hsan and i'm here in southern oregon at the digital media center this digital media center has a new technology for cameras t v studio green screen which allows me to look like i'm in a virtual reality t v set and we share with the college because the students that take communication t v communication classes they come in and they use the eddie bays to create their projects and we have both apple and macintosh and we also have windows type editing bays so the students can come here use the studio use the camera use the editing base and do their projects as they work towards a degree but people like me are public access that's what you're watching now that's on channel fifteen here in the air national in dariya but if you're in the charter network  i think it's like channel one hundred and eighty two up in those higher numbers gives you high definition you know what you need to know about all of the public access shows we have a schedule where we have different types of shows during the week i think every day democracy now comes on at a regular time but a lot of the students and a lot of the public access people that produce shows to be put on channel fifteen they they show at different times of the day like somebody might record religious kind of things on the weekend if they hear a good sermon they might submit it i think the church of the now as a reason does shows that we capture and show on sunday mornings but they also have children's shows on the weekend i think we have a schedule board my my schedule i think john has it somewhere in there to show you so like if you want to do music there's tripp certain times of the year we have sports shows we have music there it is that's called the programming block i remember now you know what you need to remember about public access is we have a website i think they have a lower rd for me and it says r v t v dot s so you dot edu so if you go there there will be a banner at the top that's blue and if you touch public access you can go into the archives and you can watch some of the old shows that are either for children or for sports or a lot of times if students do things that are a little bit adult will show them later in the evening so if you look for our programming block on our website you can see the different times so you can get in the habit of always catching news or democracy now t v shows for kids sports music also we have like this city planning council meetings for medford in an ashland so that if you can't attend a meeting you can find those in our archives if there was something important that was going to be discussed and you wanted to know what happened so i like to always start out my show by telling you here i am in a public access studio and you can get involved down and use this studio in my next show i'll be talking about the classes that we give you to teach you how to use the equipment we teach you how to turn on the lights and make the sound work and how to use a tri caster which helps us put up a lower rd circuit like the name of our guest or something and a virtual reality if you want to use a green screen but you can also do a fancy set of your own like some of the different people that do shows they take thirty minutes forty minutes and they set up stages and and they bring in plants and different things that they to create a an atmosphere now cooking with commute is a show that's wonderful and she brings in all of her cooking gear and makes things today she was just leaving when i got here and she made a wonderful beat an apple salad and i heard that she put that in yogurt and she also made a potato soup and i'm sure there was delicious ingredients and what was the other thing there was three things she made potato soup a beet sell it and something else anyway and so the advantage to working with community if you take these classes and you usually like to come in and help and assist on some shows so that you can learn how it all falls together you know you don't have to be a host like me you can be somebody that likes to just go out and take pictures or do a story and have somebody else be the person that's in front of the camera but i just want to courage people to get involved because we have got to keep these public airwaves open it's so important that we have a place to have a voice and i i really am concerned the way if you get up in the morning and you turn on a b c c b s n b c c n n they kind of have an agreement because one industry is its own the news industry is kind of owned and controlled by one big corporation the koch brothers or something and the thing about this is they choose the stories you're going to hear so you probably noticed no matter what station you go to it's like the six same topics for that af hour are decided that everybody's going to tell the same story across the nation i think they're even making shows about that you know the public access we have an opportunity to express ourselves and this is a really important year this is probably the most important election of a lifetime i know it will be for my lifetime and also my children and my children's children and so i really think we all need to get involved and if you have something you wan share i know they do things like candidates night and stuff like that but if you have something our message that you want to give or somebody you wish to interview you might want to get involved in public access because we've got a year to bring it to the people you know one of the things i like to remind people right now half of our budget is spent on defense and i want to remind people i read this on the back of a car and it said education is the cheapest defense for a nation and it's so important that we use this opportunity and use public access to help educate people because i i don't think people are people just need to learn both sides i always ask people to get your news from more than one source a lot of people they have their favorite newscaster and so they tune into that and so they might love somebody that gives them the news on fox but i do like to ask them to just try any other station to make sure you're getting more than one view in then you can decide for yourself ok so public access i like to encourage people to get involved because i think it's so important to keep our voices out there the other thing i want to remind you is that we live in this tech world and one of the things i like to remind you is no matter where you go now you are on camera i don't care where you go whether you're driving down the street you go through you might drive through that red light it takes a picture but it also means there's cameras on the street there's cameras in front of stores people have cameras in neighborhoods and so even though we're trying to encourage people to put their telephones down and have eye contact with their family members and you see everybody sitting around a table all on their phone so what i want to remind you about that is in this tech world we have learned to depend on those phones it's so important that right now within a week you go through and you move that data that you've stored on that phone into a laptop or a tabletop computer or into a hard drive or into a jump stick i want you to save data because then all of a sudden it falls in the water or something happens i need you to make a list of the important phone numbers that are in your phone because we've programmed in all our family and friends i've gotten to where i practice dialing people just to remember their number so i want to remind you it just every once in a while copy down those important numbers because if you was that phone so just make a paper backup list even though everybody living in the digital world i want to remind you to make a list and on pictures if there's important pictures in there and that phone gets wet you're going to lose them so the word i'm using is double take do a double take on your pictures or at least if you have a favorite send it to somebody don't just save it in your phone because you may lose it if something should happen to your phone you know we've become disposable it used to be you'd get a phone and it would last for years now it seems like they're always upgrading it or we drop it or we've cracked the screen so it's no longer interactive so please save your data save your important phone numbers and do a double take on your phone numbers that was just one of the reminders i have for living in this tech world  also the thing i like to remind people is to get a newspaper i always say this please get a newspaper because oftentimes people only look for a paper when they're looking for a job or they're looking for and car or a new house and they don't think to get a paper all the time because ok i got my car i found the job but the thing about a newspaper that so important is it has calendars in it and i like to remind people here in ashland it's called the daily tidings and each week it will show up one day where it has all the advertisers and when you get that paper that has all the advertisers whatever coin you spent on that you'll certainly get back to finding something on sale that you would buy anyway so it really doesn't cost you that much and what's important is there's a calendar in there and that calendar has all the events that are going on in town that have been you know reported to the paper which if you're part of a local organization like for a cherry f f a or a party or church group or or  a bunch of people that get together about books or or be keeping or whatever you're interested in doing you can get that meeting put in the calendar of your local paper and also there's a regular monthly things that people go to and those monthly meetings are posted to so i like to tell people be a tourist in your own town and get the paper you don't have to plan a trip out of town with your family plan things in town by looking at that local calendar in your paper ok so one of the things about being in the paper i noticed was our food source is of the world are compromised i know i'm singing to the choir when i talk to ashland about  pesticides and herbicides and the storage of food has pesticides so those toxic things around the storage of food but when it comes to herbicides which have to do with  trying to make your plants grow better by not having weeds or whatever there are again equates to have herbicides but a lot of the food for many years have had herbicides one of the things i noticed in the news this week was that the e p a has now allowed a herbicide they're going to allow an herb a side that they know causes damage to be police fact check that i know i'm singing to the choir but if anybody from out of town watches this i want you to know that bees are so important to our food production i know there's other animals that are pollinators but bees are so important and they're already slightly compromised because of waters that  compromised or herbicides and pesticides that they get exposed to so when i talk about bees i like to tell you that here in southern oregon is a town called talent in the town of talent it's called the bee city and the reason is they have poa nader gardens and they have restrictions on pesticides now talent's just a small town but as this consciousness awakens i think other towns and other communities will try and make these changes so i brought somebody in that works here in the studio and her name is linda likens and i said oh please let him come in and talk to people because you live in talent and i want to make people aware of all the wonderful things that are happening in talent so lynn thank you for coming in and helping me with my show and also for being willing to come on camera and talk to people about some of the things that you're involved in because i know you're very busy in this town of talent so i was telling them that talent is obesity so i want you to just take it from there and i'm inviting you right into people's living room to tell them about what's going on in talent thank you so much to as i so appreciate this i really like you show i like that you your suggestions of how we can get along in this world and i thought your suggestions about technology and downloading your phone was absolutely excellent so thank you so much for that and in talent we are of the city where trees city and we're very progressive and i work with a group called talent zero waste and what we what we've done in that town is we've passed the st ordinance to ban single use plastic where the st town in oregon should do this and not only have we done that that we've also incorporated these other programs to help with that when we went to our shops and told them we wanted to ban single use plastics especially in the restaurants that would make that the what they would have to get would be more expensive and yet they never they didn't even get that they they went they were one hundred percent behind it because like many people they know that our our world is under peril and so they went with it one hundred percent and now we have our ordinance and what we also have in concert with it is talent zero waste has two programs when it's called the bring your own to go program and we're encouraging people to go when they go out to restaurants to not use their more expensive disposable i'd m's to instead bring their own items that they can fill up and take home and never have to dispose of another conscious list the item again and then we also have the neva for free with you program and it we're hoping that it will turn into a fork exchange program there's no reason to have a plastic fork in the world is just full of metal forks and  if you have these in today i did use them at the studio because we had food and i could bring in my own containers these are actually filled with the mood and i have a metal straw on and a fork rental spoon and some chopsticks but this is very handy so when i go out i have my drinking cup i can go into a restaurant and and i have i can eat anywhere i have my own things and also if i go shopping i have my own shopping bag so does that bag show up now hold that up so people can see i'm not sure if it'll show because of the green screen and it's a green bag or what sort of shows up wait a minute it's ok front of you there they're the work so it's actually a green bag but in the studio it's looking black now here's what's me brought this up that she takes her own cup i've noticed sometimes when i go somewhere they say if you bring your own cup cost less so they're encouraging people to bring their own cup which i think is important and then this idea of this is brilliant to say hey don't forget to just you know i often bring home leftovers so i know what you're talking about and i'm always grateful if it's cardboard because i feel like ok that'll recycle but there are still people using these plastic and styrofoam so i agree with you we should all consider just having tupperware is in our car where something that's just left over a little box in the car that has extra you know here's what i want to say about having a fork do you remember in the old days everybody had a picnic basket when you open the wicker basket it had forks and plates and cups and things in it and we pretty much i mean we used to have that in the garage and take it out all the time but the idea of people having like a little picnic basket in their car is a good idea because it has a place to put leftovers it has a few forks and silverware often like go buy something and i need a sharp knife like if i get an apple so it doesn't it's not a doubt i did everybody have a little tiny box in the car that just has a few necessities i like i guess when you were talking i was thinking how probably the best way to get to a good future is to go back through the past and bring forward the best parts of it and i think picnic baskets were a good part of it and to do this because when if we're going to ask our restaurants to have a more expensive kind of trash the least we can do is help them out by not needing it or not everybody has leftovers i often bring something and i almost do it on purpose if i think they give me a big sandwich i think oh good here's my lunch  be my dinner or tomorrow i'll have the other half so i love it when i go to a restaurant in the me enough food i do get frustrated sometimes if you go in a restaurant for example the mexican restaurant in town they'll take a spoon of beans and they're kind of put it on the plate in russia and there's a lot sometimes i feel st rated and i feel not so much for me but if i'm with somebody that's just worked all day or something they might be on gri but for the most part i feel like i always take something home so i need to start carrying the oh and i've seen seen items like this i got this on the internet but i've seen him at grocery outlet from frigidaire which also in the inside of this does have it in is somewhat of a better mess that it it is and but  it's metal yeah metal oh yeah that's what you had yes it's delish and it's metal and it just to go out into the world and be able to come home and not have littered the world  do that i my value system is changing too to to feel that things are more valuable because i not getting disposable everything and throwing it away if i get something it's nice then i'm going to keep it yeah i like that idea and reusing it rough it says refuse to always refuse to refuse to always say no to disposable what a great guy i think southern oregon now you're saying this is going on in town yes in talent it's the most wonderful community we have together for talent group and under that are all these other groups that i'm in that talent zero waste in the talent zero waste we have a film series called waste not film series and we every three months we show a movie our last one was just eat it was about food waste but in talent we also have groups that the bees city the tree city the gardening club we're very very progressive and looking toward a future that we want to be in but also you have a very involved community and what we need is people to get off and get out of their chairs because nowadays people are just staying in their circle and it's so important that we talk to our neighbors whether we agree with them or not because we need the dialogue we need the discussion we need the questions that kind of tick away at our brain we need to be patient with people that don't agree with us a patient with us too tuned we don't need to agree on everything all we have to agree on is what makes a good person if the person's a good person let them have whatever choice they want let them have their choices as i would want my choices so basically one of the things they keep saying is a lot of people like when they have these debates in the last few weeks that they aren't talking about the things that unite us and the fact is that all of us are concerned about health care and we're all concerned about where jobs are coming for our communities why aren't what happened to the infrastructure jobs outcome everybody isn't working in infrastructure yet you know so i do think it's important that each person needs to ask themselves what can they do to be involved now one of the things i was trying to put up earlier i don't work on this with the two seater but my sign that says vote for peace is that possible to put that up  was a sign i made and the recent piece ok the reason i put that is there is the phone number for your representative and all of us can call there and just say what state you're from and they'll look you up and it's so important if you don't want to be on the city council or you don't want to go to the meetings but you really need to get your voice out there and how hard is it to make a phone call to say this is how i feel you don't have to agree with me but please at least we need people to have a voice and speak up to their representatives because the representatives don't know what you want what's important to you they know what the lobbyists are telling them but we the people of the united states it's so important for people to realize there is more about us than there are of them so i really want to encourage people to call and make a difference with your house of representatives and right now the senators are out for a month and they're waiting to hear from you so please call and leave a message whether you're voting i want peace i'm from the sixty's and i just i want peace in the world because our president was so proud that he got this budget with boeing and yes but it's to make fighter jets and planes and bombs i'm so frustrated that we're a war machine i know i'm singing to the choir whenever i talk in ashland i know everybody there is going yeah gag yeah but i want everybody to go to at least write down that phone number much i really like you to spread the word because i really think that plastic forks are and this is scary as well because we have so very metal forks so i just hope everyone realizes that the fork can be with them  you thank you for bringing that on and also with your big gardens you know i think it's important back in the forty's i think it was when all the husbands went off to war the women would take their front lawn and they turned it into a guard and i think more and more we're go need to think about gardening i know not everybody has a green thumb but i think you can put a pot of tomatoes in his start with just something little maybe put lettuce around the bottom of your tomatoes although that's a cold so that's not a summer plant lettuce but anyway yeah i but i just want to invite people to consider that gardening is important and we all are going to need to think more about our food in the food sources by which not only the fact that the p s could be in jeopardy which pollinate our food the the waters that are compromised around the world i've said before about how the coal mining waters in the flint michigan waters in the colorado spill and then we have toxins that got to twenty years ago in the nd in a river they had a spill from a train but i mean the cot we're in now they're somewhere in the country i'm trying to remember where that their water is in danger because of  fracking and it's just frustrating to me that everybody can't walk over to their tap and turn it on and feel good to drink out of it that they have to think about a bottled water which is another good reason to have your cup and you just grab this cup and remind you to always fill up with water where you know your water is good and take your own water because we do need to stay hydrated it's very important for us to move the just for motion anyway again i'll remind you i'd like you to think about starting a garden back in the forty's they did it it was called the victory garden and they actually turned their front yard their lawn into a garden and we're going to need to think about doing that because the food sources the world are compromised  they're telling me now that mike they're putting a hook on me and get me to pull me off stage because my time is up but i want to remind people to volunteer if you're somebody that has a little extra time you can help somebody learn to read at the library you know even if it's young kids that just come in and want to sit next to you and read a book i want to encourage seniors there's a lot of seniors out there that are homebound and i want everybody to just look around their neighborhood can they can they just know their neighbors in an immediate five or ten houses and if you're going to the store think about somebody that maybe be homebound and could you pick up milk for them or something we need to all be more community minded and think about each other ok my time's up thank you very much money mr rez swenson and this is tough times here in southern oregon see you next time