(gentle music) - I don't know how you can make a short take about me.

Maybe a micro take.

How can we make it a micro take?

- A micro take?

- Yeah.

Instead of a short take, I just make it like 30 seconds.

I got Cookie Monster socks on today.

My name is Joe Glynn.

I'm the Chief Technology Officer here at WVIA.

I have been here for 45 plus years.

(shutter clicking) It went by fast.

(gentle music) (couple kissing) I would describe myself as the luckiest guy in all of Pennsylvania.

I'm a wonderful personal life, family, and I love coming to work.

I love my job.

I'm at an age where people my age are typically retiring and folks I know will ask me, when are you gonna retire?

Every single day is different.

There was always something new to learn and something new to accomplish.

I love telling people about this organization.

I do have a lot of pride and I'd like to share that with people.

I also have a little TV in the corner of my living room that's always tuned to WVIA.

We're not doctors and we're nurses and we're firefighters.

We're not gonna save anyone's life, but we do change lives.

And people have told me that you've made a big difference in my life.

Well, the job that I have, I kind of wear two hats.

One is the technology side of it, the technology officer, and the other side is the facilities manager.

And people say, what are you in charge of?

I say everything from toilets to transmitters because it's true.

In 2007, we had a tower collapse and then we had to replace the tower, the antennas that were on the tower.

And in 2010, we had a transmitter building fire.

Tower was fine, but the building burnt.

Me and my team were working nonstop to get that done.

And I was proud of that.

I get to work with some of the most talented people I've ever known in my life, and I oftentimes feel like the dummy in the room, because they're all smarter than me.

(footsteps thwacking) - Field trip.

- All right, so then I'll do my speech here.

(gentle music) It's always your story.

I got a story for everything.

(gentle music) There's Murphy's Law, which says if something can go wrong, it will.

(gentle music) So I have Murphy's Law squared.

If something can go wrong, it will, but at the worst possible time.

Everybody trips the front door once, I don't mind at all.

Second or third time, I start to get a little annoyed yeah, I guess.

And because it's falling at the standard three, two feet per second per second.

In fact, I will shut it off because they got alarms that will go off no matter what.

- [AI Voice] I found 12 alarms.

Which one?

- Your eyes.

The pictures upside down on the back of your retina.

That's how we see.

I don't know if you know that.

My brain flips the image.

I forgot.

Sorry, what was the rest of the question?

Okay.

(door knocks) Probably wanna come in and get their lunch outta the refrigerator.

Oh, she goes out to lunch.

I don't know she, I don't know.

It's a very long story.

- Well, you don't have to go- - Phone's off.

I shut it off.

- You wouldn't be able to.

- Told you they need their lunch.

Never criticize somebody's work until you understand the conditions under which they had to do the work.

And now I forgot the question.

I don't wanna say it too loud, but I have other undergarments that are Sesame Street as well, so.

(gentle music) I dunno if that made sense but... (crew faintly speaking) My schooling and background was in electronics.

That was something I always kind of wanna do by the time I was in high school.

I saw an ad in the paper, applied for that position.

Kind of forced an interview on them too, and then eventually I didn't get that job.

- [Interviewer] How do you force an interview on someone?

- I called the guy who was hiring, the chief engineer at the time, it was the chief engineer.

And I called him and I said, "I'd really like to interview for this job.

I think it would work out."

I said, "Will you please interview me?"

So he let me come down and he interviewed me and I didn't get the job.

A few weeks later, another job opened up and I think I was fresh in his mind.

He remembered me and he called and he said, "Would you like to come down for a job?"

And so I came down.

The rest is 45-year-old history.

You mentioned the word is like a marriage for 45 years.

Yes and what marriages usually starts with is love.

So it's basically love.

I love WVIA.

Maybe that's one of the reasons I'm not gonna retire.

I really don't have a hobby.

I don't golf, I don't fish, I don't hunt.

So maybe WVIA is my hobby, I just don't know it yet.

(pleasant music) That's all I got.

That's not much of a bio.

(pleasant music) (pleasant music)