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Speaker 1 (00:01):
How safe do you feel at home or if you
own a business, how safe is it? Really? It's got
to be a concern, don't you think. And we don't
want to scare everybody, but now that it's getting into
summer months, crime does increase in something he does.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We saw that in newsrooms all the time across the
country and the different places that we worked. So it's
an important topic to talk about. And you need to
secure your house or your place of business. Got Brian Hess,
the founder, creator, owner of Tattletale Portabello Alarm Systems on
the phone with us.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hey, Brian, Hi, tell us about Bella first. Now you're
setting us pictures right, And the best picture of all
was a picture of Bella. And I think a lot
of people might relate to Bella.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, Bella's a nice thirteen year old Golden Retriever lady,
very cloudy.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
She looks like she lives a good life out there
on the pool deck.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
He's got a human being husband that cooks for her
every day. I mean, didn't get any of that.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Bella lives better than Mendy.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Woh.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And it looks beautiful right now, So Bella really is
enjoying some great weather.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You're down in Florida right now, I are.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You are thirteen years old. I love that though, you know,
because I always think to myself because all of us
have had dogs who have aged well with time, but
some of them not so well, and they get to
the point that, man, they have a hard time walking standing,
and you wish you could just explain it to them.
You wish you could tell them what they're going through
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and that to let us know if it hurts or
what we can do for you. I just looked at
Bella and I see that face and you can see
the thirteen years and a little bit of gray there.
But you know what, Brian, thanks for loving on Bella
and being a good dog. Dad.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Weow you're most welcome, and so is she bell and dogs,
I got something to say about that when it comes
to not being able to call the fire department.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Good point.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Go ahead, yeah, yeah, you know a lot of guys go,
I got a dog. I don't need a tattletelling I go.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I like dogs too. They got super keen senses. They
know stuff we don't know. For all we know, they
can see spirits and ghosts. Who knows. But one thing
for they sure they can't do is when you're gone.
It's called the fire department.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
They can't. They do not have the ability.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
To do that, no matter how tough they are. Right, So,
in the area of like being gone and maybe leaving
your pets behind, which I don't do, but I look
at it and I just go, you know, that'sn't everybody.
You deserve just to stay safe. And then when they
leave and the house is empty and the dogs in there,
and even if you're going to the grocery store, all of
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a sudden, there's something that happened and it'll automatically be handled.
And when you're talking about speed and time and being
safe and what matters, how about one tenth of a second?
Is that fast enough? That's how fast tattleteller is. So
my message to everybody today is I think everybody deserves
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to be able to plug something inn with no programming
and call it a day. Takes less than thirty seconds
to plug something in and take it out of the box.
And I just say, what.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Matters, Well, you know your life, but also your dogs,
because do you know how many dogs?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I think I can't give you stats.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Brian, but I know a lot of dogs perishing fires
because many of them are at home when folks go
out and something comes up.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, and you know you're talking about people or dogs
falling or in pain. I don't know how many folks
have people that are elderly around them, but as soon
as they start hearing falling and everything, that's about the
beginning of trouble. Maybe the EDGs.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You know, we have a wireless remote that you can
turn it on and off. It's not one of those
ugly things you wear around your neck at all. It
looks like a little Mercedes keychain remote, but that's got
emergency squad as well as panic on it. So just
maagine just plugging in a cattle till box with one
(04:13):
wireless remote sensor and maybe one smoke detector, and you're done.
You got a baseline that can't be defeated. And then
for anybody that's listening that gets complicated or wants to
take on the old man with the you know, I
got this and that you can add ninety five sensors
and I'm willing to bet nobody's willing to add ten.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, that's a really good point, Hey, MICHAELA. And I
found this survey and it dealt with home security systems
also to protect your business. And they asked one hundred
different people a part of the survey of what features
these home security systems found most important, and that was
one of the top ones. The most important consideration among
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survey respondents was the overall cost of the system installation
and monitor turing plans, and that's seventy four percent. So
a lot of these systems, it sounds like Brian, are
very hard and complex to install. Or the tattletale you
just plug it in, so that really helps the majority
of people with their main concern.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I can Amazon or ups that's your front door. You
plug it in for a throunder ninety nine dollars. And
with this new thing where we created on demand monitoring
for nine dollars and ninety five cents a month to
the monitoring station twenty four to seven in all fifty states.
You're not supposed to say this as a sales guy,
but I'm gonna say it. Okay, I'm noting sales too
(05:37):
much anywhere, but I sound like a sales guy.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Because you know, a good product, But go ahead, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I think it's two and some people pay fifty sixty
dollars a month. And one of my shareholders called me
the other day. He's a real smart guy. Name's Gary,
and you know, it's a big, fancy company and he
manufactures a lot of stuff. And he's calling complaining and
rightfully so. Somebody's charging him close to eighty bucks a
(06:03):
month for a phone line.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
A phone line, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And I'm thinking to myself, well, you're so rich, why
do you even care? But it bothers him. And if
you think about how expensive you know, fifty or sixty
buckses or eighty here internet over there, and they borrow
what you pay to have brought into your house so
they can work. Think about tattletoe goes in your house,
doesn't depend on anything. It's there and does its job
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and you can take it out into RV and use it.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Hey, I have a question for you too. We were
talking at the beginning of the show because Mikayla's son,
Logan called in. He forgot that she was on the air.
At the point, I'm like, Mikayla, answer it, put him
on speaker, put him on the air when you answer
the phone. He said, listen, you're a business owner. You've
been a business owner. For years, You've hired people, you've
fired people. He's fifteen years old and he's looking for
a summer job. Brian, what do you recommend as a
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business owner? What do you think most fifteen year olds
can do in the summer.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They can do anything they put their mind to if
they're willing to learn and work hard. And it really
and it's a great experience for him because they're eager
to get their confidence and their sea legs. And I'll
tell you what a guy told me. His name was
Stan Codwell. I was ten years old and he said, hey, boy,
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you want to be a leader when you grow up.
And I said, yes, sir. He goes, well, you better
learn how to follow orders, because if you can't follow orders,
you're not gonna be able to give orders. And I
think that's probably the most valuableard fight.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That could be really good advice to give Logan. But
his problem is he can't get entry. He's applied online
to all these places and he can't get anyone to
talk to him.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
He gets a denial letter immediately.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
That's the next problem. You've raised this whole generation to
be online. Send somebody an email or text. They don't
call worse. They don't even show up, show up and
say I want a job here.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I think I'm about to be there, but you have
to apply online for most places. So maybe I just
need to have him do the old fashioned thing and
go in and say hey, I'm looking for this, because
he has not done that yet.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
And when you're hiring someone, Brian, what do you look
for in a young young man or woman.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I look at desire. I listen to they want to
be something they grow up. I listen for a lot
of things, but the number one thing is you showed up.
How impressive.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
There you go. It's a great idea. That's a great idea, Brian.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I want to bring this full circle because something else
is going on in my family's life right now that
makes me think of you know, we were talking about
bella earlier. We were talking about dogs and how a
dog can't call the fire department.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So my husband is up north at.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
A family member's funeral, his step grandfather, and his grandmother
is ninety one, ninety two years old, and now without him,
and you were talking about you know that, I'm calling
it a necklace. You know, the thing that says some
Mercedes Benz key.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I mean for older folks.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It sounds like there is a product that can be
very helpful if you're living by yourself after someone passes.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Let's try it on like this. It's remote. So if
you had three or four of them hanging around, one
in a boatroom, one in a bathroom, one a living room,
once somewhere else. I don't think there are anything more
than forty or fifty bucks apiece. But they're sexy, and
they're well made, and they're attractive.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, I mean, I don't know if it's ninety one
year old grandmothers thinking about that, but I guess it's
a perk pict true.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I don't care how old are you like the well made,
good looking product. You don't want to wear no dorky
thing around your name.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
No, I don't want to be like I've fallen and
I can't get up.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That's true, and especially when your grandma's because as older
as they get, they still want to look and dress
to the nines. They really die have learned that for sure,
that is true.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
They keep themselves together, they.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Really do well. At one time they were a dish,
so they don't want to be, you know, treated any different.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, I think you know, do you that as a
use case for a product could be really important? I
mean I had I mean, look at your mom, and
do you look at my grandmother who line three ninety?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What session does matter to them no matter how old
they are get or how they're living. Yeah, I like it. Brian.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, when you get something done in a tense a second. Now,
let me let me just tell you this. You can
also put somebody on your daisy chain. So if I
had an incident and I'm out doing something.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I fall down in the r or something like that,
just the whole notion that, you know, I can make
as many people know about it as I want, But
maybe two or three is all I need, Like maybe
my neighbor or my daughter, you know, somebody when they
see that distress signal, they're going to drop what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's game on. So it's not just the fact that
the emergency squad's coming. The people that want to know
about it know about it, right. I mean, I mean
if you were in a nursing home and you wanted
somebody you loved to go get a hold of you,
and they can't dial a phone, which they can't do anymore,
they could push a button and get your attention outside
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of the hospital.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, Brian, that's awesome. Hey, we are up against the break.
But if people want more information on all the different
things that you offer people, tattletale dot com. Tattletale dot com,
you guys, look it up and the best thing about
it is for Oh, there's so many good things. But yes,
you plug it in, plug and play, but my gosh,
it's made in America, right here in Central Ohio. Support
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those who care and who live right here.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
That's right, Amen, Amen, enjoy the sunshine. Enjoy making Bella's dinner, Brian.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, just enjoy Bella, honey.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Brian has Tattletale portable alarm systems.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Brian and Bella.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Brian and Bella. He sounds good together.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Next month. This is what matters. M.