Ep 219: Is ham radio your only hobby?

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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but until then, enjoy this week's episode. Thanks for joining
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
What's going on everybody?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
People, shout out to all of our members in green
You guys are the channel members that keep this train
wreck going. Go ahead and say it. Since Shane's not here.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
The two loud Miles stood us up tonight, So I
hope y'all ain't expected much, but we're gonna try to
bring in some talent for tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, see, what what do we have normally besides this
train wreck?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Oh? Well, not talent, but that's what we get. We
get talent from other people.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right there, we go, see, we've got a friend in
the green room there, Well, we'll get him in.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Here just a moment.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's gonna be his big debut.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
There you go, Joe, what you got up to?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Nothing? Work?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I was gonna say, you're not in the shack, So.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, I'm still Alabama looking for that antenna. Man, Like
I ain't seen the ups truck all week. They knew
I was coming back. I ain't seen them nowhere.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
They camouflaged them. They're all white. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, they don't change their routes, man.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Change the routes, change the logos. I did see a
UPS plane this morning coming into Charleston.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well that's pretty amazing itself. Yeah, because that was at
air Fort with four UPS planes and none of them
moved for a week. Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Where were you at Memphis? That's Jackson.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I got some videos recorded this weekend. I didn't get
any edited yet.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
There you record.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I got a new radio.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Nah, yeah, you get the Aurora.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
No, god, no, I got the h d x FT eight.
Thell was that it is a qrp FT eight only radio.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Why do you want to do that?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Because it was a kit and I wanted to build it.
So I did.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
How much this kid that you have to build cost? Roughly?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know? It was yeah about sixty Oh, ain't bad now.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I think it's gonna be like one than two hundred
dollars jobs. It's like checking out, yo, like cooking, yelling
down food for restaurant.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
That was.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
That.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I still say the Japanese lived differently, and I enjoyed
it so Tortoise Izzo is at a award banquet tonight
to believe it's supposed to be late.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
So yeah, he almost forgot about it. His way, it
sounded like, and Shane forgot about an engagement he had
at the last.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Minute, somebody's birthday dinner or something. Mm hmmm, why would
the schedule that for Tuesday night. I was here on
my birthday.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
So I'm sorry, Jody, Bless your hearts.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
So yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
All right, tell you I got you're talking about soldering
some kids. I got. I got some fancy equipment at
work that I was able. I'm able to do some
soldering jobs. I never thought it was possible. It's amazing
what you can do when you have the right equipment
to do it with.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yes it is, Yes it is.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I need a bigger I need a bigger shed to
to build my soldeign stuff up now at home.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I was gonna say, why don't you just do it
at work?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's continuing education right right exactly, staying in practice.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
So, uh, Michael gives us a thumbs up when you're
ready to come on, all right, so everybody, let me
introduce you to Michael. In three m F L. I
almost read that wrong. Better notice tortoise overland.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
What's what no turn on to? And different things you
can take? If you take I gotta I gotta edge
mcate the Joe Brett. If you take a tortoise and
throw it in the pond, guess what happens to that tortoise.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Let's thinks sick.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
If you take it, flows or swims.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
So it was a tortoise student towards wise.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
I know, well, no, they like the water, but they
don't swim in ponds.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Gotcha.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
I have two tortoises, okay, hence the name tortoise overland.
I you know what a tortoises are? All terrain animals.
I have one escape artist who was gone for seventy
two days. That was Solomon. If you google one hundred
and fifty pound tortoise Tennessee, he was gone for seventy

(05:41):
two days and he popped up an eighth of a
mile down the road. That's how damn slow he walked.
No joke, he made a network news. He made news
in India. I have no clue.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
My kid coming in another day talking about my wife too,
is like, oh, we found a box turtle in the yard.
I'm like, hell, a turtle in a box. Now a
box turtle.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's got a little flappy in the front. See you
got a little flappy on the front, a little pulls up.
I still got a lot to learn in life, I don't,
you know, not not not all of us know everything.
Thank God, it's always room to learn.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
I need your fancy camera too. I need that camera
that follows me wrong, because mine doesn't do that, the.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Follow me all the way around with the backside to
to get another drink water. I'm like, quit staring at me.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Oh that's hilarious. Well, gentlemen, what's the what's the discussion?
Is Ham radio your only hobby?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well that was supposed to be the discussion of the
guy that pin that one, though I couldn't make it tonight.
Go figure.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
What's funny is Shane come up with a battle for
these shows and like usually we don't even look at it,
and we definitely don't talk about it.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yeah, that's that's organization, man, Yeah, organization. I gotta turn
the fan down. Holy smoke.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
If you want to talk about hobbies other than radio,
which I know you've got, we would love to hear.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
My one hobby right now is adjusting this DC stepper
fan god lest America.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
One hundred and fifty pounds. Giant turtle returns home after
seventy four days.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
It is.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
I gotta gotta get pulled up first of getting there.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
M M make several tortoise w m A parks here
in South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
What is the w m A park Wildlife Management Area?

Speaker 5 (08:19):
Oh, tortoises in South Carolina. That's interesting.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay, so you're in Ashton City.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, we were in Ashland City.
We're now in Massachusetts. Don't ask me why I was
volunt told by the wife to move here.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I was gonna say yeah Tennessee for Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
I left kicking and screaming. Two I bet oh it Yeah,
it was, it was, it was. It believed me. When
my wife said, hey, honey, my contract's moving and we've
got to move. I was like, all right, where are
we moving to? She said Massachusetts? I said, uh.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Uh now no no not yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Way hard passed. Yeah, but we we we bought a house.
That house is worth a whole lot more money than
when we bought it, so that was a benefit.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
I have a nice little screwy office here, but camping
overlanding that that's in amateur radio pretty much what I do.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
That's it, you know, Michael. All you really need is
something hanging on your closet door in an accordion wall
covering your open door, and you and Steve would be
Rock and White Brothers or something.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
My office. I mean, I do have other statistic habits.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Do just look how nice and neath that place is
behind him?

Speaker 5 (09:58):
See yeah, Oh it's not dude. If you can see
below the desk, it's like a duck the top of
everything on top, you know, nice and neat and looks
orderly underneath. Oh god, it's it's it's And I got
two dogs in the backyard barking to come down in.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Uh Okay, So yeah, I know where you used to live.
I spent my summers on Percy Priest Lake.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
So yeah, Ashland City, Ashland City beautiful. We uh we
lived right right down. Cheat them damn road in Cheatham County, Okay?
Do we cheat him?

Speaker 6 (10:38):
And how yep?

Speaker 5 (10:41):
That one right over Joe Brett's.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Ed Yeah, I don't listen.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
What yeah, do do we cheat him?

Speaker 5 (10:49):
And how.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Do you cheat him? And Hale how how.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Do we cheat him? And how it's an m of
a lawyer? Do you cheat him? And how get it?

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
No, wonder if somebody's discord notifications are coming through M discord?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well, I ain't got discord.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Mine should be in the streamer mode and it's not powerage.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Hang on, Steve, Steve, what in the jet in the chat?
I'll beat you?

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Look at it.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Get your war h you try it, you try.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
Hey, so.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Y'all, Yeah, y'all are familiar with t O right, mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Hm t O.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Formerly a coffee and him.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah, t O tangle oscar t O.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
The is that a?

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Is that the guy in Alabama?

Speaker 5 (12:03):
Is he an Alabama? Where's he at?

Speaker 3 (12:07):
He's a nomad?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
He's a nomad? Now? No, where is that?

Speaker 6 (12:11):
Right?

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Well? I started crashing Julian Vaughan's live photos. Yeah, and
uh I have I've been officially named her t L
mm hmm. I haven't trained yet.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Mm hmmm, being replaced.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, we'll see whose campus she's sleeping in it Huntsville.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
It's gonna be yours, because it's sure as hell ain't
gonna be mine, because I ain't gonna be down there
that's too damn long of a drive.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
It ain't that bad. It's only eight and a half
hours for me. M h each each major fast his
body of hours.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, that's that's what it looks. I see. It's the
only thing that sucks about moving up. Herry. You know
I can't. I can't hit hunt Phil, I can't. I've
been a Huntsville a bunch of times. I can't hit
hand mention. I've only been there once. Hey, this guy, Hey, guys,

(13:22):
if we.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Wanted to snap.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Because you're giving me crap about mind, he's gonna keep
his blurred I don't. And then we got this guy. Hey,
we got the grouch.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
He snucking look at him, dude, I have never seen
a smile so broad on somebody's face. And this boy
right here, god less, I don't see.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Makes me happy.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I was that that freaking drug dealer that we all
know in love parachute Jesus.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yeah, didn't you just drop a video?

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh yeah, he's dropped a couple. Actually, if you're a Patreon.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yeah, I get no, I'm not, but I got to
watch his most recent one.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
I agree, Mike, it's time for the forty five minutes
and wrote most in red.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
There there you go, grinds my gears.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
What you do it most? And I say, you're wearing
your favorite black shirt because it's faded.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
It's purple, stop it whatever color it is a battle color?
Is that? What color that is?

Speaker 4 (14:35):
I have?

Speaker 5 (14:36):
The camera doesn't do it justice. I'm at work, so
that's why the blur blurred background.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Okay, right, no, no, no, that's that's right.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
You know it can't steal company secrets, right.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
He called me to be your tea guy.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yeah, I do all the time. It's it's hilarious. Who
wants to Who wants to steal anything from Canada? I
don't know exactly.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Yeah, but I saw.

Speaker 7 (15:12):
I went and logged on and I saw that you
guys were talking hobbies and and then Joe Brett two
seconds later is like Dan likes talking about hobbies, and
I was like, yes.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
That's only a war crime the first time.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
So what are you up to? Man? Oh wait, hold it?
Hold it one, two, three, four and not five?

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Yeah, well this is my choice.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
If you saw Joe Brett the last week, that guy's
got hair. Oh he's got hair. Then he got a cut.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
At like a freaking wig was in the garbage camera.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
Don't you look a little bit more professional now? Said
like unprofessional?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
I like the Daniel and Paula, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
The.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, I cleaned it up a little bit. It was
it was getting a little out of control.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I was gonna say it was a little up in
the shield on the one video.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Just blocking the view that.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Wasn't quite that high, but yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
It was in there.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
You know.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
For me, it's when it looks like a rat summit,
you know, like this is getting borderline, when it starts
to be like really big and it's like I got it,
and then like who could take Like I don't know.
I guess it's just my face, Like who can take me?

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Seriously? When I have that on? So when it's too big,
So yeah, it's gotta go.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm not I'm not going up a little bit too.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
So Paul, I'm curious how many jumps did it take?

Speaker 5 (16:53):
What?

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Uh twenty six?

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Twenty six?

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Okay, yeah, which I mean given how many levels I
had to redo, that's that's not bad. That's a pretty
good progression.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well so I heard in one video. How do I
put this politically correct or at least somewhat say for
YouTube after that, what did you do right?

Speaker 4 (17:23):
So that was my very first So yeah, so the
very first jump I got to, I got to go
with Carlos, which is cool, but lost Carlos on the exit.
He got hung up in the door. Oh he had
to chase after us, and I wasn't arched at all,

(17:45):
and so the other instructor was just hanging on and
we were just spinning around mm hmm. And so when
when I landed the first thing, I was, you know,
super happy that I landed. But then I said, what
the fuck did I do wrong? And he said, fuck
that ship? What did you do right?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
I mean, you landed safely and jumped again, so obviously
that was a success.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
I mean despite being unstable, I was altitude of wear
and I pulled on time. So successful first jump.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Altitude of wear sounds pretty important.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Ye oh, yes, as long as it's not a frozen beer,
a burnt pizza in never mind, I won't.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Fa So uh so my my last three jumps before
I got my license, like I'm I'm I'm leaving the
plane after the instructor and then diving to chase him down. Okay,
and so my my head down ability isn't that great.

(18:58):
So my my fall rate wasn't quite as fast as
it should have been. And so by the time I
got to him and it did the maneuvers and and
broke off, I was, I don't know, fifteen hundred to
two thousand below where I should have been cool. So, yeah,
he was giving me ship. He was calling me low

(19:19):
poll Paul.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Well, I mean you were still within raggs. I assume yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
I was still. I was still at three thousand or above.

Speaker 7 (19:32):
So okay, somebody's got to shut their Discord server because
those beams.

Speaker 8 (19:36):
Are going that's not me. Are you sure my Discord's off? Damn,
that's gone right, it's gotta be.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Mine's at streamer mode, so it's not getting any notifications
right now.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I don't have Discord on his computer. So remember.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
What hobbies be talking about?

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Boys?

Speaker 6 (20:13):
Will you tell me?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Skydiving with Paul but barbecue chips.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
I even sold radios to fun skydiving.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
Whoa, yeah you got you got your class A now right?
I got my Class A And so what does that
entitle you to do?

Speaker 10 (20:41):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (20:42):
It titles me to be able to u kill myself
if if.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
I jump out of a perfectly good airplane without.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Being Michael, you have not been in a jump plane
if you think they're perfectly good.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Oh my my father, My father was one hundred and
first and he hopped out of those damnsee one nineteen
flying box cars. Oh yeah, okay, yeah that that that's
an interesting airplane.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
I got.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
One of the ones he jumped out of is actually
at Fort Campbell as a static display.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah that the clients that he lets you jump solo, right.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yes, so so I can. I can jump on my
own right now, and it is more fun to jump
with other people. But it was it was kind of cool.
Like for my very first on my own solo skydive,
I did a high pole. So that's basically what what
Carlos does right where like the planes at fourteen thousand,

(21:45):
you get out and you throw your shoot right away.
It was cool because we had we had like a
really thick blanket of clouds at like eight thousand feet
and so I'm I'm up at twelve and I'm just
looking out over everything. I mean, just absolutely beautiful, Like
I'm so happy being under a canopy like flying around.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
Now you've got you've got, you've got all the jumping
down and the aerobatics ish. But have you how what
have you done with under canopy? You know, like maneuvering
and stuff like that. Do you guys go through classes
for that other than flare Land?

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Yeah, No, there's there's all kinds of drills and things
that that that I've I've had to learn because so
I started on a really big student canopy. It was
two sixty. There's two sixty square feet. Then I went
down to a two forty. Then I went down to
a two twenty, and then I switched to a sport canopy.

(22:54):
So so going out of the student to a sport,
I actually ended up going up a little and I
went to a thirty. But man, what it is, it's
responsive and so like you gotta do like a canopy
avoidance drills, right because the biggest danger under canopy is

(23:14):
other people. That's the reality of it, right, So if
you if you practice those turns, then you can avoid
other people. So it'll be like a ninety degree turn
and then an immediate hard one eighty and you really
kind of whipping around. Yeah, it's a ton of fun,
though I still got a long ways to go. There's

(23:37):
a canopy course that's required for your B license and
that's taking place next month here, and so I'm debating
sticking around for that. But it's gonna cost me seven
hundred dollars for that weekend.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
That's not bad. Have have you bought your own canopy yet?

Speaker 5 (23:57):
No?

Speaker 4 (23:58):
God, I can't afford that.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Boy. Gotta eat, MH.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
I'm living. I'm living off of rice and ramen noodles. Man,
m H.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
I could I could see that you got an address,
I'll amazon you something, except I'll get you the good
ones that are in the cell bowles.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
There you go. I was gonna say, just having delivered
to the drop zone, right, yeah, put Paul's name on it.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Either that I could send you m r E s
Oh god, we won't see him for a week.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
It is really cool being here in the r V.
Like I literally look out my window and I can
see the hangar and I was gonna plane.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Camped out there at the drop zone.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yeah, yeah, they gotta. They got a small little RV
park off to the side and they got me in.
I think I was here like four days in the
parking lot, like they got me into a slot.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Okay, I was.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Looking at uh, you know those coach buses like the
nice one.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, yeah, there's a couple of those here.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
I was looking at used ones and I found one
that le's freaking expensive. Man, there's a really nice one
for sale in Tennessee.

Speaker 7 (25:29):
Listen, have you seen the cost of like the old
tour buses, Like they're like two three million dollars for
those things?

Speaker 5 (25:36):
What are you talking about? And I can get you
a tour bus right now for like ten grand a
week for the next eighty four months, like no forerever listen, American.
I was looking at like Auto Trader, which is our car.
You know, I don't know if you guys have it.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, we got it.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
So I found a nice one, and I'm like trying to.

Speaker 7 (25:58):
Convince my wife, but it was like, hey, you know,
let's uh, let's buy it and let's convert it because
it'd be so cool. Like I want to get an
r V, but I don't want you know, what's his name, Jason?
Remember he bought his RV what was it two years ago?
And then it was like falling apart and then they're built,
so people, I.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Want something and that was a brand new one.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
I know, I want something that's like quality.

Speaker 7 (26:20):
And then also It's like, wouldn't be great just to
have like it all in one and you can and
I could.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
I can easily make that nicer than anything I can buy.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
So I don't know, I really want to do it,
and trying to convince my wife that would be a
lot of fun because then it's like you're going to Dayton.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Hell yeah, driving down if.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
You can get a campsite of Dayton, I don't who
says I have to be a date?

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Well at the at the Zenia yard or whatever you
call it.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Now I'll say, don't discount that this separate trailer, right,
because it is kind of nice to be able to
hook and just drive my truck around.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
So I had I had one. My in laws had
sold us theirs and I bought it the kids were young.

Speaker 7 (27:13):
I think I only had three kids at that time,
and I didn't have I had a Pontiac Grand Prix.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
I don't know if that's an American car. So pulling
this like way overweight camp trailer.

Speaker 7 (27:25):
Thing, you know the pop ups there good, okay, And
like the back of my car was like low riding
and everybody who passed us was just you know, you
get the stink guy like as they pass you, they're like,
holy shit. We go to this like zoo thing, the
zoo like there's a campground not too far from anyways,
and it was nice. We set up, We're there for

(27:47):
like a couple of days, and then all of a sudden,
on our phones we get tornado warning in the middle
of Quebec, and I'm like, oh, that's weird.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
You know, we don't get a lot of tornado warnings here.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
Usually they're not serious, like me, don't get mad if
you're in tornado alley. But we get them, but we
don't really they're not We don't have big ones like
you guys. Right, So anyways, uh, and then all of
a sudden, the cloud the sky is pitch black and
right across from our campsite is like an open field,
like a soccer field, and it starts getting darker, and

(28:21):
I say to my wife, we gotta, we gotta, you know,
figure this out. So anyways, we put the kids inside
and like we're just about to take down the awning
and no time, the wind just knocked. It almost flips
the whole tent trailer, rips the yawning off, and my
son was in the doorway and it scared him so

(28:41):
much it took three years for him not.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
To be afraid of the wind.

Speaker 7 (28:44):
He was like four years old at the time, and
literally anytime there was wind, he wanted to go inside
the house. And so we had the ten trailer for
one camping trip and it got destroyed. So that was
my experience with a tent trailer and I said, never again.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, the the pop ups or they leave something to
be desired, and they're heavy.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
They can't be hey, they can be very heavy, because
ours was like an oversized one. You know, you can
get like but there's some that are like fourteen foot
long and then then you extended.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
And it's like twenty something feet. We had one of those.
So that's why the car was majorly a low rider.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (29:24):
And actually after that windstorm, I had ropes and I
actually had to tie I had to park the car
raight in front of it and tie down the tent
trailer to the car.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
So here's the campground in Chicago Land. Oh wow.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
So if you start at the top of the RV
park and you go down three on the right hand side,
that's where I'm at.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's one of the angles tops.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
No straight okay, yep.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Oh yeah, so you're right there looking out of the.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
And then I got my truck parked next to the
hostess truck across the across from me.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Okay, how long are you there for?

Speaker 4 (30:10):
I think until Huntsville at this point.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Oh so you'll have time to do the candopy class.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Well, I mean the thing is, I'm here, you know, Yeah,
and just gotta.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Figure out how to make the money. You see more Patreons. Hey, heyllo, welcome.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Hey Moulson. Yeah, hey, so my question is due. Does
Canada allow you to see American Facebook? Yeah? All right,
so I'm going I'm gonna I'm gonna share with you
a link.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
To this uh.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
This lady in Kentucky. It's a nineteen eighty TMC motor
Home r V. Hold on, I have a question for you. Yeah,
what do you use for overlining? I have a Toyota
FJ Cruiser and an MDC Forward Fold Explorer Camper.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
Okay, because if you if you are a Jeep guy,
I don't trust links from jeap guys.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
I'm not a deep Yeah no, no, just broncos.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
So I say, what are you working remote right now?

Speaker 4 (31:23):
I haven't worked since twenty twelve. YouTube is my my
work at this point.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Oh yeah, I gotta take a call.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Ye let me just rub it in your face that
I'm working right now.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
Jesus ye God bless well.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
I mean you've got the podcast that you do as
well as oh yeah, he YouTube and.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, honestly, the the YouTube and the Patreon supporters, the
channel members, right, that's that's where I'm actually I'm making
some money off of the channel. Uh So, I appreciate
everybody that's willing to give whatever little amount that they're
willing to give, because it all helps.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, I need to make sure that membership I got
gifted gets renewed for you.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
Does that pop in there somewhere?

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Much appreciated.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
O'. I've been enjoying seeing the jumps.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Well some channel channel members got early access to channel
members have my category G jumps and and my a
license final. So yeah, all the channel members can see
both of those videos currently.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, the good stuff there.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
Hey is oll, Hey guys, how's everybody?

Speaker 5 (32:59):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Man?

Speaker 6 (33:02):
I'm doing it right. Had some kids here.

Speaker 11 (33:05):
Got back from the school auditorium and so they're all
in there and now I am here shoulder Yeah, you
know something, tell us if if I say this very

(33:27):
sincerely after using that antenna now for three months, mm hmmm,
and I used it today in the rain. I still
hear what my grandfather said to me when I was
getting into this hobby and playing with speaker wire and

(33:48):
making antennas and all.

Speaker 6 (33:49):
This other stuff. He let you used to let me
fool around with stuff. We would go to radio. We
would go to radio shack and buy wire.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
EU radiosheck was decent.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Every antenna is a compromise, he would say.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Uh huh.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
Mobile antennas are the worst. They are the worst.

Speaker 11 (34:11):
Comp Yes, they'll get you on the air, he says,
but when we talk about performance, if you're going to
discuss performance, you have to discuss performance. And it is
a good antenna. It gets me on the air like today.
But I can't stand decide it's too small. It's too

(34:34):
damn small. And I'm not just saying that because I'm
working at a very frustrated park that has a lot
of noise that I have chosen and again the keyword,
your honor and to my therapist, is that I have
chosen to get my kilo out. I only need like
around three hundred and something left. But this park is

(34:54):
breaking my stones like you would not believe. But I
shall overcome. Is sad because I need to teach myself.
I need to teach myself a lot of things. But
that antenna is not the antenna. That antenna is great
when sun spots are over like one hundred and fifty solar.
The A task you could have it for crying out

(35:16):
a lout. So the long and short of it is joke.
And if I live closer to you, I would drive
it over.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
I would just give it to you.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
What is so?

Speaker 5 (35:27):
What's wrong with the A task?

Speaker 11 (35:28):
It's just there is a difference when you put up
what thirty eight inches of wire thirty inches of metal versus.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
You know, yes, it's not good for DX. And unless
you're standing on the damn roof.

Speaker 11 (35:46):
I'm not looking for Mike. I'm not even looking for
d X. I'm looking for contacts. It is so damn hard.
And when I have used it versus a wire, and
I knew already the results were gonna be two to
four s units better.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I knew that.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
I knew it.

Speaker 11 (36:06):
Actually I didn't think it was gonna be four, But
many many guys told me when I was running some
tests with it. It's it's just frustrating. It's just frustrating, frustrating.
And I don't mean to turn this show into my therapy.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
I'm gonna frustrate you some. Even more is because I
don't have a problem with my a task that I
bought at the ham Fez. All I have to do
is stop, get on go.

Speaker 11 (36:34):
Yes, Yes, I agree, Yes, I agree, And I'm and
I got a great ground. I have a great ground,
and and and and I'm making sure I'm operating not
near any houses and.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
Structures and power lines.

Speaker 11 (36:50):
Exactly, but today and many other and I've used it
in a few different parks now with different environments in
those parks.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
Listen, I'm not telling that any buddy not to buy
this antenna. Just understand.

Speaker 11 (37:05):
Have appropriate expectations when you are using this antenna A
or one. We'll get you on the air. Absolutely. Do
you want to use it for receive only for a
short wave you know radio? Absolutely? Are you gonna be
the loudest signal on the band?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
No?

Speaker 11 (37:24):
But if that's okay with you, that's fine, And as
long as you do make some contacts. It's just that
today was just one of those another frustrating things. And
when I put the wire.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
Up, boom boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 11 (37:38):
Y'ah, whatever you want to call it. And I was
in the same spot. I didn't I didn't move the
truck around. I threw the wire up and all of
a sudden and then came to.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
Poring Rain watched the neadline.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
And I was usually on hunter Watch, Paul.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
I was gonna say, it's gonna take you a long
time to get a kilo it twenty.

Speaker 6 (37:58):
Activation no no, No sixty eight. Good look at my thing.
I uploaded my log a few hours ago.

Speaker 11 (38:04):
Park sixty eight seventy No sixty eight sixty six eight
sixty sixty Yeah, you did twenty only twenty day only
twenty today.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
That's twenty. That's twenty more than I've done.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
This is true. Well, and I was beating me up
here to see if that was the park that we
went to, and uh, it's not. But that's okay.

Speaker 11 (38:27):
I think, what do I have in there if you
go to that if you go to that park page.
I was the first one to operate, so you'll see
the first What do I have in there?

Speaker 6 (38:34):
Right now? Six hundred and eighty or something, maybe six sixty.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
You've got the most activations, Yeah, because.

Speaker 11 (38:41):
I'm the six ninety three six times, so I have
three hundred and seven more contacts before I can.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Get my kilo, and you've done eighteen activations.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
Yes, I can listen, dude. I know how to get
a change.

Speaker 11 (38:56):
When you come to the register and it comes to
eighteen dollars in twenty, I know you're going to get
a dollar lady back if you give me a twenty
dollars bill.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
The the ultimate fail of counting on stream. I like
to listen.

Speaker 7 (39:11):
I like to listen to court, like different videos while
I work sometimes and there's a trial that I'm listening
to while I work, And they had a medical professional
on today and they're talking about the Lucas machine, which
is the machine strap around you and it automatically does yeah.
And so they were asking the medical and professional how

(39:33):
many how many times a minute does it pump? She
goes a lot, about one hundred and then so like,
how many compressions would you say that that they experienced.
She's like, well, it was on for approximately thirty seven
minutes and one hundred times a minute.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
That's thirty seven thousand pumps and.

Speaker 7 (39:50):
It's like, no, it's not like you're in court and
you're testifying. It's thirty seven one hundred thirty seven hundred.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
Yeah, so it's like fail.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
So yeah, you don't.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
You don't.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
You don't math on stream and I guess you don't
math in the court.

Speaker 6 (40:06):
You know, try so listen.

Speaker 11 (40:08):
I saw in the chat Julie, I purchased one of
those uh school antennas, Spool antennas. They if you go
directly to their website, they have a Father's Day discount.
You just saw the PoTA power discount. Guys, get this antenna.
It's a fun antenna. I'm also using the new Reliance
fifty six to one about I like that. That's the

(40:30):
one I ended up using today just to fish. So
it's just one of we got a lot of antennas.
And again, if this is my fault where I should
not be using this type of antenna because it's not
it's not January here in Connecticut.

Speaker 6 (40:45):
I should probably just be using a wire all the time.
I got lazy today.

Speaker 5 (40:51):
Is that what dot com?

Speaker 6 (40:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (40:54):
I'm stry with Yeah, spool tennan dot com. Spool tenan
dot com?

Speaker 4 (40:59):
Do you have I'm glad there was clarification because I
heard did that bultenant?

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Come, Paul, go back to no offense.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Have you been living for too long?

Speaker 2 (41:16):
It's been a bachelor for way too long.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
Why do I feel once again something went.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Over the Yeah, just just let it go.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
So this looks like a neat little unit, but that's
just an infed halfway right, That's just.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, it's a forty one in fed halfway made right
here in the US.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
There's another one on Tariffs, Steve. There's another one on Etsy.
But it it literally looks like a fly fishing rail.

Speaker 6 (41:45):
Yep, yes, yep, correct.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
The uhlans worked really well.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
That's what von Julie used to use. Unfortunately, they're a
little rough.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
Yeah, they're a little rough on stuff.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah, well, cash Joe.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
It also happens with all these winders.

Speaker 11 (42:04):
No disrespect to the other antennas, they're all great antennas.
The problem is is this is this uh the winder
because I've noticed why or sometimes is kinking, even if
you do it slowly with a little tension, it's just something.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
There's got to be a different way.

Speaker 11 (42:23):
And I'm wondering if the spool is what we're gonna
start seeing on more traditional antennas that already out there.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
They're just gonna get rid of those winders and go
with the reel.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I do want to try the infed biscuit, But what
the infed biscuit? Our buddy Andy makes it?

Speaker 6 (42:42):
You got a picture in that? Go get a picture?

Speaker 2 (42:45):
We know?

Speaker 5 (42:46):
Do we know who makes? Are they friends of ours?

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I don't know if he is yet, but I'm gonna
try to make it up to carry North Carolina and
go see the manufacturing facility.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
It'll be here on Saturday.

Speaker 7 (42:58):
So if I had to choose between the school tenna
and and another antenna that would be affordable, I would
definitely go for the Coffee and Hamm radios.

Speaker 11 (43:07):
All right, Chris says, don't be dropping a video about that.

Speaker 7 (43:11):
It's two hundred and ten bucks Canadian like the coffee
and ham radio antenna. Yeah no, this one here, this
full tenna is too Nadian.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
I'd rather like this is that.

Speaker 7 (43:23):
I don't really find this like, I don't know if
you're just like your your reasoning is that makes sense
to me? Because well, because this is not a this
is not a spool where you crank it and reel it.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
You're still whinding it. So you're whining the you're whining
the the.

Speaker 7 (43:40):
Other models too, Like you're gonna have the same issues
to overcome if you're worried.

Speaker 6 (43:44):
About you know. So I'll let you know.

Speaker 11 (43:47):
I'll let you know in less than thirty days, I will.
And also i'll post it in our private chat. I'll
let you know. It's not about who's right, because maybe
this is is I guess we'll know. This is about
the fun and ab the fun and hobby reliance antanas,
isn't it from what again? Just fifty six to one

(44:07):
ballance and I don't know my balance, guys, but there's
something about this antenna has got a lot of black
magic that works for me.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
I don't know what it is, but that that reliance.
You know, Matt does a fantastic job.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Hold on, hold on, some we said Coffee and Ham
radio antennas are no more.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Well, they're on pause right now. They're they're trying to
figure it out.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Oh they said they they move in the store.

Speaker 6 (44:33):
Hey, let me tell you song.

Speaker 11 (44:34):
Guys, When you get an opportunity to get yourself a
Coffee and Ham radio, get get one. Because they got
many different versions to me all all of your operating needs.
And again I I think I carry about anywhere from
four to six six antenna's with me.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
I don't care that we're all great. Yeah that's all.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Well, I'm lying sometimes.

Speaker 6 (44:53):
But they're all great antenna's. They all work great.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
I honestly like that I have.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
Yeah, you know what, when I bought it, I complained
there was no warranty, but I don't need a warranty.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
It just lasts.

Speaker 6 (45:05):
So yes, a point.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
See I got to that. I'm good.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
You did Molton most that was very good. You know, guys,
and I had.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Come to Jesus. It was a war.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
See.

Speaker 11 (45:20):
I treat my antennas like I'm Jay Leno. I can't
have Jay Leno's money with all his cars, but I'm
sure as he can be Izzo with my antennas.

Speaker 6 (45:30):
That's how I look at it.

Speaker 5 (45:31):
That's how I look at it.

Speaker 7 (45:33):
That's like but like I'll be like like anyways, I'm
not gonna say anything else. Two hundred and seven boxes.
I was buying the MFJ.

Speaker 6 (45:44):
Fed halfway That antenna did not quast Molton.

Speaker 11 (45:50):
That must be because because of Canada, and I don't
like that. That's not fair I'll say that right now.
That's I did not pay two hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (45:59):
That's not fair.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Let me present to you. Let me present to you
the Canadian price lists.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
They've got a bundle right now. That's two two thirty nine.
That's the antenna and the coax, So.

Speaker 5 (46:18):
Three thirty two Canadian for the school ten of bundle.
I don't know what that implies.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
That's then the coax and the antenna.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
So the co were just one hundred and twenty.

Speaker 7 (46:33):
Just go reliant, right right, So yeah, it's a Canadian
like wow, just just you know, it's there's.

Speaker 5 (46:42):
Not a lot of componentcities.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
But why do we do this to Canada? Why is
it that.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
Man?

Speaker 7 (46:49):
Like, let's forget right, the Canadian car to USD so
Canadian dollar point seventy three cents?

Speaker 6 (47:01):
What does that mean in layman's terms?

Speaker 4 (47:07):
But what every one of his dollars is only seventy
three cents.

Speaker 7 (47:11):
I referred to us is only worth seventy three And
it takes seventy three American cents to get a Canadian dollar,
so two o seven, So that's one hundred and fifty
one forty USD.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah, which sounds like if most started making antennas, we
could get the deal.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
Yeah, that's possible.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Go with the reverse exchange rate exactly what causes?

Speaker 6 (47:48):
What causes? Who determines that rate at point for today
as we see it right now? Who determines that and why?
Who has that power? And why do they have that
power to say.

Speaker 11 (47:59):
That the dollar is less then whatever the Canadian denomination is,
the Canadian dollar is less, Okay?

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Why who?

Speaker 7 (48:10):
It works both ways, right, So the Canadian dollar can
devalue and the American dollar can increase in value, and
you can have market inflation plays into it as well
as Uh, you know, there is some manipulation that governments
can do to do that.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
Uh, there's. It comes from a lot of different factors.
What's the end result?

Speaker 6 (48:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (48:31):
I'm sure somebody in a early office I'm behind doors,
we don't that don't have names, plays into it. But
I think there it's it's both economical reasons and then
there's also manipulation.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
In the markets that can happen. Well, that's not fair
that if your government prints a lot more money, you
devalue your dollar. Right, That's that's the way there was.
I'm not an expert.

Speaker 6 (48:54):
I just.

Speaker 11 (48:56):
But if I gave you a dollar hold on, hold on,
Mike Molson and I come to the border. I give
Molson a bet. Who's a George Washington. I'm not gonna
give him a Ben Franklin.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Cheap as.

Speaker 11 (49:13):
I give Molton a dollar bill. Why can't he just
give me a dollar bill of Canada?

Speaker 2 (49:18):
You see he can't. But you're losing out on twenty
five cents.

Speaker 6 (49:21):
But this is that's my whole point. This is ridiculous.

Speaker 11 (49:25):
And if I should just shut up and smoke my
cigar and sit in the background, I will.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
Where every country is different.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Europe did that they went to the euro Listen, you.

Speaker 7 (49:34):
Want to know the trick. You go to the bank,
you take all your money out in quarters. Then you
go to the other country and use the quarter in
the venting machine. You automatically increase the value of your
dollar by the exchange. Because here you can put an
American quarter Canadian corner into an venting machine and it
doesn't tell a difference.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
So that's the way you cheat the system.

Speaker 6 (49:55):
Hey, Mike, road trip, Mike, Mike, that's gonna be a
road trip for you with me.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
No, I I'm just okay. You guys were intro it.
You guys were discussing monetary stuff. In forty four, they
had the Breton Breton Woods Accords, which was up at
Mount Washington Hotel it's now the Omni Mount Washington in

(50:21):
nineteen forty four where they set the Monetary Fund and
the fixed exchange rates. They had the International Monetary Fund,
and they also established the World Bank. It was forty
four countries that came together in that little giant hotel
up in near Mount Washington. But that's when it started.

(50:43):
But then in the seventies and the sixties it fell apart.
And it it just because the dollar increased in the
convertibility of the dollar into gold, the system kind of
fell apart.

Speaker 12 (50:59):
Well, I'm waiting for somebody in our chat, in our
show chat to get out that chat g t P
and do some AI with a bunch of us trying
to cross the border with rolls of quarters in our pockets.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
That's all I know.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
No, you don't want to see that picture. You don't
want to see that picture, as though, Hey it is
not us.

Speaker 5 (51:18):
I'm gonna be I'm gonna be in your neck of
the woods. Yeah, you're welcome. I gotta do some fiveplex training.
But I'll be up there and I'm probably gonna throw
some radios in the truck and some antennas. Man, I

(51:38):
got You're familiar with Northford?

Speaker 6 (51:42):
Yeah, man, that's my hometown. That's where I grew up.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Everything going forward, Yeah, exactly. Doesn't that in Chevy.

Speaker 11 (51:51):
Mike shooting an email? Mike, shoot me an email or
shoot me something on discord? All right, Yeah, I'd be
kind of type. But let me see if I can
take some extra time off from or so I can
kill two birds with one stone.

Speaker 5 (52:02):
Well, it'll be evening, dude, because I'm gonna be doing training,
so to be the after evenings.

Speaker 11 (52:07):
Yeah, I got something going on, but I'll explain it
to you through offline as they say, not on Tuesday,
and you're fine, but it's.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
H So I shared a picture of the infant biscuit
and I dropped Andy's link in the chat.

Speaker 11 (52:30):
Hey Molson, if I was working for you, why do
you pay an American? And how does that work with payroll?
Is that a prom or vice versa? Is that a
Is that a problem because if I'm supposed to be
getting X amount of dollars but yet my paycheck says
or I'm gonna be you see what I'm saying, Like,
how do how do people get paid if you live

(52:52):
in another country?

Speaker 5 (52:55):
You paying.

Speaker 7 (52:57):
If an American was working for a Canadian, Yep, most
likely they would they would be paid in the US currency.
It's actually the opposite for Canadians. Usually when we go
work for Americans for say, say somebody here it goes
to work for remotely, but for an American firm, they
usually get paid in the US currency. Yeah, and that's

(53:20):
that's all tax laws and stuff. Man, I'm not somebody
else's job.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
Our company has some offices I think one of them
is up in Red Deer so but it's an American
owned company, but they actually have whatever it is to
incorporate it in Canada too. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (53:42):
So if they have a locate satellite location in a
Canadian promise, they would pay a Canadian dollars.

Speaker 6 (53:50):
So potentially it could cost a Canadian company more money
to pay that individual depending on the dollar.

Speaker 7 (53:56):
Right after, I look at the Canadians typically, I think
Canadians are typically paid more than Americans anyway.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
For the job set.

Speaker 5 (54:04):
So it's just like our minimum wage in Ontario is
like seventeen dollars right, So.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Yeah, you got it cards.

Speaker 6 (54:24):
It's like you get a blizzard, you get a blizzard.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Mesha, so sha like it depends right like so.

Speaker 7 (54:33):
But because like if you look at Windsor, Ontario, there's
a lot of people Winsor who go across to Detroit
to work, especially medical professionals. And obviously because the work
is being performed in the States, they get paid American dollars.
But also I have friends who work remotely. They get
paid American dollars.

Speaker 5 (54:48):
And they live in Canada. So it's there's no there's
no answer to that people, and there's no rhyme.

Speaker 7 (54:55):
That's where the companies have their tax specialists and they
payroll people in HR they deal and we're on the clubhouse.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
So why are we talking about business? I'm sorry, we
talk about everything other than Ham radio.

Speaker 7 (55:06):
Sometimes I'm looking up now like there's there's a story,
because now you got to be onto this.

Speaker 6 (55:14):
Imry no about.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
You were talking about the government.

Speaker 7 (55:20):
If I remember correctly, the UK, they used to be
the global standard for currency. Now it's in the US,
and I believe they lost it because they manipulated their
value so much. In the other countries they lost as well,
because of that manipulation, and they ended up losing the
if I member, I think that's the story.

Speaker 5 (55:38):
And they lost being global the global standard.

Speaker 7 (55:43):
Because everything internationally trades in US dollars, right, Like if
a Canadian company buys Chinese products, they binding in the
US dollars, right, So the US is the global standard
for international trade.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Okay, Wow, we've got the power.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Actually learned something in the clubhouse tonight.

Speaker 6 (56:08):
I'm learning about pesos here.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Well, I was gonna say, I've got three thousand yen
sitting on my dresser in the other room. It's worth
about it's worth twenty bucks. Twenty bucks.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
Hey, hey, twenty bucks.

Speaker 6 (56:25):
Deve twenty bucks?

Speaker 7 (56:28):
Ye, I had, I had, I had left over. You
hadn't when I like from when I went to China,
and it like sat in my dresser for years. And
I went to the exhamee for you girl, and.

Speaker 6 (56:36):
They're like, yeah, we're not that very good ball.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Shout out to Mike.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
That's awesome.

Speaker 6 (56:45):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
So I had lunch with somebody today. I had lunch
with Eric and one Jay you are so good because
he was he he he had he had to do
some work and I had to drive three and a
half hours to lemon in New Hampshire this morning to
do about two hours worth of work and then turn

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around drive home.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
Is he a vegetarian?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Paid for the travel time?

Speaker 5 (57:14):
So?

Speaker 6 (57:15):
Is Eric a vegetarian?

Speaker 5 (57:17):
No? He was eating pepperoni pizza.

Speaker 6 (57:19):
Oh that that You can still be a vegetarian, is he?

Speaker 5 (57:23):
You cannot be a vegetarian if you're eating pepperoni.

Speaker 6 (57:26):
Paul is your bro vegetarian. No, I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (57:31):
I thought, who would you get that from?

Speaker 6 (57:33):
I don't know why he gave me the vibe. Yeah,
and that's not a bad thing. That's not I'm not
It's not like I'm going to you know, vegetarian and not.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
You know.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
Listen, all right, So our our field day tradition is
the Friday night steak night. Yeah, so I set up
my camp site, you know, early on Friday and then yeah,
we have steaks and scotch. We just hang out.

Speaker 6 (58:03):
They're fine. Next Northeast ham rating a happy hour. I
will apologize to him. I am a man.

Speaker 11 (58:09):
I'll apologize, Eric, I apologize to your brother. Really, is
my advice not gonna come?

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Now?

Speaker 5 (58:20):
No? We went, We went, it was good food. It's
I guess it's a golf club. But they had good
pizza and really really good beer. I'll just leave it
at that.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (58:33):
I just had to put an editor. It's no that
two people correct me, and they are correct. It is
the reserve currency, not the global standard. Sorry, the reserves,
the reserve.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
Lunch Michael, did Did Eric pay for this?

Speaker 5 (58:51):
No? He bought the beer. I bought the pizza.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
That's that's the hell of a corporate meeting.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
We we sat in the pizza and drank beer and
and and and talk to amateur radio and YouTube for
two hours exactly. Oh, I always learned something.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Which one? Did you buy the beer?

Speaker 5 (59:15):
No, he bought the beer. I bought the pizza.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
I didn't know you could do that on a corporate
credit card.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
No, that wasn't a corporate credit card. That that was
that was personal, sir. No, No, I can't. Jesus, I have. Hey,
when we when we go traveling, all right, can I

(59:42):
we have we can buy like one drink. The senior
person buys dinner for everybody. That's uh. When we go
out traveling for work, it's usually me or one of
my bosses, but we go out and we can actually
buy alcohol on the our card, which is amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
That reminds me I need to hit my boss for
another happy hour. No, my boss will actually take the
team out for a happy hour. We've got one of
the local breweries here that we go to. Oh and
the company drops the tab.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
And we don't have any very many breweries in Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
I think we have more breweries than churches now in
the in the Holy City.

Speaker 7 (01:00:26):
So tomorrow, tomorrow, when the I r S calls your workplace, Steve,
if they can blame it on you, yep.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
Sure, contracked anyway, So whatever, why doesn't Massachusetts have breweries there?

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
They're a B B is terrible here.

Speaker 6 (01:00:40):
What's that mean?

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Volume?

Speaker 6 (01:00:43):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
The ab B here, Like I hate to say this,
but I go down to the store and I get
what is it, Smoky Mountain moonshine. It's the pop Yeah,
well smoky I can I can get that. And their
A B V is like three point three. Because it's Massachusetts.

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You go to Tennessee or Kentucky and it's like seven eight.

Speaker 6 (01:01:09):
Yeah, so they water it down or oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
They do, yeah, oh yeah. They want all the drunks
here in Massachusetts to be drunk slowly.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
To Pennsylvania. You have to buy it by the case.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
Yep, this Steve, Steve, you can buy. You can buy
six packs now. And the grocery stores, yeah, you don't
have to go to the state store anymore. You can
buy wine and beer in the grocery stores.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Now.

Speaker 11 (01:01:40):
Is there anybody making their own? Is there anybody? I
mean tonight's thing, was any other hobbies we're talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:01:46):
Not that we're talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
Well, it's legal, yeah whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:01:53):
It's legal to make your own depending on what state
you're in, but it's illegal to sell it. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:02:00):
But so like big breweries, micro breweries in some states
and provinces from what I understand, I only know states
because I saw something I think about Jack Daniels. But
like I was in Nova Scotia working and the micro
brewery there when they brew a batch, they pay a
tax right away. They have to register what they brew
and they tax the are taxed by the volume and

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what they produce, and then obviously the sales tax. So
there's like two taxes and one reds. And I believe
I saw a report I think it was about Jack
Daniels that they pay I think four million dollars. They
have the same issue. They do the same thing, I
believe in Tennessee. And so they pay all this taxes

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and obviously this stuff has to age, so they pay
the taxes a long time before it's even gonna make
it to shelf.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Well, yeah, Jack Daniels was made in a dry county.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
Yeah, it's made in a dry county. So they actually
paid money to the county. Just still be until maintain them.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
There.

Speaker 6 (01:03:02):
Yeah, things you'll learn. And I on this show Holy crust.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
So okay, so we've had discussions on the show before
about the government liquor stores and stuff run by the government, right,
or run the state in Mississippi. That's not a thing.
So I never really knew what I was talking about.
Was that a good thing?

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
As far as prices go, state store even, Yeah, across.

Speaker 11 (01:03:31):
All control, Right, it's all control control, Paul, Paul, you
would know from New Hampshire to right, whatever the price
is at this place is going to be exactly the
same at the somewhere else, right, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Well, and the reason because where I'm at now, when
I first rolled into town, I show up to what
they call a package store, Yeah, the package and I
get to looking at the here and I'm my god,
dang man, it's like, yeah, there, the prices was outrageous,

(01:04:09):
but the beer was normal price. So then I get
to talking to some folks and they're like, oh, no,
you got to hit the ABC store. You know, you
got to get the state run store, the government run store.
So I go there the next day and prices were great.
On look for this, That's where I got it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:25):
What about Miller, Like, what's Miller like going for where?

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
We didn't like that? Look at water brings Miller a.

Speaker 6 (01:04:34):
White Hey, APUs.

Speaker 10 (01:04:40):
Brett does was like forty eight cans of that stuff? Maybe,
so it's actually he left him when he left.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
And I took it home with me.

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
Hey, Eric, I know you're in the chat. What was
the beers that we got today? They were there were
craft beers from this, uh this place. I tell you
what they had. They had like thirty taps set up
with all craft beers. And I tell you, I don't
I don't remember what the beer was. Something I forgot
what it was.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
It was fancy, something expensive, Yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
It was good.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
You want to join us?

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Give them the Link Brewery, Treehouse Brewery.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
Okay, So it's interesting though, what Joe Brett's talking about. Right,
So I'm used to like being able to get a
thirty pack of Budweiser at the grocery store at home, right,
and if I want if I want booze, then I
got to go to the liquor store. Yes, correct, Here
in Indiana you can't buy or I'm sorry, Illinois, I'm

(01:05:50):
I'm in Illinois. You can't buy a thirty pack of Butterweiser.
It doesn't exist.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
Why not? What do you mean?

Speaker 9 (01:05:55):
Like?

Speaker 6 (01:05:55):
Wait, wait, either either Budweiser is American.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
They don't sell them any bigger than a twenty four pack.

Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
Yeah, it's only have certain the volume. It's walking weird,
you guys.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
I just looked it up because so there were rumors
it's four million dollars a day for Jack Daniel. Some
say one point eight million dollars a day. But this
is the tax that most states in provinces charge you
just to make the product.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
You haven't sold it. You're like, hey, I want to
brew some beer.

Speaker 7 (01:06:30):
You brew beer, and then you, oh, you're gonna have
to submit it to the government, and then they tax
you on that you haven't sold.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
It could be a bad batch. You're still tax on it.

Speaker 7 (01:06:38):
So in Ontario, if it's a beer manufacturer made in Ontario,
for draft, your charge seventy two point four to seven
cents per leater. Non draft beer is eighty nine point
seven four cents per leader, So that is like there's like.

Speaker 5 (01:06:52):
Three point eighty five or three point ninety four.

Speaker 7 (01:06:56):
There's American and Canadian ballance whatever it is, so times
are by roughly four. So that's for Ontario beer manufacturers.
If you go to micro brewery, draft is almost thirty
six cents per leader and non draft is almost forty
cents per lead.

Speaker 5 (01:07:09):
And then there's Ontario group hubs.

Speaker 7 (01:07:14):
Sold in Ontario grupos it was around thirty three and
a half cents per leader.

Speaker 5 (01:07:18):
So and yeah, it's crazy. Think about it. To tax
before you even make a sale, and if that.

Speaker 11 (01:07:28):
Match, and if that never gets sold for whatever the
reason you just you still have to pay it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:33):
From what I understand, it's essentially a penalty for making alcohol,
is how I see it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
It's crazy.

Speaker 7 (01:07:38):
It's not a sales tax, it's not a profit tax.
It's hey, you want to make a profit, I'm a
product and try and sell it, We're going to tax you.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
It's like the worst type of that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:47):
Did we have this issue with the Boston Tea when
they're dump into tea in the harbor? I thought we
settled all this stuff. I thought we settled all.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
And then we created the ATF and we brought it
all back.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
Uh and and all the taxes.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Mm hmmm, it's sent.

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
The sin.

Speaker 6 (01:08:18):
You grow up.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
You grew up a church, And I'm like, if you sin,
you're gonna pay the price.

Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
And Molten, go to your Google.

Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
We're gonna tax you, baby, Molten, go.

Speaker 6 (01:08:27):
To your Google.

Speaker 11 (01:08:28):
Go to Nevada, go to the brothels? Do they have
to pay a tax even before the girl opens the door?
I would just be you know, I mean, without getting
deep and dirty into this, I'm wondering if the brothels
and and Nevada have the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
So here's here's the problem with that. It's all relevant,
But here's the problem with that. They're not allowed to
list the price on their website.

Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
No, no, no, But just to have a brothel, what
is your cost of what's the tax on the brothel?

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
Dude, that's not a tax, that's protection money you pay
the cops. And like they're outside of the city limits anyways,
they're they're they're in the county, but they're outside of
the city limits. They're not allowed to be in the
city limits. Now, Now, the little fifteen year old kids
that are passing out cards on the street corner saying

(01:09:17):
to your room in thirty minutes or less. You know,
I don't know how they warn't that.

Speaker 6 (01:09:24):
Again?

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
Protection money, I mean exactly.

Speaker 11 (01:09:26):
I don't understand that world at all now, and I'm
glad I don't. I'm just sitting in my garage having
a cigar, and.

Speaker 7 (01:09:35):
I imagine we have to pay a tax to the
to UH every time we click the ft transmit button. Yeah,
wasn't it like, Hey, don't listen, don't worry, because the
air or I will fight for you to only pay

(01:09:56):
half of what the government proposes.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
So most and I have a question, but but they'll
pay that, They'll pay the ransom.

Speaker 5 (01:10:07):
Hey, I have a question for you, in all seriousness,
what what if the US said, hey, bring me your BC,
bring me your specific province, will make you know, we'll
make you a state or whatever. What what are your
thoughts on that? Are we really talking about this?

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
We got them riled up last time on that one.

Speaker 7 (01:10:34):
Well, what would you say if I came to your
family and said, hey, bring me your children, and I'm
making part of my family.

Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
You say, fuck, no, Right, it's the same thing, like
we have our own identity.

Speaker 6 (01:10:43):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, some ship. Wait a minute,
Wait a minute.

Speaker 11 (01:10:48):
If I can give my kids an opportunity to learn
how to drive a jamboney, learn about example, you're far
enough north that.

Speaker 6 (01:10:57):
Play hockey.

Speaker 7 (01:10:58):
Let's not kid ourselves that there's some glorious opportunity in
America that doesn't exist in other countries.

Speaker 6 (01:11:03):
It does.

Speaker 7 (01:11:04):
America is a great country. It's a fantastic country. But
Canada doesn't want to be American and just allow us
to be self determined.

Speaker 5 (01:11:14):
Right what we want to do.

Speaker 7 (01:11:15):
Don't don't, don't don't. Let's not play this game. We're
not interested, are.

Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
Alberta?

Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
Yeah? But yeah, hold on Alberta.

Speaker 7 (01:11:27):
Seventy percent of Alberta's at the least are not interested
and and and separating the other thirty can move to
the to the states that you know, it's always the
same thing that the loud voices get the attention. But
the reality is an Alberta, it's not a majority, it's
not even close to a majority.

Speaker 5 (01:11:46):
Who wanted to leave.

Speaker 7 (01:11:47):
And if people are saying, yeah, they do, they're just
because they're they want them to. It's not doesn't exist,
it's not going to happen. And and we are our
own country. We're happy this way. And you know what's funny, Like,
let's be honest, I shouldn't say this, like when did
Americans become like, I don't know, sort of this colonial

(01:12:10):
besides for when you guys first came over here, when
did you guys become this like, hey, let's dominate.

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
The world like it's always been always yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
What what? What when America?

Speaker 7 (01:12:24):
I would tell you how Americans drop their values in
the last little while, things that you guys never stood for.
And it's very easy to say it. And I want
to get an argument with you guys here, but your
your co's not an argument.

Speaker 6 (01:12:39):
No, no, no, we're all men here. Listen, we're all men,
and we can all discuss. This is not an argument. Seriously, listen.

Speaker 7 (01:12:45):
Okay, I'm gonna say this, and then it's over. The
one party who's been creating, screaming about let's keep our
money at home and not help other people out is
now saying let's send our money to the you know,
a war zone near you know, near near a sea,
and let's build an American destination. So it's kind of

(01:13:08):
weird how it's like, let's work folks at home, keep
money home, help our people to Hey, let's go over
there and build a home. And see, you've lost your principles.
You're and you're blinded by whatever it is.

Speaker 5 (01:13:20):
Canada.

Speaker 7 (01:13:21):
I don't care what you guys do. Don't touch Canada.
Canada is not interested that something. It's that simple. They're
not interesting.

Speaker 11 (01:13:29):
You don't want it sounds like you don't want an
American destination in your in your backyard.

Speaker 13 (01:13:35):
It is in my backyard. It's literally five minute drive.
If I want to come there, I'll come there. It's
five minutes away. It's not an issue.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Speaking of which, would you pick up your hat yet?

Speaker 5 (01:13:48):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 6 (01:13:53):
One that has the American flag sewn in the back
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Probably not.

Speaker 5 (01:14:00):
Listen. Oh man, I don't don't even I don't even
want to talk.

Speaker 7 (01:14:04):
And I'm gonna say I don't want to and I
love you guys, I love America, but like I don't,
I don't want to talk about this because like I was.

Speaker 5 (01:14:12):
Just curious, because I mean because you actually open up
a can that you wanted to see a reaction.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
Michael, I'm like, I'm like, as I speak right now, okay,
because Michael, Mike.

Speaker 11 (01:14:27):
The next time you do that, you got to have
a blizzard ready for him. It's like it's like the Snickers,
It's like.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
What it is?

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Well, soel frosty blizzard, blizzard you I'll get to the
biggest blizzard you want.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
But it's just like the guys over on the West
coast right now that are doing their thing, but yet
they don't want to go back to their country that
they suppose love. They want to stay here in the US.

Speaker 6 (01:15:04):
Bingo, bingo.

Speaker 7 (01:15:07):
Yeah, but America, America sold the world on the American dream.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
No, No, you're right right, But.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
I'm not saying I legaligation is correct. I'm just saying
you kind of sold the dream, you know, like that's
what the results is.

Speaker 6 (01:15:28):
So why can't but just protest and peace? Though? Why
does there have to be another story?

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
That's a different story, that's a whole different story, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
You know, Kind's going to have moderating this. Damn.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
He's probably just gonna skip us on, like kids a
couple of others.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
But all the buttons you got to push after you
publish a video.

Speaker 6 (01:15:50):
Why Wow, we just can't talk. Men just can't talk.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
This is I know it's been a while since you've
done a YouTube video. It's not a hit. That's just
saying there's a lot of ship that's changed.

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
That's you got to ask your questions about whether it
was political, how much curshwords.

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
Did you use?

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Did you entice anybody? And I think Daniel got pretty
fucking enticed just then. Shane.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
Speaking of Shane, So last year I bought Shane's dropped
radio and I put rails on it and and I
put I put a new microphone with it, because I
don't know what the fuck Shane did you like chewed
on the microphone. Uh, but it has now left my possession.

(01:16:38):
It is the Brotherhood of the Traveling Radio.

Speaker 9 (01:16:42):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
So the radio is now in California.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Along.

Speaker 4 (01:16:48):
Let's see how long it lasts.

Speaker 6 (01:16:49):
Well, let's but I thought you were gonna say, and
it hasn't dropped once. See, this is what happens. You
put the rails on it and now it'll never drop
right exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
Well, Frank will have to let us know. And the
chat if he's dropped it yet.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Well, I want to know how many times UPS dropped
it from your house to Frank's.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
I'm sure a thousand times. It got delayed, numerous times.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Got dropped, kicked across the ramp, and.

Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
Yeah, did did ship.

Speaker 6 (01:17:21):
You gotta put you gotta put that Italian.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
See that's the crazy part. You shipped ups and it
still made it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:29):
But let me tell you all right, So I took
pictures of the box when it was all sealed up.
I took pictures before I sealed it up, and then
and then when I sent it, I sent Frank a
picture of the receipt and the pictures of the box
and everything, and I was like, let me know, and

(01:17:50):
he was like, oh it got delayed. Oh it got delayed.
Oh it got delayed. And I'm like, this fucking thing
better get there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
You insureder right.

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
Oh, yes, that's.

Speaker 6 (01:18:08):
Just a common It's just a common thing. Now we're all.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Is it just related to hammer?

Speaker 6 (01:18:13):
It goes, it goes to the graveyard or the boneyard
to sit in limbo.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
I've never wanted an air tag on something more than
ever than that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
Hey, Molson, if you come down in Massachusetts, I've got
something for you. Yeah, a green card.

Speaker 6 (01:18:38):
That was almost a drop. Sound.

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
Yeah, this seems heavy. You're talking about boat anchor. Let
me see if I can turn it around.

Speaker 6 (01:18:46):
Is you a t Hold on?

Speaker 5 (01:18:47):
Hold on? Are you telling me right now that if
I come down there, you're giving me that radio that
if you come to Massachusetts.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
Look at him, he's pulling up Google Maps.

Speaker 5 (01:19:01):
Now, I know it's there, Boston, which, yeah, I know
where it is. No, I'm not near Boston. Boston is
in Massachusetts, right, it is in Massachusett.

Speaker 6 (01:19:13):
Very good, very good for a geography.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
Lesson, Daniel. If you can get here, I will give
you this radio.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
On the way too.

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
Is it working? Yeah? I even have the Boom Mike
Kyle adapter for it too. I think, why would you
do that? Are you trying to Are you trying to
buy me so that I'm like I want to become American?
Come over to the dark side?

Speaker 6 (01:19:43):
Damn man. We usually normal, we would just pass an envelope.
This guy's passing the radio.

Speaker 5 (01:19:48):
Hey, if you have, and if you have, I have
it for sale. But if you have a trailer, I
have a seventy foot crank up tower. Dude, what do
you want? Serious? About I will give you because because
I have never seen that many shades of red on
somebody's head before. So I didn't want that line.

Speaker 6 (01:20:10):
Though she did face.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
She said, seventy crank up.

Speaker 5 (01:20:15):
Yeah, it's an oldie tilt over base. It's got the
tilted over base and it needs to be really strung.

Speaker 6 (01:20:27):
Question that when he crosses the border, does he have
to do the duty? You know that that duty thing?

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
Is it duty free? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
That's not going to be free.

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
He's got to strap it to the top of his
pickup truck.

Speaker 6 (01:20:42):
And duty is another word for attack.

Speaker 5 (01:20:44):
Now we don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:20:44):
What's duty free because there's this new thing called extortion
that's happening.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
So yeah, we don't know what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:20:51):
Import tax. No, technically ham radio here is duty free.

Speaker 7 (01:20:58):
Technically well, but nobody knows the goalpost to keep on
changing these days, So like it might be duty free
today and tomorrow it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:21:05):
We're not too sure. And and and you have to
come down here and drink a Miller beer. Okay, this
is okay, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
Just Mike gave the exception on that one.

Speaker 5 (01:21:20):
Right now, we can go over to New York and
hang out with m a K and you can drink
a utiful club.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
This is what's gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
Do I look like I'm picking with her that I
drink as long as I I don't care.

Speaker 6 (01:21:32):
So it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
Daniel's gonna show up in Massachusetts. He's going to give
him a radio. He's gonna give him a tower on
a trailer. He's gonna give him a fucking tour bus.
He's gonna pick his hat up and need a on
the way back across the border.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
I don't know about the tour bus, but no one
in Kentucky is available. And she's lady. The lady has
dropped the price. It's now sixty and dry and you
can drive it out of there. And it was made
in New Mexico.

Speaker 6 (01:22:06):
We're getting a tour bus? Wait? Are we getting a
tour bush?

Speaker 5 (01:22:09):
I gotta go. I love you, Love you Americans, Love America.

Speaker 11 (01:22:20):
He's he you want to sing the Star Spangled banner
now as you're as you're getting out, all I'm.

Speaker 7 (01:22:28):
Gonna say is you know that whole West coast there, California,
all the way, they're gonna be our fourteenth.

Speaker 6 (01:22:37):
You can have it. We'll give it all, right, are
we getting a tour bush? Did I miss something?

Speaker 5 (01:22:49):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:22:50):
Did beer say yesterday?

Speaker 7 (01:22:52):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:22:52):
Beer?

Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
No? Multon was like, oh my god, it's gonna cost
me ten thousand dollars a month. And I was like,
do they're They're like freaking all over the place, cheap
down here and I and I've been watching this one
in Kentucky. The lady dropped your price to sixty. I
shared it in the chat. If you want to bring

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it up, Steve, if.

Speaker 6 (01:23:16):
You don't had wheel does it run? Does it have wheel.

Speaker 9 (01:23:19):
Run?

Speaker 5 (01:23:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:23:22):
Is the toilet in the back clean?

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
No, we'll train for a dump truck. Hey, sleep six.
That could be a hunts filmobile.

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
Can you share it?

Speaker 6 (01:23:37):
Yeah? Clubhouse on the road. How does that sound? Guys?
Clubhouse on the I don't want to drive that thing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
God, why not?

Speaker 5 (01:23:44):
If they're easy to drive?

Speaker 6 (01:23:46):
You up a picture. I want to see this thing. Oh,
come on, we can drive anything.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
Oh no, I know it could drive anything.

Speaker 5 (01:23:51):
It's just do no, No, I'll drive it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Just does not look that fun to drive. Of the
turquoise inside, that's yeah, definitely retro.

Speaker 6 (01:24:04):
Okay. I can see myself sticking. I can see myself
sticking to that that upholstery. But no to the turqoise.

Speaker 5 (01:24:10):
To the turquoise showing the picture of the front.

Speaker 6 (01:24:17):
That's cool. Yeah, we get a big old sticker or
banners on the side. Clubhouse on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Hey go, I want to know whose tour of bus.

Speaker 5 (01:24:29):
It was sixty nine hundred bucks. You dropped your price.

Speaker 6 (01:24:32):
Look at that the bed, the bed, the bed still
got the plastic on it. That's a good sign.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
No, no, no, that means she had to buy a
new mattress because you didn't want to know what happened
to the old one.

Speaker 5 (01:24:43):
Okay, oh god bless, but it has bunks in it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Let's got bunks?

Speaker 6 (01:24:49):
Oh wait a minute, who's going Okay, all right, let's
talk this out in the clubhouse. Who's going to be
on the bottom bunk and who's going to be on
the top bunk? Think about it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
Anybody who lays less than two hundred pounds gets the
top bunk.

Speaker 6 (01:25:04):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:25:05):
I don't get because your fat ass of my fat
ass are not going on the top bunk.

Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
I'll sleep in the driver's seat. I'll just stick that
may be the best seat right there in the house.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
But doesn't have a disco ball Jesus. It's a nineteen
eighty seven TMC, which if you're familiar with MCI MCI buses,
they're made in Canada. Most would be happy TMC buses
were made in New Mexico, same company.

Speaker 6 (01:25:41):
Does you have low hours on it?

Speaker 5 (01:25:42):
Lo?

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
Mon?

Speaker 5 (01:25:45):
I think it even detright in it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
I think she's had it listed for four years.

Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
Yeah, she can't. She can't sell it, and I don't
know why.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Well, it's an eighty seven, so it's almost.

Speaker 6 (01:25:57):
I must be the bed gonna be cheap. It must
have been a bet on that thing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
It's not the bed. It's you know, people are afraid
of something that old.

Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
With a diesel, I had nineteen seventy five t m
C m C eight with it eight seventy one Detroit diesel.
I could go out in the middle of winter and
push that start button. That thing fire right up. Oh yeah,
it's is serious.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
No, No, something.

Speaker 6 (01:26:30):
Right right now?

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
Strange. You know a lot of players, you can uh
come across a lot of churches around here that sell
on their buses.

Speaker 6 (01:26:49):
Yeah, bus, What do you need to dry that?

Speaker 7 (01:26:52):
Is?

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
That?

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
Is that considered a Class C?

Speaker 5 (01:26:54):
Nope? Consider even if it has air brakes it's considered
an r V.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
It depends on the state.

Speaker 6 (01:27:05):
I think most Carolina.

Speaker 5 (01:27:07):
Most states. You do not need UH, you do not
need AM. You do not need an air brake endorsement
if you're not doing.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
It for commercial.

Speaker 11 (01:27:20):
I want to requires a motor home license. I want
a nice vanity South Carolina. I want a nice vanity plate.
We're gonna have a simple ham radio station with an
antenna off the ladder in the back or something. And
Charman gotta have Sharman in the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
It's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:27:45):
Let me see if I can find my bus that
I had. Let me see if I.

Speaker 3 (01:27:55):
Can find.

Speaker 6 (01:28:00):
You think Beersnack is getting nervous right now. Oh yeah,
he hears it. He knows.

Speaker 11 (01:28:07):
He's got the hair on the back of the hair
on his back right now standing up and he's like,
oh my god, someone's talking about me.

Speaker 6 (01:28:15):
O day.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
We can play that seventy foot crank up on the
top of it and then just hinge it down.

Speaker 5 (01:28:20):
Yeah, there you go, just hints it at the back
and here's a crank up to tilt up. Oh, I
can't find my school bus.

Speaker 11 (01:28:30):
Could you guys pull in the hunts fell easy with
that or is that kind of a logistics.

Speaker 5 (01:28:35):
Oh yeah, you can play yeah, oh yeah, and it's
already got power. I would probably replace the batteries, put
a halfway decent inverter into it, do a little rewiring. Yeah,
it's worth every penny. They have one hundred and sixty

(01:28:55):
one hundred and seventy gallon tanks, so that'll take you
like sixteen hundred ailes on one tag of fuel.

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
H The pitch of it is when you run that
thing out, what's it gonna cost to refill it?

Speaker 5 (01:29:09):
Yeah, it's about when I when I had my my
MC eight, it costs about six hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
To fill it.

Speaker 6 (01:29:19):
Yeah, and how far could you get with that?

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
Like, like give me a sixteen hundred miles?

Speaker 6 (01:29:27):
Yeah, well listen, listen, listen, let's just break this down.

Speaker 11 (01:29:34):
You want to play r V, it costs money. You
want to play question money, you want to you want
to play ham.

Speaker 6 (01:29:39):
Radio, it costs you money. You want to be a
chess player, It's gonna cost you money. Everk is gonna
cost you money. We all just have to figure out
how much we want to spend. That's that's all it is, exactly,
that's all it is.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
It's all all on what's in your wallet? Have no idea?

Speaker 6 (01:29:54):
What your thoughts filled?

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
What's that you're coming down from the north right? Who
me now, Paul? Yes, okay, make sure you route through
Governor's Road. Okay, okay, you want to come out the
straight way, not not the back way. There there's a

(01:30:18):
couple of hairpins switchbacks that are steep uphill.

Speaker 11 (01:30:24):
Does that mean he has to get out and push
while he has like a stick or something on the
gas pedal keeping it?

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
Yeah, it's yeah, the ham stick. He's running a six
meters hem stick with the gas pedal. Dowth.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Oh, you're gonna need one of those uh don hamsticks,
you know, the that big a round the heavy dude
of the MFJS I have.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
Yeah, Yeah, it's it's actually a shorter distance for me
to go from here to Huntsville then for me to
go back home and then oh yeah, so here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
I'm gonna pull up the map here so of course
you can't see my.

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
You see this road right here?

Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
Fuck that with a trailer.

Speaker 6 (01:31:26):
That that's the back way. Oh I see, said the
blind man.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
Yeah, and the park is actually here on Southeast Nolan.
So if you come in Monsano. That's pretty much straight.
This is Governor's here four thirty one, so it's almost
a straight shot up the mountain. It's easy, that's the

(01:31:55):
easy way. But yeah, if you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
And another another guy got their atm whiler bobtail up there.
But I've seen tour bus sizes RV's coming up in
there too.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
Oh yeah, not saying it is fun, but I was
gonna say it's fun in a car. It'd be hell
of fun on the motorcycle, but I would not want
to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:19):
Paul the camper, Yeah, not a not a thirty foot camper.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
I wouldn't want to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
You do have, Paul, the best best thing to do.
Like the first time I took my camper up there.
I've downloaded this app. How's it? Oh? Something is for trucks.

Speaker 9 (01:32:42):
Uh, truck that's what it's called.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
No, that costs too much down money. So truck map
is free. But it'll take you the right way to
Money Center.

Speaker 6 (01:32:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
Jody, Jody.

Speaker 3 (01:32:59):
GPS. As you're driving a trailer, just gonna try to
take you through this little subdivision and you're gonna what
they call it hot top or whatever, where you bottom
after your trailer on the incline. Yeah, you ain't gonna
do it. And you can tell a lot of people's
done it because all the gurus in the pavement.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
I was gonna say that switchback is a son of
a gun too.

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 11 (01:33:25):
We have a couple of here in we have a
we have a couple here in the northeast like that.
It's going up to Mount Washington. I forget the trail
in northern Massachusetts up by Greenfield. You could go out
from Greenfield, go west to North Adams. There's a couple

(01:33:49):
of hairpin turns up in the mountains. It's God's country.
But you know, I mean once you make it. But
then again, I'm not towing anything.

Speaker 6 (01:33:57):
So yeah, yeah here different.

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
Did we knowledge? Yeah, y'all knowledge, Jody, And.

Speaker 6 (01:34:08):
Yeah, very very considerate. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
That was That was my bus that I brought back.
I brought from Tennessee to Arizona back to Tennessee. That
was our school bus.

Speaker 6 (01:34:23):
Look at the d X commander sticker.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
The ex engineering engineering I'm sorry, I was the ex engineering.

Speaker 5 (01:34:31):
Yeah, we my son and I built that. It had
seven batteries, two alternators. That was fun build, Oh wow.
And then let me see me.

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
I have I have my m C I in here
or my t m C, my m C A.

Speaker 5 (01:34:53):
There it is, there's my m C A.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:35:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:35:02):
And that was in seventy five. And the reason I
got rid of the school bus and got rid of
and got this is because the school bus was geared
rule so the rear end was really really really low
low geary. It was fifty five down a hill at

(01:35:24):
almost three grand.

Speaker 14 (01:35:26):
So I got I got the the the TMC and
I was pushing seventy just flying in that thing.

Speaker 5 (01:35:37):
I was like, I need to I think we need
to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
My granddad used to drive the gray hand Was this
what it reminded me of.

Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
Yep, that was a Greyhound at one time. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:35:53):
They would hug.

Speaker 11 (01:35:54):
They would hug in that left hand lane and just go.
Remember that when you when you were a kid on
the highway, you see them were just going.

Speaker 5 (01:36:02):
Uh what I'm trying to remember what the the one
there was a Greyhound that had the step up in
the back so when you walked in, then you walked
up a couple of steps and the whole back was
elevated and you could look out. I think it was venture.
I can't remember exactly what it was called.

Speaker 6 (01:36:23):
It was a bench sheet in the back, right, a
partial bench sheet with the bathroom.

Speaker 5 (01:36:28):
No, well yeah, but it was elevated. A beautiful bus.
My son, my son out in California. He's uh, he's
he's driving bus. He actually likes it.

Speaker 6 (01:36:45):
M fun times.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
He's enjoying it. More power to him.

Speaker 5 (01:36:53):
Yeah, California. Trust man been begging him to come back
this way. I just said, you gotta find a place
you can't crash air Him and the wife and like
five kids. No, that's no, no, No, I love them,
but yeah, I don't love them.

Speaker 6 (01:37:11):
That much it because in any time, yeah, right.

Speaker 4 (01:37:16):
Shitter's full.

Speaker 2 (01:37:18):
I just wondering who was gonna say it? Leave it
to Paul.

Speaker 4 (01:37:24):
Hey listen, I just had to do that the other
day where I had to empty my shitter.

Speaker 11 (01:37:31):
Is there really like a step process that you've seen,
like I've seen it all there is. You don't do
it two and three before you do one. Correct, it's
a whole process.

Speaker 6 (01:37:42):
Well is that the right word?

Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
So you sho You drain the ship tank first, right,
once it's empty, you put another like ten fifteen gallons
of water into it, drain it again, right, because you
want to You want to make sure you try and
lush out as much as possible. When you're done flushing
it out, you put another five gallons of water in it,

(01:38:08):
because you've got to have a place for your ship
to go into water.

Speaker 6 (01:38:14):
You don't want to try down there.

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
You get the ship mountain.

Speaker 5 (01:38:21):
Yeah, the ship mountain.

Speaker 6 (01:38:25):
Okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (01:38:27):
But after you're done draining your black tank, which is
your ship tank, then you drain your gray and that's
your shower water and your sink water and all.

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
That I've got. I've got something from you for you
when you come back. You have you have a black
tank on the on your camper, right, yeah, okay, the
camper I got from the neighbors. He's got this thing
that goes in the tank and spins around in Washington.

(01:38:58):
Wuld you call it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:01):
Something?

Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
Not not a mass rator? No, this thing is on
a garden hose and it spins around and cleans up
the black bank.

Speaker 11 (01:39:10):
Okay from a guy who doesn't know this world. But
why is there the black tank and a gray tank?
Why not just have one tank? Who cares if the
dirty shower water?

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
Because in your house you have j traps, P traps,
whatever that block the gases from coming out.

Speaker 5 (01:39:27):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:39:28):
In a camper, you don't have that correct, And you
don't want the black tank gases coming up through the sink,
especially if Paul in there. Yes, it sounds like you.

Speaker 6 (01:39:44):
Makes sense. Logic prevails here.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
Yes, And and the commode actually has a flapper that
closes to seal off those gases and.

Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
It goes right to the tank. It doesn't pass go,
it doesn't collect two hundred dollars. You open the hole
and it goes right in the tank.

Speaker 6 (01:40:01):
And do you have to clean?

Speaker 11 (01:40:03):
Is it proper to do the black when you're when
you're doing your your dischargeing, your emptying, Oh yeah, wash
it out.

Speaker 6 (01:40:09):
Do you have to do black first versus gray? Or
does it make it should black first?

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
You do black first, and your.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
White tank flush. Don't use your drinking water hooves?

Speaker 6 (01:40:23):
Okay, okay?

Speaker 11 (01:40:25):
And then when you so where when you're at that place,
that little area that I've seen, do they have two
different like like holes in the ground or you know,
the area.

Speaker 6 (01:40:34):
They don't care which.

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
One goes in the redout station? Okay, So you get
they have a little blue toe and you transfer to
a little blue toe and then you take that to
an our redoumpt station.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
And if you really just want to set the caarns
off in the in the ground, yeah, you just open
your damn gray tank up on the ground and they
just yeah. And then when they when they start visioning
about it. Two, you like, what's the difference if I
had an outdoor shower.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
That's it.

Speaker 11 (01:41:06):
If you want to just water, you just want to water, Well,
we do that anyway too, right, because you're you're preventing
forest fires exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
That's also the ranger. We're just prevent the forest fires.

Speaker 6 (01:41:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:41:23):
So that's like my sink on my little camper and
it just has a hose. You just fill it into
a bucket and just dump the bucket. That's the only
thing I have in my camper. I don't have the
I don't And I've got a little cassette toilet that
I can take with me if I need to.

Speaker 9 (01:41:39):
Mm hm.

Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
So just in case you have to go. It's called
a cassette toilet.

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
I like having a full bathroom.

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
A little it's got you pop the top off and
it's got a little tank underneath, and you just go
dump the tank it's pretty cool. It's got water and
everything in it.

Speaker 11 (01:41:56):
Hmm, what do you guys? And do you guys have
to win it for? For those who are in cold
weather environments, you have to win arize this thing.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
Yeah, r.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
Because I started living in the r V in February, right,
I de win arized it, and then I put heating
pads on the on the bottom of the tanks to
keep those the tanks from freezing. And then I wrapped
the old underside with the old billboard vinyl, and I

(01:42:34):
put a little heater under there. That way, it just
keeps everything heated.

Speaker 11 (01:42:40):
Well, well, you may tell me you're the stuff that
goes in the black tank could freeze?

Speaker 6 (01:42:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:42:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, you have.

Speaker 6 (01:42:51):
You ever.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (01:42:54):
Wait, what did I say about frozen? I'm thinking frozen popsicles? Here?

Speaker 4 (01:42:57):
You ever got shipsicle?

Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
Yeah? You ever take a frozen dog turd? Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
I've seen that? Okay, yes, I've seen that that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
Okay, same something, Okay, make ten.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
What Oh Michael, you're just looking at that Instagram link?

Speaker 5 (01:43:22):
No did I miss it?

Speaker 4 (01:43:24):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
Oh yeah, all right, well you said I figured you
hadn't looked it up yet. I hadn't.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
That might be worth a drive.

Speaker 11 (01:43:37):
Again the disclaimer, guys, for the disclaimer for all the
stuff I'm seeing in the trap. I don't own an
r V. I have never done camping. I've always wish it,
just never had the opportunity. My lifestyle doesn't allow it.

Speaker 6 (01:43:49):
It just never. It just never had.

Speaker 11 (01:43:51):
Listen, when you work my crazy work schedule for the
last twenty years, twenty five years, you'll you would understand.

Speaker 6 (01:43:57):
And it's a shame.

Speaker 11 (01:43:58):
It's a because I feel like I've missed out a
part of life that I really would love to experience.

Speaker 6 (01:44:04):
So I know nothing about this r V world. And
it could be from the ship tank to the gasoline tank,
to the diesel tank to the bunk tank. I have
no I have no idea how you I think it's cool.

Speaker 11 (01:44:20):
Only I've seen the the movie with Robin Williams and
and r V. That's the only thing that I saw.

Speaker 6 (01:44:26):
So you know, that's something that you do. You really
base your life on what that's the r V world?

Speaker 5 (01:44:32):
Oh, the the GM Do you remember the movie stripes?

Speaker 6 (01:44:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:44:41):
Fail here in Massachusetts, except it's not green, it's white.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
Painted green.

Speaker 5 (01:44:48):
Yeah, that'd be cool.

Speaker 11 (01:44:52):
We had here when I moved to my town. My
boss had one and we used it for our mobile EOC.
That thing, that that thing, that thing had more miles
in the in the bunk room than it did on
the road.

Speaker 6 (01:45:04):
It was a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
It was a problem. It was a huge problem.

Speaker 11 (01:45:08):
It had all the motorola radios from low band to whatever.
Back then, everyone thought it, everyone thought it was so cool.
But that thing was parked outside of the property that
I was renting, and that thing was a pain in
the act.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
We had problems.

Speaker 6 (01:45:20):
I had to get that thing on.

Speaker 11 (01:45:21):
I had no no, no, no, no, We're not turning
this place into the you know, to the Notel motel kind.

Speaker 5 (01:45:27):
Of a you know.

Speaker 15 (01:45:29):
Things is though, if you see this thing rolling down
the road, if Steve throws it up, that's my FJ
and that's.

Speaker 5 (01:45:42):
My NDC camper.

Speaker 2 (01:45:44):
Okay, pops up.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
The forward folds so yeah, you see the little atches
right there, ye along the top edge, that piece four
folds forward and there's a little door right there. Now
what's interesting is this is an Australian camper. So most
American campers are the doors are on the passenger side.

(01:46:14):
Well Australian because they drive on the other side of
the road and their driver's wheel is on the right
hand side, their passenger door for their camper is on
the left side, and that that's where the story is. Yeah,
it's weird, but I'll love this stupid thing. And if
you come up to twenty four hours of PODA in September,
this will all be set up and just want to play.

(01:46:37):
And if you you don't, if you want a nice
warm camper to sleep and let me know, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:46:43):
Yeah there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
All right, Well, gentlemen, it's been an hour and forty
eight minutes. What do we say we go around the
horn and wrap this thing up?

Speaker 5 (01:46:57):
Word?

Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
Okay, go ahead. Well, I got nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
Coming, No, I just need to edit some videos, but
hopefully i'll get one ready for Tuesday. Plan on being
on the playlist next Tuesday. So nice, That's all I've got.

Speaker 6 (01:47:16):
Here's so how about you shout out to my kids.
This is the last week of schoolwards.

Speaker 11 (01:47:22):
We got another awards tonight tomorrow night, and then we
got the big graduation on Friday night. I'm off tomorrow night, though,
gonna go play some PODO. Look for me in on
the hand Bands twenty forty. We'll see what the other
bands are doing based on propagation.

Speaker 6 (01:47:37):
So I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:47:39):
I'm either gonna try to go back to that Kilo
park and try to get that kilogaan and or go
somewhere else and just I don't know, maybe get a suntan.

Speaker 6 (01:47:46):
Who knows. That's what I got going on?

Speaker 5 (01:47:52):
All right, Yeah, everybody's looking at Joe.

Speaker 3 (01:47:57):
Even Joe's looking at Joe. Yeah, waiting for Steve to say,
how about you? Joe?

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
I said, Joe, what you got?

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
Oh, I wouldn't listen.

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
Yeah, of course, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:48:12):
I got to come up with something last week. Uh,
interesting little story last week, I said, I was talking
with a with a vendor, you know, about doing something,
you know, a new little product that I haven't kind
of done before. And the little motherfucker laughed at me.
So I'm probably not doing that video.

Speaker 6 (01:48:29):
Oh don't y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
Okay, he said, it looks like your video views has
went down. It's like, yeah, well the last five was
three sixty videos for research purposes to see if people
even liked them. Right, So anyway, he's like okay, I said, okay,
And so I don't know, we'll come up with something. Sometimes.

(01:48:54):
It's just busy right now.

Speaker 5 (01:48:55):
So at the very least that we here on Uesday night.
Frank knows knows how to rub you the wrong way.

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
Yeah, there you go, Michael, what you get.

Speaker 5 (01:49:11):
I gotta work at I T tomorrow. Yeami, Thank god
they're all out of school and I don't have to
worry about Runner pushing kids out of the way to
get my work done. Probably, I have not done a
PoTA activation yet. I've been hunting. You can look on
the PoTA Dot app there and you can see I've

(01:49:34):
I've been hunting, but not actually activated anything. So you know,
if it's nice and warm this weekend, and if it
ain't raining or doing something stupid, I'm I might go
down to the uh the Rehoboth Forests down here, that's
on Podah and Uh and possibly get on the air there.
I don't know other than that, you're just letting this

(01:49:56):
summer air out, trying to hit a few few more
hamfests in the northeas here and go from there and
and wait on Paul to get back.

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
Okay, nice and warm, it's still eighty degrees here at
ten o'clock at night.

Speaker 5 (01:50:09):
Yeah, it's sixty three here.

Speaker 6 (01:50:11):
Yeah, man, I got the mister buddy heater here, keep
me warm.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Miss my ac can't keep up.

Speaker 6 (01:50:19):
But all right, Paul, what do you got?

Speaker 4 (01:50:23):
Well? So I'm gonna keep skydivan and having fun getting better.
For those that aren't channel members, h my Category G
video will be available to you in the next few days,
and then my A licensed video will be four days
after that. So whoever that plays out, I finally got

(01:50:46):
a support your Parks Weekend video done?

Speaker 7 (01:50:50):
Sup?

Speaker 4 (01:50:50):
What was that April? April? So that'll be that'll be
premiering on Thursday. Yeah. I'm just gonna just keep hanging
out trying to improve my skydiving skills. I'm long overdue
for meeting up with him radio dude doing a park
in the air with him.

Speaker 6 (01:51:11):
So always fun to watch, always fund to watch your stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:51:15):
Ball appreciate it all right, especially when he does the
rendition of a tortoise.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
Wait a minute, wait, wait wait wait wait what you
get Michael? Is this is your first time on the show?
No second time, So you've been inducted, You've been voted on,
so he voted?

Speaker 6 (01:51:38):
Did you answer?

Speaker 2 (01:51:38):
But he is all fast question. I don't think he is.
The is a fast round.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
No, wait a damn minute here, Oh, shit, we he
checked the roster because we could keep it up with
it after a year or two. But yeah, so anyway,
I want to make a motion in case Michael wasn't
inducted whenever he come on last time, uh, that he
becomes honorary member of the club house. He was brave

(01:52:06):
enough to come on tonight for I guess the second
or third time.

Speaker 2 (01:52:09):
All right, I'll second up.

Speaker 3 (01:52:11):
All right, got a motion second emotion there, so Al says, hell, yeah, man,
that's so maybe this time we were we will remember
and somebody note that now so we don't do it
next time he comes on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
Yeah, I need to get through the backlog of videos
and see who all we had on up. Take that
damn list.

Speaker 4 (01:52:36):
Well, he's got to do fast questions.

Speaker 5 (01:52:39):
What's the fast question?

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
There's a lightning round.

Speaker 6 (01:52:42):
Go for it, dun, dundun, because Joe Breut's on the road, right,
dun dun.

Speaker 5 (01:52:46):
I have no idea where Joe Brett is. And don't
ask me.

Speaker 11 (01:52:49):
All right, Michael, you have to answer these questions. A
first answer that pops into your head.

Speaker 6 (01:52:55):
Are you ready chicken fish or steak? How do you
like your steak medium? And what would you have on
the plate with the steak, if anything?

Speaker 5 (01:53:09):
Like? If potatoes?

Speaker 6 (01:53:13):
What kind of potatoes?

Speaker 5 (01:53:20):
Massed potatoes or quarter potatoes? I like scales potatoes too.

Speaker 6 (01:53:25):
Okay, what's your favorite ice cream? If any?

Speaker 5 (01:53:32):
It's a it's a flavor that is no longer offered
by Ben and Jerry's. It's chocolate peanut butter cookie.

Speaker 6 (01:53:37):
Though I remember that.

Speaker 5 (01:53:39):
I remember, Yeah, they don't offer it anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:53:42):
So what do you have now?

Speaker 3 (01:53:44):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:53:46):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:53:46):
What is that the you go into the supermarket?

Speaker 11 (01:53:48):
Or your favorite ice kitchen sinking whatever it is from
Ben and Jerry's Everything the kitchen. Okay, what's your favorite
what's your favorite snack? Fredos Barbie but barbe here.

Speaker 6 (01:54:10):
Last question? What's your favorite band?

Speaker 5 (01:54:15):
That's a tough one. Are we talking?

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
The first thing that comes to mind?

Speaker 5 (01:54:25):
Answer the question Metallica or.

Speaker 6 (01:54:31):
A full Fighters?

Speaker 4 (01:54:33):
Really good?

Speaker 5 (01:54:34):
Top of Metallica is at the top of my list.

Speaker 6 (01:54:37):
Okay. For hand bands, what do you like for hand bands? Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:54:42):
Twenty and forty? What mode side man?

Speaker 6 (01:54:47):
If you if you do and if you do a
PoTA park? What what would be your first antenna that
you would use?

Speaker 5 (01:54:54):
I got an INTENDA. It's it's an infant halfway fifty
six to one. It's the homebrew and it works great.

Speaker 11 (01:55:03):
Excellent, okay, excellent, And speaking of reliance, guys, we have
Matt coming on here next week and three v A.

Speaker 6 (01:55:11):
Matt's going to be talking about his fifty six to one.

Speaker 16 (01:55:15):
And don't tell anybody, but I think there may be
one or two giveaways, maybe a special clubhouse discount code
available for a while so you could use it for
field day, Poda your soda, you're doing anything this summer, whatever, whatever, whatever,
So be sure.

Speaker 6 (01:55:34):
To be here next week.

Speaker 5 (01:55:37):
It's all I'm going to say. Matt has been the
base camp works great.

Speaker 11 (01:55:42):
Matt has been. Matt's being very generous. He's a nice guy.
So we'll see him next week, can do you?

Speaker 4 (01:55:52):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:55:54):
All right, Steve, put the ribbons tied his shoelaces. Lock
the door.

Speaker 11 (01:55:57):
We got to sweep the floors, clean out, and we
got to clean out the Great Tank and the Black tank.

Speaker 2 (01:56:04):
All right, seventy three everybody got.

Speaker 3 (01:56:12):
I gotta see.

Speaker 6 (01:56:16):
I gotta remember this.

Speaker 11 (01:56:17):
You gotta clean the Great Tank first or the Black
tank or I forgot which one I gotta do first.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
Always the Black Tank first.

Speaker 6 (01:56:23):
Always, thank thank you, you get that po

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