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what's going on here at Aaron's Opinion. Okay, today's guest hails to us,
of course from Vision Cast with JCand Friends, and he is of
course one of the certainly one ofthe leaders, one of the editors I
believe vision Cast with JC and Friends. Preston Gaylor joins us. Preston is
just a great conversationalist, a greatguy to talk to you and all of

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that. I believe. He hailsto us from Pennsylvania. We spoke a
lot today about his interests in theInternet radio and things like that, and
we even spoke about potentially having someof the other internet radio stations that he
knows of also joined forces here withAaron's Opinion, so that would be good.
It's just a really great conversation todayand Preston just did a great job,

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so it was just a really reallysmooth, really great conversation, nothing
too scary, no warnings needed forthis one. So all I can say
is thank you, Preston. Youdid a great job. The following episode
of Aaron's Opinion was recorded on theeleventh of October in the middle of the
afternoon sometime. And now I cansay that this is the Aaron's Opinion podcast.

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My name is Aaron Richmond. Andnow let's sit back, let's relax,
and let's come up. Come upwith a great name for the episode.
Let's call this one. Okay,let's call this one Preston's Podcast.
Welcome and welcome back everyone to OpinionPodcasts for blind people, where we speak
about critical issues in the blindness communityand all other issues from across the universe

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and galaxy. Next up, Pressedand Galer Vision Cast with JC friends.
Go for it. So who isPresston Galer? Your hour starts now.
Hello, Aaron, thank you verymuch for having me, and thank you
for the opportunity. I am PresstingGaler. I am twenty eight. I
will be twenty nine in December.Pearl Harbor Day. Funny enough, I

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well, besides doing podcasting with VisionCast, Radio Connection Live among other things
and while trying to get back towork in the clerk or cutmer service.
I'm a pretty definitely active person inthe community. I do volunteer with the
library and Lions Club for community serviceand other projects. I do as well,

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do a non prop that volunteering onour website called zabstech dot net where
we assist engage in thrive each andevery day full of our group discussions on
technology as well as severe weather,some vintage tech, and we interact with
our members and it's kind of likea new form another form of social media,

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but except it's all on a onecondensed platform. We also run a
nonprofit radio station out there called zabsTech Media Radio where we play a lot
of music, we do talk showsbased on various topics throughout the week,
and we started that last year.My friend DJ Simon, the tech man

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guy who's probably in the audience,he actually started the idea. I actually
went ahead and supported him on theidea and it's been going well ever since.
And as far as other interests,well, actually, I did go
to public school as a blind person. I was the only blind person in
my class and I graduated back intwenty thirteen, and I did do.

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I went to colors and for ablind for independent training. Back in twenty
fourteen. I did go to avocational school here in PA called the High
Mgader Center in my hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I study office tech.
In twenty fifteen sixteen, I triedgoing back for a retail opportunity, but
that did not work out as Ihoped. But I did enjoy everything I

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learned and everything I explored there.And I also do a lot of,
like I said, volunteer work nowwatch it get back into the workforce.
And I also also help out withninety eight six the Mix every Saturday for

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the throwback Saturday Night eight pm e'sjourn on Server two. We actually saw
well cast it on ZTMR. AndI don't know, you know, I'm
comfortable where I'm at now, butI always want to explore and figure out
where to go from here. Sothat's kind of all about me. Oh
and one more phoenician about me.I did get discriminated our movie theater back

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in York where I'm at now,So it's because of a a ownership acquirement.
And that took place back in twentynineteen before COVID and it closed in
twenty twenty, and the manager didn'tThey claimed it didn't have any descriptive audio

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headsets. But we actually researched online, my mom and I did, and
they had them. So I basicallykind of set them up. On the
advocating spree. I was on ourlocal Fox affiliated with about this story.
I was in the newspaper regarding aboutthis story. So if you want to
learn more, you can google Prestondealer discrimination, movie theater, your PA

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no get you all information. ButI won that case back in twenty twenty
one. I did work We're reallyfor in Spirit Tech for customer service for
our unemployment program. And I didwork We're rellly for ridd and Robert Hatbury
training comer service job last year fora bit. But I loved that job
because we had some accommodations with companysoftware and all that. And yeah,

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I do enjoy radio, podcasting music, friends and supporting committee events and just
trying to live live as much aspossible and advocate as much as possible with
a disability. So yeah, Ithink that's all I got. But that's
you. Well, that's really reallyall all excellent Preston and you know,

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come to think of it, itdoesn't surprise me that you had some issues,
you know, at your at yourmovie theater there also, I'm sure
you remember a few weeks back whenwe were speaking with our great friend from
over the border, Monica Nellis Duponand Mary Nellis, those people, they
also were doing a lot of workto have accessible movie theaters there and to

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have the headsets and things like thatthere there as well. There's even a
change dot org about that. Soyeah, that that doesn't that doesn't surprise
me, you know. But let'slet's go back to your earlier life a
bit, you know, before yougot into the radio and all the broadcasting.
What are some experiences you had,you know, growing up growing up
in Pennsylvania, you know, duringyour childhood and adolescent years. Maybe some

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really interesting style for some really funnystuff, or you know, things like
that, some really memorable experiences thatyou want to educate the world about.
What do you think, Let's see, Well, as far as any memorable
experiences, I can tell you whereI'm at now. I'm in Stewartstown,
PA, at south of York onthe Maryland line, so I'm not too

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far from well, you Aaron perSe. But I did grow up in
Johnstown, PA, out in westernPennsylvania, out towards Pittsburgh almost and for
our technology volunteer company called ZAPS Ticketsbased in Altuna, Pennsylvania. So if
you want to google that you can, you can. But actually, as

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far as any memorable moments, Idid go to the various Lions camps back
in two thousand and three to abouttwo thousand and nine, and that's when
I started a game involved with NFBstuff. But I did go to Beacon
Lodge, which was a special needscamp for the disabled in Mountain and PA.

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I got my first dose of archery, fishing, and canoeing, swimming
the whole nine yards and I madea lot of friends I still keep in
touch with to this day. Andas far as another camp I went to
during summer, I went to theHell and Diller camp out in Avalon,
New Jersey, and uh that wasa good experience. I mean, the
only bad thing about was the firstyear I went there, we actually had

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a guy named Aaron, but getthis, his last name was Preston,
and somehow the counselors kind of gotour clothes mixed up when we when we
were packing up our bags to comehome. That's cute, that's cute.
But in a way things got sortedout, and uh, of course we

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were upset. But I think twentyyears later, as I look back on
it now, it's kind of afunny moment. That's cute. That's cute,
mixing up Preston and Preston's clothing.Yeah, that is that is very
funny. Yeah mm hmmmm hmm definitely. Well that is that is really really
interesting. So you and then andthen okay, and then let's go back

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over since you were kind of jumpingaround a lot, you know, let's
go for this whole Zabtech company.And it seems like Zabtech, this company,
this nonprofit company, really really developedinto your your radio interests and things
like that. So what can youtell me. Let's go back over the
history of this Zabtech company and reallyunfold that history. Yeah, well,

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any colleagues from zab Tech who arehere you can put in the chat if
I miss anything. But basically,zab Tech started out in October of two
thousand and seven, and basically myfriends Simon tech Man and Wally the CEO,
we're trying to figure out what theywant to do with their life after

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a high school graduation. So theystarted as a simple website full of different
logos and outlines of what the missionwas going to be in things. And
if you go to the wayback machineon archive dot organ if you do type
in zapstech dot net, Tyler actuallywas gracious enough to find this, so

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you will see various pages of whatthe zaps tech logo and history was from
two thousand and nine through vis dayforward. So we did use various forms
to get involved with our members anddiscuss about the world of technology, from

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smart phones to smart TVs and computersand racing and things. But the today
version of zapps tech dot net ispretty much a community where anybody can go
and create count It's free to doso and vacant interactive us regarding discussions about
iPhones, androids, maybe some shortradio, maybe some Xbox stuff. One

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of our colleagues is a huge Xboxfanatic, and we also develop a radio
station out of it to increase thepublic about what we do and also to
get more people attached to our lifestyleand talking about the latest and hottest trends

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in the industries. Cool. Sowhat are these steps and what are the
ingredients and elements that go into startingan internet radio station. I know that
I was just speaking about this withDarnell from Radio Connection Live, but why
don't we go into the details ofstarting a radio station and exactly what you
need to do for that. It'sreally it's really fun to talk about and

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really interesting. Go ahead, well, I can tell you what we what
we did for Zabstick Media Radios.We actually we did our research obviously,
so you had to find the rightprovider and the right plan for you to
increase your presence. So we actuallystarted out with listen to my Radio for

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the providing and the automating and thingswe also we did. We used to
use shoutcasts for the streaming technology,but we now use ice cast. We
feel that ice cast brings a lotmore high quality and a lot more versatility
for people's connections and people's devices.And I know last summer in twenty twenty

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two, when we started out,we were only on Listen to my Radio
the app. I did get uson get Me Radio and a few other
platforms. But today and I actuallymade a promo for this on the station.
You can find us on let mesee my tuner, get me Radio,
a few online directories, simple Radiofrom Streamer. We're also on the

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US Live Radio, UK Live Radio, IU Live Radio to you, I
tune in and uh that's just thename a few, but we keep increasing
all the time. As far aswe're not on the air, we do
use our YouTube music for our automation, so we actually pick a random genre
each day for people to enjoy andfor station uppets. We're pretty good about

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posting on our social media, butwe do have a radio group on our
zapp's type dot neit website that peoplecan join and read up on what we
are doing. We are acting inthe process of building our own radio website
too. From what my friend ingtech man told me, that's in the
works. That's really good. Butas far as listenership, I do want

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to say we get we do getanywhere from like maybe five to maybe ten
or more listeners today. I knowour server holds up to at least a
thousand maybe more. Right, MWell, that is that is really that
is really good. Yeah, it'sa definitely good start startup for us,
and I feel that this this initiativewill will enhance the organization's mission and it'll

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attract new people to join us inour voyage. Absolutely absolutely. You know,
everybody has to start every somewhere.Aaron's Opinions started somewhere, you know,
so everything is a very slow progression. That's that's definitely true. Yeah,
yes, yeah. Now, asfar as like talk shows on your
station on this ZABS text station,do you think ZABS text station will include

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like talk shows or are you guysmostly interested in music or what? You
know, what are some new thingsthat you want to include in the station
you know in the future. Well, we're out the week. We do
talk shows based on various topics fromuh maybe some UFOs to tech highlights to

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maybe some gaming. But we wedid I know, actually last week I
can give you we did run apodcast called Aaron's Journey from my friend Aaron
Kalinowsky, so he actually got startedin the game during COVID as well,
he actually took a hiatus. Butas far as getting more niches to our

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programming, I'm sure we could.I'm sure we can definitely add Aaron's Opinion
on the schedule too. Hmm.Yeah. Well, what what you can
do is you guys can download itthere's a way for you to download it
yourselves and then you would be ableto have the content that way. Yeah,
that would be good. And itsounds like there's this other podcast that

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I've never heard of, this otherguy named Aaron, So you should you
know, if you want, youcan put me in touch with him and
we can definitely get him on myshow and see what's going on, because
you know, I always I'm alwaysready for the next guest. You know,
you can never run out of people, you know. So yeah,
that's a really a really important,a really important factor, you know.

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Well cool cool, Yeah, Soactually on our station, we do do
a lot of music from different genres, but we do samulcast my throwback Saturday
Night show for kkm X every Saturday, and on Sundays we do religious programming
throughout the day, just music that'sso good and we will send time streamed

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church services as well. Okay,okay, well that's definitely a good thing.
Yeah. Yeah, I wonder youknow, with your website only having
a bandwidth of a thousand, uhyou know, a thousand views per hour
basically, that's what it sounded like, how would you actually go and like
change the bandwidth so that your stationcould hold more of a listenership. I

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mean, how does that work anyway? That's probably a settings or can figure
issue on the listen to my radioside of things. So actually for that,
we do have the we do havethe free plan for Listen to my
Radios. So of course you'll getthe ads and things, but people can

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buy past those right right, Butit's pretty good about letting us know if
they're needs going to be maintenance orupgrades done, and and if we get
enough notice in time, we canand we can alert any potential listener or
public about what we are doing.That's crazy if we have to be downtime

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or whatever, and usually the upheadsdon't take that long. That's cool.
So you could either have like apost on the site itself where you could
do a dynamic ad where you record, hey guys, we're going to be
off air for just a few momentsfrom this hour to this hour, and
then people would know right exactly.We do have a remote desktop that we
use to broadcast our contents. Soany announcing that we do, uh,

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we can do that. We weuse discord for a lot of our announcing.
Two is we actually have a radioserver setup on Discord M interesting.
Interesting. Yeah, I never reallygot into Discord, but but I do
know what it is. Yeah,that's that's really cool. So now as
far as your listenership goes, youknow what what parts of the world have
been tuning into U to your station. Well, we've been talking to people

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and trying to uh uh you know, let people know that we're out there.
I do know we we do alot of people from the US,
I know at Beacon Lodge. Mymy friend DJ tech Man, Uh,
he actually got some people from theUK and Mexico to check us out for
a bit mm hmm and uh ina way, Uh, that's pretty exciting.

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And of course, uh, ifpeople are wondering, we don't geo
fence our stream really, so ifyou're listening via you know, receiver radio
or get me radio or any ofthe directors that you'll hear me mention on
the promo. And and we doadd new aggregates all the time. It's
not really geo fenced. Anybody anybodycan like you know, tappen, tap

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out, per sdey because there's somuch audio out there. Sometimes, you
know, in a day it's like, wow, where where I want to
go to next, let's listen toright right? Absolutely, absolutely so it
definitely you know, this is thisZAB text station. It's very similar to

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super hit mixed super hip mix radio. That's that's what that's what. It
reminds me of a very similar concept, right, except you have you have
a nonprofit feel about it. Wejust celebrated our fifteenth year innivers Street as
a nonprofit zaz Tech back in October. October second was our was our launch

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data. I wasn't here that long, but I joined the ranks back in
twenty nineteen. Hmmm, yeah,that's that's really important. Yeah, what
types I'm just curious what types ofyou know, activities you guys do to
raise funds and to do different activitiesto increase people's interests in what you're doing.

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I'm just curious. Well, Ican't tell you. We don't beg
on it, but we do encouragepeople to kind of spread the word about
our content and services. I thinkon our website there is a donate link
on there. If not, I'msure that can be arranged. And we

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do a lot of I do.We do a lot of word of mount
advertising about our site and station,and I know social media does help along
the way. I do manage ourzaps Tech Facebook page, so I will
go on there and remind people tocheck us out and stay in tune for

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that. And I almost forgot Aaron. We actually joined the Twitch universe as
well recently. Right if people searchfor tech on Twitch, you will find
our old branding Zaps Tech. Wecan lodge, but we decide to consolidate
airing in the one name, andyou will get this, get video highlights

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of what goes on on the station, and you'll be able to see our
faces as we broadcast. Okay,well that we do try and promote the
Twitch and definitely the main radio website. Well actually actually the main radio platform.
Listen to my radio and we promoteour gears from within. That's super

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good. So pretty much as barsor station schedule goes, you'll never know
what to expect when you to it, and it's going to be like a
it's kind of like a sit back, relax, wing and see what comes
up next. We have shown likeaudio movies and maybe some old time radio
clips and at app courts of anyany colleagues that are here, they can

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chat chat. But you know,there's you know there's someone there's someone in
the community. I I didn't I'venever gotten around to interviewing them, but
I do know there is someone inthe community who is blind. And they
aren't here in the room right now, but they have a podcast, Presston
where they specialize in doing shows wherethey only show you old like old content

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like that like old vintage radio andnews clips, and then they like talk
about the history of that period andwhat was going on. Yes, go
ahead, uh huh, yeah,that is pretty interesting. Yeah, I
just I just forget, well Iforget who it is and and I forget
what the show was called, Preston, But I do know that is a
thing. So that's I mean,I really like history. So what if

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what if I told you that,Hey, I want to listen to you
know. You know what's really beautifulabout this conversation, Preston, is that,
you know, I don't think youactually mentioned this whole zabs tech thing
to me before. Actually I thinkyou I think you saved it up just
for this conversation, because you evennever mentioned this to me before until just
now, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you wanted that that

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Yeah, that's that's really the rightway of doing things. Yeah, you
definitely, And of course we're tryingto get more exposure and more promotion in
right, absolutely absolutely, Well whatif I want shows about like what if
I want to listen to content abouthistory and archaeology and mysteries? What what
can you offer me for for that? Uh? Well, I mean we

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we do use YouTube a lot forour programming per se mm hm. So
if we type in I don't know, maybe history about Thanksgiving or Christmas movies
or something up, all we cando, all one of us can do
is just type that in the remotedesktop and uh give it out on the

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air. Okay, well that's well, that's good. So basically you're you're
using basically, you're using YouTube andother and other products. Let's see.
Yeah, so basically you use YouTubeand other streaming services to stream into your
station and then the station plays theYouTube basically. Yeah, yes, for

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sure. And actually recently H Tylerand and I haven't tried to our remote
desktop yet, but we are.We are working on getting at like an
mv DA or screen or on itfor me to use. But but basically
we did figure out how to implementtitle streaming on there. And what do

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you mean by title streaming. Uh. Basically, when somebody tunes into our
station, if they use like anexternal media player or one or one of
their apps, they basically can say, uh, they'll basically say ZABS Tech

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Media Radio and what's currently playing.So actually this interview is going to be
this interview is actually sala I fedon the stream right now to get people
more exposure for your for your content. So I have it on my I
have it on my brows sense rightnow. I'm much appreciated. So it
says it says ZABS Tech Media RadioAaron's Opinion simulcast. All right, man,

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well that's awesome. That's awesome.Well, Preston, I mean,
thank you so much. I mean, there's no you know, as I've
told any of you at home,around you know, around the room here,
there's no greater accomplishment for me,at Aaron's opinion than to know that
you're more successful than me. Sofor me to know that ZABS Tech Media
and ZABS Tech Radio is more successfulthan me, that's a win for all

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of us, you know, LikeI was telling, I don't know who
it was George or Denny or someor many of you that I've said this
too. I don't specifically know whoI said it to you directly last week,
but I know I said something lastweek where numbers and download numbers and
subscriber numbers, what those are isthose numbers are meant to be broken.

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Those records are meant to be broken, not meant to be celebrated. So
if you, if you outperform me, then I win and then we all
win, So that that would beso good. Yeah, And I also
filled too with the miracle of streamingnowadays. You know, there's so much
content operator to choose from. Imean, heck, I well, by

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the way, guys, with Zab'stech Media Radio, there's there's a potential
app that we should be on.It's called Timber Radio. It's only for
Android, but you can It's actuallya radio streamer and a recorder. Okay,
so this week I was browsing PuertoRico for a bit. I mean,

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I haven't got to all the countrieson that app, but kind of
my common goal on a lot ofmy apps, Sure, browse country Seawood's
out there. I mean, Imay not understand what they are trying to
commend, but the message is stillthe same as to get your word out
and to get the quality of yourcontent out to many more people. So
I feel streaming has opened a hugedoor for all of us. Absolutely.

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Of course they give us some goodcompanionship throughout our days. Well, well,
there you go, and that's andthat's the other magical thing too,
is that you know, being apodcaster and a talk show host, it's
very comforting to me. It's greatfor me to know that we're having you
and I pressn are having this conversation, but everyone else sitting around the room
here, sitting around the studio rightin the audience, we're also helping them

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and giving them something to listen tothat's beneficial to their life too. So
yeah, definitely, I love it. It works all ways. Well well
there, well, there you go, it works all ways. That's that's
a good that's a good slogan.So what is your what is your tagline
at ZABS Tech Media Radio? What'swhat's the tagline? Okay, basically it's

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called well, actually I don't haveour our listen to my radio pageob in
front of me, but what Ican give you is ZABS Tech Media Radio
Engages, assist us, Assist engagement, thrive each and every day with the
mission of zabstick by providing music tracksnew and old, as well as various
talk shows and our podcast based ontopics of the day, maybe some highlights

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of what we were doing on thesite, and so much more. It's
basically a mixed it's basically a mixedbag of all the other radiot other but
it's it's very unique, right right. That and and that's a good that's
a good headline for the page there. But what I meant was, what
is the slogan? Like, Likeour slogan here is like help one person

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today, help a million people tomorrow. So what's your slogan or tagline?
Yeah? Okay, Well, inevery problem that we record, we say
this is Zab's Tech Media Radio,where we assist, engage and thrive each
and every day. There you go, that's a good one. That's a

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good one. Assist, engage andthrive every day. Yeah, so good,
so good, all right, wellcool cool. And another big,
you know topic that I know you'revery passionate about as a am I is
we really want to see some changesbeing made, you know, around society.

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What are some changes that you wantto make preston in society? And
what are some what are some criticalissues to you? Oftentimes I say Aaron's
Opinions the podcast where we speak aboutcritical issues in our community. Right,
So what are some critical things thatare on your chest that you want to
get off your chest? Oh?Boy, Well, that's definitely a good
question, because well, I doagree with everybody on because I've been catching

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up on episodes and live streams onYouTube about this. But thank you definitely,
and I'm still trying to catch upas as we're recording. But even
more, I definitely agree. Theemployment issue is definitely frustrating me for sure,
and maybe also maybe maybe some lawsregarding technology or some minimum wage and

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I don't know, there's like somuch I want to like do, and
I feel me advocating for our brandnew RC movie theater here in York during
COVID it really opened up. Itreally opened my eyes up. And I
look back at the news stories onlineand I look at I look back at
the articles and to see me andto see a lot of people supporting me

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on Facebook and other forms of socialmedia, like, wow, he did
that. So I was the onethat pretty much enhanced that opportunity to go
ahead and do something better because Iwasn't going to have any like longer.
Right, And to this day,when I go through Sad movie theater,

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they know what I want. Theysee the kine and they realize, oh,
yeah, he was the person thatbought for us to get these installed,
because basically, not a lot ofthe has it were installed or the
hearing device that were installed at thelocation. I guess before when another company
brought it out, I don't Idon't think they really cared about the other

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communities that aligned us, right right, m h m h. Yeah,
that's that's really that's really really goodthat you spoke up about that. You
know, a lot of times wewould say these are little things. You
know. Some people would say it'sjust a movie theater. Well, no,
actually it's a business. And beforepandemic, pre pandemic, movie theaters

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made a ton of money. Itwas a major business. So you know,
yeah, m h yeah, thatis that is really all really really
interesting. Yeah. So now thatyou've helped the movie theater solve that problem,
what are some other movie theater problemsthat you want to solve? Well,

(34:58):
I'm very good at public speaking,is you can tell? Sure?
So whoever wants to request it,I can take pair of transit, ride
share or some other service. Ido have a couple of personal drivers that
I use to get around when mymom is working or busy, and they
could took me to various public speakingevents and things, and I could tell

(35:21):
them about my story and they couldthey could ask me questions. Right right,
That's that's really good. Go ahead. As far as other niches,
I definitely enjoy radio and podcasting.As you know, I actually won my
first radio contest during COVID. Iwas working for in Spirit Tech at the

(35:42):
time, but uh, I neverI never got involved with a radio family
before. So I went ahead andvisited our local contversation Froggy one O seven
seven from York, and I actuallygot a chance to meet the local morning
team on Zoo and I got tosit in and they got to ask me

(36:02):
questions about how much I listen.It was my favorite part of the station
day and things. And we gotto hear a new artist at the time
named new Arts perform a few ofher hits on Zoom and I became attached
to the family ever since. Iactually I'm very active with them on social
media. Their text and phone lineand things. So I think radio streaming

(36:28):
companionship getting getting there with a bunchof friends or family, sitting down like
this and sharing similar views. Ithink that's what I want to see more
right in this space. I agree, I want to see more people creating
podcasts and more people creating YouTube channelsbig and small, you know, because

(36:49):
it's all you know, it's allknowledge that we're all able to use.
So it's it's all good regardless ofsize, you know of the channel.
Yeah, right, well, that'sthat's really cool. Yeah. You know,
sitting down with a morning crew onany radio station could be very,

(37:09):
very exciting and a lot of timesthe people that work the morning shift of
the station are people that have alot of energy and are very are very
interactive people, you know. Yeah, that's kind of what I like.
I mean, I will listen tosyndicated stuff, but at the end of
the day, I think local morningteams are very important in this space.

(37:30):
And you know, with the miracleof social media and streaming, it all
blends together. MM. One ofour stations here on one on one three,
they got sold a couple of yearsago. This happened after my after
I got let go from spirit Tech. It was they sold the one to

(37:51):
one three frequency the Educational Media Foundationand now Air one uses that frequency.
But I remember listening to the finaldays of it and I was in wow.
I know I didn't know them personally, but I do follow them on
Facebook to this day and just tosee where they end up. And it's
pretty amazing how one big family supportsone another in a time of need.

(38:14):
One station sales and has to closeits doors. And what would be some
reasons why why a station would specificallylike shut down like that? Explain that
further? Well, basically, Iguess EMF had other programming changes in mind
for the community. So right nowthey're running Christian worship music on their frequency.

(38:39):
But one on one three was hometo like hot Day see it was
one of our local Christmas stations herefor many many years. They did do
some soft a seed back when itwas relevant back in the seventies eighties,
and sometimes I know change can bedifficult, but people had to adapt,

(39:02):
right, Okay, But what specificallywould make a station shut down? Though?
Like why why would a station getsold or like close? Like what
like what would bring that upon?Like? Like what what would bring that
up? You know, well,I never have to went through that,
thankfully, but I think it alldepends on like what you see come out

(39:25):
in the radio traits and whatever theFCC UH designs to UH terms for the
cell to go through. So thatCell to Education ifdation was announced back in
the summer of twenty twenty one.So I saw it on Radio Inside back
in July when I was on VacatedVirginia Beach, and then two months later

(39:49):
the cell terms were consummated and theirfinal day on the air Fundal one on
one three was September thirtyeth of twentyone. And on my other show and
podcasts I do called Radio Connection Live, we actually document that very day on
what happened. Oh yeah, Imeant to ask you afterwards, but its
just the question is popping up.Could you be a favor if you are

(40:12):
you the Are you one of theeditors for Radio Connection Live? Actually,
uh, our very own Stasty isour editor, okay, but I'm the
one who publishes the shows. Okay, So could you could you do me
a huge favor regardless? Could youtype up a description for Radio Connection Live
and include all their links. Ineed that for another episode that I recorded,

(40:37):
I need, I need, Ineed, I need a description.
So actually if actually pressed in that, that would be an enormous helping to
me. Press and if you cansend that to me today, that would
be a huge help man. Yeah, just a little paragraph explaining what radio
connection Live is and then all theirsocials and that's fine, just no,
no, no more, no less. Yeah, thanks, But that's that's
that's super that's super good. Yeah, guys, let's stop this whole I'm

(41:00):
noticing a trend here. What's thiswhole trend with? Oh you give it
to Stacy, Give it to Stacy. Let's think, guys, she's only
one woman. Okay, let's letlet let's share the wealth here. You
know, other people need to stepup to the plane. You know,
she can't do everything sometimes sometimes otherpeople are going to have to step up
and do little write ups and littletype ups and things like that. Yeah.

(41:23):
Yeah, anyway, that's all.That is all really really good.
So I mean, outside of theradio realm and this internet radio realm,
which you're very engaged with, andone thing too, I would definitely suggest
that you should look into a companycalled Radio Garden. That's how I listened

(41:44):
to Internet radio and it's basically aradio directory and an app. Are you
a Radio Garden? Actually we wereon there for a bit, but the
listen to my radio links keep changingevery so often, but we actually did
to find some way to make apermanent link out of it. So we're
in the process of getting back onRadio Garden, and when we do,

(42:07):
I can forge you. Are youare l for that? Yeah? Yeah,
because because it would be significantly itwould be easy for me to tune
in if I know that I cango to Radio Garden and get it,
you know. See, that's theThat's another thing that I think we need
to explain to to to you athome, the listeners, not necessarily the
live audience, but internet radio ismore I don't want to use the word

(42:30):
random, but there's more flexibility.There's a lot of different types of it
and a lot of different ways oflistening to it, you know, where
it's not just one thing. Youknow, generally with podcasts, they circulate
around a couple of sources Apple,I Heart, Spotify, you know,
places like that, Amazon, andyou just listen through those things. But

(42:52):
internet radio, there's a lot ofdifferent uh streaming apps that serve these different
stations and Radio Garden is the mostis the best one to be on.
So yeah, definitely get yourselves backon Radio Garden and then and then yeah
we will yeah, and I actuallywill. Well, I took it off

(43:12):
my phone for the storage space,but I did clean up. I did
clean up a bit. I hadto wipe era being clean in the last
Island update, so I will goahead and get it back on my phone.
And I listened to all sorts ofstuff. I listened to some police
stuff, maybe some I don't know. I just did some random searching on
the app, right right, Yeah, that's really good. Well, well,

(43:34):
the other thing is have you andI know I was asking darn Elvis,
have you spoken much with UVC Radio. Well, funny enough, we
did mention that in one of ourZoom meetings that we had, so we
will be reaching out to them toget our show on the station for sure.

(43:57):
That's definitely the worst right right right, Yeah, they're they're also on
Radio Garden, and they do alot of the same things that you do,
you know, specializing and you knowmusicians and broadcasters who are blind or
have a disability, and they're they'redoing a great job, you know,
So you should definitely get in touchwith King Rocco and those guys up there

(44:20):
in UH in New York and seewhat see what you can do, you
know, to build the war andand to build a connection. Yeah,
and I'll go ahead and favorite themwhen I get my when when I get
the back of my phone. Yeah, that's kind of the type of thing
is that you have to have itset up just right. You have to
have the right app, and thenyou have to have the favorites. And
ohthough, I'm sure you can alsojust go online and go to Radio Garden

(44:42):
online their main UH page online andsearch for the information. I'm sure you
can listen online through Radio Garden.Yeah. Oh yeah, my friend,
well, I don't know if youheard of him there, but his name
is Torri Wilson. He actually runsanother station called why don't you be in
charge of getting so get me intouch with him too. So I want
you to put me I'm giving youall this homework here to help art,

(45:06):
to help us out. You're goingto be a huge help to us,
you know. So yeah, getme in touch with Aaron and and this
Tory you say, Yeah, hisname is Tory Wilson and he runs tour
ninety four of them. And it'salso on Radio Garden. I haven't checked
it will, but it's it's alsoon Radio Garden. I'm sure it's still
there. Well cool and and uhand what does he do? M h

(45:28):
he plays. He plays a lotof the best popin' rock for the nineties
and beyond. All right, soundsgood, sounds really good. Man.
So preston when you are not Theother thing, the other thing that I
wanted to wanted to bring up,is so you know, traveling is a

(45:49):
very a very important, a veryimportant matter when you are not doing all
this radio stuff. Well you know, where where have you traveled to?
By the way, actually so far? Uh My mom took me to the
Caribbean for a late high school giftlast year. So I won my first
cruise to the Bahamas, Princess Kate. Uh. We actually sailed out of

(46:15):
Port Canaval, Florida, and uh, well we should have sold out of
Bottomore but that was the whole nurseryfor in our day. But but I
very much enjoyed the nice weather andthe drinks and the food. Oh I
love to eat. So I wasin my glory. Oh yeah, oh
yeah, what what was your favoritething you ate on that cruise? Oh,

(46:39):
definitely the I Actually I enjoyed drinkingthis Caribbean juice that they had for
breakfast. Uh huh yeah, sothat was yummy. Of course. I
ate lamb and steak and maybe somes cargoing. Okay, now, don't

(47:00):
worry eating. Don't worry eating thereand there'll be some and maybe some burgers
or veggies. And I forgot thewhole menu, but that just snaps off
what they had each day. Well, I'm hungry. Sounds good. Of
course. Some nights on the ship, I did a karaoke night, so
I would go and sing where Iwant to sing, and grab a beverage

(47:20):
and here, go ahead, goahead and sing. You hear wait you
now you got to sing for me. I don't know why you brought that
up. Go go, go goahead and sing sing something. What's your
let's hear your karaoke skills? Allright? Well, what I did there
was this. We were trying differentthings. We were smoking funny things,
making love out to the leg toour favorite song, Sai's been Whiskey out

(47:46):
the bottle, not thinking about tomorrow, singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long,
a real song or just something youmade up. No, it's a
real song by kid Rock. Okay, all right, all right, cool,

(48:06):
cool, Okay, I see itsounds like a song that someone would
make up on the spot, justsomething easy to say, you know.
Well, I mean it's one ofmy favorites. So I've done it at
our local die bars here even.Okay, all right, yeah, so
do you so? Is karaoke oneof your one of your hobbies. Yeah,

(48:27):
it's one of my past times.Besides community service and public speaking and
trying to I like to four newnew local businesses like breweries and maybe restaurants
and things. Yeah. Yeah,yeah. Breweries are very interesting in my
town. There's a lot of brewerbreweries and things like that. It's it's

(48:49):
a very interesting business. There's there'seven a chocolate factory too, that's in
my community. So oh yeah,I'm actually I'm about forty five to an
hour from the chocolate factory in herShe absolutely, we'll go there. I
love that place. That place.When I when I lived in Maryland,
that place was fun because when Iwas a little boy, but my my

(49:12):
folks would take me up there whenI was when I was a little guy,
and you know that's it's a reallygood place for a child, you
know, it's it's it's a lotof good memories there. You know.
Then you can buy some chocolate andthings like that. Yeah. My family
friend of Paddy, who was oneof my biggest supporters before she passed away
through the stage four liver cancer twoyears ago. She was one that got

(49:35):
me involved in volunteering and a lotof his stuff. So we actually went
there for a tour for my birthdayone year mm hm, and you know,
wet we made our own chocolate andalso uh we got we got the
taste tests and chocolates and take thingshome. So that's cool, that's cool.

(49:57):
You know, that was fun.You know, the process of of
making chocolate, that's quite a brutalprocess actually, and you know there's a
lot of details that go into thattoo, you know. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's a very repetitive job. Yeah, but then so is
brewing beer or or making uh youknow, making making a lot of things,
you know. But yeah, anyany any way, and uh end

(50:22):
at any rate, as we say, well, we just have a few
we just have a few minutes andI I do I do wanna I don't
mean, and I'm sure you understandthis. I'm certainly not trying to rush
you out of here, but Iwant to get you home in time for
your next meeting. So let's let'sdo this. Let's kind of walk to

(50:44):
the end, and then i'll,i'll, we'll have some questions. So
preston if you can ask me onlyone more question to really make me spot
to see if I'm worth my saltas a podcaster. What do you want
to know about me? Well,that side the two people that I gave
that I'm going to send you toput to put in your next guest panel.

(51:07):
Uh what else? You? Whoare? Who else are you looking
forward to talk to? You?I mean, I mean, I don't
know, because I mean I reachout to I reach out to many people.
And you know, the the funnything about this is that actually fewer
people actually come to the show thancome you know, most people. Many
people say no, and many peopleget nervous and things like that. So

(51:28):
it is a very interesting phenomena forfor for sure. Yes, mm hm,
wow, that's good to know.Yeah. Yeah, So a lot
of people get nervous or back outor don't want to do it or it's
it's very very common. Well,you can be assured me of the of

(51:49):
the podcasting and radio stuff I need. I don't get nervous on the mic.
So don't you worry about that?Well, well, good, well
and good. I'm not gonna worryabout that. So what are some other
questions you really want to know?Let's see, Well, what what's your
next travel goal? I know wetalk about traveling on the show, but
what's your next travel goal? Youwant to get into it? I don't

(52:13):
know. I'm I'm suspicious that Imight be going on a trip soon,
maybe next year, sometime with oneof my new friends in my community.
He's a big traveler like me,So I'm I mean, I don't know
that to be true, but Isuspect that might that that could happen,
you know, mm hmm, Soyeah, wow, yeah, maybe maybe

(52:35):
you'll find out when you find out, I guess, I guess, I
guess. All right, I tellyou what, if anyone has a question,
you can tell you can type yourquestions. Okay, if you have
questions, type them. But let'slet's see here. We do have a
couple of people, so we're goingto give you a moment to type your
question for Preston and uh or not. Either way, if someone wants to

(53:00):
get in touch with Preston, howwould they do that? All of my
social media links will be in thiswill be in the description that I was
fortunate I was nice enough to prepareand send them over time. You absolutely
did. Thank you for that.Absolutely. As far as alternative ways,
you can email me at PG radioMan at hotmail dot com. That's what

(53:24):
I use for my vision cast emailsand other other things. As far as
job question as far as job listeningsor other or other or another way to
get hold of me or lines informationfor me or anything else you can.
You can look for Preston Galer twoone at gmail dot com. And the

(53:46):
reason why I came up with thatwas because well, I was in Vokes
school and I turned twenty one backin December of twenty fifteen. Here,
okay, it's a pretty new email. That's pretty that's pretty specific. Yeah,
definitely. So those are the twoemails I have, And of course,

(54:08):
as far as call and texting,you're welcome to reach out to any
of those methods and I'll give youthat information. Sounds good to me,
all right, awesome, man.Well, I think I think it's a
perfect place to a perfect place towrap up. Today gives you a couple
of moments here, gives you abouteleven minutes actually to get over to the

(54:30):
studio so we can look at thechat and see who uh yeah, nobody.
Nobody really wrote much today. Oh, several people left. Penny might
be there. But I was justwondering if people had specific questions. Nobody
wrote a specific question when I askedthat. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(54:51):
yeah. People are shy about comingup and asking questions. Yeah, I
did notice that. But I feel, I feel the more you grow in
Vista and the more narraging you do, because let's face it, try and
get anywhere in life. I feelit's a whole lot of networking. So

(55:14):
actually, Norah wants to know whenyou were growing up, how were your
school experiences? Oh, good question, Nora. Actually I did have a
mixture of good and bad per sebecause, like like I mentioned earlier,
I was in public school throughout myjourney. But I would say when I

(55:37):
got to Southern York County, junioryear and senior were the hardest because I
got I got you know, bulliedand peer pressured and things I had to
kind of I was suspended for oneof those times and I had to miss
a homecoming due to some bad thingsthat happened to me. I see,

(56:00):
I see, yeah, that isthat is that is very very interesting.
Mm hmmmm good. All right,yeah, I think that covers it.
But I just want to I justwanted to renovate. You know, I
do enjoy your content very much.I may not listen, thank you.

(56:22):
I may not listening, you know, every day, every hour of the
day. But when I when Igo on one of my podcasts slash radio
apps and engage it, when Igo on YouTube and witness people, uh
sit down to the one only AaronRichmond, it's definitely a good appreciate,

(56:42):
a good appreciation about what we doand what we need to continue to do
in our life journeys. So II appreciate all you do for us immensely.
Well, well I will we immenselyappreciate Preston Galor and all the amazing
work that you're doing for internet radio. Thank you, and mego ditto to
you, and doubly podcasting. Youcan catch me on Vision Cast and Radio

(57:02):
Connection Live. Oh and on yCan's connect. That's right, David.
Next month I will be going toour stick convention. I got train tradition
already worked out. And and thankthank youness for spending money that I got
in the mail the other day thanksto my former employer. That's either here
or there. I see man.All right, everybody, well, thanks

(57:30):
so much. We'll be back soonwith another another great episode. Another great
friend here obviously, so we'll beback soon. And of course, Preston,
go ahead tell people how we endit. Thank you very much for
listening and engaging in my story,and I appreciate you following my journey and
I hope you stay in touch.So for myself, Aaron Richmond and everybody

(57:54):
at home, this has been anotherepisode of Aaron's Opinion where we say thank
you for listening, be well,be safe, and as always, help
one person today, help one millionpeople tomorrow. Did it? You got
it man? Nora, go aheadand send me a WhatsApp message please.
I did see that. You cancertainly be interviewed next probably after pail or

(58:15):
something like that, So Norah,send me send me a voice note over
on the WhatsApp. Thanks so much, everyone, absolutely, help one person
today, Help one million people.You've been listening to Preston's podcast right here
on the Aaron's Opinion Podcast, thepodcast for blind people where we speak about

(58:38):
critical issues in the blindness community andall of the issues from across the universe
and galaxy. My name is AaronRichmond Preston Gaylor. Great job. We'll
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(59:01):
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(59:23):
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Thank you so much for joining ustoday. You did a great job
man, talking about radio and yourlife and all of your interests. You're
always welcome on Aaron's Opinion, Soditto presst and Galer and definitely ditto to

(59:44):
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