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I've been watching the Internet and seeing these little videos popping up with you like pointing in another booth which looks much bigger. So you've got at least one new product, but George actually mentioned it might be two. Yeah, we're expanding most of us. It's very exciting. Yeah, we've got stuff. We've had stuff ideas in the pipeline for a long time and then finally we just thought, let's go for it. You know, George and I have both been to these voiceover expos and conventions, and it was a great opportunity for Tribooth to be on the expo floor because people had seen it on social media, but they have never been inside one, you know, So no matter how many times we told them and oh no, no, it really sounds good, they hadn't been in one. So finally we had people get in them. But then we'd also meet people that say things like it's too small for me. I'm a big person, I need something bigger, or I'm in a wheelchair and it is not accessible for someone in a wheelchair. It's a big war wheelchair. Yeah, that was a big, big deal. Oh, we had questions. We've had celebrity people call us and say, listen, I do a podcast and I like to sit at a desk. Can I stick a desk in there? Can I put it on a desk? It can it transform from something standing to a desk And we couldn't do any of these things because originally I designed this thing for me and only me. It was a very very greedy thing. And for travel specifically, and for traveling exactly was to make this thing fit in a suitcase full stop. And not be a port of booth like a thing on a desk like to like it really was all the way around you. Yeah, it feels like you're in the booth at home as close as you can do that and still carry it with you. Yeah, that was important too. We wanted that sort of experience to feel like you were surrounded, you know, you were you were inside a booth and not standing near a box or something like that. And so we've been talking about it for a while. Maybe we should come up with something else. Maybe we can find one booth, we can create one booth that will do all of those things. So the Trybooth that we've had for six years is now the Try Booth Classic, and the new one is called the Try Booth Transform because that is exactly what it does. I definitely need that set. Yeah, it transforms from a standing booth to a desk booth. So we'll work on any desk. It can also go over a couch or a love seat, or a recliner or a rocking chair or stool. It can also incrementally become taller or shorter, which we didn't have before. We've yeah, yeah right. My favorite is over the sofa by far. Over the sofa is pretty cool. Yeah, that is my favorite place to work. Yeah, yeah, the casting couch. Well, my question come from what would what would you want to record on the love State? But that's another story for another day. Probably, but that's another podcast for sure. Yeah, I think that's Yeah. These audiobooks are getting racy. Sorry, go on, no, no, please anyway, Yeah, no, I get it, I get it? So how do how does how does it actually work? This is my question because the classic which I have, has all the bungee cord inside, so it basically, you know, builds itself almost that's right. So how does this one look? I'm happy to say it still has the same shot chord running through the entire thing very close, so it works the same way. The deal is is it's bigger too, so theoretically you could play a guitar in there. Now, you could bring more than one person in there. You can have a competition to see how many people you can get it. I mean, how are can you fit in a tribe? That's right. The footprint used to be a three foot equilateral triangle, but now it is four foot, so it is dynamically bigger. Yeah, and you could travel with it. You could still travel with it. In fact, I have traveled with it. We George and I traveled. Does it still fit in fifty pounds so it doesn't tip the airline? No, no, it absolutely does not. It does not, and it requires more blanketing, and of course the blanketing is heavier, and it really is sort of better suited for being at home or or kind of local moving around. But could you travel with it, absolutely, you would just have to deal with marges for the holidays. That's something you can throw in the car and take with you. Yeah, but it does absolutely adapt to being on a desk or standing up, no matter how tall you are, or sitting down, so it kind of ticks all of those boxes. Andrew mentioned the bunge thing. I want to say one more thing about that. Yeah, we had a meeting reck and I just to discuss the bungees because there are more parts. Booth has more parts. There's more sections. Were like, how are we going to break it down so that it's not so insanely come it's not. There's we had to make sure we didn't have too many pieces interconnected where it would actually get tangled as you take it out of the case, right, you know. So we had a whole meeting and we just we. Just looked at it section B, section really and I think you were drawing on the screen, Rick, weren't you? And we had a. Model of the booth and you were drawing a red line. Okay, okay, this these pieces are going to interconnect here, right, And that was a big part of it. You know, this is a big part of it. Because you want to be able to take it apart and put it together fairly easily. It should make sense that the Tribooth Classic is fairly intuitive. You know. We use a little bit of like colored tape here and there, like blue pipe goes into blue coupler kind of thing. Uh, and this has the same. Weed goes here. Yeah, that goes in the other part. One giant weed holding device. There is a beverage holder. If you can just. Build a pipe into. It, well, and at the joint hold is an optional extra. That's right, a pipe and a urinal. A basic set got everything you need. If it had a year A you need to add another tea joint. To the joint, right, a vape. And so yeah, we're very excited about it. We haven't launched it yet. We're still beta testing it just to make sure. You know, again, it works perfectly well for me, but I have to make sure that it works perfectly well for other people. And then in the middle of all this, George gets in touch with me and he goes listen somebody here. He was at some conference I think or saw something on Instagram has built like their version of a super lightweight booth, and we had talked about doing that too, and we looked at theirs and I thought, well, it's not very sexy, but we could definitely make it better. Uh So I thought this person who I can't announce yet, but the proposal got sent out today, so I'm very excited about it. I got in touch with him and I said, would you be interested in maybe a collab I've never done this before, kind of a try booth X this person And they said, yeah. Wait, this person who built a lightweight. Yeah, they bought They built their version of it, like they went to the hardware store and got a bunch of irrigation pipe and knock something together. And it's great. The video is great. It's it's charming. It constantly falls apart, and I have the biggest smile on my face knowing that I can make this better. I think I saw it. Does it like yeah? Does it half stand on a table, half on the floor. Yes, I found it. It's almost like a you just need like circus music in the back. But it's it's really charming. And the guy who's behind it is lovely. And I got in touch and I should say sorry, yeah, yeah, sore, But we're doing this collaboration. And and I built here now the prototype, and I sent it to George and I asked my wife to model it. It's it's really good. Here's here's why it's really good. For this version, you can only use it on a desk or a suitcase or a dining table, wire something. It needs to it wants something. But it's ultra ultra lightweight. In fact, the way I constructed it, I designed it by buying sort of a universally sized carry on piece of hardshell luggage, so not under the plane this time. Carry on luggage that has, you know, like a clamshell, and one side of it is going to fit all of the pipe, So all the thing that it's made out of will fit in one side, so that the other side can have your microphone and your interface and any other parts. Three pairs of underwear and you're ready to Can I just say something? What better place to keep your forty one six than in one of the pipes? Oh right, well do we have to give him credit for that? Yeah? It's nobody really quite this show. They won't know it to anyone. Don't build it into a tribreeth cy because he'll charge you for it. Yeah. Yeah, you could shove some foam like this, shove them and then they'll keep it sop. It's also adjustable to any size or height desk, no matter how tall you are, and the footprint is almost as big as the transform. It's it's oh. Wait, so this is a different product. This is a different product. It's it's the third one. I can't call you, I can't tell you that that's that guy. We already put all this time, especially I say we really Rick put ninety nine percent of the time into prototyping, assembling, testing all this stuff, and then out of the blue comes this new thing, this this idea, and we're like, this is so clearly another possible product if he's game to join in with us, and it turns out you want us, So you want to make. The voiceover bodysuit for us? Yes, that's next. We've got a fighter with the products. You've got something to go off. You've seen the products, right, Yeah, I'm gonna have like a voiceover Cravat or bow Tide, your voiceover Dickie. I think that's coming back, bringing that back. But but the great thing about this thing is the whole thing, like we couldn't understand why anyone would want to bring it as a carry on. That's one of the things we get the most. Can I bring it on the plane? Well you could put it under the plane, Oh yeah, but can I have it with me by my seat? But why you're never going to put it together on your seat. It's a booth, you know. Want to save the carry on or the luggage class? Is that why? I don't know. I think the idea because a lot of people like to put their gear in the booth, I mean in the in the luggage too. Yeah, maybe they're afraid of their like twelve hundred dollars MIC. Of course, of course. But now with this newest one, this lightweight one, everything goes in the case and you can bring it on board with you. So that's the best part. And the passport is very lightweight as well. You should go in there and it should be part of it on board to catch. Right, there's something that's unique that the fact that it does actually fit. Oh yeah, here's the best part. So the reason why it's as lightweight as it is is that this version there's no blanketing. There's no blanketing at all because all the blanketing is in the hotel. Yes, yes, so you use the blankets in the hotel, so it tens itself and you just throw your blankets on top, and if you want it deader, you add more blankets and you don't have to carry blankets. So I always talking about like flipping mattresses up and putting them on the wall. Yeah, yeah, no more. No more MCGUI ring forts in your in your hotel room, just. Writing just writing the room room service costs for blankets. Yeah, it works best if you keep the towels wet. You've stated the hotels right where the shower stall door does not keep the water in the shower at all. That was the last place I stayed at in Orlando. The door had a seal that didn't seal the floor, and every shower. Water was on the step out. I was like, how does this? That was just so hard. Yeah. Well, anyway, I have to say that neither of our bathrooms in this house have doors on the shower. I was gonna say, just walk. Walk out and fall over, and I have. I have on good authority. They also have exterior windows. Oh oh, neat for the neighbors Andrews showers right, Yeah, that's that's so the neighbors leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. I actually stayed in an Airbnb and Joshua Tree that was a total sixties seventies hippie place, and there is a full length window floor to ceiling in the bathroom. Does at least have the fuzzy glass No. Oh jeez, you just have to turn the type on for a while before. Yeah, they put up a big privacy screen on the outside, right so you don't see it, but still just the idea that that was something that they wanted to do knowingly. Totally amazing someone to show off. Yeah, definitely. Yeah so Rica. So you were saying the Transform is in beta testing, what's next to get it ready to be live? Well, the only thing that I'm still working out is if it's not going to travel as much? I mean, it can travel. So do we put it into two bags? Do you want one gigantic bag? I mean, right now, the thought is just to sell it as it is, and if you want to put it in a bag, put it in the bag. But I like offering people at least a way to store it. So even if it was two Duffel bags that you could store the thing and still travel with, I'd feel good about it. I see it coming in one hefty cardboard box and then having two I think muffles in there that they I. Think you should paint all the pipes black and write ArmaLite on outside of them. ArmaLite. Why do I not know what that is? It is a gun company that would keep people from messling it. It wouldn't get lost in shipment. I can't imagine. Look on the chick in Chicks fice at the Airport Jesus for us. But one of my proudest moments, George and I went and visited a friend of ours who happens to be a quadriplegic and a voice actor. And we have video of it. We haven't posted any of it yet, but we have video of her easily getting in and out of the transform. Can she make it without just like you know, in the chair. You mean assembling it? Yeah, she can't all because she. Can just move one hand. That's about it. No, no, no, she's she's quadriplegic. She's gonna move anything. So yes, of course anywhere she goes she's going to have to have aids and assistance. They could certainly put it together. But now she can go roll in to the booth, roll out of the booth and that has never happened before. Yeah, that's cool, So I feel very good about that. So actually talking about that using a chair to get in and out because in the tribeooth, the floor, you know, the piping on the floor, it goes all the way around, So that's right. Does that happen with the Transform? Does that go to pipe on the floor or you just go straight in? Well it does, but being a transform, it goes away so it can disconnect and open up like a door and allow you to roll in or roll out or not use that not use that pipe on the floor so that you can be more comfortable. And because the footprints so much bigger, you can easily put a chair in there now, whereas the classic I mean you could put a stool in there, bar stool, something like that. And the newest one we have, any chair they have in the hotel will work. What is called the X for now, Yeah, the X, Yeah, the collab the X. Yes. But yeah, the thing about this the transform, is that we found that in different configurations you needed different things to be connected. Right, So when you're using it as a free standing booth more like a large classic tribooth, right, then that floor pipe is a good idea for. Stability and stuff like that. But when it was seated and using a table as part of its stability, it wasn't as important that that piece be there. So, yeah, it goes away. A lot of it goes like does this need to be here? It was, and there was a lot of experiment with what can come and what can go and and things like that, or. Maybe there's like a little forever piece that can be laid in front of the floor piece, like just a little. I mean, if we needed to have that pipe, you could have one of those cable the cable clearance pass, a cable tray that you'd have on a trade show. The problem is with all chairs, that is, all wheelchairs are different, and she has a powerchair and that thing is power a tank. It's a tank and heavy. It would crush pipe for sure. Yeah. So but this works perfectly well. And in fact, we recently posted I think the last post we did was another kind of tease post and it shows her in the booth. Uh and it's it was a wonderful moment. You see it? Yeah, I haven't seen that. One day I saw that one that looks cool. Did yeah, just over the weekend, I think, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's right brand new. I had have thought about the one with the yearine a lot. I was thinking of how you can sell that market version. You're going to say, you're right, something for the bladder and of something for the wheelchair. I would have thought would be you know, let's be honest, the bladder like the tribal thing continent. Or it just stores it in the pipes. That's different. But all in all seriousness, Andrew is also a vestment enthusiast. That's right, enthusiast, and. That's something that's gonna make him the bound to the chairs. I don't even know what you're saying, Robert. Right, the X model will be the Vesper convertible, the Vesta, the Vesper compatible version, really, because well. This could be the X. This could be the X. It could be Yeah, you could sit on a vespa while you're recording. There you go, that would be hilarious. Handlebars to mirrors of forty one six? How do we get the transform? And I just ride my vesper into the transform? That you could do, but you can do it. But Andrew, when when the X is finished, I'll send you one and that way you can give it a try and see what you think it has. It'll give you more room and you can travel with it. It's also much like Andrew's idea of traveling is to be riding the vesper while doing a script. Well, it sounds like. Yeah, yeah, on the screen side, I do do these like wacky sort of long rides on the vesper with a whole bunch of people and I still have to work, so I need to have something with me. And obviously, you know we're a bit tight for space to pack things. Well, listen if it fits in a piece of carry on lookcause you would certainly fit in a bash. Yeah. Absolutely, the side settle thing, you know, Yeah, I just back in a bag. Yeah, you could get a sidecar for the Vespa. That'd be cool. I'm picturing kind of like the hard top, soft top, like press a button. It's just like that's convertible. I did see some guys about the sidecar. They actually had a pizza oven and the whole bar and everything as a sidecar on a Vespa. They did. They do it in one of those like sidecar races, you know they have like the motorcycles and the one guy like hanging like way over the edge on the side. Keep the things. And you guys can tell Robert being here in California, she's just automatically more creative. And I don't know why that would be the fact that he's here in California. Just it just goes up out of the cold of Chicago. That's why. Yeah, exactly, brain's working. Bit of warm, that's all it is. That's all it is right. Actually, can I ask something, well, what are the price points? Like, yeah, we have to work on Yeah, that we have to work out. I mean yes, So the Classic will likely stay the same or go down, which is great. So right now it's fifteen, but we always have a sale, so it's usually like twelve fifty. Uh. And then the Transform has to be more just because it's so much bigger and has so many configurations. But we haven't worked out that price yet. But the lightweight one X should be Yeah, the X should drop down way in price. So I think it's going to be a real favorite for people who travel. I think that's going to be the big time traveling booth. You know, there's so there are other travel booths that we all know and we've all tried some of them. I have, and I know that you do, injured too, and you know, we want this to be something that you would look at favorably in terms of price, you know when you're looking at these other ones. Yeah, don't know what that's going to be, but you know, think about that. That's that's really we know who the we know who the competition is is. We know what it is. There is no competition Okay, thanks, that's right. The pro Audio Suite and Austrian Audio recorded using Source Connect, edited by Andrew Peters and mixed by Robo. Got your own audio issues just ask robo dot com. Tech report from George the Tech Window. 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