October 27, 2025 • 26 mins
In this episode of "Mike Dell's World," titled "The Art of Winterizing and Managing Stress," Mike Dell returns with episode 506 for October 27, 2025, after a brief hiatus. He acknowledges the irregularity of his podcast releases and shares updates about his other podcast, Podcast Insider, which will be resuming in November with a new co-host, Dave Clements. Mike discusses his recent activities, including winterizing both his and his mother's campers, putting away boats, and preparing snow removal equipment.
He mentions limited flying opportunities due to poor weather conditions and reflects on the stress he's been experiencing, primarily caused by overthinking and various personal issues, including the passing of a colleague, Todd. Despite the challenges, he reassures listeners that Blueberry Podcasting is continuing without interruptions.
Mike shares how stress has affected his relaxation time, noting that reading often leads him to fall asleep rather than providing relief. He discusses his attempts to engage in leisure activities, including walking, but expresses reluctance to do so, feeling overwhelmed by a busy schedule.
He recounts a recent family trip to Minneapolis for his nephew's wedding, where logistical concerns added to his stress. Mike reflects on how everything in his day feels scheduled and concludes that his time alone led him to spend the day watching YouTube instead of accomplishing more satisfactory activities.
The discussion shifts to seeking suggestions from listeners on how to alleviate stress, as Mike expresses his desire for feedback. He shares that he’s contemplating joining a gym but for different reasons, and he finds podcasting to be a therapeutic outlet.
Mike also touches on the role of AI in podcasting, revealing that he has experimented with AI-generated content and observes the need for authentic voices in the medium. He mentions plans to participate in National Podcast Posting Month (NAPODPOMO) by producing a series of thirty short episodes about life in Northern Michigan, which will feature various themed topics.
The episode concludes with Mike encouraging listeners to connect with him and express their thoughts on stress relief strategies and his upcoming podcast series.
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[Speaker 0]Mike Del's World, number five zero six for
[Speaker 0]October twenty seventh twenty twenty five. I think
[Speaker 0]it's time for Mike Del's World. There it
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[Speaker 0]is. And there it is. Here I am.
[Speaker 0]Hey. It hasn't been six months, so I
[Speaker 0]guess this is a bonus extra holy crap,
[Speaker 0]but I did one within the same month
[Speaker 0]episode. Was it quite the same month? Let
[Speaker 0]me go look for sure, but, I I
[Speaker 0]think it might be. Anyway, welcome to, Mike
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[Speaker 0]Dell's worlds. Thanks for staying. Subscribe even though
[Speaker 0]I'm not very, regular when it comes to
[Speaker 0]making these podcast episodes. And, actually, I haven't
[Speaker 0]been regular making podcast episodes for the other
[Speaker 0]podcast that I do, Podcast Insider. We haven't
[Speaker 0]done one in, I don't know, month and
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[Speaker 0]a half or two months, something like that.
[Speaker 0]But, they are resuming in November, so, look
[Speaker 0]forward to that. We got a new cohost
[Speaker 0]on board, Dave Clements. You probably heard him
[Speaker 0]on there before. And if you, you've been
[Speaker 0]talking to Blueberry at all, Dave is kind
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[Speaker 0]of the other support guy. Me, my or
[Speaker 0]me, Sean, and Dave are the support guys
[Speaker 0]over at Blueberry, so you'll get one of
[Speaker 0]us. And, anyway, Dave is also the face
[Speaker 0]of our YouTube channel over at Blueberry Podcasting,
[Speaker 0]YouTube. I don't know. Just look for Blueberry
[Speaker 0]Podcast. Anyway, this isn't a Blueberry commercial. This
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[Speaker 0]is a, an episode of Mike Dahl's World.
[Speaker 0]You know what's going on in my world?
[Speaker 0]And to be honest with you, winterizing, basically,
[Speaker 0]winterized both campers, moms and mine. Finally got
[Speaker 0]that all done. Got the boats put away.
[Speaker 0]Got most of the outdoor stuff put away
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[Speaker 0]for the winter. I got the snow blowers
[Speaker 0]out. Gonna take the tractor in in a
[Speaker 0]couple of weeks to get it all serviced
[Speaker 0]up and ready for winter. Gotta put the
[Speaker 0]cab and the snowblower on it, but I'm
[Speaker 0]waiting for the rest of the leaves to
[Speaker 0]fall out there so that I can scoop
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[Speaker 0]them up with the tractor before I put
[Speaker 0]the snowblower on. That's the plan anyway. But,
[Speaker 0]other than that, haven't been doing a whole
[Speaker 0]lot. Did a little flying, not a lot.
[Speaker 0]It's kind of that time of year where
[Speaker 0]we're getting lake effect rain, so, the weather
[Speaker 0]hasn't really been conducive for flying. So, I
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[Speaker 0]think I might hang up my, I guess,
[Speaker 0]it wouldn't be Spurs, but hang up my
[Speaker 0]headset and, wait till spring. I I don't
[Speaker 0]wanna fight weather. You know, just don't yeah.
[Speaker 0]I'm I'm a fair weather pilot, so we'll
[Speaker 0]we'll we'll call it good, for this year,
[Speaker 0]and maybe I can sneak one more in
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[Speaker 0]before, before the weather turns to crap altogether.
[Speaker 0]But that's the that's the gist of it
[Speaker 0]anyway. So the other thing that's been going
[Speaker 0]on lately is I've been under a bunch
[Speaker 0]of stress, and and a lot of the
[Speaker 0]stress is brought in by myself. And I
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[Speaker 0]haven't really found a great way to alleviate
[Speaker 0]it. And I'm wondering, you know, if I
[Speaker 0]could get some suggestions from you guys, you
[Speaker 0]know, some of the things that, you know,
[Speaker 0]that that you do to alleviate some stress.
[Speaker 0]And a lot of the stuff's brought on
[Speaker 0]by myself. You know, I I overthink everything.
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[Speaker 0]You know, I've been overthinking the flying. I've
[Speaker 0]been overthinking the the work situation, you know,
[Speaker 0]with Todd passing away a couple months ago
[Speaker 0]and, you know, we're doing okay here at
[Speaker 0]Blueberry. I don't know. No big deal there.
[Speaker 0]I mean, well, big deal, but not, like
[Speaker 0]I said, nothing nothing is stopping. You know,
[Speaker 0]we're we're chugging along and, planning and I
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[Speaker 0]think, making some good organizational changes that will
[Speaker 0]ensure that we stick around for the long
[Speaker 0]term. I plan on sticking around for, at
[Speaker 0]least another bunch of years. You know, I'm
[Speaker 0]not ready to retire yet. So, you know,
[Speaker 0]gotta gotta keep it viable so that, you
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[Speaker 0]know but like I said, I just been
[Speaker 0]stressed over silly little things, you know. Overthinking,
[Speaker 0]I guess, would be my my main problem.
[Speaker 0]And then when I do have time to
[Speaker 0]to, relax or de stress or whatever, then,
[Speaker 0]you know, then then it gets worse. Or,
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[Speaker 0]you know, I'll sit down. You know, normally
[Speaker 0]reading would be my go to, you know,
[Speaker 0]sit sit back in the easy chair, break
[Speaker 0]out the Kindle, and, you know, just read.
[Speaker 0]But, you know, I get four or five
[Speaker 0]pages into a book or something, and if
[Speaker 0]the stress goes away, I go to sleep.
[Speaker 0]I don't know if that's because I'm getting
[Speaker 0]older. I don't know. But go you know?
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[Speaker 0]Or a you know, get reading into, you
[Speaker 0]know, get into a book and, you know,
[Speaker 0]get interested in all that, and then something
[Speaker 0]interrupts me, and I don't get back to
[Speaker 0]it. And, you know, taking a walk or
[Speaker 0]or going for a bike ride, all that
[Speaker 0]stuff, it's just, you know, I don't I
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[Speaker 0]don't wanna do that. I just don't. But
[Speaker 0]it's, you know, been pretty much constant this
[Speaker 0]whole year. There's just been, you know, things
[Speaker 0]and stuff coming up, you know, and and
[Speaker 0]a lot of it I'm not in control
[Speaker 0]of. You know, like, gotta go on a
[Speaker 0]trip. I don't wanna go on the trip,
[Speaker 0]but I gotta go on the trip. And,
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[Speaker 0]you know, it was good to go on
[Speaker 0]the trip, but, you know, we went out
[Speaker 0]to Minneapolis to to my nephew's wedding, and,
[Speaker 0]yeah, that was all fine and good. But,
[Speaker 0]you know, just the pre trip logistics and
[Speaker 0]all the stuff that goes into planning something
[Speaker 0]like that, e even though, you know, we're
[Speaker 0]just going there to attend. Sounds like I'm
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[Speaker 0]gonna have a by here in a second.
[Speaker 0]So if you happen to hear that, that's
[Speaker 0]what's going on, but you might not hear
[Speaker 0]it. I get helicopters flying over the house
[Speaker 0]all the time, and nobody hears it on
[Speaker 0]my microphone. So maybe maybe it's a nonissue.
[Speaker 0]But, you know, just one thing after another
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[Speaker 0]after another after another, and, you know, like
[Speaker 0]all this winterizing stuff. Well, you gotta do
[Speaker 0]it when the weather's good. And, you know,
[Speaker 0]you you spend all day doing something you
[Speaker 0]feel accomplished, and then you sit there and
[Speaker 0]you look at your to do list, and
[Speaker 0]you're like, oh man, I got all this
[Speaker 0]other crap to do. Now here comes the
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[Speaker 0]fire trucks. Let's see here. Yeah. There he
[Speaker 0]goes. Let's watch him on the camera. Anyway,
[Speaker 0]you know, it just seems like every second
[Speaker 0]of my day has is scheduled. And and
[Speaker 0]this weekend, you know, this past weekend, my
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[Speaker 0]my wife took off for Grand Haven for
[Speaker 0]a couple of days or Muskegon, I guess,
[Speaker 0]down to her brother's place for a Michigan
[Speaker 0]wedding reception for the happy couple that got
[Speaker 0]married in Minneapolis. I need to come here
[Speaker 0]and do a little party. I I I
[Speaker 0]didn't have to go. In fact, I really
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[Speaker 0]couldn't go because I'm babysitting dogs. So, you
[Speaker 0]know, I've got a I got extra dog,
[Speaker 0]I should say. And we're down to one,
[Speaker 0]and then, and we got a a second
[Speaker 0]dog here that, we have part time just
[Speaker 0]because, his mom is a nurse, and she
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[Speaker 0]works twelve hour shifts. But, she took a
[Speaker 0]vacation down to Puerto Rico, which I guess
[Speaker 0]is not getting the big hurricane. I don't
[Speaker 0]know. I chatted with her a little bit
[Speaker 0]today on text, and and, she didn't mention
[Speaker 0]anything about it. So I imagine that everything's
[Speaker 0]okay in Puerto Rico, but, I know she'll
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[Speaker 0]she'll be back Wednesday. So I really couldn't
[Speaker 0]go down to this thing with Kathy, which
[Speaker 0]is fine. I, you know, I I went
[Speaker 0]to the wedding and and the reception there
[Speaker 0]in Minneapolis. So or not Minneapolis. I should
[Speaker 0]say an hour or so outside of Minneapolis,
[Speaker 0]but that's where we flew in. And, you
[Speaker 0]know, so I had some time. Well, you
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[Speaker 0]know, on Saturday, I, went out and, you
[Speaker 0]know, did the campers and and the boats
[Speaker 0]and, you know, few other little chores around
[Speaker 0]mom's place, which was great. I'm glad to
[Speaker 0]get it done. Feels really good to, get
[Speaker 0]everything accomplished there. And I had all day
[Speaker 0]Sunday to do just what I wanted. So
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[Speaker 0]I got up in the morning, did my
[Speaker 0]normal ham radio activity, in case you're in
[Speaker 0]earshot HF wise. At nine o'clock in the
[Speaker 0]morning, I get on thirty nine thirty five
[Speaker 0]for the, what we call, SmashNet, the the
[Speaker 0]Sunday morning social hour. It usually lasts about
[Speaker 0]an hour, but unless you're in Michigan, Ontario,
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[Speaker 0]you know, Ohio, Indiana, maybe Illinois, maybe Wisconsin,
[Speaker 0]you're not gonna hear it. But, we get
[Speaker 0]a lot of check ins from around Michigan
[Speaker 0]anyway, mostly in Ontario. And then, you know,
[Speaker 0]and then, at ten thirty, most most Sundays,
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[Speaker 0]I get on the I O O K
[Speaker 0]net around, seventy one eighty five, forty meters.
[Speaker 0]And, you know, that that reaches out a
[Speaker 0]little further pretty much, northeast and, Midwest. It
[Speaker 0]covers pretty well. I usually get on there
[Speaker 0]for at least one round and then go
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[Speaker 0]off to brunch. So, you know, Sunday, I
[Speaker 0]went off to brunch. And with with a
[Speaker 0]friend of mine, we you know, usually my
[Speaker 0]mom joins us, but she was busy. And
[Speaker 0]and so, you know, we had lunch, and
[Speaker 0]I came home, and I had the whole
[Speaker 0]rest of the day to myself. And what
[Speaker 0]did I do? I sat in the damn
[Speaker 0]chair and watched YouTube all day, which was
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[Speaker 0]nice, but, then again, you know, you get
[Speaker 0]to thinking and whatnot and, you know, I
[Speaker 0]just I don't know. It's it's been it's
[Speaker 0]been interesting, and a bit stressful. So, you
[Speaker 0]know, hey. What what stress relief works for
[Speaker 0]you? You'll send that off to me. Mike
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[Speaker 0]at mike dell dot com. I always like
[Speaker 0]to hear from you guys, and I know
[Speaker 0]there's somebody out there listening. You know, I
[Speaker 0]get the stats. And, you know, I don't
[Speaker 0]hear a whole lot from you anymore. Speaking
[Speaker 0]of blast from the past, like me doing
[Speaker 0]regular podcasts, listened to trucker Tom today from
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[Speaker 0]probably a month, a month and a half
[Speaker 0]ago. And, he was, he was mentioning Todd's
[Speaker 0]passing. Maybe it was two months ago. Jeez.
[Speaker 0]I don't know how long whatever his last
[Speaker 0]episode was. And, you know, he's he's kinda
[Speaker 0]slowed down on the on the publishing because,
[Speaker 0]you know, when you once you retire, you're
[Speaker 0]too busy to have time to podcast. That's
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[Speaker 0]what I hear anyway. I don't know. I
[Speaker 0]think you still got some years left. But,
[Speaker 0]anyway, he had mentioned, I'm not sure what's
[Speaker 0]gonna happen with Blueberry. Well, nothing. Nothing's happening
[Speaker 0]with Blueberry. We're we're plugging along just like
[Speaker 0]we always did. But, anyway, it was cool
[Speaker 0]hearing from him. He's been retired for about
[Speaker 0]a year, and, sounds like he doesn't miss
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[Speaker 0]the road at all. You know, I I
[Speaker 0]think I would have a hard time, you
[Speaker 0]know, if I was on the road all
[Speaker 0]the time and then all of a sudden
[Speaker 0]I wasn't. I might, I might miss that
[Speaker 0]a little bit. But, you know, I guess,
[Speaker 0]each to their own. I get, you know,
[Speaker 0]being as a truck driver, I imagine being
[Speaker 0]home was is where you wanna be a
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[Speaker 0]lot of the time, so maybe he's just
[Speaker 0]not tired of that yet. Plus he got
[Speaker 0]a dog and, you know, getting a dog,
[Speaker 0]you know, that's you're you're in charge of
[Speaker 0]a whole other entity. You know, it's it's
[Speaker 0]not like just being single and and you
[Speaker 0]do whatever you want. You you gotta think
[Speaker 0]about, the critter. It's with us. You know?
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[Speaker 0]We we can't just pick up and go
[Speaker 0]all the time because, you know, we got
[Speaker 0]the dog to worry about, and that's just,
[Speaker 0]you know, just how it is. You know,
[Speaker 0]you you choose that kind of thing. And,
[Speaker 0]somebody just pulled in my driveway. Oh, my
[Speaker 0]neighbor. Okay. Cool. Anyway, I shouldn't have my
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[Speaker 0]camera up while I'm, podcasting here. I am
[Speaker 0]thinking about doing the, Napod promo again this
[Speaker 0]year, although I wanna do it a little
[Speaker 0]differently. You know, you used to be when
[Speaker 0]I would do that, I I would just,
[Speaker 0]you know, do a little short episode every
[Speaker 0]day and no theme to it. But I
[Speaker 0]think I I wanna do a theme. Here,
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[Speaker 0]let me go grab some paperwork here. Hang
[Speaker 0]on. Alright. Yeah. There we go. And kinda
[Speaker 0]what I'd like to do is, you know,
[Speaker 0]this is gonna be life around Northern Michigan,
[Speaker 0]around Traverse City. And, you know, they are
[Speaker 0]gonna be short episodes, but I'm gonna have
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[Speaker 0]them kinda mapped out. I've got, you know,
[Speaker 0]a list of episodes here, like, you know,
[Speaker 0]one of them is called a beagle walk
[Speaker 0]through the crunchy leaves. So I'll go take
[Speaker 0]Benny and, go for a walk and put
[Speaker 0]on my portable recorder like I used to
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[Speaker 0]do all the time and and, you know,
[Speaker 0]just take a walk and and talk. You
[Speaker 0]know, another one, the road to Interlaken. You
[Speaker 0]probably know what Interlaken is, but, it's a
[Speaker 0]little town south of here. And, they're home
[Speaker 0]to a, art fine arts camp. And, you
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[Speaker 0]know, I don't know. I think it'd be
[Speaker 0]kind of fun. It'd be kind of a,
[Speaker 0]a few of these will be remote from
[Speaker 0]the vehicle or from walking and all that,
[Speaker 0]you know, kinda what I used to do
[Speaker 0]back in the day. But, I'm gonna kind
[Speaker 0]of, you know, kind of, you know, talk
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[Speaker 0]about stuff from around here. You know, that's
[Speaker 0]that's where I live. This is my world.
[Speaker 0]You know? Like, on Thanksgiving, I'll do a
[Speaker 0]Thanksgiving episode. Thanksgiving up north, you know, traditions,
[Speaker 0]food, weather, all that stuff. The last mowing
[Speaker 0]of the year, you know, talk about that.
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[Speaker 0]Snow tires and salt trucks. You know, I've
[Speaker 0]got these kinda mapped out, what I wanna
[Speaker 0]do on what day. And, you know, I
[Speaker 0]might record a few of them ahead of
[Speaker 0]time and then, some of the remote ones,
[Speaker 0]you know, record right around the the day
[Speaker 0]they go out. But, you know, it's, in
[Speaker 0]case you're not familiar with NAPOD POMO, that's
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[Speaker 0]National Podcast Posting Month, and it's over at
[Speaker 0]napod pomo dot org. And, Jennifer Navarante, and
[Speaker 0]I think I pronounced her name mostly right.
[Speaker 0]She kinda spearheads that, and I think it's
[Speaker 0]the eighteenth year, Something like that. I know
[Speaker 0]it's been, quite a while. Let me look
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[Speaker 0]it up. A pod, po mo dot org.
[Speaker 0]And see if I typed everything right. Yeah.
[Speaker 0]So this is the eighteenth year. So since
[Speaker 0]two thousand seven, and basically, it's a challenge
[Speaker 0]for podcasters to post thirty episodes in thirty
[Speaker 0]days. You know, November first through the thirtieth.
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[Speaker 0]And, you know, really, you know, there's no
[Speaker 0]real purpose to it other than, hey. Why
[Speaker 0]not? And, you know, I might be able
[Speaker 0]to put a I did it badge on
[Speaker 0]my website. So stay tuned for that. I
[Speaker 0]think I am gonna do that. The first
[Speaker 0]episode will be November first, and, yeah. Gonna
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[Speaker 0]explain all this again. So, but I'll explain
[Speaker 0]it a little bit more. You know, this
[Speaker 0]will be a series of thirty episodes all
[Speaker 0]about, November up north. So whether you're interested
[Speaker 0]or not, well, I appreciate you hanging out
[Speaker 0]and and listening anyway, but should be fun.
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[Speaker 0]Again, like I said, I get to do
[Speaker 0]a little bit of, a little bit of
[Speaker 0]sound seeing tours. You know? I I don't
[Speaker 0]know. This can been kinda nostalgia week for
[Speaker 0]me too, and and, I think I had
[Speaker 0]a episode about nostalgia being a being a,
[Speaker 0]a disease. If you take it to the
[Speaker 0]extreme, I guess it could be, but, and
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[Speaker 0]I guess that's the the basis of hoarding
[Speaker 0]is nostalgia, but, that's not what I'm doing
[Speaker 0]here. I you know? But, you know, back
[Speaker 0]in the day when podcasting was new, there
[Speaker 0]was a lot of people doing what they
[Speaker 0]called sound seeing tours. Father Roderick did, episodes
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[Speaker 0]from the Vatican walking around with his, Sony
[Speaker 0]minidisc recorder and, you know, when they were,
[Speaker 0]you know, picking the new pope after pope
[Speaker 0]John Paul died. And, that was very interesting.
[Speaker 0]Even if you aren't a Catholic, it was
[Speaker 0]a Catholic insider, I think, was what he
[Speaker 0]called it. But, I believe he's still podcasting.
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[Speaker 0]He is a podcast hall of famer. But,
[Speaker 0]you know, that's interesting. Speaking of that, you
[Speaker 0]know, with Todd passing away, the a lot
[Speaker 0]of the travel is going to fall on
[Speaker 0]me for these conferences. Now I did plenty
[Speaker 0]of them anyway, but, I'm gonna have to
[Speaker 0]pick up a few extra ones. And, I
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[Speaker 0]do have a speaking gig in Florida in
[Speaker 0]January. It's a good time to go to
[Speaker 0]Florida. So looking forward to that, sort of,
[Speaker 0]except for I gotta get my slides together.
[Speaker 0]But, we get a few months, so we're
[Speaker 0]good. Let's see. Okay. I've mentioned just about
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[Speaker 0]everything of any great consequence. Yeah. Just, just
[Speaker 0]plugging along here and, trying to stay distressed.
[Speaker 0]No. So like I said, I I do
[Speaker 0]want your your suggestions for distressing, you know,
[Speaker 0]within reason. Yeah. I'm not gonna go run
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[Speaker 0]a marathon or or, you know, walk twenty
[Speaker 0]miles or go to the gym. God forbid.
[Speaker 0]No. Actually, I am thinking about joining the
[Speaker 0]gym, but for other reasons. But, anyway and
[Speaker 0]I guess podcasting helps too, you know, getting
[Speaker 0]a little of this off your chest without
[Speaker 0]going into detail. Like I said, I I
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[Speaker 0]could go into a lot more detail, but,
[Speaker 0]I don't wanna do that because, you know,
[Speaker 0]some things shall remain private. But, yeah, it's
[Speaker 0]it's very cool. One of the discussions I've
[Speaker 0]been having lately with, you know, teammates and
[Speaker 0]other podcasters and all that is the role
[Speaker 0]of AI in podcasting. Now I've done a
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[Speaker 0]fair amount of AI stuff. You know, I
[Speaker 0]even did an experimental episode where I had
[Speaker 0]the AI read it as me. I don't
[Speaker 0]know. It didn't sound good. But a lot
[Speaker 0]of the, podcasting, you know, I think people
[Speaker 0]are gonna looking for authentic human voices, you
[Speaker 0]know, instead of the AI generated content, there's
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[Speaker 0]a lot of AI generated content. You know,
[Speaker 0]YouTube is kind of my primary source of
[Speaker 0]television, you know, for the most part. I
[Speaker 0]mean, of course, I still watch Star Trek.
[Speaker 0]My my wife and I, you know, go
[Speaker 0]through all the series in Star Trek, and
[Speaker 0]that's kind of our our thing. And I
[Speaker 0]think we're on the second round of of
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[Speaker 0]two and all of them. We're currently in,
[Speaker 0]Star Trek Voyager six season, in case you're
[Speaker 0]keeping track. But, we're watching them in chronological
[Speaker 0]order, not, chronological in the story sense, but
[Speaker 0]chronological in when they came out, to the
[Speaker 0]public. So we're up to Voyager. The next
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[Speaker 0]one will be Enterprise, and then, I guess
[Speaker 0]the next one would be Discovery. You know?
[Speaker 0]We we watched Discovery when it was first
[Speaker 0]run on Paramount plus or CBS, whatever. I
[Speaker 0]don't know. It's changed names a couple times.
[Speaker 0]It's on Paramount plus now. So we'll probably
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[Speaker 0]watch that through and then, you know, just
[Speaker 0]keep going through the series. And by the
[Speaker 0]time we get back to the original series,
[Speaker 0]we'll have forgotten most of it. And and
[Speaker 0]I've noticed that with Voyager, we'll we'll both
[Speaker 0]sit there and go like, I don't remember
[Speaker 0]this episode. And then halfway through, oh, yeah.
[Speaker 0]I kinda remember it, and I sorta remember
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[Speaker 0]it. It's kind of amazing that, you know,
[Speaker 0]in that many years ago, we watched it,
[Speaker 0]and, and here we are watching it again.
[Speaker 0]And, you know, there's a lot of track
[Speaker 0]out there for sure. But, anyway, as get
[Speaker 0]back to YouTube, a lot of times, you
[Speaker 0]know, YouTube will suggest a video, and you
(22:40):
[Speaker 0]you start on the video. And you can
[Speaker 0]tell, obviously, that it's just AI generate slideshow
[Speaker 0]and stock video. And I really try to,
[Speaker 0]thumbs down those and and and bail on
[Speaker 0]them, but some of them are pretty good,
[Speaker 0]I have to say. But I much prefer
[Speaker 0]the actual humans talking, you know, or, you
(23:02):
[Speaker 0]know, I might have got fooled a few
[Speaker 0]times with the you know? But there's, you
[Speaker 0]know, some AI voices out there that immediately
[Speaker 0]you just know that that, oh, yeah. That's
[Speaker 0]the AI guy. You know? It's a good
[Speaker 0]voice and all that, but it's the AI
[Speaker 0]guy. So I I really try not to,
[Speaker 0]watch those. And then amazing thing was all
[Speaker 0]a clickbait. Oh my gosh. It's, you know,
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[Speaker 0]So and so is in jail, you know,
[Speaker 0]and and they'll, you know, go through the
[Speaker 0]whole you know? And I'll watch it just
[Speaker 0]because, oh, really? Are they? You know? And
[Speaker 0]and I I watch a guy on there,
[Speaker 0]Derek Berry, vice grip garage. And, he puts
[Speaker 0]out an episode every Friday, and, you know,
[Speaker 0]a lot of the times, he's finding an
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[Speaker 0]old car somewhere, fixing it, getting it on
[Speaker 0]the road, and driving it home seven hundred
[Speaker 0]miles or a thousand miles or whatever, you
[Speaker 0]know, from the junkyard. And, you know, that
[Speaker 0]that's interesting stuff, but, you know, he's got
[Speaker 0]a very successful YouTube page. And every once
[Speaker 0]in a our YouTube page. I hate the
(24:08):
[Speaker 0]word page when it comes to YouTube. It's
[Speaker 0]not a page. It's a channel. Anyway and
[Speaker 0]I just did it. But he's got a
[Speaker 0]very successful YouTube channel. There's, you know, clickbait
[Speaker 0]AI videos on there. Derek Berry sends to
[Speaker 0]life. You know? And then you go, and
(24:29):
[Speaker 0]it's just basically a really crappy AI tutorial
[Speaker 0]or a a bio of him, and, you
[Speaker 0]know, nowhere in there does it say he
[Speaker 0]went to jail. So I hope, YouTube can
[Speaker 0]crack down on that crap or at least
[Speaker 0]make it so they're not monetized. You know?
[Speaker 0]It's or maybe, you know, this is AI.
(24:52):
[Speaker 0]You know, I have a big tag or
[Speaker 0]something. You know? But, you know, for most
[Speaker 0]for the most part, I can tell still.
[Speaker 0]You know, it hasn't got that good yet.
[Speaker 0]Although in, Trucker Tom's episode, he did did
[Speaker 0]a a a segment where he put a
[Speaker 0]bunch of his writings in there and then
[Speaker 0]had the AI create an interview, of, you
(25:15):
[Speaker 0]know, two two AI individuals, and that sounded
[Speaker 0]quite good. I mean, I could tell it
[Speaker 0]was not, you know, not real people, but
[Speaker 0]it was it it's getting more convincing. So,
[Speaker 0]yeah, we're kinda wrestling with that at Blueberry.
[Speaker 0]We have AI tools. In fact, you read
[Speaker 0]the show notes of this episode, and I
(25:35):
[Speaker 0]probably will use AI, and the transcript will
[Speaker 0]be AI. So you gotta listen to it.
[Speaker 0]This is an audio medium. Most people don't
[Speaker 0]read the stuff you write anyway, but, you
[Speaker 0]know, I I use our tools to, create
[Speaker 0]the show notes. Why not? You know, it
[Speaker 0]just saves me a step, and I'm not
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[Speaker 0]that great a writer. So, anyway, I guess,
[Speaker 0]I wanted to get that little part about
[Speaker 0]AI in there. And, yeah. So what is
[Speaker 0]it? The twenty seventh. So I got, you
[Speaker 0]know, four days, five days, four days, anyway,
[Speaker 0]and you'll hear the first episode of my
[Speaker 0]November up north series on Mike Dell's World
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[Speaker 0]for Napaad Pomo. Ninety percent sure I'm gonna
[Speaker 0]do it. So, stay tuned. Thanks for listening.
[Speaker 0]Thanks for all that stuff, and you can
[Speaker 0]find everything about me over at mike dell
[Speaker 0]Mike Del's World, number five zero six for
[Speaker 0]October twenty seventh twenty twenty five. I think
[Speaker 0]it's time for Mike Del's World. There it
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[Speaker 0]is. And there it is. Here I am.
[Speaker 0]Hey. It hasn't been six months, so I
[Speaker 0]guess this is a bonus extra holy crap,
[Speaker 0]but I did one within the same month
[Speaker 0]episode. Was it quite the same month? Let
[Speaker 0]me go look for sure, but, I I
[Speaker 0]think it might be. Anyway, welcome to, Mike
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[Speaker 0]Dell's worlds. Thanks for staying. Subscribe even though
[Speaker 0]I'm not very, regular when it comes to
[Speaker 0]making these podcast episodes. And, actually, I haven't
[Speaker 0]been regular making podcast episodes for the other
[Speaker 0]podcast that I do, Podcast Insider. We haven't
[Speaker 0]done one in, I don't know, month and
(01:22):
[Speaker 0]a half or two months, something like that.
[Speaker 0]But, they are resuming in November, so, look
[Speaker 0]forward to that. We got a new cohost
[Speaker 0]on board, Dave Clements. You probably heard him
[Speaker 0]on there before. And if you, you've been
[Speaker 0]talking to Blueberry at all, Dave is kind
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[Speaker 0]of the other support guy. Me, my or
[Speaker 0]me, Sean, and Dave are the support guys
[Speaker 0]over at Blueberry, so you'll get one of
[Speaker 0]us. And, anyway, Dave is also the face
[Speaker 0]of our YouTube channel over at Blueberry Podcasting,
[Speaker 0]YouTube. I don't know. Just look for Blueberry
[Speaker 0]Podcast. Anyway, this isn't a Blueberry commercial. This
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[Speaker 0]is a, an episode of Mike Dahl's World.
[Speaker 0]You know what's going on in my world?
[Speaker 0]And to be honest with you, winterizing, basically,
[Speaker 0]winterized both campers, moms and mine. Finally got
[Speaker 0]that all done. Got the boats put away.
[Speaker 0]Got most of the outdoor stuff put away
(02:30):
[Speaker 0]for the winter. I got the snow blowers
[Speaker 0]out. Gonna take the tractor in in a
[Speaker 0]couple of weeks to get it all serviced
[Speaker 0]up and ready for winter. Gotta put the
[Speaker 0]cab and the snowblower on it, but I'm
[Speaker 0]waiting for the rest of the leaves to
[Speaker 0]fall out there so that I can scoop
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[Speaker 0]them up with the tractor before I put
[Speaker 0]the snowblower on. That's the plan anyway. But,
[Speaker 0]other than that, haven't been doing a whole
[Speaker 0]lot. Did a little flying, not a lot.
[Speaker 0]It's kind of that time of year where
[Speaker 0]we're getting lake effect rain, so, the weather
[Speaker 0]hasn't really been conducive for flying. So, I
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[Speaker 0]think I might hang up my, I guess,
[Speaker 0]it wouldn't be Spurs, but hang up my
[Speaker 0]headset and, wait till spring. I I don't
[Speaker 0]wanna fight weather. You know, just don't yeah.
[Speaker 0]I'm I'm a fair weather pilot, so we'll
[Speaker 0]we'll we'll call it good, for this year,
[Speaker 0]and maybe I can sneak one more in
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[Speaker 0]before, before the weather turns to crap altogether.
[Speaker 0]But that's the that's the gist of it
[Speaker 0]anyway. So the other thing that's been going
[Speaker 0]on lately is I've been under a bunch
[Speaker 0]of stress, and and a lot of the
[Speaker 0]stress is brought in by myself. And I
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[Speaker 0]haven't really found a great way to alleviate
[Speaker 0]it. And I'm wondering, you know, if I
[Speaker 0]could get some suggestions from you guys, you
[Speaker 0]know, some of the things that, you know,
[Speaker 0]that that you do to alleviate some stress.
[Speaker 0]And a lot of the stuff's brought on
[Speaker 0]by myself. You know, I I overthink everything.
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[Speaker 0]You know, I've been overthinking the flying. I've
[Speaker 0]been overthinking the the work situation, you know,
[Speaker 0]with Todd passing away a couple months ago
[Speaker 0]and, you know, we're doing okay here at
[Speaker 0]Blueberry. I don't know. No big deal there.
[Speaker 0]I mean, well, big deal, but not, like
[Speaker 0]I said, nothing nothing is stopping. You know,
[Speaker 0]we're we're chugging along and, planning and I
(04:38):
[Speaker 0]think, making some good organizational changes that will
[Speaker 0]ensure that we stick around for the long
[Speaker 0]term. I plan on sticking around for, at
[Speaker 0]least another bunch of years. You know, I'm
[Speaker 0]not ready to retire yet. So, you know,
[Speaker 0]gotta gotta keep it viable so that, you
(04:59):
[Speaker 0]know but like I said, I just been
[Speaker 0]stressed over silly little things, you know. Overthinking,
[Speaker 0]I guess, would be my my main problem.
[Speaker 0]And then when I do have time to
[Speaker 0]to, relax or de stress or whatever, then,
[Speaker 0]you know, then then it gets worse. Or,
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[Speaker 0]you know, I'll sit down. You know, normally
[Speaker 0]reading would be my go to, you know,
[Speaker 0]sit sit back in the easy chair, break
[Speaker 0]out the Kindle, and, you know, just read.
[Speaker 0]But, you know, I get four or five
[Speaker 0]pages into a book or something, and if
[Speaker 0]the stress goes away, I go to sleep.
[Speaker 0]I don't know if that's because I'm getting
[Speaker 0]older. I don't know. But go you know?
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[Speaker 0]Or a you know, get reading into, you
[Speaker 0]know, get into a book and, you know,
[Speaker 0]get interested in all that, and then something
[Speaker 0]interrupts me, and I don't get back to
[Speaker 0]it. And, you know, taking a walk or
[Speaker 0]or going for a bike ride, all that
[Speaker 0]stuff, it's just, you know, I don't I
(06:03):
[Speaker 0]don't wanna do that. I just don't. But
[Speaker 0]it's, you know, been pretty much constant this
[Speaker 0]whole year. There's just been, you know, things
[Speaker 0]and stuff coming up, you know, and and
[Speaker 0]a lot of it I'm not in control
[Speaker 0]of. You know, like, gotta go on a
[Speaker 0]trip. I don't wanna go on the trip,
[Speaker 0]but I gotta go on the trip. And,
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[Speaker 0]you know, it was good to go on
[Speaker 0]the trip, but, you know, we went out
[Speaker 0]to Minneapolis to to my nephew's wedding, and,
[Speaker 0]yeah, that was all fine and good. But,
[Speaker 0]you know, just the pre trip logistics and
[Speaker 0]all the stuff that goes into planning something
[Speaker 0]like that, e even though, you know, we're
[Speaker 0]just going there to attend. Sounds like I'm
(06:45):
[Speaker 0]gonna have a by here in a second.
[Speaker 0]So if you happen to hear that, that's
[Speaker 0]what's going on, but you might not hear
[Speaker 0]it. I get helicopters flying over the house
[Speaker 0]all the time, and nobody hears it on
[Speaker 0]my microphone. So maybe maybe it's a nonissue.
[Speaker 0]But, you know, just one thing after another
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[Speaker 0]after another after another, and, you know, like
[Speaker 0]all this winterizing stuff. Well, you gotta do
[Speaker 0]it when the weather's good. And, you know,
[Speaker 0]you you spend all day doing something you
[Speaker 0]feel accomplished, and then you sit there and
[Speaker 0]you look at your to do list, and
[Speaker 0]you're like, oh man, I got all this
[Speaker 0]other crap to do. Now here comes the
(07:27):
[Speaker 0]fire trucks. Let's see here. Yeah. There he
[Speaker 0]goes. Let's watch him on the camera. Anyway,
[Speaker 0]you know, it just seems like every second
[Speaker 0]of my day has is scheduled. And and
[Speaker 0]this weekend, you know, this past weekend, my
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[Speaker 0]my wife took off for Grand Haven for
[Speaker 0]a couple of days or Muskegon, I guess,
[Speaker 0]down to her brother's place for a Michigan
[Speaker 0]wedding reception for the happy couple that got
[Speaker 0]married in Minneapolis. I need to come here
[Speaker 0]and do a little party. I I I
[Speaker 0]didn't have to go. In fact, I really
(08:08):
[Speaker 0]couldn't go because I'm babysitting dogs. So, you
[Speaker 0]know, I've got a I got extra dog,
[Speaker 0]I should say. And we're down to one,
[Speaker 0]and then, and we got a a second
[Speaker 0]dog here that, we have part time just
[Speaker 0]because, his mom is a nurse, and she
(08:31):
[Speaker 0]works twelve hour shifts. But, she took a
[Speaker 0]vacation down to Puerto Rico, which I guess
[Speaker 0]is not getting the big hurricane. I don't
[Speaker 0]know. I chatted with her a little bit
[Speaker 0]today on text, and and, she didn't mention
[Speaker 0]anything about it. So I imagine that everything's
[Speaker 0]okay in Puerto Rico, but, I know she'll
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[Speaker 0]she'll be back Wednesday. So I really couldn't
[Speaker 0]go down to this thing with Kathy, which
[Speaker 0]is fine. I, you know, I I went
[Speaker 0]to the wedding and and the reception there
[Speaker 0]in Minneapolis. So or not Minneapolis. I should
[Speaker 0]say an hour or so outside of Minneapolis,
[Speaker 0]but that's where we flew in. And, you
[Speaker 0]know, so I had some time. Well, you
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[Speaker 0]know, on Saturday, I, went out and, you
[Speaker 0]know, did the campers and and the boats
[Speaker 0]and, you know, few other little chores around
[Speaker 0]mom's place, which was great. I'm glad to
[Speaker 0]get it done. Feels really good to, get
[Speaker 0]everything accomplished there. And I had all day
[Speaker 0]Sunday to do just what I wanted. So
(09:33):
[Speaker 0]I got up in the morning, did my
[Speaker 0]normal ham radio activity, in case you're in
[Speaker 0]earshot HF wise. At nine o'clock in the
[Speaker 0]morning, I get on thirty nine thirty five
[Speaker 0]for the, what we call, SmashNet, the the
[Speaker 0]Sunday morning social hour. It usually lasts about
[Speaker 0]an hour, but unless you're in Michigan, Ontario,
(09:58):
[Speaker 0]you know, Ohio, Indiana, maybe Illinois, maybe Wisconsin,
[Speaker 0]you're not gonna hear it. But, we get
[Speaker 0]a lot of check ins from around Michigan
[Speaker 0]anyway, mostly in Ontario. And then, you know,
[Speaker 0]and then, at ten thirty, most most Sundays,
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[Speaker 0]I get on the I O O K
[Speaker 0]net around, seventy one eighty five, forty meters.
[Speaker 0]And, you know, that that reaches out a
[Speaker 0]little further pretty much, northeast and, Midwest. It
[Speaker 0]covers pretty well. I usually get on there
[Speaker 0]for at least one round and then go
(10:42):
[Speaker 0]off to brunch. So, you know, Sunday, I
[Speaker 0]went off to brunch. And with with a
[Speaker 0]friend of mine, we you know, usually my
[Speaker 0]mom joins us, but she was busy. And
[Speaker 0]and so, you know, we had lunch, and
[Speaker 0]I came home, and I had the whole
[Speaker 0]rest of the day to myself. And what
[Speaker 0]did I do? I sat in the damn
[Speaker 0]chair and watched YouTube all day, which was
(11:05):
[Speaker 0]nice, but, then again, you know, you get
[Speaker 0]to thinking and whatnot and, you know, I
[Speaker 0]just I don't know. It's it's been it's
[Speaker 0]been interesting, and a bit stressful. So, you
[Speaker 0]know, hey. What what stress relief works for
[Speaker 0]you? You'll send that off to me. Mike
(11:27):
[Speaker 0]at mike dell dot com. I always like
[Speaker 0]to hear from you guys, and I know
[Speaker 0]there's somebody out there listening. You know, I
[Speaker 0]get the stats. And, you know, I don't
[Speaker 0]hear a whole lot from you anymore. Speaking
[Speaker 0]of blast from the past, like me doing
[Speaker 0]regular podcasts, listened to trucker Tom today from
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[Speaker 0]probably a month, a month and a half
[Speaker 0]ago. And, he was, he was mentioning Todd's
[Speaker 0]passing. Maybe it was two months ago. Jeez.
[Speaker 0]I don't know how long whatever his last
[Speaker 0]episode was. And, you know, he's he's kinda
[Speaker 0]slowed down on the on the publishing because,
[Speaker 0]you know, when you once you retire, you're
[Speaker 0]too busy to have time to podcast. That's
(12:11):
[Speaker 0]what I hear anyway. I don't know. I
[Speaker 0]think you still got some years left. But,
[Speaker 0]anyway, he had mentioned, I'm not sure what's
[Speaker 0]gonna happen with Blueberry. Well, nothing. Nothing's happening
[Speaker 0]with Blueberry. We're we're plugging along just like
[Speaker 0]we always did. But, anyway, it was cool
[Speaker 0]hearing from him. He's been retired for about
[Speaker 0]a year, and, sounds like he doesn't miss
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[Speaker 0]the road at all. You know, I I
[Speaker 0]think I would have a hard time, you
[Speaker 0]know, if I was on the road all
[Speaker 0]the time and then all of a sudden
[Speaker 0]I wasn't. I might, I might miss that
[Speaker 0]a little bit. But, you know, I guess,
[Speaker 0]each to their own. I get, you know,
[Speaker 0]being as a truck driver, I imagine being
[Speaker 0]home was is where you wanna be a
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[Speaker 0]lot of the time, so maybe he's just
[Speaker 0]not tired of that yet. Plus he got
[Speaker 0]a dog and, you know, getting a dog,
[Speaker 0]you know, that's you're you're in charge of
[Speaker 0]a whole other entity. You know, it's it's
[Speaker 0]not like just being single and and you
[Speaker 0]do whatever you want. You you gotta think
[Speaker 0]about, the critter. It's with us. You know?
(13:16):
[Speaker 0]We we can't just pick up and go
[Speaker 0]all the time because, you know, we got
[Speaker 0]the dog to worry about, and that's just,
[Speaker 0]you know, just how it is. You know,
[Speaker 0]you you choose that kind of thing. And,
[Speaker 0]somebody just pulled in my driveway. Oh, my
[Speaker 0]neighbor. Okay. Cool. Anyway, I shouldn't have my
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[Speaker 0]camera up while I'm, podcasting here. I am
[Speaker 0]thinking about doing the, Napod promo again this
[Speaker 0]year, although I wanna do it a little
[Speaker 0]differently. You know, you used to be when
[Speaker 0]I would do that, I I would just,
[Speaker 0]you know, do a little short episode every
[Speaker 0]day and no theme to it. But I
[Speaker 0]think I I wanna do a theme. Here,
(14:02):
[Speaker 0]let me go grab some paperwork here. Hang
[Speaker 0]on. Alright. Yeah. There we go. And kinda
[Speaker 0]what I'd like to do is, you know,
[Speaker 0]this is gonna be life around Northern Michigan,
[Speaker 0]around Traverse City. And, you know, they are
[Speaker 0]gonna be short episodes, but I'm gonna have
(14:23):
[Speaker 0]them kinda mapped out. I've got, you know,
[Speaker 0]a list of episodes here, like, you know,
[Speaker 0]one of them is called a beagle walk
[Speaker 0]through the crunchy leaves. So I'll go take
[Speaker 0]Benny and, go for a walk and put
[Speaker 0]on my portable recorder like I used to
(14:43):
[Speaker 0]do all the time and and, you know,
[Speaker 0]just take a walk and and talk. You
[Speaker 0]know, another one, the road to Interlaken. You
[Speaker 0]probably know what Interlaken is, but, it's a
[Speaker 0]little town south of here. And, they're home
[Speaker 0]to a, art fine arts camp. And, you
(15:05):
[Speaker 0]know, I don't know. I think it'd be
[Speaker 0]kind of fun. It'd be kind of a,
[Speaker 0]a few of these will be remote from
[Speaker 0]the vehicle or from walking and all that,
[Speaker 0]you know, kinda what I used to do
[Speaker 0]back in the day. But, I'm gonna kind
[Speaker 0]of, you know, kind of, you know, talk
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[Speaker 0]about stuff from around here. You know, that's
[Speaker 0]that's where I live. This is my world.
[Speaker 0]You know? Like, on Thanksgiving, I'll do a
[Speaker 0]Thanksgiving episode. Thanksgiving up north, you know, traditions,
[Speaker 0]food, weather, all that stuff. The last mowing
[Speaker 0]of the year, you know, talk about that.
(15:48):
[Speaker 0]Snow tires and salt trucks. You know, I've
[Speaker 0]got these kinda mapped out, what I wanna
[Speaker 0]do on what day. And, you know, I
[Speaker 0]might record a few of them ahead of
[Speaker 0]time and then, some of the remote ones,
[Speaker 0]you know, record right around the the day
[Speaker 0]they go out. But, you know, it's, in
[Speaker 0]case you're not familiar with NAPOD POMO, that's
(16:10):
[Speaker 0]National Podcast Posting Month, and it's over at
[Speaker 0]napod pomo dot org. And, Jennifer Navarante, and
[Speaker 0]I think I pronounced her name mostly right.
[Speaker 0]She kinda spearheads that, and I think it's
[Speaker 0]the eighteenth year, Something like that. I know
[Speaker 0]it's been, quite a while. Let me look
(16:32):
[Speaker 0]it up. A pod, po mo dot org.
[Speaker 0]And see if I typed everything right. Yeah.
[Speaker 0]So this is the eighteenth year. So since
[Speaker 0]two thousand seven, and basically, it's a challenge
[Speaker 0]for podcasters to post thirty episodes in thirty
[Speaker 0]days. You know, November first through the thirtieth.
(16:54):
[Speaker 0]And, you know, really, you know, there's no
[Speaker 0]real purpose to it other than, hey. Why
[Speaker 0]not? And, you know, I might be able
[Speaker 0]to put a I did it badge on
[Speaker 0]my website. So stay tuned for that. I
[Speaker 0]think I am gonna do that. The first
[Speaker 0]episode will be November first, and, yeah. Gonna
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[Speaker 0]explain all this again. So, but I'll explain
[Speaker 0]it a little bit more. You know, this
[Speaker 0]will be a series of thirty episodes all
[Speaker 0]about, November up north. So whether you're interested
[Speaker 0]or not, well, I appreciate you hanging out
[Speaker 0]and and listening anyway, but should be fun.
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[Speaker 0]Again, like I said, I get to do
[Speaker 0]a little bit of, a little bit of
[Speaker 0]sound seeing tours. You know? I I don't
[Speaker 0]know. This can been kinda nostalgia week for
[Speaker 0]me too, and and, I think I had
[Speaker 0]a episode about nostalgia being a being a,
[Speaker 0]a disease. If you take it to the
[Speaker 0]extreme, I guess it could be, but, and
(18:01):
[Speaker 0]I guess that's the the basis of hoarding
[Speaker 0]is nostalgia, but, that's not what I'm doing
[Speaker 0]here. I you know? But, you know, back
[Speaker 0]in the day when podcasting was new, there
[Speaker 0]was a lot of people doing what they
[Speaker 0]called sound seeing tours. Father Roderick did, episodes
(18:23):
[Speaker 0]from the Vatican walking around with his, Sony
[Speaker 0]minidisc recorder and, you know, when they were,
[Speaker 0]you know, picking the new pope after pope
[Speaker 0]John Paul died. And, that was very interesting.
[Speaker 0]Even if you aren't a Catholic, it was
[Speaker 0]a Catholic insider, I think, was what he
[Speaker 0]called it. But, I believe he's still podcasting.
(18:44):
[Speaker 0]He is a podcast hall of famer. But,
[Speaker 0]you know, that's interesting. Speaking of that, you
[Speaker 0]know, with Todd passing away, the a lot
[Speaker 0]of the travel is going to fall on
[Speaker 0]me for these conferences. Now I did plenty
[Speaker 0]of them anyway, but, I'm gonna have to
[Speaker 0]pick up a few extra ones. And, I
(19:05):
[Speaker 0]do have a speaking gig in Florida in
[Speaker 0]January. It's a good time to go to
[Speaker 0]Florida. So looking forward to that, sort of,
[Speaker 0]except for I gotta get my slides together.
[Speaker 0]But, we get a few months, so we're
[Speaker 0]good. Let's see. Okay. I've mentioned just about
(19:27):
[Speaker 0]everything of any great consequence. Yeah. Just, just
[Speaker 0]plugging along here and, trying to stay distressed.
[Speaker 0]No. So like I said, I I do
[Speaker 0]want your your suggestions for distressing, you know,
[Speaker 0]within reason. Yeah. I'm not gonna go run
(19:47):
[Speaker 0]a marathon or or, you know, walk twenty
[Speaker 0]miles or go to the gym. God forbid.
[Speaker 0]No. Actually, I am thinking about joining the
[Speaker 0]gym, but for other reasons. But, anyway and
[Speaker 0]I guess podcasting helps too, you know, getting
[Speaker 0]a little of this off your chest without
[Speaker 0]going into detail. Like I said, I I
(20:08):
[Speaker 0]could go into a lot more detail, but,
[Speaker 0]I don't wanna do that because, you know,
[Speaker 0]some things shall remain private. But, yeah, it's
[Speaker 0]it's very cool. One of the discussions I've
[Speaker 0]been having lately with, you know, teammates and
[Speaker 0]other podcasters and all that is the role
[Speaker 0]of AI in podcasting. Now I've done a
(20:31):
[Speaker 0]fair amount of AI stuff. You know, I
[Speaker 0]even did an experimental episode where I had
[Speaker 0]the AI read it as me. I don't
[Speaker 0]know. It didn't sound good. But a lot
[Speaker 0]of the, podcasting, you know, I think people
[Speaker 0]are gonna looking for authentic human voices, you
[Speaker 0]know, instead of the AI generated content, there's
(20:53):
[Speaker 0]a lot of AI generated content. You know,
[Speaker 0]YouTube is kind of my primary source of
[Speaker 0]television, you know, for the most part. I
[Speaker 0]mean, of course, I still watch Star Trek.
[Speaker 0]My my wife and I, you know, go
[Speaker 0]through all the series in Star Trek, and
[Speaker 0]that's kind of our our thing. And I
[Speaker 0]think we're on the second round of of
(21:14):
[Speaker 0]two and all of them. We're currently in,
[Speaker 0]Star Trek Voyager six season, in case you're
[Speaker 0]keeping track. But, we're watching them in chronological
[Speaker 0]order, not, chronological in the story sense, but
[Speaker 0]chronological in when they came out, to the
[Speaker 0]public. So we're up to Voyager. The next
(21:37):
[Speaker 0]one will be Enterprise, and then, I guess
[Speaker 0]the next one would be Discovery. You know?
[Speaker 0]We we watched Discovery when it was first
[Speaker 0]run on Paramount plus or CBS, whatever. I
[Speaker 0]don't know. It's changed names a couple times.
[Speaker 0]It's on Paramount plus now. So we'll probably
(21:59):
[Speaker 0]watch that through and then, you know, just
[Speaker 0]keep going through the series. And by the
[Speaker 0]time we get back to the original series,
[Speaker 0]we'll have forgotten most of it. And and
[Speaker 0]I've noticed that with Voyager, we'll we'll both
[Speaker 0]sit there and go like, I don't remember
[Speaker 0]this episode. And then halfway through, oh, yeah.
[Speaker 0]I kinda remember it, and I sorta remember
(22:19):
[Speaker 0]it. It's kind of amazing that, you know,
[Speaker 0]in that many years ago, we watched it,
[Speaker 0]and, and here we are watching it again.
[Speaker 0]And, you know, there's a lot of track
[Speaker 0]out there for sure. But, anyway, as get
[Speaker 0]back to YouTube, a lot of times, you
[Speaker 0]know, YouTube will suggest a video, and you
(22:40):
[Speaker 0]you start on the video. And you can
[Speaker 0]tell, obviously, that it's just AI generate slideshow
[Speaker 0]and stock video. And I really try to,
[Speaker 0]thumbs down those and and and bail on
[Speaker 0]them, but some of them are pretty good,
[Speaker 0]I have to say. But I much prefer
[Speaker 0]the actual humans talking, you know, or, you
(23:02):
[Speaker 0]know, I might have got fooled a few
[Speaker 0]times with the you know? But there's, you
[Speaker 0]know, some AI voices out there that immediately
[Speaker 0]you just know that that, oh, yeah. That's
[Speaker 0]the AI guy. You know? It's a good
[Speaker 0]voice and all that, but it's the AI
[Speaker 0]guy. So I I really try not to,
[Speaker 0]watch those. And then amazing thing was all
[Speaker 0]a clickbait. Oh my gosh. It's, you know,
(23:28):
[Speaker 0]So and so is in jail, you know,
[Speaker 0]and and they'll, you know, go through the
[Speaker 0]whole you know? And I'll watch it just
[Speaker 0]because, oh, really? Are they? You know? And
[Speaker 0]and I I watch a guy on there,
[Speaker 0]Derek Berry, vice grip garage. And, he puts
[Speaker 0]out an episode every Friday, and, you know,
[Speaker 0]a lot of the times, he's finding an
(23:48):
[Speaker 0]old car somewhere, fixing it, getting it on
[Speaker 0]the road, and driving it home seven hundred
[Speaker 0]miles or a thousand miles or whatever, you
[Speaker 0]know, from the junkyard. And, you know, that
[Speaker 0]that's interesting stuff, but, you know, he's got
[Speaker 0]a very successful YouTube page. And every once
[Speaker 0]in a our YouTube page. I hate the
(24:08):
[Speaker 0]word page when it comes to YouTube. It's
[Speaker 0]not a page. It's a channel. Anyway and
[Speaker 0]I just did it. But he's got a
[Speaker 0]very successful YouTube channel. There's, you know, clickbait
[Speaker 0]AI videos on there. Derek Berry sends to
[Speaker 0]life. You know? And then you go, and
(24:29):
[Speaker 0]it's just basically a really crappy AI tutorial
[Speaker 0]or a a bio of him, and, you
[Speaker 0]know, nowhere in there does it say he
[Speaker 0]went to jail. So I hope, YouTube can
[Speaker 0]crack down on that crap or at least
[Speaker 0]make it so they're not monetized. You know?
[Speaker 0]It's or maybe, you know, this is AI.
(24:52):
[Speaker 0]You know, I have a big tag or
[Speaker 0]something. You know? But, you know, for most
[Speaker 0]for the most part, I can tell still.
[Speaker 0]You know, it hasn't got that good yet.
[Speaker 0]Although in, Trucker Tom's episode, he did did
[Speaker 0]a a a segment where he put a
[Speaker 0]bunch of his writings in there and then
[Speaker 0]had the AI create an interview, of, you
(25:15):
[Speaker 0]know, two two AI individuals, and that sounded
[Speaker 0]quite good. I mean, I could tell it
[Speaker 0]was not, you know, not real people, but
[Speaker 0]it was it it's getting more convincing. So,
[Speaker 0]yeah, we're kinda wrestling with that at Blueberry.
[Speaker 0]We have AI tools. In fact, you read
[Speaker 0]the show notes of this episode, and I
(25:35):
[Speaker 0]probably will use AI, and the transcript will
[Speaker 0]be AI. So you gotta listen to it.
[Speaker 0]This is an audio medium. Most people don't
[Speaker 0]read the stuff you write anyway, but, you
[Speaker 0]know, I I use our tools to, create
[Speaker 0]the show notes. Why not? You know, it
[Speaker 0]just saves me a step, and I'm not
(25:56):
[Speaker 0]that great a writer. So, anyway, I guess,
[Speaker 0]I wanted to get that little part about
[Speaker 0]AI in there. And, yeah. So what is
[Speaker 0]it? The twenty seventh. So I got, you
[Speaker 0]know, four days, five days, four days, anyway,
[Speaker 0]and you'll hear the first episode of my
[Speaker 0]November up north series on Mike Dell's World
(26:19):
[Speaker 0]for Napaad Pomo. Ninety percent sure I'm gonna
[Speaker 0]do it. So, stay tuned. Thanks for listening.
[Speaker 0]Thanks for all that stuff, and you can
[Speaker 0]find everything about me over at mike dell
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