S8 E24 - Low Country Relic Hunting with Brian White of Southern Relic Adventures - Relics Radio show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everyone, we're ELX Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to another Wednesday night here, coming to you from
northern Colorado. Here on Relx Radio. I'm DK with Adventures
and Dirt. If you're just joining us, welcome, Welcome to
Relx Radio anywhere in our eighth season.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Can you believe it?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
You got a plenty of opportunities to go back and
listen to tons of audio versions of our past shows
going back eight years. Just search relicx Radio anywhere you
find podcasts and you'll be able to find Relicx Radio.
I want to bring in my host, my co host
tonight Tony. Let's bring him in and see what he's
up to tonight.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Tony. You out there up, buddy, Buddy, cheers? How are you.
I'm doing well. Yeah, another Wednesday Night. Congrats you made
it to Wednesday and it did we did?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
We We missed last week. We kind of had a
we had an exciting fun Wednesday night, but we weren't
able to join you guys here on Relicx Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, we can touch on our real quick. I'm sure
people know everything going on with it, but uh, we
had a little sick of it Attle watch party. We
were all at for Expedition Unknown and we got to
see our mugs on Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates on
Discovery Channel for about ten minutes. So it was the
three of you know, two of us with Jeff Lubert

(01:21):
and uh, it was a good time. How many people
do we have up there at the watch party? Probably
probably twenty twenty twenty or so. People had some pizza,
had some whiskey. It was a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
It was a good time making old fashions. Yeah, people
are asking questions, people are really kind of excited to
see it.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
It was It was a lot of fun and we
were a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Like, we didn't know how it was going to turn out,
so we were like, oh, you know, did not have
her nails?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Like what we know?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Are they going to make us look like complete We're
already idiots, but are they going to make us look
like complete and utter idiots?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I think it turned out well. And if anybody hasn't
seen it, go back. You know, you can search for
Expedition Unknown on Discovery Channel on all of the you
know streaming sites. See if you guys can see I
think it's what episode three on season fifteen, and you know,
if you're not too interested in the whole show, fast
forward to about the last fifteen minutes or so and

(02:17):
you can you can check us out, but we would
encourage you to watch the whole thing. It's actually a
really good story about Buffalo Bill Cody, and very well
put together. Everything ties in really well. It's a great production.
I think we had a great time. I had a
fantastic time. Yeah, the experience was worth it. Yeah, you
didn't make the show. I mean we thought maybe we
wouldn't even been cut into the show at one point, right, right,

(02:40):
the experience still was amazing. Like I do that again.
I think you said you would too, right, Yeah, oh,
absolutely absolutely, And we're talking now. You know, if the
homeowner the landowners are listening, which I think they are
popping in on us every once in a while on
social media. But we got on the horn today and
finalizing up a date to head back up to that

(03:00):
area and see what else we can find away from
the production side, and I'm sure you and I will
be able to produce something for our channels, but uh,
you know, some something different to be kind of you know,
the first time back. You know it's gonna be it's
gonna be a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
No, multiple ultiple camera shoots with drone shots.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
We're gonna have to work for our footage now.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Dangducers and people giving us massages and feeding us.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Lunch. Yeah, none of that's delivery. Yeah no, none of that.
You gotta you gotta bring up the gatorade and and
the uh the chips.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Right, I'm toting. I'm toting gatorade and Bologney. That's what
I'm toting.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
That's funny. There we go.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
We got yeah, who we got in the chat here
so far? Let me see who was first in tonight?
I see metal Sharks beat everyone.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
He's like the.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
First one in. Of course, you're that's crazy. Thanks for
joining us. Bill Hayes, coming right behind him, says, how.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Do you all?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Jason detect SD Jason, I might be seeing another couple
of weeks here. Oh, make some time to get together
when I visit South Dakota here in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Good good, he's got some he's got some good stuff
up there. If you guys aren't watching detech Dusty's channel,
you got to check him out. He's got he's on
some good stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
He posted a printing play today. That was really cool.
It got me flying down the rabbit hole again like.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
That was on Facebook?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Right, yeah, sure, fifty eighty two adventure, fifty to eighty adventure.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Whoever that guy is. Hey, look he's here, the history Digger. Rob.
There we go, Rob.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, welcome, Welcome, evening folks, looking forward to this one.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
How about digging Darryl? Hello Darryl. I don't know if
we've seen him here before. Man oh, I think I
think our guest may have brought in some his fan
club with him. So well, welcome to see some new faces.
Hopefully you Hopefully you guys like the production, kind of
like the format and everything. We're here every Wednesday night,
so you know, stick around.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, yeah, it should be fine. We're giving away three
hundred bucks in about three minutes.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
How much what we pay for our audience? Yep, chairs
a five miles. Good to see you. Thanks.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
He was asking later in the chat if we saw
his canteen that he got that was on the cover.
I've seen a few posts about that Facebook. I think
even yeah, yeah, it was good stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
We should have him on some time. Chat about that. Absolutely, absolutely,
get ahold of more people and then we'll get onto
our guest, uh Ohio, fred l Freddle Fried Fred it's
fred L probably fred l Ohio, fred L. Right, and
and uh we got uh a litill bigger Hello Jim.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Did you see his cabbage patch at all? Character or
whatever he had made for him? Yeah, garbage trail kid,
garbage kid, Yeah, cabbage patch all.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's what they're off of there. It's it's it's kind
of the Yeah, Copper Joe is saying hi to everybody.
Welcome in, Copper Joe. Always good to have you on
the show. Uh yeah, Oh, mister Jim Steele, Hello again,
welcome on, thanks for coming on.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
DC Digging everyone. Great guest tonight, Robert Thompson, how do
you hold from Nebraska? Welcome, Welcome, just up north of
US here, not too far, probably two and a half
hours to the border.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
There you go, you're right here, so welcome everyone.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Good to see you. Wednesday Night Relics Radio. Great guest tonight.
Can't wait to have him on.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Is he ready? Is he ready to go? I think
he's ready. Let's bring that guy in. Looking forward to talk.
Welcome to RELICX Radio Southern Relic Adventures. Mister Bryan White.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
You doing Brian, what's the guys, big covers?

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Love it?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Love it the Big Game Cocks fan.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Huh Yes, South Carolina all the way. I'm South Carolina,
true bread, born and raised. Love where I live. It's
it's a beautiful state.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Never been to no, but I would love to go there.
I mean, I love, I mean, I'm you know, I
bet there's a lot of history there. And if we
actually had somebody that knew about a lot of history
from South Carolina that we could have on the show,
I bet we learned a lot about it.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah. Well, let me tell you this place is awesome.
And and I live what I considered a big ground
zero for everything. I'm about a mile from the beach,
so I don't don't live far from the beach so
I can go beach hunting. I've got civil war sites,
I've got Revolutionary war sites, and I've got all the

(07:55):
other things that everybody else had. This two parts old houses,
all those things too. So yeah, I feel like I
live in the Goldie what I call the Goldilocks zone.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
That's right, the Goldilocks. What what is it? The goldilocks,
The Goldilocks zone. The zone.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Sounds like it. Man got a little bit of history
around he there. It is fantas American, all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Probably it is a beautiful area and it's just great
for metal detecting. And of course, you guys know I
love the metal detect that I started my channel, really
started my social media stuff about It's probably been about
four or five years ago that I really sort of
took off with a lot of this stuff, right about

(08:38):
the time COVID was coming to an end, really and
and then it just it just exploded.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Why did you do that, Brian? Why'd you start getting
on social Not everyone does that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, believe it or not. And I know I told
you guys this earlier. I was a I was a hit.
I'm a history teacher still am. I grew up, of
course in South Carolina, deep roots here, got a lot
of family history. I love family history stuff too, so
I meant really big into knowing about the past. And
my parents were really good about taking me places when

(09:12):
I was growing up, and it was mainly history places,
and so that's what really got me interested in historical things.
And and of course you know, I just fell in
love with it. And of course I've got a I've
got a master's in history, and I've been doing this
for a while and I love what I do. And

(09:33):
so about twenty twenty one, right about the time COVID
was coming to an end, my kids said, hey, Coach White,
you need to you need to start a you need
to start a TikTok.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
And so, believe it or not, I started with a TikTok.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
I started with a tick. Now I didn't have a
YouTube channel. I started my YouTube channel I actually in
twenty seventeen, but I really wasn't doing much with it,
and so I started with a TikTok and I did
that for a while. I took off and I said,
try some of these other things. And so I went
over to Facebook and Instagram and I started sharing my

(10:08):
medal of taking Adventures and then that took off too.
And then I came back to YouTube and I started
really focusing on the YouTube aspect. And the YouTube has
really taken off too.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Did you start doing those YouTube dances that they do
on you start?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
You could tell us we're all friends. Here.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Here's the thing. Think about how powerful this is. I
can walk into my classroom right now and I can
look at every one of those kids sitting out in
those desks and their high school kids now, and I
could say, you know what, I got more fun and yes,

(10:50):
so yeah, so I've got you know, That's where it
sort of started. But my real passion is history. My dad,
when I was growing up, he used to take me
relic hunting. We really looked for old bottles, and if
you can see behind me, you'll see I've got I've
got a little thing of bottles and things that I
found over the years.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
I see an onion bottle sitting back there.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, there's an onion bottle back there. There's a few
South Carolina dispensary. I might even show that to you
guys in just a few minutes. But just a lot
of special history in those bottles. And I've got one
of the very first Coca Cola bottles that was ever
done in my area. So those bottles were really really
big for me. And then I got into metal detecting.

(11:34):
Back in twenty eleven was when I really sort of
started metal detecting a lot. And my dad brought me
a metal detecting when I was growing up, but I
didn't play with it that much. But around twenty eleven,
I started with it and then I just I just
took to it like a fish out of water. And again,
I live in the perfect area for what I do,

(11:55):
and I love looking for history. I love looking for artifacts,
and I love looking and I love talking to machines.
I've become like a you know, like I just understand
what these machines are actually saying to me. And so,
you know, I love sharing that knowledge and what I'm
seeing with the machines as much as as doing uh

(12:16):
the avengers and digging the relics and artifacts. That's become
a big part of what I did too, and I
love it. I just love it.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
What was the what was that first machine that you got?

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Believe it or not. I'm just like everybody else. I
started with an ACE Pro too fifty.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes I did too, not quite everybody, but yeah, okay,
two of them have the important people did, right.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
And so I had an AH two fifty. And then
I went from the AH two fifty to a garrett
at Pro and I used that for a while. And
then I went from the garrett at Pro to a mind.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Labby Track mind Lab ex Caliber to hunt the beach
because I lived at the beach and I wanted to
hunt the beach and couldn't really hunt it very well
with the at pro. So yeah, so I started using
that and and then that's when I got hooked on
the XP train. And I've been a strong user of

(13:15):
XP products really since about twenty fifteen. So yeah, I
love XP products, and that's just become you know, my
sort of my main go to machine. But I use
all machines. I use Garrett, I use Nocta, I use
mind Lab, and I use XP. So and I've got

(13:37):
pretty much if you see back here behind me, I've
got about I've got about twenty machines back here behind me,
and most of the major manufacturers and so on, I've
got their machines. I love testing them. I love and
you know, giving instruction on them. Of course, my natural
thing is I'm a teacher, so that makes it a
lot of fun. And I love of explaining and helping people.

(14:01):
That's just what I love doing. And and uh, you
know that's what my channel is about. Of course, it's
about me finding things, but it's also about you know,
instructing and giving help and demonstrations of of these machines
and all the things that they're pop that they're capable
of do.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, Rob the history Digger give you a nice compliment here.
He said that I can't load it up. I can't
load that up, Tony without me being in as nadmin.
He said, Brian's one of the most knowledgeable detectors out
there today, swings and talks about a range of detectors
and he's learned, He's learned a lot from you. So
that's that's a very nice compliment.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
That's a huge compliment. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
And Rob is very knowledgeable too, so don't don't We'll
don't let him. Well, yeah, I know, we bounce a
lot of ideas and things off of each other. We've
become really good friends, and uh, you know, that's what
it's all about, too, is friendships, building community. You know,
That's that's again, that's what our channel is about. And

(14:59):
we're to instruct and we're here to help people find
you know. That's that's what I believe this hobby should
be about, and that's what I try to do on
my chant. I love doing that.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, Yeah, I wanted to mention. Johnny Bottles in the
chat also said I done some awesome relics US and
Brian's Sweeper program so.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
I was checking out that video of age trying check it. Yeah, yeah,
they don't have that loaded up, so I may check
that out and try it on my land.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
All programs are different, right brain, They're all different.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
They are, and one and one thing I will say
about the program thing, even though I've got that up there,
I'll come. I mean, I'll be the first to say
it may not work for you. You know, you may
go out there and you may say, well, I don't
really like this. And again it's dependent on site. It's
dependent on you know, your type of hunting conditions and

(15:50):
what you're used to. I do those videos because I
know people, you know, a lot of people are instant gratification.
I want it now, and you know, and I don't
mind doing that. But I also try to preface myself
with saying, hey, look, you know, here's this program. If
you want to use it, try it. If it works

(16:10):
for you, that's great. If it doesn't, then that's fine too.
You know, maybe you can make modifications to it, or
maybe there's something else that'll work better for you. But again,
we do those types of programs just to give people
some idea about some settings that could possibly work. I
just got through telling you my soil in my area

(16:31):
is real sandy. I have mild soil. I don't deal
with mineralization. My soul is probably you're probably gonna get
the most depth that you're going to get out of
a machine. And my soul so again, you know, I
try to clarify all of that whenever I show any
sort of test or I put up a program or
what I'm using. Hey, you can go try this, but

(16:53):
this may not work for you. But if you want
to try it here it is. You can take it
out and you can you can try it yourself.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Right. Yeah, we've got a good spot, Ken, you might
have to try that sweeper program. We've got a good
spot that we've been kind of hitting. We think twenty
twenty five is gonna be good year for us in
this location, but that that soil is very sandy. I
remember going up there when it was cold out. It
didn't freeze over, it was it was really a night,
you know, and rugs look fantastic coming out of there,

(17:21):
So I Ken might be able to And on the show,
we only say XP. We don't say the D word
at all because you get I know, I'm sitting with
two XP guys now, So as long as you guys
don't say the D word, we're all good. I don't
have to say it. I don't have to say it,
just point to it.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well. And I've got a very special relationship with XP.
They've become they've become they've really become my go to
sponsor more so in a lot of cases. But they
are super, super great to deal with. They really listen
to the things that I tell them or I explained
to them sometimes and sometimes they don't, you know. But

(18:03):
but again I try to give them things that I
think that can help make the machine better. I have
done some testing for them. In fact, I'm in the
process of doing some testing for them. So I do
a variety of things, and I do it for all manufacturers,
not just XP. I try to help them out as
much as I can, give them my feedback on what

(18:24):
I'm seeing, what's what's going on, and so on.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
So but I.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Really love I love doing that part of it too.
The only problem is I don't have enough time. I've
got a full time job and that that's getting ready
to take over again in another two weeks. And you know,
I won't have as much time to devote to this,
But I really love doing that part of it as well.

(18:49):
I love the video. You know, a lot of YouTubers say, hey,
I don't you know, I hate editing, and it becomes
it can become a grind. I'll be the first to
admit it. But I've actually gotten where I love the editing.
I've got like about eight different cameras, i got four drums,
I've got the setup that I had here in my
office and all this stuff going on. So but I

(19:12):
actually like that. I think it's fun. I mean, I've
always been a tech tech nerd sort of too to
go along with all of that, so it's sort of
just gravitates to what I did.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, and throw a plug in there.
I know you do a lot of live streaming. When
are you when are you live on your channel?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
We do. We do our live streams on Friday night.
We did not have one. Last Friday night, of course,
was July fourth, and I was with family. I have
my grandkids here. I am a grandfather, so I had
I just had.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
I just had number six born last week and we
got number seven and next month.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Yeah, you can't go so you guys get it. Oh yeah, yeah,
So but I found out that I really realized what
the reason is that God gave grandkid or gave kid.
It's the younger people.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I found that out absolutely.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
And they were with me for almost seven almost seven days,
six days, and I was war out when they left it.
So yeah, so yeah, it gets uh it can it
can wear you down in a hurry, can sure.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, but you appreciate every second of it.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
It's where you're just like, oh yeah, I can't wait
to do that again.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
No, yeah, and and you know, and the football season
is coming up, so I'm hoping that, uh, they live
near even though I'm not a I'm not a Clemson fan.
I'm I'm a Gag Cops fan. But Clemson is in
the upstate of South Carolina, so they live up in
that part of the state. But I will go to
a couple of those football games just so I can
be with them, you know really, which is a lot

(20:50):
of fun.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, that's that's all. It's fun. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
I think when people go out different sites, you know,
they try to set their machines out. You're learning your
machine or trying to set it up, like I got
a program that I use up at this uh, these
these sites we've been hunting lately. I call it my
X ray program. It's a customer together and man, I'm
telling you what. It just it changed some things, right Tony,
like you saw, Oh my gosh, Tony. Tony now is

(21:14):
like I'll find some items heavy heavy iron sights.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah, we're always on. Isn't that X ray program?

Speaker 2 (21:20):
After I pulled something out and I'm like, man, it's
just killing it, you know, And it's just you know,
but I wouldn't. I probably wouldn't use that program on
a big, wide open kind of field that didn't have
all that iron, So I would us something different, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
So most of my sites are really high iron concentrated sides,
usually with these hand forged square nails that were they're
they're there. It's brew. I mean, I'm just honest.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
It's brutal and it's you know, you're going to that
side and this can go on for you know, for
for five six hundred RTI I've had to go on
even farther than that.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
But it's just machine gun what I call machine you know,
the whole time, and you know that's uh that's where
I live. That's my that's my zone is getting into
that iron and just picking markets from that iron. And
of course, you guys know XP's release stage chef two call,

(22:24):
and so I've been I've been, you know, experimenting with it,
trying to get it finally tuned to what I do.
And of course the new version three software has sort
of changed up a lot of things for a lot
of people. And for those people that do have XP
machines that are on here right now, please be patient.

(22:45):
We are still in beta version in in version three,
and it's only going to get better, and they're working
to refine that and get that more fine tuned as
we go through over over the next few months. Be
patient with that. If if you don't want to do
a beta version software, then then don't do it. Stay

(23:08):
with two, stay with version two point oh or one
point one, or if you like point seven one. There's
still a lot of people on point seven to one.
I even know there's some people that are on point six
oh the XP machine. So if you don't want to
deal with the beta version and deal with bugs and stuff,
you know, for right now, that's fine. Don't you don't

(23:28):
have to download it. If you do get the HF
two call, though, you definitely have to download version three,
so you're going to have to go with the beta version.
But just remember there are bugs in it, and that's
that's the main thing that I want to make sure
that clarify for people is just you know, know that

(23:49):
you are getting a beta version of that software, and
eventually that software will get its final version. So be
patient with any of you have the HF two call.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
No, I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna wait.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
I like the idea of it being a sniper coil
that I can tune down and not use it for
what it has the capability of being used for now.
We do have a lot of gold tailing piles here
in Colorado, just we don't hit them a lot yet.
If I had the hfoil, I'd probably be more tempted
to go up to them tailing piles and see what
I can pull out of them. But right now, I'm

(24:24):
gonna wait. I'm gonna wait, Brown.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Well, well there it is right there, And Tony, that's
perfectly good, because again you know it is in beta version,
but it is coming, and you guys, you know, you
guys will have the final version, which I'm hoping is
gonna be real soon. XP hasn't officially announced when that's
gonna happen, but again, we're still in the process of

(24:50):
getting through these beta software and getting this thing sort
of fine tuned. But it's a great call. Like you said,
as a sniper, Cole, and you brought up a great point,
it's a situational call, and I think people need to
understand that too. This is not going to be your
everyday call. Okay, just to clarify that, this call is

(25:12):
made for tight spaces, it's made for high ami areas,
It's going to be made for small pieces of gold,
and I know that that's probably what That's probably what Ken,
That's probably what you're going to be interested in more
so than anything. But I think it fits all of
those needs very very well. I have run it up

(25:36):
to one hundred and twenty killer herbs and I do
have the video of that, and believe it or not,
the death is not that bad at one hundred and
twentys with this machine, so you can go check out
my videos with that. But again, this call I think
hits all of those categories that I just mentioned.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, I think a lot of people get those, you know,
new coil comes out like that. It's been a while
since sort of XP's come out with something new and shiny,
so they get they see that coming out and they think, oh,
I got to get the latest and greatest, it's the best,
it's the best coil and the latest and greatest XP
came out with, not knowing that, not knowing that it's
not really meant to replace your stocks standards, not going

(26:20):
to be your main coill. So they'll do that and
they'll go, my gosh, it's nothing like what I'm used
to right, And.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Let me say this too, the nine inch f MF
coal is just as good in a lot of ways,
and it gives great separation in a lot of ways.
This call gives you an advantage that the nine inch
FMF col won't give, and that is getting into those
really tight spaces, you know, like there's I've got a

(26:48):
video up and it's usual it's actually using the Garrett
vortext out in the middle of this cornfield. Well, you
can get in between those corn sauce, I mean the
corners to my shoulders on, but you can get in
the middle of those those corn stalks with this and
I actually ran this coal out in that field didn't
find anything because I'd already hunted it pretty well with

(27:10):
the vortex. And but what I'm saying is that that's
where this coal is gonna shine, for those really tight
spots where you're going to get into those types of
areas and you know, your your round cole wouldn't have
gotten in between some of those stalks. I know that
you get up close to a tree, you know, and

(27:31):
you've got maybe another little shrub tree off to the side,
you can get right in between that. This cole could
also And I know my buddy Rob's gonna love to
hear this. This coal could be a silver sniffer, is
what Rob rob So said. Yeah, yeah, it could be
a silver sniffer. You know you could. You can run

(27:52):
it in that lower frequency max of twenty nine and
you can you can lower the reactivity, you get as
much depth as you can out of it, and it
will hit those silver coins. And of course I gave
you guys, showed you guys one of the fines that
I found running this call, and that was a nova constellatio.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Don't you want to talk about that?

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yeah? Sure, I'd be glad to so and there it
is right there.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Now, come on.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
That coin is the first coin that was ever minted
by the US government in seventeen eighty five. Wow, And
we've actually found two of those on this permission that
we've been on.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Now.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
This one was in a different location. But I was
just so excited to find it because I never expected
to dig this in that spot because everything that came
out of there was eighteen hundreds. But that was found
with the HF two coll And the reason why I
knew it was going to be a coin was because
of the target idea and that beta version of software

(29:03):
that I was running rings up A ninety nine and
you know, I knew that A ninety nine was going
to be a coin. And so there was. It was
laying right there, and I had walked that side a
few times and most everything that came out of that
side was eighteen hundreds. And to dig a seventeen eighty

(29:24):
five coin off of that side. And I believe the
reason why that coin was there, I believe that the
old road actually had come through it and someone had
dropped it coming down that old colonial road.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
You want to hear something terrible, It's just something really
terrible about me myself personally, But I I just okay.
So we're here in Colorado. First of all, the type
of sits Tony and we Tony and I hunt. We
are just not finding coins, man, We're finding old relics.
They didn't drop a lot of money here in these
you know, Pioneer Prairie West, you know location. Sometimes we

(30:02):
can find some eighteen fifty stuff, but just not too
many coins. I have a hard time digging ninety nine signals, man,
I would probably pass on that because I just know
that it was never going to be anything.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Have I passed up on some large silvers, maybe, but
I just man, I have a hard time digging those signals.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
The reason why it was ringing up that high was
because of this coal. This call elevates the target ideas
right now, and that's something that XP's working on to
try to get some of that remedy. The only reason
why I dug that, and I'm like, you can I
probably wouldn't have dug that because a ninety nine usually

(30:45):
means big iron or some big piece of trash. It's
just down there. But I can tell by the way
this thing sounds it's got a it's got a smooth
sound to it. But I also knew that that ninety
nine that I had tested in my test garden, I

(31:06):
knew that that was a coin, and so that's the
only reason why I dug this target. Otherwise I would
have been, like you, Ken, I would have walked away
from us tough and said, hey, you know, that's probably
a big piece of trash. But again, and this is
one thing I'm going to stress the people having a
test garden can do wonders for you, and I strongly

(31:28):
suggest people to have that and go out and test
things yourself. Don't rely on my testing, don't rely on
anybody on YouTube. You need to go out and do it,
and you need to test it and figure out how
this thing is going to work in your area. And
I strongly suggest that if you do that, that can
pay huge dividends. Just like I just said, I would

(31:51):
have probably not dug that, you know, if I didn't
know this call and I didn't know what those those
those target ideas were, and I didn't know what that
sound was.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, I did it because a lot of sniper coils
give you that right, it's a narrower coil. I got
a more tighter signal, different sound, sharper edges like you know,
it's not deep, you know, like I used to have
my technology too, was my baby.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yeah for many years. It's a wonderful orange puck. You
ever swing that for Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Well I never swung that, but I mean I know
a lot of people that loved it, and I know
it just.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
It just would reach out and just grab you by
the nose and say you have to dig me right
now because there's no doubt in your mind when you
hit a good signal with that little puck. And I'd
imagine to be a saying with any like Tony, what
are you swinging now on that Manicore? You got that
newe I got?

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah? Wow, And tell me I'll be honest, sweetie. I
love the M nine coal. The non coal on that
man Core.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
Is by far theep to me, it's one of the
best hoals that's that's been introduced by my lab. I'm
just going to say it, and I love and I've
got that machine too.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I run that. You can go and see the videos
with me using the manicors and the Manicorp is just
a wonderful machine. And just to talk a little bit
about the Manicors.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
We don't have to. We can go back to the
day is too anything? No, No, we just spent thirty We
just spent thirty minutes on the XPD. We can talk
about the Manicor now. Bring it on, you know, we
go back and forth right because the man Corps. We'll
just do We'll do this. We'll do this, Brian, We'll

(33:39):
mute Ken so he can't overseell you and I can
talk about the Manicor now.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (33:44):
Well, the the manicle with that nine inch call is
about four.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
I mean, I think that's one of my lab's best
holes that they've ever made for machine. I'm just honest
about it. I think it's got depth. I think it's
got great separation. I love the Manicorps screen. I mean,
I'm gonna be honest with you. I think that the
man course that screen. I think the user ID or

(34:14):
the user interface on the man Core is just unbelievable.
And I'm a big fan of the man Corps too.
I mean, you know, I pick up that Man Corps
just as well as I could pick up that XP.
And I don't think I miss a beat in a
lot of situations.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, I went from uh, you know, I'm kind of
going kind of going back to the conversation started out
with the two point fifty, went up through the lineup
of Garrett all the way up to the APEX, and
then from the Apex, I was trying to make a
termination if I'm going to jump to the to the
xp DAIS or if I was gonna go to the medical
medic Corps just coming out, and I just chose to
go to the medicre route. And I was using the
stock coil for about a year and a half and

(34:54):
noticed a huge, huge, huge difference in terms of what
I was able to find or actually what I was
able to you know, not dig up. I didn't dig
up a lot of tracks. Huge change, and I really
learned a lot about it. And now we're digging these
super heavy old sites, super iron heavy sights, and I
was like, I've got I'm just gonna go. I couldn't

(35:14):
figure out if I went to eight or the nine.
I talked to a lot of people. I went with
the nine. I'll tell you what, man, in these high
iron sights, it picks it out. It really can tell you.
What I really love is that, you know, I'll even
I'll even be able to see multiple multiple targets. You
know that it tells you, you know, one's a piece
of iron, ones a coin, you know, right next to

(35:35):
each other, and like all those kind of different things.
And I thought that the M nine has absolutely completely
elevated what information I'm able to get from the machine.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
And I know he gets tired of me. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. I know he gets tired of me complimenting
him all the time. But I really have not you know,
I don't know if we've had you on the show before.
So I've seen his detecting skill change one hundredfold when
he moved into the mantiqor I mean, completely changed him
as a detectors. As his detective buddy, we go out

(36:05):
exclusively with each other almost.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
It just changed. When he got the M eight or
M nine, it changed again. I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
I'm like, oh, quit, you know, and and and and
here's the thing. My hunting partner, Michael, who's who's on
here right now, n CE Relic Hunter, he just really
jails with that machine. I'm just honest with you. I
mean that that machine. I've seen him pull some amazing
things with it, and he does well with the XP

(36:34):
machine as well, but that machine tends to suit his
hunting style and the audio tends to suit a little better.
And again that's why I tell people, Look, all of
these machines are very very comparable. You've got to decide
what machine fits you the best for your hunting conditions,

(36:57):
for your sites. I don't care if if it's if
it's if it's the ACE two fifty. I mean, if
you feel comfortable with that machine and that's the machine
that you like, then that's the machine you should go with.
Don't let price and don't let anybody and I mean
this honestly, don't let anybody on YouTube tell you that

(37:19):
if you're not swinging a manicore or you're not swinging
a days too, that your machine is garbage. And I
don't want people to feel that way. And that's one
of the things that I try to stress on my channel.
We're here to try to help people with every machine,
regardless of price point and features, whatever it may be.

(37:43):
We want you to get the most out of whatever
it is that you're using. And again, some people just
click with certain machines, you know, whether it be a
cheaper machine, or a more expensive machine.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, rob Rizzo, the history digger, he's said something fantastic
and I absolutely agree with it. Ken and I absolutely
love this idea. It's good to have a hunting buddy
with a different machine. You know. You can have three
D two's go over the same area and you'll find
different things. But it really it's nice to have a
mind lab go through it, have a Garrett go through

(38:17):
it with you as well, and everybody finds just a
little bit different. I think it helps. It has helped
us in the past really clean up a site having
two different machines.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Well, and think of it like this, guys. Nobody wants
to hear someone come on here or come on YouTube
or wherever it may be and say, well, your machine
is trash because it's not this machine or it doesn't
have this feature. No, you know, and I don't. I'm
not that, you know. I don't like that, and I
don't condone that by any means. I think whatever people use,

(38:54):
learn it the best you can. A lot of these machines,
the technology has advanced so much, whether it be a Garrett,
whether it be a NACTA, whether it be a mindline,
whether it be an XP machine. All of these machines
are capable of finding a lot of the same targets.
And I've said this multiple times on my channel. I

(39:17):
think that margin, that percentage of how much more you
get out of those extra features is very, very small.
I really don't. I mean, I've tested a lot of this,
and I've gone out with different machines, and I've had
people with different machines, and probably I would say about
on ninety to ninety five percent of the targets that

(39:40):
machine would hit the same target, whether it was the
fifteen hundred dollars machine versus the three hundred.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah, we do that a lot, like Tony'll here is target. Hey, Ken,
come over here, tell me what it sounds like to you,
you know what I mean, and vice Versus's like, oh man,
you know here, let me swing over that for a minute,
just to see what it sounds like to.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Me in my machine.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
But you're right, I mean, you know, first of all, Brian,
it's a great it's a great time right now.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
To be in this hobby.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Oh my gosh, there so many great tools you have
out there, between shovels and detectors and you know, gadgets
and gives. It's a fun time for us boys with
our toys. You don't like, somebody.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Go out there and enjoy the hobby fun. Don't worry
about what it is that you're using. You know, nobody
wants to be stressed out over the metal detector that
they're using. They bought it. They want to go out
and they want to have fun with that. They want
to find with it. That's my main thing. I want
you guys and anybody that watches our channel, watches your channel,

(40:45):
you know, and so on. I want them to go
out and have fun. I want them to find history
and share it with everyone. You know. That's what the
hobby is about. It's not about my machine is better
than yours. We get so get so into our clients,
you know, almost you know, we get into that brand

(41:06):
orientation type thing, and I don't want to feel that way.
I want them to feel like, Hey, whatever machine I've got,
I can use it, I.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Can run it.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
I'm gonna have fun with it. That's where we need
to be in the community as well.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
So hey, Brian, history teacher, Brian.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Yes, yeah, put on your history have for a minute
now your teacher hat. Actually, let me ask you let
me ask you. Uh, we have a good friend of
ours that is also a history teacher over in Kansas.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Great guy, do.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
You ever do you ever incorporate the items you find
in any kind of things in your classroom? Like, I
don't know what ages you teach.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
I teach high school kids. So that's the the to me,
that's the toughest age because I'm battling You got to remember,
I'm battling YouTube, I'm ballying, I'm battling Snapchat. I'm battling
all of them.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
But you got more followers than they do. So yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
One of the weapons I use against them, you know. Sure,
But yes, I do take those artifacts into the classroom
when I'm teaching a US history class and here it is.
You know, I'm holding a lead back seal from the
seventeen hundreds that I can talk to these kids about
and say, look, you know, hey, you know this came

(42:27):
from the period when we were still a colony, and
you know we were trading back and forth with Great Britain.
That those economic ties between US and Great Britain at
that point. So you know, those are the types of
things that you know, I bring up quite frequently do.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Any of your students take an interest in what you do?

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Yes, they do, they really do. And they love when
I bring in those types of things and they can
physically hold those things in their hands and they can
see those things, you know, and I can tell them
that story you know that goes along with it. And
one of the things that I've tried to focus on
a little more over the last really over the last
maybe four or five months is the storytelling with the

(43:12):
history behind the artifact to sort of give people a
context on which I do that a lot, especially in
some of my classes, is the kids have to have
a context. They have to sort of have something that
they can grasp onto before they're gonna understand what you're
what you're actually trying to teach them. And I try

(43:34):
to do that. I'm trying to do that right now
through YouTube as well, is show that context and give
them some idea. And I know, like I said, I know,
I don't know if Tony can pull up Tony pull
up that that find that real early from the Steen Hunters.
So we were just talking about this earlier and this

(43:58):
fragment of a can when it's not the complete coin,
but it is a fragment of a coin dates the
sixteen nineteen and this coin is from the Netherlands. It's
a Dutch coin that dates to sixteen nineteen. Just to
put that into the context, Jamestown was founded in sixteen
oh seven, which was the first English colony on the

(44:21):
East coast. This is sixteen nineteen and this was doug
here in South Carolina on the site that I've been
hunting on. It's probably, I would venture to guess, it's
probably one of the earliest coins ever found in my area.
And crazy, and believe it or not, I didn't even
tell you guys this part. One of the things that

(44:42):
I really pride myself in is that I love leaving
the history where I found it. So I actually gave
this coin to the landowner, so he's displaying it at
that location where the coin actually came from. And I do, right,

(45:05):
I do a lot of that because I'm a strong
believer in history. I know that if I do may
a bit to a museum that they were just taking
it probably put it in a drawer.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, but to me, this.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Coin means everything, you know, And I get a lot
of people saying, well, how much is this worth?

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Question?

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Yeah, and you know, and my response to that is
it's priceless because it's a piece of history. And you know,
that's one of the main things that I try to
stress too with my audience is, you know, I don't
care about I'm not looking at value. I don't sell
any artifacts. I don't go on eBay and start posting

(45:47):
bottles and posting coins or any of that. My main
thing is the history, and my main thing is is
sharing the history and and maybe teaching the people about
what happened here three hundred, two hundred, one hundred or
whatever it might be. And that's where I, you know,

(46:09):
I tend to live. I live in that zone more
so than others that are finding it selling it. I
don't care about all that. If I can share one
thing or share one piece of information with somebody that
they didn't know, yeah, you know, and maybe somebody finds
something similar to it later on down the road, well

(46:30):
at least they got some idea about Hey, maybe I
you know, I saw this on Southern relicans. I know
what it is.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
You know, they're called a stevers or something like that,
a Stiver's coin, that coin.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
You know, I don't know the actual name of it.
I just know it's a Dutch coin. Yeah, and I've
got the actual picture. If you go on my Facebook
page or Instagram page, you can actually see what one
the real coin looks like. But it's the exact match
to it. And I don't believe the guy that found it.
I had to post it on Facebook to figure out

(47:06):
what it was. I've never seen it before. It was
just one of the most amazing finds and it's probably
it's probably one of my well I know it's one
of my oldest finds, but sixteen nineteen, I mean col.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
On, it's crazy, Yeah, holding something in your hand that old.
And then you know, learning the history and what was
going on in sixteen nineteen around the world and all
that stuff puts it into context for you. But as detectorists,
what do we always kind of like to imagine is
how did that get there?

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Right? Right? And so what about this?

Speaker 3 (47:38):
So there was a there was a there was a
colony in my area, a French colony, believe it or not,
and it actually went went by the wayside. But there's
no record of any Dutch explorers into this area. Now,
could it have been that whoever moved into this area?

(48:02):
Actually brought that coin with them. But the earliest known
existence of people living on this property is seventeen forty.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Wow, okay, so fifty years difference.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Sixteen nineteen coin. Yeah, you know on a seventeen forty
home side. It's a good question, and it's just amazing
over the mind. And that's where I just go off
on my tangent. You know, my mind starts racing, you know,
thinking about what could have been and you know, why

(48:36):
these people were here and so on, and I just
I mean that that gets me juiced up.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Absolutely. I found I was in the Cornfield, Ohio. I
found a seventeen seventy two Spanish real and you know,
it was it's very unique. You know, I really didn't
understand the concept of exactly what I had. But then
I looked at the date seventeen seventy two. I'm like,
this is before we became country exactly, And all of
a sudden, my mind starts going putting into context about

(49:05):
you know, what was going on at this time. I mean,
we were still at colonies, you know, all these different
stories and I'm holding a piece that relates prior to
that time, and it's just like you taking the stuff
to the to the students where you can talk about,
you know, the economic side of trade or overseas during
this time. And they're holding a bail seal that came

(49:26):
over from wherever that was, you know, wool or whatever
it was, and then they go, oh, wow, that's fantastic.
I absolutely love that.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Well, and I found a bail seal. I'm just gonna
really speak real quickly on this. I found a bail
seal and I actually traced it. Okay, so the guy
that the bail seal came from, actually it had it
had uh it had London on the bail seal. Well,
it had the guy's name on it too, and yeah,

(50:00):
and so what I found out was that guy actually
lived in Charleston. He had a store in Charleston, but
he was a loyalist during the Revolutionary War, and so
once the war was going on, he left Charleston because
he feared for his life and went back to London.

(50:21):
Became a big time slave trader in London. And it
was just the most amazing story to me that he
had a store in downtown Charleston at one point. He
left because he was a loyalist.

Speaker 8 (50:36):
He was a Tory and.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
He went back to London and became one of the
London's biggest slave traders during that period. And here I
was holding this thing in my hand from him being
a merchant, and it says literally merchant has his name
on the top, and then it says London, England on
it and it's from the seventeen hundreds during that period.

(51:02):
And it's just that kind of stuff just blows me away.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
I'd lose my job because I'd died right down the rabbit. Yeah,
researching that, we're already close to that ken. How many
times did you and I message each other today about
some silly thing?

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Way too many? Crazy? Well, I have amazing man.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
I have a ball with that kind of stuff. And
I know and I let tell me put up that
last fine, which is which is my all time favorite fine,
which is that is the USA?

Speaker 1 (51:36):
But wow, tell us about that, man. People might not
know what that is. Man, So you got what that is?

Speaker 3 (51:43):
That is a continent alarm in USA revolutionary war button
from seventeen eighty. Okay, Now it's not in the best
of shape and I have reached I have preserved it
the best I can. And I'll talk real quickly on
that too. So one of the things that I do
to preserved this is a pewter button. And what happens

(52:04):
with these pewter buttons is they will start to They'll
start to deteriorate the longer they are in the ground, uh,
and eventually they'll crumble the pieces. So one of the
things that I do is I take Elmer's glue and
I do fifty Elmor's glue and fifty percent water. And
then I take a Q tip and I go over

(52:25):
that button to put that slight film to keep all
of that from flaking apart.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Seal it up, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
And seal it up, seal it as best I can.
And this was the one fine that I've been looking
for my entire metal detection. Really, this fine is to me,
is is my Yeah, it's my golden goose.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
This is the one to find. You would say this
is your top.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Find, Well, it's my top fine. It's not the best.
I won't say it's the best fine and find that
I wanted the most. Yeah, you know, it's one of
those types of finds. And the reason why is because
my family has a real strong tie to the Red
War period. My grandfather of the Revolutionary War actually fought

(53:18):
with Francis Marion, and Francis Marion's were gay. And if
you don't know who Francis Marion is, he was this
swamp fox and he's basically to me, And this is
just my own opinion. The Revolutionary War would have not
ever come to an end if it hadn't been for
this guy. And I'm gonna tell me why. He held

(53:39):
the British up in South Carolina and frustrated them so
much that they eventually left South Carolina. And that's what
led them to Yorktown. Without him, we're gonna get the
end of the Revolutionary A lot of people like to
think that the Revolutionary War was all fought up in
the know, but it's the South. I mean, I'm gonna

(54:03):
be honest with you, it's the South that eventually led
to the end of the Revolutionary War. It's South Carolina.
There were more skirmishes and battles in the state of
South Carolina than there were in any other colony during
that Yeah, and Francis, if you guys, I don't know

(54:23):
if you guys have ever seen the movie The Patriot,
but if you've seen The Patriot, that whole character is
based off of Francis Marion.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Yeah, a lot of gorilla, a lot of grilla warfare tactics.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Yeah. Yeah, we didn't have anything else. I mean, we weren't.
We weren't.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Well. The Common Army was totally defeated during the Battle
of Canda, completely wiped out. There was nobody left for
the Bridge to fight in South Carolina if it wasn't
for the militia and Francis Marion, and they're the ones
who basically so raiding their supply lines, attacking them where
they couldn't move because they were going to move out

(55:05):
of South Carolina into North Carolina and start taking over
all the other southern states. But he disrupted all of
that so much that they couldn't move. They were sort
of stuck, and eventually they got tired of it. And
if you saw, if you know what happened at the
Battle of Calpins, you know what happened at the Battle
of King's Mountain. The British took heavy losses there and

(55:27):
once that happened, the British said we're out of here
and went to North Carolina and then we get what
we call the Battle of Guilbert Courthouse and they lost
so many men during that battle in North Carolina that
eventually they were treated to York Town and that's where
it ends. But none of that happens without what happens

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here in.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
South Campe Rob asked, do you think that's because of
the port, right.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Well, Charleston was the major port, and they captured Charleston
in seventy in March of seventeen eighty, and they stayed
in South Carolina from seventeen eighty through seventeen eighty one,
and again there were again the Continental Army was wiped out.
Nathaniel Greene, who was the lead Revolutionary War general of

(56:17):
the South, he was in Charlotte. He wasn't even in
this area, you know. So this button being here means
that one of those Cotton Army soldiers had been sent down.
Now it could have been who knows who it could
have been. There weren't a lot of regulars in this area.
That's why this button is so precious to me. You know,

(56:40):
my grandfather probably did not wear this button because my
grandfather was a part of the militia in South Carolina.
So that's what makes you know, this button so special
here in Yeah, that's beautiful, oh kay, and I've got
and I've got British. I found a British seventy six

(57:00):
regiment on the foot Highlander button. Do you really not
even half a mile from where this button is found?

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Have you ever found any of those Confederate palmetal guard buttons?

Speaker 3 (57:13):
I had not found a Palmeta guard button, but I've
got plenty of South Carolina Confederate buttons. I've got almost
eighteen nineteen South Confederate buttons. I've dug a lot of
Civil War artifacts. I found a camp that was almost
non existent, that nobody knew where it was. I actually

(57:34):
found it. But it was the main training area for
everyone in this area of about a three or four
county area. And I actually found that camp and it
was just it was just a field day of artifacts.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Wow, can do that? Yeah, you're in a great spot.
I know you said you're into kind of researching family history.
I'm really into genealogy. So one of my one of
my ancestors died at King's Mountain and uh my my
kids went there with their with their mom to kind
of do something. Okay, there's a big plaque there that

(58:12):
kind of talked about a lot people that fell there
and they were able to find my ancestor and take
a picture of it, you know, and that's it's kind
of cool.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
I'd love to make it out there sometimes.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Yeah, well you need to come to South. South Carolina's
got some great history. Of course, of course, the Civil
War started here in South Carolina and Charleston. But it's
got some great history. And you know, I know that
history because I've taught it. And you know, my like
I said, my parents were history nuts. And they took

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me to a lot of places. They took me to Washington,
they took me to Jamestown, they took me to Williamsburg.
They took me to all the major battlefields in Virginia. Uh,
they took me to Vicksburg out of Mississippi. Got to
see all those places. And and I've got store is
from relatives that were living during that period that wrote

(59:03):
letters back to you know, their families and things like that,
and and that's just that's just where my passion comes
from for all this.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
I was gonna say, what's your favorite period of time
in history? Is it American history or is it any
period in world history?

Speaker 3 (59:18):
I love I love American history. I love revel period
and I've always been fascinated by Francis Marion. I actually
went to Francis Marion University. Yeah, and I was actually
a runner at Francis Marion University. I ran across the
country and track and field uh there, and and we

(59:41):
were the Patriots naturally, and uh, it's just always been
a passion, you know. So that's really what got me
going with a lot of this and and you know,
my parents were just wonderful that they had the means
to take us to a lot of those places and
see a lot of those things when I growing up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
We uh, we always talk to ask people, you know.
So you've got so much around you. You've got beach,
you've got fields, swamps, you got all kinds of stuff
around you. Where's your favorite place to hunt? Like, if
you had to just focus on one or boy, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
The most comfortable out in the middle of a field
or right in the middle of the woods. I just
am I mean, I feel no, there's just something about it,
especially when you're out there and you're in these secluded
locations and there's just there's no you don't hear anything.
It's just woods and you and Peterson quiet it is

(01:00:41):
my zen. I mean, I'm just honest, it's my zen
getting out onto those locations. And if you go watch
any of my videos, you can see that these places
are really remote. There's like nothing around them. The nearest
store is probably twenty five thirty miles away in most
of these places, and I'm just at home. That's that's

(01:01:03):
I feel like that's exactly where I need to be,
go out to those places.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Yes, But yeah, I've got you know, I've just been
really blessed and I'm fortunate enough to live where I live,
and you know, I just I love going out and
finding things. You know, that's just like all the rest
of us. I'm here, we love finding things, right, absolutely, yep,

(01:01:32):
So tell me a little bit. I mean, I'm you're
asking me, let me ask a little bit of question.
So again, you're in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Right, Yeah, Tony and I both are in Colorado. So
I'm up north and he's further down south.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Yeah, I've been to Colorado.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
I've actually been to Denver. Yeah, and I actually went
and saw Colorado Rockies game. I'm a big baseball fan,
watching baseball, as we've been talking. But but yeah, I
love of that area. I loved going to that area
and visiting.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
So, I mean it's interesting, like we don't, you know,
we don't have the Colonial rev war any you know,
barely any civil war. We have Civil War era, you know,
military relics here when the cavalry came out this way
and about eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Did you guys have you guys have that western them
with the you know, the movement out west and you
get the silver coins, of course, Denver being one of
the major mints. I'm I'm imagining that there got to
be like a lot of the silver coins that you
got and you guys area, I would.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Think, yeah, I mean we do. We definitely have a
lot of silver that we can find depending on where
you hunt. A lot of sites that Tony and I hunt,
we don't find too much, too many of them, but we.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Have a lot of relics.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
If you're relic hunting here, you really find a lot
of things that pioneers brought with them. You know, they
brought everything with them. They gave everything up. The pat
left their life behind, pushed west, mainly heading to California
for the forty nine gold rush, and hit the Rocky
Mountains and say we're stopping right here, or we don't.
We're finding gold here, we don't have to go any further. So,
you know, all that stuff they brought with them, a

(01:03:09):
lot of it, you know. Uh, you know, they go
up and work in the mining camps and the mining camps,
and they they would leave that stuff behind, and we
come along and find pieces of it and kind of
piece it together, like this is what life was like
for them back then. This is kind of these pieces
are what they used to live and to survive, and
every piece tells the story.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
So right, you know, I tried to stretch out on
my channel. You know, I get a lot of people
going like, well, a buttons, you know, And I'm going like,
there are a lot of people out there that would
love to dig these buttons.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
That I'm doing absolutely and you know, and I do.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Realize that most of these buttons that I'm digging came
from enslaved people. Okay, most of these plantations that I'm
hunting had they had a labor force of anywhere from
three hundred to upwards of almost a thousand slaves in
some of these areas. And some of these plantations and

(01:04:07):
things that happen and a lot of those. I don't
think people grass you know, the amount of work that
it took to do a rice field, or do you
know a tobacco field or a cotton I don't think
they realize the amount of labor that was required to

(01:04:29):
do that, and they don't understand that. Yeah, I'm gonna
dig a lot of buttons. I mean, that's just part
of it. But every single one of these buttons tells
a story. It's a piece of history. It's something that
was left behind by the people that lived on these things.
And these buttons lead to the good finds that the

(01:04:52):
ones that you really really want in a lot of cases,
but they also tell the story of what was going
on there, who was working there, where they lived, you know,
what types of work that they actually did. In some cases,
you know, a slave I have not found a slave tag. Question,

(01:05:13):
I have not found a slave tag. It is one
of the things that I would love to find, just
for the simple fact that I would love to be
able to give it to the landowner of this location,
which he's actually taking an old slave cabin and he's
redoing it. I've actually helped with a museum here in
South Carolina where I went on to the plantation and

(01:05:35):
found artifacts and gave the fines to the museum to display.
But I love doing that kind of stuff because again,
every single artifact tells a story. That's why I never
believe in selling an artifact, not unless it's something that
is so rare and so precious that no one else

(01:05:59):
will ever see that artifact if they don't sell it
to a museum, and if the museum is going to
display it. But outside of that, I love leaving it
right where it was found or putting it somewhere where
people can see it on a consistent.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Basis, Tony. If people don't like digging buttons, where shouldn't
they go? H Ohio, England, England, Yeah, England, that's all.
If you don't like, well, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
And the funny thing is that each one of those buttons,
like I said, tells a story, but it also tells
the age of the property. You can tell a lot
about the button, yes, but the back of the shank
of a button tells you the age of it, so
you can sort of get a general idea about when
those things are going on. And that's why I want

(01:06:51):
people to understand, you know, Yeah, to you, it's just
a button.

Speaker 9 (01:06:56):
But to me and to a lot of other people,
it's it's a story, it's history, it's about that location,
it's about it's about what it could lead to. You know,
one of these buttons could be the right button, you know,
the button that you've been looking for, like a George
Washington or a CSA button or any of those things.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
And usually that's where you're going to find those types
of things. When you start digging those buttons, that means
the possibility of digging one of those fines that you've
been waiting for your entire life is going to be there.
And you know, that's that's what makes it so much fun.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
You know, absolutely we're talking about fines. And a lot
of our our viewers and listeners they always ask the
same question. They want to know if you've ever found
this grandma's broke? You ever found grandma's broach?

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
Grandma's broke? I have brooches in my life, I believe
it or not.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
I got to get that in once the show somewhere.
Hey Brian, do you have any tips on gaining permissions?
We ask a lot of our guests there. Yeah, and
it's well sort of a universal there's a lot of
similarities out there, but there are.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
And I've done the I've done the door knocking. I mean,
I've gone and knocked on doors and uh and so on.
But you know, my thing is, you know, once you
get embedded into a community like I am at this point,
I've been, I've been at the school that I've been
at for a while, and I know a lot of
people in the community. I think that's where you get

(01:08:34):
a lot of your permissions from. And I'm going to
be honest, guys, sometimes being on a permission can lead
to other permissions. And you guys know that too.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
Yeah, we were just talking about this today this morning,
Ken and I were on the phone literally talking about
this exact topic.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
Right. So, so the permission that I have right now
where y'all see me digging a lot of these fantastic
stick fines, that permission came because I was on another permission. Okay.
A guy rode by and saw me, meil attacking out
in the yard out in this this this what it

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really was?

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
The car? What you finding?

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
What? Hey? He goes, I live in this house next door.
He goes, would you like to hunt my house? And
I said, sure, What you know, you know, I guess
so well. And the funny thing was was I had
heard stories and I had and the property owner at
the time said, somebody said that there might have been

(01:09:40):
a British Ford on this property. Okay, so I'm thinking, okay, well,
let me let me come out here with my metal
detect let me see if I can find this forward.
And so I started metal attacking, and you know, I
was finding all this old seventeen hundred stuff and I
was like, well, this is so great. And so this

(01:10:01):
guy comes right and by and he goes, well, you
can hunt my yard.

Speaker 8 (01:10:05):
And so when I read in his yard and I
dog like three or four sixty nine cow Brown Best
musket balls for British Yeah that I said, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
I said, these are all British musket balls from the
Brown Best. So there's a great possibility. What was so
funny is I left that property and went to his property,
which was in another location. And so he made this
is no lie, I'm not making this up. He may
even get in my truck follow him to another property,

(01:10:40):
no kidding.

Speaker 10 (01:10:41):
Yeah, And so when I get out to this property,
it's four thousand acres.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
Whoops, just fell on my lap. Thank you very much,
shine and so amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:10:55):
It was just the best situation ever. It was like
the Good Lord was shining down on me. But you know,
then it turned into a great friendship. This guy is
a wonderful friend and he actually comes out there occasionally
and goes protecting with me, and he brings his grandson
out there. We have a great time. And again that's
what this hobby is about, you know, and that that

(01:11:20):
made it so special. But to make a long story short,
I went back to that same property where I left
from just about well in April, and I finally proved
that the British fort was there. I do two British cannonboss.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
Did you really?

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Good for you, right, good for you? And so here
I'll show you this.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Didn't come from that property. But this is another one
that I've dot.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
Yeah, I didn't know the difference between us and British.
Do they are? They just to wait and uh, you can't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Really see it that good. But on the side of
ball right here, there's a a broad arrow on the
side of the cannon ball, which tells you that it
is a British cannonball.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:12:16):
Yeah, so this is a six pound solid shot. So
it doesn't have a gunpowder inside it. But this was
a used for a light artillery piece used by the British.
And I was right off of a creek here in
South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
I bet you weren't excited or anything. You should have.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
Seen it when it came off. Now, it didn't look
anything what it looks right here, and I mean it
was completely rusted over. I actually took a griming wield
to this one, which I probably shouldn't have done, but
I got all the rough. Yeah, and so that is
that is a British cannab. I'll shave too, which is

(01:12:57):
really cool. This is a piece of this is a
piece of canister shot. Yeah right, and so this this
was found on the Civil War side. And you can
hear the rust and stuff. I need to sort of
clean it up. But this one inside like a big
brass cylinder and they would shoot this like a big

(01:13:17):
shot gun.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
Ship mm hmm. Can you even imagine fall?

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
I don't want to get hit with that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
Yeah, but that's just you know, that's just the kind
of stuff I love. I mean, I mean I just
go crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Yeah, And that's great. We Yeah, we definitely have been
on some sites We were on a site up north
and there was I think four of us in this
small little field, not even a yard, I mean, and
it's right on kind of almost a major corner of
this small little town. And this guy's kind of walking
on the other side of the street and he, you know,

(01:13:56):
you see him. He crosses over the middle of the street,
comes over towards it, and I was closest, closest to
the fence line there, and uh, he goes, he starts
walking up. He goes, are you fifty to eighty?

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
I said, yeah, he said, I follow you on Instagram.
I've got my own medal sector. And then all of
a sudden, it was just word throw up and just
talking about the history of what he's done and where
he's going and what he's looking at, and it was
just fantastic. You know again, it was you know how
we all can never meet anybody that you you know
that you're have necessarily a relationship with. All of a sudden,

(01:14:32):
now you've got metal secting and you guys can talk
for days to each other. Right, you have any questions, Trust.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Me, my wife gets that all the.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
Time and she just walk away. Yeah, here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Any thing is if somebody comes into my house the
collection that I do have, I have it all on
a big, huge glass coffee table in our den. Oh wow,
people when they come into our house, they all they
see everything right there in that glass. It's a glass
over the coffee table, and then everything inside these drawers

(01:15:09):
that I slide into it. You can see everything. And
my wife she's like, please, God, don't ask him about metal.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
You know what, Brian, I bet people are really interested
in it. There's always everything, it's always interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Well, but the bad thing about it is is you know,
well I won't say it's the bad thing about it,
but you know, I know every single thing about that
one particular artifact, and then I know the history behind it.
So it does become sort of this long drawn out thing,
which I guess that's what I'm doing on here right now.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
But that's why we had you on so we all
could talk like this. You're up, she said, I don't
want to talk to him any more about that. You
guys talk about we'll take care of it. We'll take care.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
And again, and I can talk machines all day too.
I mean, the history part of it. That was my
first love. And then the machines and everything else that
goes along with it, or my second love. But you
know when you can walk out of there with something
from the seventeen hundreds and it's got a story to
tell and you want to tell that story, and you

(01:16:18):
know the story behind that artifact, and when it just
becomes it just it just does, absolutely, it really does.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
It's the passion, you know. And like like we were
talking about earlier before we started the show, you know,
and I said, it's gonna be about an hour and
a half and all we're doing is just talk about
what we're passionate about.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
Right exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
And we've got a whole list of questions and we
may not get to any of them because we all
just want to. We just want to talk about what
we love talking about. It's just what we do.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Well. I didn't see one question that I think that
that someone asked me. They said, what what resource that
I used to identify? Buttons?

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
There you go, heavy metal detecting Kentucky, right.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
And one of the things that I use is I
use I use Albert Scotte, which I'm I'm sure a
lot of us are familiar with that. I'm here, this
is this is an older version of it, but that's
Albert Scott and that's military buttons. But this is the
Bisentinial edition. And I also got another so don't happen

(01:17:26):
here right now. But I have another one too that
I use, but I mainly use Alberts and it's really
got some great information in there for those of you
that are interested. And I use another book too that
has some other great pictures that are a little more
in detail. Other than Alberts. I just don't have it in.

Speaker 8 (01:17:47):
Here to get it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
But I think he answered the question for sure.

Speaker 11 (01:17:52):
Yeah, but but yeah, you know, and then I you know,
sometimes I have to I mean, I'm to be honest
with you guys, I don't know everything, so sometimes I
have to ask my, my, Hey, have.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Any of you ever seen this? So I dug a
Civil War tompion. Do y'all know what a tompion is?

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
No? No, never heard of it. I'd explain.

Speaker 10 (01:18:14):
So a tompion is a it's it's a cork, but
it also has a brass metal piece at the top
that they screwed into the end of their gun to
keep water from going down down in the barrel, to
keep it from rusty.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
But it was only made for an eighteen fifty three
infield rifle that was used by Confederate soldiers. I know
what it was, okay, I mean, I'm just honest. I
didn't know when I first found it, and then of
course I dug it, like it's probably been about seven
years ago. But I had to ask. I had to

(01:18:54):
ask somebody what it was. The other thing that I
dug was I dug the bullet mold?

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
Oh nice? Yeah, here like a round ball up.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Yeah, I've got it right here.

Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
Those champions look like a large clothes.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Pin there is.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Yes, Okay, that very cool.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
So you're gonna you canna find this hilarious. So when
I dug this, When I dug this, the guy that
I was hunting with told me this was a pair
of wirecutters. I need.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
Did you put it in your trash patch? Oh my good,
my trash patch?

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
I'm real okay, yeah, my trash paths. Yeah. So unfortunately
the iron pen is going in it. Okay, you guys
can see.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
So this this goes for And I had an archaeologist
look at it. This goes for.

Speaker 10 (01:19:59):
He I think he said it was a twenty eight
or twenty nine caliber pistol, which is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
Like real small. Yeah, it is small.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
So anyway, I didn't throw it away luckily.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
And I actually saw on Facebook somebody had posted this
and sure enough what it was. It was a bullet mold.
This was probably the most important thing to that Souldier
during the Civil War, that he had this bullet mold.
But and I found it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
Yeah, are you on id me on Facebook?

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
I am, I'm on all of them.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
Yeah, we found that. That's that One's really good. We'll
be out in the field and post something. Before you
can put your phone away, someone's already got three answers
to it as to exactly what it is. It's amazing. Yeah,
and everybody, you know, the people that are on it,
they just love to be able to help hope identify.
So I've seen this before, this is what it is,
and now you know, and then you can pass that

(01:21:05):
information onto somebody else, right, And that's why.

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
That's why I think this is so important what we're
doing on YouTube and on Facebook and Instagram, that we
display these types of things so somebody don't throw away important,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
I like your point to Brian, like, you know, some
some guy that was important, some guy.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
He dropped U right.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
He's been sitting there waiting this entire time for Brian
to come along with his little coil. In the middle
of this big, wide world of ours. It's just sitting
there and you find it, right, and you find it
and bring it back to life, bring it back to appreciation.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Amazing, amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
I can talk finds all day, I can talk all day,
but you know, when something like that happens, you're like going,
oh my god. Almost threw that away, you know, almost
thinking it was a pair of wirecutters.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
My friend Kevin dowed in England. They say don't throw
anything away, and he found the spicket handle like a
tea handle to a hose bib like a host picket.
It was all corroded and he threw it in his
junk patch. We just kept on working. At the end
of the day, you lay everything out and the expert
there from Colchester came along and said, do.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
You know what that is? That's a sword Killian from
one BC. One BC.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
He goes, you see that iron blade in there, there's
a tang in there at the guard and it looked
like a hostpicket tea handle and he was going to
throw it away and it's a one BC sword piece
that had the blade still in it like a knife.
Oh my goodness, you gotta be kidding me.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Well, this is another one of those find that somebody
probably would have thrown away. This is a sword scabbard
for an officer's Confederate officers toward the tip of it.
And and you know you're looking at that and you
think that, well, there's not much to that, but that's

(01:23:15):
solid brands.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Guys, Wow, unbelievable, that's a that's a piece right there,
right and turn it over, turn it over, we see the.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Design like here right there. And yeah, so I didn't
know what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
Yeah, I knew I.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
Had something special because I knew the site where I
was at. I knew this wasn't the site that I've
been hunting. But I knew that I had something special
because of the things that had come off of this site.
And I was going to like, what the heck is this?
And and you know.

Speaker 12 (01:23:54):
It was just it was just unbelievable that that you
know that I found that, and you know, that's something unique,
something special, something you really wasn't expecting to find.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
And uh, you think that this came off of a
Confederate officer sword.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
You know, No, it just blows your way thinking, oh,
you know where that's then, what it's been seen, what
it's seen?

Speaker 8 (01:24:24):
Right, we had it right, all that guy showing through
your head.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
And you know when you when you find that kind
of thing, you just love. And I know it's like
that big jug behind me that that actually came out
of the bank of a river. That is a that
is a seventeen hundred jug.

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
Oh my gosh, m hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
That was by somebody. And you know, there's it's just
you know again, it's history, guys, and that's where I'm
at with all of that. And that's what I love.
I mean, that's my passion that you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
Can Yeah, absolutely one of us. I tell you. We're
right there. Yeah, we got like four minutes left on
the show. We're going to kind of wind it down here,
but there's things that we want to ask before we leave.
Of you. How about uh, let's see, how about a
white whale. What's your way? Well that you should have
dug by now that that you just haven't come across yet.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Well, you know, the funny thing is I have not
dug a cap to bust you know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Either one, yeah, if you one, I've barely seen one,
are you kidding?

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
Not the cat Bucks, but probably there are two. There
are two things left for me, really, I mean the
cat bus would be nice to dig, and I would
and again I would give it a way, I don't.
I mean, it would just be the idea of digging it.
But there are two things. A slave attack would be
the one which I which I should have dug by

(01:26:03):
now like you, and and the other would be any
sort of George Washington. But because George Washington visited my
area and I actually stayed in my area, and I
know there were a lot of supporters of George Washington.
Of course actually of course she's seen in the USA butt,

(01:26:23):
So that would be those would be the two. The
slave dag in the George Washington, a CSA. I would
love to have a CSA. So I've not dug either
one of those three things. And those are really the
only three things that I'm really active to be.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
Honest, you'll get on them. You're you're in the right spot.
You know, you're digging the right areas.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
And a lot of people would say, well, what about
a gold coin. I like a gold coin don't get
me wrong, I would love to dig one. You know that.
It's not it's not like that, But there's just something.
There's something about the history part.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
There's got to be there's gotta be historical connection. Yes,
you can look at a specific date for that gold coin, but.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Gold coin, Yes, I'd be excited about it, and yeah,
I would hoop and holler about it. Yeah, yeah, there,
you've got it right there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
Yeah, that's the stick, right, Like I find my gold
coin one dollar eighteen fifty three gold coin, but it's
in an area where those cavalry soldiers that were here
protecting people pushing west and patrolling and setting up these
camps here in these forts, they were paid like thirteen
dollars a month in these gold coins. And he dropped
it at some point. Yeah, either they were gambling or

(01:27:38):
it fell out of a pouch. I think it fell
out of a pouch because it was surrounded by little
bucking balls, little lot of pistol balls. And you know
that meant a lot to him, and it ties in
with that part of our history that we have here
in Colorado. We don't have a ton, but what we
do have we hold on to dearly and That's why
I like that gold coin one. It's a gold coin. Wait,

(01:28:00):
and I do those soldiers, and.

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
I get that because that is sort of the timeframe
where Colorado was sort of taking off, you know, and
people were moving out west and you know, manifest destiny
and all of that was going on at that time.
Whereas for me, it's that colonial period and the Revolutionary

(01:28:22):
War period and the Civil War period. It's more those
types of things, So I mean, I can relate to that.
You know what's so funny is you get these guys
from Europe and they go like, oh, that's.

Speaker 9 (01:28:34):
Not old.

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
All the time, and I get that too, but they
don't understand the importance of our history to those particular artifacts. Now,
if I went over to England or to Europe and
I did a the Age or Charles the first or
third or whatever it may be, Edward, you know, I
would go crazy over that kind of stuff naturally too.

(01:28:59):
But but for me here in the United States, this
is what I can find, and this I know the
story of all of this. But I can go over
to Europe right now too, and guess what, I know
that story.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Too, right right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
As the advantage you have being a history teacher and stuff.
You know a lot more of it than most of
us that aren't history teachers. We have to find something
and then go research the figure out. And that's why
we love it too, because I was never interested in history, right,
I never had a teacher like you ever. No one
made it interesting for.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
Me, so you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
And that's the thing. You know, you guys heard me
say I have to research some of the stuff that
I find. I just had to. I mean, I just
got to telling you I didn't know what that sixteen
nineteen Dutch coin was. I didn't know. I mean I
saw it was something, but I didn't know what it was.
You know. I've had to do all of that, you know.

(01:29:57):
But that's what makes it fun.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
Yeah, it really agree and.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
I think a lot of people. If people are out
there just doing it for finding things, that's selling them
to me. That's just that's a track. See it really is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
Yeah, but that's just I've got I've got one quick
question that we're gonna to back out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
Johnny Bottles wanted to know early on in the chat,
and I said we were going to get to it.
He has a few expeat coils that needs fixing. Do
you know who needs a contact?

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
Right? And I know and I know Johnny by the
way too, So Johnny you can contact You can need
to contact a local dealer and he can give you
the information. You can contact my buddy Michael and LMS
Metal Detecting. Uh he's out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
but he can definitely give you and steer you in
the right direction. Or you can leave a message on

(01:30:52):
an x peach website on the contact information and they
will they can tell you who you can get in
touch with getting your machine fixed or your cool fixed
for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:31:03):
Outstanding. Yeah, thanks, Yeah, Brian, You've been a great guest man.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
I appreciate it. I love again. You guys just just
opened up the forum that I love and I know that,
and I really appreciate you guys having me on tonight too,
and thank you. We've got our live stream on Friday
night at seven point thirty. If any of you guys
are interested want to join in, come on and join in.

(01:31:31):
We have great guests too. We don't have one coming
up this this Friday night, but we do have all
the major manufacturers, XP, Mind Lab Nata Garrett. All of
those guys are coming in and out and uh, they
share some great information with us. And we'll have another
live show coming up. And check out all my other
channels too, you know, I've got I'm on all platforms, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,

(01:31:59):
you can find me all those platforms and it's just
a great time. And hopefully you learn something and you
enjoy what you see and and just get us a
lot and subscribe if you get a chance.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
Sounds great.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
We're gonna put you in the green room and we'll
be right with you. We'll close down the show and
Sarah good buys off the air.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
Okay, thank you guys for having me enjoyed the chat.
Thank you guys for joining in tonight on Relics Radio.
We appreciate you great. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
And for those listening in on the replay later or
those in the chat, those watching the video out of
later Town on the replay, we're gonna have all a
Brian links right down below in the description of the
stream and also of the audio podcast where you can
go check out all of us. So he's on all
of them, uh, you know, but them all you're saying,
Tony our age and have you know, all this social

(01:32:51):
media stuff going. And I love the fact that I
was classroom. That's been my favorite part.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Yeah, yeah, definitely go check them out. There's Southern Relic
Adventures does a great job with many different aspects of
our hobby. So go support him. I'm sure he would
appreciate it. How about it? How about it?

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Awesome? We're going to South Carolina and then over to
North Carolina, then up the coast. I mean we can
go down to Georgia. People in Florida. We'll go up
to Virginia. We got it. Yeah maybe yeah, maybe in
marylou in Maryland. I'm back through Ohio, go to Kansas.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Maybe fill it out. Yeah, there we go. Cody and
I have this huge road trip that if we just
need to quit working at.

Speaker 1 (01:33:39):
Yeah, the workings cutting into our road trip our metal
detecting time. Man, I talk to my manager about that crap.
What's going on with you? Man? All right? You guys
can find me anywhere on social media, just like Brian YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram,
search fifty two eighty adventures. I always have content out there,
always asking questions and if you guys leave me some chats,

(01:34:01):
you know, check in and then I'll be sure to
message you back and all that kind of good stuff.
Love love chat and love teaching, love learning and all
that and interacting with everybody. So that's about it. You
and I are going to be detecting here pretty soon.
We got a medal teching meeting this Friday. Yep. We
got a friend coming to town next week. That's right, yep.
And actually we should mention that probably no show next Wednesday, right.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
That's right, no show next Wednesday. We're gonna actually meet
a good friend of ours for dinner next week. It
should be a lot of fun. Haven't haven't gone out
and communicated and got together for a while with this person,
So looking forward to that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be good. But then the following week
we got some good people coming on for sure. If
people wind up, yep, So we got some good guests
coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
But everyone, have yourself a great week, Go out and
get some good stuff. Tell me about it. If you do,
I'd love to hear about it. And be safe out there.
Have yourself a great time. Good luck to everyone. We'll
see you, not next, we'll see you the week after.
Have a good weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
Thank you so much for listening to Relix Radio. We
will see you back here next week for another exciting guest.
Until then, get out and dig it all.

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