November 8, 2023 • 22 mins
A couple different topics, such as how YouTube continues to warn me about my "lack of effort" lol
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Hello everyone, Happy home day.It's been a little while for a podcast
and got some topics to talk about. I hope everybody's well. I've been
just busy and got some stuff done, but I figured out fire up and
talk to the podcasters from you guys. Are I should focus a lot more
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on you guys because the positivity andemails and people just listening. And I
know you're out there because I seethat listens every day. But nobody has
to email. You don't have totell me, but there's people always out
there checking in. Hey, man, let's come out with podcasts. I
hope you're doing all right. How'sthis? But man, the YouTubers are
ruthless, right, So start withthis out of the currently in West Melbourne,
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Florida, heading north to the Land, Florida to do some subscriber unit
testing. You know, it's alwaysfun when someone says, oh, repeta
rate work or repeat rate working.Oh you can't hear the net. This
net not him but business related commercialaltmore. And I've already tested it five
times. Now I gotta go sitdown to him and say, okay,
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this is channel one, this ischannel two. Okay, you gotta hold
this button. When you want totalk, you let go and you listen.
Volumes gotta be up, you know, stuff like that. That's what
I'm doing today. I made avideo finally of the nomad Internet and boy,
that has really kicked me in theass by a lot of people.
Like So, here's how this works, right, I've pretty much given up
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again a long time ago on thePatreon and donations whatever. You know,
YouTube money is almost non existent atthis point. They've already tried demonetizing me
again for not making enough videos ina month. So they're telling me they're
going to demonetize my channel because I'mnot making videos on a regular basis.
That's a YouTube stupid. You know. That really pissed me off, and
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that's why I happened it on YouTube. I got other things happening at the
house. I'll tell you about theham shock I'm building and stuff. So
you know. But sponsored deals arealways fun because they send you a product.
And if you if you haven't watchedmy YouTube videos ever, I'll explain
it to you how I do it. Okay, I just like to look
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at it. I show what itis, what it does, and I
take a I take see a lotof people will do this on YouTube and
they'll be like, you know,I have the answer to stay tuned with
this whole interest, stay tuned tofind out if this is worth your hard
earned dollar right here on this,this and this. You know, I'm
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not selling ham related I'm saying anything. I mean, there's RV channels,
there's there's tech gadget channels and whatever, and I don't do that. I'd
say, hey, guys, checkit out. Look at this company.
Cent This is, for instance,no mad Internet. You know, it's
it's an ISP Internet Service provider anduh you know, it's the one they
sent me as a nomad air.It's a little backpack with a battery that
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lasts like nine days powering this thing. Wherever you go. There's a little
tiny backpack. Wherever you go,you got Internet. It's a whole Wi
Fi router and motive inside and youknow, with an Ethernet out and you
connect thirty Wi Fi devices. Socool stuff. It's not brand new,
It's been around. They had strugglesin their company in the past. Okay,
so what they did in the pastwas they started itching up with YouTubers,
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mainly the RV folks, r VARsand nomads and off graders. Okay
said hey, we're gonna send thisto you and you know, make a
video and we'll pay your money orwhatever and show us, you know,
make a video. Well back inthe day a couple of years ago,
people did this and they had issuesduring COVID they had too many people getting
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on board with the product buying it, not enough tech support. They weren't
on Verizon, they were on anothernetwork, so had some troubles. Okay,
and the CEO had a little issuehere of a he or she resigned
and someone else came in. Wellimmediately when like when the CEO decided to
step down, like people that theypaid, who said, oh this is
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a greater you know, this isgreat, you know, automatically made a
video and just started bashing the company. Now they're on my YouTube library of
seven hundred something videos. There's notone where I ever bashed a company ever.
If I don't like it, Ijust won't make a video on it.
I've had hundreds of things sent tome that I never made a video
on, no one ever even heardabout, because it's not fair for me,
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on my assessment to bash a companyand say this thing's a piece of
shit or this and that. Well, well it's too much money because I'm
basing that I can't afford it,or or I'm assuming that you're not wanting
to pay that much money for it. Maybe you are. I'm assuming that
maybe you can't afford it. Maybeyou can't, so I just don't even
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mention price. Right. Well,so I made this video and right away
got bombarded with comments, emails,Facebook messager posts like dude, what are
you doing? Your credibility just wentout the window because you made a video
on this and said it was prettycool and showed it working. But little
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do you know that all these othercompanies or people on YouTube have Bashar's company.
Well I knew that. That's thereason I made the video, right
because when they offered to send itto me, I said, yeah,
I said, I got to knowthere's a lot of people out there that
are bashing as Why, dude,just be honest with me. I'm not
gonna tell anybody in the video whatyou're saying, but I want you to
be honest, so I know howI'm going to approach this in my own
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opinion. And they pretty much saidokay, yeah, we'll do just that
and the CEO emailed me and said, I'm so thankful that you asked.
I'm going to tell you the problemswe had where we screwed up, what
we did wrong, and how we'vebeen fixing it and what we're intending to
do. So we had conversations fortyto fifty emails back and forth customer service.
There's a whole team now, andwhenever you send it, whoever gets
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it in the thirty seven people inthis group will just answer right or passing
to somebody who answer okay. Sothen I also explained to them, well,
why are these people not even showingany kind of real world proof like
speed tests or they're just sitting infront of this bag saying how good it
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is. Then the next video monthslater, they don't even have the bag
in front of them, and they'resaying how much your company sucks. Did
you approve these videos? Did youlike that? Because there's no real world
testing. These people are telling youthat you need to stop watching everybody else
on YouTube, and they are theones that really deserve your views because everybody
you know what goes on on Thisis where YouTube has just turned into the
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biggest pizza shit. I've ever seenall. You know, here comes the
rambowlert all the years that I've actuallygotten people in the hand radio you know,
eighteen thousand people have used hand radioprep over the last three or four
years. You know, one ofmy biggest sponsors ever. I mean,
I see how many people are gettinglicenses. You know. YouTube has turned
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into like they tell you what todo, and they're like, hey,
listen, you gotta make this thumbnailwith the stupid thing your finger point up
with a stupid logo with a smileand say something catchy. Is this worth
your money? Or is this theend of ham radio or is this really
what you want in life? Like? And then you get to it,
it's like, hey, it's nothingabout what's on the title, but YouTube
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says you gotta do this and yougotta post regular this that. Now I'm
not doing that. Back to thestory. So people were like, like,
you know, I lost another tenfifteen subscribers. But even since that
video I did where I started bashingsomebody else, not bashing, what did
I do? I made a videoand said, you know, whatever,
the YouTube's killing radio whatever and losta good couple five six hundred people.
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And that's great because those people don'tconstantly comment stupid vulgar stuff anymore. So
I'm Glader're going it's called thinning theherd. You make a video once in
a while that you know people arenot gonna like, and those people who
comment every time, and you cansee how long they're watching it stays with
you and the people are like,this is stupid. I unsubscribe at for
four seconds. Good, get outof here. You're not hurting me.
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If you want to hurt me,don't comment, don't do anything, just
leave because once you comment, that'sa that's an interaction. YouTube loves that,
right, they love thumbs down,they love they love when you click
unnotifications and stuff. That's interaction.Okay, So then I emailed Nomad.
It's okay. So the videos gotyou know, eleven hundred views so far,
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and man, a lot of peoplestill hate it, but hey,
it's working fine for me and hRight now, right now, Mike is
down and going to the keys.He took it, you know, he's
like, well, hey, youknow the videos, don't you can I
take this with me the keys whenI do something work because I need that
Ethernet port to log into some equipmentwhere we don't have internet, and I
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want to see what that thing doesin the keys, you know, out
there in open open water areas andstuff. And that's yeah, so he's
taking it. I'll hear what hesays. But so so where am I
going with this part? This mightbe a little bit of a longer podcast,
so if you if you are timecrunch to come back to it later.
Okay, So anyways, you know, over the last couple of years,
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I've been inundated with you know,when you're a YouTuber to deal this
stuff. Every every day you gettwo or three requests. Hi, this
is Yingshong Yoshi from this company Ican't expect pronounce, and we have this.
We want to send to you.This a little cheap eighty dollar drone.
You make a video whatever. Well, I don't appeal to me,
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don't appeal to the audience. ButI don't even know this company, and
you know it's just an Amazon thing. Or they'll even say, hey,
you know this is Bing Bing ChungFu ge and we have our V extension
courts because they're analytic. We'll seethat I've posted a couple of videos on
my RV and automatically it matches Hey, this guy doesn't has an RV.
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I'm not gonna make a video ona nineteen dollars RV court. I don't
care how good they say it is, so how am I gonna make a
video on it? So I've ignoredthose requests for years. Years. I've
had people say, oh, lithiumbatteries, isn't that And I've given him
my PO box number, and thenall of a sudden disappears. I don't
know what information they get for me, for my name, my PO box,
for ship to Sometimes I want atelephone number, I've given it to
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the past. That's pretty cool.This is a whole complete electronics circuit board
cleaning and soldering station for one hundredand fifty bucks. I think that's useful
for a lot of people. Yeah, sure, said out my way.
Never hear from again, right.So lately, I've removed my email from
QRZ. I've deleted my QRC page. All it says is high im on
a seventy one hundred. I don'tneed a QRZ page that's where you look
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people up anymore. I don't needthat. It's gone. I've removed my
email from YouTube and it's still comingin. I don't know how to get
rid of this, but just tolet you know, you know, I
did more research and testing on thatnomad internet and more talking. I guarantee
those people that did that, theydidn't commute. They saw a couple hundred
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dollars a free thing that made avideo and then they're like, oh,
this is better at star wlinks.Then the next day they're making a video.
How it sucks to Starling it's better, Like I don't do that.
So you know, I've had radiosbefore set to me from China. Someone
were pretty cool, weird on programmingor some like. I had these ones
from zero Telecom, and you weresupposed to be able to bluetooth it to
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your phone and send pictures rate fromyour phone over that handheld comes out the
other handheld to that person's picture.You know, whether it be through repeat
or whatever. Never worked right,never made a video on it. Hey,
what was you know what? Ifixed that? Oh yeah, you
need this firmware. It gave mea firmwork. Everything turned to China.
Nope, that didn't do it.Oh yeah, we added APRS. You
put this in. Nope, APRSand work not in this country at least
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you fix this, and I justdropped it, sold somebody for twenty bucks
in a ham fest and got ridof it. There is people out there
that will make videos and they'll belike, hey, you know, this
is a great piece of garbage.I wouldn't cram this up or you know
what, it's terrible. They sentit to me and I'm gonna tell you,
do not buy this and it's junk, right, I don't do that.
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So, uh, that's just therant today for that one. Part
one, you know, Part oneis, uh, you know, there's
there's more to for me for makingYouTube videos, just to show somebody,
whether you buy it or not,just show it. I put the links
because you know if because a lotof times people ask, well where did
you get that? You showed usthe product, so I put the links
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you know in the description. Somepeople buy stuff, some people don't.
So anyways, there you go.There. So youtubes me on the back
burner again for a while. Numbertwo, my hamshot, my shit,
I had a little bit extra andworking. I've been working now mowing lawns
on the side again every Saturday andSunday to pay for my building. My
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hamshot, and I have a twelveby twenty two shed. It's professionally built
fourteen thousand dollars shed with French doors, windows, touff metal roof, but
unfinished in side. So I actually, for the first time in my life,
framed down a wall. The shed'sbeen sitting there as a pile of
garbage for years, still live therethree years. Stuff just everywhere you know
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you walk in, there might bea ken with ts nine to forty on
the floor, and then to theleft of the mower, and then there's
coax pile up in the corner,and then the shutters you can't get.
So you know, now I've guttedit last weekend. Took all the metal
shelves, put them all on theright side, split the shed in like
sixty forty and made the shed onthe right side now with the double doors,
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and framed down a wall with twoby fours and two by twelves,
made a wall, nailed it togethera hammer nail. Never did that before,
and then looks good twenty two inchesapart like the rest of the studs
in the shed. So it alllines up like the shed. And now
I'm going to plywood the backside ofthat. The shed towards the shed side
and insulate that and then make apartition wall. Then I'm in. I
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already insulated the ceiling. I putthat picture of Facebook. I used what
was r R fifteen temperature and soundcontrol fiberglass batting or something twenty two inches
wide by ninety six, and Ijust basically unfolded these things and you know,
staple them to the ceiling. Iinsulated the entire ceiling right there under
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that metal roof. My gosh,just walking into the shed now it's like,
you know, fifteen degrees cooler.Now I'm gonna insulate the walls here
and then that's week or two andthen I'm gonna put up some sort of
paneling. Now I have, Ihave my desk and already my chair,
a brand new recliner somebody had leftpart of their sectional set. Must have
cost a fortune back of the day, and then they sold that, so
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no, we don't need that anymore, as you can have that's great because
it's been sitting covered brand new,and that shit. I got a huge,
wide, lazy boy looking thing that'spart of a set, but maybe
the ends or motorized, and thisone was in the middle, and man,
I think is so comfortable lays flator it sits straight up. You
know, you can like for climentthing flat your feet come out. So
now I got my little man cavestarted. I was gonna drywall, and
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now I'm gonna, uh uh,you know, maybe put some paneling instead.
I think it'd be easier to probablylook a little because I got my
drum set going in there. Mybrother in law is putting this four x
twelve guitar cabinet in there, andI'm gonna get a bass aamp in there
and have you know, some someplace to start practicing. And drum sets
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been dusty and full of cobwebs outin the garage for three years. Now
the next thing is when I getthis done, I'm gonna empty the garage
and get that started. So Iam making progress. I said it was
gonna be in the cool last winter. I didn't too busy doing stuff.
We got these cold fronts now currentlyseventy nine degrees and ten o'clock in the
morning and at nineties been in thesixties. So you know, three months
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ago it was one hundred and sixreal fill one hundred and fifteen. So
now that's my new motive. Isnothing gets done in the summer. I'm
gonna finish the shed, I'm gonnafinish the garage. I'm gonna my tower's
almost done. You got all mystuff done done, Gonna get the boat
running, get it ready, andthen in the summer, lay on the
couch all all summer long. Iain't gonna plant peppers this summer. I
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ain't gonna do landscaping this summer.It's all getting done in the winter because
it's just miserably hot in the summerand you can't go out there and do
stuff like that. So the hamshockis coming along. I buried the electric
line. I'm gonna tap onto theroom that's my office now, which is
right outside the window. I getto con do it stuff. I'm gonna
put a junction box. I'm gonnarun power right through to one of the
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circuits in that wall instead of thebreaker panel on the other side of the
house. That would be hundreds andhundreds of dollars of conduit wire. I
like, I don't feel like trenching, you know, ninety five one hundred
and twenty feet. I could doit fifteen feet, you know, And
I got my portable ac so onceit's insulate. I could run that day.
I'll pull a carpet in there.I'll have my tower. Now I'll
go into I've got two sections up, third sections on the gin pole like
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just for some reason, can't findanybody to pull that rope for ten minutes.
But once I get that up,then I could get my feed line
brought down and bury that to theshed and going through the floor and make
a little little bulkhead out on thefloor so I could have you know,
well, you know, so twothirty nines and end connectors round the round
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the wall towards the floor, thefloor toward the wall in the lower part
to screw right in, you know, and not have to do it weird
like running out the door or thewindow whatever. So do it that way.
So that's gonna be coming out thatI can start making videos and doing
stuff in there. Get that drakeL four B fired up, Get some
antennas, get my toemeter beacon up, which is years into making. Get
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my weather station out there, geta three sixty camera so you can monitor
weather remotely. All kinds of stuffI got ideas for. So that's that's
come along. So I'm making aprogress what else? What else? I
guess it's about it all. Iwanted a rant about today a little longer.
At eighteen minutes. You know thishas turned into a podcast about nothing,
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which is what it's always been.If you have any ideas, man,
just let me let me ask again. Email is Ham Radio Concepts at
gmail dot com. Send me anemail and be like, hey, man,
talk about this. I don't carewhat it is. It could be
about what I'm making for Thanksgiving,my crispy bacon and sage Gala apple or
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now Fuji Fuji apple, the Fujiapple and sage bacon, homemade stuffing.
I don't care. Whatever it's gonnabe. I want to talk about a
new radio you just seen. Ohmaybe I should look into it, the
current situation on GMRS. Whatever.Send me an email and give me something
to talk about. Might be fun. I need that kind of it.
I'm not that creative, as weall know, but just feel as awesome
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as to chill with you guys andtalk. And you know, that's pretty
much it. A lot of Christmaslight's going, man, Christmas Light's going.
What day would that be? That'llprobably be the next couple of weeks
before Thanksgiving. And yeah, so, and maybe I wanted to take the
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the RV somewhere this winter. Iwant to see snow. I thought about
driving it up when it's gonna snowone day in Georgia or Alabama or something
like that. It's driving up there, one twelve hour trip, drive up
there, stay somewhere overnight, builda snowman, come back. Maybe I
don't know. So that's another thingI wanted to work on. But anyways,
that's about all I got. Rambleecurrently in Cocoa Beach, So thanks
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for riding shot go with me,guys, and burned a few minutes there.
Thanks to my sponsors at hand RadioPrep for I know for a fact,
whatever is happening overseas is definitely drivinga lot of people to get a
hand ready license because the numbers areway up on my little link. You
know my discount code. Use thecode Eric twenty. You saved twenty percent
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on any course you buy. Alot of people since September are are just
using this code, so that it'sbeen higher than it has been the whole
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Let's get prepared stuff like that,So use the code Eric twenty at
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tests and if you follow the interactivecourses. If you follow them starting from
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questions, move on. You willlearn all the different things and you'll be
ready to take a license within aweek. And guarantee that within the week.
I've seen so many people do itwithin a week. So Ham Radio
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Prep is the greatest sponsor I've everhad, and we might be having no
mad continue to sponsor me, likeother than just me making the video,
maybe I could figure out how towrap them in because you know, I
like people said, forget you too, forget you, forget them with demonetize
them whatever. Just get sponsors andlet the sponsors do it for you.
They're getting their product shown there.It's benefiting people, and you don't have
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to commit to YouTube rules. Andthat's pretty much where I want to go.
So if you could deal with acouple you know, commercials or me
recommending things that are I think reallygood, and that's the reason I haven't
done sponsor with uh no mad yetbecause it's brand new for me in my
audience. So let's give them sixmonths like Ham Radio prep. Then I've
been with them for like three yearsnow, over three years, yeah,
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three and a half years, andthey've never done me wrong. And man,
people just give me nothing of apositive review. So that's a good
sponsor there. Yes, I makea kick back from them, and that's
how I keep this thing going becauseobviously YouTube just doesn't want to pay me,
and I might just not renew thatmonetization thing with their guidelines do this
within thirty days and this and thismight not do it. I might just
let it expire and then make videoson whatever I want on AR fifteen whatever.
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I could do whatever I want thenwhen it's demonetized, and then I'll
change the channel name to whatever won'tbe a Ham Radio Concepts anymore. I'll
make a vote. Whoever picks thebest name gets an icon seventy three hundred.
I'll mail it to them. I'llbuy them one brand new. We'll
figure that out. So anyways,thanks everybody for listening a little long at
twenty two minutes, but I hopeI burned twenty two minutes of year Bosses
time, because this was hopefully alittle more entertaining. Seven to everybody,
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Thanks love y'all.
Hello everyone, Happy home day.It's been a little while for a podcast
and got some topics to talk about. I hope everybody's well. I've been
just busy and got some stuff done, but I figured out fire up and
talk to the podcasters from you guys. Are I should focus a lot more
(00:24):
on you guys because the positivity andemails and people just listening. And I
know you're out there because I seethat listens every day. But nobody has
to email. You don't have totell me, but there's people always out
there checking in. Hey, man, let's come out with podcasts. I
hope you're doing all right. How'sthis? But man, the YouTubers are
ruthless, right, So start withthis out of the currently in West Melbourne,
(00:47):
Florida, heading north to the Land, Florida to do some subscriber unit
testing. You know, it's alwaysfun when someone says, oh, repeta
rate work or repeat rate working.Oh you can't hear the net. This
net not him but business related commercialaltmore. And I've already tested it five
times. Now I gotta go sitdown to him and say, okay,
(01:07):
this is channel one, this ischannel two. Okay, you gotta hold
this button. When you want totalk, you let go and you listen.
Volumes gotta be up, you know, stuff like that. That's what
I'm doing today. I made avideo finally of the nomad Internet and boy,
that has really kicked me in theass by a lot of people.
Like So, here's how this works, right, I've pretty much given up
(01:34):
again a long time ago on thePatreon and donations whatever. You know,
YouTube money is almost non existent atthis point. They've already tried demonetizing me
again for not making enough videos ina month. So they're telling me they're
going to demonetize my channel because I'mnot making videos on a regular basis.
That's a YouTube stupid. You know. That really pissed me off, and
(01:56):
that's why I happened it on YouTube. I got other things happening at the
house. I'll tell you about theham shock I'm building and stuff. So
you know. But sponsored deals arealways fun because they send you a product.
And if you if you haven't watchedmy YouTube videos ever, I'll explain
it to you how I do it. Okay, I just like to look
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at it. I show what itis, what it does, and I
take a I take see a lotof people will do this on YouTube and
they'll be like, you know,I have the answer to stay tuned with
this whole interest, stay tuned tofind out if this is worth your hard
earned dollar right here on this,this and this. You know, I'm
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not selling ham related I'm saying anything. I mean, there's RV channels,
there's there's tech gadget channels and whatever, and I don't do that. I'd
say, hey, guys, checkit out. Look at this company.
Cent This is, for instance,no mad Internet. You know, it's
it's an ISP Internet Service provider anduh you know, it's the one they
sent me as a nomad air.It's a little backpack with a battery that
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lasts like nine days powering this thing. Wherever you go. There's a little
tiny backpack. Wherever you go,you got Internet. It's a whole Wi
Fi router and motive inside and youknow, with an Ethernet out and you
connect thirty Wi Fi devices. Socool stuff. It's not brand new,
It's been around. They had strugglesin their company in the past. Okay,
so what they did in the pastwas they started itching up with YouTubers,
(03:27):
mainly the RV folks, r VARsand nomads and off graders. Okay
said hey, we're gonna send thisto you and you know, make a
video and we'll pay your money orwhatever and show us, you know,
make a video. Well back inthe day a couple of years ago,
people did this and they had issuesduring COVID they had too many people getting
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on board with the product buying it, not enough tech support. They weren't
on Verizon, they were on anothernetwork, so had some troubles. Okay,
and the CEO had a little issuehere of a he or she resigned
and someone else came in. Wellimmediately when like when the CEO decided to
step down, like people that theypaid, who said, oh this is
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a greater you know, this isgreat, you know, automatically made a
video and just started bashing the company. Now they're on my YouTube library of
seven hundred something videos. There's notone where I ever bashed a company ever.
If I don't like it, Ijust won't make a video on it.
I've had hundreds of things sent tome that I never made a video
on, no one ever even heardabout, because it's not fair for me,
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on my assessment to bash a companyand say this thing's a piece of
shit or this and that. Well, well it's too much money because I'm
basing that I can't afford it,or or I'm assuming that you're not wanting
to pay that much money for it. Maybe you are. I'm assuming that
maybe you can't afford it. Maybeyou can't, so I just don't even
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mention price. Right. Well,so I made this video and right away
got bombarded with comments, emails,Facebook messager posts like dude, what are
you doing? Your credibility just wentout the window because you made a video
on this and said it was prettycool and showed it working. But little
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do you know that all these othercompanies or people on YouTube have Bashar's company.
Well I knew that. That's thereason I made the video, right
because when they offered to send itto me, I said, yeah,
I said, I got to knowthere's a lot of people out there that
are bashing as Why, dude,just be honest with me. I'm not
gonna tell anybody in the video whatyou're saying, but I want you to
be honest, so I know howI'm going to approach this in my own
(05:40):
opinion. And they pretty much saidokay, yeah, we'll do just that
and the CEO emailed me and said, I'm so thankful that you asked.
I'm going to tell you the problemswe had where we screwed up, what
we did wrong, and how we'vebeen fixing it and what we're intending to
do. So we had conversations fortyto fifty emails back and forth customer service.
There's a whole team now, andwhenever you send it, whoever gets
(06:03):
it in the thirty seven people inthis group will just answer right or passing
to somebody who answer okay. Sothen I also explained to them, well,
why are these people not even showingany kind of real world proof like
speed tests or they're just sitting infront of this bag saying how good it
(06:23):
is. Then the next video monthslater, they don't even have the bag
in front of them, and they'resaying how much your company sucks. Did
you approve these videos? Did youlike that? Because there's no real world
testing. These people are telling youthat you need to stop watching everybody else
on YouTube, and they are theones that really deserve your views because everybody
you know what goes on on Thisis where YouTube has just turned into the
(06:44):
biggest pizza shit. I've ever seenall. You know, here comes the
rambowlert all the years that I've actuallygotten people in the hand radio you know,
eighteen thousand people have used hand radioprep over the last three or four
years. You know, one ofmy biggest sponsors ever. I mean,
I see how many people are gettinglicenses. You know. YouTube has turned
(07:08):
into like they tell you what todo, and they're like, hey,
listen, you gotta make this thumbnailwith the stupid thing your finger point up
with a stupid logo with a smileand say something catchy. Is this worth
your money? Or is this theend of ham radio or is this really
what you want in life? Like? And then you get to it,
it's like, hey, it's nothingabout what's on the title, but YouTube
(07:30):
says you gotta do this and yougotta post regular this that. Now I'm
not doing that. Back to thestory. So people were like, like,
you know, I lost another tenfifteen subscribers. But even since that
video I did where I started bashingsomebody else, not bashing, what did
I do? I made a videoand said, you know, whatever,
the YouTube's killing radio whatever and losta good couple five six hundred people.
(07:54):
And that's great because those people don'tconstantly comment stupid vulgar stuff anymore. So
I'm Glader're going it's called thinning theherd. You make a video once in
a while that you know people arenot gonna like, and those people who
comment every time, and you cansee how long they're watching it stays with
you and the people are like,this is stupid. I unsubscribe at for
four seconds. Good, get outof here. You're not hurting me.
(08:16):
If you want to hurt me,don't comment, don't do anything, just
leave because once you comment, that'sa that's an interaction. YouTube loves that,
right, they love thumbs down,they love they love when you click
unnotifications and stuff. That's interaction.Okay, So then I emailed Nomad.
It's okay. So the videos gotyou know, eleven hundred views so far,
(08:37):
and man, a lot of peoplestill hate it, but hey,
it's working fine for me and hRight now, right now, Mike is
down and going to the keys.He took it, you know, he's
like, well, hey, youknow the videos, don't you can I
take this with me the keys whenI do something work because I need that
Ethernet port to log into some equipmentwhere we don't have internet, and I
(09:00):
want to see what that thing doesin the keys, you know, out
there in open open water areas andstuff. And that's yeah, so he's
taking it. I'll hear what hesays. But so so where am I
going with this part? This mightbe a little bit of a longer podcast,
so if you if you are timecrunch to come back to it later.
Okay, So anyways, you know, over the last couple of years,
(09:24):
I've been inundated with you know,when you're a YouTuber to deal this
stuff. Every every day you gettwo or three requests. Hi, this
is Yingshong Yoshi from this company Ican't expect pronounce, and we have this.
We want to send to you.This a little cheap eighty dollar drone.
You make a video whatever. Well, I don't appeal to me,
(09:46):
don't appeal to the audience. ButI don't even know this company, and
you know it's just an Amazon thing. Or they'll even say, hey,
you know this is Bing Bing ChungFu ge and we have our V extension
courts because they're analytic. We'll seethat I've posted a couple of videos on
my RV and automatically it matches Hey, this guy doesn't has an RV.
(10:07):
I'm not gonna make a video ona nineteen dollars RV court. I don't
care how good they say it is, so how am I gonna make a
video on it? So I've ignoredthose requests for years. Years. I've
had people say, oh, lithiumbatteries, isn't that And I've given him
my PO box number, and thenall of a sudden disappears. I don't
know what information they get for me, for my name, my PO box,
for ship to Sometimes I want atelephone number, I've given it to
(10:31):
the past. That's pretty cool.This is a whole complete electronics circuit board
cleaning and soldering station for one hundredand fifty bucks. I think that's useful
for a lot of people. Yeah, sure, said out my way.
Never hear from again, right.So lately, I've removed my email from
QRZ. I've deleted my QRC page. All it says is high im on
a seventy one hundred. I don'tneed a QRZ page that's where you look
(10:54):
people up anymore. I don't needthat. It's gone. I've removed my
email from YouTube and it's still comingin. I don't know how to get
rid of this, but just tolet you know, you know, I
did more research and testing on thatnomad internet and more talking. I guarantee
those people that did that, theydidn't commute. They saw a couple hundred
(11:18):
dollars a free thing that made avideo and then they're like, oh,
this is better at star wlinks.Then the next day they're making a video.
How it sucks to Starling it's better, Like I don't do that.
So you know, I've had radiosbefore set to me from China. Someone
were pretty cool, weird on programmingor some like. I had these ones
from zero Telecom, and you weresupposed to be able to bluetooth it to
(11:39):
your phone and send pictures rate fromyour phone over that handheld comes out the
other handheld to that person's picture.You know, whether it be through repeat
or whatever. Never worked right,never made a video on it. Hey,
what was you know what? Ifixed that? Oh yeah, you
need this firmware. It gave mea firmwork. Everything turned to China.
Nope, that didn't do it.Oh yeah, we added APRS. You
put this in. Nope, APRSand work not in this country at least
(12:01):
you fix this, and I justdropped it, sold somebody for twenty bucks
in a ham fest and got ridof it. There is people out there
that will make videos and they'll belike, hey, you know, this
is a great piece of garbage.I wouldn't cram this up or you know
what, it's terrible. They sentit to me and I'm gonna tell you,
do not buy this and it's junk, right, I don't do that.
(12:22):
So, uh, that's just therant today for that one. Part
one, you know, Part oneis, uh, you know, there's
there's more to for me for makingYouTube videos, just to show somebody,
whether you buy it or not,just show it. I put the links
because you know if because a lotof times people ask, well where did
you get that? You showed usthe product, so I put the links
(12:43):
you know in the description. Somepeople buy stuff, some people don't.
So anyways, there you go.There. So youtubes me on the back
burner again for a while. Numbertwo, my hamshot, my shit,
I had a little bit extra andworking. I've been working now mowing lawns
on the side again every Saturday andSunday to pay for my building. My
(13:09):
hamshot, and I have a twelveby twenty two shed. It's professionally built
fourteen thousand dollars shed with French doors, windows, touff metal roof, but
unfinished in side. So I actually, for the first time in my life,
framed down a wall. The shed'sbeen sitting there as a pile of
garbage for years, still live therethree years. Stuff just everywhere you know
(13:30):
you walk in, there might bea ken with ts nine to forty on
the floor, and then to theleft of the mower, and then there's
coax pile up in the corner,and then the shutters you can't get.
So you know, now I've guttedit last weekend. Took all the metal
shelves, put them all on theright side, split the shed in like
sixty forty and made the shed onthe right side now with the double doors,
(13:52):
and framed down a wall with twoby fours and two by twelves,
made a wall, nailed it togethera hammer nail. Never did that before,
and then looks good twenty two inchesapart like the rest of the studs
in the shed. So it alllines up like the shed. And now
I'm going to plywood the backside ofthat. The shed towards the shed side
and insulate that and then make apartition wall. Then I'm in. I
(14:16):
already insulated the ceiling. I putthat picture of Facebook. I used what
was r R fifteen temperature and soundcontrol fiberglass batting or something twenty two inches
wide by ninety six, and Ijust basically unfolded these things and you know,
staple them to the ceiling. Iinsulated the entire ceiling right there under
(14:37):
that metal roof. My gosh,just walking into the shed now it's like,
you know, fifteen degrees cooler.Now I'm gonna insulate the walls here
and then that's week or two andthen I'm gonna put up some sort of
paneling. Now I have, Ihave my desk and already my chair,
a brand new recliner somebody had leftpart of their sectional set. Must have
cost a fortune back of the day, and then they sold that, so
(14:58):
no, we don't need that anymore, as you can have that's great because
it's been sitting covered brand new,and that shit. I got a huge,
wide, lazy boy looking thing that'spart of a set, but maybe
the ends or motorized, and thisone was in the middle, and man,
I think is so comfortable lays flator it sits straight up. You
know, you can like for climentthing flat your feet come out. So
now I got my little man cavestarted. I was gonna drywall, and
(15:20):
now I'm gonna, uh uh,you know, maybe put some paneling instead.
I think it'd be easier to probablylook a little because I got my
drum set going in there. Mybrother in law is putting this four x
twelve guitar cabinet in there, andI'm gonna get a bass aamp in there
and have you know, some someplace to start practicing. And drum sets
(15:41):
been dusty and full of cobwebs outin the garage for three years. Now
the next thing is when I getthis done, I'm gonna empty the garage
and get that started. So Iam making progress. I said it was
gonna be in the cool last winter. I didn't too busy doing stuff.
We got these cold fronts now currentlyseventy nine degrees and ten o'clock in the
morning and at nineties been in thesixties. So you know, three months
(16:06):
ago it was one hundred and sixreal fill one hundred and fifteen. So
now that's my new motive. Isnothing gets done in the summer. I'm
gonna finish the shed, I'm gonnafinish the garage. I'm gonna my tower's
almost done. You got all mystuff done done, Gonna get the boat
running, get it ready, andthen in the summer, lay on the
couch all all summer long. Iain't gonna plant peppers this summer. I
(16:29):
ain't gonna do landscaping this summer.It's all getting done in the winter because
it's just miserably hot in the summerand you can't go out there and do
stuff like that. So the hamshockis coming along. I buried the electric
line. I'm gonna tap onto theroom that's my office now, which is
right outside the window. I getto con do it stuff. I'm gonna
put a junction box. I'm gonnarun power right through to one of the
(16:52):
circuits in that wall instead of thebreaker panel on the other side of the
house. That would be hundreds andhundreds of dollars of conduit wire. I
like, I don't feel like trenching, you know, ninety five one hundred
and twenty feet. I could doit fifteen feet, you know, And
I got my portable ac so onceit's insulate. I could run that day.
I'll pull a carpet in there.I'll have my tower. Now I'll
go into I've got two sections up, third sections on the gin pole like
(17:17):
just for some reason, can't findanybody to pull that rope for ten minutes.
But once I get that up,then I could get my feed line
brought down and bury that to theshed and going through the floor and make
a little little bulkhead out on thefloor so I could have you know,
well, you know, so twothirty nines and end connectors round the round
(17:38):
the wall towards the floor, thefloor toward the wall in the lower part
to screw right in, you know, and not have to do it weird
like running out the door or thewindow whatever. So do it that way.
So that's gonna be coming out thatI can start making videos and doing
stuff in there. Get that drakeL four B fired up, Get some
antennas, get my toemeter beacon up, which is years into making. Get
(18:02):
my weather station out there, geta three sixty camera so you can monitor
weather remotely. All kinds of stuffI got ideas for. So that's that's
come along. So I'm making aprogress what else? What else? I
guess it's about it all. Iwanted a rant about today a little longer.
At eighteen minutes. You know thishas turned into a podcast about nothing,
(18:26):
which is what it's always been.If you have any ideas, man,
just let me let me ask again. Email is Ham Radio Concepts at
gmail dot com. Send me anemail and be like, hey, man,
talk about this. I don't carewhat it is. It could be
about what I'm making for Thanksgiving,my crispy bacon and sage Gala apple or
(18:49):
now Fuji Fuji apple, the Fujiapple and sage bacon, homemade stuffing.
I don't care. Whatever it's gonnabe. I want to talk about a
new radio you just seen. Ohmaybe I should look into it, the
current situation on GMRS. Whatever.Send me an email and give me something
to talk about. Might be fun. I need that kind of it.
I'm not that creative, as weall know, but just feel as awesome
(19:14):
as to chill with you guys andtalk. And you know, that's pretty
much it. A lot of Christmaslight's going, man, Christmas Light's going.
What day would that be? That'llprobably be the next couple of weeks
before Thanksgiving. And yeah, so, and maybe I wanted to take the
(19:36):
the RV somewhere this winter. Iwant to see snow. I thought about
driving it up when it's gonna snowone day in Georgia or Alabama or something
like that. It's driving up there, one twelve hour trip, drive up
there, stay somewhere overnight, builda snowman, come back. Maybe I
don't know. So that's another thingI wanted to work on. But anyways,
that's about all I got. Rambleecurrently in Cocoa Beach, So thanks
(19:59):
for riding shot go with me,guys, and burned a few minutes there.
Thanks to my sponsors at hand RadioPrep for I know for a fact,
whatever is happening overseas is definitely drivinga lot of people to get a
hand ready license because the numbers areway up on my little link. You
know my discount code. Use thecode Eric twenty. You saved twenty percent
(20:21):
on any course you buy. Alot of people since September are are just
using this code, so that it'sbeen higher than it has been the whole
first part of this year. Soa lot of people are like, well,
let's get a let's get a handradio license. As time is now.
Let's get prepared stuff like that,So use the code Eric twenty at
hand radio Prep, download the freeapp Studying your Boss's Time to do practice
(20:42):
tests and if you follow the interactivecourses. If you follow them starting from
chapter one, watch the video,read a little blurb, answer a couple
questions, move on. You willlearn all the different things and you'll be
ready to take a license within aweek. And guarantee that within the week.
I've seen so many people do itwithin a week. So Ham Radio
(21:03):
Prep is the greatest sponsor I've everhad, and we might be having no
mad continue to sponsor me, likeother than just me making the video,
maybe I could figure out how towrap them in because you know, I
like people said, forget you too, forget you, forget them with demonetize
them whatever. Just get sponsors andlet the sponsors do it for you.
They're getting their product shown there.It's benefiting people, and you don't have
(21:29):
to commit to YouTube rules. Andthat's pretty much where I want to go.
So if you could deal with acouple you know, commercials or me
recommending things that are I think reallygood, and that's the reason I haven't
done sponsor with uh no mad yetbecause it's brand new for me in my
audience. So let's give them sixmonths like Ham Radio prep. Then I've
been with them for like three yearsnow, over three years, yeah,
(21:52):
three and a half years, andthey've never done me wrong. And man,
people just give me nothing of apositive review. So that's a good
sponsor there. Yes, I makea kick back from them, and that's
how I keep this thing going becauseobviously YouTube just doesn't want to pay me,
and I might just not renew thatmonetization thing with their guidelines do this
within thirty days and this and thismight not do it. I might just
let it expire and then make videoson whatever I want on AR fifteen whatever.
(22:18):
I could do whatever I want thenwhen it's demonetized, and then I'll
change the channel name to whatever won'tbe a Ham Radio Concepts anymore. I'll
make a vote. Whoever picks thebest name gets an icon seventy three hundred.
I'll mail it to them. I'llbuy them one brand new. We'll
figure that out. So anyways,thanks everybody for listening a little long at
twenty two minutes, but I hopeI burned twenty two minutes of year Bosses
time, because this was hopefully alittle more entertaining. Seven to everybody,
(22:41):
Thanks love y'all.
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