Happy Fathers Day!

• Last-minute Father's Day gift ideas and where to return them (sorry kids)

• How much do jobs in AI pay and how can I get one?!

• Texas Gov. Abbott signs bill for parental consent to join social media networks

Episode Transcript

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H tex is Michael Garfiel, MichaelGarfield. Michael Garfield's joining the high tech
Texan. Michael Garfield is here witha high tech texting items to make life
easier. Technology. So Michael Garfieldhas something you might like. Texan.

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Michael Garfield is your high tech Texan. Three decades helping you make magic with
your gadgets. Heard worldwide on theiHeart Radio Act. Now your high tech
Texan. Michael Garfield. Yeah,hot as. I like to say it

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is Africa hot my people. Andguess what Texas is just preheating people and
ain't even summer yet, but it'salways nice and cool. Here on the
radio, Michael gar Field. Itis KPRC nine fifty am in Houston in
the area. I Heart Radio.Thank you so much for downloading. Father's
Day Countdown is on people. Ifyou're listening live, I've got about thirteen

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hours. I am here to giveyou some last minute gift ideas. Open
phone lines. It's seven one threetwo one two five nine five h number
headn't changed in twenty two plus yearsI have been doing this radio show.
The gang is all here. Hello, my friend Callum on the other side
of this glass. He is answeringyour calls. Maybe I'll talk to you
if I'm in the mood. Ifnot, feel free check it out high

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tech Texan dot com at high techtex and on the Twitter and on the
Instagram, and if you're my Facebookfriend, you can see what's been going
on in my life. Really nota sexy life. I'm really just trying
to keep cool. It is.It is. Listen, I am pretty
much a lifelong Texan, been inHouston for thirty years. Pretty much.

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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'relistening to me on your big speaker,
Bluetooth, whatever you're doing. Butjust take it easy, hydrate hell without
giving you my hippa. I haven'tbeen feeling great, man, I'm getting

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dizzy and it's just, oh,what is up. Let's see if we
can make it through for the nexttwo hours, because I do want to
give you some news. Take yourphone calls, give you some fun suggestions,
tell you what's going on in theworld. Give you some suggestions on
what to do with your life.The it's amazing. Obviously. Yes,
I originally did cover technology, andI still do. I'm more of a
consumer lifestyle guy. But people wantto know. Hey, Michael, you

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know, if I if I tellmy kids what industry to get into,
should I put them into technology?Should they understand? Is that a big
job? Can you make a lotof money? You know? Years and
years ago? Yeah, I usedto 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 seeyou what I did there? You said.
But over the past few years,the tech sector has not been doing

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very well, a lot of layoffs. But there is a tech sector that
is doing very well. And ifI had kids who are younger, who
were even thinking of going to college, I probably would tell him to do
this. Alas, my three boysare out of college, and if they
are listening, Hey boys, Tomorrow'sFather's Day. Hello, Hello, I

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know I'll get a call. That'sthat'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 originalhigh 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 goingon this weekend, and so enjoy
your day and for all the dadsout there, sincerely, Happy Father's Day,

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Happy Grandfather's Day. For some reason, you do not have a father
around his celebrate. I hope heis in your thoughts and you just pretty
much do nothing. Enjoy the weekendand PLoP in front of your television watching
the US Open golf tournament, whichis pretty much that is the only thing
on my agenda this week is thissad Callum, I know you're not a
dad yet you can feel free towish me a happy Father's thank you.

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He's talking in my hear right now, is it? Here's my plan for
the weekend, Because I am aloser, I am gonna sit in my
butt on the couch watching and I'ma big golf fan watching the US Open
from LA Country Club, where Ishould 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 siton the couch watching NBC. Literally,

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because I've done it Thursday, doneit 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 tellyou this. I'm a golf fan.
I love when major golf tournaments areon 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

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I was watching it until about nineo'clock. I loved it because there's no
other sports that I can about goingon right now. Basketball is over,
I hate hockey, Baseball is likewhatever, not football season. I love
it. So anyway that'll that'll keepme occupied. So that's my day?
Is it? Is that sad thatthis is all I have planned? That,
Michael, because I have one son'shere and he'll I'll see him tomorrow

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Sunday and he's not really a golfband, but he'll do whatever I want.
I'm just gonna be sitting there watchingor 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 backto Mother's Day. Do you want to

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celebrate being a mom or in dadon 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 youraise your kids. Maybe they're in diapers,
kindergarten, preteens. Sometimes you wantto be away from your kids.
Not being a rude, do youwant to get away from your kids on

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Father's Day or Mother's Day? Ordo 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 TechTexan. It's it's, it's it's it's
a tough call. But however youcelebrate, that's good. You can get
um air friers. I'm gonna giveyou some. I think everybody in the

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in the country has an instant installpot set me. Insta Pot's having a
show. So many people have anInsta 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'mnot kidding you. You know you've got
a popular product. When so manypeople have it, there's no more to

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sell, and so you've what doyou do? I guess you'd file for
bankruptcy. I have so many kitchenI test so many kitchen gadgets, it's
not even funny. I have twothese 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 LTIis a device apparently that slices at dices

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and hooks at boils at pressures atSuve's still can't figure out how to use
the thing. I've got a reallyneat device called the Dreo d r e
O, which is an all inone toaster air friar broiler oven. It
sits on top of account or.It's gorge it has an app. I

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could send recipes of the app.It's neat. That's about the only thing
I use. Somebody needs to comeover here and help test kitchen gear formulata.
So do way whatever you want toget that, I am here for
you. Maybe you want a newcar. I'm test driving cars right now.
This past week, I had abeautiful Mercedes Benz four or fifty.
What is it? Gle close toa hundred thousand dollars. Again, when

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I review cars, it is notfrom a dealership. It is directly with
the manufacturer. I get these thingsonce a week because I'm a member of
the Texas Auto Writers Association. Ido I get paid not once. Ever.
This is pure content. I couldtell him I love it. I
could tell him, mom, Ihate it. I review every type of
car, every type of make,every type of model. So do trust
me and do believe me, becausethat is how I roll. We'll get

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to that one and come back.I'll give you the phone number one more
time seven one three two one twofive nine five zero. On the other
side, Hey kids, Hey parents, your governor, Texas Governor Greg Abbott
just signed a bill has to dowith your kids and social media. Is
he banny kids from social media?Oh you may want to hear this,

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and I will give you the ultimatejob that just came that is about to
become open. That if anybody wantsto get me a Father's Day present,
this is what I want. Allthis on the High Tech Texas Show coming
up. It's Michael Garfield stand by, give her phone number here. Why

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nine Father's Day? Give me someideas seven one three two one two five
nine five OZH follow me at hig h T e h T e x
A n high tech text and thatis how it rolls. Miguel, Michael,
Michael Garf anything but Mike, Alot of Mike Guy, mister g

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Father. I'm not gonna go fatherhere, but we all talking Father's Day.
Speaking of Father's Day, give Ibought myself a Father's Day gift earlier
this week. If you're a Facebookfriend, you should check it out.
I got a fear to watch thisand I'm not. I'm gonna tell you
right now. I'm not the biggestwatch guy. I know how to tell
time with the son. That's whatcould I can do. Because I'm an
eagle scout. We have phones thathave clocks on them. I live by

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time because I am in media,certainly radio, I have to know exactly
to the second one to get inwhen they get out of commercial breaks over
there. I like watches for thefact is they're they're pieces of jewelry and
they match my outfit. I don'thave 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 theHulk, and I said, you know

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what, let's suck it up.I got one that is the Hulk,
and of course I got it overmy guys at US Coins and Jewelry.
They are open today Saturday. Bythe way, if you want a last
minute dad's gift, it's if you'rea coin geek. And I've heard from
a lot of coin there's a lotof coin geeks. You have a lot
of coin collectors. They are oneof the best in the country. And
I'm not kid you about this.Note that is not hyperbole. It is

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they're one of the best coins collectors. They will buy your coins, they
will evaluate your coins. They're ateighty four thirty five Katie Freeway right in
your boss. You as Coins andJewelry dot Com. But they have so
much more than that. They havealways 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 becauseI had to take it in seventh grade,

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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 areHouston's most prestigious coin dealer, and they've
got some really great rotches. Mattand Kenny Duncan, they're probably listening right
now right in the shop. Gocheck it out. Give me here's the
number. Seven one three five nineseven sixty three sixty seven. Go in

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hey man Garf Realley shop there.Oh Garf shops there. I actually I
just go to hang out there sometimesand 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'rereally really good. They give your free
written appraisals. Every expert, everyemployees and expert over there. They are
really so good, safe, secure, on duty and off off duty police

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officers, privacy boosts and everything.They're so cool. So a big shout
out to them. I was ontheir podcast about it was about three weeks
so that was fun. Very talentedfolks. 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 Daytoo, Kenny and m Matt Duncan.
As we continue. If you gotkids and you're trying to figure out how

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young they are and when they shouldget on social media, I think,
but what's the rule? If youcould be thirteen? It on Facebook or
something like that? Easy? Doesit? Your governor? Texas Governor Greg
Abbott he signed a bill earlier thisweek banning kids under eighteen from joining several

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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 guardianbefore they'd be allowed to create their own
accounts. And this starts in Septemberof next year. I gues September of

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twenty twenty four. And it forcesthese companies to prevent children from seeing quote
unquote harmful content by creating new filteringsystems. Other states have done this in
Actually last week I told you Louisianadid this. How about that Texas?
Following Louisiana in something is this goodor bad? Not what to tell you

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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 disappointedto see Governor Rabbit signed into a bill
a law that sign and signed intolaw, a bill that erodes parental rights
while violating the first Amendment in digitalfreedoms for every Texan unquote you see,

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I will say this Texas's definition ofa 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 sitethat collects identifying information, even an email
address. So again he's listen,told you. Louisiana passes Simmer bill.

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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 saythis. I'm just so happy to have
older kids who were just I don'thave to worry about something like that.
All my kids were over eighteen,and all my kids had social media accounts

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when they were yeah, when theywere under eighteen. I mean it's like,
when how old before you get yourkid 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 twentynine years ago, But twenty nine
years ago, kids did not havecell phones. I mean at a young

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age, I didn't have to gothrough that. Now. I introduced him
to computers and obviously electronic gadgets,just like my parents introduced me to similar
got out of analogy, some sortof 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 softwareprograms and you know that this big mouse
that the kids would would, youknow, learn how to have hand high

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coordination, and you know, videogames. 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 whateverit was round there. I wanted
my kids, my three boys,to have the latest, and I understand

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parents they wanted to do the samething. But watching Sesame Street when I
was a kid was not dangerous orharmful. There was no fake news on
Sesame Street. You know, Idid hear you know Big Bird. I
think it was a rumor he hada sex change. That was about probably
most egregious, probably fake lie Iheard, don't know, still can't confirm

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it. That's the only thing wehad 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 wanta Grand Theft Auto and they were they
were they were probably eight, nine, ten years old, at least my
old just one or two. Thatwas you know, man, there was
I think there was murders you canrun over people, you know it was

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it was a car game based inMiami, I think or something there was.
That was the controversial stuff back then. It was video games. Nowadays,
absolutely, I understand why social mediait's controversial. Nowadays, you can
get your kids a phone, butyou don't have to get him a cell
phone plan. But guess what,Virtually everywhere we go there's Wi Fi airplanes,

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restaurants, airports, libraries, grocerystores. So it really doesn't matter.
It's like, oh, well,you know, I'm just gonna get
them a phone so they can playgames. No, they're gonna be online.
Man. I'm never gonna tell youwhat to do as a parent.
I will suggest. I will tellyou what I did as a parent,
but it doesn't correlate because I don'thave young kids right now. I do

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get asked, what's what's the properage for a kid to have a cell
phone? I don't know how muchmoney you got. What's the kids grow
up faster than my kids grew upright 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 liketo tell people how to raise some of

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their kids. Be nice, tobe respectful as far as I can go.
So if anyway, you got thoughtson that on parenting, as we
talk about Dad's Day, I amhere for you at seven one three,
two, one two, five ninefive. 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 thatis starring and written and produced by a

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local Houston personality who's also, bythe way, a doctor. You may
know him, you may not lovehim. I'm gonna have a talk with
him and we're gonna talk about themovie. How to get a movie like
that written? And produced and theworse 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 andshow we want when you're back at is

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Michael Garfield, of course, thelong, long running high tech Texan show
KPRC nine fifty am all across SoutheastTexas and across the world. Thank you
so much for downloading the iHeartRadio app. It is man, it is hot,
it is summer, and it isstupid. So you know, the
one place where I always had justhanging out in a movie theater. They're
always cold, they're always chilly.You've got some good popcorn. There's a

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lot of thrilling things going on.I actually hung out of a movie theater
not too long ago because I'm veryhonored that I get to go to a
lot of screenings in uh, youknow, kind of red carpet reveals before
all you other people out there getto. 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 andthe writers and the producers is a

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eustony And you probably know him,you've seen him, you love him because
he has this new's got a businesscard. It's probably eighteen feet long.
He does everything doctor Pavan Grover longtime. It's just really a personality here
and used it. I remember Iwas on Channel two kp or C about
twenty years ago when I started mycareer and I see this dude pop it
up and I'm I thought I hadthe greatest hair in Houston. I bring

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in my buddy POV. Between youand I, who's got better hair?
We're going to you have the betterhair. It's actually we're kind of twins
a little bit, but you havethe 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 funstory just where we're talking about here.
So you know, I wrote thescript, I produced it and edited

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did all that stuff. So therewas a fight scene that I had with
Jonathan Rice Myers. Right, it'svery tricky one to have on a plane
because there's all sharp right, SoI 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 stuntguy 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

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so I got to do the stuntbecause they couldn't find the stunt. Bro
let me help you out. Iknow this is not your last movie.
We'll talk about the movie here inthe second. But I have a sag
card. I am your stunt doublenext time. Okay, you got it.
I'll be your stunt double. Youknow what. I like it.
I like it because you know whatI you actually are a real doctor.
You are and I actually played apart on General Hospital about ten or eleven

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years ago, my claim to family. I can see that. So you
got the whole doctor dreamy look goingon. So I you know that I
appreciate it. I was. Ididn't play a doctor. I actually was
killed within the third episode by JamesFranko. It's a long story. This
is about you. Let's let's getback into it. You have been in
this market a long time, originallyfrom India. You're a you're a doctor
by trade. Tell us what kindof doctor and how long you've been at

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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 thingslike that to try to find out what
the source of pain is and fixit. And I've been doing that for
quite some time, gotcha. Butthat's one of the many things that you

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do. Because oh, by theway, 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 whatin the world. Okay, you're
a doctor got you into the entertainmentbusiness also kind of as as a side
hustle. Well, you know,I was always like passionate about like film.
You know, I grew up inIndia, right, and when I

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was sick, I came in whenI was six. But so we grew
up up in Bollywood on dancing aroundtrees. If you ever seen any movie,
yeah, so that's why I wantedto 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

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medicine. There's a big passion thatI'm not trying to leave medicine. I
love medicine because I've had I havea 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. Filmsare a hobby. So instead of playing
golf, you know, I makesome films and so get I get to

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be really because I love my job, love taking care of patients, and
I you know, film stuff asa hobby. So I'm actually very lucky.
I get to do things that I'mvery passionate about. You know.
By the way, I just realizedby listening to your story, which I
love, and Indian mother is verysimilar to a Jewish mother. Because my
mom wanted me to be a doctor. I ended up getting an entertainment so

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I did it the total reverse.And I'm sure your mom is probably a
little bit more proud of you thatshe is of me. Doctor Pavon Groeber,
we're speaking with here. You justcame out with the movie and I
saw it is called ninety seven Minutes. This is something that you wrote,
you produce, you acted, inI'm very cures. I studied the industry.
I'm in the entertainment industry. Iliked I want to even get more

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into the internet. It's not easyto make the movie. It takes money,
it takes it takes talent, ittakes writing to write produce a movie
like this. Where do you evenstart? How do you get your idea?
Then what's the process between actually gettingit done? So on this one,
this, I've done a few filmsalready, so I've gotten basically all
my education, you know, produced. I wrote and produced a film with

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Dennis Hopper that we sold tam JamSo you know, all that was tremendous,
great experience for this project. Andso in this project, I was
trying to create a film that couldlook like one hundred million dollars but be
produced under ten. So we producedthis for seven. So in the script
we had I met actually we hadWilliam Hurt signed up originally, and then

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you know, I wrote it alittle bit for Alec Baldwin and I ran
into him at Sundance when I stolehis dinner table, right there was a
mix up in there and we gotto know each other there. And so
it is so difficult because we madethis particular film during COVID, during you
know, and we were supposed toshoot after Rust and then we had the
huge tragedy with Alec. We wereunder a lot of pressure to replace them.

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But you don't replace people and leavethem at their worst time. And
so we shot the film in Londonand then I did something very interesting because
I wanted to make this a thrillride, so you know, and it
had to be the editing, especiallythe sound effects. I wanted to trigger
people's experience of being on a planeon turbuloin. So I actually hooked up

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test subjects to monitors, all themonitors I use in spine surgery, and
I would test editsun till I gotexactly the physiological response that I wanted.
So I got to use all allsorts 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 lovethe special effects. I mean the plane.
It takes place on a plane,ninety seven minutes of fuel left obviously

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to get it. I'm not goingto 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

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it, and like I said,you know, special effects obviously are very
complicated. I think we had areally good special effects team, and we
had different vendors, so we wereto try and get all that work done,
and it was challenging on a lowbudget to do that because you know,
paying for Alec Baldwin and you're payingfor Jonathan Rice Myers who's from the
Tutors. And so I constructed thewhole project to be shot like very efficiently

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because it's primarily two sets. Wehave the stuff on the airplane, right,
which is a real set on astudio, and then we shot the
NSA side on a green screen,a virtual green screen to use it.
So a lot of that backgrounds yousaw that was all digitally created and really
kind of expanded that space. Andthen you put all that together. But

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you know, the way it's edited, the final edit, it's basically trying
to recreate like what somebody would actuallysee on an airplane and then the sound
effect everything was was was like supplieda lot of effort into it. But
but that was the whole idea totake people on a thrill ride. I
wanted to do it an air travelwhat Jaws did to go back. So

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probably I don't think we'll make thein 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. Describeninety seven minutes, so people are figure
out what to do, what togo watch, and then theaters obviously later
this year. I believe it's comingout on Hulu. Give us, give
us, give us the thirty secondor so elevator pitch of what the movie
is. So, the movie isabout a seven sixty Flights seven sixty seven

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flight which has been taken over byterrorist and it's going to crash in ninety
seven minutes when when the feudal runsout. Alec Baldwin is the head of
the NSA on the ground and tryingto bring the plane down basically shoot it
out of the sky because at thispoint has become you know, like a
like a missile and Johnathan Rice Myersplays an undercover agent on the airplane and

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so it's it's a race against timeand it's it's a film that we've created
to keep the constant tension. Soit's a good summer popcorn type of flick.
It is. It is is whereif people want to see it.
It was just I think it wasjust released. People want to see it
is in theaters now here, atleast in the Houston area. Yes,
it released last week. Theatrically isat the Star Grail Cinema. I think

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this still will be there this weekend. It's released in the top ten markets
across the country. It's also ondemand that comes out on like Prime Video
as a rental and everything. Andthen so it's available everywhere. iTunes,
Apple and then it comes out andDabis on Hulu in September, gotcha,
And it's all that. It's actually, as we were doing a little research

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over here, a fun little fact, you probably can get this on the
dark market somewhere like that. Canyou give us to give it this interesting
fact? I love it all right, but actually, so you know,
we don't want encourage piracy, ofcourse, of course. Really looking,
there's a there's a list right ofthe top pirated movies worldwide, right,
and so we're we're number three onthe most pirated film world and we're we're

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under Transformers. You know, that'sactually pretty cool because Transformers spent two hundred
million dollars on this marketing. OurDisappear spent kind of zero. But you
know, so it's just I findthis a fun fact that we're worldwide,
we're the most one of the mostcall it, you know, like the
pirated film so to speak. Soit's usually is usually an indicare of trends.

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So it's it's basically a real lifekind of tracking of how people are,
you know, sharing it, respondingto it. So it's just a
fun fact. I thought it waspretty cool. But you know, we
don't want to encourage piracy. Ofcourse, people do not pirate. These
are actors, they're artists. Theyneed to be paid. But that's a
fun fact though. I like that. Uh pab listen. I want to

(29:02):
congratulate to your success. It's sofunny. 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 reallycan want to continue to follow your career.
And I'm throwing out I'm offer youever need a stunt double or a
twin bro. Baby, I can'tdance. I'm gonna make you doctor dreaming

(29:22):
on my neck. I will takethat, 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 likeit? Oh? I like this guy.
The guy's my agent too. Heylisten, Hey, thank you so
much for your time. Congrats,it's called ninety seven minutes. Folks starting
to McGill here and used to gocheck it out. Listen. Hope to
have you on really again soon.And I thank you so much for your

(29:44):
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 asecond. It is, indeed,
mister meek out Garfield. Happy earlyFather's Day, as you're listening here on

(30:07):
one Nasty Hot Saturday. If you'relistening live KP or C Radio nine fifty
am, and welcome to those whoare listening either A on the podcast,
an iHeartRadio and everywhere else wonderful podcastor 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'sDay. He's not a father, but

(30:30):
I just want to let you.I like saying I have a listener in
Australia. It just makes the showmuch more international, just like our interview.
I appreciate doctor Pavon Grover originally fromIndia and worldwide superstar right now.
Had a new movie just came outthat he wrote, produced and stars in.
It's called ninety seven Minutes. Justhad a nice conversation with him.

(30:52):
Cool dude, Cool dude. NoticeI was trying to worm my way into
his next movie. So my agentis 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.

(31:15):
I haven't been in a few monthssummer 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 canchill, a lot of adventure.
Perfect for families. And I knowit's hey listen, dad, and you
got nothing else to do. I'mnot sure what if they're sold out tonight,
but you can head up there,but I will tell you tomorrow.

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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 noontomorrow in the golf clubhouse. It's bloody
merry bar for dads. They gotan outdoor barbecue also at the golf clubhouse
seven am to seven pm. Barbecueand bloodies on Father's Day. You freaking

(32:00):
kid me man, go check itout 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 abig massage guy, but it's like an
eighteen thousand square foot spat there.They have so many things to do.
Uh so, anyway, you wouldhave checked that out, by the way,
if you wanted to stay up thereat some point. And why don't

(32:23):
you go to their website, MargaritabilleResorts dot com. Only go to the
one on Conrol. That's that's that'sthe one. I kind of know so
much. But they got a littlespecial promo code for your promo code is
Garfield. If you call in,say Michael Garfield KPRCU, put the promo
code as Garfield, and you getfifteen percent off fifteen percent off those nightly

(32:46):
stays and things. So it isgood. Maybe I should I listen.
I got nothing. I told you. I'm gonna sit there and do nothing
but watch the US open. MaybeI 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 wantsome last minute Father's the advice on kitchen,
gadgets or cars. I am yourguy. I'm at seven one three

(33:07):
two one two five nine five.I saw a job opening. There is
a dude who was retiring. Idon't know if you saw this. I
saw it on Twitter. It's apretty big deal. Dude who's had the
job, I think for forty oneyears, and if you ask me,
I have I have. There's aneverybody's built for a certain job. You

(33:29):
have a want. I mean,I've always wanted to be a quarterback for
the Dallas Cowboys. Let me helpyou out. That did not come to
a fruition and will never come tofruition because I'm too old. But that's
what I wanted to do. Thatwas 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'sone or two things that I wanted to

(33:52):
that I that I can do handsdown 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, somemakeup. Maybe I'm semi presentable for TV.

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One of the ultimate game show hostshas announced that he is quitting later.
I think it's this year or nextyear, after forty one years sitting
Shiva for the host of one ofthe most popular game shows in history,
Wheel of Fortune, Pat Say JackOh, Pat say Jack is retiring,

(34:42):
I don't know why. Dude spinsthe wheel, talks to pretty Vanah White,
laughs, makes fun, talks topeople, looks good works literally maybe
thirty to forty days a year becausethat's how many that's how they film it.
And he makes tens and tens ofmillions of dollars. I could do

(35:05):
that job by cook. I knowif 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 schoolbecause you got to sit home and

(35:28):
you could watch TV. And theonly 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,

(35:49):
Matt Oh, dude, Alan luddonmatch Game, love that Dick freaking Clark,
Dick Clark, absolutely hero. Oneof the reasons I wanted to get
into media. That dude was aconglomerate and he hosted, by the way,
the ten thousand dollar Pyramid, there'stwenty five thousand dollar parramid. Pat's
um Chuck Woolery, original host ofWheel of Fortune, and then he went

(36:13):
on there. What did he hostLove Connection? We'll be back in two
and two. I never got intothat 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. Iwould not Richard Dawson and I died.
I didn't want that job. ButPat's a jack man. Well it was

(36:34):
Chuck Woolery Chuck Leaves trivia fact righthere? Do you know who took over?
And somebody correct me on Google overhere, but this is this is
me who took over Chuck Woolery justfor a very short time before say Jack
came in. He was a formerfootball player, a former kicker for the
San Diego Chargers. Roth Bunershka ro l F skinny, good looking dude.

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Didn't last too long, butnershka beit's got a can on it.
I remember Pat. Say Jack neverheard him. They hired him. They
go, well, apparently you needa K in your name to be hired
for this job? How to workout for pat? Say Jack, pretty
well, where is my agent?Man? My agent is? Are they?
Is she sleeping? I'm sitting righthere, people, I could spend

(37:23):
that wheel left handed. Ultimate job, Callum read runs this show runs a
lot of our AM radio stations overwhat your ultimate Joe? What do you
want to do? Man? He'sdid 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. Youis this is this your ultimate jo?
Callum? Is this your ultimate job? Working for iHeart Radio here in Euston

(37:46):
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 youare the absolute worst. Where am I?
Oh? Yeah, we're almost outof time here for a first hour,
I will give you the number sevenone three to one two five nine
five oh coming up. Apple hasreleased some new features that will be in

(38:08):
their new operating system. They're actuallyin their iPhone operating system. They're pretty
good. I'm not going to usethem. Because I don't use iPhones.
I am an android guy, andwhen we come back, I'll the other
side. I'm going to tell youze technological job or industry that you or
your kids want to be in becauseit pays big and it's got perks.

(38:30):
Folks. If that's not a teaseheat to keep you hanging over the top
of the hour, I don't knowit is. My name is Michael Garfield.
I do think you're for tuning inone more hour. Don't go anywhere.

(38:52):
H is Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield's joining the tea,
Michael gar We live here with ahigh tech text. It used to make
life easier technology, So Michael Garfieldhas something you might lie tex Michael Garfield

(39:15):
is your high tech Texan three decadeshelping you make magic with your gadgets.
Heard worldwide on the Iheartened Radio Act. Now you're high tech Texan, Michael
Garfield. Halfway through the show,just definitely twelve o'clock in child time here

(39:37):
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 poollistening to me, laughing, enjoying and

(39:57):
having a cocktail. Happy Hours officiallystarted. You. I have to wait
another hour before I can start poppingat 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. Itlooks like a Salvador Dolly painting. They're
just melting. Everything is just meltingout there. It is nasty. And
by the way, it's not summeryet. Officially it's got preheating in Texas

(40:19):
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 hisFather's Day seven one three two one two
five nine five zero. Number ofthings to talk about. And I teased
it too. People want to getinto what's an industry where you can make
some money? Let me give youhim. Media generally not one of them.

(40:44):
Radio, absolutely not one of them. Nope, not at all.
Technology. Since I've been doing thistwenty years. Yeah, tech used to
be a big industry. Past fewyears maybe not so much. A lot
of jos. Here's one because there'sreally no question that AI, artificial intelligence,

(41:08):
it's changing the way we live.It is we're worried that it's going
to take over jobs? Should webe nervous to tech is gonna make your
job obsleet, It may make youwork better, and it may make you
retire better. Forgot where I sawthis. I think it was USA today,

(41:29):
So I'm gonna quote USA today.The company behind chat GPT, which
really has only been in existence forwhat seven months, it's called open Ai.
That's the company they're hiring. Thisis that they're hiring. This is
I'm not doing it. This isnot a commercial endors but I'm just letting
you know what's going on because Imay actually apply for this job myself.

(41:51):
They have a position on their policyresearch team. They're looking for an experienced
machine learning researcher. Pay range twohundred to three hundred and seventy thousand,
girl with benefits like a twenty twentynine weeks have paid paternal leave insurance for
the family. And I can't believethis. I've never saved. I used

(42:15):
to work for Microsoft. They hadsome 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 isthe jobs in San Francisco. I wouldn't
want to be in San Francisco rightnow, just saying this could be for

(42:35):
me. And I'm sorry I'm beingself serving here, but Adobie, which
I'd like. Adobe. They theymake Photoshop and Acrobat and video editors and
everything. They're hiring a senior creativeevangelist. I'm an evangelist. I am.
I'm a pimp. I'm a pimpof the box. They want an
evangelist specializing in artificial intelligence. Uh, let's see one hundred thousand to two

(43:00):
hundred thousand angely annually. It's notWheel 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. Thereis a prompt engineer in librarian. What
is that. There's a research companycalled Anthropic and they're looking for a person

(43:23):
to discover, test and document bestpractices, build a library of prompts to
accomplished task and create tutorials up tothree hundred and seventy five thousand dollars oh
four oh one k oh unlimited paytime off? What is this? When
did this park? People? Whendid that unlimited time? I hope Brian
Brian Ericson are our program directors listening. Hey b e unlimited pay time off?

(43:47):
Baby? You have to move tothe Bay area of San Francisco.
Why man, Actually, here's thedeal. Have you been following what's happened
to San Francisco Downtown San Francisco islike shutting down. They closed the biggest
mall, Westfield Mall, which Ilove that mall. It's got the uh
kind of the revolving escalators. Theyclosed it. Homeless everywhere. That's why

(44:09):
they're paying you so much because youhave 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 thiscountry. I love visiting there. Oh
my gosh, I was there inMarch. Not doing not good in good
pr right now. Maybe that's whythey're paying so much. Anyway, kids,
parents, if you're looking for acareer to go into at least right

(44:30):
now artificial intelligence. So I guessI 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 isthis? So where all your Apple people?

(44:50):
I got I got something to showyou here. Uh, let me
find the iOS seventeen some of thenew features. Hey, Michaels, should
I uh should I upgrade to theirnew operating system? Well? Yeah,
generally you should because that's kind oflike there's a lot of things in there

(45:13):
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 ifyou know me, I am Android guy,
and I'm pretty happy with my androidsright now. Not a plug,
but I got a Samsung. Loveme some Samsung sam sunging actually has some

(45:36):
good Foh well, remind me nextnext 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 theinnovations 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'lltell you what they are. They are
quite simply Number one. It's gotsomething called Standby. If you turn your
iPhone on its side, it kindof basically functions like a smart home to

(46:00):
ice like the Amazon Echo show.That's pretty good, and it can function
like an alarm clock soon. It'spretty 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 iPhonewants to make a correction, it's gonna
highlight changes and it's gonna show theoriginal word in a bubble. And if

(46:20):
you want to quickly switch back.That's pretty cool. Got something coming called
interactive widgets see right now. Widgetsare basically fancier app icons. But this
update, you're gonna soon do stufflike press play and pause on a song
directly from a widget. They gotgrocery listing people. Grocery list very important
big update. If you use reminderswhen you're food shopping, the app is

(46:43):
automatically gonna group items in the categoriesa better organizer shopping list, which is
a good thing. And it's gotphotos and pets because there's a lot of
facial recognition that apps can recognize.Okay, this kid, this person,
they can categorize them. But ifyou got dogs and cats and other pets,
uh, they're actually kind of partof the family too. There's an

(47:04):
iOS seventeen update that's gonna better recognizepets and photos. This is coming out
probably in the fall, typically rightbefore the release of the next dive phone.
Okay, pretty cool. If yougot that so, I thought that
was pretty neat. But if yougot a if you got a Samsung,
I got some news about a samI love Samsung. I got my Samsung
Watch on right now, the GalaxyWatch five. They got a really neat

(47:24):
update which actually probably over the lapast few weeks, with the issues I've
been having, potentially could save mylife and it could save your life too,
life saving tips with technology that wasgonna 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 youare fueled off somewhere. I'm in an

(47:53):
air condition. I'll do or afool right now. If you're in distant
to the eye tech Tection Show twodecades, I'm gonna say half my life,
but it's about forty percent or moreof my life. I have been
doing this and I do really,I do take it seriously. Say thanks
man, thanks for killing two hoursof your time with me. It continues
to be a treat, especially whenwe have fun on a pre Fathers Day

(48:16):
Saturday. Should you be listening liveor 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, Juneeighteenth, as I do this radio
show on the seventeenth. Better hurryup. We got just over eleven hours
giving you some ideas. I knowwhat is not what you can't get Dad

(48:37):
tomorrow is a Chick fil A becausethey'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 testinga new sandwich. I'm pretty tight
with the Chick fil A folks herein the Houston area. I really am.

(49:00):
And I know several of the owneroperators, the marketing folks, and
they're they're very very cool. Iliterally am on a first name basis and
a text basis with one of themanagers of one that is across the street
from me. And I'm not kiddingyou, Matt. If you're listening,
great, dude, everybody works atchick Flass. Great. This is not
an endorsement. I'm just I sawthis because they're not testing the sandwich here

(49:22):
and Houston. It's at Indianapolis andLexington, Kentucky. Chick Flass testing a
maple pepper bacon sandwich. I'm gonnapass on that one. Not a bacon
guy, maple pepper bake. Iguess maple pepper bacon is a thing versus

(49:42):
just bacon, grilled chicken, pepperbackcheese, pepper jack cheese, let us
sweet and sweet and spicy, picklechips, bacon, hand tost and brown
sugar and pepper. I'll pass onthat one. No, just give me
the give me salad, give megrilled chicken from vin Ventrous. I'm going

(50:08):
with nuggets. It's making of fastfood too. Here's another one. What's
McDonald is mcdonalon We just send methat McDonald's is doing. McDonald's is upgrading
its quarter pounder upgrades. This likethe new coke or something. There's quarter
pounder with cheese. H they're they'rebaking it. Hallapenias must be the thing.

(50:29):
Quarter pounder with cheese now comes withpickled halopenia slices. I can dig
that. I'm not eating. I'mnot going to McDonald's the cheesy halopenia baking
quarter pounder with cheese because this hasbacon, 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 intoa McDonald's. I'm not kidding you.

(50:52):
I think the Hamburglar and the Grimacegreeted me when they are actually still mascots.
It's probably one of the reasons whymy 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.

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I'm just I just dated myself withthat reference came up with the Grimace.
I have no clues. So there'syour 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 thisisn't fast food. This is interesting.
Here's technology kind of like that anybodywatch Netflix, which, by the
way, Netflix has added a lotof new subscriptions over the past month because

(51:37):
Netflix has stopped where they've cut backon password sharing. If you've borrowed some
somebody's password for Netflix and you haven'table to log in, it's because they've
been cutting down people because they wantyou to pay up. Netflix has actually
added a lot of people a lotof new subscriptions because of this. They

(52:00):
are expanding. I am not makingthis up. Netflix is expanding beyond streaming
and mobile gaming into the food serviceindustry. They're opening a pop up restaurant.
I can't believe this. It's calledNetflix Bites. Is that a good

(52:22):
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, andthey're gonna feature chefs from these Netflix
TV shows. Okay, where's this? Where is this going to be?

(52:45):
Is this in la I think nopricing yet? Yep. Oh yeah,
it's gonna be in a hotel inLa. Oh it's near the Grove.
I love going to the Grove.Great outdoor shopping center. Here's my guest,

(53:05):
what the menu is the menu isthey're gonna base the menu on what
you previously just ate. I seewhat I did there? Oh we here,
we suggest these movies because you previouslyliked these movies. We suggest you
like a double bacon cheeseburger because youpreviously had um, bacon and eggs for

(53:28):
breakfast. That's that's that's it's it'sbrilliant. Actually, I'm not gonna be
eating there. Uh here, ohhere, here, here's a no one
okay, talked about some technological innovations. Uh here, okay, fifteen Samsung
got something going on. I thinkthis is pretty cool. Sam Father's Day
gifts they got the Samsung. Bythe way, I some Father's Day gifts.
I saw this, uh TVs.Actually they're on sale, they're still

(53:53):
going on. Don't even know theFather's Day weekends. Sixty five inch Class
Neo q led four K, sevenhundred 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'sa picture frame. Sixty five inch The
frame three hundred bucks off Samsung dotCom. I thought that was pretty cool

(54:15):
too, but anyway, they gotsomething. They got a new feature coming
out on a watch. Smart watchesare great and you guys have made your
app. You may have an AppleWatch. 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. Ithink the same thing Apple watches can do.

(54:36):
I can talk on the phone,I can get my tax I can
beat my email, I can seemy heart rate. Samsung is coming out
with the feature. When is itcoming out? Actually the summer. It's
going to be available to users inthirteen different markets. It is called the
Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification. According tothe American Heart Association, there will be

(54:59):
more than twelve billion people living witha FIB by the year twenty thirty,
and this new feature it's going toallow over fifteen million Galaxy Watch users to
further monitor their cardiovascular health by detectinginconsistent heart rhythms and alert users of potential
a FIB. Okay, Samsung,is Houston going to be one of these

(55:21):
markets? And does it automatically updateanswers? I do not know? This
is good? See this is wheretechnology helps you. I just wish technology
can figure out why I'm having balanceissues right now with a Is it an
inner ear thing? Or I haveno clue? Actually, I mean to

(55:43):
check my heart rate right now.Kids don't do this right now. I
am checking my heart rate with mySamsung Watch. Should I share my hippo
with you? Calum? Is thisis 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

(56:06):
good though. I'm a runner sevenone three, two one two, five
and nine to five. Oh,that is how we do it here.
Michael Garfield is zo Hey. Lasthour, we had a really need interview
with a local doctor here in Houstonwho 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

(56:27):
reair that? Because I've missed someone? Then tell you what coming up path,
doctor Pav Grover. Actually the movieis called ninety seven Minutes stand by.
I always wanted to know how toget a movie made. We'll do
that after the break. Don't goanywhere. It is the high Tech Texan
Show. We're welcome you back inis Michael Garfield, of course, the

(56:53):
long, long running high Tech TexanShow KPRC nine fIF am all across South
East Texas and across the world.Thank you so much for downloading the iHeartRadio
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'sa lot of thrilling things going on.

(57:15):
I actually hung out at a movietheater not too long ago because I'm very
honored that I get to go toa lot of screenings in h you know,
kind of red carpet reveals before allyou other people out there get to.
But that's my job is to areview him and have some fun.
This one actually especially was in Houston, and it one are the stars and

(57:37):
the writers and the producers is aeustony And you probably know him, you've
seen him. You love him becausehe has this dude's got a business card.
It's probably eighteen feet long. Hedoes everything. Doctor Pavan Grover A
long time is just really a personalityhere in Houston. I remember I was
on Channel two KPORC about twenty yearsago when I started my career and I

(57:58):
see this dude pop it up andI'm I thought I had the greatest hair
in Houston. I bring in mybuddy POV. How between you and I,
who's got better hair? We're we'regoing at you have the better hair.
It's actually what kind of twins alittle bit, but you have the
better hair. So I've got togive 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,

(58:22):
I produced it, and edited,did all that stuff. So there
was a fight scene that I hadwith Jonathan Rice Myers. Right, It's
very tricky one to have on aplane because there's all sharp right, So
I wanted to do it, butthe 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, butthey couldn't find one with my hair.

(58:42):
So I ended up I did thatso you wouldn't have the same problem,
because so it was it was soI got to do the stunt because they
couldn't find the stunt brot. Letme help you out. I know this
is not your last movie. We'lltalk about the movie here to second.
But I have a sag card.I am your stunt double next time.
Okay, you got it. I'llbe your stunt double. You know what.
I like it and like because youknow what I you actually are a

(59:06):
real doctor. You are and Iactually played a part on General Hospital about
ten or eleven years ago. Myclaim to fame. I can see that.
So you got the whole doctor dreamylook going on. So I you
know that I appreciate it. Iwas I didn't play a doctor. I
actually was killed within the third episodeby James Franco. It's a long story.
This is about you. Let's let'sget back into it. You have

(59:27):
been in this market a long time, originally from India. You're you're a
doctor by trade. Tell us whatkind 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 backpain, night pain. We use minimally
invasive type of strategy, scopes andlasers and things like that to try to
find out what the source of painis and fix it. And I've been

(59:50):
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 theentertainment business also kind of as a
as a side hustle. Well,you know, I was always like passionate

(01:00:10):
about like film. You know,I grew up in India right when I
was sick, like Camory when Iwas six. But so we grew up
in Bollywood on dancing around trees ifyou ever seen any movie, So that's
why I wanted to do it.Six, I went to my mom and
said, listen, I wanted todance around trees for a living, you
know, in the rain and allthat stuff. So she said, you

(01:00:30):
know, being an Indian, momheld no, be a doctor first,
right and so human doctor. ButI actually for medicine. There's a big
passion that I'm not trying to leavemedicine. 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.

(01:00:53):
Films are a hobby, so insteadof playing golf, you know,
I make some films and so Iget I get to be really because I
love my job, love taking careof patients, and I know film stuff
as a hobby. So I'm actuallyvery lucky. I get to do things
that I'm very passionate about. Youknow, by the way, I just
realized by listening to your story,which I love, and Indian mother is

(01:01:15):
very similar to a Jewish mother.Because my mom wanted me to be a
doctor, I ended up getting anentertainment so I did it the total reverse.
And I'm sure your mom is probablya little bit more proud of you
that she is of me. DoctorPavone Grober, we're speaking with here.
You just came out with a movieand I saw it is called ninety seven
Minutes. This is something that youwrote, you produce, you acted in.

(01:01:38):
I'm very cures. I studied theindustry. I'm in the entertainment industry.
I liked. I want to evenget 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? Howdo you get your idea? Then
what's the process between actually getting itdone? So on this one, this

(01:01:59):
I've done a few feel was already, so I've gotten basically all my education,
you know, produced. I wroteand produced a film with Dennis Hopper
that we sold tam Jam, soyou know, all that was tremendous,
great experience for this project. Andso in this project, I was trying
to create a film that could looklike one hundred million dollars but be produced

(01:02:19):
under ten. So we produced thisfor seven. So in the script,
we had I met actually we hadWilliam Hurt signed up originally, and then
you know, I wrote it alittle bit for Alec Baldwin and I ran
into him at Sundance when I stolehis dinner table, right there was a
mix up in there, and wegot to know each other there. And

(01:02:39):
so it is so difficult because wemade this particular film during COVID, during
you know, and we were supposedto shoot after Rust and then we had
the huge tragedy with Alec. Wewere under a lot of pressure to replace
him. But you don't replace peopleand leave them at their worst time.
And so we shot the film inLondon and then I did something very interesting

(01:03:00):
because I wanted to make this athrill 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 aplane on turbuloin. So I actually hooked
up test subjects to monitors, allthe monitors I use in spine surgery,
and I would test editsun till Igot exactly the physiological response that I wanted.

(01:03:23):
So I got to use all allsorts of kind of both my science
and my creative to make the film. It was a lot of fun.
You talk about sound effects, Ilove the special effects. I mean the
plane take It takes place on aplane, ninety seven minutes of fuel left
obviously to get it. I'm notgoing to go back and forth of the
plot twist on top of a plottwist on top of a plot twist,

(01:03:43):
which is very very creative. Butthe effects of the plane, I mean
the way it was shot. Youknow, it was filmed into the clouds
in the sky, I mean it'sit's very very very impressive. I mean,
you had a great team working ontop to bottom. We had a
great team working on it, andlike I said, you know, special
effects obviously are very complicated. Ithink we had a really good special effects
team, and we had different vendors, so we were to try and get

(01:04:06):
all that work done, and itwas challenging on a low budget to do
that because you know, paying forAlec Baldwin and you're paying for Jonathan Rice
Myers who's from the Tutors. Andso I constructed the whole project to be
shot like very efficiently because it's primarilytwo sets. We have the stuff on

(01:04:28):
the airplane, right, which isa real set on a studio, and
then we shot the NSA side ona green screen, a virtual green screen
to use it. So a lotof that backgrounds you saw that was all
digitally created and really kind of expandedthat space. And then you put all
that together. But you know theway it's edited the final edit, it's
basically trying to recreate like what somebodywould actually see on an airplane. And

(01:04:54):
then the sound effect everything was waswas like supplied, but a lot of
effort into it but but that wasthe whole idea to take people on a
thrill ride. I wanted to doto air travel what Jaws did too,
to go back. So probably Idon't think we'll make the in flight entertainment
on this one, but probably,but that's not the point. I don't

(01:05:14):
know yet. It's a summer blockbuster, just like Jaws was. Doctor Bevan
Grove joining me here for a fewmore minutes, describe ninety seven minutes,
so people are going to figure outwhat 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 whichhas been taken over by terrorist and it's

(01:05:38):
going to crash in ninety seven minuteswhen when the fuel runs out. Alec
Baldwin is the head of the NSAon the ground and trying to bring the
plane down basically shoot it out ofthe sky because at this point it's become
you know, like a like amissile. And Jonathan Wright Ryce Myers plays
an undercover agent on the airplane,and so it it's a race against time

(01:06:01):
and it's it's a film that we'vecreated to keep the constant tension. So
it's a good summer popcorn type offlick. 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 thinkthis still will be there this weekend.

(01:06:24):
It's released in the top ten marketsacross the country. It's also on demand
that comes out on like Prime Videoas 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 researchover here, a fun little fact.

(01:06:46):
You probably can get this on thedark market somewhere like that. You give
us, give it this interesting fact. I love this all right, And
actually, so you know, wedon't want to encourage piracy. Of course,
of course, looking at there's athere's at right of the top pirated
movies worldwide, right and so we'rewe're number three on the most pirated film

(01:07:08):
well and we're we're under Transformers.You know, that's actually pretty cool because
Transformers spent two hundred million dollars onthis marketing. Our Disappear spent kind of
zero. But you know, soit's just I find this a fun fact
that we're worldwide, we're the mostone of the most call it, you
know, like the pirated film soto speak. So it's usually is usually

(01:07:32):
an indicare of trends. So it'sit'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 thatI thought it was pretty cool. But
you know, we don't want toencourage 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.

(01:07:54):
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 andyou know, right here in Houston,
and so I want to I justreally 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.

(01:08:15):
I can't. Yeah, I can'tdance around a tree, babe, but
I can juggle a little. I'lldo 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 somuch for your time. Congrats, it's
called ninety seven minutes. Folks startingto mcgrill here and used to go check
it out. Listen. Hope tohave you on really again soon, and
I thank you so much for yourtime. Thank you appreciate it. All

(01:08:38):
right, good, we're gonna beback over there. Let's good yet,
first air condition and a thriller moviepeople at summertime. Go check it out.
It's Michael Garth. We're gonna beright back in a second final part
of the show here on a prefun this day weekend, US Open golf

(01:09:00):
weekend and hot as you know whatweekend it is. Michael of Garfield,
Thanks for hanging in there. Thanksagain to doctor pov Grover Superstar. Doctor
Dude's got good hair too. Wegotta I think we should have a hair
off actually, but he's got anew movie OUK on ninety seven minutes.
He's a Houston based producer and actor. That was fun. We just react

(01:09:21):
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hope you have a very nice day. Been giving you some ideas of what
to get dad, what to getyourself for the Father's Day, which is

(01:11:08):
tomorrow, and so next week I'lltalk 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.
I met your dad. What wasit about? Two years ago? Three
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(01:11:30):
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(01:11:50):
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But who's drinking a bud Light?Right now? Who's drinking a bud
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(01:12:12):
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,
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(01:12:34):
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(01:13:00):
to the number one best selling beerin the United States. Drum roll,
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(01:13:23):
free to call the radio station ifyou're interested in I like Medela I actually
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,
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(01:13:46):
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(01:14:08):
Wherever you are, I hope you'redrinking in nice COLDI and having a
good time and getting ready to kickyour 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'vegot. I got about about two or
three more minutes. People want toknow what I've have been test driving this
week. Ah, I had theMercedes Benz g L four fifty. I

(01:14:29):
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. Alot of Mercedes Bins they still have a
track pad were the driver where youput your right arm and right down below

(01:14:50):
there's they have knobs and they havea touchscreen, but there's a track pad.
I think track pads are very dangerouswhen you're driving because generally you have
to take your eyes off the roadto move the little mouse, even though
it's not a mouse. The trackpad. Track pads are great on laptops
because you could just take your eyeoff the screen, up the screen.

(01:15:11):
Lexus for a long time had trackpads. The most recent Lexus is i've
been driving, they have removed thetrack pads. Mercedes still has it.
Listen, if that's the biggest complaintI have, suck it up, go
test drive, go buy yourself fromMercedes. This next week, I'm gonna
get the Dodge Hornet kind of asmaller car, kind of a version of
Dodges Well Alpha Romeo, which ispart of the Dodge family. So I'm

(01:15:34):
in just a it's it's a lessexpensive version of the Alpha Romato. So
I will give you my thoughts onthat next week. So which I really
do appreciate all this manufacturers just lettingme drive and letting me tell you the
good, the bad, and theugly of that stuff. Oh one more
thing, in case my uncle islistening, Uncle Al, the kiddy's pal.
He's here in Houston. Happy Father'sDay. And Uncle Al, he's

(01:15:55):
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 lookat that thing. But Paul McCartney said
that artificial intelligence helped them use ademo recording of John Lennon singing an unpublished

(01:16:17):
song to create a new track fromthe Beatles that will drop as the kids
say later this year. Sir Pauldid not reveal the name of the song.
But this is what AI. That'show AI brought John Lennon's voice back

(01:16:42):
to live. AI was trained torecognize in this specific case, John Lennon's
voice on a track, used itto separate it from the background noise and
instruments. Man, it's a freakybaby. I'll let you think this between
the now and the next week orso. If somebody pick a favorite artist
who was no longer with us,would you like to hear new tracks from

(01:17:04):
that artist? Would you? Isthat weird? Man? Listen? I
mean, I'm I'm a Michael Jacksonfan always my faith. I mean that
was my that was my jam backin the eighties. That was it,
you know, hearing some hot newtunes from Michael Jackson. Man. That's
that's weird. I know one ortwo we were released after he passed,

(01:17:28):
but I don't that's gonna be atough market to sell. But this may
be the paradigm shift of what we'regonna get used to folks. This is
why I do this show, consumerlifestyle Technology, and I give you something
to think about. That's what Ido. I want you to think about.
Having a great Father's Day, keephydrated, and have a wonderful,
wonderful week. Calum Reid, BrianEricson, Mark Sherman, Eddie Martiny,

(01:17:49):
Happy Father's Day to you all.These are the bosses. These are the
guys who was sitting down in thecarpeted offices here of the IRT Media Houston
location where I am based. Thankyou for continue to tune in for two
plus decades. My name is Michael, and right now my show is over.