E1632: (REPLAY) Huntsville Hamfest Donation Results - ARRL Teacher's Institute

Tonight we present the results of the donations taken from the Hamfest last weekend, during our POTA event, and we present them as a donation to the @ARRLHQ Teacher's Institute. Come join us!

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ham-radio-2-0--2042782/support.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Goodie, being happy Sunday. Thank you for joining. You're gonna
get started here, just a meet looking forward tonight. It
should be a really good stream.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Ask okay, wow, look at that.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
It is seven o'clock in Texas, and you guys tell
me how I sound. So we're set up in Galveston,
and I brought my streaming computer with me out of
the hamshack and did an internet test the internet so
far sound it looks good.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I got.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I was getting like eighty down and like thirty five up,
which is not screaming fast, but it's plenty fast to
live stream. So you guys tell me how I sound.
I'm using a lapel microphone, by sure, instead of my
higle mic because I wanted a lapel mic for some
other stuff and Hyle does not make a lapel mic
I tried to buy one does not exist. So sounds okay.

(03:12):
Dave says I sound good. Casey nine USP says I
sound okay. So Ham Radio Duo gives me a thumbs up.
What can I tell you about that? Okay, loud and
clear sounds good, mister Sandman. Okay, thank you for that.
We're gonna hop right into it. Tonight. I don't have
anything special. I do have some special stuff coming up

(03:34):
this week, starting a very special project this week, So
stay tuned, keep watching Instagram, keep watching my email list,
and we're gonna talk about some stuff this week. Well,
we're gonna we're gonna launch something this week, and then
we're gonna have hopefully all of you out there watching

(03:55):
in Ham Radio YouTube, land Ham Radio YouTuber land Hour
on this live stream this time next week, because a
week from tomorrow is Labor Day and most of you're
gonna have the day off work and we're gonna do
a happy Hour because that's what we normally do, and
we're gonna kick something off. I'm gonna kick something off
that day. So looking forward to to getting that announced

(04:17):
and going which you'll you'll hear about it before. Then
here we go, somewhat muffled. Well, I had to turn
the volume down because Kyle said I was hot, so
and he did. He didn't mean it in like a
like a romantic way, he just he just he carry
me in the background. I turned it back up a
little bit. Sounds fantastic, Jade, thank you for the for
the super chat, buddy. So yeah, all right, Kyle, so

(04:40):
you can Kyle and Steve. What's up, guys?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
How much?

Speaker 4 (04:47):
What's happening?

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Wait, we're gonna have to do this quick. We might
have to do this stream in like ten minutes because
it's like an hour past Steve's bedtime.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
It's only like.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh thirty two minutes. Okay, all right, good. Well, I think.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Steve was like born, he was in another life and
he was born in like Alaska or the Yukon where
it's always dark or it's always light, because I think
Steve during the summer, Steve, you're like in bed for
two hours before it actually gets dark, right.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yeah, but I'm up two hours before it gets light,
so it's okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, well, I.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Guess if you're if you're gonna if you're a morning person,
you want to do it that way. I guess that's okay.
I'm the opposite. I'm up till like midnight every night,
sleep till eight am.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Oh now, it's usually about four four fifteen in the
morning for me.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
That's what time my dogs want to wake up. I'm
gonna have him come stay with you for the summer.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
That's fine with me.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
My wife fell in love with Electra.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Electra, Yeah, she's the only one who doesn't wake up
that early. The other two are the ones.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Of course, of course that'd be too easy.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
She's over here growling, Hey, shut up sits. Yeah, my
wife needs to Hey, you need to take care of that.
She's watching in the chat yellow at her through the door.
Uh So, how was houseful for everybody? Still, Kyle, did
you get anything?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Uh? No, I I have a very bad habit of
going to ham Fest and not picking up a darn thing.
I just, you know, I kind of looked through and
go into the boneyard. There could be a deal that
slaps me in the face and I'm like, oh, that's great,
and then I walk on. So Nope, not this year. Maybe,

(06:34):
uh you know, I'm just I don't hey, hey, stop it, hey,
quit it, stop give her a bone. Yeah, yeah, but no,
not not this year.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
You know, I didn't buy anything this year either. I
have the opposite problem I have. I go to Hamfest,
I'm buy crap that I don't need. So the last
two I've been to I haven't bought anything. So I've
been really I mean, unless I find something that's like
a really smoking deal. So Electra you're gonna go in
the closet. Oh my gosh, so she I don't. I

(07:07):
don't usually have her in the hamshat with me when
I'm streaming. So okay, So, so a couple of things. Okay,
we we've got and let me bring this up on
the screen. Now we have got Here is the QR
codes for Kyle's Venmo and PayPal, which are still active, okay,
and we're going to we're going to tell you guys

(07:29):
what the number is. But the number is here, and
there's a a what do you call it? A goal?
We beat our goal? Okay, we beat our goal. Okay,
but there's like a next tier that's just right here.
The number is right underneath the next tier. So if
anyone has not donated yet and would like to do so,

(07:52):
there's the QR code on the screen for Kyle's Venmo
and PayPal, and I guess you can look at that
real time, right.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, Well, okay, I'm just gonna give out the number
that we're looking for, or I mean, the the amount
that we're trying to to raise in the next hour
or so. Okay, we're looking at for four hundred bucks.
That's what we're looking for so if we can get
to another, if we can get another and I understand,

(08:19):
four hundred dollars is a lot of a lot of
dough and I don't know how many people are watching,
about two hundred people. So if we can get to
four hundred dollars, that will get us to this next tier,
which will I'm ready for for Steve's eyeballs to get
to pop out of this socke. This is going to
be a YouTube.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
First.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
We did we did, we did well. We did well
this year.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
We did very well. So if we can, if we
can grab another four hundred dollars, I think that that
would be absolutely amazing. So I don't know if we'll
be able to do it, but the challenge is on.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Okay, challenge, challenge thrown down.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
So, all right, Frank has joined us. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 5 (09:01):
What?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Not much? Not much. We just wrapped up the Huntsville
Paul live stream. We had uh Gray man Poda, I'm
not great man. Freddie mac mike l l hasn't been
to a ham thest so she was hanging out trying
or learning what a hamfest is all about and where,
and she was very interested in joining us. At Huntsville

(09:24):
and Paul he's from when he's joined from Japan.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
And we had he's still in Japan, and he's still
in Japan.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
No, where's he going today today? Where I cam to
the factory?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Of course? Of course why not? Why wouldn't he? I
mean I watched his live stream yesterday and I shared
it out in my my guest to video of the
week was his live stream, the replay of his live
stream and my email blast today. So I did watch
a good thirty minutes of his live stream when he
was going last night. So so that was kind of
interesting to see. But good, good, Thanks for yep yep.

(10:01):
So a couple of things about next year, So go ahead.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Kyle, Yeah, I've got some stats here. Do we want
to go over some stats first?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, let's do that.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Sure, all right, So some of the stats. If you
were around last year, we had a crowd, it was
it was a large amount of people that that we fed,
and we fed last year about sixty people. I think
that there was probably more than sixty people that showed up,
you know, throughout the day, but we we fed sixty

(10:37):
people last year. The goal this year was to feed eighty.
That was the goal well after we learned about First,
we want to thank the Huntsville Hamfest for putting it
on their website as an activity that people could come
up and do. And I think we're going to talk

(10:59):
about parking and some other things that happened during during
the event. But this is what we purchased at at costco.
So we purchased ninety six burgers. We bought one hundred
and forty four hot dogs. We had I think Ron

(11:20):
from Florida. Ron, if you're in the chat, I can't
remember your call sign, so you're gonna have to put
it in there. He made a bunch, like a big
huge croc pot of beans and Franks we had. Frank
made his beans. How many pounds of beans did you make? Frank?

Speaker 3 (11:35):
I made six pounds of beans and it wasn't enough.
Next year, I'm going to do ten if we're still
cooking again. And Ron labeled his beans. I just want
to point this out. He labeled his beans as not
Frank's beans.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right, so we can sidebar this for later. Frank, but
I want to know because you didn't find any abbn euros.
They were still really hot. They were hot, but you
didn't find any aubennuros. So do you think we need
more ten pounds instead of six pounds next year? If
you do it out, add aubennuros to it.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
I will next year, if we are cooking again, I
will make ten pounds of beans. So that means I
will be bringing ten hobbin narrows. I'm not gonna leave
that up to chance. Next year, he'll ten hobbon narrows.
I'm gonna be bringing.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
I think you should go with nine hobbin arrows and
a ghost pepper. I will bring the ghost pepper.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Done gauntlet throne cheese.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
So I've got about fifty of them on the plant
out back. I'm dehydrating them right now.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Need we need you're my best friend.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Now, have some sort of medical insurance and ambulance on standby.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
We'll just bringing much of the up to the the
state park right right. So we had quite a bit
of beans, we had a lot of chips. We'll talk
about some things that we're gonna do better next year.
We had a lot of desserts. We bought one hundred
and ninety six bottles of water, and yeah, that's some

(13:08):
of the stats that we had. I see Mark is
in the chat from Huntsville Hamfest, Mark, I personally want
to thank you and the Huntsville Hamfest for putting the
event on the homepage. We wouldn't have been able to
have the reception and get the funds that we did

(13:29):
without the Huntsville help and especially Mark, I, you know,
talking about the YouTubers and accepting us into the plans
for the week. So thanks, Mark appreciated.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Very true.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
But yeah, so that was that was the the stats. Now,
I think what there was a time where everyone lined
up and we were we were, you know, getting people fed,
and I started counting how many people were in line,

(14:10):
and I went over and of course I wasn't counting burgers,
but I was looking at the pile of burgers and
I was like, I had a no crap moment, you know,
and I was like, this ain't gonna work out. We're
going to run out of burgers. So we got down
to about the last three or four burgers and George, uh,

(14:30):
big tall George, I don't know George's call sign. He
was like, was amazing. Yeah, that guy was manning. He
was making sure everyone took one burger and one one Frank.
So I went over to George. I'm like, how many
do we have left? He's like, we got ten. So
I counted ten and I got to a place online
and I said, you know what, sorry, guys, everyone's gonna

(14:53):
have to just take two hot dogs. And everyone was
very accepting and it was awesome and people were like, yeah,
we we don't mind. You know, no big deal. So
thanks to all the people at the end of the
line that just got hot dogs instead of hamburgers.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
So we had talked about this, and we can kind
of go back and forth on this is I think
this is part of what Kyle wants to talk about.
But we had talked about the fact that we didn't Yeah,
I mean, we've more than doubled what we did last year,
which is awesome. But then, well did you did you

(15:31):
say how much you spent?

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, the surprise of everything has gone up to it
wasn't it wasn't proportional to the amount of food we
bought this year would costs more per burger and per
dog than it.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Did last year.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
So go ahead and go ahead and say that, Colin.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yeah, so I spent on meat and sides and some
other things. I spent about three hundred and eighty five
dollars at Costco and then looking here, just rounding up,
I went to Walmart three times. First time was twenty
three bucks, second time was thirty two dollars, and the
last time was one hundred and sixty two dollars. That
total was six hundred and three dollars and ninety four

(16:09):
cents is what I spent on groceries. Okay, last year
I could have swore that we spent like four twenty
seven or four four thirty seven maybe, So it was
quite a bit more in groceries this year.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, but we bought more stuff this year too.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
We bought more stuff. Yeah, we bought water and we
bought I mean that case of water, or it was
a case of forty eight. I guess the case is
twenty four, but it was a forty eight pack of
water and we bought four of them. And I think
the water was like eight bucks nine dollars maybe something

(16:47):
like that. So, I mean Costco. I'm very surprised on
how cheap some things are, but other things I'm just like, oh,
I could probably buy that cheaper a Walmart.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
You know, someone came up to me during the forum
and I told you and I hope that gentleman is
watching right now. And he he said he was a
local and he had offered to smoke some pork butts
for us.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, I got the card. It was the gentleman that
does the barbecue sauce. I think it could be.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I asked him to email me, and I haven't seen
an email from him yet, which we got a whole year.
It's not a big deal, but it would. I think
it would be nice to have some community participation next
year as far as cooking and food goes. And you know,
we can make sure that costs of materials is covered
and whatnot the way that we always have. But if

(17:41):
you know, if someone someone local, not some I don't
want you.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'm not asking you to pull a KO four AFL
and drag your Blackstone three states away. But someone local
who wants to do some was interested in doing some
cooking to add on, not cooking for one hundred and
twenty people, but you know, cooking for twenty or thirty people. Yeah,
we might try to. We might try to coordinate something
like that for next year. One thing I did want

(18:06):
to talk about is that we it was in a
good way there was more people there in line for
food than what we expected. That's why we ran out
of hamburgers. So that's a good thing. It's a good thing.
I think next year I am going to I'm going
to set up we got a local hamfest that uses
event bright to sell tickets online, and I think that's

(18:29):
what I'm going to do next year. I think I'm
going to set up a ticket sales website where people
can go and buy a ticket. The ticket will cause
zero dollars. Yeah, so you go buy a ticket. You
go buy a ticket for zero dollars, and then you
have a ticket in your email on your phone, and
when you show up to the event that day, if
you have a ticket, you're first in line. If you

(18:50):
don't have a ticket, you're still welcome to hang with this.
We pissed off, Frank, I guess.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
No, I'm sorry, OBS is messing up in it.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
I'm just messing with you now. So so if you
don't have a ticket, you're still welcome to eat, but
you may or may not get something because we're gonna
buy food for the number of tickets that we quote sell. Again,
the tickets are going to be zero dollars. It's just
going to be a thing to get a head count,
that's all it could. So we got a whole year
to plan that. I got plenty of I'm gonna do

(19:17):
some research, and we got plenty of time to announce that.
Let everyone know what's going on, that kind of thing.
But yeah, that's but I'm talking about belt don in
five s KT, Yes, sir, I'm talking about Belton. Belton
uses event Bright. I got an email from them like
a week ago, and I'm like, that's the website I
was trying to think of when we were out there
at Huntsville last week.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Go ahead, and I have an idea for later, but
it's not when we're talking about venues, But go ahead.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Okay, all right, I got some breaking I got some
breaking news.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Okay, we have oh okay.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
We have hit our goal.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
You've hit them and then some and then some. Okay,
all right, do you want to do the announcement now?

Speaker 5 (19:55):
You know that means the goal just gets bigger? Right?

Speaker 4 (19:59):
So I mean we don't.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
We don't want Steve to pack up his choice and
go home.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Now, let's let's see what else comes in. Yeah, every
little bit helps, guys, So let's let's see what else
comes in here? And yeah, wow, I there was one
large donation. I don't know if I should should announce
who it was, but thank you. You know who you are.

(20:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, yeah for sure, good okay.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
But anyway, yeah, go ahead about the event, bright And
we just need to do a better job in figuring
out how many people are going to show up next.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Time, right, correct? Yeah, And someone had talked about changing venues,
and I think the venue we had was fine. The
problem the problem was parking. Parking was the problem. So
once again, and we've got we've got a whole year.
We've got a whole year to plan and talk about
and take ideas from the audience. And we might start

(21:00):
talking about it around field or shortly after field day,
shortly after field day, field days last week in the June,
fourth weeks in June, so after field Day's done twenty
twenty six, let's start talking about we got a whole
month of July to kind of throw together some ideas
for how to make this PoTA event better at the
huntvill Hamfest. So so yeah, let's that's probably what I'll do,

(21:21):
something like that. But I think the venue is fine.
I think it would be a really good idea if
people could carpool. Uh, if you can't. If you can't,
especially those of you not staying on the mountain, vern
six Vernon Renee six bought seventy day passes for people
who were not staying on the mountain, because if you're
staying on the mountain, you already you already have access.

(21:43):
You don't you don't need a day pass. You've got
an overnight pass with your RB spot or your cabin
or whatever. So Vernon Renee bought seventy day passes and
I don't know if those got used up or not.
Did anyone hear those? Okay I didn't. Yeah, I don't
know if there's But if you guys carpool, if you
could throw three or four or five people into one car,
then one car is one day pass because the day

(22:05):
pass goes per car, not per person. So you could
make the day passes last stretch a little bit more
and they have to not worry about parking so much. So,
but that's something to discuss for next year. That's just
that there. It was a challenge. I don't I think
we had plenty of rooms with because in the pavilion
it was there was a lot of people in there,
but we had a whole field out to the.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Side, and there were a number of people bringing their
own chairs. I think there was a good part of
people outside.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Well right now, yeah, well, and.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
We need to make sure that you know, it rained
in the afternoon. But if we have a rain event,
you know, and here's here's the other thing that you know,
we are banking on the weather every year being perfect, right,
I mean if every year, if it's going to rain
all day, you know, that's going to hinder attendance, you know.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
So that's true, that's true. Also, yeah, maybe as many
people won't show up.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Right But yeah, so I know we're kind of talking
about there. There is the group hall Raven's Lodge that
had it says it seats one hundred people. Unfortunately, it's
much much more than what these pavilions are and it

(23:19):
says it has a kitchen. But that's also though more
parking because that lodge had its own independent parking area
that was closed during that day, and larger inside area
if we do rain, But it's it's like one hundred
times more than what we're paying right.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Now, Well, we're we're we're looking at some stuff behind
the scenes.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Here thrown around.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
So yeah, so we're not ready to. I mean, we
got a lot of research and we got a lot
of things to do between now and then. So right, yes,
but parking was an issue. But I think from I mean,
the chat can tell me if I'm I'm correct here
is I think people parked sensibly and whenever we whenever

(24:11):
I talked to Julian, uh, sometime on Saturday, I said,
did you get any complaints about parking? It was like, nope,
I didn't have any complaints. So those who parked, you know,
off the side of the road, I guess you did
it in a manner that was okay with the rules
of the park.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Didn't take anyone. That's good.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
He also Julian also said, because we asked him about
the trash situation, which was a problem a couple of
years ago, He's like, there was no problem this year
at all. Everything was nice, nice and clean and picked up.
So hats off to all you guys forging that.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Julian is the one of the park rangers, right, yes, yes,
And the trash situation they last year was that we
put it all together nicely.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
But racoons came and destroyed the area. After we were we.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Were tasked to take all the trash with us this year.
And when I when I said that, I went to
go pick out some trash from one of the trash
cans and someone had already grabbed it. I didn't see
who it was. So you guys really stepped up on that,
so thank you.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
There was like several people.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, yeah, several people.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Do one one little announcement when we were picking up
going away, did anyone know what happened to Renee's little
spice spices?

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Okay, so Frank, you're getting ahead of your side.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay, your last.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
To the to the party here, and there is an
there's an agenda.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Okay, Okay, yield the floor, mister speaker.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Right, okay, so let's let's talk about that. So first, uh,
Renee six had a ladle and a spice shaker, and
I think that there was something else. Maybe she's in
the chat. I don't know, but if you found I
think the ladel and the spice shaker is the ones

(26:02):
that she was more concerned with.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
If she she she had like a bowl or something,
I think she found all that. Okay, lad and the
spice shaker were the last two things she never found.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
If you guys picked that up, please contact someone, Jason, myself, Frank, Renee.
We're all on discord. I'm good on cr' ed. Jason's
good on contact us, so we can get that back
to Renee. She asked multiple times about those devices, So

(26:33):
she would like those back if if you know the
ladle is you know, a soup ladle with a wooden handle,
and I think it was given down to her by
family members and had some sentimental value to him.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
So okay, okay, spices were just good return to the Frank,
I would return the container. I'll keep the spices.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Right well, she she wanted the container. Yeah, Jeff said,
is in Yo is to blame. I'm good with that.
We can do forty five. Auto says the label may
have been located, and uh yeah, Jeff B said the
label was found, So.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
I don't know ladle was found. Okay, yay, great.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's what people in the chatter are saying.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
I don't know, Yeah in.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
A Yo has the label. You know, if something gets
left at the camp site, it's a good chance that
Mike in.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yo, right, he took several things he's like, I think.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's why he always leaves last. He's like almost super people.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
So three chairs of mine.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
I know, yeah, three chairs that apparently you didn't tell
me I had brought for you because they were in
your bag. But yeah, yeah, blame in oyo. I think
that's that's fine, all right, Kyle. What else?

Speaker 4 (27:45):
So I'm just doing a total here, all right, I
got a new total. That was a great It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's pretty fun.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. Yeah, just keep on coming,
keep on donating. So I want to give some some
shout outs here for again, Ron.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
H.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Randy to the Huntsville Hamfest. I want to thank Renee
and Vern. They rent the pavilion every year. So thank
you Renee. Thank you Vern for doing that for the
the and the car passes that that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Also, thank you for breakfast, Renee.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yep, you're getting ahead of yourself, Frank. So Steve and
Renee cooked breakfast in the morning. Now that Frank has
mentioned it, so I want to thank them for for
cooking breakfast. Uh, Steve for k KF four a f
L k KO four a f L Steve for bringing

(28:50):
his blackstone. If we do this next year, we're going
to need another blackstone, so we might have to to
get somebody else to bring another blackstone. Noel and Emily
for cooking. Thanks scals. That was awesome.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Noel got her own little aprons so she didn't have
to ruin.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I got to get one of those next year because
she's like, She's like, I didn't even think about this.
I'm want to ruin the shirt. I'm like, well, it's
it's bacon grease, you know, go for it. If you're
going to ruin a shirt, that's what we do it.

Speaker 6 (29:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
George the hamburger Man for making sure that everyone only
took one hamburger and one hot dog. Thank you, George.
If you're out there, I want to thank Renee again.
She brought the turkey roaster for us to do the
dog so thanks. She cooked one hundred and forty four
dogs in that turkey roaster, which was great.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Chat now, Oh thanks Renee. John in n J. Four
Z he did a raffle for his new antenna and
all the proceeds went to the uh the Teachers Institute
into the Kiddie So thank you John for that. Let's
see who else. Ron for bringing his beans and Franks

(30:05):
Frank for cooking his beans. Thank you jeff In for
p O D. He brought a bunch of tables and
a whole thing a lemonade. So thanks Jeff for all
of that stuff. And yeah, that's my shout outs. And
then I've got a whole list of even better ifs
if whenever we get to that point in the the agenda.

(30:27):
So any anything that you guys want to add to
shout outs and thank yous and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Let's see. Yeah, well this was a potent event, but
we really only had one station set up, and uh
it was it was a couple well, okay, one well,
there was a couple of guys who set up CW stations, yes,
and or QRP stations. But there was one ftd xx yeah,

(31:00):
one ftd X ten set up, not mine. And then
uh he also said what's his name again?

Speaker 6 (31:07):
Day?

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Was that Dave?

Speaker 4 (31:09):
It was Mike and Becky right, No.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
No, it was the guy who builds the Uh I'm
gonna say his name is Dave, who builds that new
he he had that new vertical array antenna. Did you
get a chance to see that the you mean John John? Yes,
I'm sure, yeah, John, John, Yeah, yeah, John, Yeah. He
set up that into that new antenna that he's selling. Yeah,

(31:34):
and it's a dual element twenty meters vertical, so it
acts as like a dual element, yaggy, you can you
can point it in different directions and uh. And he
set up as ftd X ten And I know several
people that activate. I activated on on his radio. That
was really kind of the only one that was there.
It's Dave's not even here man.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
But and the CW table too, a lot of people
made their first CW contact, that's correct.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yes, yeah, Who were the gentleman with the trailer, the
white trailer and they set up a couple of nodes.
That was Preston Preston.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Was Preston, Yeah, Preston set that up. Okay, Verns in
the chat says the ladel was found. Yes, so we're
gonna yay, look cute good deal. Yes, yeah, so uh,
Preston Preston had the trailer set up. He had that
same one there last year he had and he put
a mesh node on a meshtastic node on a pole

(32:34):
outside about twenty fifteen twenty feet in the air. So
he was like, yeah, you guys all turn your your
your nose on client mute because this one will do
client for us. And that's a good that's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
So yeah, and they had to set it up twice
because Kyle came in and took over the area.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
What oh no, So that was that was? That was
another that wasn't Preston. Preston was at the trailer. There
was another gentleman that came in and set up an
AT and T node so that those of us with
A T and T could get a better signal. And
that tend to work pretty well.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
That's why I got a great signal there. And then
it took eleven hours. The next day it up.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Let's stith right, Yeah, that's uh yeah, that was I'm
doing terrible with names tonight. That was.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Someone shut out set up.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, he set up. He said it might work with
the horizon, but it will work at the A, T
and T and that that that worked really well.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
So I uploaded a video there.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Good, of course you did. Why wouldn't you?

Speaker 4 (33:37):
So so to move this thing along a little bit.
So we talked about the sign up that you know,
we need to do better at next year. I think
next year we also need, and people put some some
information in the chat on what we could do better,

(33:58):
even better if as we call them at work, EBI's
so we need more coolers. I think we ran out
of kind of cooler space, but we needed less ice.
I think I put more of an emphasis on ice,
and everyone brought ice, and we literally, I mean, we
probably could have housed some penguins up on the pavilion

(34:21):
from all the ice that we had. But you know,
it's always I guess it's always good to have ice.
Another to comments on.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, so Vernon Renee just joined the chat just not
too long ago, so we talked about this before you
guys got here. Verne says, I want to say thank
you to whom I ever handled the trash pickup for me.
My name and credit card was on the contract tract,
so I really appreciate it. I had mentioned earlier that
I had done an announcement that said, you know, we
need we're tasked with taking out the trash. And this

(34:51):
was towards the end of the thing and I turn,
I turned around, I was talking to somebody and I
went to go get trash out of the one of
the buckets, and it was gone. Two or three guys
stepped up up and just handled it. Yeah, after after
we asked him to without any pushing your pride. So
I didn't see who that was, and I apologize, But
if that was you guys, I really appreciate you guys.
I want to say Sloan and Tom helped out with
that quite a bit. But but whoever did that Really

(35:15):
really appreciate you guys stepping up for that. That was. Yeah.
We talked to Julian the next day and he said
that the trash takeout and the cleanup of the facility
was was excellent. He had no complaints at whatsoever. So
that was that was really a testament to you guys
out there.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yep, yep. We at the end of the night, after
it rained a bit, we were like, all right, who's
got a truck? Who can take trash out? And we
loaded all into the into a truck and it went.
It left. Don't know where it went.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
It left. Yeah, it was not there, it was.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
It was not at the pavilion, No, no, it was not.
But also I think we need to do a better
job and maybe we can incorporate this into the sign
up where people can sign up for like a dessert
or chips, because you know, we we ended up with

(36:08):
fifteen or eighteen bags of chips and fifteen dozen thousand
donuts and and I mean it was a diabetics nightmare,
you know, at the end of the table to tell
you the truth.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, we uh, I'll check on that.
I'll check and see if there's like a hotluck option. Yeah.
But see even like even like a free form potluck option,
you know, then that means one hundred and fifty people
can fill in cookies or whatever.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Yeah. Well, if we could pre fill out like donuts
three slots, yeah, something like that, yeah, seven slots, yeah, yeah, yeah,
something like that, we would.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
And maybe we have like you know, if you're local
to Huntsville or you're gonna drive, maybe you can ring
a crock pot. And if we can give you some space,
you know, if we're going to do something else next year,
that we can give you some space and you can
prepare something. Maybe that's an option. Like you know, I'd
love to have mac and cheese, but me doing mac

(37:16):
and cheese and everything else is almost impossible. So if
we can get people to like, you know, have three
large crockpots of mac and cheese and everyone, just you know, everyone,
somebody that's local can do that. I think that would
work out, but I don't know. We'll figure it out.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, like I said, we got
a year to figure it out. It was mentioned earlier,
and there's a lot there's I don't know, eighty more
people now watching now than there was when I mentioned this.
And what I thought about doing was setting up like
an event bright Page for next year and selling tickets
for zero dollars so that we have account of the

(37:54):
number of people that sign up. And if you don't
get signed up and you don't buy a ticket, you're
still welcome, but you're going to be at the end
of the line, and we're gonna have to announce that
and announce that and announce that, not because you know
that people are gonna say, oh, I didn't know about this,
all right, you don't watch the live streams, buddy, I
don't know what to tell you. So yeah, but very preliminary.
Right now, we're gonna do something, and we're gonna we've
got a whole year to hammer it out. So that's

(38:15):
we're gonna be talking about that shortly after fueld.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Day next year, I think, yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Mike says, not to be confused with Freddie mac and cheese.
I don't want that.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Yeah, I don't think so, yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Thank Carlos for the coffee in the morning.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
I did not I'm not a coffee drinker. It stunts
my growth, so I I did not know anything that
was the coffee.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Carlos used my stove for about solid two hours and
I was getting a little worried about the propaane and
I brought. But he was making a lot of coffee
up in there in the morning.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
That's the only way coffee should be made.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
He was doing a pullover. I think and hang and
hang writing, and.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yep, it was good. I got some of it. It
was He's like he poured me something. He's like, okay,
then that's an espresso. And I'm like, I didn't ask
for an espresso. I just wanted some coffee. So but
it was good. It was. It was good. So but
I think he got cut. Every morning at the campsite,
whoever was up, you know, Carlos would get up and
come out of the trailer and he'd be walking to
the to the shower. Did you see Carlos, where's the coffee?

(39:28):
And he'd be like, shut up.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
Did you see Bill? Every every morning Bill came over.
It's like for his coffee cup. Hey guys, I got
I'm bady coffee.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Bill was sleeping in later he was he was on
Bill was on vacation. Dude. He was like rolling in
at like ten am. You guys, got any coffee in here?
I was like, dude, that was gone three hours ago.
That was good though.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah, that's funny, all right. I mean, I don't need
to take over the stream.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
No, No, it's all it's all you, man, It's all you.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
That is about all I've got. Steve, you want to
say a few things I was, I'll tell you right now, Steve.
I was blown away on how expensive it costs to
get a teacher through TI. I was to tell everyone
about TI and how much it costs per teacher because

(40:24):
I I've been living under a rock, you know, all
of these years.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
So so as most people probably know, TI is completely
donor funded. It doesn't come from general fund, it doesn't
come from your dues or your Diamond club donations. Is
people who specifically give money to basically bring teachers into
T into headquarters or now we're doing TI on the
road too, to try to accommodate that the number of weeks.

(40:52):
But it cost for for t I one, which is
the introductory course, it costs about forty five hundred dollars
teacher to bring to bring them to Connecticut train them
for a week. He mind, that's roping in their their
room and board. It's you know, I have to contract
some of the instructors, so that's part of that. In

(41:14):
there also their airfare travel, so it's about and you know,
and equipment. It's about forty five hundred dollars. And that
number is actually pretty well reduced considering a lot of
the vendors and a lot of manufacturers give us significant
discounts on the the stuff for the teachers, like RT systems,

(41:35):
and they give us a heck of a deal. Zoom
Spot gives us a heck of a deal. I don't
want to start naming them because inevitably I'll miss one.
But there's a bunch of of vendors and manufacturers that
really work with us to to help me stretch those dollars.
I can do it cheaper on the road, which we've
had to start doing next year. My budget's not approved yet.

(41:57):
We'll see how how badly I get beaten and I
go get back to the office tomorrow. But I'm proposing
to do twenty one tis next year. We did thirteen
this year, hopefully twenty one next year.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
A big sessions. Not teachers, that's sessions.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
I'm looking to hit four to four hundred and fifty
teachers next year.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
And how and realistically how many This is all theoretical,
I assume, but how many students does that translate to?

Speaker 3 (42:30):
How many?

Speaker 1 (42:30):
How many students does each teacher get to touch, so
to get to have in a classroom or something.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
Yeah, So if you look at it from the standpoint
of each teacher came out, our sweet spot is really
middle school to early high school. If you look at
each teacher conservatively teaches seventy five kids, and that's a
lot of people go, well, seventy five kids, so you
get seventy five kids per teacher, and that's actually not correct.

(42:58):
I get seventy five kids per teacher per year that
that teacher continues teaching. So if I get a teacher
early on in their their career, you know, year two
or three I've even had a couple first year teachers come,
I've possibly got that teacher for you know, twenty twenty
five years of teaching, so I don't math well on stream.

(43:21):
Somebody math that out for me. But you know, seventy
five times call it twenty years, so that's.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Seventy five times fifteen.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
So that one teacher gets fifteen hundred teachers. I'm going
to do four hundred or so teachers this year. We
also are constantly adding to the program. You know we've got.
When I took over four years ago, we had t
I one and t I two, which is remote sensors

(43:52):
and data gathering. We have since added high altitude balloons
and tracking pico balloons. We've got radio astronomy and space communications.
And Wayne is actually working on a course right now
that he's going to teach. That's our f security. So
you know, that's the The general idea is we all

(44:16):
know this from from being active in clubs. If you
don't keep everybody engaged doing something periodically, then you lose them.
So that's the idea with this is we have subsequent
courses they could come back for and kind of get
re energized and back into things again, and in some
of those later courses, we've changed the structure of it

(44:36):
so they don't have to go through sequentially anymore. So
you know, they can pick and choose what's what's interesting
to them.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Good.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
You know, it's amazing whenever. You know, Steve, you've been
there four years.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
You said in about a week and a half, it'll
be four years.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
Yeah, I mean, nothing like this existed at the ARL
before you got.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
Hired, right, t I has been there for a long time.
It was originally called the Big Project. I believe Ka
Craigie or past president, was a big part. Well I
know she was a big part of getting that set up.
But the problem with it is it didn't grow, it
didn't change. It stayed pretty much exactly the same for

(45:23):
twenty five years.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Yeah, okay, so it.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
Couldn't grow because, just to be honest, they were fishing
in the wrong pond to find teachers. They were going
to hamfests to find interested teachers.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
And yeah, you got to go where the teachers are at.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
Yeah, which which is why I've been home nine days
this summer.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Yeah, I mean it's just a it's a testament to
you know, you hear all of the negative things that
everyone hates about the ARL, But then you see these
success stories and nobody celebrates these success stories of all
of the kids, that all of the youth that are
now getting licensed because of Steve and his program and

(46:02):
his vision, and they are saving the hobby. Right. If
we didn't have more people in Ham Radio, there wouldn't
be any Ham radio, you know. So hats off to you, Steve,
for making this a great thing that the ARL is doing.
And I mean also hats off to the ARL for
hiring you, you know, and and seeing a vision that

(46:25):
you could accomplish to to get these these these programs
you know, changed and uh and you know accelerated.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Yeah, I would go ahead and say, you know, more
than hats off to me, it's it's hats off too.
I'm I'm fortunate. I've got a CEO who believes in
the vision, and then we've got a board of directors
who is unanimously behind it, you know, unaniously. We have
a new advocacy this year to inspire and educate young

(46:54):
people and so and that was the unanimous board decision.
So I can't do what I do without their support.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
So yeah, absolutely, absolutely, and of.

Speaker 5 (47:02):
Course the people that donate. I don't you know.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
Well, and I mean, Steve, the the the thing that
I'm very very uh surprised or not. I guess it's
not surprised, but it makes me happy that you know,
you were doing YouTube and teaching and whatnot, and then
you got higher on the r L and now you've
got kind of this donation support team, this very sub

(47:28):
I mean, I'm sure that you get you know, donations
out the wazoo, but you have this subset of YouTubers
that we do these these things and right and now
it's it's like this, this mind meld of Steve is
now just like all right, now I've got my little
minions and now we're going to we're gonna raise all
of these funds, you know, which I think is awesome.

(47:53):
It is awesome.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
You know, I talk everywhere that I speak, I.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
I didn't like, I didn't invite this guy.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
So oh well he's got a parachute behind him.

Speaker 6 (48:01):
So but look, look the word I heard was coffee.
I heard coffee. I felt inclined, So.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
Okay, but whoever was I?

Speaker 5 (48:15):
So when I when I speak to groups and stuff,
I always you know, I like to tell the story
of how I started, how I was doing this with
my Padawans and and you know, David Minster called me
up and he's like, bro, you got to do this
on a bigger scale. And and I always talk about
the fact that, you know, back to my first Huntsville Hamfest,
when you know, Kate m r d. Mike hands me

(48:37):
a box of radios for the kids, and you know,
kad Adam was given equipment. Everybody was sending my kids equipment,
and it's just it's kind of like the support was
there for the kids even then, and now it's just
gotten bigger. And you know, it speaks a lot too.
You're right, we get we get significant donations from a
lot of people for t I. But it really tells

(48:58):
a story to those people when they can see there's
a grassroots effort behind it. There's there's you know, people
that go to hamfests that drive up a mountain to
eat a burger and and throw some money in a
hat to try to get teachers to come through you.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
So right, ye, all right, I think we've Carlos, did
you have anything or you just.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Just no.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Coffee? Just like a like a damn parachute it's just crash.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
Exactly, just crashed in. Look, my two cents is that
what Good Game is doing and what Teachers Institute is
doing is a force multiplier. Right now, to those of
us that have been in the military service, we understand
what a force multiplier is. But for those of you
that have not been in let me explain it to
you in as simpler term as I can manage. Right, Uh,

(49:49):
A force multiplier is something that you can employ in
the battlefield that makes a higher effect than a single person. So,
for example, you take a you take a tow missile
and you launch it at a tank and you're taking

(50:13):
out a tank. You're taking more than just the tank out.
You are taking out the tank, the tank crew, the
medics that are going to go to assist that tank crew,
the survivors if there's any get out, the people in
the back end, and so on and so forth. So
one missile makes makes the enemy employee forty fifty sixty

(50:42):
people in recovering one human being. Right in our terms,
a force multiplier does that what he's doing is he's
teaching one teacher, and he's taking that one teacher and
getting it, getting that one person to teach a hundred students,

(51:04):
and those one hundred students then got into their world
and influence ten twenty other people a piece. And those
people may or may not turn into amateurs, right, But
what they're doing is every single one of these people
are learning everything about STEM from one teacher.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Right.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
So if you can get one teacher to go through TI,
you're influencing over one hundred people, if not over two
hundred people down the line. Right. So every single teacher
we're able to get through TI by helping good Game

(51:54):
means that we're getting a return on investment to us
that is incalculable for us, because these are the kids
that are gonna be the ones that get Look, look,
let's say out of one hundred students, ten get their license.

(52:18):
One is going to stay active, right. The other nine
are not going to stay active, and that's expected. However,
those nine are going to come back around once they
have the money and the time to invest into amateur radio,
which means you, one, I are going to have more

(52:40):
people to make contacts with once those people get into
their thirties and forties when the time and money is
available to them. Yet we still have that one that
never left right, So it is an absolute force multiplier. Look,
whether you.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Will, whether you believe great.

Speaker 6 (53:01):
Whether you believe this or not, it is a fact, right.
And the kid, the teachers that TI is teaching today
are going to make amateurs that are in it short term,
long term, and then longer term in ten or twenty years,

(53:24):
which is when people like me are going to be
too old to really impact the amateur game. Right, the
amateur hobby that we have. He is impacting them now,
and those people are going to in turn impact down
the line. So if you want more contacts in more

(53:47):
places and more grid squares support good game, you know,
So that that's a force multiplier in as clean a
term as I can manage. Maybe somebody else can do better.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
No, I think you you nailed it.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
I think that's good. Right, that's really good. I think
it's time for Kyle to do the big reveal. All right,
you're ready, so yeah, I think I'm ready for this.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
So okay, so let's go down the line. Here we
we took in two thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight
dollars in cash in PayPal. The summary on the PayPal
is two thousand eight hundred ninety eight dollars and four
cents in my Venmo, I have one thousand, ninety eight dollars.

(54:39):
I spent six hundred dollars in groceries. If you add
up all that stuff and subtract six hundred dollars and
for groceries, I'm looking at a total of six thousand,
two hundred and thirty four dollars.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Holy cow, yep, that's a teacher in a hand. It
was it was a fifty was it fifty six hundred
dollars before this stream started?

Speaker 6 (55:02):
Way true and a half people.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
I left the mountain thinking I was going to write
a check for forty eight hundred dollars, and we're at
sixty two hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Jason, we were talking about it around the campsite, the
forty eight hundred dollars, and we were all really excited
about that.

Speaker 6 (55:20):
Jason featured the QR code real quick.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Yeah, it was right a second ago.

Speaker 6 (55:25):
To the people that are watching the stream, it is simple.
The number can easily turn into two teachers if you
scan that QR code and venmo or PayPal Kyle ten bucks, okay,
ten bucks. Ten bucks doesn't mean crap to you. It

(55:46):
means a world of difference to TI.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
So go do it.

Speaker 6 (55:51):
Every one of you that's watching, it's a bunch of
you watching go venmo or PayPal, Kyle ten bucks, ten
ten electricist electric Let's get it done.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
She's there, she's there with you. So the next time
I do a super chat live stream, I'm inviting Carlos.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
I was about to say, Carlos. Next time I'm trying
to do.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
On the TBS.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
He's raising on he's getting lubricated while he's doing it.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
So this is a this is a lovely twelve year
old GLENMORI. Oh that's a tasty Oh man, let me
tell you great choice.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
So I okay, thanks everyone, thank you. We we had
a goal. So last year we gave Steve good game
and the teachers. It's a two twenty four hundred dollars.
The goal was to give him three thousand dollars. That
was the goal. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna blow that

(56:52):
out of the water. So absolutely, I you know, I'm
not sure what to say, but you know, if if
we can give seven thousand dollars next year, that would
blow my mind. But you know, we got three hundred
and forty days to do it. So thank you guys.
Six hundred and six hundred six two hundred and thirty

(57:13):
four dollars.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Right, wow, that's great, that's awesome, so we are happy
to do it. I don't remember whose idea it was.
I think it was my idea to do this poda
thing like five years ago, but it was not my
idea to start taking donations for food that we would
cooking for people. I think that might have been your
idea originally.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
Kyle, I think so.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
I think, yeah, I think you came up with that,
and it was a fantastic idea. So thank you for
doing that.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
You're welcome the thing it morphed.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
So yeah, I did.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
The way that this thing morphed was I cooked a
bunch of food for Orlando for because remember I got
denied that burger. I tell that story, yes.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
Yes, sEH yeah, yeah. Have you seen Have you heard
this story?

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Steve?

Speaker 5 (58:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Okay, okay, all right, okay.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
I was.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
I was at Orlando and everyone's like, oh, you go
down to this large bus and you take a ride
and there's a there's a camp, there's a club, and
they're cooking burgers. So they're giving burgers away and I'm like, yeah,
I'm gonna go get a burger. I'm so hungry and
I've already had one. And then Jason went down there,
Frank went down there. Like five people went down down there,

(58:28):
and they're walking towards our camp, you know, our camp,
and they're like.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Oh, there's a burger.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
The burgers are down there.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
So I literally I roll up and I'm like standing
there like a puppy, you know, trying to trying to
get a burger. And the guy staring at me and uh,
I said, can I have a burger? And he goes,
what do you mean? And I said I heard that
there's free burgers and the guy looked at me like
I had a third eye. I was like, there's no
frek burgers here. And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
You gave me all, you gave all my friends a

(58:55):
free burger, and they're like, we didn't give anybody a
free burger. I'm like, what is.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Going on here?

Speaker 4 (59:01):
And so I got denied a free burger and I'm like,
you know what, next year, I'm gonna bring my Blackstone.
I'm gonna cook for everyone, and everyone's gonna get a free.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Burger and and the burgers that Kyle could. He did
smash burgers that year and they were better than the
freeburgers the year Befrior. Anyway, so you know it's.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Kyle is morphed into like I'm gonna cook and yeah,
but with with all of the vacations that we take,
Frank and I cook and I'm just like, you know what,
I'm just gonna cook for everyone that's at Huntsville. And
that's how it started.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Look understand it.

Speaker 6 (59:31):
Look for those of you that don't understand or know Kyle,
Kyle doesn't do anything at half measures. Okay, true, Kyl
is either you're all in or you're all out. And
if he says he's gonna cook, he's good. I'm gonna
I'm gonna cook mediocre, He's gonna cook good. So yeah,
I mean, this is Kyle.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
So anyway, that's how it started.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Well, I think forgot about that story until y'all brought
it up again.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
I'm still hurt. I don't know what the club's name,
but I remember the dude's face and whenever I asked
him if I could have a burger and he told
me no, I was like, well, crap, what do I
do now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
I don't think they were. I don't think they were
cooking there last year.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
This year, no, I didn't see him, seen him a while,
but I walked by, and I think I was the
first one to find it. And they're like, yeah, we
got free burgers. Let's tell you what.

Speaker 7 (01:00:21):
I was like, all right, sure, and I told everyone
the Kyles is like I just got he came back
so defeated, and I'm like, oh my god, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
I came back to the like where, you know, like
I told everyone I'm going to get a burger, and
then I come back without a burger and everyone's like,
where is your burger? And I'm like they told they
denied me.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
I'm gonna have her Uber eat it. Uber Eats is
gonna bring me a burger.

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
I'm getting a burger, demit.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Not only did I not get a burger, but everyone
asked me what where my burger was? So I didn't
tell them I didn't get a burger.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
Oh that was funny. That was that was funny.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
That was a crazy year.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
It was a crazy year anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Anyway. Uh, once again, hats off to all of you
who Yeah, all of you guys who donated everyone who attended.
The crowd was larger than we expected, and there was
a lot more people there than we expected, and that's
a very a very good thing. We were really excited
to see so many people show up for that. So

(01:01:30):
we are absolutely going to do it again next year.
I'm not sure exactly what it's going to look like.
We're going to have to make some growth changes, which
is also a good thing, So stay tuned.

Speaker 6 (01:01:41):
I'm already punning.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Look, I had to think. By the way, thank you, Frank.

Speaker 6 (01:01:46):
The only reason I was able to make coffee is
because Frank brought his camp stove.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
My dumbass, and as good as like, we're an hour
into the stream now.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
My dumb ass. My wife has an induction plate she
uses for canning, and I was like, oh, this is
perfect because an induction plate is gonna make real quick,
you know, work of boiling water. Right. So I take
my two mocha pots and I put them in my pack,

(01:02:20):
and I take the induction plate and put it in
the in the car and whatnot. And it is not
until Saturday, Friday morning, and I'm taking the stuff out.
Steve ko four a fl looks at me and goes
what are you doing? And I said, I'm getting things
ready for coffee. And he looks at the induction plate

(01:02:40):
and looks at the Mocha pot and he goes, aren't
those Mocha pots mete out of aluminum?

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
Yes, cast aluminum.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
He goes, that's not going to work together. And I
said what, And then my caffeine deprived brain goes, you
dumb ass. Right, So now I'm trying to figure out
how am I gonna make coffee?

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
Because I have the Mocha pods, that's all I brought.
I didn't bring my aero presses. I have three aero presses, right,
but I didn't bring them. So I'm like, oh shit,
how am I going to do this? And then I
started thinking maybe I'll use the griddle, I'll use the blackstone.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
And take you so long to boil water on that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Black exactly exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:03:30):
So we get back, we get to the pavilion and
your stove is there, and I'm like, who's stove is
in there? And somebody's like, that's Franks. And I'm like, hey, Frank,
I'm stealing your stove.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
And Frank's like, I'm not.

Speaker 6 (01:03:42):
Cooking for another hour.

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
But solidly for two.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
Hours, just making pod after pod after pod after bought
a coffee. So look, next year, I'm coming with my
own camp stove, my own propane. That way, I'm not
stealing franks gear. Thank you, Frank. I appreciate him.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Man, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Buddy, problem, wake up about it. I just need you
to wake up about an hour earlier than you did
this year, so that Bill and Bill, myself and everyone
can get the coffee we need when we wake up
and needs to be ready when we wake up.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Well you know, you know, look.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
Get on, get on your game, dude, come on, let's go.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
Look.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
Look, Bill just sent me that. I just read you
what Bill was sending me in Huntsville to.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Me, it's a vacation and I don't want to wake
up before seven in the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Vacation. Oh dude, I was. I was awake at six
am every day during that trip. Oh no, no, woke up. Okay,
Well that's because you don't time you know, it's the
same time zone.

Speaker 6 (01:04:46):
At ease that ship, okay, at ease it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
Yeah, I slept in. I slept in a couple of times.
I got up around seven, took my shower, but every
time I got up and I was walking to the
shower house. I saw Will come on by up coffee Phil.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
All right, guys, we're gonna wrap this up. Thank you
to everybody. Thank you participated.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Thank you to uh Kyle, you did all the legwork, dude,
thanks a lot to you as well.

Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
The QR code is still in the stream. Okay, people
know the code is still valid. Rewind scan that. Make
Kyle work more, Make Kyle write another check. It's a
good game, all right, And they might Colin work more. Look, look,
it's not on me. I'm not doing the work.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Make car work.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:05:43):
I got I gotta go, guys, I gotta go. I
gonna wash my hair or something.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Nice.

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
Nice work, Kyle, nice walk.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Yeah, yeah, Kyle, Kyle. Uh, it was a huge part
in making all this happen. And uh and yeah, we're
gonna do it again next year. Frank did a lot too,
and uh, a lot of people who who are not
on the live stream tonight, but you're in the chat. Yeah,
I really appreciate everybody who had a hand and doing
really enjoy all.

Speaker 5 (01:06:12):
Those people flipping burgers and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Yeah, we're gonna definitely but I did.

Speaker 5 (01:06:16):
Not realize Noel was, you know, even shorter than you, Jason.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
She's down there, yeah she is.

Speaker 6 (01:06:21):
You know, look, Mama, Noel is the girl master. Don't
mess with that woman.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
She will kill you with a purer.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
She might.

Speaker 6 (01:06:28):
She'll slice you with a pet with a spatul that
she uses flip burgers, right, So don't mess with that
woman's Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
I am going to take you up on that ghost
pepper next year. Oh that's fine, you are going to
have a ghost pepper. Be fun.

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
I will bring you a pepper for some For some people,
I'm deep.

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
Like I said, I'm dehydrating him in my dehydrator now
to make my own spices.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
All right, guys, seventy three to all, have a good week,
be watching for some special announcements this week. I'm just
gonna say that this is not the lastlast thing we're
going to give the Team's.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Institute big news coming out of Ham Radio two point
zero this week.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
Not the not the last thing we're going to do.
So So seventy three to all, everyone, have a good
evening and we will talk soon. Excited later