see it gets near a
billion dollars. I'm like, okay, I'll spend two bucks. Ticket
prices were two bucks. Nope, sorry, breaking news for ay

(36:29):
you Texans anywhere around the world. There's a new game
they're overhauling. They're doing a mega overhaul on the Mega Millions,
and they're raising the ticket price, but they're also increasing
chances to win with bigger jackpots and whatever. Starts April eighth.
The new ticket price per ticket goes from two dours
to five dollars. Man starts Friday April. The final drawing

(36:55):
of the current game Friday April fourth. The next one
will be April eighth, more than double the price. How
many tickets you're gonna buy? Is? This is gonna stop
your spending right now. This is the second time, by
the way, Mega Million's tickets have increased. First time was
in twenty seventeen and went from one buck to two bucks.

(37:15):
Now five bucks. It's gonna include some multiplier increase the
non jack buy prizes by two or three or four
or five times to justify it. But uh, man, five
bucks a ticket. I mean I usually buy ten bucks
of tickets, which is five tickets. I may buy two
right now. I don't know about this man whose idea

(37:38):
was this? Just buy a ticket. Could you buy tickets
online or something? I always do it quick. I do
a quick pay. I don't have any special ten specials.
The only numbers I got right now the phone number
here three four, six two nine texts and which is
some letters too? Three four to six twenty nine texts
in hour number one is oba hour number two? When
do we come back? If you buy the products some

(38:02):
products right now before more tarriffs and more price hip
start to come in, I will tell you what the industry,
what categories you look products, and you probably should look
them getting out and buying the like down all right?
You know the phone number? You know my name is
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Halfway through the high Tech Taxi Show Hour one over
hour two starting right now, so we are a halfway
to happy hour. It is uh where whatever day you're
listening to, this is the last weekend in March. Big
what's up to Houston, San Antonio and Dallas terrestrially if
you listen on those wonderful radio stations over the year,
but if not, you could be listening on the iHeartRadio app.

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We do thank you for downloading lots of stuff in
the world of sports happening this week in Houston. We've
got the Texas Children Houston Open, so we've got Rory
McRoy text Scottie Scheffler playing next week. I don't know
if those guys particularly will be in San Antonio, but
the PGA Tour goes to San Antonio next week. I
think that's what the Valero Open, along with oh a

(40:12):
few basketball games called the Final Four San Antonio. Baby,
you were on the map. Next week, WAI what's up?
I will be in San Antonio next week. If anybody
has ideas of breakfast tacos where to go, maybe you
want to hang out for a beer on Sundays. Since
the games are Saturday and Monday, I have a whole
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(40:34):
iHeartMedia dot com. You can go on my Twitter account
and DM me or just post Hey Garf, let's go
here and Daniel listen, don't give me any of these
riverwalk stuff, and listen. I think San Antonio's a fun
really is a fun city. Parents used to take me
there when I was a kid and went to school
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
for walk, it's gonna be crowded with the tourist. You know.
Give me something, you know out by the looper or things,
and so San Antonio, if you, by the way, I'm
looking for a place to stay. I got one extra
ticket sponsor ticket, good tickets for the Final four. I
got two games on Saturday and then one game in
the National Championship on Monday night. I may if you

(41:20):
make me a good offer. Maybe I will give you
one of my tickets. If you've got an airbnb or
an extra bedroom. You can do my background check. You
can check my twenty three in me. Yeah, I've got
a good background. Which one of the things that we
talked about last hour emails coming in and also phone
calls too. By the way, speaking of emails, you can
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.
If you were too shy to call, you could send
me an email like the one I just got. Right now,
you've got mail. That's right, I do have mail. This
actually is coming from San Antonio. This guy's name is Jasper.
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
had a Jasper call in or a Jasper email. What's up? Jasper?
Jasper said, Hey, by Michael, I was just listening to
your show last hour. You were talking about AI. I
got a question because I don't like using my fingers
and my keyboard when I text. Is there something where
I could dictate or use my voice? That converts it

(42:25):
into text. I'm sure something with AI has that. Love
your show. Thanks for the easy help, Jasper. Jasper, there
are a number of things like that. Actually transcriptions, that's
what it is. It'd be nice if you had a
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
make it very simple and actually free. One off the
top of my head, I want you to try this one, Jasper.
It's called whisper flow. Hang on, let me spell this.
Whisper is wispr wispr flow, whisper flow, all right, and

(43:14):
you can go to whisperflow dot ai. All right. It's
a really easy to use voice to text app. You
install it. You actually can set a hot key somewhere
on your keyboard where you push it. Once you press
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
types it out. You released the button, The app transcribes it.
It pastes your words wherever that cursor is blinking. You
can cut and paste it, put it in text, make
anything you want, But then I've tried it a few

(43:57):
times and it works me. The one thing I like
about this and this is how well AI, how smart
AI is getting. I always say this when it comes
to texting emailing. It's very tough to understand the tone
of the person who wrote it. They could be using
a sarcastic tone which doesn't come across in words. They
could be using a mad a happiest set. This seems

(44:21):
to understand the tone of your voice, and it adds
punctuation automatically, and it even smooths out stumble. So if
you're one of those, or if you pause, or if
you correct yourself, the final output still sounds clean and
pretty professional. It is mostly free jasper. I think it's

(44:44):
up to two thousand words a week without paying, and
that's a lot. I don't even know if I use
two thousand words at an entire two hour show. Uh
if not, I think it's fifteen bucks a month. So
in a way, it's called whisper flow. You see. This
is all you people need to do is ask me
about something and I'm gonna research. I'm going to find it.
And that was that was hopefully pretty quick, And you
can use it whisper Flow. I wonder if I can

(45:05):
actually like pre record radio show. Well that's not that's
not the point really, and then it transcribes it because
I think if you download my show on the iHeartRadio app,
I think there already is a transcription. I wonder if
the iHeart our iHeart company actually uses whisper flow to
transcribe it anyway wisp r F l o W. What

(45:29):
else you got Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia dot com, Or
if you actually want to talk and I'm not going
to transcribe it for you. If you want a phone call,
call me three four six twenty nine, text and T
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for my listeners. We talked about it a few times
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I'm giving away three. They are giving the mo They're
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this is not some worldwide competition. It's just for high
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the whole thing out h I G h T E
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We just need your name and email. That's it. Nothing else.
We're not gonna spam y out. We'll mail you the
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(49:39):
I know what the word tariff is. I don't use
the word tariff a lot. No one used the word
tariff a lot over the past three months. The word
tariff has been used quite often. It's coming out of Washington, DC.
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
not making friends with other countries, and if we raise
a tariff, they're gonna wearse it he is a tariff,

(50:00):
and that's what point is. I'm getting questions, mister consumer
lifestyle guy. Uh hey, Michael, should I buy anything, particularly
like right now before tariff prices start hiking up because
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
with some government stuff. Because your president Trump, you starts
shifting tariffs. It's got consumers taking precautions on purchases like electronics.
Right the past two months, I think government has enacted
not one, but two rounds of ten percent tariffs on
imports from China, and that's likely going to hype prices

(50:46):
on imported technologies. So let me give an example here
how tariff can impact your wallet. If there's ten percent
tariffund smartphones, that means US based companies have to pay
ten percent more to get the products from overseas, and
that extra ten percent has to come from somewhere. And

(51:07):
my guess is that most companies are going to pass
it along to the consumer, which is pretty much what
they've done in the past. Laptop prices have already seen
increasing by a little bit more, so they are impacting
buying habits without a doubt of adults, and adults are
feeling the most pressure to buy electronics, big home appliances,

(51:29):
wash air dries because they're feeling that terrors are going
to lead to more price increases. So younger generations, let's
look at the gen X and boomers. They're feeling pressure too.
And I'm good, I'm looking at results. I'm on set
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
right now, they are making changes to their budgets to
prepare for these terror related price changes. I think consumers
they're also cutting back on non essential spending like dining out, traveling,
and they're trying to save more from every paycheck. So

(52:14):
by the numbers, and again i'm looking at this from
c NET, forty eight percent of US adults plan to
buy or have already bought smartphones forty two have already
done the same for laptops. Other shoppers they're concerned about
home appliances, TVs, smart home device devices. It doesn't surprise

(52:38):
me that a lot of US consumers they're delaying big
purchases that are over five hundred dollars. If you're worried
about prices going up and you already have the money saved,
my thought it may be best to buy the items
you're planning for right now. If you think it's going
to be more expensive than the future, it probably would

(53:00):
make sense to go ahead and buy it. But let's
go back to the pandemic. What the pandemic show is
supply and demand constraints. If everybody buys it now, the
item is going to become more expensive. Anyways, Could you
buy new tech right now? Should you wait? It's a
big question. I wish I can give you to you

(53:22):
one hundred percent absolute answer. Is it better to spend
money on electronics now to avoid potential tariff induced price chomps?
I'll say it again. If you already have funds here,
mark for a purchase shopping now or during an upcoming
shopping event, maybe the upcoming Amazon sale, maybe Mother's day sales.
Whatever it is, it could help save you money. It's
going to give you a peace of mind. But if

(53:43):
you don't have the money saved, I don't know. I'm
not a finanswer. I don't like financing things. Don't buy
it in anticipation. The price is going out because no
one knows what the ultimate outcome is going to be.
For example, laptops, when should you buy a new laptop?

(54:04):
Things that I cover go in cycles. If you want
to buy a new laptop, it depends on your needs,
depends on your budget. Laptops generally go on sale Dad's
and grads days. Oh I'm graduating from high school, I'm
going to college. You need a new laptop. Think about it.
August back to school sales, big time for computers and laptops.

(54:25):
Two TVs, big time December January for Super Bowl and
what have you. We will tell you this now is
the time to buy last year's TV models. If you're
in the market for a new TV, we'll look for
last year's model now. The twenty twenty four probably at

(54:46):
some of their lowest prices because retailers are getting rid
of last year's inventory. The new ones. The twenty twenty
five TVs coming out. Prices probably going to remain high
on the newer models until the holidays. But if you
don't need a TV, don't worry about it. I mean health,
football season ain't happening for another five minutes, five months. Okay,
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
take my advice as gospel. But I have seen trends,
and you may want to go ahead and purchase cars
real quickly, and I'll end this conversation. We don't know,
but tariffs on parts that come from other countries potentially

(55:34):
could make the price of cars go up much higher.
Look at that, man. Remember I remember during COVID there
was no new so few new cars on dealership lots
supplying demand. Prices were way up. Dealerships were they were
giving you top dollar for your used vehicles. It's crazy
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.
Call me. Maybe somebody's a finance major or someone is
a I don't know, a future Ford truth seeker. You
tell me three four six twenty nine. Text and love
to hear from you. If you get a voicemail, leave
a voicemail. Hey, Michael, I got a question for you. Michael.
Here's my thought and we do have the right to
play that on the air. I'll tell you how you

(56:17):
can win more of those vacuums coming up again. It
is Guarth by nickname right here on the high Tech.
Textis show the hungry people. At least I know I

(56:49):
am as I am doing the show. No matter if
you're listening during lunch or dinner, you know what, it's
happy hour on a weekend. Hope you're drinking watching a
little march madness. All right, as it counts down to
San Antonio in the final four next week, shout out
to my good friends at Cabo Bobs. And if you

(57:10):
if you live listening in Austin, you know Cabo Bobs.
That's their headquarters. That's where it started, baby, and I
know there's one in San Antonio. Matter of fact, I
need to find out where the one in San Antonio
is because when I'm there for the Final four next week,
maybe I'll do a little meet and greet. You know,
I'll buy a round of God they got the best chips.
Man you want chips in cases, Cabo Bobs has the

(57:31):
best tortilla chips that and I'm not kiding. Listen. I
talk about it every single week and I'm giving away
a twenty five dollars gift card right now seven one three,
two one two five nine five Oho tenth callar twenty
five bucks. Cobobobster, I don't care where you live. We'll
ship it to you San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, whatever you are.
But there's only They're only in San Antonio, Austin, in Dallas,

(57:52):
That's where they are. But they're chips. They're like double thick,
crunchy tortilla chips. I go over under two and a
half times a week where I either eat there take
it home. But I will always get towards the weekend,
I will get a to go bag of their chips
and to go k so keeping the fridge and game
is on. Love it, Cobo Bob is You're great. You
go up and down the line, you order whatever you want.

(58:13):
They pack chicken, Barberaca steak, put the cheese put the rice,
put the lettuce. You tell them what you want in it.
But the neat thing is you can pick your tortilla.
I mean, they've got the cilantro, they've got your buttermilk flour.
They've got five you can choose from. You can watch
them press it right in front of you. But it's
good stuff. Keso Casadia and everything. So Cobo Bob's up.

(58:33):
We have a winter stop Stop stop. Whoever won? Callum,
tell me who won. Actually, you don't need to tell
me who won. We're gonna send you a twenty five
dollars gift card to Cobo Bob's four locations in the
Houston area. I hang out at the one on the
southwest side, the meadows near Sugarland and Stafford. Great plus.
Shout out to Arnold and Laura and Bob, even though

(58:54):
there is no Bob. What's up? Don We love you guys.
Michael Garifield all over the State of Time Exis. It's
called the High Tech Text and Show. I know, I
made myself hungry right now. You know it's been around
a long time, but they just they did it. They
did it change. It's amazing how a logo change, or
a color change really freaks people out. I want to

(59:14):
I should have a contest. If you still use AOL,
they should give I should give you a twenty five
dollars gift card because you are clearly living in the
past and twenty five dollars would spend like fifty dollars
right now. I don't know if anybody still have if
you listen to AOL, if you're using AOL, why are

(59:35):
you listening to my show? With all due respect, you
may be bordering on a luddite. All right, it's still
out there. And I know I've had my email address forever, Michael,
I don't want to change it. I mean, I get you.
I mean really doesn't matter. I mean, if it's your
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
I do. I mean, when AOL was around thirty years ago,
AOL brought Time Warner, Steve Case. I mean, it was
the world's largest communication company. It was big man, and

(01:00:16):
they used to and kids, you don't understand this. Man.
You would hope your mailbox and there was a CD
and you would pop it in your computer and I
probably lost a half my audience right now. These kids
don't understand. And it would it would download, you could
install AOL and you would connect to the internet and
it was beep, You've got mail, the whole thing. But
having an AOL email address and then using aim AOL

(01:00:38):
instant messenger, Oh man, I'm in the garf wayback machine
right now. Anyway, if you still got it, I don't
want to rack on you too much. If you still
use it. Did you notice something kind of a little
bit crazy this past week with your AOL app? Yes,
there is an AO app. AOL changed its color. It
used to be a big blue logo interface. They changed

(01:00:59):
it to a big right yellow color on its app.
Don't know why, but it happened. And apparently a lot
of people who use AOL they're really not that happy.
They're not an appy because they know where they're at.
If you could figure figure the demo of the people,
the demographic of the people who use AOL, Odds are
they're a little older. Odds are they're stuck in the ways.

(01:01:22):
They know how to open their phone, they know to
look for that big blue app right there on there
front and wait a minute, it's not here. Why is
it yellow? I figure, I don't know a lot of apps.
As I look at my phone right now, there's a
lot of apps that are kind of blue. I guess this.
The AOL logo sticks out right now, kind of like
a thoro thumb store sore thumb. Is that what they want?

(01:01:45):
I don't know the logic, the motivation behind us. I mean,
it's tough. If it's it's tough with logos in trademarks. Man,
you just you know what it is. I mean, you're
going somewhere and you glance. I mean, you know what
the Coca Cola logo, you know what PEPSI looks like.
You know what the Nikes whoosh is. And I'm not
saying AOL change the letters. AOL still says, Hey, I'm
looking at the new logo right here. It still still

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says AOL. But if you're use this blue logo now,
it's like bright yellow, it's like what And I do
not believe you can depending on your phone. By the way,
did you know you could change the shape of your apps?
You can make an app, at least I know in
my Samsung you can make it circular. You can kind
of make it ovally type of shape or rounded corners.

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You could keep kind of make them squarish. But I
don't think you can change in color because it's branding.
That's what they want. That's what they're gonna give you. AOL.
Here's a trivia question, what does AOL stand for? I'm
not giving away anything anyone. This is a chance for

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mom and dad, if you're listening to the car, to
prove to your kids that you're hip hop and happening.
AOL stands for America Online. It was a computer survey
and that turned it into an Internet service provider all
the way back in nineteen eighty five, and it was

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nineteen ninety three that they introduced its own version of
electronic mail services we call it email Kids, a Windows
version and access to the rest of the Internet. It
was two thousand, just when I created the high tech
text and brand itself that I've been around twenty five years.
It was the nation's biggest Internet provider. The company is

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worth one hundred and twenty five billion dollars. Back then
they merged with Time Warner. Was not smart because by
two thousand and nine, financial strain slowing subscriber growth declining
aver at revenue, it was gone, but AOL it just
chugs along. Man. It continued to chug along, making money

(01:03:50):
off its dial up business. They acquired some media properties
like the Huffington Post back in the day. But then
Verizon purchased AOL. Verizon also purchased Yahoo was about twenty
fifteen or so. Now they are both privately owned by
a private equity group, Apollo Global Management. So whoever the

(01:04:10):
marketing genius is at Apollo Global Management, they changed your icon.
I just thought that was this is what I do.
I just I look at things and I report it
to you. I do by the way, I want to
follow up real quickly. I got about two or three
minutes talk last segment about tariffs, what products should you buy?
What should And then I get into cars. Something tells
me the price of cars are going to go up,

(01:04:32):
whether the auto manufacturers are going to say, oh, it's
because if terrorists were raising prices or whatever. And I
test drive cars for twenty eight for fifteen years, I
am an official car reviewer. I belong to the Texas
Auto Writers Association. Every single week, every single week, I
get a brand new vehicle to drive. I don't deal
with dealerships. I work straight with manufacturers. They don't pay me.

(01:04:55):
This is my thoughts. I can tell you they're crap.
I can tell you they're great. I go through elect
I go through SUV, sports cars, whatever. Right also get
to drive foreign cars. I'm a big fan of Kia.
I like Genesis. They're good cars. China. Something tells me
there's tariffs coming down on that one. I liked some

(01:05:16):
news coming out of China. I will say this. I'm
just saying I like news coming out of China. There
is a car manufacturer company from China. It's called BYD.
You probably have never heard of it here. It's not
massively big in the United States. But BYD they just
unveiled a new platform for electric vehicles that could charge

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evs as quickly as it takes to pump gas equal
if you want, in my opinion, if you want some
of the biggest news in the auto industry or the
business industry, this is it. Because the reason I'm not
a big EV guy, it's because I have ADHD. I

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want to get my car and I want to drive
from San Antonio to Dallas. I want Dallas to Houston.
I want to go to Austin. The ain't no way
I'm stopping halfway through and waiting an hour and a
half to charge my car. Nope, for what if forty
four years I've been driving a car. Hey, I can
fill up my tank at five to six seven minutes
and I'm on my happy little way. And the reason

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I don't get evs here because our charging platform in
the United States is just not there yet. I don't
want to wait in line for somebody to finish their
car charging because there's only four charging ports, and then
I don't want to wait an hour. I like this bid.
It's called a super e platform. And again, this is
just an announcement capable of peak charging speeds of a

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thousand kilowatts that can travel two hundred and fifty miles
or so on a five minute charge. That's twice the
charging speed of Tesla's superchargers. Right now, Oh no, when
this is gonna happen. But there's all this is a
big manufacturer in in China. I don't want to move

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to China. We get a lot of our products from China.
We're gonna play tariffs on things from China. But they're
building a charging network in China. That could charge things
in five minutes. I dig it smart, just letting you know,
calls questions. We have one more segment to go. Talk
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an asterisk and update you. Last segment I was talking
about tariffs and cars, cars not made in the US.

(01:09:00):
I cover the car the automobile industry. If you missed
it earlier this week Wednesday, President Trump, your president, said
he is going to start imposing guess what, a tariff,
a twenty five percent tariff on all cars that are
not made in the United States. Is this something to
cheer about? This is a serious question. I love me

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see the United States. I am proud to be a
US citizen and I would probably never move away and
have citizenship in another country. I don't know. Switchland's kind
of nice. But point is new tariffs hot to fight
in the presidential population that Trump signed in the Oval
Office on Wednesday. Did he say this White House? I

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guess he said this through an aid. It's going to
result in over one hundred billion dollars of new annual revenue.
Now two ways to look at this. Yes, by American
yay America. Okay, but shares a GM fell about four
percent on the announcement. Stillantis, which has the Jeep, the
Dodge and Fiat and all these other brands that went

(01:10:12):
down three percent, four went down one percent. Is this
insenting people to buy US cars knowing that if it's
built anywhere else, just like I said, byd other Chinese
maids cars. I don't know Kia, which is a South
Korean company, a lot of their cars are made right
here in the United States. Is this going to cause

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countries who do make foreign automobiles create manufacturing hubs in
the United States, which would be good to because they
create jobs. That's above my pay grade. I don't get
into the politics. But April second, that's the day reciprocal
tariffs in all countries that have their own import duties

(01:10:53):
on US goods, and that's what's gonna happen. It's very
smart that not doing unless in April first, because it's
way too confusing and you'd think it's a joke, funny.
I've been talking about it. I just want to make
sure because I did remember it. Wanted to talk about
that twenty five percent on tariffs of cars not made
in the US. A few segments ago I talked about
consumer buying. Are you worried about tariffs when it comes

(01:11:14):
to smartphones and prices of smartphones and home appliance and
house appliances and cars, you should be. I don't know.
I don't have a crystal ball, but I guess now what,
go out and buy a US made car, or you
got about a week to go out, get one more
that you know is not made in the United States,
Or if you've got enough money, you just don't give

(01:11:35):
a bleep. Just up to twenty five percent. I'm not
gonna give you out the phone number anymore because I
only got a few more minutes here. Of the of
the high tech Texan who have we missed over here
that I talked about the charging network? Oh do I
want to I don't want to end in this sad story.
But this is sad and this is technology?

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
It was a Houston last week, three teenage girls are
in custody after allegedly planning to kill their mother because
mom turned off the Wi Fi in their home. I
couldn't even make up a story like that. Fourteen fifteen

(01:12:22):
and sixteen year old girls. Apparently they grabbed kitchen knives
and they chased their mom through the house and into
the street, attempting to stab her. One of the teens
struck the mother with a brick. Their grandmother was also
knocked down while trying to protect the mother. No ins

(01:12:45):
the sayings serious injuries. Three teens were arrested charged with
aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. They were booked in
the Harris County Juvenile Facility. I don't want to hear
stories like this turning off the Wi Fi. These are
problems that I did not have to live through when

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I was growing up as a kid in the seventies
or even the eighties, when I was still living at
home or going in college. I'm trying to wonder what
would be so egregious that my parents did that I
would have to get a kitchen knife. I can stop
you right there and saying nothing. The only if they

(01:13:26):
did something egregious, and I know my parents are listening
right now and up in Dallas. What's up Larry and Susan.
Maybe I would snap back and talk back, but I
never would use cuss words. I mean, really, Wi Fi
turn off to the if the kids listen. I don't

(01:13:47):
know a lot of questions about this, but I mean
I not investigative reporter, but I do investigate it. My
aunt job is to ask questions. Mom, turn off the
Wi Fi in these kids' homes? Do these kids who
are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen? Do they not have a cell
phone plan? I just told you where to get a
very inexpensive cell phone plan from Total Wireless twenty five
bucks a month per line. You can't beat that at

(01:14:11):
that age. Maybe they just have phones and they were
just using Wi Fi. They don't have a cell phone plan.
I can understand that. Do these kids not know how
to walk down to the public library, almost any store,
any coffee shop and use the Wi Fi? They had
to result into something like this? This, This is sad.
I don't want to end the show like this. But

(01:14:33):
is this what the world is coming from? Now? I
will tell you this. Don't know it ever, Jack with
my cable service or my streaming at ESPN, then things
are going to get nasty, especially during football season. I'm
gonna leave you with that note. Michael Garfield, Hey San Antonio,

(01:14:54):
see you next week. People from March Madness, If you
got from you. If you got a place for me
to stay, I've potentially got a ticket for you to
the Final four two game Saturday, one game on Monday,
San Antonio. Let me know some great places to eat.
Michael Garfield at iHeartMedia Dot, Come Great City, can't wait
to play. Still at this point as we're talking to
doing the show, love, we don't know who's going to

(01:15:15):
be there. Just hope you just have a safe week.
Don't worry about Wi Fi. If Wi Fi goes down,
life anking, life, anger, Scott, people just smile and beat
them to one another. That's how it works. Thank you,
my bosses for keeping me and the Wi Fi and
this radio show. I'm here. That's Mark Sherman, Brian Erickson,
Paul Lamberdaddy Martini and everybody else who's associated with wai
kp r C. And I let him know you talk

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later in all these three great bag cities in Texas.
My name is Michael Garfield. This has been the high
Tech Texan Show. And enjoy the rest of the weekend.
People march madness and you don't talk to you in
April next week. Right now, my show is over.