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Politically High-Tech
281-Digital Dementia: How We're Losing Our Memories with James Gebhardt
Digital dementia is erasing our collective memories as we outsource our recollections to smartphones and fail to properly preserve our most precious moments. James Gebhardt, CEO of MyArkIt, explains how this phenomenon threatens our personal legacies and offers solutions for meaningful memory preservation.
• The paradox of taking thousands of photos yet remembering fewer meaningful moments
• How we've stopped remembering essential information like phone numbers and birthdays
• The vulnerability of digital memories to theft, natural disasters, and corporate data policies
• Why most cloud storage services eventually delete inactive accounts
• The importance of adding audio stories and context to photographs
• How MyArkIt preserves memories with multiple redundant backups
• The Events feature that allows families to collaborate on shared memory collections
• Capturing elder family members' stories before they're lost forever
• The difference between public and private settings for sensitive memories
• Recording wisdom and meaningful stories rather than mundane daily activities
Try MyArkIt free for 30 days with no credit card required at MyArkIt.com and start preserving your legacy today before more precious memories are lost.
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you, thank you, thank you. Hey, welcome everyone to politically high tech with your host, elias. Before I even get to the meat of this episode, or the nitty-gritty, the edutainment, whatever you want to call it this is going to be an interesting one because, you know, normally I lace AI and technological advancement into this episode. In this case, I'm going to go a little bit of a different route here, because I have a guest here that's going to allow me to do that and to be more conscious about a certain thing. You know, those stupid selfies you take that has no meaning or purpose, that you're gonna forget in two nanoseconds and twist your head, make your head look funny and whatever. Yeah, he's. So those faces too, all that silliness. Well, me, I feel silly doing it too, and this is coming from a millennial. I suck at selfies. It takes me an attempt. Try to finally get a decent selfie out of me. I hate it. I hate it. I might have someone take the picture of me. Oh, that's old school, so I'm old school, so what? I don't take it as an insult, that's just how I roll, but I have a guest here who is, I would say, definitely more experienced than me in life. We're not going to use old, we're not going to use elder. We're're gonna call them seasoned or veterans of life. That's a new term we're gonna use okay, because they have experience. If you want to say, um, blood kissing the elder, I don't care, you want to say that I don't really care, but, um, I just think some of that traditional respect needs to be restored because it's been severely compromised in one way or another. Look at social media. You know they say boomers, boomers are dumb in tech. Well, not all of all of them. You'd be surprised. You'd be surprised. Some will even beat you and actually not get hacked as much, because they have a purpose in mind. Especially you, gen Zers, I call. I'm calling you because you use tech too much and some of y'all are careless, according to some statistics. Don't think you're tech superior? Okay, humble yourself, all right.
Speaker 1:All right, before I continue to bash all of you, I'm going to introduce a guest here and get right to it. All right, he is going to introduce, using a's, just all dementia. I think we all are getting it, and we just take 10,000 photos with absolutely no meaning and we forget what they all are. We forget about vast majority of them. We could barely remember one. Okay, I mean, put a gun to your head, I think you're not going to remember it. That's how bad our memories. We outsource that memory.
Speaker 1:Okay, to the, to the primarily this smartphone here. And, if you want to be a little more tradition, maybe a laptop, if some of you believe in a laptop still. So, all right, enough of my yammering. We have James Gephardt here and he is owner, founder, super boss. Yes, I'll just throw that in there of my art kit. Okay, and before and I'm not going to introduce him, I always have to guess introduce themselves, because I think they could introduce themselves better than I can. I might miss something, I might unintentionally misrepresent. So, james, what do you want the listeners and the viewers to know about you before we get started?
Speaker 2:I'm the CEO of MyArchitcom and, like you were saying, we're working with trying to alleviate what we call digital dementia. I kind of stole the phrase and you will find out when we're talking here about how important it is. People kind of go, what's digital dementia? Well, just imagine, your life is digital cradle to grave nowadays and if you're not careful with how you actually handle those precious memories, you're going to get click and you're going to be deleted in time. You know, it's not like we used to have a picture on the wall that's great, great grandpa, who, wherever. And then all of a sudden one generation people kind of go, who's that? And they go, I don't know. And then the picture basically gets put into a garage sale and then you're kind of forgotten. And then another generation looks you up on genealogy and they go, who's that? I don't know. They were married in here and then they died in this date and that's the all the. You know, that's the only thing they remember of you.
Speaker 2:You have technology now that we can actually tap into that when you save a little bit of humanity. You know the social media is kind of getting into a little bit of a uh, a hiking, a melting pot of goo where you get the good and the bad. Some stuff rises to the top, which is good, but you get a lot of that stuff in the pot is really gooey and you know and a lot of people don't even want to get on social media and get online anymore type of thing to where we actually we're going to use some of that technology and help people remember people your mom, your dad, your brother, your sister, people that have passed away, good friends. A lot of times people don't remember something. They look at a picture and they go. You know that was a good friend of mine. I used to go back in high school, that's it. That's all you can remember. You have great memories.
Speaker 1:You have some great stories you can bring up, but it wouldn't be nice to kind of remember that and pass them down from generation to generation. Yep, this is more of a photo, especially someone, of some significance in the past. We're using, you know, grandma, grandpa, for the maternal and fraternal side of the family for some of you, especially those who got both mom and dad Right, and a lot of us just say who the heck is that? Maybe it's my grandmother, I don't freaking know what. You don't know your grandmother.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe I'm going to be a little dramatic, but there's some pictures that, yeah, we said, oh, who's this friend? I said, oh, yeah, I'm sure I knew him sometime back then, but you can't put a name on it because you're forgetting and obviously it wasn't that important for you to still remember that. I'm just gonna be honest. You remember something when it's important. That's what I believe at least. Right, I mean, that could be probably a little bit so. That's mean. I'm being honest. I mean, look, when it comes to phone numbers, I only barely remember a few my mom.
Speaker 2:We used to remember a lot of phone numbers when we were younger. I can still remember my, my house phone number, my address when I was a. I can't remember my wife's phone number right now.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, you know what he's, not even just self-deprecation. That's become far more common. I barely remember my own phone number. Even at times I'll forget my own phone number. I remember my mom's, I remember his, so I got to look at it. We outsource so much. We just dump things like numbers and birthdates. I used to remember like 100 birthdays. Oh, this one's coming up, whatever. We forgot all about that.
Speaker 2:I can never remember birthdays If.
Speaker 1:I didn't have a wife, I would never remember anybody's birthday. I mean, as a kid I used to remember birthdays, until I got obsessed with this little smartphone thing. It's helpful.
Speaker 2:At the same time it's a demon. I've had a friend of mine that had all these beautiful pictures of his newborn baby. Some people can back him up, of course they go up in the class. Some people don't, because it costs money. And he went out golfing and he lost his phone along with all the pictures of his newborn baby. So it was just like if he would have just stopped for a second and had some outlet where he can actually save some of those memories.
Speaker 1:Listen, you may call that a shameless plug, and I encourage it. Okay, listen, you may call that a shameless plug, and I encourage it. Okay, there's a reason, you know. This is not even though this is a fun conversation. This is not charity. Okay, right, right, right, honest. Look, here's a solution. All right, I'm just going to point it out. Yeah, you know, yeah, I encourage him to do that. I mean, come on, I mean he's trying to elevate purpose of the football re-elevate, because it had purpose before, until we over-rely on this. Plus, well, extra social media came a little before this, once these two were overly used.
Speaker 1:Forget it, that's just been pushed to the side, and all of that. And it's really scared me. I lost a couple of photos that I wish I had, because certain events I went to I I don't remember what year and what date and my, my friend and I have a debate about that and it's going to be almost a never-ending debate until one person pulled out the actual photo and the date on it. So that's why it's important to have these things. It was considered a great time too, but now it's going to be a quote, quote endless debate. I'm pulling in quotes until we get the actual document, someday when it turns up and when we both actually care to dig into the truth. I lost mine, he lost his too, so forget it, go ahead.
Speaker 2:We just went through. Every year it seems like we go through a. I remember I had a gentleman I was working with one time. He had a house fire, lost a whole bunch of photos. We just went through hurricanes down in Florida and down south. There A lot of people are losing stuff and you know they just wiped out. I've had a cousin was on Facebook and he said somebody took over his identity and, boom, everything he had on there for years was gone. He had to start over and I've had more than one friend happen that to him and people don't realize where you know. It's like I have that backed up and it's like if you don't touch those backups in Google and Microsoft and stuff like that for a certain period of time in Apple they will delete you. They don't automatically save it for a long, long, long time. It might be 90 days to two years and then they go, boop, you're gone. So you know we have a lot of stuff out there. We have a lot of great memories we want to share.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he is your memory safe, if you will, he is your memory vault. He'll be well protected. Okay, compared to you, you're right, because if you don't do anything about it, these companies are just going to wipe it out. They just operate automation because they got so much stuff to do. I'm not defending them, you know, and so it's your responsibility.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's their business, their business model, which is a great model. They should have a certain amount of backups. Let's go on their websites for free, social media, all that kind of stuff. But you ever look and you know everybody's putting stuff on Instagram, youtube, all this type of things, and it's just not one of those things where it's just like if you're not there for a while, you're gone. You know, because they figure once you're there, you're using it. Other people are watching you and they can sell advertising. So we have a different model on the way we do things. We sell somebody a one-time fee for starting off with 10 gigabytes and you can start putting stuff into their account and then they can do that from a child from day one all the way up until they, you know they pass away at age 120. And so you know it's. You gotta have some other place to put your stuff. Besides, I got my backup on my desk, but that can be lost in a garage sale or a house fire anything like that, be gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're talking more like that. Sally the tragic loss. Even before smartphones, social media, with the hurricanes, the fires, people have lost photos. I mean prior to this digital advancement, right? So there you go on, veterans of life. This is why you need to get to. Oh, I don, I don't need ginger toe. Come on, veterans of life, you know the fire and hurricanes. You know you don't have a backup that could immortalize these photos. Come on.
Speaker 2:I was trying to get my information from my grandfather on my mom's side. He was in World War II, he was in Guadalcanal and I said I'll see if I can actually check on him. He's got records with the government, right? He was in the war. Oh, if you look it up back when he was actually in the military, back in World War II, they had a bunch of records there in Washington, I think it was. But there was also a huge fire I can't remember if it was back in the 60s or 70s that actually burned for two or three days and wiped out a huge amount of records. So, right there, yes, you can't well, you can't trust the government to keep your records, and what we try to do is we try to have multiple backup as multiple companies, and we, you know we have. We have a way now of being able to actually safeguard for generations. We have plans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but plan after a plan after a plan, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, look, you know, this may sound silly to some of you, but this you know I am. I mean, look, you know this may sound silly to some of you, but this, you know, if you want to protect social precious more, if it's stupid photos, yeah, I get it. Yeah, let the companies do whatever you want with it. You know, maybe I don't know was you look dressing up like a dog. Maybe that's a little embarrassing. Maybe you want to wipe that out, but we're not talking about. But I mean you could, you could choose to do that. You know, I don't think he's gonna judge, maybe he might laugh at your photo.
Speaker 2:I'm kidding we, we actually what we do? Is we, we, when you buy that, when you, when you buy it, you can actually try it for 30 days for free, but uh, and when you buy it you actually get to choose public or private. So basically you can save a whole bunch of stuff and it's probably nobody will see it until you pass away, because then your executor basically clicks in the book, clicks a button, then all your stuff then becomes public. So you can be putting stuff in there for years and really don't care until you die. Then everything becomes public.
Speaker 1:So I'm sure he's having a full set of stuff right now, james, here, and by the time he's gone, death is guaranteed. I mean, I don't care how much you try to do whatever, even with medical advancements, we could hit 20. That's becoming more possible than ever. I mean, people are hitting 100s, which that's, you know, great, okay, by life expectancy. Overall that's been going up, up, up, I mean.
Speaker 1:But I'll say the the best country for that is japan, for obvious reasons. Um, they, they're probably hundreds, 110, probably some feeling we hit 100 and well, probably close to 120, I'm sure. Um, but luck, and when you're gone, or you want people to remember you, I mean, this is a safe, you know, this is, I'll say, a memory, with a vault within a vault, within a vault within another vault, until you know you're gone, and I'm sure the day they'll come out. So, oh, that was my, that was my pop, he was such a great guy. His photos are here. So, just, I don't know, rely on Google and Microsoft for them. They wipe it out. If you don't care about them, they will wipe it out. I mean, let's.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, because they're not making any money off you and what we try to do is we take a percentage of the sales and stick it over into what we call the principal investment group or the pig, and basically just that money sits there and creates a return on interest that basically pays for data storage, and that's our plan. So we can actually, since we're a C corporation, it can basically go on in perpetuity for quite some time and just pay for itself, yep.
Speaker 1:Come on, business people, this should be of interest to you.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I got sticks and stones out there all over the place talking to people and you try to get past the basic venture capitalists that wants to know the TAMs and the SAMs and all these other kind of numbers and it's just like no. I want you to understand what we're trying to do and what the possibility is. It's just not a neighborhood thing. It could be a global thing because we can tap into multiple languages, multiple cultures and we're tapping in with Amazon Web Services and Iron Mountain, two of the hugest companies in the world for data storage, and if they can understand what we can actually tap into, and this is generational, generation after generation, and just the portion of just some people's memories. That's just one or two services out of about 10 different income streams we have. We even have another service called events at com, events at myarkacom, and that covers people like, let's say, you had a high school, I went back to high school I have no idea where my high school yearbook is and I got some pictures, as friends send me some pictures of that and I finally got some stuff under my account that I remember now.
Speaker 2:But let's say, if you actually had an event where a couple of ways you can do this, a couple of ways. You have an event. You have a high school. You have so many people at college high school. You have an event. You have a high school, you have so many people at college high school and they're like everybody gets a high school yearbook and the majority of you don't know anybody in that high school anyway, you just have to click, you're running around with it, okay, have your best friends join in with your event for no charge. You buy the event and everybody's kind of putting your stuff into your event. You know your parents can control it because you are under 18. But now you have that whole event, the whole high school thing, and even keeping that friendship going years after that is in your event. And you can do the same thing with a wedding and with many other things you can do an event with.
Speaker 2:And then another thing I came up with the other day. It would be kind of interesting as an event. Let's say, with John F Kennedy when he was assassinated, how much stuff was out there with all the different pictures, all the different angles. Everybody had this, but nobody actually has all the negatives and things like that. What if we had an event where somebody said, okay, do we have this attempted assassination as an event, and now everybody starts putting their little pieces into the event. Now there's actually some safeguard to that event, where people want to actually go and get some information instead of having to rely on the government again or one of the big guys that might censor what you put in there.
Speaker 1:To some of you political cynics out there he sounds like a right winger. Let's not judge. Okay, this is not this kind of episode. If you want to think that you want to put in the comment section, you go express your thing right there. All I'm going to say is I am not going to guarantee to entertain that, because this is not a political episode. Both left and the right have their reasons why they're critical of the government.
Speaker 1:All right so this is coming from an independent centrist. All right, this is most political, is going to get. Ok, let me just shut down my political brain, because we don't need that. This is about protecting memory, protecting legacy. That's what's most important. I don't care. You are blue, red, purple, rainbow, whatever the heck you are. You want to preserve some memory. Ok, as long as you're a human being, you care about memories, or even your friends memories or anything you value family, all of that, and go to him, all right.
Speaker 1:And so let me just throw a slightly challenging question, then, because we got into some of how do you assist those who are tech challenged, those who you know don't know how to use apps right? I mean, some don't know even how to turn on a smartphone properly. I mean, can they get assistive, I'm sure? Well, let me just do a weird example. Millennials are just known to use technology well, but there are some of my age group that suck with technology. You compare it to let me just frame this carefully a stereotypical boomer that I don't know technology. This person is like half the age. There's some millennials that say is there any way you can help them with that? Is it to store photos or anything like that. Well, we actually have myarketcom.
Speaker 2:We also have our event service, eventsmyarcacom. We also have another website called LifesaverU and that's LifesaverUcom at myarcacom. What it does is you can actually click on a little button that says Lifesaver and besides having all of our videos and all of our other how to get started, how to do this, how to do that we're actually putting together part of the website that's going to actually have. Let's say you have a group, let's say it could be a church group, it could be a VFW group, it could be any group you want to have, and basically a person can actually get, quasi for no charge, let's say, a certificate for being a lifesaver. So they kind of go through our little course online and they kind of see all the different ways that you can actually use our service. You can actually not have to use it in one way, you can use it in different ways. But now you actually have an idea how that works. Now you can turn to your group and actually have those people. You can actually help each one of them. Maybe. How to do a little bit of an interview, how to maybe? Oh, I got some pictures at home, just bring them in. You don't have to be fancy with it. You can just take a little picture with your phone if you want to. It's the memory. And what we also do is we actually you can take a picture, click a button and add an audio story to a picture, not just a picture. So we try to.
Speaker 2:In the Lifesaver U port of it, we're going to really try to help people not have that inhibition to not start. That's the big thing. People don't don't. They don't feel like that. Well, I don't know how really to start. It's like eating an elephant. You got to start with the first bite. You might do it wrong, no big deal. You can click edit, do it again, you know. But you start putting those memories in there. And it's actually when I first started it and I first got my page up and running.
Speaker 2:Not me, my IT guys. I'm challenging that part. There's good and there's bad. You got to get through some of the glitches. Some of the other glitches might be the browser you're using. Are you using Chrome? Oh, different things like that. So sometimes there's good and bad there. But get through the glitches, figure out the best way you can do it with yours, because we're talking about a lifetime, we're not talking about one thing. It's what I call it. It call it. It's like taking on a hobby. You're not going to learn this hobby. This hobby is going to be for you and for your family. So it's nothing you're going to learn overnight. It's actually going to be quite fun because you're going to be digging up a bunch of stuff out of the old photo albums and asking hey, could you send me that picture of such and such from when I was arrested? That one time?
Speaker 1:Something like that. Some people may want to remember that. So you see how evil this guy is. This preserved evidence. This is why you should have never married him or be friends or whatever context would be useful.
Speaker 2:You put that in the private part so it doesn't come out until you pass away oh, look at that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it gives you some privacy. They have privacy features right there.
Speaker 2:Hey, people don't want to put a bunch of stuff on social media, because I don't blame them I don't like throwing every little thing on Facebook or Twitter or other things like that but people want to be able to tell stories and pass on a lot of the stuff that they've done. A lot of stuff. It could be a musician, an artist, a painter, a photographer, a singer, a basic recipes from your, from you know, your mother or your grandmother, things like that.
Speaker 1:Pass them on, yeah I mean, I mean, look, I look I think he has a very important mission here and I'm happy for once I could really say this I'm happy for once. The ai is not the main character here. It might be a little side character, so I might be bending my problems just a little bit, so just just adding AI, just a little bit. Will you add AI in the future just to make the photo move, or anything like that?
Speaker 2:No, maybe there might be just something to make it look a little more pleasing. The only thing I can think of AI incorporating right now is in the help aspect of it and lifesaver. We have another little caveat with that called Archipedia, where you can ask a question. We'll make a little video on how something can help a certain situation out, type of thing. So that would be very helpful. You know, when somebody says, hey, I got a such and such phone, or blah blah, how can I do this? You know, and we can have our AI guru or something come up there and help you through a certain situation.
Speaker 1:Okay, Well, just like a tutorial guide or like probably basic customer service type of thing like a bot.
Speaker 2:I think that's going to be great. Ai is going to be great for customer service, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, this is where I'm actually skeptical of AI. So far it hasn't proven me to be great at customer service. I think humans are going to still be relevant for us, especially when it comes to me. I got complicated critical thinking questions that AI is not ready to tackle. I'm sure it's going to get there. It's a matter of when, not if. Let me just be clear as of now, it definitely has a lot of room to improve. Ai is great for automation and art and all that other stuff. Talk about pictures, but he's not talking about those kind of pictures. He's talking about real pictures with people, events you care about, Not generate a blocky-looking superhero just breaking stuff and showing those fantastical. No, he's not talking about fantastical, mystical crap. He's talking about real memories, Real memories.
Speaker 2:Yeah, real memories.
Speaker 1:I try to add fantastical crap. He's like what happened? Hey look, it's all right. At least he's clear, because you can't. This is my thing. I think this is what people get to make some of the good business. A good business was to be pleasing to every single customer. I don't think so. They just gotta know what their audience is, what their goal is, and all. Because if he was able to answer to say yeah, it's gonna do that, I was like, oh, wasn't that distort memories and all that. I could ask all these questions. I could just poke the holes and all that. But he clears. He's clear about what he wants. He wants to preserve real memories.
Speaker 1:Having ai doing fantastical stuff that distracts that. If I'm gonna be honest, you know. You know you don't want, I don't know, your grandpa talking like elvis or whatever. You know you could do it. You got a. You got other ai tools. You know you got the ai tools for that silliness. Just not here. This is for serious memory preservation. Okay, let me just be clear about that. You see, I think a business with a focus goal, that stays, that sticks to its goals, are successful. You know, it's like McDonald's trying to become a health food store. Well, they did that salad.
Speaker 1:Don't even get me started with that one. They did, they did and it's terrible. Mcdonald's, stick to your fast food. Okay, stay in your lane. All right, let me just you know.
Speaker 2:I've had people ask me before, just like you, getting people to be able to maybe talk to their grandfather AI-generated and I said that's not talking to your loved one, that's talking to a computer you know, I'd rather have people sit down with their loved ones, with their grandparents or parents or great grandparents, ask them some questions about their life, get the real stories right from them, the real emotions and stuff like that. Do a little click and what we have we always call arc it. When you're done, you're ready to put it up and save it up into the slave the arc it.
Speaker 1:So hey, you know I'm a great business. Like I said, it's focused on its goals and it's not meant to serve every single customer. It's just not possible. And businesses that try to do that, and you know you take a bit of a tank. I mean mcdonald's with the salad thing is a very good example of that, and I'm sure there is others and what I was very critical of and I'm not gonna talk about video games here because that's gonna just derail everything, but my point is stick to your lane, stick to your missions, know your why and just stick to your why, like why I do this podcast.
Speaker 1:I'm not talking about kiddie crap, I'm not talking about family oriented stuff, but I will at times, promote something. In this case, even though this could, you can involve your kids and your family. That's entirely up to you. I can say no to that. This, this is your use, while I get this thing.
Speaker 1:Well, I certainly do hope so, because I think I've already lost enough important memories to really really start thinking about this purchase. If I'm going to be honest Because I think yeah, I think I really lost enough of that, especially that trip to that mall that I enjoyed so much that my friend and I just regurgitate very briefly we debate about the date. It is never ending until we pull out that receipt one day and then we see who's right. I think I'm right. You call me egomaniac, that's fine, I don't care.
Speaker 1:I'll just have fun with the, with the comment section. That's what comment section there for? I want to entertain you, though, but if you want to express yourself, go right ahead. Um, you know, but tell us what you think. This is a serious question. I got for the comment section. If you're interested purchasing this, how will you use it? I'm just curious or if it's really none of my business. The simple thing is just don't answer it. But if you're thinking about it, or you're even thinking about it, I'll probably use this as a protect. It's just to document my kid's growth that's one example from infant to whatever. That's a fantastic way to do that. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2:I'll go ahead. That's a fantastic way I'm trying to get the new mother, the new parent and a lot of times people take a lot of pictures and sometimes that's very private because they just want to throw the babies and kids pictures out there. But you know, you have a lot of memories right there from when you're having the baby, maybe when you find out you're going to have a baby, all that kind of stuff, the first year, the first one, and if you actually have a lot of that stuff put some place that's important and that could be just their, uh, lifetime account and when they get to be 18 you can give them their lifetime account and have them keep putting stuff to it. Yeah, but what?
Speaker 1:about your wedding or just your personal milestones, especially when you dig them up. You know, you know I'm just thinking self-oriented here. Oh, you know all your trips I went to greece, I went to China. Those are memorable, those are moments. They don't always have to be family or significant milestones like a graduation, but you can include those if you want. It's how you use it right.
Speaker 2:It's how you use it, how you want to use it. We have a thing I use the events with the family photo album. My dad died. When he passed away I inherited a bunch of pictures and stuff of family photo albums and my cousin back home in Iowa we're in Washington right here they had digitized a lot of those pictures and put a lot of memories with it. Now I took those and put them on my ARC-IT on the event for our family. So now different people within the family can now enjoy that family photo album from all different places all over the country, even the world, if they want to. And they can actually get into it. If you're an editor because not everybody is an editor that gets to add stuff to it. But you can actually start adding and changing memories to those pictures, like who was this person you know? You might ask them oh, that's your cousin, and then she gets into it because he's one of the editors and she can add the story to it.
Speaker 1:But you story to it. But you know that's one way I used to have events with family photo album. Let me give a somewhat comical example. You're talking about permission settings. I hear oh, you could let this good cousin you trust edit. But the bad cousin you want to see the photo but he can't edit it because you know he might be doing shenanigans. Put it on the website, do some ai nonsense with it, turn the grandpa to a blue alien. So that's why he only gets the view permission.
Speaker 2:I don't know why that's trustworthy. You can become a person that contributes to the event but that doesn't mean you automatically get that stuff on the event. It's like a wedding. You can get some people doing some really stupid stuff at a wedding, even before the wedding some pictures and stuff like that. So the person who owns that event, they get to edit it, they get to choose what goes into that event and puts back to the people that actually enjoyed the event. You know you drink so much spirits, for example.
Speaker 1:You know I'm sure that's not going to be included unless they're going to use it for, I don't know, comical purposes, whatever it's up to the user at the end of the day. I don't know people creative, like whimsical, like me, I use my silliness if I have to just document something that has documented my serious side, but it's how you want to use it. But I'm sure a normal rational minded person is not going to have, you know, it's not gonna have a memory. Keep the memory of two drunken idiots their friends, you know falling out on the floor because they drank too much and they had, you know, know, and in dance coordination it's just messy, just to put it politely. He's not cursing, I'm not cursing. That's why I have a clean language. I merit a guess. A guess is foul mouth. I'm going to be just as foul mouth. I go with. I go with the cleanliness of the guess. It's always used. Very clean language, you know it's option. It's not family friendly but ironically this can be used in a family friendly way. You know very family for my way, you know. So that's the ironic part.
Speaker 1:But I think I'm thing is we I'm just seeing like the big picture, like the digital dimension. This is what drew me to this in the first. To say yeah, you know, normally I would act as I'm not gonna lie. I'm thinking about interviewing him about some of the digital dementia things Crap. I think he's on to something. He's on to something. I've lost a couple of memories. I dig back and even I use that mall example, but it was a really good memory. I say, yeah, hey, we need to talk about this and the way social media is using all these photos just for, you know, just putting it. There's a show off to their fake friends. Most of your social media friends are fake. Some of them are just surveillance and stalkers. All right, I could go on a rant about social media, you know, and a lot of them just love to just show off over document. I mean, I don't care if you're brushing your teeth. I'm sure most people not going to use it. There's a document, you know, brushing their teeth or going to sleep some, some people.
Speaker 2:It says oh, I got up, blah, blah, blah. The same thing the next morning. It's just like we really don't want to see all that kind of stuff. I tell people when they're putting stuff in there or you're documenting or you have the happy memories put some wisdom to your memories. Don't really rag on somebody else type of thing. You don't want to sit there and become like the big grumpy person in the future. You got to remember this could be done generation after generation. So you want to put a good light on you know life and hand down some wisdom you know and not just hand down I had, oh, this coffee looks great today, and that's you know. Give them something better than that.
Speaker 1:Everybody's put us nicely Nonsense you do as a routine, the world does not care. Yes, as a routine, the world does not care. Yes, I'm the snobby host here. Yes, I don't keep calling me a snob. I can't be a snob and you know what I have done that just to just to prove my point. I brushed my teeth. Fools gave likes. I said stop giving likes. I said you know I'm not gonna do this. I'm trying to prove a point that nobody cares. But when I talk about something that's interesting or thought-provoking or funny, you'll get some attention. Okay, fine, I want the attention there. But that's something like I am using the restroom so you might post that, I'm pretty sure. Look, I don't know if you're gonna use that for this photo thing. I don't know if the ceo is gonna override your customer rights?
Speaker 1:I don't think he will, but he's laughing because he knows how absurd this is and all I'm gonna say is expect the unexpected. You probably might deal. One absurd person, I don't know, I don't know, I could be wrong here, um, but look, I just look, people just don't care what you do, just make sure you have think long term, think, you know, beyond your life. That's the guidance that I could give. All right, and you and he's going to provide a backup of a backup, of a backup of a backup. Okay, and me I will just say, even add a physical copy of the photos. That's just me with the storage.
Speaker 2:Even if they get burned down. I always tell people you got stuff in your mostly time it's in their phone. Most of the time I go from my phone I go to my desktop computer it's easy to work with than my phone. But then I also when I put that stuff like that, I also have my backup on my hard drive, on my backup. So you should have a backup of a backup and now you have a backup now with my ArcKit to where this can be lost.
Speaker 1:that can be lost. My arc is going to still be there. Yep, so I'm sure my listeners and viewers are savvy and serious people. You know I don't predict. Probably one of you are ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Don't make it easy for me to figure it out. I might want to call you out just for fun. I have that tempting, mischievous childishness just to call out the. You know. Let's just think of old cartoons. Yes, I'm an old soul. Sometimes you know either Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry with the Don's hat. Yeah, I will call you out the one with the Don's hat. I will call you an idiot. I'm sometimes that kind of person, especially if you make it too easy for me. Just keep that to yourself. If you have some discretion and you know that's what I'm going to say Just keep that to yourself. Don't make it easy for me to figure you out. Okay, some of your comments give that away too, by the way, especially if you don't think things through.
Speaker 1:But if you're brave enough in this comic section, I'm just going to say this when you decide to use this, do you think this is the best way to overcome digital dementia? I mean, that's a serious question to the, to listeners and viewers. Do you think this is that maybe. Maybe this is the only way some of you might say so. I probably got other ways. Definitely provide that.
Speaker 1:If you got other ways, I'm curious to know if you have other ways to overcome digital dementia or digital photos being wiped out. If I want to be just using plain and boring english here, because we have lost great memories, he was lost very important photos because they just, most of the time they just forget to do a backup. But the hurricanes of fires and all that sad, it's unfortunate, that's tragic, but that also has contributed to that, even prior to the social media era. Okay, because the actuales have been around. Okay, so that's much longer ago, but even before we humans arrived. So you know. So I just just protect your photos and and go to someone who is trustworthy. He's a legacy kind of guy. Yeah, it's a business, don't get me wrong, but this is more legacy protection and it's more legacy.
Speaker 1:And you want to document your family's journey from one generation to another, to another, to another, because most human beings, they can remember only up to fourth generation, if and that's a big if.
Speaker 1:Because social media we could barely keep up with two or three generations Barely. I'm talking barely. I think back then we would keep up with probably four. But you know, I look the fourth. Once he's like the fourth generation, the little great, great, great, great great grandchild ain't going to know who the great, great, great great grandfather and mother is. Wow, they're too busy being addicted to this thing. And who knows, by the time, the time, the future, they have like hologram and AI entertaining their little brains. So they're not going to remember that, they're going to just remember the hologram or whatever character, maybe Xenon, I don't know, I'm just making up a name of that AI character that just pops up. Yeah, there's going to be virtual reality and things like that.
Speaker 2:What the features are going to have for us for actual storage and actually how it's. You know we have two-dimensional now. It could be more three-dimensional where it looks more realistic when somebody's talking, that type of thing, but it still boils down to a memory. We can take a picture now. We can take short videos, we can add audio to a picture so you can have that memory Just because you got your phone and you got pictures in it. Take a picture, there's a good picture, there's a good story to that picture. Well, tell the story. It'd be kind of cool to have.
Speaker 2:I'd love to have my dad when he was. I'd love to have stories off of him. I sat him down back in about 97 and when we were back road tripping and got questions asking about when he was a kid, when he went he was in the war, in the Korean War, and it's funny stories you know, and got some. My mom has had her down for some videos and stuff like that too. But at the same time my brother passed away and I missed sitting him down, getting videos, getting stories from him and all this stuff. You know tons of stories. He's a great storyteller. I'll never have that opportunity again.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, absolutely yeah, and this is, I'm sure, this is one of the many reasons besides this why I've started this business, this product that will, I would say, if you use it, it will be a cure to your digital dementia. It will be the cure. I could easily say that.
Speaker 2:It's a cure. There's other ones out there. I've seen some other companies doing certain things, but I can give you the good and bad about some of the other companies. Some of them aren't even around right now. Forget that. Forget about them.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly, no, no, no. We ain't going to do that. No, no, no, no. I'm very biased here.
Speaker 2:I'm pro-guess here. The biggest thing I got to tell people is start getting those memories. That's the biggest thing that you can use my ARC at any time you only have to buy it once but start getting those memories, especially when people that are getting in their gray area and start asking things about their life and just certain you know. Just set them down. Start getting those memories, because someday they will be gone and those memories will be partially in your brain, but it will not hardly be in your kid's brain and your great great grandchildren will have no idea who you are Exactly.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to add anything, because that's really the sum of it. That's the forget goal. That is really the sum of it. That's the forget gold. That is the platinum purpose of it all. Okay, and this I think we did shameless plug-in. This sounds repetitive. Go to my orchid. I only found one website, but, yes, many more. Um, obviously, uh, um, memoir kit we're looking for investors. That's a good plug, there you go, investors Going on to invest here.
Speaker 2:I always tell people. I said, do you have an aunt that you know where her checkbook is? And she's like is she really rich? And you know? I said, yeah, just write out a check. I like to put those seeds out there, because someday somewhere there's going to be. Somebody said, hey, this is a good idea. And then we're off and rolling on the big leagues and that will really see us blossom. Yep, come on.
Speaker 1:You got a big check in the big heart for this business.
Speaker 2:yeah, that's the big thing, a big heart. A lot of times I've run through a lot of venture capitalists and talk to them and a lot of them are they get the idea. Some of them get it and others just kind of look like, well, I don't know, and it's just like they do that with so many people in industry. I mean, you know, you look at industry now that it was not even around 20 years ago that people hoo-ha and poo-pooed type of thing, and they've done that throughout history. You know the computers and the first automobile, all these type of things, and it's just like, well, you know, ok, wait, give us 10 years, and all of a sudden this will be a household name where people are using it. It's just going to be another way that you can use your digital memories and not have or not get digital dementia.
Speaker 1:Yep, exactly. So I'm going to link the sites, please, so go, I'm going to blink the sites and then, if the if you know, james would give me other links as well, you give it to me, I'll share them. That's all going to be in the description of this episode, all right. And he even has a YouTube channel as well. That gives you a nice visual presentation. Why the heck you want to get this? Okay, I'm going to link that video as well, okay, and then now anything else you want to add before I start doing my own selfish shade.
Speaker 2:I'll put my own, I'll put my plug in now. Iarkitcom M-Y-A-R-K-I-Tcom. You can go to it and you'll see the 30 day free trial Basically what it is. Just click on it. We don't take any bank information and basically you can kick the tires, take it for a test spin and kind of get idea how we do things. And also, I love feedback too, when people will say well, I think you could have this or maybe have that. I'll look at it with my IT guys and if we think it was a good idea, boom, we'll program it in in a second. You know, we always let me get feedback because we're here for the long run. We're not here for just OK everybody.
Speaker 1:We're just trying to help people save their memories. Yep, so you got all that information listeners and viewers. Good, now for the usual one my loyal people. Yet to suffer through all this? Again? My own shameless plug-in? Yep, deal with it. Deal with it and y'all love me. Y'all love me, I At least you know in a transactional sense. Let's be real. So for me, give a like share. I give an honest review at Apple Podcasts. That's the only one I'm paying attention to. I don't care about Spotify. If you're doing Spotify, I don't care about you. Do the Apple Podcasts. Yes, I'm that biased and proud. Okay, give an honest review.
Speaker 1:If you think I'm doing great, just say I'm doing great and just add why, specifically, it was great, not just I'm great or I suck. And if you think I could prove on something, be specific. There's a few people that's done that and I actually appreciate. I appreciate the four star. That's more constructive than a five star. Say I'm just great, okay, I'm great. I just need a specific, at least one specific um thing. You know I don't need a whole essay. Look, listen, I I just need a specific, at least one specific thing. You know I don't need a whole essay. Look, listen, I don't need a whole essay of it, just tell me you know what? What can I prove on or what? What make this episode great? That will be very helpful to me. Look, I and that's all I'm going to say I'm on Facebook, linkedin, twitter and YouTube. Linkedin, twitter and YouTube and Rumble you kind of treat like second-class citizens, because I'll eventually dump you there later. I'm also on Rumble as well, all right, and all that's going to be in the link, in the description, and I always put mine right after the guest. It's always at the bottom, okay, cause I expect you to be loyal by now. I always put the guests on work on top because they're here at least one time and if I think it's, if I need to gather, you know, extract more contact content out of them.
Speaker 1:If I read, you know, or it's just a real big issue that I think you know why digital dementia is more important than ever. If we all get dementia somehow, but then they definitely come back, worldwide dementia. We don't want that, though. We want that let's, let's not, let's let that happen. Um, so you can prevent it. There's a solution right here. Okay, and that's what I'm gonna say. So this is the final part. Yes, you went through this audio. No-transcript.
