Episode 230: What happens at Huntsville sta.......

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crazy drunk guys. This is what happened when you go
to montessant On.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Y'all, I was sober at that point in time.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
You were, You were not. We have a picture of you.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
We have a picture that was Sunday. That was at least.
You're listening to the Ham Radio Clubhouse Podcast, a weekly
show that's live on YouTube every Tuesday night at seven
o'clock Central Time.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
We look forward to you joining us live, but until then.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Enjoy this week's episode. Thanks for joining us here in
the clubhouse. What's going on? Guys?

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Screaming black? It was done already, the Moulton touch.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Guys, scream.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was gonna say, who's got the rookie move? Because
I know I alright.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Now we're back in the now, We're back in the
saddle here, all right, phones me to too.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
We're good.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Aerosmith said it. Back in the saddle again. Why don't
you put Joe brettop top up here because that's where
you belong. Fine, no, no, put me even the best
I can do, Joe, do you like being on the.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Left side or the right side?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
How about that?

Speaker 5 (01:15):
Oh god, I'm just saying what options are?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Oh not that one? Please too?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Much because, like I know, like when I go into
like like let's say there's an off site training center
or somewhere, I always take a back I always go
to the back row, and I'm usually on the left side,
like because when I drive, I'm on the left side.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Kind of you, it's all your perception.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
But I'm so used to being in the back left
or maybe the right. But if I go anywhere middle
to front, it throws my game off.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Do you guys?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
It throws my game off? No, like train, like when
I go to when I.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Go to go to the left to the right, there's
your game off.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah. Yeah, I need some more context. I don't want
to know what game he's talking about.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
So no, I okay.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I started by saying, when you when you go to
like an off site training center, you got to get
some type of certification or renewal whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Where do you sit when you walk into the door the.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Very front road?

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Do you really? Why?

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Why?

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Because I got ADHD and all the folks sitting in
front of me distract me.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm here, but it depends on purpose. Oh so you're
all business?

Speaker 5 (02:35):
The heck man, I go to the church house and hey,
front seats reserve.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I just gonna say, when you go to church, where
do you sit?

Speaker 5 (02:43):
I go all the way to the front, like I'd
sit up there with the pastor if you'd let me.
But they look at me. Funny.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Do you sing at church?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'd be afraid to catch fire.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Do you sing at church?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Of course, you just don't mouth the words? Oh no,
I belt it man, I'm there for a purpose.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
There for a purpose.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Speaking of business, before we get too far into this business,
Twitoise Overland, who get to one? Bill? Got it? Bill?
Bill Hamryo Tectonics.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Enjoy with that, Bill.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Gunner, thanks for becoming a member.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Thank you, Gunner. Appreciate Gunner.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I know a gunner. Twenty six months Oh Corey with
thes So all you guys in green Chat, thank you.
You keep this train going. I won't say on the rails,
but you keep it going.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
So keep it chogging.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
So James Hannibal thinks I need to grow a quirky mullet.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Hmmm, James has been busy. Did you see what he
did to your various profiles?

Speaker 5 (03:52):
Every time open up my my Twitter X my ex Twitter, Yeah,
all I see is singing profile pictures.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Jason with the gifted sub and that went to Gary
all right, Randy amember for eight months, Jody with a
gifted sub and that went to uh oh quirky q
rpt up and then Jimmy remember for a month, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Oh, Scooter seventy fives here, what's up?

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Oh scout?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Remember for seventeen months.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I haven't seen Scott in a long time.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Scout? How are we doing? Brother mischief?

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I miss him?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
And there's Jason using his uh one month chat. Everybody's
getting him in. I get it's last Tuesday of the month.
And yeah, we got Jeff member for twenty months, Jeff,
I will get with you tomorrow. Get you that coffee.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
So, guys, to temperature has dropped here in Connecticut. I
got the I got the mister buddy. I got the
mister buddy underneath the the.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Table here shooting some Yes, I do. I calibrated it.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I did NASA elon musk starfleet calibration to ing sure no, and.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
The parachute apostle are remember for fourteen months.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
The ground set darker, croud, just getting darker. Look at this,
Look at this? What's this tell you? Bow got long
sleeves on tonight.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
See that's just not right. It's still eighty degrees here.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
No, see.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Carlos is already calling me candy ass. No, man, it's
not about being candy ass. It's about being comfortable. Life
is too short to be uncomfortable. Yes, Jesse, starlink, some
more stuff's been going up and I saw I don't
know where it was either on Instagram. They showed an
evolution of starlink over the last ten ten years, maybe

(05:59):
how it's popular related and now it's doing yeah, and
then there was some kind of then the the animation
also showed some passes going over to north Paul.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Very good, very good. Whoever created that, congratulations a nice job.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
So created what.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
It showed, the evolution of starlink going around the world. Okay,
so the first two years it was hardly anything.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
That was just that was just blanketing.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
That's like a swarm of nets at the campground.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
And we're still didn't get good starling connection.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Foliage. It's all about the foliage. That's at the end
of the day, just like we were.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
With the overlook foliage to that direction, but we could
not get enough signal to stream, all.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Right, that doesn't against the laws of RF. That doesn't
make sense.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
I know, too high, too close.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
A deviation.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Did you take the coloner the salad off your hat? No,
crazy drunk guys. This is what happens when you go
to Monsanto, y'all.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I was sober at that point in time.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
You were? You were not. We have a picture of you.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
We have a picture that was Sunday, and that was
at least eighteen hours after And.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
That's because of sleep tiredness? Or was that because of
the bottle?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
That was sleep?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Joe Brett, you want to be his lawyer on this one.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
He was, He was sleepy, He was straight Sunday night.
He just didn't have no energy from Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
It's not we're not discussing the sleep. What is the
cause of it? To sleep?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
He fought a war Saturday. He was at war with
his inner seale he was and who won? Who?

Speaker 4 (07:46):
What?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Then?

Speaker 5 (07:48):
The Yeah, I have to apologize. I feel like some
of that may be my fault.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Did you contribute?

Speaker 5 (07:58):
No? I did not contribute. It did not enable enabled,
not enable, I did not provide. When Steve first pulled up,
I went over to try to help him set up
his tent or his caper and he got out of
the truck. We hadn't matching shirt song man, I hadn't
even talked. We had to save shirt song twinsys. Yeah,

(08:18):
so I was like, hey man.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
We gotta take a selfie and uh so we we
gear up for the selfie and I was gonna slap
him on ass. About that time I realized I had
to I had the roll spot, but I was I
had to apologize. You were reaching give him prostrate exam.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I think I get you ten years or else a boyfriend.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
After that he had he tried to drink it away.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know, Oh that's okay. Well that could be a
good that could be a good reason.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Ron remember for thirty months. Yep, everybody's pretty awkward situation
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
So all the videos that I've seen from the various YouTubers,
Oh god.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
How Tuesday Wednesday air hammer, thank you appreciate the ten
dollars super chip. How there's some activity Thursday. It's like
the Great gazelle zebra migration, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
By what?

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Thursday night everyone's crossing over, crossing in and then Friday
everyone's grazing like the Great African migration. Then you guys
do your things Friday night, and then slowly on Sunday
the herd starts leaving. And then Monday, by what noontime,

(09:43):
maybe the final herd is gone.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Hank, Thanks for being here for seventeen months.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Hank, thank you brother.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
It's like we'll see it in three hundred and sixty
four more days.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, this year they pushed on so that a week.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
So I know, I'm looking.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
No, supposedly this is a big debacle on whether it's
really the third full weekend and what somebody's perspective is
on a full weekend. So it's always the third full
weekend that particular set of dates, just third full weekend.

(10:25):
And I think this year the weekend starts on a Saturday.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Or next year.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
So he's looking.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
While he's looking that up, everybody in the chat, you
guys are calling me Marlon Perkins. I'm surprised, you guys know,
and remember Marlon Perkins. Very good, hats off. That's that's
very good. He was like he was like the jock Gusteau,
but on land.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
So August twenty six starts on a Saturday.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
No, what's August? What's August first.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
August first is Saturday for twenty six ye, so I
don't know. So the third weekend should be the fifteenth, sixteenth?

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Is there five weeks in August next year?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
There are four full weeks in August and then a Saturday,
Sunday and a Monday.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well extra, I'll put it this way.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
If you were getting paid on a Thursday, are there
five paychecks? So that's how I go now, because that
happens four times a year, right, And if you take
and if you have the opportunity, we're not gonna do math, guys,
but if you have the opportunity to take those four
paychecks and do something for the family or for yourself,

(11:47):
you're living good.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yep, that's free money.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
No, there are only four. So there's a fourday Thursdays
or Fridays in August.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
There's a full week and another weekend after Hunstable twenty
twenty five, twenty six, So there you go, start at
the fourth and count it. It's the third weekends.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Here we go, the great, the great debate.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Either way, we're gonna be there right.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Four wheel and thanks for the few dollars super chat
last weekend four hundred and eleven bikes one hundred and
seventy five miles for vets.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Awesome. Okay, a job, keep it rolling. There's James Hannibal.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh yeah, he's been in the came it early in
the chat a little bit. I'm gonna ignore his comment
about being legally married in California.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
But.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
All depends what the paper says.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
No, apparently it's uh, are you early like that?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
You you are legally married? He's joking obviously, Oh, don't
don't take our legal.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Well, it used to be.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
It used to be the father would point the shotgun
towards the groom and say you're getting married, and whoever
is presiding or residing over this thing, and saying the
IY do is that's it?

Speaker 3 (13:14):
That's you know, Joe.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
You got some explained to you. No, well, we're legally
married now, so yes, it's no a voyaging and dodn't
worry about We both already got married certificates and they
don't allow that.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
In our states.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
So this is true. This is true.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
So it's just gonna be coming just between.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Do you know.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
In one of my marriages, the where we got married
was literally on the line between two different towns, and
you had to make sure you were standing.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Depending where you got your marriage license from.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
What town at the town hall, you had to stand
on a certain part of the property for it to
be legal.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
So you know what I did.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
I found the line, stood on line I was.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
I was right up.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
I was right on that line, one foot on one
side and one foot on another. And then a whole
bunch of people pushed me and the proper sign, just
to make sure to keep it legal.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
I was gonna say, the question is what side was
she on?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
The rights?

Speaker 1 (14:17):
The correct side? Okay, yes it is, yes it is,
but very true. But it was just one of those
weird locations. It just happened to be.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
But anyway, so guys, tell us about Huntsville.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
You had good weather, you had good people, great food,
great right, right, it was a home run?

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Would you say it was a home run?

Speaker 5 (14:42):
Absolutely, It's always a home run. Yeah, I noticed. I
got a little worried. So I had my scooter. Last year.
I didn't bring it. Everybody had scooter. Yeah, I should
have brought my scooter. So I brought it this year.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
And then uh Friday, going back and forth to the pavilion,
you know, going back to my fridge to get in
the cold drink and coming back. Well, I had a
blowout because I wouldn't I didn't pull up to the
gate to let it open. I'd go around it where
people walk around it. I had a little drop off
there with a pavement pretty sharp, and I hit it

(15:17):
two or three too many times. And I'm sitting there
and going down the road. I'm like, hey, this thing
riding rough. All of a sudden, this is.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Going dump dump up up.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah, and I'm still giving it. Hell man, I'm just
trottled down baby. Yeah. And I'm sitting there thinking to myself,
this tire comes off this room, it's gonna be a
slipping slide way to go. But uh, I mean, I'm
doing YouTube.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Every YouTuber is a gonna run to help you be
make sure all their cameras are on.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
Now. Nobody's gonna come help me because nobody would have
saw me. Everybody's up to pavilion. I'm on my way, yeah,
he was, what's that about an eighth mile?

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah, so it would have took one one, one
one one call on that two meters simplex channel. Joe
Bret's down in the everyone, I'm telling you, everyone cameras
running out a plus the cameras you could still be
lying there while they still get the focus, get the
right angle.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
That's that's very possible. I mean, I was doing.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Ask you for commentary, because that's gonna be that's gonna
be their whole b roll.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
What's the what's the speed lim in that park there, Joe?

Speaker 5 (16:23):
For vehicle traffic it is fifteen, But according to mister
d he was advised that didn't apply.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
To bicycles and scooters. Okay, so I let her rip
peter chip. There you go, there's a barbecue chip too.
Did you spill the beer? Though?

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Now it was safely in my in my carrying bag,
a messenger bag. So uh Anyway, the story of that
was as I got back to the pavilion and then
Mama Noel done got done cooking and and her and
uh Paula is getting ready to go back to the campground.

(17:05):
She's gonna wash all the grease out of her hair.
And uh so I go in throw the scooter in
the back of her car because I need want to
ride it all the way back and just ruin the tire.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Mh. So I'm going to.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
Walk back I'm walking away from the camper and I
hear a bunch of rackets. I'm like, man, they wouldn't
that loud when I left, but you know, you know,
maybe Carlos or somebody showed up, and uh So I
start walking toward the noise. I'm like, that's really not
that far of a walk going straight through the woods.
So I'm going through the woods and I get to

(17:39):
the lookout. I'm like, this, ain't it. I'm looking. I
pull up my phone. There's a bunch of people to
look out, so they were causing all the noise. I
look at my phone and it's still. I'm only to
the halfway point to the pavilion, said, I keep walking,
and then lightning is a clacking oh, And I'm thinking

(18:02):
if I go back to the camper, it's gonna take
me just as long to go back to the camper
and take shelters it's gonna take me to get to
the pavilion and take shelter. So I carry on with
my can in one hand, my backpack on my back,
and I keep on to the pavilion and I see
a lot of people leaving when I'm like, are you
kidding me? Like there were so many people parked on

(18:24):
the side of the main road and I just up
part one of the one of the park employees had
just come by me, one of the one of the rangers.
I guess that checks on everything, not the law enforcement ranger.
But some sitting there thinking, Man, I done, did this walk?
Risk my life getting struck by lightning and soaking rain?

(18:47):
And dude doesn't run everybody off? And everybody's leaving because
everybody that was leaving that I could see was going
to their car to road, but blow and behold, I
get their party still on. It's just some people wouldn't
sticking around for the rain and thunderstorm.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
M hm.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
So those of you that left and didn't come back,
you can stay during the rain. We can huddle it
up in the middle. Usually you don't get wet unless
you hang around the edges.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Say it happens at least every year.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Once Carlos is liking some candy tonight. Yeah yeah, so yeah,
Carlos and uh and Paul jumped in the rain. That
was I was so confused when I heard that. I'm like,
you're not supposed to do that.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
I was gonna ask. I thought, you can't do it.
I thought that's a safety eyes.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
So they did not jump through clouds. They had sight
of the ground when they came out of the airplane.
It was not raining. It decided to rain on them
as soon as they were under canopy, which may have
been seconds after they came out of that airplane, but.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Which means the cloud went above them shortly after, because
you know that's where their precipitation.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
But they're also dropping. They were dropping, so they eventually
were under a cloud.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yes, they were definitely under a cloud.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
I've seen rain fall where there's not clouds. It happens.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Was you standing under a balcony?

Speaker 3 (20:21):
No, you just explore this, Wait, you just throw me off?

Speaker 5 (20:27):
Me and A requests more context this get out.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
The AI boys in the comment. I want to I
want to understand this.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
You can get rain up to ten miles away from
a cloud, but there was You said no clouds. No,
I said, not under a cloud.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
No, I don't think so we can play that bag.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
No cloud, you're still under the cloud.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
The cloud's ten miles away.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
But how do you get rain from not being under
a cloud?

Speaker 2 (20:56):
The up traps.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
So what I take a garden hose and I spray
it out this.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Way, and.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh, my garden hose is my I got a I
got a powerful garden hose.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Let me tell you, I.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Got a lot of the hose.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I got the hose. I got a hose I got.
I'm I pride myself of my nozzles.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I do because you don't want you don't want to
get that cheap boat or one nine the metal thing
you want to grip, you gotta have a nice grip
on it. You gotta be able to change whether you
want like the Duard veil, like the Star Wars death
ray kind of, or you want that nice you know,

(21:45):
spray light hard whatever.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
You gotta have options. Man, this is you know now, Carlos,
you are.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Stirring ship hop tonight. He just wants to come on
the show and I don't know if I want to
let him now unless he's bringing coffee. Hey, that's okay.
So you're saying so you're saying the draft takes takes
takes the water and shoots it across.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well, the up draft takes it up into the winds,
and then the wind shoots it across and then it falls.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
What layer is that? The f one layer is a layer?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
No it's it's not that high.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Okay, I'm just testing you, But yeah, it was kind
of funny.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
They they've got a gator or mule whatever. It's got
a trailer on the back of it down the drop
zone that they put benches in so they go pick
up the jumpers when they land. Long Well, he went
down and picked up a bunch of jumpers and I
was like, hey, we got two still in the air
and he goes sucks for them. Because it was starting

(22:51):
to rain pretty hard. We'd already pushed the airplane in.
I was like, all right, I guess I'm hopping on
that thing and going down. No, Homie strips down to
Justice shorts and drives out through the rain to go
pick up Paul and Carlos time the first time at all.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
You're right, Joe.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Yeah, he said he wouldn't say and such for them
is not his problem. He's gonna leave them out there.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh No, that's how.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
There's nothing they can do but to fly at it anyway. See,
I want to get down. That was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, that Carlos. I hope you've got pictures of that
trailer because I'm sure you guys need that At CSC.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Hey, that was fun watching him and him and Jim
you know fly out.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
That was very good and Jim said he's gonna do
it again next year.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Good for him.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
So and I know he's got at least one more
tandem video coming out. And I don't know if he
videoed the parachute parachute, but he and Paul made a
contact under canopy excellent.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
So Paul rocked it this summer the grouse rocked at
I'm very very happy for him talking.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
About talking about that jump that that was great. You know,
every the first thing you heard was the parachute parachute contact.
They got that out of the way and then then
started making calls. Uh, it's good times. But Ham Radio Duo,
I don't think they're in here tonight. Uh, yeah they are. Look,
I'm gonna talk about them. So this is with all

(24:28):
the love out of my heart, what I'm gonna say.
But uh, the same way that uh when uh y'all
was trying to teach me what. Okay, So we did
we did some two meter contacts, uh code contacts, marsh

(24:49):
code whatever. There at the pavilion. There was a great
host of that and Mike was sitting next to to
the operator they needed some help, you know, helping them all.
Mike's gonna look at me and it's like, when it's
my turn to send back he says, he says the
letter whatever, and I'm like, okay, what is that. He's like, oh,

(25:12):
and he tells me it's okay. But what was funny
was then he was like do kate And I look
at him like really, dude again? But I knew kay
because I can send my call sign and it starts
with k uh so my bad. But anyway, tables turned

(25:32):
around when it's Carlos and Paul jumping, and just so happens,
Mike and Becky was walking and come up to the truck.
I was out in the truck operating some radio and
I was like, they had their handheld. They was waiting
for it, and I'm like, nah, I put the handheld away.
I got fifty white and Big John on top of
the truck. Right for those you.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Got that detos with sixty be a gang going.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
And no, remember I forgot the detas, so twenty we'll
try again. So Big John, if you're not familiar with
Big John, that is like mfj's biggest two meters vertical
car mouth car. Intent to make is I don't know
what size it is. It's bigger than a five as
wave by a little bit. So I had to get
a trimag mount to put it on the on the

(26:19):
truck and not fall over. So yeah, they come over
like I make my contact and we're talking, and then
I'm going to give them the mic.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
And bless it. How do we make voice contacts something
like that. I was gonna say, they're they're as bad
as an a yo.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
They should know.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
They made the only you mean, I'm there, I was
the I know I was their first voice contact. You
mean there's nobody been and no one else sends me.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, let's just say that. You know that's not there.
It's not their practice that they like to talk in taps.
And the only thing I could say was you grab
the mic and you push and hold. Don't tap it,
just pushing, hold and talk.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Like a one Mississippi. And then they keep holding and
they start talking.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
Everybody they did the specific way this little mic fright,
that's okay.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
We all have that.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
We all have that fun times.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
And I know Becky and probably Mike already got their
qs L cards from Carlos at the park.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
I meant to bring a bunch of mine, you know,
the ones that never sent out. I asked Randy in
the chat earlier if you got my QSL card yet?
He said no, did you actually send one to I
was just checking. I don't know that I sent him
in the chat, he'd probably get.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Just I love that. That's great. Due, that's great, that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (27:57):
Go ahead and say it to go ahead and say this.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Fine.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, now stickers, did you guys go? Did you guys
start throw a stickers this year?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I forgot my stickers and I'm running low. I need
to order more, right, Joe apparently Hamry Duo, those of
a great QSL card service.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Yeah, I was just replying to them, like I seriously,
I was looking forth to other nights. I'm just going
to use their services enter into a card. Uh. So
I gotta I gotta dig the link back up because
I've all I had saved was the learnmarscode dot org.
If you're interested in learning more about More's code, learn
morescode dot org. A lot of resources. They got a

(28:37):
lot of good resources. Man, I found this. Uh, they
got these different applications toward the Bottoman screen. It was
like you know, your phone apps and then web apps
and different stuff, and I found one where you used
the bracket ice. I went down a rabbit hole. I
started getting ticked off a little bit, but because the
speed was wasn't doing right. But I've finally I had

(29:00):
to go over here to my real key and remember
how I sent that, and then go over here to
the keyboard and do that. Yeah, I got I got
stuck on that website for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
It happens.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
I know him to a hurt, so I do not
send a UPS. I send the USBs.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Either way, it still won't get there.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Let's see it, hey, vern six, I've got uh, I've
got this.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
I've got this guy.

Speaker 5 (29:28):
Like I know most of the folks that it well,
so I know the I know the front I know
the front desk people, I know them. And then I
know the guy that's behind that's in the office. I
don't know what his title is, but he's got some
pull postmaster.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
I bet you that's your postmaster.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
Could be probably so. And you know I can get
some packages and stuff hung up. I actually the track
and it's just stuck in Memphis or somewhere and I'll
give it a few days. Art's headed back to where
it comes from. Like I ordered something from Washington State
and it got all the way to Memphis and then
started going back to Washington State and I got a

(30:07):
I got a notification that they tried to deliver but
they didn't have the gate code, and like, don't mind,
a country ain't in no gate And I realized I
was trying it was already back on the other side
of the country. M So I've always been able to
call this guy and like, hey, man, here's the tracking number.
See what you can do, and he'll send an email
to the place that it last hit and it starts

(30:30):
moving again.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's just amazing, amazing how that works. Yep.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
The guy I knew at UPS, he just said, yeah, thing,
it ain't moved from Huntsville. So that's what we should
have done. We should have found UPS in Huntsville and
asked for a tour. We need to tour this place,
specifically the unmanned conveyor belt space of your facility. Yeah, oh,

(30:54):
what's this four foot box sitting over here under the
conveyor belt?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Just got my name on it, the one.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
That fell like last month. Got pushed into the corner
in April.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
Yeah, so let me tell you what I've observed with
the post offices that I deal with, especially locally.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
They're like the DMV, but in a whole different way.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
I know that kind of sounds crazy, and I mean
no disrespect to the DMV, but the post office people
that I've dealt with are very happy. Yes, they will
not open that door one minute before, and yes they
close it right at the closing time. If you're five
seconds late, you're five seconds late. You got to hit
them up on the next business day. But they're very good,

(31:43):
they're very friendly, they'll help you. At one time, I
was doing so much work.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
You know the statement that they give you when you
go to mail a box. Is there anything fragile liquid?
You know, they give you all that stuff. It's a
whole spiel. They know it by heart. I finally start
learning it, and at one point I got it down.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
I think I was close, like nine to nine percent.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I had it down, and I'm like, oh my god,
I know this thing better than I know my kid's birthdays.
It got to be real scary because I so next
time I went up to the counter.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Postmas. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
The person behind it, clerk was there, and I said, hey,
can I say it? He's like, I have to say it.
I said, can I please just say it? He's like,
go ahead, I will confirm to you that there was
no and I'm going right down the list. And he says,
very good. He says, you still you still can't get
the job here because you didn't say it right.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
But yeah, because you know these guys say.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
It, you know, twenty day a day, but the nicest,
nicest people.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
And very happy.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
But Joe, I understand your point because the counter people
are great, the postman, but you don't know what's happening
behind the wall.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Now. Maybe they're happy to maybe they're being over work.
Maybe I have no idea what the operations are over there,
you know.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
I just think it's all just a bunch of pigeonholes,
you know, and supposedly it's not.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Joe, You're gonna hate me. The warehouse is seventeen minutes
from the park. But we know what we're gonna do
next year.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Oh you guys, absolutely, that is a field trip right there.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Next year we ride boys.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
What about Amazon is next to Amazon?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Sure, there's an Amazon, just that we shouldn't got over
to the Railroad Museum of North Alabama and you.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
Mentioned Amazon on my way into Huntsville, and I hadn't
noticed this before, So I don't know how new it is,
because it's not very often I don't notice stuff because
I'm always looking for towers and everything as I travel.
There was this huge like Amazon outlet store. It looked
like a mall, but it was Amazon on all four
sides and uh, nice big glass doors. So I don't

(33:58):
think it was like a warehouse, look like something maybe
you could go shop warehouse returns or something. It's uh,
it was probably thirty minutes before you get to hunts
for So Okay, I'm not I don't think I've come
through Decatur yet, but maybe right before Decatur.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I would love to see the Amazon distribution center. I've
got one right here behind the house. We have one
maybe about Steve right from the airport. It's on the
backside of the airport. Would you fly into Tarford?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
So because I occasionally drive Amazon Flex when I'm bored
and have nothing better to do, and yeah, I just
go over there, pick up a route and you know,
make a few bucks.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
Yeah, talking about Huntsful stuff. Again, I need to This
was a big subject among my peers and folks was
around for one Well, let me start with this. One
of the most amazing things I saw while in Huntsville
was at the park, of course, and it wasn't Steve

(35:08):
pretty amazing, but we had our very own King of
the dumpster fire. Sam was hanging out in the park
with us like I won't buy him, like I know
that face. And he seen me looking at him and
he called my name and I said, Sam, So he
was hanging out. It was good to see him so,

(35:31):
And Jeff reminded me in four pod he was talking
about his his wife Jeanette was was worried about me,
and I assume it was because I was talking about
the transmission and everything in my truck. I wasn't sure
how if I would get there not. I come to
conclusion about my situation with the transmission heat and stuff,

(35:51):
since I should have four, since I did a four
hundred mile round trip with it. I think it was
just me freaking myself out. Okay, I got to thinking
about it on the way home. I said, you know
what that trip that the transmission started getting hotter than usual,
was my first trip of the year, pulling the camper.

(36:15):
And this is the same road that I don't let
grass grow, going back and forth to the office on
and I think I was a little out of practice.
Baby in the throttle a little bit. Now, I was
conscious of I was pulling the camper right, h but
I was extremely conscious pulling it to hunts fulm back.

(36:36):
And like when I say conscious, baby in that throttle,
I'm talking about hitting a hill at sixty five and
by the time I get to the crest of that
hill at the top, I may be doing thirty five.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, like anything.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Anything to keep it from down shifting, Like, I will
go as slow as let that speed dry, because shifting
is what creates the heat. Yes. Uh, everybody always says,
did you have the overdrive cut off? Yeah? I always
pull it in. Uh, tow moved.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well what if what.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
If you stayed in third gear? Though, Joe? If you
started third gear.

Speaker 5 (37:09):
And I don't have well, I guess I have that
option if I put it in manual. But I've heard
people talk about that. Huh. I don't know if I'm
ready to jack around guessing whether.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
That works or not, especially when you when you're out
of state. Yeah, that's something to do in state.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
No, no, But I'm just trying to play common sense here.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
Yeah. So like yeah, so for one, Steve, you're right
going to Huntsville and we left, Uh we left Wednesday evening,
so it was nightfall shortly after we left, and that
really did help. But Monday morning when I left to
come back home, it didn't take long for the temperature
before I got home, you know, back up a little bit.

(37:52):
But the truck still did find it stayed in normal
tempts because I was extremely conscious of my throttle. One
thing that's funny talking about the overdrive, the using the
toe mode. You always use toe mode on a pulling it.
But when we was coming into hospital, there was that
last exit getting off onto a governor's drive. That thing's

(38:14):
a little quirky. I'm cruising along like sixty or whatever,
and GPS is like take take it right, and I
was like, oh crap, here it is and it's like
a little z turn real quick and then there's red light,
so I'm like turning real quick and then having to
get on the brakes. And when you got tow mode on,
you have engine assisted breaking, so it starts down shifting,

(38:35):
pulling like a you know, if I had Jake brakes.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
I just say, that's that's a Jake break right there.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
It does it just don't make the cool sound, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
If it don't make the sound, then that's not fair.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
It don't make the sound. But when it done that dude,
that the temperature on transmission went from like one seventy
five to one.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Ninety five like that.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
Oh yeah, And I was like, so Monday morning, when
I was leaving, I got the bright idea, you know,
let's not use to Motil'll get to the bottom of
the hill to keep the engine break assists off so
it's not down shifting and creating more heat. Right. Let

(39:16):
me tell you, when I got to the bottom of
the hill, I realized a man's got two choices to
choose from. He's got to choose either the transmission heat
or break. Heat or breaks. And at the bottom of
the hill at the end of the day, I think
I'd rather have a blown transmission than not being able
to stop at the bottom of the hill.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
So look at this show.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
Yeah, I'm like, you know, that's a that's the situation
to be in decisions to make. But I do believe ultimately,
I'd rather stop when I wanted to stop.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, let me ask you your camper weight? Were you
at half capacity? Three quarters? What do you think you
were with the camp including the camper it saw, I
mean everything all said and done.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
Weight, So with my tahoe and the camper weight and everything,
I'm running about.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Half the rating.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Okay, okay, So the driveway to the camper is a
little bit more than half, but not quite three quarters.
So the driveway to the camper is forty one right
at forty two hundred. The toe capacity is on the
truck is right around eight. So you start packing everything in.

(40:34):
Let's just say I had four or five hundred extra pounds.
H but uh and it was just me because Noel
had her own vehicle that this year.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
So yeah, now, Joe, you have trailer brakes on that too, right? Yeah, yep.
So do you use the trailer brakes at all? Heck?

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Yeah, I let them some guns eat buddy. As One
time I had them turned up a little too, and
I got to see them trailer trailer tires smoked like
the eighteen or two when they're coming up. Cool red light. Wait,
let me turn that down a couple of nuches just
a touch, yeah, touch, Yeah, that's I couldn't imagine pulling

(41:16):
one with that weight or more weight without trailor brads.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah. Well, if you get the opportunity when you're in Huntsville,
I highly recommend Oak Park Drive Northeast. I don't know
if you've heard about that way in No, I don't,
but that that comes up to Bankhead. But it's so
steep that my truck with no trailer went from thirty

(41:45):
to ten.

Speaker 5 (41:49):
And you want me to try it with the camper.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
No, no, no, not with the camper. Absolutely, not with
the camper unless you're going downhill.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
What's uh? That ain't the route that took you through
the subdivision is yeah, that's yeah division. So yeah, before
you get to Bankhead or whatever that last coming out
of the subdivision, you're your bottom out a trailer. If
youve got a trailer on and you can see where
a lot of people have, that's the downhill.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Yeah. The first year we.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Come to Huntsville, and that's when we were still staying
in the cabins, we used to take that route and
I thought when I got to the top of it,
every time, like if you got a camper, you're screwed.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Oh yeah, that's there is no way I'd stop at
that stop sign with a camper because you'll start rolling backwards. Yeah. Yeah,
Sunday I went that route and sent the Blackstone flying through.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
The That's why I was stopped over. Yeah, we got
back from what was that Sunday night? We come back
from eating mm hmm. Yeah, and uh backs up in
his camping spot and I shined the light far him
and the black Stones, and like five different pieces laid
over on its side.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
You mean, it had wings, the top came off of it,
the legs and the burners were laying down. I did
lose the grease cap grease catch out of it though,
mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
I mean that's one way cleaning it out.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah. Well I keep foil cups in the grease trail
and you know, just throw those away.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
But Burn and Scout both says they took that their
first time, and uh it looked like it was lessons learned.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (43:41):
Burn got the big old truck too, and it was grunting.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
That's a steep, freaking hill. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
Yeah, there's a you know, they make these apps for
if you're pulling a camper, trailers and stuff like that. Man,
if some guns can be high. I found this one
app on on iOS and it's simply called uh truck
Map m H. And it's free and it's a little
quirky to use. I don't know if James made it

(44:10):
or what, but in fact, you can fiddle with it
enough to finally get your destination. And it's the only
map on my phone that will take me to Governor's.
Everything else wants me to go to that subdivision.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yeah. Luckily, the way I come in I dumps me
right onto Governor's so I don't have to worry about
it coming from my direction.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
But I ain't gonna lie. I kind of miss having
Scout in the park this year. I missed you, buddy.
Nuclear eggs wasn't part wasn't the same without exploding eggs.
And I think we touched on it a little last week.
But evidently Renee's breakfast was amazing. Yeah, I I did

(45:00):
not get to partake in that. I went back to
the camper, and when I came back.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
I'll go you missed out on breakfast tacos?

Speaker 5 (45:09):
Yep, I bet I died.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
That's a shame, because yeah, they were definitely good.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
So John's asking how many people did Quoda and soda.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
I know there's a bunch of guys doing.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
There. There were a bunch up there. Pretty much every
campsite had at least one radio going at some point
throughout the weekend. And I'm just trying to think. I
know there's a few logs that still need to be uploaded,
mine included because somebody hasn't sent me my copy of

(45:47):
the log yet. But I haven't seen them in the
chat yet either, so we'll see.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
I know I worked Mike KA m R D and
then I think that might have been Wednesday or Thursday.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
I can't remember. My hand alert was going crazy. I'm running.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
I'm like, which which antennis should I use, trying to
chase them, all of them. Yeah, and literally twenty meters
was like in and all of a sudden he catched
that wave where Mike also was like a nice five
seven and all of a sudden, bam, there he's dropping down.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
And that Sunday night, James k E A PZ and
that whole group was the operators. It was eighteen. I
thought it was about ten.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
I didn't it was he he said eighteen when We
made contact with him in the park Saturday night. Wow, Oh,
good for everybody missed it.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
Oh, Kyle is in the chat, Hello, Kyle. Kyle is
bragging about he pulled his little hiker trailer up up
through the subdivision all the time.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
No problem with his little tacoma.

Speaker 5 (47:02):
Yeah. And this is the same guy when I'm talking
about my transmission, he was going, I pulled mine at
two thirty all the time. Rock and roll, you know
for technique?

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Is it? Is it technique?

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Then?

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Guys, what is it? What are you thinking? Let it burn?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Let it burn? Oh?

Speaker 5 (47:22):
Greg shaking?

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Greg is correct?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Care? Holy?

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Where the hell is you had?

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Ed?

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Where? Yeap?

Speaker 4 (47:30):
Ed?

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Did miss it this year?

Speaker 5 (47:32):
So Ed?

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, Ed missed out of the microphone covers.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
I bet they'll mel him one. I'm sure they will
are saving one anyway. If he's lucky, you may find
one next year if he shows up laying around somewhere.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Oh God, it was hilarious.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
We got over to two point Oh's campsite and last
year I handed out, well, I'll just go in and
say this. Carlos comes straight up to me and he's
like laughing his butt off, got something in his hand,
he said, you won't believe what I just found on
the ground over there. So last year I gave out
those little uh I've always had them, the little round

(48:11):
tokens of my appreciation. Where they're at. There was one
laying on the dirt right by the picking of the table,
So somebody lost one last year. I figured two point
oh probably just threw it on the ground, but he'll.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Never admit it. Speaking of which I know he Kyle
announced Sunday on two point oh stream yep, how much
we raised for t I yeah, and I want to
say it was north of sixty five hundred.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Well, I think we need to give a big shout
out to Kyle. You know, I want to he worked
his butt off. Go ahead, y'all take it.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna touch on what you're
touching on. We were sitting there. I actually missed the
live stream. As soon as it was over, I turned
you to going, so I started watching the replay. And
we were sitting there watching it. We as and me
and and grill Master Noel and Kyle sitting there thinking,

(49:12):
you know, all the folks involved and everything. And Noel
was like, and thank you Kyle, And I'm like yeah,
Kyle never thinks hisself. So everybody we we passed along
thanks to you.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Kyle.

Speaker 5 (49:26):
You started to whirl in. But uh yeah, it was
just completely amazing because before the show talking with Kyle,
he was he was just hoping to raise three thousand
dollars this year to top last year, and uh, blew
it out of the water. I don't I don't know

(49:46):
what his expectations for next year is, but wow, Yeah
that was you guys showed out and showed up, whether
you were there or not, a lot of donations for
people that you know, wasn't there, and a lot of
donations that people that was there.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
And we we definitely appreciate the donations because that's a
great cause. I think Steve said it's about three grand
to put a teacher through.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
I was doing the math. I was I was doing
the math Sunday night.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
When you do the board and the travel and.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
How however, Carlos Hajesus gave it an excellent sermon and
I and I and I say that very seriously, more
than one more than one on Sunday night, that it's
not just you're just not helping one teacher.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
That teacher is then going back mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
I forget what he calls it the shark tooth defect
or the multiplier. I forgot, but he's absolutely right though.
You got to get the right teacher. And I know
Steve in that group, they do a fantastic job. And
you know, and I believe the QR code and the
PayPal the demo is still you know you want are

(51:06):
still active.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Kyle will take Kyle will be happy to write another check.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
You can see in the chat who was watching, uh
Carlos's elevator speech, you, Jeff multiple multiplier.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
I was trying to explain that at work today and
I had deer in the headlights, So I really wish
I had Carlos at my job today.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Yeah. And our buddy David Frequency Frontiers thanks for two
dollars super chat. Did anyone stay in the glamping tents
and how were they?

Speaker 5 (51:37):
I don't know if anybody here does, but I have
some local friends that has stayed in them like the
last two or three years. They always they always get
the one at the end closest to the bath astuh.
But they're local to me here and they would like
to get a cabin, but I've told them they're likely
out of look on that.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Cabins are already sold out. And when I looked, there
were two camp sites left.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Are you serious? Yep.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
We're three hundred and sixty days away or three hundred
and fifty eight days away and this stuff is already.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Oh yeah, wow. So I lost out on my campsite
for next year, sucker, because I had it sitting in
the cart and you know, it was trying to get
it to go through, and all of a sudden, it's
like nope, So I'm over in spot seventy four next year.

(52:34):
Oh that's good spot. That was uh, that was my
spot last year's spot. Yeah, last year all concrete. So
and poor Mike and Becky thought that was their spot
this year. And then they got there and they were
in seventy two with no sewer hookup, and man, they
had a rough time. They were there all week. They
pulled in on Monday, didn't have no sewer hookup, and

(52:55):
their A even was stuck out so.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
They couldn't pull the cap ric of the pump station.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Did you say seventy two? Yeah, go for q R peers.
Seventy two is how you signed there?

Speaker 5 (53:08):
There?

Speaker 2 (53:08):
That's it. I mean, make sure.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Yeah, Kyle lost out on his spot, Bill said in
the chat tech Tonics said he lost his spot. Oh no, yeah,
I'm look. I've been telling I love all y'all, and
I love to see y'all at Huntsville. But I've been
telling all these YouTubers quit quit encouraging everybody to be
so quick on the drawa. There's gonna be a time

(53:35):
to where and then gonna we ain't gonna have a spot.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Scratch that I took. I took spot seventy two for
next year. I'm in seventy two.

Speaker 5 (53:47):
Oh well, better bring report a partty.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Well, bring your dude.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Why it's close enough to the bathhouse. I'm not worried
about it. There you go, and Craig got my I
might take you up on that cut. Be careful, buddy,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
He may he may be spooning with you, you never know,
or vice versa.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
So yeah, Jody's right, we definitely need a larger venue
because we we definitely ran out of parking spaces this year. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Well, you know, uh, Frank was looking that up on
the last dream and I think he said it was
like a hundred times more of the cost. What the
pavilion is very nice amenities, you know, kischen indoor space,
a lot of parking, but big price.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
So oh yeah, I wonder if they'll cut us a deal.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Oh, vern's negotiating, he says.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
So yeah, what's the lodge. That has to be very intrigued.
What does the lodge offer?

Speaker 2 (54:54):
The lodge is a wedding venue. That's how they market it.
At least it's it's expensive.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
It was muting the sounds of our people.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
What do you know? Because I got sirens in the back.

Speaker 5 (55:09):
That's what I'm talking about, me and you man.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Oh but I'm being courteous.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
That's that's called that's called isn't that called YouTuber?

Speaker 5 (55:16):
Let us hear the crime rate in your town? Don't
leak it out?

Speaker 3 (55:20):
How do you know?

Speaker 2 (55:20):
How do you how do you know the next town over?
That's not his town down?

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Listen, No, that's not true. Every town has its s hs.
You know that.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Oh I know, I know. I'm looking to see if
I can pull up.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
So the lodge is a wedding Oh my goodness.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
Three hundred plus people okay, plus parking.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Oh so that's maybe in maybe indoor bar, yeah, back,
probably can't call it a bar, probably have to bring
your own, but still waters.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
But definitely an indoor venue. Hang all right, let's share it.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Maybe we could persuade somebody to renew their vows.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
So that's the front of the lodge there. That looks nice.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
Oh that's way too much grass in front of it.
I thought it was all bargain.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
And then got a big patio out back all stone.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Did she come with it?

Speaker 2 (56:39):
No? Forget that big dan fashional tables.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Look at that.

Speaker 5 (56:48):
Nice if we if we use that, I think they
had to There had to be something else incorporated in that.
Oh yeah, that's like there's your serve table there, some
of t O's four days in August or something.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Right, that could fit a lot of a lot of
crock pots and beans right there.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
Look at this kitchen, industrial kitchen.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Industrial kitchen, stayless iceker ice maker.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Yeah, I sink.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
But yeah, that's that's a heck of a spot.

Speaker 5 (57:31):
And well there's another option. I don't know if anybody's
thought of, but it is if all of us people
have the cabins in it out, we can just have
a big old block party down the street. Just use
all the cabins in the yards. Now that doesn't protect

(57:53):
you from the the ultimate storm that's always going to
come through.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
I was gonna say, the problem with that is parking.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Well, the rules, I thought, you're not supposed to have
guests in your cabins.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
Nobody said they're not in the cabin, they're outside.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
We're playing corn hole and stuff out in the yard.

Speaker 5 (58:12):
Look, the last year I rented a cabin, I brought
one of my little barless security cameras and put it
up in the window. The amount of hikers and people
walking through and people pulling up and walking around your
cabin just looking cause you know, that's what professional campers do.
They come and see the spot before they you know,
if they like it or not, and then write it

(58:33):
down on notebook paper and reserve it later. But yeah,
I was surprised the amount of people that come around
the cabins when you're not there.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
I mean, that could be a lot of force multiplying
going on outside.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
So they've rent the lodge in four hour increments. Oh,
just how far is on Monday through Friday the lodge?

Speaker 1 (59:00):
How far is it from the campsites and the cabins?

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (59:05):
The lodge is right by first thing when you come
through the gate. Yeah, you come through the gate and
it's immediately on your right.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
So minus your e bike travel, it's a five minute
walk then from your if you had to write five
ten minute walk.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Probably more okay, oh yeah, a little more than that.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
Are those trails? Are those trails lit at night?

Speaker 4 (59:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (59:30):
No, not not in even in the slightest. If you
see Frank's video on what the Huntsville wrap up, I
guess that's what he called it, you can see the
deer walk right up to you. At the campsites.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
Well, Grouch was showing pictures of him waking up in
the morning and m there's you know, so there you go,
Bambi's right there and looking in your door. What do
you got for breakfast? That was almost always my favorite
when I was at the cabins.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
I'd wake up in the mornings waiting on a where
to get ready to have a cup of coffee. I
go outside, still kind of fogy outside, walk one of
the little nearby trails. Dear, another wildlife just right there
fifteen feet from you. Mm.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Pretty nice stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
It's one way keeping the blood pressure make you nice
and calm.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Yeah, just kind of funny when you're sitting there eating
venice and jerky and they walk up to you. Ah,
it's like, hey, that smells like family.

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Behave Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
What I didn't say anything about harvesting right there on site.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
The comments are just driving me so grazy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Not that I wouldn't mind it, evidently, uision.

Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
We just missed a fine season too, because a week
after Hunstable, I'll see him post about the fauns.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
Yeah. I need to reach out to the administration over
there and see if I can pay for processing process
and what the deer. They don't process their deer they want.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
He wants more jerky.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
That's why they harvest, don't bad.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Hm. That's one thing we haven't gotten down here at
my house yet. We've had the bobcat, we've had the foxes,
the coyotes. There's a bear running around, but he's still
about maybe about a half a mile a mile away.

(01:01:54):
He hasn't come to south yet. Okay, we had a
deer o h. I don't know, six eight years ago,
but that was just that one time, so I don't
know if he was just if he was lost, maybe
his GPS was off, I don't know, Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
All right, Oh well, I'm hitting wrong buttons. I nuh wow,
hot keys. So I'm looking here Thursday to Sunday next year.

(01:02:39):
There is not a camp site available. Primitive is still available,
but actual camps.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
What is primitive me all the way out or at
the beginning when we first come in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
No, it's all the way out and it's tent camping only, okay,
or you know, if you're Mike, you sleep in your car,
your car, but no r vs and so there's no
hook ups, no water, no sewer. There's a fire pit,

(01:03:13):
there's a grill. You're allowed two vehicles max. Eight people.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
VERNI has ten sites preserved. Contact him if you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Okay, good deal. That's that's where all the sites went.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
He's gonna pimp him out. Now. See this is that's
the upsell. I like his thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Vern, did you take fifty one alpha?

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
I think? Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:03:48):
I don't know if it was no will. Somebody mentioned
that Vern probably rented the whole part. He's gonna hand
them out to everybody. You gotta go through Vern, go
through pimp Taddy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Hey, Hey, Jeff's got a good idea there.

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
Jeff does have a good idea, which I don't know
about renting them. But so my youngest one's got this
UH toyleta plants local to us, and they got this
program with the high school and give them a job
after high school in this nap. But anyway, we went
to their little orientation thing the other day and they
had I don't know, probably nine to twelve seaters little buses.

(01:04:28):
They were shaped just like a big city bus, but
they were miniature. They were the coolest thing ever. I was.
I want one of those. It was almost as cool
as the uh as the antique car golf cart that
was in the park.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Oh yeah, I thought that golf cart was very cool.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Yeah. That made me wish I had a toy hauler
so I could make me a golf cart.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
I just need to sell the tahoe get a pickup.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
Yeah, I thought about that. And then you got to
let's tailgate down or something.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Did you guys see guy see I'm sorry, I just
don't get an automatic release tailgate.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Did you guys see Mike ka Mr D going around
on his e bike. Yeah, I've been looking at them.
I'm glad he made that video because he really made
me do a deeper dive of trying to figure out
what I want and need and do I really want it.
It's it's one of those things of like do I
need another radio?

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
I was gonna say I want one, but I don't
need one, right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
But there's a lot of options, and he opened my
eyes to the various options that he may have on
his bike. But I'll tell you one thing I want.
I want the folding design. I think I think that
might that might have to be a man.

Speaker 5 (01:05:55):
That scooter I got a while back from Too that
I used. Now it's the only one we can take
with us because it folds. I've got two other electric scooters,
but they don't fold. And I don't have a truck bed,
so it'd be different if I had a truck bed.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
But it's just welcome back. See we told her come
back anytime.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Dancing. Get a hover round No yeah, no, oh, we'll
hover around, not hoverboard.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
Let's just get a u TV.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Let's just get the u TV and call to day,
you know, put some lights and antennas on that thing,
and Stokes basket will be all set.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Yeah, I'm surprised the u TV that runs around the
park doesn't already have antennas on it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Well, some we've got to make that happen.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Oh, let's see. But yeah, you know, if you're thinking
about a ham fest, Huntsville is definitely the one to hit.
It's it's more of a camping trip that ends with
a ham Fest, but it's definitely a good time.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
I get their slogan when they say the friendliest. I
get it because every video, year after year, you could
see it. It is just everybody is happy. I think
it's probably very smart of them going indoor running the
ac for everything to tailgating everything right, everything.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Is everything, everything's inside.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
Makes sense, makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
And that's if you stay at the NBC suites, you
don't ever have to go outside unless you want to
come up to the park.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Just take the elevator down right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Uh, there's actually a walkway that goes across. Oh there
you go air conditioned to walk away there. Yeah, take
the elevator down to breakfast, to eat breakfast, then go
up a floor and take the walkway across.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
The My my dream is one day we get all
all of the clubhouse together and we do either a
live show down there or just a show down there
just for everybody who's there. I think, I think, and
I think that would be fun. Okay, so so if
we don't stream it out live, we take recorded recorded.

(01:08:21):
I think it would be fun to do a clubhouse
show there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Oh absolutely, yeah, that's definitely.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Definitely a any I guess they're talking about the free
omelets that they also offer you have Me There waffles
and the breakfast you have.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Me There embassy suites. Yeah, you can't go wrong, So up,
Carlos are calling you out, so you're gonna show up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
I'm waiting for the kids college to release the dates
for next year. They usually do them around November December,
and those are all tentative. So since Huntsville might have
moved it there, there could be. If not, I'm just
gonna have to wait until they graduate because they still
need dear oh dad. Just in this last weekend getting

(01:09:18):
Matthew six flights of stairs, no elevators, this heame this
he man. Muscles were working m carrying the college refrigerator
up and the bags and this and that, and holy cripes,
I use muscles that I haven't used muscles or knew

(01:09:39):
I had muscles, So I'm like, holy cripes, thank God
for ibrew profriend Afterwards.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Now it was fun. Did Matthew get his license to
get scholarship for what you mean amateur adyo license?

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
No, No, he'd listened. He has no int if anything,
he's gonna be running our show for us.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
He gets free money is take the test, pass it,
get his license, and then apply for the scholarships. He
didn't have to get on the air.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
He did very good. Let me tell you so. We
were very very blessed this year. We were very blessed
and very honored for an amount of scholarship money he got.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
But listen, he's going into digital media media. Who knows,
he who knows. Maybe he'll be working for the big
companies and doing their promotional videos, making commercials.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Yeah, yeah, he'll be.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
He'll be.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
He'll be running circles on us. He'd be like, hey, Steve,
I'm gonna edit that video for you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Make money.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
He could be saying, hey, Steve, don't you know your
thumbnail looks a little bit like Joe Brett's thumbnail and
maybe we should change it up a little. About stay
in the truth, I'm just stating the truth.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
I'm afraid because I saw a thing about my Oh god,
don't look at the show chat and discord. Everybody shuttle us. Yeah,
there you go, I'll post it up here. All right,
let's share that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
Shout out to Dan there, W D four D A
and head hoole, brother, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Not quite long enough?

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
But if that's all we got, it'll work, though, we'll
make it back. At least eight folks sitting down, another
three or four standing up?

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Have you seen what we've done in the sky? That
plane we can pack him in there. I'm not sitting
any twelve depends on the airplane. Speak better to that.
Uh see you say his name?

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
Oh no, beetlejuice, beetlejuicet.

Speaker 5 (01:12:15):
Like a master key of people's dreams.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
You did you? Did you see?

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
You started talking?

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Smack, he's got the hands going. Guys there, we got
mute him.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Mute him right now and bring on al Marie, bring
her back in.

Speaker 7 (01:12:32):
You start talking, Smaggie, you're saying you're gonna go who
but you you you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
Know I'm not talking smacks? Family first? Did we? Did we? Ever?
Do we always say family first?

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Walkway?

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
Are we not? Family?

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Well? Who's gonna help these kids get up there?

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
Who they need to learn? Look your gen x. The
rest of us in here, gen x. They need to
freaking learn all right, it's suck it up and move on.
You know what, who helped you move into your college room? Nobody?

Speaker 7 (01:13:03):
You did it yourself because your dad said, you know what,
you take care of your own stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Right when I when I want to do the army?
Who helped me do? Nobody?

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Empty empty bag?

Speaker 7 (01:13:20):
You know it was plenty of yeah, drill sergeant entire
you know warlocker upside down and said do it again, dummy,
And I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
Like, well, wait a minute now, my kids ain't no
babing around stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
No, no, my kids don't take kids know how to
take care of themselves. Don't don't challenge me on that one.
Their brother and.

Speaker 7 (01:13:49):
You don't even take a weekend to go do put
it with the North, with the New Hampshire guys.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
I checked, listen. I told those guys, I listen. We
have a strict policy at work regarding staffing. I looked
at it and it's already been booked out of vacation time.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
I am a dunk on the war.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
My liver, my liver, my liver, I feel my liver.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Carlos, how many can we fit? How many can we fit?
In the pack.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
I want to see the pack fits fourteen fourteen.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Okay, my guest was swell, watching your things. I thought
twelve plus the pilot. But then I'm saying to myself, way, mane,
that's thirteen. That's unlucky number. So that they put fourteen
just to you know, I mean unlucky.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
I think they do fourteen skydivers plus you've got pilot
co pilot seats.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
Yeah, so oh wow.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
I don't think anybody can go from the copilot seat
out the back door though.

Speaker 4 (01:14:44):
Not anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
Well I don't. I don't think you could do it
with a shoot anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:14:50):
Well, they used to turn that seat around, oh did they?
And they would have on busy days, you could turn
that seat around and used it as a second an
extra seat for skydiverss. But they quit doing it, yeah,
to the point where they won't even do observers anymore, right, so.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
And I asked Nick about that while we were there,
and he said it was due to the Tennessee incident.
There you go, it's a it's a safety concern.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Now, what not to have observer? Yeah, a non pilot observer.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Who screwed.

Speaker 4 (01:15:32):
Some aid in Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Well, No, it's insurance.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Did they fall out of the plane screw up stuff?

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Well, no, they just don't want to get sued. So
Skydive Tennessee had do they have a hell of a pilot,
and he unfortuately had to put it down.

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
He's saved that plane, man head.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
He saved the plane. Uh, plane took some damage, but
he saved everybody on board that place exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:16:02):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:16:03):
Look, the plane, you can replace the plane, you can repair.
That guy's skilled saved everybody in that plane.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
A couple of scrapes, No, no majors.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
So you guys ever hear of a dash eight?

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Yes, yeah, my first, my first plane trip back in
the nineties.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
I left New Haven to go down to the Maryland.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
Area, and I just I told it. I think that
fit maybe twelve twenty people. I forget what it was.

Speaker 4 (01:16:34):
That will fit thirty seven thirty people?

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Okay, Well, and I'm just gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
Fit that many skydivers. I don't know how many people
it'll do. In a regular airliner.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
Well, I think it was two seats on each side,
or maybe two and three. Anyway, I asked the dumb question,
are these things? Are these things safe. The pilot turned
the round said to me, if it goes down, you'll
break before the plane said you have me sawd let's

(01:17:05):
go captain wings up or wheels.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
He's in l A. The guy that stole a plane.
They gotta used to be a.

Speaker 7 (01:17:15):
Ramp worker, stole plane and he stole a Dash eight
and he crashed it into the sea and they were
able to recover the chassis. Who like, dude did a
dude did a loop de loop into the sea.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
I bet it was still flable when they pulled it out.

Speaker 7 (01:17:36):
I think it needed new but I think that the
actual body was flyable. I think they restored it and
brought it back online. Uh yeah, that's it's a beast man.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
Oh, you know, it's something to see that kind of
event unfold on TV and hear about it and see it,
and then it's one thing to wake up with your
phone blowing up that you on there because there's a
local guy. It's got Mississippi all torn to bits because

(01:18:11):
they don't shut down the mall, evacuated the walmart. Because
this guy keeps flying treetop high, circling the city.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
Ham till it hurts. You're right, take offs her optional
landings are management. You know, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:18:26):
As as my career path in the past of chasing
things and people. There's there's two things that it's just
oddball to chase in a car that makes no sense.

Speaker 7 (01:18:42):
Oh, hang on, hang on, I'm sorry, I have to
put a pause here real quick. Vince at ease, at ease,
I land, I land my parachute because I don't trust
the pilot.

Speaker 5 (01:19:04):
So for the podcast, evince him smarter would be six
ol cases. I want to know my life at terminal
vas a K. Carlost thinks he's an airplane expert. An
expert lands with the plane, not jumps out of it.

Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
And because a point, No, he doesn't point because an expert,
an expert lands the plane.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
Yeah, an expert lands the plane. And people who land
with the plane are they're the passengers. They don't know
ship from Shinola. They are just there for the ride.

Speaker 7 (01:19:40):
I know how to land at aircraft called the parachute,
which most people don't.

Speaker 4 (01:19:44):
So you're a specialist, you're mafia baby.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Not only is his specialist, but he's a professional.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
And a professional specialist professionals. I like that. Yeah, A
T shirt James Hannibal that's a T shirt right there.

Speaker 7 (01:20:07):
Oh Bill, Bill with it. The dude with the parachude
is a half expert. I don't think so, Tim.

Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
I bet you I can flare a parachute better you
can flare an otter.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
I don't know. We're talking about Bill there.

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
Hey, hey, we're talking about Jim.

Speaker 7 (01:20:22):
We're talking about ant and I can be actually somebod
if you don't gold living second Land.

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
But I have more than he does.

Speaker 1 (01:20:33):
Uh, hey, Tel you get a chance email please, we
gotta talk.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
We gotta talk.

Speaker 5 (01:20:40):
We found her bus.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
I kind of like that one, Yeah that I mean,
especially the koil on the hood there.

Speaker 5 (01:20:51):
I love that it's placed on the hood front and
center because down here in the country we call that
spider way of kitchen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
What happened to the uh to the back dog that
goes on the front. But there you go. Hey Carlos,
how much coffee did you bring?

Speaker 4 (01:21:09):
I brought ten keyls?

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Holy Christ, and it all went, oh yeah, wow, nice job.

Speaker 5 (01:21:16):
Thank goodness. You never got stopped in between here and then.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
Yeah, can you imagine I'm poking those bags and.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
In the middle just ten keys?

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
Take God, yes, go ahead, tak.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Something was quite hilarious when I brought a half key
to my doctor and told her it was a half
key of Puerto Rico's finest.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
Oh, I love this.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
Yeah man, she laughed so hard. That was great.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
H Yeah. I brought ten keys.

Speaker 7 (01:21:53):
I probably could have brought twenty five keys and sold them.

Speaker 4 (01:21:58):
It's not twenty five fifteen keys and sold uh.

Speaker 7 (01:22:02):
Saturday afternoon people still last game, sorry, sold out. Steve
had the last three half keys yep so.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
And one of those is for Channel member that lives here,
local Timmy. I gotta get that to him tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (01:22:19):
So uh, Ed's Ed says, my coffee is so good.
I appreciate it. Ed, I made an awful lot of coffee.
Saturday morning, Renee, Steve and Paula were slinging Teresa ground
beef sausage and I don't know and eggs and I

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don't know what else. And I was slinging coffee like
it was going out of style.

Speaker 1 (01:22:45):
You know what else amazed me? When you were when
you were, when you were a pair of shooting down
with Jim. That was just a signal stick on top
of an HT correct Yeah, oh yeah, that was incredible, man.

Speaker 7 (01:22:56):
Signal stick on top of my ID fifty, the one
that the I D fifty, the one the I D fifty.

Speaker 5 (01:23:05):
If you ever retire that radio, I expect it to
be in a glass case.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
That was also signal stick that was on that.

Speaker 7 (01:23:13):
I'm actually surprised I COM hasn't reached out and said, hey,
we'll give you one.

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
Give us that one back. We want to put the box.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
Icon headquarters.

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (01:23:27):
Bill says, that was one radio. One cup short, Bill,
I was not a cup short. I was a stove short.

Speaker 4 (01:23:33):
Look.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
I will fully admit.

Speaker 8 (01:23:34):
That I I made a piss poor plan, and when
you make a piss poor plan, it backfires on you.
I brought an induction stove top burner, and I failed
to take into consideration that my Mocha pots are aluminum,

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is not gonna work with.

Speaker 7 (01:23:57):
An induction top. So I had to steal Frank's campstove.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
Guess what. Frank needed his camp stove so he could
start the cooking of his beans. And seeing as he
was very kind and let me borrow his hampstoff for
two hours, when he said, hey, I need that to
start cooking these I should have done and give him
this camp stove, and I thank them profusely for letting
me use his gear. Next year, I will show up
with my camp stove, and therefore I won't.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Run out of that one hundred pounds of pro paid.

Speaker 5 (01:24:29):
Well that's a great speech and all, But the way
I understood from the live stream last night was Bill
was just a little too down late asking for coffee.

Speaker 4 (01:24:39):
Well, you know, it didn't help it.

Speaker 7 (01:24:41):
He showed up at ten thirty more when everybody else
started seven thirty in the morning, but two.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Cups of coffee in at least.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
Of course, the live stream also kind of described Bill
as a guy just wondrously wondering the park at random
hours with a coffee cup, asking people for coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
So yeah, did Bill the picture of himself?

Speaker 4 (01:25:04):
Take it around?

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Please?

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
Their Can I have a cup of coffee?

Speaker 5 (01:25:08):
Please?

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
I think Bill gets the award for the great picture
that gray Man took of him that holds a thousand
captions at the forum. Yes, that picture is I saved it.
I that's another foller.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
Bill was really amazed about something. It was very interesting,
or mid.

Speaker 7 (01:25:29):
Vern says, buildings his beauty rest. I say, then Bill's
not sleeping enough.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Too much caffeine, too much. Carlos caffeine.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
I was gonna say. I know, I will have the
arrow press out of kettle with me next year to
get started before Carlos gets.

Speaker 4 (01:25:45):
Out of bed.

Speaker 7 (01:25:47):
H And I did not have a sign on the
back of my vehicle this year.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
I will here. Look, you gotta look.

Speaker 7 (01:25:55):
I did it last year and I got I think,
what twenty thirty bucks?

Speaker 4 (01:25:59):
I don't remember something like that. I'll do it again
next year. I don't want to wear you know, just
I'm gonna do the thing, all right.

Speaker 7 (01:26:07):
Besides, on the way south, I caught some rain in
Indiana that would.

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
So mm hmm. Like I said, it's gonna be kind
of hard to put sign on the back of the motorcycle.

Speaker 4 (01:26:19):
Though, well there is that.

Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
I'm trying to figure out how to make it down
there with a carrial the crap I need to carry.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
I'm to the bike over next year because I just
want to ride Bankhead on the bike.

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
Yeah, bank Head on the bike would be fun if
if I can, if I can bring it with me,
like uh uh, you know, if I can bring it
with me, I will just just say that, Jason, why
so expensive to jump out Alabama? Actually the jump in
Alabama is the cheapest jump you will ever see. Okay, Uh,

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they give the people that I bring to the drop
zone a very very very nice deal. To put it
into perspective, the average tandem skydive in the United States
is three hundred dollars. That's the average tandem skydive. And
I did not know how much they were charging people
until I heard what they charged Jess, and I went,

(01:27:24):
I'm sorry, what with a pair of goggles?

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
Jess walked out of there for two hundred and ten dollars, okay, Carlos.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
And does that price not the discount? Does it vary
around the United States?

Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
It varies around the United States.

Speaker 7 (01:27:42):
For example, the drops on I work at charges two
hundred and eighty on average for fourteen thousand foot jump
at one eighty two drop zone. That only takes you
to nine thousand, five hundred feet averages two hundred. You know,
most turbine drop someones are going to charge somewhere in
the neighborhood of two eighty to three fifty deep.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Okay, And that's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
Standard weight, that's standard weight.

Speaker 7 (01:28:07):
That's not And to be fair, they would have charged
the weight fee normally, meaning anybody under two ten.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
I think it is there is a standard weight.

Speaker 7 (01:28:19):
Anything about two ten from like two ten to two
thirty is an extra fee, and two thirty to two
fifty it is another extra fee and two fifty And
they don't do at all. Because I am a lighter guy.
I am able to take someone heavier, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:28:37):
And they looked at me and said charge them the fee,
and I said, no, no, absolutely not. These are my friends.
Give them the friends deal. Not I'll be I'll be like, look,
I'm not getting paid for this. H The way this
works is simple.

Speaker 7 (01:28:54):
They charge you the two ten they're supposed to charge.
They're supposed to pay me forty of them. I don't
take the forty.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
What I do is I tell the drop zone to
take the forty and go to the grocery store and
buy root beer.

Speaker 7 (01:29:09):
This is a dry drop zone. A lot of people
are recovered. They're recovering alcoholics, so they don't do beer right,
so they do root beer, So they go to the
drop Stone. So I tell the DZ O, hey, instead
of paying me, go to the go to the grocery store,

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buy forty dollars withorth the root beer, and bring it back.

Speaker 4 (01:29:36):
So if I do two tandems, they get eighty dollars.
So the fridge in the drop zone is full of
root beer right now where it was last week because
a couple, I made a couple of tandems, and then
Paul and I had beer beer fees or beer fines
if you will. Anytime you do a first in skydibby,

(01:29:57):
there's a beer fine.

Speaker 7 (01:29:59):
Anytime you screw up in skydiving, there's a beer fine.
And it's tradition, okay, the first r to celebrate. Hey,
I bought twenty four beers the first twenty three people
that get there besides me, because I want to grab
one and I are going to celebrate my first of
whatever that might be in my case. In Paul's case,

(01:30:19):
we met our first parachute to parachute qusos, right, And
that doesn't mean anything to the drop zone because there's
not a skydiving first. Really, a skydiving first is you know,
your your first dock on another person, or your first
eight way or your first you know, big way or whatever.

(01:30:41):
But because for skydivers, we honor the first tradition and
we both bought two cases. We each bought a case
of root beer to bring to the drop zone, and
we put them in the fridge and we let the
staff know it's there.

Speaker 4 (01:30:55):
We paid our we paid our beer fine, please have
root beer on us.

Speaker 7 (01:31:00):
So even though we're not going to be here at
the end of the day, gather around, grab a root
beer and cheer the fact that we made it first.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:31:08):
When you screw up, it's a beer find is slightly different.
You still buy the case, right, so you grab one
out of the case, there's twenty three left, and twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:31:18):
Three of your piers are going to give you hell
around the campfire about what you did wrong and what
you should have done instead. Right, So.

Speaker 7 (01:31:32):
Basically, the beer finds are there so that we have
a community at the end of the day. So instead
of people taking off and going home, they're going to
sit around the campfire. They're going to grab a root
beer or a beer depending on the drop zone.

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
And there's other alternatives.

Speaker 7 (01:31:49):
For example, like at my home, drop zone is not
it's not a common for people to bring a case
or to a beer.

Speaker 4 (01:31:58):
And then you look at the fridge in the full
of beer. Well, guess what if I'm looking at the
fridge and the fridge is full of beer, I'm gonna
go get a case of beer. I'm gonna go get
a case of ice cream sandwiches because it's hot and
people don't mind a nice little snack at the end
of the day, right, Or I'm going to get a
couple of cases of water because it's hot and we

(01:32:22):
need to rehydrate.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:32:24):
So, but we basically do this so we can gather
at the end of the day around the bonfire and
either celebrate or fix things.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
Yep, And Carlos, I've heard that you have a notorious
saying at your home drop zone, which one well, what's
the occasion, to put it politely to f was what
you did wrong? What did you do right?

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
That's not just my drop zone? Right, So that is uh.

Speaker 7 (01:33:05):
As an instructor m hm, the ethos of an instructor
as a students want to focus on what they did wrong.
That's what they want to do. That's that's the mindset.
I screwed this up, I screwed that up. No, Look,
are you safe and sound and on the ground. Yes, great,

(01:33:27):
Let's focus on what you did right, okay, because if
you if you're.

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
Safe and sound on the ground, we can go back
up and try it again. Right, don't beat yourself up
over the stuff that you did wrong. Are we gonna
talk about it?

Speaker 7 (01:33:41):
Yes, absolutely, we have to address how to fix that right,
because we can't progress you alone unless we fix that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:48):
Carlos, give us an example of some something that should
have been done differently.

Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
Look, I'll use n one og.

Speaker 7 (01:33:58):
He's here in the chat, so I don't feel bad
u thinking him as an example. We left the airplane,
and for circumstances not directly associated with his performance, he
was upside down topsy turvy instead of being arched hips

(01:34:20):
to the ground right now, his first jump, nobody's first
jump goes one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
You know what, I have so many level ones that
I've lost track of them.

Speaker 7 (01:34:35):
Okay, out of those, I have had two students two
in all of them that I've had a perfect level one,
right two.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
But I go up there knowing that the level one
is gonna go berserk. I know that ahead of time.
I have the experience to know that. Right.

Speaker 7 (01:35:00):
So, anyhow, he wasn't. He wasn't as art as he
could have been. He wasn't as stable as he could
have been. So it's on him for not our turing harder.
Someone was on me for not sticking harder to him
somewhere was on the other instructor for being too far back.

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
So we land from that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:20):
And he says, if dubbed this, and I said, shut
the hell up. And I'm being polite because that's not
what I said.

Speaker 4 (01:35:29):
If you watch Paul's video, you'll see exactly what I said, right,
shut the hell up? What did you do right? M Right,
we had performance goals in this skydive. Out of those
performance goals, what did you do right?

Speaker 7 (01:35:48):
Because if you did that right now, I'm putting you
back into the correct mind frame, into a positive mind
frame to address the things that we need to fix.
If you land and you're safe from the ground, we
can do this again, right, so.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
And and and if you.

Speaker 4 (01:36:08):
Aren't safe from the ground, then I'm not gonna go
about this the other way either. I'm not gonna go
beat the piss out of you because you've already been beaten.

Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:36:18):
It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen, right,
So focus on the positives. Let's get that fixed, Let's
let's be happy over that. It's he Paul knows he
pulled on his own. He flew a decent pattern, and
he had a safe, landing right? Things he did right?

(01:36:40):
How do we fix the next jump? Well, I want
you to ask, how do I how do you watch more? Well,
pretend that Carlos is behind you and he is really
happy for you.

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Arch arch baby clinched that butt, say no ah, so, uh,
that's not just my drop zone.

Speaker 7 (01:37:05):
That is a there's an ethos of of how we
how we try to teach.

Speaker 4 (01:37:11):
I'm not saying every instructor is this way.

Speaker 7 (01:37:13):
The instructors I work with are this way right because
we know that ultimately our job is to try to
get you to learn, and we can't learn. Learning is
really difficult. Beating you up about ship. You fed up this,

(01:37:34):
you fed up that. No, no, okay, you did this right.
You did this right?

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
You did?

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
I want you to fix this.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:37:42):
And as long as you keep on landing safe, it
doesn't matter how long how often you're you're you're messing
it up with the sky.

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
Not a big we can go back up and do
it again. Yep, I mean it's it's uh.

Speaker 7 (01:37:55):
Imagine, imagine you have a brand new tech and you're
you're the elmer and uh you're on the local repeater
and they go seq seequ CQ on the repeater, right,
we know right how that goes?

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
Right, So we go listen.

Speaker 7 (01:38:16):
I understand that the test said that this is how
you get a contact, But on the repeaters the rules
are a little bit different. You say your call sign
and listening, Kate, I know, L listening that is the
equivalent of a CQ. Okay, so I want you to
try that again. Try again, go ahead, and then you
grab the radio on the PTT and.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
They go ok and I know, well listening and then
before you know it, you know KO four? How are
you can?

Speaker 9 (01:38:42):
I know?

Speaker 4 (01:38:43):
L see that's how it works. Huh.

Speaker 9 (01:38:47):
The only confidence it's it's look, this stuff is difficult
enough already the people that go skydiving, Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:39:00):
We're a niche within a niche within a niche. Right,
there's fewer skydivers than they're amateur radio operators in.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
The United States.

Speaker 7 (01:39:10):
And we already know that the amateur radio population in
the United States is incredible in terms of how small
it is.

Speaker 4 (01:39:19):
So why am I going to beat you up over
something that can be fixed?

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
M hm?

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
And I think that could that could be applied to
a lot of things.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
Well, it's how I approach professional jobs.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
Exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:39:34):
It's it's we're not talking to kids, We're talking to adults.
A kid, you know, And not to say that I
wanted to.

Speaker 7 (01:39:46):
Right to kids because I don't treat my nephews and
my nieces this way. I treat them in the same
way as I treat my students when it comes to education, right,
But a five year is going to be a little
bit more forgiving about me going you nimcome crude mm hmm.

(01:40:09):
Whereas if I do that to an adult, You're just
gonna go, I'm out of here, yep, peace.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
I don't, I don't, I don't. This is I'm not
doing I'm doing this for fun. I'm not doing this
and this is not worth the headache. That's not worth
the hassle. Right, So if I'm hassling you, I'm not
making it easier for you, and I'm certainly not advancing
the hobby, be it skydiving or be it amateur radio.

(01:40:38):
Do I want more people to skydive?

Speaker 3 (01:40:40):
With yes?

Speaker 7 (01:40:40):
Do I want more people to come in cusas with yes?
So well, let's be positive about this crap. You know,
calling securita repeater, You know what the test says, you
can do it?

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
So do it. And then when people barrerate you on.

Speaker 7 (01:40:57):
Side and pull you aside and go, hey, listen, I
know the test says that, but that's not coming practice.

Speaker 4 (01:41:02):
So the practice is your call signed listening.

Speaker 7 (01:41:06):
Don't worry about those idiots that are going to give
you crap, tell them to go piss off. Don't worry
about them. Come hang out with me. We'll go do
some put it together, move.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
This on, or you call CQ on a repeater just
to get a raise out of them. Well, uh, that's
the contact.

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
When we do upgrades, When we're doing testing and doing
upgrades and you're going from tech to general, it's it's
not uncomer for me to go okay, now go on
the repeater and say cana splash ag and they're gonna
be what I'm like, it's not normal. But do it
just to get a just to get a rise out.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
Yeah, because at the rate we do upgrades, you won't
get a chance to get on a chef to do it,
you know exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:41:54):
Either by the time by the time you get to
doing anything HF, it'll be already on the on the
you and you're not going to actually be able to
do slash a g although I gotta tell you a part. Uh,
let's see Hounson John Homo says something if you could
do that with a hammer in your contact as Carl said,
everything your license here, okay?

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
Cool? Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:42:19):
I had one actually I was doing an activation. I
think it was last year, might have been the year before.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
And we put and they had I got this call
from a guy like a one by two or two
by one, And the next thing is the next call
I get is and I was doing it on ten
meters and I get a call from a very fresh
call sign. I'm like the numbering sequence kind of odd,

(01:42:49):
but okay.

Speaker 7 (01:42:50):
And then I get another call from another one, and
another one come from another call from another one. Well
the guy since man Emil later saying we had just
gone down, We had just gotten done doing testing and
submitting to the FCC. The FCC turned around and turned
all these call signs right around mm hmm. So they
were hanging out waiting for their call sign, and once

(01:43:12):
they got the call sign, they grabbed the commons station
that we had set up and they called you or you're.

Speaker 4 (01:43:17):
In the park that is lit all hell. Look and
if that doesn't tell you should activate on ten meters
something that it should Okay, good point activate on ten
on the tech portion of ten. And it's not always
gonna be that way, but you're giving people that just
got their license a chance to make come on, get

(01:43:40):
it done.

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
So so I say that in my session that went
last night has not upgraded yet. He passed, but the
FCC hasn't posted it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:01):
Has the frequency.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
Yes, he does.

Speaker 5 (01:44:05):
My license expires next month, so I want to head.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
Yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:44:11):
And I said, you know, let me go ahead and
renew this, go through it, send my payment information. They
send me an email saying that, uh, you know, I
don't know. I couldn't make headg of tales of the email.
It didn't say my application was granted or not. It
just I don't know. But they took my money, but

(01:44:33):
my crap still ain't updated. It's still expiring this year
next month.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
So when did you pay it?

Speaker 5 (01:44:40):
Last night?

Speaker 4 (01:44:41):
Okay, tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:44:44):
So so the FCC, being a government entity, is way behind.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
I was gonna say, if it's not done by Friday,
let me know and we'll do some pushing.

Speaker 5 (01:44:56):
All right, I'll still operate it with expire. I got receipts.

Speaker 3 (01:45:02):
You still have a great, you still have a year
is it a year grace period?

Speaker 5 (01:45:05):
Or two years well too without having a test again.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Two years without having a test again. But you're not
supposed to be on the air if it shows expired.

Speaker 5 (01:45:13):
In the whiskey to Hotel Romeo, Charlie.

Speaker 3 (01:45:17):
There you go, There you go, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:45:22):
Yeah, I figured it to take you a couple of days.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
If the SEC database can get as good as the
poe to people. There you go and pots run by volunteers,
because when in what within one minute my log is processed?

Speaker 4 (01:45:40):
Jason, I I was a leg. I was not airborne.
I was a leg. Still technically a leg, even though
I'm a grunt.

Speaker 5 (01:45:52):
Older.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
I get tomorrow, grunt h.

Speaker 1 (01:45:58):
Hey, guys, what do you say we start putting some balls?
I see guys are getting tired.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
Is losing string?

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
Carlos keeper dar a little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:46:07):
I saw commercial from Tim Allen when he was working
in fort Win, Indiana, selling windows, selling Pella windows for
a local Pella distributor Big obviously before he became famous.

Speaker 2 (01:46:21):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:46:22):
Uh, if you guys want to see that, liby, you
will send me a message in the discord or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
I'll send you a link to the YouTube Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
License.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
A young guy huh oh.

Speaker 7 (01:46:35):
A very young Tim Allen doing a commercial for Pellow
windows supplier in Fort Winn, Indiana.

Speaker 4 (01:46:43):
And he was he was the sales guy for Irbure
supplier selling selling windows.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
So goodness us, Carlos, Carlos, got anything going on this
week or labored weekend?

Speaker 4 (01:47:01):
I do, but it's not ham already related.

Speaker 7 (01:47:03):
If you're if you're a skydiver and you're looking to
get your coach rading, come up to Chicago Landsk Center.
Omar and I are putting together a coach rating course Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Get your coach rading with us.

Speaker 4 (01:47:22):
Uh, we'll gladly get you. We'll teach you how to
the waste of the young pot of one.

Speaker 7 (01:47:30):
I don't know if I have to say this because
Julie's here, Julie, did you see my video tonight? Did
you see that I didn't cut you guys out? You
you rope to my camera and I and I put
it in.

Speaker 4 (01:47:42):
See. Uh. But yeah, that's that. I'm going to try
to make some parish mold over the weekend if I'm
able to. I am teaching a coach course with my
buddy Omar. Uh, this is this is I'm super proud
of Omar.

Speaker 7 (01:48:01):
Okay, look, I just got my examiner rating and skydiving.
An examiner in skydiving is the teacher's teacher. Okay, it's
not a It's not like an amateur radio where you're
just examining someone taking the test. You have to go
through an awful lot to become an examinator. And my
buddy Omar, who was my student, became a skydiverger and
became an examiner before me, and I am now going

(01:48:25):
to help him with an examiner with a coach course
as an examiner because I now I am an examinator myself.
It makes me so happy to be able to say
that I got a student once and now examiner and
now helping him.

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
That's that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:48:42):
Uh. But yeah, parashute student has been the master.

Speaker 7 (01:48:45):
Yes, honestly, has become the master. And I hope, I
hope to get some Paris mob in over this weekend.
It'll probably be at Sunset on Sunset Load if I
get it to if I get to do it at all,
be on the lookout for that because I definitely want
to make contact with everybody. Uh, you know, you know,
I'll pass the baton to the next person.

Speaker 3 (01:49:09):
Excellent.

Speaker 2 (01:49:12):
Mhm mm hmm, all right, yep, good morning after.

Speaker 3 (01:49:25):
Oh my god, that is great.

Speaker 4 (01:49:28):
That's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
Look at look at the front grille of the bus.

Speaker 7 (01:49:32):
Still though the box is being strewn around. Not accurate.
We cleaned up. We cleaned up really nicely.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
Yes, very nicely.

Speaker 3 (01:49:43):
Excellent.

Speaker 5 (01:49:45):
What do you got, Steve, Carlos, Steve, did you come
home from hospital with a lot of extra aluminum?

Speaker 3 (01:49:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
I don't think so, Steve.

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
He came home.

Speaker 5 (01:50:05):
Also, so talking about throwing it out trash. While we're
at Huntsville, I'm making my last pit stop, pulling the
camper out. Carlos pulls up right behind me. We stop
at the dumpsters. I'm throwing some trash out and then
I look in like there's this huge chunk of alunum
in there.

Speaker 2 (01:50:23):
Like I'm like, what the heck? So me and Carlos
pulls it out of the dumpster and we're like, hey,
this is this is what two point oh had. It
was like this tripod thing, and was like they can't
stay in the dumpster. So we knew Carlos knew Steve
was coming, so he's gonna see if Steve would take it,
because Carlos couldn't fit in his car now, So at

(01:50:44):
the very least, we'll just prop it up here and
somebody's gonna take this home. I would love to have
that aluminum, but I didn't want to load it up.

Speaker 7 (01:50:54):
If I had it, I would have had it here
and when he saw all that angle at him for something,
but I didn't have, Steve, what did you end up
doing with it?

Speaker 2 (01:51:02):
It's sitting on the back porch right now. Actually, I'm
probably going to uh use it to put up a
discount for ADSB and weather balloons. I found out that
Charleston actually launches weather balloons twice a day. I'm surprised

(01:51:25):
they denied me coming out to video it, at least
talking with their their staff. I might video from the
parking lot and get thrown off the airport. We'll see.
But I am actually working on a video on how
to track the weather balloons.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
Can't wait. Can't wait to see the thumbnail on that one, y'all.

Speaker 5 (01:51:50):
St okay, see Steve can borrow elements of my thumbnails.

Speaker 7 (01:51:54):
Steve, you can you can take one of those shocking
Greg Party favors the micropront covers.

Speaker 1 (01:52:01):
Yes, oh my god, that would be great.

Speaker 2 (01:52:07):
I was actually gonna say track this, but.

Speaker 3 (01:52:17):
Joe Broh, what do you got going on this week?
An anything special?

Speaker 1 (01:52:20):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:52:20):
Man, the same well, same old work and whatever. In
this pod, Jeff, he mentioned that tower. I heard people
talking about the tower sitting up by the house all
week and long. I never saw it. I assume was
it near a red house or something like. Yeah, But

(01:52:45):
by the time I think about it, I would miss it.
But I figured it must be the old tower that
I seen up on a house for years prior. I
just I wonder if somebody had to stop and get that.

Speaker 4 (01:52:59):
They didn't have a science saying pick me up.

Speaker 5 (01:53:02):
Somebody probably try to negotiate a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
There was a sign next to it, and I looked
at it and I thought about it. But the base
of it was pretty well damaged.

Speaker 5 (01:53:13):
A little bit shorter, but it's still the same tower.

Speaker 1 (01:53:18):
Yeah, I think it was a shorter is not going
to make that much of a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
What you told her, any more than it was more
than six inches. There is a.

Speaker 1 (01:53:32):
Well, I'm going to try to play some some pot
I'm off tomorrow Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:53:36):
I gotta be up early. I got some hammler it
off tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:53:41):
Did you call the boys up north?

Speaker 1 (01:53:45):
I told them my schedule is booked, but tell them.

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
Tomorrow. No, I did not tell them.

Speaker 4 (01:53:52):
Well, you need to tell them that you're gonna put
it tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:53:54):
Maybe catch me on the handler, catch you on the hammeler.

Speaker 7 (01:53:56):
No, no, no, maybe they'll take time off and come
and do put it with you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:01):
Okay, Well, no, I got to see. I'm I'm juggling
in between some town stuff I have to do. Yeah,
I work a part time job. Man, I'm a busy man.
I'm busy, busy, busy, busy. I'm always busy. And then
Saturday I gotta work a double shift, and next week
I gotta work double shifts.

Speaker 5 (01:54:20):
So it is, and your place needs to get it together.

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
Man, it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
Make that money.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
Listen. I'm listen.

Speaker 1 (01:54:30):
We're already plot in my retirement in three and a
half years, maybe two, maybe two.

Speaker 7 (01:54:36):
My sister's a comb and she's plutting her retirement. She
is two years and eleven months left.

Speaker 3 (01:54:42):
I'm thinking of getting the app that has to countdown.

Speaker 1 (01:54:47):
So well, listen, everybody, we appreciate everybody in the chat
hanging out with us tonight, and we appreciate Carlos flying in,
jumping in. Appreciate it. Drop the drop zone is always
available to you. You know that parachute hissus exactly. So everybody,
have a good week.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
Be safe.

Speaker 1 (01:55:07):
It's uh, we'll be going into a labor day weekend,
so guys, please, every everybody please have a fun, safe weekend. Uh,
don't get caught because we're sure hell he ain't gonna
put up the bailbody for you, so come on.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
You've got to do it. But that no what what's
the week in safety brief?

Speaker 4 (01:55:26):
Okay, week in safety brief? Everybody, you're ready.

Speaker 7 (01:55:29):
Don't add to the population, don't take away from the population.

Speaker 4 (01:55:34):
If you are arrested, shut the hell up. Invoke your
Fifth Amendment right, deny, deny, deny. Once you're in jail,
it's doubtless dominance. Call your best friend to bail you.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
Well, those are those are some good words to live by.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
Here. Here's the problem with that, though, If he's truly
your best friend, he's there being jail next year.

Speaker 1 (01:56:01):
That's guess what courts are all closed on Monday, and
if you can't get build out, you're staying in there
getting happy meals until Tuesday morning.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
I can tell that. I can tell everybody for that.

Speaker 4 (01:56:11):
From experiences, and that's why you established dominance beating the
guitar of the biggest guy you fired.

Speaker 1 (01:56:22):
There, you go, all right, everybody, wave goodbye, Give everybody
a seventh three everybody next week, take care everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
Ye by.

Speaker 1 (01:56:38):
My cards, I can hit the wings off a fly
hundred feet away

Speaker 4 (01:56:44):
As if

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