S8 E7 - Preacher Digger talks METAL DETECTING RELICS and ENGLAND HUNTSS on Relics Radio - Relics Radio show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everyone, DK here from Adventures and Dirt. Welcome to
another Relics Radio on a Thursday night here in northern Colorado.
I tell you what, it is starting to get cold.
I'm going to talk about the weather a little bit tonight.
We usually do, but I want to wish you all
a very happy New year. If you're just joining us
for the first time this year, I'm going to bring
my co host in. You guys know who he is.

(00:27):
He's that crazy guy over at fifty two eighty Adventures.
He's my buddy, he's my digging partner. He's what up, DK?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
How are you, man? I'm so happy to see you.
I'm in such a good mood. I'm ready. Yeah, I'm
in such a good I love Thursday nights. We got
a lot of cool stuff to talk about. We got
a great year coming up, and man, so I'm so
pumped tonight for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah for this year. Oh yeah, same man. We you
and I have been talking a lot about stuff going
on this year, and there's so yeah, so much stuff
coming up. And we're in the winter months now. We've
got some real cold weather coming. It's gonna allow us
to do a lot of that research. You know, a
couple of weeks ago, we did this research program here
on Relics Radio. If you guys miss that, please go
back and check it out. We released all of our secrets.

(01:12):
But what's really cool about the videos We do share
a lot of great tips and ideas and some sites
that you can go to and use yourself. But people
in the chat, you go back there and as you're
watching the show, you read the scrolling chat and they
had a lot of great ideas too, And I love
that about our people that watch us here live on
Thursday nights.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
I had a lot of people reach out to me
too after the show and say, oh my gosh, it
was so good. Hey have you thought about this as well?
So lots of positive, positive things coming out of that
show for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, Shoot, how you been man? I've been busy this week,
so I haven't been as much as we normally do.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
But I've kind of left your phone just not be
so hot because I know you're so busy. I have
been blown it up like I normally do. But I
told me, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
And I hope Tony's still talking to me. She said why,
and I said, Well, Throughout the week, him and I
usually talk, you know, a lot more than we do, honey,
and then you know, we talk all day long. It
seems like here and there, And I said, man, I
haven't been able to answer one text or anything. It
seems like this entire week, I haven't been able to
interact with our friends and the messages they send. It's
been that busy.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
So that's why I'm excited about tonight too, because you
and I get the chit chat with a really good
friend of ours and a good friend to the show, right,
So I'm excited for that too as well. But I
don't know about you, is it? Are you ready to
for this cold front that's coming through? What are your
tempered You're supposed to be like this weekend?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Nineteen below nineteen below on Sunday night into Monday? Yep?
And I getting colder towards that point, yep.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
So supposed to go duck hunting on Saturday?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh boy, you are hot? Or man?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't know. I mean, I value my ten fingers
tense in this nose, So I'm not sure if I'm
ready to sit out in the uh the negative temperatures
just for a couple uh winged beings to fly over
and me to miss them. So I don't know, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Are you gonna drive past my home but up up
north here?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, not past but up that direction.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Is there an opportunity for me to come and meet
you on the freeway or something? You bring me some
of that jerky that I saw you making.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I did make some goose jerky. I've got bags of it.
I uh, after I made it, I threw them into
the uh uh the bags and uh what do you
call that? Drawn back? Yeah? I vacuum sealed it. I've
got bags for the blind now and throw it in
my bag. Oh yeah, it's it's.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Awesome, man. It was so you guys have had goose jerky.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's pretty amazing. When you first offered it to me,
I was kind of like, because I'm a big jerky lever,
Oh my god, are you kidding me? And I've had
all kinds of wild game jerky, but I've never had
goose and I'm thinking, well, might be good. It's got
real fatty meat, right kind of greasy.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And so you had the snow goose. I made Canada
this time, so a little bit different, a little bit,
a little bit of wang to it. But that's all right,
it's not it's it's it's not bad, it's not bad.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Can't wait to try.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Let's jump in the chat real quick. See who's all
joining us. Mister Bill Hayes came in a little bit
before we started, like forty five minutes. Yep, Hello as
the pond, Nick West.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Nick West, checking in. Good to hear from you man.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Good supporter over there in England. Appreciate him tons.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
We need to have him back on this year.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I know he's always got some great stuff to talk about.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Copper Joe, Hello Joe.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Mister Larry Stevens, Yep, Larry, how about Texas Plug Riches PPR?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
How are you are? You are good to say? Dropped
and forgotten comes in and say hello everybody there we go. Yes,
I like that dropped him for God.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
I like that name.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, I agree, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Our friend Jeff said he was going to start a
YouTube channel. What was it originally called? Besides Grandma's broch.
She was gonna say, Grandma dropped some stuff. Yeah, you're
gonna call it Grandma drop some stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Greatly dropped some stuff. That's right. We got thin blue
diggers in the chat.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
There, Hello Nick, Yeah, you're in your hat tonight.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Absolutely, And speaking of Thin Blue Diggers, we want to
let you guys know that Relics Radio sponsored by Nick's
Custom Laser Engraving. If you guys need anything made with
your Metal Detecting logo, Christmas ornaments, hats, cutting boards. Uh,
he's got tumblers now, folks. And I'm gonna throw a
little tibbit out here. I got something new coming to

(05:47):
fifty two eighty adventures that Nick's working on for me,
So stay tuned for that. It's gonna be pretty awesome
when that comes out. I know I'm ready to I'm
ready to display that. So reach out to Nick Nick's
Customs Laser and Eaving's over on Facebook. Let him know
that RELICTI ready ASSENTI over there. He'll take care of you.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yep, thanks Nick, appreciate it. Oh, Mike, Metal Detecting n
see East Hide, Oh Diggers. I hope everyone's having a
good night. We are, man, we've been looking forward to
this for a while.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
How about this guy?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh hey, who's that preacher?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Some guy named Preacher in the chat. We're gonna get
to him tonight. I can't wait. I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
He's chomping at the bit downer.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I bet I know he is. He's like he's sweating. No,
one'sn't talking to him yet.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Thanks mcawaene Outcast Metal Detecting. What's up everyone?

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I saw Lance over on Facebook sporting.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Our hat, right, yeah, man, thanks, looked great, looked great. Awesome.
He had the green one, right, the green one?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
So yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Let's go, man, Let's get to our guests.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
You ready to do this?

Speaker 1 (06:54):
I am all right.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
You guys know him. I's Preacher Digger, mister Michael him
joining us on Raw Tradio.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
How are you guys doing, Michael had Man staying warm?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Good to see? Yeah? Are you found south?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah? I think all that Colorado weather's gonna be hitting
us here next week. We're gonna be down in the
twenties fortex that's like saying zero from below preezing.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well, you're going to be in the plus twenties.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
They just had snow in Dallas not too long ago
for the Cotton Bowl.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
The last time the snow, the weather came through. All
the snow was up in what we call the I
thirty quarter kind of north of me and now we
got another system coming in on Saturday night early Sunday morning,
and it's going to be right now. It's projected to
go south of me now on the im quarter down
toward Houston in that area, and so we're still not
going to get it. We're kind of in the middle.
But that hasn't stopped me from getting out detecting my life.

(07:59):
My new video that comes out on Monday, you'll see
how cold it really is.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I was gonna ask you, like, can you you're around
can you dig you around in Texas?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, no problem.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Going to move to Texas, Tony.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
If you want to agree you say digging, I mean
being the summertime in the lakes. I don't get on
the lake. No mistakes to meet bugs too too hot.
Takes his heat pretty pretty pretty tough. Yep.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, we uh, but.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
You know we don't have to worry about the ground
being frozen around here.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's right now. It's at the point where you need
a jackhammer. You're not even getting I mean, even if
you're able to chip away at it, you're only getting
little pieces of of like ice dirt out, and it's
it's miserable. It's not even worth your time because you're
gonna get a deep target that sounds you know, it's
a ninety or something, and you know it's it's like
six inches and you're like, all right, I'll come back

(08:51):
in the spring and get.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
It like the perma frost. You to get through the
perma Yeah, you gotta Colorado for a while. I know
how it is. I woke up every morning, went to
the gym back in my younger days, and uh, it
would be like minus five or minus fifteen below every
single morning.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Man, I lived in Alamosa, so you know, yeah, cold
absolutely because we're sitting up at seven thousand, five hundred
feet in altitudes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen I've seen
water in the bathroom on the window, freeze on the
inside of the house. It's so cold. So yeah, very cold.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I uh from the previous snow we had, I hadn't
washed the outside of my car off because it was
just so it's got dirt grime and snow grime and
all that stuff. My my dark colored car was just
like looks like a gray ghost going down there. And
uh so I finally went to one of those hand
washed spray places. You know, you can spray off your car.
And I sprayed it all off and got all looking

(09:52):
nice and good, and then I drove home and when
I got home, all the water had like frozen this
like this, you know, wave you looking ice all over
my car.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Col I love to look at snow, but I don't
love it when it melts suck in the spring and
it starts getting all muddy and nasty. Yeah I didn't.
I didn't miss that. I mean, that's that's I don't
miss scooping off the sidewalks either. Every morning before eight o'clock.
That's what we need to do as well, city. Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah,

(10:23):
I remember.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, we're we were in the fifties today and it's
melting all that snow. It's just a big soup bowl.
Now you give the frozen ground and then the little
half inch of dirt that is available on top now
is just soup. It's brown soup everywhere. It's nasty. So
it'll freeze again tonight and and then this weekend. Yeah,
we're getting that. I don't even know what they call it,

(10:45):
but that cold front coming through big forget it. Yeah,
it's it's gonna be pretty pretty brutal, pretty brutal chickens.
Chickens are gonna have to huddle together so they can
survive it.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
My area, they're projecting down in the low twenties, you know,
And so I couldn't imagine Colorado what it's going to
be like. Yeah, dry, different, It really is a different
cold in Colorado than it is in Texas. I don't
live in the brown line of Texas side. You know,
half of Texas is dry. The other side of Texas
where I live is humid, and so the cold goes

(11:17):
right through you. It's very damp, very very damp cold,
and in a freeze you to death. It's just really cold.
So it was twenty degrees really would feel like Colorado zero.
It really would.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
And you know, to be honest with you, I haven't
really minded the cold here in Colorado since I moved
here in two thousand, because it is fairly dry all
the time, and it really just isn't. Not even when
it's like twenty below or fifteen below, I'd be like, yeah,
it's cold. But you know, I grew up in northern California.
I know, yeah, thanks, sorry, sorry, sorry, but they but

(11:50):
they but like Trucky, there's this town called trucky. It's
in the mountains, man, the Tahoe Mountains, and it got
nineteen below there, and it's super wet, humid, wet, wet, cold,
and I thought it was gonna die. Like I thought
I was losing digits just for going out for a second.
For sure, I haven't ever felt that way here in Colorado.
But hey, Mike, check this out. Look at this comment

(12:11):
from full Oh wow, he says, Wow, two of the
Dirty Dozen on at the same time. Well three if
you count him, So.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, yeah, what were you going on?

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah? What's the Dirty Dozen? Mike? You want to explain
to people that are listening and watching.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
The Dirty Dozen was our first year that we went
to England as a group of a bunch of YouTubers,
and there was twelve of us, So we are the
Dirty Does and that's plug Baster four came up with
that name. I think. The next year we went, we
only had six and so we called ourselves a ridiculous six.
And then last time I think we had we went

(12:50):
one year we had eight and so I forget, I
forgot what movie it was about, The Eightful eight or
something like that. Yeah, you know how many we have?
You know, we have a we have a different name
with it, stuff like that. But the the that was
the first year that we win as a as a
big group, and we had a good time. That's when

(13:12):
we met full middle digger there.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, that was a lot of fun. Yeah. I remember
when I met David. It was kind of like he
took me back a little bit because he's got it.
He's got a he's got an interesting sense of humor.
And at first you're like, okay, because you hadn't met
him before, and he's just immediately on. He's just immediately on,
you know, and uh and and but man, give me
just a little bit of adjusting to that. And I

(13:34):
was enjoying Dave the entire time we were there. He
was so funny.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Man. Oh he froze to death too. On that last
day we're trying to Dave was trying to get a hammered.
We're up in that field and it's just so cold
and windy, and we finally got one. Though. I mean,
it was a lot of fun. I want to go
over and detect with David in in Germany.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
You know Germany.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, I haven't been over there yet. Yeah, And so
you listen in David, I like to have an invite
day and go to Germany with you to my to
my uh to my ancestry home. You know that's right.
Came from around Mannheim, is where my family's from.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Mmmm, hence the.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Name Heim, you know.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, an Tony and I would
like to join you on that trip.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, what's the Yeah, what's the Germany?
For a dozen? How many times have you been across
the pond to dig I'm going.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Next month and be my fifth trip next month. Yeah,
I'm it'sed October because I had that emergency surgery. I
was trying to put it off and put it off
and put it off, but the pains just kept getting
worse and worse. I'm literally, guys, I'm literally in the
jet way fixing get on the jet to go to England. Now,

(14:58):
look at my wife and I just tell her I
can't do it. I'm in so much pain. I'm going
to I'm going to e r right now. Because she
was going with my daughter and my son in law
going to England to do vacation. I just couldn't do it,
so I had to cancel that trip. I hated doing
that but this is kind of my make up trip.
I'm going by myself, same same place, but not with
a group, just going by myself and meeting up with

(15:20):
some guys over there, and hopefully we'll find some good stuff.
Uh Texas. Plug Bridges says she'd be praying for me
to find stuff, so we'll see how how well her
prayers are heard.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Okay, here you go. I looked it up. Here you go.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't know what's dust draking Dutson. That's
all the dirty does.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, the dirty doesn't whats Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Well yeah, yeah, I don't know any German. I just
know that I ate my field. When I was in
Germany and Frankfurt one year of the apple strudel Oh gosh,
I ate so much growing up. I was so it
was so good though, so good. I don't care for

(16:14):
their sausage though. I don't like their brons and their sausage.
I like American brons, but their strudel man was to
die for. I bet I ate twenty pounds worth every
food vendor I would find. I would go and just
go get a strudle and try it all. Wow, but
it was a tough thing. It was a good time.
It was a good time.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah. Yeah, Well I was glad to see you get
out of the hospital and make it back.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
I was really happy to see you start producing content again.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, I just took a break, you know, after that surgery.
I really got down, I really did. I just kind
of got depressed in some ways. And because I lost
all my money on the trip, I didn't have any
I didn't take out any trip insurance or anything like that,
and I lost everything. And but you know, a lot
of people came through and helped me out, and that
was very kind of them, you know when they did

(17:05):
a gave to my go fundme page and helped me
on my fire because I was getting health insur at
the time, I didn't have health insurance.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
I haven't now.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
It was all going to go in on the first,
so I'm trying to wait till the first, you know,
Oh my god, I couldn't. That's the worst pain I've
ever felt in my entire life. And I've had kidney stone,
and this is kidney stone is like candy Land compared
to gallbladder's. It was just a horrendous experience. And so
but yeah, I just kind of went down and took

(17:35):
a break from social media. I deactivated my accounts and
just didn't even look at social media. Finally, first of
the year, I just decided, Hey, I'm gonna get out
and start swinging the detector again and have some fun.
And so my next video is coming out tomorrow Monday night,
Monday night at six o'clock. So it's another good one.
It's another good one, a lot.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Of good five I'm looking forward to that one.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah. Cool. I added some cool editing in this one too,
more than I've done in the past, So try and
out some new stuff, so we'll see if it works.
It works, but it doesn't, we'll kick it out, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, yep. I just threw the link to a Preacher
Digger's YouTube channel in the chat there, and if you
guys are listening on the replay, it also being the description,
So make sure you guys go over there and support
Michael and get subscribed and hit the notification, so you
guys get that bell notification right away when this video

(18:30):
comes out tomorrow or sorry, Monday, Monday, Monday.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Six o'clock Central Central time. I see him the chat
Full Metal Diggers asking me was the status of my
coin hoard that I found in twenty nineteen, well still
about where it was.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I'm almost to the point of hiring a UK lawyer
to start getting involved. But the six coins that I
had found of Edward the Confessor actually are tied up
in an investigation. They they tell me that you know
nothing that we did, but they're investigating whether or not

(19:06):
they were eventually stolen and then replanted out there or
something like that. So so there that's still held up.
But the other coin hoard that I have, the they
are at the British Museum right now and they are
being evaluated and they're sending me two coins back. They're
going to keep two coins and so they are going
to buy they but they're right now in the process.

(19:27):
They could take up to a year, they said, for
a museum to find a museum to purchase and or whatever,
but they are going to keep those two. One was
a French coin of Edward the Bold or Charles the Bold,
and the other one was a was a King Henry
the sixth, I think is what it was. And there's
something special about when those two coins are put together.

(19:49):
They had two more coins of Edward the First and
I don't know the other one, but but hey, at
least has some progress, you know. I'm almost giving up
on the Edward the Confessor. I'll keep emailing and keep
e mailing, and you know, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
I'm gonna put you guys in the spot. I got
a question for both you and Tony, Michael. If you
guys were kings of England, how would you be known? Michael?
The you keep saying that Edward the Confessor, you know,
like something Charles the Bold or whatever.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
What would it be, Michael, I'm gonna go out on
all the lands and detect, you know, from a modern
key the Confessor.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
You know, that's what Edward the Confessor was. A very
pious religious man, didn't have the children, and that's why
they called him the Confessor. And just kind of interesting
that preacher Digger goes over there and finds Edward the
Confessor r coins, you know, and and so it's kind
of an ironic thing in a way. Yeah, but yeah,
hopefully when these days will I'll get those coins, or

(21:03):
at least get them in a museum or something and
go over and look at them. I just hate that
they're tied up in investigation.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
They are beautiful. If you haven't seen you guys it
head over. Where's the best place they could try to
find those?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Mike, they can scroll back, well, just go to my
YouTube and go back a couple of years in the
videos and it's called the Hunt of a Lifetime. There's
like seven eight nine videos of that hunt. And they
can see me dig them live, you.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Know, and the pictures of them. Man, then when the
picture produced on them, they're just beautiful.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
They I just wish they would make a decision on
what they're going to do with them, just get them
back their feet and get it rolling. On five years
and going on five years now, it's kind of ridiculous.
They heard me. I just keep sending them emails, but
they I think they avoid them now. They don't even
answer them anymore.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
I gotta say though, from that does seem rare though
generally from what I've heard, the museums are making pretty
you know, with on like that year timeframe. They're making
a decision and getting things to you know, have in motion.
So it seems like that five years is pretty outrageous.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
I think a lot of it had to do with
twenty nineteen. You know, we're going in that was November
and we're going into twenty twenty with COVID and that
set things back. And then there's only one flow officer
finds liaison officer in that area, so he he quit
shortly after all that, so that they went for like
a year and a half with no flow officer, so
everything was backlogged and they just now got a new

(22:32):
flow officer over there, whereas other areas, like when we
hunt in Colchester they have like eight different flow officers
and so yeah, about six months you get your stuff back.
But you know, like I told them, I said, you know,
five years, you're causing me to come very suspicious.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Now now what's going on here?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Because everything Confessor is are very a it's a unique coin.
I mean it's it's not anything rare, but it's it's
a unique as the first time they've ever been found
in that area. So I don't know if they're just
kind of playing me or what. I don't know. Wish
some of the UK people would help me out on this,
just kind of expedut the process. You know, I'm not
going to get them back because the curator of the

(23:11):
museum has already told me that they're going to bow
and they're gonna they're gonna put them in a museum.
So I'm just curious and whatever. You know, maybe a
billion dollars. Now, just go buy me a castle in
England and about all you guys are you go there?
You go, set my detecting holidays up, you know, and
would be.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
A castle summer home in Germany. That'd because.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Could you imagine owning like, not just a regular lamb,
but owning a castle over in England. Oh yeah, I
couldn't even imagine that.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Sitting on about twenty thousand acres.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well yeah, now all all my.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Buddies coming on, everybody coming, Oh ya, I got a
room for you, you know, just you know, I'll just do
it like that.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Oh my gosh, that'd be great. That's pretty incredible.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Dream was dream big.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
I don't think those coins go for that much, but
it'd be great if they did.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yep. But you know, Michael, you and I have known
you said for quite a while. I've been watching your
videos for a long time, and you know, I watch
a lot of videos doing the Weekly Dirt and all
that stuff. And you know, I don't mean to flatter
you too much on here. I'm just telling you and
those that are listening that I have watched Michael's skill
as an editor and a videographer and a storyteller improve

(24:27):
and improve and improve over the years to where like
he's one of the best out there. I'm not blowing smoke.
He's one of the best out there. And if you're
not a subscriber of his channel or at least have
ever seen his videos, I highly encourage you to go
over there and check out his videos because he puts
a lot of effort into it and it comes through
on his videos. So I guarantee you go over there,

(24:47):
you're going to see something that you probably probably didn't
know about it. If you're not a subscriber, is you
need to go check that out. And I hope I
didn't put you on the spot too much, Michael.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
But no, man, I'll take an.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, keep it going going, and just.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, I appreciate that very much. I do put a
lot of time into the videos, you know. I'm always
looking at different ways of editing, and I think about editing.
I don't look at other people's videos and get ideas.
I actually just watch television and I watch how the
professionals do it on television, and I try to adapt
to some things and just learn my program. You know,
I've got a program that's a professional program, but I'm

(25:26):
just this amateur on it, still learning how to do
different things. And so every if you've been watching in
the last year or so, you can kind of see
it progressing and getting more and more, getting more transition,
sound effects, you know, history, fun facts, different things like that.
You know, blends and cut ins, you know, whereas I'm
talking while we just cut a display in my room

(25:48):
or something like that. Just make it more interesting. That's
what I'm trying to do. Make it like a sitcom
where you would sit down and you would watch the
show for thirty minutes and you would enjoy it, and
so it's other than just a show and tell. I
just don't like I don't even like watching YouTube videos
where I never see the person's face. All I hear

(26:08):
is a voice and just see what they're finding. Because
I'm interested in the person the personality as much as
I am in the in the content. And uh, and
so I kind of want a little blend of all
that myself.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
And I always wondered how you did that graphic you
used to put up about what the detector face detector
head face, and then you'd always have the number of
what you were listening to. And I always wondered how
you did that and change the numbers because it looked
like a really nice graphic, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
It's really simple to do, it really is, you know,
that's just I took off of my labs. I don't know,
I just went to Google and got a got a
graphic and I did I do all that in power Point,
Believe it or not. I mean that is but yeah,
you just have to you know, darken out their number,
you know, and then put your number in there and

(26:58):
save it to a PNG and then imported it to
your your your video and then like if it's a
double number, boom boom. You know, you're just overlaying two
of them together, you know, and so you know, and just.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Those Yeah, that was a great feature and stuff because
everyone always likes to know what numbers you're seeing, you
know what I mean. It's really hard to film that,
and whether you're holding a camera on one hand and detecting,
or if you've got a shoulder mount on or a
hat man, it's try. It's hard to show with sun
and everything, it's just hard to show that number so
you can speak it. But people are really visual these days.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
So yeah, it's a visual aid, is what it is.
And even if you don't use a manicore, you use
another detector, you know, it's still a visual aid that
kind of adds to your video and uh and by
the time you throw your sound effect in there too,
so you got your visual and your together. And so
just that's what you would watch on television. You know,

(27:52):
you just see stuff like that. So I just try
to keep improving and and you know that's I want
my videos just to be entertaining in a way, but
also in educational, informative and fun things like that.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
So you dig in the water during the summertime, and
I know it's really entertaining watching you dig all those
beaches and and lakes and such. And you know, you've
done a number of ring returns for people out there
and it's really entertaining. Have you done any returns lately?
I know you said you recently took a break, but
maybe before that break the last time.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
But back this summer last time last time I water
hunted was like the second after labor Day, the weekend
after Labor Day. I go from the weekend of Memorial
Day all the way to the weekend after Labor Day.
And that's my water season. And then I hang it
up because I can't wait to start every year, but
then I can't wait to get out of the lakes
at the end of the summer, you know. But this

(28:50):
year I added my treasure dues. If you watch my videos,
you'll see me on the jet skis my sea dues,
and those have really been fun to get on and
go out play and I've taken several people out with
me on them and stuff like that. Instead of driving
around the lake, you just go. Get you one big
lake with the like five swim areas and you could
just zip.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, yeah, get them all.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's a lot of fun too, a lot of fun.
But but yeah, I do. That's all I do in
the summertime because when Texas you do not land hunt.
I have my hunting buddy, you know that goes with me.
See my videos. We call him Digger Dock Holiday. He's
kind of he uh he hunts through the summertime. I'm like,
how in the world do you do that? There's just

(29:36):
no way, I mean, You're talking one hundred degree day
with ninety five percent humidity. There's just no way I
get in the water. And you stay you stay cool.
You know, you get a lot just punk your stuff down,
so you stay a lot of cooler. But I try
to be an all around. I like really hunting, you know,
and I like old. My favorite hunting in the land

(29:57):
on land is old houses. And now it's this video
that's coming out. We've been hitting this eighteen sixty house
and some other vacant lots that are old, and that's
my favorite is that. Then it would be lake hunting,
and then you know, rarely cunting after that. I guess
if I lived in a relic area, I would like

(30:18):
rarely cunting a lot. You know, if I lived over
in Louisiana where the Civil War you know took place,
you know, Texas didn't really have all that. And the
area that I live is not that old part of Texas.
You go north as old, you go south, it's real old. Yeah,
But where I am, you know, average around eighteen seventies
when all the towns started coming around stuff like that.

(30:40):
I'm just not that old. So you just find counting
your area, what you like and doing you know, so old.
We have a lot of old houses, early nineteen hundred,
late eighteen hundred houses. So we just go door knocking
and good. We've only been turned down one time out
of every time we've ever gone door knocking, only one
rail still what we could hunt the pastor we just

(31:02):
couldn't hunt her land. Uh, And so we've been very successful.
In fact, in this my last video of this video
that's coming out, you'll see this big, huge, eighteen sixty
white house. And uh, when we first looked at it,
I said, oh, we'll never get on that. So we
have our little way of doing it. And we called
and this lay's like this was on New Year's Eve

(31:23):
when we were doing that. She goes, oh, no, y'all
come on over what and oh yeah, they detected in
the backyard and found all this, she said, all these
little tags, you know, railroad tags, you know, and all
these different all these things that they had found. I'm like, wow,
excuse open invitation to come back. Wow all the time

(31:45):
all the time. And uh, but when you think that
you can't get the house, and boom, you can get it.
And so we just keep knocking and looking around. You know, well,
just on the cold day. I went over there one day, Yeah,
and just look for vacant lots and other houses and
write it down and then we'll do our research and
we'll call them up or go door knock. And we

(32:07):
got more places lined out to go. So I'm going
tomorrow or tomorrow afternoon or Saturday before the weather comes in.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
But you love landowners like that where they're just like, yeah,
come on out, Oh my gosh, what did you find?

Speaker 3 (32:18):
You know? And yeah, you know they most times the
homeowners don't care what you get. You know, they don't
even want to look at it. But some of them do.
They want to look at it. And I always offer
that in my you know spiel, and I say listen,
and I always offer you can keep anything that you
want to. I just like to make the video. But
I've never had but one person wanted the dime. I

(32:40):
found a Mercury dime. You know, we found a dozen
of those things all the time, and so I told
him I gave him the dimond. He was just blown
away with that. I'm like, okay, you know, I don't
to me personally, I don't care to keep the stuff.
I've got so much in my room here. The only
things that I like to keep are things that I
don't have, you know, like that last video. These first

(33:02):
time I've ever dug these things. But if the landowner
wanted them, I would have gave them to them, you know,
I would have gave them to Yeah. Yeah. Most people
are fearful to door knock, you know, and I'm that
way too. But uh, we have a little system that
we've kind of perfected and it's it's worked off. And
all you need is one good yard, you know, and

(33:24):
we and you'll find all the good stuff, relex coins,
we got we got it all. We got it all.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Many times those permissions will lead into others too, you know,
like the neighbors talk and.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Oh yeah, you always you always asked, hey, do you
know someone else a neighbor here a word in for me?
And you know, I hit a lot of churches, you know,
the downtown area churches that have the vacant lots and
the big property. I've been, you know, being the preacher,
I've been very successful talking to the pastors and stuff

(33:56):
like that. And I've got two pending right now, these
two big lots. So in this area that we've been
detecting that dates back to the you know, eighteen sixties,
and hopefully we can get on those lots. And even
though the area that we're detecting is you know, everywhere
has been hit. Everybody detects these seems like an I area.
It's a lot of you know, honey clubs. And but
that doesn't you know, just you know, just weigh me

(34:20):
at all. Just just get back on and just go slower.
And you never has never hunted out. You just keep
digging stuff, you know. And and so I like, just
that's a challenge too. You get on these old lots
that's been pounded, and you still come out with you know,
a great still hat pin you know that I had
in my last video, and that thing's been hunted a

(34:42):
thousand times, and yeah, I still get it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Hey, Copper Joe a little while ago asked the question,
do they drain those lakes a lot in Texas like
they do reservoirs.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Not so much in Texas because those the heat is
so great, you know, they go down about six to
eight feet every summer. Uh, if there's no you know,
rain whatsoever. But if there's got if they got some
damn areas that's got to be prepared to whatever they'll
go down. But in my area, well when I say
my area, I'm talking really my region. We're talking from Gosh,

(35:17):
Houston to Dallas to East Texas. I'm all over the place, Arkansas,
I'm everywhere. U I know Lousiana does that though. I've
hunted over there with buy you digs, and they'll drain
the lakes down. And even even though the lake doesn't
allow you to meddle detect when they have water in it,
we still got permission to go out there once the
lake went down, to get there out on the beach

(35:38):
because you're helping to dig up the trash and all
that as well. But yeah, they don't drain on here.
I wish they would, Man, that would be so much.
I mean the lakes that I hunt at. If anybody
did the blue Nemo and did the diving, and that's
what I want to do this summer, they would find
a lot of stuff. Because I don't know of anybody

(35:59):
in the lake, so I'm hitting that's doing the blue
Nemo and getting out and finding the deep stuff. You know.
But if the lake would go down about six seven foot,
get on out there, Old handle sandscoot that I made
ten foot long. So I throw it out there and
the drop and drag it in. Hey, I dug a
walking Liberty half dollar doing that, I believe it or not. No,

(36:23):
it was actually not the walking Liberty. I found it
on the other side of the pool. This was a
silver eagle round And who would have a silver eagle
in the middle of a lake, you know, swim area. Well,
when I brought it up, I thought it was a
walking Liberty because they looked just the thing until I
got home and I looked at it, like, wow, this
thing's much bigger, you know.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Wow. Yeah, there's a there's some technique involved with what
digging in the water. Do you have any tips for
people if they want to get out at their local
swim beach or if they want to get out in
the lake. You know, there's things to consider about how
you treat your equipment, whether there's floats or no floats,
like how to actually dig a target. You know, I

(37:05):
think you had talked about that before.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, that's the main thing is that if you don't
get good at scooping, you'll wear yourself out in a
couple hours because you'll scoop five six times just to
get the target up, and that just gets exhausting, you know.
But the best way I taught people to do is
get on land and throw you a coin or ring
down there on the ground, and I do the wiggle technique.

(37:27):
You know. I just go back and wiggle back on
my coil and I just put my scoop right to
the side of that and just scoop it up, you know,
and usually get it on the first or second try.
You get good at it. But water detecting is different.
It's a different technique. But some people, you know, will
pinpoint and put their scoop right behind their coil and

(37:48):
just go straight with their coil and they can get
up that way as well, if you get a big
enough scoop to do that. But yeah, it's different equipment.
You got to have some definitely some water shoes because
you're pushing on that scoop all the time. You got
to have a good scoop with a sturdy handle, and
you just got to practice. That's the main thing. It's
just practicing and learning, like anything else. Learning the sounds

(38:11):
in the water, you know, and nothing's deep. I tell people,
if you're going out in the lake, and you're digging
a one foot hole. I said, you're you're you're not
digging unless you're in an old, old swim area. I
most everything is just replenished every week, and it's just
you know, just underneath the sand. And uh so you
get good at it. And I enjoy it because I

(38:32):
got like about five hundred rings now, you know, I
keep all my silver ones because I'm gonna catch all
them on one day when that price of silver gets
all going higher and higher. And gold rings and gold chains.
I like last year or year before, I found a
well one ounce gold chain, you know, and what gold

(38:54):
going for? You know, So I send it up to
our buddy plug master Ford. You know, he's got Patriot
old and silver up in Missouri. So I send it
all to him. And uh and so that's what pays
for my trip to England every year, is actually the
gold that I find in the lakes there.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
You go, people always asking us how much England costs
and all that stuff, and you don't do it. You
can do it. You can get out there and just
go to the parks, go to swim beaches, try to
find yourself a bunch of gold rings and it'll pay
for you.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
That's all sects, one big gold ring or one big chain,
and you can pretty much do it, you know. And
but yeah, that's uh, that's uh. The water hunting that
I do is lake. I don't do a lot of
the beaches, uh, down at the coast. It's just it's
to me getting out in the water and the and
the surf is just beat you to death. I mean,

(39:44):
it's just all the waves coming in and cracking over you.
And uh. And actually you don't go side to side
when you're actually beach detecting, you know, like you would
in a lake and a swimming you're actually you go
out and in, out and end. And going out is
it actually easier than it is coming in because going out,

(40:06):
you know, the surf is pulling you out, and when
you're going in underneath where you cool is it's going
against you. And so when you're going into the surf
into the coast, you know that water unders underneath low
pulling that undertow and it's harder to do it that way.
So in a really beat you to death. And plus
if you're going to get good at beach detecting, you

(40:27):
really you know, if you get in the wet sand
or out in the water. You need really a PI machine,
something that's going to be really good get good depth.
Most metal detectors, you know, mind Lab does well in
salt water and others, but I don't know how much
depth you actually get because of all that. But that's
not my thing. And the river detecting, that's a Nugget

(40:49):
Nogging thing. Gosh, go back and watch one of our videos.
In fact, it's the first time I started ever video
in twenty eighteen, and my first video was with Nugget
Nog and we were at the river It's got it
out a week before and went up there and invited
him down. We went up there and that boy just
he would never stop. He would just never stop. I'm like, man,

(41:10):
aren't you tired? And I just gave up, took his
camera and started filming him. And then we had a
paddle another hour back to the to the the truck
and there's no current, you know, it's just flat water
river there at that where we parked, so it took
forever to get back. Yeah, he's like an energizer bunny,
but yeah, he loves river detecting and I'm not a

(41:32):
big river just You don't detect rivers in East Texas
or actually in Texas anywhere unless you go down south
or central because up here it's all mud, you know,
red River, you come out all red and just muddy,
and and so you just I don't do rivers around here. Lakes.
That's that's that's the thing in the summertime and doing

(41:54):
land and and then I like doing collaborations, you know,
like going with other people. You know, I like going
I've gone Gosh, I went out to the Nugget nogging
and and uh in North Carolina. I've been to South Carolina.
I've been up to Pennsylvania with Charlie Harley and those
game guys, and been to to uh Ohio with Seth.

(42:18):
He was part of the Dirty Dozen sat with us. Yeah,
I've been up to Seth and he's a he's to me.
He's such a great detectives, you know. And uh so
we just I like doing, you know, things like that,
meeting up with people and everybody you see in my videos.
People I didn't know. I've met him through YouTube, right.

(42:40):
We just built a friendship and then hooked up and
went to detecting. And you know, one thing leads to another.
That's what it's all about. Colorado wouldn't that far away.
I'll come up and visit you guys.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
We'll take you out anytime. You know, you mentioned it,
and uh, you know you mentioned Nugget nogg and being
a little letternsy and stuff like that. But you're no
slaughters up there, Michael, I know, Tony and.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
I right, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I were talking. We're like,
look at look at the nogging and preacher man. There
boots on the ground, the doors open. You guys are going.
You've hit every field three times. And I'm like, all right,
I got my I finally got ground balanced. Sorry, let's go.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Yeah, we're out of there. We're usually off of away
from everybody.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
You both of you moving.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah, I'm sitting there listening to a target. I'm walking
around it. And we got just like ding ding ding
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
We did that one year, the first year we went
to England. Nobody knows this, but we and Nugget went
off by ourselves, which we always do. We don't intend to.
We don't wake up that morning and say hey let's
just leave all out. We just get going, you know.
And we were on the we over and we were
in wells, on the border of wells, and they was,
we're in a sheep pasture, you know, and I've never

(43:57):
been around sheep and all that stuff. And these sheep
already come through there. They've left all their you know,
food on the ground, let's just say. And we're walking
on side of a hill. And if you ever heard
the phrase slick as sheep whatever, that is so true
because I slipped off that that heelside, smacking that sheep

(44:21):
miss and it was all over clothes and that was
that was nasty. That the Ohio relic hunters to asking
me how many snakes have I ran into? Fortunately? None,
and I'll keep it that way. I have to have
any snakes because usually in the swim areas, there's no
snakes in the swim areas, you know, the beach areas.

(44:41):
I don't get off in the swampy areas. Now, I
don't want any. We only have really one poisonous snake
in the water water moccasin, and you don't want to
get bit by him at all.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
How important is whole size in your in your shut
in your scoop, Like if it's too small, you're picking
up too much weight, right, wear yourself out that way.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Yeah, you don't want to. You don't want a small
sandscoop because you're going to be missing your target all
the time. Most sand scoops today are pretty wide mouthed sandscoops.
You know, mine's a six inch round. And actually, if
you read the regulations of if you hunt Corp of
Engineer Lakes in Texas or anywhere the Corps Federals anywhere,

(45:27):
I usually buy a season pass and if I'm going
through any state, I'll stop at the lakes and stuff
like that. But it's actually six inch opening is all
you're really allowed. But they don't enforce it or anything
like that. Most of them have the big wide ones.
And but yeah, you want something big enough but not
too big that you can't bring it up when you
bring in the dogcroop water. I detected one year up

(45:50):
in my honey hole and I was out there for
fourteen hours straight, frown thirteen rings. I just wouldn't give up.
And it's in the heat of summer. And this is
like at nine o'clock at night now, and I start
cramping up and I can't control it. My hands just
curl up you know, like this, and my legs and
my thighs curl up and I can't even walk, you know,

(46:11):
And I'm out here about this deep of water, and
all I could do is get my scoop and just
put my hand on the scoop and straighten my hand
out best I could. And I figured, okay, it's time
to go home. You know, I started out of water there.
I went all day without drinking, without eating, just all
day long, and it was just I've learned my lesson
on that. Don't do that. That's not good. But yeah,

(46:34):
a good you know, water detecting here. You want a
good detector. You want something that's waterproof. Of course, you
want something with a quick return. I like at Pro.
Everybody asked me, how come you just hunt with that
at Pro? You know, the thing's old technology. And because
I got a man of Core, I got Equinox nine hundred.
But I just like a simple analog detector because I

(46:58):
don't really look at the numbers. I'm just listen to
the sound, and I know what the sounds in a
swim area sound like. So and plus I don't want
to put one thousand dollars sixteen hundred dollars detector in
the water because the silts, the silt of when you
bring in that scoop up and shaking it out, that
silt just comes down upon your detective, gets into your

(47:19):
shaft and it to freeze your shaft up. And so
you really got to clean your detector every time you
go out water techtor. You got to pull it apart,
clean it all out. With fresh water, you don't get
to seize up your your shaft and you can't even
get that off.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
So that's how if I tear up my.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
At probe not too worried about it. You know, I
don't want to tear up my digital. But I may
hunt this year with an Equinox nine hundred in the
water because I get out early. I'm usually in the
water by five thirty in the morning, and a lot
of times I hunt late at night. You know, some
pools don't close to about ten o'clock and so it's
just darker. So I have that lit up background of

(47:59):
that detector. That'd be nice to have as well. So
I may hunt with that one.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
But yeah, you and Nogen man, you both love the
at Pro. I've still got my at pro on the
wall over here too. So yeah, it's a great, great machine.
It's really uh that's my breakout machine. And I love that.
I love how the simplicity you really know it. I mean,
there's you know it very very well.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
I think the best detector Garrett ever put out was
at Pro even today against the voar text against it.
I think they should really make the at pro at
Pro two or or.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Something there you go at P two more pro.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
At more pro, make it multiple frequency, you know, and
you know, updated and everything, because that's a good detector.
I love their I love their tones of the at
Pro and and but yeah, I like it. It's just
I've gotten so used to it water detecting. I just
don't want to learn another set of numbers. But I
think at nine hundred this year to go to England

(48:58):
and its number system is like the Manicor, which is
very similar to that of the at pros one through
one ninety nine. And so when I had the Equinox
eight hundred, you know, that was back to you know,
one through a forty. Yeah, and so your numbers are
way off, and so I didn't want to have to
re learn my numbers in the water, and so I

(49:18):
can I may take off and hunt with the equinox
in the water, but I'm not gonna put my MANI coordinator.
That's a little bit too much money. Too much money,
and that's la machine anyway on that.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
But we had some texts that came in. Then we
have some statements that came in and stuff, Tony, here's
one Dad and Daughter Metal text and Preacher Digger helped
me up my game water hunting and I had my
first ring retrieval last year. Thank you, Preacher Digger.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
Awesome man, Dad and Daughter Metal detecting. That's great.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
I'll run into people from time to time out there
at the lakes, you know, and and help people out.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
You know.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
I've seen people out there with a with a little handscoop,
you know, with a wooden sticks screwed to it, and
I'm like, you know, give him some advice and stuff
like that. But that's good. I'm glad. I actually have
a water hunting video. It's kind of one of my
earlier ones, but it's still good. The information and all

(50:19):
the stuff is written up in the in the description
tells you where to hunt, how to hunt, you know,
and what's you know legal and legal? I mean, it's
just the whole whole thing of water detecting and really
good stuff. To go back and look at it, I
don't to redo that. When this coming up summer.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
Yep, another quipment came in. Lucky Duck Digger, that's where
I met you. Was that the second Nugget Nogging live
Preacher Digger?

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know if I remember Lucky
Duck Digger. I've been. If I saw our face, I
probably would, but that's years ago. Now, two years ago,
I guess, since I've been out there with Nugget Nogged
and I went out there helped him get his his
seated hunt off the.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Ground first one. Was that his first life.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Yeah, it's first too. I went out there with him
and uh and helped him out because you know where
I worked for the not work, but I was the
president of the Texas Association of Metal Detecting Clubs for
four years and we put a lot of seated hunts on.
So I had a lot of experience on it with
local clubs too, and so went out there to help
him and oh gosh, the first year I went out there,
we walked into his living room and his whole house

(51:29):
is just filled with prizes and no organization, nothing, And
we had to go through all that stuff and set
up a sheet and do all that fun stuff. But yeah,
his hunts are to me. He does better prizes than
anybody else. Now. I don't know about the one up
in Arkansas is doing pretty good too, But for a hunt,

(51:50):
he does so many prizes. In fact, I had to
tell him one year, stop you keep buying more stuff.
You know, he's going into his treasure room and pulling
out stuff if his treasure room, putting it for prizes.
I'm like, no, stop, you know we have enough. We
have enough. Yeah, nuggets.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
He's a good guy.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Yeah, I haven't done anything in a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
We just I texted him yesterday. Well what his birthdays
yesterday or today or something like that. But I texted him.
I saw on Instagram he pulled a sword belt.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Yeah, So I reached out to him and congratulated him
on that and we chatted for a second.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Yeah, Joe is asking Preacher Digger have been to Wisconsin lately,
Digging if come up hunt with me. I love Wisconsin.
I used to go up there for I went up
there for about five straight years. Actually, there was a
little town kind of central Wisconsin that one of my
church members actually grew up there, and they still have
their house there. So in the winter time they're down here.

(52:56):
In the summertime, they're up there, and so they don't
come back down here until right before Thanksgiving. So I
would go up there every year right around the end
of September, right when the weather's getting cooler and fall
foliage in this town. I'm the only one that's ever
hunted in that town. And I found so many silver coins.

(53:16):
I mean, have you ever had a day we dig
a barber half and two walking liberty halves all.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
The time, all the time.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yeah, yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Then you dig about fifty Indian head pennies and barber
dimes and it's crazy. And my friend church member at
the time, he's going on passed on a couple of
years ago. Now he goes, Michael, you ought to go
up there. There's an old wagon road going up this hill.
You ought to go hunt that. And I said, nah,

(53:47):
I'm gonna mess with that. Next year, I go up there.
I had a little time. I went there and hunted
that wagon trail found a Morgan silver dollar on it.
I'm like Oh my goodness, Morgan Silver daughter on it.
But it came out. I couldn't believe it. That was crazy. Yeah,
I was lucky after Wisconsin, and I'm always open to

(54:10):
people inviting me to come up and I've been to Massachusetts.
I had a friend one day just called me up,
didn't knowing from anybody, and said, with his Boston accent,
you know, and me come up there and hunt with him,
you know, come up there. He's got some places and stuff.
And I said, yeah, let me think about it, you know.
And I had to go do some creeping around and

(54:32):
check him out, make sure it's not some curial killer,
you know whatever. He's a legit guy, a very good guy.
We're good friends today. And I go up there with
Massachusetts and Hunt got a chance. This in fact the
last video of twenty four he saw. The greatest find
that I found in twenty four was that busted Drake

(54:56):
large scent, and I found that right there at the
very heart of Plymouth, Massachusetts is unbelievable. To get on
the property and to dig that out, that was really great.
A lot of people think all largie, you know, but
Texas dig larger.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Yeah, Colorado either, y Colorado.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
You don't know either.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Yeah, it's so much fun when you have those epic days,
you know what I mean, Like it's just you know
when they're really epic, like you're just finding everything. Tony
and I had one of those. Yeah, and it's crazy.
And you know, Texas plug Riches happened to mention the
one that I love. I love this video too, that
juke Joint video. Boy was an amazing series of videos. Wow,

(55:38):
that was amazing, Like, that's got to be right up
there with one of your more epic, uh epic trips.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Times after I've been out there in found stuff and
when you know, but I was really on another location
of it's a really big track of land and when Nuggat,
I invited Nugget down and we hit that and gosh,
I think we found sixteen silvers and two half dollars
or standing liberties. And I took another guy out there
about a week or two later and we found another

(56:05):
half dollar in more and yeah, that's where they're doing
all that gambling and drinking and dancing all that back
in early times. And so she told me there's another
house sight on that property that I haven't hit yet.
I need to go out there and hit that one too.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Yep, drunk people drop money, man, that's what they do. Yeah,
you know.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
And she told me, she told me she's probably in
her late sixties, and she said that there's a colored
lady that used to walk up and down her driveway
and she said that, yeah, she was like ninety years
old at the time. And she goes, when I was
a little kid. You know what this would put it

(56:45):
back in the early nineteen hundreds is where this would be.
She said, Yeah, there was a duke joint. They drank
and dance and did everything back out in here, and
and so we just put two and two together, went
out there and hit it. And man, that that was
a time right there. The barbers and and all the

(57:06):
other stuff we found too. Yeah, it's really good. That
was good. Jake Joints one of my favorite digs.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Yeah, a whole bunch of people were saying that was
the best, even full Meto Diggers. I love the Juke
Joint series.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
Yeah, that was good.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
People remember that. People remember that series there was in Silvers.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
I mean it was we were digging. We weren't even
digging wheat pennies. Wheat pennies were on top of the ground. So,
but everything that we found was from like nineteen hundred
to nineteen thirty, nothing older, nothing newer. So that was
in the timeframe where the lady said that this place
was taking place. And the best thing that I know
that they were doing. They were probably doing some type

(57:46):
of gambling or cock fighting or or something out there
in the fields and trees and all that, and it's just, yeah,
that's the type of the site that you dream about,
you know, that you get on and you just can't
believe it. Yeah, it's like going to England and detecting
and finding cords of coins and coming back to America

(58:07):
and digging up stinking Lincoln pennies.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
You know, come on, it's tough England. I said that
I've only been there once, and I said, it ruins you. Unfortunately,
it really really ruins you when you come back here.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Yeah, if you start bigging up Lincoln's and Wheat tennies,
Wheat beauties are oh, come on, you know, where's all
the old stuff at?

Speaker 2 (58:29):
You know, right right? And you said you've got a
trip coming up in a month, a couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Actually, I'll leave it out. February twenty eighth detect March's
first through the eighth. Over there is for one week
and back over in Colchester with the same host that
I've always going with over there, England hosts. But instead
of going with a group this year, I think our
group is going in the fall. Okay, And so but

(58:56):
I I got a flight credit on my flight from October,
but I have to use it before March twenty eight,
so I had a plan. I had to plan my
trip earlier.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Oh shoot, so yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
Start selling things and doing things to raise money up
and then uh get out there and the trip's planning.
And this time I did get trip insurance, so if
I go down again, at least I'll get all my
money back this time.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
So well, it's not man, that is I feel for
you so much. I was like, oh my gosh, like
not only is he not going to go to anything now,
but then he's going to But yeah, not only.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
Do I not get to go to England, I lose
all the money at the hospital and getting my gallbladder taken.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
Out, and so that have to pay more money.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Fifty something thousand dollars bill, you know, and so all
this stuff, you know, just it's just crazy. But yeah,
that was that was heart wrenching to be in the
jet way fixing to get.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
On to get right there.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Man, you can taste it.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
I'm popping prescription drugs, you know, hydro codon, and like
there're gunfares. You know, it's not killing the pain whatsoever.
I mean, it's not knocking me out. It was just
such a horrendous thing. And then you go through the
surgery by yourself. You know, your wife's not there, your daughter,
and you know everybody's gone. And and so when I

(01:00:13):
woke up in surgery after surgery, that's a unique even
of surgery. You go in there and you lay in
the surgery room and the doctor is talking to you, you know,
and he's they're putting the stuff on you, and and
he goes, okay, we're fixing, give you the good stuff.
And as soon as they hit the good stuff, you know,
you're out. And the next thing you know, you're making up.
Like two minutes later, you're waking up, like what happened?

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
You know, when are you going to take me in?

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
It's already over, you know, it's been an hour. But yeah,
that was that was that was great. My youngest son
was there. When I woke up. I just started crying because,
you know, my youngest son, somebody was there. I wasn't alone, you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Know, right right, Rolla Hunter said you could have saved
some money by getting your gall bladder out removed to
one of the sheep farms.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Well, that's what everybody tells me. I was could have
just went on to England and had my attack over
there and went to the hospital and got it done
for free. You know what the truth is, it was
so bad. It was so bad that it was at
the verge of bursting, and that's why I was in
so much pain. So it was enlarged as well. I

(01:01:18):
would have never made the flight over, you know. And
then if I got out of the field. That was
my fear. You know, if you're in the middle of
you know, thirty six thousand feet over the Atlantic and
you and these attacks are so oh I'm talking vomiting.
I mean, this is it's horrendous. It's horrendous, and that
you're on a jet trapped. I had that thought. Then

(01:01:42):
I had the other thought. You know how, I go
off detecting a lot of times by myself, right, I mean,
I'm laying out yeah, and you'll find me, you know,
two hours later and I'm dead in the field. I mean,
I just couldn't take it. So it just took me
back yet.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
So you made a decision. I know it was tough.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
It was tough.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
It was I'll never forget Mikey. I'll never forget Missouri. Mike,
you know, has no comparison to what you went through. Michael. Yeah.
You remember how sick he was on that first trip,
and he he almost didn't go. He went. He was
just sick as a dog, stayed in the van most
of the time. He only came out to find his
hammer room and gold coin rolling coin coin hammered hammered

(01:02:26):
gold Roman coin.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
That was worth the trip right there. Sure was.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Man came out of the van, found that, turned around,
went back in the van.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
It was just like, yeah, that was I'm glad. That
was a rotten decision. And there was a lot of
cord I really appreciate the metal detecting world. They really
came in and encouraged me. And uh, you know a
lot of people gave me to go go fund the
account and I think for about four thousand dollars came

(01:02:55):
in for that and and and uh, he just it
was I like how our community of detectives just come
together like that, you know and writing you and giving
to you and encouraging you and stuff like that. And
it was just it was a it was a very
lonely time. I tell you that because I went the
house alone, you know, nobody around and trying to heal

(01:03:18):
up with all this stuff. But hopefully, and I'm praying
that here in less than a month, when i'll legit
and get over to England, this time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
You will, you will, and you'll probably find another Hord. Yeah,
I can find it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Well, I'm hoping Texas plug Richard says, she's gonna pray
for me. You know, when I left to go in
twenty nineteen, when I left to go to England, that
first year, I had a sweet lady, she was the
prayer warrior at church and she told me I asked
her to pray for me to find a treasure. And
she died just this last year at like ninety four

(01:03:58):
years old. And good enough, I found it. I found it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Yeah. Well, I mean with as many times and many
times as you've been across the pond and stuff, do
you have any white Wells left? For like foreign relex fines.
You know, things that you still even being over there
four or five times, that you still haven't found that
you really are searching for.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Yeah, a gold coin number one. No, I would like
a Roman fibula. I haven't found a romanol.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Oh really, you hadn't.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
They're kind of a common thing over there, and I
haven't found one. But yeah, I would like to get,
you know, bronze age axe head something, something that's going
to go back pre Roman period, you know, to the
Celtics or whatever. Anything like that would be really cool.

(01:04:51):
But you know, I love I love the coins. I
love digging those hammered coins. And I have a thing
in my computer that, you know, every king and queen
the I find, I fill it in. And so I'm
still trying to fill up all the kings and things.
I've got quite a few of them and I have
there's still some I haven't gotten yet. They're a little
bit more like a King Henry the Eighth. If I

(01:05:12):
wanted a bucket list coins, a King Henry the Eighth
would be one that I would, you know, because of
the history tied end with him and and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
And how about King Michael the Dirty you found any coins.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
I need to make up some coins and play them
over there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Oh no, don't tell you that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
I don't tell me that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
They did that to you, didn't they.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
I found that horde of King Edward the Confessor coins.
The next day, I went out there and I took
all of my American change, my pennies and nichols and
dimes and all that, and put it in a zip
lock with a note saying, this is the American Horde,
and I put it back in the ground because I
knew our our host was going to go. I get

(01:06:00):
there and detect again. He found that bag of coins
the American Award. And so that's the only time I've
ever done that. I haven't done what they did to you.
That was cruel, Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
It was a tough one. At least I got to
bring that back though, right away.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
That's only Yeah, the museum wasn't wasn't jerking him around
for five years on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
Oh no, yeah, somebody was doing that. That's not funny either.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Yeah, that was that was so disappointing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Yeah, shoot yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
As soon as he showed it to me, I'm like, yeah,
you know that this is not real.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Yeah, you know, I should have known it too, because
it wasn't as curved as it usually is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
And yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
Know, they had some coloring on it pretty good, but
it still was.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
Not the darkest.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
It was perfect. I got on the walkie talk I'm like,
this is the most amazing Roman coin.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
You play and display that in your treasure room?

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
Oh exactly, I absolutely am, you know, with the story
behind it. And I'm thinking about actually just putting it
on a necklace and using it as my good luck charm,
you know what I mean, Get a little get a
little holder for it on a neck Just turn a
negative into a positive, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Ain't nobody would know? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Shoot, what about US whales?

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Oh yeah here in the US? What do you think
white whales in the US in the US? Any any
relics here you're really hoping to find.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
I still would have find some more Civil war relates,
you know. You know, I haven't found a big cannon ball.
That would be my one that I would have liked
to find a cannon ball. I would like to go,
uh and dig in a really like a battlefield area
up in Tennessee or Mississippi or something like that somewhere
with somebody had permission we can go out there and dig.

(01:07:55):
But I do have a breastplated I did find a
us any baby plate, which is very rare.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
Yeah, a little baby people baby.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
Plate, which is very rare. I did find one of those.
But but yeah, cannon ball Civil War relics, you know, sword, uh,
something like that, the and net, you know, shells, a
big parrot shell or something like that would be still
a gold coin, you know, go coin would be good
in America too. I just having come across it yet,

(01:08:29):
I've dug four silver dollars, which most people don't get
silver dollars, and a silver eagle. I got big silver.
But I just don't have any any gold yet. That
would be my white. Well, I guess mate, We'll just
keep swinging. That's what I tell people. You're going to
get there. Eventually, You're gonna you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Know, got to be in the right place that has
that opportunity and then yeah, that's right, you'll get it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
We had Ah coming through the chat here from heavy
Metal Detectors Kentucky. This one's for you, Michael. You know,
a metal detectrist is in the Bible. Are you familiar
with this? No, okay, I got it for you here.
I had to look it up. So let's see.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
A metal detectors is in the Bible.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Matthew thirteen forty four. The Kingdom of Heaven is like
treasure hidden in the field. When a man found it,
he hit it again, and then in his joy, he
went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
Yeah, you'm searching for that metal. Wasn't he.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
One kind of machine they used back then? Probably Nazarene
was one that was a good one, the Naerene. That
was a giller machine man.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
They called the Beast. But I knew the verse. I
just didn't know if it was gonna be a joke
er or what the Yeah, yeah, I do a lot
of them in fact, And starting last video and coming
out in this video, at the very beginning of my video,
before anything comes on, there's just a five second little

(01:10:13):
thing about metal detecting in the Bible, just just kind
of a kind of a quote that I do. And
at the very end there's a quote as well. I've
done a bunch of those and posted a bunch of them,
but there's a lot of parallels between the Bible and
metal detecting, and you know the one I end up
on this new video. It talks about how, you know,

(01:10:33):
studying the Bible is much like you know, going metal detecting.
You know, you got to search and dig for the
treasures to find them. And so I try to put
things like that in my video without being overtly preachy
or religious, just just to put a seed in there

(01:10:53):
and and stuff like that. But I compare it over
to metal detecting. I make the parallel that people can
really with that. I'm talking about the sensitivity and talk
about you know, notching. I mean, I'm going through the
whole metal detector and we got like twenty or so
of them.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
Yeah, But did y'all see my little joke I put
online last night? You have to go over there and uh,
let me bring it up right here?

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Is it on the facebook page?

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Yeah, it's on my Facebook page. It says, why did
the metal detector go to therapy? I saw this It
couldn't handle all the buried issues. That's a dad joke.
But no, an a I joke. I told AI to
make me a joke like that and and do it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
But yeah, I see that look at that. Is that
what you put into AI and it spit that out
to you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Yeah, I just told you make me a joke of
my dad joke about metal detecting and and uh stuff,
and it came up with that one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Anybody you want to detect with Michael in this coming year? Uh,
anybody sort of like, you know what, that'd be cool
to go detect with that person.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
I actually asked yesterday the history digger, you know, the
history digger Rob up there and Rob I actually invited
him to come down here with me and to you know,
do some water detecting and stuff like that, take my
plates and the jet skis and stuff like that. That that,

(01:12:26):
you know, I would like to go out too with
the Hoover Boys one day. I would think that would
be fun to go out with the Hoover Boys.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
And for sure, oh.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Yeah, but yeah, I really don't have any I like
to go with Tony and DK in the Prairie and Colorado.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
I heard those guys. I heard those guys.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Those are awesome guys. Go I'm not even in the
same league as those guys.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Sometimes they've got some Scotch or bourbon with whiskey with
them too, So hey, I.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
Can handle that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
They're up to Those guys are crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
They're in the middle of nowhere. I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
Yeah, I know how Colorado is.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
You're welcome to anytime, but maybe together.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
Of course, we're actually having an event this year up
here in Colorado, Rush to the Rockies twenty twenty five.
It's actually called Rush to the Rockies Rendezvous twenty twenty
five is going to be right at the end of May.
I mean May thirty first to June first, and let
you do something on the Friday before that, so really
kind of May thirtieth through June first, and we've got

(01:13:33):
this great place to hold it, a lot different than
the last place we held it. It's gonna be a
lot more flat out in this area called Kyowa, which
has a lot of ties to the Native Americans and
you know, old trail systems and stuff. So it's pretty cool.
But we'll be putting more out on that as we
established graphics and our our you know, our whole spiel

(01:13:55):
on that thing. But we just had our first meeting
on that and we're going to start releasing it on
that So that's Rush of the Rockies Rendezvous twenty twenty five.
We'll be bringing that to you here as we continue
to develop stuff on that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
But you have to come in like the week before
or something and stay a little week with us and
go to go to Rush. We'll go out and we'll
hunt ourselves and the hit rest of the Rockies.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Afterwards, take you out some of our spots and put
you on some stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
And that's what I like doing. I like meeting up
with people and doing collaboration videos with them and stuff
like that. I enjoyed that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
I thought you would say, Moses, you know, because he
could part that water for you. Oh, let you go down.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
That would be good. Come on, yeah, I would just
I guess I would have Jesus. I just you know,
he could just sit there and pop everything out of
the ground.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
That's right, you know, just lift it all up.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
But oh, I would love to go out with I
really am just I'm a laid back type of guy,
and I've gone out with a lot of people. You know.
They just call me up that I've known that I've
known them through my Facebook or Instagram or YouTube for
a while, and they'll call me up and just say, hey,
why don't you come over here and you know and
stuff like that, and I'll head out, you know, when

(01:15:10):
I go to day sometimes I'll drive. I mean, I've
drove to Pennsylvania before, but wow, Colorado is not that
far of a drive. Only about a older where you
guys are up in Boulder, aren't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
You, And they're a little north of the north and
south of that. Yeah, right, yeah, it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Ought to be about a twenty hour drive for me,
I guess, but okay, you know I'm trying to Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Yeah, over half hour, Yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
You get out of Texas, you get excited.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
Did you know from my house to l Paso it's
further than from El Paso to Los Angeles, California?

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
Really? Yeah that I respect it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
Wow, draw a line there and you'll see that, you know.
It's I mean, you can drive to Haigo and that's
only like seven hundred some miles, and through Texas you
can drive a thousand miles, you know, get across the state.
But it's close, you know, the measurement's pretty close. You know,
people don't realize how big Texas is. I like it
when people always ask me, hey, do you know you

(01:16:13):
know so and so in Texas. Well, that's eight hours.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
Or yeah, right, it's hard to really hard to fathom
because most states aren't like that, you know. So, yeah,
are you from?

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
When I go to Colorado and get past text line
you know, up in the north of the Panhandle, And
when I get out of Texas in New Mexico headed
the Briton and I'm like, yes, I'm out of Texas, you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Know, that was right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
Finally, from me to Amarillo is eight hours for me
to get on off the text lines. I think it's
about another hour and a half or whatever. Nine hours.
It takes me nine hours just get out of Texas. Crazy,
it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Yeah, wow.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
But no, anybody that has a good place to detect
and they're not a serial killer, I'll probably go out there.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
There's your invitation going on, reach out out to preacher digger. Yeah,
and you know, make sure you're not a serial killer.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
I think we all just got an invite. We're all
going to meet in Ohio. I think the High Chester said,
oh yeah, they're like, there's tons of stuff in Ohio. Still,
let's just all meet in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Yeah, we're doing we should do it. Ohio is a
place to be. I heard a.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Hunted in Ohio honey with Seth Newkirk and I went
up there. After nuggets seated hunt, I drove on up,
you know, to Pennsylvania hunted with Charlie Harley and those guys.
And and then the next day I was going to
go over to Seth and hunt with Seth. And my
whole purpose of going on this trip was to get
a large sent, to get a large sent. And we

(01:17:48):
hunted all over Pennsylvania. We dug up KG two's everything
out in the field, but no large sent for me.
So the next day I went over to Seth and
we just went door knocking and uh we uh went
up to this house and and Seth got like an
eighty five signal on his detector and he goes, here,
here's a here's a large sent signal for you. He

(01:18:10):
gave it to him. I'm very excited. I go over
there and dig down ten inches to get this thing.
Pop it ouse an eighteen seventy six seated quarter in
immaculate condition.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
I gave that up, you know. And so he wouldn't
give me any more large lords signals. Rest of the
day in the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
Ohio I didn't get a day, wouldn't give him get one.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
I didn't get one till the next year. I went
to Pennsylvan to Massachusetts and I dug one, and I
got one.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Here's one for you. I agree with this one hundred percent.
It'd be great to see you out digging with quarter heard.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Have you ever been out with quarter Order with Jameson
when I went to Pennsylvania. Uh, he was working that
day or something and with Charlie Harley and the and
the gang up there they all hunt together. Uh, he
couldn't make it that day, and so we went out
with h with without him. But no, a quarter Order
would be I met him one time, and uh, it
would be a fun time. I would love to I

(01:19:03):
guess if you asked me who I like to go
to dictate with, that quarter Order would be one. I
would like to go out and detect with him and
the dog tag Doug dog Doug guy before and uh
and stuff. But yeah, he's a he's a good guy.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
When you went out with Seth, does his dad come
out with you?

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
No, he was working that day, okay, and uh, and
so yeah that was he hit some good places. We
hit a seventeen hundreds uh not seventeen hundred early eighteen
hundred stagecoach stop.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (01:19:38):
And so he goes, which side of the yard you
want to take? And I said, well, it's his permission,
so he got to choose. I said, my permission, I
got to choose. And so he said I'll go right.
I say, okay, I'll go left. Well I go left
and there's absolutely nothing on that. He goes over there
gigs a large scent and two pieces of eight cuts silver.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Oh my god, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
No? Two pieces of a cut silver. And I'm like, wow,
you know I got the wrong side. But it was
his permission, so that's only fair. That's the way we
do it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
But Tony and I know all about that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
I was gonna to that too.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Yeah, Tony always picks the good side, man, I just
don't pay attention. He's like, what side you want to go?
I'm like, I don't care whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
I didn't get it cut eight.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
Come midday, I'm sweating because I'm not under the shade.
And I look over and he's picked the side that's
under the shade. Toys, He's finding all the good fines.
I'm out there sweating like.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
I ruled it. I get the permission, I get to
choose which side of the yard I want to start on,
and then my buddy gets permission. He gets to pick
it that way. Then once he hunts his side, then
we can cross over and hunt the other side. And
on my last video you'll see me finding two silvers
on his side that he missed. What was a barber

(01:21:00):
eighteen ninety six barber nice and had a lot of
fun time picking on him about that one.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Detectives man, So that's a really good detectives. Yeah, do
a great job, man, And I know you are too, Michael.
So the fact that he found those cut pieces of
eight and it's like, that's so cool. But then the
fact that you went back over there and found those coins,
that must have been a blast. Man. Yeah, hey, look
what I just found. Look what you missed.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
But yeah, yeah, I like rubbing it in a little
bit and have fun with him.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Sure if I took.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
Out three big old gold coins one time and put
them in a makeup compact and buried them and dug
it up and had him going over that, you know
that dug up these gold coins, I've done a whole
horde of silver dimes one time, just like twenty of
them always doing something to him. You know, he's a
simple minded guy, and so he's easy to pick on
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
Those are Ohioans, I tell you, Ohioans. There's simple, simple minded.
I got a big game coming up. That's oh, that's right.
I'm sorry, Michael, you te you know horns down we had.

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
Oh I'm not my team's ac man. I'm a big
Kansas City. Uh yeah, Texas. I didn't watch much college
ball in that, but I keep up with Kansas City.
That's my team. I ran on Facebook wall ago that
we may be getting coach Prime Dion for the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
I heard that. I read that as well this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
So we're gonna take him out of Colorado Buffalo's and
him and his son. We're gonna put him down here
in Texas maybe, who knows.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Yep, big time, the big game for sure, prime time,
prime time. Yeah, yeah, that'd be fun. Well, Mike, look, man,
you've been a great guest. We want to wish you
all the best this year. Uh yeah, I don't need
to wish you luck if as long as you're hitting
out there, you're old Greg detectoris Tony and I have
seen it firsthand. You put into work, you put in

(01:23:01):
the effort, and whenever you do that, you're going to
find the good stuff. But I just wish the best
for you one hundred percent to get I appreciate DK
stay healthy and then go get that good stuff man, especially.

Speaker 3 (01:23:13):
Staying healthy man for sure. Just pray that I can
get on the plane here. But February and this time,
that's my fear of something else is gonna go wrong.
You know, I miss my trip over this year. But no,
I appreciate you guys calling me in and give me
a chance to get on here. And uh, I just
anybody that would like to check out my channel, just

(01:23:36):
go to Preacher Digger, just google it. I'll be the
first one on YouTube to come up. And but I
really would like to ask everybody just go and click
on one of my videos and share that on your
Facebook or or Instagram page, because that's really the fastest
way to grow your channel because then that goes out
to all their friends and they can check it out
and go from there. So I'm going to give twenty

(01:23:57):
twenty five a big push to see how if I
can get it up to least ten thousand I doubt it.
If I can get to seven thousand, I'll be happy,
you know, just get it that. I appreciate you guys,
But I ever get up that way, I'll definitely swing
by and.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Yeah, always invited.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
Maybe we'll just set something up special and give you
a call and find out where you're at and do
something like that. Tony and I are neither of us
are serial killers, so you can trust us.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
You can trust us.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
You know, most mental to take the people you can
be're pretty much good, laid back people. You know. I'm
even detected with some you know, some rough guys and
around me, you know they're always really good. You know,
they're always really good.

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
Agreed, that's it's a special bond once you spend a
week with a bunch of guys in England, you know
what I mean. Like we have done a couple of
times like yeah, you get to know each other you
know a little well, and so yeah, you're welcome over
here anytime. But now wish you the best.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
Well, hopefully we can get back to England again together.

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
Yes, Tony, I definitely want to go where's Yeah? Yeah,
all right, Mike, hang out in the green room down
there and we'll we'll get with you as as we
end the show.

Speaker 3 (01:25:07):
Out YEP, I appreciate all the people chiming in on
this too as well. Thank you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Yeah, here you're listening on the replay or if you've
been watching the channel or watching the show later. Links
to Michaels channels all down below in the description and
we'll get all that put out there that Tony's been
posting in the chat all night. So just go back
there and find his links. But just search Preacher Digger
anywhere on Google and the boy that's the fastest way

(01:25:34):
to find him. You're going to see all of his
videos come up. Does a great job, great guy, gives
a lot to the to the community, and uh, he's
just he's one of the good ones. So make sure
you go check him out. Preacher Digger. Yeah, good gues man, awesome,
awesome show, awesome night.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Lots of good people in chat and I lots of
good conversations.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
Guys, for sure. Key da Kid just showed up.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
Yeah, look at that people are popping in a five
mile relic hunter Yeah, good, see it often and good. Yeah,
it's a great, great show. Love love talking to that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
Yeah, we could go all night just chatting about everything
and anything. So yeah, awesome, awesome, awesome show.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
Yeah, I know in England was really cool watching him
film you see, yeah, the little camera and he'll camera
with him and seeing you know, watching him watching him
film everybody, and well we were all YouTubers, you know
what I mean, right, Yeah, we're all filming at some point. Yeah,
exactly that great appearances over there, and glad, glad.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
He nailed it on the head though, I tell you,
meeting and collaborating, meeting with other detectors, meeting with other YouTubers.
I mean, there's nothing, there's honestly, nothing better. And the
bonds that you make from those types of trips carry
on for the rest of our lives, honestly, you know.
And and and I said it. I've met people that
I never personality wise, interest wise, hobby wise, never would

(01:26:58):
have ever come across my entire life. But I've got
one guy in Ohio I text once a month, and
our lives would have never crossed. We lived two different lives.
Our lives never would have crossed. It wasn't for metal techting.
And I cherished that man over there in Ohio. And
I check in with him, and it's just amazing what
Metal Techting has done for me. And I think Michael

(01:27:18):
felt the same, feels the same way. I know you
do too. That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:27:22):
No I don't know. Oh all right, no, I don't know. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
I won't text you tomorrow then. Sorry, shoot tomorrow, I
think about about thirty minutes I'll be texting you'll probably yet.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
It was a really good show. Yeah we said that already. Yeah,
I just want to say it again. Yeah, okay, cool.
Where do you want to you know you want to
go when the weather gets warm?

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
Well, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
My wife's like, who you talking to? Haven't you talked
to him enough tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
I know, probably not, maybe, but probably not.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
We couldn't do what we do without our support wives,
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
Oh gosh. Now, we got amazing wives. They let us,
they take care of us and let us do what
we love. So we're very blessed and lucky. That's right,
all right, Get out of here, Get out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
Thanks everyone for joining us tonight. We'll see you next
week on relic Radio. Perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
Thank you so much for listening to Relics Radio. We
will see you back here next week for another exciting guest.
Until then, get out and dig it all.

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