S8 E32 - In Search of History with Rich VanWinkle from the Quarter Hoarder Crew - Relics Radio show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everyone, Wednesday night. Thanks for joining us here at
Relics Radio on DK from Adventures in Dirt. Welcome on
a Wednesday night. I'm bringing in my co host right now.
You know him as mister Tony Tony Tony good morning.

(00:21):
Might start calling you ton That's probably not a good.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, nobody's ever called me that. I swear it's pretty original.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
How's it going, man?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh geez, it's uh. I'm I'm good. I'm glad to
be here on Wednesday night. I can tell you that
it's been a little bit of time since we since
we met.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yep, yeah, we uh missed last week, right, yep. Ye,
you've been You've been a busy, busy guy. Some very
things going on in your world.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
But that moving thing sucks.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's for the best and it's pretty incredible, but man,
it sucks, really does.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah. You know, I like to do that too many
times in my life, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, no, no, I will say though that. You know,
we're in a brand new house here, and I'm just
so blessed to have it. Everybody here, you rich, everybody
in check. You all are invited, come on over. We'll
do some delve poppers. Some whiskey and beer. We'll just
have a good time. We'll all have a great time here.

(01:25):
So you all invited.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
You guys heard it right here Relic Radio. All the
eighty thousand people listening to the show right now. Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
See if we can get to one hundred thousand, that
would be great.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Make it too, don't get greedy, now, come.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
On, that's okay, that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Just make it to Colorado and we'll all head to
Tony's Sas. I'm really really happy for you, really excited
for you for sure, Thank you, thank you very much.
I been getting out. I'm sorry, No, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
You have it. I was just gonna say, you know what,
I haven't. I haven't gotten out, but I will tell
you what I've been doing to try to, you know,
decompose and things like that. I've been watching a lot
of YouTube and social media Facebook, Instagram, so I'm keeping
up with everything that's going on, because man, people are
finding some good stuff. And you know what, I didn't

(02:16):
tell you this. I got a text message right before
we came on. One of my friends here in Colorado,
his brother in Texas sent him a picture doing a
scrape off. You know you know what those are. I mean,
you know, good stuff has always seems to be found
at those, right, found a walker half and I and

(02:38):
I replied back and said, oh bucket lister for me.
He goes, Really this is the second one my brother
found in two days at that same site. I'm like, oh,
you suck.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Goodness right right, So that's a big silver man.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I know, I know. And and I've just been
keeping up on all the social media stuff. So yeah,
everybody's doing great. Lots of people over in England right
now having a great time in England. Teresa the Treasure
Hunter just got back from England. Our friend, Yeah, Rizzo's
over there, yeap man.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Tony, you just said to me the other day like
we gotta go.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
We gotta get I know, right, Yeah, yeah, Cindy was
on some what eleven hundreds I think yesterday.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Or today she did she got to the eleven hundreds. Man.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Awesome, that's pretty cool, incredible stuff.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, Larry, it is disco night here at Relics Radio.
Tony and I both put our studios a new studio
setups where we're just like almost right up against these
walls and we're like, what are we gonna do. I
don't even kind of mood lighting. I don't have anything
like that, you know what I mean. So, yeah, we're.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
We're getting there.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
This is what we got for tonight.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
That's right. Next week. Who knows what's going to be
doing on this thing?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Quit working on me. So now I don't.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Put it in front of you. People aren't going to
know any different.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well this sounds different, and so people are like, man, Ken,
your MIC's really sounding like crap.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
These let's get over to the chat real quick.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
So we can bring our guest on here pretty soon
and see who's checked in with us. How about this one,
the Intuitive Detectorist first.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
One in today? Wow, early, look at that.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
You know what a couple of people have been doing that.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Look at this?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Uh Fox, Fox and the Ground Detecting can't wait to
tune in. Also at nine o'clock this morning, look at
that Early.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Here's the podcast two, that's right.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
How about Tim.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
There you go. You wait for that every night, yeap.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
You dirty money lovers.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
He was late tonight. He got three people ahead of him.
That's just a hour, Bush League right there. Good to
see you, uh, mister Bob Rose welcome on.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Bob, been seeing him a lot lately. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
How about Charlie, Charlie Kelly put yourself tonight?

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'm sure we're gonna havesk some stories that involved Charlie tonight.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Charlie started putting questions in that you know is going
to lead to some good story in the chat.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Well, pinam night, that's right. Teresa's in the jet. We
just mentioned her coming back from England.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Look at that.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, I was watching the video that she was featured in.
Over there, Matt guy she was with. Man, he just
seems like a really cool guy, really knowledgeable, like bunt
that's a strap end, Like, how do you know it
looks like a piece of metal to me? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Those those people over there, man, they can they nail
it quick. You know.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I think you think we're we're so intelligent over here,
but you know they've got five times as much history,
ten times as much history, right, you can call it.
I mean it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
He is in the chat.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Robert Thompson, All right, welcome everybody. Rick. How about Rick? Yeah, man,
my so I gotta do it, man, you just gotta
do it. Good to see you. Welcome, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
At night, we're going on from that one.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Come on, I'm gonna start singing. Uh, check out this one.
You ready?

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, Bamar horror.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Look at that guy coming in here.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Nice same thing.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
If you got some stories or some question, throw them
in the chat here for a guest tonight.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Right, check this, We have good time. Dam Jones coming in.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
I bet she's got some stories.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
I bet you got a lot of stories. Right, we
should throw her to the link and have her come
on and just tell some of those stories. That's what
we should do. Hey, let's get our guests on. Let's
go for it. I want to get him on. We
got a lot of questions. We're gonna put him and
I heard he's going to sing and play the ukulele.
That's what I heard. So hold your breath. Here we go.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Rich Van winkle Man, how are you good?

Speaker 4 (07:46):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (07:49):
We're doing good. We're doing good. We're having fun in
the in the pre show, just uh, basically you were
watching us scramble with our lack of technical ability.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
There are some characters in the chat tonight, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
I think it's gonna be kind of fun.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah. I hope they start spelling the dirt. See what
I did there? Spell the dirt?

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Hey, Perry Pirate, how you doing? Ye?

Speaker 1 (08:19):
See you? Good to see you. So you're following the chat?

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yeah, yeah, I have it up on my TV back there.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Cool oh cool, yeah good.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Thanks for having me on. Guys, this is exciting.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah. I got to point out one thing real quick.
We've been on with you for about a minute. You've
already said more words than any other quarter Hurdle live stream.
So you're going to kill that record tonight.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
It's tough. It's tough. We don't like dead air.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
So yep, we said that all the time too. We
don't like dead air, but sometimes it's sometimes it's tough,
for sure. But man, So you know, everyone knows you,
a lot of a lot of you, a lot of
you know, a lot of people know you. A lot
of people might not know you, especially we rebroadcast this

(09:14):
podcast on our audio version, and some of them maybe
don't watch social media, maybe don't watch a lot of videos.
But Rich van Winkle here is one of the members,
we'll say team members, team quarter hoarder. Is that what
you guys call it? Or how do you guys refer
to that?

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, I guess Team quarter Order, yeah, or.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Basically it's a bunch of friends that get together and
detect and there just happens to be a camera that
comes along. Yep, yep.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
And Jason does a great job with all that. You know,
I wouldn't know what I was doing if I had
to be behind a camera.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
He does, like he's really changed it up to like
over the years, I've watched his channel. Oh and change right, Tony, Like, yeah,
it's it's evolved. And I was watching a bunch of
videos just recently, kind of looking at some videos that
you were in just to kind of get ready for tonight,
and it was like, man, yeah, you know, he's he's

(10:16):
chained things up. He's kind of has this group around
him now and it's really entertaining. Like and him and
I have talked about it a lot about sort of
how he what he focuses on, and it's not always
the find. It's more about the interaction and the friendships
and the camaraderie between everybody more than actually what you find.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, he's he's good at making things interesting even when
the item might not be super interesting. He's very good
at doing that.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, he's uh, he is really good that, like, you know,
like I remember one time I always tell the story
about him finding that olive spoon, and it was like,
I remember I was watching the video and he was like,
I don't even know what this is. Does anybody know
what this is? What is this thing? And he's showing

(11:06):
it and I'm on my computer like searching Google for it.
I'm like, it's an olive spoon. It's an olive spoon,
you know. And I'm like posting a comment as fast
as i can. Yeah, and I'm messaging him. I'm like
it's an olive spoon. And he's like, yeah, man, I
know what that is. Like it was, uh, you know,
I had about one hundred responses immediately, you know. Yeah,

(11:26):
so's I guess that's what's good about having a big audience.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
But and sometimes we find a lot of the same
things over and over every year, and he's got to
say different stuff about it, right each time.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's true, that's a good point, or.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Say it different ways anyway.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, Like Tony and I have got to do that
with wheaties. We're like, hey, look it's this old penny
and we're like, hey, look it's got wheat on it. It
looks like some kind of flower. Oh no, that's a wheat.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh how Manytimes, can you describe a wheat?

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Penny? Is this a nickel? No, it's a penny. Look
at that. That's us man, that's our thing. Hey, let's
start with this. So tell us a little bit about yourself,
Like where about in the world are you at like
that you detected? Are you in New York.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Now on the east coast New Jersey, Pennsylvania, right in
the heart of the colonial areas in Washington's Crossing and
you know everywhere near there.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
He's bought.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, we'll travel a little bit too, down to Delaware sometimes,
I've been up to Connecticut and so we try to
go out every weekend. So it's a that's great.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, a little bit of history over that area.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
And I grew up in a colonial house of seventeen
forty three, so that's I was just around it and
that's where my interest began.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Wow. Yeah, you know, I think when we when I
look back and and I and I look back, how
long you've been part of that quarterhorder crew. I think
it goes back what probably about four years now something
like that.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I think going on four years and I was. I
was detecting more seriously about a year before that, and
my dad and I, when I was younger, did it
a few times on the beach and uh didn't have
too much luck, but it was still it was fun anyway.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, so how mauny, So how do you how do
you start here? Man? How did you get into metal?
The deck? Like, of all things you could get into,
you know, you could have got into roller skating, you
could have got into you know, Olympics shooting.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
I am actually I sort of have a lot of hobbies,
but I as far as metal detecting goes, I, like
I said, I grew up in a colonial house and
my mom is an antique dealer who specializes in colonial antiques.
So I grew up with it my whole life. And
it's kind of amazing. I didn't get into it sooner,

(14:28):
but I guess, you know, I was just doing different things.
I started blacksmithing in twenty sixteen. Oh nice, wow, And
I still do that.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
And you do it there at the home, like you
have a forge and stuff at home and all that, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
Yeah, And yeah that's a ton of fun. But I
guess five years ago or so, I got I got
a metal detector for Christmas, and I lived in a
colonial house down the street from my parents at the time.

(15:09):
So I had been metal detecting my backyard and my
neighbor happened to know Doug.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh really yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
And I had already been watching Quarter Order on YouTube
because I figured out that they were in my area sometimes.
And he didn't say he didn't. He said, his friend
is on YouTube metal detecting, and but he didn't tell
me the name of the channel until a week later.
He told me it was quarter Hoarder and I was like, oh, man,

(15:41):
that there's that's my favorite channel that I've been watching.
And so that night I emailed Jason and he emailed
me back, and the next day Doug knocked on my door.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yeah, So I talked to Doug for a little while
and invited them to my parents' house to metal detect
and we found a bunch of great stuff and and
I've been going with them ever since.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
The rest is history.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, Like it helps to have a colonial home, you
know what I.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Mean does, And it's still to this day, my parents
house is the toughest place to metal detect if you
there's so much metal in the ground that if you
can't put the pinpointer down anywhere without it going off.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
So watch in the ground.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Nails, square nails everywhere, and just all sorts of everything
we we have picked out. I feel like at this
point a lot of the most of the the the good,
good things.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
But yeah, I know, I was watching that videos preparing
for ten and I was like, man, I wonder how
far back Rich goes in in the in videos, and
it was way back and sort of like you know, like,
uh well four years ago probably, and I was I
was watching sort of the episode where they were showing

(17:17):
your mom's house, you know what I mean, And it
was just filled with like the most amazing things, what
like when you were growing up, You're like, Mom, why
don't we have so much old stuff in our house?

Speaker 4 (17:32):
I know I was always interested in it, not as
much as I am now, but I but even back then,
I knew knew what most of it was, and just
from just from it always being there. And I would
go when I was even younger, I would go to
the antique shows with them and everything.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, very cool, was.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
She They're cheap kind of teaching you like the history
of these items or where they came from, how they
you know, how they all work together. I mean that
that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Like, yeah, yeah, she definitely taught me everything I know
about antiques and then and now metal detecting teaches me
things too.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, and you guys detect together like you guys can
share in that also, you know what I mean. Yeah,
she's going to te together.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
She's pretty much been coming with us for all four years,
uh and then only started detecting recently. But she's she's
had some killer find so far.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
She does, she.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Does pretty well.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Hey, Tony, you want to take a look at a
little bit of that video I'm talking about when Rich
and his mom kind of came into uh the quarter
order awareness, or at least in his audiences awareness. Yeah. Here,
let's check it out.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
So what's the date on this? How far back is this?

Speaker 1 (18:52):
I know, what do you think Rich? I made it?
I can't see this.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
It's it's got to be like the end of twenty
twenty or beginning of twenty twenty one.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Maybe. Yeah, Okay, let's check this out. This is your
mom's house.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yep, all right, Room number is number four.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
I lost track look at this one. Look, I'm just
gonna kind of oh my goodness, it's amazing, like he's
going too fast. And look at that.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
It smells it doesn't it smells must.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
I can't even explain it. It's really good. More, there's
a quill pen there. What are those books? Rich?

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, they're just good old leather band books. Well most
of them are leather.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah, we've always liked those from the mostly the eighteen hundreds,
but sometimes they get older than that. Wow, wow, my vocals.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
I'm just kind of pointing out that I know what
they are.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
There's eyeglasses.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
You have to send Jason commission on this, I think, yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Right, fastened with a ribbon in the back. Oh wow,
seventeen hundred.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
If I told you that.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Last week, my one friend Charlie that goes home with
all the time, found a pair of those spectacles, not
the whole thing. It was broken in half in the middle,
and this arm was broken off near the edge.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
We've got one.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Whole eye half of those piece and three cords of
the arm.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
But very cool. They're actually like coming back now.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
They call it like, what's that look that people do that?

Speaker 2 (20:35):
It actually is a hobnail.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
But look at who knows stuff.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
This is early.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
There was early hobnail, and then there's later hobnail.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
It was like from the nineteen forties.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
And so how long has she been doing this, rich.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
Oh Man, thirty forty some years, as long as you've
been around. Yeah, it's longer than I've been around. And
I know that. I know that her mom was I
had an antique store. Also, I don't think she I

(21:08):
know she liked the colonial stuff, but I don't think
she was as specialized in it as my mom is
these days.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, you got a question.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
I was just gonna see your taste sort of progresses,
you know. Yep, it's just like metal detecting. U. Sometimes
you're absolutely obsessed with it, and then other times it's
you know, you're not on too many old, old places,
or it's.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, I was. I was curious.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Has there ever been a time when you guys found
something your mom was there and nobody knew what it was,
and your mom was able to identify it just based
on her experience and knowledge.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Uh, yeah, there has been those times. I'm having a
hard hard time thinking of.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
One.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, but she definitely she's very good with with dating things.
So sure, even if we know what the item is,
she can sometimes tell us more more about when it's from,
you know, whether it's early seventeen hundreds or if it's
seventeen ninety eight, you.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Know, or right right.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
I wanted to pull from the chat here.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
When we were looking at those books dog tag, Doug
mentioned he said, those are the Charles Dickens first editions.
He could identify those right away from just a video.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
He said, he initialed the third one in. I think
that's the reason.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
The only reason Doug could identify is because he probably
read those first editions in school, was his textbooks.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
You know, it must be a blast digging with those guys,
like they're all such guys.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
It's some It is so much fun. And I'm just
watching Doug and Jason go back and forth is great.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
You know.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
I'm not as as quick as they are with you know,
but they've been together for eight or nine years now,
I think.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
So, do you remember when you first bought that first
metal detector, even before you met all these guys, do
you remember that first find that you were like, oh
my gosh, metal detecting can be like this, like oh,
this is so great. Do you remember that? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Actually I was in my backyard and I found the
very first coin I ever found was a nineteen sixteen
Mercury dime, but it was an S, not a d O.
Excellent but still. And then right after that, I found

(23:54):
an Indian head penny from the eighteen hundreds. And then
I found a a V nickel right after that, and
I started finding buttons, old buttons, so uh, it was quick.
I you know, I know some people get discouraged because
they don't find things they want to find right away,

(24:17):
but it'll always happen. You just have to get on
different spots.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Antony and I were just talking about that tonight. I
told him, my, man, I've been in such a slump lately,
like I really have. Like the past number of times
we've gone out has been like wow, just haven't found much,
you know, and it gets you. You're like, man, you
just you know you got to just keep going, be like, man,
how come I can't get my coil over it? You know? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (24:43):
And you know when you know, when you know the
stuff's got to be there, it's just it's even more frustrating.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
I mean, it's kind of dumb. Because I say it
all the time, right Tony, I'm like, in the middle
of this big, wild world, I put my little eight
inch coil over this little tiny coin that's been sitting
there for a couple hundred years, and I just picked
it out, you know what I mean. So now the
fact that I'm in a slump probably isn't should be shocking,
you know what I mean, because I'm trying to find
those little tiny speck in the middle of this big,

(25:12):
wide world, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
So, yeah, it's amazing we find what we do find.
Sometimes absolutely there is behind the scenes. It's it's a
lot more trash, and you guys know that just as well.
It's more trash than anything.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, when you put it in perspective, it's pretty amazing
that you do find some incredible things, you know, in
the entire spectrum of it. You know, it's it's it's
just incredible.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yep. You One of the one of the great things
about watching all you guys on that Court Order YouTube
channel are the nicknames. So Jason's abuly, you know, I'm
sure you know, Jason's absolutely brilliant. I was talking to

(26:02):
yesterday and I was like, man, I was just sure.
I wish there was actually some way you could get
paid to be a professional nickname creator, because I've never
seen anybody else better at it than him.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
He really, he takes his time with it. He starts
working on it in his head right away. When when
someone starts coming with us, you know, more than more
than a couple of times, and then uh, it could
take a year, but he he gets a good one.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah. What do you remember what your first nickname was?

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (26:39):
You mean Richard Nixon?

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah. Why why did he come up with that? Rich
I never understood that. Why did he come up with that?

Speaker 4 (26:52):
I think, well, I always hit things with my shovel,
and uh, there's somebody somebody in the chat, actually I
think said it and it stuck. But it's all good fun.
I did. I do try to hit things, Yeah, right,

(27:13):
don't we all. I've been doing better at it recently,
I seem to you know, I don't hit I don't
hit the cans. I hit the silver dimes.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Right right right, that's generally the way, you know.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
If if you like me, I I always I'm worried
about that all the time. Right, So I'll hear a
target after listening to tons of junk target and taking
the chance, you know what I mean, going after those
iffy signals. Maybe it's something peeking in between all the junk,
you know, and I'll go after it, and I'll be like, okay,
I'm gonna give this a very wide berth, Like I'm

(27:49):
just going I'm gonna dig this far around it, you know.
And as the day goes on, it's like, I might,
I can I can remember. I can picture in my
mind where I'm like, all right, I'm not gonna dig
as big a hole. I'm just going to go in.
I think I got it pinpointed off the nose of
my coil. I don't ever use that sort of that
pinpoint function, but I go in and it's like, man

(28:09):
and knock on wood. I haven't destroyed too many items yet,
but I always noticed it. I'm like, man, I'm digging
too small a hole. So one of these things is
going to be something really good, and I'm gonna cut
it in half. But I think that.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
You know, it's different in farm fields versus people's yards. True,
in a farm field, you can dig a crater if
you want to, but you don't want to kill people's
grass and all that and yep, but you end up
hitting things sometimes.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, I always I kind of get hard on myself
when I dig my plug, I pull it out and
then I go down with the pinpointer and it's in
the sidewalk, which means I didn't even come close to
actually getting it in the plug, you know, And I'm like,
oh man, how did I miss that one that far off?

Speaker 3 (28:57):
You know?

Speaker 2 (28:57):
And then you got to dig sideways and you're like, oh, gosh,
I should do better next time.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
I'm lucky I did nick it, you know.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Yeah, I was. I was consistently missing things at six
o'clock in the wall, right, and so I I've been
doing better recently just because I every target I find
I backed up a few more inches than I.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
There you got, you got your pattern down. Yeah. It's
always frustrating, is it. Where you're just like, you know,
open the hole, you get down on your knees, you
get your pinpointer in your hand. You're like, how come
I can't hear that thing? Like this is ridiculous? You know,
stand up. I turned my my pin pointers remote. Dais

(29:39):
two pinpointers. So anyways, i'd stand up and I turned
that pinpointer off and I'm like, put the coil back over,
and I'm like, it's right there, it's right there, it's
in the center of the hole. And I go back
down and nothing. I'm like, because we don't ever dig
anything deep rich, like in Colorado. Rarely are things deeper
than six inches. Really, I mean, we can get there.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
But is it rocky or is it compacted soil or.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
What would you say about that, Tony, I think it's
sandy most of the time.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Where we hit sandy, But it's just you know, the
amount of time, you know, it's stuff just doesn't have
as much time to uh wiggle deep. You know, there
are some compacted areas a lot of sand which is
real gentle on the relics, which is great, but just
not as much time.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, ye'd been there for what, you know, since eighteen fifties,
about as early back as we can get here, maybe
eighteen forties, you know, fur trade time and all that stuff.
But you know, if we get into the eighteen seventies,
eighteen eighties were just a static you know, and anything
before that we see as really early for Colorado. But
you got it, it's different. You know, you go up

(30:53):
in the mountains here and it's all sort of pine
needle fall, you know, kind of compacted pressed, which so easy,
and the soil is so soft and nice did they
get And then you could be out kind of on
the prairies where it's pretty sandy, but when things aren't
getting cold, that turns to that turns to like cement.

(31:14):
So it's just all over the place. We've found. Uh,
we've found some cavalry camps to a you know, Civil
war era pre Civil War era cavalry camps out here,
and a lot of those relics we found were up
underneath the saplings, you know what I mean. So background
is different too than out in the middle of a field.
So it's just it's the gamut. But yeah, it's just

(31:38):
the things just aren't too deep. I think, I know,
what's the deepest you ever really chased the target around here?
Tony eight inches maybe, or have you.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
Gone yeah probably yeah, yeah yeah, But those those can
even be you know, sites that have filled dirt over
the top as well, so they really haven't even worked
their way down.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
There's just been stuff that's been layered up on top
of it.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, yeah, that is pretty frequently we find something really deep,
you know, annoyingly right underneath a big tree root or something,
which which kind of clues you in that it's going
to be something with age because it under that tree route.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
But that's true. When I get one of those, I'm like, oh,
I don't know how many times I've given up on
it because I'm like, I just can't find it.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
But yeah, sometimes sometimes you got to walk away, but
I try try not to. Yep, more often than when
the ground is frozen and we and we go anyway.
That's I think I leave more signals behind in frozen
ground than Yeah, any other time.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yep, we've done that too. We've done that too.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
And snapped a shovel in half that way.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Oh that don't happen.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, that means you were going after its hard, because yeah,
it takes an awful lot to do that. But I've
seen it happen. I've seen it happen. So how long
you been detecting before you hooked up with these quarter
horder guys? About a year?

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yeah, just about a year? Yea, yeah, But I was
I was really into it, you know, watching I was
listening to listening to your podcast. I was watching quarter
Hoarder and Hoover Boys and Green Mountain and uh.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Great channels.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, great channels, and they just taught me. They taught
me so much, you know, specifically being in my area,
the quarter hoarder anyway, it was it was really easy
to see how to dig, you know.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, I bet that's uh. I think when I got
started detecting shortly after there got start on YouTube, like it.
It was YouTube and my exposure to that community and
seeing what kind of stuff was on YouTube at that time.
I think it was like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, and

(34:12):
I I was amazed, Like my first cheap metal detector,
you know, there was a video like tutorial on how
to run that thing, this a little cheap bounty hunter,
and it was like this complete tutorial and how to
and I thought it would be the most difficult thing
for me to learn, but I felt like after watching
that video, I was just up and running pretty darn quick.

(34:34):
And then I started watching like you said, you know,
quarter Order and all these other channels, and it was
like wow, it just kind of opened up for me. Yeah,
and so yeah, it was pretty cool. What's the difference though, Like,
I know there's the difference, but what did you think
about detecting for that year prior to going out with

(34:56):
Quarter Order Crew and doing that. Then all of a
sudden having a camera introduced in the mix.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
Well, I so I was still trying to find the
same stuff because I was lucky enough to, like I said,
live in a colonial area. So I'm still trying to
find coppers and buttons and old silvers and just old
colonial relics. So that's what I still do. But I

(35:27):
guess the addition of the camera has just been fun.
I'm always you know, I was a little awkward at first,
I think, or I felt a little awkward first, but
it's Jason's so easy to get along with, and so
was Doug and Charlie and everybody else. So it's just

(35:47):
it was easy to get used to.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, And I think, you know, most most of the
excitement and things is just really you guys interacting and
just being yourselves. You know, you are kind of awkward
at when you got the camera in front of you first,
but once you're able to just be yourself and your
personalities come out and you guys just have a great
time and you find some cool stuff along the way,

(36:10):
it just makes it easy. It's just like hanging out
and there's just be a there's just a camera hanging
and hanging around with us as well.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah, that's what we do. We just hang out and
we be ourselves and yeah, you know, and Jason, Jason
makes it look even better than it actually is. Yeah,
it's really really great. Every every weekend it's you just
you never know what's going to happen or what funny

(36:38):
thing is going to happen.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
And the time I've been watching you since you joined
the group, Yeah, it seems like I've seen your detecting improve,
you know what I mean, Like the amount of items
you found seems to be increasing increasing and uh, you know,
you know, as it should, you know, as you continue
to learn your and kind of get used to all that.

(37:01):
And it's been really fun to watch man, because you know,
I love to see you get excited, love to see
the rest of the guys excited. But like, what do
you guys do? Like you? I probably know what for
the audience? Like what do you guys do? Like you
find something, see a glimmer of it and go got something?

(37:21):
Do you guys have hand signals you use.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Like we do.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
We use?

Speaker 4 (37:27):
You know, I don't know if you guys like the
silver hand signal or coppers, we go like that. But uh,
we that's that's exactly what we do. We we just
yell out to Jason, uh as soon as we can
see that it's something interesting, you know. Yeah, anytime you

(37:52):
see what you think is silver, you just drop it
and call them over. And yeah, some some I feel bad.
Sometimes he barely gets to dig because we find.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
So much.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Run around and film, but you know that's makes really
interesting videos.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
I've seen you grab the camera time or two whenever
he was digging something.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Yeah, yep. And now he's he's using the the go pro,
so he's filming. He films every single thing he digs
now pretty much.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, you can just edit it out later if it's
you know, something, But yeah, that's pretty cool. Tony and
I have hand signals too, but they're not family appropriate
family consumption, so we'll tell you. We'll have to show
you those off the air. Okay, So tell us about

(38:47):
your machine, So, like, what did you start with and
kind of where are you at these days?

Speaker 4 (38:51):
I had a a Garrett Ace four hundred that I
started with, and I still you know, that's I haven't
tried a lot of machines. But that's a really good
starting machine. Yeah, definitely find good things with it if
you if you stick with it. And then I you know,

(39:17):
not too long after being with with quarter Order, I
think I was I was lucky enough to get a
note to a legend and that was just even even better,
even better. But it's still at the base level. You know,
you're you're listening for a good tone. And sometimes I

(39:38):
think it almost doesn't matter what machine you have as
long as the technology, as long as it's you know,
similar to.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
We had a question come in from Rituals that are
you going to move up to the legend too.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
I I think I think we will probably all try them, Yeah,
and hopefully hopefully we like them even better. And you know,
it seems like a good machine, and I'm excited to
try it. I don't know when that's gonna be yet,
right right, I.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Know, Jason just had knocked on on a show kind
of talking about the legend two and Mark and and
k Uh there's a good show. It's a good show. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
There those three are funny together too.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
I got there.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
I got to meet Deck and in uh, North Carolina
at big Stock a few years ago, and uh, she
was great. That was that was a lot of a
good time.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, yeah, they were great. Marks. Mark's funny, he's always
a crack up. And I think, oh my gosh, what
other nicknames has he given you? Side Richard?

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Oh h what what was the one.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Somebody said when earlier and I wasn't familiar with the
let me go back dah, Yeah, go for it.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
How about this one?

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Larry says, Uh, we're Richard of Nixonburg.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
That's good. That's a good one. There's some good variations.
You can come up nick.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
All of them, all of them around Nicks. So I
have to ask you regarding we'll stay on on on
nicknames for just a second, because I have my favorite.
What is your favorite Doug nickname?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (41:49):
There you go. What's your favorite that stands out?

Speaker 4 (41:55):
Probably Jane fond Doug.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, that is absolutely my favorite.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
I just that's that's funny.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
And picturing, you know, picturing him in that outfit.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Makes it even better.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
No one's like photoshopped him in and that leotard suit
or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
No, but if anybody, any fans out there and.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Know how to have to write this down I'm gonna be.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Got your Doug down. I can make that happen.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
I know, I know Jason, who have a lot of
fun with that.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Rick Rarig says, Mexican Doug, that's a that's a good one.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
Yeah, that's a good one too. Yeah, just because just
because he found a Mexican silver ring.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Yeah, yeah, five mile Relic Hunter said, like DJ Dougie
dirty drawers. I don't know if I've heard that one.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Jason stays away from the ones that are hard to
say in the in the intro, right, he's used to, uh,
he's used to doing what he's been doing.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
So it was part of the crew. Like you have Jess, Jason,
you have Doug, you have Charlie, uh, your mom Lynn
pops in there. You of course you guys added Jess.
Like Jess is kind of a new edition. I don't
think i'd seen her on there too long, but she's
a welcome edition. I know that she seems to find
a lot of cool stuff too.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Oh man, lately she's been finding some really really cool stuff. Yeah,
I know you you've all seen that. That reality she
found uh amazing, one of the coolest things I've ever
seen anyone find really.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yeah, what type of property was that on? I forget
was that on a I think.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
It was so we we weren't there when she found that,
but it was one of her personal permissions. I believe
it was a farm field. I'm not one hundred percent sure.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
That's you know, it's it's exciting to find coins, but
they're not very personal. Personal old personal relics are even
cooler and that just the the score scoring on that
that coin makes it even cooler than uh, just to
just the question, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Is that what your your your favorite type of hunting
is is is pretty much relic You know, it's great
to find coins because they've got the date, time frame
very specific.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
But do you like.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Finding the relics and looking towards the relics and the
personal items? Is that what you'd rather dig?

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (44:59):
I think so. I mean I love really cool buttons
and shoe buckles and all that sort of stuff and
finding things that I don't know what it is. Yeah,
going down that rabbit hole.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
That's a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
Yeah, And I almost feel like, yeah, well we probably
find more buttons than anything as far as what we
like to find. But I also really enjoy like any house.
You know, I'll go anywhere like nineteen fifties or earlier
nineteen sixties even because you just find interesting stuff. Old

(45:41):
toy cars.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, pieces of Americana, Yeah, sure, like us like anything
with a date, right, anything with a date, a name,
company name, manufacturers. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
Yeah, you learned so much that way.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Yeah, amazing.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Find some buttons and they got some kind of you know,
description or name on it, and you can go search
that and you're like, oh wow, like they made these
between this year and this year. This is why they did. Oh,
these were actually advertising buttons that they would sew on
other brands of overalls, you know what I mean, But
they would advertise something else. Is really cool things you
learn when you start looking at those relics.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
My house that I currently live at in New Jersey,
the railroad tracks used to go right through it. That's
what my driveway is in the woods right here. I've
I've found a few Pennsylvania railroad buttons two piece buttons.
Oh wow, yeah, I love railroad stuff. We all seem

(46:45):
to love railroad things and cool like a Pennsylvania Railroad
padlock and.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, yeah, those old train locks and stuff. Railroad stuff
here in Colorado is really really really people have find
the railroad items a truly a big find when you
find that stuff here.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Yeah, here's a question for conduct badges.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yeah. Question from double G SAIDs curious how you came
up with the fine sling bag. You don't see too
many of those, and it's always interesting seeing everyone set up.
And it's one of the first things I noticed about
you when you started wearing that bag was that that's
a pretty darn good idea. Man, How'd you come up
with that?

Speaker 4 (47:25):
So? I, uh, before I start, I was obsessed with
fishing my whole life, and I so I've had a
lot of fishing bags. But fast forward to what I'm
metal detecting. I hate those wist bags. I hate every
metal detection waistbag I've ever tried. It pulls your pants down,

(47:49):
it's uncomfortable, it rips eventually because you're putting heavy stuff
in it, and it's just you know, so these bags,
I just I just hopped on Amazon and look for
fishing chest bags or sling bags or fly fishing bags.
And I was doing it today because the one I

(48:09):
currently have is starting to rip. So yeah, I'm still
trying different ones and I want to find the perfect one.
But yeah, I hate those those waste bags.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yeah, it's pretty cool. It almost looked like when I
first I was looking at It's like because Green Brad
at Green Mountain Metal Detecting makes bags.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
And.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
His bags are awesome, and I thought, oh, I wonder
if he made that sling bag rich because it kind
of looks like something he would he would make, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Yeah, I would love to I would love to buy
one of those those bags.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
And Brad, Yeah, let's start talking about some of your fines. Man.
I know that you found so much. There's just so
much we can ask you about. But I got stuff
I have picked up, but I'm gonna let you pick
some stuff out here.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Yeah, let's go for the chat. Let's let's ask Charlie
Harley here. He said, what's your what's your favorite find?

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Oh? My favorite find?

Speaker 1 (49:12):
You could do top three if you want to, and
we can even take it like favorite coin, favorite, there
you go, favorite piece of Americana.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
I think, my man, that's that's that's I'm sure it's
tough for everybody, but it's my favorite coin. Would either
be that that cob, the Spanish cob. From the cob
field or my cartwheel penny there you go, also from

(49:45):
the cob Field. I those are rare to find over here,
sure are. I didn't even I didn't even know what
it was when I saw it in the ground. I
just thought it was going to be a big copper dip,
like I thought that being old trash or something, because.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
That is a massive piece of copper. That coin is huge.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
I was lucky.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
I was.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
When we went to England.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
That was the one coin I wanted to find, even
though it's not that old, I just wanted to find
it because it's so big. I just think it's such
a unique coin. Yeah, and I think they're only minted.
Is it one year?

Speaker 3 (50:23):
I think they're minted.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
One year, but one year? There are there are three
varieties of them, Okay, I think they I don't know
if they were all only minted one year, but that biggest,
the biggest of the three. Yeah it was it was
only one year.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. How about how about relic like.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
Probably some of some of the really cool buttons that
I've found. I've found a couple revolutionary war cuff links,
like with the hand hand carved anchor in it.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Yeah, the Continental Navy, right, yeah, seventies. Yeah, that was
pretty rare.

Speaker 6 (51:12):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Somehow I found two of two of those so far,
one at my mom's house and one at a in
a farm field in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
But do you ever find Grandma's broach? Grandma?

Speaker 4 (51:31):
We find we find.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
That a lot. Yeah, Grandma lost some stuff, man, that's
for sure.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
I've gotten a few ring returns recently, just by just
by chance, we you know, we the homeowner tells us
that they lost the ring and we either find it
that that day or by chance find a ring and
then they remember it.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Jason, Yeah, I remember losing that ring. Thanks for finding it.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
He always he always makes me fake proposed to when
I give it back to the the people who who
lost it. So I've done that two or three times recently.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Double Struck Classic, Yeah, I don't think I saw that.
I don't think I saw that.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
That's uh, I'll have to I'll have to find what
video that's in and let you the link. But yeah,
that that was Double Struck coin very you know, good detail,
and I uh, the homeowner with the deal was we

(52:49):
had to give everything to the homeowner. That day, and
so it is what it is. You know, I'm just
happy to to have seen it and held it because
they're it's so rare to find those.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Yeah, all your fellow team members are coming up with
suggestions for you as So how about this one.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Oh, the one that was recently We we talked about that. Yeah,
the thirteen dots and the snake around them?

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Oh oh really?

Speaker 4 (53:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Oh wow, yeah, you know what I saw somebody else
find one of those. That's pretty rare. Right, The snake
goes in and out of the dots around the edge. Yeah, yeah,
I saw.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
Oh no, it just goes right around them.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
It doesn't out.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
No, there's probably different versions of them, but that one,
I it doesn't have a shank in that I thought
it was. I didn't see anything on it at first,
and I luckily I cleaned it off and and we
didn't realize it was a snake right away. So it
all kind of fell together slowly, but we realized it

(54:02):
was a special special button.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Yeah, they're starting to come up with stuff now, Tony
putting some of that up. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Lyndiana Jones says, what about your snake buckle man?

Speaker 1 (54:15):
And that's gonna be pretty good.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
Yeah, yep, we found a snake buckle. I've been told
the Confederate snake buckle. Wow, up in you know, an
area where there's absolutely no Civil War activity, so somebody
must have must have brought it home with them, you know.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
And the really cool thing is is that, like what
then is that story? How did it get to that point?

Speaker 3 (54:40):
You know?

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Was it was it a souvenirs? You know, a Union
soldier took off of a Confederate soldier.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Is it someone.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
That came back after the war, whether they you know,
a p O W. I mean, what, what's the story?
We're never gonna know. But you can go down so
many rabbit holes with just that object, as well as
almost rewriting history. You know, there was no activity, so
why is that here? I mean, that's just yeah, have
a hobby just because of that. It's amazing.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
If I'm not even more interestingly, if I'm not remembering incorrectly,
I think it was at an old like a seventeen hundred,
like a Quaker house, in the yard of a Quaker's house.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
So interesting.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Yeah, how do you guys go about your permission gathering?
Does everyone go and just get their own permissions and
kind of see if we can bring the whole group
in or how does that work.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
I'll admit it's it's Doug and Charlie that get the
majority of the permissions. I wish that I had more
time to go door knocking. I've than thinking about all.
But yeah, it's a well, Charlie knows everybody. You probably
know that. Yeah, he knows everybody. So he just like

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we'll see somebody somewhere and and know that they have
a farm field and we'll just ask him and the
pretty much always say yes.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (56:09):
But uh yeah, and he was a teacher too, so
even when he didn't doesn't know somebody, they know him
or their their kid, right. And then Doug, Doug is
a master. Uh he's he's a master getting permissions. What's

(56:30):
that saying? I think he could sell a catchup popsicle
to a lady in white gloves? Ye?

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Yeah, well good for him.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Man.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
It's because it must be hard getting permission for a
number of people to come on the property, you know
what I mean, Hey, can I have permission? Maybe? Can
I have me and six of my friends or whatever
come on in that permission?

Speaker 4 (56:55):
Yeah, there are there are times we we always try
to have at least four of us, but there are
times when the people really only want, you know, three
or four people and only one or two cars, and yeah,
we just you know, deal with it. But at other times,
you know, we're we're inviting we're inviting Matt and Jess

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and everybody else.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Yeah, thirteen Union Army training camps in the Philadelphia area.
That's yeah, that's a lot who's got some great history there.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
Yeah, I haven't been there in a long time, but
every now and then I'll get called out to our
corporate headquarters, which in Lancaster, and man, I just every
time I've been there, it was it was I haven't
had an opportunity to detect. So one of those days, man,
I gotta get over there.

Speaker 4 (57:48):
And we got yeah, that's not not far from us,
so we got to get together. If that happens.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Who's it? H Larry and Jason both said, I think
it's the egg, So tell us about the egg. Tell
us because people might not be familiar with that.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
I you know, I got a target like any other target,
and I I stick to I dig the plug or
in a in a yard at somebody's house and pop
the plug open, just like I would any other time,
and there was just an egg, a chicken egg, a
white chicken eggs spitting in the hole. But you know,

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it was real weird. The ground didn't seem disturbed, like
it was just grass, so I, you know, I kind
of thought maybe it was one of those fake eggs,
the you know that box yet right right, But it no,
it wasn't. And it turns out the homeowner has had

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has had foxes on his property for years and years,
and he feeds them, so he puts things out there,
and I guess one of the foxes must have buried
an egg.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Oh my gosh, and.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
That morsel for later, just save it for later. Yep.

Speaker 4 (59:10):
And I think my metal target that I was digging,
I think it was trash if I.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Yeah, that's cool. But you got a good memory out
of it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (59:22):
Unforgettable memory and trash.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Yeah, you're you're fine. What's your like favorite spill? So, like,
you know, sometimes people find spills of things, coins, you know,
pull taps, bottle caps.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
I don't know that I have. Oh well, well, actually yeah,
I talking about spills. This isn't technically a spill. I guess,
but I love I love Native American artifacts. And when
we're there, you go, when we're in a farm field
and I digging a metal target and an arrowhead comes

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out of the hole. That's happened to me twice. That's
that's always very that's incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Yeah, you guys dig on properties a lot that have
the opportunity of finding Native American artifacts in your area.

Speaker 4 (01:00:22):
Pretty much anywhere out here there's a possibility. Yeah, yeah,
especially some of the farm fields up near up near
Charlie a lot. You know, we know some of the
fields that have a natural spring close by or in them,
and you know, but I've I've been looking for that

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stuff my whole life.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Yeah, yeah, always. I never really kind of knew about it,
Like in my mind was always on metal detecting, you know.
And then I think it was Beth. She took us
to her permission one time and she's like, oh, yeah,
I've found a bunch of points on this property. And
I go, what do you mean, points like Native American

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points And she's like, yeah, I'm like, you can find
Native American stuff around here. She goes, oh yeah, she goes,
you gotta keep your eyes open. So ever, since that day. Man,
my ears go one way, my eyes go the other.
That's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Yeah, me and my friend Michael were just out detecting
this past weekend and he found one and it was
just like it's just they stick out, you know what
I mean, Like your eyes can get trained just to
see these odd colored, you know, rocks in the middle
of all these other rocks, and it just stands out. Yeah,
it's just it's amazing. Like, do you have a large collection.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
Uh, not a super huge collection that I've personally found.
Maybe maybe you're twenty twenty or thirty pieces all together,
not all points, some similar tools, you know, but I
have a lot of stuff my you know, my grandmother
found and uh so we've all been we've all been

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into that for a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Yeah, your mom's saying she thought you had a copper spill,
and you have a copper spill.

Speaker 4 (01:02:16):
Yeah, to two copper spill at this one house. Uh,
We've we found I think we found nine coppers that
day at that house. It was its a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
We can match it in Colorado usually, but they're wheat coppers,
you know. The weak copper spills are pretty rare.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
I know, I know, but we we have those here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
They're they're what they call the small large sense. They're
very very small large set.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
I guess you know, in one hundred years people are
going to feel like that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
True, yeah, absolutely true, And then our collections, our collections
might be worth something.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Yeah, you never know. Yeah, I'm saying, pull tabs, man,
you just never know. No, no, you know, I could
have swore maybe I got it wrong. Didn't you find
a spill or at least a bunch of skeleton keys
one time? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
That was I was going to bring that up. That
was Jason that but I was going to bring that
up as one of my favorite spills I've seen somebody fine,
m hmmm, yeah, that's that was unexpected and really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
You know, I've never found one yet. I never found
a skelting key yet really, and I would love to, like,
I would be so thrilled, Like I just think they're
so cool.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
It's again, like we were talking earlier, it is a
personal item. I mean, you had it to unlock your
front door. You know what would happen if you lost
that then? I mean, you don't go to There was
no lows, you know, home depots around to go get
another one cut for you?

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
So you know, how did all that work?

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Right? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Jay? How you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
I found found door handles and lock plates that look
like they would take a skeleton key. Just no, just
no skeleton key, not even a piece of one. You know,
sometimes you find pieces of them.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
You know, more often than not we find pieces of them,
So it's always exciting to find them always. I forget
what if Jason determined what what his set was from.
I don't know if it was a set from a
property or if it was a set from antal old

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you know music? Uh, I forget what they're called. But
the music box you know? Victrola?

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
H Yeah, do you guys find a lot of harmonica
reads and accordion reads and stuff like that. They seem
to be pretty prevalent, but I don't know in your
colonial area type thing if they're if they're as.

Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
Prev Yeah, we find a ton of harmonica reads and
squeeze box reads and all sorts of stuff. I you know,
something on my bucket list as I'd like to find
the frame of a mouth harp.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Oh yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
But I've so I found one piece of one so far,
but I've not found a complete one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
You've found a piece of mouth harp, Yeah, and you
knew what it was right away? Or did you have
to go kind of look into that?

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
No, I knew what it was. Luckily it had enough
of the you know yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, depending on
what what piece you found, could.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Have been a you know, but some things, you know, like.

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
Some things are weird like that, when we find a tiny,
tiny little piece of a shoe buckle frame, we often
know right away that it is a shoe buckle frame,
even if it's just a tiny piece of metal, there's
something about it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
But it's pretty pretty amazing. What do you what would
you say is your oldest that you could guess shoe
buckle or knee buckle? How far back have you like
you into that?

Speaker 4 (01:06:17):
Definitely seventeen hundreds. May I think I might have from
the Cobb field a late late sixteen hundreds, like knee buckle,
knee buckle or something like that. Very small, but that, uh,

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that field was absolutely incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Yeah, we gotta get back field. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
How many times have you guys been over there?

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
It did seem to produce pretty well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
We've been there twenty times. Okay, if you if you
hunker down and and go really slow. Yeah, I mean
year to year, the ground changes, you know, and crops
crops go down, and so it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
That you guys name your fields and stuff. It's just
a testament all the stuff you guys found. Like, it's
very rare when Tony and I name our fields, and
usually when it is, when we do, it's it's for
darn good reason, you know what I mean, great, but
really sure, Like Teresa was just saying she found a
skeleton key in the field of spoons, right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Another cool video.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that the amount of we probably
found five pounds of silver on that property. And it's
still oh my gosh, it's still going. And you know,
we we gave we were giving everything to the property
owners at first, and it got to a point where
they just said, you give us enough.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Wow, that's cool.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
Was the consensus for that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
It was what a pig farm, and they felt that
the spoons were just in the scraps that they were
throwing out to the pigs.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
And yeah, they they we were told they had to
deal with I guess restaurants in the or in the
city or something, and so they would get all their
food scraps and feed them to their pigs, and yeah,
that interesting. Some of them are really cool looking. Other

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ones are just plain silver. But it's it's exciting to
see when you when you open the ground, absolutely silver
of any kind, absolutely great feeling or gold. Yeah, I
haven't found too much of that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
They haven't found too much gold. Nope, jewelry come up.
I don't know if that was yours or not, but I.

Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
Saw one gold ring Doug. Doug found a little heart
pending gold heart pending, so that was great, and I
found a h oh. One of my favorite finds is
a sterling silver symbol with a with a fourteenth carrot
or ten carrot gold band around the battle.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
That wow, and that wow, that was beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
A silver thimble was on my bucket list at the time,
and I didn't even I wasn't even realizing that you
could find one that is gold or has gold.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
On it as well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Yeah, you had to be shocked.

Speaker 4 (01:09:38):
So it was like, no way that that that's gold,
and yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Echecker said that there's a lot of competition with other
detectors in such a rich history in your area, like,
and I agree, Like does that present challenges for you guys?
I mean, obviously you get on some pretty great permissions,
but is hard to find places that haven't been completely
hammered or.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
I'd say it's getting harder slowly, but surely it's it's
getting tougher. We we do really well, and I think
what what slows that process down is a lot of
people are a lot of people don't want a door knock,
They don't want to ask for permission, and you know,

(01:10:28):
I get nervous too going up to it to a house.
But if you want to if you want to find
this stuff, then you can't keep going to parks because
that's what everybody else does. Luckily, in Bucks County we
have a a lot of parks that are on colonial

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land and you can still get I hear people get
lucky from time to time. But yeah, I remember the
gold stick pin topper. Yeah, yeah, that was one that
was one that we didn't know what it was. It
was just an oval, a gold oval, and I think

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it had a letter on carved in the top of it.
But uh my mom my mom told us what that
was because it was just it was too big to
be a cuff link or something.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Yeah, pretty interesting. There you go, Tony, I know, as
your question earlier, right.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
We've got a couple more questions from the chat, but
real quick, I just wanted to mention, Uh, Caleb Svenson
made it to the chat finally, watching all the way.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
From New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
I just just want to mention that real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
There's cool, very cool.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
A lot of people are asking about kind of like
white whales or bucket listers. You know what, let's good
down that road. What's I mean? You're in such a
target rich environment there can be much left on your
on your bucket list or you're right, well that you
should have found already, right.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
Well, yeah, there's not I've done really well of that
because because of where we are, and I guess i'd
like to I want to complete the set of of
state coppers state copper corns.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
So which one are you missing?

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
Missing? I'm missing New York, Colorado. I think I'm missing
New York and is there is there a New Hampshire.
I can't remember. I know, I know I'm missing New York,
but I have of you know, Connecticut, Connecticut, New Jersey.

(01:12:55):
But yeah, I'm I think I have more than have
to be incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
That's incredible one. Yeah, those are very very cool.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
And what about like, uh, white whale, so white whale,
something that everyone else around you has found one or
you just you in the area you're in, you should
have found one by now and you just haven't.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
Well I can't say it's that I should have found
one by now, but but I think that what I'd
most like to find is a fujio scent.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Oh yes, that's a good spot for that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
My favorite coin without without getting two nuts like pine
tree shillings and stuff like that, right right, yeah, because
it has the the history tied in with with Ben
Franklin and and all that, so I love says mind
your business on there, that's right. Such a great.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
It's an incredible coin that point around. Anybody in the
group's found that found a fujio. Have you been there
when one's been found?

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
We have not. I think I think Jason years ago
found one, like a reproduction one.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
It's just an incredible coin.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Just the the history of it that's that's on that coin.
It just stands out as it's it's incredible probably one
of my favorite coins as well, and I'm never gonna
find one, you know, honestly, it's not something that would
ever be even on my radar. But man, just it's
really really cool. I bet you find one. I mean,
you guys, if you've been on the areas, you'll find one.

(01:14:43):
You find lots of coppers, yeah, a.

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
Lot of coppers. You know, who knows, maybe we have
because we find a ton of slick coppers that we
can slick. Yeah, and any g W buttons rich, No,
I was I was literally just gonna say, of course
I'd like to find a g W button. Yeah, Jason.

(01:15:06):
Jason's the only one in our group that has found
one so far, which I find that I find a
little amazing because all the great spots we get on
and but I know because of the Internet that these
things come out of the ground sort of frequently.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
So it's yeah, I agree from watching all the videos,
like more frequently than you would think, right.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
Like, yeah, there's a there's a large variety of different ones,
and I guess different people were making them, and but yeah,
I saw that Charlie's got to rub ask a question
that rubs it in for Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
Charlie.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
Yeah, I think probably five or six.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Now have you really oh, come on, really amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
Well it was only two years of those, right, yeah? Eight?

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Oh my gosh, most of them. I only have one
that's in really good shape. The most of them you
can just barely tell that it's it is what it is.
And you know, the other day we had a we
had a good ten minutes where we thought Doug had
done it. Oh oh yeah, and but it turned out

(01:16:31):
to be an Indian.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
So well, Indians are cool too, I know in Colorado.
That's really cool. Hey, just want to say a quick
shout out to Brass Medic. Good to see you man,
Thanks for getting in. What do you I don't know
if you guys have it in your area? You Tecker
was saying, do you guys have any copper culture stuff
that you're into Native American and stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Have you?

Speaker 4 (01:16:54):
Well, I've I've been told that we should and through
my research, which we we should. Definitely not as as
frequent as like around the Great Lakes and stuff like
that that seems to be where a real lot of
it is is comes from. But apparently they were, apparently

(01:17:15):
they were everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
So but nothing's come up for you yet in all
your years of looking for Native American.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
No nothing, nothing, something that I remember, I mean maybe
before I knew what it was, something I threw in
my trash, you know, that would that would stink. But
that's brings up a point. I'd love to find the
kettle point I haven't found at Charlie found a really

(01:17:45):
really awesome one.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
We're looking. We're looking for those here too, because we
can find those here. And it's like, man, we would.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
A lot of trade through Colorado, a lot of trade.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
So you have some kettle points that were made by
the soldiers that were here that were actually trading with
the Native Americans. You could tell those because they're perfect,
you know what I mean, They're just made really perfect
symmetric and stuff. And then you find those that are
kind of really kind of crudely made and and and
those tend to be you know, made by by Native

(01:18:21):
Americans at the time. But find anything like that, I
know that it's a big deal here, So I'm sure
it's a it's a big deal there too as well.
How about weirdest fine, like, do you have anything stands
out in your hairs? Like, man, that is is just
weird like any old full equipment.

Speaker 4 (01:18:41):
Or something that that egg was was probably the.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Weird that's pretty strange, strange.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
Weirdest, weirdest.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
Mhmm.

Speaker 4 (01:18:53):
Jason helped me out. If you're if you're still listening.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
I know you guys have found some weird stuff over
the years.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
We've asked, we've asked people super weird. Yeah, the egg,
We'll take the egg.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Yeah, that's you know, you hear about like you know,
gold fillings or or diamond grills or you know, stuff
like that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
You know, any creepy experiences out there in the field
are like scary scary experiences like animals or dogs, moose, moose.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
No, nothing, nothing scary really, but we we do go
we are around a lot of animals. We go to
a lot of farms and see these cool animals. We
filmed some of them, you know, little small horses and
mini goats and all sorts of stuff following us around.
Dogs digging in our in our holes while we're we're digging.

(01:19:57):
But nothing. Oh yeah they can, but we luckily we
haven't had too much of that. Yeah, you know, you
don't turn your back to these things.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Yeah, sure, sure, we just had an experience with a
bull not too long ago.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
Yeah, oh yeah, we know that he was.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
Not going to quit. He was he was loaded for bears.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
He caught a little sniff of the bear spray and
he was he was over the hill pretty quick.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
Yeah. That's that's that's magical stuff. Man. You don't want
any part of that, no.

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
Animal.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
Yeah, hey, I know Tim mild Diggers asked a couple
of times, so I'll make sure that we touch on it.
But what's the oldest US silver coin you've ever found?

Speaker 4 (01:20:45):
The oldest US silver that I have found is I
think eighteen eighteen twenties Cap Bust half af done.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
Oh oh you did it well there, Wow, good job.

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
I I happened to find I found one two weeks
in a row some somehow out with Charlie, and then
we were in the Cobb field and I found another one.
But yeah, there's I love cap cap Bust Collins man.

Speaker 1 (01:21:23):
I just man, I've got like ten of them now.
I just love him.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Yeah, loves when he comes and buys him.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Talking about Bust, I want to ask you a question
about capped heads. Jason had to say that you were
a competitive swimmer before I met you, and you had their.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
Rubber head cat the rubber head cap thingy I did,
and even funnier I had.

Speaker 4 (01:21:53):
I had dreadlocks back then. Really Yeah, I had dreadlocks
almost down to my waist.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
And I would fit those underneath the swimming cap. And
so yeah, yeah, I competed. I competed up until I
was eighteen.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
And then didn't that slow down your water aerodynamics a
little bit? No?

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
He had him to a point underneath the cap and
he was made more aerodynamic.

Speaker 4 (01:22:25):
Yeah, those caps are so tight you couldn't really tell. Really,
I mean you could tell I had long hair, but
they're so tight it's unbelievable. But yeah, it was. It
was something. I mean swam for a long time. It's
definitely the I swam. I played football, I did soccer,

(01:22:48):
I did wrestling, I did track. I you know, I
did everything, and swimming is the hardest thing I've I've
ever done for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:22:56):
Yeah, so you're blacksmithing, like, do you just do that
as a hobby or do you do that like do
you do it as a side business, do you do
it as part of a heritage societal thing or.

Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
It's starting to be a side business. It's mostly a hobby,
but I'm I'm working towards that, you know, good for you. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's really fun. Been doing it since twenty sixteen.
And it's just that, you know, finding the time.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
Try I had to put that up. Yeah, it's fine.
The timelike anything right, like you got you know, if
you told us the beginning to show you have a
lot of hobbies. So oh yeah, trying to find time
for all that stuff, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
Yeah, I try to go fishing, I try to blacksmith.
You know, you're busy and then working and metal detecting, and.

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
You got to throw that working in there at something.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
It's got to go in there. But you got to
get rid of that because you could add another hobby,
right yeah, space.

Speaker 4 (01:24:08):
I need to make you know, crafting, blacksmithing and overall
crafting my my career is what I would like to do.
But we will, we will, Larry.

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
Says, just another way to save history man, and and
and I like you're keeping that alive, you know what
I mean? And that is a piece of history that
not too many people are into. But kind of what
kind of things you make?

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
I love recreating old colonial items, you know, can candle
holders and anything. Really. I like making old tools and
hooks and bottle openers and everything. Jewelry, the colonial colonial
stuff is the is the coolest to me for sure.

(01:24:58):
Even even I like making knives too, but not you know,
I'm not not trying to really be a bladesmith, like
only do that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, I watch forge and fire. It's
it's so interesting to be able to take you know.
It's it's it's the creative side of things. You take
something that is nothing essentially, and you're making it into
something that's elegant or useful or you know, had a purpose,
you know, and it's just it's that passion of being.

(01:25:29):
It's almost artistic coming out in you. And I think
it's fantastic cool. You know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
Hot hot steel is if you think of it, it's
like clay. It moves the same as clay. It's just
way way harder to move it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
It just takes a little more effort.

Speaker 4 (01:25:49):
Yeah, but it's it's it's really neat.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
Yeah. Any leather working on your side, no.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
I you know it it does interest me to make
probably small little small items or sheaths for the knife knives.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
I I mostly just like working with with metal.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
When are you going to make digging shovels for the
whole crew?

Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
You know, I've for a while I've been trying to
design a shovel in my head because it's not Making
a shovel out of all one piece of steel isn't
that easy. And I'm trying to design it in a
way that makes sense and is efficient but also won't break.

(01:26:46):
So I do I do want to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:49):
Yeah, that'd be cool if like with shovels, that'd be
really cool. And of course Jason would come up some
funny name for it or some you know, special name
for it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
You need to find kind of like, uh, you know,
some plans from from the seventeen hundred where they wrote
it in this book about how they designed a spade
or something like that, and then just recreate that and
everybody's digging with the seventeen hundred style shovel out there.

Speaker 3 (01:27:19):
That'd be pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (01:27:21):
Yeah, that would that would be really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
That would be cool, man.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
And they're probably really strong too.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
Right right?

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
Oh yeah, Larry, have you tried your hand at napping
since you're into.

Speaker 4 (01:27:35):
No, No, I haven't. I know that. I know that
I would like it. I just don't have much time
for something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
I can get rid of that work stuff, man, you
just get rid of we all, all of us.

Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
Need to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
I know, I know I would like fly fishing, But someday,
someday I'll get to sure do that. I don't have
the time, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
Yeah, Look, man, you've been a great guest. Rich Towards
the end of this thing here, I want to you
got any advice for detectors out there that you could
some kind of wisdom you could part things that are
important to you about the hobby, or that you've discovered
in your journey in this hobby that you just wish
on other people, or something. Well.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
I think I've noticed people get discouraged sometimes not just
because of what they're not finding, but because they're always
by themselves. And so I would encourage somebody to join
a join a local club or go to metal detecting events,

(01:28:45):
and you know, always just continue doing what you like
to do, and you'll meet other people that enjoy doing
that too, and you never know what could happen. You know,
I detected for a year and then all of a sudden,
I'm going with the quarter hoarder every week. So it's
it's andy. They couldn't be any any greater.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
So and it's nice and day and night and day
of an experience. It's actually on my list of questions
I want to ask you about that, Like you detected
on your own and then all of a sudden you
got together with a bunch of people, and how was
that different? But I'm glad you. I'm glad you shared
that with people because I agree with you one hundred
percent that you know, there's nothing there's nothing like sharing

(01:29:32):
excitement and intrigue and and and your your love of
this hobby with other people that are like minded. You
know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
So right, Yeah, it's it's exciting to find something by yourself,
but when you're with friends and they're all excited and
it's it's makes it that much better.

Speaker 1 (01:29:52):
Yeah, yep, I agree, man, Good point. Good point. Well, shoot,
maybe we all get a chance to dig together someday.
I'd like have to come out and hang out with
you and get a chance to dig with you. If
you're ever in Colorado for whatever reason, come on, get
a hold of us, man, and we'll put on the
best thing we can get you put on.

Speaker 4 (01:30:12):
I do know somebody. I have a friend who lives
in Colorado. So if I ever end up out there,
get a hold of us.

Speaker 1 (01:30:20):
We'll take.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
Oh that would be awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
Yeah, yeah, we'll do that.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
We'll do that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
I do love I do fish for trout, but I
have not fly fished yet.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
We have a plethora of trout in Colorado, more than
I would want.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
I'm tired of eating trout.

Speaker 1 (01:30:42):
I'll tell you that, Tony's that diet consists of trout and.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Doves, dove and chicken.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
Chicken. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:30:52):
I remember I was listening to one of your shows
a while ago and you were talking about your dove hunting.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
Yeah, yeah, yep, just got back from that. It was
what started at September first, and we go every year,
you know, right the opening season. Were kind of make
it a long camping trip and you're allowed fifteen dove
per person per day, so we usually stay like two days.
I mean, you shoot your limit. You're coming in with
thirty dove, you know, cut in half, you're gonna have sixty,

(01:31:19):
you know, sixty pieces, so you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:23):
Fun, you know what you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:25):
Know what he does with it, what he makes jerky Man.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
That was Goose.

Speaker 3 (01:31:35):
That was Goose.

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
Yeah, Canada goose and snow geese and all that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:31:41):
Yeah, yeah, goose.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
You gotta you gotta make klopeno poppers. You're wrapping in bacon.
Put some cream, cheese and jalopeno on it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:51):
Best stuff. You'll eat some dove.

Speaker 4 (01:31:56):
All of our geese out here. Just hang out in
the mall parking lots.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Yeah you don't want those, but look, rich Man, you
want to hang on down below and we'll get to
you off the air. We'll say oh goodbyes, but last
last words and and we'll put you down in the
in the green room. So go for it. Last words
and we'll put you donner.

Speaker 4 (01:32:18):
I just like to thank both of you Canon Tony
for having me on and and thinking of me and
let me tell my my story here. It was a
lot of fun, and you guys are great. I've I've
listened to what you've been doing for a long time,
well five years since since I've been detecting. And yeah,
it was just it was a really great night. So

(01:32:39):
thank you, and thanks to everybody in the chat and
stop by, and yeah, Jason and Doug and my parents
and Charlie and everybody else. There's so many names that
I recognized in there.

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
So yeah, well, you know, you go on, you go
out with those guys, and you kind of put yourself
out there, right, So there's all these people that know
who you are, you know, and you don't know everyone,
you know what I mean. But it's kind of a
weird feeling, you know, that you're putting yourself out there.
So when you come on our show like this, you're
putting yourself out there again. You're getting a little more personal.
People are getting to know a little bit more about

(01:33:13):
rich Van Winkle, and we just want we just want
to thank you for putting yourself out there with us.

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
And it was a good call. You know. Now that
I'm I'm used to the camera and everything I'm i
won't be nearly as awkward on your show. So yeah,
years ago would have not been a good guest probably, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
I agree. Since to force yourself to start going on
camera and start interacting with that camera a little bit,
which is so silly because you're looking at a camera
right like right now, I'm looking at a camera in
my room, but I know that people are seeing me,
you know what I mean. So you get used to
kind of that communicating through the lens and that it builds,
it builds sort of this muscle memory with you of

(01:34:01):
trying to you know, connect to people through the lens.
And so I agree, you know, you get used to
that and you start coming out of your shell more
where if you had never done that, you had been
more sort of internal and not not as forthcoming or so.
But but thanks man, thanks for coming on with us.

Speaker 4 (01:34:18):
Yeah, thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (01:34:19):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
Sure we'll see in just a minute. We'll put you
down the green room, all right, good night. That was fun, man.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
Man, that Richard Nick some guys pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
He nicked the good man. I tell you, man, we're
jerks off screen and we start beating on him already.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
I know, I was all nice and cordial to him
and throw nicknmes out on him. Now, No, you know it,
it's talking about a great guess that that. I'm so
glad we got to know a little bit closer, like
you were talking about, you know, hearing stories and and uh,
you know, just having him right there with us. It's
what a cool guy, man, seriously, you know, right, we

(01:35:06):
say that a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
All the time. One of us.

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
Yeah, totally hang out.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Yeah, we could totally totally hang out and just talk
about stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:35:14):
I mean, oh could you.

Speaker 1 (01:35:16):
I'm so impressed by what he and the rest of
the the rest of the guys find over there, like
because we just can't find that stuff here, and just
to hear him talk about it and see, you know,
his passion for it and and the things that he
enjoys and and even when you watch him on video,
he's just so happy when you find stuff and amazing.

(01:35:36):
He was like a really great guy and stuff. I
want to hear more about his dreadlocks. Man, I got
more questions about that. We didn't quite get to that. Yeah,
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
And this is the video show. She didn't even have
a we didn't have a picture of it. I'm sure
he's got like a driver's license with this dreadlocks.

Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
Also exactly next time, Rich, I told you to send
me something this time, but next time, I got a
lot more pictures. I'm going to ask you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
That's right, awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
Well let's get out of here, man. What do you
got going on? Yep?

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
Oh gosh, you know, not much. Just come visit me
on social media.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
Fifty two eighty adventures on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok everywhere
you can search. Just put in five to eight zero
adventures and come visit with me. Leave me some comments,
send me some chats. I've been talking to a lot
of people, like I said, the last couple of weeks,
and sharing in the fines and all that kind of stuff.
So I've been having a great time with all that left,

(01:36:34):
chatting with everybody and seeing what you're finding out there.
So come visit with me. Message me and I'll get
back to you. And then you and I we got
to get either out detecting or.

Speaker 3 (01:36:43):
On a plane to England. One of the two.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
You gotta choose, all right, I'll choose coin double headed
coin England. Let me try again.

Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
England, lad, All right, all right, buddy.

Speaker 1 (01:36:57):
We'll see us. So yeah, him and I a been
detecting together in a while. Man, you start like, you know,
you start like missing it. You're like, man, like me
and my friend Michael were up detecting this last weekend
without Tony. We're like, man, where's Tony? We're missing like
one of one of the guys, you know what I mean. So, Hey,
I just want to thank everyone for joining us here.
You can catch me anywhere any of the social media

(01:37:19):
adventures in dirt. Would love to see over there, drop
some comments, and if you guys get to go out, man,
go have some fun. That's what it's all about, and
share it with your friends, share it with your family.
Let him see your passion for it. And if you go,
be safe. Just be safe out there. I don't want
to hear about anybody getting hurt out there in those fields.

(01:37:40):
And cover your holes. Don't hurt those cows stepping in
your holes. Now out in those fields and go get
the good stuff. And then I want you to tell
me about it. We'll see you next week on Relics Radio.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
Thank you so much for listening to Relics Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
We will see you back here next week for another
exciting guest. Until then, get out and dig it all

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