[00:00:00] Speaker A: On this month's episode, we welcome two guests. We'll have Karen Walker with the arts garage in Smithville, Tennessee, and Pedigree's wellness services in Gordonsville will be here with Dr. Julia Adams and Gloria Pratt. Also, Justin returns with Justin's tech tips. He'll talk a little bit about digital clutter, and then during the ask the experts segment, we'll have Shane Turner back. And it's all about security cameras. You don't want to miss it. Stay tuned. The local click starts now. 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. Welcome back to the local click. The local click is the technology based podcast brought to you by DTC Communications, where each month we bring you some local interviews from some of the customers in our service area, as well as different tech news things, as well as anything Justin can think of due to technology or based on technology that's going on in the area. So we appreciate you being back with us today. And Justin, thank you for returning again, as you do each month.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: I'm just glad that I got the invite to be back here today.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: Yeah, we always joke around like, well, we haven't scared them. Know we haven't scared them off. Well, we haven't scared you off, so I appreciate you being so willing to join us each time we are. In the month of March, I'm ready.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: For some springtime weather, which means spring cleaning. But for me, the best part about March is March Madness.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: Okay, you're one of, huh?
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Listen, gotta have it. Gotta have it.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: Coming up first, we will have Karen Walker with the arts garage in Smithville, Tennessee. And then later on, we'll welcome Dr. Julia Adams and Gloria Pratt with pedigrees wellness services in Gordonsville. I'm a cat person. I know that's kind of polarizing. I know. You're more of a dog person.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: That is correct.
[00:01:55] Speaker A: We won't hold that against each other, though, right?
Listen, I won't hold it against you. You may hold it against me.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: I'm just going to go out here and just say something that I think is highly accurate.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: I don't think I do that.
[00:02:07] Speaker B: Is that my dog is way cooler than your cat?
[00:02:09] Speaker A: No, that's definitely incorrect.
Freddie the cat probably would not agree with that spot.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: The mini golden doodle would definitely agree with it.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: Spot unique.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: We let our children name the.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: Understand? I understand. Been there and done that. I totally get it. Freddie the cat got his name from a character on the show icarly back in the day on Nickelodeon. I'm sure you probably watched that a few times and that's one of the main characters, so yeah, I can relate.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Well, that is a better inspiration for the name than maybe a Freddy from a horror movie.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: So I'll take that. That's true. Yeah, it's not that. Not Freddy Krueger, although he has claws and sometimes you think he might be named after that Freddy? I don't know.
But once again, we appreciate everyone being with us this month. We have a great time and we appreciate you more than you'll know. And it's really become kind of just a local close knit community. We'll get started with our very first interview right now.
Today with us on this segment of the local click, we have Ms. Karen Walker with the arts garage. How are you doing today?
[00:03:18] Speaker C: Good morning. How are you?
[00:03:19] Speaker A: I'm doing great. Thanks for visiting us today.
[00:03:21] Speaker C: It's a pleasure.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: So you're going to have to bear with me as we talked about a little bit off camera, a musical person. I am maybe not the best creative person when it comes to drawing or painting on paper. So you feel free to educate me and others in the wares of what you do and maybe some suggestion, advice in ways that we might even can learn how to do some of those things at your place, right?
[00:03:46] Speaker C: Absolutely. Yeah. Everybody's got a little creator inside of them.
[00:03:49] Speaker A: So tell me a little bit of history about yourself and how you became interested in arts in general.
[00:03:55] Speaker C: I think I grew up with a paintbrush in my hand. I've been doing arts forever, so that's about 29 years now. And we were military. We moved all over the place.
I enjoyed teaching at different military facilities, and I've always been painting and drawing and been in shows forever. And we moved here after my husband retired from the air force in Smithville. And I had been doing those sip and paint parties for a while in the different states that didn't have the arts installations on the military bases. And so then when we moved to Tennessee, friends of ours that own the twisted oaks in Smithville, he's like, hey, let's do a paint night. And I'm like, yeah, that'd be fun. So I did that for a couple of years there. And then I moved into the purple door on West Walnut street, downtown Smithville. And then this building came up that was super scary. I had a garage door. And when we walked in, I can't believe we bought that building, but we did. And now it's just beautiful. We got this gorgeous, beautiful glass garage door, and it's just fun on a beautiful sunny day to crank the tunes up and open that garage door, and it's just like, as tourist town, destination city.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I see where the name came from then, the arts garage, because literally it was a garage.
[00:05:19] Speaker C: It was.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:19] Speaker C: It had a history of several things, but, yeah, one of them was like, it was a garage where he fixed cars, painted cars, detailed cars, and you can tell by some of the architecture, the floor is nice and concrete and don't have to worry about messing it up.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: Now, as a child, were you always interested in drawing or painting? Did you have just a natural inclination for arts in general? Or is that something you kind of acquired as you got a little bit older?
[00:05:47] Speaker C: No, all along, and we were very poor, but my parents always found a way. I try to encourage all the parents that walk in the door that has a kiddo that has what they think is any kind of gift, whether it's music or painting or drawing, gardening, whatever. Just a few experiences can change their lives.
So I encourage them to do whatever they can. Pick up one of our kits or take one of our classes, do one of our summer camps.
You probably look back on your life and you can see that there's certain experiences that were, like, pivotal. You didn't think about it then, but like, oh, yeah, wow, I remember that.
[00:06:25] Speaker A: Very formative down the road. Yeah, that's true.
[00:06:27] Speaker C: So, yeah, we have a passion to bring it out in kids. And then I think as we grow, we forget things, too, and we're told, stay in the lines. That's the wrong color. You didn't do this right.
That's not good.
You lose it. You lose that artist within. And that's our goal, is to bring it back out and help you enjoy life, because there's so know. Think about it. Well, I don't know if you're a gardener. When you dig in that dirt and you see that magic happen when the plants come up, it can transform your life and it just makes you happy inside. We lived in England for a while. We were stationed there, and when winter hit and things got gray, automatically they started to get on Prozac. It was just a standard thing that they did there. But I believe that if everybody takes a chance and tries something new and finds a way to express themselves and relax and have a hobby, no matter what it is, I think it just makes you happier inside and feel more fulfilled.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: I would definitely agree with that. I think there's a part of your personality or brain that sometimes stays locked up behind the door. Right. That you don't really think about releasing and opening that up for yourself to see and for others to see. And sometimes there could be some great things behind that door that you've just not given the time and effort to try to coerce that out into the public. Do you agree with that?
[00:07:49] Speaker C: I agree with that.
The only exception would be karaoke.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: Well, I understand.
[00:07:55] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm joking. There's some great karaoke experiences, and there's.
[00:07:59] Speaker A: Some bad karaoke, too.
[00:08:01] Speaker C: There is? Yeah. You love them and you're happy for them that they're able to go out and enjoy life. It's easy to sit down in your recliner and end the day or end the decade when you hit retirement. There's no reason you need to keep going and have fun and experience.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: That's true. So tell us a little bit about your business and all the kinds of things that you offer there. If someone knows literally nothing about it, how would you start to describe what you do?
[00:08:27] Speaker C: Well, we like to say we're a full service arts and DIY facility studio where you can come in and be yourself, pull something off the shelf, whether it's a wood project, a pre sketched canvas, a jewelry project.
We've got ceramics now, all sorts of things that you can try. And just on a rainy day, which there are many in Tennessee, get you out of the house, go grab your grandkid and sit down and do a project with them. Or just grab a coffee from the button willow across the street and sit down. Let them enjoy themselves, and you establish that relationship with them in a stronger way. And maybe a lot of times, the grandparents and the parents end up either taking over the project or pulling their own project off the shelf.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: Right.
[00:09:12] Speaker C: And we really try to create a quality experience. And then we have classes and workshops and camps. Like I said, we try to do all different things, and we've been open a year, so we're evolving. Like most new businesses, you just try new things and try to find out what the community wants.
[00:09:30] Speaker A: It's kind of an all ages thing, right? You don't have to be a certain age point to be involved most of the time.
[00:09:36] Speaker C: We do have adult nights where anytime, you're welcome. Nobody comes in in the middle of the day with a bottle of wine. But we have adult nights, and I try to make it very clear this is an adult experience. So you're welcome to bring in whatever favorite beverage that you have or grab food from one of the cool restaurants on the street. Or we have parties where women will bring the most amazing charcuterie trays and their wine and just celebrate being friends together. So, yeah, it's for all ages. But we do have fun events. Sometimes moms need to get away for a little while, relax.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: Right. But you have things for children as well, like younger people that want to.
[00:10:17] Speaker C: All the way down to itty bitty one year olds to 99.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: That's great.
[00:10:23] Speaker C: Yeah, we try.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Do I need to bring anything or do I just show up? Do you have everything I'll need to get started there?
[00:10:29] Speaker C: Yeah, everything's here. I mean, we've got all the paints, all the brushes, even have aprons to keep your clothes nice and clean. And.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:37] Speaker C: You just walk in with a happy heart and ready to have fun. Yeah, absolutely.
[00:10:42] Speaker A: So what would you do? I'm going to give you a hypothetical. I come in, I can't draw stick man.
[00:10:47] Speaker C: Okay, we won't draw stick men then.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: Good. Number one, I can barely keep crayons in the lines on the color by number.
[00:10:54] Speaker C: I think we only have eight crayons. So you're okay there.
[00:10:56] Speaker A: Okay, so where would you start? And I literally know nothing about what I want to do. What would you do?
[00:11:01] Speaker C: Well, I take you on a little tour, walk you around in the supermarket. You stay around the edges to get all the healthy stuff. So everything in the store is around the edges. It's all healthy for you. You can try it all.
I'll show you. We have canvases that are presched. We have really cool ceramics right now. Then we have a couple of jewelry projects. But I'll walk you around. I'll show you what we have. I'll give you some pointers, maybe see.
[00:11:26] Speaker A: Something that piques my interest as we're walking around.
[00:11:28] Speaker C: Absolutely. Yeah. And then if you feel a little bit apprehensive, there's a few questions I'm going to ask you, maybe just to make you feel more comfortable and decide what you want to try today.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: So tell us about the ceramics part. That's interesting.
[00:11:43] Speaker C: Right now, we do have some projects where you can glaze it and we take it off. A friend of mine has a kiln plates and cups and things like that. Mainly what we have are cute figurines, piggy banks, pots that you can put plants in.
Just projects that are probably going to. You can invest anywhere from a half hour. There's people that will get their drinks from the coffee shop across the street and spend 2 hours and just relax with their friends. Or by themselves just to get away. So, yeah, I'll just find out what you feel comfortable trying. And if there isn't something that you see. I kind of got a lot of bins hidden away, and it's like, well, let me pull this out and see if this interests you.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: Well, see, I think that's very important because if you don't know where you want to go, sometimes you need that spark to get started and you don't know what questions to ask because you're not very familiar in it yet.
[00:12:33] Speaker C: Yeah, kind of like parenting.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. That's true. Tell us about the jewelry making aspect.
[00:12:40] Speaker C: It's mainly beginner jewelry classes and workshops where you can come in and make a necklace, a pair of earrings, and just try different basic, basic things. How to manipulate the tools and the metals and the little bobbles. It's just fun. It's just relaxing.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: Yeah. What are some of the more creative projects you've seen come through your shop?
[00:13:01] Speaker C: There's always a rogue, oh, we just had bad art night, which was a lot of fun.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: Did you say bad art night?
[00:13:06] Speaker C: Bad art night.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: Oh, I could do that.
[00:13:08] Speaker C: You could. And there was a trophy. There was a trophy as well. And there will be a trophy every time that we do it. We had about a dozen people come, and it's actually a national library movement where they do it in libraries across the country. But our library isn't really large enough to do it, so somebody told me about it, and I didn't know it was a library thing. I just. Oh, this sounds like fun. You come in and you paint for like an hour and a half or so, or we had all kinds of supplies. And if you wanted to do collage, if you wanted to glue something, there was all kinds of bits and bobs they could do attached to their canvas. And at the end, we put them all in like a gallery fashion and voted, which was the worst bad art, and it was just fun.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: That sounds fun.
[00:13:52] Speaker C: It was relaxing. Half of the ladies ended up doing something completely gorgeous because they were just having fun. And it's all right. They still voted and laughed and made a memory.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: What gives you the most satisfaction about doing this? Because it sounds like there's a lot of personal interaction and feedback and getting to see the creativity unleashed, if you will, in someone that maybe doesn't get a chance to do that a lot.
[00:14:16] Speaker C: In life, for me, it's people just remembering that they do have a creator inside, that they do have a gifting. Like I said before we started, it could be gardening. It could be guitar, it could be creating computer programs, but it transfers from one medium to the other. And when they walk in the door and they, I can't do this. And then they leave with something that they're happy with and they're smiling. But my favorite story, and I don't know how I'm going to tell it forever, was this boy. He's about eight years old. He came in a few months ago, and he didn't want to do it with his grandma, but he picked this little dolphin sculpture that he, you know, I came and checked on him every now and then and gave him a few pointers. And his know was enjoying her coffee and taking a million pictures. And I sat down with him, how you doing? He goes, you know, Miss Karen, I walked in here and I hated art. I said, oh, I'm so sorry, honey. He said, my teacher at school is just awful. She just says awful things. But you know, Miss Karen, I love art. Again, thank you so much. And I'm like, oh, my God, I'm going to cry.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: That's awesome. That makes you feel good.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I went home that night and I slept so good.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: And you never know what seed you planted for this.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: Oh, I know.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: For this young child throughout his life.
[00:15:32] Speaker C: He might become the best videographer in the universe because he didn't shut that door. You just don't know. Sometimes we have such power in our words.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: Sure. A little bit of encouragement goes a long way.
[00:15:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: How does technology affect what you do? I know you think about some of the projects you do don't really probably have a lot of technology as far as the creative, or maybe they do, but I'm sure just running a business definitely has to rely on it just to keep up with the times and that sort of thing.
[00:15:58] Speaker C: Oh, it's huge. I mean, we live in a, we've got a small paper. There's not very many avenues for advertising and sharing what we have going on. So Facebook and all the different groups that are out there is huge. I mean, I'm on my phone that we have service with you. I'm on a computer. I'm on a computer at the store all the time. Social media is really one of the largest outlets that we have to let people know that we're out there. And this opportunity, we're very thankful for you inviting us today because I appreciate you being even. Last night we had a fun little event, and the women that came, they're like, I didn't even know you were here. You've been here a year? Yeah, we've been here a year. So I don't know what. I'm working on it. I'm working on it.
[00:16:42] Speaker A: The Internet does really open up the doors. Right. It's kind of the great equalizer of being able to pinpoint and target people that you'd like to communicate your message to quickly and effectively. Whereas before, it was almost like a blanket approach. If you show up in a town and you want to start a business like yours, the old fashioned way is it's really hard to get your message out now. Within seconds, you can post something and someone can see it. Literally.
[00:17:07] Speaker C: Yeah. Or how to find you, how to find my neighbor. How do I get there? Where do I park?
It's super important. And then if somebody walks in, I did not know what a squish mellow was. It's like, okay. And I was like, miss Karen, I want to paint a squishmallow. All right, let's look that up on Pinterest. Okay.
[00:17:26] Speaker A: You're like, well, that's a great idea. Let me take a look at. Yeah. Yes.
[00:17:29] Speaker C: So it's important. Super important.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: And we were thankful that you're here as far as. Do you have, like, a website, too, that you have a web presence on? We do, yeah.
[00:17:38] Speaker C: It's the arts garage. T-N-A-R-T-S. Arts. There is no art. Like, who's art?
[00:17:45] Speaker A: Where's art?
[00:17:45] Speaker C: There's no art. It's artsgaragetn.com, theartsgarage.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: T n. And you have Facebook as well. You were saying?
[00:17:53] Speaker C: It's the same one on Facebook and the same one on Instagram, which I'm very proud of.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Awesome. And if someone wanted to give you a call, what's your phone number?
[00:17:59] Speaker C: 615-438-6062 awesome.
[00:18:04] Speaker A: Well, Ms. Karen, thank you so much for being with us today. And the best of luck in everything you do. And I need to stop by. I want to see some of the projects someday. I don't know, maybe you'll put a paintbrush in my hand and show me some.
[00:18:16] Speaker C: I might put a palette knife, and then you don't even have to worry about that.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: Might be good. I don't know. Knife in my hand. I don't know.
[00:18:21] Speaker C: Plastic. You'll be fine.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: Okay. I'll pass the test. Thanks, Ms. Karen. I appreciate you being here.
[00:18:26] Speaker C: Thank you very much.
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[00:19:05] Speaker A: Welcome back to the March edition of the local click. We're going to start this segment off with Justin Malden and Justin's tech tips. So you're a very smart guy, Justin. There's no telling what you got for us today, but go ahead and lay it on us.
[00:19:19] Speaker B: Smart is debatable, but I do have something for you.
[00:19:21] Speaker A: Great. Well, either way, let it roll.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: So one thing that we joke around with each other about every so often is if you look at our computers at work and you look at the desktop of our computers, they're just slightly different.
Mine may have a few less things on it than yours does. Right.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: Are you saying that I have a very high amount of files and links and junk things on my computer desktop that look like something exploded? Yes.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: I think I have about five things. I feel like you have about 500.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: He's not wrong. Guilty is charged. But I know where everything is. I could find it.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: But you have a purpose for it.
[00:20:04] Speaker A: I do.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Right. You know exactly what you're doing with it.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: And every so often I go through and I organize and clean those up and put them in folders and you.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: Led right into what we're going to talk about today.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Okay, well, good.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: We've talked about a bunch of different things, but we're getting into March, we're getting into springtime, and spring is coming and people will be talking about spring cleaning. But one aspect of spring cleaning that people may not think about is spring cleaning their digital clutter and their digital life and getting things cleaned up that way. And so over time, if you look at the apps on your phone, maybe you look at the videos on your phone or your photos on your phone. And what does it have a tendency.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: To become for a lot of people, it becomes overwhelming.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: It's an overwhelming aspect. You may be like, when I first got this phone, I only had two pages of stuff and now there's twelve. And I don't know how this happened.
[00:20:58] Speaker A: And you can't find anything, right? Really?
[00:20:59] Speaker B: Yeah. You have no idea where anything is. And so sometimes we just need to take a step back and examine what all's going on and declutter.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: Right.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Organize those things on your phone or on your computer. You can organize things into folders, but you can be strategic about it, like have a place for everything.
[00:21:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: My pictures go here. My photo, the family are in this folder. Maybe I want to organize it by year, or maybe I want to organize it by location. And same thing with videos, anything that it may be right, just be strategic, because your phone more than likely is just doing it chronologically, which is okay.
There's nothing wrong with that necessarily. But you go like, oh, well, I took this photo four months ago when we were here, and now I need to go find it. You're just going to scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll. And in your mind you're going to be thinking, well, I did this before and I did this after. So it's somewhere in here.
Versus if you've got a place for it, that'll make it a lot easier. You go on a family vacation, stick all those photos in one folder. And again, you can do this on your phone, which is where most people, because that's the camera in their pocket. That's going to be the camera that they use the most. You can do it on your phone as well. You don't have to use the default album that's in your phone where everything goes. You can organize it. But also, generally we have a tendency to install an app. We may install an app to use one time I need to install this because I've got to do something, and so I'm going to install it, then I'm doing. And then that app no longer serves a purpose. But it's still sitting there.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: Yeah, kind of in the way on your device.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: And then again, you do that multiple times or you used an app for a little bit and now there's no longer use for it. And there's people who have apps on their phones that are outdated and aren't functional anymore. But unless you delete it, it's going to stay on your device. And so it would be good to go through and examine. Okay, I'm using this. I need it. I'm not using this. I don't need it. And then again, you can organize those by folder. Okay, so here is an entertainment folder, here's the games that I play, right? Maybe I have financial stuff. And so I've got that organized take and be intentional about what you're doing. So then not only is it less cluttered, you know where it is, it's a time saver. Right. And then the last thing I'm going to talk about, and this is probably the one that gets a lot of people decluttering email. You can make folders for everything, make folders, organize everything, but get rid of the stuff that you don't need. Everything has a place and we got to think more along the lines of, is it in its proper place or is it in the best place? Is it in the most efficient place?
[00:23:35] Speaker A: Well, good tips. And it is a great time of year to take a look at some of those sort of things, right? I mean, what better time than when you're doing your very real physical spring cleaning to do some digital spring cleaning as well. That's a good one, Justin. Thanks. I appreciate it. Glad to be here with us for this interview segment. We are lucky to have Dr. Julia Adams as well as Gloria Pratt, both with pet agrees wellness services in Gordonsville. Hello and welcome to the show. Thank you for being here with me today.
[00:24:11] Speaker C: How are you?
[00:24:11] Speaker A: I'm doing great. And you? Super cool. It's going to be a lot of fun.
And I'm a pet owner, have been for a long time. So this is kind of my really not saying I know what you guys know as far as your business goes, but I do at least have a common form of relatability. First, you are gloria, right? And what is your position at pedigrees?
[00:24:33] Speaker E: I'm a technician.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:24:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: And so what would your typical day be like?
[00:24:39] Speaker E: Oh, jeez.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Is there a typical day?
[00:24:42] Speaker E: You never get the same day. Everything is different. You never know what you're going to go into. You can start as far as checking clients in, and then you need to get history. What's going on? How long has this been happening? That type of thing. And then it goes into surgeries and assisting.
[00:24:59] Speaker A: So you're customer facing, but also assisting with actual procedures and other things there. Yeah.
[00:25:04] Speaker E: So techs usually just handle the back. So we'll be the ones doing any type of treatment with helping the doctors and assisting them and getting surgeries prepped and clients ready and patients ready and all that. Getting blood work, doing x ray, ultrasounds. Yeah, we pretty much get all that. And then that way, when it's time for us to say, okay, we're done with this, we can hand it over to them and then they can look at it.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: Dr. Julia, tell us, what's your typical day?
Offering pet services and veterinary services and something. Is there a typical day or is it the similar thing where you really never know what you'll get into?
[00:25:43] Speaker F: You never know what's going to need to happen that day. So we have everything from just a vaccine, something is very simple to, hey, doc, why I'm here? Look at.
So you never know what you're walking into. So we always say, be patient with us because you never know what things are going to change.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: Is that part of the fun of.
[00:26:04] Speaker F: It, though, it is.
I think that's what keeps us motivated a little bit, is we're not a monotonous group. We like to sit and have some fun and keep going, and sometimes the spontaneity is helpful for the day.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: Oh, sure.
[00:26:20] Speaker F: We have a tiny little 900 square foot building, but we all get along really well. That's one of the prerequisites.
[00:26:27] Speaker A: You would be better when you're.
How many people do you have helping you there?
[00:26:32] Speaker F: We have about nine that work the kind of clinical staff.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: That's a lot.
[00:26:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:36] Speaker F: So we're open six days a week, and technically they're there seven, because we've got animals we always have to take care of, and there's always procedures that have to be done. Even on Sunday and Christmas and New Year's, we're not open.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: Being on call sometimes, maybe.
[00:26:52] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:26:53] Speaker F: We're not necessarily open and see appointments. And I know that kind of disappoints a lot of people, but we have to be there for some of the other things that need to be done, so we try to schedule accordingly.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Well, that's good. And it's nice to know that you're putting that effort in to be there when needed for those situations that come up that you can't.
So, Gloria, did you always have an inclination to be around animals and love pets and that sort of thing? Is that how you got in this career, or was it just kind of whatever, you kind of fell into it?
[00:27:24] Speaker E: Yeah, I mean, I was born and raised in California, and then I started getting into rescue work just for my love of the animals. Then it started into people hearing that I was rescuing animals, and then I would go outside and I would have something left on my doorstep, or they're.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Like, she'll take care of this.
[00:27:45] Speaker E: Yeah. It kind of got out through the whole town that I lived in, so I definitely would wake up and find. I mean, one time I found a hawk on my.
[00:27:53] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:27:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:53] Speaker E: So that turned into, like, a whole thing, just doing it from personally doing rescue. Then I got into working with the humane society in my area I was fostering. So I did that for a long time.
[00:28:06] Speaker A: That's neat.
[00:28:07] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:28:08] Speaker A: I think a lot of people that do what you do would probably say, have a similar story in that they knew from an early age that. What about you, Dr. Julia?
[00:28:16] Speaker F: I always knew that I wanted to be a veterinarian. Everybody asked for some aha moment, and I wish I could tell you one.
[00:28:22] Speaker C: I don't have one.
[00:28:23] Speaker F: I always had plan b's that changed, but this was always the same every time. So my father was in the military, so I moved everywhere and happened to land in Tennessee and loved it, so we stayed.
[00:28:38] Speaker A: So really, both of you really weren't born in this specific state. But it's funny how life brings people together. And here you are in a small little town, Gordonsville. I know, and that's pretty neat, especially coming from California. Oh, yeah.
[00:28:51] Speaker E: A few years, I would have never thought this is where I would be. But honestly, growing up in California, to being here, this felt more like home than California.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: Oh, that's awesome.
[00:29:03] Speaker E: Yeah. Which I never really thought about it until I was here. I've been here for almost a year, so now it's like, okay, I should have been here my whole life.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: That's what we like to hear. We're kind of partial to the area. We like it as well.
Well, that's awesome. So again, tell us the name of the business is Pedigree's wellness services. And we had an aha moment off camera, some of us here in the room, when we talked about, well, what does the first letter of each of those words spell?
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[00:29:32] Speaker F: Hey, how about we like the acronym?
[00:29:36] Speaker A: I like that it's a catchy name. And tell us a little bit how it got started.
[00:29:41] Speaker F: Well, actually, I was on the spay and neuter space station out of Wilson county doing many spays and neuters for, I hate to say, communities that couldn't afford places. And I hate to say Carthage. Smith county was one of them. And I was down there talking to Doc Donaldson one day, and he was.
[00:30:04] Speaker E: Was.
[00:30:04] Speaker F: He was doing the best he could trying to support the community and trying to see as many animals that he possibly could.
[00:30:11] Speaker A: A big workload it was.
[00:30:12] Speaker F: And he goes, I would just really like some help. So he helped actually get me started up and got me going. And he was a great support system for me in that sense. So we've been there ever since we opened in 2005 and have been Gordonsville ever since.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: Tell us a little bit about the services that you offer at your place of business.
[00:30:37] Speaker F: Well, we are a small animal veterinarian clinic, so we do offer things as simple as a rabies vaccine to dental work that we're just, as you would go in, have a scaling or cleaning all the way to x rays. We have a digital x ray, and we're now getting in house blood work. And that's coming up this march.
[00:31:02] Speaker A: Well, that'll make treatments and figure out issues a lot faster.
[00:31:06] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:31:08] Speaker E: Now, we have where we have to send out the blood work. So if something's going on, you don't know 100% what's going on until you get the blood work back, which takes about 24 to 48 hours.
[00:31:18] Speaker A: So you can react much quicker.
[00:31:20] Speaker E: So now, yes, within a matter of 2030 minutes, we can run blood and we can see exactly what is going on. To be able to treat faster in.
[00:31:30] Speaker A: A town the size of Gordonsville and some of the smaller communities that we're around, that's a big deal.
[00:31:35] Speaker F: It is. It's a huge deal. And there's actually three veterinarians. I'm just one of three. And it's nice to be able to do something that you can react to right away versus. Although all three of us are very good, and we call it old school, just relying on a good physical exam and hearing what the owners say and really listening to try to figure out what's going on, because, of course, our patients don't tell us anything.
[00:32:01] Speaker A: That's a good point.
[00:32:03] Speaker F: We really try to listen to see what's happening.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: So you mentioned dental a second ago. That's something you don't think about a lot with pets. Tell us about the importance of keeping in touch with the dental health for your pet.
[00:32:15] Speaker E: People don't understand how critical it is to take care of your pet's teeth because it is all connected. So you're talking, everything up here is connected. So if you have just as well as us, you have an abscess, a cavity. You let it go, it can take over, it can really cause problems.
[00:32:35] Speaker A: So the quality of life, it really.
[00:32:37] Speaker C: Is for your pet, it really is.
[00:32:38] Speaker E: Because there's people that really don't understand.
Doing a yearly maintenance for it is the best thing you can do. Just because even the smallest things, you might not necessarily see that there's a little bit of plaque, a little bit of tartar, but then you go to the back of the mouth and it's just a mess.
People only look at what's in the front, but you really got to look at what's in the back too. And that's really where we come in, because we do put them under anesthesia so we can do it.
[00:33:09] Speaker A: That was going to be one of my questions, because it's hard enough to get an adult or a child to be still in the dental chair sometimes. So I can only imagine those pets probably don't want you sat there.
[00:33:20] Speaker E: We do as far as two three pound dogs, up to 200 and some pounds as far as dentals and that type of thing. So we do have a whole range of what size we do versus what breeds, because even that makes a difference.
[00:33:40] Speaker A: Oh, sure.
[00:33:41] Speaker E: So you have some little ones that definitely have worse teeth than others. They're just known to have worse teeth. So it really is just constantly checking and seeing how your dog's teeth are because they could have cracks in their teeth and you don't even know it. And that could be painful. And then that makes them not want to eat. So then that kind of rolls into, I don't want to eat, I'm losing weight, I'm not feeling good. So that just can start a whole.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: So you may have an issue that you think is actually something more serious than it is just because they're having a hard time eating because of an adenal issue, not because they have a tumor or something. You know what I'm saying? It could be correctable. Right. And you could really improve their quality of life.
[00:34:26] Speaker E: Yeah, I mean, it could be something as easy as just that tooth needs to be pulled, and once it pulls, they're fine. It's the same as us.
[00:34:33] Speaker F: And the other thing is that, and we've started doing a little bit more, we've been having some training out of veterinarian out of Mexico is we're actually starting to putting some braces and stuff like that to try to correct those things before they get so bad. So that way, aligning back up those teeth. So that way when they actually sit there and chew, they're appropriately chewing on all the surfaces. So maybe they don't have to have dentals in the future. You see what I'm saying?
[00:35:01] Speaker A: I do.
[00:35:02] Speaker F: So we're just trying to be preventative in that sense, but yeah, so much.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: To learn about this area that I just didn't know.
[00:35:10] Speaker F: It's amazing what all we can do.
[00:35:12] Speaker A: Now talk about, and you mentioned this, I think, a moment ago, the importance of immunizations because we've become accustomed to knowing we need to do this. But talk a little bit why it's so important. And you do offer those services, right?
[00:35:27] Speaker F: Oh, yes.
Something as simple as rabies. That's what they call a zoonotic disease, which means it can go from not only to a dog, but to another cat to a human, and it becomes a big ordeal.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: Right.
[00:35:41] Speaker F: So we're trying to prevent that and trying to keep it from spreading. So that's one of those things that we provide. And definitely as a service in April, we do do a rabies clinics on Saturday where it's just literally a drive through that's coming up pretty quick. Yeah, it's a great time to do that. So it's normally on a Saturday. I think we're planning on two this year. And you don't have to get out of the car.
[00:36:07] Speaker C: You literally don't have to make an appointment.
[00:36:09] Speaker F: Don't make an appointment. You're just driving through. Don't get out of the car.
[00:36:14] Speaker A: Don't get out.
[00:36:17] Speaker F: But it's really cute to see everybody come in their little cars.
And we've had as many as just one little foo foo to crawling into a cattle trailer, getting the great pyrenees.
[00:36:30] Speaker C: Before they eat us.
[00:36:33] Speaker F: I had somebody who had 18 cats in a van, so that was an experience. We crawled in the van, and we had all 18.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: Any specific health tips for dog owners? And then I'm going to ask you the flip coin about cat owners.
What about dog owners? There's any specific tips that people might need to know about or don't think about as far as owning a dog for their health?
[00:36:56] Speaker E: Honestly, we are on one side of the animal's health part, but nobody knows your pet like you.
I can see your pet for 510 minutes. I can take the pet over to her. She sees it for 510 minutes. But we're not with that pet every single day. So it really is monitoring and watching.
[00:37:18] Speaker A: Your pet and just seeing and looking for change.
[00:37:20] Speaker E: Anything changes.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:37:22] Speaker E: I got you something small. I mean, it could be something as a limp that just kind of came out of nowhere. That could be the beginning of arthritis.
It could be the smallest things, but you have to bring them into us early so we can do more.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: It's better to catch it early.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: That's the same for dogs or cats, what you're saying right now.
[00:37:46] Speaker E: And with cats, I mean, it is a lot harder because they like to hide being sick.
It's hard to really.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: The way they react during. Yeah.
[00:37:57] Speaker E: They handle pain a lot different. So it is harder to determine whether or not they're really hurting or whatnot. But it really is just knowing your pet and knowing every pet has a schedule. They do the same things. If that stuff starts changing, there's probably something going on.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: That's a good one. That's something we need to think about.
[00:38:19] Speaker F: Or you're filling up the water bowl.
[00:38:21] Speaker A: More, or bathroom habits change. Exactly.
[00:38:24] Speaker F: Cleaning up after them when you didn't used to.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: Right.
[00:38:28] Speaker F: Those are all things that we would never know. But it's the greatest thing to hear from the owner, because then we can kind of go, okay, do we need to address that or maybe it's nothing, but it's best to know ahead of time. And there's so much more we can do. Now, going back to, let's talk about the arthritis, because there's a brand new drug that we're able to carry now, and it's called libra. And it's a shot that you only have to do once a month. And it is amazing for arthritis.
[00:39:00] Speaker A: My daughter, life changing for these animals.
[00:39:03] Speaker F: That are suffering from this. I have 180 pound mastiff, so of course, my dog is the victim first.
And she was just getting slow. Arthritis hits.
She's seven years old, she's 180 pounds. Arthritis is going to hit. Right. And Gloria had said, hey, why don't you go ahead and give her just a shot? Let's just try it out. And we gave it. And literally within the week, the dog is now playing with everybody.
[00:39:34] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:39:35] Speaker F: So it was extremely a life changing experience. And it wasn't, oh, my gosh, expensive either. So that's one of those things I know people go, oh, my. I don't want to bring them in because I don't know how much it's going to cost. Sometimes we can tell you it's not that expensive and we try to keep cost down where we can.
[00:39:54] Speaker A: Well, tell us if someone wants to get in touch with you, what's the best way to do that? I'm sure you can give out your phone number, of course. Do you have also like a website.
[00:40:02] Speaker C: Or something like that?
[00:40:02] Speaker F: We do have a website. Our phone number is 615683 6600.
[00:40:08] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:40:08] Speaker F: And then we're also on the web. Www. Dot paw t n vet V-E-T. Oh, I like that. Isn't that cool?
[00:40:18] Speaker A: Very clever.
[00:40:19] Speaker F: Anyway, and then we're also on Facebook.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: So there's no excuse for not getting in touch with me. If someone needs some help, they can find you.
[00:40:29] Speaker F: Exactly.
[00:40:30] Speaker E: And then they can look and see what specials we have for the month. What we have coming up, we will put clinics that are going to be coming up like the rabies.
We have the dental special until the end of February. So that is the best way to be able to.
[00:40:45] Speaker A: Good way to keep up with the things that are seasonal and that sort of thing.
[00:40:49] Speaker E: Yeah, exactly.
[00:40:49] Speaker F: And I was going to say missy tries her best to answer people on Facebook, so if they send a message, she's normally very quick at trying to respond.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: That's good, too.
[00:40:59] Speaker F: But I will say, though, if it is an emergency, there are emergency clinics. So just like your regular doctor, I have to have the disclosure saying, go to the ER.
[00:41:10] Speaker A: But it's nice to see you guys embracing technology the way you are. And almost every single person that we interview on this podcast, their business is changed through technology and the Internet specifically, and social media and Facebook gets brought up every month on this. And it sounds like you guys are no different. I mean, you're not running from it, you're running towards it. And I'm sure having good quality Internet and access to technology and stuff really changes the way you approach your business.
[00:41:36] Speaker F: Yeah, I know a lot of people really want us to start doing the kind of online type of thing and being able to diagnose from home, like a telehealth. A telehealth type of thing. I really wish the state would embrace that. But right now, we're still limited by the state laws. Got you. But we try our best, especially if we've seen you before or within the year. We can do a lot.
[00:42:00] Speaker A: It opens up more possibilities exactly on.
[00:42:02] Speaker F: What we can do. So it goes back to what Gloria is saying. I know it seems kind of scary, and you're really concerned about how much it cost, what's going to all happen, all that kind of good stuff. Ask us.
[00:42:15] Speaker A: It never hurts to ask, right?
[00:42:17] Speaker F: Exactly.
[00:42:18] Speaker E: I mean, just a phone call. We'll give you an estimate. I mean, obviously, we can only give an estimate based on what, you know, off of what we're being told.
[00:42:25] Speaker A: Right.
[00:42:26] Speaker E: It's not until they actually get there that we can say, okay, this is exactly what needs to be done.
It kind of goes from, we'll give you the estimate, but we don't know exactly what all your pet needs. If it needs blood work, if it needs x rays, if it needs ultrasound, that's when things start, kind of pricing goes up. But still, we keep it as low as possible.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: Right? Well, it's good to hear. I can tell in both of your voices here that your hearts are in the right place and you care about the people and their pets. And we appreciate you caring enough about us to be with us today on the podcast. And good luck on all of your future endeavors.
[00:43:04] Speaker E: Thank you very much for your business.
[00:43:06] Speaker A: Thank you so much. And good luck with everything. Maybe you'll see Freddie the cat one day. Come in for some dental work.
[00:43:11] Speaker F: Definitely.
[00:43:12] Speaker A: Bring him on. There you go. Thank you so much for being here, everyone. Stay tuned. We've got more of the show coming up in just a moment. You know that DTC provides great products and services to your home, and you can get the same great value for your business with DTC. Business solutions. Whether you're making sales over the phone or online to customers around the world, we deliver the reliable business solutions you need at a competitive price. And we do it all with uncompromising service.
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Welcome back to the local click. This is the final segment of the March edition. And with us we have a couple people helping me out here. Of course, Justin is back, and also for this month, back again is Mr. Shane Turner, a security expert for DTC security. Shane, thank you so much for being with us again.
[00:44:12] Speaker D: Thank you for having me.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: I recognize a couple of things, and one, I'm not sure what it is, but I'm just going to let Shane roll with it. What do you want to show us first? I know you've got three items here.
[00:44:21] Speaker D: First, we have a bullet camera with me. It has the AI technology built in it so it can recognize humans and vehicles. So when you set up notifications, you don't get false alarms from leaves blowing across the ground or maybe squirrels, cats, dogs. It actually notifies you when there's somebody on your property, it will detect and can differentiate between a human and an animal. We use this bullet camera, which is quite large. More on commercial buildings, where you want it to be known that there's video surveillance just to see it on the building. It does help deter people that may have bad motives.
[00:45:09] Speaker A: Right.
[00:45:09] Speaker D: And also, too, the size has to do with how it's made. This is not a piece of plastic.
It's made for years of service. So the longevity of it has to do with the way it was engineered.
[00:45:25] Speaker A: All right, Shane, I see you have another completely different style of camera with you here at Oswald today. Tell us about that one.
[00:45:31] Speaker D: This is a turret camera. We use it more on residential and some commercial. It's also made of metal. It's very heavy.
The reason we use this mostly on residential is because of, like soffits, where the overhang of the house, the camera can set up against that soffit and it's more hidden. It's not to be noticed as much and to take away from the design of the house. When you press this up against that soffit, it makes it really hard to tell that it's there.
[00:46:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:46:08] Speaker D: Also too, with this one, it has the AI built into it. It knows humans and vehicles. So it also has a strobe light and a siren. And we can set parameters up in the yard. So when a human or a vehicle gets in that perimeter area, it will trigger the strobe light or the siren, having the person that's in that area to possibly look up at that camera and get a facial shot of whoever's there.
[00:46:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And not only that, but just the presence of a big strobe light or the sound of a siren going off.
[00:46:51] Speaker D: Right. It's more preventative than reaction.
[00:46:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:57] Speaker D: With this camera also, you have two way voice, so you can talk to them physically, too at that time.
[00:47:05] Speaker A: So you can say, get out of my yard. Right, right. Yeah. I've called the cops or whatever. The police are on the way.
[00:47:12] Speaker D: Are you lost?
[00:47:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Are you lost? Yeah. I like that. That's awesome. So I see something quite a bit smaller with you, too. What is this device? Is that a camera?
[00:47:21] Speaker D: This is a camera. It's a doorbell camera. It goes on the front of a house.
You can set it up for motion detection. Or it has the doorbell that physically rings the doorbell inside the house, or it rings right to your phone. And that gives you the ability to have a two way conversation. If you wanted to answer it, okay. If not, it's storing the video.
And at a later time, if you need to go back to say who was there, you can. The benefit of it is if you're at work or out having dinner somewhere, if somebody comes up to your house, it notifies you either with motion or if somebody presses the button.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: Oh, wow. I love that. I think everybody needs that, don't you? Just in this day and age, honestly.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: Listen, I'm listening to all these features, and I'm thinking of the overwhelming benefits from it, because thinking of, we think of how many packages we get delivered. Now, you can track that and see, oh, it was actually delivered. Or if your family's thinking about maybe your spouse or your kids getting home from school, you can know, hey, they've arrived.
They've gotten to the house. And the two way communication, it may be great from a theft deterrent perspective. But again, also, if you're getting that delivery, hey, hey, don't put it in that spot. Can you drop it off and stick it here? Can you hide it here? Those kind of things?
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Or how many times have we always been expecting a package? No one's home. And you're tracking it and stuff, and it says it arrived and it was placed on your front porch, on the description or something. But you get home and it's not there, and they say, yeah, we left it there. Well, my camera says, you probably didn't leave it there. I mean, not that you tried to get anyone in trouble, but at least it lets you know if there was a mistake happen or some kind of issue or maybe somebody, maybe they did leave it and someone come and snagged it from your porch. You'd have possible footage of that happening.
[00:49:16] Speaker D: That's right.
We're talking about packages, which porch pirates have been an issue, been a big.
[00:49:23] Speaker A: Deal in the news.
[00:49:23] Speaker D: Yeah, but the other thing is, maybe your children are supposed to be coming home, like you said, which was a great point. Maybe there's only one that shows up in the video instead of both of them.
[00:49:35] Speaker A: Right. Gotcha. That's awesome. Shane, thank you so much for bringing this technology to us. And as always, if people want to learn more and they decide they think they need this at their home or business, I guess they can just contact DTC, right?
[00:49:49] Speaker D: That's correct.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: And they can get in touch with you or one of the other technicians who can come and take a look and see what they need. Awesome. Thanks for being here today.
[00:49:57] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:49:58] Speaker A: We're going to shift gears now. We're going to throw it to Justin here with his tech news roundup. He keeps us informed in all the things going on in the tech news world. So I know we've talked a little off camera, and you had several options, and you were kind of having a hard time deciding what you wanted to talk about today because there was so much good stuff.
[00:50:15] Speaker B: Yes, there was a lot of good stuff. Some big things that have come out over the past month. Apple finally, they announced in January, and they have now released the Apple Vision Pro. The release date was announced in January. They announced it in June of last year. But this is pretty big for Apple. It is actually their first major product since 2015. And I don't think a lot of people realize that it's the first new product that they have actually offered since the Apple watch was announced in 2015.
[00:50:43] Speaker A: Wow. I didn't realize it had been that long. Yes.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: So, yeah, they've updated products, but they haven't actually brought something new to the market in almost a decade. So they're starting with the Apple Vision Pro. This is their mixed reality headset. And so everybody's getting into mixed reality. We've had the ray ban glasses on here, but this is a little bit more deeper than that, and it's a little bit more advanced than some of the other run of the mill AR and mixed reality headsets that you'll see. Of course, we'll also pay for it as a result. But basically, it is a Mac computer inside of a headset where you can run full macOS, apps, browsers, all the things that you're used to. But you can see it in augmented real time space. And of course, it's very new. There's still some bugs to work out. There's developers still having to get their apps up to date, but it looks pretty promising if you're willing to pony up $3,500 to be able to.
[00:51:42] Speaker A: How about that, Shane, do you want one?
[00:51:43] Speaker D: I think we need a test set to try.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: You think so? We have to rent one.
[00:51:47] Speaker B: We did try the step that might.
[00:51:50] Speaker A: Be a little more difficult to get approved. I don't know. Yeah, you have to pay what we call the Apple tax. Sometimes we love Apple products, but sometimes they have a premium. We call it the Apple tax.
[00:52:02] Speaker B: This is going to be the first new Apple product in a while that I am not going to buy.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: I can't understand why my wife is.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: Okay with that this time around.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: It does sound really cool, though.
[00:52:14] Speaker B: It's very promising. Again, it's new. And as with anything, you're going to have the bugs and the kinks and the stuff to work out. And of course, all eyes are on Apple. Everybody's used to apple being innovative and offering these quality products. So I think give it some time and I think that we'll see some great things.
[00:52:34] Speaker A: And what is the name of this again?
[00:52:35] Speaker B: It's the Apple Vision Pro.
[00:52:37] Speaker A: Vision Pro. Can you imagine, Shane one day they may have cameras that connect to your vision pro virtual reality glasses, and you can actually put those on and it looks like you're at your home looking around the perimeter.
[00:52:49] Speaker D: Hikevision already has the app. It can go to Apple. And if it's running os, it'll be ready. It's already there.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: Oh, that's awesome. I love it. What else you got? Anything else in the tech world going on right now?
[00:53:03] Speaker B: Something that is going to be potentially disruptive in the future? We talk about AI. We've already talked about it with Shane and we've talked about OpenAI before. They're the ones who run chat, GPT, but they have introduced a new generative AI tool called Sora, which is a video generation tool. And you may think, oh, this is video generation. They're generating videos that may seem cartoonish or not realistic. It's still in beta. It's an initial release. It is not full access to the public yet, but the demos that they have released and the people who have gotten access to it, it is unbelievable how realistic the video output and what this technology is already capable of generating.
[00:53:50] Speaker A: What's an example of what it might do.
[00:53:52] Speaker B: So two videos that I remember seeing, the big one we talk about drone footage and people love flying drones and stuff, is an unrealistic drone shot of a shoreline, and it transitions into a snowy shoreline, so it goes from a sunsetty day over to a snow. Like the weather shifts really quickly while the drone is panning across the sky. But anything you can pretty cool in it, but just about anything that you can think of, they've been able to demonstrate it. One of the hardest things for AI up to this point to be able to generate is realistic faces of humans, and even if it was in a still photograph, and now they've introduced this, and there's been some previous fun poked at AI generation tools with some videos that have been made in memes, and some people have already attempted to recreate it with this technology to show the improvement in just over a year's time frame, how different the technology is with the same inputs. And it's getting to the point, and you're going to start seeing it more with creatives. So whether you're talking about writers or you're talking about editors, more and more tools like this are causing them to write certain things into their contracts where you have to disclose if you're using generative AI products versus original content, or some studios and some unions of these workers will write into their contract that you can't use any of that type of stuff in productions they're involved in. So when I say it's disruptive, yes, it's a creative thing as well. But we talk about AI, it can replace humans. And so you've got that human cost perspective. You've got to consider.
[00:55:37] Speaker A: That's true. I think we're just scratching the surface of this technology. I think we don't really even know really what the true implications are down the road on some of this. Some good, I'm sure, and some maybe not so good.
[00:55:50] Speaker B: Well, we've got great use of AI in the security cameras that we talked about. Like these are a benefit, these are going to help people.
So there's great uses of it, too. But also there's potential negative consequences in the long term that people have to consider, too.
[00:56:06] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. And as quick as it changes, I'm sure we'll just have to keep tuned in to see what's new next week and what the next issue is, good or bad. Right.
[00:56:18] Speaker B: And I've got one last thing, and we'll stop it at three things is Uber is now they've got certification. And they've got the go ahead. They are now testing using self driving vehicles, food delivery. So autonomous food delivery. Now, something that's kind of interesting. If you've ever been to the University of Tennessee, you've ever been on their campus. They actually use robots to deliver food on campus. Now, these small little robots, of course, are staying within the University of Tennessee's campus. Now, Uber here is now expanding it to a few test cities where they will have autonomous cars now making the deliveries. I'm not sure the logistics of how they're supposed to pick it up and actually deliver it, but, yeah, again, a different service that's being offered, something that they're testing out, but again, potentially taking the job of a human being as well.
[00:57:16] Speaker A: You know what we could do, Shane? We could set up a camera, like a doorbell camera, so that when it gets there with our food, we'll know that it's there and make sure someone doesn't run up and grab our pizza and steal it from us.
[00:57:26] Speaker D: That's right. I wonder if you still have to tip the driver.
[00:57:29] Speaker A: That's a great question. That's a really good question. I don't know.
[00:57:33] Speaker B: Everything changes lightning quick. And we talk about the future, and the future will be the present here before you know it.
[00:57:39] Speaker A: You got that right. Well, we'll finish up this episode like we always do with our segment. We like to call what's up, DTC? And what's up DTC is where I'll go through some of the calendar events of the places that DTC will be in the upcoming month. So for March, we have a couple of months left for the current season of Blackout bingo. So if you are a DTCTV customer and you're familiar with our local channel, DTC three, and if you haven't played the game blackout bingo yet, what are you waiting for? You could win pretty nice prizes, and it's a lot of fun. So you can learn more about it on our website at DTC three tv. So we hope you'll go check that out. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. We have people that have been playing a very long time and really enjoy it. So as far as places we'll be setting up for March, the Wilson county career quest at the Farm Bureau Expo center in Lebanon on March the 7th, and eigth will be there. And then at the DeKalb County High School career Day on March the eigth and careers on wheels at Smithville Elementary School on April the fifth. So a lot of career based events that we'll be setting up. And there's always a lot of careers in the telecommunications field. And we try to spark some creative juices in some of the younger generations coming up so that maybe they think about their future. They may want a career in some of the kind of technologies that we talk about on the show or the ones that we install here at DTC. We hope that you'll come see us if you are at any of the events, make sure you stop by and say hi and introduce yourself and look forward to seeing you there.
And on that note, I think that wraps it up for the month of March. So we want to thank everyone for joining us again. We're having a blast doing this. We hope you are as well. And on behalf of Justin Malden and Shane Turner, I'm Nick Noakes for the local click saying so long until next month. Learn more about the show by visiting us
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