S8 E27 - Remembering Loy Milam - A Relics Radio Tribute - Relics Radio show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hatty hattie. What's up, buddy, Good morning, good morning, Welcome
to another episode of Relative Radio. Wednesday another here wait,
another Wednesday night. There we go, another Wednesday night, both
of us in Colorado. I'm up north ye town on
to the south, and yeah, it's gonna be a good night.

(00:23):
I was looking forward to this one.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's taken a lot. Yeah, you and I have put
a lot into the show, probably more than we put
in in a while, just because we wanted to make
sure we had some stuff prepared and absolutely yeah, pictures
and sound bites and videos and different stuff and also
interacting with all that. We have tons of guests coming
on with us tonight. If you guys are gonna hang
out with us, you're gonna have a great time, just

(00:45):
a great time. So yep.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
And we want to be real active in the chat
tonight too, you guys. So if you're watching us live,
please make as many comments as you want, bring up stories,
talk about things, interact with each other and we'll throw
you know, just what we can up on the screen.
Maybe it'll spark a memory from somebody, and uh, you know,
we'll talk about Loy and uh and the community and
everything so uh yeah, definitely gonna have a good time tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
First, first, go ahead, you think what no, no, go ahead,
I was gonna say. First, we just start off a
little bit history. You know, some of you might be
joining us for the first time or maybe even the
replay later on audio. You know, Loye Milem started Relics
Radio back what ninth were almost in our ninth season,
so at twenty seventeen something like that, November twenty seventeen, Yeah,

(01:35):
him intensity yet started Relics Radio as a as a
metal detecting treasure hunting podcast. Tony and I loved it
right off the bat. I think Tony and I were
both asked to be guests in that first season. We
were both we talked about it. We were both just
tickled pink to be asked to be guests on the
on the show and it was It was amazing and
that was sort of our first you know, personal contact

(01:57):
with LOI used to watch his videos all the time
at Digging with seven. If you've never watched his videos,
I encourage you to go over and check that out.
But roughly twenty twenty, I think Tennessee, Jeff wanted to
take a little break, kind of step away for a
little bit, Lloy come and ask me if I would
join him as his co host. I came on. We
did that for a little while. Then Loy wanted to

(02:18):
take a break a bit and kind of let me
run with it. And of course, my digging buddy Tony,
I had to bring you over, right, It was pretty
naturally twenty one just to bring you over. And then
soon after that, Lloyd just said, it's your guys' show
going and taking run with it, and we are completely
honored to do that and try our best. As you know,

(02:38):
I keep going back and listen to the old episodes,
and I encourage you to also go to anywhere you
get your podcasts and look up Relics Radio. You're gonna
have about nine seasons of back back podcast shows all
the way back to twenty seventeen. You can listen to
all these great guests that Loy and Jeff had on
and I encourage you to do that.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
But well, actually I've I've got a little clip here
that's going to bring back some memories. Let's go all
the way back to November of twenty seventeen, right, all right, here.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
We go, Here we go, Our very first podcast, and
we already have Larry, We've got Gordon on, and we're
going to have keys on here in just a moment.
We certainly do appreciate you tuning in to the very
first Relics Radio. I'm your co host Digging with seven.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
And then your next one tennessee, Jeff, that's right.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
And we're going to have the keypler on. We're going
to be on for an.

Speaker 8 (03:38):
Hour tonight thereabouts. If things get going real good, well
we're going to we may extend that just a little bit.
Got a little treat for you at the end of
the show tonight from Keeps and speaking to Keeps, Keeps,
are you there?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yes, along?

Speaker 9 (03:56):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 10 (03:57):
Oh, I'll hear you loud?

Speaker 11 (03:59):
Yeah, don't Keeps.

Speaker 9 (04:01):
Well, you know I've been I've been sitting over here
at the hotel that you gentlemen graciously provided for me.
I spent the day down in the hair so long,
getting my hair done, my nails done. I waited for
the the limousine and here I am, you know, pick
me up and.

Speaker 8 (04:18):
Well, hey, there you go.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, man, there you go. That twenty seventy with Keebes
from the Stealth I got to tell you though, things
have changed. We don't We don't house the guests anymore.
We don't do their hair for him. We're low budget now.
I mean when they started this, they definitely had some budget. Yeah,

(04:40):
they might get a diet pepsy if they're lucky. We'll see,
we'll see how we stocked the green room tonight. Yeah,
that was a great throwback, boy, I tell you what,
it's been a lot of podcasts since then. And uh,
you know, just hearing his voice again from way back then,
and yeah, he was really consistent. I can't wait to
talk about him tonight. It's gonna be it's gonna be
a fun night. So we had a number of guests

(05:01):
showing up with us. I know we want to get
to them pretty quick tonight. I don't say hello to
everyone in the chat. Thanks for joining us tonight. Post
your questions, post your memories. We'll throw them up similar
to this. Guys, just be watching for your comments to
go up on the show, and we're looking for him,
so please feel free to share it, your thoughts, memories
of loy As we continue this night, We'll go as

(05:24):
long as we want to go tonight. I don't know
when we'll end, but hope you hang in there with us.
We got a special, special, special thing for you at
the end of the show tonight. But what do you say?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, actually, actually we're going to do that transition into
the guests, right, Yeah, that's right, we're gonna should Yeah,
we got a special, a special treat that we wanted
to make sure that we show a couple times tonight,
So we're gonna do one at the beginning, and then
we're going to end the show with it as well.
So you're ready to jump into that.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
We can and right after this ushold word from Lloy
will bring all of our guests in that are in
the in the show so far. Yeah, yep, all.

Speaker 12 (06:06):
Right, our Father and our God in heaven. We get
so excited when we open your book. Excited because of
the power we see in those words. Excited because we
see the answers.

Speaker 10 (06:22):
In those words.

Speaker 12 (06:24):
Excited Father, for we realize that we have very little,
if any control over our physical lives.

Speaker 10 (06:31):
We can go to our doctors, we can take.

Speaker 12 (06:34):
Our medication, we can go through the exercises that they
want us to go through. But Father, eventually it's going
to be you making decisions as to how long that
we physically live upon this life. But here is another thing. Father,
we join with you in a decision as to how

(06:55):
long we will live in eternity with you. We help
make that decision by the decisions that we make in
this life.

Speaker 10 (07:03):
They are hard decisions.

Speaker 12 (07:04):
Sometimes it's hard, many times for us to maintain our faith,
to keep our equilibrium in a world that is that
is so confusing sometimes, so follow we asked for greater faith,
greater strength, be with us, forgive us any sin that
might separate us, so that you might even hear this
prayer we offer here tonight.

Speaker 10 (07:26):
Well, we offer it in Jesus' name.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Amen, Amen, Amen. Hey, welcome everyone. So everyone's joining us tonight.
We have Larry in the upper corner there, someone Larry.
How are you? Bill Hayes? Of course Bill, How are
you good? To see you. Mark Hoover's joining us tonight.
A little Mark and tennessee Jeff. You just heard him

(07:49):
from the first podcast there a minute. Thanks for joining us, Jeff.
And Butch Holkum, publisher American Digger Magazine. How you doing, Butch?

Speaker 2 (07:57):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Everybody.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Great to see everyone. Thank you for spending some time
with us. To remember loy You know that prayer from Loye.
When I heard that, that came from his the last
podcast he released on his Common Sense Bible Talks podcast
that he did. That's how he ended that podcast. When

(08:20):
I heard it, I thought, well, that's pretty pretty fitting
to kind of start and end the show with that,
because he was a man of faith, right Tennessee, Jeff
like he.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
He sure was. He was a shepherd. He was a
shepherd and his family. I wish I had known what
I had had at the time, and you're talking about him.
The prayer that he just spoke actually at his own funeral,
he had a message for everyone. He knew that his

(08:55):
time was coming soon, and he wanted everyone to know
just close to Christ, that's the only way that we're
going to get the heave. And these relics we find
they're nothing. I mean, I mean, like Butch and most
of the rest of us, we have bullets. We have bullets.

(09:17):
At the end of the day, them bullets plates, they
mean nothing. And thank goodness that I was around Lloyd.
He brightened everybody's day that he was around.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
He really did. He really picked everyone up. I don't
know how many times sim and I talk. I never
met Loy, you know, I never dug with them. I
never even met him face to face except for here
on these videos. But we talked a lot and he
always was the kind of just left people up. Mark Hoover,
you spent a lot of time with LOI. Tell us
about your involvement with LOI and kind of how long

(09:52):
you've known him.

Speaker 13 (09:54):
Well, you know, I was like most people were in
that I listened to the podcast it's like everybody else,
and got an opportunity to speak to Loy and also
to Jeff. And what most people don't know is that
my most of my involvement with with the Relics Radio

(10:15):
was booking the guest for about two years. And what
I would do is I would you know, he would
give me a suggestion. Jeff would give me a suggestion,
and then I'd call him. And that was actually a
real blessing for me because I met a lot of
people that way. And then I would do a pre
interview and then and Jeff and and Loyd would interview

(10:37):
them on the radio. So but then my family and
I got to spend a week with him and his
family in Kentucky. Oh And I got to tell you
you know, you know, we talk about Lloyd, but you
got to give a lot. Raina, his wife, is just

(10:57):
an angel on earth. His old family. It's just real sweet.
They're very gracious and we just love getting to know Raina,
his wife. And I want to add something to what
Jeff just said. You know that that message that Lloyd
you know, preached, and no telling how many people's lives

(11:19):
he influenced, and you know everybody on here, he's influenced
all of our lives. But you know what the beautiful
thing is, we'll get to see Loyal again one day.
I mean, it's not over. He's passed over to the
other side, right and uh. And so you know, as

(11:40):
I get older, and I know a lot of us
on here, probably a little on the older side, you
think about that maybe a little bit more, because the
one thing you can be guaranteed of is you're not
going to get out of this world alive. So the
real question is where are you're going to go when
you move over? When you pass over? And Lloyd knew
where he is going, and I had my assurance of salvation,

(12:04):
and I look forward to seeing Lloy one day on
the streets of Gold. So Yeah, it was a real
blessing to know him and be able to spend a
little bit of time with him.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, I know that I wanted to talk to you
about that, Mark, maybe hiring you to book guests for
us anymore, that is that is a pretty pretty big task,
I know. Parents. Yeah, I did a great job. You
did a great job. You guys. Go back and look
at Relics Radio over the years. You see just a

(12:37):
tremendous amount of very unique guests that they've had on.
When I go back and look, it just blows my mind,
you know. Now do you go, like, where's this picture from? Mark?
This pictures from.

Speaker 13 (12:51):
Yeah, so this is from two thousand and nineteen. We
were at one of Butcher's antique uh shows, and this
I believe that this one was in Chattanooga. Uh sorry,
go ahead.

Speaker 6 (13:05):
Jeff, Charleston.

Speaker 13 (13:07):
This was in Charleston. Yeah, so we Jeff and Loy
and I met in Charleston, and Y and Jeff set
up and did did some interviews there and uh, after
the show, we actually went out and hunted on the
beach there and Jeff, I'm found a picture of you
holding up a fifty caliber bullet in the Beach if

(13:27):
you remember that.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
But yeah, wow, fifty cow apparently.

Speaker 13 (13:34):
They used that area uh as a testing range for
the military UH to do that. Hey, before I forget,
I want to say something else. Just hope you don't mind.
Butch posted earlier. I think Butch your brother in law,
Anita's brother. Yes, he passed away this morning. So you

(13:56):
know it's it's like you say, Martin, nobody gets out
of here. And every time I had a friend leave
this or a few weeks ago, in fact, you know
you only have this moment. So hug your loved ones,
tell them they're loved, Enjoy your time with friends, Enjoy

(14:16):
whatever you do because this is it.

Speaker 14 (14:19):
You know, you don't know if you're going to be
on this earth for another ten years or another ten seconds.
And you know it's you got to get right with
the Lord too, so you'll know where you're going. But
but I tell you yet, Anita's brother in law passed
away and he wasn't that old. He was seven years
older than me and his Vietnam vet.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (14:42):
He actually had some of his best of damage I think,
working on ships. But yeah, we miss them all when
they leave.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
We we just.

Speaker 14 (14:53):
And Loyd It's like I was out of the loop
and as close as I was to Lloyd time, I
didn't realize how sick oi he was until I heard
he passed and he was like, wow, I didn't get
to say goodbye to him, So you know, don't.

Speaker 13 (15:09):
Say you goodbyes.

Speaker 14 (15:11):
Just just love people while you got him.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah. Absolutely. And the our condolences, uh, our condolences for
your family. Yeah, that's your your brother in law, for sure.
I read that and had me had me thinking about
my own family and the fact I haven't called my
brothers recently. And you know, isn't it a shame that
it takes something like that to poke you and you know,

(15:35):
wake you up and make you call those people that
you you don't talk to. So everyone in the chat,
everyone in the make sure tomorrow or tonight call those
family members. Man, tell him you love him, you're thinking
of them. Yeah, they'll appreciate It'll brighten their night, brighten
their day for sure. Well, I mean Lloyd was a
private man. He was pretty private guy, you know what
I mean. Like he I don't know if he like Tennessee, Jeff,

(16:00):
I mean, don't you think like he he he had
so many things going on, and he cared so much
for other people. I get the feeling like he didn't
want to let a lot of people in on that,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
Well, he didn't let me know he was in the
nursing home. He said he was in the rehab place.
It was the week or fourth of June. He I
called him and talked to him, and he said, well,
I'm here for another fifteen days. That I'm going to

(16:32):
Vanderbilt for thirty days. I'm like, And of course at
this time, he was telling me he could not he
could walk, And I was like, boy, you've been in
that bed. I said, I know that was That had
to be the worst thing for him.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, can you imagine.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
Yeah, come to find out it was a nursing home.
And I don't know, he just he wanted me to
remember him the way he was and not right y uh,
sick and people.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
I mean at the end of the day when I
held his hand when he was in hospital at home,
this was the day before he passed, or maybe two
days before he passed. He could he could hear every
word you were saying, but he couldn't respond. And I
was holding his hand and I saw you're the little

(17:28):
girl was getting his arm and then I said, buddy,
I'll see you again and pat him on a chest
and he got out and that was the last time
I sent him a law of course. I mean he
went peaceful. He went peaceful. They had to give him
a little more theme and another hospice drug, but just

(17:50):
a calming down for a little bit. But he that's
the way it was meant to be.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, they do take care of him in hospital, for sure.
I've had my mom passed and my grandmother pass as
well in that same situation.

Speaker 6 (18:05):
So my mother, Yeah, my mother passed with that well
in hospice and I took care of her and my
mother in law also, And so I had.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Dealings with those houses. People are very special, man, They
dots and stuff. So and Marca, you were with you
booking the guests, and you remember who you're who you
think was a really good get for you as far
as a guest, and then how it turned out does

(18:41):
one stand out?

Speaker 13 (18:43):
You know? Well, let me just say this. When I
would call somebody for the first time, I was introducing
myself in the show, and a lot of them had
already seen the show or heard about the show, and
it was really more of just hey, I'm calling you
to see if you'll be on the show, and I
like to do a pre interview and then share that
with Boy and Jeff so they would know what questions

(19:06):
to ask them. Every one of those conversations. I really
enjoyed that. It was a lot of work, but I
really enjoyed that conversation. I do remember one, and I
want to see if Jeff remembers this, But we had
a guest Arizona treasure hunter Jeff. You remember him. Uh.

(19:30):
He was telling us stories about survival out in the
Arizona Desert and uh he would uh had some of
the wildest stories I've ever heard.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
But he was he the one talking about the what
are they called, uh the skin walkers. Yes, skin walkers,
Yeah that's it. Yeah, Yeah, that's great. They kind of
came we went from Railly hunting the skin wall.

Speaker 13 (20:03):
Yeah. He had some great school he told I'll just
tell you, I'll share one with just real quick. You know,
he was a survivalist. He's an army Uh he was
an army vet not that old. But he had some
really really good relic hunting experiences where he got some

(20:25):
amazing permissions, but uh, he was also a survivalist, like
if he left, uh he might not come back for
a couple of weeks. And uh so he said he
told his girlfriend one time and he was going to
go out in the desert and look for some relics.
And he came back a month later and she was gone, oops.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oops, she went around in three weeks, I guess.

Speaker 13 (20:53):
Yeah, but that was one of the more memorable ones
that I thought was kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, now, Larry, you you you've been out detecting with
Lloyd quite a bit. How long you been? Had you
been detecting with Lloyd?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Uh? Honestly, I don't really know the very first year
of me, but not very long. I mean whatever, the
the date the mind left the equinox is about, you know,
that was when whenever that came out, that was about
when I started because I did not I had a
an old or old but the soorrol my hobby was

(21:34):
my primary machine when I when I actually met Lloyd,
but I lived, I don't know, fifteen twenty miles north
of Floyd, and I got I only knew him through
the you know, his his digging with seven you know
videos and I reached out to him and he said, hey,
come on, dad. So that's how kind of how how
I got to know him, and we became extremely good friends.

(21:57):
And yeah, I've known him about his diagnosis from pretty
much from day one. He didn't he did not want
anyone to know that.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, it must have been fun digging with them all
those years.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
I mean, you know, I mean I knew I started
off like, you know, like a lot of us that did,
I guess, digging bull taps. You know, that was uh
parts and schools and things on lines, and it was
I mean, Jeff knows his location. Well, the very first
place we went was the place called forty four Woods.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Forty four Woods Woods.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
I don't know how any cold forty four pistol lead
bullets have been found in there, Jeff, I mean, you know,
probably at least five hundreds, if I had.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
To get us. And I mean it was him and
his friend Mike they first found that spot, and then
of course they went in with lawnmore well, he went
in with the lawnmower and machete and weed eaters, and
they meaned a lot of it up and it was
unreal how many forty fours uh, that they found and

(23:08):
I would I would love to get up there and
take maybe an inch off, and I guarantee there's that
much mean more, I don't, I don't. I guess they creates.
They brought in a bunch of of cold forty fours
and then they were just scattered everywhere. It was unre.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
I mean in every variety you could think of. I mean,
it's not just one tyson and there's you know, you
pretty good if it was you know, everything in the
round ball to every every different shape size. Yeah, not
one time, and the I guess the the add to
that location. It was also this is a tough one game.

(23:50):
It was the last place that lawyer went up.

Speaker 13 (23:54):
I got to share it with it.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah you uh, I think you sent us some pictures
of the finds from that huh, tell you you pull
those up.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
I don't have those.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
I'm sorry you don't have those. Ties you don't have
that or give me a second here.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
I sent them on messenger to you. Bill. Hey, so
let me Are you still having sound issues, Bill?

Speaker 15 (24:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Is it still echoing on you? Yeah?

Speaker 16 (24:28):
So I'm still getting a hole about three or four
people talking the same time.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Oh no, yeah, yeah, it might be the difference between
your earbuds and the sound coming out of your computer
when you talked. How about that? Does that sound better?
Does that kill the echo? No, I can't hear I
can't hear us at all. Right, Yeah, Butcher, you ever

(24:59):
ha a chance to dig with Loy?

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Uh trying to think? I don't.

Speaker 14 (25:06):
I don't think I ever actually dug with Loi. But
I had, you know, so many encounters with Lloyd because
he was our co host and producer on him Relick
Round Up for I don't know, several years, maybe three years,
four years. And also he was a calumnist American Digger magazine.

(25:27):
He did the water detecting column. Yeah, and you know,
and he would come to the shows and we would
do live broadcast out of the shows. I'm talking about
the American Digger Chattanooga and Charleston shows. And there's just
I don't know. I still can't believe Loi is gone.
And like I say, somehow I got out of the

(25:49):
loop and I didn't even realize Lloyd was sick until
suddenly passed away. So I'm still kind of in shock
over this whole thing. But yeah, I can say is
he was one of the kindest and most giving people
I think I've ever been around.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
And his faith was so great.

Speaker 14 (26:09):
But yet he wouldn't go around preaching to people per
se unless they wanted to hear it. He just you know,
he respected people's space and just just we had a
thing on Rali ground up last night ordering Laie and

(26:30):
all of us at one point or another teared up
on there. And you know, one of the things that
impressed me about Lloie that most people didn't know is
I'm a I'm a lifelong guitarist and want to be
musician because it's my hobby. But I knew Looie was
a musician too, And we got talking one time and

(26:53):
he said, well, you know, I took lessons from Buddy Holly,
And I thought he was joking. He asked, took geuitar
lessons from Buddy Holly. Wow, And yeah, that's something.

Speaker 13 (27:05):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
He's got a lot of those stories, a lot.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
One of the funniest things we ever talked about.

Speaker 14 (27:12):
We were talking about his music and he had sold
some of his music to like, I guess a service
you know that then in turn sells them to other
channels or whatever. And he had recorded one song. He
said he was listening to a TV commercial one night
and he's like, that sounds familiar.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
What was his song?

Speaker 14 (27:32):
And then he says, you know, suddenly I started getting
really afraid because I had no control where my songs
ended up.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
He said, I just hope they're not on some some
dirty somewhere.

Speaker 17 (27:46):
So that's not always the joke, you know, is well, lloy,
you can't help it if they are, right, guy, one
of the best producers we ever had on the show.

Speaker 14 (27:57):
It was him that actually did the math and let
us know how many listeners we had over a year's time.
It blew all of our minds because Boyd was very
talented in so many ways.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
He was, he was, he was and he he he
was very particular too. Like I remember when he brought
me on as a co host. You know, I was
so honored and that first show I showed up for
and he before we did that show, he made me
try out four different microphones so he can make sure
that sounded.

Speaker 14 (28:28):
The best von understanding is he had a background in
radio in production as.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Well, So the guy did everything. He he was a
heck of a fisherman.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, he looked like it.

Speaker 14 (28:40):
Oi lived a full wife on this earth, and I
know he's living in paradise now. So I'm glad for Loie.
I'm saying for our loss, but I'm glad that lois
in a great place.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah. Hey, want to welcome Matt gone digging in with
us tonight, Jeff Ford, plug master, good to see you,
oh man. That all fixed up right? Good deal? Matt.
How are youybody?

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Am I in?

Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (29:09):
You're in your livey okay?

Speaker 13 (29:12):
Good?

Speaker 7 (29:13):
Make sure I don't pick my nose.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Well, you make your friends, but you know how that goes.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Don't wreck. Don't wreck that tractor you're in, Mattody.

Speaker 18 (29:26):
It's been it's been a while since I've seen all
these smiley I know, Jeff, you've.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
Lost a lot of weight or something. I don't know.
You look different from the sticker on the back of
the truck.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's he lost weight and all bounces out.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
It's that new LT position I think is wearing on him.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
He's losing all the weight down.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Mister Ford.

Speaker 15 (29:49):
It's a pleasure to see you this evening.

Speaker 18 (29:51):
Bill Hayes, DK Larry of course, the illustrous Mark Hoover.

Speaker 15 (29:56):
Yeah, what would have you a relic radio without uh
without him.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, I was trying to recruit him already. We're going
to continue to try to drop little hints at Mark.

Speaker 13 (30:11):
Yeah, that that guy I was talking about. His name
is Cody Drake. Cody Drake was Arizona treaser huner. So
if you ever want to get.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Him on, Cody Drake, all right, let me know when I'll.

Speaker 13 (30:22):
Say and arrange it. But he got some great stories
and talking about stories, yeah, go ahead. Mark uh Lloy
was one of the best storytellers I've ever heard. I
mean he could tell some stories. Now, whether they were
true or not, I don't know, but I mean he
could tell a story. But he was full of wisdom

(30:43):
and wit like anybody I've never met.

Speaker 14 (30:47):
Did he ever tell you the story Mark about the
sandwiches his grandmother used to make him.

Speaker 13 (30:52):
Yes, yes, you should tell the stories.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
But what do you two go for it?

Speaker 4 (30:59):
I got to hear it.

Speaker 9 (31:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (31:01):
I just heard it once from him and then I
saw somebody mention it on the chat. But now, whether
this is true or not, I don't know, but it
seemed like he was always asking his grandmother and correct
me if I'm wrong, folks, But for a sandwich.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
So.

Speaker 14 (31:21):
He says that she made a tuna sandwich and when
he ate it, it wasn't tuna, and he swears it
was cat food.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Now, whether that or not, I don't know. Only boy
knows that he was laughing.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
When he's at it.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
But every time I see cat food, I think of
WOI now O, no.

Speaker 6 (31:41):
He he you will send him to the store to
get cat food and he really, well, you don't have
a cat, And of course like then, I mean then
he's like, the sandwiches were pretty good. He's said. We're
talking about.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
A story, right. I couldn't remember it from sure because
it was just kind of a passing thing.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Oh my gosh, we're talking about a man here that
took his relic brush at uh d I V and
he'd lost his regular tooth brush, and he cleaned his
relic brush up real good and brushed the steven it
like the water. Butch, I mean, that's.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
You can't make it up.

Speaker 14 (32:28):
Oi was a living legend, and I think we're just
now starting to well, we kind of realized that he
was alive, but we're really going to realize it now
because his videos, everything he made, they're still on the internet,
so we can go in and give a taste of
what OI was like.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
But God, you guys know that he was a minister
of a church. Yes, absolutely, he was one of the
One of the our diving videos on dal Hollow is
there's a the rattlesnake on the bank and you know
everybody's everybody's kind of freaking out, or there's this rattlesnake

(33:07):
is going through there. I'm trying to get him to
pull the pull the boat or whatever where I can
get pot. He said, what are you gonna do? I said,
I'm gonna catch that sneake. He said, no, You're not
gonna just I'm gonna give it to you can take
it to church. He said, get on this boat. I
already had my snake. I was going after man Lay

(33:30):
had a lot of faith that they had a lot
of common sense too.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
That's uh a question to keep coming out.

Speaker 14 (33:38):
What about the helicopter door here you go, Yeah, you
may tell about the helicopter door was after well, I can.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
I can tell the story about it as much as
we know. I mean, there was a guy that was
They had the helicopter doors latched to the bottom or
strapped at the bottom of the helicopter and they were
I don't remember exactly what they were doing to day,
all of them what what up and blew off and
went into light. So we we went and looked for
We didn't have a We spent a lot of a

(34:09):
lot of a lot of a lot of bubbles looking
for it.

Speaker 9 (34:12):
But it was.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Say on the on any of the radar there was.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
There was a healthy reward for that from what I understand.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Was, yeah, we we gave it our best shot, but.

Speaker 16 (34:23):
We we.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Everyone always asked that question, what about that? What about
that door? So Bill Hayes, you've been listening to the
show since the day one. Yes, uh, you were on
there that first episode. You have been just such a
committed listener supporter. You've been on the show a few times.
I'm sure you've got a lot of memories of listening

(34:47):
to the shows and listening Tolly and Jeff And what
do you got to say about all these years of
being around Loy.

Speaker 16 (34:56):
Yeah, I just uh, you know what really got you
know his he was just a little story storyteller, you know,
really got into the five mile horror deal.

Speaker 7 (35:14):
That that.

Speaker 16 (35:16):
You know, it's just like every Wednesday or Thursday night
there you would uh get a whole you know, start
just start with the stories coming out of five mile holler.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, yeah, it almost made it sound like a magical place,
you know, as a listener. I don't know where five
Mile is, but it sure sounds wonderful. And some days.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I've been there.

Speaker 16 (35:49):
Yeah, I think Mark's been there too.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
I didn't have a spirit movement, but uh yeah, at
least tell I made.

Speaker 6 (36:03):
It was the day we've me and Lloyd we got
into using our at prose without our headsets, and sure enough,
I mean we were we were at the very end
of it, and of course we were running into Mason

(36:24):
jar lids and then it's where he found his first
large scent. And of course, next thing, you know, I
heard something coming off the huel and of course I
looked in at his county and they heard our detectors
going off and thought they were a bunch of turkeys
or something. And I was like a bote on a minute,
and then but yeah, it was. It's it's a very
nice place. Now. I never did have anybody touch me.

Speaker 7 (36:45):
But then technically it was a couple of turkeys, right,
all right.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
A bunch of display cases busted up.

Speaker 7 (37:00):
Uh, minus too. It was a good effort. Can I
tell us? Can I tell a story?

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Absolutely, anybody jump in.

Speaker 19 (37:09):
So I got to tell you the first time I
ever met Loy, I knew nothing of seven, I knew
nothing of Tennessee, Jeff.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
And the first time I ever went to d I V.

Speaker 19 (37:20):
I was, you know, trying to learn that GPX machine
and about like all the other ones. I think that
was the first time Lloy had one. And uh, we're
I'm coming across the field and headed up to this
hillside and this old fellow walks over to men.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
He said, you find anything.

Speaker 19 (37:39):
I said, well, I found a few. I found a
few bullets, and how about you? And we got to talking,
and pretty soon we were up to someone's pickup, but
I think it might have been yours. Uh, there's a
someone's pickup was parked up there, and we just parked
on that tailgate for a little bit and we just
talked and talked and talked, and I thought, well, you

(38:00):
know what, I paid quite a bit of money to
hunt out here, and uh, I probably ought to quit
hunt or you know, quit talking. But the two of us,
I don't know why we clicked so well then and uh,
and we continued to talk, I mean repeatedly over the years,
and came out and hunted with him and Jeff I
think once, maybe twice. I can't remember all our remembers

(38:22):
Jeff bringing a snake up or something that wasn't good.
But but I tell you what, we we formed a
friendship and we talked, you know, we talked on the
phone fairly regularly, and uh, you know, and we talked
a lot about spiritual stuff too. To be honest, when
I had questions, I'd call him and get his opinion
on it. And whenever COVID hit and they were doing

(38:43):
their podcast, I listened to them all the time. You know,
I'd get my family and we would sit down and
we would listen to you know, whatever book he was
going through at the time, him and a couple other guys.

Speaker 7 (38:52):
Shared it, and uh.

Speaker 19 (38:54):
And so you know that that part of it, that
part of it is probably more meaningful than the detect
to me.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
But we had a good time. We really did have
a good time.

Speaker 19 (39:04):
In fact, the first time I went out there and
we were hunting, and you know, if you're hunting with
someone and that's got an at pro and they don't
use the headphones. It's hard for you to focus on
your headphones on what you're listening to because they have it.

Speaker 7 (39:16):
Hey have it turned up so loud? You know you
can hear it in the next county. And it was.

Speaker 19 (39:21):
I told him, I said, loie, I said, you're missing targets.
And he goes, well, how you know that. I said, well,
because you got no headphones on and the wind's blowing,
and he kind of looked at me in so anyway,
we played around for a little bit and I followed
up right behind him and I dug a target and
don't of course, we can't tell him. I never did

(39:43):
tell him, but there was no target that I got.
It was in my pocket and I pulled out a
quarter just just to just to make a point that
you're missing targets. And he goes, well, I'll be.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Just like that.

Speaker 7 (39:59):
I said, well, I want I wanted them to shut
that thing up so I can hunt.

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Speaker 15 (41:11):
Let us go back.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
That's was it amazing.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
I'll tell you what they're gonna They're gonna head.

Speaker 21 (41:24):
It came to me at two o'clock in the morning.
Why I was asleep, I don't know why. And the
text part of it is, but uh plug Master Ford
Jeff Ford is the voice behind all of those.

Speaker 13 (41:42):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 19 (41:43):
I got I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you
a story about this. So okay, those voices were the
ones that I used.

Speaker 7 (41:51):
I did a bad lip reading. Well, let me tell
you the whole story.

Speaker 19 (41:54):
I came out with the first bad lip reading that
I did, and they were just stupid videos where I
went in and pulled people's video, deleted their audio, and
then tried to read their lips and make it Goofy
and I put the first one out, and I'm at
work and U and Lloyd calls and I said, I answered,
I said, hey, what are you up to?

Speaker 7 (42:15):
And he goes, you ain't right in the head.

Speaker 13 (42:20):
And I said what.

Speaker 7 (42:21):
He goes, boy, I just watch that video. You ain't
right in the head. And I said, well, I can't.
I can't argue that.

Speaker 19 (42:28):
But so so after that, Mikey and I are staying
in a hotel somewhere, might have been someone else with us.
We were detecting somewhere, and Lloyd calls me and he goes,
I'm going to text you over a script and I
need this audio.

Speaker 7 (42:47):
And I go, what are you doing?

Speaker 19 (42:49):
He goes, I got an ad that I'm doing for detectives,
but I can't. You know, I only have one voice
and I don't like to hear it.

Speaker 7 (42:57):
He's what he said.

Speaker 19 (42:58):
I said, well, I can understand that. He goes, I
want you to do it. I want you to do
these other voices. And by this time, my second bad
lip reading video had come out that had Jeff and
Lloy in it, and so I said okay, And so
he sends me the script over and I'm reading it

(43:20):
and I'm sitting there going, how am I supposed to
do this?

Speaker 7 (43:23):
How am I supposed to read this script? How's he
going to record it?

Speaker 19 (43:26):
And it's going to sound any good? When I'm doing
it from my hotel room on my phone, and he said.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
I called him.

Speaker 19 (43:33):
I said, Loid, how are you going to make this
sound good? And he goes, you just let me handle that.
I said, ok okay, all right, I'll let you handle it.

Speaker 7 (43:43):
And so anyway, we got done with it, got done
with it, and I said is that okay? And he goes, yeah,
And I said who wrote that? And he said, well
I did? And I said, boy, you ain't right in
the head.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
He said, I.

Speaker 7 (44:00):
Agree, I agree, I agree. But let me let me
tell you about this.

Speaker 19 (44:04):
So the second, the second bad lip reading that I
did that that had the wrapping duo in it, and
so that he gave me so much grief about the
first one. I was like, oh, there's no way you
got to be in the second one. And I spent
more time on that clip than I did any of
the other clips, any of them.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
You guys know what he's talking about, that bad lip
reading video. Have you guys seen him? Yeah, I'd like
to show sample out if you're okay with it, Jeff, Yeah,
go ahead, Yeah, But first I want to say hello
to Jason quarter Order. Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 20 (44:39):
I was also the recipient of a Jeff Ford bad
lip rey.

Speaker 15 (44:44):
Yeh was there anybody who was safe? Let's be honest.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
I was watching him again pulling clips for the show tonight,
and it was so much fun going back one, going back,
listening to all shows with with Lloyd. Just hearing that
voice again just brought me back seeing tennessee Jeff looking
at old videos of his to pull clips and photos
from and then plug masters bad lip readings, and even
reliving those commercials with Ken and Mark Guthrie's detectives. That

(45:14):
was just so much fun. But Tony, let's roll that
video of h lloy doing a little rapping for us.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
Yo, yo, I don't want to hurt nobody, but we've
been axed more than once. We actually started rapping as
a duo yep, yep, back a few years ago. Well,
just never really have shared it with anybody. Both the
dime is cooming. Yeah boy, why don't you set these

(45:43):
foods straight?

Speaker 6 (45:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Seven?

Speaker 7 (45:45):
These folks kind of know what time.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
It is, Yo, yoyo. I'm the s to the E
the ve n. My homeboy TJ is my bestest friend.
That's all I could come up with right now. I
don't even know where am I who this guy is, so.

Speaker 7 (46:10):
I gotta tell you.

Speaker 19 (46:10):
So I put that video out and I don't know
what time of the morning or when I put it out.
And those of you that know where I live know
that I live in the middle of nowhere and now
sell service is a little bit better now, but it
really sucks in the summer because the leaves walk the anyway.
So I have Loy saved in my phone, and when

(46:33):
it rings, it says Lloyd MILEM. I don't know if
I was just in a bad area. I'm almost to
my house and my phone rings and it's got a number,
but it doesn't say Lloy Mileam. So I answered, Hey,
this is Jeff, and all I hear I've never heard
Lloyd laugh like this. All I hear is Lloyd just

(46:53):
just laughing and laughing.

Speaker 7 (46:55):
I still don't know who it is.

Speaker 19 (46:57):
Okay, this guy is just just laughing and laughing and laughing,
and then I hear him say yep, yep, and he
just continues laughing, and he.

Speaker 7 (47:06):
Keeps on going and going, and finally I was like,
I think this is Loyd. I'm looking at my phone.
I'm going out anyway. He gets he finally gets gets
done laughing.

Speaker 19 (47:17):
And he said, he goes, it took me five minutes
to get past Jeff saying yep yeah, and he said,
he said, I'd start laughing and he goes, I couldn't
hear any of the rest of it, so I'd have
to back it up again.

Speaker 7 (47:31):
I do it again, and it was hilarious.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
He laughed.

Speaker 19 (47:35):
I guarantee you he laughed for three minutes before I
knew who it was. All I could hear was laugh
laugh laughing, gip.

Speaker 7 (47:41):
He just was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
One.

Speaker 7 (47:44):
That's one of my fondest memories.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
What'd you think about that, Tennessee, Jeff, because you were
kind of the brunt of that. Yep, yep, I know
that I used to the funniest party oh all the time.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Yeah. After that, I've done it on the show. I mean,
I just continue doing it like.

Speaker 7 (48:00):
It was.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
It was hilarious.

Speaker 7 (48:02):
I mean, Jeff, I know he I know he called you, Jeff.
Was he laughing like that when he called you?

Speaker 6 (48:10):
Of course he was. I mean I knew who I
was talking to, and but he kept on laughing and laughing.
I think he called me after you and then but
I mean he was still laughing, and of course I
finally seen it. Then we both started laughing and went
over me. But that was a great video, and I mean, honestly,

(48:35):
in a long time, and it brings back buddy and
you done great, both of them.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
I tell you what.

Speaker 19 (48:46):
I enjoyed doing that so much that I revisited another
one later in the series and uh and did a
part two where Jeff got the freestyle a little bit.
You know, you know when I when I went into that,
when I went into making that video, most of the time,
I have no idea what I'm gonna do. But when
I went into that one, I thought, Okay, country boy, preacher,

(49:10):
country boy Tennessee, Jeff, I'm gonna go complete opposite. They're
going to be gangster rappers.

Speaker 7 (49:15):
That's what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 19 (49:17):
And then the hardest part was was getting it to work.
And uh, and if you know, Jeff and Lloyd didn't
really like putting the camera on themselves for very long,
and I could find I could find short clips, but
not enough to do. And I finally I finally found
when they started doing those tailgate tailgate shots that they

(49:38):
went long enough and I thought, Okay, here's my chance.

Speaker 7 (49:40):
So that's how, that's how the whole thing was birth.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Amazing job, Jeff, amazing. Yeah, Matt, how are you doing,
Buddy good? I'm good.

Speaker 15 (49:51):
I'm good, guys. I'm just enjoyed sitting here and listening
to the uh to, to the to the conversation.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
You had a lot of contact with Loy over the years, Yeah,
I did.

Speaker 18 (50:04):
You know, for me, a lot of things were kind
of inseparable, and I think Jeff probably feels the same
way a little bit.

Speaker 9 (50:10):
You know.

Speaker 18 (50:10):
I talked to Loy a lot, but it was always
Loy and Jeff. It was always a question of how
one was doing without the other and stuff like that, and.

Speaker 15 (50:20):
It's, uh, it's for me.

Speaker 18 (50:22):
For what most people don't know is, UH is these
two gentlemen are a big portion of why I started
doing metal detecting videos. Uh, their inspiration, the quality of
video that they put out, and then it's funny. I
don't know if anybody ever watches YouTube videos and thinks

(50:44):
of people on this pedestal, but Jeff and LOI were
there's those people on the pedestal. So when I got
to meet Jeff Ford and then I heard oh yeah,
I heard Digging with Seven's here at d I V
and there in Virginia, I was like, man, these guys
are my heroes because they were.

Speaker 15 (51:02):
They were the dudes that that I related to to
the most.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
So yeah, it's interesting, Yeah, hanging the running. You're good,
We're all ready, We're all prepared. We're good.

Speaker 6 (51:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (51:15):
Now, now what what year do you remember?

Speaker 9 (51:18):
Matt?

Speaker 7 (51:18):
Do you remember what year that was? Because the year
I met you was my first year at d IV
and that's when I met Loy.

Speaker 18 (51:25):
Yeah, it was on the Glebe Farm and man, that
was d ivy thirty six and we're up to like
d IV fifty almost ten years ago.

Speaker 19 (51:34):
Yeah, that's not saying it was either twenty fifteen or
something like that. And you guys broke out that dinosaur
suit too.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
To me, getting to.

Speaker 15 (51:45):
Walk in the room and meet those guys was like,
I'm not the heroes.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
Yeah, man, I'll tell you when you started. I told
you the other day when you started all your stuff
and Lloy was listening to your uh podcast and then
some of your videos. He said he's going to go
somewhere one day, and he was. He was proud.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
He was.

Speaker 6 (52:14):
So proud that, like you started your videos from watching
him and he helped you get into that and he
knew that you had the ability to go as far
as you wanted to go, and it was it's it's
our honor.

Speaker 22 (52:30):
I mean, I watched the video the other day where
we're at your place to cabin where uh uh what
were dig dogs?

Speaker 2 (52:41):
And then men Lloy and then you.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
Man, that was a great time.

Speaker 18 (52:46):
I just remember that day walking around and just being
like cloud gone. I don't even think I saw the
metal attactor. I just had had a blast for and
for the folks who are listening while while at this event,
we met at the pre hunt and I was like, man,
I got want these guys to come hang out with me.
So so I have a little place to stay outside
of where a lot of organized hunts are held in Virginia.

Speaker 15 (53:09):
So we went and there's a little eighteen forties cabin and.

Speaker 18 (53:13):
They were like, man, you got you've never met a
little sected here, and I was like, not not really,
I don't know, you guys, let's go for it. And
I just remember walking around and being so so happy
to to have to share that experience, and then to
share those experiences later on, and then to watch Lloyd
evolve into scuba diving and the passion that he had

(53:37):
and bringing those videos to light, and uh that that's
just a really special thing for me. You know, we
didn't we didn't talk as much as I like, but
that's life.

Speaker 6 (53:50):
So I'd get to and man, I'll pay Lloyd and
I of course my son was born. No, I mean,
you know, life gets in away.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
We all know this.

Speaker 6 (54:01):
Life gets in the way Somen was born.

Speaker 15 (54:04):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (54:05):
Then my wife had a brain cancer, brain humor. It
wouldn't thank goodness, it wouldn't cancer. But I was going
through all this and then uh, I had to step
back from the podcast, from the relic cutting altogether. And
I'm so glad that he had Larry to be there

(54:27):
to meddle ditect with him. And but when I look
back at it now, I didn't know what I had.
But I'll tell you I had no idea what I
had in a shepherd as a dear friend. I've heard
was told stories this past week that everybody knew Miss Tennessee,

(54:51):
even the young kids. And I'm like, man, I should
have been there in their life the whole time, but
you have your own life. And but they their grandfather
during Raymond's and he was talking about him and Lloyd
were throwing rocks, and then he was just using that

(55:12):
for example, and the ripples that the rock gives off
when it hits the water. Lloyd he gives ripples off
for across the US, across the world. I mean we
we had people listening to the podcast from other countries
and his ripples spread. That's how we are connected now,

(55:37):
That's that's why we're here right now talking to each other.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Yeah, that's great, great analogy too, And I agree. He
touched so many people and will continue because his legacy
lives on in the products he produced, the content he produced.
The people like us that are going to remember him
and have have certain stories and we hold on to
Jason core Order. Thanks for joining us tonight. You you

(56:07):
said you would come on tonight and share some Loy stories.
I know that I was on your show recently and
we talked a lot about Loi, and Loye actually showed
up and kind of participated in the chat.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
It was.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
Lloyd Looie is.

Speaker 23 (56:21):
Uh, you know, I've known loy you know, for almost
as old as my channel is ten eleven years old now.
And first, I do have to say that I'm incredibly
embarrassed for Jeff to do that T shirt commercial. I mean,
I don't even know how he shows his face after that.
But with that a side, but no, I mean I

(56:41):
have a story of Loie.

Speaker 7 (56:42):
I never had.

Speaker 23 (56:44):
I never had the honor of meeting loy in person,
but I think we were friends. We chatted a lot,
especially in the early days of YouTube. And the one
story that I remember most is when I first met
or I first spoke with Loi. I guess he had
watched one of my videos, which were just terrible back then,
and I didn't know what I was finding, you know,
I didn't know anything about this stuff. I just enjoyed

(57:05):
the process. And Lloyd commented on a video and he
told me this thing that I had that was a
mystery to me. I think if I look back, it
was probably like a I think it was a jaw
harp or maybe the back of a pocket watch.

Speaker 20 (57:18):
It was something common. But I just if you don't know,
you don't know.

Speaker 23 (57:22):
And so I thanked him, and then I checked out
his channel because you can click on the link of
who commented, and I play his video and I hear
the exact same intro theme song that I use, and
I was like, oh no, now, this was a free
song that was in the YouTube library. We just both

(57:43):
happened to picket. We both happened to use the same clip.
He may have had it first I did, but I instantly,
you know, messaged him and I was like, LOOI, I
don't know if you knew this, but you know we're
using the same exact theme song. And he said, uh oh,
that just means we both have good taste. And I thought,
well that's awesome, Because you know, I was new to this.

(58:06):
I didn't want to step on his toes, and I
kind of felt like he gave me a pass if
I made an error. And then about a year later,
I started doing like a live show on my channel.
Probably in like twenty sixteen or seventeen. I had like
three or four guests on. Jeff Ford was one of them,
and I reached out to Loy, and Lloyd agreed to

(58:28):
come on. And I was really excited because he was
like a knowledgeable guy and I wanted to pick his brain.
And I thought I wanted to do something really special
for Loy. So I was like looking him up online,
you know, googling him, and I found out that he
wrote a book. He wrote a book called Old Mulki
which was about like the history of this Mill Creek

(58:49):
church in Kentucky, and I thought, there it is, thank you,
And I thought, how cool if I had that book
when he came on the show. So I went on
like Amazon, and I went on ABE and I saw
the exact one your show in here, the paperback book.
But I had heard in one of his things that
he had a few dozen hardcover copies that he made

(59:11):
and sold individually. This wasn't like through Simon and Schuster
by any means. So I got on the phone and
I called around to use bookstores in Kentucky because it
wasn't what the hardback wasn't on Amazon, wasn't on ABE.
And I finally got a hold of somebody and I
got it here with me ken bring me up for
a full screen for just a second, because I had

(59:34):
to start high and low for the hardback old Milki
from Lloyd, which is very difficult to find. I mean,
like you said, a few dozen copies, and I thought, man,
he's gonna be psyched when he sees this. And when
I brought him on the show and I peld the
picture up, he said, I'm going to mess up his accent.

Speaker 20 (59:56):
Where in knee world did you find that?

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
And he just helped me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
He just felt really good to put a smile on
his face.

Speaker 7 (01:00:05):
So, Jason, Jason, Jason, you did mess it up.

Speaker 20 (01:00:11):
I know, I don't do the voices like I mean
your best Lloyd?

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Did you find that?

Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
So?

Speaker 23 (01:00:20):
I I mean, almost ten years later off on my bookshelf.
You know, I wish I would have mailed it to
Lloyd to have him sign it. But at least I
got one of the very few copies that he put out.
So I'd like to think we were friendly over the years.
I wish, like I said, we had a chance to
dig together, hang out together. Matt, you might know better

(01:00:41):
than me. My son's name is Reese. I think I
found out that Lloyd's grandson's.

Speaker 20 (01:00:46):
Name is Reese.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
Is that right?

Speaker 6 (01:00:48):
But you know.

Speaker 23 (01:00:50):
Yeah, so just a little weird things in common and
just always had an appreciation form Holly forgave me if
I grabbed his themes song and oh and by the way,
Ken too this book, which is you know when I
bought it, the price is still in there.

Speaker 20 (01:01:08):
I paid fifty dollars for.

Speaker 23 (01:01:10):
It, Wow, just to knock his socks off LUs tax
and shipping, so you know, if that's not dedication to
a guest.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
But I know, I know he probably super appreciated that.

Speaker 20 (01:01:24):
I tell you, I just wanted to catch him off guard.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
And for those I.

Speaker 7 (01:01:29):
Lloyd would have said fifty bucks ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Boy, I would have sold it to you for thirty.

Speaker 13 (01:01:37):
Well, you're a book collector before you got into metal detecting.

Speaker 20 (01:01:41):
I was, for Yeah, my office still has shelves.

Speaker 23 (01:01:45):
I kind of got out of it, but I still
kept a lot of them, so I kind of knew
the avenues to go down to try to find scarcer books.
You still got to track it down, but you know,
I knew the avenues to go and and you know,
so at least I was able to get it.

Speaker 20 (01:02:01):
Good luck trying to find it. You know, it's it's tricky.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
Yeah, Now people listening might not know this, And Jason,
you released this fact on the show. And you and
I when I appeared on your show recently, you had
a trivia question about Relic Radio and you asked me
where seven got his nickname? You want to go ahead
and talk about that. I know a lot of people know,
but people might not in the chat.

Speaker 20 (01:02:26):
Hey probably, Well I didn't know.

Speaker 23 (01:02:28):
So when I had him on this live show ten
years ago, I said, I got to know where you
got the name digging with seven?

Speaker 7 (01:02:34):
You know what does that mean?

Speaker 20 (01:02:36):
And he told me that it was his.

Speaker 23 (01:02:38):
Old little league baseball uniform number. And he kept that
nickname for you know, fifty sixty years later. And I
just thought that was awesome that he still held that
childhood memory close enough to his heart that you know,
that's the nickname he chose, you know, after kids, grandkids, you.

Speaker 20 (01:02:57):
Know, later in life.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Yeah, good story.

Speaker 13 (01:03:01):
I think his son, actually, I think he coached his
son in baseball as well. And I think his son
even had that same number.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Grandson was his grandson and he was number sevent Man.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
That man did a lot of things. I'll tell you what.
He did a lot of things. Now, Jeff, you told
me something and I hope it's not letting out too
much thing too personal. But Tennessee, Jeff and I were
talking earlier this week. It has been so long, Jeff
since you and I talked, So yeah, sorry to take
something like this to get us reconnected. But you said
Lloyd actually would quilt here and there.

Speaker 6 (01:03:42):
Well, he had several hobbies and then quilt was one
of them, and then he loved doing it. And it's
one of these deals where he learned the quilt and
if you ever needed that ability, then he had it.

Speaker 19 (01:03:59):
So he didn't he carve. He carved also, didn't he
Uh see when he was telling me about a fishing
lure he carved one time.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
He did make fishing he he sure did. After he
got out of middle to take a little bit into
him and Larry hooked up. He bought him a saw mill,
started doing. I mean he was cutting timber and uh
didn't making what was it? Uh? Larry was uh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Cutting boards, cutting boards, bird houses and things like that.
I mean he was a cabinet maker as well. I
mean he used to you know, all the all the
cabinets in his house or he made personally. He had
other yellowy soul cabinets and things on the lines. So yeah,
I mean he got planters and I mean he's a
quite a crass gosh.

Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
And you know, I wish I could have got the pictures.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Everything that he did. He went in I mean just
just wholehearted. I mean, you know, it's like the scuba
diving thing. I mean, you know, it wasn't like he's
just diving. I mean, you know, he's he's rebuilding regulators,
he's I mean whatever. I mean, it didn't make a
different dude. Just like he would, he try to max
out his ability to do anything that he ever tried.

Speaker 15 (01:05:17):
Yeah, I remember one of his.

Speaker 18 (01:05:21):
His like nineteen seventies AKA long like double host breathers.
And how does this guy go from scuba diving with
brand new gear to building something you know, ten years
older than I am, you.

Speaker 15 (01:05:38):
Know, but you're right, that's how he was. That's that's
that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Maybe my my original regulator, because I mean I've been
I've been diving as long as Lloyds the Medal Tech
and so I mean I had a you know, scuba
pro regulator from the you know, the nineteen seventies. I
gave he rebuilt it. I even use it after after
he rebuilt. You know, it's like got a bum. I
gave it to him.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
You guys were talking about man and many uh many things.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
Look at this.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
He wrote a book about fishing as well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Yeah, he was a marcial guy. He was a fishing guy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
He was a guy. He was actually a guide on
Dale HALLI.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Oh yeah, I mean he had his you know what,
in order to charge, he had to be you know,
he had to have a captain. He had his captain's license.
So yeah, he got it fishing on day all. M hm, amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Hey, Tony, we had some some some suggestions for stories
of people in the chat, didn't you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Yeah, from Ohio Rella Hunter. Uh, this one's for for
Mark should remember. You should remember the captain of the
popsicle stick ship.

Speaker 6 (01:06:48):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Does that ring a bell.

Speaker 13 (01:06:51):
Again?

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Mark should remember the captain of the popsicle stick ship?

Speaker 13 (01:06:58):
Oh no, oh my god. Uh yeah, it was really interesting.
There was a guy from the Netherlands and honestly I
can't remember his name, and Jeff you remember they remember this,
but we had him on as a guest and he
actually set a record. He got a bunch of kids.

(01:07:21):
This guy got a bunch of kids. Together and they
built a boat out of popsicle sticks and it's a
true story.

Speaker 6 (01:07:29):
Do you remember that, Jeff ill So.

Speaker 13 (01:07:34):
He was and of course Bill Marsh remembers everything. And
by the way, Bill Morrison is probably one of the
most like Bill Hayes, you know, from the very beginning,
you know, heard all the shows and never really wanted
to be a guest on the show. And I think
Bill Marsh and I did a show together just to
get him on. But uh yeah, this guy actually came

(01:07:58):
to the United States to visit and ended up in
Saint Augustine and I was going to go meet him,
and my wife and I drove up there, and all
I can tell you is we picked him up. We
were supposed to meet a bunch of other people at
the fort in Saint Augustine. Nobody else showed up, and

(01:08:23):
after about an hour we figured out that there was
some serious, serious mental problems with this guy. Some of
the stories that he told were just absolutely made up,
crazy stories. And all I can think about is I

(01:08:45):
need to get I need to figure out how to
get away from this guy as fast as possible. But
he was a guest on the show, and we did
the research on the Popsicle Ship Popsicle Stick vote that
he Bill and failed and story, but all the rest
of it was just pure fantasy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
Denny's in the chat. I want to say hello to Denny.
Good to see you, Denny. Denny has been there right
from the beginning too, the Relics Radio and it's always
been a big supporter and listener. And he said or
that he's got a picture somewhere with Mark with a
hat with a hat on and Bill and he thought
it was when they were hunting for Morgan's trail. It was, yeah,

(01:09:34):
and it's good to see him in here. Yeah, there
you go. That's it, Chris heinsow, doctor go ahead. Bill Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
I was going to say we we did extend an
invite to Bill marsh and he just wasn't able to
commit to being on a video with us. But he's
checking into the chat with us and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
He's here. Well, wait a minute, I got a bone
to pick with him on that. So he appeared with
Mark Hoover on a show one time, Right, Bill, your
phone is gonna be ringing.

Speaker 13 (01:10:09):
That a lot of work to get him on that show.

Speaker 6 (01:10:14):
You did, Mark, you did.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
We're gonna have to talk after the show, and You're
gonna have to let me know the secret with this
with this guy, I gotta I got on with him
in Ohio, but and I got one picture with him,
So he does exist. He's like sasquatch. He does exist.

Speaker 16 (01:10:31):
Though I've seen him, Tony, he just like a sash squatch.
Nobody can see him. He's uh, you know, he just disappears.
That's right, that's right, Yeah, he's he's not on video.

Speaker 4 (01:10:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Did we talk about did we talk about his grandma's cats? Yeah?
We did, Chris, Yeah, Chris, that's that. That's that question stuff.
But well, Larry, you know earlier, Larry, you were talking
about your last hunt with him, and Tony wasn't able

(01:11:14):
to pick up that picture. You want to kind of
revisit that story.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
And I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Way through it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Well, I will add that there is one missing forty
four gallile bullet. Uh that a six foot up with
him and I I haded that on my way out.
And uh, but those are the those those come up
to forty four woods, those are the last last brobics. Uh,

(01:11:44):
Llowie and I have dug together.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 15 (01:11:49):
Well that's I'm pretty be honest man, what epic way
to uh.

Speaker 18 (01:11:56):
I watched every single forty four caliber woods bullet there
ever was. And if there was a place to dig
one last time, holy crap it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Well on to that and there is where gym and
and even where I went the first time, I don't know.
It's on the other side of the There was kind
of a hilltop there and the back side of that
was never available and the land had actually been sold
and he ended up with permission to be able to

(01:12:29):
hunt the back side of the hillside. That's where that
so that that area had never been hunting.

Speaker 6 (01:12:35):
So what I didn't realize that, so that the land
was ended up being sold and he got permission.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Ye yep. It's on the where you where we all parked,
went in on the front side of it and where
the actually woods part of it. This is over the
top of the hill and it was all field and
things and it's gonna be developed there. It's gonna be
out of the building. There's like a lot of places
we end up, you know, is the be.

Speaker 6 (01:13:00):
Able Well, I don't think Lloyd would care if we
went back there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
Oh he made the point, h when I when I
went to seeing the last time to make sure I
bought my Militech with him. I said, boy, I'll spend
my time with you because this is too dang hot
to go and try to dig.

Speaker 13 (01:13:18):
Some over.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
As a tribute. Now you two got to go clean
it out. That's what you got.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
I'm sure we could probably get you get one of
one of his I don't remember which one of his
relevants lives in in the house that's next to that area,
so uh, and I don't remember who it is, well,
one of the grand kids or kids or I don't
have a clue if they weren't there at the time,
but I didn't. I didn't get the chance to talk

(01:13:48):
to you know who's back to look, we parked at
their house and walked up the hill.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
Well I know that, Uh, this was a tribute to Tolly,
and you know, we didn't want to talk about individual finds,
not necessarily, but Larry, I have got to see that
eight reale you found with Lloyd. Uh some kind of
steamboat landing. I gotta hear that story, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Uh, well, the yeah, the landowner was very gracious that.
I mean, we've hunted his farm and Jeff, and Jeff
has been of his farm as well. But he told
Loy about this supposedly where the steamboat landing was on
the Cuman River. So you know, we can take off
down there and we're you know, we're swinging away and whatever.

(01:14:37):
And I and we're finding absolutely nothing. There's nothing in
that feel and I get to get a little beef
and I end up digging up a flat butt and
and about five or six feet away from this thing,
all of a sudden, I had this absolutely supream in tone,
and I'm going, Loyd, but listen to that. You could

(01:15:00):
like you know, you know who was talking about the
fact that you know, we don't wear headphones. You know,
we're all we're all listening to everybody else to beat Twitter.
And he comes running over there and I and I
picked my shovel on the ground and just kind of
turn over the dirt. He drops down with the pin corner.
He goes, oh, well, you saw it on the video, said,
oh my god, that's uh. And that was the only

(01:15:27):
thing we found, you know, up and down that whole river.
You know that river bank was that one little old
beat up flat button in that eight reel, doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
He that's isn't that amazing? Like I just sitting there
waiting for you guys to come along. There was gorgeous
uncovering and that is a big.

Speaker 6 (01:15:47):
But the man's button come off his shirt and that's
how the real fell out, typical Loy fashion.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
And as gracious as he is, and he's helped me
so much with me, will take it. He said, I
am so glad that you found that instead of me
any minute. He really, I mean, he's never found one.
And uh but you know it's just said. It's how
gracious of a first is that. I'm just so glad

(01:16:16):
that you found that and not me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Wow, hold that up first. You got that in front
of you, don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
Oh yeah, it's stay all the time. It pretty much
never moves off off my desk. I don't know if
I can get the glare out bad or not.

Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
But a big chunk of silver right there. My gosh,
how big that thing is.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
Man, it's a pretty big chunk of silver.

Speaker 13 (01:16:41):
Congratulations on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
Yeah, that is.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Amazing, great, that is very special.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
That my handshake. For sure.

Speaker 6 (01:16:49):
I am going to him.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
I mean, I'm you know, I've already talked my life
about or whatever that is that's going to get once
once I return to the land.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Very nice, very nice, for sure, I know that, and
some of you may know. I don't know which one
it was, but one of the first times I think
I saw it, but Relix Radio was at either a
div or maybe one of the Chattanooga show. But it
was the first time, I think, and plug master Ford
you may know this. They went live on video, so

(01:17:24):
they were live of course on the podcast because they
did all their podcasts live, but they actually hooked up
a camera. I think Plug master Ford was involved in that,
and they tried to hook up a camera. I remember
I'm sitting in my office or in my front room
and listening to the audio podcast and then saw it
cut pop up as a live stream on somebody's channel,

(01:17:44):
maybe Jeff's, and I know I was watching them, and
then I picked up the phone to call into the podcast.
So I'm calling into the podcast talking to them well
while also watching them interact with me on the phone.
And I think it was one of the first times
I saw that whole setup, and I thought it was
really special. I thought, you know, because I I think

(01:18:05):
I remember, I think Jeff, you were like going, that's
d kay, you know, to to Deloy and he was going, yeah, yeah,
I know who that is, and you know, kind of
off the whole behind the scenes thing was being shown,
and that was a real special thing. I thought, I
got to really give it a kick out of it.
I thought that was cool and very very early pioneering
in my opinion.

Speaker 10 (01:18:23):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:18:24):
Yeah. I told the boy that when we went and
that was that that was out of d IV, I believe.

Speaker 19 (01:18:29):
And I told him, I said, you know, your show
is great, why don't you video it? And he said, well,
because it's a podcast, I said, so, I said, it
doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 (01:18:41):
You can make it a video cast if you want,
if that's what you want to call it.

Speaker 19 (01:18:45):
And I said, well, here, I'll just stream it. He's like, well,
how are we gonna hook everything up? I said, We're
not just gonna You're just gonna stream it. And so
that that's how that came about. And he called me
later and he goes, well, that's a lot easier, and
I thought it was, and I said, all you do
is turn the camera on and pipe the audio through
the camera, you know, through a board or something, and

(01:19:07):
so that's what he started.

Speaker 7 (01:19:09):
He's still though, you know, Jeff can tell you he
was old school.

Speaker 19 (01:19:13):
He loved technology though he really did.

Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
He loved it, he embraced it, but in his heart
he was old school. And just like that, you know,
it's a podcast.

Speaker 19 (01:19:24):
You can't video a podcast, otherwise it's not a podcast.

Speaker 7 (01:19:28):
So I told him, I said, you can do whatever
you want to do, or I.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Just do it.

Speaker 24 (01:19:34):
Yeah, Well, listen to this, check this out and you
are live July the twenty six, twenty eighteen. You are
listening to Relix Radio Life from Southern Well, I tell
you what, we're all in the South here tonight. We
are in gonna be in Georgia, We're gonna be in Alabama,
we're gonna be in Tennessee, and we're going to be
in Kentucky. And I tell you what, folks, if y'all

(01:19:57):
are not saying y'all by.

Speaker 21 (01:19:58):
The time you get to the end of the the
show you hadn't listened, coud you fix and get a
heavy dose of red egg tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
I always remember law, I used to say, we're just
a couple of rednecks with a microphone, right, Jeff.

Speaker 6 (01:20:13):
Ye two red two rednecks with the metal.

Speaker 23 (01:20:20):
I remember the line in America is drawn where you
were up North. You no longer say fixing.

Speaker 16 (01:20:29):
Maryland around Maryland?

Speaker 6 (01:20:33):
Yeah, of course, uh Ohio, Indiana. Yeah, I mean up
in that area. They yeah, they stopped saying it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
So I had been co hosting with him on the
show for a little while, and I remember I did
the Mortal Sin. I left my ringer on my cell
phone one night, and while we're doing the shelves and
my phone rings, I go reaching for it real quick
and shut it off and shut it up, and after

(01:21:01):
the show, Lloyd goes so the next show, we do,
make sure you turn your ringer off. Oh I'm in
trouble with Lloyd.

Speaker 7 (01:21:10):
Now, hey, I guarantee you.

Speaker 19 (01:21:13):
I guarantee you because any of us who had been
around Lloyd long enough had said something where he and
Jeff you can vouch for this where he does this look.

Speaker 7 (01:21:25):
He'd roll that up. First time I ever saw it
was the first time we met.

Speaker 19 (01:21:29):
And of course, you guys know, I kind of like
to cut up some and he came over and he
started talking to me, and I asked him, I said,
where are you from?

Speaker 7 (01:21:37):
New York City.

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
I think that's probably one of the reason we got
along so well, because I picked up on that really quick,
and I just messed with him all the time. Yeah,
I can't do.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Yeah, have any of your favorite me reason with him?
Anything stand out that I mean, I know, it's just
a tremendous amount. So I'm being unfair to you to
kind of pick on you here, and have you picked
a couple?

Speaker 6 (01:22:08):
Well, I was thinking earlier today. Favorite memory, I really
don't have one, but I mean, just it wasn't the relicks.
It was just being in the woods with him. And
we loved our thickets, don't get me wrong. And the
thicker it was, the better he loved it. And then

(01:22:30):
I'm like, uh, we were scarred all the pieces by
the time we got out of the thickets he loved.

Speaker 18 (01:22:38):
I want to interrupt you, Jeff, because I was at
when we were at DV that I think the first
time we ever met. You know, we're out in the
middle of five six hundred, eight hundred acres of the
prettiest cut farm feels you've ever seen in your life.
And I see Jeff the next day and Jeff looked

(01:22:58):
like he had gotten a fight with a wildcat face
his arms were cut up, and Lloyd just smiling. He said,
we found a big old button.

Speaker 9 (01:23:11):
Go.

Speaker 18 (01:23:12):
He said, we found this thicket on the other side
of the farm. I said, how, there's a thousand acres
of caught farm fields. So that was That's one of
my favorite memories of all time because I remember that
morning and that day and of course y'all found an
incredible button.

Speaker 6 (01:23:30):
But it was, uh, that was when I found the
Virginia button, I think. But either way, it didn't. No
one else wants to go to the thickets, and it's
I mean it's too hard to get through, especially with
the gp X and all that. It's hard to swing.
But you, I mean, we would get in there and

(01:23:50):
dig into thickets because we know no one else wants
to go there but us rednecks with the metal detectors.

Speaker 4 (01:23:58):
So yeah, the.

Speaker 7 (01:24:01):
Boys ain't all there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
That's gonna haunt me forever. Rest of all.

Speaker 4 (01:24:10):
I'm gonna be.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
I'm gonna be and yip in my thank you and
I'll tell you with me for a long time.

Speaker 16 (01:24:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Wow, I never got a chance to do with the man.
I really wish I had. We talked a lot about
technology and uh this and that. I know that when
spreaker uh stopped allowing live content where we would have
a live chat. I know that him and I talked
a lot about it about what what the next step

(01:24:40):
was going to be. And at first Tony and I,
like you know, looked around and try to find a
comparable equal to spreaker, and there really isn't. There really isn't.
They all are doing going away with that because of
the the storage capabilities, maybe the bandwidth, the server power, whatever,
but it's they're just going to pre recorded. We found
a couple of services that were still offering it, but

(01:25:03):
it was terrible. It was just terrible. I wouldn't I
wouldn't want to want to do that. So coming over
to this video format and then uploading audio later was
kind of our best, our best hope to kind of
keep it something similar. And I think it really kind
of made him sad, Like he really he was sad
to see that go. But I just, you know, we
didn't want to just pre record everything and post the audio.

(01:25:26):
There was the whole interaction, right tennessee, Jeff with the
chat group down below, you know, you get the same
twenty thirty whatever people showing up week after week, and
you know, it's a lot of fun. You get to
know those people just by the comments and some of
them are quite comical.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
Like it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
You know, it's hard to kind of keep it straight
face when you're interviewing somebody. I mean it's a that
li That live element was important to you guys, wasn't
it you?

Speaker 6 (01:25:55):
It sure was. You know, Mark Hoover, he helped a
lot with the at and of course other than booking
our guest, and of course thank you Mark, you were
a big plus to the relicts. You know, I mean
you you you just know. But either way, Mark would
go through the text and he would keep up with

(01:26:17):
of course I was having problems just keeping up with
everything on the screen myself. And then then I'd get
a text and then Mark would be like, okay, such
and such and asked a question, go to this one
and go to this one. And then then at this
time Lloyd was texted me and I was going we
would go back and forth. But I mean, yeah, the
live stream, I mean it was nice, it really would.

(01:26:42):
I mean, you could you could answer the question right
the end, and then it was a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:26:51):
Can I can I share a story about Lloyds? Well,
I got to a quick one is we were at
one of the which is shows and I think This
was in Chattanooga, Jeff. But I had a backpack sitting
on the table and we were getting ready to leave
and I picked up that backpack and I thought I

(01:27:13):
was gonna fall. I mean this thing was heavy, Like, man,
I didn't put that much stuff in my backpack.

Speaker 20 (01:27:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:27:21):
I started walking out and Jeff and Lawyer just over there,
just falling. And it turned out, I don't know what
was a parentshell. It was like a twenty pound parent
shell in the bottom of my backpack. They put in there.
They were they were going to see how far I
was going to walk with it. They did have a
sense of humor, I can tell you that. But one

(01:27:44):
of my favorite memories I was at Lloyd's house. My
wife was there, and he gave me a case of
fines that he had bullets and buttons. I mean, I
was blown away. He said, Mark, I want to give
this to I said, you to the kidding and he
said no, he said he listened. He said, listen, we

(01:28:06):
can't take all this time. That's the one in Jeh.

Speaker 6 (01:28:12):
Exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:28:18):
Oh my god.

Speaker 13 (01:28:22):
Well, he gave me this case of some of his
fines and I was just like, lo, I can't take this.
I said, these are all your fines and he said,
I mean, you know a lot of them. And he said, Mark,
he goes, I got a bunch of stuff. He goes,
but I really want you to have this. And remember,
we can't take any of this stuff with us, and

(01:28:45):
so what's the most important is the friendships that we
make and the people that we influenced along the way.
So I still have that display and I'm just you know,
it's just I always remember that, you know, what he
told me about, Hey, you can't take this with you know.
And so when people ask me if I'm on a
podcast or something, you probably heard me say, you know,

(01:29:05):
the greatest my greatest fines or you know, first of
all my wife and then second the friendships I've made
in the hobby. But you know, I learned a lot
of that from Lloyd.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Yeah, he was teaching, whether we knew it or not,
you know what I mean, he always was. I know
that we would talk after all the podcasts and chat
about stuff and talk about how the guest was and
what we learned from it and not. And I mean
he was always positive, he was always up, and he
was always willing to point out all the positives of
the guests we just had, and it would always make

(01:29:39):
me think I'd get off the podcast and I go
on with my night, and his words would always ring
ring in my ears, like, you know, thinking about what
he said until the next time we met. So he
I agree, how Mark it is, I'm right there with you.
It's all about the friends we make. I mean, look,
we're all on tonight talking about Loy and sharing very

(01:30:01):
similar stories, and.

Speaker 7 (01:30:04):
Uh, you know, I want to share. I want to share. Yeah,
if I can for a second, just I'm it's getting
dark here, as you can tell. I look like I'm hiding.

Speaker 19 (01:30:13):
I'm driving going seventy stupid, but I got to get
home anyway, so I gotta I gotta tell you so.

Speaker 7 (01:30:20):
Uh and Jeff remembers and Jeff, what was that?

Speaker 6 (01:30:23):
Was that a mustard?

Speaker 19 (01:30:24):
What was the field we were hunting out there? It
was a place where they brought the troops before they
were going out.

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
Yeah, right next to the we're west found the uh
eighteen PDT.

Speaker 7 (01:30:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 19 (01:30:39):
So so so they invite us out and that's when
I took that display case of his that shattered.

Speaker 6 (01:30:47):
Yeah that was yeah, yeah, yeah, So we go out
we go out and we hunt.

Speaker 7 (01:30:51):
This and we're hunting with the gp X.

Speaker 19 (01:30:54):
Well, West Stringer went with me, and uh, and I
know a lot of people don't underst and this, but
you know, Wes found that big old silver hoard and
then he brought me in and we dug the mess
out of it. Wes was still pretty new to detecting,
so almost every coin we found was a new one
for him. You know, it was a new something that
he found, and it was they were all bucket listers.

Speaker 7 (01:31:15):
So after that dig, we pretty much covered most of
what we were going to find. And we went out
there and hunted with them.

Speaker 19 (01:31:21):
Well, while we're there, a neighbor comes over kind of
asking what we were doing, and uh, and Jeff gets
to talking with him and Wes and and the guy said, well,
I owned some land back here and there's an old
cemetery and so Wes and Jeff next thing we knew,
they were gone. They were packed up and rode off
with this guy. And Solly and I were over there,

(01:31:44):
still digging using the gpx's digging some bullets and things
like that, and pretty soon and it's just this this
right here hit me so hard as I looked at
Lloy and I thought, he gets it.

Speaker 7 (01:31:59):
This is what it's about. And so my phone rings
and it's Wes. You know, we can't see him. They're
a long ways off, and Wes is talking.

Speaker 19 (01:32:08):
He's hard to understand because he's pretty dog on excited
and he's talking about a bucket lister and he keeps
going on and going on and going on.

Speaker 7 (01:32:16):
Well, Lloyd's standing, you know, not far from me, but
but Wes is talking loud. He's pretty he's pretty jacked up.

Speaker 19 (01:32:23):
And anyway, long story short, he tells me what he
dog which what was eighteen sixty one seeded dime.

Speaker 18 (01:32:30):
Or half dime?

Speaker 6 (01:32:32):
Is eighteen fifty four, I believe.

Speaker 7 (01:32:34):
Okay, eighteen fifty four.

Speaker 20 (01:32:36):
It was a seeded dime, not a half dime. Yeah,
it was a seeded dime.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
And after I hang up the.

Speaker 19 (01:32:41):
Phone, Lloyd looks at me and he goes, you got
goosebumps too, and I said, yeah, I do.

Speaker 7 (01:32:48):
And just you know, not knowing Lloyd didn't even know
what it was that he found.

Speaker 19 (01:32:53):
But the fact that you know that Wes was so
excited and you could hear it, you know, he couldn't
understand what Wes was saying, but he can hear his excitement,
and he got goosebumps, and I thought, you know what,
this is someone I want to hunt with forever.

Speaker 7 (01:33:06):
This is a guy who gets it, you know, get excited.

Speaker 19 (01:33:09):
For everyone else, it's not about the fine for you,
it's about getting out, having fun and enjoying each other's company.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well said.

Speaker 7 (01:33:21):
Well, I'm gonna ask you.

Speaker 19 (01:33:23):
I'm gonna ask you this, Ken, because it's about to
get dark on me and I got a light on
in my rig to drive.

Speaker 7 (01:33:28):
You care if I get off here and watch the
rest of the show on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:33:32):
Not at all, Man and and and everyone else on
the on the on the on the panel as well.
You guys need to go go. We just are gonna
sit around like a campfire and talk. Jeff, thank you
very much putting your life at risk for us going out.

Speaker 13 (01:33:46):
Well yeah, I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm gonna I
really appreciate you having us on. I mean, I love
hearing all these stories again, and I forgot a lot
of them, but being on here with everybody, and I
think I've hunted with just about everybody here except for
maybe Larry, and I've heard so many stories about Larry

(01:34:08):
from boy that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
Were you and uh Martasboro, Arkansas dig for chide.

Speaker 13 (01:34:15):
No, I was not.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
Yeah, you got to come out to Colorado too, Mark.

Speaker 13 (01:34:22):
I was hunted with you guys in uh, I don't know,
five or six years ago out there in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (01:34:28):
Yeah, yeah, out at that let me see, I think
it was uh who was out there? Stealth Digger boys
came out for that one.

Speaker 13 (01:34:34):
Yeah, thank exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:34:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
Yeah, it was a lot of fun. But so yeah, yeah,
you're welcome to rock them head on out. I appreciate
all your stories. Mark, your really part of the history
here with Lloyd and Jeff and Roaks Radio, and we
just loved your stories. Thank you so much for coming
on right.

Speaker 13 (01:34:50):
Thanks for having me guys. Thanks, thank you. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
I'll call you Jeff and I'll be sending your contract Mark. Yeah,
almost got him, almost got him mad. Did you ever
dive with Lloyd?

Speaker 16 (01:35:04):
You know?

Speaker 15 (01:35:04):
I never did.

Speaker 18 (01:35:06):
It's funny, uh, Jeff, Jeff sent me some news and
I was out diving and uh and then the next day,
you know, I received the news uh of Lloyd passing away,
and I thought, man, how appropriate this guy loves to dive.
And I got into it late, but man, I would
have loved to go on and uh played it around

(01:35:29):
in some to me with clean water.

Speaker 1 (01:35:31):
Uh yeah, look at that. He actually could see that
through the camp.

Speaker 15 (01:35:37):
That's that's beautiful stuff there.

Speaker 18 (01:35:38):
I would have loved to gone and and explore Dale
Hollow with him, and uh, I think it was fantastic,
h super super cool stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:35:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
He definitely enjoyed diving, There's no question about that. And
you know I've always concerned about that. You know, he did.
He would never go very deep, but he didn't mind
diving by himself for it all.

Speaker 18 (01:36:02):
We have a lot in common then because well maybe
except for the deep part, but I don't have a
problem going by by yourself.

Speaker 15 (01:36:07):
You know what you're doing. You're good to go.

Speaker 1 (01:36:10):
Leave that one up, Tony. I mean, right there, look
at that. I mean he he always encouraged his great grandkids,
his grandkids kind of get into get into stuff he
was into. Uh that's that's just awesome, you know, kind
of passing it on, passing it on. Uh, I know
his uh, I know, he just really encouraged him to

(01:36:31):
look like. They always had fun on the boat, you
know what I mean. Uh, oh, right there, I mean
look at that, you know, rain and the kids. Uh kids, Yeah,
look at that in the wind.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:36:45):
He would uh uh. He owned more oxygen tanks than
anybody that I know, for one man. Every time I
would like talk to oh, I've got some more. I
got some more tanks. I got this, I got that.
We I was fortunate enough to go with him one time.
Of course I'd done the hookah deal and and so

(01:37:07):
got in the wet suit and then got down and
of course it was leaking. My tank was leaking. And
then of course that's the first time I'd ever done it,
and I'm like, is this good? He said, I will
just tighten it up a little bit more and see
if it and he said, like, bubble it a little bit.
And he said, oh, that'll be fine. And I was like, okay.

(01:37:29):
Of course I didn't get very deep at all. I
mean it was probably about six foot, but I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
It was I thought.

Speaker 6 (01:37:37):
I thought I would be so scared to be up
under water like that, but it's so peaceful. It's it's unreal.
It's a different world. And you would fan the sand.
We were hunting an old home site, and you would
move the rocks and the fish would just be all
around it. It's a different world, and it really is.
I wished I was able to more.

Speaker 23 (01:37:58):
I got a question, guys, Jeffy, would I guess know,
was Loy into diving early on?

Speaker 20 (01:38:05):
Did he get into that later in life?

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
Later in life.

Speaker 11 (01:38:08):
I remember that video transitions when he was hunting land
land land, and then in my mind he started doing
like training underwater, and he was going until I guess
he had enough credits or however that works, and then
it seems like, man, that's all he was doing. Like
it really seemed like it became an incredible passion for him.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
Like everything he did, I mean, he just keeps, I
mean just you know, goes full, full bore on everything
he did. Yeah, because he was getting his certification, he
wasn't able to get it. He didn't have his actual
certification cards, so he he couldn't get his tanks failed.
So yeah, one of the things I was doing going
with him before before he was ever actually certified. I

(01:38:52):
used my certification card to get get the tanks.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
Yeah, yeah, he was.

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
He was down. Like I said, I mean, I've I've
been diving since the mid seventies and and by the
time with lawyer. I guess that's probably about when he
started metal taking.

Speaker 1 (01:39:07):
But were you? Were you his influence?

Speaker 13 (01:39:11):
I doubt it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
He wanted he wanted to get.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
Into and talk about it and things, but I I don't,
you know, I'm not really sure what aready moaning when
he never he never gave me any credit for it
to be any guy.

Speaker 6 (01:39:24):
You know, he probably said a commercial or something and
then somebody with scuba dive and he said, I want
to do that. Years old is when he first started
scuba oven.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
So uh wow.

Speaker 23 (01:39:37):
That's inspiring though, because I've always wanted to do it.
Maybe I'll take after Loie and give it a try
later in life.

Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
Like I.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
Just do it right, get when you get your certification,
get a get a good dive instructor to go with it.

Speaker 20 (01:39:53):
No doubt what Matt, how you kidding me? Follow off?

Speaker 15 (01:39:58):
Don't go guy with that guy?

Speaker 6 (01:40:04):
Larry said, not, I like Claire Water. I don't know
about having all them lights and then you can't see
you look at your hand in front of your faith.

Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
You want to talk about tanks, just go take a
look at that house across sometimes. Yeah, he's got I.

Speaker 15 (01:40:25):
Got a bit of a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:40:26):
I remember I remember Lloyd used to talk. We used
to talk about YouTube also, like after the podcast and
such beforehand. And I remember when his diving videos started
doing better than his metal detecting videos as far as
the number of views and stuff, and he was so
impressed by it. He was like, man, that video got
X amount of views. I don't know, he goes, but
I got to do more of them, you know, And

(01:40:48):
I said, yeah, you should. You know, there's a lot
of intrigue there, and and uh so he did. He
started really putting everything into all his names.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
The Eddie Irons video was like one of his, one
of his best ones. And then for some reason, I
have no idea, he had one of his die video
just went viral and and I mean it was his crap.
It was there was nothing You've got to got the
pivot or something other, and I mean it just it
just blew all the other ones late. But uh is

(01:41:20):
Eddie Irons with the with the the old schoolhouse, Yeah,
one of his best die videos. We we got together
kind of mapped that out. Eddie Yeah, died died on
his eighteenth birthday from a from a horse he got.
He's buried in the front of that that that schoolhouse. Yeah,
they tried to you know, when they impounded the lake,

(01:41:42):
they tried to last him out with dynamite and they
finally just gave up and said I would just feel
the lake and don't worry about Eddie Eddie, and just
stay here.

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
I mean that you should have video add everything. Man
had a story to it, had intrigue, had mystery, had
a little bit of sort of the Ma Cob. It
had underwater adventure explorer like. It touched many bases, which
is why that video did so well, you.

Speaker 6 (01:42:04):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
It was good. It was a good, good documentary.

Speaker 1 (01:42:08):
Yeah, yeah, he was. He loved making videos and he
was always really interested in I know, I featured him
a lot on a weekly dirt show, and that's kind
of I think initially how we kind of started getting
to know each other a bit. But and Larry, earlier
this week, you and I talked kind of one of
the first times, right, we kind of chatted. We've been
wanting to get you and loy On to talk about
that eight real Find, and gosh arn it, we just

(01:42:31):
we didn't get it done. But I'll tell you what
I was talking to you and you were telling about
this last hunt and you showed me, you show me
that picture, and you hadn't you hadn't said where you
guys were. And in my head, I'll always remember the
term the forty four Woods because that was always prevalent.
And I was just waiting for you to take a

(01:42:52):
break in your story to me so that I could say,
and where did were you guys at? And I was praying.
I was praying, Larry, that you would say forty four Woods.
And when you said that, oh my god, I got
I got goosebumps all over when you said that to me.
I don't know if you know that or not, but
I was like, yes, that was so fitting.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
It was very special to me because, like I said,
that was the first place that Lloyd and I went
to hunting, and it was a last.

Speaker 4 (01:43:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:43:19):
How fitting? Yeah, out fitting you talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Honestly, it wasn't that many weeks ago. I mean, he was, uh,
he was doing pretty good for his treatment and feeling
pretty good, and he said, you know, I said, Mom,
let's go, let's go dig some olds. I said, heck, yeah,
that down. So he he got tired pretty quick. But
that's really I was. You know, he was he was
making deeper noises and I was helping him big oles.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
H Only did you see that comment from ill digger Tim?

Speaker 6 (01:43:50):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (01:43:51):
What?

Speaker 7 (01:43:53):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:43:53):
Tim?

Speaker 1 (01:43:53):
Tim's comment starred? Yeah, you see that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
Speaking of Looy's Southern talk, I always got to chuckle
with Lloys. Loy said the word coin.

Speaker 1 (01:44:07):
Cohen. Who has the best example of that probably Jeff
plug Master four.

Speaker 23 (01:44:18):
Yea, but says but says a good southern co one too.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
That's crazy about.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:44:31):
Yeah, yeah, I know, Uh yeah, I really appreciate it
having you guys on here to talk about Loy. Bill.
You got any other memories of Loy? Did you ever
get a chance of going dinging with him? You said
you hadn't, right, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:44:45):
I got to dig with him one time at d
I D I think it was Brandy Rock, Okay, Yeah,
we was upper on that one hill there by the silo.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
Do you ever getting any thickets with him? It's a
good thing he.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
Had, you know, he was. He was pretty cautious of
the snakes.

Speaker 1 (01:45:17):
Yeah. I didn't know nothing from Briars at all, being
from Colorado.

Speaker 18 (01:45:22):
We get into the Jeff, you were at that hunt,
weren't you?

Speaker 15 (01:45:27):
I was I was that was that for folks who
don't know me, that the photo of me is, it's.

Speaker 18 (01:45:35):
A photo of me and Lawyer is my my profile
picture right now and will always be one of my
favorite photos from that hunt. And I remember meeting some
other other YouTubers who who will never hold who who
are famous in the YouTube world but aren't the same
pedestal as Tennessee Jeff and Lolly digging with seven but

(01:45:56):
but fantastic guys in their own right and uh and
digging holes with those guys and being on the same
hillside and it's one of the that's one of the
places that was the absolute find of I didn't find it,
but there it is. That's absolutely grinning like the vegetable

(01:46:17):
possum heads and uh and enjoying, enjoying the time of
the life, but just finding one of the most incredible
finds I've ever been a part of.

Speaker 15 (01:46:28):
And watching Lloy.

Speaker 18 (01:46:31):
With that fine later in the evening in their hotel
room and deciphering and the fine was actually a Civil
War soldier's I d attack and uh, the excitement that
he had and he shared for that is it is
the same that that's what's been spoken of earlier, from
from other people's fines or you know what what Plug
master Ford said or Jeff said.

Speaker 21 (01:46:53):
And.

Speaker 18 (01:46:55):
Those are those are the memories I certainly will hold
hold very very dear. That was what an incredible time
that was to see that, to not only be a
part of it, but to witness it from from a
different perspective of standing.

Speaker 15 (01:47:09):
Outside and seeing someone so excited to see that history
and it was it was a really really cool time.

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
I'm talking about history. I got to share this with y'all.
Jason cord Order. I was on his show here a
little while back, and he was asking some great questions.
By the way, he did a great interview. I was
watching that back. You did a lot of research.

Speaker 4 (01:47:32):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
You asked me one of my most memorable times of
being on RELICTI Radio, and it came from when I
was on with Loy one time. And I want to
share this with you because to this day it still
just blows my mind. We had a gentleman that has
been listening to the show for you many years and
he ended up calling in. We had a call in
number at the time, and his name was Michael Holbrook

(01:47:57):
and he actually called in one night and he started
talking to us about this item. So that was Lloy's
great grandfather's belt plate or belt. I guess it wasn't
belt buckle, right, that's more of a plate right with

(01:48:22):
Wm Mylin on it, and that's his great great grandfather's.
His unit passed through this area where this Michael Holbrook
was during the war and he had been listening to
the show. He knew of Loy, he knew of Lloyd Milam,
and he was digging this area and he found this
and from listening to the show, he knew that Lloyd's

(01:48:45):
great grandfather or great great grandfather had come through this area.
So he called the show one night and talked about
that he had found this plate and he was able
to return this Tolloy to return it to his family.
And I'll never forget that, the reach, I'll never forget
it because it really that's when my AHA moment that said, Wow,

(01:49:08):
this is truly a community. This is truly this podcast
is reaching people that you just never know who it's reaching, right,
whether they're downloading the show in some other country, or
they're just down the street, or they're just in the
same county, or they've been listening maybe once or twice
or whatever. The reach of this show reaches the ears

(01:49:28):
to where something like this could happen, you know what
I mean, Like, what are the odds of a listener
of the show coming across knowing who you know, knowing
the enough story of Loie Milam and where he talked
about his great great grandfather coming through with his unit
to be able to identify kind of this, you know,

(01:49:48):
and be able to get this back to him. Now,
it's just just pretty amazing, pretty amazing to me. Yeah,
so that that I'll never forget that that blew me away.
I was speechless that night, and uh, yeah, can that happened.

Speaker 20 (01:50:08):
Live on the show? Ken, Like, look call and you
didn't you had no preconceived notion on that.

Speaker 1 (01:50:14):
No, we didn't screen calls, you know. I mean. One
of the benefits of doing this sort of thing is
we can put people down in the green room and
we can kind of you know, have have, you know,
bring people up and we want to bring them up back.
Then we had to call in, right Jeff, We just yeah,
we did. It would be it would be a who's this?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (01:50:33):
And there for a while it was relic round up
and uh, uh, Relic Radio had the same number.

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
So it was like, yeah, if you're in Lloyd's contact list,
who's CALLIC you aren't.

Speaker 1 (01:50:49):
It was a gainst, Yeah, yeah, yeah it was. I'm
sure you know he gets the calls and like who,
uh what color am I?

Speaker 7 (01:50:58):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
My life?

Speaker 1 (01:51:02):
He said, Well, and they'd be like am I on
the show?

Speaker 6 (01:51:07):
And then a lot of the numbers that we knew personal,
we would have them in our phone and then it
would show up on the phone. And then but a
lot of numbers you had no idea. And of course
we had a guy. He kept on calling it, kept
on calling, and kept on calling in and going to
find out was a teenager just bugging the uh crap

(01:51:30):
out of us? And then we got it where well,
Lloyd got it where that call well, that number was
no longer available to call Relics Radio. I don't know
how he done it, But Lloyd, he could go around
and do this and do that. I don't know how
he done it, but.

Speaker 1 (01:51:49):
Yeah, Denny put in a con assessment. Metal Texans all
about returning what we can to those they belonged to
you and saving history. If we don't do it, who will?
You're right, it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
Yeah, I wanted to mention real quick chrism. He said,
if we could post the link to that show with
the buckle, we'll have to do a little bit of
research and get that link.

Speaker 1 (01:52:10):
I don't have that on hand right now. Yeah, we
didn't pull that. I mean I I I remember the show,
I don't remember what episode it was from, and I
forgot the name of the gentleman. But recently when I
put kind of my announcement on my Facebook page that
Loy had passed that gentleman, Michael actually commented and put
a put a picture of that plate and I had

(01:52:32):
I hadn't seen it since since back then when we
were talking about it.

Speaker 6 (01:52:36):
But that plate was at the funeral home.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
It was.

Speaker 6 (01:52:45):
Our relics radio thing that Earl Shole had balked me
and Loy at Tennessee. Jeff and d was seven, and
then of course he had some relics, some goggles, uh,
just different hobby stuff. All of his hobbies were up
there and that plate was up there on top.

Speaker 1 (01:53:05):
Oh my goodness, incredible, so amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:53:09):
An incredible story. Yeah, the whole thing for that doll
to come together.

Speaker 20 (01:53:15):
I can't imagine, like you know, it was a.

Speaker 23 (01:53:16):
It was an audio only podcast, but I can I
can picture Lloy's face here in this guy and his
jaw probably just dropped to the ground, Like what are
the odds of someone finding and tracking him down and
telling him live during a show like he just gets
so called up with emotion in that time.

Speaker 13 (01:53:35):
Oh, it was the feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:53:36):
So what people don't a lot of people don't know
that listened to the show is we used to do
it on Skype, and so even though people were only
listening to audio, we would be visually with each other,
similar to now, but we wouldn't put out the video
so we could see each other and give each other
clues and Lloy would be like you're next or even
but before that, even I think Jeff was saying earlier,

(01:53:59):
like they would send text back and board like you know, Jeff,
you you go next, and you tell the story next
and stuff and uh but yeah, I mean when that
when that story came in, it was just silent. Sure
Lloyd to go, oh you're a kid, but it was silent.

Speaker 2 (01:54:14):
I dial up aol, well that's going that's aging.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
You're there there taking you back, man, I'm sure on
that show, like like Tennessee. Jeff was saying, you know,
you get some people in there that are calling just
to to get the rocks off for doing whatever and
interrupting the show. And somebody calls and says, hey, you know,
I've got something from your great grandfather. You know, I'm
sure it was like, is this for real? I mean,
because it's one in a lifetime type of opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
Is this guy for real? Is this really going on?

Speaker 3 (01:54:45):
With no verification beforehand, not being able to see a
picture of it, and just kind of off the cuff,
and that guy calls in That had to be just
been how do you even deal with those emotions of
up and down on that?

Speaker 1 (01:54:59):
So I don't know, you guys, man, I don't know
if you guys have a lot of items from your
great great grandfather, you know, I know I don't. And
if somebody would knock on my door and say, you know,
I found this World War One dog tag with your
dad's name on it, with your great great grandfather's name
on it, you know it would I don't know what

(01:55:22):
I would do, but I know I'd be very touched,
and thankfully I had I've had some experience as a
returning things like that.

Speaker 6 (01:55:30):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (01:55:33):
Adam's Ajack and I. He founded World One one Dogtag
in New York and we tracked down I helped helped
him track down a surviving great grandson and contacted the guy.
Didn't know who I was, told him what was going on,
told him I was gonna if he gave me his email,
I would put those two ups so they can make

(01:55:53):
the exchange and everything. And he was very leary. He
thought I was going to try to sell something to him,
this gentleman. But after they did all that, I got
another message from the guy and I'll never forget it.
And he said, he goes ken you know what, like
we don't have anything from him. We didn't know very
much about him, and now because of this, we have

(01:56:16):
this World War one dog tag and we kind of
know his kind of travels. Now when he went over
to Europe and he said, do you know that me
and all my brothers are military, And we just really
never knew that about him. So now now have this
dog tag in and him and his brothers are like
heavy duty military family. And to have this dog tag

(01:56:37):
now he goes, it has brought numerous people from our
family together. Just this one item, and then a couple
of weeks later, I get this random email from this
lady and she's like, I am the cousin of so
and so that you sent that dog tagger. You helped
get that dog tag too, And I can't tell you
how much that is meant to not only that family,

(01:56:57):
but our extended family. Like that's all we've been talking about.
And it's like, Wow, that is just cool. That is
just cool. Makes it hit you right there, you know
what I mean to know that kind of stuff.

Speaker 23 (01:57:10):
Imagine Ken, you know, if you fast forward, you know, two, three,
four generations in the future, Lloy's great great great grandkids,
instead of just having a plate, we'll have this video
library to see their great great grandfather walk, talk, feel
his passion. That's one of the great things about the

(01:57:31):
technology is that it's out there for your future descendants
to really get a peek into who you.

Speaker 20 (01:57:38):
Are as a person. And I know, Looy, stand up guy.

Speaker 23 (01:57:43):
Those future great great great grandkids are going to be
really proud and enamored of what he accomplished.

Speaker 1 (01:57:50):
Well said, Yeah, well said, Because yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
A lot of documentation, a lot of it.

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
They'll be able to kind of really get a taste
of who they're great great grand fatherwise.

Speaker 20 (01:58:01):
They might need a dictionary for some of the words
and users, but what's the coin.

Speaker 1 (01:58:07):
There's a lot of fictions in there too. Well, i'll
tell you what, guys, we're getting towards the end. I
want to thank you all for coming on with us,
and for those of you in the chat, stay tuned.
We got some very special words from Lloyd coming up
here to end the show, from the man himself. But
I'll go around the horn. What we'll do is just
kind of just some last comments real quick. Put you

(01:58:28):
guys down the green room. We'll say our goodbyes off
the air if you're okay with that, if you're willing
to hang out a little bit longer. But Jason, we'll
go start with you.

Speaker 23 (01:58:36):
Well, like I said, I never had the pleasure of
meeting Loy in person, but I like to think, you know,
doing this YouTube thing, we developed a friendship. Different parts
of the country, live in different parts of life, speaking
in different vernacular, but we found that common ground through
a hobby.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
We loved.

Speaker 23 (01:58:57):
He was, you know, much smarter than me, much more knowledgeable,
and that he never treated me poorly. He helped me
out early on. I was always appreciative, and you know,
he always left an impact on me. When I saw
I think it was your post Kennedy passed. I mean,
you know, you just it just hit you. For a

(01:59:17):
guy that I've never shaken his hand, he still left
an impression when I saw it, like your heart sinks
for a second. So I want to thank LOI for
helping me out, for touching everybody's lives out there. And
I want to offer my condolences to his family, his wife,
his kids, his grandkids. If he left that kind of
a mark on me, I can't imagine the mark he

(01:59:39):
left on them. So you will be miss Loy, and
I thank you for everything you did.

Speaker 1 (01:59:43):
Thanks. Jason really well said he gonna choke me up. Man.
Bill Hayes will let you have a little word here.

Speaker 13 (01:59:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:59:55):
I really liked Lays. He was just a one of
a kind guy. You know, he had the voice that
you know he's like a professional announcer or something. You know,
you just you heard him and you knew who he
was all the time. He's just a real great guy.

(02:00:15):
And I really liked hanging out with him at the
Relic shows, just getting to.

Speaker 2 (02:00:21):
Talk to him.

Speaker 16 (02:00:22):
And just hang hanging out. Yeah, and he's gonna he
is definitely gonna be he missed.

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
You know.

Speaker 16 (02:00:30):
It was just one of a kind.

Speaker 1 (02:00:32):
Yeah, absolutely well said for sure. Yeah, Tony, what about you, buddy,
you've been producer tonight. Man, I appreciate that you've been
hanging in there and just taking care of everything behind
the scenes. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 14 (02:00:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:00:48):
No, I just want to you know, I think with
a lot of people, I've never met Loie, I've never
got to detect with Loi. But through his graciousness of
kind of passing on this podcast and the opportunity for
me to be able to be on the podcast now,
it has given me such a platform to reach out
to other people and talk with people about this hobby

(02:01:12):
that I absolutely love. And I really want to thank
him for that. For sure, he probably didn't know that
that's what he did for me, but he did so. Yeah,
I appreciate him a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:01:22):
Awesome. Yeah, awesome, Matt. What would you like to say, buddy.

Speaker 18 (02:01:27):
Oh, man, I'm just a footnote in this small story
that that guy was and still will will forever be.
I kind of would just reiterate everything that those guys
said thanks for the inspiration and bubbles up my friend.

Speaker 1 (02:01:43):
Perfect man, perfect Larry.

Speaker 2 (02:01:48):
I'm messed with true friend, and I don't know it
was It was a real pleasure for him to do
everything he did for me, especially from the standpoint of
introduction to Relic County, you know. And I was so
honored to be on the last time we did to
get Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:02:07):
That is a very special memory and I'm glad you
got that, Larry, So thank you very much. Thank you, Jeff.
I wanted to give you last word. He spent a
lot of time with us, well you and Larry both.

Speaker 6 (02:02:21):
You know, you never know what you have until it's gone.
Lloyd and I we've shared, We've rowed the roads, shows here,
shows there, we've tumbled through the thickets, and he's talked

(02:02:41):
about his music and all that. But at the end
of the day, the Lord is what he loved the most.
All the rest of this activities, well hobbies are nothing
without the Lord, and that was his main focus and
that is what he's told me. And I wish I

(02:03:05):
still have questions, of course, I mean, I'm sure everyone does,
but I would love to still have him here.

Speaker 4 (02:03:11):
But I don't.

Speaker 6 (02:03:14):
But I'm so happy and honored to have him as
a friend as long as I did.

Speaker 1 (02:03:22):
Yeah, amen, wonderful. All right, hang down below, well, Sarah,
goodbye here off the air. You know, I can't add
I can't add anymore to that what special friends he had,
and I'm just glad I count myself one of them.
So let's hear from Loie though as he takes us

(02:03:42):
out of the show tonight. And for everyone that showed up,
or for everyone that's listening on the replay, thank you
very much. I know you all meant a lot to
Loie as well, and we will never forget him. So
let's listen to Loie as we had heard way out here.

Speaker 12 (02:04:01):
Our Father and our God in heaven. We get so
excited when we open your book. Excited because of the
power we see in those words. Excited because we see
the answers in those words. Excited Father, for we realize
that we have very little, if any control over our

(02:04:23):
physical lives.

Speaker 10 (02:04:24):
We can go to our doctors, we can take.

Speaker 12 (02:04:26):
Our medication, we can go through the exercises so that
they want us to go through. But Father, eventually it's
going to be you making decision as to how long
that we physically live.

Speaker 10 (02:04:39):
Upon this life.

Speaker 12 (02:04:41):
But here is another thing. Father, We join with you
in a decision as to how long we will live
in eternity with you. We help make that decision by
the decisions that we make in this life. They are
hard decisions. Sometimes it's hard, many times for us to
maintain our faith, to keep our.

Speaker 10 (02:05:04):
Equilibrium in a world that is so confusing.

Speaker 12 (02:05:08):
Sometimes, so Father, we ask for greater faith, greater strength,
be with us, forgive us any sin that might separate us,
so that you might even hear this prayer we offer
here tonight, for we offer it in Jesus' name.

Speaker 1 (02:05:21):
Amen.

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