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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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We have Chris Stevens, the general
manager of Video Reality here with is today.

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Chris. First of all, pleasure
mate, and you're acquaintance, so

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tell us a little bit about you
and your company, Video Reality. Well,

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thanks for having me. I'm Chris
Stevens. I am the general manager

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here and we are Video Reality.
We are an audio video design integration company

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located here in Oklahoma City. We
design complex audio video systems for K twelve

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schools, universities, tech schools,
commercial, corporate, business, and house

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worship. Well, it sounds like
you have a lot of smart people there,

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because this sounds like it's something that's
way over my pay grade. But

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I have seen some of your work
and it's very very impressive. Just don't

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ask me how it works. But
anyway that we leave that up to you

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and to the folks who will be
operating it. But my goodness sake,

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this is the way of the future. This is the way people are sharing

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information and learning, and it's something
that really captures the attention absolutely, and

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the fact that you don't know it
is is why I stay employed. So

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I appreciate you not learning. Where'd
you get the idea for this, Chris.

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Well, So, we've been in
business since nineteen ninety six, started

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out on audio and video systems repairs, and it's just progressed over the years.

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You know, when you have a
skill and a knowledge set that other

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people don't have, it's almost a
moral obligation for you to help those around

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you. So we have been helping
mostly schools and churches do the things that

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they don't know how to do.
Well, you know what, I've seen

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this in a handful of schools,
but we could sure probably put a few

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more in the classrooms. And you're
also involved in a way to make that

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happen for a couple of local classrooms. How do we do this here?

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We've got a little contest going on. Yeah, So basically we want to

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introduce ourselves to the schools that we
have not met before and and reinforce the

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relationships that we have already. But
basically what we're doing is we're offering a

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free smartboard to the school that that
votes the most. Essentially to get get

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active, get your get your students
active, get your teachers active, and

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start placing your votes if you haven't
already. But whoever gets the most votes,

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we're going to give a free smart
board will come out. We'll do

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the installation for you, review it
for you, do a little demo and

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and education on it, and get
you guys going. Chris, this is

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a wonderful idea and it's a great
way to get to some of these schools

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acquainted with the modern way of how
instruction is going to be, not only

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in the president but for years to
come. Now, we have a little

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place on our website. It's Bartlesville
Radio dot com. So if you have

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a school that either you're an instructor, you're a student or parent, you've

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got kids, or you're just a
big fan of your school you wanted to

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do well in your community, I
advise you to go there, read up

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a little bit about the contest,
and vote and vote and vote. That's

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the way you're going to get one
of these in your classrooms. This is

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going to be great. What's the
first thing that comes to mind when you're

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doing this demonstration? Now, what
do you notice? Is it the big

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aha moment that you're getting from instructors
when they see this turn on and come

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to life. Yeah? Absolutely.
I think interactive displays have been in classrooms

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for a long time used to be
a whiteboard with an interactive projector plunky and

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cumbersome and kind of slow to react, And today's technologies are just so much

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smooth. There's so much more responsive. There's so much interactivity, so many

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different lesson types and ways to get
kids involved. And I think teachers,

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I absolutely think teachers have an aha
moment of oh goodness, I could use

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this for this, I could use
it for that application. We can use

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this for sports, we can use
this for getting kids to read better,

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to participate in classrooms more frequently.
There's just there's so many different benefits in

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so many different ways that these smart
displays can be used for interactivity and collaboration.

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And I don't think there's a teacher
out there that doesn't have that aha

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moment of oh man, I can
certainly use this for this purpose. Well,

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the engagement rate's got to go up
a few thousand percent because the student

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doesn't have a chance to get bored. It's constantly engaging, and it makes

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for longer attention span, and sometimes
you got to fight for that, especially

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in the middle school ranks. I'm
a father of seven, I kind of

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know how that goes, I'm a
father of four, so absolutely, you

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know we're not going to engage.
Keep it moving, keep the information coming,

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and as long as it's popping,
it's there and they will pay attention.

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This is a nice little breakthrough.
And like we said, folks,

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this can be in your school too. And all you have to do is

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go to our website Bartintvielle Radio dot
com and click on the icon there and

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it'll tell you how to vote,
tell you a little bit about the company

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and how this could be in your
school of your choice. And once again

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you're over there in the Oklahoma City
area. If folks don't particularly have a

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school or anything, but they have
a business and they want to get a

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hold of you to see how maybe
it could benefit their business, how do

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we go about contacting you, Chris, you know, just pick up the

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phone and give us a call.
Our phone number is four zero five seven

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two one three seven six four,
or you can visit us at videoreality dot

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com. Either way. But yes, we can help businesses. And we

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don't just do small boards. We
do every form of audio video. We

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do digital signage, we do conference
room audio and video systems, we do

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house of worship sanctuary, performing arts
centers, any form of audio or video

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communication that you could possibly need,
we can accommodate it. Wow, that

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sounds amazing seeing as believing so chances
are you going to get a few phone

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calls and a few eyeballs on your
website too. Hey, Chris, I

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want to thank you very much for
being with us, and thank you for

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putting out this wonderful contest so that
the kids can be the winners. Absolutely,

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thank you for getting the word out
and we appreciate the partnership