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November 2, 2025 • 13 mins
Mindy and Mikaela speak with Brian Hess the CEO & founder of Tattletale Portable Alarm Systems!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ictions that are important in your community. Happening on Tuesday.
Kids are some kids are off school. But we want
to talk to the candidates who are on the ballot
what you think about, what you want to do for
your community and also the issues that are in your community.
If you have an issue on the ballot, whether it
be a tax levy or something else, we'd love to

(00:20):
hear from you. So at the about five point fifteen,
we'll take those calls. So keep this number around sixty
one four eight two one nine eight eight six six
one four eight two one WTVN and we'll take your calls.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Then, yes, and that'll be good. We always have an
assortment of people calling in and want to state their
case about why they are running for office, the difference
they want to make in their own community. Do we
have Brian Hess on the phone? Looks like we do. Yes, right,
good deal, Brian. We thought you were going to be there.
They said your phone was ringing and ringing. You're youre
are there now though? Right.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
He's a man on the move on this Sunday, which
is completely who Brian is. He always has something popping
and going, no doubt. Is he in Florida? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now he is in Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I guess is this the time of the year that
he stays down there once it starts.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
To get cold.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
I mean I would, but it's one of those things
that you know, I'm not sure, like that, my family's here,
it's Thanksgiving, it's Christmas. I bet he like flies in
for stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
He comes back and forth a lot. And you know
what I'm going to do because their Tattletale main office
is in Westerville, it's kind of right behind where I live. Yeah,
I'm going to make a video just to show you
what their call center looks like. If you can see
the call center and walk in there. Yeah, so not
from a window, but you can go in.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
And see the really interesting Yes, I love that he
doesn't outsource his call center. You can completely understand who
you're dealing with, and that's very, very helpful when you
have a call center.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So you moved how recently a couple of years ago,
and really your home is beautiful and you've got that
gorgeous basement. Do you ever consider having home security?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So there is a home security system on our house.
But you know, I think you know, twenty years ago
it was the thing to do right. You had breaks right,
and you had the little it looks like a calculator
on your garage door.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, Tattletale Portable Home Security system is so much better
and so much with the times. Everybody wants the biggest
and best things, but sometimes the biggest isn't the best,
even if it's teeny meany like a little puck. Brian,
Hess of Tattletale, are you with us now?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I am?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I said, It's it's hard to be Brian because Brian's
always moving and agrooving. That sounds like your Sunday, my friend.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'm so slow today. You'd have to call me slow.
You have to speed me up to call me slow.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Have to speed you up, have to crank you up.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
I'm going to share something with michaeleb before we get
into our conversation with you. I'm going to show her
exactly what this means. I just now received a text
message Tattletale Alarm automatic test. So just to make sure
when you're away from home or your little lake house
that it's still working. We get notified once a day

(03:12):
through text messages that everything's all still good.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
It runs a test.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I just ye look at it right there. Oh wow,
So Brian, why do you do that? Why do you
let homeowners who have a tattletale system or business owners
let them know that everything's yep, a okay, just send
them a quick reminder.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, it's a good idea for a system to check
itself out and tell you I'm good to go. And
then Michael, I don't know what you're used to with
all that stuff, but I would just be undefeatable over
anything regardless. I mean, if you can defeat a security system,
it's no good. You got a noise maker at your house.
I'm surprised that you have an annoise.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Maker, know, I mean, you know, Brian, the house was
built in like nineteen ninety nine. It is a nice
sized house. I don't know if I have all the stuff,
but it's a good sized house. And it came with
it and with it so you know. But aren't a
lot of people in this situation. It came with the house.
It's easy to call and hook it up, but it's not.

(04:09):
It's not as easy as tattletale.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, I don't mind everything being wired for sound to
make it a rack, if that's what you'll like. I mean,
that's good. Somewhere you got to have a secret weapon
where when they come into here and they're really ready
for combat and they're smart and they've undone your other
security system, that's where you want your tattlete laying and
waiting on them.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
This is true.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
I want to I know we're going to talk a
little bit about peace of mind and thankfulness, but I
do have another question to ask you that just came
to mind. I'm curious what you think about this Louver
heist over in France where the'se like, what millions of
dollars of art was stolen? How the heck can that
they needed a tattle tale therettletale right, Brian, Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
You really want to know how I would fix that? Yeah, okay.
I would have indoor and outdoor sensors with early warning
so that all my people knew what was going on,
and on a censor's trip, the camera goes directly to it.
And it's a very simple thing. You just have to
be on guard even during the day as well as

(05:19):
the night, and everybody associates nighttime as being ripped off,
not daytime. So those guys got caught flat footed and unarmed.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Right because the camera, if I'm not mistaken, was either
pointed in a different direction. If you had an automatic
test going on a daily basis too, you're not going
to have an alarm problem. So I don't think they test.
They must not have tested their stuff every day.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Nope, nope, nope, nope, don't say that. That's not true.
When you get cameras, everybody likes a peep show. That's
a little joke for you guys today. So they think
cameras are security. Cameras are peep shows. They're good for
looking and they're good. I can look through a camera
and tell somebody to get off your property. That's how

(06:03):
I'll advanced everything is today. But if I'm asleep at
the wheel, meaning the cameras are on but I'm not
paying attention to them, or if I got a camera
like a blank or an arlo or anything, they send
you a ding, you got traffic. Pretty soon you get
tired of looking at it like it can't mean anything

(06:25):
that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, it's called crying wolf. So
that's that's a human instinct. But if you took a
tattle pill and put in the equation and you got
alarm of it, you got fish on the No, there's
no doubt about it. And then that's when you go
look at your camera and you want to be able
to do it all with one app. But I'm telling you, girls,
if you're not unbeatable, ambush proof and tamper proof, and

(06:49):
someone can undo your security, you might as will not
even have it better. Better yet, go get some duct
tape and some baby rattlers and put them on your doors.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Why not, it's kind of the same thing. Well, well,
I am protected by an undefeated tattletale and I love
that peace of mind. And I know that's one of
the things you wanted to talk about because we are
getting into November. Now it's early November and you start
thinking about Thanksgiving and what we're thankful for and having
that peace of mind. And Brian, what do you think
you're most thankful for as a company business owner? To

(07:20):
watch something grow and become as large as it has,
but more than anything, the number of lives that you
are really protecting from what could have been.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, I'm here's what I'm thankful for. I'm happy you
have a tittle teale. And Mikaela doesn't. She knows now
she should get.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
No what I'm really thankful for, Brian.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm thankful for God. I'm thankful for truth. I'm thankful
for health, family, peace, enjoyment, knowing that everything is all right.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Brian, how about this, I'll be all right if you
come over when you're in town next time and install
a tattletale for me. Show me how easy it is.
I'll get you on video. We'll show everybody. I'm throwing
it down.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Bro okay, all right, all right, good, she's throwing it down.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Bro Okay, I'll bite. Now here's the deal. You get
to plug it in, Plug it in, plug it yep.
That's all you gotta do, and then you'll be as
liberated as Minty. And now we know Mindy's naturally skeptical,
and I know that once you do this, you'll be

(08:38):
instantly in. And I'll tay, there's nothing better in having
somebody instantly in and having somebody who waits a while
to be sure, like Mendy. So I got the best
of both worlds with you girls.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
You do and Mindy is and I mean, yeah, she's
naturally skeptical until you prove.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
To her that it works. And that's what happened. Kilo
I'm gonna be honest with you, Mikayla, and honest with you, Brian,
and to all of our listeners. I'm not really good
with technology, and so I really kept putting it off
because I kept thinking it's going to be so hard
to make work or to set it up. And then
I was so embarrassed when I figured out how easy

(09:16):
it really was, And I'm like, why did it take
me so long? Why did it take me so long
to put this tattletale in work? Brand?

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Do you feel like you're a technology person overall? I
take it you must, but how do you feel about
technology and translating it?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
I'm going to tell you I don't own a computer.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Which I find interesting. Isn't that hilarious? I mean in
that bit, what about a laptop?

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Nopeh an, I have an iPhone and I never sent
an email, So I got an iPhone. What do you
think of that? I always had an assistant.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I think it's crazy that someone whose company is so
technology driven doesn't have his own computer.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
You don't ever put any in a word document? No,
I mean, you know, like geniuses of their own kind
are able to do things in ways that we don't
quite understand operate.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
I should say I'm gonna I'm gonna leave you with
the Charlie Kirk vibe. You ready, Okay, Charlie says, turn
your phones off on Sundays. What day is today?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Sunday?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yep, and it's mine's on. And I just want you
to know that when you when you don't get exposed
to something and you still have to remember phone numbers
or you start looking at things because you're not staring
into a phone or a computer. I get to actually
piece some things together innovatively and keep my imagination and
creativity by not being so smart and bogged though.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
So let me tell you something. Brian I interviewed Gordon
Gee several years ago. It's after he was the president
Ohio State and he went back to West Virginia, and
in this interview he said, as good as can compewters
are and technology is they dummy Americans down. They dummy
us down because we're so reliant on that technology instead

(11:10):
of our own brains.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
He's right, it goes back to that AI thing. I
knew that was.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Going to come up.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, I have a lot of I actually have a
few friends that feel the same way about you and
the dummying down of America and everyone else because of AI.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, look at when we have to go somewhere, all
we do is enter the address in map Quest tells
us exactly where to go. Back in the day, we
had to get out those paper maps do it ourselves.
Look at where we are going and how we're going
to get there.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
And look at the sun. So you know a dark
direction you were going at?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, completely true and we were smart.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Question for you, Mandy, where's the sun go down?

Speaker 2 (11:47):
What direction sets in the west?

Speaker 3 (11:50):
All right?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
A girl?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Now girl next door? Folks, everybody's listening.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I know some things. That's in the west because I
always remember it because it kind of rhymes set, west,
set and west. So Brian.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
If people haven't plugged it in and have not gotten
down to this technology that is super simple, Where can
they learn more about the technology, how it can work
for them? Where do you want to send people?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
I just think they should go buy one. If they
don't like it, send it back.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Do you do that? That's a good Actually, that's a
good point. If someone gets a tattletale and they're not
happy with it, do they get a full refund?

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Full refund? And by the way we have the only
warranty that goes three years. Parts and labor that's unheard,
parts and labor.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Parts and labor for three years.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well okay, so Tattletale Portable Alarm Systems at tattletale dot com.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Guests spell tattletel right though, So who likes spelling? Who's
my spelling? Beach him?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Is that me?

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
T A t t l E tail t A.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I thought she was the smart one of us. J
T t l E t a l e. Oh my god.
Everybody needs a tattletale. You never want to be a tattletale,
but you want a tattletale.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Brian, we love you. It's good to talk to you today.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Happy Thanksgiving early Okay, thanks by Brian.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
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Speaker 2 (13:22):
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