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[Speaker 0]Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the
[Speaker 0]case may be, this is Mike and, of
[Speaker 0]course, Mike Dell's World. I think this is
[Speaker 0]yeah. Four twenty eight for November twenty second
[Speaker 0]twenty twenty five. Yeah. This is Saturday afternoon
[Speaker 0]in my case. Yeah. So not a whole
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[Speaker 0]lot going on here today. I figured I'd
[Speaker 0]just do a quick little update. Napod Pomo
[Speaker 0]is still going on. This is the twenty
[Speaker 0]second day. And, yeah, I kinda had a
[Speaker 0]pretty laid back relaxing day. I went to
[Speaker 0]out to the EAA, the experimental aircraft association,
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[Speaker 0]hangar talk session, where I call it coffee
[Speaker 0]klatch. I do that every Saturday over at,
[Speaker 0]the hangar, their offices. EAA chapter two two
[Speaker 0]thirty four. I should know that, shouldn't I?
[Speaker 0]Anyway, so, that was that was fun. I
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[Speaker 0]had well, I dropped Kathy off at, the
[Speaker 0]hospital for an MRI she had to have,
[Speaker 0]and then I went over there and had
[Speaker 0]coffee with the guys and then went back,
[Speaker 0]picked her up. And then, we went to
[Speaker 0]meat, market and then, then Costco. Can never
[Speaker 0]get out of Costco for cheap, but, I
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[Speaker 0]didn't do too bad in there. And it
[Speaker 0]was busy. It's crazy how quickly, though, that
[Speaker 0]their checkout lines go. It was the the
[Speaker 0]line was lined up literally three fourths the
[Speaker 0]way across the store when, we were we
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[Speaker 0]were shopping. And then by the time we
[Speaker 0]got there, there wasn't hardly any light at
[Speaker 0]all by the time we, you know, got
[Speaker 0]ready to check out. So they're pretty damn
[Speaker 0]deficient over there, I suppose, but, find some
[Speaker 0]good deals. Wasn't bad. And then, came home
[Speaker 0]and a friend of ours stopped over with
[Speaker 0]her dog, and, the dogs played. And we
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[Speaker 0]sat there and shot the breeze, and and
[Speaker 0]I figured, oh, I better come out and
[Speaker 0]record an episode. Hadn't done one. It was
[Speaker 0]gonna do one last night and never did.
[Speaker 0]So that's what this one is. But like
[Speaker 0]I said, just a quick shorty little update.
[Speaker 0]And I'm gonna tell you what I've got
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[Speaker 0]planned for the rest of this month. Tomorrow,
[Speaker 0]I'm gonna do, aviation up north. I'm gonna
[Speaker 0]be talking about, you know, the aviation community
[Speaker 0]around here. Guess I got a little update
[Speaker 0]of that, this morning. And then I'm gonna
[Speaker 0]talk about the blizzard of seventy eight. I'm
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[Speaker 0]old enough to remember it. Not by a
[Speaker 0]hell of a lot, but I remember it.
[Speaker 0]And tell you my experiences. And then, gonna
[Speaker 0]do an episode about Iceland in the nineties.
[Speaker 0]I lived in Keflavik, Iceland for a year
[Speaker 0]in, nineteen ninety one. Or is it ninety
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[Speaker 0]one, ninety two? No. It was ninety ninety
[Speaker 0]one. Anyway, so talk about that. And on
[Speaker 0]the twenty sixth, I'll be talking about Traverse
[Speaker 0]City still being kind of a small town,
[Speaker 0]but, in other ways, not so much. And,
[Speaker 0]my friend, Chris, I'm sure he's gonna be
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[Speaker 0]interested in this one. I'm gonna talk about
[Speaker 0]the state hospital or the Northern Michigan asylum
[Speaker 0]currently known as Grand Traverse Commons. So that'll
[Speaker 0]be interesting, and I'll probably get most of
[Speaker 0]it wrong. So not really. Let's see. You
[Speaker 0]got a couple other, little episodes planned, and,
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[Speaker 0]that's gonna do it for the thirty days
[Speaker 0]of of November here. So got, you know,
[Speaker 0]seven or eight more to go, eight more
[Speaker 0]to go, nine more to go, something like
[Speaker 0]that. And, yeah, I kinda I'm thinking seriously
[Speaker 0]about maybe doing a weekday daily show. I
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[Speaker 0]don't know if I'd do it on this
[Speaker 0]on this feed or do, it on a
[Speaker 0]different feed. You know, it's hard enough to
[Speaker 0]get people to listen to this one. Of
[Speaker 0]course, you know, when I when I'm not
[Speaker 0]that consistent, you know, that goes. But almost
[Speaker 0]thinking, you know, it might be fun just
[Speaker 0]in the morning when I'm sitting here in
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[Speaker 0]the office, before work starts and drinking some
[Speaker 0]coffee, maybe, throw together a little five minute
[Speaker 0]thing, to decide whether I wanna do that
[Speaker 0]either on this feed or a different feed
[Speaker 0]and just, you know, call it coffee with
[Speaker 0]Mike or something stupid like that. I don't
[Speaker 0]know. It might be fun. Keep me in
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[Speaker 0]the game. Make me podcast more. But, you
[Speaker 0]know, I'm already doing a weekly with Podcast
[Speaker 0]Insider, and I'm gonna be a rotating guest
[Speaker 0]host on another show coming soon. Actually, it's
[Speaker 0]a show that's been going forever except for,
[Speaker 0]one of the host died. And, anyway, the
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[Speaker 0]other cohost is is gonna resurrect the show.
[Speaker 0]In fact, I spent a lot of time
[Speaker 0]yesterday getting the website back up and running
[Speaker 0]properly and getting the RSS feeds running properly.
[Speaker 0]It's both a video and an audio and
[Speaker 0]a live, video show. So I'll be, rotating
[Speaker 0]with three other guest hosts. So every third
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[Speaker 0]week, however that works out, I'll be on
[Speaker 0]that show. That's, that's the plan. I'll sure
[Speaker 0]I'll tell you about it when I can.
[Speaker 0]Also, planning our conference down in Florida, December
[Speaker 0]fifteenth through the eighteenth. The, was it, podcast
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[Speaker 0]expo or no? What is it? Jeez. I
[Speaker 0]am drawing a blank. Podfest. There we go.
[Speaker 0]Podfest Expo. It's gonna be at the the
[Speaker 0]Radisson Hotel at SeaWorld in Orlando, so that'll
[Speaker 0]be interesting. I'll be speaking there. And, also,
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[Speaker 0]my company is sponsoring the podcasters hall of
[Speaker 0]fame induction ceremony, so that'll be interesting. Get
[Speaker 0]to, hobnob with, with royalty there. That'll be
[Speaker 0]fun. Dave Ramsey's gonna be there. I'm sure
[Speaker 0]you've heard of him, the money guy on
[Speaker 0]the on the radio and in podcasts and
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[Speaker 0]YouTube and everywhere else. Anyway, he's gonna be
[Speaker 0]there. There's gonna be a couple other, somewhat
[Speaker 0]famous people there plus, you know, I'm gonna
[Speaker 0]be there. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. What do
[Speaker 0]you call that? Imposter syndrome? Anyway, so that'll
[Speaker 0]be that'll be good. We're bringing a pretty
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[Speaker 0]big contingent from Blueberry down there this year.
[Speaker 0]Can have, five of us from the team,
[Speaker 0]maybe six. Not for the whole week. Dave
[Speaker 0]and I are gonna be doing the whole
[Speaker 0]week, and then we'll have people popping in
[Speaker 0]and out, coming down for a day or
[Speaker 0]two for that. So that'll be that'll be
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[Speaker 0]good. First convention after our founder and CEO
[Speaker 0]passed away a couple months ago or beginning,
[Speaker 0]I guess, the beginning of September. So it's
[Speaker 0]been a while. But, this will be the
[Speaker 0]first public conference we've been to as a
[Speaker 0]company, since, he passed away. So show him
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[Speaker 0]we still exist, and, we're still plugging along
[Speaker 0]and and all that. But, so that's really
[Speaker 0]been, you know, what I've been focusing on,
[Speaker 0]you know, this week. Plus, you know, we've
[Speaker 0]had a few technical glitches. You know, CloudFlare
[Speaker 0]went down. Now that didn't affect us directly.
[Speaker 0]Our company doesn't use, at least that part
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[Speaker 0]of Cloudflare for anything important. Had a couple
[Speaker 0]of ancillary, websites and services go down, but,
[Speaker 0]you know, so did half the Internet. So,
[Speaker 0]you know, not not not not unique in
[Speaker 0]that way, but, our core services stayed running,
[Speaker 0]and that was good. But, you know, still,
[Speaker 0]the customers don't know, don't know what what
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[Speaker 0]is who's. So, you know, it, it did
[Speaker 0]cause a bit of an influx of support
[Speaker 0]tickets. And, then we had a little glitch
[Speaker 0]in one of the pieces of software. We
[Speaker 0]did an update, and it caused a glitch.
[Speaker 0]Didn't prevent it all from working, but it
[Speaker 0]had a glitch. And, we got it, figured
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[Speaker 0]out and fixed, and, you know, all is
[Speaker 0]all is well now. But, wow. You know,
[Speaker 0]nothing fills up my inbox more than a
[Speaker 0]a technical glitch with our system. Phone was
[Speaker 0]ringing off the hook and, of course, my
[Speaker 0]other guy, Dave, he was he was on
[Speaker 0]vacation that day, that all that happened. So
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[Speaker 0]but, it's alright. I I I survived it
[Speaker 0]and, didn't, didn't drive me to drink too
[Speaker 0]much, so we're good. And, Friday was pretty
[Speaker 0]laid back. In fact, I took most of
[Speaker 0]Friday off and was working on that, website
[Speaker 0]for that other show. So like I said,
[Speaker 0]I'll, let you guys in on, who it
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[Speaker 0]is or what show it is and, when
[Speaker 0]I'm gonna be on it. And I'm just
[Speaker 0]kicking eye around this idea of a a
[Speaker 0]kind of a daily little, you know, informal,
[Speaker 0]here's what's going on, five minute thing. Maybe
[Speaker 0]not you know, be maybe what's going on
[Speaker 0]in the news around here? What's going on?
[Speaker 0]You know, just in general, maybe national stuff,
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[Speaker 0]maybe local stuff, maybe Michigan stuff, you know,
[Speaker 0]just stuff. Maybe just the weather report. I
[Speaker 0]don't know. But if you're at all interested
[Speaker 0]in that, let me know. You can email
[Speaker 0]me direct, mike at mike dell dot com
[Speaker 0]or go to mike dell dot com. And
[Speaker 0]I don't know. Probably no place to comment
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[Speaker 0]there, maybe or shoot me a Facebook or
[Speaker 0]a x post to let you know, let
[Speaker 0]me know if you'd you'd be interested in
[Speaker 0]something like that. I don't think I'd wanna
[Speaker 0]do it seven days a week. I've done
[Speaker 0]seven day a week shows before and, you
[Speaker 0]know, lasted a year on a couple of
[Speaker 0]them. But, yeah, I'm just kinda thinking about
[Speaker 0]doing that again. I've got it down to
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[Speaker 0]to, you know it took me four seconds
[Speaker 0]to open up the the software and flip
[Speaker 0]the switch on the mixer board and start
[Speaker 0]talking to you, you know, not putting in
[Speaker 0]music and sound effects and all that stuff
[Speaker 0]all the time. So, this might be easy.
[Speaker 0]And, of course, it might be a pain
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[Speaker 0]in the butt. I don't know. But, you
[Speaker 0]know, I'm gonna get back to podcasting more
[Speaker 0]than I used to. You know? Like I
[Speaker 0]said but, you know, the other two podcast
[Speaker 0]related shows, because that second show is also
[Speaker 0]gonna be podcast related, I think. You might
[Speaker 0]even know what it is. But, anyway, I'm
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[Speaker 0]not gonna spill the beans on it until,
[Speaker 0]the other cohost is ready. Let's see. I
[Speaker 0]guess that's about it. My wife, since we
[Speaker 0]went to Costco, she picked up some rib
[Speaker 0]eyes, and we're gonna have some steak and
[Speaker 0]baked potatoes. I'm getting back to my, not
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[Speaker 0]carnivore, but, keto. So, gotta get rid of
[Speaker 0]the potatoes in the house, so we're gonna
[Speaker 0]pig out tonight. So that's the that's the
[Speaker 0]scoop. It's all that's worth talking about. Tomorrow,
[Speaker 0]I get to talk about aviation, and hopefully,
[Speaker 0]it won't be long and drawn out like
[Speaker 0]the Ham Radio episode, but, it might be.
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[Speaker 0]A lot a lot going on around here
[Speaker 0]in aviation. Maybe not so much this time
[Speaker 0]of year, but, definitely in the summer. Catch