WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:10.279 Hi tex Is Michael Garfel Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining the high tech Texan. 2 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:15.640 Michael Garfield is here with a high tech texting items to make life easier, 3 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:22.960 some new technology. So Michael Garfield has something you might like. Texan. 4 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:32.359 Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan three decades hoping you make magic with 5 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:40.920 your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Act. Now your high tech Texan, 6 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:48.520 Michael Garfield. Can we call this a Midsummer's night dream, Midsummer's afternoon 7 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:53.679 dream as we start a very hot middle of the summer high tech text and 8 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:57.359 show. How are you just like that big voice at Michael Garfield. We 9 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.840 do so much more than technology. We're not going to freak you out, 10 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:02.640 not going to talk above your heads. We're gonna talk with you. You 11 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:07.840 see. That is what a long running question and an answer relatively semilive radio 12 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.680 show. Does I have a phone number for you? Seven one three two 13 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.879 one two five nine five zero two one two five nine five Oh, no 14 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.519 matter where you are. I started the show twenty two plus years ago, 15 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:25.840 certainly only heard in Houston on KPORC nine fifty am, which we are on 16 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.480 right now and cell phones were Yeah, they were kind of a thing twenty 17 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.680 two plus years ago. It was a long distance remember you. Yeah, 18 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.200 where I'm so worried about my minutes. But then again, on weekends, 19 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.359 we're free. My show has always been on a weekend and some week days. 20 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:44.400 Don't worry. If you're listening across the world right now. You see 21 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:49.680 we've expanded people worldwide, famous, famous. It's really not to word worldwide 22 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:53.079 entertainer trying to entertain you today for the next two hours on the iHeartRadio app 23 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.879 on a podcast, even though if you listen on podcasts, they're not live. 24 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:01.799 All our shows are podcast that's good iHeartRadio, Google, Spotify, Apple 25 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:08.039 and wherever wonderful award winning podcast or heard and listen to me. But we 26 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:10.800 would love to hear from you. Calum read, how are you my friend? 27 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.759 You sweat it fits it over there, Okay, I thought, so, 28 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.319 it's only a hundred and uh what is it now? One O two 29 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:22.319 one five, stay indoors, be put. If you are by a pool 30 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.599 right now, I hope you're in the pool. I've been hanging out in 31 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:30.520 my pool quite recently, and I don't I usually like laying out in a 32 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:37.360 chair by my pool. I can't do it. I physically cannot sit by 33 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:39.159 my pool. This is listen. I don't want to rag on the weather, 34 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:43.280 but I'm gonna go so rag on the weather. I mean, I 35 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:47.080 am a Texas boy. I do not remember a summer like this. People. 36 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:50.800 It's just I really hope everybody is safe, and I hope you're drinking 37 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.639 a cold one. If you're drinking a cold one, safe one for me, 38 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:54.719 because in about two hours it will be officially Happy hour. You know 39 00:02:54.759 --> 00:03:00.560 the phone number if you want to tell me what's going on this past week? 40 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.120 And speaking which this past week? How is your Prime Day anyway? 41 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.800 Anyway? Do you have a good Prime Day? Prime Days? Excuse me, 42 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:13.159 there's two days middle of summer. It's a tradition. Did anybody get 43 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:15.400 any good deals on Prime Day? Colum'd you buy anything? Now? You 44 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:19.800 didn't? No, I didn't buy. I'm not a big number one. 45 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:22.879 I'm not a big online shopper. And I mean I have Amazon Prime, 46 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.879 which I'm debating why I still have Amazon Prime, because the marvelous missus Mazel 47 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.199 is now efficiently ova. I didn't. I don't even think I opened the 48 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:35.199 app or went online on Amazon dot Com on Tuesday or Wednesday. I didn't 49 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.599 actually to see what the deals were. I know there were some good deals. 50 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.759 Let me know, anybody out there, so you can make us all 51 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.199 jealous what you bought on Amazon Prime Day there actually, believe it or not, 52 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:51.000 there's still sales that you can get some deals. This is a very 53 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.759 big week in the terms of sales because it's the middle of summer. Nothing 54 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:57.800 was going on. You can call it Christmas in July whatever. But Amazon 55 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.960 always holds it. But there was some guerrilla marketing to our get in. 56 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:05.240 Walmart also had week long sales that may still be going on. Why not, 57 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.919 you know, let's just let's just get on the get in the on 58 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.319 the game. We'll talk about that. I'm also going to talk about a 59 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.879 number of other things that we continue to keep you updated with. I do 60 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:19.199 a lot of things. When it comes to automobiles, I review and rate 61 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:25.319 cars. Cars are nothing but technology right now. I got an electric car 62 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:30.040 that I've been playing with, the Nissan Area ARII y a pretty impressed with 63 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:35.759 that thing. Chevy Tracks. I'm gonna talk about the Chevy Tracks pound for 64 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:40.959 pound, dollar for dollars, I'm very impressed with This car runs about twenty 65 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.720 five thousand dollars when I got inside this thing and I had it for a 66 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:46.839 week. Again, I review cars. I do not get paid sadly for 67 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.079 that. It is straight for the manufacturers. I do not work with dealerships. 68 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:53.240 I can't even tell your dealership to go too, so you could trust 69 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.560 my opinion because I don't even care if you go buy a car. I'm 70 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.639 just I get to drive them. I'm a member of the Texas Autowriters Association. 71 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.800 Is why you have that two decade plus trusted me, two decade plus 72 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.160 trusted me, and I do appreciate that. What else we got going on? 73 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.879 Some emails coming in over here, yep, Samsung is making their official 74 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:19.439 announcement of their newest products, and I am assuming there will be some new 75 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:23.639 phones, maybe a foldable phone or two or something that is coming up on 76 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:30.800 July twenty six that will be in Soul, Korea, headquarters of Samsung. 77 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.519 And as Billy Joel sings my favorite song, It's all about Soul, I 78 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:36.759 will give you some updates about that. I will also talk to some of 79 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:41.959 our partners who have been a big reason that we've been on the air for 80 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.839 two plus decades and why this radio show is free, doesn't cost you a 81 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.079 thing to listen. All you need to do is we do hope you patronize 82 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:54.800 our partners, the commercials because it does keep this radio station f r EE, 83 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.560 because that's how we roll. All right, you know the phone, 84 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.600 give me a call. I want to hear about your your Amazon Prime Day 85 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:04.000 stuff, record sales. Let me tell me. I've found some facts for 86 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:08.560 you here because this is what I do. Record number of sales. This 87 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:15.560 was the biggest in the company's history. And they have done this for how 88 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.240 many years? At twenty fifteen, so they've done this now for this is 89 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:25.319 the eighth maybe the ninth year, I guess. So consumers spent almost thirteen 90 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:31.480 billion dollars on the web this past Tuesday Wednesday on Amazon's Prime Day sales. 91 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.439 That is a six point one percent jump from a year ago. Now, 92 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:42.800 this is according to Adobe Analytics, right, thirteen billion. Do you have 93 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:46.439 nothing to do? People? Amazon said July eleventh, which was Tuesday, 94 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:53.839 the first day, the single largest sales day in the company's history, shoppers 95 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:58.639 about three hundred and seventy five million items over the two days. That's up 96 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.319 from three hundred million last year during the big promotion. A lot of appliances, 97 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:09.639 a lot of toys, some apparel, some electronics. That's that's a 98 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:14.839 lot of money. Man. Amazon does the Prime Day every July. Actually 99 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.040 during COVID, I think they pushed it back to a month or two or 100 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:21.879 three. But anyway, Amazon holds Prime Days in July really to juice the 101 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:28.920 sales numbers during what's typically the very slow months of summer. It also helps 102 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.399 Amazon promote an early start to the back to school some of the cowege shopping 103 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:36.199 period. Two. Yes, there's others. Walmart had it's Walmart Plus Week. 104 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.360 Best Buy had something I did not even know. I'm looking here online 105 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:45.279 best Buy. It's something called Black Friday. In July. By the way, 106 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:47.839 Amazon shares, they were up about two bucks after this. Did you 107 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:51.759 get it? We're gonna take a break and I'm not gonna rag on Amazon. 108 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:56.439 This is not an Amazon promotion. You know what. The last thing 109 00:07:56.439 --> 00:08:00.600 Amazon needs to do is advertise. The last thing Amazon does his even know 110 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.439 who I did? I exist? Because I don't buy anything for Amazon. 111 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.120 Amazon. I said it before. Why do I still even have Amazon? 112 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.600 Is prompt is the Amazon Prime membership for one hundred and thirty nine dollars. 113 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:15.759 Is it worth it? You tell me. You tell me, and I 114 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:16.759 will tell you why it may not be worth it, and I'll tell you 115 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.000 how to cancel it. All that coming up in more right here kpres the 116 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:24.040 radio terrestrially I heeart radio around the world. It is the high Decked Acting 117 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:35.679 Show. My name is Michael. What is going on? People? We 118 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.600 do think you're tuning in me? Get Michael card Field. That is me 119 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:45.799 and that actually is what I look like if you tuned into TV a few 120 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.120 days ago. I was popped on a great day Houston to do a few 121 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.919 things. My hair, man, I got a lot of it. I 122 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:56.240 have my hair's long. I know I need a cut, does it? 123 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:00.279 You know what I'm on radio? Who cares? You know? My goal 124 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.960 is to look like cousin it from the Adams family. So that said, 125 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.519 Hey, I got it and I'm gonna flawn it as long as my voice 126 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:09.039 works at least for these next what hour and forty minutes seven one three, 127 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:13.559 two, one two five nine five oz continuing their talks about Hey would you 128 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.759 get for Prime Day? Anything good? Seven one three, two one two 129 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.360 five nine five. You can also email me Michael at high Tech tex and 130 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.759 dot com. You can also not only tweet me, even though I'm not 131 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:28.960 going to use that word, you can thread me people at high Tech Tech 132 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:33.320 and hight e C h T e X and I will talk about that. 133 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:39.960 The threads the craziest app that's ever launched, it seems. I'll talk about 134 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.559 that in about ten minutes. It don't go anywhere but the Prime day. 135 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:50.000 Every thought about everything that Amazon knows about you? Why does it suggest things 136 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:54.159 that you just bought? It was pretty similar. Amazon is not. And 137 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:58.919 again I'm not trying to rag on Amazon. I'm a I'm fisted. I 138 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:03.360 don't work for it. I'm not mad that I'd never met Jeff Bezos way 139 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:05.799 back in the day so I can have a ton of shares. This is 140 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.840 just me y happen. It's an amazing company. You think it's a I 141 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:15.879 guess they call what the world's on, the world's largest online mall shopping side. 142 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.120 To me, Amazon is two things. It is a logistics company. 143 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.159 It's also a big data collector. Man, it knows a lot of stuff. 144 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:35.240 Is it safe to use? I don't know. There's Amazon Prime. 145 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:41.879 Have you ever tried to cancel your Amazon Prime membership. It's kind of like 146 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:50.519 calling your bank or a whole free number and you're sitting on hold for other 147 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:58.320 day, punching buttons. It's confusing. Duh. They don't want you to 148 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.360 cancel at some point if you're just like, how much Flix does it take 149 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.639 to get to the center of a TI roo? Yeah, you know what's 150 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:07.840 good, I'm just gonna keep I'll still pay it by eight nine bucks a 151 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:18.000 month. I think the FTC had a lawsuit this claims at Amazon did a 152 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:26.080 few things from federalists investigators that regarding the cancelation process and why they didn't make 153 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:33.039 it simpler or something. It's it's it's tough to cancel. Anybody have any 154 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:37.240 issues canceling. I'm not telling you canceling, but is it worth your money? 155 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.279 Let's let's I'm just thinking about this. Break it down. One hundred 156 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:45.440 and thirty nine bones a year. I guess that's about fifteen bucks a month. 157 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:50.159 Well what do we get. Let's see, we get free to day 158 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:56.559 delivery, uh, exclusive access to the Prime Day deals, which now you're 159 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:01.360 gonna have to wait almost three hundred and sixty days. You get two hour 160 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:07.480 grocery delivery from whole foods. You do get to stream music and your movies 161 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.879 and your TV shows, which really is the reason I personally signed up. 162 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.120 If you shop less than a few times a month and you don't care about 163 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:24.480 Prime Video, it may not be worth it. If you do shop free 164 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.720 shipping, I don't know is it gonna outweigh the cost your membership. I 165 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:33.320 mean, shipping fees generally are going to cost between four bucks and tin bucks 166 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.799 without Prime. All right, so say you bought a few things over the 167 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:43.639 year, you know what, so you'll save forty fifty sixty bucks. Is 168 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.519 it is at worth you know, one hundred thirty ninety year? This is 169 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:52.960 what I do. I'm your consumer guy. How many people signed up for 170 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:58.720 the free thirty day trial of Amazon Prime earlier this week? If you canceled, 171 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:05.039 you yet, don't forget to cancel it. Anceling is tough, though 172 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:09.919 you can go to you can do it on the Amazon app, and then 173 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.879 you gotta go. I think there's like this, the three lines in the 174 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.879 bottom corner. Then you click the Prime button and then you hit manage my 175 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:24.039 membership, and in membership and in all that stuff that's on your app computer. 176 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.879 I think they made it easier. I'm not sure. There's the accounts 177 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.600 and list tab and then just just keep harrying down to the prime membership and 178 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:37.840 in membership. I don't know. I'm I may do it soon, but 179 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:39.679 I'm not sure if that's if it's that that easy. And by the way, 180 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.519 if you think that they're still I'm a deal guy. That's that's what 181 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:46.200 I do. I try to you know, I just try to save you 182 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:52.480 money. If I can find a product that's cheaper and just as good as 183 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:58.039 another product that's out there for more money, I'm gonna suggest it. I've 184 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:03.960 learned that deal that's been my forever. Like Sony, I mean, I 185 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.039 think Sony makes phenomenal products. Sony is very proud of those four letters S 186 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.799 O, N Y, and I think there are just as good, at 187 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:15.799 not better products and certain categories from Sony that others make. I mean, 188 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:20.159 And when it comes to cameras, I was a Cannon fan. They're cheaper 189 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:24.279 than Sony on some of the things. I said that. That's what I 190 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:30.639 do suggest. But I believe there are still some deals out there. Even 191 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:35.279 though the big Amazon Prime Day potte has ended, there are some Apple deals 192 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:41.240 out there. If your look still look for MacBook airs or iPads. Maybe 193 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.720 they're you know, a generation older air tags. Do some searching and they're 194 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.600 still on Amazon. Best Buy probably has them too, a big seller. 195 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:56.759 I do know this was headphones and earbuds and speakers still get some good deals. 196 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.879 I'm just kind of it was just peruising rights people. I'm a professional, 197 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:01.360 like and serf and talk at the same time. I don't want you 198 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.399 to do it. Smart Watches, fitness trackers, they're out there too. 199 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:11.840 Let's see Fitbit Inspire three eighty bucks at Amazon. That's not bad. Started 200 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:15.440 to be a name brand. Two Samsung Galaxy Watch five I love that. 201 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:20.559 Actually, how much is that Samsung Galaxy Watch five Pro? I have one 202 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:24.360 of those, at the top of the line flagship smart watch three hundred and 203 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:31.000 seventy nine bucks at Amazon. That's pretty cool. TVs who got a TV? 204 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:35.320 We talk about TV's luck. TV's were the big thing for Black Friday 205 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.679 sales fifteen plus years ago. You'd wake up in the middle of the night, 206 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.080 go stand in line at Walmart best Buy. I'm serious, Hey, 207 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:46.600 listen, guilty, I'm raising my hand. I did it too. The 208 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.240 line would be by the time they opened the doors, but sometimes they open 209 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.399 at midnight, sometimes open date in the morning. Oh, I'm sorry, 210 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.080 I was a lost leader and we only had like ten of them. TVs 211 00:15:56.159 --> 00:16:02.679 were so many people have screen TVs right now, several of them in their 212 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:06.799 home. You don't need to stand in line, but they're the Amazon still 213 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:10.879 had some on on sale, especially the ones with the firestick, because the 214 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:15.399 Amazon makes the firestick. Here's one from high sins High Sense. It's a 215 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:21.799 good company. Hi s E n S E sixty five inch TV for eight 216 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.320 hundred and ninety eight bones is all right. That's on Amazon too. As 217 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:30.519 I'm flipping through, there's you can buy phones too, Google Pixel. Those 218 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:34.039 are good phones too. Google Pixels are on sale still. You can get 219 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.679 a good deal. As we look at this and as am live right now 220 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:44.000 here on this Saturday. Laptops. I'm trying to see if I can recommend 221 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:49.840 a laptop right now, only because laptops, you're gonna find some deals starting 222 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.159 with the back to school sales and the back to school sales they're probably gonna 223 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:57.080 start rolling in about two weeks. You're gonna get the end of July early 224 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:02.120 August, and you're gonna get back to school sale. It was always a 225 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:06.039 good graduation gift for high school graduates going into college. A lot of people 226 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.960 are waiting for the back to school sales over here. So anyway, those 227 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:11.720 are you know, some of the deals out there, folks, what you 228 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:15.480 got for me? I will give the phone number one more time seven one 229 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.519 three two one two five nine five out If you've got a deal thread me, 230 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:22.240 man, I guess you can tweet me. And I'm not really using 231 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:25.960 that that app anymore. And when we come back on the other side, 232 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.279 I'm gonna tell you why that a lot of people are not using the Twitter 233 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.519 app because about a week and a half ago, Elon Musk got a little 234 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:41.599 TechEd. Mark Zuckerberg takes it back baby launches a brand new app called Threads. 235 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:48.240 What you should know before you downloaded, if you already haven't downloaded why 236 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.079 It was probably one of, if not the fastest downloaded app in the history 237 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.640 of mankind, which really after really I've only been around for I don't know 238 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.839 what twenty twenty one years, but I'm gonna talk about coming up here. 239 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:08.839 It's Michael Garfield. It is called the High Tech tex In show. Bottom 240 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:14.079 of the first hour of the High Tech Texting Show Michael Gartfield and followed as 241 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.519 well seven one three two one two five nine five oh, or you can 242 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:19.960 find me on threads at high Tech Texts. Then by we'll talk about that 243 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.559 in this portion of our show. 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But don't forget Facebook 267 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:06.599 also owns What's app Facebook Facebook Meta also owns What's Appay also own a Instagram 268 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:11.240 too, and that's where it starts. Zukerbug threw down the gauntlet. They 269 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:21.000 launched a Twitter rival about two weeks ago and it's called Threads and the app 270 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:26.519 is it's kind of build like this, share ideas and trends with text. 271 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:30.240 Threads is if I can break it, I'm gonna break it down over here. 272 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:37.720 It's essentially a text based version of Instagram. You log into your Instagram 273 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.720 account, it uses your Instagram user name. You can follow the same people 274 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:47.920 you already follow on your Instagram account. You can customize your profile for threads. 275 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.880 Why is it different? Well, now you can post up to five 276 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:56.640 hundred characters long instead of Twitter's what two hundred, two hundred fifty six or 277 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.400 something like that, and you can include and photos and videos up to five 278 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:06.279 minutes. In lank we knew this was coming, but Zi quietly released this 279 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:08.359 thing. Right, I'm on. It was July fifth, man, it 280 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:14.880 took off. It took off. How does it compare? I got I 281 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.559 got emails coming in Garth. How does it compare to Twitter? Well, 282 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:25.279 okay, they're very similar. Threads is about two weeks old, so it 283 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:30.240 doesn't have a lot of the features of Twitter does. You can't subject search, 284 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.839 there's no ability, you know, to thread messages or whatever. But 285 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:40.119 I've been playing with it and the first things I noticed is mad it is 286 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:45.440 clean. It's a clean look, very Twitter like you've got the post whoever 287 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.599 you follow. They really don't have some sort of an algorithm, so you 288 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.279 don't know what's gonna pop up. But it's just I don't know why. 289 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:57.240 It seems cleaner, but it is. But the experience is very close to 290 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:04.640 how Twitter works. Billion dollars actually the forty four billion dollar question. I 291 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:08.319 say forty four billion dollar question because that's the price that Elon Musk paid for 292 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:12.519 a Twitter just a few years ago. Forty four billion dollars. Probably the 293 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:18.599 most overpaid anybody has overpaid for any no matter what you got. Do you 294 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.920 think you overpaid for your house, your car, your spouse h forty four 295 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:30.240 billion dollars or Twitter? And people are now flocking away from Twitter? Is 296 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.279 it going to replace Twitter? If you're Elon, you hope that's not the 297 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.480 case. But for now it's tough to say. It's been around two weeks. 298 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:45.519 It doesn't hurt that the app has already have well over one hundred million 299 00:22:47.039 --> 00:23:00.160 users. It reached that milestone faster than anything else including chat, gpt it. 300 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.480 Do you not like it? Who do you follow already? Why did 301 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:08.200 it become me? I'm gonna here's my theory of why it became so big 302 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:15.680 so fast? Number One when anybody immediately could download it. It is totally 303 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.440 free and you could do it right now. I say this. It's because 304 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.480 there are new apps that you have to have an invitation too, because they 305 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:25.839 don't want the servers to break down. They want to beta test it. 306 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:29.559 Google used to do this a lot. Oh well, yeah you can. 307 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:32.839 We're not gonna give you a Gmail account, and because you know we're we're 308 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:34.960 beta testing it. And then somebody gets an invitation, you know, five 309 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:37.480 and five invites. They can invite five friends and so on. Ah, 310 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:41.279 I love it. Zuckerberg and metas at net. Screw it. We're opening 311 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.839 it up. Here's iPhone, here's the Android, download the thing. Okay 312 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:51.160 easy. But here's another thing. It's Instagram. Instagram is a very very 313 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:55.319 very popular app. And all you need to do is create account. You 314 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:57.559 don't need to sit there and fill out any information and upload the photos and 315 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:03.000 everything. It takes all your information from Instagram because it's kind of a tech 316 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.440 based version of Instagram. So if you go to Instagram, you actually can 317 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:08.839 click a button and say, hey man, let me just let's just download, 318 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:15.359 let me just populate my my threads app. It was seamless. There 319 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:22.839 have been other potential Twitter killers alternatives if you will, for the past year 320 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:29.039 or two Blue sky Master done host. I tried those. They're difficult. 321 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:32.240 You gotta log on to this server and you gotta do this. Let me 322 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:36.920 help you out. If I get confused about logging on and figure out these 323 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.279 things, I'm want to guess, with all due respect, the general public 324 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:47.440 is going to be very, very confused. But this isn't dawn of a 325 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:53.039 new era. And I know the musk and circuit board they're making noise about. 326 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.559 They're gonna have some brawl whatever you whatever, it's it's it's it's stupid 327 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.920 using both of them. I don't really tweet or thread is that the verb? 328 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:07.759 I don't even know yet a lot. But the fact is, if 329 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.880 you really want to use one, this is what I'm used to. Look 330 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.559 at your phone right now, unless you're driving. Look at your home page, 331 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.000 look at your shortcuts, where your icons are, where your app icons 332 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:23.039 are. You wake up every morning generally or whatever when you when you ever 333 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:26.559 have time, and you look at your Facebook, you look at your Instagram, 334 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:30.039 you do your TikTok, you do whatever. You know where those icons 335 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:33.039 on your phone are because you do it. Wrote daily, hourly, minutely, 336 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:37.839 if you add it. Let's just say, let's talk about threads. 337 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:45.480 Have you added the threads app shortcut icon on your home page? Because I 338 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:49.920 downloaded it and I put it on my home page. I am so used 339 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:57.200 to clicking the Twitter app just to kind of repost. My threads app icon 340 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:02.480 is just above my Twitter appicon on on my homepage, and I'm still not 341 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:08.440 used to actually doing that right now. It takes a while. Who retrain 342 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:17.400 your thumbs, retrain your mind. I think Threads is, without a doubt 343 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:22.759 the closest Twitter threats and I'm not gonna say a Twitter killer that I have 344 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:26.279 seen now real quickly and about two minutes. Let me explain this thing. 345 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:30.440 Is it okay? Is in terms of data? What do they know about 346 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:36.319 you? Well, there's a lot of information that all that meta Facebook Instagram 347 00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:41.000 already has about users, because Threads is already built on the Instagram platform. 348 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:51.079 Let me tell you the information that Threads collects. Social media platforms monetize the 349 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:53.759 user data because they sell relevant ads based on your location and activity. You 350 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:56.960 think about that, if you start searching for something, Oh my goodness, 351 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:02.599 here's an ad for the same thing. So Threads is also asking for financial 352 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:10.319 information and health and fitness and diagnostics and all this other sensitive information. If 353 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:11.920 you're an Android user, you can toggle off some of the data request from 354 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:18.200 the app. Are you going to read that end user license agreement? Now? 355 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.799 Who does? Maybe some lawyers or something. You're just gonna click it 356 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.680 so you can use it. Now. Is Thread's data collection worst than Twitter? 357 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:34.079 It's a tough one because I don't think they're necessarily malicious. Now, 358 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:37.279 Threads does collect what you're posting about and liking and where you are, and 359 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.039 if you bought something through a third party side or an app or a game 360 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:44.400 or something, Threads can collect this information. They can say this information, 361 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.519 that data could be shared with third party services that connect to your Threads account. 362 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:56.000 I don't think it's any worse because every app flex data. Michael, 363 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:59.319 what's the best way to protect on my data? Do not have a cell 364 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.079 phone, do not get online, and even if you can't do it, 365 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:07.319 everybody has your information, The government has information. It's almost too late we 366 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:12.920 give up our privacy we have because if not that phone that you're probably listening 367 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:17.039 to me through on the iHeartRadio app, or you're looking at a map right 368 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:19.640 now, it becomes a brick if we do not listen. Think about it. 369 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:23.480 How does I love? I use my maps feature to look for traffic, 370 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:27.680 and everywhere I go it knows exactly where I am, to the corner 371 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:34.039 of two streets. Okay, it knows where I'm going, it knows where 372 00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:37.799 I've been. There's a lot of stuff out there, and if you don't 373 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.839 allow some of that stuff, it is absolutely going to be a brick. 374 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:42.640 So what are you going to do about that? When we come back, 375 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:47.839 I'm gonna tell you how to deactivate threads? Can you deactivate threads? And 376 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.680 if you do, guess what also you're deactivating? Brilliant strategy by mister Mark 377 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:57.119 Zuckerberg. My name is Michael Garveld, High Tech Text and Show, coming 378 00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:10.200 back, final second of this first hour of the High Tech Text and Show 379 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:11.960 stand by Man And what's at the top of the hour. Well, they're 380 00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.799 gonna take a break. I can get some water, then I come back 381 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:18.640 for another hour to entertain you. Michael Artfield is my name. Seven one 382 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.000 three two, one two, five, nine and five zero on threads, 383 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.519 which we're talking about at High Tech Text and you guys are posting and directs 384 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.960 and sending me messages over some of the great Amazon Prime Day deals that you 385 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:37.519 got. Pretty impressed, Pretty impressed. Somebody found an air frier for thirty 386 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.240 nine dollars. Very cool. So we're sharing tips and secrets that there still 387 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:47.119 are some Amazon Prime deals out there, and Walmart and Target has all this 388 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:52.880 shopping. Who knew Christmas? In July Amazon knew record record number of sales. 389 00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:59.119 Another big company other than Amazon is Meta, which is Facebook, Instagram. 390 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:03.440 What's happened now Threads? If you're carrying over from before the break, 391 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:06.759 we were talking about Threads, why it is so popular, why it was 392 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:10.960 the biggest launch, and I believe in the history of any singular app, 393 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.759 they didn't have any hullabaloo, they didn't have any ads. Just it was 394 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:17.799 July fifth, they said, and all right, we're just gonna put it 395 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.599 on the app store. And then one person and told their friend, and 396 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:25.759 who told their friend, and now one hundred million users later, within less 397 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:30.279 than two weeks or something. Right now, it is going crazy. People 398 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.799 ask me, also, can you deactivate it? Well at that If you 399 00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:37.720 don't like it after two weeks, it really must be a crappy app. 400 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:42.680 I do think it's a decent app. You can deactivate Threads, but stand 401 00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:45.279 by people, and this is this is brilliant. You want to talk about 402 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:55.160 handcuffs. You could deactivate Threads, but you cannot delete it without also deleting 403 00:30:55.359 --> 00:31:02.799 your Instagram account. How about that Meta the company which owns Facebook and everything 404 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:07.799 else. They built this app on the Instagram infrastructure, on top of the 405 00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:11.920 actual program itself. So it's gonna be very difficult to uninstalled one but not 406 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:19.960 both. That's the way it's engineered. It's it's it's tough, but but 407 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:23.279 it's it's it's smart. Who wants to do if you're on Instagram, which 408 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.039 has been around for quite a while. I use Instagram. I pust, 409 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.680 you know, post a lot of photos and videos or whatever. Maybe I'm 410 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.720 sick of Threads. Wait a minute. If I do activate Threads, there 411 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:37.640 goes my and I have about sixty thousand followers on Instagram. I worked hard 412 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:42.799 for that, man, so I'm stuck with Threads. Is it safe? 413 00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:47.720 Somebody just to who is this? This is from Rob rob Is in Periland. 414 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.440 Michael's Threads apps safe if I have it downloaded or converted my Instagram account 415 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:57.160 to it? Yet? Threads does ask for more permissions than Twitter, so 416 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:01.519 Rob, I guess it's gonna boil down to your comfort level. Some of 417 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:07.240 the privacy permissions are crazy, like granting Threads access to health and activity data 418 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:14.480 and whatever app. I think that's wrong, But no one is forcing users 419 00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:19.200 or you to install and use Threads or any other social media app. No. 420 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.519 I mean, I'm having fun with it personally my opinion. I'm enjoying 421 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:30.839 it. It's clean, selects a lot of data, but so do so 422 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:36.839 many other apps. So download at your own risk. We're going to see 423 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:42.400 if it is indeed the Twitter killer. I don't think it's going to kill 424 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:45.039 Twitter. They'll still be people out here. I think it is going to 425 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:52.200 be accepted quicker and quickly. I'll give you two quick reasons. One of 426 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.920 which I touched last segment. How often do you use it? Is that 427 00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:01.880 new Threads app icon shortcut on your home screen. Will you get into the 428 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:09.599 habit of clicking that instead of the Twitter icon if you post more and only 429 00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:15.640 on Threads and not on Twitter, Yeah, that's that's gonna hurt Twitter greatly. 430 00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:22.960 Number two is Twitter is so ingrained in the way other media uses it. 431 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:27.799 Let me explain I'm watching again, shocking. I'm an ESPN guy. 432 00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:31.400 I watched more ESPN than probably the ESPN executives do. All the athletes, 433 00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:35.880 almost every single athlete has a Twitter account, and if they make a quote 434 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:42.839 or something ESPN and other forms of media, they will quote on screen and 435 00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:46.079 I'll use a graphic on screen. Lebron James tweeted this, I am not 436 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:50.880 retiring. I'm going to stand the NBA for another five years. And when 437 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:53.400 they put it on screen, they have to attribute where it came from or 438 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.000 attribute then they have they have the Twitter logo, the blue icon with a 439 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:05.480 little bit white bird in there. Twitter. When and if media company, 440 00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:10.599 televisions, stations, tv networks remove the Twitter app and start putting the Threads 441 00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:15.840 app, you can start playing taps for Twitter. That's that's gonna be a 442 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:20.360 big one because a lot of the athletes, they already listen, I have 443 00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.119 both accounts. Most everybody has a Twitter account. They and they have a 444 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:27.960 Threads account now. But all these other TV networks, Oh, here's a 445 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:30.360 quote from a politician, here's a quote from a sports athlete, here's a 446 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:34.639 quote for something, and here's they're on Twitter. They remove that Twitter the 447 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:37.840 graphic that you watch on television. They start putting threads. There you go, 448 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.719 people, I think that's it. So anyway, there is all your 449 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:43.960 questions, and I hope I answered as much as we could. We got 450 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:45.840 about two more minutes to the top of the hour seven one three, two, 451 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.000 one two five nine five. Oh huts. See, well, let's 452 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:54.800 just tease this when we come back. I want to do I want to 453 00:34:54.840 --> 00:35:00.519 give my hip out let me. I was sitting in the pool last week 454 00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:06.320 or so. Something happened to me that has never happened to me before in 455 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:12.199 my life. I was stung by a wasp. Stung by Oh I hope 456 00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.519 my parents aren't listening, because my mom's gonna freak out right. I was 457 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:21.039 stung by freaking wasp. Sitting there wasps float on the pool because I guess 458 00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:23.599 they they're hot too, and I see them bees and bees and wasp don't 459 00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:28.960 bug me. Maybe maybe I'm not sweet. Never had a beasting, never 460 00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:32.519 had a wasp sting. All of a sudden, I'm just sitting there inside 461 00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:35.599 the pool, my head sticking out of the water, and on my left 462 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:40.159 side of my neck it was sap. People, have you ever been stung 463 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:49.920 by wasper bee. Holy crapola, man it hurt? I mean it killed? 464 00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:53.840 And of course, what do I do? Google wasp? What do 465 00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:58.199 I do? What do I take? What do I put on? An 466 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:04.159 ointment? I see people say, have allergies, your lip swell up, 467 00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.320 you start getting hives. I'm freaking out. I'm looking mirror and I'm looking 468 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:08.440 at my body. I was like, oh, hell, luckily that did 469 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:13.119 not happen. Look at it, out it And so what did I do? 470 00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:15.760 I took ibprofen, I took someone I had a brought from my neighbor. 471 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:19.719 I had some antihistamine zero tech or something. I don't even know what 472 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:23.920 it would I use. I talk about this because ironically, on earlier this 473 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:28.760 week, I got I deleted this email I got it was just a PR 474 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:34.559 pitch and I don't even have this product. Apparently there is some attach there's 475 00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:39.960 a device that you can attach to your smartphone that helps with insect bites. 476 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:43.840 I'm not kidding you. What is this thing called? It is called This 477 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:45.280 is not a commercial. I haven't used it. I do not endorse this. 478 00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:51.119 But it's called heat it. It's an attachment, and I'm looking at 479 00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.159 it. It's a little tiny device like a USB stick that plugs into your 480 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:59.920 phone, whether you've got the an iPhone or an Android. And I guess 481 00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:06.280 you touch it to the beer was stings, you plug it into your phone, 482 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:09.199 you place it on your bike and and I'm quoting this sagodbody, you're 483 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:12.920 swelling and itching forever. People, I got thirty seconds ago. If anybody 484 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:15.960 has ever tried this, I want you to think about it. I want 485 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:17.320 you to thread me, and I want you to call in next hour seven 486 00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.800 one three, two, one two, five nine five. I didn't turn 487 00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:27.519 into a vampire or I don't know aunt man in the Wasp, which the 488 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.880 third version? Maybe I can start in that thing. Uh stay saying fiftybody's 489 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:34.000 out in the sign and around bees or washed. Michael Garfield. Hour one 490 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:49.760 is officially over standby. We'll be back in the next hour. Hi is 491 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:53.599 Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high Tech Texan. Michael 492 00:37:53.719 --> 00:38:00.039 Garfiel is here with a high tech text make life Easier technology. So Michael 493 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:14.760 Garfield has something you might like. Michael Garfield's your high Tech Texan three decades 494 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:22.079 helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Active. 495 00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:29.280 Now your high tech Texan Michael Garfield. Half way to the show. It 496 00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:31.159 is just at twenty o'clock Central time. Should you do this and live on 497 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:36.960 KPARC nine fifty am Michael Garfield, which means we're a halfway to a happy 498 00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:39.519 hour? People? You know what? It is so freaking hot outside right 499 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:44.400 now. I'll tell you what I wish. I could do the show from 500 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:50.920 a pool right now. But something with electricity and gadgets in water. I 501 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:54.400 think I study that in seventh or eighth grade. They that's not a good 502 00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:58.960 mixture. Not a good mixture, So I do not recommend anything. So 503 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:01.440 I really can not be doing this in the pool. Should you be in 504 00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:05.719 a pool, I hope you are having a cocktail and having a happy hour 505 00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:07.679 right now. Don't stay away from the brown water, stay away from the 506 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:10.599 bourbon Scotch. You don't want to mix that with the sun. But a 507 00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:15.119 little nice vodka, a little lemonade, squeeze some lime in there, maybe 508 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:21.159 have one of those ready to drink cans, the White Claws. The was 509 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:24.559 it? Some company just sent me a whole slew of something to test, 510 00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:29.519 because that's what I do. I test more than just technology items and cars 511 00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:35.760 and things. Is it called club tails. It's it's a pre mixed a 512 00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.280 big market for cocktails. It's it's and I'm gonna use the term white claws. 513 00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:43.559 You know exactly what a white claw is. It's the carbonated seltry type 514 00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:46.000 of thing. They've got maybe four or five percent alcohol, kind of like 515 00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:52.079 beer, and there's flavors, and there's canned ranch water and it just goes 516 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.239 on and on. I mean, it's a hot market. RTD ready to 517 00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:59.599 drink, that's the category ready to drink, and their cans rubber so companies 518 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:01.239 they see me post this stuff and oh, this is good, this tastes 519 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:07.920 like you know that? So do I? I got a shipment from club 520 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:10.719 tails. Is that what it's called? So I need to check that it's 521 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:16.719 like a cocktail. It's got ten percent alcohol, so pretty much double the 522 00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:22.960 abv of of of a typical beer or light beer. But they're in twenty 523 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:27.559 four ounce cans. You know how big a twenty four ounce can is. 524 00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:30.599 I mean a typical can is twelve ounces. Okay, maybe you've seen an 525 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:35.199 eighteen ouncer. This freaking thing is they're they're twenty four ounces. And then 526 00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:38.199 I got a margarita, I got a sex in the beach. I got 527 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:42.880 a It's a Long Island iced tea, and I haven't tried these yet, 528 00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:46.119 but you know what, give me about one hour. When the show is 529 00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:52.159 over. I may be sitting in my pool with no electronic gear and uh, 530 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:54.079 in one of those coldies. And the point is, I hope you 531 00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:58.440 are enjoying whatever whenever you do it. I hope you still stay cool. 532 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.440 Because this is just a is a nasty heat phone number here as we continue, 533 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:06.039 it is seven one three two one two five nine five. Oh. 534 00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:08.199 I give out the number because it is a call quick answer. You tell 535 00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:13.599 me, you ask me a question, and I ask for your opinion. 536 00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:16.159 I want your opinion. How is your Amazon Prime Day? This past week 537 00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:22.079 we played this game? First hour? Would you get? Did you get 538 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.199 a good deal? Come on, make us all jelly call me. You 539 00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:30.559 could thread me at high Tech Texan. Send an email go to Michael at 540 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:36.639 high Tech Texan. Anything good, anything good, air, friars, clothing, 541 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:39.840 mosquito, bug nutting, doesn't matter. I'd love to love to hear 542 00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:46.519 that from from you. Um, what it's actually this is a very I'm 543 00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:50.880 talented man who understands how to do a very segue. They're very touns. 544 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:54.840 Okay, so here's my segue from Amazon. Did anybody get a fitness tracker 545 00:41:54.840 --> 00:42:00.440 a little watch? A lot of these new fitness trackers they can track your 546 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:07.400 sleep a sleep monitor. Well, guess what company is getting ready to reveal 547 00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:15.760 a sleep tracking app? Pokemon, the Pokemon Company. That's right, they're 548 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:22.840 coming up with something yet the Little Kid video game. The Pokemon Company is 549 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:30.840 coming out with something called Pokemon Sleep. It's an app that actually was kind 550 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:37.119 of toyed with or Keys back at twenty nineteen, and it allows users to 551 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:45.519 track their sleep at night. Pokemon it's a Japanese gaming company. They're releasing 552 00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:47.119 this. You can't do it now. I think you can pre register on 553 00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:51.719 the Google app. It's maybe coming towards the end of the July. But 554 00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:54.320 I've been reading up on this thing because my sleep has just been stupid. 555 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:59.440 I mean, I just haven't been sleeping for a long time. I do 556 00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:02.960 have I I haven't Samsung Watch and it tracks my sleep. But I'm interesting 557 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.800 to see if Pikachu can actually now help me fall asleep. So apparently this 558 00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:13.840 smartphone app, it looks like a standard sleep tracker, But they have Pokemon 559 00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:22.840 creatures, Yes, Pikachu and jiggly Puff and snore Lax folks, I'm reading 560 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:28.239 this right now because I have no clue who these what these characters are? 561 00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:32.000 Your kids, your grandkids do? Apparently players are going to work with a 562 00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:39.000 professor who is studying the sleeping habits of the Pokemon characters, and it will 563 00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:45.199 track your sleep. So what you do? Let me tell you how you 564 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:47.119 use it. Allegedly, I haven't tried it. Yeah, it's not out 565 00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:52.760 yet. You place your phone next to your pillow as you go to bed, 566 00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:58.480 which is where I keep my phone, keep it plugged in to a 567 00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:05.280 charger all night like I do. And when you wake up, the app 568 00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:13.440 categorizes your sleep into three types, dozing, snoozing, or slumbering, which 569 00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:19.559 will attract the Pokemon characters who's sleeping patterns match what it does, though, 570 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:22.320 actually with it, we take the cartoon characters away. It does record your 571 00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:27.360 bedtimes, your wake up times, and your average duration of sleep. Apparently 572 00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:31.239 it consents and monitor if you're flipping around, if you're turning, if you're 573 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:37.519 snoring, if you're waking up. I don't know how exactly that works and 574 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:39.079 get this. Oh, I know who this would be good for. The 575 00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:45.760 app even offers an audio recording function if you want to hear your snores or 576 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:50.920 other sounds during the night. Okay, that's the end of that story. 577 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:58.239 Back, who is this marketed for? I mean, I mean kids worry 578 00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:01.280 about their sleep. Kids sleep. If you're a teenager or you're a college 579 00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:05.360 person, I mean you sleep. I mean we're talking ten to twelve hours 580 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:12.719 a night. I mean I may try it. I mean all these other 581 00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.079 sleep apps and everything else, and I'm going for breathing exercises. Don't seem 582 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:22.840 to call me down at night. All help hooky mad If this thing works, 583 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:24.039 I'll keep you updated here towards the end of the month when this thing 584 00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:27.920 is announced. I thought that was actually pretty interesting. We're gonna take a 585 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:31.360 break coming up, speaking of Google Play and more apps, I will tell 586 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:39.159 you when the announcement will be from Samsung, when they are announcing their next 587 00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:45.440 versions of their phones and Southern and some other electronic here. Normally they do 588 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:51.000 this in New York. They're going abroad this time, people, and yours 589 00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:54.039 truly, I'm going to be watching it and giving you the play by play 590 00:45:54.679 --> 00:46:00.920 live from this Samsung press conference. Pretty pretty deep cool, Michael Garsall come 591 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:13.480 back on the high tech text and the show stay cool. Just like that 592 00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.719 big voice said, I'm Michael, I don't bite. I love to talk 593 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:20.639 to you. It is the long running way, long running two decades back 594 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:23.119 when I had hair, when am I still do have hair, Back when 595 00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:30.119 technology was nascent, very very old fashioned, very low tech, and now 596 00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:34.000 I do so much more. I'm your consumer lifestyle guy who also not only 597 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:40.000 does cars, trucks, tech products, travel, cocktails or anything else you 598 00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:44.280 want to talk about. Back to school stuff and how was your Amazon Prime 599 00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:46.239 Day stuff? Seven one three, two one two five nine five. Oh, 600 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:50.679 we'll be here for the next forty five minutes or so. I got 601 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:52.480 a good conversation coming up if I can get them on the line in about 602 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:57.800 fifteen minutes, My man Kenny Duncan, who runs US Coins and jewelry. 603 00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:01.519 If you are a new miss smatist, Calum Reid here on the other side 604 00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:05.480 of the glass, buddy, do you know what a new missmatist is? 605 00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:09.440 As he talks about your note, that is not it? No, you 606 00:47:09.719 --> 00:47:15.800 do not go to jail for being a new mismotist, nor do you go 607 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:22.519 to jail for being a philatelist? Do you know what a philate You don't 608 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:25.639 see. You don't know what a philateist or new mismotist is. I'm actually 609 00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:32.599 a philatelist and that at its just at its core, sounds like I should 610 00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:40.039 be in jail, right philatelist, p hi philatelist? No, A new 611 00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:49.039 mismatist is someone who collects coins. Any duncan who runs us coins at JELR 612 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:54.159 Jewelry. What are the top new mismatists in the country. I'm a philatelist, 613 00:47:57.119 --> 00:48:00.480 a stamp collector. I don't collect them anymore. But when I when 614 00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:05.760 I grew up, my grandparents who live really close to us, and I'm 615 00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:10.159 the oldest grandkid, they started a stamp collection for me and it was it 616 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:16.679 was really cool and I remember it probably what was I but panther listening? 617 00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:21.679 Maybe they could text me, well, when did when did nanapapas start collecting 618 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:25.639 those stamps for me? Was I eight or nine or ten? And we 619 00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:30.039 had these books. They're big books, like big photo albums, which know, 620 00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:32.079 no one who was born after nineteen eighty knows what a photo albums? 621 00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.360 Big foot and you would go to the post office, and they would sell 622 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.079 stamp sheets. Actually, no one after nineteen eighty knows what a stamp is. 623 00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:43.440 Why am I even talking? Why why am I even talking about this? 624 00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:45.840 Kids? There used to be this thing called snail mail in the US 625 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:49.960 Postal Service, where you wrote a letter, you licked a stamp, you 626 00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:52.679 put it in the upper right hand corner of an envelope. You would put 627 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:54.840 it in a mailbox in Hua law within a day or two or three or 628 00:48:54.960 --> 00:49:00.920 eight would they would deliver it anywhere in the world. Was amazing. Now 629 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:02.920 they have this thing called email, all right. So yeah, I would 630 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.559 collect these stamps and new stamps would be released. And some of these stamps 631 00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:12.360 they're like coins, man, they're they're they're expensive, they're some of them 632 00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.719 are printed odd, which which makes them more valuable that they're like baseball cards. 633 00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:17.800 Okay, see, I didn't collect baseball cards. I collected stamps. 634 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:22.159 But it was something to do with my grandparents. And I was very very 635 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:27.559 close with my grandparents. All four of my grandparents wonderful people. And if 636 00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:30.400 you're out there, people take care of your grant, call your grandparents. 637 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:35.159 And I lost my grandmother last year at one hundred and five, just it's 638 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.639 just near and dear, but the memories that we created because you know, 639 00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:40.440 we saw them so frequently. But the point is we did something together and 640 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:44.199 that they got me into stamps. Anyway, I still have the stamp collection 641 00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:49.360 here and I need to ask Kenny. And the point is when Kenny Duncan 642 00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:52.039 comes on the show here who us Quizilion about ten minutes from right now, 643 00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:54.880 I'm gonna see if you collects stamps, maybe I can go get a value 644 00:49:55.039 --> 00:50:00.039 of my stamps. That's what I h That's my way back TI. A 645 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:04.719 machine of what a stamp was brought to you by us quins and Joey. 646 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:08.519 How about that? I gave you the phone number over here. Have you 647 00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:15.440 been monitoring? Has anybody flown a lot? Apparently our airlines have been back 648 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:23.800 to pre COVID days and airplanes were over overbooked. Flights are crazy and they're 649 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:28.880 backed up. United Airlines had some misues I think out of iah, but 650 00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:31.320 a few weeks ago. I don't think it was anything like the fiasco of 651 00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:36.880 Southwest Airlines last December, which I actually was caught up into. I saw 652 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:38.159 this and I talked about it. Because United has a very big hub in 653 00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:42.480 Houston here where I'm based. There was when was this? There was a 654 00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.679 flight and I'm looking at this thing. Was this about two weeks I was 655 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:50.400 about a week ago. It was a flight a week ago that took off 656 00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:55.800 from Houston. It was going to Amsterdam, long flight. It was diverted 657 00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:05.679 to Chicago because an unruly passenger interrupted the flight. Okay, listen, We've 658 00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:10.599 seen this stuff regularly tektok videos and all this other stuff and somebody freaks out 659 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.960 or whatever like that. This report is coming from the where am I reading 660 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:20.440 this? The Guardian, which is I guess in the UK or something, 661 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:24.320 And I'm just it's no fault of United. But do you know why this 662 00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:27.719 flight was? You know why the guy freaked out? I guess it was 663 00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:30.280 a guy. Could have been a girl. You know this passenger freaked out. 664 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:32.960 I get okay, I see the word his, So you know this 665 00:51:34.039 --> 00:51:43.159 guy freaked out his first meal choice was unavailable. That is absolutely a total 666 00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:45.360 valid point to freak out. I'm down with you, dude. I'm on 667 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:53.559 your side. Hey, disruptive passenger on board at threat level of one, 668 00:51:53.679 --> 00:52:01.599 which is a low level threat. Apparently this dude wasn't raged over his meal 669 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:08.320 choice. Damn it, man, I owe a pre ordered lobster. What 670 00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:13.079 is this filet you're giving me? I went off this plane right now? 671 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:21.960 But what are you doing? We can get the world we live in right 672 00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:24.679 now is so jacked up? Why are you? Are you freaking out? 673 00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:31.440 If you didn't have a beef short rib or a blemongrass salmon? Oh dude, 674 00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:38.320 you didn't like the ricotta salad with wild honey mannicotti. Hello, I 675 00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:43.159 watched it. The fay could have They may have fined this guy. I 676 00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:45.400 don't know, don't know how this thing resolved. I guess they kicked him 677 00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:47.440 off in Chicago. If they were fined him, that was there was the 678 00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:54.840 costliest meal or nine meal the guy had. That's why you travel with peanut 679 00:52:54.880 --> 00:53:04.280 butter with crackers, maybe a power bar too freaking funny? Actually it's sad, 680 00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.239 I apologize, not funny anyway. United they kicked the guy off the 681 00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:09.920 plane and they went on United get you where you're supposed to be going, 682 00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:15.320 just like every other alive. Uh speaking of United? Speaking of flying right 683 00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:21.519 now, I saw Samsung as making their big announcements for their next reveal, 684 00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:25.800 if you will, of their new gear, Samsung Unpacked is what it's called. 685 00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:30.320 Normally these things take place in New York. It is taking place in 686 00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:36.599 Soul, Korea, and it is my favorite. Billy Joe Billy Joel Song 687 00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:42.079 says, it's all about Soul happening a week from this coming Wednesday, Wednesday, 688 00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:45.400 July twenty six. You can watch it. You can watch the reveal 689 00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:52.639 of the new products on the web at on Sam Sugg's website and allegedly, 690 00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:58.000 I can only say allegedly just from rumors on the internet. Sam Sung says 691 00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:02.920 the event is going to focus unfoldable the ices, and they could feature maybe 692 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:08.559 the latest Galaxy Z fold and flip phones, which would be version five because 693 00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:13.639 they're on version four right now. They may announce some tablets or new watches 694 00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:22.000 or whatever. How far is that flight Ununited from Houston? I think you 695 00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:25.159 have to stop at San Francisco. I wonder what they will serve on the 696 00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:35.320 plane for those who are traveling. Oh my good flights. I was just 697 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:40.880 a flight last week goes in californiad no issue there whatsoever. Don't go Southwest. 698 00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:44.119 That was good. I love it. But anyway, I'm now stuck 699 00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:45.559 in Texas right now. If I will be making sure that everybody knows what 700 00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:49.199 is going on with the latest sand sech events. I am an Android fan, 701 00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:52.599 happened to be a Samsung fan. By more people have the Android operating 702 00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:57.760 system around the world than anything else, and that is why I kind of 703 00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:01.000 covered a little bit more than the than the iPhone stop and so we got 704 00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:04.480 that all right. Coming up, if you are a numismatist, if you 705 00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:08.880 are into jewelry coins, coming up the Great Kinney Duncan a little goof phenomenal 706 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:13.960 thirty plus years that he and his family had a store here on it ten 707 00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:15.519 and not too far from the Galeria, and it's called US Coins and Jewelry. 708 00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.639 We will talk about that. The value. Is it a good value? 709 00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:23.719 Is it a good investment? Hard hinting facts and information you need to 710 00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:36.199 know right here on the high Tech text and show back at it. Michael 711 00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:37.599 Garfield, No for money. So I'm going a great day. It is 712 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:39.960 hot, it is nasty hot. Hope you're insight. If not, I 713 00:55:40.039 --> 00:55:43.199 hope you're buying a bull and hope you're having a coldie right now. It's 714 00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:45.920 so safer for me because when I'm off the air, I'm gonna come join 715 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:49.119 you because I am thirsty, but I know what time it is. Why 716 00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:52.679 because I'm looking at my wrist right now and that beautiful hulk of a Rolex 717 00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:57.199 shows me that time. Of course, I talk a lot about US coins 718 00:55:57.239 --> 00:56:00.840 and jewelry, A long time partner here of my show. That is where 719 00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:05.000 I get my rope. I just like saying rollies. You know? Does 720 00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:07.480 that make me pretentious? I don't know. I'm gonna ask Kenny himself, 721 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.920 Kenny Duncan Junior, along with his brother Matt. They are two key people 722 00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:15.199 over there. But I roll up and down Katie Freeway right there near Voss 723 00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:19.360 and you know what, They've got great air conditioning. They've got great security 724 00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:22.960 too. I like popping in and just window shopping. He joins me right 725 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.440 now for a few minutes, because I wanted to give him a big shout 726 00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:27.159 out, Katie. What's going on? My man? How are you? 727 00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:29.000 I know what time it is? What time is it on your watch? 728 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:31.960 Mde nde? What's going on? Buddy? It is? It's Rolex time. 729 00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:35.480 That's what time it is. How are you? It is Rolex. 730 00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:38.920 It's called you as coins and jewelry. And the funny thing is you have 731 00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:43.119 so many watches and you have so much jewelry. It's not even just watches 732 00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:45.639 too. I walk in the store and right in that case, there's ear 733 00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:49.119 rings, there's jewelry, there's you know, the men in there, they're 734 00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:51.559 buying their stuff and their wives, their girlfriends or whatever. But you have 735 00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:54.679 one heck of a collection of watches too. When did you and because you've 736 00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:58.480 been around for so so many years and decades, why did you start really 737 00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:02.480 getting into the rolexes in jewelry business side? So, jewelry has been something 738 00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:07.559 that we've always, um, we've always traded heavily and um it started out 739 00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:13.000 we were wholesaling stones and we were filling orders locally on bigger stones, and 740 00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:17.440 we decided to start carrying our own line and building our own are building our 741 00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:22.280 own line of jewelry. Because when when a guy comes in or a couple 742 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:24.320 comes in, and and and the gentleman wants to buy, you know, 743 00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:28.280 a thousand dollar coin or two thousand dollar coin, we gotta have something for 744 00:57:28.360 --> 00:57:30.199 the for the wife, right. We got to have a little laid down 745 00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:32.280 gift there, right, or a doghouse gift. So we started carrying our 746 00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:37.079 own mind where we're different from other jewelry stores. Is that we trade jewelry 747 00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.239 at about a twenty five percent margin, where a lot of a lot of 748 00:57:40.280 --> 00:57:45.320 jewlry stores are about two hundred or three hundred xs. So we um, 749 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.519 we're really really fair on our jewelry, and we're very selective in what we 750 00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:52.800 carry. Now. In terms of Rolelexes, we um probably about six or 751 00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:57.400 seven years ago, I really started getting into Rolexes. My brother Matthew actually 752 00:57:57.480 --> 00:58:00.440 was the one that got me off my butt to do it, and between 753 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:05.159 him and I we've traded thousands and thousands of Rolexes on our Katie in our 754 00:58:05.199 --> 00:58:09.280 Katie Freeway location. What is it with this brand that that that makes rolex 755 00:58:09.360 --> 00:58:15.159 stand out? Why are they so valued? Because people now, because you 756 00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:17.280 buy these things also from people, and you always say listen, if you 757 00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:20.880 if you want some extra cash or something like that, come to you first, 758 00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:23.159 like that because people the value keeps going up. There's something but I'm 759 00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:27.360 not gonna say something to invest in. But what a brand? Well, 760 00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:30.639 listen, it's just like eBay right, um, it's a worldwide brand and 761 00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:35.760 and they have done an amazing job of branding it and and and not just 762 00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:38.239 branding because it's The branding is the first part. The second part is actually 763 00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:40.960 doing what you say you're gonna do right. And that's where, in my 764 00:58:42.280 --> 00:58:45.400 opinion, a lot of companies fall short. Um you know, corporate green 765 00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:47.599 things of that nature. You started getting a good following and then you and 766 00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:50.840 then you start trying to open up your margins, right, you start trying 767 00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:52.199 to figure out how can we be more profitable? And the first thing that 768 00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:55.800 you have to do, um and after you know, letting or trimming your 769 00:58:55.800 --> 00:59:01.400 team down, is actually starting to use cheaper products to make your product or 770 00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:06.239 to try to outsource products. And that's something that Rolex has always done a 771 00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:07.760 really good job with. They do all of their stuff in house. They 772 00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:13.719 control all of the metals, and all of everything is made inside that warehouse 773 00:59:14.199 --> 00:59:19.679 that Rolex manufacturing. They have patents on plenty of those pieces, and they've 774 00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:23.519 created a watch that every man can wear or every woman can wear. It's 775 00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:28.519 um, it's just a really nice time piece. But let me tell you 776 00:59:28.599 --> 00:59:31.760 where they really, where they really, where they're really beneficial to buy one 777 00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:36.400 is that they keep their value if you go to buy a tag hower or 778 00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:38.719 a brightling or something in that nature. Pana Rye you're losing you know, 779 00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:43.159 forty or fifty cents on a dollar immediately. A lot of times, especially 780 00:59:43.199 --> 00:59:45.239 with sport model Rolexes, you can buy a support model Rolex and keep it 781 00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:49.239 wearing five years and sell it for ten percent more or ten percent less or 782 00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:51.679 maybe you know, maybe even a little bit more on the on the cell 783 00:59:51.719 --> 00:59:53.960 side. So UM, it's it's a great it's a great piece to wear. 784 00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:58.280 UM. I don't ever say buy jewelry or watches as an investment. 785 00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:00.039 I think it's probably a bad idea of mo to the time. But you 786 01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:04.719 know, with role xes, they do so well, and they control the 787 01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:07.880 mintage of them so well that they do they do retain value, So that's 788 01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:13.400 it's popular for that reason. Any given time, how many watches or let's 789 01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:17.599 just say roll xes do you have in stock? Um? So last Christmas 790 01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:22.320 we had i'd say two hundred and fifties at our peak, UM, and 791 01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:25.119 we try to have a carried average of fifty to sixty watches and stock at 792 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:29.920 any given time. Maybe six months ago the market was tanking pretty hard, 793 01:00:29.960 --> 01:00:31.920 so I didn't carry much inventory at all. UM. But now that we 794 01:00:32.039 --> 01:00:35.599 seemed to find a little bit of a bottom we're starting to buy watches again 795 01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:37.880 and get ready for Christmas. Any Duncan Jr. He joins me. He 796 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:42.400 is with US coins and jewelry obviously US coins and Julius talk about this. 797 01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:45.360 My grandfather was a coin collector, and uh, I just remember going to 798 01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:47.719 visit a house in Austin and they were just coins, if the coins of 799 01:00:47.800 --> 01:00:51.079 the coins, and we would sift through them and then we find the buffalo 800 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:55.480 and you know, all that stuff you have just it's what is it new? 801 01:00:55.559 --> 01:00:58.159 Miss me? Tist I think is the word or something like that. 802 01:00:58.239 --> 01:01:01.159 And you have so many coins and you can buy, but you also you 803 01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:07.360 sell them. But do people come in with just hundreds and hundreds of pounds 804 01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:08.679 and stuff that they wheel it in? You just sit there and you just 805 01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:14.880 go through them. With the process of looking and valuating in a coin collection. 806 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:16.800 Let me give you the long and the short. So I think, 807 01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:22.719 oh, I would say. The comment that we hear the most back from 808 01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:25.559 our customers when when they'd sell the deal to us, is how easy the 809 01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:30.920 transaction was. Um, that's our that's our number one feedback, and it's 810 01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:35.119 we know what we're doing. Whether you wheel in fifty pounds one hundred pounds 811 01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:37.000 if you have five coins, it doesn't matter. It's what we do. 812 01:01:37.559 --> 01:01:40.360 Um. It's just like you getting on radio and being able to kick your 813 01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:44.480 feet on the desk and just and let it rip and just sound natural and 814 01:01:44.599 --> 01:01:47.039 engaging. You're you're a pro, right, And when it comes to rare 815 01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:50.840 Coins, we're the pros. We know what we're doing. Um. And 816 01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:53.800 we have the checkbook to write for almost any deal that that lands on our 817 01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:59.199 table, and then it separates us from mostly everybody else. So um, 818 01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:01.559 that's that's really our big that's our niche. Rare Coins is our niche. 819 01:02:01.599 --> 01:02:05.480 That's where we that's where we cut our teeth, and that's what we've been 820 01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.119 doing for the last I say forty years now, with my dad starting the 821 01:02:08.199 --> 01:02:12.920 business in eighty four eighty five, and and we've been rolling every since. 822 01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:17.079 Exciting well Kenny Duncan he is with a US coins and jewelry. Also every 823 01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:20.719 time I come into the store and you've got I mean the security is great. 824 01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:22.920 You've got little tiny private cubbies and so nobody can see what's going on 825 01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:25.960 with the deals. But I cut not that I'm glancing everybody's shoulder, but 826 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:29.760 people are walking in with gold and they got silver too. And I remember 827 01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:31.599 years ago I had yeah, I had just had gold, you know, 828 01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:35.440 because gold necklace is back in leck of the eighties or nineties, that was 829 01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:37.960 a hot thing. And so even though I know you're making money, yeah 830 01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:40.000 you bought one. Yeah, if you bought it retail, I don't care 831 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:43.280 if you paid I don't care if you paid one hundred times retail. You're 832 01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:45.159 making money on that, on that necklace right now. Well time. But 833 01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:50.480 so talk about golden silver because that's that's a big, big, big area 834 01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:52.599 of your business too. Sure, So I mean golden silver just you know, 835 01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:57.000 tangible metal. We are one of the largest distributors wholesale of these of 836 01:02:57.280 --> 01:03:01.719 gold and silver. We sell numerous silver products and gold products. Um that 837 01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:06.559 also ties into our rare coin business. But if if someone or someone you 838 01:03:06.679 --> 01:03:08.199 know that it's trading you know, gold silver bullion, you know, please 839 01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:12.440 give us a look. It's something that we do and we pay the most 840 01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:15.840 money in Houston on gold and silver bullion. And it's not even close and 841 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:20.800 it's not up for discussion. What what price of gold roughly nowadays? Nineteen 842 01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:23.199 fifty six, I believe is the last time I looked at that and silver's 843 01:03:23.239 --> 01:03:27.679 twenty four fifty six was the last time I looked. How does that compare 844 01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:34.679 with you know things fifteen years um. Gold is on an absolute tear in 845 01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:38.480 terms of its volume, and you know, I can't believe we're trading gold 846 01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:43.079 at nineteen fifty right now. It's um, it's it's just absolutely crazy to 847 01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:45.480 think that that an ounce of gold is trading for almost two grand. It 848 01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:51.000 is just absolutely insane. So it's it's a it's a it's a very busy 849 01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:52.760 time. We've got We've got tons of people who are on you know, 850 01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:54.920 one side of the fence. I believe that they want to sell into this 851 01:03:55.079 --> 01:03:58.159 market. And then there's some people who are thinking it's going to go to 852 01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:00.039 three thousands, so they're buying. So we're just you know, we trade. 853 01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:02.440 We don't give market advice, you know, we don't get into that. 854 01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:04.519 What we do is we just promise you we're going to give you a 855 01:04:04.599 --> 01:04:09.199 good deal when you whether you buy or whether you sell. It's envisioned half 856 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:11.559 my listeners right the righty to the jelry box is going down. I get 857 01:04:11.599 --> 01:04:13.519 know what happened to Grandma's brooch? Man? I need to get it up 858 01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:16.159 to us. I mean there's not you know, I mean the high on 859 01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:19.079 gold is I believe twenty eighty, so you're about one hundred bucks off. 860 01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:23.000 So yeah, right now selling gold jewelry. I mean again, I don't 861 01:04:23.039 --> 01:04:25.400 really make that advice, but I would say that, you know, the 862 01:04:25.519 --> 01:04:28.239 trend is that we are buying a ton of that stuff right now, a 863 01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:30.679 ton of it. Well there it is already, got two emails just coming 864 01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:31.800 in right now. Okay, Michael, shut up an actable. Give me 865 01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:34.639 the location again. What's the address because I know you're open on Saturdays too. 866 01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:38.360 Where are you guys? Yes, So we're in between Kimmy Rock and 867 01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:41.840 Boss on the south side of IT ten, So we're literally right outside the 868 01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:45.360 loop, right outside the I mean two minute two exits outside the loop. 869 01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:48.639 It's eighty four thirty five Katie Freeway. We're not in Katie, we're on 870 01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:51.599 IT ten. So it's eighty four or thirty five Katie Freeway. And that's 871 01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:56.800 immemorial seven seven zero two four. And you can find this at US coins 872 01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:59.559 and Jewelry dot com. We'll sleep in the fact that you actually do a 873 01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:00.360 lot of busines on the web too, and you don't need to be just 874 01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:03.719 in Uston. I've got listeners all over the country right now. Who you 875 01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:06.000 really could do a lot of stuff in your web. Yeah. We have 876 01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:10.719 thousands of products online. We add new products daily. You can find us 877 01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:13.519 on eBay. We have an eBay store. Um, you know, we 878 01:05:13.719 --> 01:05:15.920 were we we have partnered with some of the best, the biggest and the 879 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:18.760 best and uh and we're just going to continue to do what we do and 880 01:05:18.840 --> 01:05:24.280 let's take care of our customers, give provide an excellent customer service and give 881 01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:27.840 great advice on building coin collections. There it is. His name is Kenny 882 01:05:27.920 --> 01:05:30.719 Duncan, and I just timed this on my beautiful Hulk right now. That 883 01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:33.719 was ten minutes an eighteen second interview. Baby, baby, appreciate it. 884 01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:38.079 It is great talk you and you got listen. You've been there for you, 885 01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:40.000 as you said, oh, since in the mid eighties eight your dad 886 01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:42.519 started to this thing, and you and your brothers are doing such a great 887 01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:45.480 job. Congrats on your success. Hey, thank you so much. Appreciate 888 01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:47.000 you. Appreciate your time. Okay, anytime, all right, that's Kenny 889 01:05:47.039 --> 01:05:48.480 Duncan. My manner, by the way, I was on that was on 890 01:05:48.599 --> 01:05:51.639 Kenny's podcast. Go go take a look at his I mean he's he's taking 891 01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:56.079 my job too, all right, Michael Garfield, phone numbers are open here. 892 01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:58.559 I'd love to hear from you. You know what I don't you know, 893 01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:09.840 it's a watch is coming up, so don't go anywhere. By segment 894 01:06:09.960 --> 01:06:12.800 of today's show, which means Happy Hour itself, at least for me, 895 01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:15.840 is a team minus ten minutes or so. Thank you so much to our 896 01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:20.760 good friend Kenny duncan Um talking about the numismatists around the world, which is 897 01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:26.159 a person who is really into coin coin, collecting US coins and jewelry, 898 01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:30.079 good to know rolexes and all neat stuff. And so I love talking to 899 01:06:30.119 --> 01:06:33.400 people, especially local businesses. Man. Look, it's just what a great 900 01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:36.519 family owned business and there's so many of them out there. I talk about, 901 01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:41.519 you know, just businesses who have been here by local I guess is 902 01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:46.679 the thing I talk about Universal Plumbing Supply and in so many other companies that 903 01:06:47.159 --> 01:06:51.719 that mom and pop shops, from the pizza places to the nail salons to 904 01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:56.760 just the restaurants. It's it's we gotta we gotta support them too, which 905 01:06:56.920 --> 01:07:00.920 by the restaurant weeks is coming up, and uh in August of good restaurants, 906 01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:03.000 why not go to restaurant in the hottest month of the year here in 907 01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:08.280 August and keep you updated on that. Not gonna give out the phone number 908 01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:11.599 because we're almost out of here. I still a few more things to wrap 909 01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:15.760 up. Should you have questions for me? During the week? High tech 910 01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:19.360 texts and Hi g h T e H T e X A N. I 911 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:24.960 talked a lot about cars and automobiles and very lucky to be able to test 912 01:07:25.079 --> 01:07:29.679 drive and roll around in a lot of them on a on a weekly basis. 913 01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:32.840 I've done this for fifteen years or so. I cover them so much. 914 01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:38.199 I am a member of the Texas Auto Writers Association. I've been in 915 01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:41.480 there for about fifteen years, so I get to hang with the manufacturers, 916 01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:45.239 which is a very nice and I don't deal with dealerships. I just drive 917 01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:49.119 and give my opinion. Last week, I was I was really impressed with 918 01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:55.760 this. I was in a the new twenty twenty four Chevy Tracks t R 919 01:07:55.880 --> 01:07:58.920 a X and if you haven't seen it, it's it's a it's a CUV. 920 01:07:59.079 --> 01:08:01.920 It's a compact tilty vehicle, four doors, patch back type of thing. 921 01:08:03.039 --> 01:08:06.800 And I'm gonna start with this because when I compare in review automobiles, 922 01:08:08.119 --> 01:08:12.119 I do it on so many different levels. What's the price point, what's 923 01:08:12.119 --> 01:08:15.159 the demographic? Is this good for a kid who's out of college? Is 924 01:08:15.279 --> 01:08:19.319 good for you know, older generations who need more room? Is someone who 925 01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:23.960 who goes off road a lot? Do you need the trucks? What's the 926 01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:28.880 value and everything? I'm gonna start with this. This it's retail. It 927 01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:32.000 starts at twenty three nine and the way I tested it was just about twenty 928 01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:40.680 six thousand dollars. I was very impressed for a price like this with a 929 01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:45.000 very good ride, you know, Chevy from Generalman General Motors Jam. But 930 01:08:46.279 --> 01:08:51.079 the comfort was very nice, the steering was great, roomy certainly in the 931 01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:54.119 back. You could fit three people in the back, so again you got 932 01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:57.119 a car seat. You know, maybe this is good for young couples, 933 01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:00.439 maybe having a baby starting out. Certainly it's good for you know, maybe 934 01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:03.319 you get out of college and you and your buddies go, you know, 935 01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:06.159 hang for the weekend and you want to throw some stuff at the back whatever, 936 01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:12.119 But you're still gonna get a lot of bells and whistleson over here. 937 01:09:12.159 --> 01:09:14.399 And I you know, obviously I talk about the technology. They have a 938 01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:19.880 great touch screen. It's it's a really nice size touch screen, eleven inch 939 01:09:20.279 --> 01:09:25.640 diagonal if you're going across color LCD. It's got the wireless Apple car Play. 940 01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:29.000 It's got wireless Android for all your phones over there. Um, it's 941 01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:31.720 got you know, your keyless opening and start, and and just the way 942 01:09:31.720 --> 01:09:35.119 it was designed just with with roominess. Listen. I can go on and 943 01:09:35.199 --> 01:09:38.439 on, and I'm you know, listen, this is a type of car 944 01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:41.479 where I'm not going to get into how many horsepower does it have. It's 945 01:09:41.520 --> 01:09:44.159 got some good it's you know, it's automatics, experience, transition, but 946 01:09:44.279 --> 01:09:48.600 it's it's it's got some really good get up and go. But I compare 947 01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:51.760 this to how much is it in the availability. I don't know the availability 948 01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:58.520 because I don't deal dealerships, but the price point, especially for some of 949 01:09:58.560 --> 01:10:00.920 the vehicles. Listen, I've I've got to ride around in a quarter million 950 01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:10.159 dollars Mercedes convertibles. Just yesterday, I am sitting in a one hundred and 951 01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:15.279 nineteen thousand dollars brand new Lincoln Navigator, the l the long version. I 952 01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:18.880 mean, these are six figures I mean, this costs more than houses and 953 01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:26.039 college educations. So going back to the Chevy tracks for twenty five thousand dollars 954 01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:30.000 or so, very good value and and it's it's a good one. So 955 01:10:30.039 --> 01:10:33.199 anyway, that is uh, that's what I have. I also am in 956 01:10:33.239 --> 01:10:39.319 the midst of doing an electric vehicle. I also currently have the Nissan aria 957 01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:45.039 A R I ya. I get so many questions about electric vehicles. Hey, 958 01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:47.479 should I get electric? Should electric vehicles? Should I get? You 959 01:10:47.560 --> 01:10:49.520 know my thought on electric vehicles. I don't want to spend a lot of 960 01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:54.000 time because I got about four more minutes in the show. I really like 961 01:10:54.159 --> 01:10:58.520 electric vehicles. I think they are fast. I mean they are super fast 962 01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:01.880 if you've ever been in one. They are a lot of more sexy you 963 01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:09.359 get inside very Jetsny and the Jetsons. The way they're designed, they're kind 964 01:11:09.399 --> 01:11:12.199 of like if if you imagine this, they're built on a skateboard platform, 965 01:11:12.319 --> 01:11:16.520 all right, very flat, lots of room. Sometimes there's there's just seats, 966 01:11:16.560 --> 01:11:19.960 and it just I don't know, that's the way electrical cars. Electric 967 01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:23.479 cars now are designed. It's like, oh, it's just if they are 968 01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:28.479 technologically advanced engine we're gonna make them look very you know, futuristic. I 969 01:11:28.479 --> 01:11:31.079 don't know why they do that, which is cool. This one I haven't 970 01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:33.319 been I haven't been in it a lot. Again, I got another week 971 01:11:33.359 --> 01:11:38.960 to play with it. The Nissan area. It is very minimalistic, probably 972 01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:42.479 of all the electric cars I've been into. It's it's a big dashboard, 973 01:11:42.800 --> 01:11:45.479 it's got a touchscreen, comfy seats. I will give you the update next 974 01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:48.920 week, after the full week review. But so I got two cars now 975 01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:53.159 I'm playing with. It's funny because I've got an electric one which I don't 976 01:11:53.199 --> 01:11:55.119 know the range on this thing. I don't even want to guess. I'll 977 01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:57.279 again, I'll give you the whole play by play next week. But then 978 01:11:57.319 --> 01:12:00.359 I got a one nineteen thousand dollars link a Navigator, So if anybody wants 979 01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:02.760 a ride anywhere I wants to play around. If you see me rolling around 980 01:12:03.039 --> 01:12:10.920 and a big, crazy, awesome dark gray Lincoln Navigator l which I think 981 01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:14.479 holds it could hold fourteen people, it looks like an old fourteen people. 982 01:12:15.159 --> 01:12:16.439 I think it holds eight people. Or if I got this really nice, 983 01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:19.840 pretty blue Nissa, and you don't see a lot of these Nissan electric vehicles, 984 01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:24.600 you know Tesla gets a lot of the love the Genesis, the Kia. 985 01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:27.600 I love the Kia EV six, which is also nice. But I've 986 01:12:27.600 --> 01:12:30.079 got this Nissan Aria. It's blue, and I will give you my thoughts 987 01:12:30.119 --> 01:12:33.520 on that, and quickly I'll say it again, love electric vehicles. I 988 01:12:33.720 --> 01:12:41.239 do not like the way the United States battery charging system infrastructure is right now. 989 01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:44.920 We are used to going up to every street corner and seeing a gas 990 01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:47.000 station. If we're on a road trip, there's gas stations everywhere. We 991 01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:49.479 fill up. We wait five to six to seven minutes. If you've got 992 01:12:49.520 --> 01:12:51.960 a big truck, okay, maybe it's gonna take ten minutes or so, 993 01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:56.399 you go in, you spend another one hundred dollars at your BUCkies or whatever, 994 01:12:56.439 --> 01:13:00.279 and then you get on your road. The fact is, to reach 995 01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:03.760 chargers out in the wild, they're few and far between. They are different 996 01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:06.479 types of levels. Is it a super fast charger? Level three is a 997 01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:10.640 little trickle charge. When you pull up the one, you cross your fingers 998 01:13:10.680 --> 01:13:13.760 that they're all working correctly. How then when you plug it in, you're 999 01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:16.800 gonna sit there and wait thirty to forty five minutes or longer. If you 1000 01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:23.199 have any type of ADHD or anxiety. Electric vehicles are not for you because 1001 01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:26.359 you also have range anxiety. Oh my goodness, I have down to fifty 1002 01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:30.319 miles, forty miles, thirty miles. I need to find a charger fast. 1003 01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:32.439 Then you've got to wait an hour to charge it. If not more, 1004 01:13:34.319 --> 01:13:38.800 it's being fixed. It's going to take a while. This is a 1005 01:13:38.920 --> 01:13:45.439 massive paradigm shift what we're in of switching from gas to electric. Autom manufacturers 1006 01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:47.199 are making those vehicles and they're making the switch and they're actually a lot of 1007 01:13:47.239 --> 01:13:51.239 these companies. They're totally killing their gasoline powered engines and they're gonna make all 1008 01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:55.399 electric. We need better charging systems, and that is it. If you 1009 01:13:55.479 --> 01:13:58.840 want to go between your home and work, which is all of ten miles 1010 01:13:58.880 --> 01:14:00.600 twenty miles, you've got a home charger, you've got a work charger, 1011 01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:04.039 perfect up. But if you go on long road trips or you just say, 1012 01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:05.520 hey, listen, I want to go see my kid in Austin, 1013 01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:10.319 it's like you really got to start planning out your trip. And I don't 1014 01:14:10.359 --> 01:14:12.720 feel like going back to the days of when I had a plan through Triple 1015 01:14:12.800 --> 01:14:15.640 A with my trip tech and everything, and it's it's really tough. So 1016 01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:18.600 anyway, there's my quick car review and it's perfect timing because we are near 1017 01:14:18.680 --> 01:14:23.119 the top of the hour. Callum Reid and everybody else who hasn't been involved 1018 01:14:23.159 --> 01:14:26.119 in producing the show today, thank you so much. Brian Ericson, Happy 1019 01:14:26.159 --> 01:14:30.520 birthday, program director here at KPRC and all our AM stations in Houston. 1020 01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:34.079 At iHeart Brian Ericsons birthday this week, Heady Martini, Mark Sherman, and 1021 01:14:34.159 --> 01:14:38.119 everybody who's been a part of this show. We will see you next week. 1022 01:14:38.279 --> 01:14:42.079 You can also follow me at high tech Texan dot com. Mister Garfield, 1023 01:14:42.119 --> 01:14:44.800 well that's my dad's name. I am Garth Michael Garfield. Thanks for 1024 01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:46.800 tuning in. People. Where are your sons the screen? Sit in the 1025 01:14:46.920 --> 01:14:50.159 pool, turn the AC up. We'll talk to you next week. See 1026 01:14:50.159 --> 01:15:00.399 on the web because right now my show is over. Two