WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:02.319 It'll be good to talk to her. You know again, 2 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:05.559 I'm seeing again. I see her all there, she is, 3 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:08.919 I hello, I see her all the time. And that 4 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:12.000 Poeta app and that Poeta app activating, and I can't 5 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.359 hit her out there in California. It's frustrating, frustrating, you 6 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:15.839 can't work. 7 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:24.960 You're listening to the Ham Radio Clubhouse Podcast, a weekly 8 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:27.879 show that's live on YouTube every Tuesday night at seven 9 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:30.679 o'clock Central Time. We look forward to you joining us live, 10 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.479 but until then, enjoy this week's episode. Thanks for joining 11 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:34.479 us here in the Clubhouse. 12 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:40.439 Tell them you don't know nobody want to hear that 13 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:40.920 is though. 14 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.960 Yeah. Thanks, I'm blind, right, I'm so blind right now 15 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:53.479 I have thought so hit hit the buttons. We're already loud, brother, 16 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:55.799 just light, already hit the button. 17 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.840 I thought she was practicing. What up, everybody? Hello to 18 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:01.960 the channel members in Green, you'll get the first shout 19 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:02.479 out tonight. 20 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.040 Well, thank you all in Green. I see miss Murder 21 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:09.200 day six in there. Yes, yes, the ones. 22 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.599 In Green, the ones that helped pay pay for the 23 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.959 train wreck. Oh my god, I'm seeing blue dots all 24 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.040 over the place. What did you do? As though? 25 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:17.400 Well? 26 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:24.079 These lights I use every care. So I looked into 27 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.319 the light. Well, it flipped around in my hands. So 28 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:31.840 there's three settings. Hang on, there's street settings, and then 29 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:36.560 you get and then you get this one here. Why 30 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:40.000 why why do you need a we wold? This is 31 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:42.760 not going on anyone's dashboard. 32 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:43.879 Just when you thought you were turning it off. 33 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.959 Yes, yes, because I clicked I forgot. I totally forgot. 34 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.120 You got to click it four times not three. Yes, 35 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:51.640 that's good. 36 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:54.159 If you own the on the roadside having an emergence, 37 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.680 say with like changing the tire or something. 38 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.719 You in South Carolina, that'll get you in trouble. 39 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:03.959 On boot sitting on side of the road down. Yeah, 40 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:06.760 let me tell you to vehicle. 41 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.199 You cannot run red or blue if they are forward 42 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:09.919 facing or. 43 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.759 Oscillating patched to the vehicle. So what you got now, 44 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:14.759 it's sitting on the ground. 45 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:16.680 Guess what you're gonna Oh, if you put it on 46 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.599 the ground, you might be Okay, you're gonna you're gonna 47 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:24.680 attract alligators, kangaroos and misfits. So it's okay, No, that 48 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:27.199 is not half brass, copper and lead. That will take 49 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:32.080 the misfits here. Okay, So the three of us on stream. Hell, 50 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:37.080 oh god, so I am serious. I am seeing everything 51 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:45.919 is a pokon that does is? Oh how was your week? 52 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.120 I played the two or three potus. I'm working on 53 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:55.199 a kilo from one of the parks near me. That 54 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:00.240 and it's a noisy park and it's very frustrating, and 55 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.840 of course when band conditions are not great, it's even 56 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.759 more frustrating. So you got to just make you know, 57 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.319 you're fifteen or twenty, and just be satisfied with it 58 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.879 and upload and go home. Yeah, or you know, upload, 59 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.719 you know, go home and then upload. That's that's a 60 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:21.080 sequence I upload from the park. I haven't figured. I 61 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.719 uploaded to Google Drive, so it's saved as a as 62 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:27.840 an emergency backup. 63 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.120 You haven't watched video about having well. 64 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:34.360 Yes, I did watch Yours and the Three Dots. Something 65 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:39.120 about the three dots, right, yeah? No, no, no, I 66 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.439 remembered it. I think I remembered it. No, no, I 67 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.680 haven't tried it. No, no, okay, No, I did watch it, 68 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:50.159 and I think I even posted a comment, didn't I probably, 69 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:56.680 And you probably responded because you're yeah, but I haven't 70 00:03:56.719 --> 00:04:02.639 tried it, So what else? Tried? The six meters on Sunday. 71 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:07.879 I didn't make any contacts, no, no, but I could 72 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:10.680 hear stage. I could hear when I was playing with 73 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:12.879 the squelchch on the seven h five, I could hear 74 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:22.120 stuff in the background. It was on Sunday. What else? Oh, 75 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.480 I had to work at midnight shift on Sunday too. 76 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:27.199 That was that kind of threw everything in a like 77 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:28.920 you know, what are you gonna do? I like go 78 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.759 home on Saturday and take a nap on Saturday night, 79 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:36.480 and but what else? What else? Did? I do a 80 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.000 lot of ham radio though it's been fun. Even yesterday, 81 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:41.439 I got out of work and I went into one 82 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.879 of my favorite parks just because, just because, because band 83 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.040 conditions looked really good too. I don't know what's going 84 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:52.560 to happen tomorrow or Thursday when I'm off, but it 85 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:57.199 is what it is, what it is, so all right, 86 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:00.800 my eyes are adjusting. Now. That's a good, good, good good. 87 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.040 I was just gonna say, Shane looks funny down there. 88 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.000 But it's not Shane. It's Joe Brad. 89 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:12.800 Oh. 90 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:14.959 I'm gonna get that. I'm gonna get what that was. 91 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:25.720 Yeah, how you'll just keep on going, keep talk right thee. 92 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.160 See we got a lot of questions, Okay, rolling thunder 93 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.360 rolling to remember, rolling to remember, I'm sorry, I keep it. 94 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.639 It's no longer rolling thunder rolling to remember. And I 95 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.800 had that written down last week too, but there's a 96 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.800 lot there's a lawsuit on that this year, sorry, remember, 97 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:45.319 as well as what did you do with camera stuff? 98 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:50.759 And all this other technical technical So I had the 99 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:53.240 three sixty cam out of the bike. I'm going through 100 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:58.199 the videos now, look hotly, so that I had to 101 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:03.519 lead most of the weekend, so that was always fun. 102 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:09.399 But I saw how high was that? So it was 103 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:12.720 attached to the we call that thing the front bar. 104 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:17.399 No it was, yeah, just on my handlebars and up, 105 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.279 bring that back up again, bring that back up again. 106 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.480 All right, let's say let's analyze that. I analyze. 107 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:25.519 I paused it right as I was putting my chin 108 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:30.199 bar down. Yeah no, no, that's fine, that's why. So how 109 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:31.600 high up is it? 110 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:35.279 It's actually mounted right here, and I want to say 111 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:39.639 it was about here, just over my head. Yeah, just 112 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.519 up enough that I thought i'd get the bikes behind me. 113 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:46.680 But and did it? Did it work? Did you like 114 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.480 your configuration? Yeah? 115 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.879 It worked until I hit about sixty mile an hour, 116 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.319 and then what happened. It started to blow back towards 117 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:00.720 me a little bit, so I, uh, I reached up 118 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:02.519 and slid it down. 119 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:06.879 And down. 120 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:07.680 Yeah. 121 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:09.800 I got yelled at for it by my mother who 122 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.160 was on that bike right there. 123 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:15.480 And what she say to you, don't slide the camera down. 124 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:16.639 I can't see me nasty. 125 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:20.519 No, Actually I was making her nervous because I was 126 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:23.160 my camera while I was riding. You're making me nervous. 127 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:27.519 You're making me making me nervous, So you're making me nervous. 128 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.079 So okay, so you're showing us about one hundred and 129 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:32.839 what a little bit more than one hundred and eighty 130 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:36.800 degrees right now? Are you show? Yeah? Yeah, I'm looking. Well, 131 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:42.600 that's that's straight back right there. That's all right now. 132 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:48.160 Now we'll take it and dry. Oh look at dis now, 133 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.519 so you can pick and choose during your editing process 134 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:56.240 what you want to show. Well, and now I don't. 135 00:07:57.560 --> 00:07:58.920 You'll have to give me a editory. 136 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:00.959 Back on the middle middle house will all the way 137 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.839 back and then point it down towards. 138 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:07.720 Your Okay, look at that. 139 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:13.600 That's play. Okay, it's so fun. Oh you're going to. 140 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:18.720 Yeah, uh, well here I'll back it up there you go. Yeah, cool, 141 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:23.519 that is so. And this was the ride over to 142 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:28.279 the National Cathedral, which I'll actually upload this video in 143 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.439 full three sixty mode, so you can do what you want. 144 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.639 But I'll have to stitch it with the second video 145 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:39.360 you see there because it was a longer ride over. 146 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.639 Mm you figure that out. 147 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:44.320 Let me know, stitching the two together. 148 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:47.679 Stitching the two together and keeping them three sixty functions. Okay, 149 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.679 I'm not saying it can't be done. I've put no 150 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.480 effort into it. Yeah, but I need to figure it out. 151 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.159 You guys watch me. You mean running two cameras at 152 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.480 the same time. Okay, I've got I've got the two 153 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:04.080 videos here that you see on the left. Yet I 154 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:09.000 recorded it as one continuous video, okay, but it times 155 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.480 out after twenty nine minutes and then starts the second entry. 156 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.200 I want to upload both of them as one video 157 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:21.759 to my YouTube. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna date myself. 158 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.600 Back in the seventies, we would tell you when you 159 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:31.639 would listen to like Pink Floyd or many other led 160 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:37.000 Zeppelin to so many others. Rate certain music, certain music, 161 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.639 certain instruments would come out as well as audio would 162 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:43.240 come out on one channel and then on the other, 163 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.679 can you do something? Can you split your screen and 164 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:47.919 maybe show us something? 165 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.600 I don't know how you would be able to then, 166 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:56.240 you know, spin the camera around and look all around 167 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:59.600 DC as I'm riding, or zoom and zoom out. 168 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:01.519 Well, if you put it, if you put it in 169 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:07.000 another editor, you're gonna yeah, you're gonna lose. It's all one, 170 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:08.320 you know. 171 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:13.360 Okay. My next question would be would it be fun 172 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.440 if you were able to give the audience the opportunity 173 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:19.679 if you went live with that and they can move 174 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:24.039 the camera of view. Is that a possibility. That is 175 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.080 a possibility, That is an option. Oh, look at that. 176 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.440 I need to play with internet speeds and make sure 177 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.360 I've got a good SD card, But I might do 178 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:38.399 that next year. 179 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:43.320 For the ride, because my concern would be Carlos, is 180 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.039 he gonna point that camera at something that he should 181 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:48.360 not be pointing, that should not be seen. That would 182 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:51.360 be my only worry. And I love Carlows. I was 183 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.240 gonna say, we're twelve minutes in, but I'm gonna show 184 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:54.799 you what he pointed at me doing this. 185 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:00.679 It's about half the cars in DC because they don't 186 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:06.799 look out for you. Oh ship, Carlos is in the chat. Yeah, yes, yeah, 187 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:07.639 I called you out. 188 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:15.120 You but so no, we we had a good time. 189 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:23.399 It was an emotional weekend, stressful weekend because it was 190 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:28.480 like herding feral cats. Four wheel redneck. Nos, he's been 191 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.480 there with me. You see me chasing people around, yelling 192 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.159 and yes, Carlos, I am still under the weather. But 193 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.159 I had to be there for my blue Star mothers. 194 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:45.840 You know, come hell or high water. So if I'm 195 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:53.360 strong enough to ride, I will be there. But did 196 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.480 not did not get to play radio on Friday because 197 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.919 I had no voice when I got there, right, so 198 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:00.000 I was going to try. 199 00:11:59.879 --> 00:12:01.759 To sneak out. 200 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.200 Yes, Carlos, your favorite blue Star mother was there, your 201 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.960 little spoon and her road name is Big Spoon. So 202 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.240 she actually rode with Dad on Sunday. Dad has been 203 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:16.639 her escort for four years now. 204 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:21.200 Oh how was it getting up there? Any traffic? Any 205 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:22.080 issues traveling? 206 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.840 No travel up there was fairly light, a little bit 207 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:30.039 of road construction in North Carolina, which was to be expected. 208 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.120 But the bike was on the trailer, so I had 209 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:36.759 my truck there, which actually saved a buddy of mine 210 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:43.000 because he on his way up he had an issue 211 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.840 with the dipstick on his Harley, so he had to 212 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.879 come back here to Charleston swap out to the stock dipstick, 213 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:51.480 so that cost him two hours. 214 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:54.240 And then when he got to Quantico, he decided to 215 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:59.960 run over a bolt and let me actually share these pictures. 216 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:03.759 Uh you got pictures to look at this? Oh yeah, 217 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:08.320 let me find where he texted me. There we go, Carlos, 218 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:13.799 what are you trying to say about Harley? He's not wrong, 219 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:18.600 he's because he was. He's insinuating. Yeah, and listen, I'm 220 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:20.639 not a right, I have no idea. I have no 221 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.679 idea what what what brand is better? Or you know, 222 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:25.879 maybe in the day, this brand was better for this 223 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:28.799 h stands for one hundred dollars? All right, well, I 224 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:30.559 that's that's why I kind of just just keep my 225 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:32.759 mouth shut and just go, oh that looks nice. 226 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:35.519 And we we give him crap about it all the time, 227 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:40.679 and it's all in fun. But all right, so we're 228 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:48.600 gonna stop that screen share. Let's grab So here's the 229 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:49.720 bolt that he ran over. 230 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:56.679 Okay, that doesn't look too bad, right, I don't know, uh, 231 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:03.240 I don't Well, it's round. It's still in there, yep. 232 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:10.279 Central But then oh me just share the whole freaking 233 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.240 I mean, it all depends how the how the rubber 234 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.320 took it. I mean on the tire, well, the rubber 235 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:21.559 it went straight through. Okay, this is his rim and 236 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:27.440 you see right there, Yeah, you see that crack. It tore, 237 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:38.720 it shredded it was it came through. Oh yeah, you 238 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:44.519 know it is zoom in. I'm working on a small 239 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:48.720 screen too, and Steve in case people are listening to 240 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.000 this on the podcast three weeks from now. That's a 241 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:55.080 big asshole, right that. Well, it's actually not that big 242 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:55.519 of a hole. 243 00:14:55.600 --> 00:15:00.960 It's about a quarter inch long crack through a magnesium rim. 244 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:05.600 Magnesium. But it took the eight inch bolt though. Oh yeah, 245 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:13.360 here's it took boat took. Is someone going to be 246 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.720 recording me on that one, y'all? I want to know 247 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:17.960 because I want to start, you know, y'all almost start. 248 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.559 I want residual royalties on this stuff, that's all. 249 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.799 And here's the inside of the rim. Oh damn, look 250 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:27.879 at that. You see where it was beaten against it? 251 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.919 Hell yeah, Harley of Quantico. 252 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:34.600 Boat and it was beaten against it. 253 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.600 Just it just keep beating it and beating it and 254 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:38.320 beating it. 255 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:42.879 But shout out to Harley of Quantico. They did him 256 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:46.159 a solid. They happened to have a very. 257 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:49.799 Similar rim and new tire that he was able to purchase. 258 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.320 And then, yeah, I thought I was just going to 259 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:55.159 take the. 260 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:59.320 Labor to story till yeah, there's receipts. 261 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.080 Well, there's receipts for some of it. Credit card, please, 262 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:08.519 they have a Harley credit card for a reason. Oh 263 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.000 my god, So damn that thing hit it hard. 264 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:18.919 Yeah, and I tossed, Actually, Carlos's favorite Blue Star mother 265 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:23.240 my the keys to my truck. M and she and 266 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.559 another mom ran down to Quantico to pick my buddy 267 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:27.600 up because it was going to be a day to 268 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:28.519 get his bike back. 269 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.559 And they decided to go through the express lane. And 270 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.600 I thought Orlando was bad on tolls. I got the 271 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.919 bill this morning for eighteen dollars easy pass. 272 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:43.879 Was that one of those easy passing? Yeah? I love 273 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:46.159 my easy pass. I've got the easy pass tied to 274 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:50.000 the all the license plates. So and I like how 275 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.200 they're expand Dave expand, like mine's from New Hampshire. But 276 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.039 when I looked at the map, a couple of weeks ago. 277 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:58.720 It does pretty much all of the Atlantic States, and 278 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.639 I think they're working on Florida. It does Florida as well. 279 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.039 Oh it does now yep, yeah. 280 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.640 Because I've got the sun Pass and it transitions back 281 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:12.960 to easy Pass. Okay, but yeah, it was eighteen dollars 282 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:18.119 for them to go about nine miles. Wow, you know somebody, 283 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.440 I'm like, whatever, listen, listen, that's somebody that one. 284 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:24.480 But somebody has to pay a guy to pick up 285 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.759 the bolts on the highway. Okay, this is this is 286 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:31.119 what's all about. But no, kudo kudos to Harley Davison 287 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:36.319 for hooking them up. Yep, absolutely kudos Davison. That rim 288 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:41.359 New was probably one thy twelve hundred dollars and he 289 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:48.319 didn't pay near that. So well, you know, what do 290 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:51.880 you think you're going to pay anywhere from three to 291 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:55.839 five hundred on a vehicle? Oh, the tire alone is 292 00:17:55.880 --> 00:18:00.240 probably two fifty three hundred bucks. Right. My tires on 293 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.480 all my trucks are usually around five hundred bucks. I mean, 294 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.240 come on, folks, this is this is again. This is 295 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:08.920 not I'm not gonna sound like the old man, so 296 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:11.240 you all can yell at me. But it is what 297 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:18.880 it is nowadays now. Oh so, but yeah, he yah, 298 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:21.799 he ended up driving my truck Saturday over at Arlington. 299 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:25.519 I do not have video from that, but I do 300 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.240 have some videos. I'll steal from some of the moms 301 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:33.039 and put together another video for them of all of 302 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.960 our pictures and stuff. When was the actual what did 303 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.599 it start on Saturday or Sunday? 304 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:43.920 So we actually start Friday night, okay, with a ride 305 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:47.240 over to the Blessing of the Bikes at the National Cathedral, 306 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:50.039 and then we do a candlelight visual down at the 307 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:54.920 Vietnam Wall, then back to the hotel, and then Saturday 308 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:57.119 we do a thing for the gold Star Mothers over 309 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:01.599 at Arlington, and then Sunday is the official rolling to 310 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:02.279 remember ride. 311 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:04.960 All right, the Blessing of the Bikes. Are we talking 312 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:08.839 like a Christian priest comes out with the oh yeah, 313 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:12.720 the Christian garb, the holy water, burns a palm and 314 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.480 flying the flying the Holy water over here in this 315 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:21.559 and that because I got to lead the ride over there, 316 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:29.559 h and let's jump man. That camera that camera is great. 317 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:31.759 I like that because of my timing. 318 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.599 So this is us rolling into the cathedral and you'll 319 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:39.319 see here in just a second. 320 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:44.960 There's a cathedral. That cathedral is gorgeous and I don't 321 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.000 care what religion you are. That is a site to 322 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.240 be seen. That's history. Man, look at that whole. And 323 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:53.799 we take and we pull in. 324 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:55.880 Of course, everybody else is already park and set up, 325 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:58.359 and I bring the group in and we just park 326 00:19:58.480 --> 00:19:59.279 right in the front row. 327 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:04.960 So it's sort of like being at those are all 328 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.559 the sinners with the confessional. You get to go first 329 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:12.960 and confession your sins. I like that. So that looks 330 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:14.000 very very nice. I like that. 331 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:21.880 There's your clergy. And then back here this group that's 332 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:26.200 all in matching shirts. That's actually a high school choir 333 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:30.720 out of Georgia and one of the one of the 334 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:35.200 Amvett writers. It's the school near him, and they helped 335 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:38.240 fundraise to bring the choir and the band up excellent 336 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:43.000 and they sing and play for us here and Saturday, 337 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:47.319 and they actually got to play the national anthem and 338 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:53.480 God Bless the USA at Rolling to Remember on Sunday. 339 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:58.680 They did an amazing job. Excellent. But yeah, you can 340 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:03.799 see this. This is just a small number of bikes. 341 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:05.039 Look at that. See your bikes? 342 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:10.839 Yeah, and that's small mm hmm. Years past the Pentagon 343 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:13.240 Parking lot. If you look at pictures of the north lot, 344 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:15.359 you can't see the asphalt. 345 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:22.720 Mm hmm. That many bikes pretty crazy. It was smaller 346 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:23.720 this year for some reason. 347 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:26.960 But we're trying to get it back to what it 348 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.160 was mm hmm, back when Rolling Thunder had it. 349 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:38.279 So it'll be. It'll get there, just take time. So 350 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:42.359 let me guess I'm gonna throw some what I think 351 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:51.359 are motorcycle names. Obviously Harley, Davison, Kawasaki, m Indian Yep. 352 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:03.720 I think I'm missing somebody, Honda, Honda, yep. There's what four? 353 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.279 Is there? Four or five prominent big name bikes? Am 354 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.039 I missing? Who am I missing? Yeah? That I was 355 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:15.759 taking of the Germans Yep and Carlos got it. Yamaha, Yamaha. Okay, 356 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:22.119 I ride a Yamaha, Maha and Yep Triumphs. There's okay, 357 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:25.039 there you go. Okay, can Am? I see Canam? And 358 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:30.599 thanks guys. I appreciate any particular common We're talking one 359 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.599 thousand cc, we're talking seven fifties. What do we is? 360 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.000 Is there any any common? Well? 361 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:42.359 The so this front row right here is a bunch 362 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:46.680 of Harley's and i'd be willing to bet most of 363 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:51.839 those are one hundred and eight cubicinch are larger. Mm hmmm, 364 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:55.519 I'd have to do math to convert that over to CC's. 365 00:22:57.039 --> 00:22:58.799 I've heard of that before. All I've heard of it. 366 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:04.720 My my mode is eighty eighty two cubic inch, which 367 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:06.680 is right at thirteen hundred ccs. 368 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:10.640 They got to be out there somewhere. 369 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:11.039 Yep. 370 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.519 There actually is a V eight motorcycle out there called 371 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:16.359 a big dog. 372 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:22.000 US a Chevy three point fifty. No. It will pass 373 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:25.640 anything but a gas station, oh man. And they are 374 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:33.839 absolute to handle. What about the the side cars yep, 375 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:35.839 a lot of the side car and the try. 376 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:40.200 We had actually in the road that went with us 377 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:43.839 with the VIP escorts. We had two side cars. Both 378 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:46.480 the sidecars had dogs in them. 379 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:50.200 Nice. One of them is JR. He's a service dog. 380 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:54.880 He's just an absolute behemoth of a dog and super 381 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:57.880 sweet if he's out of the bike. If he's in 382 00:23:57.920 --> 00:23:59.519 the bike, he will take your arm off if you 383 00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:00.000 come near it. 384 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:04.559 Mhm. Is everybody pretty respectful? Hey, that's your bike? You 385 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:09.640 do you? And I don't care? Yep. Course, because the 386 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:11.880 last couple of weeks from months I'm seeing a lot 387 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:15.279 of I don't want to say anger, but as Ham 388 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:20.759 radio operators there getting everyone's getting a little wonky lately. Yeah, Nope, 389 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.400 when we're when everybody's at DC, we're all there for 390 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.319 the same reason. We don't care what you ride, just 391 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:31.279 the fact that you ride. 392 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:35.000 And I'm kind of speaking for everybody and might be 393 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:38.240 speaking out of my backside there, but you don't see 394 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:43.839 the Yeah, this is my territory kind of thing, right. 395 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:46.960 I will drop two names that were there that you 396 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:54.920 may recognize. Robert Patrick mm hmmm or the terminator h 397 00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:59.640 the terminator okay? And Jesse James Dupree. 398 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:02.640 Why do I know that name from? 399 00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:07.720 He owned that bar in Sturgis, that full Throttle saloon. 400 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:12.920 He was one of the owners there or played there 401 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:17.440 every year. But they both rode their motorcycles in from California. 402 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:19.400 Wow. Yeah. 403 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:23.720 And then Robert Patrick was actually one of the MC's 404 00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:27.680 for the National Concert on PBS Sunday Night. 405 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:31.920 What can you get for gas miles or miles on 406 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:35.200 a tank? Like, like, is it like your average tank 407 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:38.039 tank gallons? Fifteen gallons of gas? I mean, what are 408 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:40.200 you six? Six? 409 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:44.799 My tank is six gallons? And if I can keep 410 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:47.759 it below sixty mile an hour. I can go two 411 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:52.319 hundred miles on a tank. Okay, Now I will. 412 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:54.599 Tell you want to get off the bike before two 413 00:25:54.640 --> 00:26:01.720 hundred miles because you're hurting being in that. Your backside hurts, 414 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:09.519 the wind kicks your absolute tail, blowing your head around. Yeah, 415 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:12.680 it's it's a lot of work to ride a motorcyclist speed, 416 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:17.039 which is why I started towing up that and having 417 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:21.599 a vehicle there. Like, if if there's four or five 418 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:24.319 people that want to go to dinner, pile on the truck. 419 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:24.720 Let's go. 420 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:29.160 Mike says, I bet it does better than Blowers than us. 421 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:35.160 Probably he's up to that. He lives up by that 422 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:40.079 Canadian border. Dude, Yeah, don gets two hundred and sixty 423 00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:41.799 miles of his TESTLEA. It has air conditioning. 424 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:47.720 Every time you air conditioning, that's right. 425 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:49.960 That's right. Hey, as long as I'm moving, I got 426 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:52.960 air conditioning. It may be hot air, but it's still 427 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.160 air conditioning. Is there truly a bug issue? Because I 428 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.480 know how my truck gets with the wind chills the 429 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:04.759 front end. Oh you know yeah, because literally every three 430 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:08.039 to four days I am powerwa washing my front I 431 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:08.559 have to. 432 00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:16.559 I will say at seventy mile an hour, June bugs hurt. 433 00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:20.480 Oh you can feel him, Oh yeah, even through the jeans. 434 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:25.480 Wow. See the things you'll learn here. It's like a rock. 435 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:28.359 It's like an absolute rock. Just hit me in the ship. 436 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:32.519 Keeps you awake that it does. 437 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:36.519 Well, what do you think the bug is saying? What 438 00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:39.599 do you think his last words are? Holy shit? Or 439 00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:42.720 you know? He he just ate, he had his girlfriend, 440 00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:44.880 you know, he was at his girlfriend's place. He was 441 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:49.359 over here, over here, decides to go and then here 442 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:49.960 comes Steve. 443 00:27:50.440 --> 00:28:00.119 Yeah, all right, so seeing if I can find a 444 00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:00.640 big photo. 445 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:04.079 There we go. You know, I'm seeing Julie while you're 446 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:06.079 looking for that. I'm seeing Julie, and I'm sure I 447 00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:09.759 v one's whe her somewhere. I remember one of the 448 00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:13.160 times we went down to Florida. We stopped into one 449 00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:15.880 of the gas stations literally on the highway, and they 450 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.680 had this power washing machine that you can go through 451 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:21.400 for a couple of bucks and would spray you down 452 00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:24.400 just to And I didn't think, I'm like, what do 453 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:26.160 I need this for? I went out to look at 454 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:30.799 the front and Julie said it. The dragonflies were incredible. Oh, 455 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:35.519 the love bugs in Florida are horrible and they're like, 456 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:37.559 they're like this, you know, it's like. 457 00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:41.640 And they will absolutely ruin the pain if you don't 458 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:47.240 clean them off. So there's Mom with her escort that 459 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:51.759 is Lorraine on the back and they've ridden together two 460 00:28:51.839 --> 00:29:03.480 years now, trying to find some of the good photos. 461 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:03.720 Here. 462 00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:10.559 We had a crew join us from the Iron Horse 463 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:14.680 clan and yes you're seeing that correctly. He is wearing 464 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:19.000 a kilty and they ride in kilts. 465 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:24.160 You know, it's funny. This show in the Ham radio 466 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:28.799 community is what taught me what a kilt? You know 467 00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:30.440 what the name of those was? 468 00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:32.759 What you didn't You didn't know what a kilt? 469 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.279 You didn't know the whole was really somebody around here 470 00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:38.880 wearing it's an Irish thing. 471 00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:43.400 I think it's or Scottish or wait a minute now 472 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:46.000 I'm I'm I'm gonna get myself in trouble. I don't 473 00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:49.039 know if it's Irish or Scottish. So if you're in 474 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:52.079 the chat, please tell us or was it a combined 475 00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:58.920 but and there's my buddy Michael and his Indian He 476 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:04.720 trailered up with me. Thank you Andy, Andy is uh Scott, 477 00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:13.599 Thank you thank you. Yeah, so, yeah, we got quite 478 00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:16.440 a few. I was looking to see if we had 479 00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:22.240 some good pictures along the ride. Here's Dad on the 480 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:27.279 canam he rented up there in DC because he wanted 481 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:32.920 to have another trick up there, so instead of you know, 482 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:36.160 taking his two wheel bike, he rented a canm up there, 483 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.960 so that we had two can ams. He rented one, 484 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.799 said he rented one about one hundred and ten dollars 485 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:48.680 a day. Oh yeah, one hundred and a day. 486 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:49.680 Reasonable. 487 00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:57.000 Oh, very better stability. Oh yeah. It's three wheels, so. 488 00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:01.000 You kind of feel like you're liding out of it 489 00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:05.240 in a sharp turn, whereas on a bike you actually 490 00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:11.839 lean the bike. But when you have you know, a 491 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:13.839 blue Star Mom or gold Star Mom that's getting up 492 00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:17.200 there in age mm hmm, it's a whole lot easier 493 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:20.640 for them to get on three wheels. They feel safer. 494 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:32.480 Here's my buddy Brad that actually had the bolt go 495 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:35.519 through the rear tire. That's the new rear tire on there, 496 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:38.880 so you can't even tell. The rooms aren't the same. 497 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:42.200 Yeah, we call those things saddle bags back there, the 498 00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:46.200 saddle bags and the pipes. Yeah yeah, and the lady 499 00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:48.519 that's on the back of his bike is the current 500 00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:57.079 national president of Blue Star Mothers. You had some good weather, right, 501 00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:01.400 I had great weather. It was not too hot. 502 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:04.480 You know, days started out cool and the nights got 503 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.599 downright chili when we were riding mhm. But for the 504 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:13.200 most part, you know, it was very comfortable weather, so 505 00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:20.039 we weren't dying sweating like we have been in years past. 506 00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:22.799 Carlos, you're not a saddle bag. You are not a 507 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:23.519 saddle bag. 508 00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:29.200 Brother, and. 509 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:37.440 You guys probably know this Yearhoo, that's you. That's me. Yeah, 510 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:41.799 that's you. They had to get me in a couple 511 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:43.519 of well what go back to that. I want to 512 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:45.759 see that camera. Now, there's a good shot of the camera. 513 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:51.440 There's there's the camera. Came there's a camera. You know. 514 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:53.759 I was walking around with that camera. I figured out 515 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:56.160 a way to mount it on my tactical backpack. 516 00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:57.119 Oh there you go. 517 00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:01.079 And so I was walking around Dayton. One guy he 518 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.119 turned around, Luke and stopped and you kind of started laughing, 519 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:06.359 and he's like, ah, I thought that was a cell 520 00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:09.000 phone intenda. I was like, you know, it's not a 521 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:09.960 bad idea, but. 522 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:15.359 No, Steve, did anybody say, what's the antenna for Did 523 00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.759 they think it was an antenna of some of some sort. 524 00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:22.839 Yea, yes, they do, kind of some similar to what 525 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:26.480 we move or whatever you call it. Yeah, we we 526 00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:30.759 move if you look here, got some rhymes, right. 527 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:36.079 This antenna here is actually my two meter antenna. Okay, 528 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.160 because I do have a hammer radio on the bike. 529 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:43.599 Helmet. Because that camera looks like the antenna that came 530 00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:47.279 with my bow fang UV twenty five. There you go, 531 00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:51.680 just some real crazy conception of but it works, it 532 00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.480 picks up stuff, and you know, it is what it is. 533 00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.079 So hey, if it works, it's not stupid, right, that's right. 534 00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.000 And even the ugliest antenna seemed to always work the best. 535 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:06.200 So yeah, we got Joe, so that's it. Yeah, okay, 536 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.960 let me take the rubber off. No, you're supposed to 537 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:15.039 keep the rubber onto. I didn't say that. 538 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:18.159 You just slide the rubber back on from the top. 539 00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:22.920 Yeah, down on it. Somebody record that. What's the battery 540 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:26.679 capacity for us? 541 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:27.239 No? 542 00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:32.440 Seriously? Are you are we talking like an hour? Can you? 543 00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:33.719 You were probably doing more, Steve. 544 00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:38.119 Yeah, so I had it set in three K in 545 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:43.679 three sixty mode mm hmm, and I still had quarter 546 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:51.400 battery left after you know, recording. What about Well, let's 547 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:56.320 see that's that's almost fifty minutes of video I have 548 00:34:56.840 --> 00:35:01.400 in the the two going over the cathedral. Now, if 549 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.880 you weren't doing three K, can you knock it down 550 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:08.559 to like that? That is knocked down? Oh that's the lowest. 551 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.239 Uh no, no you can. You can go down I 552 00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:14.880 think to seven twenty. But why Yeah, I wanted a 553 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:18.320 little bit better quality. But I know, like my phone, 554 00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:19.960 when I try to do four K gets hot. 555 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:26.800 It will get hot so thermal group and that's it 556 00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:30.400 gets hot just sitting to the computer transferring the files. 557 00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:34.519 That's why I just pull the SD card out of it. 558 00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:34.960 Too much? 559 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.000 Word gott to pop the battery? 560 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.760 Is it one of those devices to where it only 561 00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:42.320 wants to see a thirty two gig SD card? Or 562 00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:43.280 we'll take something bigger. 563 00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:47.239 No, it'll take larger, okay, because four K files are 564 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:55.119 larger in with and then yeah, and if you try 565 00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:59.760 to do four K three sixty, I'm sure those files 566 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:03.960 are insanely large. 567 00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:12.519 Right they get they get prettyhifty. Just pulling up. 568 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:23.599 Looking to see if I have any other good pictures, Frank, 569 00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:27.360 I wasn't going after Yazon on that one. I just 570 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:31.280 know that was a topic of discussion with the yay 571 00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:36.039 Zoo and the SD cards and icon when Icon came out. 572 00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:41.239 So Frank, they're talking about you know, is it a 573 00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:45.719 Yazoo product. No, it's not. I will but very good 574 00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:55.000 Frank for paying attention. Is So, we actually took the 575 00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:58.840 Blue Star Mothers in Arlington up to see their founder. 576 00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:03.559 He's buried, and I had a picture of all of 577 00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:10.400 us there and thankfully these ladies love taking photos, so 578 00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:12.880 I don't have to worry about it. I just stealing 579 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:20.880 from them just like I do. Thumbnails So here's the 580 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:22.880 group of Blue Star Mothers that were there this year. 581 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:32.960 We're at George Mannis's grave, which is their founder. Very nice, 582 00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:43.320 and then we have all of the escorts. We find 583 00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:51.199 a good shot. It's not from the side, Steve. While 584 00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:53.480 you're doing that, do you find the event getting bigger? 585 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:57.840 Has it plateaued as far as it actually shrank this 586 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:04.000 year compared to last as people get older or what 587 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:06.679 do you think? Be not not sure what caused it. 588 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:10.039 There's the group of escorts that went up to the 589 00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:14.760 graveside with us, so not all of the escorts went, 590 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:19.360 but it was. 591 00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:24.360 I don't want to speculate on the number just yet 592 00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:26.559 of how many were there this year, but they did 593 00:38:26.599 --> 00:38:29.800 say the parking lot was cleared out in about an hour, 594 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:34.320 and in years past it's taken six to seven hours 595 00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:35.360 clear out. 596 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:39.239 Well, let's face it, people are going to remember how 597 00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:41.519 they want when it comes to this topic. They're going 598 00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:44.400 to remember how they want to do it. Maybe it's 599 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:47.280 too maybe it's too much. Maybe the emotion and the 600 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:50.079 grief is just too much, and they want to do 601 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.920 something a little bit, maybe more subtle, and we're going 602 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:58.480 to respect that either way. So well, and you know, 603 00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:02.440 after doing this, this was your number thirteen for me. 604 00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:07.039 Like I said, I'm going to keep going until my 605 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:10.199 ticket gets punched and I'm no longer standing on this earth, 606 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:11.519 no matter. 607 00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:11.840 Where I'm at. 608 00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:19.960 But it's the emails of happy Memorial Day drive me 609 00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:24.280 crazy now because Memorial Day is for those that put 610 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:26.800 on the uniform and never came right. 611 00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:36.519 It's not happy, no, No, I agree, wow, But you know, 612 00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:46.519 I think that's something that I don't want to say, Hallmark, 613 00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:51.119 but it's just how it it's just how it comes out. Well, 614 00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:53.599 and for those of you that follow me on TikTok. 615 00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:55.800 You've probably seen that I shared a bunch of Memorial 616 00:39:55.920 --> 00:40:01.400 Day stuff on TikTok from other creators just to get 617 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:07.840 the message out. And it was all all talking about Yeah, 618 00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:11.280 it's not about barbecues, and it's not about the start 619 00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:17.679 of summer. No, because, like I said, that Saturday is 620 00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:22.159 a banquet for the gold Star Mothers of America, which 621 00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:27.400 means they've lost a child in service. And one of 622 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:31.239 the moms got up and actually told her son's story. 623 00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:36.679 And sadly enough, the fact that he was killed was 624 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:40.360 sad enough, but it was that he was killed going 625 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:48.000 between thirty second Street in San Diego down to North 626 00:40:48.039 --> 00:40:54.519 Island on his motorcycle and somebody ran him off the road. Wow, Jim, 627 00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:57.360 thank you for the super chat. Yep, you're right, brother Jeffrey, 628 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.639 brother gill all gave some brother. 629 00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:02.880 Jim just said it all everybody, He just said it 630 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:07.400 all right there. Unfortunately, Steve, this is what has happened 631 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:14.280 in our culture that we tie food into almost every event. 632 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:19.800 Ye just just look at just look at a memorial 633 00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:25.679 wake service. Just look at what look what is Look 634 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:28.840 how look how Christmas has turned out in Eastern Yah. 635 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.719 You know you have something really so highly religious and that, 636 00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:36.599 but they tied in a bunny mm hmm, which has 637 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:40.519 nothing to do with the Christian well topic of Easter. 638 00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:44.280 But I'll tell you from the. 639 00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:48.280 Gold Star mothers and from the gold Star wives, they said, 640 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:53.199 you know, yes, enjoy your barbecue. That's what our son 641 00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:56.920 or our husband would have wanted, you know, because they 642 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.679 enjoyed their barbecues. Memory they they enjoyed their long weekend. 643 00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:03.639 But if you take a minute and think about it, 644 00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:06.360 raise a glass for those that didn't come home. 645 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:12.280 Set the missing man table. Yeah, I may that's the key, right, 646 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:14.840 you know something, I may get you over the Legion 647 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:17.199 and do a video on the missing man table. Let 648 00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:20.599 me tell you something. What you just said, Steve is 649 00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:24.920 very very important that I think at that everybody should 650 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:28.280 do at however everybody wants to choose to do it 651 00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:32.800 that's appropriate for your family or whatever. Have that discussion 652 00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:36.239 that before we start saying past the hot dogs and 653 00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:39.000 the macaroni salad and go get the charts and the 654 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:41.760 frisbee and all this other stuff, go get me a beer. 655 00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.320 We're going to stop and we're going to just remember, 656 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.159 whether it's for one minute or five minutes or maybe 657 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:53.679 talk about something in the family that's the important. I 658 00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:56.159 think that is something important. And when you instill that 659 00:42:56.360 --> 00:42:59.840 into the young folk of your family, and they will 660 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.559 continue to do it, and when they get older, they 661 00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:05.679 will do it. And that's very very important, I think. 662 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:08.199 And Joe popped up a comment there for a minute 663 00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:12.920 from K and four MD radioactive. People don't respect the 664 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:16.679 sacrifices and the flag until they've been handed a folded 665 00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:20.840 one good point, and he's one hundred percent right. 666 00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.000 And then Frank came back and said, yeah, I eat 667 00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:26.199 some still don't respect it after that, and I've seen 668 00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:32.679 that too. But you know, sitting with these mothers and 669 00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:38.239 these wives over the weekend and hearing the stories. Yeah, 670 00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:43.079 and then even some of my writers that are veterans 671 00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:47.400 that have buddies that didn't come home listening to their stories, 672 00:43:48.039 --> 00:43:51.760 and those stories need to be told. It's very very 673 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:54.000 they need to be told. We need to hear it. 674 00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:57.360 We need to hear it, and that's important. Let that 675 00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:03.239 voice be heard well. And my my video from the 676 00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:06.920 ride Sunday, I am gonna try to do some creative 677 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:11.400 editing on it and I'm going to overlay the names 678 00:44:11.400 --> 00:44:15.119 of the children of the gold Star mothers that were 679 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:20.039 on the ride with me. That's nice touch because they 680 00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:23.119 don't truly die until their name is spoken for the 681 00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:26.800 last time. M you know, as long as we're speaking 682 00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:30.880 their name, their memory lives on right. 683 00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:33.039 Yep. 684 00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:41.079 So but yeah, I usually do a playlist. I didn't 685 00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:43.159 have time to do it this year with all the travel. 686 00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:46.519 Of just songs that I play while we're going through. 687 00:44:48.199 --> 00:44:53.000 And I never realized the power of some of the 688 00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:59.199 quote patriotic songs until you listen to the stories and 689 00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:01.559 then you listen to the the songs with these ladies. 690 00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:08.599 So somebody in the chat brought up Andy did regarding 691 00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:13.519 Ray Charles, that's a very very moving Maybe I don't 692 00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:16.440 know why. As I've gotten older, he always liked it, 693 00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:22.519 but it just has more of a deeper, deeper And 694 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:25.000 I feel bad that sometimes here in America we are 695 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:31.440 so split. We are so split right down the middle, hardcore. 696 00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:35.559 You know, one group wants it, one way, wants a 697 00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:38.519 vision for America one way. One group wants it, and 698 00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:42.719 we're always you know, and we're spending more and more 699 00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:49.280 time with division instead of being united, you know, And 700 00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.920 we gotta find some common ground. We gotta, folks, we 701 00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:57.280 have to start finding some common ground. I don't want. 702 00:45:57.400 --> 00:45:59.760 I am so sick and tired of seeing the signs 703 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:02.400 for all these projects. And then now say it's a 704 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:08.559 bipartisan project. You know, it's always been a bipartisan project 705 00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:12.039 because some you know, both groups agreed to to the 706 00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:15.760 funding for it. But there are there are much more 707 00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.719 appropriate ways. I feel that we as Americans at all levels, 708 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.679 and we've got to start telling the politicians this is 709 00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:27.000 what we want. Yea, we we've we've stop it, stop it, 710 00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:29.960 stop it, stop it with your egos. This is about 711 00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:34.639 us in America as Americans and everything. So and I 712 00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.159 don't know, I'm listen. Maybe what I just said it's 713 00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:39.639 it's happening all over the world, maybe out maybe in England. 714 00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:42.320 Are folks who are watching and listening right now in England. 715 00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:45.400 Maybe they're gonna tell me, hey, it's it's the same here. 716 00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:49.840 Maybe it is. I don't know. So say I'll share 717 00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:53.400 one more real, powerful photo here and then we can 718 00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:59.639 get back to the radio talk. If off those sacred grounds, 719 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:07.199 you will understand the power of that photo. But that 720 00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:13.480 is one small small piece of Arlington National Cemetery and 721 00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:19.000 every one of those headstones is in perfect alignment, and 722 00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:24.639 there's thirteen inches below ground. Each headstone weighs two hundred pounds. 723 00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:33.559 They are four inches thick. So if that doesn't give 724 00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:38.559 you chills, something's wrong. Yep. Between that and the change 725 00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:40.559 of the guard, if you ever get the chance to 726 00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:44.039 make Darlington, you've got to go the tomb and see 727 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:47.480 the changing. Yes, my kids did that. My kids were 728 00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:53.119 mine and you know my kids Steve yep and Matthew 729 00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:56.679 just said, Dad, you have got to do this. He 730 00:47:56.840 --> 00:48:03.000 said it was just so in your face and through 731 00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:07.559 your whole entire body and soul felt. And he goes 732 00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.159 He's like, he's like that. I don't know. I'm only 733 00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:14.920 seventeen eighteen, and you know, and I'm able to feel it. 734 00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:17.400 I said, good for you, good for you. I should, 735 00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:17.760 you know. 736 00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:21.039 And I've had the pleasure of being up there a 737 00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:22.679 few times and having. 738 00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:24.440 A young. 739 00:48:26.280 --> 00:48:32.000 You know, student male, female, doesn't matter, but probably under 740 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:36.559 the age of twelve, and you know, their parent will 741 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:39.079 tell them you got to be quiet this somber place, 742 00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:42.880 and I'll lean down and say, make sure you count 743 00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:47.719 the steps, make sure you count how long that guard 744 00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:51.920 is paused. Oh, real heal and then tell me what 745 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:57.159 you get after the changing. Every tomb guard takes twenty 746 00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:01.320 one steps on their walk and faced the tomb for 747 00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:03.800 twenty one seconds precision. 748 00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:06.039 Look at that. That's that and then they turned back. 749 00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:10.599 But do you know why it's twenty one steps for 750 00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:13.239 the twenty one gun for the I forget what the 751 00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:17.239 twenty one means that, but there's but there's a meaning 752 00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:26.039 for that, right, Yeah, So yeah, it's That's one thing. 753 00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:28.440 When I was up at d C, I wish that 754 00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:33.559 would have planned an extra day because Monday through Friday 755 00:49:33.599 --> 00:49:38.199 we were we were just cooped up all day. By 756 00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:41.000 the time you got out ate some supper, it was 757 00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:46.639 not to get dark. So I went to the what 758 00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:50.199 are they what are they called, the big the Lincoln 759 00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:53.480 Memorial and all that. Yeah, the mall. 760 00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:56.159 The National Mall, yeah, National Mall. Yeah. 761 00:49:56.519 --> 00:50:00.960 So I went and walked all that and I got 762 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:03.440 to see all that out there. But Artleton, of course, 763 00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:08.159 it was closed up, and it's been nice. If I 764 00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:10.719 if I go again, I'll try to schedule that. 765 00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:12.360 Yeah, definitely schedule that. 766 00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:15.599 On a day to give me an extra day. 767 00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:21.480 What my first trip to DC, you know, my first 768 00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:25.159 rolling thunder. I had said something to the folks that 769 00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:28.280 were putting on a barbecue for us afterwards, about yeah, 770 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.320 I've never been I want to go see the changing 771 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:33.119 of the guard. And they looked at me and they said, 772 00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:36.239 if you go catch the Metro now, you can probably 773 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:40.079 make the last changing of the day. And so Dad 774 00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:42.880 and I hopped on our bikes, ran over the Metro, 775 00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:46.519 took it down to Darlington and we made it in 776 00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:51.000 time for the last two changing of the guards and 777 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:54.880 we stood there through both of them. Excellent part. But 778 00:50:55.639 --> 00:50:58.199 shout out to read there our buddy Alpha Bravo wait 779 00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:02.199 Alpha Sarah for assisting somebody in a wheelchair so that 780 00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:05.800 people can stand up during the changing. Thank you Read 781 00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:08.199 That's awesome. That's awesome. 782 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:11.920 Hoter flight escort is a big deal, Reid, thank you 783 00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:15.000 for doing that. Yeah, that's one of the things on 784 00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:17.519 my bucket list. 785 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:18.280 Wow. 786 00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.159 You know when we talk about this, I always remember 787 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:26.880 my granddad's I had. I had this one granddad that 788 00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:30.800 annoyed the hell out of you, the same stories over 789 00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:33.920 and over and over, right, And of course when when 790 00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:35.880 he's gone, it's like, man, I wish I could hear 791 00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:39.800 the story, But but then I had this other granddad, sir. 792 00:51:41.599 --> 00:51:45.519 He never spoke about it. Never, It was never spoke about, 793 00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:48.800 you know, and it just makes you wonder like was 794 00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:50.800 he just one that didn't speak about it, or was 795 00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:53.840 this some ship that maybe speak about it. 796 00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:57.920 I will, I will tell you my grandfather. I didn't 797 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:03.880 know he served I until years later, and he would 798 00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:05.280 not talk about his service. 799 00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:07.800 Nobody in the family talked about it. Nobody. 800 00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:09.679 Yep. 801 00:52:09.880 --> 00:52:11.920 I finally got to sit down and talk to Dad 802 00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:16.519 about it one year and he told me my grandfather 803 00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:20.360 was a house cleaner in World War Two. They did 804 00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:21.679 not expect him to come home. 805 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:26.559 Mm hmmm. He was sent into houses with a bayonet 806 00:52:26.559 --> 00:52:30.960 and a pistol. Yeah, clean it out. Yeah. 807 00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:33.719 I ended up. Of course he's going now. But my 808 00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:37.119 grandma is still still around with that that was married 809 00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:40.559 to that granddad. I couldn't help it. I asked her 810 00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:44.559 about it one day. Was calmly, you know, as nonchalant 811 00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:48.400 as I could, right right, she was just like, he 812 00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:55.000 just didn't wasn't something that he did, And it's probably 813 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.159 because he saw some stuff and it was too. 814 00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:58.360 Traumatic for him to talk about it. 815 00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:06.079 I don't know what his job was or nothing I 816 00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:09.079 could imagine, well, Joe. 817 00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:11.400 We're almost an hour in and we haven't got to 818 00:53:11.440 --> 00:53:11.880 you yet. 819 00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:13.639 Yep, ain't that something? 820 00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:17.800 Tell you what, man, I just kind of took over 821 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:18.119 the show. 822 00:53:18.159 --> 00:53:22.440 I'm sorry follow that. I said, this ain't a memorial thing, thankfully, 823 00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:25.159 but talking about it, this is more on the veteran side. 824 00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:29.000 And I had a veteran buddy come back and uh 825 00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:32.639 from from serving. He'd only been home maybe a couple 826 00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:36.679 of months, and uh uh I had bought me and 827 00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:40.360 a girlfriend at the time some concert tickets and you know, 828 00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:43.719 well I was single by the time the concert came around, 829 00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:46.119 and I said, hey, buddy, you need to get out 830 00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:47.760 of the house. You want to go to this concert 831 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:49.239 with me? It wanna be my date? And he's like, 832 00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:53.119 yeah you. So here we go. We're we're sitting there 833 00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:55.800 and the you know, you got the bands playing, it's 834 00:53:55.880 --> 00:54:00.280 it's the right right thing. Whatever you got the the 835 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:03.360 bands that headline the show, or not headline. 836 00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:06.119 It, but open the show, the opener. 837 00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:10.480 So while we're waiting on the headliner, uh, we go 838 00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:12.679 out to the to the smoke deck outside, you know, 839 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:17.320 the fenced in pigpin and we're sitting there just chit 840 00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:19.400 chatting with me and him was the only one out there, 841 00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:25.679 and all of a sudden, the damn World Show, the 842 00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:29.559 main show started, and they started out with Piotech and 843 00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:31.760 we're just sitting there talking, looking at each other eye level, 844 00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:34.679 and then all of a sudden, he disappears, like U hell, 845 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:38.599 he stands back up and he's just holding a cigarette 846 00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:41.360 like It's like dall boy, that one was close. He 847 00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:44.760 he was laughing about it, but dude was trembling. We 848 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:47.519 couldn't do nothing but laugh. But I dann the stuff 849 00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:53.760 that people go through. Oh yeah, so anyway, let's get 850 00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:58.800 off your saffy asses now talk about some radio. We're 851 00:54:58.840 --> 00:54:59.840 in you okay, that is. 852 00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:03.639 A yeah, I'm going I like to talk radio, all right, 853 00:55:03.719 --> 00:55:04.960 all right, so you know that. 854 00:55:05.599 --> 00:55:09.000 And it works out. We gave enough time for Mike 855 00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:11.239 MKA to get in here. 856 00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:12.559 Yeah. 857 00:55:12.599 --> 00:55:15.679 So this whole damn six meters thing that he wrapped up. 858 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:18.400 I tried. I tried. 859 00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:21.320 I really want to know how his experience turned out 860 00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:23.599 to be. If he even got on the radio, I 861 00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:24.920 don't know. He probably never returned. 862 00:55:25.159 --> 00:55:27.079 Well, he was in between kids stuff. I think a 863 00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:28.559 birthday paraty, a soccer game. 864 00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:31.199 That's about right, it's about right. Ever, talked about six 865 00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:34.920 meters chuck popping in the in the chat K six 866 00:55:35.039 --> 00:55:40.960 us y, what's up man? Figure out how to share 867 00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:41.440 the screen? 868 00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:43.960 Well, Joe Roke, while you're doing that, Joe, I think 869 00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:47.960 my problem was I didn't pull the beam from the rafters, 870 00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:50.760 the two element beam, and I didn't hook it up 871 00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:53.440 to the seventy three hundred and push a hundred watch trucks. 872 00:55:55.039 --> 00:55:57.360 I think I think ten watch through the seven o 873 00:55:57.519 --> 00:55:59.199 five through an infed halfwave. 874 00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:04.000 Look at that Saturday. 875 00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:06.079 Man, Now see now you and I could have worked 876 00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:07.960 in the World Radio League at that. 877 00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:10.920 Look at Saturday. Oh for the ship, I might as 878 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:16.559 well use it for a year. Anyway. I wish I 879 00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:18.360 would have put I should have put Saturdays in there, 880 00:56:18.440 --> 00:56:21.159 But that wasn't the challenge. Sunday was a challenge, right, yes, 881 00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:24.239 and uh so this is only Sunday. And I got 882 00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:28.320 five contacts. Four of them was FT eight because sideband 883 00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:30.519 was there were some stations out there. I think some 884 00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:32.679 people heard Mike, you know, but they were in the 885 00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:35.559 noise for me whatever. I pulled out at one station 886 00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:39.400 up around New York, oh ad two h z. I 887 00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:42.679 that was a good contact. But that was one hundred 888 00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:47.199 watch with my eighty meter loop. 889 00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:48.360 There you go. 890 00:56:48.639 --> 00:56:51.239 Yeah, I worked that thing. It's it's an eighty meter 891 00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:53.639 full wave loop, but it does very little eighty meters 892 00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:56.440 and I don't have to tune it across any other 893 00:56:56.480 --> 00:57:01.000 band except twelve meters, right, nice, and I probably really 894 00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:03.719 don't have to use it on that. It's just like 895 00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:06.719 a little closer to three than I want it to be. 896 00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:11.679 But uh, yeah, I had a whole six meter conversation. No, no, no, 897 00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:13.599 it didn't. It was a I had a conversation on 898 00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:17.400 free DV yesterday, actually used free DV and contacted a 899 00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:20.639 fellow on twenty meters and we were talking about how 900 00:57:20.639 --> 00:57:23.079 my intena worked and how it was kind of weird 901 00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:27.719 how it works. But yeah, anyway, so that's Saturday. I 902 00:57:27.800 --> 00:57:30.320 think was a little better. But this is what I 903 00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:34.079 got for Sunday. Got five contacts in there, so I 904 00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:36.239 just wanted to show I did participate, Mike. 905 00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:38.960 So this is around what balling around three o'clock in 906 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:41.119 the afternoon, maybe four o'clock in the afternoon. I'm looking 907 00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:47.079 at your well see because I was listening. I woke 908 00:57:47.159 --> 00:57:50.079 up around one thirty seven u TC. I woke up 909 00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:54.440 around ten o'clock in the morning from that midnight shift, 910 00:57:54.480 --> 00:57:56.519 so it was around ten thirty eleven, and like I said, 911 00:57:56.519 --> 00:57:59.960 I quickly threw on the seven oh five and I 912 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:04.719 can hear things right in that noise for driving me crazy. Yeah, 913 00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:11.039 I fired up the We go back to your photo 914 00:58:11.039 --> 00:58:17.639 that you had up there on the left hand side, 915 00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:22.000 probably when I created the log. Okay, I don't I 916 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:22.519 don't know. 917 00:58:24.159 --> 00:58:26.679 Log the last one, but I. 918 00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:28.760 Gotta tell you I really liked what Mike and to 919 00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:32.960 m Aky did. He inspired us. He basically kicked our 920 00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.320 butts and said, guys, let's do this. Why why not? 921 00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:40.159 You know, I mean, Minus, you gotta watch if you 922 00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:41.039 just make the call. 923 00:58:41.519 --> 00:58:44.679 Yeah, but there ain't nothing on ere tonight. 924 00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:49.280 Yeah. Well I saw n Yo said he got a 925 00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:54.000 new grid on six oh excellent, Mike, congratulations, good good 926 00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:57.119 for him. 927 00:58:57.360 --> 00:58:57.760 That's that. 928 00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:02.639 There's Mike with a five twenty five super chat. Thanks brother, 929 00:59:02.760 --> 00:59:05.960 We appreciate your trying. Very appropriate. Joe Bratt and everyone 930 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:09.880 else I had fun heard others did too, So yeah, 931 00:59:10.159 --> 00:59:10.559 we thought. 932 00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:14.000 I think his message come come across and I think 933 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.199 maybe some others were thinking it too, that maybe didn't 934 00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:20.079 hear his message, but they realized and. 935 00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:22.400 I thought, I thought his chat donation was going to 936 00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:24.840 be five hundred and twenty five dollars. But that's okay, I. 937 00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:28.760 Guess I'm only kidding me. 938 00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:31.480 Now. 939 00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:33.519 I did fire up the eight fifty seven. 940 00:59:33.719 --> 00:59:35.639 I actually had to run a couple of ladies over 941 00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:39.599 to their hotel after the ride, and on my way back, 942 00:59:39.679 --> 00:59:41.320 I went ahead and tuned up the A ties on 943 00:59:41.440 --> 00:59:44.480 six just to see if I could hear anybody right, 944 00:59:44.920 --> 00:59:46.599 and I called out a couple of times, but. 945 00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:49.119 Shame here the same here, I yes, all right now. 946 00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:53.400 I did, however, get to work on and Julie Sunday night, 947 00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:58.880 you know, on forty. They were in a park and 948 01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:03.320 every looked at me funny because I get up from 949 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:05.519 the chair I was sitting in when we were all 950 01:00:05.519 --> 01:00:08.400 hanging out and go run out to the truck, tune 951 01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:09.239 up the INTWNA and. 952 01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:12.719 Try to work him. Band conditions have been really weird. 953 01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:16.480 The spots are very very low well and very low 954 01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:24.360 in between buildings. Did not help mm hm. But but yeah, 955 01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:27.400 I was able to get them, so Julie was happy. 956 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:32.360 Been struggling late lately, just trying to get down the 957 01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:35.360 Florida I used to have a nice pipe, nice pipeline, 958 01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:39.800 and you know even the is it the eight Papa 959 01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:44.719 Bravo guy, I believe in Barbados on poda Again. I 960 01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:48.280 miss hearing that nice although I've been having a great 961 01:00:48.360 --> 01:00:54.079 pipeline to Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri. Go figure here. 962 01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:56.559 Let me let me tell you that every time I 963 01:00:56.679 --> 01:01:00.920 use six meters mm hmm, it favor is the northeast, 964 01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:04.079 the East coast, Okay, And it always has no matter 965 01:01:04.079 --> 01:01:07.320 if when I use my Titan DX vertical, I'm a 966 01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:10.719 loop because I used to hit six meter repeaters up 967 01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:15.039 and down the East Coast all the time. So it's 968 01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:19.480 for whatever reason where I'm I'm at the angle of 969 01:01:19.519 --> 01:01:23.840 my land here. I guess I can get out of 970 01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:26.320 the places, but the majority of my context is always 971 01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:28.480 the East Coast. So yeah, left try it. 972 01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:33.199 Some days, what I'm I have a posting note and 973 01:01:33.239 --> 01:01:35.840 they're in the bedroom in that over an that stationary 974 01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:38.960 de like this, and there's a there's a dual band 975 01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:42.920 comment here X two hundred that's not being used anymore. 976 01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:46.000 So the six meter yaggy can go on there. I 977 01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:48.519 gotta move the end fat. I found another location. I 978 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:52.519 want to fool with it. So I think I I 979 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:55.079 think I want to keep that six meter gaggy. Yet 980 01:01:55.159 --> 01:01:57.920 for a while I was reacher for that same one. Joe, 981 01:01:58.239 --> 01:01:59.840 what did he say? What did he say? 982 01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:05.079 Cow a zero? As War says that pipeline into Missouris 983 01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:07.039 though it was called the El Camino Path. 984 01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:11.360 It is great. Let me tell you something something about 985 01:02:11.480 --> 01:02:18.000 working anything across the Mississippi. I love it when the 986 01:02:18.119 --> 01:02:22.679 Montana Guide I'm working in Montana, Washington, Oregon and northern California. 987 01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:25.960 I love saying coast to coast, coast to coast, I 988 01:02:26.039 --> 01:02:30.920 love saying. And that's a great accomplishment when two stations, 989 01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:33.880 you know, just running a very simple wire or maybe 990 01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:37.880 I'm running the Athos whatever can do that. You know, 991 01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:41.199 that's the magic of this hobby. That'll never go away 992 01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:44.199 for me, never go away. I don't care if I'm 993 01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:49.320 on my three hundredth million contact. That's still exciting for me, 994 01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:50.039 you know. 995 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:54.639 So I'll let me know when you're ready for me 996 01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:55.840 to step on some toes. 997 01:02:56.280 --> 01:03:01.280 All right, dull haul Joe brant Rant. 998 01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:04.280 You know, we had we had guests on the show 999 01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:09.000 and stuff, and yeah, it's it's time to talk about 1000 01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:12.159 this and it's time to talk about it. Uh, in 1001 01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:15.840 a in a nice productive way. I'm not gonna rant 1002 01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:20.159 so much like I did because I want to respect others, right, 1003 01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:24.800 But are you ready for do we get some more stuff? 1004 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:27.480 Yep, you don't want to call it a rant, but. 1005 01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:32.239 The whole subject revolves around this kind of device. What's 1006 01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:33.000 that remind you of? 1007 01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:38.239 Oh, light at the top of the tower tower bacon? 1008 01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:39.440 Uh huh. 1009 01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:41.400 So I'm on the socials the other day. 1010 01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:45.159 I'm thinking, I'm thinking of the guy who plows snows. 1011 01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:50.280 I'm on the socials a couple of weeks back in 1012 01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:55.880 this guy. You'll have to wait, David, I have not 1013 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:57.440 got that a ties from Jim yet. 1014 01:03:57.440 --> 01:03:59.840 Now, David, David first rant first, let's just. 1015 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:04.239 Let's think, let's not mix thee we'll get We'll get 1016 01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:07.400 to that, because I was thinking the same thing to David, 1017 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:10.599 making this just a complete rant. 1018 01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:15.880 I opened, you know, opinions to become to me through 1019 01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:20.360 the chat as well and on screen. But this social 1020 01:04:20.440 --> 01:04:28.119 user comes on as talks about everybody. Every single person 1021 01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:32.719 that has a radio tower should have it lit with 1022 01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:38.800 navigational beacons for low flying aircraft to see you, Okay, 1023 01:04:42.039 --> 01:04:46.440 which is not now he had I understood what he 1024 01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:48.719 was saying, but what he was saying he didn't think 1025 01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:51.480 all the way through. There's a reason that there's not 1026 01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:54.119 a damn regulation for somebody with a fifty foot tower 1027 01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:58.480 to have a blinking line on. Okay, Now, his reasoning 1028 01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:02.280 was medical helicopters, maybe some prop dust or something like that. 1029 01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:08.559 I kid it, Yeah, I understand that. But in the 1030 01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:15.760 whole big scheme of things, pilots, if they lose their instruments, 1031 01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:19.360 or if they're flying a plane that really doesn't have 1032 01:05:19.800 --> 01:05:22.880 a lot of fancy instruments whatever, they're in a balloon 1033 01:05:24.239 --> 01:05:28.079 floating chain't ha got all this radars shit on his 1034 01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:35.280 blue But they look for landmarks, your sectional maps, your 1035 01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:42.760 aeronautical sectional maps have towers of appropriate height, you are 1036 01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:46.559 corrector pilots know to look for that, so they'll use 1037 01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:50.119 them for navigational e's. They'll use them at night to 1038 01:05:50.159 --> 01:05:56.119 determine their height above ground. Sometimes Yep, this is a 1039 01:05:56.199 --> 01:06:00.440 regulated thing for tower two hundred feet or higher to 1040 01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:06.159 be lit. So therefore the train pilot knows that if 1041 01:06:06.159 --> 01:06:09.079 he sees a blinking light, that should be at least 1042 01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:12.519 two hundred feet or higher off the ground. Correct if 1043 01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:16.239 he's coming over kind of lost his way, lost his 1044 01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:19.000 aids and sees my fifty foot tower or my forty 1045 01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:21.920 foot tower with the big ass blinking beacon on it, 1046 01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:26.599 and he thinks these two three hundred feet off the ground. 1047 01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:30.960 He hears that he will behind my house. Then what 1048 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:33.360 did I just do? So there was a lot of 1049 01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:37.440 discussion in this social post, and the best way I 1050 01:06:37.440 --> 01:06:39.920 could relate it was, Man, what you're asking people to 1051 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:43.119 do is for every single person that resides at a 1052 01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:47.480 house next to a intersection with traffic lights should install 1053 01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:51.239 their own traffic light at the corner of their property 1054 01:06:51.559 --> 01:06:58.199 nearest to that intersection. It's not because you know, it's 1055 01:06:58.239 --> 01:07:02.679 additional lighting, right, So what happens when you're lights green 1056 01:07:03.079 --> 01:07:06.760 but the real one's red but they see yours, You know, 1057 01:07:07.320 --> 01:07:10.880 you just cause chaos because you're using an unregulated device 1058 01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:14.280 for regulated Harry, right, right? 1059 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:19.159 Okay, well, Joe, I'll take it a step further. The 1060 01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:21.599 regulation is not that the tower has to be lighted 1061 01:07:22.440 --> 01:07:24.199 or not just that the tower has to be lighted. 1062 01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:27.400 When it's over two hundred feet. You have to monitor 1063 01:07:27.920 --> 01:07:30.599 that light to make sure it's working. 1064 01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:35.199 It goes out, You have to notify so that they 1065 01:07:35.239 --> 01:07:38.039 can notify their notes, you know, or put it on 1066 01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:38.880 their notice. 1067 01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:41.440 There's a question in the extra about that. I think 1068 01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:44.239 there was something also maybe in the tech Yeah, something 1069 01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:44.760 in the extra. 1070 01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:49.119 I'm not passioning the guy completely. I'm just he was 1071 01:07:49.159 --> 01:07:52.280 one of those that wouldn't listen to other people's opinions. 1072 01:07:52.280 --> 01:07:54.719 There was several other folks on the same page. 1073 01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:59.800 Yeah, but uh and if you hit my thirty foot tower, yeah, 1074 01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:02.760 I want to know how you missed my sixty five 1075 01:08:02.760 --> 01:08:04.440 foot tree in my front yard. Yeah. 1076 01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:11.840 I get everybody's thinking of these commercial built planes and everything. Yes, absolutely, 1077 01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:15.000 the likelihood of them not using instruments and not knowing 1078 01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:18.439 besides looking at landmarks and blinking lights of where they're 1079 01:08:18.439 --> 01:08:22.199 at and how high they are is very slim. But 1080 01:08:22.279 --> 01:08:26.520 I'm thinking of the guy flying the little experimental plane 1081 01:08:26.520 --> 01:08:29.479 that don't even require pilot's license. They ain't got a 1082 01:08:29.479 --> 01:08:33.279 lot of instruments on it. Yeah, he probably shouldn't be 1083 01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:36.000 flying at at night, but I don't know the regulations 1084 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:36.239 on that. 1085 01:08:37.159 --> 01:08:39.560 I think sport probably they're not allowed to flat night. 1086 01:08:39.800 --> 01:08:42.600 That wouldn't make a lot of sense, but uh, right, 1087 01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:45.119 that would make sense to me. This is the whole thing. 1088 01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:48.199 If if people, if a massive people just decided to 1089 01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:54.159 start using regulated stuff in unregulated means, you cause confusion. 1090 01:08:54.640 --> 01:08:56.720 You could actually call somebody to get hurt when you're 1091 01:08:56.760 --> 01:08:59.760 trying to make it excel point excel point. 1092 01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:04.880 But uh, that was my little rant about that. 1093 01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:08.960 No, one hundred percent agree with you. 1094 01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:12.159 Yeah, if when I was more fired up, that would 1095 01:09:12.159 --> 01:09:16.279 have been like a thirty minute rant. But I don't 1096 01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:18.279 hold on the grudges very long. It's been a couple 1097 01:09:18.319 --> 01:09:18.760 of weeks. 1098 01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:22.479 So as I'm sitting here having my cigars, should I 1099 01:09:22.520 --> 01:09:24.960 just let everyone know that I'm having my cigars so 1100 01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:26.560 so so nobody bumps into me. 1101 01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:30.279 Yeah, I'm not gonna as though. 1102 01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:31.880 You just need to turn on the lights on your truck. 1103 01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:35.840 Hell yeah, hell yeah, because if it's anything like your 1104 01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:41.600 old truck, I know what light kit you had on there, Steve. 1105 01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:51.479 I'll do a video for you, Okay, Yes, Julie Carlos 1106 01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:58.640 has the tallest tower in the Midwest. Yeah, when when you. 1107 01:09:58.600 --> 01:10:00.720 Come out of the airplane at fourteenth thousand feet and 1108 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:05.560 immediately deploy an antenna, you ruled v H four HF even. 1109 01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:15.319 But I like the idea of wrapping him at Christmas 1110 01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:16.840 lights to a point. 1111 01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:20.560 Carlos, Yeah, I like that idea. That way we could 1112 01:10:20.600 --> 01:10:23.239 see him better as he's coming down in between the 1113 01:10:23.279 --> 01:10:23.920 bubble wrap. 1114 01:10:25.119 --> 01:10:31.119 But I also know he needs access to his handles. Yeah, 1115 01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:34.039 and I want that correctly. 1116 01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:36.560 It doesn't have to be Christmas lights. It could be 1117 01:10:38.319 --> 01:10:39.520 it could be glow sticks. 1118 01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:42.720 Yeah, I think it's glow ropes. 1119 01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:46.520 Could bees around him coming around. 1120 01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:50.760 Those led lights. Those led lights are going kids rooms 1121 01:10:50.800 --> 01:10:53.279 and ever, and that will give him a disco ball. 1122 01:10:53.720 --> 01:11:02.600 So Carlos, he's put that on his helm, yes, yeah, yeah, 1123 01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:05.840 all right? 1124 01:11:05.960 --> 01:11:08.960 Tell you if he jumped at Christmas time, well, actually 1125 01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:12.239 he could Scott after Land. I know jumps in December 1126 01:11:13.199 --> 01:11:19.279 a little cold though, depending we're gonna okay different, okay, Yeah, 1127 01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:24.359 Scout after Land, Florida. 1128 01:11:26.479 --> 01:11:30.880 On my way to Xenia. How almost hit do you 1129 01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:32.800 turn about Cincinnati? 1130 01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:36.680 Yeah? Take out a ups truck. 1131 01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:39.640 Seen that truck there. But it was a lady driver. 1132 01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:42.119 I wouldn't cause her no problems. I respect the ladies. 1133 01:11:42.159 --> 01:11:46.119 So did you say, hey, by by any chance you have? 1134 01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:50.079 Like she was kind of over the day anyway, So. 1135 01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:54.760 Hey, by any chance, here's my last name. Do you 1136 01:11:54.800 --> 01:11:58.279 have a box of my last name. And I've done 1137 01:11:58.319 --> 01:12:02.520 that in town. Uh, I've done that in town. All right, 1138 01:12:02.600 --> 01:12:07.399 Mike seventh three that anything, Mike h a big big 1139 01:12:07.439 --> 01:12:13.880 boy just popped in so Joe. Everybody wants, obviously to 1140 01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:16.800 get kind of the the box has not arrived yet. 1141 01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:18.960 No, I'm still don't get the box yet. 1142 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:21.680 What's the least tracking on it? 1143 01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:23.560 The same it was two months ago? 1144 01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:27.279 What a dianna? 1145 01:12:28.439 --> 01:12:31.920 I may I may have a new T shirt idea. 1146 01:12:33.319 --> 01:12:36.119 I think it's still in Alabama, Alabama. 1147 01:12:38.079 --> 01:12:43.359 How can I do well, let's just sure the screen. 1148 01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:56.279 I can't. I can't. Yeah, Oh, what's he doing? So 1149 01:12:56.319 --> 01:13:01.359 I got this new T shirt idea and I'm oh, geez, 1150 01:13:02.239 --> 01:13:04.039 I'm kind of I'm kind of his it because I 1151 01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:07.640 almost got in hot water over the Hunts folks making 1152 01:13:07.720 --> 01:13:10.239 their you know, my shirt a little too resembling to 1153 01:13:10.279 --> 01:13:15.319 their logo, so that I'm not so sure how UPS 1154 01:13:15.399 --> 01:13:16.960 is gonna feel that I was. 1155 01:13:17.359 --> 01:13:18.960 I was gonna say UPS is a little bit larger 1156 01:13:19.039 --> 01:13:22.560 legal department council. But you know, someone though I don't 1157 01:13:22.640 --> 01:13:25.039 understand because I have never and I don't want to 1158 01:13:25.079 --> 01:13:29.760 jinx myself. I have never had an issue with the 1159 01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:33.039 with them FedEx and all the fed X Browns and 1160 01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:37.079 the d h L. I have never had an issue. 1161 01:13:37.279 --> 01:13:40.279 I don't understand what happened. Am I am I here? 1162 01:13:40.399 --> 01:13:44.119 Am I one of the lucky ones? You know? Yeah? 1163 01:13:44.479 --> 01:13:47.600 I will say out of all of them, UPS has 1164 01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:48.359 been the best to me. 1165 01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:49.760 Really. 1166 01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:57.239 Yeah. My guy knows there's like an alcohol area. If 1167 01:13:57.239 --> 01:14:01.640 it's raining, it's wrapped, it's wrapped in plastic and it 1168 01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:05.279 gets pushed. And now with the notifications that your thing 1169 01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:07.279 is here, you could check, I could see it's not 1170 01:14:07.279 --> 01:14:09.760 in the regular spot. I mean, my guy goes the 1171 01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:13.199 extra mile? Is it just because that's him? Good guy? Yeah, 1172 01:14:13.239 --> 01:14:15.520 you've got a good guy, you know. And Chris and 1173 01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:17.680 trust me, Christmas guy, Christmas time. 1174 01:14:17.760 --> 01:14:17.960 Man. 1175 01:14:18.520 --> 01:14:21.439 He gets twenty five bucks, he gets some cookies or whatever. 1176 01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:26.000 Either's there's three people here. You know. 1177 01:14:26.239 --> 01:14:29.680 He's the same way. If the package ever get this close, yep, 1178 01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:32.199 Like he knows what house he can leave it at 1179 01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:34.880 if I'm not around and he don't feel comfortable leaving 1180 01:14:34.880 --> 01:14:38.039 it on my port. Yeah, right, like without asking or anything, 1181 01:14:38.039 --> 01:14:39.399 he knows it's okay. 1182 01:14:39.640 --> 01:14:44.560 Because because him, do you there our male lady and 1183 01:14:44.760 --> 01:14:48.399 our garbage, our garbage guy. Yeah. 1184 01:14:48.520 --> 01:14:50.239 The whole thing that is, when it comes to n 1185 01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:51.880 antenna or tower, you got to get it out of 1186 01:14:51.880 --> 01:14:52.720 Alabama first. 1187 01:14:53.039 --> 01:14:57.399 Yeah, is do you guys up there do the same 1188 01:14:57.439 --> 01:14:59.239 thing I've seen them do down here in the South, 1189 01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:04.439 which some folks will put a cooler at a basket 1190 01:15:04.479 --> 01:15:09.159 of snacks on their porch with a note for delivery drivers. 1191 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:14.399 No, I didn't know that. Yep. Well, during the gatorades 1192 01:15:14.439 --> 01:15:18.920 and waters and stuff in the cooler during COVID, we 1193 01:15:19.039 --> 01:15:22.000 left stuff out for him because we knew he was 1194 01:15:22.079 --> 01:15:26.920 working ten twelve, sixteen hour days every day and ever, 1195 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:29.359 and it just became you know, first it was a 1196 01:15:29.359 --> 01:15:32.560 wholal dance, a handshake, You get to know their first name, 1197 01:15:32.680 --> 01:15:35.079 this and that, you start talking about the kids and 1198 01:15:35.119 --> 01:15:38.239 this and that and again he's working for a living, 1199 01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:41.079 just like me. Yeah. And the only difference is is 1200 01:15:41.319 --> 01:15:43.800 in my job, people are not dropping off cookies and 1201 01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:48.199 other things for me. But I feel obligated to do that. Man. 1202 01:15:48.279 --> 01:15:50.760 I feel he's going the extra mile. Yes, he's doing 1203 01:15:50.800 --> 01:15:53.600 his job, but there are many times he's going above 1204 01:15:53.640 --> 01:15:56.800 and beyond. And I wish I could tell his boss that. 1205 01:15:57.000 --> 01:15:59.600 I wish I could tell his boss. But I don't 1206 01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:01.920 know if it's an email that's just gonna get you 1207 01:16:01.960 --> 01:16:04.560 know whatever, And who knows if iver I get rid, 1208 01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:07.159 I'd rather tell the man himself. That's how I look 1209 01:16:07.199 --> 01:16:09.119 at it. And I told him I'm not asked kissing 1210 01:16:09.159 --> 01:16:11.279 the man. I'm just this is just who I am. 1211 01:16:11.319 --> 01:16:14.279 I say, thank you, you know, the guy for so 1212 01:16:14.479 --> 01:16:17.680 for our trash bins. When he opens up the bin, 1213 01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:22.079 there's a big envelope that says, driver, Merry Christmas. So 1214 01:16:22.159 --> 01:16:26.520 he knows, you know, don't put it in the back 1215 01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:30.880 of the truck. That's for you. You know, that's for you, all. 1216 01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:34.840 Right, So it's just in case. The ups thing, the 1217 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.279 t shirt idea was a little edgy because you know, 1218 01:16:37.319 --> 01:16:42.279 they're a big corporation or thing. If people felt like 1219 01:16:42.279 --> 01:16:44.520 it probably wouldn't a good idea to step on their toes. 1220 01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:48.680 Then I come up with another one. I think I 1221 01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:52.600 think NASA would be okay with it right there you go. 1222 01:16:52.920 --> 01:16:55.199 I mean, why would they have a problem. Why would 1223 01:16:55.199 --> 01:16:58.039 they have a problem. That's how I look at it. 1224 01:16:58.079 --> 01:16:59.680 I look at from a different why would they have 1225 01:16:59.720 --> 01:17:00.840 the point? What's the problem with that? 1226 01:17:01.560 --> 01:17:05.279 Yeah, I actually had to stop for the night, like 1227 01:17:05.319 --> 01:17:08.880 I was I have freedom Lay all these different brands, 1228 01:17:08.920 --> 01:17:11.800 and I'm like, I got to the whole reason I'm 1229 01:17:11.800 --> 01:17:12.560 having to come up with. 1230 01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:14.960 You got a freedom Lay. I love Freedo's. I love 1231 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:20.640 freedom Corn chips. Grew up on them. Wow, I'll take 1232 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:22.880 it wet or dry, I don't care. I mean, it's 1233 01:17:22.920 --> 01:17:26.479 all about that flavor. You know what I mean. But 1234 01:17:26.720 --> 01:17:28.960 I'm telling you I want royalties on that. 1235 01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:31.079 Is all the on. 1236 01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:34.000 The cooler idea. I like that cooler idea. 1237 01:17:34.119 --> 01:17:36.640 I'm gonna I see where they think about that actually 1238 01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:44.359 put you know, ups FedEx usps and Amazon. Yeah, because 1239 01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:48.079 a lot of people down here drive for Amazon, not 1240 01:17:48.199 --> 01:17:50.000 just full time, but even part time. 1241 01:17:50.399 --> 01:17:54.800 Right. So it's funny you said about Amazon, Steve, because 1242 01:17:55.359 --> 01:17:58.159 on Friday when I when I was ordering some stuff, 1243 01:17:59.119 --> 01:18:03.039 I had had the option of it coming for Sunday 1244 01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:08.239 and Monday. I said, No, you're not coming to my 1245 01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:11.720 house on Sunday and Monday, not because you're not gonna 1246 01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:16.600 get you know, anything from me. I don't want you 1247 01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:18.479 coming to my house. You don't have to. You should 1248 01:18:18.479 --> 01:18:22.279 be home like you're making money because you need money. 1249 01:18:22.319 --> 01:18:25.680 If they're paying you some extra bucks, I get it, 1250 01:18:25.720 --> 01:18:28.479 but tell you what so I held before I actually 1251 01:18:28.479 --> 01:18:32.479 bought it. I waited until Sunday to order it so 1252 01:18:32.560 --> 01:18:35.479 it would come this week. Yeah, I just didn't feel fun. 1253 01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:38.319 I felt this is stuff that I didn't need it, 1254 01:18:38.399 --> 01:18:42.439 like God to have it in emergency and don't don't 1255 01:18:42.439 --> 01:18:45.039 come to my house if you can get out or early. 1256 01:18:45.239 --> 01:18:45.720 You know what I mean. 1257 01:18:46.479 --> 01:18:51.119 One of the best legity systems in America is Amazon. 1258 01:18:52.600 --> 01:18:53.800 They've got it figured out. 1259 01:18:56.119 --> 01:18:59.399 But some of my Amazon stuff comes usps, some comes 1260 01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:00.000 to ups. 1261 01:19:01.439 --> 01:19:03.840 You know why you mentioned that, I'm gonna say because 1262 01:19:03.880 --> 01:19:06.000 this has came up before too. I think maybe even 1263 01:19:06.039 --> 01:19:10.279 on the show. I'm not sure, but uh, you order 1264 01:19:10.319 --> 01:19:12.640 Amazon package and it comes in on a Sunday, and 1265 01:19:12.680 --> 01:19:15.800 there's these people that, oh, man, I want my mail 1266 01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:18.640 man having to work on a Sunday. Right. Well, I 1267 01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:21.760 was the same way believer. I was like, dude, I 1268 01:19:21.800 --> 01:19:24.000 tried not to order this thing where it comes on Sunday, 1269 01:19:24.039 --> 01:19:27.640 and he said, oh, absolutely not. Make them all come 1270 01:19:27.680 --> 01:19:30.119 on Sundays again. He said, all right, I want the 1271 01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:33.319 extra work, contry pay due. They get paid good to 1272 01:19:33.359 --> 01:19:37.239 do that on something the other do. Yeah, I'll deliver 1273 01:19:37.520 --> 01:19:40.279 all the Sundays I can. I'm like, I got you, dude, 1274 01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:44.039 I need two double a's on a Sunday, thank you? 1275 01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:48.000 So did I screw up? And maybe on July because 1276 01:19:48.039 --> 01:19:50.680 July I think July fourth is a Friday. Should I 1277 01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:54.000 have them come to my house? Yeah? 1278 01:19:54.199 --> 01:19:56.920 I try not to have stuff delivered on a holiday 1279 01:19:58.239 --> 01:19:59.920 because I enjoyed my holidays off. 1280 01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:01.960 Yeah. 1281 01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:03.680 I know there's some people that just don't care, and 1282 01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:06.000 they'll work seven days a week. 1283 01:20:07.880 --> 01:20:10.359 At my local one so far. He told me, he said, 1284 01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:12.720 it's a volunteer basis. You know, they ain't had a 1285 01:20:12.760 --> 01:20:16.680 problem where they've had to volunteer somebody right now. 1286 01:20:16.720 --> 01:20:19.399 See, I I wish Amazon had that had a had 1287 01:20:19.439 --> 01:20:22.479 a third option. Let me choose my date now. 1288 01:20:22.920 --> 01:20:25.079 Yeah they do. 1289 01:20:25.159 --> 01:20:27.479 I only have two. Yeah, I have my Prime, so 1290 01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:30.760 I have two. I want the third. Let me choose. 1291 01:20:31.079 --> 01:20:33.800 I mean a day later than what you wanted to. 1292 01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:36.199 Well that's well, that's what I ended up. I didn't 1293 01:20:36.239 --> 01:20:40.880 order on Friday. I waited until Sunday. Well the kids, 1294 01:20:41.000 --> 01:20:43.439 the kids were all doing their bonfire and all this 1295 01:20:43.600 --> 01:20:47.239 other stuff, and there I am. You know, I popped 1296 01:20:47.279 --> 01:20:51.560 onto uh popped onto Adjacent's happy hour, and in between 1297 01:20:51.560 --> 01:20:54.079 the happy hour, I'm like you know something, I got 1298 01:20:54.079 --> 01:20:58.359 something sitting in a cart. Let me take care of that. Well, 1299 01:20:58.439 --> 01:21:04.199 and you know the contract basis of Amazon. You know, 1300 01:21:04.279 --> 01:21:07.640 I've done some of those runs myself, and I'll watch, 1301 01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:11.199 you know, if the rates start going way up, Yeah, 1302 01:21:11.199 --> 01:21:14.279 I'll jump on one. Yeah, I'll go burn three hours 1303 01:21:14.399 --> 01:21:17.600 driving packages around. Guess what. 1304 01:21:17.800 --> 01:21:21.680 The packages don't bitch about how you treat them. 1305 01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:25.800 They don't complain about your driving. Mm hmm. I will 1306 01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:33.119 not do uber left forget it. Yeah, well, I guess 1307 01:21:33.119 --> 01:21:36.680 we should ask Kim uh not Kim? Is it Elizabeth? 1308 01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:41.039 My chat? Oh? What did you do? 1309 01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:44.239 Button? And it keeps going on? 1310 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:50.920 Joe, how did how did you get that request the chat? Oh? 1311 01:21:51.319 --> 01:21:55.000 The person is in the chat? What's up? Big boy? 1312 01:21:55.279 --> 01:21:56.199 I'm Radio Cat. 1313 01:21:58.239 --> 01:21:59.640 Yeah. 1314 01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:02.760 Unfortunately I didn't bring that kenkoozy out here to night. 1315 01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:05.399 I've got mine around here, so. 1316 01:22:05.399 --> 01:22:15.560 I have for the past two weeks, Jody says. Joe 1317 01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:22.119 Brett seems very ups at about this. Upset. Yep, I 1318 01:22:22.159 --> 01:22:23.000 am a little upset. 1319 01:22:23.079 --> 01:22:23.239 You know. 1320 01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:27.920 One thing I've noticed about ups if you'll look at 1321 01:22:27.920 --> 01:22:30.960 where I don't know, I shouldn't say this everywhere, but 1322 01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:33.439 there was when I was down in Jackson taking my 1323 01:22:33.520 --> 01:22:37.680 drone class. There was a ups hub at the airport there. 1324 01:22:39.600 --> 01:22:42.840 I am saying three planes. It was three planes. Only 1325 01:22:42.920 --> 01:22:45.239 one of them disappeared the whole week. The other two 1326 01:22:45.319 --> 01:22:48.479 never moved. Well, you go up here to Memphis, and 1327 01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:53.319 Memphis is ninety eight percent fed Ex traffic constantly tail 1328 01:22:53.399 --> 01:22:58.079 to tale man, So I'm like, maybe thats just wasn't 1329 01:22:58.119 --> 01:22:58.880 one of their main. 1330 01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:06.439 For Kim. If you're listening, I'm sending you a link 1331 01:23:06.479 --> 01:23:10.039 through email right now. There you go. I just hit 1332 01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:10.560 her and chat. 1333 01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:13.119 So I got go all the way back to YouTube 1334 01:23:13.279 --> 01:23:20.960 and get my chat back. Tell you what watching d. 1335 01:23:22.760 --> 01:23:26.560 What alright? She was setting she was notified. That was 1336 01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:29.600 up to her. She was notified. We'll take care of that. 1337 01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:30.920 Take care of. 1338 01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:32.960 That easy, is though. 1339 01:23:33.479 --> 01:23:35.359 Oh man, we gotta take care of businessman. I'm watching 1340 01:23:35.359 --> 01:23:38.119 the clock. We're an hour, We're an hour and twenty, 1341 01:23:38.439 --> 01:23:38.880 we're an hour. 1342 01:23:38.920 --> 01:23:40.920 And you had this rattle in your voice that we 1343 01:23:41.119 --> 01:23:43.439 heard for you, Like really, yeah. 1344 01:23:43.359 --> 01:23:45.239 Man, really got the rattles? 1345 01:23:45.239 --> 01:23:49.159 No, no, no, no, you started getting that Jennifer voice. 1346 01:23:49.359 --> 01:23:50.439 What do you talk to Jennifer? 1347 01:23:50.720 --> 01:23:56.279 Oh no, the heck no, no no, no, hold uh no, 1348 01:23:56.439 --> 01:23:59.319 I'm watching the clock. We're we're an hour and twenty 1349 01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:02.880 almost twenty five minutes in here. She wants to come on. Man, 1350 01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:03.840 we gotta get her on now. 1351 01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:06.279 Man, now's the time, right, It's hard to get them, 1352 01:24:06.359 --> 01:24:10.720 uh West Coast folks up in here, all right. It's 1353 01:24:10.720 --> 01:24:12.079 still daylight where she at. 1354 01:24:13.319 --> 01:24:15.079 She hasn't probably even had suffer yet. 1355 01:24:17.000 --> 01:24:18.840 What are you using for lighting? Is that a porch 1356 01:24:18.920 --> 01:24:22.800 light or something? Why is it so daylight looking? It's 1357 01:24:22.840 --> 01:24:24.720 a ring ring, It's a ring light. 1358 01:24:24.960 --> 01:24:25.479 Look at you. 1359 01:24:27.159 --> 01:24:27.920 Operated the sun? 1360 01:24:28.239 --> 01:24:30.199 Yeah, you know, you know how all that ring like 1361 01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:32.119 that was when the channel. That's when I had the 1362 01:24:32.199 --> 01:24:36.159 channel going to that thing. That thing, that thing's got 1363 01:24:36.199 --> 01:24:37.039 some history on it. 1364 01:24:38.680 --> 01:24:40.880 I think Jeff in the chat already trying to tell 1365 01:24:40.920 --> 01:24:45.079 me that I may need to preps the shame for 1366 01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:50.680 what I showed. You might want to check your NASA website? 1367 01:24:51.159 --> 01:24:55.079 Am I really orange? There? Do I look orange? No? Man, 1368 01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:59.319 I'm not orange? Am I? And that's natural? That's natural 1369 01:24:59.359 --> 01:25:00.760 light coming on? Maybe it's just. 1370 01:25:02.720 --> 01:25:05.039 Frank's talking about it's easy to get us West Coast 1371 01:25:05.039 --> 01:25:09.760 people up in here. Frank, Frank's always there everywhere. 1372 01:25:11.039 --> 01:25:11.560 Yeah, he is. 1373 01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:12.600 He's an exception. 1374 01:25:21.239 --> 01:25:27.439 I heard a doorbell. Is that her? Yep, right, give 1375 01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:30.319 us up when you're ready. It'll be good to talk 1376 01:25:30.359 --> 01:25:33.039 to her. You know again. I'm seeing again. I see 1377 01:25:33.039 --> 01:25:37.560 her all there she is. I see her all the time, 1378 01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:40.520 and that Poeta app and that Poeta app activating and 1379 01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:43.359 I can't hit her out there in California. It's frustrating, 1380 01:25:43.680 --> 01:25:46.479 frustrating when you can't work fronts to say park the 1381 01:25:46.520 --> 01:25:49.520 park or here, you know whatever, and how you doing 1382 01:25:49.640 --> 01:25:51.880 so so so you're here now, how you doing? 1383 01:25:52.680 --> 01:25:53.119 I'm doing? 1384 01:25:53.159 --> 01:25:56.840 Okay, I'm hanging in there. I'm hanging in there. 1385 01:25:57.079 --> 01:25:58.960 Where's the dogs? Where's your dogs? 1386 01:25:59.840 --> 01:26:09.159 I hold on? Okay there, okay, can you hear me? Okay, okay, 1387 01:26:09.560 --> 01:26:11.039 I had to close the other window. I was getting 1388 01:26:11.199 --> 01:26:14.560 uh everything, okay, yeah, I'm doing okay, I'm I'm in 1389 01:26:14.600 --> 01:26:16.720 the back bedroom here because we gave up our master 1390 01:26:16.800 --> 01:26:19.079 bedroom for my parents. So I feel like this is 1391 01:26:19.119 --> 01:26:21.039 like the I feel like this is the college dorm 1392 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:26.600 room now. So we had my neighbor over here and 1393 01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:28.720 Larry over here. We were like drinking here in this 1394 01:26:28.840 --> 01:26:32.479 room and everything it did feel like toll college dorm room? 1395 01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:37.000 Where's Larry? Tom was popping the camera way Yeah. 1396 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:39.079 He's in the other room. He's hanging doing his thing. 1397 01:26:39.239 --> 01:26:41.760 So how are you guys doing. 1398 01:26:42.399 --> 01:26:43.079 We're doing good. 1399 01:26:43.760 --> 01:26:46.520 Yeah, it's still daylight here since kind of in my 1400 01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:51.279 eye here. But yeah, it's uh, it's been challenging. You know, 1401 01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:55.840 I have my parents here, so definitely a different uh 1402 01:26:56.640 --> 01:27:00.520 you know, oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. We can't really 1403 01:27:00.520 --> 01:27:07.119 go anywhere, you know, without having plans or somebody come 1404 01:27:07.439 --> 01:27:09.479 take care of my parents or something, you know, or 1405 01:27:09.560 --> 01:27:12.239 just you know, barely pop over to the store. We 1406 01:27:12.279 --> 01:27:15.800 have to do it between things going on. And yeah, 1407 01:27:15.880 --> 01:27:19.239 so but we're we're gonna go camping in a couple 1408 01:27:19.239 --> 01:27:21.159 of weeks for our anniversary. 1409 01:27:21.319 --> 01:27:23.720 So thirty five years and we haven't killed each other yet. 1410 01:27:25.119 --> 01:27:27.640 The King the graduations is excellent. 1411 01:27:27.800 --> 01:27:29.760 Thanks, Yeah, we haven't killed each other quite yet. 1412 01:27:29.840 --> 01:27:31.920 So but my always says the day is not over. 1413 01:27:33.640 --> 01:27:36.680 Hey, Kim, refresh our memories when we see you on 1414 01:27:36.760 --> 01:27:40.760 the poet responding page between you know, seventeen meters and 1415 01:27:40.880 --> 01:27:45.399 twenty what antent are you using? What are your favorite antennas? 1416 01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:48.479 Right? Right, So when we have the RV, I'm usually 1417 01:27:48.560 --> 01:27:54.119 using the it's a home vertical, homebrew vertical. And then 1418 01:27:54.279 --> 01:27:56.399 sometimes when we go out with the jeep. I'll bring 1419 01:27:56.640 --> 01:28:01.760 the shark antenna, the shark sticks, you know, hamsticks, sharks sticks, 1420 01:28:01.800 --> 01:28:05.399 same same thing, basically on a mag mount. So and 1421 01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:08.000 those were my favorite band probably when I'm doing Poda 1422 01:28:08.079 --> 01:28:10.520 is fifteen meters because it's quite a large band. 1423 01:28:11.079 --> 01:28:14.039 So you know, noise, do you have less noise? I 1424 01:28:14.079 --> 01:28:17.399 know I have less noise where I am. She's a 1425 01:28:17.439 --> 01:28:19.399 little bit quieter, it is a little bit. 1426 01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:22.119 Yeah, ten is great. Ten is great for a little 1427 01:28:22.239 --> 01:28:28.760 less noisy. So it's definitely, you know nice, but uh yeah, 1428 01:28:28.800 --> 01:28:30.880 and I like six meters and stuff like that. In fact, 1429 01:28:30.920 --> 01:28:34.039 six meters was open for me a couple of days ago. 1430 01:28:34.119 --> 01:28:37.640 I worked into Florida from from southern California. Wow. 1431 01:28:38.079 --> 01:28:38.760 Yeah, nice. 1432 01:28:40.199 --> 01:28:44.399 So this weekend because I was like, you know, I 1433 01:28:44.399 --> 01:28:46.439 wonder if she has her six meter last room going. 1434 01:28:47.159 --> 01:28:50.720 Oh, I was going to, I was going to, but 1435 01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:54.359 then it kind of faded out. I was going to, yeah, 1436 01:28:54.399 --> 01:28:57.319 so and I've been trying to think about doing that again. 1437 01:28:57.520 --> 01:29:00.399 But you know, it was just open briefly and then 1438 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:04.520 it didn't last. So if I feel it's gonna last longer, 1439 01:29:04.640 --> 01:29:06.199 I'll just throw it on. Maybe I'll do it more 1440 01:29:06.199 --> 01:29:08.479 often and people can just even see if they can 1441 01:29:08.479 --> 01:29:09.159 hear themselves. 1442 01:29:09.239 --> 01:29:11.159 So that's exact exactly what I was going to say. 1443 01:29:11.199 --> 01:29:12.760 I popped on there a few times when you were 1444 01:29:12.800 --> 01:29:15.520 live streaming and just to see if I can get 1445 01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:18.880 my signal out here. But I said earlier, my six 1446 01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:22.640 meter signal always has always no matter what antenna from 1447 01:29:22.640 --> 01:29:27.039 my home location. Anyway, his favorite did be to hear 1448 01:29:27.039 --> 01:29:28.079 myself on six meters. 1449 01:29:28.359 --> 01:29:31.319 Yeah, that would be great, That would be great six meters. 1450 01:29:31.319 --> 01:29:33.479 What are you using? Are you also using a mag 1451 01:29:33.520 --> 01:29:36.039 mount shark or something for six meters when we're. 1452 01:29:35.840 --> 01:29:39.520 Out camping the vertical, I can tune pretty much pretty 1453 01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:42.920 much everywhere on that vertical homebrew. I've got the antenna 1454 01:29:42.960 --> 01:29:47.399 tuner and that will tune from six to eighty meters 1455 01:29:47.439 --> 01:29:50.840 with some counterpoise and everything. With the sharks, I've got 1456 01:29:50.840 --> 01:29:54.520 a six meter shark as well, so I've got lots 1457 01:29:54.560 --> 01:29:57.640 of versatility. I've probably got all the shark's legs for 1458 01:29:57.680 --> 01:30:01.880 all those so except for hundred and sixty that would 1459 01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:05.359 be pretty cool, but be a pretty massive shark indenta 1460 01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:05.840 for that. 1461 01:30:06.439 --> 01:30:09.119 Have the band I mentioned earlier. We haven't had a 1462 01:30:09.119 --> 01:30:11.279 lot of sun spots over the last maybe three or 1463 01:30:11.319 --> 01:30:14.880 four weeks maybe are you did you see that again again? One? 1464 01:30:14.960 --> 01:30:17.439 And that's always from where I am in the New 1465 01:30:17.439 --> 01:30:21.920 England area, you know, Atlantic Ocean, east east coast of 1466 01:30:22.199 --> 01:30:25.800 of of America. Sometimes it's different in other parts of 1467 01:30:25.840 --> 01:30:28.119 the country as well, as you're different operating times than me. 1468 01:30:28.600 --> 01:30:30.439 So have you been have you noticed some kind of 1469 01:30:30.439 --> 01:30:31.680 weird band conditions lately? 1470 01:30:33.079 --> 01:30:36.239 It has been a little uh, extra quiet for six 1471 01:30:36.279 --> 01:30:39.560 meters this year, you know, overall, I mean we might 1472 01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:41.840 you know Elmer and I talk about it. Just seems 1473 01:30:41.880 --> 01:30:44.399 like six meters has been extra quiet. May would have 1474 01:30:44.399 --> 01:30:47.680 been a really good opening usually typically for six meters, 1475 01:30:47.720 --> 01:30:50.399 and I think November maybe as well. But yeah, it's 1476 01:30:50.399 --> 01:30:53.439 been a little more quiet for six lately then typically 1477 01:30:53.640 --> 01:30:57.239 you know, typically six is a tough band anyway, but 1478 01:30:57.279 --> 01:30:59.199 it seems like it's been extra tough lately. 1479 01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:05.159 So yeah, but what about fifteen now the last month 1480 01:31:05.279 --> 01:31:07.319 or so, fifteen. 1481 01:31:07.039 --> 01:31:09.279 Has been actually pretty good. I thought, you know, I 1482 01:31:09.319 --> 01:31:11.960 was on the Shark antenna on fifteen meters and I 1483 01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:14.920 made a contact to New Zealand so from photos, so 1484 01:31:15.119 --> 01:31:17.479 you know, so those things work pretty good. I had 1485 01:31:17.600 --> 01:31:21.479 I was on the Sharks one time, and the guy 1486 01:31:21.560 --> 01:31:23.399 was asking me, Oh, what what tenant are are you on. 1487 01:31:23.479 --> 01:31:25.199 I'm like, oh, I'm just on the Shark. He says, oh, 1488 01:31:25.239 --> 01:31:30.079 they're awful antennas, Like I've had pretty good luck with them. Yeah, 1489 01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:32.560 so hey, if you're on the air, you know, who 1490 01:31:32.680 --> 01:31:35.800 cares what antenna it is. You're just on the air, right, 1491 01:31:35.840 --> 01:31:38.520 I mean, you're trying, you're there. So it's convenient, you know, 1492 01:31:38.640 --> 01:31:42.039 to have the Shark antennas. So and then you know, 1493 01:31:42.079 --> 01:31:44.159 with a quick release, that's it's great. 1494 01:31:45.319 --> 01:31:48.560 I think a lot of times I don't want to generalize, 1495 01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:53.359 but maybe I'll throw this out there. I think sometimes 1496 01:31:53.359 --> 01:31:58.000 when someone says this antenna is horrible, Yeah, are they not? 1497 01:31:58.479 --> 01:32:00.720 Is there a problem? Do they have a bad piece 1498 01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:02.920 of coax? Is it not? If it needs a lot 1499 01:32:02.960 --> 01:32:06.159 of grounding, or you know, like for instance, the Athoss, 1500 01:32:06.199 --> 01:32:10.199 my Athoss. I know if it's not, if it's not 1501 01:32:10.359 --> 01:32:13.199 doing something right. I go back up to the top 1502 01:32:13.239 --> 01:32:14.920 of the truck and I look at and sure enough 1503 01:32:14.960 --> 01:32:18.720 I didn't. I didn't mount it properly on the trimag 1504 01:32:19.119 --> 01:32:22.720 I'm not getting enough metal on those mag mounts. And 1505 01:32:22.920 --> 01:32:25.079 sure enough, soon as I move it and I use it, 1506 01:32:25.119 --> 01:32:28.479 properly right, Well, you know, I hit that tune button 1507 01:32:28.840 --> 01:32:31.920 and all of a sudden, here come the signals. Yeah, 1508 01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:35.399 so that's what I wonder sometimes, Scott, because I know 1509 01:32:35.439 --> 01:32:37.520 some people are very very opinionated. 1510 01:32:37.920 --> 01:32:41.079 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it has to be you know, resonant 1511 01:32:41.319 --> 01:32:46.159 or it's crap. You know. I think any intended to 1512 01:32:46.159 --> 01:32:48.720 get you on the air, you know, do it, you know, 1513 01:32:49.079 --> 01:32:51.640 whatever it is, get it, get going on there. 1514 01:32:51.720 --> 01:32:54.239 So that's my opinion. You know, how fun that's. 1515 01:32:54.159 --> 01:32:54.720 All it is. 1516 01:32:54.720 --> 01:32:56.119 It's just how fun get on the air. 1517 01:32:56.680 --> 01:33:00.199 You know. To back what you were saying about six 1518 01:33:00.279 --> 01:33:02.640 meters being good in May, I look back through my 1519 01:33:02.720 --> 01:33:05.760 log book filter in just six meters May, Jun and 1520 01:33:05.880 --> 01:33:09.079 July has been the heaviest context that I've put in. 1521 01:33:09.279 --> 01:33:11.640 Sometimes in the winter a few contexts, but. 1522 01:33:12.039 --> 01:33:15.760 Yeah, yeah, and then it's kind of interesting too. Sometimes 1523 01:33:16.000 --> 01:33:18.880 Christmas Eve seems to have good openings too, you know. 1524 01:33:19.399 --> 01:33:22.239 Figure so yeah, right, and maybe a couple of things, 1525 01:33:22.239 --> 01:33:24.359 more people get in the new little radios and everything. 1526 01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:27.159 But also, you know, just there's the meteors. I think, 1527 01:33:27.279 --> 01:33:28.960 I don't know if it's the leonids, I can't remember 1528 01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:29.520 which ones. 1529 01:33:30.399 --> 01:33:35.479 I just say that they they pop here in August, yeah, August, 1530 01:33:35.600 --> 01:33:38.760 and again in December or early or late November, whatever 1531 01:33:38.760 --> 01:33:42.039 it is. But I know locally here the guys always 1532 01:33:42.119 --> 01:33:46.039 used to talk about that. Yeah, play six meters when 1533 01:33:46.039 --> 01:33:49.680 the meteors. 1534 01:33:50.760 --> 01:33:53.279 Yeah, it's fun. I love it, you know. You know, 1535 01:33:53.359 --> 01:33:56.239 I call SEEQ in the morning pretty much every morning. 1536 01:33:56.319 --> 01:33:59.600 Right now, my brig is in the living room, right 1537 01:34:00.159 --> 01:34:03.600 and I do need to remote that somehow because then 1538 01:34:03.840 --> 01:34:05.319 most of the day, most of the rest of the 1539 01:34:05.359 --> 01:34:07.399 day when my parents are up there in there, they're 1540 01:34:07.439 --> 01:34:09.600 in the living room now, they're planted in there, you know, 1541 01:34:10.159 --> 01:34:13.319 and so but before they get up, I'll spend you 1542 01:34:13.359 --> 01:34:15.039 know a little bit of time just throwing the CQ 1543 01:34:15.199 --> 01:34:17.359 out there on six meters and stuff. And that's when 1544 01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:20.680 I made the Florida contact. So it's been really hard 1545 01:34:20.720 --> 01:34:23.079 to have as much radio time as I used to. 1546 01:34:23.600 --> 01:34:25.520 But if I can, you know, just remote, get some 1547 01:34:25.560 --> 01:34:29.279 time to remote the you know, the radio, I've got 1548 01:34:29.560 --> 01:34:33.600 the uh was it remote hamds on my phone. I 1549 01:34:33.600 --> 01:34:35.359 could just put that on there. And but I've just 1550 01:34:35.399 --> 01:34:37.079 got to get to dedicate the time. You know, by 1551 01:34:37.119 --> 01:34:39.680 the time I get time for things, it's like I'm tired. 1552 01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:45.720 What the I have the in the living room. I 1553 01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:47.319 have the yesu ft. 1554 01:34:48.760 --> 01:34:56.319 Okay, because it's the art control has do it? Okay, 1555 01:34:56.760 --> 01:34:58.159 I don't. I don't know if it. 1556 01:35:00.279 --> 01:35:02.800 I know they sues you have to add that extra 1557 01:35:02.880 --> 01:35:08.319 module to give them that the server side, or if 1558 01:35:08.319 --> 01:35:11.079 you have a computer attached to them, do you remote hands. 1559 01:35:11.159 --> 01:35:16.920 There is a few different ways. 1560 01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:22.000 There's an Yeah, there's another one I was looking too, 1561 01:35:22.000 --> 01:35:25.560 because my husband's like really concerned about, you know, the 1562 01:35:25.640 --> 01:35:28.079 security and all that having an open port or something 1563 01:35:28.119 --> 01:35:30.119 like that. I'm not I'm not in the know of 1564 01:35:30.159 --> 01:35:31.520 all that thing. And there's another one. 1565 01:35:32.359 --> 01:35:34.960 How was it like ham transmit ham t X or 1566 01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:35.720 something like that. 1567 01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:39.720 It was another remote It was a little more secure 1568 01:35:39.880 --> 01:35:44.319 than than remote hams. So yeah, I have to figure 1569 01:35:44.359 --> 01:35:46.399 that all out. So got to make him happy. 1570 01:35:46.119 --> 01:35:50.359 To well state let's let's tackle that. Maybe it's a 1571 01:35:50.359 --> 01:35:54.279 simple answer, having a port like that dedicated, Is there 1572 01:35:54.319 --> 01:35:58.159 a security? Is it a valid concern or you know, 1573 01:35:58.920 --> 01:36:03.960 gag It can be because what you're doing is you're 1574 01:36:04.000 --> 01:36:09.000 opening a port on your network to the world and 1575 01:36:09.079 --> 01:36:12.640 there are you know, nefarious actors out there that will 1576 01:36:14.159 --> 01:36:18.720 just scan for open ports. You know that facy the 1577 01:36:18.760 --> 01:36:22.119 outside world. So what is it? So? What? What is 1578 01:36:22.159 --> 01:36:24.640 there one or more solutions of how do you combat that? 1579 01:36:24.720 --> 01:36:30.000 The VPNED or what? What do you recommend? VPN is 1580 01:36:30.039 --> 01:36:35.479 a good option, Yeah, what you have to host it yourself. 1581 01:36:35.560 --> 01:36:38.079 You put a server side inside. 1582 01:36:37.720 --> 01:36:39.760 Your nee or something similar. 1583 01:36:40.000 --> 01:36:43.119 Tail scale is a good one that's been talked about 1584 01:36:43.159 --> 01:36:43.560 a lot. 1585 01:36:43.439 --> 01:36:48.279 Recently, I asked, because you know there's different, right, I 1586 01:36:48.279 --> 01:36:51.359 don't recommend any of the ones that hide your Netflix usage. 1587 01:36:52.479 --> 01:36:55.359 A lot of those are shady. 1588 01:36:58.159 --> 01:37:00.960 Yeah, that one, I can't remember. It's called a ham 1589 01:37:01.079 --> 01:37:03.720 TX or something like that remote TX or something like that. 1590 01:37:03.720 --> 01:37:07.239 That one't supposedly much more secure from what I did 1591 01:37:07.560 --> 01:37:08.439 a quick search on. 1592 01:37:10.119 --> 01:37:12.319 I forget which one it was. I didn't memorize it. 1593 01:37:12.359 --> 01:37:15.119 But yeah, because that's that's been the issue, is that 1594 01:37:15.119 --> 01:37:17.720 that port being open, and my husband's worried about the security. 1595 01:37:17.840 --> 01:37:19.239 So and I can understand that, you. 1596 01:37:19.159 --> 01:37:24.800 Know, guys in a chat are saying open OpenVPN or 1597 01:37:25.159 --> 01:37:28.000 you know, of course down's going to just get a 1598 01:37:28.039 --> 01:37:30.880 flex just just. 1599 01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:32.199 Throw the money out there. 1600 01:37:32.520 --> 01:37:34.920 Just Aurora and be done with that. 1601 01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:35.319 Okay. 1602 01:37:35.359 --> 01:37:39.760 So if Iran so does. 1603 01:37:39.560 --> 01:37:43.720 The seventy seven sixty, is that one able to remote 1604 01:37:43.800 --> 01:37:46.239 without going and opening ports and all that. 1605 01:37:48.119 --> 01:37:49.920 Yes, that's what I heard. 1606 01:37:50.119 --> 01:37:52.520 So I'm gonna have to justify that purchase that way. 1607 01:37:52.880 --> 01:37:56.640 Yeah, so you can do the seventy seven sixty, and 1608 01:37:56.680 --> 01:37:59.359 then of course you need the RSB one A or 1609 01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:05.199 if you have Apple products, you can do the SDR 1610 01:38:06.079 --> 01:38:09.000 APP on your control. 1611 01:38:09.399 --> 01:38:14.640 Okay, okay, so I just spend a bigger amount of money. 1612 01:38:14.840 --> 01:38:17.479 What I get in my seventy six. Yeah, but Kim, 1613 01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:22.000 it's for safety and security, exactly. It doesn't get classified 1614 01:38:22.079 --> 01:38:31.680 under hand. If this is for safety and security. 1615 01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:24.720 I. 1616 01:38:27.760 --> 01:38:30.600 Exactly don't have to dope. And it's two hundred watts. 1617 01:38:30.640 --> 01:38:32.920 That's what I've been missing, you know, on my radios 1618 01:38:32.960 --> 01:38:35.439 because my ken Wood the forty eh X was two 1619 01:38:35.479 --> 01:38:39.319 hundred watts, and that one's got some issues again. I 1620 01:38:39.359 --> 01:38:42.239 have to send that in to get repaired. And before 1621 01:38:42.279 --> 01:38:44.920 I spend more money again, because I already had it 1622 01:38:45.000 --> 01:38:49.520 repaired one time, I'd rather maybe sink some money into 1623 01:38:49.640 --> 01:38:51.239 a newer radio like that. 1624 01:38:51.840 --> 01:38:54.399 So I just he'll be him. 1625 01:38:54.439 --> 01:38:57.359 Yeah, I read it, Joe a couple more Graham the 1626 01:38:57.359 --> 01:39:03.239 seventy sixty. Yeah, five hundred watts, plug and play everything. 1627 01:39:04.079 --> 01:39:05.840 You know what to do? Get out that piece of 1628 01:39:05.880 --> 01:39:08.319 paper and write down the models and see what they 1629 01:39:08.399 --> 01:39:11.119 what each one will offers, and at the bottom, what 1630 01:39:11.159 --> 01:39:13.920 the cost is going to be versus what your knowledge is, 1631 01:39:14.079 --> 01:39:16.479 what you're willing to learn to do the interfacing as 1632 01:39:16.479 --> 01:39:17.359 well as I say. 1633 01:39:17.479 --> 01:39:20.319 And the nice thing about the Flex is any computer 1634 01:39:20.399 --> 01:39:23.960 that has the Flex software on it, yeah, can get 1635 01:39:23.960 --> 01:39:24.720 into your Flex. 1636 01:39:25.239 --> 01:39:27.720 Is that one more than the seventy seven sixties? 1637 01:39:27.760 --> 01:39:29.119 That what you're saying? 1638 01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:30.800 Believe they're about the same price? 1639 01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:35.279 Okay, okay, like six thousand dollars. What's seventy seven sixties? 1640 01:39:35.399 --> 01:39:35.560 Yeah? 1641 01:39:35.680 --> 01:39:39.880 Right, yeah, the Aurora is going to be close to seven. 1642 01:39:41.640 --> 01:39:47.279 Now, I don't know because there's different models, right. 1643 01:39:47.399 --> 01:39:52.359 There's four different configurations. But but the Aurora is changing 1644 01:39:52.399 --> 01:39:55.279 the game. You generate unless heat with it. You got 1645 01:39:55.279 --> 01:39:58.039 five hundred whats in the box. You plug it into 1646 01:39:58.119 --> 01:40:01.359 one ten outlet. The power is built in, the tun 1647 01:40:01.520 --> 01:40:05.079 is built in, so you can consolidate three pieces of 1648 01:40:05.079 --> 01:40:05.960 equipment right there. 1649 01:40:06.159 --> 01:40:06.920 It is not nice? 1650 01:40:07.079 --> 01:40:10.239 Wow, nice, that's option, isn't it. That's a nice option. 1651 01:40:10.439 --> 01:40:14.319 That is options, many options, right, five to ten is 1652 01:40:14.359 --> 01:40:15.800 sixty two hundred dollars right now? 1653 01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:20.399 Oh yeah, that's all well, I mean. 1654 01:40:22.359 --> 01:40:22.800 Exactly. 1655 01:40:22.880 --> 01:40:23.880 Yeah, maybe we. 1656 01:40:23.840 --> 01:40:25.840 Ought to see if we can get a clubhouse discown 1657 01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:28.199 Kukon going and that would help. Maybe we had a 1658 01:40:28.239 --> 01:40:28.840 contact there. 1659 01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:34.159 There you go, there you go. Yeah, he needs a 1660 01:40:34.159 --> 01:40:34.720 new radio. 1661 01:40:37.039 --> 01:40:41.319 You can get the Plex eighty four hundred for twenty 1662 01:40:41.399 --> 01:40:45.239 five hundred dollars, but that's only one hundred watt radio. 1663 01:40:45.520 --> 01:40:47.600 Yeah, I really want to get two hundred wats again 1664 01:40:47.640 --> 01:40:51.880 if I can. So, yeah, I missed that extra. 1665 01:40:52.279 --> 01:40:55.439 Wattage, but now I'm hearing five hundred watts. 1666 01:40:55.600 --> 01:40:56.439 Yeah, right. 1667 01:40:58.640 --> 01:41:03.199 With the wattage right, Well, I wondered how long before 1668 01:41:03.239 --> 01:41:06.760 they come out with a legal limit. So, Kim, then 1669 01:41:06.760 --> 01:41:08.720 what do you use at the house then? For an 1670 01:41:08.840 --> 01:41:11.800 or antenna's what do you have at the house right now? 1671 01:41:12.000 --> 01:41:16.079 Because let's see, you've got the JIGU one antenna, that one, 1672 01:41:16.399 --> 01:41:19.159 what is the G four or whatever antenna that one's 1673 01:41:19.199 --> 01:41:22.840 up there, and then then there's a homebrew six meter 1674 01:41:22.920 --> 01:41:25.680 antenna up there, and then there's a I've got a 1675 01:41:27.479 --> 01:41:31.039 a folded dipole for eighty meters and forty meters and 1676 01:41:31.079 --> 01:41:34.199 then I can do sixty meters on that as well. 1677 01:41:34.239 --> 01:41:37.720 And then I've got I've made a redneck one hundred 1678 01:41:37.760 --> 01:41:40.800 and sixty meter antenna. But I gotta fine tune that 1679 01:41:41.079 --> 01:41:44.000 so that thing goes all around the property, in this 1680 01:41:44.119 --> 01:41:49.479 small little property, it goes, it goes all around. Not 1681 01:41:49.600 --> 01:41:52.680 very effective, but I've still got to figure that one out. 1682 01:41:52.920 --> 01:41:54.880 So does you get you on the air? Do you 1683 01:41:54.960 --> 01:41:55.720 like one sixty? 1684 01:41:56.039 --> 01:41:59.359 I've tried. I've still got a it's the SBRs not 1685 01:41:59.479 --> 01:42:02.479 so great. Yeah, so I'm still tinkering with that. So 1686 01:42:02.760 --> 01:42:06.079 but it's kept for one hundred and sixty. 1687 01:42:05.439 --> 01:42:09.359 So so my DX. So my DX commander, I can 1688 01:42:09.399 --> 01:42:11.960 do eighty meters and I'll tune it to one sixty. 1689 01:42:12.119 --> 01:42:15.920 Not the best still, you know, three issues. But one 1690 01:42:16.039 --> 01:42:18.840 night I had nothing else better to do in the 1691 01:42:18.880 --> 01:42:20.720 winter time, and I was going up and down the 1692 01:42:20.760 --> 01:42:23.520 band bust some guys. They were probably around two three 1693 01:42:23.640 --> 01:42:25.760 hundred miles away from me, and it was sort of 1694 01:42:25.800 --> 01:42:28.880 like seventeen meters. They were gentlemen, it was. It was 1695 01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:31.760 a great conversation. Some some of the topics were a 1696 01:42:31.760 --> 01:42:35.399 little bit above and you know, over my my my understanding. 1697 01:42:35.920 --> 01:42:39.680 But regardless, there was no you know, a couple of 1698 01:42:39.760 --> 01:42:42.479 guys jumped in and and you know, one guy was 1699 01:42:42.520 --> 01:42:44.800 brand new, and to me it was very encouraging. It 1700 01:42:44.840 --> 01:42:49.640 was very encouraging because you know, sometimes on the bands 1701 01:42:49.680 --> 01:42:52.119 it can get like the wild West and I don't like. 1702 01:42:52.239 --> 01:42:56.600 Right, yes, yes, oh yeah, certain spot on eighty meters 1703 01:42:56.680 --> 01:42:57.159 is like that. 1704 01:42:57.760 --> 01:43:00.279 Yeah, a couple of couple of bands have that and 1705 01:43:00.359 --> 01:43:03.840 forty everyone they're forty two, right, So you stay away 1706 01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:05.880 if it's not if that's not your cup of tea, 1707 01:43:06.359 --> 01:43:09.640 that's that's my grandfather always said, you don't like what 1708 01:43:09.680 --> 01:43:13.479 you hear. That's why it's called the VFO exactly exactly. 1709 01:43:13.680 --> 01:43:18.600 Yep, yep. Yeah, So no, but that's just what's happening here, 1710 01:43:18.640 --> 01:43:22.159 you know, busy with with my folks and uh, trying 1711 01:43:22.199 --> 01:43:26.039 to plan trips when we can, and so it's it's 1712 01:43:26.079 --> 01:43:28.800 all good, it's all working out. But it's a very 1713 01:43:28.800 --> 01:43:33.880 big adjustment for us because you know, we just became 1714 01:43:34.000 --> 01:43:38.720 empty nesters, right and then and then my husband retired 1715 01:43:38.960 --> 01:43:45.880 and now we're back working again pretty much. So so yeah, yeah, 1716 01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:48.880 and we did. We cleared out my mom and dad's house. 1717 01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:51.279 And let me tell anybody who needs to hear this, 1718 01:43:51.880 --> 01:43:55.399 don't leave your your kids with a ton of stuff 1719 01:43:55.520 --> 01:43:58.239 that they'll have to go through, because my husband and 1720 01:43:58.279 --> 01:44:00.560 I went through so much stuff to get their house 1721 01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:04.279 ready for sale. It was just incredible. It was almost 1722 01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:08.079 hoarding like, so it was it was tough. So don't 1723 01:44:08.199 --> 01:44:10.800 leave that to your kids, whatever you do. That's that 1724 01:44:11.000 --> 01:44:14.319 was a nightmare. So we my husband I did it ourselves. 1725 01:44:14.319 --> 01:44:19.039 We cleaned it out and moved things, moved, furniture sold, 1726 01:44:19.039 --> 01:44:21.840 furniture sold, a bunch of things, kept some things, couldn't 1727 01:44:21.880 --> 01:44:22.479 keep everything. 1728 01:44:23.319 --> 01:44:23.760 And then. 1729 01:44:25.279 --> 01:44:27.319 They actually just sold their house. It just sold the 1730 01:44:27.479 --> 01:44:31.399 about one month ago. So yeah, so that that was hard. 1731 01:44:31.439 --> 01:44:33.439 You know, they lived in that house for fifty one years, 1732 01:44:33.640 --> 01:44:36.159 so that was an adjustment. 1733 01:44:36.279 --> 01:44:39.520 So yeah, did they have any hobbies, like how we 1734 01:44:39.560 --> 01:44:41.199 have our ham rate before of us, we have our 1735 01:44:41.239 --> 01:44:44.279 ham radio hobby, right and along with it comes a 1736 01:44:44.319 --> 01:44:45.199 lot of stuff. 1737 01:44:45.479 --> 01:44:45.840 It did. 1738 01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:49.479 Yes, did they have a hobby that that had a 1739 01:44:49.479 --> 01:44:50.239 lot of stuff? 1740 01:44:50.880 --> 01:44:53.359 Yeah, my dad had some organs, like a ham and 1741 01:44:53.560 --> 01:44:55.760 organ and a big huge I mean this this ham 1742 01:44:55.800 --> 01:44:58.039 and organ was ginormous and then the. 1743 01:44:58.000 --> 01:44:59.319 Speed they are they're huge. 1744 01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:02.319 Oh yeah. It was in the living room and so. 1745 01:45:02.560 --> 01:45:04.119 Oh my god. Really yeah. 1746 01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:06.560 Yeah, So my dad when he bought that, he had 1747 01:45:07.000 --> 01:45:10.359 to go even tected it. He put Jack's underneath the house, 1748 01:45:10.439 --> 01:45:12.119 just to make sure it wasn't gonna sag on the 1749 01:45:12.159 --> 01:45:15.800 wood floor. So and I'm not joking. So and then 1750 01:45:16.239 --> 01:45:18.520 well my dad had the stroke. My mom's like, and 1751 01:45:18.520 --> 01:45:20.479 my dad was in the hospital and my mom's like, I. 1752 01:45:20.439 --> 01:45:21.720 Want that organ out of here. 1753 01:45:23.399 --> 01:45:26.359 So we actually put an ad on pregslist for free 1754 01:45:26.479 --> 01:45:29.760 because it needed some work. And I tell you, within 1755 01:45:29.840 --> 01:45:33.840 three hours we had somebody coming from Lake Paris area 1756 01:45:34.439 --> 01:45:36.359 to come get it. And he said, how many guys 1757 01:45:36.359 --> 01:45:38.920 do you think I need to take this out of 1758 01:45:38.960 --> 01:45:42.640 the house? And I'm like four. It was heavy. It 1759 01:45:42.680 --> 01:45:43.239 was a heavy. 1760 01:45:43.399 --> 01:45:46.119 It was like, what did the ads say? Free? Just 1761 01:45:46.159 --> 01:45:46.880 get it out of here? 1762 01:45:47.600 --> 01:45:49.760 Yeah, and he yeah, my husband wrote the ad and 1763 01:45:49.840 --> 01:45:53.720 just what the model was and everything, and that thing 1764 01:45:53.760 --> 01:45:56.439 messed away seven hundred pounds just the organ itself. And 1765 01:45:56.479 --> 01:45:59.039 then there's a speaker too, So I mean it was 1766 01:45:59.119 --> 01:46:01.600 it was these guys were struggling. There was four guys. 1767 01:46:02.720 --> 01:46:05.960 So yeah, so but we're appreciative that he came and 1768 01:46:06.039 --> 01:46:06.640 picked it up. 1769 01:46:07.600 --> 01:46:11.000 So I always, I always think of myself and I'm 1770 01:46:11.000 --> 01:46:14.359 sure I'm sure all of us here, even everybody in chat, 1771 01:46:14.720 --> 01:46:17.800 what do we what our Ham all of our Ham 1772 01:46:17.920 --> 01:46:22.319 Radio stuff. We're really again, what are people? I'm like, 1773 01:46:22.439 --> 01:46:25.920 don't throw that away. Yeah I paid I paid some 1774 01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:28.239 damn good money for or I got it for a 1775 01:46:28.279 --> 01:46:31.960 great deal, and you're just gonna throw it away. I 1776 01:46:32.000 --> 01:46:35.640 will haunt your ass. Do not do that, right right, Yeah, 1777 01:46:36.039 --> 01:46:36.520 do that? 1778 01:46:37.039 --> 01:46:40.960 You know, unless the spouse knows how much that's worth, 1779 01:46:41.119 --> 01:46:42.199 that might be what happens. 1780 01:46:42.199 --> 01:46:45.600 I d have fair value and listen. And I've seen 1781 01:46:45.600 --> 01:46:47.920 a lot of times because I've I've helped over over 1782 01:46:47.960 --> 01:46:52.600 the years, you know, spouses, and and the answer is, 1783 01:46:52.920 --> 01:46:54.920 you know, it's been sitting here for a year now, 1784 01:46:55.000 --> 01:46:57.439 it's got to go. I understand. And I don't care. 1785 01:46:58.239 --> 01:47:01.039 I'm not like I'm looking to make some money. Yeah, 1786 01:47:01.199 --> 01:47:04.479 whatever you get, yeah, I'll take but you know, and 1787 01:47:04.520 --> 01:47:06.920 I'll make a donation, you know, to your club or 1788 01:47:07.079 --> 01:47:10.439 or something that you guys feel work. But it's just 1789 01:47:11.199 --> 01:47:13.920 it's very weird looking at other people stuff because you 1790 01:47:14.079 --> 01:47:18.479 look at it and the history of that device starts talking. 1791 01:47:18.079 --> 01:47:19.760 To you, right right. 1792 01:47:20.239 --> 01:47:24.640 It's just amazing. Yeah, you know when you go into 1793 01:47:24.640 --> 01:47:27.279 someone's basement and there at the desk is the radio 1794 01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:30.199 and all the all the little knick knacks that go 1795 01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:31.439 along with it. 1796 01:47:31.479 --> 01:47:34.520 So, yeah, well here's so. Yeah. On a side note, 1797 01:47:34.760 --> 01:47:40.800 you sparked my memory was there was another Ham, well 1798 01:47:40.840 --> 01:47:43.520 two Hams here in Clarmont, maybe about half a mile 1799 01:47:43.560 --> 01:47:48.880 away from where I am K six GMV. George Dines 1800 01:47:48.920 --> 01:47:53.239 and his wife were huge into six meters and they 1801 01:47:53.359 --> 01:47:56.720 kept their six meter log books paper logs for for 1802 01:47:56.880 --> 01:47:59.760 back in the fifties and sixties whatever seventies, I mean. 1803 01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:03.319 And there's just tons and tons and tons of six 1804 01:48:03.399 --> 01:48:04.279 year contacts. 1805 01:48:04.600 --> 01:48:09.399 So yeah, it's entries entries to scream. Don't those entries 1806 01:48:09.479 --> 01:48:12.680 scream to us? And then the hobby for anyone else, 1807 01:48:12.720 --> 01:48:14.800 they're like, yeah, it's just it's just it's just paid 1808 01:48:14.840 --> 01:48:15.880 for exactly. 1809 01:48:15.960 --> 01:48:19.199 Somebody would trash them. Yeah, yeah, but I have them. Well, 1810 01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:22.560 my friend will give them to me. So but yeah, 1811 01:48:22.600 --> 01:48:25.560 it's pretty neat to have. You know that that is 1812 01:48:25.560 --> 01:48:26.119 a history. 1813 01:48:26.359 --> 01:48:28.680 You know, it's hard to let go because it plus 1814 01:48:28.880 --> 01:48:31.319 you know, plus you too, you know what you've paid 1815 01:48:31.359 --> 01:48:35.039 for your stuff right right now, you're talking about about 1816 01:48:35.039 --> 01:48:37.199 making another purchase in the next you know, a couple 1817 01:48:37.239 --> 01:48:40.239 of months or whatever. Yeah, and then ten twenty years 1818 01:48:40.239 --> 01:48:43.880 down the line, you know, God forbid or whatever. You know, 1819 01:48:44.119 --> 01:48:47.279 you don't want that thing going for fifty bucks, right right? 1820 01:48:47.399 --> 01:48:50.840 Yeah, Well, my husband knows what's being paid for Ham radios, 1821 01:48:50.880 --> 01:48:52.800 so he's not going to show away. 1822 01:48:52.800 --> 01:48:54.800 But yes, but other spouses may not know. 1823 01:48:54.880 --> 01:48:57.199 They may think, oh, just get it out of here, 1824 01:48:57.239 --> 01:48:59.119 you know, throw it away, you know, or whatever, a 1825 01:48:59.159 --> 01:48:59.680 piece of junk. 1826 01:48:59.680 --> 01:49:04.199 It's just you know, it's gathering dust and taking up space. 1827 01:49:04.279 --> 01:49:04.800 Get it out. 1828 01:49:05.680 --> 01:49:08.000 Yeah, so no, that's. 1829 01:49:07.680 --> 01:49:09.159 It's yeah, I can understand that. 1830 01:49:09.399 --> 01:49:15.520 So yeah, I'm dying to ask you this question. What's 1831 01:49:15.840 --> 01:49:18.239 what's it like being on the West Coast and you 1832 01:49:18.319 --> 01:49:21.479 fire up your radio and I don't care what band? 1833 01:49:22.720 --> 01:49:24.800 What are you normally hitting? Are you hitting a lot 1834 01:49:24.840 --> 01:49:28.000 of Pacific stuff? Are you hitting a lot of uh, 1835 01:49:28.119 --> 01:49:33.359 you know, mid mid Midwest stations? For you to work me, 1836 01:49:34.039 --> 01:49:35.840 I know that what two or three times that we 1837 01:49:35.920 --> 01:49:38.840 have worked is it's always special. It doesn't happen all 1838 01:49:38.880 --> 01:49:41.600 the time. Yeah, So what's it like over on the 1839 01:49:41.640 --> 01:49:44.159 West Coast to play Ham radio? How you're and for 1840 01:49:44.239 --> 01:49:45.079 how you're doing it? 1841 01:49:45.319 --> 01:49:49.520 Well, I've been a Ham for what sixteen years or 1842 01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:52.000 so or more, I don't know when, and I've had 1843 01:49:52.039 --> 01:49:54.279 my extra for like five and a half or six 1844 01:49:54.319 --> 01:49:56.239 years something like that. I can't remember now, but it's 1845 01:49:56.239 --> 01:49:59.079 been a while, but I've worked all the all the 1846 01:49:59.079 --> 01:50:05.960 continents so over time. But my my pipeline, I would say, 1847 01:50:06.039 --> 01:50:12.159 is probably New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, those kind of things. Japan, 1848 01:50:12.880 --> 01:50:15.600 get a lot of Japan, get a lot of Japan, 1849 01:50:15.880 --> 01:50:19.199 and sometimes I get a lot of Spain too, which 1850 01:50:19.199 --> 01:50:23.079 is interesting. So I love that. So and then of 1851 01:50:23.119 --> 01:50:27.119 course South America. Yeah, in South America, so beginning Russia 1852 01:50:27.199 --> 01:50:33.920 lately too, so twenty meters uh, yeah, it's it's it's 1853 01:50:33.960 --> 01:50:37.239 fun though, but I like working at night time, you know, 1854 01:50:37.520 --> 01:50:39.520 the bands get a little more quiet and stuff like that. 1855 01:50:39.600 --> 01:50:41.479 But with the with the sun up and the heat 1856 01:50:41.560 --> 01:50:44.479 and the static, and I've got power lines basically in 1857 01:50:44.520 --> 01:50:47.880 my backyard, you know, from the electric you know, power 1858 01:50:47.880 --> 01:50:51.119 lines and stuff like that. Pigfull, so that that's you know, 1859 01:50:51.279 --> 01:50:55.760 probably adding to my noise. But eventually we can't do 1860 01:50:55.800 --> 01:50:57.720 it now, but my husband and I would love to 1861 01:50:57.840 --> 01:51:00.279 move and have a piece of land, you know, and 1862 01:51:00.279 --> 01:51:02.640 not have neighbors so close. Although we love our neighbors, 1863 01:51:02.680 --> 01:51:06.439 we really are blessed with some really, really great neighbors. 1864 01:51:07.039 --> 01:51:09.439 It would be so nice to have, you know, a 1865 01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:13.279 property that he can have his garage and I can 1866 01:51:13.359 --> 01:51:16.279 have my Hamshock with all my antennas and you know, 1867 01:51:16.800 --> 01:51:20.520 all that good stuff with not a lot of electrical 1868 01:51:20.560 --> 01:51:23.199 noise or hearing the dogs barking across the street, you 1869 01:51:23.239 --> 01:51:23.880 know kind of thing. 1870 01:51:24.119 --> 01:51:27.720 So that sounds like sounds like Kim and Larry just 1871 01:51:27.800 --> 01:51:30.680 need like fifty acres of just all that would. 1872 01:51:30.399 --> 01:51:33.119 Be nice, right, that's not going to happen for a while. 1873 01:51:33.880 --> 01:51:38.159 Sure, I think we all want that, Yeah, I really do. 1874 01:51:38.239 --> 01:51:41.359 I think we like that. I call it the elbow room. 1875 01:51:41.439 --> 01:51:44.600 We all like that. Yeah, but not too close kind 1876 01:51:44.600 --> 01:51:45.399 of right, right. 1877 01:51:45.520 --> 01:51:45.720 Yeah. 1878 01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:48.359 And with my dad, you know, we were really tied 1879 01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:48.800 down now. 1880 01:51:48.840 --> 01:51:50.479 I mean, there's no way to move him. You know, 1881 01:51:50.479 --> 01:51:54.520 he's very disabled, so that would be a huge undertaking 1882 01:51:54.560 --> 01:51:56.239 to get him moved. 1883 01:51:56.359 --> 01:51:57.760 You know, in his condition. 1884 01:51:58.520 --> 01:52:02.079 My mom she's a little better, but she's still pretty slow. 1885 01:52:02.199 --> 01:52:04.319 Got she needs some knees, new knees, you know, and 1886 01:52:04.359 --> 01:52:07.640 all that kind of thing. So it would be a 1887 01:52:07.920 --> 01:52:11.279 huge big deal to move both of them. But if 1888 01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:13.840 my mom was still here my dad's passed, that would 1889 01:52:13.880 --> 01:52:16.359 be more of a consideration of moving away, you know. 1890 01:52:16.399 --> 01:52:18.000 And we've already talked to her and said, hey, mom, 1891 01:52:18.319 --> 01:52:20.319 if something happens to dad, are you okay with moving 1892 01:52:20.399 --> 01:52:23.279 with us? And she's like sure, So, so that's good. 1893 01:52:23.319 --> 01:52:26.520 We've already had that, you know, that conversation. And sometimes 1894 01:52:26.520 --> 01:52:28.600 when I wake up in the morning, I'm so surprised 1895 01:52:28.800 --> 01:52:30.800 that my dad's still here to tell you the truth, 1896 01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:32.840 you know, because some days he doesn't look so good. 1897 01:52:32.960 --> 01:52:35.399 Other days he's like, looks great. So it's just a 1898 01:52:36.000 --> 01:52:38.119 big roller coaster of okay, is this the night that 1899 01:52:38.159 --> 01:52:39.960 I go to bed and he's gone the next day, 1900 01:52:40.039 --> 01:52:40.800 you know kind of thing. 1901 01:52:40.840 --> 01:52:43.039 And but at the end of the day, you know what, 1902 01:52:43.399 --> 01:52:45.239 I'm sure you're great. We're all blessed to. 1903 01:52:45.239 --> 01:52:48.439 Have what we have, right Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, 1904 01:52:48.479 --> 01:52:54.000 so we're definitely blessed. Yeah, so definitely. We didn't think 1905 01:52:54.039 --> 01:52:57.159 we would be doing this at the time of life. 1906 01:52:57.239 --> 01:52:59.800 You know, my husband and I are at now, you know, 1907 01:53:00.039 --> 01:53:02.560 but it is what it is, so, you know, and 1908 01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:06.079 they didn't plan for retirement, so you know, the house 1909 01:53:06.159 --> 01:53:08.960 sell is is what they're living off of now. So 1910 01:53:09.119 --> 01:53:11.520 and and we just if they were to go in 1911 01:53:11.560 --> 01:53:14.399 a nursing home, that money would be just swallowed up 1912 01:53:14.479 --> 01:53:20.079 pretty quick nursing homes are just crazy price. Yeah, it's 1913 01:53:20.199 --> 01:53:22.359 it's terrible, but you know, some people are fortunate to 1914 01:53:22.359 --> 01:53:24.840 be able to do that, but you know, in our situation, 1915 01:53:24.960 --> 01:53:28.000 we can't, so it made sense to bring them here. 1916 01:53:28.199 --> 01:53:30.479 So and now we're just the hired help. 1917 01:53:30.600 --> 01:53:33.399 It's getting so getting back to you now for a minute, 1918 01:53:33.399 --> 01:53:35.760 and I don't think we touched this the last time. 1919 01:53:36.800 --> 01:53:39.760 Besides the RV, Like on your own personal vehicles, do 1920 01:53:39.800 --> 01:53:41.840 you play radio? Do you know the v h F 1921 01:53:41.920 --> 01:53:44.359 U HF repeters in your area are do you play 1922 01:53:44.399 --> 01:53:46.600 Do you have anything installed or no? 1923 01:53:46.640 --> 01:53:49.520 Nothing is permanent in the RV or any cars and 1924 01:53:49.520 --> 01:53:51.840 stuff like that. So when we're driving, we're just driving 1925 01:53:52.479 --> 01:53:54.960 and you know, not really playing radio. Although I do 1926 01:53:55.079 --> 01:53:58.159 have one of my handhelds that I'll just have and 1927 01:53:58.199 --> 01:54:00.760 I can listen to while we're right I have like 1928 01:54:00.800 --> 01:54:04.119 earbuds actually can plug them into and just listen. I've 1929 01:54:04.159 --> 01:54:06.880 actually heard because we have U my call sign is 1930 01:54:06.920 --> 01:54:09.560 on the r V, and I've actually heard somebody call 1931 01:54:09.680 --> 01:54:12.039 my call sign through you know what I'm listening to 1932 01:54:12.199 --> 01:54:13.840 like one six five to two zero. 1933 01:54:14.520 --> 01:54:16.159 So and then I've tried to come back to. 1934 01:54:16.159 --> 01:54:17.920 Them, but you know, being on the freeway that it 1935 01:54:17.960 --> 01:54:21.479 goes pretty fast. But but yeah, so if there's. 1936 01:54:21.239 --> 01:54:24.039 Nothing really that's always a surprise, isn't it all. 1937 01:54:24.279 --> 01:54:25.359 Yeah, yeah, because. 1938 01:54:25.119 --> 01:54:27.680 I'm just listening, you know. And and sometimes yeah, when 1939 01:54:27.680 --> 01:54:31.199 we're driving, where's that radio, trying to think where it is? Oh, 1940 01:54:31.199 --> 01:54:37.079 it's over there, but yeah it's the uh Jay su 1941 01:54:38.439 --> 01:54:43.560 VR eight so and then you know, two meters forty 1942 01:54:44.279 --> 01:54:46.560 and it has six meters as well. But I'll listen 1943 01:54:46.640 --> 01:54:49.279 to two meters you know, on the the simplex, you know, 1944 01:54:49.319 --> 01:54:53.119 calling frequency. And sometimes we're just driving, I'll here soda, 1945 01:54:53.640 --> 01:54:57.600 you know, people working soda. You know, someone's in the air. Yeah, 1946 01:54:57.800 --> 01:54:59.479 hear them. I can't come back to them. They will 1947 01:54:59.560 --> 01:55:01.960 never hear me, you know, from you know the RV 1948 01:55:02.079 --> 01:55:04.000 inside the r V, you know, but I can hear 1949 01:55:04.079 --> 01:55:07.239 them sometimes, you know, working other people. And yeah, so 1950 01:55:07.279 --> 01:55:09.560 we're here locals talking to somebody. I know, they're never 1951 01:55:09.640 --> 01:55:12.039 gonna hear me with the antenna inside the RV. You know, 1952 01:55:12.119 --> 01:55:16.560 I'm not gonna transmit through that most likely. So but yeah, 1953 01:55:16.600 --> 01:55:17.079 it's fun. 1954 01:55:17.279 --> 01:55:17.960 I love that. 1955 01:55:18.159 --> 01:55:21.119 So and uh yeah, we're gonna get out again, go 1956 01:55:21.199 --> 01:55:23.880 camping in a few weeks and just have a nice time, 1957 01:55:24.000 --> 01:55:26.079 gonna go to the beach, gonna go to Refugio State 1958 01:55:26.159 --> 01:55:29.880 Beach up near Santa Barbara. So enjoy it. 1959 01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:32.000 Is. 1960 01:55:32.119 --> 01:55:35.720 Yes, it is. I've activated that one before, so yeah, 1961 01:55:35.920 --> 01:55:40.279 it's nice. So my favorite park, I'm a wood State 1962 01:55:40.359 --> 01:55:44.000 Beach is closed for camping right now because they had 1963 01:55:44.000 --> 01:55:46.720 some big king tides and just wiped out some of 1964 01:55:46.760 --> 01:55:50.640 the roads coming into the park and so they're gonna 1965 01:55:50.640 --> 01:55:51.680 eventually have to fix that. 1966 01:55:51.920 --> 01:55:57.000 So I cannot imagine that coming in and ruining the roads. 1967 01:55:57.359 --> 01:56:01.119 Yeah, the road was already really narrow to begin with, 1968 01:56:01.479 --> 01:56:04.520 and so yeah, it was. It's got a lot of 1969 01:56:04.560 --> 01:56:06.680 history that area, and it's i think one of the 1970 01:56:06.800 --> 01:56:09.119 parts of the history for the EMA would State Beaches. 1971 01:56:09.159 --> 01:56:12.960 I think it was an old World War two artillery 1972 01:56:13.039 --> 01:56:16.800 range as well, so back in the day. So yeah, 1973 01:56:16.800 --> 01:56:19.640 but it's it's one of my favorite places. And right 1974 01:56:19.640 --> 01:56:22.399 now it's sadly I can't go. I mean we could 1975 01:56:22.439 --> 01:56:25.439 go for a day, but the camping area is pretty 1976 01:56:25.880 --> 01:56:28.520 inaccessible right now. From what I've heard, we haven't been 1977 01:56:28.560 --> 01:56:29.520 able to go and see it. 1978 01:56:29.600 --> 01:56:33.880 So so when you park the r V, walk us 1979 01:56:33.920 --> 01:56:35.680 through what antennas are going to go. 1980 01:56:35.680 --> 01:56:40.119 Up the deal is I'll make larious sandwich. 1981 01:56:40.159 --> 01:56:44.239 He puts up the antenna, and that's the bribe. 1982 01:56:44.399 --> 01:56:47.479 That's the bribe, right works and it works every time, 1983 01:56:47.560 --> 01:56:47.960 does it. 1984 01:56:48.439 --> 01:56:50.039 Yeah, I'll make Lynch you get. 1985 01:56:52.319 --> 01:56:54.199 You got him or. 1986 01:56:54.239 --> 01:56:56.920 He's trained me. Either way, you know, it's still a. 1987 01:56:56.960 --> 01:56:59.560 Damn good sandwich. Y. Yeah, this is right. 1988 01:56:59.800 --> 01:57:02.760 So it's the it's the homebrew vertical that goes up. 1989 01:57:02.840 --> 01:57:05.159 And if you look on my cure Z page, there's 1990 01:57:05.199 --> 01:57:07.760 a picture of the r V and you can see 1991 01:57:08.119 --> 01:57:11.359 on the back of the r V is the antenna, 1992 01:57:11.439 --> 01:57:15.720 the blue antenna, the folks and then oh and then. 1993 01:57:17.720 --> 01:57:19.840 I'm I was being pretty geeky that day. 1994 01:57:19.880 --> 01:57:25.239 I put the shark uh on the front bumper, you know, 1995 01:57:25.279 --> 01:57:29.560 with the magmount. So the shark's on the magmount on 1996 01:57:29.600 --> 01:57:32.920 the front bumper, and then the other antennas on the back, 1997 01:57:33.000 --> 01:57:34.039 the blue one on the back. 1998 01:57:35.319 --> 01:57:38.159 So I got exactly vertical. But who cares? 1999 01:57:38.640 --> 01:57:41.720 Right, No, isn't it? But see I'm not allowed to 2000 01:57:41.840 --> 01:57:46.239 put the magnet mount on the paint. 2001 01:57:47.119 --> 01:57:51.279 So is that Larry's Is that Larry's rules? 2002 01:57:51.439 --> 01:57:52.199 Yes, that's Larry. 2003 01:57:52.600 --> 01:57:55.000 So you gotta make you gotta make him a bigger sandwich. 2004 01:57:55.039 --> 01:57:58.039 That's all. Throw a pickle and some potato chips on 2005 01:57:58.079 --> 01:57:58.840 the side, come on. 2006 01:57:59.239 --> 01:58:01.399 Right, and beer or something right. 2007 01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:06.800 Sweeten the deal. Yeah, I kiss a kiss on the cheek. 2008 01:58:06.840 --> 01:58:07.920 That's all it's going to take. 2009 01:58:08.199 --> 01:58:10.520 Yeah. So yeah, so yeah, that's fun. It's I just 2010 01:58:10.560 --> 01:58:12.439 make him a sandwich. I get the antenna put up. 2011 01:58:15.720 --> 01:58:19.560 So there was actually one time I think we had 2012 01:58:19.600 --> 01:58:23.199 already eaten and and you just put it up anyway. 2013 01:58:23.159 --> 01:58:25.439 So that was it. So you're all r V and 2014 01:58:25.600 --> 01:58:27.479 what's the radio and what are you doing for a 2015 01:58:27.520 --> 01:58:28.680 power source? Now? Right? 2016 01:58:28.720 --> 01:58:33.960 Okay, so the that's a BiONO battery and then usually 2017 01:58:34.039 --> 01:58:36.399 I'll bring the Icon seventy three hundred. That's usually what 2018 01:58:36.439 --> 01:58:38.359 I break. And then I have a backup radio which 2019 01:58:38.399 --> 01:58:43.239 is the U Y fifty seventy, So that's the backup. 2020 01:58:43.279 --> 01:58:45.439 And then sometimes if I feel a little bit like 2021 01:58:46.680 --> 01:58:49.560 thinking that I may have weird troubles, I'll bring another 2022 01:58:49.640 --> 01:58:53.640 extra radio which is the JIUG ninety just in case. 2023 01:58:53.800 --> 01:58:54.279 Right, you know. 2024 01:58:56.039 --> 01:59:00.079 All the bases right there, yeah, and some handhelds and 2025 01:59:00.079 --> 01:59:04.600 stuff like that. But yeah, the power is the the 2026 01:59:04.600 --> 01:59:06.199 the bio and no battery. 2027 01:59:06.680 --> 01:59:10.159 So are you are you using any solar to recharge 2028 01:59:10.199 --> 01:59:12.119 that bio and or do you wait to like, how 2029 01:59:12.159 --> 01:59:12.680 do you do that? 2030 01:59:13.079 --> 01:59:17.479 Right? The the RV does have solar so I can recharge. Yeah, 2031 01:59:17.680 --> 01:59:20.279 so I have a Yeah, it's all perfect. So yeah, 2032 01:59:20.279 --> 01:59:21.920 it's it's great, it's great. 2033 01:59:23.000 --> 01:59:24.960 Well, Jess got the big question, You're going to go 2034 01:59:25.039 --> 01:59:26.640 to Alabama with that thing or what? 2035 01:59:29.039 --> 01:59:32.439 I don't have any time right now, and I would 2036 01:59:32.520 --> 01:59:35.600 love to. That would be so so fun to do that. 2037 01:59:35.720 --> 01:59:39.079 But you know, that's getting away for just two days 2038 01:59:39.159 --> 01:59:40.680 is great, but getting. 2039 01:59:41.520 --> 01:59:44.279 So let's ask you. So let's say let's say let's 2040 01:59:44.279 --> 01:59:47.960 say your home situation was different. Okay, I'm gonna pose 2041 01:59:48.039 --> 01:59:51.319 a big question for you. Which hand fest would you 2042 01:59:51.399 --> 01:59:55.039 go to? First? Would you go to Huntsville, hamd Cash 2043 01:59:55.399 --> 01:59:58.119 or ham vengein which would would you know? Which one 2044 01:59:58.159 --> 01:59:59.760 do you think you would want to go to? 2045 02:00:00.680 --> 02:00:03.239 Okay, so I'm guessing the Huntsville is closer to the ocean? 2046 02:00:03.319 --> 02:00:03.680 Correct? 2047 02:00:05.319 --> 02:00:05.960 Nor? 2048 02:00:06.119 --> 02:00:08.239 Now, which one's the closest to an ocean? Because I 2049 02:00:08.239 --> 02:00:13.399 want to go Oh okay, there you go, there you go. 2050 02:00:13.439 --> 02:00:15.319 Whichever one gets me to the ocean. 2051 02:00:16.560 --> 02:00:17.920 I'm on the Big three. 2052 02:00:18.039 --> 02:00:20.880 Yeah, that's probably an hour from the ocean. 2053 02:00:21.119 --> 02:00:23.560 Okay, Yeah, then I'll do that. 2054 02:00:25.039 --> 02:00:28.479 Because and then and because each ham Fest offers something 2055 02:00:28.560 --> 02:00:32.199 a little bit different as far as as it's vibe 2056 02:00:32.239 --> 02:00:36.159 going so right, and brother, don No, this year, I 2057 02:00:36.199 --> 02:00:39.079 don't think I can because we got two kids leaving 2058 02:00:39.159 --> 02:00:42.960 for college, and I think Huntsville is when number two goes. 2059 02:00:43.239 --> 02:00:47.079 They go at separate times, so unfortunately, I think I'm 2060 02:00:47.119 --> 02:00:51.600 just waiting for the schedules to come out. So but anyway, 2061 02:00:52.840 --> 02:00:54.760 I'll get there, don I will get there. 2062 02:00:55.760 --> 02:00:57.640 I would love to have never been to any of. 2063 02:00:57.560 --> 02:00:59.039 Those, you know, just me either. 2064 02:00:59.479 --> 02:01:02.520 I want to experience I want to experience that sensory 2065 02:01:02.680 --> 02:01:06.640 overload right in a weird way. Of that would be 2066 02:01:06.760 --> 02:01:07.880 Orlando or Dayton. 2067 02:01:08.279 --> 02:01:11.159 Okay, yeah, Orlando sounds good. Yeah, I would love to. 2068 02:01:11.600 --> 02:01:12.239 I would love to. 2069 02:01:13.159 --> 02:01:13.359 Yeah. 2070 02:01:13.359 --> 02:01:15.760 We went to Florida back in nineteen ninety nine, but 2071 02:01:16.199 --> 02:01:18.800 that was for a business trip for my husband and 2072 02:01:18.840 --> 02:01:21.840 it was a back in the day then nineteen nine, 2073 02:01:21.880 --> 02:01:23.319 and they were trying to get us to move out 2074 02:01:23.319 --> 02:01:26.680 there with this company. And and when we saw the 2075 02:01:26.720 --> 02:01:29.520 size of the mosquitoes, we were a little a little concerned. 2076 02:01:31.000 --> 02:01:35.920 That's the state bird of Florida. Yeah, Steven, Joe, my 2077 02:01:36.760 --> 02:01:41.000 put everything else aside the eyeball handshakeing. Q shows have 2078 02:01:41.119 --> 02:01:43.520 got to be great because I missed that here in 2079 02:01:43.560 --> 02:01:46.279 my region. I really really missed. Am I right, that's 2080 02:01:46.319 --> 02:01:49.439 got to be great to you know, especially that first time, 2081 02:01:49.520 --> 02:01:56.640 you know, yeah, absolutely, and yeah, Jeff said it, he's 2082 02:01:56.680 --> 02:02:00.199 been to all three. Huntsville's his favorite. He grew up 2083 02:02:00.199 --> 02:02:02.600 in Orlando, though, so there is that. 2084 02:02:03.239 --> 02:02:09.640 Yeah, Huntsville was my first, and that one is now 2085 02:02:09.680 --> 02:02:10.880 just on my list to go. 2086 02:02:10.800 --> 02:02:13.880 To every year. M hm. 2087 02:02:14.279 --> 02:02:18.800 Because I know, I booked my campsite on my way out, 2088 02:02:18.960 --> 02:02:20.199 if not a day or. 2089 02:02:20.199 --> 02:02:23.439 Two before I leave for the next year. I think 2090 02:02:23.520 --> 02:02:27.119 Joe does the same thing, right, because if not, you're 2091 02:02:27.119 --> 02:02:29.760 not getting a campsite. Yeah. 2092 02:02:30.319 --> 02:02:31.199 Yeah. 2093 02:02:33.039 --> 02:02:37.359 But if you can't, though, Steve, if can you stay 2094 02:02:37.399 --> 02:02:42.239 at a local hotel and just carpool from the. 2095 02:02:42.760 --> 02:02:47.479 Yeah he or whatever, you know, taking it at the 2096 02:02:48.000 --> 02:02:51.800 right right. 2097 02:02:51.439 --> 02:02:55.600 So the ham fist happens right next door to a hotel. 2098 02:02:56.039 --> 02:02:58.600 You don't even have to walk outside mm hmm. 2099 02:02:59.000 --> 02:03:01.840 If you want to spend the money the Embassy suite, 2100 02:03:02.319 --> 02:03:03.399 I think it is the embassy. 2101 02:03:03.720 --> 02:03:05.800 You never have to leave the air condition if you 2102 02:03:05.800 --> 02:03:06.319 don't want to. 2103 02:03:06.800 --> 02:03:09.800 Yeah, you could literally catch a shuttle from the airport 2104 02:03:10.039 --> 02:03:11.880 over to the embassy and never even have to have 2105 02:03:11.920 --> 02:03:12.279 a car. 2106 02:03:12.840 --> 02:03:14.640 Right now, if you want to come up to the 2107 02:03:14.640 --> 02:03:15.840 mountain where we're at. 2108 02:03:17.119 --> 02:03:19.560 Right, and there's and there's other parts, it's just not 2109 02:03:19.680 --> 02:03:23.600 where we're congregating at right. Yeah, So you know, if 2110 02:03:23.640 --> 02:03:26.479 you're you're set on a bringing a camper or writting 2111 02:03:26.479 --> 02:03:31.159 a camper or tent camping like you'd like to or whatever, Yeah, 2112 02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:32.840 there's other close by parts. 2113 02:03:34.479 --> 02:03:37.720 Well, yeah, that would be a dream to go to 2114 02:03:37.720 --> 02:03:40.279 one of those. I would love to, you know, I 2115 02:03:40.319 --> 02:03:44.159 would really love to, but not not at the moment. 2116 02:03:45.199 --> 02:03:49.319 Huntsles Just it's what's so attractive about it is everybody 2117 02:03:49.359 --> 02:03:52.600 gets to slow down a little bit. There's still tons 2118 02:03:52.680 --> 02:03:57.079 of of new gear and new vendor things, and then 2119 02:03:57.079 --> 02:04:00.520 there's a big flea market section as well, and really 2120 02:04:00.600 --> 02:04:03.920 it just keeps growing. Oh wow. But it's all inside 2121 02:04:03.960 --> 02:04:05.840 and it's all air conditioned, so it don't matter if it's 2122 02:04:05.920 --> 02:04:08.640 raining or how hot it is outside unless you're like 2123 02:04:08.720 --> 02:04:11.119 me and you buy an Amritron amplifier and didn't bring 2124 02:04:11.119 --> 02:04:13.079 no cart to tote it three miles back to card 2125 02:04:17.159 --> 02:04:21.359 but just get just getting to to experience the show. 2126 02:04:21.840 --> 02:04:25.760 And see everything at the show within the weekend, but 2127 02:04:25.880 --> 02:04:28.199 then having so much time to sit and meet with 2128 02:04:28.279 --> 02:04:31.119 folks at you know, when we get together Pavilion, or 2129 02:04:31.159 --> 02:04:33.720 when we go out to the town and huntschool and 2130 02:04:33.760 --> 02:04:37.479 find somewhere to eat and hang out. What I haven't 2131 02:04:37.520 --> 02:04:41.119 been to Orlando, but Dayton. Now, Dayton is something that 2132 02:04:41.199 --> 02:04:43.600 every Ham radio operator that everyone wants to go to 2133 02:04:43.640 --> 02:04:47.560 any Ham fast should experience. But it's it's just so 2134 02:04:47.800 --> 02:04:52.920 huge and anybody trying to make content or maybe working 2135 02:04:52.960 --> 02:04:55.039 a booth or something like that, it's just so busy. 2136 02:04:55.640 --> 02:04:57.920 So what's your favorite restaurant out there that and when 2137 02:04:57.920 --> 02:04:59.720 you go and you're done and you think, you guys 2138 02:04:59.760 --> 02:05:03.039 gonna have something to eat and. 2139 02:05:02.199 --> 02:05:06.880 A Huntsville Yeah, so usually we go to a place 2140 02:05:06.920 --> 02:05:10.840 called Campus eight or five. So that's an old you 2141 02:05:10.840 --> 02:05:13.560 know school that they closed down and then they put 2142 02:05:14.279 --> 02:05:17.680 several different breweries and eating places and stuff in it. 2143 02:05:18.000 --> 02:05:21.359 That's been our go to because so many things to 2144 02:05:21.479 --> 02:05:25.640 do in that one location. Oh nice, there's there's a 2145 02:05:25.680 --> 02:05:26.359 lot of options. 2146 02:05:26.399 --> 02:05:31.359 But yeah, we we found quite a number of different 2147 02:05:31.359 --> 02:05:36.479 breweries in Huntsville and most of them have some sort 2148 02:05:36.520 --> 02:05:41.079 of food mm hmm. But and then of course we 2149 02:05:41.159 --> 02:05:45.720 all hang out up the state park where we're camping 2150 02:05:45.840 --> 02:05:48.640 or in the cabins, depending on where. 2151 02:05:48.840 --> 02:05:51.319 Breakfast you gotta go to the Blue Plate. 2152 02:05:51.520 --> 02:06:00.279 Yes, breakfast, Wow, what's the favorite there? What's the favorite 2153 02:06:00.359 --> 02:06:04.840 at the Blue play and eggs, pancakes, everything, everything, and 2154 02:06:05.000 --> 02:06:07.840 is ooh, it's like the diners up there by you. Okay, 2155 02:06:08.920 --> 02:06:12.319 it's a true diner, true diner. Okay, gotcha. 2156 02:06:12.520 --> 02:06:16.479 So the campground there in Huntsville, does that get pretty 2157 02:06:16.479 --> 02:06:17.800 booked up around. 2158 02:06:17.520 --> 02:06:21.479 Those Oh, it's entirely pat but already. 2159 02:06:21.119 --> 02:06:24.039 They allow you to book up to three hundred and 2160 02:06:24.039 --> 02:06:30.840 sixty four days out. It's booked. If you leave and 2161 02:06:31.000 --> 02:06:33.640 don't reserve, you're going to have a hard time getting it. 2162 02:06:34.720 --> 02:06:37.399 That's amazing because California, I think you're only allowed to 2163 02:06:37.439 --> 02:06:38.920 book six months in advance. 2164 02:06:39.680 --> 02:06:45.199 Yeah, so yeah, Alabama residents can book a month earlier 2165 02:06:45.199 --> 02:06:49.279 than thirteen months out. Oh okay, so what does everyone do? 2166 02:06:49.359 --> 02:06:51.840 Put it on your calendar as a reminder, I need 2167 02:06:51.880 --> 02:06:56.640 to go book on this day from a logistics. 2168 02:06:55.600 --> 02:06:59.720 Well for Huntsville, Yeah, for Huntsville. Yeah, when you're checking, 2169 02:06:59.760 --> 02:07:01.960 you can tell me you want it again, and they're like, 2170 02:07:02.039 --> 02:07:05.119 well you have to wait. But if you know the 2171 02:07:05.119 --> 02:07:08.800 hack to the website, you can actually go ahead and 2172 02:07:08.840 --> 02:07:13.880 book your stay for the next year, even if it's 2173 02:07:13.920 --> 02:07:17.119 outside of the date range, so you don't have to 2174 02:07:17.159 --> 02:07:19.279 wait a day. Then if at least one of your 2175 02:07:19.359 --> 02:07:20.520 days is within the date. 2176 02:07:20.439 --> 02:07:23.279 Range, which talking about all these tips and tricks, we 2177 02:07:23.520 --> 02:07:24.199 will be out of it. 2178 02:07:24.760 --> 02:07:26.760 Yeah, don't give all the Yeah. 2179 02:07:27.840 --> 02:07:30.600 I'll literally book it as i'm driving in if I 2180 02:07:30.640 --> 02:07:33.000 have to me. 2181 02:07:33.199 --> 02:07:35.640 My wife used to always just get a cabin up there. 2182 02:07:35.680 --> 02:07:40.359 And they ain't got it thirteen cabins, so they go quick, 2183 02:07:40.680 --> 02:07:41.640 they go very quick. 2184 02:07:42.000 --> 02:07:45.399 Oh wow, how many sites are at the park? 2185 02:07:48.399 --> 02:07:52.680 Over eighty isn't And then you got primitive tip camping, 2186 02:07:53.439 --> 02:07:54.319 pretty good size. 2187 02:07:56.399 --> 02:07:58.479 Hang on, I'll tell you here in just a second. 2188 02:08:00.359 --> 02:08:03.000 I am pulling it up right now. Jody says it 2189 02:08:03.039 --> 02:08:05.199 best give away all your tricks and you'll be bunking 2190 02:08:05.319 --> 02:08:12.520 with with with Jim now. Because Jim gets the single camp, 2191 02:08:13.039 --> 02:08:16.520 single cabin stack him and Rackham. 2192 02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:18.319 It comes down to that, I'm going to stay at 2193 02:08:18.319 --> 02:08:23.920 the rangers. Ass Ah wouldn't. 2194 02:08:23.560 --> 02:08:26.479 Be surprised if he doesn't set up some campsites and 2195 02:08:26.760 --> 02:08:32.039 his front yard. They do. They have a way of 2196 02:08:32.119 --> 02:08:34.840 expanding that Huntsville you're you know the area that you 2197 02:08:34.840 --> 02:08:37.279 guys always go, is your way of them expanding. 2198 02:08:37.439 --> 02:08:40.640 The building they're in, the Van Bryn Center. Yeah, Mark 2199 02:08:42.279 --> 02:08:46.880 has talked about that before. They they've got so many 2200 02:08:46.880 --> 02:08:49.199 options to expand in that building, they'll never run out 2201 02:08:49.239 --> 02:08:49.600 of space. 2202 02:08:49.640 --> 02:08:51.880 Okay. And then what about the pavilion now, which is 2203 02:08:51.920 --> 02:08:57.359 a total separate now the park. The pavilions are what 2204 02:08:57.399 --> 02:08:59.920 they are. There are one hundred and two campsites. 2205 02:09:00.680 --> 02:09:01.720 Oh, that's nice. 2206 02:09:02.520 --> 02:09:09.640 Yeah, and I think the nice eighty five there's eighty 2207 02:09:09.640 --> 02:09:12.920 five r V sites and then the rest are primitive. 2208 02:09:13.880 --> 02:09:15.800 Nice. That's a decent amount. 2209 02:09:16.159 --> 02:09:19.640 Is it fair to say? Though? The YouTube Ham Radio 2210 02:09:19.720 --> 02:09:24.840 YouTube world exploded that area probably over the last five 2211 02:09:24.920 --> 02:09:25.399 or six years. 2212 02:09:25.439 --> 02:09:25.640 Yeah. 2213 02:09:25.680 --> 02:09:27.359 Did it increase the popularity that park? 2214 02:09:28.039 --> 02:09:28.840 Right, that's why. 2215 02:09:30.359 --> 02:09:37.079 Well interesting that that part is popular on its own. Yeah, Okay, 2216 02:09:37.159 --> 02:09:40.720 that weekend is we're known as the Ham Radio people. 2217 02:09:42.199 --> 02:09:44.760 Are you all the Ham Radio people? Yes, that's that's 2218 02:09:44.800 --> 02:09:45.439 your residence. 2219 02:09:45.640 --> 02:09:48.720 So the Rangers are pretty well used to antennas and 2220 02:09:48.760 --> 02:09:49.560 all kinds. 2221 02:09:49.319 --> 02:09:50.840 Of the Rangers of Ham. 2222 02:09:51.600 --> 02:09:53.560 Oh, okay, there you go. That's even better, right. 2223 02:09:53.800 --> 02:09:56.039 Yeah, he busted us on five too. 2224 02:09:58.199 --> 02:09:58.680 First year. 2225 02:09:59.000 --> 02:10:02.600 Yeah, oh nice, wow. 2226 02:10:03.560 --> 02:10:07.319 Uh yeah, I'm looking this year for Huntsville. There are 2227 02:10:08.000 --> 02:10:12.479 four No, sorry, there's a few primitive sites remaining. 2228 02:10:12.560 --> 02:10:15.760 Still, Now, what is considered a primitive what's a what is? 2229 02:10:15.880 --> 02:10:17.520 For a guy like me who doesn't know what's what 2230 02:10:17.520 --> 02:10:21.319 does a primitive site mean? That's tenth only ten? Okay, 2231 02:10:22.159 --> 02:10:26.079 you can bring sleeping bag two. Yeah, it's a flat. 2232 02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:30.800 I'm picturing a what fifteen fifteen by fifteen piece of 2233 02:10:30.880 --> 02:10:37.800 land for you? I doubt it. What's primitive? Full shade, 2234 02:10:38.439 --> 02:10:43.920 no water, no sewer eight guess maximum two vehicles. Okay, 2235 02:10:44.680 --> 02:10:46.239 how far away is the bathroom? 2236 02:10:47.760 --> 02:10:49.159 You have to look that up on the map. 2237 02:10:49.760 --> 02:10:49.960 Yeah. 2238 02:10:50.800 --> 02:10:52.760 Yeah, you're gonna have to plan your right. 2239 02:10:53.079 --> 02:10:54.880 If you need a bathroom close, you need to know 2240 02:10:55.000 --> 02:10:57.199 where that is, you know, when you're making your reservation. 2241 02:10:57.399 --> 02:10:59.079 Because I'm an all I'm an old man. 2242 02:10:59.199 --> 02:11:01.479 So if I got to get a walking four o'clock, 2243 02:11:03.159 --> 02:11:06.359 there's a reason my sight is directly across from the bathhouse. 2244 02:11:07.960 --> 02:11:10.039 I don't like walking that far that early in the morning. 2245 02:11:12.359 --> 02:11:15.039 Yeah, if you're tent camping, is like hiking in. 2246 02:11:15.079 --> 02:11:19.359 Him and I just gonna say a pit, toilet or whatever, man, 2247 02:11:20.359 --> 02:11:23.640 can I bring it a five gallon you know, a 2248 02:11:23.720 --> 02:11:27.800 home depot bucket with me? I mean it is full shade, 2249 02:11:27.840 --> 02:11:32.000 there's plenty of trees around. Not saying you can, but 2250 02:11:32.079 --> 02:11:33.359 I'm not saying you can't. 2251 02:11:33.680 --> 02:11:39.520 Right, Mike Uhr. Car camped at least one night, Oh yeah. 2252 02:11:39.399 --> 02:11:43.920 In a primitive spot one night and then car camp. Yeah. 2253 02:11:44.039 --> 02:11:45.039 Yeah, a lot of people do that. 2254 02:11:45.880 --> 02:11:48.279 Jeff's mentioning about the deer, that's all. I'm sure the 2255 02:11:48.319 --> 02:11:49.800 deer is gonna look at me and say, dude, what 2256 02:11:49.840 --> 02:11:50.279 are you doing? 2257 02:11:50.960 --> 02:11:53.239 You know, that's one of the. 2258 02:11:55.119 --> 02:11:55.159 Like. 2259 02:11:55.279 --> 02:11:57.640 So that's one of the things that I do at 2260 02:11:57.800 --> 02:12:00.720 h at the Parking Hospital because I like to get 2261 02:12:00.800 --> 02:12:03.319 up early in the morning. Hopefully the weather's just right 2262 02:12:03.399 --> 02:12:05.560 to where there's it's kind of foggy. I love a 2263 02:12:05.640 --> 02:12:08.279 foggy morning, especially when you're up in a little mountain. 2264 02:12:08.520 --> 02:12:11.720 Oh nice. But then get a cup of coffee and 2265 02:12:11.840 --> 02:12:14.399 go walk in the trails and like ten fifteen feet 2266 02:12:14.399 --> 02:12:15.960 away from you, there's here walking. 2267 02:12:16.319 --> 02:12:20.079 Oh wow, Joe, walk the trail. Hell, we were sitting 2268 02:12:20.159 --> 02:12:24.439 on your camping pad. Yeah, and they walked right past us, 2269 02:12:24.960 --> 02:12:25.840 like eight feet away. 2270 02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:26.680 You know. 2271 02:12:26.760 --> 02:12:30.039 One year we had to call the ranger was like, hey, buddy, uh, 2272 02:12:30.560 --> 02:12:33.439 we got a little fun that mama. Don't run off 2273 02:12:33.479 --> 02:12:38.079 and left her. And he keeps getting closer to us 2274 02:12:38.119 --> 02:12:40.279 and he's like, don't touch it. I'm like, we're not, 2275 02:12:40.560 --> 02:12:42.680 but we like he's already ran us away from the 2276 02:12:42.680 --> 02:12:45.600 picnic table. We're standing in the road. We need you 2277 02:12:45.680 --> 02:12:49.279 to come get this thing right. It's cool, and I'm 2278 02:12:49.319 --> 02:12:51.640 having to keep my wife from scooping it up and 2279 02:12:51.880 --> 02:12:54.039 catching a federal charge trying to take it home. 2280 02:12:54.439 --> 02:12:58.399 You want to think it all. Yeah, she's already giving 2281 02:12:58.399 --> 02:13:00.600 it a name. It ready has the name Joe At 2282 02:13:00.640 --> 02:13:03.800 that boy, the worst. 2283 02:13:03.680 --> 02:13:07.119 Worst animal we've run across in camping, you know, is 2284 02:13:07.159 --> 02:13:07.600 a skunk. 2285 02:13:07.720 --> 02:13:10.119 You know. I mean I have never been sprayed, but 2286 02:13:10.720 --> 02:13:13.199 you know, we were at El Copye Tennesday Beach one 2287 02:13:13.239 --> 02:13:16.199 time in the lower loop and at night time there 2288 02:13:16.319 --> 02:13:20.199 was about ten skunk just walking around, you know, at night, 2289 02:13:20.319 --> 02:13:22.880 and we're like, oh my god, get out of here. 2290 02:13:23.560 --> 02:13:26.920 So is oh you asked here you go. Here's your 2291 02:13:26.960 --> 02:13:31.000 primitive campsites up here on the top, and your bathhouse 2292 02:13:31.079 --> 02:13:34.039 is down at the bottom of the page there or 2293 02:13:34.279 --> 02:13:36.800 over on the left loop. And what's that scale? So 2294 02:13:36.800 --> 02:13:39.039 what's that scale, like a five minute walk, ten minute 2295 02:13:39.319 --> 02:13:41.680 What are we looking at? Yeah, five minutes the most, 2296 02:13:42.800 --> 02:13:48.560 and night's gonna filly five miles, well, especially at night. 2297 02:13:49.159 --> 02:13:51.520 And if you're looking at that lower bathhouse, let me 2298 02:13:51.560 --> 02:13:54.600 see if I can zoom in on it here. So 2299 02:13:56.199 --> 02:13:59.720 seventy four, Joe, that's your normal spot. 2300 02:13:59.560 --> 02:14:04.039 Right, that's where I was at last year. I'm in 2301 02:14:04.159 --> 02:14:07.319 thirty this, you're in thirty, okay, and I'm over in 2302 02:14:07.399 --> 02:14:10.000 fifty one. I'm gonna make that whole big old loop 2303 02:14:10.119 --> 02:14:11.319 just to get back around to thirty. 2304 02:14:12.159 --> 02:14:12.920 Oh yeah, you do. 2305 02:14:14.079 --> 02:14:15.800 That's a decent sized park for sure. 2306 02:14:16.279 --> 02:14:18.239 Oh yeah, it's it's a great park. 2307 02:14:18.800 --> 02:14:21.039 Yeah, I've seen some of the YouTubers on there, and 2308 02:14:21.119 --> 02:14:24.880 I'll I see it's really beautiful, a lot of trees. 2309 02:14:24.960 --> 02:14:27.399 From what I say, it's it's full shade. So don't 2310 02:14:27.439 --> 02:14:29.159 expect starling to work right. 2311 02:14:29.199 --> 02:14:35.479 Right, except inside thirty Burne was a little upset that 2312 02:14:35.560 --> 02:14:40.359 I got that. Holy that's neat. Sorry. 2313 02:14:40.439 --> 02:14:42.520 Yeah, I don't have starlinks, so I don't worried about that. 2314 02:14:42.760 --> 02:14:46.600 But but yeah, I'm sure a stream from there, you know, 2315 02:14:46.720 --> 02:14:47.279 you do want that? 2316 02:14:47.880 --> 02:14:51.000 Yeah, well, Steve, you forgot to mention the buddy sits 2317 02:14:51.399 --> 02:14:53.760 Mike and we forty nine by. 2318 02:14:54.159 --> 02:14:57.199 Right, well, and I'm in fifty one either a ARB, 2319 02:14:57.319 --> 02:14:59.960 I don't know which, and then Ken and Jess from 2320 02:15:00.159 --> 02:15:04.119 Texas or in the other side of that, so they 2321 02:15:04.359 --> 02:15:07.239 they rented out as two separate sites. But what you 2322 02:15:07.319 --> 02:15:09.880 do is you find a friend that is coming and 2323 02:15:09.960 --> 02:15:11.680 you make sure that you get that site with them, 2324 02:15:12.520 --> 02:15:14.000 so you don't have somebody that's not. 2325 02:15:14.119 --> 02:15:18.279 Part of your group. Has that happened before, it has 2326 02:15:18.840 --> 02:15:25.760 it has the pretentious, pretentious the word. 2327 02:15:27.199 --> 02:15:31.600 Somebody was in I think fifty one A and then 2328 02:15:31.720 --> 02:15:35.560 this massive RV pulled into fifty one B. They were 2329 02:15:35.600 --> 02:15:39.479 there for one night, and of course forty nine may 2330 02:15:39.560 --> 02:15:40.800 have been the party site. 2331 02:15:42.279 --> 02:15:45.880 So imagine those people, What the hell happened? What the 2332 02:15:45.960 --> 02:15:49.199 hell do we picking? Can you imagine? Can you imagine 2333 02:15:49.279 --> 02:15:53.199 the discussion of them when they were leaving, you know, 2334 02:15:54.199 --> 02:15:56.840 was she blaming him or he blaming her? That that 2335 02:15:56.840 --> 02:15:59.399 would have been a funny just to listen to. 2336 02:16:00.720 --> 02:16:03.640 Most of the time, we have really good camping experiences, 2337 02:16:03.720 --> 02:16:05.800 my husband and I and but there's been just a 2338 02:16:05.880 --> 02:16:08.800 couple of times where we've had some of the worst experiences, 2339 02:16:08.920 --> 02:16:12.199 and that's always because of the partiers there and they 2340 02:16:12.279 --> 02:16:14.800 come to party and they're partying hard, you know, like 2341 02:16:14.880 --> 02:16:17.239 four in the morning, and the police is called and 2342 02:16:17.399 --> 02:16:19.600 you know, so yeah that that's only happened a couple 2343 02:16:19.640 --> 02:16:22.319 of times, you know, But for as many times as 2344 02:16:22.399 --> 02:16:24.800 we've camped over the years, we've been pretty lucky, i'd say. 2345 02:16:25.359 --> 02:16:28.039 But when it's all about it's all about the quiet 2346 02:16:28.079 --> 02:16:30.319 hours and you can still do your thing, kind of 2347 02:16:30.720 --> 02:16:31.920 tone it down, yeah. 2348 02:16:32.079 --> 02:16:34.760 Yeah, yeah, but yeah this, yeah, we've we've seen some 2349 02:16:35.000 --> 02:16:36.319 ragers going on. 2350 02:16:38.120 --> 02:16:42.479 There have been some late nights at Huntsville that there 2351 02:16:42.719 --> 02:16:45.159 there will be, But as long as you tone it down, 2352 02:16:45.200 --> 02:16:46.920 all yeah, right, right right. 2353 02:16:47.520 --> 02:16:51.239 They always schedule the YouTuber's forum the first thing, what 2354 02:16:51.520 --> 02:16:52.159 Sunday morning? 2355 02:16:52.319 --> 02:16:52.959 Sunday morning? 2356 02:16:53.040 --> 02:16:53.840 Do they really. 2357 02:16:56.680 --> 02:16:58.719 So people are like hung over the next day. 2358 02:16:59.280 --> 02:17:01.159 That may or may not have happened. 2359 02:17:01.440 --> 02:17:06.479 We don't know. We don't use that description. We're just 2360 02:17:06.520 --> 02:17:11.360 a little sleepy, just a little sleep ye at all, 2361 02:17:14.440 --> 02:17:15.399 not all at all? 2362 02:17:16.879 --> 02:17:19.360 What happens after the form, you guys are just you 2363 02:17:19.479 --> 02:17:21.879 probably want to crash around what around noontime? 2364 02:17:22.000 --> 02:17:24.719 Right or do you just start off well, so the 2365 02:17:24.799 --> 02:17:28.639 Sunday show starts kind of really wrapping up about eleven 2366 02:17:28.760 --> 02:17:36.559 twelve o'clock. Final drawing is not until what to Joe, 2367 02:17:38.239 --> 02:17:41.479 but you can tell the vendors are wrapping up about 2368 02:17:41.559 --> 02:17:47.159 noon and the flea market starts really clearing out pretty early. 2369 02:17:50.920 --> 02:17:52.040 That sounds like a fun time. 2370 02:17:52.639 --> 02:17:55.440 Wow, it is. It's a great time. 2371 02:17:57.639 --> 02:17:58.760 I would love that, I think. 2372 02:17:58.879 --> 02:17:59.040 You know. 2373 02:17:59.360 --> 02:18:01.000 So, I've never experienced it. 2374 02:18:03.520 --> 02:18:07.680 And it's not unusual for people to rent on r 2375 02:18:07.760 --> 02:18:13.319 V and have it delivered to Montano State Park. There's 2376 02:18:13.399 --> 02:18:16.680 quite a few RVs on r V share outdoors e right. 2377 02:18:16.600 --> 02:18:17.159 There in that area. 2378 02:18:17.840 --> 02:18:22.440 Really interesting. I did that one year. I've towed a 2379 02:18:22.520 --> 02:18:26.000 couple of years. I'm towing this year, renting one here. Like, so, 2380 02:18:26.120 --> 02:18:26.479 what's that? 2381 02:18:26.799 --> 02:18:26.840 Like? 2382 02:18:27.000 --> 02:18:29.840 I called this guy up and I say, I want 2383 02:18:29.920 --> 02:18:32.559 this r V. Here's the price. They're going to drive it, 2384 02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:36.399 park it. I'm gonna get the key. When I'm done, 2385 02:18:36.520 --> 02:18:38.920 I just leave the key. They're gonna come take it away. Yep, 2386 02:18:39.399 --> 02:18:41.520 I'm sure it comes with a price, but it does. 2387 02:18:42.079 --> 02:18:43.639 There's a delivery fee with it. 2388 02:18:44.040 --> 02:18:46.280 But then you don't have to worry about dumping the 2389 02:18:46.319 --> 02:18:50.399 tanks if you use the facilities in the r V. Yeah, 2390 02:18:50.520 --> 02:18:53.639 you don't have to worry about cleaning, pulling it through 2391 02:18:53.680 --> 02:18:56.000 all the traffic, pulling it through the trees, damaging it. 2392 02:18:57.399 --> 02:19:03.799 Yeah, damaging. Well yeah, yeah, I can either confirm nor 2393 02:19:03.879 --> 02:19:08.520 deny if wires got cut. You know, Well, that's what 2394 02:19:08.600 --> 02:19:10.719 happens when you're six meters antenna is on the front 2395 02:19:10.760 --> 02:19:14.680 bumper on an angle. It's no, that's what happens when 2396 02:19:14.680 --> 02:19:25.159 they don't check their CEO detector left. Yeah, we looked 2397 02:19:25.159 --> 02:19:26.120 for the fuse, couldn't find it. 2398 02:19:26.639 --> 02:19:30.399 I found it any any time I would uh see 2399 02:19:30.479 --> 02:19:34.040 down on my radio set it all. My wife's and 2400 02:19:34.040 --> 02:19:35.360 there trying to take an app It didn't go. 2401 02:19:35.799 --> 02:19:39.120 Oh that doesn't go over all. Well, now so I've learned. 2402 02:19:39.239 --> 02:19:42.239 I've got to I've got an extension cord now that 2403 02:19:42.360 --> 02:19:45.159 stays in the camp, and fucking run the extension cord 2404 02:19:45.520 --> 02:19:48.040 away from the camp a little bit. It doesn't bother it. 2405 02:19:48.760 --> 02:19:53.760 Okay, Well, I will say this about transmitting. I've had 2406 02:19:53.799 --> 02:19:56.239 an experience where my husband was out on the beach 2407 02:19:56.280 --> 02:19:58.760 where at Silverstown State Beach, and I was on seventeen 2408 02:19:58.840 --> 02:20:03.040 meters and he he was out by the the lifeguard 2409 02:20:03.159 --> 02:20:05.360 tower right and he says, oh my god, I hear 2410 02:20:05.879 --> 02:20:08.639 my wife calling c Q through the PA on the 2411 02:20:09.000 --> 02:20:13.000 lifeguard tower. So I don't go on seventeen meters at 2412 02:20:13.040 --> 02:20:13.840 that beach anymore. 2413 02:20:13.840 --> 02:20:14.799 I go to other great. 2414 02:20:18.920 --> 02:20:21.000 Life. I wonder if the lifeguard was up there, going 2415 02:20:21.319 --> 02:20:22.959 what is going on with my PA? 2416 02:20:23.120 --> 02:20:26.600 What is this? Because he was there? 2417 02:20:29.840 --> 02:20:33.719 Yeah right, so yeah, yeah, seventeen meters is the one 2418 02:20:33.760 --> 02:20:37.120 that I was going on the PA for the lifeguard tower. 2419 02:20:37.239 --> 02:20:40.319 So that's great. I love it. Oh yeah, that one's 2420 02:20:40.360 --> 02:20:42.719 downther Coronado. I activated that one last time I was 2421 02:20:42.760 --> 02:20:43.319 in San Diego. 2422 02:20:43.520 --> 02:20:44.799 Oh you did well? Did you see me? 2423 02:20:45.360 --> 02:20:48.360 I've got like fifty activatients or something like that. 2424 02:20:48.479 --> 02:20:51.399 Okay, so yeah, that's I haven't. 2425 02:20:51.120 --> 02:20:51.840 Been there in a while. 2426 02:20:52.319 --> 02:20:52.520 I know. 2427 02:20:52.600 --> 02:20:55.200 You're just east of LA, so that's yeah. I'm thirty 2428 02:20:55.239 --> 02:20:57.639 miles easter L A three hour run for you down 2429 02:20:57.680 --> 02:20:58.200 to Coronado. 2430 02:20:58.440 --> 02:21:01.239 It's yeah, it's about one hundred and nine miles to 2431 02:21:01.399 --> 02:21:04.760 get down there, so and yeah, probably about two and 2432 02:21:04.799 --> 02:21:08.200 a half hours sometimes. And but it's a traffic. Man, 2433 02:21:08.239 --> 02:21:11.000 that traffic is just awful. Sometimes Sometimes we go on 2434 02:21:11.079 --> 02:21:13.040 a trip and I'm thinking, oh, we're gonna be home 2435 02:21:13.079 --> 02:21:13.559 pretty quick. 2436 02:21:13.600 --> 02:21:15.639 We're not totally far away. And man, the last time 2437 02:21:15.680 --> 02:21:16.399 we were out camping. 2438 02:21:17.079 --> 02:21:18.879 We hit the worst amount of traffic on the way 2439 02:21:18.879 --> 02:21:21.440 home because we left at like two thirty didn't go 2440 02:21:21.520 --> 02:21:22.440 home until seven. 2441 02:21:23.440 --> 02:21:25.600 We I mean, we were only like one hundred miles away, 2442 02:21:26.360 --> 02:21:27.760 so it was. 2443 02:21:27.840 --> 02:21:31.799 Just all day. Ever, we kept picking traffic alerts, traffic alerts, 2444 02:21:31.840 --> 02:21:34.040 and they did a traffic break and you know, the 2445 02:21:34.239 --> 02:21:37.159 traffic alert and I was like, and it was a Wednesday, 2446 02:21:38.079 --> 02:21:41.639 so it Yeah, it's la traffic. 2447 02:21:43.959 --> 02:21:46.120 But now that that's a really nice speech. I activated 2448 02:21:46.200 --> 02:21:46.920 on the Bay side. 2449 02:21:47.520 --> 02:21:48.559 Oh right, I know where that is. 2450 02:21:48.639 --> 02:21:49.959 Yep, right there in the pavilions. 2451 02:21:50.239 --> 02:21:51.520 We've been camping there forever. 2452 02:21:51.879 --> 02:21:52.479 Oh my gosh. 2453 02:21:52.639 --> 02:21:56.200 Yeah, if I would have been doing PODA back in 2454 02:21:56.520 --> 02:21:58.719 obviously it was PODA wasn't a thing. But you can 2455 02:21:58.760 --> 02:22:03.760 still backlog. I have bazillion contacts from there and many many, many, 2456 02:22:04.040 --> 02:22:08.600 you know, activations there. So but but it's I love it. 2457 02:22:08.719 --> 02:22:10.639 But you know, the bad thing though, is that. 2458 02:22:10.680 --> 02:22:15.959 They've had a lot of polluted water issues now, so 2459 02:22:16.319 --> 02:22:18.639 it's just really too bad. I mean, it's been happening, 2460 02:22:18.760 --> 02:22:22.399 but more so, it seems like in the last year 2461 02:22:22.520 --> 02:22:24.680 or two. I think that from what I heard, I'm 2462 02:22:24.760 --> 02:22:28.239 not sure. My husband said that I guess the Navy 2463 02:22:28.479 --> 02:22:32.639 is not having their uh you know, troops practice on 2464 02:22:32.680 --> 02:22:36.079 the beach right now because of that water issue. Yeah, 2465 02:22:36.319 --> 02:22:38.680 so that's what I heard. I don't know if that's true, 2466 02:22:38.760 --> 02:22:41.200 but that's what he told me. And he was kind 2467 02:22:41.200 --> 02:22:42.959 of like not wanting to go down there because of 2468 02:22:43.079 --> 02:22:46.159 the pollution from the water. And that makes me sad 2469 02:22:46.200 --> 02:22:50.440 because I've swam in that ocean down there and loved it, 2470 02:22:50.760 --> 02:22:54.399 and I mean I've had a lot of experiences there 2471 02:22:54.479 --> 02:22:58.280 in the water. And one time I was swimming and 2472 02:22:58.319 --> 02:22:59.920 then when I came back in, my husband said, do 2473 02:22:59.920 --> 02:23:02.600 you know you were swimming right with four dolphins right there? 2474 02:23:02.680 --> 02:23:02.799 Right? 2475 02:23:02.840 --> 02:23:03.799 You're like, I didn't know. 2476 02:23:03.920 --> 02:23:06.319 I didn't know if there was really yeah. 2477 02:23:06.520 --> 02:23:08.120 Yeah, I mean he could see them, you know, when 2478 02:23:08.120 --> 02:23:09.879 the waves curl, you can kind of see in the water, 2479 02:23:09.959 --> 02:23:12.280 and I'm out there, you know, body surfing and everything, 2480 02:23:12.280 --> 02:23:14.239 and He's like, there was like four dolphins right there 2481 02:23:14.319 --> 02:23:18.680 with you. Wow. Yeah, So I didn't know. I didn't 2482 02:23:18.680 --> 02:23:21.200 even know they were there. I was like, really, they 2483 02:23:21.239 --> 02:23:22.920 didn't even say anything, just kidding. 2484 02:23:24.639 --> 02:23:26.559 Card right there right right. Yeah. 2485 02:23:26.920 --> 02:23:32.360 So yeah, Unfortunately, a lot of that pollution is coming 2486 02:23:32.440 --> 02:23:33.719 up from south of the border. 2487 02:23:34.000 --> 02:23:35.760 Yep. Yeah, I know, I know. 2488 02:23:35.920 --> 02:23:41.559 It's just awful. It's just awful. Yeah, I mean, yeah, 2489 02:23:42.559 --> 02:23:45.520 that breaks my heart, really does, it really does. 2490 02:23:47.799 --> 02:23:49.639 My cigars getting down to the end, so you know 2491 02:23:49.680 --> 02:23:52.479 what that means. It's been two and a half hours. 2492 02:23:53.520 --> 02:23:54.239 Thank you guys for. 2493 02:23:57.280 --> 02:23:59.079 What did what did we tell you when you first 2494 02:23:59.120 --> 02:23:59.399 came on? 2495 02:23:59.639 --> 02:24:03.959 Just I was welcome anytime, welcome any time, Thank you, 2496 02:24:04.239 --> 02:24:05.280 thank you for because I know. 2497 02:24:05.319 --> 02:24:07.120 You guys are probably getting ready to wrap it up, 2498 02:24:07.280 --> 02:24:08.520 and you know, and I. 2499 02:24:08.639 --> 02:24:10.079 Was like, I wonder if it's too late. 2500 02:24:12.399 --> 02:24:13.959 Doors always open, and I'm. 2501 02:24:13.840 --> 02:24:16.159 Sitting here on the bed trying to like get comfortable, 2502 02:24:16.200 --> 02:24:18.559 and I keep slouching down and so but I'm in 2503 02:24:18.600 --> 02:24:21.000 a different room than I was and before, so, you know, 2504 02:24:21.040 --> 02:24:23.760 because my parents are in the living room. So so 2505 02:24:23.840 --> 02:24:25.959 I feel like this teenager again. I'm all in my 2506 02:24:26.079 --> 02:24:26.600 little room. 2507 02:24:29.840 --> 02:24:32.959 The only difference is the only the only difference is 2508 02:24:33.040 --> 02:24:35.600 you don't have the telephone, right, the telephone and stereo. 2509 02:24:35.719 --> 02:24:37.159 I bet you in there right, Well let's see there 2510 02:24:37.239 --> 02:24:40.319 is a stereo and then my different phone. 2511 02:24:40.120 --> 02:24:44.239 Right, different phone, different type of phone. So yeah, so well, Kim, 2512 02:24:44.639 --> 02:24:48.040 We're glad, we are so happy. Anything as we go 2513 02:24:48.120 --> 02:24:50.280 around the horn here. Anything you want to say, anything 2514 02:24:50.360 --> 02:24:53.920 that you're doing, any special activations, anything going on over 2515 02:24:54.000 --> 02:24:55.879 the next you know, a couple of weeks. 2516 02:24:56.159 --> 02:24:58.440 Yeah, in a couple of weeks, probably the week of 2517 02:24:59.479 --> 02:25:03.040 let's see ninth through the fourteenth. I already have definite 2518 02:25:03.079 --> 02:25:05.760 reservations at Refugia State Beach, but I'm just trying to 2519 02:25:05.840 --> 02:25:08.040 get maybe if I can get a site a little 2520 02:25:08.079 --> 02:25:10.399 closer to the ocean, I'll change that and it might 2521 02:25:10.520 --> 02:25:12.280 change the date just a little bit. But I've still 2522 02:25:12.559 --> 02:25:15.600 roped in, locked in for that beach. I've got a 2523 02:25:15.760 --> 02:25:19.120 reservation there. Not the best site, but I'm going so. 2524 02:25:19.440 --> 02:25:21.799 Questioning field day? What do you do for field day? 2525 02:25:21.840 --> 02:25:22.319 Quick question? 2526 02:25:23.520 --> 02:25:27.239 I this year I was home, so or I should 2527 02:25:27.239 --> 02:25:32.000 say last year I was home, but just typically stay home. 2528 02:25:33.600 --> 02:25:40.399 But in the desert winterfield day in the desert two 2529 02:25:40.479 --> 02:25:43.280 years ago, I think it was two thousand and twenty three. 2530 02:25:43.360 --> 02:25:45.559 I think it was so, yeah, excellent. 2531 02:25:45.920 --> 02:25:48.959 So but this day, yeah, I don't know what. It 2532 02:25:49.040 --> 02:25:50.920 may be a field day in the backyard or something. 2533 02:25:52.520 --> 02:25:57.520 Hey, yeah, it's all good, it's all good. Joe Brett, 2534 02:25:57.639 --> 02:25:58.959 What about you, man? What are you got going on? 2535 02:25:59.319 --> 02:26:02.440 And that light's old? That light still flashing there in 2536 02:26:02.479 --> 02:26:03.079 the background. 2537 02:26:03.600 --> 02:26:12.040 Get to cut that off, but from a D sized battery, then, yeah, 2538 02:26:12.639 --> 02:26:12.959 that's why. 2539 02:26:13.000 --> 02:26:13.959 Actually, what this was. 2540 02:26:14.040 --> 02:26:15.639 I got this at a I've seen this at an 2541 02:26:15.639 --> 02:26:19.360 antique store, a little thrift store, and I said it 2542 02:26:19.440 --> 02:26:21.000 was up on the chef and I was looking at 2543 02:26:21.000 --> 02:26:23.559 it and I was like, I wonder if that blinks? 2544 02:26:25.760 --> 02:26:27.520 And I asked the guy and he's like, I have 2545 02:26:27.680 --> 02:26:30.280 no idea, And I'm like, okay, what does he got? 2546 02:26:30.559 --> 02:26:32.479 He's got five dollars on it. I think I gave 2547 02:26:32.559 --> 02:26:35.879 him three, talked him down. Oh wow, come home, find 2548 02:26:35.959 --> 02:26:40.120 me a D sized battery, and enough it blinks. 2549 02:26:40.239 --> 02:26:43.200 And so you didn't give him You didn't give him 2550 02:26:43.239 --> 02:26:43.920 five bucks for that? 2551 02:26:44.479 --> 02:26:49.120 Oh? I probably did. What's interesting is got this what's 2552 02:26:49.120 --> 02:26:52.280 supposed to be a suction cup. Of course it don't 2553 02:26:52.319 --> 02:26:55.920 flex very much anymore, but this was I looked it 2554 02:26:56.000 --> 02:26:57.559 up and I think it was like in the fifties 2555 02:26:57.680 --> 02:27:00.840 or sixties, it was made for you to actually suction 2556 02:27:00.959 --> 02:27:03.079 cup to the side of your car if you like, 2557 02:27:03.399 --> 02:27:04.520 on the side of the road broke down. 2558 02:27:07.920 --> 02:27:12.680 Yeah, remember those days. Yeah, and that grandreno. 2559 02:27:12.840 --> 02:27:18.639 Yeah, Now they sell the little led beacons to do 2560 02:27:18.799 --> 02:27:23.159 that with like electronic flairs they call it. That was 2561 02:27:23.959 --> 02:27:24.959 that's the story behind it. 2562 02:27:25.879 --> 02:27:26.120 Wow. 2563 02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:30.200 But uh yeah, one thing, you just reminded me of 2564 02:27:30.399 --> 02:27:31.040 your fines. 2565 02:27:31.159 --> 02:27:34.280 Okay, so here and I should have brought it out. 2566 02:27:34.280 --> 02:27:36.399 I didn't think of it. It's in a box here 2567 02:27:36.440 --> 02:27:39.959 in the house. As I think, I remember mentioning to 2568 02:27:40.000 --> 02:27:42.079 you guys, I used to be on the CB years ago, right, 2569 02:27:42.200 --> 02:27:44.879 and that you had to say your CB license number 2570 02:27:44.879 --> 02:27:47.000 and everything, and I said, I said, I remembered it 2571 02:27:47.079 --> 02:27:48.959 as k B KK A two A three nine, and 2572 02:27:49.399 --> 02:27:51.840 you know, my call or my call, like my handle 2573 02:27:52.159 --> 02:27:55.440 back then was sweet Lady. And so my mom and 2574 02:27:55.600 --> 02:27:58.399 dad for Christmas gave me a c B a base 2575 02:27:58.479 --> 02:28:02.239 station because I was always using the mobile. But they 2576 02:28:02.319 --> 02:28:04.920 had a little plaque printed or printed, I should say, 2577 02:28:05.120 --> 02:28:07.319 engraved for me and it had k B K K 2578 02:28:07.479 --> 02:28:09.719 two A three nine which the which was the CB 2579 02:28:09.920 --> 02:28:14.280 license and then my handle sweet lady, and it's my 2580 02:28:14.399 --> 02:28:16.840 mom kept everything. So that was at the house. I 2581 02:28:16.879 --> 02:28:17.200 found that. 2582 02:28:17.280 --> 02:28:21.680 I was like, oh my gosh, absolutely yeah, hold on that. 2583 02:28:21.920 --> 02:28:22.120 Yeah. 2584 02:28:22.520 --> 02:28:26.680 My great aunt, I don't remember her license number, but 2585 02:28:27.040 --> 02:28:30.360 she went by a Sweet Mary. Her name was Mary. Oh, 2586 02:28:30.600 --> 02:28:31.840 they always called her Sweet Mary. 2587 02:28:32.399 --> 02:28:33.280 Oh that's nice. 2588 02:28:34.920 --> 02:28:39.479 Yeah, they her and her husband had their license on 2589 02:28:39.520 --> 02:28:40.200 the wall and stuff. 2590 02:28:40.799 --> 02:28:44.600 Oh that's so cool. That's really cool. Yeah, my mom 2591 02:28:44.719 --> 02:28:45.360 kept everything. 2592 02:28:45.520 --> 02:28:48.319 And you know, when you have those dreams about losing 2593 02:28:48.440 --> 02:28:52.319 your schedule from high school, yep, I should ask my mom. 2594 02:28:52.399 --> 02:28:54.799 My mom kept all my schedules. I found them all, 2595 02:28:57.799 --> 02:29:02.760 all of my all of my kindergarten through twelfth grade homework. 2596 02:29:02.959 --> 02:29:04.319 My mom squirreled away. 2597 02:29:04.440 --> 02:29:05.159 I couldn't lie. 2598 02:29:05.719 --> 02:29:08.760 I had PTSD from going through my old schoolwork. 2599 02:29:08.799 --> 02:29:12.079 Again, I'm not joking. I was having nightmares about it. 2600 02:29:12.239 --> 02:29:14.440 Every time I thought I was done finding schoolwork, I 2601 02:29:14.680 --> 02:29:15.479 look in another door. 2602 02:29:15.520 --> 02:29:16.399 There's more schoolwork. 2603 02:29:16.399 --> 02:29:19.799 I like a lot of report cards, I bet Oh 2604 02:29:19.879 --> 02:29:20.879 my god, yes. 2605 02:29:20.840 --> 02:29:25.959 Comments from teachers, and you know, just even my drawing 2606 02:29:26.159 --> 02:29:29.159 from the dissecting of a frog. I had my mom 2607 02:29:29.319 --> 02:29:31.760 kept that, Like what the heck? 2608 02:29:33.239 --> 02:29:40.920 Oh yeah, good times, right, Yeah, Steve, thank you very 2609 02:29:41.000 --> 02:29:45.239 much for everthing absolutely that you did over the weekend 2610 02:29:45.319 --> 02:29:49.399 and sharing the three sixty camera with us, and but 2611 02:29:49.559 --> 02:29:52.760 more importantly, you know what you did down there in DC. 2612 02:29:52.920 --> 02:29:57.559 Thank you. Yeah, the half of everybody. Thank you. Something 2613 02:29:57.639 --> 02:29:59.120 I thoroughly enjoy And. 2614 02:30:01.000 --> 02:30:02.719 Yeah, my dad's a bet too. 2615 02:30:02.959 --> 02:30:06.319 Yeah, my dad's a VET. He's a Korean wartime vet, 2616 02:30:06.760 --> 02:30:11.319 so he's he was stationed. My dad was stationed Derek 2617 02:30:11.360 --> 02:30:17.719 Cornado from fifty four to fifty eight, So yeah, he 2618 02:30:18.319 --> 02:30:20.200 I not trying to keep you guys here, but I am. 2619 02:30:20.280 --> 02:30:22.040 But he said that he remembers when there was nothing 2620 02:30:22.120 --> 02:30:25.280 around there basically, and he can't believe that years later, 2621 02:30:25.920 --> 02:30:28.440 you know, his daughter and son in law and grandson's 2622 02:30:28.479 --> 02:30:30.559 going camping down there while he was stationed down there 2623 02:30:30.639 --> 02:30:34.520 years ago, you know. But yeah, Timeshane did. Yeah, I 2624 02:30:34.600 --> 02:30:37.360 love I love Silver Strand, I loved Coronado. I love 2625 02:30:37.440 --> 02:30:39.559 that area so excellent. 2626 02:30:39.920 --> 02:30:43.600 Yeah, Steve, anything going on for this week until we 2627 02:30:43.639 --> 02:30:46.159 talk to you next, do not have anything planned for 2628 02:30:46.239 --> 02:30:48.760 this week. I'm hoping to get over whatever cred I 2629 02:30:48.840 --> 02:30:53.600 got in Japan, maybe get my voice back for next week. Gotcha? 2630 02:30:54.159 --> 02:30:59.840 So okay, very good, I got some I'm off tomorrow Wednesday. 2631 02:31:00.440 --> 02:31:03.760 It's gonna rain here on Thursday, so that will be 2632 02:31:03.799 --> 02:31:06.520 an indoor day Tomorrow. I'm gonna try to take advantage 2633 02:31:06.559 --> 02:31:09.559 of maybe one to three parks if I can. The 2634 02:31:09.600 --> 02:31:11.760 whole thing is, how early can I get my butt 2635 02:31:11.840 --> 02:31:14.360 up and do stuff? In the morning and then you know, 2636 02:31:14.760 --> 02:31:18.079 but we'll see, we'll see how it goes. So but 2637 02:31:18.280 --> 02:31:21.600 that's it from here. I don't I can't remember if 2638 02:31:21.639 --> 02:31:23.840 we have a guest, if it's next week or the following, 2639 02:31:24.559 --> 02:31:29.239 but we'll have something going on here next next Tuesday. Everybody, 2640 02:31:29.360 --> 02:31:33.200 be good, be safe, enjoy your hobby, whatever you're doing, 2641 02:31:33.239 --> 02:31:36.000 whatever bands, whatever your modes. Be good guy out there. 2642 02:31:36.079 --> 02:31:40.440 So everybody wave, say seventy three to everybody. Thank you everyone, 2643 02:31:40.559 --> 02:31:57.559 So bye. Everybody turn a turn tower light off. It 2644 02:31:57.639 --> 02:32:00.000 ain't tall enough. If you work him, you can work 2645 02:32:00.000 --> 02:32:01.120 around eleven meters too. 2646 02:32:01.959 --> 02:32:02.000 H