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November 22, 2025 • 12 mins

In this episode of “Mike Dell’s World,” host Mike Dell provides a laid-back update on his day and upcoming plans. He begins by acknowledging the date, November 22, 2025, and mentions participating in Napod Pomo (National Podcast Post Month) on its twenty-second day. Mike shares details about his relaxed day, including a visit to the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) hangar talk session, which he humorously refers to as a coffee klatch.

He recounts dropping off his friend Kathy at the hospital for an MRI and then enjoying coffee with friends at the hangar. Afterward, he goes shopping at Costco, describing it as busy and noting the efficiency of their checkout lines despite the long queues.

Later, Mike reflects on his day and decides to record an episode since he hadn’t done so the night before. He briefly outlines his plans for the rest of November, which include episodes covering topics like the local aviation community, his memories of the Blizzard of ’78, his experiences living in Keflavik, Iceland in the early ’90s, and thoughts on Traverse City as a small town.

He also shares upcoming content related to the Northern Michigan asylum, now known as Grand Traverse Commons, and mentions the idea of potentially starting a daily five-minute show called “Coffee with Mike.” Mike discusses his other commitments, including his weekly show “Podcast Insider” and his role as a rotating guest host on another podcast.

He talks about preparing for the Podfest Expo in Florida, where he will be speaking and sponsoring an event. Mike reflects on the passing of his company’s founder and looks forward to representing the company at the expo.

Towards the end of the episode, he mentions some technical challenges his company has faced, including issues with CloudFlare and software glitches, but reassures listeners that everything is resolved. He wraps up by sharing his evening plans of having steak and baked potatoes for dinner, humorously noting his return to a keto diet. He concludes by inviting feedback from listeners regarding his potential daily show, and expresses excitement for discussing aviation in the next episode.

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(00:00):
[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

(00:24):
[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,

(00:50):
[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

(01:11):
[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

(01:33):
[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

(01:53):
[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

(02:16):
[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

(02:36):
[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

(02:57):
[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

(03:17):
[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

(03:39):
[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,

(03:59):
[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

(04:20):
[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

(04:43):
[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

(05:05):
[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

(05:26):
[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

(05:48):
[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

(06:13):
[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,

(06:34):
[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

(06:54):
[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

(07:17):
[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

(07:40):
[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

(08:01):
[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

(08:23):
[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

(08:47):
[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

(09:10):
[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

(09:32):
[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

(09:53):
[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,

(10:18):
[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

(10:39):
[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

(11:00):
[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

(11:21):
[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

(11:41):
[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

(12:05):
[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.

(12:26):
[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
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