Great Scott! Drop your linen and start your grinning but whatever you do, don’t back Baby into a corner! This week we welcome Guest Host Shawn Marsolais from the Blind Beginnings Limitless Podcast to help us do something a little different in celebration of Retro Day next week (February 27^th). Join Rob, Ryan, Steve, and Shawn as they don their headbands, leg warmers, and fluorescent colored shirts and they dive into a discussion about everything 80s related. Movies, world events, music, tv, and even a little about the Assistive Technology of the time – we are talking about it all! You don’t want to miss this totally tubular and gnarly episode!

Show Transcript: https://atbanter.com/transcript-at-banter-podcast-episode-228-back-to-the-80s

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Retro Day
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-retro-day-february-27

The boys are all together again as Steve returns to the show after a bit of an absence, just in time to get geeky with a rousing discussion about the used Assistive Technology market before welcoming Matt Campbell and Pneuma Solutions CEO Mike Calvo to the Anti-Gloom Zoom Room to talk about some exciting new features of Scribe, their digital document remediation product. And if that isn’t enough for one show, we also announce an exciting new idea for a show later in the month! You don’t want to miss this show!

Show Transcript: https://atbanter.com/transcript-at-banter-episode-227-calvo-returns

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Pneuma Solutions
https://pneumasolutions.com

Scribe For Meetings
https://scribeformeetings.com

Rob and Ryan are thrilled this week to be joined by local author Jessica Wegrzynowski and her care aid and friend Misty into the Anti-Gloom Zoom Room to talk about her new book, My Spring Fling: Young Love and Living Life to the Fullest. Jessica discusses how the book came about, some of the challenges she faced writing it, and what she hopes readers will take away from it.

Show Transcript: https://atbanter.com/transcript-at-banter-episode-226-jessica-wegrzynowski/

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My Spring Fling: Young Love and Living Life to the Fullest on Amazon

White Cane Week happens every year during the first week of February and this week we welcome Canadian Council of the Blind’s President, Louise Gillis, to discuss what White Cane Week is, fill us in on all the events happening, and the CCB’s year round mandate to help support and advocate for blind and partially sighted Canadians.

Show Transcript: https://atbanter.com/transcript-at-banter-podcast-episode-225-ccb-white-cane-week/

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Canadian Council of the Blind

Sensible Innovations

These days it might seem like no news is good news, but Rob and Ryan do their best to drum up some of the latest Assistive Technology news that 2021 has to offer so far, including discussing an article about the problem of the cost of AT devices and some news about accessibility that is being built into new TVs.

Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/at-banter-podcast-episode-224-no-news-is-good-news.pdf

Show Notes

ADA Lawsuit Rates Rising

Disability advocates call for easier access to ‘life-changing’ technology

Samsung Makes Its 2021 TVs More Accessible

It’s the first episode of 2021 and Rob and Ryan are not only well rested from the Holidays, but optimistic that 2021 is going to be a great year! After a mini- discussion about Braille in celebration of World Braille Day, the boys welcome Pramit Bhargava as the first guest of 2021 to talk about his new app, Louie, which add voice control functionality to Android based smartphones.

Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/podcast-episode-223_otter.ai_.pdf

Show Notes

Louie Voice Control
https://louievoice.com

Seeing a Slice of Southern Africa My Way: An Enlightening Journey
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RWLRC2F/

It’s that time of year again, and time for our annual episode where we discuss all things Christmas and the Holidays! It’s a little bit different this year and a departure from our originally planned Christmas episode (thanks a lot 2020), but we pushed through technical difficulties to bring you a little Yuletide audio cheer. Thank you to all our listeners and guests for your support over the year and we will see you in 2021!

It’s a momentous occasion in the Guitar Dungeon this week as Ryan flies solo and spreads his wings as he interviews Marc Arneson, Director of Brand Development/ Community Learning at Hadley, one of the longest running and largest educators of Braille and related subjects for blind or partially sighted individuals in North America.

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Hadley

B.C.’s COVID-19 income and disability assistance top-up will soon be cut in half

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Nothing can stop us now! Rob, Ryan and Steve welcome the aptly named Unstoppable Tracy, aka Tracy Schmidt, to the Anti-Gloom Zoom Room where we learn about her background and how she gained such an enthusiastic and positive attitude and how her condition as a quadruple amputee informed it. We manage to talk about a few of her many accomplishments, but only scratch the surface of what this amazing woman has accomplished.

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Unstoppable Tracy

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