Threads vs Twitter

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Hi tex Is Michael Garfel Michael Garfield. Michael Garfields joining the high tech Texan.
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am a Texas boy. I donot remember a summer like this. People.
It's just I really hope everybody issafe, and I hope you're drinking
a cold one. If you're drinkinga cold one, safe one for me,
because in about two hours it willbe officially Happy hour. You know
the phone number if you want totell me what's going on this past week?

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And speaking which this past week?How is your Prime Day anyway?
Anyway? Do you have a goodPrime Day? Prime Days? Excuse me,
there's two days middle of summer.It's a tradition. Did anybody get
any good deals on Prime Day?Colum'd you buy anything? Now? You
didn't? No, I didn't buy. I'm not a big number one.
I'm not a big online shopper.And I mean I have Amazon Prime,

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which I'm debating why I still haveAmazon Prime, because the marvelous missus Mazel
is now efficiently ova. I didn't. I don't even think I opened the
app or went online on Amazon dotCom on Tuesday or Wednesday. I didn't
actually to see what the deals were. I know there were some good deals.
Let me know, anybody out there, so you can make us all
jealous what you bought on Amazon PrimeDay there actually, believe it or not,

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there's still sales that you can getsome deals. This is a very
big week in the terms of salesbecause it's the middle of summer. Nothing
was going on. You can callit Christmas in July whatever. But Amazon
always holds it. But there wassome guerrilla marketing to our get in.
Walmart also had week long sales thatmay still be going on. Why not,
you know, let's just let's justget on the get in the on

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the game. We'll talk about that. I'm also going to talk about a
number of other things that we continueto keep you updated with. I do
a lot of things. When itcomes to automobiles, I review and rate
cars. Cars are nothing but technologyright now. I got an electric car
that I've been playing with, theNissan Area ARII y a pretty impressed with

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that thing. Chevy Tracks. I'mgonna talk about the Chevy Tracks pound for
pound, dollar for dollars, I'mvery impressed with This car runs about twenty
five thousand dollars when I got insidethis thing and I had it for a
week. Again, I review cars. I do not get paid sadly for
that. It is straight for themanufacturers. I do not work with dealerships.
I can't even tell your dealership togo too, so you could trust

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my opinion because I don't even careif you go buy a car. I'm
just I get to drive them.I'm a member of the Texas Autowriters Association.
Is why you have that two decadeplus trusted me, two decade plus
trusted me, and I do appreciatethat. What else we got going on?
Some emails coming in over here,yep, Samsung is making their official

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announcement of their newest products, andI am assuming there will be some new
phones, maybe a foldable phone ortwo or something that is coming up on
July twenty six that will be inSoul, Korea, headquarters of Samsung.
And as Billy Joel sings my favoritesong, It's all about Soul, I
will give you some updates about that. I will also talk to some of

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our partners, the commercials because itdoes keep this radio station f r EE,
because that's how we roll. Allright, you know the phone,

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give me a call. I wantto hear about your your Amazon Prime Day
stuff, record sales. Let metell me. I've found some facts for
you here because this is what Ido. Record number of sales. This
was the biggest in the company's history. And they have done this for how
many years? At twenty fifteen,so they've done this now for this is
the eighth maybe the ninth year,I guess. So consumers spent almost thirteen

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billion dollars on the web this pastTuesday Wednesday on Amazon's Prime Day sales.
That is a six point one percentjump from a year ago. Now,
this is according to Adobe Analytics,right, thirteen billion. Do you have
nothing to do? People? Amazonsaid July eleventh, which was Tuesday,

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the first day, the single largestsales day in the company's history, shoppers
about three hundred and seventy five millionitems over the two days. That's up
from three hundred million last year duringthe big promotion. A lot of appliances,
a lot of toys, some apparel, some electronics. That's that's a

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lot of money. Man. Amazondoes the Prime Day every July. Actually
during COVID, I think they pushedit back to a month or two or
three. But anyway, Amazon holdsPrime Days in July really to juice the
sales numbers during what's typically the veryslow months of summer. It also helps
Amazon promote an early start to theback to school some of the cowege shopping

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period. Two. Yes, there'sothers. Walmart had it's Walmart Plus Week.
Best Buy had something I did noteven know. I'm looking here online
best Buy. It's something called BlackFriday. In July. By the way,
Amazon shares, they were up abouttwo bucks after this. Did you
get it? We're gonna take abreak and I'm not gonna rag on Amazon.

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This is not an Amazon promotion.You know what. The last thing
Amazon needs to do is advertise.The last thing Amazon does his even know
who I did? I exist?Because I don't buy anything for Amazon.
Amazon. I said it before.Why do I still even have Amazon?
Is prompt is the Amazon Prime membershipfor one hundred and thirty nine dollars.

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Is it worth it? You tellme. You tell me, and I
will tell you why it may notbe worth it, and I'll tell you
how to cancel it. All thatcoming up in more right here kpres the
radio terrestrially I heeart radio around theworld. It is the high Decked Acting
Show. My name is Michael.What is going on? People? We

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do think you're tuning in me?Get Michael card Field. That is me
and that actually is what I looklike if you tuned into TV a few
days ago. I was popped ona great day Houston to do a few
things. My hair, man,I got a lot of it. I
have my hair's long. I knowI need a cut, does it?

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You know what I'm on radio?Who cares? You know? My goal
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Hey, I got it and I'mgonna flawn it as long as my voice
works at least for these next whathour and forty minutes seven one three,
two, one two five nine fiveoz continuing their talks about Hey would you
get for Prime Day? Anything good? Seven one three, two one two

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five nine five. You can alsoemail me Michael at high Tech tex and
dot com. You can also notonly tweet me, even though I'm not
going to use that word, youcan thread me people at high Tech Tech
and hight e C h T eX and I will talk about that.
The threads the craziest app that's everlaunched, it seems. I'll talk about

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that in about ten minutes. Itdon't go anywhere but the Prime day.
Every thought about everything that Amazon knowsabout you? Why does it suggest things
that you just bought? It waspretty similar. Amazon is not. And
again I'm not trying to rag onAmazon. I'm a I'm fisted. I
don't work for it. I'm notmad that I'd never met Jeff Bezos way

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back in the day so I canhave a ton of shares. This is
just me y happen. It's anamazing company. You think it's a I
guess they call what the world's on, the world's largest online mall shopping side.
To me, Amazon is two things. It is a logistics company.
It's also a big data collector.Man, it knows a lot of stuff.

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Is it safe to use? Idon't know. There's Amazon Prime.
Have you ever tried to cancel yourAmazon Prime membership. It's kind of like
calling your bank or a whole freenumber and you're sitting on hold for other

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day, punching buttons. It's confusing. Duh. They don't want you to
cancel at some point if you're justlike, how much Flix does it take
to get to the center of aTI roo? Yeah, you know what's
good, I'm just gonna keep I'llstill pay it by eight nine bucks a
month. I think the FTC hada lawsuit this claims at Amazon did a

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few things from federalists investigators that regardingthe cancelation process and why they didn't make
it simpler or something. It's it'sit's tough to cancel. Anybody have any
issues canceling. I'm not telling youcanceling, but is it worth your money?
Let's let's I'm just thinking about this. Break it down. One hundred

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and thirty nine bones a year.I guess that's about fifteen bucks a month.
Well what do we get. Let'ssee, we get free to day
delivery, uh, exclusive access tothe Prime Day deals, which now you're
gonna have to wait almost three hundredand sixty days. You get two hour

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grocery delivery from whole foods. Youdo get to stream music and your movies
and your TV shows, which reallyis the reason I personally signed up.
If you shop less than a fewtimes a month and you don't care about
Prime Video, it may not beworth it. If you do shop free

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shipping, I don't know is itgonna outweigh the cost your membership. I
mean, shipping fees generally are goingto cost between four bucks and tin bucks
without Prime. All right, sosay you bought a few things over the
year, you know what, soyou'll save forty fifty sixty bucks. Is
it is at worth you know,one hundred thirty ninety year? This is

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what I do. I'm your consumerguy. How many people signed up for
the free thirty day trial of AmazonPrime earlier this week? If you canceled,
you yet, don't forget to cancelit. Anceling is tough, though

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you can go to you can doit on the Amazon app, and then
you gotta go. I think there'slike this, the three lines in the
bottom corner. Then you click thePrime button and then you hit manage my
membership, and in membership and inall that stuff that's on your app computer.
I think they made it easier.I'm not sure. There's the accounts
and list tab and then just justkeep harrying down to the prime membership and

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in membership. I don't know.I'm I may do it soon, but
I'm not sure if that's if it'sthat that easy. And by the way,
if you think that they're still I'ma deal guy. That's that's what
I do. I try to youknow, I just try to save you
money. If I can find aproduct that's cheaper and just as good as

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another product that's out there for moremoney, I'm gonna suggest it. I've
learned that deal that's been my forever. Like Sony, I mean, I
think Sony makes phenomenal products. Sonyis very proud of those four letters S
O, N Y, and Ithink there are just as good, at
not better products and certain categories fromSony that others make. I mean,

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And when it comes to cameras,I was a Cannon fan. They're cheaper
than Sony on some of the things. I said that. That's what I
do suggest. But I believe thereare still some deals out there. Even
though the big Amazon Prime Day pottehas ended, there are some Apple deals
out there. If your look stilllook for MacBook airs or iPads. Maybe

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they're you know, a generation olderair tags. Do some searching and they're
still on Amazon. Best Buy probablyhas them too, a big seller.
I do know this was headphones andearbuds and speakers still get some good deals.
I'm just kind of it was justperuising rights people. I'm a professional,
like and serf and talk at thesame time. I don't want you

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to do it. Smart Watches,fitness trackers, they're out there too.
Let's see Fitbit Inspire three eighty bucksat Amazon. That's not bad. Started
to be a name brand. TwoSamsung Galaxy Watch five I love that.
Actually, how much is that SamsungGalaxy Watch five Pro? I have one
of those, at the top ofthe line flagship smart watch three hundred and

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seventy nine bucks at Amazon. That'spretty cool. TVs who got a TV?
We talk about TV's luck. TV'swere the big thing for Black Friday
sales fifteen plus years ago. You'dwake up in the middle of the night,
go stand in line at Walmart bestBuy. I'm serious, Hey,
listen, guilty, I'm raising myhand. I did it too. The

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line would be by the time theyopened the doors, but sometimes they open
at midnight, sometimes open date inthe morning. Oh, I'm sorry,
I was a lost leader and weonly had like ten of them. TVs
were so many people have screen TVsright now, several of them in their
home. You don't need to standin line, but they're the Amazon still

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had some on on sale, especiallythe ones with the firestick, because the
Amazon makes the firestick. Here's onefrom high sins High Sense. It's a
good company. Hi s E nS E sixty five inch TV for eight
hundred and ninety eight bones is allright. That's on Amazon too. As
I'm flipping through, there's you canbuy phones too, Google Pixel. Those

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are good phones too. Google Pixelsare on sale still. You can get
a good deal. As we lookat this and as am live right now
here on this Saturday. Laptops.I'm trying to see if I can recommend
a laptop right now, only becauselaptops, you're gonna find some deals starting
with the back to school sales andthe back to school sales they're probably gonna

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start rolling in about two weeks.You're gonna get the end of July early
August, and you're gonna get backto school sale. It was always a
good graduation gift for high school graduatesgoing into college. A lot of people
are waiting for the back to schoolsales over here. So anyway, those
are you know, some of thedeals out there, folks, what you
got for me? I will givethe phone number one more time seven one

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three two one two five nine fiveout If you've got a deal thread me,
man, I guess you can tweetme. And I'm not really using
that that app anymore. And whenwe come back on the other side,
I'm gonna tell you why that alot of people are not using the Twitter
app because about a week and ahalf ago, Elon Musk got a little
TechEd. Mark Zuckerberg takes it backbaby launches a brand new app called Threads.

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What you should know before you downloaded, if you already haven't downloaded why
It was probably one of, ifnot the fastest downloaded app in the history
of mankind, which really after reallyI've only been around for I don't know
what twenty twenty one years, butI'm gonna talk about coming up here.
It's Michael Garfield. It is calledthe High Tech tex In show. Bottom

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of the first hour of the HighTech Texting Show Michael Gartfield and followed as
well seven one three two one twofive nine five oh, or you can
find me on threads at high TechTexts. Then by we'll talk about that
in this portion of our show.Thank you so much to Universal Plumbing Supply
Local Businesses. Man, I justtake a local businesses supporting them so important,
especially ones that have been here inhtown for literally decades. I listen,

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You walk in there and their representativesare so brilliant. They know everything
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At is Universal Plumbing Supply Houston dotcom, Universal Plumbing Supply Euston dot
com. So we do thank them. I do not know if they have

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a if Universal Plumbing Supply has aThreads account or even a Twitter account.
But here we go. Since thelast time we have talked, there is
a new king of the Web andthe Internet, and it's Mark Zuckerberg once
again. That's right, the manwho created Facebook, who now runs a
company called Meta, since that's whatFacebook has changed. But don't forget Facebook
also owns What's app Facebook Facebook Metaalso owns What's Appay also own a Instagram

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too, and that's where it starts. Zukerbug threw down the gauntlet. They
launched a Twitter rival about two weeksago and it's called Threads and the app
is it's kind of build like this, share ideas and trends with text.

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Threads is if I can break it, I'm gonna break it down over here.
It's essentially a text based version ofInstagram. You log into your Instagram
account, it uses your Instagram username. You can follow the same people
you already follow on your Instagram account. You can customize your profile for threads.

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Why is it different? Well,now you can post up to five
hundred characters long instead of Twitter's whattwo hundred, two hundred fifty six or
something like that, and you caninclude and photos and videos up to five
minutes. In lank we knew thiswas coming, but Zi quietly released this
thing. Right, I'm on.It was July fifth, man, it

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took off. It took off.How does it compare? I got I
got emails coming in Garth. Howdoes it compare to Twitter? Well,
okay, they're very similar. Threadsis about two weeks old, so it
doesn't have a lot of the featuresof Twitter does. You can't subject search,

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there's no ability, you know,to thread messages or whatever. But
I've been playing with it and thefirst things I noticed is mad it is
clean. It's a clean look,very Twitter like you've got the post whoever
you follow. They really don't havesome sort of an algorithm, so you
don't know what's gonna pop up.But it's just I don't know why.

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It seems cleaner, but it is. But the experience is very close to
how Twitter works. Billion dollars actuallythe forty four billion dollar question. I
say forty four billion dollar question becausethat's the price that Elon Musk paid for
a Twitter just a few years ago. Forty four billion dollars. Probably the

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most overpaid anybody has overpaid for anyno matter what you got. Do you
think you overpaid for your house,your car, your spouse h forty four
billion dollars or Twitter? And peopleare now flocking away from Twitter? Is
it going to replace Twitter? Ifyou're Elon, you hope that's not the

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case. But for now it's toughto say. It's been around two weeks.
It doesn't hurt that the app hasalready have well over one hundred million
users. It reached that milestone fasterthan anything else including chat, gpt it.

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Do you not like it? Whodo you follow already? Why did
it become me? I'm gonna here'smy theory of why it became so big
so fast? Number One when anybodyimmediately could download it. It is totally
free and you could do it rightnow. I say this. It's because
there are new apps that you haveto have an invitation too, because they

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don't want the servers to break down. They want to beta test it.
Google used to do this a lot. Oh well, yeah you can.
We're not gonna give you a Gmailaccount, and because you know we're we're
beta testing it. And then somebodygets an invitation, you know, five
and five invites. They can invitefive friends and so on. Ah,
I love it. Zuckerberg and metasat net. Screw it. We're opening
it up. Here's iPhone, here'sthe Android, download the thing. Okay

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easy. But here's another thing.It's Instagram. Instagram is a very very
very popular app. And all youneed to do is create account. You
don't need to sit there and fillout any information and upload the photos and
everything. It takes all your informationfrom Instagram because it's kind of a tech
based version of Instagram. So ifyou go to Instagram, you actually can

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click a button and say, heyman, let me just let's just download,
let me just populate my my threadsapp. It was seamless. There
have been other potential Twitter killers alternativesif you will, for the past year
or two Blue sky Master done host. I tried those. They're difficult.

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You gotta log on to this serverand you gotta do this. Let me
help you out. If I getconfused about logging on and figure out these
things, I'm want to guess,with all due respect, the general public
is going to be very, veryconfused. But this isn't dawn of a
new era. And I know themusk and circuit board they're making noise about.

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They're gonna have some brawl whatever youwhatever, it's it's it's it's stupid
using both of them. I don'treally tweet or thread is that the verb?
I don't even know yet a lot. But the fact is, if
you really want to use one,this is what I'm used to. Look
at your phone right now, unlessyou're driving. Look at your home page,

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look at your shortcuts, where youricons are, where your app icons
are. You wake up every morninggenerally or whatever when you when you ever
have time, and you look atyour Facebook, you look at your Instagram,
you do your TikTok, you dowhatever. You know where those icons
on your phone are because you doit. Wrote daily, hourly, minutely,
if you add it. Let's justsay, let's talk about threads.

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Have you added the threads app shortcuticon on your home page? Because I
downloaded it and I put it onmy home page. I am so used
to clicking the Twitter app just tokind of repost. My threads app icon
is just above my Twitter appicon onon my homepage, and I'm still not

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used to actually doing that right now. It takes a while. Who retrain
your thumbs, retrain your mind.I think Threads is, without a doubt
the closest Twitter threats and I'm notgonna say a Twitter killer that I have

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seen now real quickly and about twominutes. Let me explain this thing.
Is it okay? Is in termsof data? What do they know about
you? Well, there's a lotof information that all that meta Facebook Instagram
already has about users, because Threadsis already built on the Instagram platform.
Let me tell you the information thatThreads collects. Social media platforms monetize the

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user data because they sell relevant adsbased on your location and activity. You
think about that, if you startsearching for something, Oh my goodness,
here's an ad for the same thing. So Threads is also asking for financial
information and health and fitness and diagnosticsand all this other sensitive information. If
you're an Android user, you cantoggle off some of the data request from

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the app. Are you going toread that end user license agreement? Now?
Who does? Maybe some lawyers orsomething. You're just gonna click it
so you can use it. Now. Is Thread's data collection worst than Twitter?
It's a tough one because I don'tthink they're necessarily malicious. Now,

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Threads does collect what you're posting aboutand liking and where you are, and
if you bought something through a thirdparty side or an app or a game
or something, Threads can collect thisinformation. They can say this information,
that data could be shared with thirdparty services that connect to your Threads account.
I don't think it's any worse becauseevery app flex data. Michael,

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what's the best way to protect onmy data? Do not have a cell
phone, do not get online,and even if you can't do it,
everybody has your information, The governmenthas information. It's almost too late we
give up our privacy we have becauseif not that phone that you're probably listening
to me through on the iHeartRadio app, or you're looking at a map right

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now, it becomes a brick ifwe do not listen. Think about it.
How does I love? I usemy maps feature to look for traffic,
and everywhere I go it knows exactlywhere I am, to the corner
of two streets. Okay, itknows where I'm going, it knows where
I've been. There's a lot ofstuff out there, and if you don't

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allow some of that stuff, itis absolutely going to be a brick.
So what are you going to doabout that? When we come back,
I'm gonna tell you how to deactivatethreads? Can you deactivate threads? And
if you do, guess what alsoyou're deactivating? Brilliant strategy by mister Mark
Zuckerberg. My name is Michael Garveld, High Tech Text and Show, coming
back, final second of this firsthour of the High Tech Text and Show

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stand by Man And what's at thetop of the hour. Well, they're
gonna take a break. I canget some water, then I come back
for another hour to entertain you.Michael Artfield is my name. Seven one
three two, one two, five, nine and five zero on threads,
which we're talking about at High TechText and you guys are posting and directs
and sending me messages over some ofthe great Amazon Prime Day deals that you

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got. Pretty impressed, Pretty impressed. Somebody found an air frier for thirty
nine dollars. Very cool. Sowe're sharing tips and secrets that there still
are some Amazon Prime deals out there, and Walmart and Target has all this
shopping. Who knew Christmas? InJuly Amazon knew record record number of sales.

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Another big company other than Amazon isMeta, which is Facebook, Instagram.
What's happened now Threads? If you'recarrying over from before the break,
we were talking about Threads, whyit is so popular, why it was
the biggest launch, and I believein the history of any singular app,
they didn't have any hullabaloo, theydidn't have any ads. Just it was

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July fifth, they said, andall right, we're just gonna put it
on the app store. And thenone person and told their friend, and
who told their friend, and nowone hundred million users later, within less
than two weeks or something. Rightnow, it is going crazy. People
ask me, also, can youdeactivate it? Well at that If you
don't like it after two weeks,it really must be a crappy app.

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I do think it's a decent app. You can deactivate Threads, but stand
by people, and this is thisis brilliant. You want to talk about
handcuffs. You could deactivate Threads,but you cannot delete it without also deleting
your Instagram account. How about thatMeta the company which owns Facebook and everything

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else. They built this app onthe Instagram infrastructure, on top of the
actual program itself. So it's gonnabe very difficult to uninstalled one but not
both. That's the way it's engineered. It's it's it's tough, but but
it's it's it's smart. Who wantsto do if you're on Instagram, which

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has been around for quite a while. I use Instagram. I pust,
you know, post a lot ofphotos and videos or whatever. Maybe I'm
sick of Threads. Wait a minute. If I do activate Threads, there
goes my and I have about sixtythousand followers on Instagram. I worked hard
for that, man, so I'mstuck with Threads. Is it safe?

(31:44):
Somebody just to who is this?This is from Rob rob Is in Periland.
Michael's Threads apps safe if I haveit downloaded or converted my Instagram account
to it? Yet? Threads doesask for more permissions than Twitter, so
Rob, I guess it's gonna boildown to your comfort level. Some of
the privacy permissions are crazy, likegranting Threads access to health and activity data

(32:07):
and whatever app. I think that'swrong, But no one is forcing users
or you to install and use Threadsor any other social media app. No.
I mean, I'm having fun withit personally my opinion. I'm enjoying
it. It's clean, selects alot of data, but so do so

(32:31):
many other apps. So download atyour own risk. We're going to see
if it is indeed the Twitter killer. I don't think it's going to kill
Twitter. They'll still be people outhere. I think it is going to
be accepted quicker and quickly. I'llgive you two quick reasons. One of

(32:52):
which I touched last segment. Howoften do you use it? Is that
new Threads app icon shortcut on yourhome screen. Will you get into the
habit of clicking that instead of theTwitter icon if you post more and only
on Threads and not on Twitter,Yeah, that's that's gonna hurt Twitter greatly.

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Number two is Twitter is so ingrainedin the way other media uses it.
Let me explain I'm watching again,shocking. I'm an ESPN guy.
I watched more ESPN than probably theESPN executives do. All the athletes,
almost every single athlete has a Twitteraccount, and if they make a quote

(33:35):
or something ESPN and other forms ofmedia, they will quote on screen and
I'll use a graphic on screen.Lebron James tweeted this, I am not
retiring. I'm going to stand theNBA for another five years. And when
they put it on screen, theyhave to attribute where it came from or
attribute then they have they have theTwitter logo, the blue icon with a

(33:58):
little bit white bird in there.Twitter. When and if media company,
televisions, stations, tv networks removethe Twitter app and start putting the Threads
app, you can start playing tapsfor Twitter. That's that's gonna be a
big one because a lot of theathletes, they already listen, I have

(34:20):
both accounts. Most everybody has aTwitter account. They and they have a
Threads account now. But all theseother TV networks, Oh, here's a
quote from a politician, here's aquote from a sports athlete, here's a
quote for something, and here's they'reon Twitter. They remove that Twitter the
graphic that you watch on television.They start putting threads. There you go,
people, I think that's it.So anyway, there is all your
questions, and I hope I answeredas much as we could. We got

(34:43):
about two more minutes to the topof the hour seven one three, two,
one two five nine five. Ohhuts. See, well, let's
just tease this when we come back. I want to do I want to
give my hip out let me.I was sitting in the pool last week
or so. Something happened to methat has never happened to me before in

(35:06):
my life. I was stung bya wasp. Stung by Oh I hope
my parents aren't listening, because mymom's gonna freak out right. I was
stung by freaking wasp. Sitting therewasps float on the pool because I guess
they they're hot too, and Isee them bees and bees and wasp don't
bug me. Maybe maybe I'm notsweet. Never had a beasting, never

(35:29):
had a wasp sting. All ofa sudden, I'm just sitting there inside
the pool, my head sticking outof the water, and on my left
side of my neck it was sap. People, have you ever been stung
by wasper bee. Holy crapola,man it hurt? I mean it killed?

(35:50):
And of course, what do Ido? Google wasp? What do
I do? What do I take? What do I put on? An
ointment? I see people say,have allergies, your lip swell up,
you start getting hives. I'm freakingout. I'm looking mirror and I'm looking
at my body. I was like, oh, hell, luckily that did
not happen. Look at it,out it And so what did I do?

(36:13):
I took ibprofen, I took someoneI had a brought from my neighbor.
I had some antihistamine zero tech orsomething. I don't even know what
it would I use. I talkabout this because ironically, on earlier this
week, I got I deleted thisemail I got it was just a PR
pitch and I don't even have thisproduct. Apparently there is some attach there's

(36:34):
a device that you can attach toyour smartphone that helps with insect bites.
I'm not kidding you. What isthis thing called? It is called This
is not a commercial. I haven'tused it. I do not endorse this.
But it's called heat it. It'san attachment, and I'm looking at
it. It's a little tiny devicelike a USB stick that plugs into your
phone, whether you've got the aniPhone or an Android. And I guess

(36:59):
you touch it to the beer wasstings, you plug it into your phone,
you place it on your bike andand I'm quoting this sagodbody, you're
swelling and itching forever. People,I got thirty seconds ago. If anybody
has ever tried this, I wantyou to think about it. I want
you to thread me, and Iwant you to call in next hour seven
one three, two, one two, five nine five. I didn't turn

(37:22):
into a vampire or I don't knowaunt man in the Wasp, which the
third version? Maybe I can startin that thing. Uh stay saying fiftybody's
out in the sign and around beesor washed. Michael Garfield. Hour one
is officially over standby. We'll beback in the next hour. Hi is

(37:49):
Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. MichaelGarfield's joining the high Tech Texan. Michael
Garfiel is here with a high techtext make life Easier technology. So Michael
Garfield has something you might like.Michael Garfield's your high Tech Texan three decades

(38:14):
helping you make magic with your gadgets. Heard worldwide on the iHeartRadio Active.
Now your high tech Texan Michael Garfield. Half way to the show. It
is just at twenty o'clock Central time. Should you do this and live on
KPARC nine fifty am Michael Garfield,which means we're a halfway to a happy

(38:37):
hour? People? You know what? It is so freaking hot outside right
now. I'll tell you what Iwish. I could do the show from
a pool right now. But somethingwith electricity and gadgets in water. I
think I study that in seventh oreighth grade. They that's not a good
mixture. Not a good mixture,So I do not recommend anything. So

(38:59):
I really can not be doing thisin the pool. Should you be in
a pool, I hope you arehaving a cocktail and having a happy hour
right now. Don't stay away fromthe brown water, stay away from the
bourbon Scotch. You don't want tomix that with the sun. But a
little nice vodka, a little lemonade, squeeze some lime in there, maybe
have one of those ready to drinkcans, the White Claws. The was

(39:21):
it? Some company just sent mea whole slew of something to test,
because that's what I do. Itest more than just technology items and cars
and things. Is it called clubtails. It's it's a pre mixed a
big market for cocktails. It's it'sand I'm gonna use the term white claws.
You know exactly what a white clawis. It's the carbonated seltry type

(39:43):
of thing. They've got maybe fouror five percent alcohol, kind of like
beer, and there's flavors, andthere's canned ranch water and it just goes
on and on. I mean,it's a hot market. RTD ready to
drink, that's the category ready todrink, and their cans rubber so companies
they see me post this stuff andoh, this is good, this tastes
like you know that? So doI? I got a shipment from club

(40:07):
tails. Is that what it's called? So I need to check that it's
like a cocktail. It's got tenpercent alcohol, so pretty much double the
abv of of of a typical beeror light beer. But they're in twenty
four ounce cans. You know howbig a twenty four ounce can is.

(40:28):
I mean a typical can is twelveounces. Okay, maybe you've seen an
eighteen ouncer. This freaking thing isthey're they're twenty four ounces. And then
I got a margarita, I gota sex in the beach. I got
a It's a Long Island iced tea, and I haven't tried these yet,
but you know what, give meabout one hour. When the show is
over. I may be sitting inmy pool with no electronic gear and uh,

(40:52):
in one of those coldies. Andthe point is, I hope you
are enjoying whatever whenever you do it. I hope you still stay cool.
Because this is just a is anasty heat phone number here as we continue,
it is seven one three two onetwo five nine five. Oh.
I give out the number because itis a call quick answer. You tell
me, you ask me a question, and I ask for your opinion.

(41:13):
I want your opinion. How isyour Amazon Prime Day? This past week
we played this game? First hour? Would you get? Did you get
a good deal? Come on,make us all jelly call me. You
could thread me at high Tech Texan. Send an email go to Michael at
high Tech Texan. Anything good,anything good, air, friars, clothing,

(41:37):
mosquito, bug nutting, doesn't matter. I'd love to love to hear
that from from you. Um,what it's actually this is a very I'm
talented man who understands how to doa very segue. They're very touns.
Okay, so here's my segue fromAmazon. Did anybody get a fitness tracker
a little watch? A lot ofthese new fitness trackers they can track your

(42:00):
sleep a sleep monitor. Well,guess what company is getting ready to reveal
a sleep tracking app? Pokemon,the Pokemon Company. That's right, they're
coming up with something yet the LittleKid video game. The Pokemon Company is

(42:22):
coming out with something called Pokemon Sleep. It's an app that actually was kind
of toyed with or Keys back attwenty nineteen, and it allows users to
track their sleep at night. Pokemonit's a Japanese gaming company. They're releasing

(42:45):
this. You can't do it now. I think you can pre register on
the Google app. It's maybe comingtowards the end of the July. But
I've been reading up on this thingbecause my sleep has just been stupid.
I mean, I just haven't beensleeping for a long time. I do
have I I haven't Samsung Watch andit tracks my sleep. But I'm interesting
to see if Pikachu can actually nowhelp me fall asleep. So apparently this

(43:08):
smartphone app, it looks like astandard sleep tracker, But they have Pokemon
creatures, Yes, Pikachu and jigglyPuff and snore Lax folks, I'm reading
this right now because I have noclue who these what these characters are?

(43:28):
Your kids, your grandkids do?Apparently players are going to work with a
professor who is studying the sleeping habitsof the Pokemon characters, and it will
track your sleep. So what youdo? Let me tell you how you
use it. Allegedly, I haven'ttried it. Yeah, it's not out
yet. You place your phone nextto your pillow as you go to bed,

(43:53):
which is where I keep my phone, keep it plugged in to a
charger all night like I do.And when you wake up, the app
categorizes your sleep into three types,dozing, snoozing, or slumbering, which

(44:13):
will attract the Pokemon characters who's sleepingpatterns match what it does, though,
actually with it, we take thecartoon characters away. It does record your
bedtimes, your wake up times,and your average duration of sleep. Apparently
it consents and monitor if you're flippingaround, if you're turning, if you're
snoring, if you're waking up.I don't know how exactly that works and

(44:37):
get this. Oh, I knowwho this would be good for. The
app even offers an audio recording functionif you want to hear your snores or
other sounds during the night. Okay, that's the end of that story.
Back, who is this marketed for? I mean, I mean kids worry

(44:58):
about their sleep. Kids sleep.If you're a teenager or you're a college
person, I mean you sleep.I mean we're talking ten to twelve hours
a night. I mean I maytry it. I mean all these other
sleep apps and everything else, andI'm going for breathing exercises. Don't seem
to call me down at night.All help hooky mad If this thing works,

(45:22):
I'll keep you updated here towards theend of the month when this thing
is announced. I thought that wasactually pretty interesting. We're gonna take a
break coming up, speaking of GooglePlay and more apps, I will tell
you when the announcement will be fromSamsung, when they are announcing their next
versions of their phones and Southern andsome other electronic here. Normally they do

(45:45):
this in New York. They're goingabroad this time, people, and yours
truly, I'm going to be watchingit and giving you the play by play
live from this Samsung press conference.Pretty pretty deep cool, Michael Garsall come
back on the high tech text andthe show stay cool. Just like that

(46:13):
big voice said, I'm Michael,I don't bite. I love to talk
to you. It is the longrunning way, long running two decades back
when I had hair, when amI still do have hair, Back when
technology was nascent, very very oldfashioned, very low tech, and now
I do so much more. I'myour consumer lifestyle guy who also not only

(46:34):
does cars, trucks, tech products, travel, cocktails or anything else you
want to talk about. Back toschool stuff and how was your Amazon Prime
Day stuff? Seven one three,two one two five nine five. Oh,
we'll be here for the next fortyfive minutes or so. I got
a good conversation coming up if Ican get them on the line in about
fifteen minutes, My man Kenny Duncan, who runs US Coins and jewelry.

(46:57):
If you are a new miss smatist, Calum Reid here on the other side
of the glass, buddy, doyou know what a new missmatist is?
As he talks about your note,that is not it? No, you
do not go to jail for beinga new mismotist, nor do you go
to jail for being a philatelist?Do you know what a philate You don't

(47:22):
see. You don't know what aphilateist or new mismotist is. I'm actually
a philatelist and that at its justat its core, sounds like I should
be in jail, right philatelist,p hi philatelist? No, A new
mismatist is someone who collects coins.Any duncan who runs us coins at JELR

(47:49):
Jewelry. What are the top newmismatists in the country. I'm a philatelist,
a stamp collector. I don't collectthem anymore. But when I when
I grew up, my grandparents wholive really close to us, and I'm
the oldest grandkid, they started astamp collection for me and it was it

(48:10):
was really cool and I remember itprobably what was I but panther listening?
Maybe they could text me, well, when did when did nanapapas start collecting
those stamps for me? Was Ieight or nine or ten? And we
had these books. They're big books, like big photo albums, which know,
no one who was born after nineteeneighty knows what a photo albums?

(48:32):
Big foot and you would go tothe post office, and they would sell
stamp sheets. Actually, no oneafter nineteen eighty knows what a stamp is.
Why am I even talking? Whywhy am I even talking about this?
Kids? There used to be thisthing called snail mail in the US
Postal Service, where you wrote aletter, you licked a stamp, you
put it in the upper right handcorner of an envelope. You would put

(48:52):
it in a mailbox in Hua lawwithin a day or two or three or
eight would they would deliver it anywherein the world. Was amazing. Now
they have this thing called email,all right. So yeah, I would
collect these stamps and new stamps wouldbe released. And some of these stamps
they're like coins, man, they'rethey're they're expensive, they're some of them
are printed odd, which which makesthem more valuable that they're like baseball cards.

(49:15):
Okay, see, I didn't collectbaseball cards. I collected stamps.
But it was something to do withmy grandparents. And I was very very
close with my grandparents. All fourof my grandparents wonderful people. And if
you're out there, people take careof your grant, call your grandparents.
And I lost my grandmother last yearat one hundred and five, just it's
just near and dear, but thememories that we created because you know,

(49:37):
we saw them so frequently. Butthe point is we did something together and
that they got me into stamps.Anyway, I still have the stamp collection
here and I need to ask Kenny. And the point is when Kenny Duncan
comes on the show here who usQuizilion about ten minutes from right now,
I'm gonna see if you collects stamps, maybe I can go get a value
of my stamps. That's what Ih That's my way back TI. A

(50:00):
machine of what a stamp was broughtto you by us quins and Joey.
How about that? I gave youthe phone number over here. Have you
been monitoring? Has anybody flown alot? Apparently our airlines have been back
to pre COVID days and airplanes wereover overbooked. Flights are crazy and they're

(50:23):
backed up. United Airlines had somemisues I think out of iah, but
a few weeks ago. I don'tthink it was anything like the fiasco of
Southwest Airlines last December, which Iactually was caught up into. I saw
this and I talked about it.Because United has a very big hub in
Houston here where I'm based. Therewas when was this? There was a
flight and I'm looking at this thing. Was this about two weeks I was

(50:45):
about a week ago. It wasa flight a week ago that took off
from Houston. It was going toAmsterdam, long flight. It was diverted
to Chicago because an unruly passenger interruptedthe flight. Okay, listen, We've

(51:05):
seen this stuff regularly tektok videos andall this other stuff and somebody freaks out
or whatever like that. This reportis coming from the where am I reading
this? The Guardian, which isI guess in the UK or something,
And I'm just it's no fault ofUnited. But do you know why this
flight was? You know why theguy freaked out? I guess it was

(51:27):
a guy. Could have been agirl. You know this passenger freaked out.
I get okay, I see theword his, So you know this
guy freaked out his first meal choicewas unavailable. That is absolutely a total
valid point to freak out. I'mdown with you, dude. I'm on
your side. Hey, disruptive passengeron board at threat level of one,

(51:53):
which is a low level threat.Apparently this dude wasn't raged over his meal
choice. Damn it, man,I owe a pre ordered lobster. What
is this filet you're giving me?I went off this plane right now?

(52:15):
But what are you doing? Wecan get the world we live in right
now is so jacked up? Whyare you? Are you freaking out?
If you didn't have a beef shortrib or a blemongrass salmon? Oh dude,
you didn't like the ricotta salad withwild honey mannicotti. Hello, I

(52:38):
watched it. The fay could haveThey may have fined this guy. I
don't know, don't know how thisthing resolved. I guess they kicked him
off in Chicago. If they werefined him, that was there was the
costliest meal or nine meal the guyhad. That's why you travel with peanut
butter with crackers, maybe a powerbar too freaking funny? Actually it's sad,

(53:04):
I apologize, not funny anyway.United they kicked the guy off the
plane and they went on United getyou where you're supposed to be going,
just like every other alive. Uhspeaking of United? Speaking of flying right
now, I saw Samsung as makingtheir big announcements for their next reveal,
if you will, of their newgear, Samsung Unpacked is what it's called.

(53:25):
Normally these things take place in NewYork. It is taking place in
Soul, Korea, and it ismy favorite. Billy Joe Billy Joel Song
says, it's all about Soul happeninga week from this coming Wednesday, Wednesday,
July twenty six. You can watchit. You can watch the reveal
of the new products on the webat on Sam Sugg's website and allegedly,

(53:53):
I can only say allegedly just fromrumors on the internet. Sam Sung says
the event is going to focus unfoldablethe ices, and they could feature maybe
the latest Galaxy Z fold and flipphones, which would be version five because
they're on version four right now.They may announce some tablets or new watches

(54:13):
or whatever. How far is thatflight Ununited from Houston? I think you
have to stop at San Francisco.I wonder what they will serve on the
plane for those who are traveling.Oh my good flights. I was just

(54:35):
a flight last week goes in californiadno issue there whatsoever. Don't go Southwest.
That was good. I love it. But anyway, I'm now stuck
in Texas right now. If Iwill be making sure that everybody knows what
is going on with the latest sandsech events. I am an Android fan,
happened to be a Samsung fan.By more people have the Android operating
system around the world than anything else, and that is why I kind of

(54:57):
covered a little bit more than thethan the iPhone stop and so we got
that all right. Coming up,if you are a numismatist, if you
are into jewelry coins, coming upthe Great Kinney Duncan a little goof phenomenal
thirty plus years that he and hisfamily had a store here on it ten
and not too far from the Galeria, and it's called US Coins and Jewelry.
We will talk about that. Thevalue. Is it a good value?

(55:20):
Is it a good investment? Hardhinting facts and information you need to
know right here on the high Techtext and show back at it. Michael
Garfield, No for money. SoI'm going a great day. It is
hot, it is nasty hot.Hope you're insight. If not, I
hope you're buying a bull and hopeyou're having a coldie right now. It's

(55:43):
so safer for me because when I'moff the air, I'm gonna come join
you because I am thirsty, butI know what time it is. Why
because I'm looking at my wrist rightnow and that beautiful hulk of a Rolex
shows me that time. Of course, I talk a lot about US coins
and jewelry, A long time partnerhere of my show. That is where
I get my rope. I justlike saying rollies. You know? Does

(56:05):
that make me pretentious? I don'tknow. I'm gonna ask Kenny himself,
Kenny Duncan Junior, along with hisbrother Matt. They are two key people
over there. But I roll upand down Katie Freeway right there near Voss
and you know what, They've gotgreat air conditioning. They've got great security
too. I like popping in andjust window shopping. He joins me right
now for a few minutes, becauseI wanted to give him a big shout
out, Katie. What's going on? My man? How are you?

(56:27):
I know what time it is?What time is it on your watch?
Mde nde? What's going on?Buddy? It is? It's Rolex time.
That's what time it is. Howare you? It is Rolex.
It's called you as coins and jewelry. And the funny thing is you have
so many watches and you have somuch jewelry. It's not even just watches
too. I walk in the storeand right in that case, there's ear
rings, there's jewelry, there's youknow, the men in there, they're

(56:49):
buying their stuff and their wives,their girlfriends or whatever. But you have
one heck of a collection of watchestoo. When did you and because you've
been around for so so many yearsand decades, why did you start really
getting into the rolexes in jewelry businessside? So, jewelry has been something
that we've always, um, we'vealways traded heavily and um it started out
we were wholesaling stones and we werefilling orders locally on bigger stones, and

(57:13):
we decided to start carrying our ownline and building our own are building our
own line of jewelry. Because whenwhen a guy comes in or a couple
comes in, and and and thegentleman wants to buy, you know,
a thousand dollar coin or two thousanddollar coin, we gotta have something for
the for the wife, right.We got to have a little laid down
gift there, right, or adoghouse gift. So we started carrying our
own mind where we're different from otherjewelry stores. Is that we trade jewelry

(57:37):
at about a twenty five percent margin, where a lot of a lot of
jewlry stores are about two hundred orthree hundred xs. So we um,
we're really really fair on our jewelry, and we're very selective in what we
carry. Now. In terms ofRolelexes, we um probably about six or
seven years ago, I really startedgetting into Rolexes. My brother Matthew actually

(57:57):
was the one that got me offmy butt to do it, and between
him and I we've traded thousands andthousands of Rolexes on our Katie in our
Katie Freeway location. What is itwith this brand that that that makes rolex
stand out? Why are they sovalued? Because people now, because you
buy these things also from people,and you always say listen, if you
if you want some extra cash orsomething like that, come to you first,

(58:20):
like that because people the value keepsgoing up. There's something but I'm
not gonna say something to invest in. But what a brand? Well,
listen, it's just like eBay right, um, it's a worldwide brand and
and they have done an amazing jobof branding it and and and not just
branding because it's The branding is thefirst part. The second part is actually
doing what you say you're gonna doright. And that's where, in my

(58:42):
opinion, a lot of companies fallshort. Um you know, corporate green
things of that nature. You startedgetting a good following and then you and
then you start trying to open upyour margins, right, you start trying
to figure out how can we bemore profitable? And the first thing that
you have to do, um andafter you know, letting or trimming your
team down, is actually starting touse cheaper products to make your product or
to try to outsource products. Andthat's something that Rolex has always done a

(59:06):
really good job with. They doall of their stuff in house. They
control all of the metals, andall of everything is made inside that warehouse
that Rolex manufacturing. They have patentson plenty of those pieces, and they've
created a watch that every man canwear or every woman can wear. It's
um, it's just a really nicetime piece. But let me tell you

(59:28):
where they really, where they really, where they're really beneficial to buy one
is that they keep their value ifyou go to buy a tag hower or
a brightling or something in that nature. Pana Rye you're losing you know,
forty or fifty cents on a dollarimmediately. A lot of times, especially
with sport model Rolexes, you canbuy a support model Rolex and keep it
wearing five years and sell it forten percent more or ten percent less or

(59:49):
maybe you know, maybe even alittle bit more on the on the cell
side. So UM, it's it'sa great it's a great piece to wear.
UM. I don't ever say buyjewelry or watches as an investment.
I think it's probably a bad ideaof mo to the time. But you
know, with role xes, theydo so well, and they control the
mintage of them so well that theydo they do retain value, So that's
it's popular for that reason. Anygiven time, how many watches or let's

(01:00:13):
just say roll xes do you havein stock? Um? So last Christmas
we had i'd say two hundred andfifties at our peak, UM, and
we try to have a carried averageof fifty to sixty watches and stock at
any given time. Maybe six monthsago the market was tanking pretty hard,
so I didn't carry much inventory atall. UM. But now that we
seemed to find a little bit ofa bottom we're starting to buy watches again

(01:00:35):
and get ready for Christmas. AnyDuncan Jr. He joins me. He
is with US coins and jewelry obviouslyUS coins and Julius talk about this.
My grandfather was a coin collector,and uh, I just remember going to
visit a house in Austin and theywere just coins, if the coins of
the coins, and we would siftthrough them and then we find the buffalo
and you know, all that stuffyou have just it's what is it new?
Miss me? Tist I think isthe word or something like that.

(01:00:58):
And you have so many coins andyou can buy, but you also you
sell them. But do people comein with just hundreds and hundreds of pounds
and stuff that they wheel it in? You just sit there and you just
go through them. With the processof looking and valuating in a coin collection.
Let me give you the long andthe short. So I think,
oh, I would say. Thecomment that we hear the most back from

(01:01:22):
our customers when when they'd sell thedeal to us, is how easy the
transaction was. Um, that's ourthat's our number one feedback, and it's
we know what we're doing. Whetheryou wheel in fifty pounds one hundred pounds
if you have five coins, itdoesn't matter. It's what we do.
Um. It's just like you gettingon radio and being able to kick your
feet on the desk and just andlet it rip and just sound natural and

(01:01:44):
engaging. You're you're a pro,right, And when it comes to rare
Coins, we're the pros. Weknow what we're doing. Um. And
we have the checkbook to write foralmost any deal that that lands on our
table, and then it separates usfrom mostly everybody else. So um,
that's that's really our big that's ourniche. Rare Coins is our niche.
That's where we that's where we cutour teeth, and that's what we've been

(01:02:05):
doing for the last I say fortyyears now, with my dad starting the
business in eighty four eighty five,and and we've been rolling every since.
Exciting well Kenny Duncan he is witha US coins and jewelry. Also every
time I come into the store andyou've got I mean the security is great.
You've got little tiny private cubbies andso nobody can see what's going on
with the deals. But I cutnot that I'm glancing everybody's shoulder, but

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people are walking in with gold andthey got silver too. And I remember
years ago I had yeah, Ihad just had gold, you know,
because gold necklace is back in leckof the eighties or nineties, that was
a hot thing. And so eventhough I know you're making money, yeah
you bought one. Yeah, ifyou bought it retail, I don't care
if you paid I don't care ifyou paid one hundred times retail. You're
making money on that, on thatnecklace right now. Well time. But
so talk about golden silver because that'sthat's a big, big, big area

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of your business too. Sure,So I mean golden silver just you know,
tangible metal. We are one ofthe largest distributors wholesale of these of
gold and silver. We sell numeroussilver products and gold products. Um that
also ties into our rare coin business. But if if someone or someone you
know that it's trading you know,gold silver bullion, you know, please
give us a look. It's somethingthat we do and we pay the most

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money in Houston on gold and silverbullion. And it's not even close and
it's not up for discussion. Whatwhat price of gold roughly nowadays? Nineteen
fifty six, I believe is thelast time I looked at that and silver's
twenty four fifty six was the lasttime I looked. How does that compare
with you know things fifteen years um. Gold is on an absolute tear in

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terms of its volume, and youknow, I can't believe we're trading gold
at nineteen fifty right now. It'sum, it's it's just absolutely crazy to
think that that an ounce of goldis trading for almost two grand. It
is just absolutely insane. So it'sit's a it's a it's a very busy
time. We've got We've got tonsof people who are on you know,
one side of the fence. Ibelieve that they want to sell into this

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market. And then there's some peoplewho are thinking it's going to go to
three thousands, so they're buying.So we're just you know, we trade.
We don't give market advice, youknow, we don't get into that.
What we do is we just promiseyou we're going to give you a
good deal when you whether you buyor whether you sell. It's envisioned half
my listeners right the righty to thejelry box is going down. I get
know what happened to Grandma's brooch?Man? I need to get it up
to us. I mean there's notyou know, I mean the high on

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gold is I believe twenty eighty,so you're about one hundred bucks off.
So yeah, right now selling goldjewelry. I mean again, I don't
really make that advice, but Iwould say that, you know, the
trend is that we are buying aton of that stuff right now, a
ton of it. Well there itis already, got two emails just coming
in right now. Okay, Michael, shut up an actable. Give me
the location again. What's the addressbecause I know you're open on Saturdays too.
Where are you guys? Yes,So we're in between Kimmy Rock and

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Boss on the south side of ITten, So we're literally right outside the
loop, right outside the I meantwo minute two exits outside the loop.
It's eighty four thirty five Katie Freeway. We're not in Katie, we're on
IT ten. So it's eighty fouror thirty five Katie Freeway. And that's
immemorial seven seven zero two four.And you can find this at US coins
and Jewelry dot com. We'll sleepin the fact that you actually do a

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lot of busines on the web too, and you don't need to be just
in Uston. I've got listeners allover the country right now. Who you
really could do a lot of stuffin your web. Yeah. We have
thousands of products online. We addnew products daily. You can find us
on eBay. We have an eBaystore. Um, you know, we
were we we have partnered with someof the best, the biggest and the
best and uh and we're just goingto continue to do what we do and
let's take care of our customers,give provide an excellent customer service and give

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great advice on building coin collections.There it is. His name is Kenny
Duncan, and I just timed thison my beautiful Hulk right now. That
was ten minutes an eighteen second interview. Baby, baby, appreciate it.
It is great talk you and yougot listen. You've been there for you,
as you said, oh, sincein the mid eighties eight your dad
started to this thing, and youand your brothers are doing such a great
job. Congrats on your success.Hey, thank you so much. Appreciate

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you. Appreciate your time. Okay, anytime, all right, that's Kenny
Duncan. My manner, by theway, I was on that was on
Kenny's podcast. Go go take alook at his I mean he's he's taking
my job too, all right,Michael Garfield, phone numbers are open here.
I'd love to hear from you.You know what I don't you know,
it's a watch is coming up,so don't go anywhere. By segment

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of today's show, which means HappyHour itself, at least for me,
is a team minus ten minutes orso. Thank you so much to our
good friend Kenny duncan Um talking aboutthe numismatists around the world, which is
a person who is really into coincoin, collecting US coins and jewelry,
good to know rolexes and all neatstuff. And so I love talking to

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people, especially local businesses. Man. Look, it's just what a great
family owned business and there's so manyof them out there. I talk about,
you know, just businesses who havebeen here by local I guess is
the thing I talk about Universal PlumbingSupply and in so many other companies that
that mom and pop shops, fromthe pizza places to the nail salons to

(01:06:53):
just the restaurants. It's it's wegotta we gotta support them too, which
by the restaurant weeks is coming up, and uh in August of good restaurants,
why not go to restaurant in thehottest month of the year here in
August and keep you updated on that. Not gonna give out the phone number
because we're almost out of here.I still a few more things to wrap
up. Should you have questions forme? During the week? High tech

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texts and Hi g h T eH T e X A N. I
talked a lot about cars and automobilesand very lucky to be able to test
drive and roll around in a lotof them on a on a weekly basis.
I've done this for fifteen years orso. I cover them so much.
I am a member of the TexasAuto Writers Association. I've been in

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there for about fifteen years, soI get to hang with the manufacturers,
which is a very nice and Idon't deal with dealerships. I just drive
and give my opinion. Last week, I was I was really impressed with
this. I was in a thenew twenty twenty four Chevy Tracks t R
a X and if you haven't seenit, it's it's a it's a CUV.

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It's a compact tilty vehicle, fourdoors, patch back type of thing.
And I'm gonna start with this becausewhen I compare in review automobiles,
I do it on so many differentlevels. What's the price point, what's
the demographic? Is this good fora kid who's out of college? Is
good for you know, older generationswho need more room? Is someone who

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who goes off road a lot?Do you need the trucks? What's the
value and everything? I'm gonna startwith this. This it's retail. It
starts at twenty three nine and theway I tested it was just about twenty
six thousand dollars. I was veryimpressed for a price like this with a

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very good ride, you know,Chevy from Generalman General Motors Jam. But
the comfort was very nice, thesteering was great, roomy certainly in the
back. You could fit three peoplein the back, so again you got
a car seat. You know,maybe this is good for young couples,
maybe having a baby starting out.Certainly it's good for you know, maybe
you get out of college and youand your buddies go, you know,

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hang for the weekend and you wantto throw some stuff at the back whatever,
But you're still gonna get a lotof bells and whistleson over here.
And I you know, obviously Italk about the technology. They have a
great touch screen. It's it's areally nice size touch screen, eleven inch
diagonal if you're going across color LCD. It's got the wireless Apple car Play.

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It's got wireless Android for all yourphones over there. Um, it's
got you know, your keyless openingand start, and and just the way
it was designed just with with roominess. Listen. I can go on and
on, and I'm you know,listen, this is a type of car
where I'm not going to get intohow many horsepower does it have. It's
got some good it's you know,it's automatics, experience, transition, but
it's it's it's got some really goodget up and go. But I compare

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this to how much is it inthe availability. I don't know the availability
because I don't deal dealerships, butthe price point, especially for some of
the vehicles. Listen, I've I'vegot to ride around in a quarter million
dollars Mercedes convertibles. Just yesterday,I am sitting in a one hundred and

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nineteen thousand dollars brand new Lincoln Navigator, the l the long version. I
mean, these are six figures Imean, this costs more than houses and
college educations. So going back tothe Chevy tracks for twenty five thousand dollars
or so, very good value andand it's it's a good one. So
anyway, that is uh, that'swhat I have. I also am in

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the midst of doing an electric vehicle. I also currently have the Nissan aria
A R I ya. I getso many questions about electric vehicles. Hey,
should I get electric? Should electricvehicles? Should I get? You
know my thought on electric vehicles.I don't want to spend a lot of
time because I got about four moreminutes in the show. I really like

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electric vehicles. I think they arefast. I mean they are super fast
if you've ever been in one.They are a lot of more sexy you
get inside very Jetsny and the Jetsons. The way they're designed, they're kind
of like if if you imagine this, they're built on a skateboard platform,
all right, very flat, lotsof room. Sometimes there's there's just seats,

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and it just I don't know,that's the way electrical cars. Electric
cars now are designed. It's like, oh, it's just if they are
technologically advanced engine we're gonna make themlook very you know, futuristic. I
don't know why they do that,which is cool. This one I haven't
been I haven't been in it alot. Again, I got another week
to play with it. The Nissanarea. It is very minimalistic, probably

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of all the electric cars I've beeninto. It's it's a big dashboard,
it's got a touchscreen, comfy seats. I will give you the update next
week, after the full week review. But so I got two cars now
I'm playing with. It's funny becauseI've got an electric one which I don't
know the range on this thing.I don't even want to guess. I'll
again, I'll give you the wholeplay by play next week. But then
I got a one nineteen thousand dollarslink a Navigator, So if anybody wants

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a ride anywhere I wants to playaround. If you see me rolling around
and a big, crazy, awesomedark gray Lincoln Navigator l which I think
holds it could hold fourteen people,it looks like an old fourteen people.
I think it holds eight people.Or if I got this really nice,
pretty blue Nissa, and you don'tsee a lot of these Nissan electric vehicles,
you know Tesla gets a lot ofthe love the Genesis, the Kia.

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I love the Kia EV six,which is also nice. But I've
got this Nissan Aria. It's blue, and I will give you my thoughts
on that, and quickly I'll sayit again, love electric vehicles. I
do not like the way the UnitedStates battery charging system infrastructure is right now.
We are used to going up toevery street corner and seeing a gas

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station. If we're on a roadtrip, there's gas stations everywhere. We
fill up. We wait five tosix to seven minutes. If you've got
a big truck, okay, maybeit's gonna take ten minutes or so,
you go in, you spend anotherone hundred dollars at your BUCkies or whatever,
and then you get on your road. The fact is, to reach
chargers out in the wild, they'refew and far between. They are different
types of levels. Is it asuper fast charger? Level three is a

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little trickle charge. When you pullup the one, you cross your fingers
that they're all working correctly. Howthen when you plug it in, you're
gonna sit there and wait thirty toforty five minutes or longer. If you
have any type of ADHD or anxiety. Electric vehicles are not for you because
you also have range anxiety. Ohmy goodness, I have down to fifty
miles, forty miles, thirty miles. I need to find a charger fast.

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Then you've got to wait an hourto charge it. If not more,
it's being fixed. It's going totake a while. This is a
massive paradigm shift what we're in ofswitching from gas to electric. Autom manufacturers
are making those vehicles and they're makingthe switch and they're actually a lot of
these companies. They're totally killing theirgasoline powered engines and they're gonna make all

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electric. We need better charging systems, and that is it. If you
want to go between your home andwork, which is all of ten miles
twenty miles, you've got a homecharger, you've got a work charger,
perfect up. But if you goon long road trips or you just say,
hey, listen, I want togo see my kid in Austin,
it's like you really got to startplanning out your trip. And I don't
feel like going back to the daysof when I had a plan through Triple

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A with my trip tech and everything, and it's it's really tough. So
anyway, there's my quick car reviewand it's perfect timing because we are near
the top of the hour. CallumReid and everybody else who hasn't been involved
in producing the show today, thankyou so much. Brian Ericson, Happy
birthday, program director here at KPRCand all our AM stations in Houston.
At iHeart Brian Ericsons birthday this week, Heady Martini, Mark Sherman, and

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everybody who's been a part of thisshow. We will see you next week.
You can also follow me at hightech Texan dot com. Mister Garfield,
well that's my dad's name. Iam Garth Michael Garfield. Thanks for
tuning in. People. Where areyour sons the screen? Sit in the
pool, turn the AC up.We'll talk to you next week. See
on the web because right now myshow is over. Two