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to keep cool. It is. It is. Listen, I am pretty
much a lifelong Texan, been in Houston for thirty years. Pretty much.
It's mad, man, it is. But I actually need to get like
Frank Billingsley, Channel two meteorologist, some of Mica, David Paul from Channel
eleven, what is going on? Man? It is. I hope you're
in the pool. I hope you're listening to me on your big speaker,
Bluetooth, whatever you're doing. But just take it easy, hydrate hell without
giving you my hippa. I haven't been feeling great, man, I'm getting
dizzy and it's just, oh, what is up. Let's see if we
can make it through for the next two hours, because I do want to
give you some news. Take your phone calls, give you some fun suggestions,
tell you what's going on in the world. Give you some suggestions on
what to do with your life. The it's amazing. Obviously. Yes,
I originally did cover technology, and I still do. I'm more of a
consumer lifestyle guy. But people want to know. Hey, Michael, you
know, if I if I tell my kids what industry to get into,
should I put them into technology? Should they understand? Is that a big
job? Can you make a lot of money? You know? Years and
years ago? Yeah, I used to work for Microsoft. I mean,
did you make a ton of money? Sadly, I'm still wasting my Saturday's
talking to you guys. You see you what I did there? You said.
But over the past few years, the tech sector has not been doing
very well, a lot of layoffs. But there is a tech sector that
is doing very well. And if I had kids who are younger, who
were even thinking of going to college, I probably would tell him to do
this. Alas, my three boys are out of college, and if they
are listening, Hey boys, Tomorrow's Father's Day. Hello, Hello, I
know I'll get a call. That's that's all. That's that's all I need,
man, That's all I need. They're just they're they're great kids and
happy happy Father's Day to the original high tech Texan Larry Garfield, possibly listening
right now in iHeartRadio up in Dallas. Happy Father's Day to you. Um,
I'm sure there'll be some snopping going on this weekend, and so enjoy
your day and for all the dads out there, sincerely, Happy Father's Day,
Happy Grandfather's Day. For some reason, you do not have a father
around his celebrate. I hope he is in your thoughts and you just pretty
much do nothing. Enjoy the weekend and PLoP in front of your television watching
the US Open golf tournament, which is pretty much that is the only thing
on my agenda this week is this sad Callum, I know you're not a
dad yet you can feel free to wish me a happy Father's thank you.
He's talking in my hear right now, is it? Here's my plan for
the weekend, Because I am a loser, I am gonna sit in my
butt on the couch watching and I'm a big golf fan watching the US Open
from LA Country Club, where I should be with my son who lives in
LA, but he didn't invite me. I should be a there, but
I'm not, so I'm gonna sit on the couch watching NBC. Literally,
because I've done it Thursday, done it Friday, I'm gonna do it today,
and I'm gonna do it tonight. I'm gonna do it tomorrow Tomorrow night
number one. I'm I'm gonna tell you this. I'm a golf fan.
I love when major golf tournaments are on the West Coast because coverage goes into
the night here in Central Time, because he goes. I mean literally,
I think the Thursday and Friday, I think the tournament ended it. I
I was watching it until about nine o'clock. I loved it because there's no
other sports that I can about going on right now. Basketball is over,
I hate hockey, Baseball is like whatever, not football season. I love
it. So anyway that'll that'll keep me occupied. So that's my day?
Is it? Is that sad that this is all I have planned? That,
Michael, because I have one son's here and he'll I'll see him tomorrow
Sunday and he's not really a golf band, but he'll do whatever I want.
I'm just gonna be sitting there watching or should I be out doing something?
What am I supposed to do? I mean, I don't know.
Here's here's here's the other dilemma. People, you can we're taking a pull
seven one, three, two, five nine five. Oh moms, this
is for you. Let's go back to Mother's Day. Do you want to
celebrate being a mom or in dad on this day with your with your kids
or without your kids? Now, now stand by, say you've got young
kids and all you do is you raise your kids. Maybe they're in diapers,
kindergarten, preteens. Sometimes you want to be away from your kids.
Not being a rude, do you want to get away from your kids on
Father's Day or Mother's Day? Or do you want to be with your kids
on Father's Day or Mother's Day? Serious question? Think it over, talk
to me tweeting me at High Tech Texan. It's it's, it's it's it's
a tough call. But however you celebrate, that's good. You can get
um air friers. I'm gonna give you some. I think everybody in the
in the country has an instant install pot set me. Insta Pot's having a
show. So many people have an Insta pot. The company who make insta
Pot. I'm gonna talk about this, maybe next break Insta Pot the company
as I filed for bankruptcy. I'm not kidding you. You know you've got
a popular product. When so many people have it, there's no more to
sell, and so you've what do you do? I guess you'd file for
bankruptcy. I have so many kitchen I test so many kitchen gadgets, it's
not even funny. I have two these are in boxes, two pressure cookers.
I was just sent an air friar. I have a one thousand dollar
device called the multi am I LTI is a device apparently that slices at dices
and hooks at boils at pressures at Suve's still can't figure out how to use
the thing. I've got a really neat device called the Dreo d r e
O, which is an all in one toaster air friar broiler oven. It
sits on top of account or. It's gorge it has an app. I
could send recipes of the app. It's neat. That's about the only thing
I use. Somebody needs to come over here and help test kitchen gear formulata.
So do way whatever you want to get that, I am here for
you. Maybe you want a new car. I'm test driving cars right now.
This past week, I had a beautiful Mercedes Benz four or fifty.
What is it? Gle close to a hundred thousand dollars. Again, when
I review cars, it is not from a dealership. It is directly with
the manufacturer. I get these things once a week because I'm a member of
the Texas Auto Writers Association. I do I get paid not once. Ever.
This is pure content. I could tell him I love it. I
could tell him, mom, I hate it. I review every type of
car, every type of make, every type of model. So do trust
me and do believe me, because that is how I roll. We'll get
to that one and come back. I'll give you the phone number one more
time seven one three two one two five nine five zero. On the other
side, Hey kids, Hey parents, your governor, Texas Governor Greg Abbott
just signed a bill has to do with your kids and social media. Is
he banny kids from social media? Oh you may want to hear this,
and I will give you the ultimate job that just came that is about to
become open. That if anybody wants to get me a Father's Day present,
this is what I want. All this on the High Tech Texas Show coming
up. It's Michael Garfield stand by, give her phone number here. Why
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Father. I'm not gonna go father here, but we all talking Father's Day.
Speaking of Father's Day, give I bought myself a Father's Day gift earlier
this week. If you're a Facebook friend, you should check it out.
I got a fear to watch this and I'm not. I'm gonna tell you
right now. I'm not the biggest watch guy. I know how to tell
time with the son. That's what could I can do. Because I'm an
eagle scout. We have phones that have clocks on them. I live by
time because I am in media, certainly radio, I have to know exactly
to the second one to get in when they get out of commercial breaks over
there. I like watches for the fact is they're they're pieces of jewelry and
they match my outfit. I don't have a ton of them, but I
got one that's actually green this weekend. If you're familiar with Rolex, they
have a special edition one called the Hulk, and I said, you know
what, let's suck it up. I got one that is the Hulk,
and of course I got it over my guys at US Coins and Jewelry.
They are open today Saturday. By the way, if you want a last
minute dad's gift, it's if you're a coin geek. And I've heard from
a lot of coin there's a lot of coin geeks. You have a lot
of coin collectors. They are one of the best in the country. And
I'm not kid you about this. Note that is not hyperbole. It is
they're one of the best coins collectors. They will buy your coins, they
will evaluate your coins. They're at eighty four thirty five Katie Freeway right in
your boss. You as Coins and Jewelry dot Com. But they have so
much more than that. They have always great watches in their Rolexes and whatever.
They've got great diamonds, ladies, your stuff in there. If you're
a text I love Texas history because I had to take it in seventh grade,
as most all Texas kids did flags, maps of the state of Texas,
before he was even a state. Really neat. They buy your they
buy your silver. They really are Houston's most prestigious coin dealer, and they've
got some really great rotches. Matt and Kenny Duncan, they're probably listening right
now right in the shop. Go check it out. Give me here's the
number. Seven one three five nine seven sixty three sixty seven. Go in
hey man Garf Realley shop there. Oh Garf shops there. I actually I
just go to hang out there sometimes and if I see something that catches my
eye or if I want something, Kenny and Matt they'll find it, any
type of watch or whatever. They're really really good. They give your free
written appraisals. Every expert, every employees and expert over there. They are
really so good, safe, secure, on duty and off off duty police
officers, privacy boosts and everything. They're so cool. So a big shout
out to them. I was on their podcast about it was about three weeks
so that was fun. Very talented folks. They've been it's just family run
business, been there for so long. US Coins and Julie, so tell
them, I said, what up? And Happy Father's Day too. They're
both dads, so Happy Father's Day too, Kenny and m Matt Duncan.
As we continue. If you got kids and you're trying to figure out how
young they are and when they should get on social media, I think,
but what's the rule? If you could be thirteen? It on Facebook or
something like that? Easy? Does it? Your governor? Texas Governor Greg
Abbott he signed a bill earlier this week banning kids under eighteen from joining several
social media sites without parental consent. Look at him? Parents? What say
you? House Bell? Eighteen? It requires social media companies to receive explicit
consent from a miner's parent or guardian before they'd be allowed to create their own
accounts. And this starts in September of next year. I gues September of
twenty twenty four. And it forces these companies to prevent children from seeing quote
unquote harmful content by creating new filtering systems. Other states have done this in
Actually last week I told you Louisiana did this. How about that Texas?
Following Louisiana in something is this good or bad? Not what to tell you
what some people think it's bad. Here's a dude named Carl Zabo. He
is the VP of net Choice. I don't know what that is, but
he says, quote, we're disappointed to see Governor Rabbit signed into a bill
a law that sign and signed into law, a bill that erodes parental rights
while violating the first Amendment in digital freedoms for every Texan unquote you see,
I will say this Texas's definition of a quote digital service, it's very broad.
It's very broad. Under the law, parental consent would be necessary for
kids trying to access nearly any site that collects identifying information, even an email
address. So again he's listen, told you. Louisiana passes Simmer bill.
Similar bill Connecticut, Marylyn, Minnesota, Jersey, Ohio, they've considered similar
Look at its good or bad? Seven one two, one two, five
nine five. It's I gotta say this. I'm just so happy to have
older kids who were just I don't have to worry about something like that.
All my kids were over eighteen, and all my kids had social media accounts
when they were yeah, when they were under eighteen. I mean it's like,
when how old before you get your kid a phone? See my oldest
is he he's wait, he's twenty, he'll be twenty nine. I mean,
yeah, cell phones were around twenty nine years ago, But twenty nine
years ago, kids did not have cell phones. I mean at a young
age, I didn't have to go through that. Now. I introduced him
to computers and obviously electronic gadgets, just like my parents introduced me to similar
got out of analogy, some sort of electronic guide you back in the day,
which I loved in my passion. But I taught my kids when they
were young. I had little software programs and you know that this big mouse
that the kids would would, you know, learn how to have hand high
coordination, and you know, video games. And we also have VHS tapes
of Barney. I mean, hell, I grew up with Sesame Street,
and I'm not known that's not technology. But whatever the medium, the educational,
yes, educational, it is whatever it was round there. I wanted
my kids, my three boys, to have the latest, and I understand
parents they wanted to do the same thing. But watching Sesame Street when I
was a kid was not dangerous or harmful. There was no fake news on
Sesame Street. You know, I did hear you know Big Bird. I
think it was a rumor he had a sex change. That was about probably
most egregious, probably fake lie I heard, don't know, still can't confirm
it. That's the only thing we had to worry about my kids I had
to worry about. Let's see, what was one of the first video games
that my kids wanted. They want a Grand Theft Auto and they were they
were they were probably eight, nine, ten years old, at least my
old just one or two. That was you know, man, there was
I think there was murders you can run over people, you know it was
it was a car game based in Miami, I think or something there was.
That was the controversial stuff back then. It was video games. Nowadays,
absolutely, I understand why social media it's controversial. Nowadays, you can
get your kids a phone, but you don't have to get him a cell
phone plan. But guess what, Virtually everywhere we go there's Wi Fi airplanes,
restaurants, airports, libraries, grocery stores. So it really doesn't matter.
It's like, oh, well, you know, I'm just gonna get
them a phone so they can play games. No, they're gonna be online.
Man. I'm never gonna tell you what to do as a parent.
I will suggest. I will tell you what I did as a parent,
but it doesn't correlate because I don't have young kids right now. I do
get asked, what's what's the proper age for a kid to have a cell
phone? I don't know how much money you got. What's the kids grow
up faster than my kids grew up right nowadays? Are you a parent who
is hands on versus hands off? I don't know. I'm not gonna tell
you how to punish your kids. I'm not gonna tell you how to raise
your kids, although I would like to tell people how to raise some of
their kids. Be nice, to be respectful as far as I can go.
So if anyway, you got thoughts on that on parenting, as we
talk about Dad's Day, I am here for you at seven one three,
two, one two, five nine five. Hey give you something to do
this weekend because it's very hot. Who wants to go see a movie?
I saw a movie a premier that is starring and written and produced by a
local Houston personality who's also, by the way, a doctor. You may
know him, you may not love him. I'm gonna have a talk with
him and we're gonna talk about the movie. How to get a movie like
that written? And produced and the worse comes to worse. You can go
see it a nice air conditioned theater. I got everything for you people.
This is the high tech dext and show we want when you're back at is
Michael Garfield, of course, the long, long running high tech Texan show
KPRC nine fifty am all across Southeast Texas and across the world. Thank you
so much for downloading the iHeartRadio app. It is man, it is hot,
it is summer, and it is stupid. So you know, the
one place where I always had just hanging out in a movie theater. They're
always cold, they're always chilly. You've got some good popcorn. There's a
lot of thrilling things going on. I actually hung out of a movie theater
not too long ago because I'm very honored that I get to go to a
lot of screenings in uh, you know, kind of red carpet reveals before
all you other people out there get to. But that's my job is to
review him and have some fun. This one actually especially it was in Houston,
and it what are the stars and the writers and the producers is a
eustony And you probably know him, you've seen him, you love him because
he has this new's got a business card. It's probably eighteen feet long.
He does everything doctor Pavan Grover long time. It's just really a personality here
and used it. I remember I was on Channel two kp or C about
twenty years ago when I started my career and I see this dude pop it
up and I'm I thought I had the greatest hair in Houston. I bring
in my buddy POV. Between you and I, who's got better hair?
We're going to you have the better hair. It's actually we're kind of twins
a little bit, but you have the better hair. So I've got to
give you. Give you that. I'll tell you what I think of that.
Let me tell you a little fun story just where we're talking about here.
So you know, I wrote the script, I produced it and edited
did all that stuff. So there was a fight scene that I had with
Jonathan Rice Myers. Right, it's very tricky one to have on a plane
because there's all sharp right, So I wanted to do it, but the
director and everything didn't want to, you know, have risk and injury.
So they're trying to find a stunt guy to do the stunt. But they
couldn't find one with my hair, so I ended up. I did that
so you wouldn't have the same problem, because so it was. It was
so I got to do the stunt because they couldn't find the stunt. Bro
let me help you out. I know this is not your last movie.
We'll talk about the movie here in the second. But I have a sag
card. I am your stunt double next time. Okay, you got it.
I'll be your stunt double. You know what. I like it.
I like it because you know what I you actually are a real doctor.
You are and I actually played a part on General Hospital about ten or eleven
years ago, my claim to family. I can see that. So you
got the whole doctor dreamy look going on. So I you know that I
appreciate it. I was. I didn't play a doctor. I actually was
killed within the third episode by James Franko. It's a long story. This
is about you. Let's let's get back into it. You have been in
this market a long time, originally from India. You're a you're a doctor
by trade. Tell us what kind of doctor and how long you've been at
doctor? What kanyar? So, I'm an interventional spine specialist. So I
do people that have back pain, neck pain. We use minimally invasive type
of strategy scopes and lasers and things like that to try to find out what
the source of pain is and fix it. And I've been doing that for
quite some time, gotcha. But that's one of the many things that you
do. Because oh, by the way, as we now know, you're
an actor, you're a superstar, you're all over IMDb, you're a writer,
you're a producer. Talk about what in the world. Okay, you're
a doctor got you into the entertainment business also kind of as as a side
hustle. Well, you know, I was always like passionate about like film.
You know, I grew up in India, right, and when I
was sick, I came in when I was six. But so we grew
up up in Bollywood on dancing around trees. If you ever seen any movie,
yeah, so that's why I wanted to do it. Six. I
went to my mom and said, listen, I wanted to dance around trees
for a living, you know, in the rain and all that stuff.
So she said, you know, being an Indian, mom held no,
be a doctor first, right, and so human doctor but I actually for
medicine. There's a big passion that I'm not trying to leave medicine. I
love medicine because I've had I have a brother who passed away, so I've
seen medicine from the other side, like what patients go through. So medicine
is my number one passion. Films are a hobby. So instead of playing
golf, you know, I make some films and so get I get to
be really because I love my job, love taking care of patients, and
I you know, film stuff as a hobby. So I'm actually very lucky.
I get to do things that I'm very passionate about. You know.
By the way, I just realized by listening to your story, which I
love, and Indian mother is very similar to a Jewish mother. Because my
mom wanted me to be a doctor. I ended up getting an entertainment so
I did it the total reverse. And I'm sure your mom is probably a
little bit more proud of you that she is of me. Doctor Pavon Groeber,
we're speaking with here. You just came out with the movie and I
saw it is called ninety seven Minutes. This is something that you wrote,
you produce, you acted, in I'm very cures. I studied the industry.
I'm in the entertainment industry. I liked I want to even get more
into the internet. It's not easy to make the movie. It takes money,
it takes it takes talent, it takes writing to write produce a movie
like this. Where do you even start? How do you get your idea?
Then what's the process between actually getting it done? So on this one,
this, I've done a few films already, so I've gotten basically all
my education, you know, produced. I wrote and produced a film with
Dennis Hopper that we sold tam Jam So you know, all that was tremendous,
great experience for this project. And so in this project, I was
trying to create a film that could look like one hundred million dollars but be
produced under ten. So we produced this for seven. So in the script
we had I met actually we had William Hurt signed up originally, and then
you know, I wrote it a little bit for Alec Baldwin and I ran
into him at Sundance when I stole his dinner table, right there was a
mix up in there and we got to know each other there. And so
it is so difficult because we made this particular film during COVID, during you
know, and we were supposed to shoot after Rust and then we had the
huge tragedy with Alec. We were under a lot of pressure to replace them.
But you don't replace people and leave them at their worst time. And
so we shot the film in London and then I did something very interesting because
I wanted to make this a thrill ride, so you know, and it
had to be the editing, especially the sound effects. I wanted to trigger
people's experience of being on a plane on turbuloin. So I actually hooked up
test subjects to monitors, all the monitors I use in spine surgery, and
I would test editsun till I got exactly the physiological response that I wanted.
So I got to use all all sorts of kind of both my science and
my creative to make the film. It was a lot of fun. You
talk about sound effects, I love the special effects. I mean the plane.
It takes place on a plane, ninety seven minutes of fuel left obviously
to get it. I'm not going to go back and forth of the plot,
twist on top of a plot, twist on top of a plot,
twist, which is very very creative. But the effects of the plane,
I mean the way it was shot, it was filmed into the clouds in
the sky. It's it's very, very very impressive. You had a great
team working on the top to bottom. We had a great team working on
it, and like I said, you know, special effects obviously are very
complicated. I think we had a really good special effects team, and we
had different vendors, so we were to try and get all that work done,
and it was challenging on a low budget to do that because you know,
paying for Alec Baldwin and you're paying for Jonathan Rice Myers who's from the
Tutors. And so I constructed the whole project to be shot like very efficiently
because it's primarily two sets. We have the stuff on the airplane, right,
which is a real set on a studio, and then we shot the
NSA side on a green screen, a virtual green screen to use it.
So a lot of that backgrounds you saw that was all digitally created and really
kind of expanded that space. And then you put all that together. But
you know, the way it's edited, the final edit, it's basically trying
to recreate like what somebody would actually see on an airplane and then the sound
effect everything was was was like supplied a lot of effort into it. But
but that was the whole idea to take people on a thrill ride. I
wanted to do it an air travel what Jaws did to go back. So
probably I don't think we'll make the in flight entertainment on this one, but
probably, but that's not the point. I don't know yet. It's a
summer blockbuster, just like Jaws was. Doctor Bevan Grove for joining me here
for a few more minutes. Describe ninety seven minutes, so people are figure
out what to do, what to go watch, and then theaters obviously later
this year. I believe it's coming out on Hulu. Give us, give
us, give us the thirty second or so elevator pitch of what the movie
is. So, the movie is about a seven sixty Flights seven sixty seven
flight which has been taken over by terrorist and it's going to crash in ninety
seven minutes when when the feudal runs out. Alec Baldwin is the head of
the NSA on the ground and trying to bring the plane down basically shoot it
out of the sky because at this point has become you know, like a
like a missile and Johnathan Rice Myers plays an undercover agent on the airplane and
so it's it's a race against time and it's it's a film that we've created
to keep the constant tension. So it's a good summer popcorn type of flick.
It is. It is is where if people want to see it.
It was just I think it was just released. People want to see it
is in theaters now here, at least in the Houston area. Yes,
it released last week. Theatrically is at the Star Grail Cinema. I think
this still will be there this weekend. It's released in the top ten markets
across the country. It's also on demand that comes out on like Prime Video
as a rental and everything. And then so it's available everywhere. iTunes,
Apple and then it comes out and Dabis on Hulu in September, gotcha,
And it's all that. It's actually, as we were doing a little research
over here, a fun little fact, you probably can get this on the
dark market somewhere like that. Can you give us to give it this interesting
fact? I love it all right, but actually, so you know,
we don't want encourage piracy, of course, of course. Really looking,
there's a there's a list right of the top pirated movies worldwide, right,
and so we're we're number three on the most pirated film world and we're we're
under Transformers. You know, that's actually pretty cool because Transformers spent two hundred
million dollars on this marketing. Our Disappear spent kind of zero. But you
know, so it's just I find this a fun fact that we're worldwide,
we're the most one of the most call it, you know, like the
pirated film so to speak. So it's usually is usually an indicare of trends.
So it's it's basically a real life kind of tracking of how people are,
you know, sharing it, responding to it. So it's just a
fun fact. I thought it was pretty cool. But you know, we
don't want to encourage piracy. Of course, people do not pirate. These
are actors, they're artists. They need to be paid. But that's a
fun fact though. I like that. Uh pab listen. I want to
congratulate to your success. It's so funny. I joke about your business card
between doctor, writer, actor, producer, great hair, good guy.
You're all around, and you know, right here in Houston, and so
I want to, I just really can want to continue to follow your career.
And I'm throwing out I'm offer you ever need a stunt double or a
twin bro. Baby, I can't dance. I'm gonna make you doctor dreaming
on my neck. I will take that, brother. I can't. Yeah,
I can't dance around a tree, baby, but I can juggle a
little. I'll do the dancing, you know. Will you just like being
a heartthrob? Right? I like it? Oh? I like this guy.
The guy's my agent too. Hey listen, Hey, thank you so
much for your time. Congrats, it's called ninety seven minutes. Folks starting
to McGill here and used to go check it out. Listen. Hope to
have you on really again soon. And I thank you so much for your
time. Thank you appreciate it. All right, good, we're gonna be
back over there. Let's good. Yeah, first air condition and a thriller
movie. People, it's summertime. Go check it out. It's Michael Garfin.
We're gonna be right back in a second. It is, indeed,
mister meek out Garfield. Happy early Father's Day, as you're listening here on
one Nasty Hot Saturday. If you're listening live KP or C Radio nine fifty
am, and welcome to those who are listening either A on the podcast,
an iHeartRadio and everywhere else wonderful podcast or heard I'm plus streaming if you're listening
live and you're not in Houston. Actually, my man Mark Parrott in Australia
fourteen hours ahead, already celebrating Father's Day. He's not a father, but
I just want to let you. I like saying I have a listener in
Australia. It just makes the show much more international, just like our interview.
I appreciate doctor Pavon Grover originally from India and worldwide superstar right now.
Had a new movie just came out that he wrote, produced and stars in.
It's called ninety seven Minutes. Just had a nice conversation with him.
Cool dude, Cool dude. Notice I was trying to worm my way into
his next movie. So my agent is hit quickly working with him. You
should go check that out. Well, your Father's Day, You've got some
trying to figure out what to do, might I said? Just heading up
to Margaret Ritaville Resort, Lake Conro. I love that place up there.
I haven't been in a few months summer lost so much stuff to do.
Margar Retaville Lake Resorts on Lake Conron. It's about an hour north of Houston,
so you can dance, you can chill, a lot of adventure.
Perfect for families. And I know it's hey listen, dad, and you
got nothing else to do. I'm not sure what if they're sold out tonight,
but you can head up there, but I will tell you tomorrow.
They have a this is good. They had a great golf course. I
paid the golf course several times, seven in the morning to twelve pm,
so seven of the morning to noon tomorrow in the golf clubhouse. It's bloody
merry bar for dads. They got an outdoor barbecue also at the golf clubhouse
seven am to seven pm. Barbecue and bloodies on Father's Day. You freaking
kid me man, go check it out to the pro shop that's up there
too. Uh license to chill bar. They got some stuff, even Spas
Saints somewhere Spa. I'm not a big massage guy, but it's like an
eighteen thousand square foot spat there. They have so many things to do.
Uh so, anyway, you would have checked that out, by the way,
if you wanted to stay up there at some point. And why don't
you go to their website, Margaritabille Resorts dot com. Only go to the
one on Conrol. That's that's that's the one. I kind of know so
much. But they got a little special promo code for your promo code is
Garfield. If you call in, say Michael Garfield KPRCU, put the promo
code as Garfield, and you get fifteen percent off fifteen percent off those nightly
stays and things. So it is good. Maybe I should I listen.
I got nothing. I told you. I'm gonna sit there and do nothing
but watch the US open. Maybe I can do it up there, do
some license as at chill anyway, phone number here callum if there if you
have any any hot cause people want some last minute Father's the advice on kitchen,
gadgets or cars. I am your guy. I'm at seven one three
two one two five nine five. I saw a job opening. There is
a dude who was retiring. I don't know if you saw this. I
saw it on Twitter. It's a pretty big deal. Dude who's had the
job, I think for forty one years, and if you ask me,
I have I have. There's an everybody's built for a certain job. You
have a want. I mean, I've always wanted to be a quarterback for
the Dallas Cowboys. Let me help you out. That did not come to
a fruition and will never come to fruition because I'm too old. But that's
what I wanted to do. That was all I've gone gone kind of wanted
to be an astronaut. Didn't work. I was too tall. It goes
on or not. But if there's one or two things that I wanted to
that I that I can do hands down without a doubt, that I'm confident
of. It's a game show host. A people listen who've listened to me
for twenty years. I'm peppy, I'm quick. I think I'm funny.
I got the hair throwing, some makeup. Maybe I'm semi presentable for TV.
One of the ultimate game show hosts has announced that he is quitting later.
I think it's this year or next year, after forty one years sitting
Shiva for the host of one of the most popular game shows in history,
Wheel of Fortune, Pat Say Jack Oh, Pat say Jack is retiring,
I don't know why. Dude spins the wheel, talks to pretty Vanah White,
laughs, makes fun, talks to people, looks good works literally maybe
thirty to forty days a year because that's how many that's how they film it.
And he makes tens and tens of millions of dollars. I could do
that job by cook. I know if I could host a game show that
We're gonna off a tangent over here. Favorite game show, callum, you're
too young? Favorite game show? What do you got? Man? Gig
Listen. Growing up in the seventies, man, you wanted a sick day.
You wanted to be sick from school because you got to sit home and
you could watch TV. And the only thing that was on too There was
two things that was on TV. There were game shows in the morning,
and then there were soap operas. And I didn't get into soap operas I
was in high school. But Man, Bob Barker, Hero, Gene Rayburn,
Match Game, stud Jokers, Wild, I mean on and up,
Matt Oh, dude, Alan luddon match Game, love that Dick freaking Clark,
Dick Clark, absolutely hero. One of the reasons I wanted to get
into media. That dude was a conglomerate and he hosted, by the way,
the ten thousand dollar Pyramid, there's twenty five thousand dollar parramid. Pat's
um Chuck Woolery, original host of Wheel of Fortune, and then he went
on there. What did he host Love Connection? We'll be back in two
and two. I never got into that one newlywed game? Was it a
match game? Family freaking feud? Look at that they're coming at family freaking
feud. Die I didn't. I would not Richard Dawson and I died.
I didn't want that job. But Pat's a jack man. Well it was
Chuck Woolery Chuck Leaves trivia fact right here? Do you know who took over?
And somebody correct me on Google over here, but this is this is
me who took over Chuck Woolery just for a very short time before say Jack
came in. He was a former football player, a former kicker for the
San Diego Chargers. Roth Bunershka r o l F skinny, good looking dude.
Didn't last too long, butnershka be it's got a can on it.
I remember Pat. Say Jack never heard him. They hired him. They
go, well, apparently you need a K in your name to be hired
for this job? How to work out for pat? Say Jack, pretty
well, where is my agent? Man? My agent is? Are they?
Is she sleeping? I'm sitting right here, people, I could spend
that wheel left handed. Ultimate job, Callum read runs this show runs a
lot of our AM radio stations over what your ultimate Joe? What do you
want to do? Man? He's did talk to me in my ear?
You want to be a bourbon taster. No, that's that's actually one of
my non paying jobs too. You is this is this your ultimate jo?
Callum? Is this your ultimate job? Working for iHeart Radio here in Euston
doing what you're doing? He says? He says yes, because our bosses
are listening. You're the worst, bro, You're the absolute word. I
love you, man, but you are the absolute worst. Where am I?
Oh? Yeah, we're almost out of time here for a first hour,
I will give you the number seven one three to one two five nine
five oh coming up. Apple has released some new features that will be in
their new operating system. They're actually in their iPhone operating system. They're pretty
good. I'm not going to use them. Because I don't use iPhones.
I am an android guy, and when we come back, I'll the other
side. I'm going to tell you ze technological job or industry that you or
your kids want to be in because it pays big and it's got perks.
Folks. If that's not a tease heat to keep you hanging over the top
of the hour, I don't know it is. My name is Michael Garfield.
I do think you're for tuning in one more hour. Don't go anywhere.
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Garfield. Halfway through the show, just definitely twelve o'clock in child time here
on the High Tech Text Show, Michael Garfield. But just as you hurt
is my name. We are live. Should you be listening on kp or
SEE radio the day before Father's day. Halfway through the show, it's halfway
to Happy Hour. It is hot. It is just stupid Africa hot.
I really hope you're in a pool listening to me, laughing, enjoying and
having a cocktail. Happy Hours officially started. You. I have to wait
another hour before I can start popping at the top. And I don't even
know if I want to go outside. I may melt outside. I mean
every I mean every tree. It looks like a Salvador Dolly painting. They're
just melting. Everything is just melting out there. It is nasty. And
by the way, it's not summer yet. Officially it's got preheating in Texas
people. That's that's how it works. My phone number here is if you
want some last minute Father's Day gifts. We are less than twelve hours before
the clock strikes midnight and in his Father's Day seven one three two one two
five nine five zero. Number of things to talk about. And I teased
it too. People want to get into what's an industry where you can make
some money? Let me give you him. Media generally not one of them.
Radio, absolutely not one of them. Nope, not at all.
Technology. Since I've been doing this twenty years. Yeah, tech used to
be a big industry. Past few years maybe not so much. A lot
of jos. Here's one because there's really no question that AI, artificial intelligence,
it's changing the way we live. It is we're worried that it's going
to take over jobs? Should we be nervous to tech is gonna make your
job obsleet, It may make you work better, and it may make you
retire better. Forgot where I saw this. I think it was USA today,
So I'm gonna quote USA today. The company behind chat GPT, which
really has only been in existence for what seven months, it's called open Ai.
That's the company they're hiring. This is that they're hiring. This is
I'm not doing it. This is not a commercial endors but I'm just letting
you know what's going on because I may actually apply for this job myself.
They have a position on their policy research team. They're looking for an experienced
machine learning researcher. Pay range two hundred to three hundred and seventy thousand,
girl with benefits like a twenty twenty nine weeks have paid paternal leave insurance for
the family. And I can't believe this. I've never saved. I used
to work for Microsoft. They had some good benefits that I haven't seen this
one. Are you ready for this? Unlimited time off? The hell is
unlimited time off. The problem is the jobs in San Francisco. I wouldn't
want to be in San Francisco right now, just saying this could be for
me. And I'm sorry I'm being self serving here, but Adobie, which
I'd like. Adobe. They they make Photoshop and Acrobat and video editors and
everything. They're hiring a senior creative evangelist. I'm an evangelist. I am.
I'm a pimp. I'm a pimp of the box. They want an
evangelist specializing in artificial intelligence. Uh, let's see one hundred thousand to two
hundred thousand angely annually. It's not Wheel of Fortune hosting money, but i'll
tell you what, it's pretty good. There's an AI researcher up to two
hundred and forty thousand dollars. There is a prompt engineer in librarian. What
is that. There's a research company called Anthropic and they're looking for a person
to discover, test and document best practices, build a library of prompts to
accomplished task and create tutorials up to three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars oh
four oh one k oh unlimited pay time off? What is this? When
did this park? People? When did that unlimited time? I hope Brian
Brian Ericson are our program directors listening. Hey b e unlimited pay time off?
Baby? You have to move to the Bay area of San Francisco.
Why man, Actually, here's the deal. Have you been following what's happened
to San Francisco Downtown San Francisco is like shutting down. They closed the biggest
mall, Westfield Mall, which I love that mall. It's got the uh
kind of the revolving escalators. They closed it. Homeless everywhere. That's why
they're paying you so much because you have to move to freak in San Francisco.
I don't want to get into politics. I think San Francisco is one
of the most beautiful cities in this country. I love visiting there. Oh
my gosh, I was there in March. Not doing not good in good
pr right now. Maybe that's why they're paying so much. Anyway, kids,
parents, if you're looking for a career to go into at least right
now artificial intelligence. So I guess I guess AI is not taking over force.
I think they're there. They are, it's actually creating more jobs.
So tell me seven one three, two, one two five nine five though
here at Kapier, see where is this? So where all your Apple people?
I got I got something to show you here. Uh, let me
find the iOS seventeen some of the new features. Hey, Michaels, should
I uh should I upgrade to their new operating system? Well? Yeah,
generally you should because that's kind of like there's a lot of things in there
that you should be doing for, you know, upgrades. But some of
the iOS features are are pretty good. And I'm not listen, I'm not
an iOS guy, if you if you know me, I am Android guy,
and I'm pretty happy with my androids right now. Not a plug,
but I got a Samsung. Love me some Samsung sam sunging actually has some
good Foh well, remind me next next step break, I'm gona tell you
what Samsung is doing. You see, I could dig the innovations here.
I really do dig the the the innovations that that Samsung, Apple and all
these are the companies you're doing. But some of the new iOS features are
pretty pretty cool, and I'll i'll tell you what they are. They are
quite simply Number one. It's got something called Standby. If you turn your
iPhone on its side, it kind of basically functions like a smart home to
ice like the Amazon Echo show. That's pretty good, and it can function
like an alarm clock soon. It's pretty cool. I got something called Keyboard
Auto Correct. Apple said the feature, it's gonna work a lot better on
iOS seventeen. So when the iPhone wants to make a correction, it's gonna
highlight changes and it's gonna show the original word in a bubble. And if
you want to quickly switch back. That's pretty cool. Got something coming called
interactive widgets see right now. Widgets are basically fancier app icons. But this
update, you're gonna soon do stuff like press play and pause on a song
directly from a widget. They got grocery listing people. Grocery list very important
big update. If you use reminders when you're food shopping, the app is
automatically gonna group items in the categories a better organizer shopping list, which is
a good thing. And it's got photos and pets because there's a lot of
facial recognition that apps can recognize. Okay, this kid, this person,
they can categorize them. But if you got dogs and cats and other pets,
uh, they're actually kind of part of the family too. There's an
iOS seventeen update that's gonna better recognize pets and photos. This is coming out
probably in the fall, typically right before the release of the next dive phone.
Okay, pretty cool. If you got that so, I thought that
was pretty neat. But if you got a if you got a Samsung,
I got some news about a sam I love Samsung. I got my Samsung
Watch on right now, the Galaxy Watch five. They got a really neat
update which actually probably over the la past few weeks, with the issues I've
been having, potentially could save my life and it could save your life too,
life saving tips with technology that was gonna make you stick around between now
the break and when I come back, don't go anywhere. We're back in
a few events. I hope you are fueled off somewhere. I'm in an
air condition. I'll do or a fool right now. If you're in distant
to the eye tech Tection Show two decades, I'm gonna say half my life,
but it's about forty percent or more of my life. I have been
doing this and I do really, I do take it seriously. Say thanks
man, thanks for killing two hours of your time with me. It continues
to be a treat, especially when we have fun on a pre Fathers Day
Saturday. Should you be listening live or plausibly live here on the Saturday before
Father's Day? That's what Michael. Thanks for reminding me Father's Days. Tomorrow.
Yeah, it is tomorrow, June eighteenth, as I do this radio
show on the seventeenth. Better hurry up. We got just over eleven hours
giving you some ideas. I know what is not what you can't get Dad
tomorrow is a Chick fil A because they're closed on Sundays. Respect I just
I just don't eat on Sundays. By the way. Saw by the way,
I saw Chick fil A was testing a new sandwich. I'm pretty tight
with the Chick fil A folks here in the Houston area. I really am.
And I know several of the owner operators, the marketing folks, and
they're they're very very cool. I literally am on a first name basis and
a text basis with one of the managers of one that is across the street
from me. And I'm not kidding you, Matt. If you're listening,
great, dude, everybody works at chick Flass. Great. This is not
an endorsement. I'm just I saw this because they're not testing the sandwich here
and Houston. It's at Indianapolis and Lexington, Kentucky. Chick Flass testing a
maple pepper bacon sandwich. I'm gonna pass on that one. Not a bacon
guy, maple pepper bake. I guess maple pepper bacon is a thing versus
just bacon, grilled chicken, pepperback cheese, pepper jack cheese, let us
sweet and sweet and spicy, pickle chips, bacon, hand tost and brown
sugar and pepper. I'll pass on that one. No, just give me
the give me salad, give me grilled chicken from vin Ventrous. I'm going
with nuggets. It's making of fast food too. Here's another one. What's
McDonald is mcdonalon We just send me that McDonald's is doing. McDonald's is upgrading
its quarter pounder upgrades. This like the new coke or something. There's quarter
pounder with cheese. H they're they're baking it. Hallapenias must be the thing.
Quarter pounder with cheese now comes with pickled halopenia slices. I can dig
that. I'm not eating. I'm not going to McDonald's the cheesy halopenia baking
quarter pounder with cheese because this has bacon, which I'm also not eating and
pickled halopena slices. Okay, last, I cannot tell you the last time
i've the last time I stepped into a McDonald's. I'm not kidding you.
I think the Hamburglar and the Grimace greeted me when they are actually still mascots.
It's probably one of the reasons why my favorite colors Purple love the Grimace.
Man, what is the Grimace? Can someone actually google left for me?
The Grimace is like a blob. It's like sid Marty Croft. Man.
I'm just I just dated myself with that reference came up with the Grimace.
I have no clues. So there's your fast food update for right now
if you really needed seven one three, two, one two five nine five.
Oh here's another one. Now this isn't fast food. This is interesting.
Here's technology kind of like that anybody watch Netflix, which, by the
way, Netflix has added a lot of new subscriptions over the past month because
Netflix has stopped where they've cut back on password sharing. If you've borrowed some
somebody's password for Netflix and you haven't able to log in, it's because they've
been cutting down people because they want you to pay up. Netflix has actually
added a lot of people a lot of new subscriptions because of this. They
are expanding. I am not making this up. Netflix is expanding beyond streaming
and mobile gaming into the food service industry. They're opening a pop up restaurant.
I can't believe this. It's called Netflix Bites. Is that a good
name or not for a restaurant? Netflix Bites? Apparently? I don't watch
this it but there's a depth. There's cooking series on Netflix, Chef's Table,
Nailed It, Iron Chef, and they're gonna feature chefs from these Netflix
TV shows. Okay, where's this? Where is this going to be?
Is this in la I think no pricing yet? Yep. Oh yeah,
it's gonna be in a hotel in La. Oh it's near the Grove.
I love going to the Grove. Great outdoor shopping center. Here's my guest,
what the menu is the menu is they're gonna base the menu on what
you previously just ate. I see what I did there? Oh we here,
we suggest these movies because you previously liked these movies. We suggest you
like a double bacon cheeseburger because you previously had um, bacon and eggs for
breakfast. That's that's that's it's it's brilliant. Actually, I'm not gonna be
eating there. Uh here, oh here, here, here's a no one
okay, talked about some technological innovations. Uh here, okay, fifteen Samsung
got something going on. I think this is pretty cool. Sam Father's Day
gifts they got the Samsung. By the way, I some Father's Day gifts.
I saw this, uh TVs. Actually they're on sale, they're still
going on. Don't even know the Father's Day weekends. Sixty five inch Class
Neo q led four K, seven hundred bucks off on Amazon. That's nice.
I need one of these TVs. It's called the frame when it when
it's not on it looks like it's a picture frame. Sixty five inch The
frame three hundred bucks off Samsung dot Com. I thought that was pretty cool
too, but anyway, they got something. They got a new feature coming
out on a watch. Smart watches are great and you guys have made your
app. You may have an Apple Watch. I do not have an Apple
Watch because I don't have anything Apple. Um. I have a Samsung Watch.
I have the Samsung Watch five. Love my Samsung Watch five. I
can do it pretty much. I think the same thing Apple watches can do.
I can talk on the phone, I can get my tax I can
beat my email, I can see my heart rate. Samsung is coming out
with the feature. When is it coming out? Actually the summer. It's
going to be available to users in thirteen different markets. It is called the
Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification. According to the American Heart Association, there will be
more than twelve billion people living with a FIB by the year twenty thirty,
and this new feature it's going to allow over fifteen million Galaxy Watch users to
further monitor their cardiovascular health by detecting inconsistent heart rhythms and alert users of potential
a FIB. Okay, Samsung, is Houston going to be one of these
markets? And does it automatically update answers? I do not know? This
is good? See this is where technology helps you. I just wish technology
can figure out why I'm having balance issues right now with a Is it an
inner ear thing? Or I have no clue? Actually, I mean to
check my heart rate right now. Kids don't do this right now. I
am checking my heart rate with my Samsung Watch. Should I share my hippo
with you? Calum? Is this is this good radio? If I share
my heart my bpms right now? Could this be considered resting because I'm actually
working right now? Yeah, okay, I'm not gonna share. It's pretty
good though. I'm a runner seven one three, two one two, five
and nine to five. Oh, that is how we do it here.
Michael Garfield is zo Hey. Last hour, we had a really need interview
with a local doctor here in Houston who just who wrote a movie, He
produced a movie. He acts in. The movie. Got a lot of
people say, hey, man, could you reair that? Could you re
reair that? Because I've missed someone? Then tell you what coming up path,
doctor Pav Grover. Actually the movie is called ninety seven Minutes stand by.
I always wanted to know how to get a movie made. We'll do
that after the break. Don't go anywhere. It is the high Tech Texan
Show. We're welcome you back in is Michael Garfield, of course, the
long, long running high Tech Texan Show KPRC nine fIF am all across South
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APPID is Man. It is hot, it is summer, and it is
stupid. And so you know, the one place where I always had just
hanging out in a movie theater. They're always cold, they're always chilly.
You got some good popcorn. There's a lot of thrilling things going on.
I actually hung out at a movie theater not too long ago because I'm very
honored that I get to go to a lot of screenings in h you know,
kind of red carpet reveals before all you other people out there get to.
But that's my job is to a review him and have some fun.
This one actually especially was in Houston, and it one are the stars and
the writers and the producers is a eustony And you probably know him, you've
seen him. You love him because he has this dude's got a business card.
It's probably eighteen feet long. He does everything. Doctor Pavan Grover A
long time is just really a personality here in Houston. I remember I was
on Channel two KPORC about twenty years ago when I started my career and I
see this dude pop it up and I'm I thought I had the greatest hair
in Houston. I bring in my buddy POV. How between you and I,
who's got better hair? We're we're going at you have the better hair.
It's actually what kind of twins a little bit, but you have the
better hair. So I've got to give you. Give you that. I'll
tell you what I think about. Let me tell you a little fun story
just where we're talking about hair. So you know, I wrote the script,
I produced it, and edited, did all that stuff. So there
was a fight scene that I had with Jonathan Rice Myers. Right, It's
very tricky one to have on a plane because there's all sharp right, So
I wanted to do it, but the director and everything didn't want to,
you know, have risk and injury. So they're trying to find a stunt
guy to do the stunt, but they couldn't find one with my hair.
So I ended up I did that so you wouldn't have the same problem,
because so it was it was so I got to do the stunt because they
couldn't find the stunt brot. Let me help you out. I know this
is not your last movie. We'll talk about the movie here to second.
But I have a sag card. I am your stunt double next time.
Okay, you got it. I'll be your stunt double. You know what.
I like it and like because you know what I you actually are a
real doctor. You are and I actually played a part on General Hospital about
ten or eleven years ago. My claim to fame. I can see that.
So you got the whole doctor dreamy look going on. So I you
know that I appreciate it. I was I didn't play a doctor. I
actually was killed within the third episode by James Franco. It's a long story.
This is about you. Let's let's get back into it. You have
been in this market a long time, originally from India. You're you're a
doctor by trade. Tell us what kind of doctor and how long you've been
at doctor? What? Kanyar? So, I'm an interventional spine specialist.
So I do people that have back pain, night pain. We use minimally
invasive type of strategy, scopes and lasers and things like that to try to
find out what the source of pain is and fix it. And I've been
doing that for quite some time, gotcha. But that's one of the many
things that you do because oh, by the way, as we now know,
you're an actor, you're a superstar, you're all over. I amdep
you're a writer, you're producer. Talk about what in the world. Okay,
you're a doctor got you into the entertainment business also kind of as a
as a side hustle. Well, you know, I was always like passionate
about like film. You know, I grew up in India right when I
was sick, like Camory when I was six. But so we grew up
in Bollywood on dancing around trees if you ever seen any movie, So that's
why I wanted to do it. Six, I went to my mom and
said, listen, I wanted to dance around trees for a living, you
know, in the rain and all that stuff. So she said, you
know, being an Indian, mom held no, be a doctor first,
right and so human doctor. But I actually for medicine. There's a big
passion that I'm not trying to leave medicine. I love medicine because I've had
I have a brother who passed away. So I've seen medicine from the other
side, like what patients go through. So medicine is my number one passion.
Films are a hobby, so instead of playing golf, you know,
I make some films and so I get I get to be really because I
love my job, love taking care of patients, and I know film stuff
as a hobby. So I'm actually very lucky. I get to do things
that I'm very passionate about. You know, by the way, I just
realized by listening to your story, which I love, and Indian mother is
very similar to a Jewish mother. Because my mom wanted me to be a
doctor, I ended up getting an entertainment so I did it the total reverse.
And I'm sure your mom is probably a little bit more proud of you
that she is of me. Doctor Pavone Grober, we're speaking with here.
You just came out with a movie and I saw it is called ninety seven
Minutes. This is something that you wrote, you produce, you acted in.
I'm very cures. I studied the industry. I'm in the entertainment industry.
I liked. I want to even get more into the internet. It
is not easy to make the movie. It takes money, it takes it
takes talent, it takes writing. To write and produce a movie like this,
Where do you even start? How do you get your idea? Then
what's the process between actually getting it done? So on this one, this
I've done a few feel was already, so I've gotten basically all my education,
you know, produced. I wrote and produced a film with Dennis Hopper
that we sold tam Jam, so you know, all that was tremendous,
great experience for this project. And so in this project, I was trying
to create a film that could look like one hundred million dollars but be produced
under ten. So we produced this for seven. So in the script,
we had I met actually we had William Hurt signed up originally, and then
you know, I wrote it a little bit for Alec Baldwin and I ran
into him at Sundance when I stole his dinner table, right there was a
mix up in there, and we got to know each other there. And
so it is so difficult because we made this particular film during COVID, during
you know, and we were supposed to shoot after Rust and then we had
the huge tragedy with Alec. We were under a lot of pressure to replace
him. But you don't replace people and leave them at their worst time.
And so we shot the film in London and then I did something very interesting
because I wanted to make this a thrill ride, so you know, and
it had to be the editing, especially the sound effects. I wanted to
trigger people's experience of being on a plane on turbuloin. So I actually hooked
up test subjects to monitors, all the monitors I use in spine surgery,
and I would test editsun till I got exactly the physiological response that I wanted.
So I got to use all all sorts of kind of both my science
and my creative to make the film. It was a lot of fun.
You talk about sound effects, I love the special effects. I mean the
plane take It takes place on a plane, ninety seven minutes of fuel left
obviously to get it. I'm not going to go back and forth of the
plot twist on top of a plot twist on top of a plot twist,
which is very very creative. But the effects of the plane, I mean
the way it was shot. You know, it was filmed into the clouds
in the sky, I mean it's it's very very very impressive. I mean,
you had a great team working on top to bottom. We had a
great team working on it, and like I said, you know, special
effects obviously are very complicated. I think we had a really good special effects
team, and we had different vendors, so we were to try and get
all that work done, and it was challenging on a low budget to do
that because you know, paying for Alec Baldwin and you're paying for Jonathan Rice
Myers who's from the Tutors. And so I constructed the whole project to be
shot like very efficiently because it's primarily two sets. We have the stuff on
the airplane, right, which is a real set on a studio, and
then we shot the NSA side on a green screen, a virtual green screen
to use it. So a lot of that backgrounds you saw that was all
digitally created and really kind of expanded that space. And then you put all
that together. But you know the way it's edited the final edit, it's
basically trying to recreate like what somebody would actually see on an airplane. And
then the sound effect everything was was was like supplied, but a lot of
effort into it but but that was the whole idea to take people on a
thrill ride. I wanted to do to air travel what Jaws did too,
to go back. So probably I don't think we'll make the in flight entertainment
on this one, but probably, but that's not the point. I don't
know yet. It's a summer blockbuster, just like Jaws was. Doctor Bevan
Grove joining me here for a few more minutes, describe ninety seven minutes,
so people are going to figure out what to do, what to go watch,
and then theaters obviously later this year. I believe it's coming out on
Hulu. Give Us, Give us, give us the thirty second or so
elevator pitch of what the movie is. So the movie is about a seven
sixty Flights seven sixty seven flight which has been taken over by terrorist and it's
going to crash in ninety seven minutes when when the fuel runs out. Alec
Baldwin is the head of the NSA on the ground and trying to bring the
plane down basically shoot it out of the sky because at this point it's become
you know, like a like a missile. And Jonathan Wright Ryce Myers plays
an undercover agent on the airplane, and so it it's a race against time
and it's it's a film that we've created to keep the constant tension. So
it's a good summer popcorn type of flick. It is, it is is
where people want to see it. It was just I think it was just
released. People want to see it. Is in theaters now here, at
least in the Houston area. Yes, it released last week theatrically is at
the Star Grail Cinema. I think this still will be there this weekend.
It's released in the top ten markets across the country. It's also on demand
that comes out on like Prime Video as a rental and everything. And then
so it's available everywhere iTunes, Apple, and then it comes out and David's
on Hulu in September, gotcha. And it's all that. It's actually,
as we were doing a little research over here, a fun little fact.
You probably can get this on the dark market somewhere like that. You give
us, give it this interesting fact. I love this all right, And
actually, so you know, we don't want to encourage piracy. Of course,
of course, looking at there's a there's at right of the top pirated
movies worldwide, right and so we're we're number three on the most pirated film
well and we're we're under Transformers. You know, that's actually pretty cool because
Transformers spent two hundred million dollars on this marketing. Our Disappear spent kind of
zero. But you know, so it's just I find this a fun fact
that we're worldwide, we're the most one of the most call it, you
know, like the pirated film so to speak. So it's usually is usually
an indicare of trends. So it's it's basically a real life kind of tracking
of how people are, you know, sharing it, responding to it.
So it's just a fun fact that I thought it was pretty cool. But
you know, we don't want to encourage piracy. Of course, people do
not pirate. These are actors, they're artists. They need to be paid.
But that's a fun fact though. I like that. Uh pab listen.
I want to congratulate to your success. It's so funny. I joke
about your business card between doctor, writer, actor, do some great hair,
good guy. You're all around and you know, right here in Houston,
and so I want to I just really want to continue to follow your
career. And I'm throwing out. I'm offer if you ever need a stunt
double or a twin. Bro. Baby, I can't dance. I'm gonna
make you doctor dreaming on my neck. I will take that, brother.
I can't. Yeah, I can't dance around a tree, babe, but
I can juggle a little. I'll do the dancing. You know, well,
you just like being a hard throb, right, I like it?
Oh, I like this guy. The guy's my agent too. Hey,
listen, Hey, thank you so much for your time. Congrats, it's
called ninety seven minutes. Folks starting to mcgrill here and used to go check
it out. Listen. Hope to have you on really again soon, and
I thank you so much for your time. Thank you appreciate it. All
right, good, we're gonna be back over there. Let's good yet,
first air condition and a thriller movie people at summertime. Go check it out.
It's Michael Garth. We're gonna be right back in a second final part
of the show here on a pre fun this day weekend, US Open golf
weekend and hot as you know what weekend it is. Michael of Garfield,
Thanks for hanging in there. Thanks again to doctor pov Grover Superstar. Doctor
Dude's got good hair too. We gotta I think we should have a hair
off actually, but he's got a new movie OUK on ninety seven minutes.
He's a Houston based producer and actor. That was fun. We just react
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to get dad, what to get yourself for the Father's Day, which is
tomorrow, and so next week I'll talk about where to return the gifts that
you didn't want from Father's Day, which is always a very fun conversation.
I like having here, Callum. You're not a dad, but you can
know I've met your dad, Callum, Callum read here behind the controls.
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But who's drinking a bud Light? Right now? Who's drinking a bud
Light? I got a stat for you, blood Light two decades pretty much
as long as I have been doing the High Tech Texan Show. For the
first time in over two decades, two decades, bud Light is no longer
the top selling beer in the US. Listen, it had years of decline,
and then it had this month long boycott that further crushed the sales.
Bud Light. Ladies and Gentlemen falls to number two. Any idea the number
one selling beer right now in the United States. There's a shift in the
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I like Negro Madelo even better. That's the darker version of it. Madella
Special the number one selling beer. Pretty good. Oh, by the way,
for the people who boycott everything from Anna Heiser Busch because you don't like
the politics were marketing of bud Light, hate to break the news to you,
man, But Annaheiser Busch or in Bev, which is the name of
the company it actually owns, Grupo Modelo, the Mexican brewery it makes medello.
They actually own it everywhere except in the United States, but they own
it too. Oh well, just say that for a little public service announcement.
Wherever you are, I hope you're drinking in nice COLDI and having a
good time and getting ready to kick your feet up in the air conditioning and
watch the us A US open. I already give out the phone numbers for
the really for the last time I've got. I got about about two or
three more minutes. People want to know what I've have been test driving this
week. Ah, I had the Mercedes Benz g L four fifty. I
test drive cars do not get paid, Nope, it's just me and the
content people. I'd liked it. It's a relatively small suv. It's not
the cheapest thing in the world. Handles great. One thing I do not
like about the Mercedes bins. A lot of Mercedes Bins they still have a
track pad were the driver where you put your right arm and right down below
there's they have knobs and they have a touchscreen, but there's a track pad.
I think track pads are very dangerous when you're driving because generally you have
to take your eyes off the road to move the little mouse, even though
it's not a mouse. The track pad. Track pads are great on laptops
because you could just take your eye off the screen, up the screen.
Lexus for a long time had track pads. The most recent Lexus is i've
been driving, they have removed the track pads. Mercedes still has it.
Listen, if that's the biggest complaint I have, suck it up, go
test drive, go buy yourself from Mercedes. This next week, I'm gonna
get the Dodge Hornet kind of a smaller car, kind of a version of
Dodges Well Alpha Romeo, which is part of the Dodge family. So I'm
in just a it's it's a less expensive version of the Alpha Romato. So
I will give you my thoughts on that next week. So which I really
do appreciate all this manufacturers just letting me drive and letting me tell you the
good, the bad, and the ugly of that stuff. Oh one more
thing, in case my uncle is listening, Uncle Al, the kiddy's pal.
He's here in Houston. Happy Father's Day. And Uncle Al, he's
got three kids, my cousins. He is a big Beatles fan. Beatles.
I had to google the Beatles, that was the band that Paul McCartney
was in before Wings and to look at that thing. But Paul McCartney said
that artificial intelligence helped them use a demo recording of John Lennon singing an unpublished
song to create a new track from the Beatles that will drop as the kids
say later this year. Sir Paul did not reveal the name of the song.
But this is what AI. That's how AI brought John Lennon's voice back
to live. AI was trained to recognize in this specific case, John Lennon's
voice on a track, used it to separate it from the background noise and
instruments. Man, it's a freaky baby. I'll let you think this between
the now and the next week or so. If somebody pick a favorite artist
who was no longer with us, would you like to hear new tracks from
that artist? Would you? Is that weird? Man? Listen? I
mean, I'm I'm a Michael Jackson fan always my faith. I mean that
was my that was my jam back in the eighties. That was it,
you know, hearing some hot new tunes from Michael Jackson. Man. That's
that's weird. I know one or two we were released after he passed,
but I don't that's gonna be a tough market to sell. But this may
be the paradigm shift of what we're gonna get used to folks. This is
why I do this show, consumer lifestyle Technology, and I give you something
to think about. That's what I do. I want you to think about.
Having a great Father's Day, keep hydrated, and have a wonderful,
wonderful week. Calum Reid, Brian Ericson, Mark Sherman, Eddie Martiny,
Happy Father's Day to you all. These are the bosses. These are the
guys who was sitting down in the carpeted offices here of the IRT Media Houston
location where I am based. Thank you for continue to tune in for two
plus decades. My name is Michael, and right now my show is over.