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January 4, 2026 • 12 mins
Mindy and Mikaela speak with Brian Hess about Picking up Sticks in 2026!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm gonna miss hearing that open, I know with Nindy
and Michaylan. We've heard it for so many years. This
is it though, the final What Matters show with Mikayla.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Then we're gonna.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Explain a little more as the show progresses today, but
it's going to get here in a different.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Way celebration for all we've done together, which many decade
we've done this almost a decade, I know.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Seen a lot of changes. We've had a lot of
sponsors come and go through the years. This guy who's
on the line has been really by our side and
a big champion of the show.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Oh, Brian has which and you know what I think
of you, Brian as an innovator and a creator and
all that you do. So thank you for being a
champion of ours. We hope we've been a champion of yours.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Well, thank you and your have a real pleasure.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
And we still got to get Mikayla since this is
her last show a tattletale.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
She still doesn't have a tattletale.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Brian, Well, you can give her my phone number.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh Brian, got it.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
You know I have your phone number, You got your digit.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Butkayla was so excited when she's like, what are we
talking about with Brian today? And he's like, well, his
slogan this year is twenty twenty six pick up sticks.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
I'm dying to Knowbrian.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Like, it's very at rhymes, it's alliterative, Like what is
it all about?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Well, it's fun to be in my late sixties and
pattern a whole year off the nursery end.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I mean you get the ability to do that given
the company you've bought. So what does it mean to
you twenty twenty six pickup sticks.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Well, being a drummer, that means pick up the sticks
and play. But in life it means there's something to
be done. Pick it up, like you know the way
people pick things up. Now, when I say pick up,
I mean like, do a good job, have some integrity,
pick up your play, So pick up a project or
pick up anything. That's how about this that matters to you?

Speaker 5 (02:03):
There you go, Why do we fitting it is fitting?
Why do we tend to wait to pick up sticks.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Or drop those sticks as soon as we grab them?

Speaker 4 (02:14):
That would take longer than the show?

Speaker 5 (02:18):
I mean, have you dropped sticks?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
You're successful, you've created this company, have you dropped sticks?
And what lessons have you learned from dropping those sticks
that you might impart on other people?

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Keep moving?

Speaker 5 (02:31):
You just got to keep Do.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
You forgive yourself and keep moving? Do you say, hey,
you know what messed up, but I'm going to fix this.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
You got to say that you brought up a great
thing about forgetting. So when you look at a new
year and you've got a good foundation, meaning your hearts
with the Lord, when you look at forgiving, that's probably
the greatest thing that you can do for yourself in
a new year to keep yourself not tangled up and
what can happen? Then you got to well to face

(02:59):
all the news things because you got a good faith foundation.
So I have a newsbreaker for the show.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
What I have?

Speaker 4 (03:07):
I have a dog named Bella and she's ninety five
in people years. Oh yeah, game in the heat without bleeding,
and she got pregnant by my neighbor's dog.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I can't believe she's not spaded. First of all, Brian's
shame on you.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, okay, we'll get back around to that. But I
appreciate that I got a truckflow pull a blame out here.
I'll sell it you cheap.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'll sell it right back to you.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
How does a ninety five year old dog and people
years have a baby.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
I mean, it's a miracle.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
What are you gonna do with the puppies?

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Well, this is it. This has been the foundation part
of it. But but you haven't asked what kind of
dog got her knocked up?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:52):
Okay, So what's the answer to that question.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I'm going to show Michayla the picture you sent to
me of your dog Bella.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, go ahead, So having breakfast with it. That looks
like having a dog wife. And I think she's happy
to be pregnant and she thinks I'm her dog husband.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Oh she's range.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
She's sweet.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
When you sent me the picture of her and you
said she was pregnant, I almost said, are you the father?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
But I didn't want you to get mad, And that's
kind of gross. I was just kind of joking. It
was like it was a funny hot Mandy.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
You need some new friends.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
It was just a funny.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I mean, you send me a picture of your old
dog saying she's pregnant.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
It's grace.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Now. I know she's happy though, Brian, like you think
she's into it, like feeling maternal.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
See is and you know when dogs are that, Oh,
you got to ask yourself, this is are going to
cause them their lives? And then it does. Do you
have a little bit of that to take forward?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
So what are you going to do?

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Well? You know, that's what I've been praying about. I
really don't know. I'm actually paying attention for signs and
I'm obviously present to Bella and I'm listening for God
to tell me it'll all show up. So that's the message.
Can you be patient enough a wait for God to
show you what you need to know?

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh gosh, Brian, you are speaking to my heart right now.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I would like you to give Michaela some advice.
This is her last day to do what matters. The
show is going to continue in a different facet, so
to speak. But she wants to take a break from
radio right now, and it might be just a temporary break.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
She might come back to it. She's got a lot
of stuff going on in her life right now. What
would you say to her?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
As far as twenty twenty six pickup sticks.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Look forward, not backwards, Look forward not backwards.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
So that means I really resonated with what he said
about looking about signs because I think I believe in synchronicity,
and I think signs tell you if you're going the
right way or not. It won't tell you what to
do right, Brian, But I think the universe and God
can confirm for you when you're head of the right
direction forward.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
You could ask the whole is skirt to do that,
and he'll do that for you. I mean, he's no
water down version of God and oh all around you,
So you could do that anytime your life.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Your good Catholic girl knows that, like that is absolutely
true about the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
We talk a lot about the Holy.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Spirit and the Catholic Church, and I'm with you there, Brian,
So forward asking for the signs the help to see that.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
So that's what you would tell me about twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Just look forward, not backwards, and then make sure make
sure that you're being an agent of healing and love
even when people are being not that around you.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's what you just jumped for a second when he
said being.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
An agent of healing and love because our psychic Tina
told me like that is what I am here to do, like.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
No joke, And after the show you should call me.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
To get to get more information about how to be
an agent of healing and love.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
What creates something? What creates something that's noble? How's that?

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I would love to create something that was noble? And
Brian you're you're the guy to do it because of
the business you've created and the companies and the individuals
that you've helped with your product. Did you think about
that going into making it? Was that just natural for
you to do or intentional for you to do?

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well? I just look at it as like, hey, Bella's pregnant,
got to deal with it. Something happens, you got to
deal with it, and then you got to just be
thankful and trust. So I have lots of trust. I'm good.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I think you met when you were starting your business.
Was it more intentional? Did you have any idea how
big this would become? How many people you would help?
And stay safe?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
And also we want to ask you what's new for
twenty twenty six when it comes to tattletale. What are
we going to see come out on the market? How's
that puck? Is it dropped yet?

Speaker 4 (07:43):
It has? I'll be receiving it this week and it's
programmed very nicely. You want to hear a couple of
things that does. Sure, it's really cool. It has this
mode called Iguana mode, which is coke where you're going
to go out there and play dead, use much battery,
tir unless something happens.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Oh right, that's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah, it's really smart electronics to do that. And the
Iguana mode last three months without a charge. I could
probably pump it with six.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Three months without a charge. Yeah, that's incredible.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Being able to imagine being able to booby trap something
and just let it sit and lay and doesn't cost
you a nickel. And when it wakes up, it's ready
to do its job. And then when it needs charge,
it lets you know, so you can plug it in
so it's it's slick, and you can send a command
and wake it up, and you can change its mode.
If I could have ping mode where if I want

(08:40):
to ping you and think that where you are because
I'm worried. It's got combat mode where you could go
for a walk and hit the instant panic and boom,
you got cops where you are. And it's when the
GPS and the cellulars fired up all at once.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
So I called the puck and I have for several
months an air tag on complete steroids like nothing like
an air tag, but similar in terms of the mobility.
Can you remind people what the puck will do? You
kind of insinuated that in a few things you just said,
but just remind them at the basic level what it'll do.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, what it is. It's real time police. So an
air tag is nice if you want to take the
law on your own hands, or you think you can
handle it while you're having a meltdown. But if I'm
having a meltdown and something's going on, I don't want
to be full with my iPhone about it. I want
I want somebody else on the case immediately so I

(09:37):
know at least that's in action. So you got to
think about somebody being kidnapped in a trunk of an automobile,
just any crazy thing you can think of, and that
person's going to want to know somebody's got them, and
this will blow three sixty away to blow the air
tag away. But here's what's really cool. If you noticed
that when your phone does something, you get that little

(09:58):
vibration sensation where it's message. Well, if you're in a
truncible car, imagine that thing sending you a certain pattern
and it gets a little more intense as we're getting
closer to saving their lives. Hmmm. I think it's a
well thought out product. It was easy to make the electronics,
it was tough to create the modes, and then it's

(10:19):
really difficult to get all the screens and the interface
on a phone to be intuitive.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Brian, what would you say we're talking to Brian Has,
the founder of Tattletail portable alarm system. What would you
say to anyone who's really seriously thinking about starting a
business this year?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
What advice?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I would tell them that you've got to have a
lot of integrity, which means did not create things that
you're going to suffer over, like incomplete no FIBs, no lies, stake,
stay clean, work hard, and you'll never go wrong. And
answer your phone. Because we live in the world nobody
wants to talking about it. True.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
That is so true. I hate that. I really do.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
I want my kids to do better. I think I
think I'm doing okay, but man, it's hard.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
When you run into a teenager these days, or someone
in their twenties and they're working somewhere and they can't
make eye contact with you. Something went wrong somewhere because
we've got to bring that personal touch back to life.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Just do it's it's really missing.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
And if you look at somebody in the eyes too,
they think something's wrong with you.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah. What what are you looking at me like that?

Speaker 5 (11:30):
For?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
What?

Speaker 2 (11:30):
What do you mean to make an eye contact? This
is what you do.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
You've given a lot of great advice Brian. In the segment,
thank you so much for everything. I know this is
more talk to you later for me than good bye,
but just thank you for all that you've done for
us and for the show.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
All the best to you guys year.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Happy New Year. Brian Hastale Port Bella.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
I want for bell.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
We're going to pray for Bella because I'm worried about
those puppies and Bella.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
I know she's gonna make it. She's gonna make it,
calling the dog.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Holy, You're gonna have a bunch of puppies, Brian.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Thanks Brian. This is what matters on the sixten WTVD
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