CTP (20260429 S3EAprSpecial9) MyARKit Preserving Memories BTS/SP video

Joseph M. Lenard

CTP (S3EAprSpecial9) What Does It Mean To Leave A Legacy Online? Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond    We talk through a practical way to preserve family memories so they don’t get lost in cloud accounts, hacked profiles, or forgotten hard drives. We share how myArtKit can hold photos, video, audio, and written stories in one place so your loved ones can revisit them for decades.  • a real memorial account example and why it matters  • why typical cloud storage and social media are fragile  • saving photos video audio and text together  • lifetime accounts memorial accounts and family pages  • event collections where everyone can contribute  • assigning editors to add names context and history  • using good prompts to capture better stories  • AI tools as enhancements not replacements for real voices  • QR codes for sharing a legacy at funerals and beyond  SEND US FEEDBACK: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2210487/fan_mail/new  https://tinyurl.com/SubscribeToCTP   CTP Audios: https://tinyurl.com/CTPonBuzzsprout  CTP Videos: https://tinyurl.com/JLDonBITCHUTE  https://tinyurl.com/CTPgear   https://tinyurl.com/JLenardDetroitGear

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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.

00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.

00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.

00:12It looks French.

00:13It's not.

00:14It's Leonard without an O.

00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.

00:24Let's get on with the show!

00:25Hello, a guest is joining again to talk about my art kit, M-Y-A-R-K-I-T dot

00:39com.

00:40Yes, it's dot com?

00:42That's correct.

00:42You got it perfect.

00:43Yeah.

00:45Okay, so full disclosure, and in fact, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen first thing here.

00:54There is my art kit dot, my portal dot my art kit dot com for my dad, Thaddeus M. Leonard

01:05Jr.

01:06You will see there it says a memorial account for him.

01:11I put one up, so yes, full disclosure, I am a My Art Kit client.

01:18All right, now how do I stop?

01:20Oh, before I stop to share, let me go over to the other tab.

01:24Here is the my art kit dot com main page.

01:30As you would expect, you'll see about contact, log in, help, all that stuff, the future of your memories.

01:39Indeed, you know, what is my art kit, which we'll get into, of course.

01:47Why do I need one?

01:49Why is my art kit different?

01:52So I'm going to stop sharing.

01:55And indeed, why would someone want it?

01:58What is a My Art Kit beyond what I just showed?

02:02In my case, a memorial for my dad.

02:06Well, you kind of you're on the same lines as why I started My Art Kit was I sat my

02:11dad down and did a video of him about his life and asked him questions, you know, and what you

02:18really end up with is digital memories.

02:21Yeah. And the problem I found as time went past was, what do you do with them?

02:28You know, where do you find them?

02:30Where are they at?

02:31Are they in this computer, that computer?

02:33Did I burn a DVD?

02:35Did my kids have the DVDs?

02:36Their grandkids are going to get bigger now.

02:38So over time, if you have one spot, it's going to get lost.

02:43It will be lost again.

02:44And when it gets lost this time, it's really lost because you can't go back and find it.

02:49And if you just throw it up into the if you throw it up into a normal cloud or some

02:53of the other.

02:55That's like it says on the website.

02:58Indeed, if a normal cloud storage, while that's normally that person's or your when something happens to the person who

03:08owns the cloud account and the cloud account stops getting paid for, the cloud account goes poof.

03:17No more cloud.

03:18Yeah, their business model is if you're using it, they're going to throw you advertising.

03:26And that happens with even social media.

03:28If you're using it, if you put on content good enough to where they can, you know, you get a

03:32lot of likes or something like that, they might leave it up there for a while.

03:34But most all social media content will sit there and go, they won't even keep it for a couple of

03:42days, you know, and some of them will keep it.

03:46But I don't trust them because, yeah, there's been many times where I've had a oh, gosh, I think it

03:52was just last year.

03:53I had a cousin that put a posting up there where he said, yeah, I couldn't get into my account.

03:58Somebody hacked it and just one push of a button, everything was gone.

04:01Yeah.

04:02And you can't do that with my archive because you upload one memory at a time and you can download

04:07or delete one memory at a time.

04:09And it would take you forever to delete thousands of memories I got in mind.

04:16Yeah, we may get older and that's part of it.

04:20As we get older, dementia aside, which my mother had that, but just normal part of aging as we get

04:31older, our memories start to falter.

04:33So my art kit, as you say, it allows sound, it allows video, it allows stills.

04:43So you have a place for all those together, whereas some sites like YouTube, it only allows video.

04:53If I want an audio only thing, like my show is part of YouTube podcast, which was formerly Google podcast,

05:05you know, there's a solid still image there.

05:09Normally, you can't upload just an audio there.

05:14So you would need an audio only site and like a Google Photos for just the photos.

05:24And you're talking multiple sites where my art kit, M-Y-A-R-K-I-T.com, again, for the

05:34benefit of audio only or transcript.

05:38Of course, video viewers, I'll put that as a scrawl and post so it'll be on the screen.

05:46But yours allows all those things as well as I'm going to show again.

05:54Let me share.

05:55There, as you can see, there, a background image, an old Olin Mills, if people remember those from the 1980s.

06:07Oh, my gosh, Olin Mills, that name for Ailer.

06:09Yeah, an old Olin Mills, my dad, Thaddeus Headliner Jr., mom, Donna Jean Keillor, me, Joseph Emler, my sister, Michelle

06:21Collette, our beagle at the time, lonesome.

06:24And so, yeah, pictures, video, text, a text layout to denote about the person, living or dead, or a family

06:43site.

06:44You could have something dedicated to the whole family, mom, dad, brother, sister, the cats, the dogs, the ferrets.

06:54Oh, yeah, we do it like I did, like on my site, on my lifetime.

06:58You can get a memorial site or the ones I like people to start with because it takes a lifetime

07:03to get a lifetime worth of memories.

07:05There's a lifetime account, and you can just create a folder.

07:10So I created a folder for cars.

07:12I created a folder for pets.

07:15On my mom's website, my brother didn't really have a lot of stuff when he passed away, so I just

07:20created a folder for him.

07:21I didn't even do a memorial site for him because I probably only had 100 things or so of memories

07:26of him that he actually had pictures.

07:29And he was terrible to take pictures of.

07:32I'm going to yell at him someday.

07:34But, yeah, so, and then another one, we have events.myarket.com to where people participate in an event,

07:43like a wedding, a college yearbook, my high school yearbook type thing, where everybody can sit there and grab some

07:49memories and put it into that event.

07:51And I have one of those to where it's great for the family photo album.

07:56All of a sudden, your family, after, my God, I'm getting old, 50 years, is all over the place, all

08:01over the world, really.

08:03My one daughter's over in Germany right now with her husband at the Air Force Base.

08:07How do you share them?

08:08Basically, they can put memories in there.

08:10Everybody can look back from 100, 150 years ago on old pictures.

08:15And people can put stories and stuff with them.

08:18If you have your editor, you can assign an editor, more than one.

08:22So I have people back in Iowa, I can assign editors and kind of know what all these old pictures

08:26are.

08:27And you start making all those memories to it.

08:29And hopefully this year, keep my fingers crossed, we're going to start a genealogy site with our family tree.

08:36People can incorporate that into it and kind of see what it's from.

08:40There could be a bit of genealogy associated in there, too.

08:44Now, before I forget, I did make a note.

08:47I said, you're back.

08:49You were here season two, November special three, which aired Wednesday, November 20th, 2024.

08:59If people want to go back into the Constitutionalist archives and dig that up.

09:07So the biggest bottom line here is flexibility.

09:13My memorial count is a very basic thing.

09:19Even as a former IT guy, I didn't want to dig into it and get a lot of stuff.

09:25Like somewhere there is old 35 millimeter of dad and his band playing an event.

09:35And I could have that digitized and put on.

09:39But I didn't want to go through all that.

09:42I wanted at least something basic as a memorial remembrance.

09:48But as you've laid out, there are all these other layers.

09:52You can do them, but you don't have to do them.

09:57It's dynamic, I guess, is the word I'm looking for.

10:02Try to, like you said, make it your choice.

10:07You can do, if you put a picture in there, you also can put a story along with it.

10:12But you can also click a button and put an audio story along with that picture.

10:16Instead of just trying to guess or just read a picture, you just have the words from the person who

10:20actually made it.

10:22Or, you know, it's become a cool story.

10:24Or the person who took the photo can explain from their perspective, yeah, I was there and this is why

10:32I took the photo.

10:33And, boy, we're glad we did.

10:36And so there's a lot of different things.

10:39You can get a lot of different people involved.

10:42You're not limiting the audio or the video to the subject of the page necessarily.

10:52There was such a big increase this year coming up into Christmas online where people doing the AI books, you

11:01know, where it's like, you know, get your grandparents and your parents to answer some of these questions and they'll

11:07make a book.

11:08You know, that's interesting.

11:10That's, you know, I want to say cute, but it is kind of, you know, it is kind of cute

11:14and it's kind of interesting.

11:15But you get a book.

11:17Who gets to see the book?

11:19Kind of like my how to write a book and get it published.

11:23Yeah.

11:23They took that to a new level and said, okay, we'll ask you the questions you answer in a few

11:32paragraphs.

11:33We then formulate it into a memoir or a biography for you.

11:40My biggest thing there was you can't add to it.

11:44Once it's printed, you can't add to it.

11:46It's not very easy to share.

11:48And over time, it's going to end up on somebody's shelf and eventually it's going to end up in somebody's

11:55garbage can.

11:56You know, just like a lot of other stuff, people move, people move, people move and things get thrown away.

12:01I don't even know where my yearbook is when I graduated.

12:03I purposely landed up tossing mine after so many years.

12:11I joke, and I'll lift my green screen here to show what I joke, the ugly couch, why I use

12:20the green screen to project an image there.

12:22It's like, I'm not a hoarder, but you can see all kinds of garbage.

12:27I am a slob, absolutely.

12:32Stuff all over.

12:34And indeed, we tend to just keep collecting.

12:39Eventually, some of it's got to go.

12:42Unless you've got a ton of money to keep storage units all over the place.

12:47And that's the key here is you can offload some of that stuff and you don't have to worry about

12:56if something happens to the original or you lose it or something that doesn't need to take up space anymore.

13:05Indeed, you could discard it because it's preserved.

13:10Oh, yeah, I think take your special memories and you can go right into my arc and go to the

13:15help button that goes over to the website called Lifesaver U, which is like a big website for help and

13:21how to do videos and things like that.

13:23And it has questions in there that you can ask.

13:26And it's really kind of nice to not give a generic question.

13:30It's really nice to be able to sit down with somebody and you might ask a question like I did

13:34with my dad.

13:35Wouldn't you learn how to ride a bike?

13:37And then you're getting a little bit of information, but then you get that conversation moving.

13:41You know, he wrote it before his sister wrote it.

13:44And when was that?

13:44Oh, my, she got mad at me because I wrote it before she did and blah, blah, blah, all that

13:48kind of stuff.

13:48So it's just not a basic question.

13:50I've seen people retirement home.

13:53I stepped in there one time and I was watching this lady.

13:56She was fantastic where she had a group of people that retired at the retirement home.

14:00And all she had to do is just mention a memory like a piano or some place.

14:05And all of a sudden, all these memories flood back.

14:08Oh, yeah, we had a piano.

14:09We were always sitting around at Christmastime.

14:11Oh, what songs did you play?

14:13And all of a sudden, it's not set in a specific guide of this is what you're going to put

14:19in there.

14:19You got to make it more human.

14:21That's why I never wanted to do AI, you know, take a picture and make somebody come to life type

14:25of thing.

14:26It's not, they're not coming to life.

14:27It's all AI, you know, but you want to be able to get that, the feeling of, you know, like

14:33a voice or some video of somebody before they pass away is my big thing.

14:37Before somebody passes away, get some feelings, get some memories from them.

14:41Which is not to say the AI stuff isn't kind of cool for.

14:46Oh, I've used, I've seen some of it.

14:48Great, great grandpa, long gone, you know, gone before video.

14:55So, indeed, that's all you've got are these few stills, maybe in black and white, and the AI can colorize

15:03them and 3D them and kind of give them motion.

15:07It's like a silent film then still, but a step up from what you had.

15:13And then after you've done that, you could put that video on your MyArchit.

15:20We've got to call it Archit.

15:21You push the button, you're ready to upload it, we just Archit.

15:24And I like that play, cross between Archive, A-R-C-H-I-V, and Ark, as in from the

15:34biblical Noah and the Ark, indeed, loading them up and ensuring they survive the cataclysm, you know, for lack of

15:47any other better way to put it.

15:49But zombie apocalypse, that's what we're working on.

15:53We're going to survive the zombie apocalypse.

15:56Okay.

15:56Well, I was going to go ahead and start to wrap things up because I don't know where else to

16:02go.

16:02So let me just open it to a broad question.

16:06What haven't we covered yet?

16:09What do you want to add before we go?

16:13Oh, the biggest thing I always tell people is go to the site and look it over.

16:18You know, we got MyArchit, we got Lifesaver U, we're looking at...

16:24It costs nothing to go check it out.

16:28No, no, we got a 30-day free trial.

16:31You can always just sign up for it, boom.

16:33We don't take any bank information.

16:35They can try to throw some things in there.

16:37And if you don't want it, it converts over to a view-only account that you can view other people's

16:41accounts because you got to be signed up to get into it because that's another layer of security.

16:46Like I said, biggest thing is sit somebody, sit the loved ones you have, sit them down, get some of

16:53those memories.

16:54And then we're going to work on what you're going to do with them.

16:58And people have to understand that, oh, I'm going to put them up into this spot.

17:02Could they go bye-bye?

17:04Yes.

17:04I'm going to put them over here.

17:05Do you trust them?

17:06No, not really.

17:07So we're trying to get this totally anchored down to where I'm not going to have to touch it for

17:12generations and it's going to feed itself.

17:16And people will see it in 50 years.

17:18They'll come right back to it.

17:18Hey, what do you know?

17:19It's still there.

17:20That's what we want.

17:21Yeah.

17:22But get those memories now.

17:24People, I just had a friend pass away the other day.

17:27I'm more of an acquaintance, but it was like the only, when he passed away, you get the little, you

17:34know, eulogy, but you don't really know the person.

17:39When we, when we get our lifetime accounts or even our memorial accounts, I'm pretty sure, I have to check

17:44on that again.

17:45It generates a QR code.

17:48I have a QR code and I will put dad's QR code up here in place for people to be

17:55able to see.

17:56But you're right.

17:58My, a short story, a lasting legacy book, it's called a short story, even though it's a novelette size wise,

18:07but we don't know how much time we're promised short or long.

18:13So you've got to, indeed, archive my architect, these memories while people are still here and you can enjoy it

18:25all together.

18:26And indeed, I don't want to be morbid here, but come funeral time, what usually happens, people are scrambling for

18:36pictures to then tack up.

18:38But a lot of funeral homes now have video boards.

18:45So, indeed, you could, I don't know if you have a function for this, an autoplay.

18:52Oh, boy, that's, that's on the, that's on the horizon.

18:55We call it video on demand or somebody could do a eulogy off of somebody's site.

18:59Exactly.

19:00That way, a, the my architect page could be literally projected and automatically filtered through there up on the screen.

19:12That, that would be something wonderful.

19:15So, yeah, we're thinking alike.

19:19And, of course, not everything can happen on day one.

19:24Or if they, they come, they, they come to the funeral and they have that picture of the eulogy of

19:29the, of the, of the, of the person who passed away.

19:31And there's a little QR code.

19:33All you got to do is go click and you can enjoy his memories in your own leisure.

19:39And, you know, you can find out who that person was and what they liked and what their life was

19:43like.

19:44And so they just, you know, you kind of, you got to say, you got to have that time to

19:47say goodbye.

19:48I understand that.

19:48But there's also a time you can actually enjoy their life and what they actually created or did and achieve.

19:56And that's what a short story, a lasting legacy is about.

20:01Indeed, what is your legacy?

20:03We may not think our lives amount to a whole lot to leave the actual lasting legacy, but it does.

20:12And no one is really, truly, completely gone unless we allow them to be forgotten.

20:22We need to keep their memories alive in ourselves and their legacy then lives on as part of ours.

20:33We keep them alive in a way.

20:36Yes.

20:37Yeah, we can.

20:38I believe in, if you remember, you remember people, but at the, at the same time, it's great to actually

20:46learn from the past.

20:48Learn from your parents, great, great, great, grandparents, things like that, to where you might all of a sudden have

20:54a gem of wisdom come from your great, great, great, great grandfathers.

20:57It's like, we did what?

20:58Oh, my God.

20:59And then you feel proud.

21:00You know, somebody within your family did it.

21:02And it's just, you can learn so much from the past and learn so much, you know, honor thy mother

21:07and thy father is also a big one.

21:11Yes, exactly.

21:12Okay, well, we're going to wrap it up.

21:16The site is myarkit.com.

21:21We've already covered that.

21:24Indeed, I encourage, it's one thing to hear us talking about it, but it's a whole other thing to really

21:33go and see what's there and what can be.

21:39It's almost hard to describe.

21:42It's way beyond Facebook walling and things of that nature.

21:50This is not a social media site.

21:54No, nobody, nobody can put, you know, oh, I don't like that.

21:57You know, your hair looks funny.

21:58That type of thing.

21:59It's your memory, your way.

22:01You arc it and then you just leave it.

22:04It can be private, it can be public if you want to, but you want to have it in there

22:08and pass it on.

22:09And again, for more, we had like a 38-minute episode, I think it was, season two in 2024, November

22:22special three, aired Wednesday, November 20th, 2024.

22:2724 can be heard on 25 plus audio platforms.

22:32But I try to get, I'm not sure if all my season two items are on all my video platforms.

22:41So that's another reason why I wanted to have you back.

22:45So we, we have this on video.

22:50Oh yeah, I couldn't remember if we did video or audio last time.

22:52Well, that's cool, we're doing video.

22:54Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it.

22:57Take care, God bless.

22:59Oh, take care, have a, have a good year.

23:07As a family friend, I cannot wait to meet you.

23:13I feel already know you.

23:18They waited and prayed, watched the calendar turn.

23:24Now a brand new heartbeat has made their whole world turn.

23:30Little hands and tiny feet, a gift straight from above.

23:37God already knew you, formed you in His love.

23:43We anxiously await thee, little one so dear.

23:50A blessing in the making, your arrival drawing near.

23:57For Leon, legacy lives on.

24:02A new page in the story.

24:06The journey's just begun.

24:10Respectfully, in family tradition.

24:15Your gracious mom and dad will try their best in life.

24:20So nothing good you'll be missing.

24:24Salutations for Leon.

24:28Congratulations to mom and dad.

24:31No doubt you'll be a stellar future college grad.

24:37Legacy continues, shining bright and strong.

24:45With God's hand upon you, you can never go wrong.

24:52They'll teach you how to pray, how to love and how to give, how to stand up tall.

25:02Even when life makes you bend, rooted deep in faith, in the values they hold true.

25:11Every hug, every lesson, point your heart toward what is good.

25:18So good, proper life to live.

25:25From the ones who came before you, to the ones still yet to be.

25:32The chain of love keeps rolling, and now it rolls through thee.

25:38A Christian home, a praying heart, that's the greatest gift of all.

25:45Little Leon, welcome.

25:49Answer heaven's call for Leon.

25:56Legacy lives on.

25:59A brand new chapter written underneath God's dawn.

26:05Your gracious parents smiling, doing all they can.

26:12So in this life, you'll miss nothing good, my little man.

26:19Congratulations, mom and dad.

26:22Here's to Leon's name.

26:25A future full of promise.

26:29Never gonna be the same.

26:36Legacy continues.

26:39And this boy so new, we thank the Lord above for bringing him into view.

26:53Legacy continues.

26:58Welcome to the world, sweet Leon.

27:05Legacy continues.

27:08God bless you, little one.

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27:52God bless.

27:53Love you all.

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