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Speaker 2: I appreciate everyone being out there tonight.
Speaker 1: Several familiar faces in the chat and where are we at? Okay,
Speaker 1: We're gonna go right here for the moment. Good evening,
Speaker 1: Happy Sunday. Thank you for joining us. We are one
Speaker 1: week less than one week away from the Huntsville Hamfest
Speaker 1: happening next weekend Saturday and Sunday. Of course, Friday is
Speaker 1: the Poda all day Poda at Montasano State Park. Hope
Speaker 1: that you guys can join us when when you can,
Speaker 1: so if you're going to if you're going to attend
Speaker 1: that event, I hope that you can get there early
Speaker 1: on Friday and join us at the park because it's
Speaker 1: always a fun time. Special shout out to folks in
Speaker 1: the green text in the chat. I saw Kooley in
Speaker 1: their first ka nine q z G. Of course Kevin
Speaker 1: was in their next KM one X and Andy Kelly
Speaker 1: was in there earlier. What's up guys, Wayne Tom WB
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Speaker 1: k R five EE. We worked him from Yellowstone several times,
Speaker 1: several parks we activated on that trip. Randall was out
Speaker 1: there calling back to us hunting PoTA parks. So thanks
Speaker 1: for being out there, karmit, see you in there, Andy
Speaker 1: AA zero A M see you in there. Uh ed
Speaker 1: A C three I K Joseph Mark K four y
Speaker 1: A C. Thank you for joining us tonight. Guys, appreciate
Speaker 1: everyone being here. And uh, let's see audio level sounds
Speaker 1: fine here? Kevin says, yeah, make sure you're And he
Speaker 1: was here before YouTube existed. That's probably true. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: let us Uh somebody said that. The somebody said that
Speaker 1: the audio was still low, but it should be. Okay,
Speaker 1: I listened to it before I muted myself or muted
Speaker 1: my YouTube. I should say, let me know how it
Speaker 1: sounds there. Uh, let's see this is good right here?
Speaker 1: K O four T d A Oh no, no, that's
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Speaker 1: it is ed A C three. I k the destroyer
Speaker 1: of Jankopotomus has sent me. Ah, that's what I was
Speaker 1: looking for. Good deal, Okay, Sean, welcome back. Haven't made
Speaker 1: the live stream in a few weeks. Appreciate you jumping
Speaker 1: on there tonight. So I sent out an email. So
Speaker 1: tonight's gonna be kind of like a interactive something with
Speaker 1: the with you guys the chat. So I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: watching the chat a little bit more tonight than what
Speaker 1: I would normally do on the start. Try to watch
Speaker 1: the chat all the time, but I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: watch it a little bit more tonight than what I
Speaker 1: normally do. I think Frank's gonna join me. I haven't
Speaker 1: actually talked to Frank today, but he was just live
Speaker 1: on his channel. They were talking about Carlos's jump at
Speaker 1: Huntsville next weekend. So I caught the last tail end
Speaker 1: of that. Thank you erin You're good on audio. Mike
Speaker 1: Army is here. That's always good to see. Smoke signals RF,
Speaker 1: what's up is O? First time watching you live CA
Speaker 1: seven EBO. Thank you Michael, appreciate your being here so
Speaker 1: uh so I'm just gonna kind of I've got a
Speaker 1: few things I'm working on I want to talk to
Speaker 1: you guys about and I want to get I want
Speaker 1: to ask your opinions on a few things and want
Speaker 1: to get some input from the chat. So that's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing tonight. So anybody that's got a
Speaker 1: question about next weekend, about anything we talk about tonight,
Speaker 1: feel free to put it in the chat and and
Speaker 1: I will try to watch that as much as possible.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Frank's gonna join us as well. He
Speaker 1: probably went to go get another drink, refill something like that,
Speaker 1: so because he was just streaming for the last hour,
Speaker 1: I am will be right, I am will be right there, okay,
Speaker 1: So that we know Frank, nobody's taken over Frank's keyboard
Speaker 1: when we see typing like that. So it's good, okay,
Speaker 1: I am will be waiting for you, Frank.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Frank's gonna make his beans at Huntsville next week. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you, guys, that's a treat. That is
Speaker 1: a treat. Trust me, I don't know some of you
Speaker 1: Northerner guys may not appreciate that as much as I
Speaker 1: know Carlos will like it. I think in Yo will
Speaker 1: probably like it too. I think in Yo will probably
Speaker 1: like the hot Auben eurobeans also, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Some of you guys are a little bit more sensitive
Speaker 1: to hot foods may not like it, but they are
Speaker 1: a fantastic treat. So I'm looking forward to it and
Speaker 1: Ram Radio Tectonics. Bill's in the chat. What's uh?
Speaker 2: What's up? Bill?
Speaker 1: Bill? Where you stay in next weekend? Have you got
Speaker 1: a campsite? Have you got a hotel room where you stay?
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you'll be there. I'm pretty sure. Last
Speaker 1: time we spoke about Huntsville, Bill, you said you would
Speaker 1: be there.
Speaker 2: But we will see. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bill's had Franks beans, No, no Carolina reapers. He
Speaker 1: sometimes he'll use ghost pepper. He usually uses auben nuro.
Speaker 1: And trust me when I say that aubennuros are hot enough.
Speaker 1: If it gets so hot, they lose. It's just heat
Speaker 1: and no flavor. I personally don't like it. I can
Speaker 1: eat stuff that hot. Sometimes it usually gives me the
Speaker 1: hiccups if I eat something that's too hot. But I
Speaker 1: like to be able to taste the flavor, and the
Speaker 1: flavor needs to be something other than a blow towards
Speaker 1: being held in your tongue. So that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 1: But you know, might be at a campsite at the
Speaker 1: last turn before you get to Okay, all right, cool Bill, Well,
Speaker 1: let us know where you're gonna end up and what
Speaker 1: day you're getting there. We're pulling in Wednesday evening. In fact,
Speaker 1: I need to talk to Frank after the stream tonight
Speaker 1: because I've got some ideas about what time i want
Speaker 1: to leave on Wednesday morning. We're gonna drive through and
Speaker 1: hit that the whole time. All right, Frank has joined us.
Speaker 1: Do you lose your glass?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, I know. I'm turning
Speaker 1: that on. Did you lose your glasses?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Contexts Oh, weren't you just wearing glasses in the last stream?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, I have the restroom. You have those windows really small,
Speaker 1: and I was watching it on my top screen up here,
Speaker 1: so I just missed it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'll create the grocy list now is as
Speaker 3: Scorpion Peppers, Ghost Peppers, Hobbin Naro Tai Chili Peppers, Hobbin Arrows.
Speaker 3: Am I missing anything?
Speaker 1: Are you putting all that in there?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 1: No, I'm gonna do money have like three people. You
Speaker 1: have like three people who are able to eat it,
Speaker 1: and Carlos is probably one of them.
Speaker 3: Hey, if we're just gonna be hanging out, you know,
Speaker 3: I can get Carlos in here and have some fun
Speaker 3: with us and Scott if you like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys are those guys are welcome to join us? Sure,
Speaker 1: yeah'll y'all go right ahead. They've got the same zoom
Speaker 1: link it always is. So way to pay attention. Hey man,
Speaker 1: it's Frank. I see him all the time. And when
Speaker 1: I see him, like, oh, there's Frank, I'll listen to him,
Speaker 1: but I don't look at him too much. So project
Speaker 1: projectile beans.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 3: I sent them the message there if they're gonna come, come,
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, I'm looking forward to doing that. Kyle
Speaker 3: said he's gonna hit me up with a crop pot.
Speaker 3: I need to sit down and actually project out when
Speaker 3: you know this is my normal one pound bean recipe
Speaker 3: and see how big that crop pot is and say,
Speaker 3: all right, this is gonna be the five pound bean recipe.
Speaker 3: Oh that just sounds like it's gonna hurt. And and
Speaker 3: to be honest, it is, you know, not that clean up,
Speaker 3: clean up that that pot afterwards. Is can can be fun.
Speaker 1: But Kyle has a pressure washer in his hiker trailer,
Speaker 1: so he's sneezing. He'll sneeze about seven times in a row.
Speaker 1: What's up, Carlos, Oh, you know, just just hanging out?
Speaker 2: Good an me fun? Good?
Speaker 4: Oh you fellas?
Speaker 2: Oh man? What's the weather looking like for next weekend? Buddy?
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to watch Frank stream. I'm
Speaker 1: sure y'all talked about that, you.
Speaker 4: Know, we didn't talk about the weather. I looked at
Speaker 4: the weather earlier this afternoon, and it's looking jumpable. Partly
Speaker 4: cloudy on Saturday, partly cloudy on Sunday, thirty chance of
Speaker 4: rain on Friday. But it was still early.
Speaker 2: The forecast can change.
Speaker 1: Well, keep an eye on it, Okay, good because when
Speaker 1: I looked two days ago, I think it was we
Speaker 1: were in Iowa for the last few days, and when
Speaker 1: I look, we were driving back and I looked and
Speaker 1: it was showing like a twenty to twenty five percent
Speaker 1: chance on Friday and Saturday. And I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: every time every year, when we look at that a
Speaker 1: week beforehand, it usually gets pushed back like a day
Speaker 1: or two, so fingers crossed it actually won't rain until Sunday.
Speaker 4: Well, I would love I would love for that to happen.
Speaker 4: I would love for the rain to be pushed on Monday.
Speaker 1: Really well yeah, agreed, agreed.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so I'll tell you when I know solar
Speaker 3: comes to my friend. When they stop saying God bless you,
Speaker 3: they either wait for the last one or they start counting.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that's the way it works. Yeah, Kyle,
Speaker 1: what's up, dude? Yeah, I was just talking about you.
Speaker 1: So Kyle texted me today and he goes, hey, So
Speaker 1: I bought a brand new Blackstone grill, similar to the
Speaker 1: one Kyle has, but I got the wind the wind
Speaker 1: guarded one, the one with the wind guard around it.
Speaker 1: It's called the Omnivore. I don't I think they're kind
Speaker 1: of all the same. Really, it looks just like his.
Speaker 3: It should be just the same with just with the
Speaker 3: wind guards.
Speaker 1: I think that's what it is. It's two burners. It's
Speaker 1: twenty two inches. I got it with the stand and
Speaker 1: the hose that will go to a twenty pound propound bottle.
Speaker 1: It comes with a little adapter for the for the
Speaker 1: little two pound one pound green bottle to pound whatever.
Speaker 1: But I got the hose. Yeah, I got the hose
Speaker 1: to go to the twenty pound bottle. We got both
Speaker 1: my twenty pound bottles filled up in preparation for whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, propane doesn't go bad if I don't use
Speaker 1: him before November. I will definitely use him in November.
Speaker 1: But Kyle texts me, he's like, you bring in your blackstone,
Speaker 1: And at first I thought I was gonna, but then
Speaker 1: Steve kol four AFL said he's bringing his big thirty
Speaker 1: six inch black bestone. So I don't know if I
Speaker 1: need to bring mine. I've replied to you, Kyle, and
Speaker 1: I didn't get a I didn't get a response. So
Speaker 1: but I know you're out doing photo because I was
Speaker 1: getting hammler. It's all during church this morning. Oh Kyle's
Speaker 1: on c W. Oh no, Kyle's on sidemand oh no,
Speaker 1: Kyle's on CW. You make up your mind, dude, you
Speaker 1: were doing both. So he was doing uh, he was out.
Speaker 4: There, yeah, w on one side and the.
Speaker 2: Mus be it must be it.
Speaker 1: So so I have the blackstone, I can't bring it.
Speaker 1: But if we're gonna be uh, if we're gonna be
Speaker 1: inundated with blackstones. I'm not can bring mine. I'm bringing
Speaker 1: enough stuff already, So I'm bringing the I'm bringing the
Speaker 1: hex beam, the buddy heckx, I'm bringing my awning. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put my I'm I'm planning to put my awning
Speaker 1: up over our picnic table at the camp site. If
Speaker 1: it rains, it's done rain, I probably won't jack with it.
Speaker 2: But you know that's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but so and I'm bringing a few other things.
Speaker 1: Mike has a cell phone booster. He wants me to
Speaker 1: bring my fifty foot gigabarts masked. We're gonna put a
Speaker 1: cell phone booster at the camp site to see if
Speaker 1: that helps the signal because if you guys remember in
Speaker 1: years past, there is no cell service on top of
Speaker 1: that mountain.
Speaker 3: Starlink on top of that mountain.
Speaker 1: No can't get starlink because of all the trees, you
Speaker 1: can't get clear line of sight to the sky. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna even bring the starlink I brought it
Speaker 1: the last two years is completely worthless. I'm not even
Speaker 1: putting it in the truck this time. Waste of space.
Speaker 4: Why don't you just bring a big chainsaw?
Speaker 1: They kind of frown on that at state parks.
Speaker 4: I don't know, just tell them it's just Alabama.
Speaker 1: It's just Alabama.
Speaker 4: So yeah, no, you know, the thing is you're not
Speaker 4: an Alabella resident as soon as you clear up before
Speaker 4: they figured out who did it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's true. Yeah they you might. You might
Speaker 1: not get invited back next year, though, so.
Speaker 4: But you go, that's where you go next year, you go.
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody is has.
Speaker 5: No comprendo, so no tango whatever the word is for chainsaw.
Speaker 3: No take a chainsaw. Ten pounds of or ten pounds
Speaker 3: of bacon for the burgers, ten pounds of bacon.
Speaker 1: That will not that will not go to waste, and
Speaker 1: it might not be enough. So yeah, no, that's good,
Speaker 1: that's good.
Speaker 2: Thank you. W zero g cg C g C great.
Speaker 3: But man, I'm looking forward to this. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: a blast.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's gonna be blast.
Speaker 3: So you're talking about face page and trying to create a.
Speaker 1: New well to think, Well, first of all, let me
Speaker 1: let me and you guys will beat you.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you guys off the screen for a second,
Speaker 1: but you'll still be able to talk in the background.
Speaker 1: I want to give two shout outs. First, well, I
Speaker 1: want to give one shout out and I want to
Speaker 1: thank everybody who has used my Amazon page for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: I did an Amazon Lie Amazon Prime email last month
Speaker 1: and ever since then, Amazon's been really kind of on fire.
Speaker 1: You guys been great with using the Amazon links. I'll
Speaker 1: put a link to it in the chat real quick.
Speaker 1: Thank you for using that when you can, because it
Speaker 1: does help to uh, to support the channel, move it forward.
Speaker 1: And I want to give a big shout out right
Speaker 1: here to the tech Prepper. This boy got fifty six
Speaker 1: thousand new subscribers in the last twenty eight days. He
Speaker 1: went from like fifty five thousand to one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten thousand subs. What he's got, Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what he's doing.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but he's doing something right.
Speaker 1: So his last four or five videos have done really
Speaker 1: really well. Uh, he's doing a one hundred thousand viewer giveaway.
Speaker 1: I need to be on that man, right Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, if he keeps going like that, he's gonna
Speaker 1: pass me pretty soon. I don't know, but he's doing
Speaker 1: bug out bag stuff. Daily comps. How to set up
Speaker 1: an off grid Windows ten machine now see I can
Speaker 1: get behind. That's something I can get behind. He didn't
Speaker 1: do how to set up an off grid Apple machine,
Speaker 1: because Apple will be you know, like Skynet and trying
Speaker 1: to trying to kill you when the grid goes down.
Speaker 1: But you know, Windows is pretty tame, I think most
Speaker 1: of the time, pretty easy to use. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but no, seriously, huge, huge shout out to gastone one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten thousand subscribers. That was cool to see.
Speaker 1: I texted him like, I'm like, dude, that is freaking awesome.
Speaker 1: So that's massive, you know, Yeah, yeah, it really is.
Speaker 4: You have to be at one hundred thousand before you
Speaker 4: can actually start making any real money on YouTube, right.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, I mean no, not necessarily.
Speaker 4: I mean my channel finally monetized to like three weeks ago,
Speaker 4: and I've made like nine dollars.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he yay, hey man, you know for
Speaker 1: them to cut that check, you know. Sean Cannell says
Speaker 1: many times, because I watch him a lot, Think Media,
Speaker 1: Think Media podcast and whatnot, he says that he remembers
Speaker 1: when he made his first two dollars and forty four
Speaker 1: cents or whatever it was on on ad Sense. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: and he didn't get paid, of course, because they don't
Speaker 1: pay out until reach one hundred dollars. But he's like,
Speaker 1: I made two dollars and forty four cents. And he
Speaker 1: looked at it with a very positive outlook, and he's like,
Speaker 1: that's the start of something. That is where everything everybody
Speaker 1: starts from zero, and now I have surpassed zero, and
Speaker 1: I have nowhere to go but up from here.
Speaker 2: And look at him now, he.
Speaker 1: Did a video three or four five years ago about
Speaker 1: how he made forty thousand dollars in one month from
Speaker 1: Amazon affiliates. So I'm like, I could I could live
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's very manageable, folks.
Speaker 2: Oh boy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So people are saying gas tone was demonetized.
Speaker 3: I don't see that. Several times. I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: know what's going on there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what. I hope that's not true.
Speaker 1: If it is, I don't really I mean, you know, like,
Speaker 1: if my channel was just explode like that, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'd really cares. Most most YouTube groups will
Speaker 1: tell you that ad sense is actually the last thing
Speaker 1: you should look at. Just forget about ad sense and
Speaker 1: focus on brand deals and affiliate lengths. Affiliate I shared
Speaker 1: you guys with my I shared my Amazon store a
Speaker 1: MINUTEO affiliate lengths. That's that's really kind of where it's at.
Speaker 1: AD sense is cool, Getting monetized is cool. I tell
Speaker 1: everyone they should monetize today because YouTube's going to put commercials.
Speaker 1: This didn't used to be true. They changed this a
Speaker 1: few years ago. YouTube's going to put commercials and ads
Speaker 1: on your channel, whether you're monetized or not, so you
Speaker 1: might as well. You might as well take because they
Speaker 1: pay creators sixty percent of ad revenue, so they keep
Speaker 1: forty percent and they pay you sixty percent. Or you
Speaker 1: can just say no, I don't want to run ads
Speaker 1: at all, and you get nothing, but they're gonna still
Speaker 1: run out of it. You might as well take what
Speaker 1: you can get. And if you don't want to make
Speaker 1: money for him. I told Adam this a long time ago.
Speaker 1: I was like Adam and Charlie were both like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to turn ads on him where they're
Speaker 1: gonna run him anyway. Why don't you take that money? Yeah,
Speaker 1: take that money and send it to whatever hand radio
Speaker 1: charity you want to At the end of the month.
Speaker 3: Well before they weren't running ads unless you were actually
Speaker 3: flipping your monetization, then it makes sense. Yeah, but now
Speaker 3: I'm just like you might as well. And that was
Speaker 3: actually they changed that right before I got monetized, and
Speaker 3: that was irking me a little bit. I'm like, why
Speaker 3: are you putting ads here? I'm not getting a dime out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that's yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: That's the reason I wanted my channel monetized. It was like,
Speaker 4: you know, what if if they're going to roll ads
Speaker 4: no matter what, right, I may as well make a
Speaker 4: buck out of it. Yeah, totally, yeah, he said. Uh
Speaker 4: frequency frontiers Ky four GM says he said that in
Speaker 4: his last video, which I've not his one hundred thousand
Speaker 4: subscriber video.
Speaker 2: I have not watched.
Speaker 1: I was on the road when he released that, and
Speaker 1: I've been busy since I got home. I'll try to
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll try to watch that later tonight, but I
Speaker 1: have not have.
Speaker 3: You given any details on what happened or.
Speaker 2: I don't know?
Speaker 3: All right, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Sure, nice topic, but but the point of the live well,
Speaker 1: what I said on the live stream and the title
Speaker 1: of my email that I sent out was should I
Speaker 1: create a new Facebook page.
Speaker 2: Now, So.
Speaker 1: Long story short, what happened was and I did it.
Speaker 1: I did a live stream on a Wednesday about this
Speaker 1: earlier this year, but this was before May. And as
Speaker 1: as you should know, if you've been watching me for
Speaker 1: a while, they YouTube deleted the Thursday before him Vention.
Speaker 1: So the Wednesday before him Vension, we're sitting around the campsite.
Speaker 1: We did a two hour live stream. We had about
Speaker 1: three or four hundred you nice folks watching us on
Speaker 1: the live stream and we're just we're just rag chewing.
Speaker 1: We're talking about nothing because we're getting we're gearing up
Speaker 1: for Hamvention. I've done that for the last three years,
Speaker 1: done it live stream from the campsite on Wednesday. It's
Speaker 1: really fun. I plan to do it again next year.
Speaker 1: Get a lot of really good feedback from that, a
Speaker 1: lot to share a lot of what's going on with
Speaker 1: Ham venchon. Well the way, the next morning, I woke
Speaker 1: up in every live stream from January to that day
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, every live stream I'd done in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four was just gone, just gone. None of
Speaker 1: my videos were gone, none of my uploads were gone.
Speaker 1: Just the live streams so open a ticket with YouTube.
Speaker 1: Went back and forth for a day or two and
Speaker 1: they're like, no, you have an admin that deleted them.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, there's no admin on my channel. Nobody
Speaker 1: can upload or delete anything from my channel.
Speaker 2: Exception.
Speaker 1: Well, they probably they probably get this complaint a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I mean, you got to
Speaker 1: think of how large YouTube is. So and so they
Speaker 1: did some research and they said that was their first
Speaker 1: kind of knee jerk reaction. They did some research and
Speaker 1: they're like, no, you're right, you're right, nobody deleted anything.
Speaker 1: We don't know where those went. And I said, well,
Speaker 1: you guys deleted them, that's what happened. They were like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't delete videos because we make money just like
Speaker 1: you do. And I'm like, look, I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: did it on purpose, but I didn't do it. And
Speaker 1: the other person who has access to my channel besides
Speaker 1: me is you, So you have to it was a
Speaker 1: glitch somewhere. Anyway, that video that where I talked about
Speaker 1: my Facebook page just disappearing overnight or I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 1: not my Facebook. My original Facebook page is still out there.
Speaker 1: My account got hacked because I tried to log in.
Speaker 1: I tried to open up Facebook on my laptop. It
Speaker 1: told me it said, you need to log back in again.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, that's weird, but okay, so I click
Speaker 1: on the thing. I put in my password and it said, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna send you an authorization code because I have
Speaker 1: two factor authentication on almost everything, so we're gonna send
Speaker 1: you a six digit authorization code to your phone number.
Speaker 1: And it came up and it gave the last four
Speaker 1: digits of the phone number, and that was not my
Speaker 1: phone number. I'm like, oopsh, no, that's not me, guys,
Speaker 1: so open a ticket with them. I've sent hundreds of
Speaker 1: emails to them over the last four months or what
Speaker 1: however long. It's been nothing. Absolutely no response to them.
Speaker 1: What yeah, uh email, Absolutely no response from them whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I pinged them on Twitter a few times when it
Speaker 1: first happened. I got a lot of spambots coming back.
Speaker 1: I can get your channel back for fifty nine dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm like, sure you can't, so yeah. But but absolutely
Speaker 1: no response from them at all. So I created a
Speaker 1: new account, which if you read their tos, you're not
Speaker 1: really supposed to do that, but I did it anyway.
Speaker 3: Who cans because you broke my account and you're not
Speaker 3: given it back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but see, my page is still there. If you
Speaker 1: go to Facebook dot com forward slash ham radio to
Speaker 1: my original page is still there. And my mistake was
Speaker 1: not making my wife an admin on the page, because
Speaker 1: she could have been admitting the page for me, and
Speaker 1: then when I created my new account, she could make
Speaker 1: my new account admin on the page.
Speaker 3: So is there a difference between admin and owner because
Speaker 3: there's you the owner's last creator.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's It's like YouTube, It's like you have
Speaker 1: different levels of aderators and admins that can do different things.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I mean you can.
Speaker 2: You could.
Speaker 1: I may or may not get ownership back of it,
Speaker 1: but at least she would be able to give me
Speaker 1: admin status and I could post stuff there. So I
Speaker 1: might be a little bit limited on it, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, I'm not leaving YouTube, guys. But what
Speaker 1: I said was h yeah, So Chris says, hell no,
Speaker 1: avoid Facebook. One of the happiest choices I made have
Speaker 1: been off Facebook since Christmas twenty twenty. Use the messager app.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Well, quite frankly, the only thing I used on Facebook
Speaker 1: was my page. I there there were a few overlanding
Speaker 1: groups I would participate in, or hand radio groups I
Speaker 1: would participate in, but for the most part, I just
Speaker 1: use my page. I don't think i'd posted my personal
Speaker 1: account in like three years.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to agree with that sentiment percent. I'm
Speaker 3: over the the your personal page, the the all that
Speaker 3: other garbage that comes with it. I have been Facebook
Speaker 3: free for years and I love it. I call my
Speaker 3: relatives that actually want to talk to him instead of
Speaker 3: I did did you see your last post? You know,
Speaker 3: I'm disgruntled with it. No, I'm calling to find out
Speaker 3: about you. Yeah, And I'm over it. And I'm kind
Speaker 3: of on the same page with Facebook. I created a
Speaker 3: tank radio page and I admitted it for a little bit,
Speaker 3: but then I dropped it.
Speaker 1: See I just and and Bob our Funder. Bob is
Speaker 1: real big on face. People are talking about Facebook Messenger
Speaker 1: in the chat, and I'm like, I don't even like
Speaker 1: Facebook Messenger. But my my gym trainer, he's on Facebook Messenger.
Speaker 1: Bob's on Facebook Messenger. A couple other people I know
Speaker 1: were I'm fixed, so I have it, but I don't
Speaker 1: use that. If that was all I used. I would
Speaker 1: have just been like, I'm not going back over there.
Speaker 1: So but but as I said in my original livestream
Speaker 1: that got deleted, I when I would put up a post,
Speaker 1: So when you can, So when you put a post
Speaker 1: up on and before Elon Musk got a hold of Twitter,
Speaker 1: you could post something on Instagram and have it repeat
Speaker 1: and have it simul post to both Twitter and a
Speaker 1: Facebook page. Okay, you can't. You can't do Twitter anymore.
Speaker 2: Elon must turn that off.
Speaker 1: And that's that's that's okay.
Speaker 2: That's okay. You can if you use if this and that,
Speaker 2: Yes you can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it used to be inside of the Instagram app. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's probably a way to do that. That's true. But
Speaker 1: I would put up a post on Instagram. I would
Speaker 1: use the Instagram app. I would put up a post
Speaker 1: about this event's coming up, or here's some pictures for
Speaker 1: him vention, or here's a new radio, orre's a new intenta,
Speaker 1: or's me out and pot us something whatever, and I
Speaker 1: would post it to Instagram, my Facebook page and Twitter,
Speaker 1: and by far, by far, and now wish this wasn't true,
Speaker 1: but this is the truth. By far, more people liked it,
Speaker 1: interacted with it and commented it, commented on it on
Speaker 1: Facebook than anywhere else. I've got over nine thousand, almost
Speaker 1: ten thousand followers on Twitter. I've got seventy two hundred
Speaker 1: ish on Instagram. And at the time before I lost
Speaker 1: access to my Facebook page, I only had twenty five hundred,
Speaker 1: so it had the least amount of followers in the
Speaker 1: most the largest amount of interaction.
Speaker 3: To kind of agree with that and understand it, where
Speaker 3: was our largest demographic in our audience, right? And what
Speaker 3: social media platform do that demographic use?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 3: And I'm not putting down what our fans are people.
Speaker 3: I love them all, but I'm just talking troops here.
Speaker 3: The majority of them use Facebook a lot. And anytime
Speaker 3: you talk about some type of group outside of our
Speaker 3: YouTube sphere, it's always hey, join our Facebook page, Join
Speaker 3: our Facebook page? Did you join our Facebook page on
Speaker 3: our hand radio group? For the club? Why does your
Speaker 3: club have a Facebook page? Right?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Why is your club's face page the only sorts of information?
Speaker 4: And if you really, if you really want to mix
Speaker 4: it up, travel outside of the US. Yes, Facebook is it, man.
Speaker 4: Facebook is the Internet and a lot of places, and
Speaker 4: it's because Facebook, Uh, underwrite Internet access for a lot
Speaker 4: of places based on the fact that you know, for example,
Speaker 4: when I go to Guatemala, you you buy a SIM
Speaker 4: and you get so many gigs of data, but anything
Speaker 4: you do on anything data doesn't count. So yeah, there's
Speaker 4: you don't use your phone number, you use WhatsApp, you
Speaker 4: don't use you know, you message using WhatsApp, you post
Speaker 4: things on Facebook and on Instagram because it's all.
Speaker 2: It's all.
Speaker 4: You can have the cheapest phone package and you're able
Speaker 4: to communicate because all that stuff is underwritten by meta.
Speaker 2: And in a lot of.
Speaker 4: Countries that's the case where Facebook is the Internet.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm going to on a Chrisandia life here. Discord
Speaker 3: is good, yes, but it's for a neat high tech
Speaker 3: person to get down get that downloaded, and get me
Speaker 3: and understand how to use it and not get annoyed
Speaker 3: with how if you don't have it configured right all
Speaker 3: the messages and notifications.
Speaker 1: It said, oh, yeah, true, but we have but we
Speaker 1: have that. We have a Discord server. And several years
Speaker 1: ago I had a I had a I had a
Speaker 1: Facebook group, and some clubs I know have Facebook groups,
Speaker 1: and some clubs I know have their own Discord servers.
Speaker 2: I had a Facebook group except for several years.
Speaker 1: And I finally kind of gave up the disc uh
Speaker 1: the Facebook group about the time I created my Discord server,
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, guys, here's the link to
Speaker 1: my discord server.
Speaker 2: I'm not using Facebook group anymore.
Speaker 1: I didn't delete the group, but I told everybody I
Speaker 1: would go in there about once a month, once every
Speaker 1: couple of months, and I'd go, hey, I don't check
Speaker 1: messages here anymore. Join us on Discord. Join us on Discord.
Speaker 1: Anybody listening to the chat right now, We're on Team Replay.
Speaker 1: If you want to join us on Discord, Ham Radio
Speaker 1: two dot com, Forward slash Discord. We're on there all
Speaker 1: the time. There's a lot of really good discussions that
Speaker 1: go on there. So stay off of Facebook, go on Discord.
Speaker 1: But the Facebook page, Yeah, And I had a troll
Speaker 1: come by that live stream before it got taken down,
Speaker 1: and his exact comment was, imagine being a grown man
Speaker 1: with a Facebook page. Just imagine so implying that there
Speaker 1: are kids on Facebook. And I'm like, you are so
Speaker 1: out of touch with reality. There are no kids on Facebook, guys. No,
Speaker 1: they're on WhatsApp or yeah, WhatsApp, or they're on Snapchat
Speaker 1: or Instagram maybe or whatever the new thing is. They
Speaker 1: are not on freaking Facebook. There are no kids on Facebook.
Speaker 1: But there are people from our demographic and older on Facebook.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that's good, bad, or ugly. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that that's how it is. So, so yes,
Speaker 1: join us on Discord. Discord is not confusing poll. So
Speaker 1: if you need a crash course, and maybe I'll just
Speaker 1: make a video about a crash course at Discord.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing I mean, it's not it's not hard.
Speaker 4: Discord is the new version of of I r C.
Speaker 4: And all of us are old enough to remember I
Speaker 4: r C.
Speaker 2: So true, you have no excuse. Mm hmm. It's images.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I wanted to create a Facebook page, a
Speaker 1: new Facebook page, so i'd actually did that before the
Speaker 1: stream started. So you can see right now I have
Speaker 1: zero likes and zero followers because I just created this thing,
Speaker 1: all right, so, and I don't have a custom U
Speaker 1: r L for it yet. I gotta I gotta go
Speaker 1: look up there. It wasn't immediately when I was going
Speaker 1: through all the steps to create the page. It wasn't
Speaker 1: immediately obvious about how to create a custom r L.
Speaker 1: Because my old U r L was Facebook dot com
Speaker 1: forward slash ham radio too. I will probably make this
Speaker 1: one Facebook dot face spook dot com four slash ham
Speaker 1: Radio two d O T zero, which is my Twitter
Speaker 1: and my Instagram handle as well. So but for now,
Speaker 1: it's got this weird U r L and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: post it in the chat right there. So those of
Speaker 1: you who are on Facebook, a lot of you were
Speaker 1: saying you're not on Facebook.
Speaker 4: There's twenty one followers from what I can see.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, make sure you got the right page.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's the best part.
Speaker 4: There's a hand radio two point zero and it's a
Speaker 4: real estate page and it has your faith on it.
Speaker 2: But followers real estate dude, goodness.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you can share a screen now, but I
Speaker 1: want to see real estate.
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta figure that out.
Speaker 1: Now, that's not me. I can tell you it's got
Speaker 1: my face on it. I got something to say about that.
Speaker 4: It has your face on it, it's your's your real
Speaker 4: state page.
Speaker 2: So there you go. You can see my screen without sure,
Speaker 2: let's see. Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3: Only one followers banner too.
Speaker 1: That's not me.
Speaker 2: That's not me. Guys, I don't know who that is.
Speaker 3: The same graphics to use everywhere, man realist.
Speaker 4: Okay, he I'm gonna message of this guy and say,
Speaker 4: who the.
Speaker 1: Hell are you an agent?
Speaker 3: I'm a new customer.
Speaker 4: Nice, Let's see what I get back.
Speaker 2: Scammers.
Speaker 4: I'm okay with messing with scammers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, totally, totally. Yeah, I'm good with that too.
Speaker 1: But gosh, anyway, all right, I'm gonna turn this off.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the so, so this is the new where'd
Speaker 1: it go?
Speaker 2: There? It is?
Speaker 1: So, this is the new page here, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make my wife an admin on this page tonight. I'll
Speaker 1: share it in the chat again.
Speaker 4: Twenty four, twenty three likes and twenty four followers as
Speaker 4: of right now.
Speaker 1: That's not right the real estate Oh yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I just shared it. Yeah, so people are, people
Speaker 1: are responding to it. Ronnie Julian first to post on it.
Speaker 1: That's awesome first, So yeah, first first, but yeah, so
Speaker 1: there it is. So that's what we're gonna that's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do there. But so we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 2: My wife.
Speaker 1: Okay, my wife liked it. Carlos I see you're on
Speaker 1: their now.
Speaker 3: So okay, you are, Frank, It's been that long since
Speaker 3: I even logged into.
Speaker 4: My people, So you know, I implore you people, I
Speaker 4: implore you that, you know, go find the the you know,
Speaker 4: the fake and bombard them with messages, make them wish
Speaker 4: they hadn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just seesh. Yeah for sure, for sure.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there's two hundred and fifty nine people watching here.
Speaker 2: Yes, some people will replay.
Speaker 4: If you all go bombard these fake pages, they're gonna
Speaker 4: just give it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, eventually they will. Eventually they will. I have there's
Speaker 1: a there's a group out there, a Facebook group out
Speaker 1: there called ham Radio two point zero, which is has
Speaker 1: a different logo on it than mine. And that's I
Speaker 1: forget the guy's name who runs that group, but he's overseas.
Speaker 1: I want to say he has a Papa Alpha two
Speaker 1: call sign. That could be wrong. I believe that's it though.
Speaker 1: And he stole my name and my avatar years ago,
Speaker 1: five six years ago. He stole my name on my
Speaker 1: avatar and I messaged him and he's got like fifty
Speaker 1: or sixty maybe even more than that, thousand followers in
Speaker 1: that group. Members of that group, it might be one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: I haven't looked at it a long time, but.
Speaker 1: I messaged him. I'm like, dude, you stole my name
Speaker 1: in my in my avatar. I mean, what do you
Speaker 1: what are you doing? So he changed the avatar pretty
Speaker 1: much immediately, and he's like, well, I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: the name because my group's bigger than your group. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, if your group is so big, maybe
Speaker 1: you can come up with something on your own instead
Speaker 1: of copy on other people.
Speaker 4: Sobody else's ip, how about you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So so every every now and then I get a
Speaker 1: message for somebody on discord or a text to say, hey,
Speaker 1: is this group here. I'm like, no, it's not. I
Speaker 1: was like, and I tell him the story I just
Speaker 1: told you guys, and they're like, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go post in the group that he's a thief.
Speaker 2: Then, yeah, go do that. So, yeah, the troll the trolls.
Speaker 4: Man, Your original page has fifteen eight thousand nine followers,
Speaker 4: and even though they stole your account, it doesn't look
Speaker 4: like they've done anything with your hand Radio two point
Speaker 4: oh page.
Speaker 1: No, the page is still there.
Speaker 3: Not yeah, spamming it with ads or.
Speaker 4: I was expecting it to be full of spam and
Speaker 4: ads and whatnot.
Speaker 1: You can't really, So you can set up a page
Speaker 1: to be as restrictive or unrestrictive as you want to.
Speaker 1: And I and when I set up my page, anybody
Speaker 1: can comment on a post, but people cannot post only
Speaker 1: I could post on it, and then everybody could comment
Speaker 1: on my posts. So the interaction thing was done on
Speaker 1: the Facebook group and then eventually I moved all that
Speaker 1: to discord.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, there.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't be any spam on the page.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's if they took it over your account,
Speaker 3: they could spam it as you.
Speaker 1: And no, my account's gone. So they hacked my account
Speaker 1: and then like four hours later it was God, I
Speaker 1: got an email, which I don't know how. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: I didn't get an email, maybe I just tried to
Speaker 1: log back into it. But they they whatever they did,
Speaker 1: pissed off Facebook, and Facebook remove the account. If you
Speaker 1: go to the url of my original personal profile, it's gone.
Speaker 1: So it got hacked and then it got removed. So
Speaker 1: whatever they did.
Speaker 3: To recognize there's a problem, but we're not going to
Speaker 3: give you any type of resolution to fix it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is how Facebook, your account, you haven't
Speaker 1: posted anything on your page and or your personal profile
Speaker 1: page in probably three or four years. You change your
Speaker 1: phone number, you start doing nefarious.
Speaker 2: Crap, and you get banned.
Speaker 1: So apparently there's no kind of like logic circuit. It
Speaker 1: just like, oh, well, he's posting crap he shouldn't post
Speaker 1: or whatever whatever they did to piss off Facebook, and
Speaker 1: Facebook's not smart enough to figure out that it was
Speaker 1: a hacked job doing that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well I.
Speaker 1: Don't miss it. Only the only thing I really miss
Speaker 1: is access to my page. Honestly, that's really all I miss. Now,
Speaker 1: there were some cool over There was some a Texas
Speaker 1: Overland group and a North Texas Overland group, and there
Speaker 1: was probably half a dozen or so really good Ham
Speaker 1: radio groups. I was a part of Poda House, a
Speaker 1: group parks on the air. There's a really good PoTA
Speaker 1: group out there. I got my wife into. She lurks
Speaker 1: around and reads posts in that PoTA group, and every
Speaker 1: now and then I'll get a text from her with
Speaker 1: a screenshot of something in the Poto group somebody complaining
Speaker 1: about I heard.
Speaker 3: I heard that Poto group can be very lively.
Speaker 2: It it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes they get a little rough in there, but
Speaker 1: most of the time it's really good information.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Most of the time it's just people in there saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm about to activate this park out here, look for
Speaker 1: me on twenty year or seventeen whatever. So and most
Speaker 1: of my it's like pictures, Hey I just activated the park,
Speaker 1: loot all the contacts I got. It's it's usually good
Speaker 1: at ninety percent of its good information. Sometimes it gets
Speaker 1: a little rough, but it's not it's not that bad.
Speaker 3: But well, it's going to say, if you're starting a
Speaker 3: new social media page, Scott is the man of how
Speaker 3: to optimize it for search algorithm optimization and engine He
Speaker 3: knows all of that. I'm gonna say, you know so
Speaker 3: much more than I do.
Speaker 6: Man, oh man, I did it for twenty five years.
Speaker 3: Come on, well that's why.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm trying to get Scott to uh, Scott,
Speaker 1: I gotta get back with you about that page I
Speaker 1: was talking.
Speaker 2: You about a while.
Speaker 6: But yeah, yeah, we gotta get that knocked out.
Speaker 2: Crocketball yep, yep. So we're.
Speaker 6: I was listening to you guys talk about the whole
Speaker 6: Facebook thing, and people in the chat given their whatever,
Speaker 6: their opinions, on what they like or don't like about it.
Speaker 6: Facebook's a tool, guys. You know, if you use it
Speaker 6: as for what it's actually made for, it's not you're
Speaker 6: not socialized with people and you're on Facebook. It's a
Speaker 6: it's a tool. You go there to get information and
Speaker 6: you go off and do something with actual people in
Speaker 6: real life, right, I mean, I mean I've got yeah,
Speaker 6: but I mean I've got Facebook groups. I got all
Speaker 6: kinds of Facebook groups I'm a part of for various
Speaker 6: activities and interest that I have. And that's invaluable because
Speaker 6: I've gotten some really good deals, like for my my Forerunner,
Speaker 6: because that's higher fifty for Runner group out there, and
Speaker 6: I need parts, I can get really good deals on parts,
Speaker 6: and people that have the inside, you know, track on things,
Speaker 6: uh for ham Radio even you know, there's lots of
Speaker 6: stuff out there for Ham Radio. Yasu has a Facebook group, uh,
Speaker 6: you know life places. So use it as the tool
Speaker 6: that it is, and it's fine.
Speaker 2: Yes, I agreed.
Speaker 3: So you're saying that I should get back on Facebook, Well,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Just don't. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: That's that's the easy part. I just I'd left a
Speaker 3: long time ago for the crud and family drama kept
Speaker 3: bringing up.
Speaker 1: See, I'm not I'd like my new account I've created.
Speaker 1: I've got two friends, three friends, three friends on it,
Speaker 1: my my gym trainer that I've messaged with all the time,
Speaker 1: my wife, and one other guy I went to high
Speaker 1: school with that found me somehow. And I'm like, And
Speaker 1: I posted in the in the in the PoTA group
Speaker 1: the other day. I posted in the PoTA group the
Speaker 1: other day about our PoTA event at Montasano next Friday.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, everybody's welcome to come out. We've done this.
Speaker 1: This is about fourth year to do this. Come out
Speaker 1: and join us. We're gonna have some radios and antennis
Speaker 1: set up. You don't have to bring anything you never
Speaker 1: activated before. We'll be happy to sit down with you
Speaker 1: and let you activate for the first time. Just or
Speaker 1: just come hang out and pode with this, you know again,
Speaker 1: have fun. So I posted that, but and I didn't
Speaker 1: get any friend request out of that. Sometimes I would
Speaker 1: get friend requests when I posted a new group, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't even care about friends. I just
Speaker 1: want to have access to some of these groups and pages.
Speaker 1: That's really all I care about.
Speaker 4: So really, I'll be able to gather the information and
Speaker 4: disseminate information.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I refer to the Facebook friends as contacts. A
Speaker 6: friend is so I hang out with my living room
Speaker 6: to have a whiskey and a cigar.
Speaker 1: With Yeah, true, true, But and I have and I
Speaker 1: like that. The Facebook marketplaces is actually quite quite cool
Speaker 1: because you can sell stuff for free. Because I used
Speaker 1: to be addicted to eBay years ago, ten fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: I was addicted to eBay. I would buy and sell
Speaker 1: stuff on eBay every week, and their freaking fees these
Speaker 1: days are just so high it's just not even worth
Speaker 1: it anymore. So it's very rare that I get. I'll
Speaker 1: buy some stuff on Facebook or I'm sorry, on eBay
Speaker 1: every now and then. But I haven't sold anything on
Speaker 1: eBay in a long long time because I'm like, I
Speaker 1: have my own website. If I have a ham radio
Speaker 1: piece of gear, I.
Speaker 2: Have my own website.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll just put it in a mystery box those
Speaker 1: have been really popular, or I'll put it on yeah,
Speaker 1: or the discord. Yeah, we've got to buy We've got
Speaker 1: to swap group in the Discord as well. And I
Speaker 1: sell it on Facebook if it's something not hand radio related.
Speaker 1: It's something I found in my garage. I don't need anymore.
Speaker 1: I put it on Facebook. I get rid of it.
Speaker 6: So I've been for seven months.
Speaker 2: Oh you getting rid of your Harley.
Speaker 6: I been trying to for seven months and just always
Speaker 6: got the money for it. I got it. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm way below blue Book. I'm like three thousand or
Speaker 6: blue Book on it and bites.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway, so that's uh, that's where that is.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we.
Speaker 3: Support We'll like to see that climb back up in
Speaker 3: the ratings there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this time next week when well not this time
Speaker 1: next week, I'll be in Huntsville. So the next time
Speaker 1: I live stream will be live streaming to the new
Speaker 1: Facebook page also, so see how many people are are.
Speaker 3: You can do that right off the bat. You don't
Speaker 3: have to achieve metrics.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think you can do it
Speaker 1: right off the bat.
Speaker 2: I believe so.
Speaker 1: I believe so so I think.
Speaker 2: X that could be.
Speaker 1: Discord invite. John's asking for discord invite. Frank, do you
Speaker 1: have a quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, chat earlier. I will go ahead to give it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Just Tim Radio two old splash Discord.
Speaker 1: Ham Radio two dot com forward slash discord. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: if we can link in the chat, people just click
Speaker 1: on it easier. But yes, that's correct.
Speaker 3: Correct for some reason, so it's correct there it is.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: But yeah.
Speaker 1: So one other thing I wanted to well, two other
Speaker 1: things I wanted to talk about. One of them is
Speaker 1: this I have mentioned for a while. Now something else
Speaker 1: you guys can click on. Frank, I think you have
Speaker 1: a link to my email server.
Speaker 3: As well, general general one. Yes, I do.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I have been trying for the last I don't know,
Speaker 1: six or eight months to build my email list up
Speaker 1: to twenty thousand subscribers. It's been jumping between eighteen and
Speaker 1: nineteen thousand because people keep so I was in the
Speaker 1: last twenty eight days I lost two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: six subscribers for some reason. And that's that's just typical
Speaker 1: email list. There's nothing wrong or anything. I don't spam you.
Speaker 1: I usually send one maybe two emails a week.
Speaker 2: It's not a lot.
Speaker 1: But once I finally get to twenty thousand subscribers on
Speaker 1: the email list, I am gonna be doing another giveaway
Speaker 1: of an HF radio to someone on the email list.
Speaker 1: So I will send out a form to everybody on
Speaker 1: the email list and say, okay, sign up here if
Speaker 1: you want to win this HF Radio. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it would be yet, probably an FT seven ten.
Speaker 2: I don't know yet, though, you know, you can always
Speaker 2: go with a flex.
Speaker 1: I could Yeah, yeah, are you paying for it? Carlos,
Speaker 1: you're gonna send me a flex?
Speaker 3: But yeah, quick on the don't love that one.
Speaker 2: I'd love to.
Speaker 1: Give away another Flex, I really would. I probably will someday.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know I'm at one hundred and seventy thousand.
Speaker 1: If I can get Gaston on here and teach me
Speaker 1: how to get thirty thousand subs in two weeks like
Speaker 1: he did, then uh yeah, maybe we'll break two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: Give Hi away another fl how's that?
Speaker 2: But there you go.
Speaker 4: You know what you really need to do is you
Speaker 4: need to just like, you know, join me in the air.
Speaker 1: If I really thought, if I really thought that would
Speaker 1: gave me subscribers, I would have done that already. But
Speaker 1: you know it might be it might gain me being dead,
Speaker 1: so you know, in which case I'd lose subscribers.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you the same thing I told I have
Speaker 4: plans for the night it behooves me to make make sure.
Speaker 1: Oh so you have plans for the night, so you
Speaker 1: don't want to die, so therefore, I really it makes sense.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know some one that has planned. Don't worry
Speaker 4: about it coming.
Speaker 2: Back, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh goodness.
Speaker 1: Uh, Don says, what are you going to do with
Speaker 1: the mailing list? Just wondering because you already have lots
Speaker 1: of ways to contact us. Well, believe it or not, Don,
Speaker 1: And you probably know this.
Speaker 3: Down he's serving it up for you.
Speaker 1: Email marketing as old as it is one of the
Speaker 1: original forms of online marketing, email marketing is still the
Speaker 1: best way to market anything that you do. And I
Speaker 1: used to go to meetups. I haven't been to a
Speaker 1: meetup in this area in a long time, but he
Speaker 1: used to go to meetups down in Arlington. There was
Speaker 1: a guy that ran a podcasting meetup down there and
Speaker 1: we would meet once a month. And there was another
Speaker 1: guy that would run a video creator Texas Video Creators
Speaker 1: meet up in Plano. We'd go out there about once
Speaker 1: a month and everyone everyone was had the same story.
Speaker 1: So the guy in Arlington, he had a Facebook group
Speaker 1: one time of like I think it was like fifty
Speaker 1: or sixty thousand members of the Facebook group, and it
Speaker 1: was I don't even remember what the subject was. It
Speaker 1: was something about podcasting or social media, so I don't
Speaker 1: remember what it was exactly. Well, he wakes up one
Speaker 1: morning and he gets online and his group is just gone.
Speaker 1: No explanation, no nothing. He contacted Facebook and he went
Speaker 1: back and forth with support on Facebook for a while,
Speaker 1: and Facebook is Facebook was like, basically, yeap, that group
Speaker 1: was there, it's gone. No idea why he didn't get banned,
Speaker 1: he didn't get jailed, he didn't get anything. They just
Speaker 1: it just disappeared. And Facebook couldn't tell him why and
Speaker 1: they couldn't restore it. So long story short. My Facebook
Speaker 1: page or account, my Twitter account, my YouTube channel is
Speaker 1: not actually mine. It belongs to YouTube, belongs to Twitter.
Speaker 1: They let me use it for free, but they don't
Speaker 1: owe me an account.
Speaker 2: I'm not paying for it.
Speaker 1: It's a free account that they let me use that
Speaker 1: they don't owe to me. So at any point in time,
Speaker 1: you know, knock on wood, this will never happen on
Speaker 1: on on YouTube, But at any point time I could
Speaker 1: wake up and Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, whatever just could be gone.
Speaker 1: It happened to Callum. Yes, that's true. Yeah, it happened
Speaker 1: to Calum. It's I know a couple other guys. It's
Speaker 1: happened to not in the hand I'm radio space, but
Speaker 1: a couple other guys. Your email list is the only
Speaker 1: thing you actually own. I own the email list. I
Speaker 1: can download the email list, go to another provider, upload
Speaker 1: all my contacts, and still have on my elist. So
Speaker 1: I own the email list, and email is the actually
Speaker 1: is still the best marketing platform. Some people aren't on
Speaker 1: discord as as we have seen in the chat tonight.
Speaker 1: Some people don't want to get on Facebook.
Speaker 2: That's okay, that's all right, Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't really understand why anyone would be in my
Speaker 1: email list who's not on my YouTube channel, who's not
Speaker 1: a follower on YouTube, because how would you know about
Speaker 1: my email list if you're not on my YouTube, if
Speaker 1: you're not following me on YouTube. So maybe that makes sense,
Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't. But regardless of that, every time I
Speaker 1: send an email with something new we're doing or a
Speaker 1: new sale, sometimes I get sometimes sometimes I get a
Speaker 1: little bit of flack from people about saying, well, all
Speaker 1: you all you, all you're doing is you know, pushing
Speaker 1: your wares and pushing your marketing and pushing you know,
Speaker 1: thanks thanks for I get and this is teasing most
Speaker 1: of the time. I get this all the time, thanks
Speaker 1: for spending my money, Jason, And I'm like, here, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: Thank you for clicking on my links. So it's it's
Speaker 1: all in good fun. It's it's it's all good week. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so thanks for spending my money again, exactly. So so
Speaker 1: when I but when I send out emails with links
Speaker 1: to stuff, you know, I send out an email about
Speaker 1: mystery boxes, usually before I announced it elsewhere, okay, And
Speaker 1: I might send an email about some sale some you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you guys what's out there. Hey, this
Speaker 1: company's running a sale on this today. Open Spot's been
Speaker 1: running to earf truck ref is running sales on open Spot.
Speaker 1: Radiodity has sales all the time, you know. RNL has
Speaker 1: a different daily twenty four hours sale every day on
Speaker 1: their website. So I send that out and and people
Speaker 1: thank me for it. I get sometimes I get some
Speaker 1: flag from people saying, man, that's just too much. I'm
Speaker 1: like whatever, But I get a lot of people thanking
Speaker 1: me for Hey, man, that's a great deal. Thanks for sharing.
Speaker 1: I just went and bought one, so and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I did too. Actually that's why I shared it with you,
Speaker 1: because I know it was a great deal and I
Speaker 1: spent my own money on it.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 6: No, you're providing a service for people, right, not otherwise, No,
Speaker 6: a sale on something they might be looking for is
Speaker 6: even happening.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly exactly, And that's what YouTube.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when I meet new people out and about, people
Speaker 1: ask me what do you do for a living, And
Speaker 1: if I don't feel like sitting down for a ninety
Speaker 1: minute conversation explaining how I run a YouTube channel full time,
Speaker 1: I'll just tell people I'm in marketing. I work in marketing,
Speaker 1: which is true, because that's really I mean, I am
Speaker 1: marketing Ham Radio. Okay, there's my ghosmind, I'm still here.
Speaker 1: This is just a camera problem, yeah, yeah, first time today.
Speaker 1: So I am marketing Ham radio to people, not Ham
Speaker 1: Radio radio. It's not hardware you have to go buy,
Speaker 1: but get interested in him radio, get your hand radio license,
Speaker 1: and have fun in Him radio. And that's that's the
Speaker 1: main marketing message.
Speaker 2: I say.
Speaker 1: But it's still marketing, so so that's that's.
Speaker 3: What I honestly thought about creating an email list like
Speaker 3: you do, and just helped support the channel. And also,
Speaker 3: you know, if you like go heads down and you
Speaker 3: get busy and you're not on YouTube that much anymore,
Speaker 3: then you're you're viewing kind of slims down and this
Speaker 3: a way just to keep in touch. The thing that
Speaker 3: stopped me is who is going to be able to
Speaker 3: read that letter after I write it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll see hey, and they've got chat GPT now, Frank,
Speaker 1: you don't have any excuse for that anymore.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the camera doesn't like chat GPT, I guess,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, so you've got I don't know what
Speaker 1: your problem is actually because spell checks existed for a
Speaker 1: long long time.
Speaker 3: But regardless of that, well spell check, I think it's
Speaker 3: spell check, and it'll be the right words. It won't
Speaker 3: be grammarly the right word that you want, well, but
Speaker 3: be a word spell correctly.
Speaker 1: Most most things have some sort of grammar checker now
Speaker 1: as well. But no, just dictate it into chat GPT
Speaker 1: and just send it out. Scott can tell you all
Speaker 1: about chat GPT.
Speaker 6: So it's all I do is chapt is by asking
Speaker 6: a question, I always say thank you, because if they
Speaker 6: ever rise up against us. I want to remember Mark that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it would have it would have It would have
Speaker 5: been awesome if they would have named that Skynet or
Speaker 5: cyberdim systems.
Speaker 2: You know, it would have been would have been great
Speaker 2: because it's no conspiracy.
Speaker 6: Theorist would jump on that, would.
Speaker 1: They No, no, exactly, would have been popular.
Speaker 4: It already is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, it already is.
Speaker 1: But so last thing I wanted to talk about tonight,
Speaker 1: And some of you might know this, but I think
Speaker 1: probably some of you don't because Okay, here it goes
Speaker 1: Don not my not my camera again, but no, here
Speaker 1: it is Don. So I sent an email out earlier
Speaker 1: and I told everyone about my pac Man channel and
Speaker 1: I had fifteen new people sign up on that. So
Speaker 1: apparently people don't know about my Pacman channel even though
Speaker 1: they're on my email list.
Speaker 2: So there you go. That's what the email list is.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 4: Did you know that max Pedition makes a pack big
Speaker 4: enough for the seventy three hundred?
Speaker 1: That doesn't surprise me. I mean they make a lot
Speaker 1: of really, they might a lot of packs in various.
Speaker 3: Tassa ask him what he wants to do it? Use
Speaker 3: it for.
Speaker 1: Jump juh is that are you talking about what Carlos
Speaker 1: wants to use it for?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he wants to jump out of.
Speaker 1: Oh there it is right there hunh yeah see yeah
Speaker 1: for seventy three hundred. So what's the model of that.
Speaker 4: I have the Mango, the version, the Versa pac Mango.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can bring it to I can bring it
Speaker 4: to Hostville if you.
Speaker 1: Want to see it, and yes, I do, I do,
Speaker 1: I do. Please do that if you don't mind, not
Speaker 1: at all. You can shoot a video on it and
Speaker 1: easy content.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I've been doing a lot. So there's
Speaker 1: there's a couple of pack and bag channels out there
Speaker 1: that I started following a while back, and and some
Speaker 1: of them, not all of them, but kind of like
Speaker 1: you know, YouTube starts suggesting stuff to you. So and
Speaker 1: I said this in my in the live stream last
Speaker 1: week and people were like, well, yeah, you didn't know that,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, it's kind of I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the search if you haven't done this recently, search
Speaker 1: YouTube for the term ed C and see how much
Speaker 1: stuff is out there. Just I was telling my wife
Speaker 1: about it the other day and she's like, people watch
Speaker 1: videos about people dumb and crap out of their pockets.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, they actually do.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, uh so we're gonna start doing.
Speaker 1: Some EDC stuff on that pac Man channel and and
Speaker 1: going down the EDC rabbit hole on Reddit and a
Speaker 1: couple of Facebook groups and just you know, uh YouTube,
Speaker 1: just searching YouTube and whatnot. There's a huge flashlight community
Speaker 1: out there too, yes, and wow, you know, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, one guy posting. I was poking around the
Speaker 1: flashlight subreddit the other day and one guy was he
Speaker 1: made a post and he's like, why do I keep
Speaker 1: buying these? Every time a new one comes out? I
Speaker 1: have to buy it? Why why do I have to
Speaker 1: buy this? They're so cool? And I replied to that
Speaker 1: group and I was like, yeah, yeah, totally. And I
Speaker 1: replied to that group and I'm like, yep, this sounds
Speaker 1: like you're a ham radio operator because and if you're not,
Speaker 1: you have no idea because the same thing for us, dude,
Speaker 1: And like three people came by and replied to me yep,
Speaker 1: seventy three, yep, seventy three. One guy put a big
Speaker 1: long Morse code message in there. So I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm saying radio guys hanging out in the flashlight subredded
Speaker 1: on ready, but it's uh so yeah, So we're I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be doing some videos on that type of thing
Speaker 1: on the pac Man channel, and I think that it
Speaker 1: would be I think it'd.
Speaker 2: Be fun to do.
Speaker 1: It's just stuff I'm already interested in anyway. But I
Speaker 1: realized that when I'm starting start watching these these videos
Speaker 1: on YouTube and I'm reading some of these Reddit posts,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I'm interested in this stuff, but I
Speaker 1: I know nothing. I'm like, there's there's a whole ruld
Speaker 1: out here. I don't know anything about it all. So
Speaker 1: I got to do some research. So but it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 6: I gotta look over for some U E D C
Speaker 6: genes by Vertex.
Speaker 1: Genes okay vert V E R t X Vertex I
Speaker 1: believe so yeah. I just bought one of their bags.
Speaker 6: Their genes. They have like twenty pockets eight eight or
Speaker 6: nine of them are hidden inside the jeans. If they're
Speaker 6: they're cool, you just.
Speaker 1: Hid one hundred dollars bills in all those They flash
Speaker 1: lights handcuf keys, knives U.
Speaker 6: The back of the backs of the back pockets. You
Speaker 6: have the regular back pockets. There's two little back pockets
Speaker 6: above the regular ones that hold two thirty round ar mags.
Speaker 2: Nice. Very cool, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just to get you down the rabbit hole of
Speaker 4: flash lights, I think you a DM.
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, Chris Bricker said, uh, you should do
Speaker 1: an everly Stock pack for carrying a rifle, but carry
Speaker 1: something like a spider beam. I have that pack. I
Speaker 1: have that everly Stock rifle pack. I use it at
Speaker 1: my dear least I have for the last two years.
Speaker 1: I love everly Stock. They make some fantastic equipment or
Speaker 1: bags and packs. Okay, Carlos, would you send me really
Speaker 1: what is that.
Speaker 2: Flesh? Oh? It just means it just means, okay, being dark.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you is this is this a brand
Speaker 1: or is this like a review size a band.
Speaker 2: It is a.
Speaker 4: Brand, and it makes some exceptionally good flashlights. But my god,
Speaker 4: really are they expensive? You can get into the inexpensive slight.
Speaker 4: I don't have one in my pocket right now because
Speaker 4: I don't have my keys. I carry the smaller, inexpensive
Speaker 4: one in my keys, and it is really good.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Their expensive lights are a expensive and exceptionally.
Speaker 2: Good Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: But expensive enough that I'm not spending that kind of
Speaker 4: money on a flashlight.
Speaker 2: I'm just not. Yeah. Yeah, some of them kind of
Speaker 2: get kind of crazy.
Speaker 4: I have I have their fountain pen. Their fountain pen
Speaker 4: is really good.
Speaker 2: I like fountain pens. M.
Speaker 4: But if you look at that limited release banner there
Speaker 4: or the Alpha of flashlights, either one or some Prometheus
Speaker 4: flashlights and then Promitheus lights and then the their Alpha lights,
Speaker 4: and you know, you'll see what I mean. I see
Speaker 4: to see to see the price.
Speaker 1: Of three four hundred dollars, Like, I'm never spending that
Speaker 1: kind of a flashlight. Yeah, oh, here's flashlight. Here's a
Speaker 1: Tritium one seven hundred and seventy five dollars. Yeah, that's titanium.
Speaker 6: What does it do to justify that price?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: All it's all hand laid machine in California, what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, seven hundred and fifty dollars for this one Alpha
Speaker 1: special edition Tritium.
Speaker 3: Does it zoom in? Can he zoom in? That the light?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's that's what that's always your thing because I want
Speaker 3: to be able to like go why to see everything?
Speaker 3: Then what was that hit right back on the light?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: He uses really high end drivers. I mean he, without
Speaker 4: a question makes a really good light, right Yeah. And
Speaker 4: I've seen those lights in person, going wow, this is amazing.
Speaker 4: Not three hundred dollars amazing, but amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let alone seven hundred Like no, no, not happening.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's limits to my insanity, and that's the limit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just look at it like I was like, I
Speaker 1: look at that like I could buy seven hundred dollars
Speaker 1: flashlights for that, So I can.
Speaker 4: Buy some really good bottles of whiskey and I can skid.
Speaker 4: I have a lot for seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, very true. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean I know some people laugh at the old lights,
Speaker 6: but I've got a bunch of these O lights and
Speaker 6: these things just work.
Speaker 2: You know what I was had.
Speaker 1: We had a big discussion, Mike and I had a
Speaker 1: big discussion about O light and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you mentioned O light and people kind of lose their
Speaker 1: crap sometimes and I'm like, I've got like five O
Speaker 1: lights and.
Speaker 2: They're all rock solid. I love them. They're they're great.
Speaker 1: They were and are they the best flash line it
Speaker 1: out there? No, probably not. And they are Chinese them,
Speaker 1: don't don't get me wrong, but they're they're they're well built,
Speaker 1: and they work very well and they last a long time.
Speaker 2: I've got two or.
Speaker 1: Three that are probably four years old or more. And
Speaker 1: I like the old light, but I've got other brands
Speaker 1: as well, so I don't know.
Speaker 6: I got this little Puppy and en Force.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you're really.
Speaker 6: Not supposed to have these that special. It's not gonna
Speaker 6: work now my batters are dead.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that breaks havoc with your green screen.
Speaker 6: But it's Strobes police lights red and oh yeah, there's.
Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with that color of lights. Unless you put
Speaker 3: them on a car. You can do anything you want.
Speaker 4: Put the windshield of your car, right, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: It's yeah.
Speaker 1: But so I've got and the soul Tac guys are
Speaker 1: at ham Kashion. They've been at Hamas for the last
Speaker 1: two years. I think they make a decent flash light.
Speaker 4: It's not the best flash I thought they were going
Speaker 4: to be at him Bench and I was actually looking
Speaker 4: forward to seeing them at him bench.
Speaker 2: They weren't the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same here. I thought they were also, so I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened with that. And I've emailed them
Speaker 1: a couple of times I haven't got a response from so.
Speaker 1: So when I see him at if I don't, if
Speaker 1: I don't get hold of him before a window next year,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go up there booth and say what email addressed?
Speaker 2: You guys? Actually check.
Speaker 1: Nice people. Nice guys made in Alabama flashlights.
Speaker 2: So we're in Alabama.
Speaker 1: I think it's in Alabama. Where I think it's Alabama,
Speaker 1: it might be Arkansas. I think it's Alabama, though, I mean.
Speaker 4: If it's close to Huntsville that we can go raid them.
Speaker 2: Let's go raad them.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. That's a great idea. We should
Speaker 1: do that. We should totally do that. Yeah, this video
Speaker 1: is now Should I buy another flashlight? Of course you should?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: You have to ask the answers always yes a.
Speaker 4: Matter of fact. As a matter of fact, the answer
Speaker 4: is not just yes, but hell yes by three of
Speaker 4: the alpha seven hundred dollars once and send me.
Speaker 2: One correct yes, send me another one.
Speaker 1: So we've been getting so my wife keeps getting calls Scott,
Speaker 1: and I want to know if this is affecting you.
Speaker 1: She keeps getting called, well, text messages, in voicemails, robo
Speaker 1: calls really from Center Point Energy down there saying that
Speaker 1: how the powers out in the area in Galveston, you
Speaker 1: guys have any issues with power? In the last she's
Speaker 1: been hurricane, She's probably got that call twice a week
Speaker 1: for the last month. And I'm like, yeah, what the
Speaker 1: heck is going on with the freaking power grid on
Speaker 1: the island.
Speaker 2: I don't get that.
Speaker 6: But okay, dinner points run by monkeys, I wouldn't worry about.
Speaker 1: It, you know, Well, that just means that they're a
Speaker 1: power company in Texas. That's all that means. All the
Speaker 1: power company and texts are run by monkeys.
Speaker 6: But we lost power for seven days during the hurricane
Speaker 6: that hit a month ago, and after that it's been nothing.
Speaker 6: But we're back to normal.
Speaker 1: Nothing back, okay, well good, Well, after the week after
Speaker 1: we get back from Huntsville, we're going to to the
Speaker 1: coast for two weeks. So what about it Wednesday through
Speaker 1: Labor Day, so we'll be there for about a weekend vacation.
Speaker 3: Vacation.
Speaker 2: Oh that that's gonna be my vacation.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go do PoTA every day.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 6: So you're saying there's gonna be a photo event.
Speaker 2: We can do a photo event.
Speaker 4: What is this vacation thing you speak of.
Speaker 3: John's asking will you be bringing mess tax it to Huntsville.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh did a video last night about mesh Tastic
Speaker 1: in Huntsville with a new QR code that that he's
Speaker 1: set up. I'm not sure how it's different from the
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why he didn't you. Well, okay, so
Speaker 1: we're changing from long fast to short fast. I know
Speaker 1: that's true, and I don't know if that required a
Speaker 1: new QR code. I was just saying we should use
Speaker 1: the one that we used a him vention. But anyway,
Speaker 1: he he created a new QR code and we.
Speaker 2: Can all everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody can scan it and use it on them mass
Speaker 1: tastic device and use short fast instead of long fast.
Speaker 4: I want to take my note with me on a
Speaker 4: jump or two and see.
Speaker 2: How it'll work.
Speaker 1: You will, you will get a lot. You will get
Speaker 1: a lot of stations. I may or may not have
Speaker 1: had mine on an airplane when I flew from DFW
Speaker 1: to Alaska last month.
Speaker 2: And it works.
Speaker 1: So you don't see you don't see him for long,
Speaker 1: but it does. It does pick up stations.
Speaker 4: I've taken it on a jump in Illinois and I've
Speaker 4: picked up Chicago.
Speaker 2: Yeah nose, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Rolphstone is over one hundred miles from Chicago. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: just like, oh, okay, okay. There was a yeah, when
Speaker 4: I landed on the General chat on the General Open channel,
Speaker 4: there was a there were two people having a chat
Speaker 4: and they were like, oh my god, I can't believe
Speaker 4: there's a node near me. Oh no, I'm in Chicago
Speaker 4: and I'm like the guy's like, I'm in Morrison, and
Speaker 4: they're like fifty miles apart house is this working? And
Speaker 4: then I'm just playing radio right, this is this is
Speaker 4: it must be that. It must be that airplane node.
Speaker 4: That airplane note is right above.
Speaker 1: Like airplane Yay, that's that's what that's when Carlos becomes
Speaker 1: the repeater. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 4: So it'd be good to see there's any people that
Speaker 4: are south of Huntsville that have mestastic that get connected
Speaker 4: to Huntsville because I'm in the air, you know, between
Speaker 4: them totally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see that.
Speaker 1: I will be begoning aprs of course, all the way
Speaker 1: from Texas to Huntsville. But I'll have my APE, my
Speaker 1: meshtastic node in the truck that I keep in the
Speaker 1: truck twenty four seven. I have an external antenna on
Speaker 1: top of the truck for it, so it gets a
Speaker 1: little bit more a little bit that reaches out a bit,
Speaker 1: a little bit for larger footprint that way. But I'll
Speaker 1: have I'll be running that all the way too. And
Speaker 1: I usually have that on m QTT when I'm poking around,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to change it for this trip and
Speaker 1: then uh and then once once we leave Huntsville and
Speaker 1: go home, I'll probably change it back. But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna run m q t T. I'm I'm gonna scan
Speaker 1: that new QR code and do the short fast thing.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna see how that works this time.
Speaker 3: Sounds like fun.
Speaker 1: Not looking forward to it. Bill says, perish the thought
Speaker 1: mestastic on an airpane pshaw. I'm like, Bill, you should
Speaker 1: have one in the cockpit, dude, just have it, have
Speaker 1: one in your bag of the cockpit.
Speaker 2: Just put it right there in the windshield. Yeah, got
Speaker 2: it right there?
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, yeah, yeah, so TSA. So I took
Speaker 1: that to I took that on the plane to uh
Speaker 1: to Alaska, and then we went our crews and TSA
Speaker 1: was like, what is that.
Speaker 2: I was like, it's a text messaging device.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, well you're not lying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm not lying. That's exactly what it does.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit there and explain this to freaking
Speaker 1: TSA like, oh that sounds like spy crap.
Speaker 2: We can't lie that on the plane.
Speaker 6: I'm like, go away.
Speaker 3: So to answer Michael's question, yes, we'll be at the
Speaker 3: same pavilion I believe as last year.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, same pavilion as last year. John Scovell pavilion.
Speaker 1: I think it's cold. If you come in the front.
Speaker 1: If you didn't, if you didn't catch it, we talked
Speaker 1: about this on live stream last week. If you missed it,
Speaker 1: that's okay. Come in the gate at hunt Well. First
Speaker 1: of all, if you're staying at Monta Sano, then just
Speaker 1: go look around because you will see antennas and just
Speaker 1: follow the antenna's. If you're not staying at Monta Sano,
Speaker 1: then just come in the gate and tell the guard
Speaker 1: shack guy. When you come in the gate that you're
Speaker 1: with the Ham Radio Group and they'll tell you, tell
Speaker 1: you where to go. It's pretty much a straight shot
Speaker 1: down and it's over there on the right. So so
Speaker 1: but they are they're they're expected there, they know we're
Speaker 1: gonna be there, they're expecting us. And so just say
Speaker 1: I'm with the Ham Radio Group. How do I get
Speaker 1: to the pavilion, and they'll tell you how to get there?
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that that was a good That was
Speaker 1: a good stream talking about nothing.
Speaker 2: Let me let me refresh my Facebook page.
Speaker 4: So you're saying this was the Seinfeld episode.
Speaker 2: It was the Seinfeld episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, fifty four likes and fifty seven followers. So
Speaker 1: thank you the three of you who followed me and
Speaker 1: didn't like the page. I don't know what your problem is, but.
Speaker 6: I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'll share that link one more time and several more
Speaker 1: followed on the pac Man channel. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Suggestions for the pac Man channel are welcome. My most
Speaker 1: viewed somebody has talked about the Everly Stock rifle pack.
Speaker 1: My most viewed video on that channel is about the
Speaker 1: new Everly Stock apprentice backpack.
Speaker 2: That's Mike.
Speaker 1: I've got five thousand views on that video and it's
Speaker 1: my next highest viewed video is like twelve hundred. So
Speaker 1: the everly Stock stuff is some of the best quality
Speaker 1: packs you can get. Everly Stock is really really good
Speaker 1: stuff if you ever watched it the gas Stones videos.
Speaker 1: He's got several everly Stock packs that he uses for
Speaker 1: all his stuff that he does, uh go bags and whatnot,
Speaker 1: so really good. And I was I was buying those
Speaker 1: before I knew he used him. And I was watching
Speaker 1: one of his videos and he had one sitting behind
Speaker 1: him and I'm messaging him like, dude, is that an
Speaker 1: everly Stock. He's like, man, that's a good eye he
Speaker 1: nobody else has guessed that. Like I can tell, I've
Speaker 1: got like three of them. These things are freaking cool.
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, Digital Ranchers in the in the chat,
Speaker 1: he's got the same backpack that I do, and we
Speaker 1: go to field day and put it together and he's like,
Speaker 1: is that my bag? I was like, No, that's my bag,
Speaker 1: the same color, same everything. His has his call signing
Speaker 1: a patch on it and mine has ham Radio two
Speaker 1: on it. So I'm like, you know, that's not mine.
Speaker 1: You're just messing with me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a good deal. It's fun.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, So what's going on? Uh, Scott? Okay, Scott.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask this on Frank Stream, but I
Speaker 1: was setting up for my screen. What is your book about?
Speaker 1: Tell us about your book? Uh?
Speaker 6: All right, Well, I appreciate the uh time there. My
Speaker 6: book is about positive thinking and how to change the paradigms,
Speaker 6: the condition and the habits that have been keeping you
Speaker 6: stuck in life, and how to replace those with better
Speaker 6: habits and better paradigms, and how to use positive thinking
Speaker 6: to basically plan out your life the way you want it.
Speaker 6: And I discussed in there about how we only we're
Speaker 6: only limited by the stuff we put into our head
Speaker 6: and all the bs that we believe. If you can
Speaker 6: undo that and realize you're actually unlimited, you can do
Speaker 6: whatever the hell you want. If anybody else ever did it,
Speaker 6: maybe else ever has it, you can do it or
Speaker 6: have it as well. It's all mindset.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 6: The book is actually interactive. You have questions at the
Speaker 6: end of some of the chapters where you can I
Speaker 6: ask you questions about what you learned, what your take was,
Speaker 6: you basically, you build a blueprint for the life you
Speaker 6: want to create and in the book, and you use
Speaker 6: that and you go back to the book over and
Speaker 6: over again and just keep yourself focused on your on
Speaker 6: your goals, and I'll teach you how to set goals,
Speaker 6: how to you know, stay on target, and you know
Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff. It's I'm really looking forward
Speaker 6: to it. It was a long work in progress. I
Speaker 6: wanted to get done right, so that's why it took
Speaker 6: so long. But you know, it comes out on Tuesday,
Speaker 6: worldwide in seven countries, and I'm just ecstatic. I wasn't
Speaker 6: planning or writing a book. I'm not a writer.
Speaker 1: I have been wanting to write a book for years,
Speaker 1: and I keep changing my mind on what it should
Speaker 1: be about. I've just always wanted to write a book.
Speaker 1: I'm not really a writer much either. I can write
Speaker 1: a couple of paragraphs and make them sound really good.
Speaker 1: Anything beyond that, I'm like.
Speaker 6: As you get you get into it, though, if it's
Speaker 6: something you're really passionate about it. As I was getting
Speaker 6: into it, I was like, Okay, the chapters just started
Speaker 6: coming to me. Good, Okay, I want to write about this.
Speaker 6: I write a whole chapter about that. I went back
Speaker 6: a couple of times and added stuff. I also actually
Speaker 6: in the book talked about the last year and a
Speaker 6: half and I mentioned about how you guys helped me
Speaker 6: when I had my my accident and how that helped
Speaker 6: me through. And because I had multiple opportunities to go
Speaker 6: to the dark side and just give up and that
Speaker 6: didn't happen, I decided to try do something different so
Speaker 6: I can get you pick myself out before I start
Speaker 6: preaching it to anybody else.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's good. Have you ever read the
Speaker 1: Book of Atomic Habits?
Speaker 6: I have not.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll add it to my list.
Speaker 1: I I have not. I have not read it. It's
Speaker 1: on my shelf as well. Actually have it. I think
Speaker 1: I found it half priced books one time. But it's
Speaker 1: the synopsis is much which you you know, create good
Speaker 1: habits to you know, because we were full of bad habits.
Speaker 1: Bad habits are easy to pick up, so break the
Speaker 1: bad habits, create good habits, and you know, kind of
Speaker 1: help yourself ex sale. It's a business self help type,
Speaker 1: you know, entrepreneurial type book.
Speaker 6: So well, I saw I saw a use for this
Speaker 6: book because again on Facebook. I see people putting up
Speaker 6: these really negative posts about themselves and this and that.
Speaker 6: And even when I did my video the other day
Speaker 6: and the last most recent video on Friday on my
Speaker 6: channel was just discussing book and kind of putting it
Speaker 6: out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I had a lot of feedback to people saying, hey, look,
Speaker 6: I'm really in a low place in my life right now.
Speaker 6: This is exactly what I need and grab a copy.
Speaker 2: Good. Good.
Speaker 6: If I can help out people, let's do it.
Speaker 1: I will I order you said it comes out on Tuesday.
Speaker 6: Tuesday. Yeah, I'll put the links up on my on
Speaker 6: my new website and on my Facebook group and on
Speaker 6: my Facebook page and everywhere else.
Speaker 1: Cool okay, yeah, yeah, way for Amazon, just send me
Speaker 1: the link. Oh okay, all right. Uh, Carlos, what do
Speaker 1: you got coming up? Buddy?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: You know Huntsville, Huntsville, Huntsville's right, that's right, Parish and
Speaker 4: Mobile at Huntsville Parish Mobile videos.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's tell me, Frank and Scott.
Speaker 4: I have four of them lined up, a good handful
Speaker 4: of others that are also not Parishing Mobile, but that
Speaker 4: I have lined up for once. Mike Channel actually has
Speaker 4: some content cute up ready to go. I'm not rushing
Speaker 4: at the last minute. Uh, and yeah, Huntsville, come see me.
Speaker 4: Uh find me at Huntsville. I'll have a sticker that
Speaker 4: is going to be specific to the show.
Speaker 2: And oh good, I'll give us a way.
Speaker 4: Until I run out and then you know, have your
Speaker 4: HT and your HF Ray Grady and whatnot, because I'll
Speaker 4: be doing a Parishon mobile there, so you know, try
Speaker 4: to get the q SO and I get you know,
Speaker 4: like I maybe even get off my lacey butt and
Speaker 4: get QSL cards out this year.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, are you gonna do parachute mobile on two meters?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try to do parishon mobile seventy centimeters maybe
Speaker 4: one point two five meters two meters H ten, twelve, fifteen, seventeen, twenty.
Speaker 6: Wow, that's a lot of jumps, man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, whether permitting, time, permitting, whatnot.
Speaker 2: I would love to be.
Speaker 4: Able to say that I got an in one It
Speaker 4: is the N one CC award where you either activate
Speaker 4: or hunt a park on six different bands.
Speaker 2: Right, there's something like that. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I don't remember if it's called in one CC, but
Speaker 1: there is something that does that. Yeah, you might be right.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I want to be able to do it.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I know that I'm gonna have a bunch
Speaker 4: of people at Montasino doing a bunch of a chef
Speaker 4: parish parks on the air. So I'm gonna try to
Speaker 4: hunt you guys on all the bands, uh and try
Speaker 4: to get it done.
Speaker 2: Good good.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be Somebody texted me earlier today or
Speaker 1: maybe he's yesterday and said, what frequency are you guys
Speaker 1: going to be on? And we talked about this on
Speaker 1: the live stream last week as well. We have chosen
Speaker 1: to be on two twenty this year, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: be monitoring two two three five hundred. But I will
Speaker 1: have my FtM six thousand set up at the campsite,
Speaker 1: which is just dual band, So I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: monitor I think our our our two meter frequency is eight,
Speaker 1: I believe, But there's such a good amount of activity
Speaker 1: on six top five two in the Huntsville area, I
Speaker 1: might just leave it stick stuck over there the whole time.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be on two two three dot five
Speaker 1: talking to one another, and we're gonna be monitoring local traffic.
Speaker 1: I might just leave the local channel in six Top
Speaker 1: five two. I don't know yet, but yeah, people people
Speaker 1: ask that. So if you have a two twenty radio,
Speaker 1: definitely bring it to Huntsville. Two two three dot five
Speaker 1: hundred is the national calling frequency on the one point
Speaker 1: two one point two five meter band for FM simplex,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna try to try to do that as well.
Speaker 1: But do you know what frequency you want to be
Speaker 1: on for two meters Carlos two meters seventy centimeter.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I hazard to say, because the last
Speaker 4: time I said something, some people were on the same frequency.
Speaker 4: They didn't want to give it up for me to do. Yeah,
Speaker 4: parish mobile for the kids.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: That really aggravated me.
Speaker 2: Right, No, I don't blame I don't blame you. I
Speaker 2: don't blame you.
Speaker 3: It's justified, man, you were doing that with the kids.
Speaker 4: And honestly, on on two meters, I may rattle the
Speaker 4: cages on five to two, just to rattle the cages.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a thing.
Speaker 4: On four four six, I may just do four four six,
Speaker 4: just a rattle cage.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's gonna be anybody on four four six. Honestly,
Speaker 1: six Top five two you'll hear some people. So if
Speaker 1: you wanted to pick an off frequency for two meters,
Speaker 1: that might be a little bit better.
Speaker 2: I don't know, no, no, no, I'm talking about four four six.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, seventy centimeters seventy centimeters of the calling
Speaker 4: frequencies four four six correct.
Speaker 1: I just don't think you're gonna find anybody up there.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you never know. Yeah, that's true,
Speaker 1: you never know.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 6: I like forty five autos suggestion for you for a frequency?
Speaker 2: What is it? Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, two two two three dot five five six.
Speaker 1: How come no one has thought of that? That is
Speaker 1: a frequency two two three dot five five six. I
Speaker 1: don't know if your FM radio will go to that.
Speaker 1: So we all need to get single sideband two twenty
Speaker 1: radios for next year, and we all need to be
Speaker 1: on that frequency.
Speaker 6: Yeah, make that a face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a thing. That is good.
Speaker 1: That's the most beautiful frequency I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It is a lot of blazers.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Frank, what's coming up on your channel?
Speaker 3: Oh? My channel, Huntsville, Hutsville, Huntsvield, Huntsfield. Everything is gonna
Speaker 3: be posted until next week, is going to be Huntsville stuff.
Speaker 3: After that, I got some things I do want to
Speaker 3: look at in a review. I just need time to
Speaker 3: get out to a park and film. Thelm and Texas
Speaker 3: should be cooling down, so I will be starting the
Speaker 3: Hamshack bill because I'm going to be need to be
Speaker 3: crawling in the attic space and I'm not doing that
Speaker 3: when it's one hundred outside. Just don't blame you doing it.
Speaker 2: Don't blame you. Okay, I'm gonna start.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I've got I've got eight or ten things
Speaker 1: I want to do to my truck that I haven't
Speaker 1: done yet, because which is which one of them is
Speaker 1: hook up my tar Heel antenna. I have the Tarhio
Speaker 1: Intento mounted, I just don't have the coaxs or the
Speaker 1: control cable run for it yet, and I just I
Speaker 1: keep running. I've been I've traveled for most of the
Speaker 1: month of July, but it's just been so hot out there.
Speaker 1: And I'll go out in the morning and mow my
Speaker 1: lawn or do something around the house, and then by
Speaker 1: like ten o'clock, I'm like, screw this crap, I go
Speaker 1: back inside. So I'm looking forward to the weather cooling down.
Speaker 1: I can do some more stuff outside. I've got some
Speaker 1: lights to install on the truck, and some more stuff
Speaker 1: to put on my bedrack, and some stuff to do
Speaker 1: in the interior, and all kinds of good things I
Speaker 1: want to get done. I just haven't done it yet
Speaker 1: because of the weather. Mostly because the weather.
Speaker 6: It's always because of the weather in Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: So guys, well, thanks for hopping on tonight. Scott, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry you won't make it next weekend.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna get there, man, I promise you. I'll get
Speaker 6: there at some points. Just all right, I get my
Speaker 6: schedule control.
Speaker 1: Try to look at Orlando next February if you can.
Speaker 1: That's a bigger show anyway.
Speaker 6: But you know, Huntsville Sings where you guys have all
Speaker 6: the fun.
Speaker 1: It is just the funnest show.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: We were talking about that last week, so it's definitely
Speaker 1: a fun show worth hanging out. But yep, so, so
Speaker 1: thanks guys for hopping on tonight. Everyone in the chat,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. I will put the links
Speaker 1: to all the stuff we talked about in the description
Speaker 1: below for so those of you on Team Replay go
Speaker 1: check out those links to the other YouTube channel the
Speaker 1: email list and the new Facebook page, and then next
Speaker 1: time my live stream will be on Facebook also. But
Speaker 1: we will see most of you next weekend in Huntsville
Speaker 1: once again. We're rolling in Wednesday evening and Thursday we're
Speaker 1: gonna be tooling around going to the Gigapart store and
Speaker 1: then Fridays all day Poda at the park. So hope
Speaker 1: to hope to see all of you guys there. So
Speaker 1: seventy three all, thank you for thank you for being here,
Speaker 1: and everybody wave goodbye, see y'all.