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December 8, 2025 • 13 mins
Brian Hess of Tattletale Portable Alarm spreading peace of mind and remembers Pearl Harbor!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And you're you're somewhere happening. I hear in the background,
what is this.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Bingo furstry shopping in Key West?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Grocery shopping in Key West?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
That sounds fun actually funny, Brian, because you sent me
these pictures and they don't look like a grocery store.
I'm going to share them with Mikaela right now. He
sent this to me earlier.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Yeah, that doesn't look at all like a grin.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
You talk about peaceful and beautiful hol tree water. What
you sent me of those pictures? Where is that exactly?
Is that also Key West?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
That's called the guy in It's gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
That's a room. That's a room there on the ocean.
I like that view.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
So so what are you doing down in Key West
during this holiday time? Brian? I mean, looking at this,
this is pretty peaceful.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well I've been looking for the Grinch.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Any luck? Oh yeah, oh yeah, Hey you're in Florida.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
You spend a lot of time in Florida. He's got
the residency there as well as Ohio. Did you see
this on social media? Asking you, Brian? Our listeners in
YouTube Mikayla, they said, if you turn the state of
Florida on a map. If you're looking at it, and
if you turn it upside down, it actually.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Looks like the Grinch. And show they showed, they showed
the grinches profile. Right, It's really kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
That is funny.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
I think of so many.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Different things, like kind of like you thought of Tattletale
years ago, Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, just like you'd be an investigative reporter, and you know,
catching me being the Grinch.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
You're never the grind.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
You're never the grinch, Brian. Ever, so what is go ahead? Now,
go ahead and you go.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think we should plug in a tattletale and stop
all the.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Grinches, wouldn't that?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
We were just saying, I've seen so many porch pirate
situations in the last few days on Facebook where people's
packages have been taken.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
It is so grinchy.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yes, So what are you girls doing today? Let's talk
about Pearl Harbor and all those guys that stood up
and answered the call, and how great of a generation
they were, how the world thought we were about nothing
and then they realized they couldn't touch us. So that's something.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
So what made you think of that all of a sudden, Well.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
It's December seventh, Pearl Harbor, Okay, you know your generation
is going to be the last. Probably even noticed this,
and he ingrained it in me about what happened and
why and how brutal it was.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
You know what, Brian, how come we don't hear enough
about it anymore? I mean, yeah, December seventh, this should
be on most people's minds.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Why don't we bring this up anymore?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, it goes away, and then that's how you make
the same mistakes again. That's how history repeats itself. So
we were known as the country a bunch of playboys
and had no stomach for fighting, and Pearl Harbor's what happened.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Part of it is there's only twelve survivors left from
that day, all in their hundreds at this point, and
this year none of them was able to make the
pilgrimage to Hawaii to mark the event scheduled for today.
So part of our God bless them, God bless them,

(03:21):
part of our collective memory we as as they die
and there's not many left. We just don't tell the
stories in the same way because you can't you don't
have first person account. So it's up to the rest
of us to continue it on.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Because it's something that you never want to not talk
about or to forget about.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Right, well, let me tell you what those guys did,
the Japanese. They came over, they took pictures and there
in our land, and they set these guys up and
then they bombed them and beat them to nothing badly.
Then they weren't happy enough that they came around and
beat them again after they're already down helpless.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Twenty three hundred people died.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, and the power Pearl Harbor was they sunk them
into harbor so we could resurrect them. And that's pretty
much how people want to work every day for so long.
Finally the government said you got to take a Sunday off.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
You know, you brought up your father and my dad
also would talk about Pearl Harbor. My dad was in
the Marines, And I tell you that you talk about
relationships between different countries, the Americans and the Japanese people
really had a hard time after that coming together and
getting along it.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
There was a lot of bad blood for years. Brian.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
After that, well, I.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Remember being nineteen eighty three and having a sales manager
was mad that anybody was selling mitsubish because they made
the zero, so it laid it let around for a
little while. I'm happy it's healed now. But I'll tell
you a story about the Germans. They took one of
our airplanes apart, and they realized they were going to
lose the war, and they had better airplanes us, but

(04:58):
we could manufacture precision where they had to build everything
by hand. If you look at the German bombers, they
didn't have four engines. They always had two. They couldn't manufacture.
So when they saw that we could just make four
engine bombers. You know, Ford made a bomber an hour
and five minutes.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Have you always been a student of these kinds of things, Brian, Like,
there's no way I would not have known that about bombers.
I wouldn't have known who made them or what is that?
Just always been something when it comes to manufacturing. Are
you just interested in that kind of stuff, especially with
the military.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Bend I like all history. Yes, answer your question is yes, Mikhaela, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Do you think that's.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Part of the reason you do what you do in
terms of like protection, Well, I.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Don't think it has anything to do with why the
Lord's something in that place to do protection, but has
everything to do with making something in America, and it
has everything to do with answering your phone when people call,
and it is the way I am, so I make
my company be that way.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
And your company has grown.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
And I think because of the person you are and
your perseverance and your love of country. You know, you
do want to see people say if you do want
to spread peace and peace of mind, and that really
is what tattletale is about.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Though, Brian, Well, it's not going to happen till we
get peace out of michaelis she hasn't plugged one in.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
That not going to be my December treat to myself.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (06:26):
That should be your New Year's resolution.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
What do you get for the person that has everything?
A tattletale?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, there's nothing like uh, never being alone, staying safe
and making a smart choice.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
This is a smart choice. Do you feel like people,
I actually do feel that. Do you give like is
this a gift? I feel it's very givable to people
who given what tattletale is and what it does. It's
it's different than any other kind of alarm system.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
All you guys do is plug it in their sensors.
So I mean, I don't want to sound like I'm
hawk in it, but that's mendial test to it. You
plug it in and it works.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Will it help with these porch pirates? Is there a
way to get the tattle tale to sense something with pirates?

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Both those guys. Video you know, is like watching something
at eleven, and chances are it's just going to torture. Uh.
And if somebody's on your front porch and they're gonna run,
and I even let you know what's going on, and
you're at work, what are you really going to do
about it? By the time the cops get there, they've
already taken off. So there is there is the thing

(07:31):
of primary having tattletell and then having secondary video. But MICHAELA,
if I cut your internet, you know your little doorbell
camera don't work right.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Absolutely, I just.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Don't want anything I like. I like video. I'm a
curious human being by nature, but I don't want it
as my primary I would rather make sure if they
come in your house, uh, they're not going to be
able to stop your alarm system and you're gonna get
the quickest. So Brian, I'm thinking about you not the
stuff on the porch, all right, think of that.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I get what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, And the good thing about Tittletill though it is undefeated,
like it's never been beaten, it's it's proven it works.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
And yeah, you're right.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I can attest to it, Brian, because we have it
in Indian Lake and it is such a nice piece
of mind to know that when I'm not there, it's
protected and it is so easy.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
If I can do it, anybody can do it. I'll
say that, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
And it runs a test, a daily test, and we
learned about that within the last couple of months.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
I just got a text right now about my Tittletale
that your test had run.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yep. Yeah, but you know what that test is, Mendy.
What you don't have to put up a testing. I
think those things are annoying. I'm going to actually move
to a place where it only talks to you when
it has to. But those little tests you get are
just like internal tests saying hey, I'm talking to the
cell tower. Hay, I'm doing this. I'm good. I'm just
letting you know I'm good.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'm ready for a battle, right, just letting us know
that it's working in case someone does break in.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
There you have it?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
You like that, I do.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I Actually, if it's one text today, it's not you know,
if it was.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Constantly annoying by any means.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I guess that's part of peace of mind, you know.
And we do have the Christmas season, Brian, and you
join us once a month. And Mikayla just read a
stat in our Hot Topics about one of four adults
American adults are estranged from family. They don't talk to
somebody in their family anymore. One in four Americans. What
do you think of that?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, not much. That's for sure, totally against my values.
You know. People just they travel, they do stuff, they dilute,
they who knows, maybe their faith is not strong. But
you know, I'm old fashioned. I'll take God and family
and country.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, and see those are the companies that we like
to support to Yeah, you know, good guys part of
a company. What year did you start titletale?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I started the whole Silly idea ninety three, but I
didn't sell one until nineteen ninety eight. Twenty six is
when it first went on sale.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
So five years of R and D.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, yeah, not something most people could handle. I could
promise you you could have one hundred grand in a
prototype and have to scrap it and start over because
you got the wrong players. I mean, building something is
the toughest part in getting the right players in the
right parts.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Are you doing any Christmas specials for your devices?

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Anything?

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah? Yeah? What do you want me to do?

Speaker 3 (10:38):
What do you want to do?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
All right?

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Well, what do you think? It sounds good? Brian? You're
given your stock and what you have on your website.
What is a good starter place for people? Is that
where you want them to go?

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Do you want them to do?

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I think I think they'll just plug in a tattletel
box by itself with a built in motion sector. Buy
that for three hundred nine nine dollars. We'll give you
six months of free monitoring and a free smoke detector
because look a lot of things that hide it. You
guys will think about it. Fire is the worst thing
in the world. Many do you have a fire Do

(11:10):
you have a fire sensory at your place?

Speaker 4 (11:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Okay, So that's the next step. That's a good place
for you and I to start today. So if you
had just one smoke detector in there and it wasn't
even armed. It would call the fire department even if
you weren't there and it wasn't armed. And if you
have a dog, the best thing in the world for
a dog because they can't call the fire department.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, no, I know, we had talked to dog about
putting that in for a fire detector in there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
So I think one free smoke detector and six months
free monitoring is a very good way to start with
not being alone, staying safe, and making a smart of ice.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Okay, let's do it for our listeners.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Also good for those of us who have people who
live far away that are by themselves right right, like
kind of a gift that substantial. Okay, we'll do that,
Brian will do that for what matters listeners. Thank you
for offering that. For anyone who wants to take a
look at the products that you have on hand, where
do they go? You tell them you know how to

(12:12):
tattletale dot com.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Brian tattletale dot com.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
You know what, you guys should just look at that
website and just shout it yourself all the different devices
that are available, and now you're getting a good deal
for just listening to what matters.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
And that is what mattered. We want to keep you
safe in the new year. We do.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
It's a good thing to start out safe and secure. Brian.
Not alone and not alone if you don't have to be.
I mean, I would rather not be alone. I'm not
alone most of the time right now, but if you
have to be, you're safe.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
With the tattletale there. Yep, yep, for sure.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
All right, Brian, finish that grocery shopping.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
If you didn't get through the checkout while you were.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
On the on the line with I walked outside. I
wasn't going to have people looking at me.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Like you're in Key Wes grocery shopping.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Why are we like multitasking with a cell phone?

Speaker 3 (12:58):
People look at you funny anyway, Brian, You're just a
funny looking guy.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
That's why I went outside to reduce it.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
You go sit under that palm tree that you sent
me a picture of. It looks beautiful.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
And hey, Merry Christmas to you, our friend. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yes, Merry Christmas, Marry Merry Christmas.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
This is what matters. On six' TEN wtvn
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