Michael Garfield, The High-Tech Texan Show

Last-minute TV buying guide for Super Bowl

·1 hr 19 min·5 clips

Michael Garfield reveals why Super Bowl week is the best time to buy a TV and warns about a new QR code scam called 'quishing'.

Final weekend, January. Garfield opens on the big-game TV buying itch, then veers into gold prices, quishing, pricey phones, email, and live-radio housekeeping. No dead air. He keeps tugging listeners back with the phone number, the iHeartRadio reach, the High Tech Texan handle, and a question about what phone they are calling from. Then CES takes over. The main phone story is the Samsung Galaxy Z trifold, which he says he got to see, hold, touch, unfold, and keep unfolding at the show. He is an Android guy, and he does not hide it. He frames that as years of answering callers who keep asking which Galaxy to buy. Samsung gets a little side-eye, too. He says he has not heard much from the company lately, then still gives the S25 Ultra real respect as one of the better Android phones on the market. The TV hook stays plain. The excerpt does not give a full checklist, but the weekend is clearly treated as a possible buy-now window before the final football game. Gold gets a hard tease. Garfield says a sponsor warned about it roughly a year and a half earlier, and he sounds like he maybe should have listened. Quishing gets treated like a radio bit, with a promise to explain it if the station does not get in trouble for how the word sounds. The pacing is all live-radio scattershot: birthdays, free meals, cold Texas weather, sponsors, CES memories, and listener callbacks in the same lane. That is part of the charm. The useful stuff comes through the clutter: this is a pre-big-game TV moment, quishing is worth waiting for, and flashy foldable phones may be getting closer to something people can actually ask about. He ends warm and loose, thanking people by name, joking about birthday calories, telling listeners to stay warm, and nodding once more to the last football game of the season.

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A loose, listener-driven tech rundown with TV-buying advice before the big game.

Michael Garfield turns the final weekend of January into a shopping-minded look at buying a new TV before the big game, then broadens the discussion with the price of gold, a quishing explainer, the Samsung Galaxy Z trifold seen at CES, and listener email.

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Your pregame TV shopping gets a little gold, Samsung, and quishing on the side.

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