Glamping and Antiques and Tech, Oh My!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: On this must show. We welcome John Lowe with your glamping adventures, as well as Jason Taggart with the old feed store antique Mall in Woodbury. Plus, Justin will be here with his tech tips and tech news roundup. And we have a new expert for this month's episode. Mister Josh Talent will be joining us very shortly. You don't want to miss it. It's going to be a fun one here on the local click. Learn more about fun local events and interesting people throughout the heart of middle Tennessee, with a dash of everyday tech talk thrown in for good measure. The Local click starts now. Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2024 edition of the Local Click. The Local click is the technology based podcast brought to you by DTC Communications each and every month on the first Wednesday of the month, where we talk all things technology as well as interesting people throughout our service area. With me today is Justin Malden again. Justin, hello, and how are you? [00:00:55] Speaker B: I'm doing well, now that we are in the studio in this nice air conditioning and we are not outside in this sweltering mid nineties, upper nineties degree heat that we're going to be dealing with for the next little bit here in middle Tennessee. [00:01:09] Speaker A: July is definitely known for one thing in particular in Tennessee, and that is heat. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Summer decided to get here and just go all in. It's not taking a break, it's not easing up, it's not letting up. [00:01:20] Speaker A: July is actually known for too. If you love living in this beautiful country of ours, the 4 July. So happy birthday to the United States of America. [00:01:29] Speaker B: Are you gonna be celebrating this year? [00:01:32] Speaker A: I hope to probably do a little cooking out or that kind of thing. How about you? [00:01:36] Speaker B: Any fireworks? [00:01:37] Speaker A: I'll probably go watch some professionally done fireworks. I probably won't. [00:01:42] Speaker B: So no fireworks battles? No shooting, shooting roman candles or. [00:01:46] Speaker A: No, our insurance agent frowns on that. [00:01:49] Speaker B: No bottle rocket fights? [00:01:50] Speaker A: No, no. Those were yesteryear. You could do that before, but it's kind of frowned on these days. Why? Are you planning on doing some of that? [00:01:57] Speaker B: No, no, I'm not. But I would enjoy watching somebody else do it. [00:02:01] Speaker A: I don't see you giving a lit roman candle to your boys to shoot towards, spot the dogs. [00:02:08] Speaker B: No, no. I don't trust my boys with very, very many things, and I definitely would not trust them with random fireworks. [00:02:14] Speaker A: Probably a very, very smart move. But whatever everyone is doing at home to celebrate the fourth, we hope you have a wonderful holiday and we hope you use this time to enjoy a little family time or friends time and just, you know, enjoy this great country that we live in. We're very blessed in my opinion, still the greatest country on earth and glad to be here for sure. [00:02:37] Speaker B: Listen, we've got freedoms that we're able to enjoy that oftentimes we take for granted. And you know, we celebrate the 4 July for a lot of us. I actually saw something that was very interesting the other day. I think it was on Britannica's Twitter or X, formally known as Twitter page, where it was talking about the timeframes between some different individuals. And did you know this is a random fact. Harriet Tubman lived during the same time as both John Adams and Ronald Reagan. It's true. [00:03:11] Speaker A: Really? [00:03:12] Speaker B: Yes. That was their random, that was a random fact that I saw on there. I thought that was crazy. But it got me to thinking with the fourth coming up, we think, oh, the founding of our country was so far away, but really it wasn't too long ago that it happened. And we often think, hey, it's been a while, but it really hasn't been too long. And hopefully we haven't allowed that time to cause us to become apathetic or take for granted the freedoms that happened as a result of the revolution in this country and then also the things that have happened between now and then to continue for us to have those freedoms. [00:03:45] Speaker A: That's absolutely true. We don't want to take things like that for granted because that's how you lose some of those gifts and freedoms for sure. So it's gonna be a lot of fun on the show today. We've got some great guests coming up, and I know you've got a lot of technology news and tips coming up. We have a great new DTC expert, Mister Josh talent will be here with us here in a little bit. We'll be speaking with Jason Taggart in a few moments with the old feed store antique mall in Woodbury. And antiques are something that's really big, especially in this area, and people love that sort of thing. So you don't want to miss that. But we're going to start off with our first interview of the month with Mister John Lowe with your glamping adventure. John, thanks for being here today. [00:04:31] Speaker C: Thank you for having me. It's an honor. I really appreciate it. [00:04:33] Speaker A: Your business is amazing as far as looking at like, the progress and how quick you guys have grown to where you are. And we'll kind of get into that here in a little bit. But before we do, let's kind of introduce everyone watching or listening into who you are and how you got to where you are today. [00:04:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Um, so I'm John Lowe. I'm the general manager of your glamping adventure. So, uh, this is a small business. There's only three of us. So there's, uh, Matt and Dawn, who are the owners. She does all of our interior design. Um, Matt has self funded this entire, uh, escapade. And then it's kind of. It's their vision and then my handiwork. So, you know, everything that you see, the domes, the tents of, um, the. The new lodge, which we'll get into. We're talking about that. Uh, that was all done pretty much just by me and one other guy, which we hired recently. That's. That's been great to have another set of hands. But, yeah, the building, guest communications. You know, if you call or send an email, it goes right to my phone. So you're always, uh, talking with me and working with me. If you're. If you're coming to the property, you're. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Not a Tennessee native. Correct. But you ended up here. Now, tell us a little bit about your history as far as where you grew up and how you ended up here. [00:05:44] Speaker C: So, I'm originally from Baltimore, Maryland, which is not really an outdoorsy place. We had a little wood trail by my house that I would always go run to, go play in the river, play in the creek, whatever. Moved to North Carolina for college. That's where I met my wife. So she was a beach bum. Beach babe, whichever one you want to call for her whole life. So we were a little bit worried when we felt like God told us to move to Tennessee because, oh, there's no. There's no ocean. Right. But we. We quickly fell in love with, you know, the lakes, the outdoor lifestyle. [00:06:14] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:15] Speaker C: The. The hills, the woods. I mean, it's. Tennessee's the best. I absolutely love it here. There's no other place that I'd want to raise my kids in. So we. We had our son about 14 months ago, I think. 14 months, yeah. But, yeah, he's. I'm just. I'm very happy that he gets to have his childhood and to be raised here in middle Tennessee. It's. There's really no better place. [00:06:35] Speaker A: Yeah. We're kind of partial to it, too, so it's always nice to hear others think the same way we do. Glamping, if you will, is kind of like a combination of words, right? [00:06:43] Speaker B: It's. [00:06:43] Speaker A: It's like glamorous camping. [00:06:45] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:06:46] Speaker A: Yes. Am I right on that? [00:06:47] Speaker C: That's exactly what it is, yeah. So the glamping term, I guess it was coined in 2007, 2008. People really started to search it, and it's exactly that. It's glamorous camping. The way. The way I like to think about it is it's camping that your wife would want to go to. So, like, for me, I love fire gizzard. I love backpacking Colorado. You know, all these different things where you're packing in, packing out, going 1015 miles in a day. And my wife does not like that. [00:07:13] Speaker A: Right. [00:07:13] Speaker C: She likes ac and running water. [00:07:15] Speaker A: And if you've got, like, small kids or something, like, that's kind of hard. [00:07:18] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:07:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:19] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm not gonna make my son walk for 10 miles, but you get the same experience of being in nature, really feeling like you're immersed in nature while you're still in a fuzzy robe and, you know, can go take a shower real quick. And it's. It's really the perfect marriage of the two, you know, where you don't have to hike in, hike out, and take all your gear, and. But you still get that experience of, wow, I'm in the woods, I'm in the trees. I'm right off this bluff, and I'm really able to see the lake or the valley or whatever it is. So we've really tried to harness that and capture it in what we're doing. [00:07:51] Speaker A: Okay. We've kind of hinted about kind of the business model a little bit, but tell us a little more about the different properties and the amenities that each one has and their location and that kind of thing. [00:08:02] Speaker C: Yeah. So most of our glamping sites are in Smithville, right off of one of the pine, Pine creek finger of, uh, center Hill lake. So, um, you're looking about an hour and a half from Nashville, uh, ish, hour and a half from Knoxville, kind of right in the middle. Perfect little sweet spot of far enough away that you feel like you're on vacation, but close enough that if there was emergency with kids, you can get back to it. [00:08:25] Speaker A: Right? That's a good point. [00:08:26] Speaker C: Um, so, yeah, Smithville is kind of our main hub. We've got five different units there, two domes, uh, three of what we're calling tree tents. So the domes are kind of our piece de resistance. They're the glamorous, all of the amenities. Top of the line. They sit right on a bluff overlooking center Hill Lake. It's gorgeous. It's perfect. [00:08:48] Speaker A: Yeah, the pictures looked amazing. I saw on social media before we met today. Wow, what a view. [00:08:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:53] Speaker A: That's amazing. [00:08:54] Speaker C: They were a beast to build. I tell you what? Being right on that bluff, I think the edge of the dome, Highland view, sits about 28ft off the ground on the edge, and then that front edge is hard into the ground. So that bluff over that 30ft, just. It drops. It's crazy, but yeah. So those two domes, they can sleep five. They got king bed, queen bed, private hot tub, private fire pit, rainfall, showerheads, full tile bathroom, I mean, to the nines, really. And then those did really well. So we're like, all right, well, let's. Let's try some different things. So we tried what we're calling tree tents. They're set back in the woods. They're my favorite as a hunter, as somebody who loves just sitting in a tree stand. It has the same feeling of that because you're on another bluff, but it's going down into a creek bank, so you're still high in elevation off the edge of that. Really in the trees, in the woods, same kind of amenities. Right. We've got one unit that can sleep four. It's got bunk beds and a queen bed. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Wow, that's big. [00:09:52] Speaker C: Yeah, that one's good. The next one is the biggest one. It's about 980 square foot. It's almost as big as my house. [00:09:59] Speaker A: And this is in a tree. [00:10:00] Speaker C: This is. Well, technically it's on the ground. [00:10:04] Speaker A: I guess you're really right there. [00:10:05] Speaker C: Yeah, you're right there in it. So that one can sleep eight. It's got four twin beds and a loft and then two separate rooms that are two queen beds. So we're really trying to think families in mind for these ones. Bring another family from church or from neighborhood or whatever and come hang out for the weekend. Big private outdoor areas. All of them have private fire pits, private hot tubs, private outdoor spaces, grills, places that you can just kind of hang out outside the goal, you can't. [00:10:32] Speaker A: Rough it without roughing it. [00:10:33] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:34] Speaker C: Heat ac, like I said, all of it. You know, my wife does not like to sweat. And Tennessee gets hot. Right. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Very humid. [00:10:41] Speaker C: We've got ac going in all of them. We've got fans. You know, we want to make sure that it's a comfortable and enjoyable experience for everybody, too. But, yeah, that's. Those are. That's the glamping side. We just moved. One of our newest properties is the lodge, which is over on silver point. So just the other side of the lake, right off of I 40, and that is a 5500 square foot house that sits on 110 acres. So there's about five and a half miles of walking trails that you can get right up on the core line. You're going up and down these. These beautiful valleys and hills. It's got a couple lake view spots as well, but that one can sleep 21 in a bed. And it's got four bathrooms, huge kitchen, sun room, living areas. [00:11:23] Speaker A: What a unique property. Around here, you don't see a lot of properties with that kind of capacity. [00:11:29] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. And that was our goal. Right. You get family reunions, like, we've got guests staying there right now. Actually, half the family's in Tampa and half the family's in Wisconsin. So, like, oh, Tennessee's the perfect middle ground. So they're coming together, celebrating. You know, the grandpa's, he's retiring in eight weeks, and so they're all excited for him. And it's like his big retirement party with the grandkids and, like, being able to provide people with the ability to come together in an area that's so beautiful and so unique, man. That's what we're all about, you know, with the. With the glamping side, the tent specifically. We didn't put any tvs in any of it. Cause the goal is for you to not only connect with the people you're going with, but to connect with nature. Get out in the woods. Not so many people these days are stuck in the. In the hustle bustle of the concrete jungle of Murfreesboro or Nashville or Cincinnati or whatever it is. Get back out, you know, get a couple skeeter bites, and really get back in the woods is what we're hoping. [00:12:25] Speaker A: Give yourself almost like a reset, if you will. [00:12:27] Speaker C: Exactly. Yeah, that's what we're going for. [00:12:29] Speaker A: One thing, too. I mean, your close proximity to Center Hill Lake obviously opens up a ton of recreational options. Right, for people staying there. [00:12:38] Speaker C: Yeah. And we've been really fortunate to be able to partner with a lot of local businesses. So JB's watercraft canoe, the Caney Billy over there, has been great to work with. So we'll send her business. She'll send us business. A lot of local vendors in Smithville, you know, Cheryl, with Cheryl's Bobies DeKalb county florist, there's a lot of people that we've been able to partner with. Bring that guest experience up. You know, if you want a fresh bouquet of flowers or chocolate covered strawberries, we can make that happen for you, which is really, really cool. And along with just the draw of the lake. Right. If you want to bring your boat, great. Four Seasons Marina is 2 miles down the road. Go for it. You want to rent a boat? You don't have one. Awesome. Go to sligo. Go to hurricane. They've got those, those double decker pontoons, which are a great time for a big group of people. [00:13:23] Speaker A: And like you said, it's just minutes away from where you're already staying. I mean, you're not wasting a lot of time trying to get back and forth between different sites. [00:13:30] Speaker C: Exactly. Yeah. And, you know, one of my favorite things is hiking. Right. So a very underrated hiking spot, in my opinion, is Rock Island State Park. I love Rock Island. I think it's one of the best spots in the country. And, you know, we're 15 minutes away from it, so being able to just hop down, get some great waterfalls, go see the old stone castle. It's just. It's really cool. It's. It's a special place and it's cool. [00:13:53] Speaker A: To be a part of when kind of mentioned some of those things. I bet that there's different emphasis on activities that you can do near your glamping adventure space. Right. Based on what time of year, probably the weather's nice. [00:14:05] Speaker C: You know, today it's. It's a 95 degree day. I'm not really going to send somebody to Rock island. You know, you can get in the water, you can swim a little bit, but hiking is not the best activity today. Right. Today we're going to go to. We're going to Sligo, we're going to rent the boat or we're going to go to, you know, the wreck area over at the lake and go swimming. Right. So there's. There's a lot of different things to do depending on the time of year, wintertime, we're more just sticking inside and snuggling. Right. We've got natural gas heat, so it stays nice and warm inside of all those. Throw the robes on that we give you. Throw the slippers on that we give you. And, you know, just hang out with the winter. [00:14:41] Speaker A: I bet the views during, like, fall when the leaves are falling and the colors changing and it's the best, but it's amazing. [00:14:48] Speaker C: Yeah. That, like third week of October usually, right. That's usually where it falls. And it's just. It's perfect. All the yellows are still on. The oranges have popped up. It's kind of thinning out. So you can see more of the lake. We get year round lake views, but, man, those fall and winter views are perfect. You can see all the way down Pine Creek up into center hill. It really is a special place. [00:15:11] Speaker A: And the way the structures are made, the visual ability to see all of that is just unparalleled. Right. [00:15:17] Speaker C: So we're the only units, as far as we know, in the world. They were a custom order for us. For the domes, they've got two bay windows. Usually, domes only have one bay window on the front. We wanted two. One for the bedroom and one for the living room. So when you walk in, you're seeing that living room view, and you're like, oh, my gosh, this is amazing. Looking straight down the lake, right? It's perfect. Then you kind of follow the light around to the bedroom, and the bedrooms are facing into the woods, so it's a little bit darker, a little bit more private. But, man, that's exactly. You wake up and it's just. You're covered in woods. You're hearing turkey calling. You might hear some coyotes howling in the middle of the night, but, man, that's all part of it. [00:15:55] Speaker A: But at the same time, you also. We talk about getting away. There's some times when maybe, you know, for work purposes or, you know, maybe you have to stay connected with family. You have some things you may need to stay Internet connected. You do have some technology involved there in each of these sites, right? [00:16:10] Speaker C: Yeah. And that's. That is something that people are most surprised by when they come to our units and you're out in the middle of a field overlooking the lake, or you're in the middle of the woods with no regular cell service. [00:16:21] Speaker D: Right. [00:16:22] Speaker C: When I was building those tents, before we got Wifi hooked up, I'd have to come up out of the gully to get a phone call or all my texts. My wife would make fun of me because she would know exactly when I was coming home from work. Cause I'd come out of the holler and all my texts just started, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. [00:16:37] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:16:37] Speaker C: Cause I'd have no service down in the holler. As soon as we got DTC run out there, we got thousand up, thousand down at every single unit. Wow, that's great connectivity. And the guests rave about it. We had a guest stay this past spring, and they stayed for two weeks just because they had that flexibility to be able to still work. Right. He was on video calls, doing things with work, working remotely. But, you know, the kids could watch Netflix if it was a rainy day, or they could go run and play in the yard. There's. It's a strong enough connection to where you don't. You don't have to be connected. Right. We don't have tvs, we don't have it all in front of you, but if you need to be connected, the options there, right there. There's a couple places in discovering this glamping. You got to do some research. So me and my wife had stayed at a couple different spots in Kentucky or Salina. You go to wherever and see what other people are doing and trying to figure it out. And there's a couple spots where there's a sign on your way in, hey, look, if you have an emergency, like, there's not even so's signal, like you're out there and it's. I love it. Like, I got a sat phone, I'm good. But that. That's not going to work. [00:17:45] Speaker A: Not everybody does, right? [00:17:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:46] Speaker C: That's not going to work for a lot of people who have kids at home or have a job that could call at any time. Right. You've got to be able to stay connected one way or another. And, I mean, you guys have done a great job giving us that service. To be able to give it to the guests. [00:17:59] Speaker A: It's an honor to be a part of it. And it's such a different business for us to kind of partner with as far as helping to supply Internet, too, because it's just unique what you guys are doing. So it's awesome to see that right in our service area backyard, so to speak. So. [00:18:13] Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely. [00:18:14] Speaker A: Do you have anything new coming up down the, down the road that you want to kind of preview or things going on? [00:18:19] Speaker C: We're always working on something. The lodge is our newest property. If there's something to push, quote unquote. That's. That's what I would love to push. We just opened it the beginning of May. So like I said, it's a. It's a huge house. At one point in time was the biggest house in Putnam county, which is pretty cool from 57 to the seventies, I think for a while. Allen Jackson and shot a Ford commercial in that house. Yeah, it's pretty cool. [00:18:45] Speaker A: That's pretty cool. [00:18:46] Speaker C: It's got like this crazy ornate stone wall around it. But yeah, huge house sits on a huge amount of acreage. You could really just kind of let loose and run wild there, which is really nice. Bring the family, bring the kids. That's a great spot to do it as far as having great living areas. And it's a new thing for us. We're experimenting. We're trying to see how do houses work as opposed to domes and tents and is that where we want to go to in the future? But what we're working on right now, we're trying to finish that fourth tent. We've got three of them up. The fourth one's coming. We are probably going to put a sauna on that one. That'll be the first one with a sauna as well as a hot tub, maybe an outdoor shower. Really try to bring a lot of the feedback that we've been getting from guests and put it all into that unit. We're cutting new trails right now. The property has a trail down to the lake. We've been and we've been fortunate enough to be able to work with army Corps of engineers to get a four foot maintained trail all the way down to the lake. Oh, it's phenomenal. So it's about a half mile trail down there. Now we're working on connecting the rest of the property to that trail. So it'll be about a mile and a quarter one way. So about two and a half miles round trip on the trails to get you good views of the properties and down to the lake. And yeah, we're really, really excited about what's coming. [00:20:06] Speaker A: So if someone has heard everything we've been talking about today and they're like, I've got to get in touch with them. I need to learn more. I need to book something. What's the best way to get that started? How should they contact you? [00:20:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Best way to book is yourglampingadventure.com dot. You can just google your glamping adventure. We generally pop up, you know, first page or so. You can give us a call. That's all on Google as well. But yeah, the best place to book your glampingventure.com dot. We've got Airbnb listings, but yeah, booking direct is always better. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Awesome. [00:20:36] Speaker B: Awesome. [00:20:36] Speaker A: Well, John, thanks so much for coming and to talk to us today about your business and it's really awesome. Like I said, the photos, they do it justice. [00:20:45] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:20:45] Speaker A: And you guys are doing a great job. [00:20:47] Speaker C: And thank you for highlighting us. You all are doing a great job as well. [00:20:50] Speaker A: I appreciate it. [00:20:50] Speaker C: Really appreciate working with you guys. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Hey, anytime, anytime. Hey, everybody, stay tuned. We'll have more of the show coming up in just a moment. [00:20:59] Speaker E: Great communities attract talented people to live, work and raise their families. We've deployed a high speed network that helps the best and the brightest enjoy better lives in our smart rural community. Great small businesses provide jobs that help workers earn a good living and provide for their families while strengthening local economies. 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[00:22:45] Speaker C: Grandpa. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Grandpa, wanna play my new game with me? [00:22:48] Speaker D: Well, sure, I'd love to play a new game. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Let's go. [00:22:54] Speaker D: Gotcha. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Give me a. [00:22:57] Speaker D: Don't. I'm gonna catch you. [00:23:03] Speaker A: I'm gonna catch you this time. And welcome back to the show. And it's time to start this part of the show, as we do each and every month by throwing it to Justin for a little Justin's tech tips. [00:23:26] Speaker B: So, Nick, last month when we were in discussion, I actually made mention of the TWRa's lifetime hunting license that you can give for little ones. And this, you know, may play a little bit into that, because if you have that, it's also a hunting license and it's a fishing license. Whenever you buy those, you actually do get two in one with it. So it allows you to get both. And so we're going to talk about fishing today, maybe not the type of fishing that you're thinking about or that our audience may be thinking about. In the world of technology, when individuals are talking about fishing, they're not trying to go get you some big mouth or small mouth bass, and they're not running down here to Center Hill Lake for recreation. Unfortunately, they are trying to do some unscrupulous things. So what we're going to be talking about today is maybe sometimes when you get that text message, you get that email, or maybe even you get that phone call that they're, hey, it's an emergency. Your bank accounts been hacked. We need an extended car warranty, whatever those things may be. You know, oftentimes we have scammers who are out there who were using what's called phishing, which is an attempt to gain some information from you that's valuable to them for some, some reason. [00:24:43] Speaker A: And when you say phishing, that's ph, yes. Right? [00:24:48] Speaker B: Yes. So the type. Yes, the type of phishing that we are talking about when you get an email, we're going to use an example, an illustration here. You get an email and it purports that it's from, we'll just say Microsoft. And it says, hey, your account has been disabled. We need you to update your password so that you can get back into your account. And it could be from Apple, could be from your bank, somebody pretending to be your bank. It could be from maybe Netflix, you know, maybe you, maybe you're receiving an email that purports to be from your email provider saying, hey, we need you to reset your password. It does happen, and oftentimes in those situations, these individuals who are trying to gather this, they want you to click a malicious link. So you need to be very careful with those. Those will have links in them that will redirect you to what is supposed to be a legitimate site. But it's usually a site that's been set up by an individual just to capture your information. What their ultimate goal is is they want you to use your name, your username, email, whatever it may be, to log into something. [00:25:53] Speaker A: Right. [00:25:53] Speaker B: Or it could also be that there's a form that they want you to fill out that maybe they're trying to gather some information on you. We've talked about password managers before, because the majority of people, what do they do with their passwords? They reuse them, they recycle them. And so generally, if you can get this information, if you can get an email and a password, most time you have access to quite a bit of stuff from an individual. Now, sometimes this is an email, could be a text message. One of the ones that's most prevalent is individuals pretending to be fraud departments of banks. Hey, you've got fraudulent activity. Call us right now. Hey, there's, you know, this is bank of America. If you've ever got a message like, I don't, I don't bank with that bank. I don't, I don't have any accounts with them. Well, what's happening is that's a phishing attempt. They, they may have no earthly idea who you actually are. [00:26:41] Speaker A: They're just rolling the dice, hoping that maybe you do, and we'll click on that. [00:26:44] Speaker B: If we send this to enough people, there's going to be somebody who's going to click on it, who's going to give this, because you'll, if you get a message that says, hey, you're, you know, there's fraudulent activity on your account and you bank with them, what's your first reaction is going to be, oh, no, I got to fix this. I don't need somebody spending money that's not mine. And, you know, they're hoping to use that, that emotional attachment. Sometimes you have what's called spear phishing, okay? Which is still with fishing with that ph. But it's spear because it's a little bit more tactical and a little bit more intentional, where maybe they know who you are, they know your name. Maybe they've checked out your social media profile, and they know that you have children. [00:27:23] Speaker A: They know details about it. [00:27:25] Speaker B: They may know, they may know your spouse. Maybe they know who, who your grandparents or somebody are. Maybe they'll use that information to call one of your grandparents and say, hey, I am a representative. And your son or your grandson, he's in jail, and we really need to get some money from, for him to help get him out and bail him out. He can't make, he can't make a phone call. He's not allowed to do anything. But he's in dire straits. And we need this information from you, or we need you to go ahead and wire us this money so that we can help him. And again, they've mixed what my father would use to say as an affecting lying technique. They mixed a little bit of truth with a lot of lie. [00:28:05] Speaker A: That's right. [00:28:05] Speaker B: And when you do that, people are more susceptible to give into it. And so I use these different illustrations to say, make sure you know who you're talking to. Make sure you understand who is calling you, who is messaging you, or who is emailing you and when in doubt. For instance, recently I had a phone call from somebody who purported to be my mortgage provider. For anybody who lives in the state of Tennessee, you can find out who a lienholder is on a piece of property. It's public record, so somebody can find that out. Well, they called purporting to be my mortgage provider. They left me a voicemail number. Didn't make sense that they were calling from. Of course, it does cause concern for me. So what did I do? Did I call that number back that they called from? Nope. I called the number back that I knew was for my mortgage provider. And I inquired with some with information that I knew and with the department that I knew to say, hey, I've received this troubling phone call. I've received this troubling text message. I've received this troubling email. Can you provide assistance? Their response to me was, not us, right. Not from us. [00:29:10] Speaker A: Right. [00:29:11] Speaker B: So be very, very careful with any information contained in those. Look for oftentimes information that may not make complete sense. Lots of typos, lots of, lots of typos and misspellings and that. So they may not have your name, right. They may not have all your information, right. They're usually not too careful with, with some of the things that they are doing. But if any email that you're not expecting comes in, it has a link in it. Because understand, most of your financial institutions, service providers for various things aren't going to usually send you a message that says, hey, immediately log in and fix this. Or if they do, they will say, hey, go to our website or hey, go to our app. They don't oftentimes actually provide a direct link for that reason. [00:29:56] Speaker A: Right. [00:29:57] Speaker B: Because they want you to be careful. And there is technology nowadays that'll scan emails, that will scan links to try to help you out with those things. So utilize those tools. But the big thing is, don't always trust what's coming in. [00:30:10] Speaker A: That's very careful. I've noticed too, a lot of times if you get a message like that and you're not sure if it's legitimate or not, if it's a message that you did not initiate a conversation on, a lot of times that's a red flag that there's probably something going on with that. Don't you think that's the case sometimes? [00:30:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And the thing is, again, with most, you know, if you receive a text message or a phone call, most devices now have some sort of flag, hey, this is potential junk. This is potential spam. You've never received an email from this person before. That's how my email is set up. It will say, hey, you haven't received an email from them. Do you even want to see it to begin with? They won't even actually load the message until I say, hey, yes, I would like to see this. But yes, oftentimes again, it's a smart move. And people don't do this enough to add to your contacts, legitimate people you want to receive information from, whether that's a phone number, an email, whatever it may be, add those things to your contacts because then it'll help cut down on those false ones. [00:31:10] Speaker A: That's very true. That's some really great information that Justin's sharing with you today. I hope that it helps someone prevent a problem before it starts. And with us for this segment, we have Mister Jason Taggart with old feed store, antique mall. Hello, Jason. [00:31:27] Speaker D: Hi there. Glad to be here. [00:31:28] Speaker A: Appreciate you make that long trip over. Right. Yeah, you're just literally down the road. So tell us, kind of introduce us to who you are and your ties to Cannon county and that sort of thing. Let us get to know you. [00:31:42] Speaker D: Well, I'm Jason Taggart. I've lived here all my life. My grandparents are Linda Aver and Bill Avern. A lot of people probably know him cause he was the chief of police here for about 20 something odd years and then a court officer and different things of that nature. But my other grandpa's JB Murphy. He's from the Auburn town area. So my whole family's been here forever. In fact, this Saturday marks 100 years since my great grandparents were married. And we're actually celebrating that at a family reunion this week, yesterday. [00:32:11] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:32:12] Speaker D: Yeah, pretty cool. So I've always been here. [00:32:15] Speaker A: Definitely got some thick ties to the area. [00:32:17] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. Don't plan on leaving either. [00:32:19] Speaker A: Well, tell us a little bit about your business and am I getting the name right? It's old feed store antique mall. [00:32:25] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:32:26] Speaker A: Is that right? [00:32:27] Speaker D: So it's a little tricky. It was originally the farmers co op in a Purina feed store back in the day, and so they wanted to keep that feed store name in the. In the title, but the people opened it in the late eighties, early nineties, implemented the antique mall portion of it. So that's the name that has stuck since then. [00:32:44] Speaker A: I love that, though. I mean, it's so accurate. It describes exactly what's going on. [00:32:48] Speaker D: Exactly. Yeah. [00:32:49] Speaker A: So how did you get involved in this? [00:32:50] Speaker D: I started as a teenager back in 2015, barely a teenager. I was 18, turning 19, and I just really enjoyed working there. And I would make the orders and different things like that. I kind of got really involved with might sort of manage in the place and stuff like that. And then the owners, Mike and Debbie Vaughn, can't thank them enough. They asked me, would you ever be interested in running yet? Because they were open to the idea of selling, but they want to make sure it went to the right person and different stuff like that. And I told them I was like, I'd love to. And they said, well, if you're going to do that, you're going to need a big boy job. You're not going to be able to do it on what we pay. So that's how I ended up doing hurricane work and different things like that. [00:33:29] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:33:30] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [00:33:30] Speaker A: That's an interesting background, too. Yeah. [00:33:32] Speaker D: I'd never been on a plane or been on a plane. One other time. And then I was on one every week for about a year until I did a local position in Nashville. [00:33:41] Speaker A: Okay, so hurricane work. Describe that for me. [00:33:44] Speaker D: So, uh, basically, whenever after the hurricane hits, as terrible as it is, we're responsible for getting everything back up and running as far as, like, we did mainly commercials, like hotels, but some million restaurants, things like that, so. [00:33:59] Speaker A: Wow. [00:33:59] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:33:59] Speaker A: That's interesting. Yeah, it was. [00:34:01] Speaker D: I didn't know anything about it either till I went into it. And it's a lot of work. [00:34:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I bet. Yeah. [00:34:06] Speaker D: People are appreciative for it, too, though, so it feels good doing it at the same time. [00:34:10] Speaker A: Feel like you're really helping somebody, someone out. Speaking of helping someone out, I know you guys had a lot of water over at your facilities not too long ago. Are you guys back up and running? [00:34:20] Speaker D: We are. We are back up and running. Luckily, that job kind of prepared me for that situation. We was about four foot underwater in the feed room. [00:34:28] Speaker A: And that's just from flooding. Right? From rain. [00:34:30] Speaker D: Yeah. In fact, it wasn't raining at all when it flooded. It was all. It moved up to short mountain, and, uh, just the river just started rising. It was under in about 17 minutes. I was there. [00:34:40] Speaker A: Wow. [00:34:40] Speaker D: The whole time kind of moving feed, trying to save everything, so. But when it's that degree, there's not much you can do. [00:34:47] Speaker A: At the mercy of. [00:34:48] Speaker D: I grabbed the cat. We have a cat that's been there for 13 years and. And put her in a crate, and we all left and came back when the water was gone. [00:34:55] Speaker A: That's all you can do, right. But you're back open, and everything's sound like it's getting back, back to normal. [00:35:00] Speaker D: Yes, sir. We had the feed store open, and it took us five days to get all that sludge cleaned up and get it open, get our forklift running, and the mall was a little less severe. So we got that open about two days. But thanks to the help of a lot of volunteers, we had about 19 to 25 volunteers every day that they were just. I didn't call anybody. They just showed up with shop vacs the minute we opened kind of thing. So it was really Tennessee spirit. Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah. Can't thank him enough. [00:35:26] Speaker A: That's awesome. So you are truly an animal feed store still after all this time. Right. [00:35:32] Speaker D: Although the antique mall is our biggest area of the business, a lot of the bulk of our business actually goes to the feed store because we supply a lot of the local farmers and even surrounding counties kind of travel out for different things. We offer. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Talk a little bit about the antique mall side of the business there. What kind of vendors do you have inside and what kind of items can I find if I peruse the area? [00:35:54] Speaker D: Depends on the time of year. Our vendors are really good at sticking with the trends and thing. Right now you can find a lot of outdoor furniture, you know, bird baths, concrete decorations, outdoor things like that. A lot of summer vibes inside the store. [00:36:06] Speaker A: That's the point. I didn't think about that. It kind of shifts and changes based on the season. [00:36:09] Speaker D: I don't say nothing to them. They just know. So they start doing it. [00:36:13] Speaker A: They understand it, right? [00:36:14] Speaker D: Absolutely. And we've had a lot of the same dealers there for, you know, some of them ten years, some of them 25 years kind of thing. So, you know, they know what sales win kind of thing. [00:36:25] Speaker A: Now, are you an antique person? [00:36:27] Speaker D: Oh, absolutely. I'm a little more obscure than that. I've collect a lot of retro video games and things like that. Yeah, I'm almost done with the north american Nintendo 64 collection, if you know what that is. I had about 29 games to go, but other than that, I collect. We're building an apartment in the back of it, and a lot of the furniture we're using is actually from the shops and not just there. I've went to Willow and over the hill and other antique stores that we have and kind of just all compiling it until I got its own little decorative vibe. [00:36:55] Speaker A: That's neat. Yeah, yeah. It's definitely going to match well with your surroundings. [00:36:59] Speaker D: Yeah. We were like, if we're going to be funny with our house or do anything, you know, it's kind of out of the ordinary. Might as well do it while we're owning this and living in the back of it, you know, kind of thing. [00:37:08] Speaker A: I know you probably have a lot of visitors that are in not from Cannon county, just because a lot of people like to go antiquing and you never know where they'll come from. What's some of the furtherest distances? Maybe you've heard of visitors coming to stop by. [00:37:21] Speaker D: We've had Colorado, California, places like that where people are just making a road trip and it's somewhere they stop at while they're in town, looking up different antique stores to go to and things of that nature. But I'd say probably the furthest I've ever known was New Zealand, just as I have. I heard somebody there, they had accent, of course, being for wood bear. You asked him, where are you from? [00:37:40] Speaker A: You gotta figure that out. [00:37:41] Speaker D: And they let us know. So, yeah, I'd say that's about the furthest. [00:37:45] Speaker A: Oh, that's really neat. [00:37:46] Speaker D: Mm hmm. Absolutely. [00:37:47] Speaker A: Are you noticing any antique trends per se? I know you mentioned it's kind of seasonal as far as things are. Any things that kind of seem to be getting hot right now in the antique? [00:37:56] Speaker D: Brass, just brass. Decoratives in general. You know, coat hangers, little desk pieces, paper weights, different stuff like that. [00:38:03] Speaker A: Okay. [00:38:03] Speaker D: And I say that because me and my fiance, that's kind of like, our vibe that we're doing for our apartment, and that's. We noticed that, and people are bringing a lot of it in, so we have a lot to shop for kind of thing, too. [00:38:16] Speaker A: That's gonna be one of my questions, too. I was gonna say, what do you like to see coming through? Is it brass items? Any favorites? [00:38:22] Speaker D: I love, really. I'm kind of into small things, like lighters and case knives and things like that. But really, if I had to be specific, it'd be like some of the furniture I've never even seen before. Like, I really begrudged myself because we had this bench for sale for quite a long time, and. But it was just a regular bench, and it would fold over into a picnic table on one side. And I was like, that thing's so cool. I gotta buy it. Never bought it. It sold. And now I'm like, oh, man, now you're kicking yourself. [00:38:47] Speaker A: Who knows when the next one will come through? Yeah. [00:38:49] Speaker D: Yeah. Sometimes I don't even like to shop around because I end up buying stuff I don't want to. [00:38:54] Speaker A: I think that would be one of the hardest parts, obviously, of owning this business and running it and things. I mean, when do you put your foot down and say, I know I can't buy everything that comes through here that I like to see. Right. [00:39:04] Speaker D: Absolutely. I have to do that all the time. [00:39:06] Speaker A: So do you use a lot of technology? I know it's. You think the word antiques, you think there's no technology in antiques. But keeping any business running in this day and age probably involves some kind of technology, right? [00:39:17] Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely. You need your wi fi, obviously, for your credit card runs and computer to be able to do spreadsheets for our pricing and different things like that. So we're getting a lot more involved with it. A lot of the other antique shops have stepped up their game with different third party tracking things for their receipts and different things like that. And we're really trying to move to that direction where the dealers will know what they sold without having to come down to the antique store and actually thought about that. [00:39:43] Speaker A: That makes total sense because most of. [00:39:45] Speaker D: The time they have to come down there, look at their booth, see what's sold, check the receipts, see what they have room for, and then go back home, get it, and then bring it back. So we're trying to knock out one of those steps. [00:39:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That makes, makes work a lot easier, doesn't it? Keeps you off the road a little bit, so to speak. [00:39:59] Speaker D: Or even worse, they bring a bunch of stuff to load their booth down and realize they didn't sell a lot that week, and now they're carrying that stuff back with them. [00:40:06] Speaker A: Thought about that either. [00:40:07] Speaker D: So a lot of obstacles you can change with stuff like that. But we're, we're heading that direction right now. [00:40:12] Speaker A: No, that's awesome. [00:40:13] Speaker D: Right now we're still all paper for the most part. Handwritten receipts. Yeah, it's nice. It's old timey. Definitely slows things down a little bit. So we're trying to get with the time just a little bit on that. [00:40:24] Speaker A: That's neat. Well, if someone heard all of our discussions today, like, I never knew this was here, describe where you're at, you know, your dress, but also how to get there and your hours and that sort of thing. [00:40:34] Speaker D: We are 310 West Water street here in Woodbury, right off the square. If you're at the courthouse, we're on the backside over with the bank, right down the road. [00:40:43] Speaker A: Okay. [00:40:43] Speaker D: Same side as Willow. We're right beside the water department. So that's about the best description I can give. And we're open. The feed store is open 830 to five Monday through Saturday with a half hour lunch. And the antique mall is open. It's kind of funny. Hours, ten to five, Monday through Friday, nine to five Saturday, one to five on Sunday. [00:41:07] Speaker A: Seven days a week, though, is some forum or something. [00:41:10] Speaker D: I've always got something to do every day. [00:41:11] Speaker A: That's awesome. Well, you guys have a lot of inventory, by the way, too. I mean, you have two stories, right? [00:41:17] Speaker D: Absolutely. The heat, because it's an old building, obviously. It's never been air conditioned or anything like that. We do the best we can with fans. [00:41:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:24] Speaker D: Also trying to implement some swamp tours and different things like that to bring the temperatures in there, too. So we're going to do some different things like that. See what we can do this year. [00:41:31] Speaker A: Well, if you do, just tell everybody come first thing in the morning. Right? [00:41:34] Speaker D: Exactly. [00:41:34] Speaker A: Get those bargains first thing. [00:41:36] Speaker D: Yeah. Get out of there by 02:00 if you can. But if you, if you're coming down. It's, it's still ain't bad. It's manageable. We'll give you a free water, something like that. You find something, fade into. [00:41:44] Speaker A: You might, you might get some bargains at someone else who was waiting on it to get cooler. [00:41:47] Speaker D: Exactly. There you go. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Might skip by. So that's awesome. Well, Jason, we wish you the best of luck with everything, and thank you so much for keeping the tradition going. I love to hear these business stories where these businesses were started so many decades ago and generations ago, and someone in the current day is still, you know, pushing forward and keeping things alive and keeping these small towns relevant, and it's just exciting to me. [00:42:13] Speaker D: I really appreciate what you do, and I appreciate that. And I'd be begrudged if I didn't mention this before I left, too. The first year that there was ever a business plan of, there actually was 100 years ago in 1924. [00:42:24] Speaker A: Wow. [00:42:24] Speaker D: It was the crystal ice and coal company. So before we had refrigerators, we needed the big bots of ice and different things like that. So that was where it really started. And then it became feed stores after, over the years after that, it was a lumberyard at one point. So it's always been around, though. [00:42:38] Speaker A: If that building could talk. [00:42:39] Speaker D: Mm hmm. Absolutely. Sometimes I feel like it does. [00:42:42] Speaker A: Yeah. No, it feels like it does, doesn't it? They're kind of hiding in there, in between the walls, so to speak, so. Well, Jason, thanks so much. And that's the old feed store antique mall. You need to make sure you go out and see Jason, and you'll find a lot of things there that interest you. And I'm sure you'll carry something home. So best of luck on everything. [00:43:00] Speaker D: No problem. [00:43:01] Speaker A: Stay tuned with us. We'll have more of the show coming up in just a moment. [00:43:05] Speaker F: My name is Ashley Roth. My husband Caleb and I own stain and seal experts based in Alexandria, and we are a DTC customer. Caleb grew up in the fence industry, so when we got married and wanted to do something on our own, it made sense for us to start staining fences and manufacturing fence and deck and log cabin stains. We manufacture our own stains that check all the boxes for us that we offer to our customers here locally as well as nationwide that buy our products. DTC services all of our phone systems. We also have their fiber Internet. For our phone system to work is instrumental for us. We rely heavily on our Internet and phone services from DTC. It means a lot to us that they're local, that they've always been local and that we're able to support them and their services give us what we need to support our customers. Hi, I'm Ashley and that's the DTC difference. [00:44:09] Speaker A: Hello and welcome back to the show. We're gonna round up the show this month with part of our show we like to call ask the experts and we are lucky to have for the first time on the podcast, Mister Josh talent with DTC on the show. Mister Josh, thank you so much for being here. No problem. [00:44:26] Speaker B: Thanks for having me. [00:44:27] Speaker A: What would you like to share with us tip wise today? [00:44:29] Speaker B: Just a few tips. If you're having any Internet related troubles with your devices, please feel free to always first reboot that device. [00:44:38] Speaker A: That does solve a lot of the issues in general. Now, of course, if that does not. [00:44:41] Speaker B: Work, please give us a call at. [00:44:43] Speaker A: 615-52-9295 you know what? It sounds simple, but it's so true, isn't it? I mean, so many times when a device is not behaving and you go through all these different steps and settings trying to fix it, and sometimes it's the simplest thing, right? Correct. Just power the device down and power it back up. [00:45:05] Speaker B: Let it take a break. [00:45:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:07] Speaker B: You know, I love to use illustrations. At our church service on Wednesday night, our bible class teachers were not able to print or copy anything on our all in one printer that we have at the building. Like, what is going on? We tried everything. So finally, what did I do? I unplugged it. I just unplugged the thing. Left it off for about 30 seconds, plugged it back up, and guess what? No issues after the fact. No idea what happened. But guess what? Power socket that thing. By rebooting it works like a charm. [00:45:39] Speaker A: Looks like some of these manufacturers of these devices should put some kind of automatic reboot timer on it. So after so long, it just reboots itself to prevent these problems from happening to start with. I may be on to that. Maybe I should license that. [00:45:54] Speaker B: You could because they could put a little note in there that is reboot. [00:45:59] Speaker A: That's right. [00:45:59] Speaker B: That is actually built into quite a few devices now, is it to where it will automatically do it for you? Just for that, for that reason? [00:46:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:07] Speaker B: Well, the thing is, we don't see that it's clearing these temporary files and these cache files and you know, some, some sort of setting that may change, you know, during reboot, reboot, you know, whatever is happening. I mean, that's the thing is because everybody thinks, oh, I'm just rebooting it, but it's doing a lot of stuff behind the scenes within whatever operating system you're using. You know, I'm talking about using a printer. Well, that printer is running on an os. It's running on operating system, right. And so when you reboot it, it's, you know, it's doing all those things behind the scene. It's not just, oh, I cut power to it, turned it back on. There's actually things happening that we're not able to see. [00:46:41] Speaker A: There's been many a times when I have a family member, they know I'm kind of the tech nerd of the family, I admit. It's okay. I wear it like a badge of honor. But they'll call me with a problem and I'll offer that suggestions a lot. Well, have you tried rebooting the device? No, I haven't tried that. You know, and then they'll do it, hey, that fixed it. And it makes me look so great. And honestly, it's the same answer I give all the time. I'm taking a little more credit than I should, you know, but it's surprising how often it works. Hey, if it works, I'm going to stick with it, so. But Josh, I really appreciate you sharing that with us and also giving out the contact information. That's always good, too. You know, you can try the reboot thing, and if that doesn't work, you can always give DTC a call at 615-52-9295 and they'll be glad to look at your Internet service and behind the scenes. And I'm sure you guys would be happy to help anybody. [00:47:31] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Anytime. Anytime. [00:47:32] Speaker A: Yep. They are just down the hall from my office, and I. I hear them helping people almost on a daily basis, and they're so patient and kind and caring, and they really do want to help you. So if you run into any issues, don't feel like you can't call, that's why they're there. They're there to help you, and they'll be glad to if they can. [00:47:51] Speaker B: So, listen, it is Mister Josh talent, and he is a man of many talents, but everyone in that room that works with him has a lot of talents to offer. We do appreciate everything. [00:48:01] Speaker C: That's true. [00:48:01] Speaker A: We appreciate all they do. And all the techs at DTC, all the outside linemen, everyone that works there. There's a lot of people behind the scenes that you may not see that make things happen. Everybody does their part, and we're just happy to be that small part of it ourselves. So we're going to switch gears now and we're going to hand it over to Mister Justin like we do each and every month for tech news roundup. Justin, take it away. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Before I say any news, does anybody want to guess what may be on the menu for today's report? At this point, I think we are at 100%. I think this has been talked about literally every single month of the podcast to this point. And I can't help it because it is the thing that's on everybody's mind. So in a shocking breaking news right here on the local click, we're going to be talking about AI or artificial intelligence. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Wow. Did see that coming. [00:48:54] Speaker B: I know. I know that that is shocking to everyone here. A big thing that happened this past month, during the month of June for Apple. They held their worldwide developer conference, WWDC. And what this is, this is their annual event where they come through and they talk software. So it is a software event where they're announcing new operating systems and new features and new benefits. So this is not a hardware event specifically. There was some hardware announced, but this is primarily a software. The big thing that they announced is their version of AI, Apple Intelligence. Now, they teased it, and unfortunately, they've got quite a few things where it's going to do quite a bit of integration because Apple is a lot more privacy focused than some other companies. Majority of it's going to happen on device or if it needs to go off device, it will give you the option to send something off device, but we're not going to see it for a while. So they, it's not going to be something in the new operating systems that are going to be coming out in September and October. It's gonna take a little bit of time to get there. Previously reported that they had made a deal with chat GPT, though. And so during this announcement, we got some more information on that. They are going to integrate chat GPT into iOS, and it's going to be an option within Siri. So Siri is going to be enhanced when Apple intelligence is being utilized, but it's going to give you the option if you ask Siri something, and she is not capable of handling the response. [00:50:23] Speaker A: Properly, which happens a lot. [00:50:25] Speaker B: Yes, it will give you the option to send it to chat GPT. Now, if you do that, it will go off device and you will be subject to their privacy terms. But it will give you the option. It won't just automatically send it, you will have the option to send it to chat GPT for further information. And I'm sure that they'll be, if anybody has privacy concerns that you can disable that. But it's pretty, pretty nifty. The, what they, what they've announced, iOS, Mac OS, iPad OS, TV OS, everything's getting updated. Your Macs that have the m one chips and I think iPhone 15 and newer are going to get the Apple intelligence now, you know. [00:51:03] Speaker A: So even really what I find interesting about what you're saying is even those that don't want to seek out how to use Chet GPT and other AI things as you buy these newer devices and hardware, like new iPhones and such, it's going to be baked in in such a way, not automatic, but if you want to use it, it's going to be like a standard feature. [00:51:23] Speaker B: Backup camera. [00:51:24] Speaker A: Exactly. You just, and before you know it, you'll just get used to using it. It'll become a standard feature that you just kind of take for granted and use every day. [00:51:31] Speaker B: So, yeah, you know, the thing that's interesting from the Apple standpoint, obviously, because I'm a heavy Apple user, you know, if I get a text message from somebody and it says, hey, today is so and so's birthday, well, the phone goes, would you like to update this contact to put their birthday in? Right. You know, so there's already certain things, and those are more machine learning. And it's, oh, it found a keyword and a date, so it thinks it needed to suggest this. And this Apple intelligence is going to go far beyond that. The interesting thing with Apple intelligence, though, is it's going to be on device, which is very interesting that it's not going to be sent to the cloud. And it looks like they're going to be taking advantage of their own in house chips that they've been manufacturing for a few years to make those things happen. So it's very, it's interesting Apple's the last one of these major software companies because Microsoft and Google have already announced their, their software. [00:52:22] Speaker A: That's everybody. [00:52:23] Speaker B: Yes. [00:52:23] Speaker A: Everybody has their flavor, don't they? [00:52:25] Speaker B: Yes. And generally apples, generally, Apple's not quick, quick to the punch, so to say on these things. They generally take a little bit longer, but when their product comes out, it's usually a lot more refined initially, too. [00:52:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:36] Speaker B: So it'll be interesting to see what happens in their space. But continuing on the AI train, we got to talk about Nvidia. So the three largest companies in the world currently buy market share, all technology companies. So you've got Apple, you got Microsoft, and now at the top as of this recording. And I'm sure there'll be some back and forth because they're so close. Is Nvidia now, my all three are. [00:53:04] Speaker A: American companies too, correct? [00:53:06] Speaker B: Yes, they're all three technology, american based companies. You know, Apple and Microsoft have, have dominated the top of the space for a while. It went back and forth a little bit, and Microsoft is well ahead at this point. But Nvidia, over the past few years, as a result of the AI craze, has taken off. And that is primarily due not to software, but because of their hardware, because of their chips that they offer and their GPU's, their graphical processing units that are specialized, that can take advantage of these instruction sets that are needed for this artificial intelligence to run. Nvidia is very, very, very popular, and their hardware is in very high demand, so it's driving a revenue stream for them. And Nvidia is in a space where there's not a ton of manufacturers of their chips. There's difference between CPU's and GPU's, and they're primarily a GPU manufacturer, and there's not a lot of GPU manufacturers that are doing what they're doing. And so again, technology, hopefully it's not a bubble for them. I don't think that it is. [00:54:12] Speaker A: Right. [00:54:14] Speaker B: Yeah. It's caused another american technology company to take off. [00:54:20] Speaker A: Wow. A. Once again, we're not trying to beat the dead horse, so to speak, but it's just really big right now. And every single month it changes, it grows. You know, more and more companies jump in and, oh, yeah, it's just going to get bigger and is, it doesn't show any signs of slowing down. [00:54:37] Speaker B: You know, this was not on my script, but I will go ahead and mention it because there was some discussion about it earlier. Elon Musk is building a supercomputer, which is going to be the world's fastest supercomputer. It's actually going to be headquartered here in Tennessee in the city of Memphis, which is interesting because the current world's fastest supercomputer is already in Oak Ridge. [00:54:57] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:54:58] Speaker B: So on the east side of the state, Memphis will be on the west side of the state. And I don't believe Memphis has anything like that, but it's being done primarily so that it can be a supercomputer to help with AI training in certain things. It's being purpose built. I'm sure it will be used for other things as well. But Elon Musk, whenever he talked about it, talked about it from the AI standpoint. So again, AI is driving a lot of things and AI is driving a. [00:55:25] Speaker A: Lot of things here in our home state of Tennessee. That's a lot of technology. You don't think about Tennessee being a technology hub per se? Not really, no. But it kind of, it's getting that way. [00:55:36] Speaker B: Well, I mean, you say that Oracle's moving their headquarters here. You know, their headquarters are being moved here to middle Tennessee. And so that's a major software manufacturer we've got. Between Oak Ridge and Memphis, we'll have the two fastest supercomputers in the world. So I heard an old joke one time talking about Miami of Ohio being the Silicon valley of the Midwest. And, you know, maybe Tennessee's becoming the Silicon Valley of the south. [00:56:03] Speaker A: I've got one question. When they have a problem with the supercomputer, is it the same troubleshooting step you just reboot it? [00:56:09] Speaker B: Probably. [00:56:09] Speaker A: I would think it probably. I bet you'd be shocked. I bet it probably reboots itself. It probably is smart enough through AI learning to do that. [00:56:17] Speaker B: But how long does it take to. [00:56:19] Speaker A: Reboot something now that, I don't know. It may not be too automatic. I don't know. [00:56:23] Speaker B: It may not be like rebooting my PC at work. [00:56:26] Speaker A: Yeah, it may be a little more involved than that. So. And now we're going to do the part of the show that we like to call what's up, DTC. And that's where we basically take a moment to let you know all the different places that DTC will be in person to kind of celebrate different things and just kind of introduce ourselves to the community and that sort of thing. So first for the month of July will be the Smith County Fair, which is going on July 1 through the 6th. Then we have the Smith county back to school bash at the chamber office on July 27, followed by we care cannon back to school event at the Cannon County High School, which will be on the next day on July 28. So not a ton of things going on, probably because it too hot, but definitely there are some things going and we will be there. And so if you're in the neighborhood on any of these events, make sure you stop by and say hello and introduce yourself. And we look forward to hopefully getting to speak to you and talk to you a little bit about what we do as well as just kind of introducing ourselves to you. So I think that's going to do it for the month of July for the local cliq, Josh, thank you so much for joining us today. [00:57:38] Speaker B: Thanks for having me, guys. [00:57:39] Speaker A: I really appreciate it and thanks for all you do for DTC customers and you are a value part of the team and we appreciate all your hard work. Thank you. And Justin, I guess we appreciate you too. I can't scare you off, so I guess we say we appreciate you. [00:57:54] Speaker B: Hey listen, as long as y'all continue to have me back, I say this somehow y'all keep needing to scrape the bottom of the barrel and I get invited back every morning. [00:58:03] Speaker A: Well, you must be doing something right because we always have you back. But we do really appreciate you. I'm just pulling your leg a little bit. But thanks for all the research that you do and always joining me on these monthly adventures of speaking technology and our customers and that such thing. And as we talked about a little bit earlier, we hope you have a wonderful 4 July. And you too as well. Thank you for having a safe 4 July. Hope it's a lot of fun and we look forward to talking to everyone next month on the first Wednesday of the month. But for the July episode, I think that's a wrap. So again, thanks for joining us and we wish you a fun and happy and safe July 2024. Take care everyone. Learn more about the show by visiting us [email protected] also, be sure to subscribe to us on your favorite podcast or video platform so you won't miss our next episode of the local click. See you next month.