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May 4, 2025 • 14 mins
Mindy & Mikaela speak with Brian Hess Founder/CEO of TattleTale!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So if you were with us at the beginning of

(00:01):
the show, we were just talking about old, abandoned places
that everything's still left inside, that this guy goes around
the country and explores them then shows you and right
away we're like, how is he able to get in?
How do places like this exist without unleashing and unloading
everything that's inside.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I know, we got to talk to Brian has of
Tattletale about this.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
We absolutely do. Brian. Do we have you on the
phone right now? It looks like we do.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Are you girls there, Yeah, we're here.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
We're behaving to this afternoon. I just want you to
know that. But we we just had this story about
an abandoned property and we're thinking they need Tattletale. Brian.
I mean, do you know that big Fort Rapids water
park on the east side of town in Columbus.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
No, It's been a while since I've been that far
in that way.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
But what happened, well, there's you know, I don't know,
there's probably like what eleven to fourteen floors. It had
a flood and a fire and it's in receivership right
now with the City of Columbus and people. This guy
just broke in to take a look at all of
the stuff that had been abandoned and left behind. And

(01:12):
we were talking about other places around town that were
like that, which are just you know, blight.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
They look bad.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I feel like when you're in receivership, one of the
first things a new owner could do or new receiver
could do is put an alarm on it. Do you
deal with those kinds of scenarios?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, that's that is the time to take possession, yes,
but you have to immediately take control of that situation
before something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
But that's the beauty of tattletale because you can protect
buildings like that, but you can protect acreage as well.
Like how far does a tattletale reach.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Well, Mendy, I guess you could go four miles if
you wanted to. But what I think is cool is
when you talk about floors and wireless going vertical like
a rocket. The wireless loves to go horizontal. It's nightmare
to get it to go horizontal. So when we do

(02:11):
sixty two floor skyscrapers, just one tattletell. They might have
four or five boosters that they stick on the end
of the building inside and they drag the wireless signal
as high as they want, straight up in the air,
and then they booby trap each floor depending on what's

(02:32):
going on. But when you look at water and fire
and take in possession of a building that's in receivership,
that's the first thing you want to do is mitigate
the damage. And then you don't want any more.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Damage, right, No, you don't want people breaking in, you
don't want homeless folks living there, so you do have
to mitigate the damage. So tattletale goes horizontal and it
goes vertical. And does that mean on each floor you
have to have something that is connecting to the main
wireless receiver or does it just do one?

Speaker 4 (03:08):
You know, Michael, I'm going to hire you. Why do
you say that, Brian, Because you're smart.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Smart.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
If I get wireless to eat on the floors, something
on that floor has to tell me what's going on.
And that's the type of sensor you placed there. Okay,
exactly right.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Okay, So businesses, and originally you started in construction, I
know that was kind of the origin story of tattletale,
But businesses of all kinds can really think about this
for their alarm needs.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
My dear, my dear watching. If you can do a
job site, you can do anything.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
So we had another story on earlier today about a
man out of Toledo who was wearing his Apple Watch.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
He fell to the ground, had a stroke.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
The Apple Watch was able to detect this fall send
him a signal to say, do you need help? So
he was able to tap his Apple Watch say yes,
they called the watch call They shouldn't say they The
watch called all of his emergency contacts and dialed nine
to one one. So we're kind of thinking of the technology.
Is this kind of along the same lines, because tattletale

(04:22):
can detect some type of a signal that something's going
on wrong at a house, at a business, at a property,
and also call emergency personnel.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yes, he call that dispatch twenty four to seven dispatch.
That's exactly right. But you in your watch scenario, you're
closer to the puck, that little thing I was showing
you not.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Too long ago, and the puck, but the puck is
not for sale yet right where the puck is for sale.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Puck's not for solia un till July.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
That's what I were thinking.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
It's got a panic on it and what it'll will
do is only send them there so you know, time's
not your friend when you're dying. So the quicker you
can get somebody to a heart attack or a stroke person,
it's time. But I'm impressed with the Apple Watch for
doing that. I mean, anything that saves the life is good.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well, and I knew I have the Apple Watch, and
I knew that there is fall detection on it, but
I didn't know because I haven't used it in that
way that it calls nine to one one. So it
is pretty impressive because their other technology doesn't have anything
like that on it.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
We've talked about that before.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
That's true, and I think that if you set it
up in those parameters to do that, that's good, very good.
I'm not so sure everybody knows to set that up
like that, Like, I don't think that's an automatic.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
I do think, Bendy, Yeah, I think there is. I'm
going to look right now to see if I have
it set up, because I think you're right, Brian, I
don't have to program you want to program.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
To do that, right?

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Well, So I'm a what else is.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Coming up with Tattletale other than the punk? What else
you're working on? You're always working on something?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Is that you mindy?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
It is?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I'm good.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
You're having a good Sunday afternoon wherever you are, Ryan.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
You're drinking too many Margarita's on the beach.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
No, honey, I just got done watching The Ultimate Gift
with James Garner and the phone rang and the movie's over.
But Sundays I don't work. I take it easy. So
you want to know what I wanted to share? You said,
what do I want to say?

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, you know, we know the Puck's coming up
this summer, but what else is going on at Tattletale?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
You're always working on something?

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, I am, but it would take too long and
I would hog up your show. So I'm not going
to do that today.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
How about you tell us about The Ultimate Gift. I've
heard that is a great movie. I cannot believe. I
haven't watched yet. I think I have the book at home.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
You got to watch it. If you don't watch it,
I'm gonna harass you for a long time. And you
know how persistent that's inventors?

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
You guys are pretty persistent.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
The Ultimate Gift. I've never even heard of it.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I think it's right up Mindy's alley too.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
If i'm if I net flicks, what's it on?

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Well? Are you Brian?

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Where you can find it?

Speaker 4 (07:13):
You can get it anywhere. But here's what it's a
story about. It's a story about a guy played by
James Gardner, who's one of my favorite actors. He comes
up with a solution and a set of things to
do for his grandson, and his grandson doesn't like him,
and it's got a very happy ending. But it teaches
somebody to do more things to make a better person

(07:36):
out of them in your absence than when you're alive.
And he gives him several gifts, and it's about a
brat that becomes an amazing young man.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
It's totally a Jeff Hunt book. My dad bought it
for us and I have it at home. Because of it,
I've tried to read it with my kids. I think
that's the case.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
And it's got a great ending. He gets the girl,
So anytime that a guy gets the right girl, I
like that kind of ending.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Did you watch this movie by yourself or did you
watch it with somebody else?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Today?

Speaker 4 (08:09):
I watched it with the girl named Mindy and she
was balm Oh, you have a girl named Mendy that.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Is so sweet.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Told you that I knew I knew about Mindy.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
You knew her name was Mendy. I didn't know you
knew her name was Mindy.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Met Mendy.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, Mindy's met Mendy.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh, Mindie's a met.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know what, though, Brian, we do give you credit
for coming up with tattletale so so many years ago,
and the difference it's made, honestly and so many not
just homeowners but business owners. Because you can't always be
at your business, so when you walk away from there,
you want to know that it's protected and safe. I mean,
Boots brag's about it all the time. He can't tell
you how many times that tattletale has saved his heiknee

(08:54):
at his place.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yeah, he needs some new friends.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well I tell him that all the time, but he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Listen to too many people trying to get around Boots.
That's why he's got a tattletale.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Well, you know, think about a job site, and if
you're listening in the audience, think about a job site.
It's it's this new thing that's chaotic going through a
lot of stages and there's no walls sometimes or there are,
and you've got to provide the horse power to do
the inside and the outside with no wires and not

(09:31):
make false alarms, right and then not be dumb and
get your you know, your paddle toe beat up and
never lose a fight. So when you when you got
that going and you mix it with cameras, that's just
the winning combination.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, yeah, it works well.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
We're looking forward to your launch in July. This is
around the corner for the puck.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Yeah, let me talk about that puck. When you hit panic,
when somebody's done or having a heart attack, they do
the craziest thing. They'll call their wife and say, honey,
I think I'm having a heart attack, and then they
try to call somebody else and next thing you know,
they may not make it. And I heard a story
about a fellow was forty six that didn't make it.
He was on a running trip. And that's a scenario

(10:18):
where if you had to push panic on the puck,
they just came. There's no stop in it. There's if
you want to call somebody, go ahead, but that's the
primary thing is to get help right then and there.
The quickest way and the right kind of.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Help, which is just pure in total protection as you
move about and do your business.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
It's just pure speed with one thing on your mind,
and it sends a panic, So it's that's smart. Then
the next thing I would say is guys will like
it for car shows because if you own a nice car,
we'll go track anything and pull it over with the
cops in real time, which is better than watching it
on your iPhone and not being able to do anything

(10:57):
with it.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
I will tell you before we go here that I
did get into the fall detection area on my phone
and my watch.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
She was just showing me her Apple Watch, Brian, and.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Only right now, I have Faull detection on. So you
do have to select it, and you can select always
on or only during workouts, and I have only during
workouts selected. But if I go to turn always on,
Apple gives me this message. Faul Detection is designed to
recognize falls that happen as you get older. The more
physically active you are, the more likely you are to
trigger fall detection due to high impact activity that can

(11:31):
appear to be a fall. I mean, Apple Watch will
initiate the s O S too, emergency responders and you
can't and you're not even moving. It can do that too.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Before the car.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
I hate to go take an app on a park bench,
right right? So I mean you want to be you
want to you want to be intentional. But I understand.
I like. I like the idea of you've gone this
long in this position, should we send help.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm going to turn off always on. Do you think
that's a smart thing to do right now? Since I
don't have a puck yet, you're doing We're to.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Bed tonight, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
I don't want it to call nine one one when
I'm going to sleep.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, that's true, but I will.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
I will.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Here's your first thing. There's your first thing. So you
have a product that works. But now we have an
end user, and the end user goes, I don't want
it to do this when I do that. And that's
the fascination of making products. Mikaela, see how good you
are at this.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
I think she should work for you.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
I wish I was smart enough to come up with
a product.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
I can tell you the last time she is. That's so, Brian.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
If people want to see all the stuff for themselves
to look at the technology that tattletale encompasses. What's the
best way that they can do that, Paul, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Enough, Brian, I don't know enough yet. I've asked questions
about I don't know enough.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
I kind of think you do. Or you can just
go to tedtletale dot com.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Telltale dot com is probably gonna give you more and
it also has their one eight hundred number. Bryan, God,
go have some dinner now that you've had a movie,
movie and dinner, and get a margarita. Yeah for us.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Let me let me just say one thing that's sim
plug in as tattle till next Sunday. And if you
have a pet, by at least one smoke detector. And
if you're out playing around summer in the dog's home,
something happens like forbidden the fire. It calls the fire

(13:28):
department even if it's not arms. And it's when we
leave pets or we do this and we travel to
start moving around, but the pets at home they're waiting
on us and they can't call the fire department.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
No, okay.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
And all you have to do is plug it in,
so you know there's.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
No plug place, plug it in, plug it in on
that note.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
You are out of time, even win overtime for you, Brian.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Thank you dear.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Have a great week, Brian. This is what matters, Yours
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