Launching Tech Talks With Tim: Innovation in Public Sector

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Grab a mug, settle in Let the conversation begin
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Talking public sector tech Keeping all the systems
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checked Tech Talk with Tim Hello My name is Tim
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Galluzi. I have the honor of serving as the State
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of Nevada's Chief Information Officer. Welcome
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to Tech Talks with Tim. Michael, what are we
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doing here? So, this is the greatest part of
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working in a public service office is meeting
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where people are at. And we've just figured that
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we add one more resource for... people to get
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the information that they want or need. So Tim,
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what should we start off with? Right. So yeah,
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you're absolutely right. There's a lot of different
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types of communications vehicles out there. Not
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everybody receives communications the same way.
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Not everybody's going to go to a website to read
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the latest press release or... Heck, they're
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not even going to check their email half the
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time. So we need to find people where they are
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and find a communications vehicle that really
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works for everybody. Hopefully people find this
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entertaining. Hopefully we're able to get out
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the information that people really want to know.
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There's a lot of... interesting interworkings
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when it comes to technology and government. And
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hopefully this is an opportunity where we can
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shed some light on how we make decisions in government
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technology, how technology in government can
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impact the daily lives of Nevadans. Maybe have
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an opportunity to tell a story about the amazing
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technologists that we have here at the GTO and
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across the state of Nevada. We didn't necessarily
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have all the vehicles in place or the right vehicles
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in place to really have a long -form opportunity
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to do that. So our hope is that a podcast -type
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format can really do that for us. Yeah, and also,
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full disclosure, this is not AI -generated. This
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is your actual chief of comms from the GTO and
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your state CIO. I'm just very clear here. And
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also, none of this is scripted. So it's very...
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Literally, we're drinking coffee on a Friday
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and we are just going to talk about, you know,
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what our goals are for this podcast, how this
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could be a tool for people to get more information
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that they're really hungry for. And also one
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huge thing is shouting out all the IT folks throughout
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the state that do a lot of the work in the shadows
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that, you know, you don't really hear about IT
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unless there's a big. big crisis or something
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is not working. Yeah, absolutely. Unfortunately,
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in the states and elsewhere, that's when you
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hear about technology, when a project doesn't
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go well or when you have a cyber incident. Too
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soon? Maybe. But that's when you hear about it,
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is when things aren't going well. And this could
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be a vehicle where we celebrate some of the great
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work that some of our brilliant technologists
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are doing across the state. So some of the guests
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that we might have are some of our technologists.
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we have in -house here at the GTO, but also some
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of the technology leaders from across the executive
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branch here in the state of Nevada, but also
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we could be bringing in some municipal partners
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as they're doing their work to help serve Nevadans
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in their municipalities. There's a huge network
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of technology professionals across the entire
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nation. that are also facing similar challenges.
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And one of the things that we could use this
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format for is to bring them in so folks have
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an understanding that we aren't alone. Our challenges
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aren't uniquely Nevada challenges. These are
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things that other states, other municipalities,
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they're also facing. Everybody faces budgetary
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challenges. Everybody faces the threat of cybersecurity
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challenges. So to kind of hear that from other
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folks is also kind of empowering. So folks understand
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that they're not alone. Yeah. Well, this might
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be the first time people are hopefully get to
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interact with us. I do want to introduce you.
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What can you tell us about yourself? Okay, so
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I didn't know that was coming. So to introduce
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myself, I've been here at the GTO now since it
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was Enterprise IT Services Division. And with
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the state now for about 12, 13 years. Thanks.
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I've been the agency head. at GTO now for about
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five years, serving as the state CIO for about
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four and a half of it. I've been in the technology
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space for over 20 years. I got my start in technology
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while serving in the United States Marine Corps
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as a telecommunications marine. Thank you for
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your service. I appreciate it. And really, I've
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done a little bit of everything in my journey
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in technology, but really... where I have found
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my passion is by finding the point of friction
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and solving it, right? And really that's been
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in leading people and helping them find their
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way, whether that be in project management or
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team leadership or... Getting my hands on keyboards
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and being a technical SME. So it's been an incredible
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journey. Public service has been really the thread
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the entire time of my career. I think every step
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of the way has been through public service. So
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I've really enjoyed it. I've been in Nevada now
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for about 14, 15 years. So it's been an incredible
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journey. Nevada's lucky to have you. Tim, I mean,
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it's just working with you, working for you.
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I mean, just speaking from my experience and
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selfishly saying, wow, I have the coolest boss,
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just FYI. We get to really experiment and really
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dive into figuring out what problems to solve,
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leaving enough room for this creative. endeavor
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of being in IT which is not really talked about
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a lot we're kind of like artists and like kind
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of nerds that want to figure out problems but
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in very unique efficient ways and we get to do
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that in this cool environment that we that you
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facilitated and you kind of help foster a lot
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of technologists for GTO and they continue to
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develop and you know, other agencies and their
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offices and how you support them and how you
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push forward technology as a tool that enables
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people to do great work. So that's, I get the
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easy job. A little bit about me, that way people
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are like, who is this guy? So I'm Michael Hanna
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Butros -Meyering, was an equally long title.
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I'm the chief of communication and policy. which
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is a fun title and long last name to stay on
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the record. So I don't envy anyone else for that.
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I come from a technology background turned into
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comms. And I was actually, funny enough, I was
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following Mr. Galuzzi here for quite a bit of
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time before I'm like, huh, public service, never
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really considered it. But then he said, hey,
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I need a comms guy. And I'm like, man, I'm not.
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Behind the schooling and all my experience, I'm
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like, I'm not a comms guy. But I am an IT guy
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that knows how to talk about technology. Maybe
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I could fit the bill. Well, two years later,
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I'm here. So I'm glad. So thank you. Thank you
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for that. But yeah, this is going to be really
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a nice little format for us. We're still trying
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to gather what we are going to be talking about.
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Do you have any ideas of what format we're going
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to be looking for at Tech Talks with Tim? Yeah,
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I think that there's going to be a couple different
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show types, right? I think that... Like I mentioned,
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I definitely want to do highlights of some of
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our team members so they can really talk about
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their experience here in GTO and how they provide
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their service to the state and the technology
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that they work on that impacts the daily lives
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of Nevadans. You know, that'll be one type of
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show. I also want to be able to bring on other
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state leaders, whether they're in technology
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or not, to have a conversation about the technology
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that we deploy across the state and maybe some
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of the policy impacts of what we do. You know,
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I think that would be a incredibly powerful type
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of conversation, not only for our team members
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here, but for all folks that are listening to
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this. So they really. understand how technology
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plays a role, not just in service delivery, but
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in policy making decisions. So I think that there's
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a few different ways that we can deliver this
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message, a few different show formats that we're
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kind of trying to play around with just to find
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out what is the best way to tell our story about
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how we deliver technology here in Nevada. Cool.
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I'm really excited that we get to Not investigate,
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but get a query of our listeners here. If you
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have ideas of what we should be talking about
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or formats, this is a two -way relationship.
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You tell us, and we will review it and figure
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out how do we achieve that. So thank you for
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finding a time to facilitate something like this.
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So I'm, again, very excited. And as you were
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mentioning, with your background coming up as
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a technologist, I also came up as a technologist.
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And as technologists, we believe in iterative
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process improvement, right? So the only way that
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you really practice iterative process improvement
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is with feedback, right? So as we kind of roll
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through this process, as each episode comes out,
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we want to hear from everybody. We want to know
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what's working, what's not working, because we
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want to make sure that whatever we put out there
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really works. And it is the message that people
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want to hear about. So if anybody has any show
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ideas or format ideas that they'd like to send
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our way, please send it. We want to hear from
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you. Okay. Y 'all heard it. So that is your responsibility
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as listeners. So we're going to hold you accountable.
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So I'm, well, I'm very excited for this first
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kickoff episode. What's the cadence? What are
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you expecting out of this? Should we do this
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maybe once a month? What's your thoughts? I'm
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hoping for at least a couple episodes a month.
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Cool. All right. Well, you want to give us our
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goodbye for our folks? All right. Well, thanks,
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everybody, for joining us for this first episode
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of Tech Talks with Tim. We're going to chat again
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soon. All right. Bye, everyone. Thanks, everybody.