This week on Two Grumpy Vets, the crew gets real about everyday life, health hiccups, and the small joys that keep us going. Bryan kicks things off riding the struggle bus with a full-on tooth emergency and the saga of finding an in-network dentist, urgent care antibiotics, and insurance timing. From there we wander through the comforts (and crimes) of hot dog cooking methods, microwaved pot pies, and the eternal spam vs. Vienna sausage debate, with plenty of laughter and veteran-grade gallows humor along the way.
We shift gears into road-life stories from the truck, AI dash-cam shenanigans, and how modern safety tech can be both blessing and nuisance. Rich shares a big win from the ham radio November Sweepstakes—325 contacts, pileups, and rare states snagged—plus antenna upgrades that transformed Rich's station. We round out with practical talk on marriage communication (ditch the score keeping), crypto ups and downs, Linux and podcast app picks (AntennaPod for the win), stargazing through a serious telescope, and plans around Thanksgiving. As always, it’s unfiltered camaraderie with some hard-earned perspective and a few genuine wins to celebrate.
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Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally. We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living and having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Bryan, Rich, and the dude.
[00:00:35] Duuude-Ron :
There he is. How looking like kids with a tear Mister Brian.
[00:00:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Hello. How are you? I am I'm I'm I'm riding struggle bus today.
[00:00:49] Duuude-Ron :
What are you struggling with? Why are you
[00:00:52] Bryan Goodwin:
About a month ago, I ended up having a tooth go nuclear. Right? And so I went to the doctor. I got some antibiotics and, some, and a steroidal just to to get the the swelling down and all that. And it worked great, went away, used up all my my antibiotics, used up all my my, my, prednisone, and and was good. I was meaning to call Dennis to have them look at it and got completely sidetracked and and all everything else and just never got around to doing it. And then everything goes fine until the night before yesterday, and I was like, okay. Tooth's starting to hurt ache a little bit. So it's probably need to go ahead and make sure everything's all brushed out. Thinking I probably got, like, a piece of food or something caught in the in the cavity.
Right. Well, I don't know. I must have knocked something some plug that had formed out of it because I'd knocked that loose. And the and, the following day, started to hurt again like it did before, and I was like, oh, okay. Okay. Well, let's see if we can hold this because we've got I've got we're fix to change insurance companies. They're going from from UnitedHealthcare going over to Blue Cross Blue Shield. I was like, alright. So I'll I'll see if I can just suffer through this. I'll just take my aspirin. We'll we'll be good. No. No. This morning, I woke up looking like fucking quasi fucking moto.
The whole right side of my face is all swollen and drooping a little bit. And, god dang, I have just been completely wiped out tired. I mean, I went to the I I went ahead and went to urgent care just to to to get some antibiotics to knock it down. But but, yeah, it was like, holy snot, man. This is I because it's swollen up enough that I've got I could see my cheek in my peripheral vision on my right eye.
[00:02:53] Duuude-Ron :
That's pretty bad. Yeah. Now now you do know, even though you have insurance and even though they're fixing to change, you can still go to the dentist, and they'll still they'll still pay out.
[00:03:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, if they well, the dentist I thought I was I was gonna go to, went over there today. As soon as I got finished with the, with doctor, I ran over there and was like, alright. So what do y'all, find out if they don't actually carry our insurance or not in that network? I was like, oh, no. Okay. So got a, got a got to talking around a little bit, found one that actually accepts our our insurance. One accepts both. They they accept Ameritas and and Blue Cross Blue Shield. So I was like, alright. Sweet. Sweet. Alright. So I've got them. The only problem is I don't get to see them until the December 15. That's the first opening they have. So Oh my god.
[00:03:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'd be like, you better load me up on drugs then. Well,
[00:03:56] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm gonna I'm gonna hope that they, they get in there and go, oh, hey. Look. Because they're, you know, they're just an initial overview is to see what's going on, what's not going on, yada yada yada. And, I'm hoping they're gonna look at it and go, oh, hey. Yeah. We're gonna go ahead and yoink that tooth out.
[00:04:12] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, they should.
[00:04:14] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm hoping they will.
[00:04:16] Duuude-Ron :
I tell them, yank this, son of a bitch. Fix this, but we can worry about everything else later.
[00:04:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You know? Absolutely. So that's but yeah. No. It's just the, the antibiotic that I'm taking, it, I've got the pharmacist warrant or suggested that I take take a probiotic with it because it's gonna be apparently, it has a tendency to give you the shits. Not quite anal leakage, but, you know, still the shits. But and so got, got that taken, taken a daily probiotic for ten days. And and then, yeah, a, my antibiotic once every eight hours.
[00:05:08] Duuude-Ron :
So Lovely.
[00:05:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Lovely. Lovely. So get that all all taken care of, and hopefully, I bet you won't forget about it this time. Oh, no. No. I already got the I already got the plug itself. I'm about to forget the damn thing. But, yeah, it's it's it's it's a bunch.
[00:05:31] Duuude-Ron :
So It is. I don't doubt it. Dude,
[00:05:35] Rich Chelson:
you showed me up? Yeah. I know.
[00:05:39] Duuude-Ron :
What are you knowing about? We we're gonna talk about you.
[00:05:43] Rich Chelson:
You know what? That's fine. Why not? Seems like everybody else does. What why should I why should you guys miss the opportunity?
[00:05:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, you know,
[00:05:54] Rich Chelson:
because Of course. Yeah. You know? And that and that's absolutely fine. And just just know one thing, you're not gonna hurt my feelings because I don't have any. So
[00:06:05] Duuude-Ron :
I know that. I've known that for, what, years now.
[00:06:09] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Years now. So, you know, now that's the debate you guys and the debacle that you guys are gonna have to argue with when you're talking about me because are you wasting your resources and energy and air? Probably. To do this? Well, okay. That's fine. I don't care. Yeah.
[00:06:33] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm probably wasting my air. I have nothing but hot air. So you know?
[00:06:39] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know. We all know.
[00:06:43] Duuude-Ron :
So, dude, what you've been up to?
[00:06:46] Rich Chelson:
Oh, just the same old shit every week. So let's see. Worked home. Work home, work Walmart home. There you go. Work home Gotta change it up. Work H E B home. I gotta go to H E B yeah. I gotta go to H E B tomorrow because I need smokes.
[00:07:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Well, well, I Is that something you can get over at H E B? Yeah. Sure.
[00:07:13] Rich Chelson:
That's the only place that carries them.
[00:07:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, really?
[00:07:17] Rich Chelson:
Yes. I've been to two smoke shops, and they don't even carry
[00:07:21] Bryan Goodwin:
these nasty cigar things. Oh oh, that's right. Yeah. You do cigars. You don't actually do cigarettes.
[00:07:27] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because I can't afford fucking cigarettes. Well, if I'm gonna kill myself, I might as well kill it. Might as well kill it. Cheaply as possible. There you go. As cheaply as possible because I'm a cheap motherfucker.
[00:07:40] Bryan Goodwin:
I was gonna say, have you looked at buying just tobacco shag tobacco and and a cigarette packing machine and just making your own smokes?
[00:07:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Oh, that's too much work? Okay. You need because that's that is way too much work. Just like making dinner.
[00:07:59] Bryan Goodwin:
See? No dinner made for you.
[00:08:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. See, I'm not a rich. I don't smoke my own briskets. I don't do any of that shit. I will fucking put a pan on the stove with some water, heat it up, throw a few hot dogs in there. I'm fucking good to go.
[00:08:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's more work than I expected you to do. You could do the same thing if if you get a plastic bowl, put your adducts in there, run some water over them three minutes in the microwave, and they're done.
[00:08:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, Y'all boil your hot dogs?
[00:08:34] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Oh, gag.
[00:08:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Gag? Yeah.
[00:08:39] Rich Chelson:
What do you do? Man. How do you do your hot dogs?
[00:08:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Essentially, I fry them. Okay. Yeah. I'll cook them on the grill, or I will cook them on the or I will, or I'll put them in the frying pan and just just up there and shake them until they look like they're look like they're pretty much warm all the way through.
[00:08:56] Rich Chelson:
Oh, well, you know what? I will eat hot dogs that are, you know, on the stove, in a pan with some little bit of oil and, you know, you get your
[00:09:08] Bryan Goodwin:
char marks on it. Yeah. Gotta have the I have the the the the root of the animal flesh or Yes. Leftover animal flesh or whatever it is to actually eat them.
[00:09:19] Rich Chelson:
There you go. So I prefer stove. You know, yeah, I'll I'll boil some water, throw those things in there, and when they start the ends start opening up, they're done. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Or I can or I can put it in a pot pie. All I have to do is hit fucking, you know, whatever the number is for the oven and he'll press preheat. The stove will tell me when it's at temperature. Throw those some bitches in, Put a timer on. When the timer goes off, pull them motherfuckers out.
[00:09:58] Duuude-Ron :
And you know you can do pot pies in the microwave as well. Five minutes.
[00:10:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, unless you got Marie Calendar, and Marie Calendar is still about twenty minutes in the knicker.
[00:10:09] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. Well, there's some there's some things I will do in the microwave. There's some things I just I'm set on the stove. Just
[00:10:17] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, that's fine. Go for it, dude. I'm not saying that, but, you know, I'm just saying, you know, since since you don't like to do all that work, I'm just I'm just giving you easier options because this I've done I've tried it. Okay. And and as far and as far as, Marie Callender's, I ain't that freaking fancy. And she's
[00:10:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, they're a little more expensive than than the other, but
[00:10:45] Rich Chelson:
Bullshit.
[00:10:46] Duuude-Ron :
They're a lot more expensive. I Oh. I don't know what store you're going to, mister Barney Pegs.
[00:10:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Go to Walmart? Where do you go?
[00:10:57] Duuude-Ron :
I don't buy Marie Callender, so I don't go nowhere. Oh. I I I think I've tried them things once or twice, and and I was actually pissed off for the money I spent because they don't give you no food. Yeah. But I don't know. Yeah. Let's see let's see. It's Anyone who says gluten, that's not enough food.
[00:11:19] Bryan Goodwin:
But, you know, it's the gluten free stuff. I don't know if that's No. I don't do gluten free. No.
[00:11:25] Rich Chelson:
That you know? But, you know, their their chicken, you know, was farm raised, never in a, you know, industrial setting.
[00:11:37] Duuude-Ron :
You know? God forbid. Like like,
[00:11:40] Rich Chelson:
really? Well, you know, that's the cost of those meals, and I ain't fucking paying them. I don't give a shit if the chicken has all kinds of antibiotics put in its system. Don't give a fuck. White meat is white meat. I'll eat the motherfucker. Doesn't matter.
[00:12:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Don't care. Yeah. It's so funny. My wife will eat I mean, even things like Marie Callender. I mean, when she goes when it comes to eating, like, pot pies and stuff like that, she won't touch the meat. She'll sit there and she'll pick pick all the meat out of it because she's just like, no. It's just that means just a barrel of that roast. It's been it's it's the leftovers. It's stuff that they didn't have, weren't able to do, to to sell as as part of a bigger piece of, piece of of of of meat. So Wow. This is essentially the whips an asshole chicken. So
[00:12:37] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, that's fine, but, you know, when you get hungry, you're gonna eat that meat. Oh, yeah. I mean I mean so I mean and and so we can say, oh, I'm not gonna eat that. I'm not gonna eat this. And you know what? When you get hungry enough Hungry enough, you'll you'll eat it no matter what.
[00:12:55] Bryan Goodwin:
You can go eat. That's that's for damn sure. Yeah. I got hungry enough. I might accidentally even consider, but I I that's closest I dare I'd get is just consider even possum peters. So, yeah, just might consider. Possum Peters.
[00:13:11] Rich Chelson:
Possum Peters?
[00:13:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Vienna sausages? Oh. Oh, okay. Nasty fucking things. Oh, god. No. Oh, hell yeah. Those are just they they stink. Barbecued ones. Oh, god. No. That's even worse. No. The freaking barbecued, Vienna sausages are good, man. Yeah. No. Vienna sausages are just nasty.
[00:13:37] Rich Chelson:
No. And so expensive now?
[00:13:39] Duuude-Ron :
Dollar 50 a can.
[00:13:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. They used to be 50¢.
[00:13:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They had to do And you get, like, what? 8, 7? 7 or 8. Yeah. Yeah. But forget a dollar 50. I mean and if you think about it, Venice sausages
[00:13:57] Bryan Goodwin:
is the same thing as spam is. Just a No. No. No. No. No. No. Spam's a little different. I mean, it probably has all the same types of meat in there. It's just different different seasonings. No. No. Get the barbecue plate. They're good. Oh, god. No. I ain't doing some that when it comes to barbecue, anything processed like Vienna sausages, even barbecue spam, no. No. Barbecue I don't know what it is about their the barbecue they use. It is just the nastiest fucking it's almost as bad as barbecue flavored chips.
[00:14:29] Duuude-Ron :
Barbecue flavored chips are
[00:14:31] Bryan Goodwin:
okay. Yeah. They're Yvonne, you know, if you're starving.
[00:14:37] Rich Chelson:
Well, maybe you. I mean, I'll eat them. Yeah. I'll do you know what? I'll eat some I'll eat the hell out of some barbecue potato chips. Hell, yeah. Now Vienna sausage? Nah. I ain't gonna I you know what? I have to agree with Brian. I ain't touching that fucking Vienna sausage now. Spam? You know, spam's not so bad. But if you keep it up and you deep fry it with some potatoes,
[00:15:03] Bryan Goodwin:
good stuff, mannered.
[00:15:05] Duuude-Ron :
Man.
[00:15:06] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So Square. Here here's your last resource of you're starving to death. Okay. Omelette with ham, MRE.
[00:15:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I I would I I've not ever had it, so I'd choke it down at least once just to go, yeah. We're not touching that no more. What the fuck? I don't know. What the hell? You put Brian, you put a fucking hot sauce on it. It fixes it. Yeah. Hot sauce fixes everything. Yeah. Oh, wow.
[00:15:36] Rich Chelson:
And you know what? Every MRE comes with a small bottle
[00:15:39] Bryan Goodwin:
of Tabasco sauce. But does it really?
[00:15:42] Rich Chelson:
Yes. It does. And, I mean, those things are fucking small.
[00:15:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. They're they're a three or four squirt bottle.
[00:15:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. About that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't get a whole hell of a lot. But you know what was really fucking cool is I would take the those Tabasco sauce balls, but I ain't no fucking Tabasco. New fucking way. Dump them out, clean them out, and put sand in them when I was over in Iraq for Desert Shield, Desert Storm and send them back as Christmas presents.
[00:16:24] Duuude-Ron :
And That's a totally free way to do it.
[00:16:26] Rich Chelson:
There you go. And no and back then, if I woulda known then what I know now, I could have sent Heidi, like, several 100 of those bottles, and they woulda sold for $10.20 dollars each at that time.
[00:16:46] Duuude-Ron :
You'd have been a millionaire
[00:16:48] Bryan Goodwin:
probably. But, of course, it would have already been spent, but you know? Gonna say a debt or a a thousand there.
[00:16:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's I think maybe that. Thousand there. A thousand there. Yeah. Maybe.
[00:17:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Maybe. Maybe not. I don't know. But, anyway,
[00:17:05] Rich Chelson:
yeah, I didn't have that fucking hindsight, but that's okay.
[00:17:09] Bryan Goodwin:
You mean the foresight?
[00:17:10] Rich Chelson:
You've got the hindsight. You just Oh, I got the hindsight. The foresight. Yeah. No. Fucking I always usually lose that game all the fucking time. Every fucking time, I'm I'm in the the section at the ballpark that's you know, how you have the nine players out on the field? I'm the tenth player behind the wall playing left out.
[00:17:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Kinda like that. What is it? Progressive commercial where the guy sits down and he's right behind the pillar?
[00:17:43] Duuude-Ron :
Oh,
[00:17:44] Bryan Goodwin:
damn. Farmers. Farmers. Yeah. Right.
[00:17:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Sit and sit. Yeah. This dude sit he finds his seat, sits down, and he's right in front of a pillar and a home run gets hit, and he just has to sit there because he can't see it. Can't see it.
[00:18:02] Rich Chelson:
But at least the seat was back far enough to where he had a little bit of leg room
[00:18:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:18:08] Rich Chelson:
I'm sure.
[00:18:10] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, but still I mean, I'm not spending however much money on a baseball ticket or a football ticket for leg room.
[00:18:18] Rich Chelson:
I ain't spending that kind of money on any sporting ticket. Them sporting tickets are freaking phenomenally expensive.
[00:18:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Well, it's like concert tickets.
[00:18:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, when I went to Saint Louis for a class, this has been about ten years ago,
[00:18:43] Duuude-Ron :
the instructor
[00:18:45] Rich Chelson:
got tickets for all the students. And, I mean, there was, oh, close to 30 students. K. So and there was two or there are back to back nights that Saint Louis was playing, I think it was Diamondbacks. And the face we were probably about 40 rows up on 1st Base. No. Maybe not that far back. It might have been 30 rows back. $289 a ticket.
[00:19:30] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's what that's what they normally cost. What did he get them for?
[00:19:34] Rich Chelson:
Because I don't know. They they something got them, but yeah. Well yeah. Or the company because we're gonna be there, you know, you know, your hand I pat your back. You pat my back. Who knows? But I was a little bit more worried about the homework than I was the game, but we went to the game. But 200 and the the face value on the ticket said $289 or something like that. I'm like, yeah. I don't think so. And then beers? And it's ten years ago. Yeah. Beers are, like, $8.
[00:20:13] Bryan Goodwin:
$8. Mhmm.
[00:20:15] Rich Chelson:
And I see oh, I have no doubt in my mind. But there was one dude that had a fucking case of 24 that he bought. So 24 times eight. Yeah.
[00:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That was right at $200.
[00:20:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:20:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because they stopped selling beer at the seventh inning.
[00:20:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, we didn't even stay till that late. I think we left, like, the fourth. Oh, shit. Doing the homework and see, this is metallurgy crap. The molecular level of metallurgy. All the calculations and so on like that. Yeah. Homework would take about four to six hours a night. Yeah. Yeah. But we went to the game, and, you know, I think we left it, like, the start of the fourth inning. And as we were going up, because there was there was four of us there that night on 1st Base, and then they had the other section that they got tickets for was on the 3rd Base line. As we were walking out, there was this grandma with her grandson. He may have been eight years old, nine years old.
And, I mean, when you went up underneath the the second tier, even though it was open, man, there was no air circulating. It was hot.
[00:21:54] Bryan Goodwin:
I bet.
[00:21:56] Rich Chelson:
And so as we're walking passing by, we just said, here you go. Those four c's down there, right down there, here's tickets for them. Man, grandma started crying. I'm like, cool. You know what? You guys enjoy the rest of the rest of the game at closer seats. Knock yourself out. You might be able to say hello to the 1st Basement. Who knows? But that is the only game, baseball game, I have ever been to live because I ain't gonna pay that kind of money for watching a sport that bores the hell out of me. Now maybe one of you two are baseball fans who would love to go see a baseball game live, knock yourself out. Me, it's boring as shit.
[00:22:49] Duuude-Ron :
I've watched quite a few Cardinals games live.
[00:22:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Well I'll watch them I'll I'll watch them in person, but television, watch them on on on the television? No. I can't. I can't do that. Just boring. It's not.
[00:23:06] Rich Chelson:
I can't do either. Football? Not gonna do either. Hockey? Not gonna do either. Basketball? Oh, hell no. No. No. Those kinds of sports are not for me. Now dirt track racing? It's a different ballgame. Yeah. If they're on, you know, like, I don't do a couple of car channels, oh, hell, yeah. I'll sit and watch sprint cars.
[00:23:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:23:40] Rich Chelson:
And and they're even better live because you can smell that fuel. Oh, yeah. When they're when they're going around that tray racetrack. Oh my god. It's one of those yeah. Let me get that $20 bills $20 bill and, you know, roll it into a straw and suck up some of that fuel. Buddy,
[00:24:04] Bryan Goodwin:
good flavored stuff right there.
[00:24:07] Rich Chelson:
You know? Yeah. So you asked me how my week was going yesterday. Was really I you know what? I I don't know why this dude did what he did, but I had this car, I mean, cut me off by, like, two tenths of a second. Almost took out the bumper, but I didn't see it coming because I wasn't looking at the mirrors at the time. And she just shot in front of me. I mean, fucking close. I didn't honk the horn, didn't do anything. And then a guy from a bug company, don't know the name of it, you know, the ones that come out and do your lawns. Right. He leaned over in his truck and looks up at me with the kind of look of you're gonna do something about that?
And I'm thinking to myself, and I looked down at him. He was looking at me, and I'm like and then I just look up and to the front of me, and I'm thinking the look on his face, you gonna do something about that? I'm like, thinking to myself, yeah. I'm gonna do something about that. Seems how my truck is governed at 65 miles an hour, and she's going well past 65 miles an hour. Yeah. Let me get out of jump out of the truck at 65 miles an hour and run up to the car and maybe what? Slap her?
[00:25:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right?
[00:25:44] Rich Chelson:
I'm like, yeah. No. I ain't gonna do shit about it. My truck can't go that damn fast. Just I was dumbfounded by that guy's facial reactions. I'm like, yeah. No. Can't do any can't do a damn thing about it. I'm doing anything. You know? And why honk the horn? She's already fucking in front of me. So I gotta let off from the gas so because she can I can get my cushion back from the camera?
[00:26:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, camera doesn't throw up a shit pit.
[00:26:25] Rich Chelson:
And then because camera doesn't have any common sense whatsoever, and then continue on my journey, and the bug guy just continued down the center lane. I'm like I'm like, you you go get them there, buttercup. You got a vehicle that can probably catch up to the car. I can't. Right. What you what you gonna do about it? Just it's it is amazing, the daily adventure of driving a truck
[00:27:03] Duuude-Ron :
on the interstate. Oh, yeah. So much so.
[00:27:07] Rich Chelson:
And especially in heavier or densely or populated places like Dallas, Austin.
[00:27:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[00:27:15] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Those are just such an adventure. So that was my day yesterday. Today was just babbling.
[00:27:29] Bryan Goodwin:
It was just babbling. Nothing big.
[00:27:32] Rich Chelson:
No big deal. It's just traveling. Well, I got to drive in the rain all day long. So
[00:27:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, y'all get a lot of rain today?
[00:27:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[00:27:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Has that system hit you guys yet? Yeah. Yeah. It's been it's been raining here, but I was I figured it was actually coming more from the West than it was from from the South. So that's why I was kinda like, oh, hell. Okay.
[00:27:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That system came from the, hurricane that was out on the Pacific.
[00:27:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay. Well, good. Because we've been needing some more rain.
[00:28:05] Rich Chelson:
We definitely do because there was a snippet on the radio. As I'm driving, I just fucking had to laugh at it. It's like because when the commercial was made, we were at a very high drought warning. You know, burn bans in effect for freaking 90% of the state, and I'm sure there still is because we didn't get a lot of rain out of this, but we got some rain. So I'm sure the ban ban or or the burn bans are still in effect, and they're talking about for people that are going to deep fry their turkey to be extra cautious because of the burn bans. I'm like, wow.
Yep. Wow. Are you kidding me?
[00:28:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Nope. Nope. People people are famous for for starting grease fires because they don't know how to
[00:29:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because some of them fucking put a goddamn frozen turkey into the goddamn hot oil. There's a fucking genius for you right there. Let it cook it and a thaw it all at the same time. Doesn't quite work that way. And, see, I'm not gonna deep fry a turkey because where the hell are you gonna put the gizzard stuffing at if it's not in the fucking belly of the turkey?
[00:29:34] Duuude-Ron :
Who says you can't cook it inside the belly of a turkey?
[00:29:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, I can in the oven, but, you know, how well would that work with in the oil bath or the oil sauna for the turkey?
[00:29:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You would probably have to do that separate on the stove.
[00:29:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So, you know, I'm not gonna deep fry turkey because, you know, that stuffing tastes real good, you know, when it comes out of the bird. Even though there's plenty left over, you can only stuff so much inside the bird. Right. So we shall see come Thanksgiving time frame.
[00:30:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Also, the problem is a lot of people will go off when they try to try to deep fry their their turkey. The bird's still freaking frozen.
[00:30:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You can't defile it
[00:30:26] Bryan Goodwin:
and cook it at the same time in an oil bath. Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay. Okay. I see what you're saying now. Oh, yeah. Actually, you can, but, it gets really lively.
[00:30:38] Duuude-Ron :
You actually pull the turkey out and let it thaw just a little bit and then pull the neck and the gizzards and all that out. And then, yes, the rest of it, even still frozen, you can
[00:30:51] Bryan Goodwin:
deep fry it. And Yeah. But you're gonna again, you're gonna still have your you're gonna have your your the reason why the the oil gets all bubble extra lively and stuff is because the, because of the moisture that's that's frozen in the turkey.
[00:31:07] Duuude-Ron :
I know this. I've I've I I have done this before, and it takes two handles or two people with handles, one on each side, and you slowly let it in. And, yes, the bubbles get lively. The oil gets lively, but it doesn't splash all over it unless if you go slow. If you go fast, then, yeah, you're screwed. You're going to constantly
[00:31:31] Bryan Goodwin:
not have Thanksgiving.
[00:31:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You're going the shit's gonna fucking explode.
[00:31:37] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But if you go slow and set it in, in about forty five minutes, you're gonna have a done turkey. But if you want to inject it or anything, then you have to let it thaw just for a couple hours at least so you can get the needle in there and then inject your stuff, you know, under the skin all all around the bird, then deep fry it.
[00:32:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Or or take a turkey out of the freezer a week before turkey before Thanksgiving. Yeah. We were good. It'd be ready, and it's it's it'll and it'll cook beautifully. Yes. It will. Hell, you could even do a brine. If you wanted to brine your turkey, you could do it then.
[00:32:21] Duuude-Ron :
Most turkeys come pre brined.
[00:32:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Now you brine it. No. Well, I ain't doing none of that fucking shit. That's too much work, guys.
[00:32:31] Rich Chelson:
Too much fucking work.
[00:32:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Yes. Yeah. I don't mind the hard work. I mean, heck, I I like to make make jambalaya by by scratch from scratch. So
[00:32:45] Duuude-Ron :
that's a that's a good bit of
[00:32:49] Bryan Goodwin:
a that's a good bit of work because that's usually about about three hours of of cutting and prepping and all that. So by the time you get done, it's, you know, it's easy. Once you're once you're actually doing the process of cooking it, it's it's easy. It's just the prepping is what takes so long.
[00:33:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I believe you. Am I gonna make any jambalaya? Nope. But you'll eat mine.
[00:33:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I don't know.
[00:33:17] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah. Just tell me when I need to be there, you know, and I'm good. Oh, I'll I'll let you know. Fact, I will be fifteen minutes late. You put it into the bowl to let it cool off a little bit. And then I'll knock on the door and say, okay. Where's my jumping light at? Where is it? As soon as, like Try here. And then as soon as I get done leaving, I'll say thank you and leave.
[00:33:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. Alright. No. No. We're not sitting around talking. No. We ain't doing no chitchat.
[00:33:48] Rich Chelson:
No talking.
[00:33:50] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm just here for the food.
[00:33:52] Rich Chelson:
That's right. Just here for food. Oh, I'm so fucking rude, but that's me.
[00:34:02] Duuude-Ron :
That's alright. Now
[00:34:06] Bryan Goodwin:
what else is happening in y'all's world? Not too much. Not too much? So what did what was happening yesterday? Missed y'all at the at the vet call.
[00:34:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh. Oh, yeah. No. My ass was in bed at fucking 08:30.
[00:34:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh.
[00:34:26] Rich Chelson:
04:00 comes awfully fucking early. Damn it. Oh, literally. I get you. Yes. It does. Yes. It does. Comes awfully damn early. It comes way too damn early. No shit. Especially when I can at least saw down another fucking tree. Yeah. Make them into lawn. Yeah. Got got,
[00:34:45] Bryan Goodwin:
got all but the three biggest ones. At least top cut the tops off of them. I've got, so I'm slowly getting getting the the tree stuff taken care of, by the way. So but, going I went ahead and, all I'm gonna do is when I get next week or next time I'm off, when I head over and I'm gonna I've gotta get a a, a better saw because mine's just mine's puking itself to to death. So it was just it it wasn't it wasn't doing the doing the job anymore, so I gotta grab a new one and gonna get, get everything cut down down as close to the ground as I can.
And then I'm gonna take a spade bit, and I'm gonna drill a big old hole, and then I've got some got some round up. Wanna wanna understand that that does a pretty good job when you when you get it into the the middle of the tree. So so hope I hope I hope I hope I.
[00:35:46] Rich Chelson:
Or better yet, when your neighbor gets a stump grinder from, I think it was Lowe's. And I said, hey. Can I can I borrow it? He's like, yeah. You could borrow
[00:36:02] Bryan Goodwin:
it. Yeah. The only problem I have is I have Yeah. I'm always paying $250
[00:36:07] Rich Chelson:
for two hours for this thing. I'm like, okay. Can I borrow it?
[00:36:12] Bryan Goodwin:
So you mind if I borrow it?
[00:36:16] Rich Chelson:
And I got two stumps down that needed to come down. Thank goodness. Yeah. Yep. And they ain't getting no growth out of them son bitches because I went, like, about, oh, probably six inches into the ground.
[00:36:30] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[00:36:32] Rich Chelson:
But, you know, I offered him, you know, hey. I'll what do you want what do you want me to give you for, you know, my usage of your rental? Yeah. He's like, yeah. Don't worry about it. I'm like, okay. You sure?
[00:36:49] Bryan Goodwin:
You pass it up, my man.
[00:36:52] Rich Chelson:
But that's okay. He's got, well, he ain't he ain't rich by any stretch of the word, but he's a lot more well off than I am. Alright. So but he's he's the one that got me that duck for my Jeep.
[00:37:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[00:37:13] Duuude-Ron :
That you still don't have on your Jeep?
[00:37:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Fuck you, Rich. How about that? Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. It will. By the time next visit rolls around, it'll be on the fucking cheap.
[00:37:30] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Let's see. Yep. I hope so. I mean, I'd like to see it out close and in person.
[00:37:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, it will next trip,
[00:37:41] Duuude-Ron :
it will be on the Jeep. Okay.
[00:37:45] Rich Chelson:
I just gotta have I just have to figure out a way to fucking get it glued get the bolt glued into the duct and make sure that it's gonna freaking it isn't gonna spin, so I might have to drill a couple smaller holes or smaller bolts. You know, just so it's it doesn't spin around like a, you know, a dancer on a on a pole.
[00:38:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:38:14] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, you could use JB Weld or grill a glue, and that would hold.
[00:38:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Probably gonna get some epoxy. But, yeah, once it sets and I don't know how freaking hollowed or how much the duct how hollow it is, but we'll find out.
[00:38:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:38:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. On the epoxy, you'd you know, once the guy gets once it gets into the the threads, yeah, it'd probably
[00:38:42] Bryan Goodwin:
hold that bolt pretty tight. Oh, yeah. It'll hold it real tight.
[00:38:46] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that and Loctite would do the same thing.
[00:38:49] Rich Chelson:
Well, possibly. But I will have it on the Jeep the next time I come to visit. Okay. And it'll be and it will be the only Jeep or the only duck that you will see on my Jeep, well, from the outside. Because I got a couple now I got a few special ducks that I have up in my molly bar where I put my radio at. Yeah. You know, just sitting there on the inside of that that molly bar, but you can't but you can't see them unless you're inside the Jeep. Right. On the driver's side. So, no, I'm still not a duck person except for those those select few that now I might double tape them to the bottom of the moly bar, you know, to where you can see them, but still, you ain't gonna be able to see them. They they ain't gonna be on the damn dash.
Right. I'll still I'll still reduck another Jeep if I get one. And one of these days, I'll get rid of all those ducks that we got at Jeep Jamboree or whatever it was called, Jeep in the Coast. Yeah. I'll get all those damn things handed out one day. We got an event coming up Saturday, so I'd probably be able to get rid of about 20 of them. Right. That'd be cool. That'd be cool.
[00:40:16] Duuude-Ron :
And that'll leave you about, what, another 30 more?
[00:40:20] Rich Chelson:
No. No. I'd I don't have that many anymore because I have taken a handful of them out of the backpack and had them, and I've reduct. So I got about probably maybe 30 left.
[00:40:37] Duuude-Ron :
So you're running low. You need me to send what I have. Yeah. Yeah. Send some more.
[00:40:43] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. No. No. Need more ducks.
[00:40:45] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, that's good. I'll have a load. I can mail it to you, and you wouldn't even know about it.
[00:40:51] Rich Chelson:
Yes. I know, Rich. And then, see, this is where you need to get out and reduct the ducks because we know that you they you ain't gonna put them on your dash either.
[00:41:05] Duuude-Ron :
No. I'm I'm using mine as Christmas presents. The kids are gonna love the shit out of it. Brit's gonna hate me, but I don't give two shits.
[00:41:16] Rich Chelson:
There you go. I'm with you on that one. But,
[00:41:21] Duuude-Ron :
you know, that's only, what, two or three each? And I'm still I'm still gonna have probably oh god. With what I got in my console plus what I got in those bags still in the dining room.
[00:41:35] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[00:41:36] Duuude-Ron :
I've got probably another 30 or so myself.
[00:41:40] Rich Chelson:
Well, get get get to handing them out there, stud.
[00:41:45] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, I just don't think about it.
[00:41:48] Rich Chelson:
Neither do I.
[00:41:49] Duuude-Ron :
Honestly.
[00:41:51] Rich Chelson:
You're I don't either. And they will and once and when I do remember and grab a handful and put them up in the center of my console where the, you know, the other bar is that I had my radio on and, you know, but, again, just like you, forget every time I freaking head out.
[00:42:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I do. I mean, I I just yeah. That's just what I do. I forget. I will say, though, I have achieved a new standard in AM radio contest for my Oh, yeah? Yep. Because this last weekend, I had a contest.
[00:42:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:42:38] Duuude-Ron :
325 contacts.
[00:42:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright.
[00:42:42] Duuude-Ron :
At one point, I ran over 60 contacts in an hour. So, yeah, that was that was insane.
[00:42:55] Rich Chelson:
Because I call sign, my call sign, your call sign, my call sign. Okay. Next.
[00:43:00] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. You see, on on this one here, we had to give a little more information. We had to say our our our call sign, our precedence, which is were we low power, high power, single, whatever. You know, they had a a single letter designation for each class. And then you had to say that. You had to say your call sign again, and then you had to say the year the last two numbers of the year you were licensed, and then you had to say your state. You know, like, for me, Mississippi is MS. So, I mean, that but
[00:43:42] Rich Chelson:
at a moment USA.
[00:43:45] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. You don't have to say USA. Uh-huh. Just just the state. But, yeah, I ran 325 contacts and my best ever before. And one thing I did different on this is I found an open frequency. Kinda surprised me, but I found an open frequency and I parked my butt there. And I Right. And and I started calling CQ. Well, apparently, someone had spotted my call sign on the Spotty network, and that's how I was running a pileup trying to make, you know, all these contacts, and that's where it that's where I made these 60 contacts in an hour.
[00:44:30] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because your name because your name was on that one particular site?
[00:44:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and it was my state mainly is because most people don't get Mississippi in their log for you know, during contest.
[00:44:45] Rich Chelson:
What why is that?
[00:44:47] Duuude-Ron :
Because I don't think there's many Mississippi hams that do contests.
[00:44:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:44:55] Duuude-Ron :
So so when when they found out that, oh, shit. Someone from from Mississippi is on is is, you know, parked on this frequency, I mean, oh my god. I mean, it was a freaking it was crazy. It was a pileup.
[00:45:12] Rich Chelson:
And there was 60 people 60 people that completed their ham bucket list.
[00:45:20] Duuude-Ron :
I would think so. I would like to think so. I don't know, but probably yeah.
[00:45:25] Rich Chelson:
So I'd look at it like that.
[00:45:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, no. And that's I mean, yeah. No. Hell, yeah. That's but, yeah, it's just, yeah, it was it was it was crazy. And for some reason, after that solar storm, the band was just singing. The bands all the bands were singing. I mean but, yeah, I had never made the highest contact count I had ever had in a contest was 188. And this time, I had 325.
[00:45:58] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[00:46:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Big jump. So
[00:46:03] Rich Chelson:
and then Was this the was this the the big November, whatever it was called Yes. Contest?
[00:46:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yes.
[00:46:13] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[00:46:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. This was the big November sweeps contest. Now now the one coming up next month, this one's even bigger, and and this one's all on one band. It's it's it's see, it's on the 10 meter band. So And you see, the one last weekend was only thirty hours long. The one in December will be forty eight hours. So
[00:46:40] Bryan Goodwin:
so, yeah, that'll be another big one. So how do these guy how do some of these guys if you've gotten you were kicking butt with the 300 knot 300 whatever contacts. How do some of these people get, like, a 4,000, 5,000 contacts?
[00:46:56] Duuude-Ron :
They call constantly. Seriously, they call constantly.
[00:47:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And they're for forty eight hours, they got their meals right there. They probably got a makeshift toilet right next to them.
[00:47:10] Duuude-Ron :
No. I mean I mean, they do well, some of these people, some of the single operator hands, you know, I mean I mean, you do have to take breaks. You I mean, you you like in trucking, you have to log, you know, at least thirty minute break. You know? Oh, shit. Oh, really? Really? Yeah. On on on a lot of them. Some of them, no. You you can run the hold from the time it starts till the time it ends. But, I mean but then you have the multi multi stations, which has multiple transmitters, and they might have five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten people and or more. And then they just All work as a company. Every so often. So so, I mean, I mean, there are some people that that when it's contest season from the time it starts till the time it ends, about the most thing they would do is go to the bathroom, ask the friend to grab something a quick that's quick. They don't cook nothing, and they make sure there's a coffee pot or their drinks right there. And they just they just call and and and this is how they can get two, three, four, and five thousand contacts.
So yeah. But, yeah, for me, for just a single operator, one one radio, and I'm not sure. I mean, I took well, I slept, and I took breaks and stuff like that.
[00:48:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I know you would have to because you can't sit still for very long without
[00:48:43] Duuude-Ron :
starting to get into some pain. So Yeah. Yeah. No. It's so yeah. I but I was still averaging, which is which this here is another high for me. I was averaging 15 to 20 contacts per hour.
[00:48:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[00:48:59] Duuude-Ron :
And and I I didn't run the whole contest. Like I said, I slept and took breaks and, you know, stuff like that. But, I mean, I was I was still able to keep my average job because before, I would run only, like, 10 to 11 contacts an hour. So 15 to 20 is pretty good.
[00:49:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:49:19] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it was it was it was a lot of fun because there was there was four hands from Canada when they found out that I was parked on a frequency. I nailed, like, those four contacts back to back.
[00:49:33] Rich Chelson:
That's cool.
[00:49:35] Duuude-Ron :
They don't they don't normally hear me. You know? They don't hear Mississippi, so that's why they were jumping on. So and I got I got shit. I got four stations in Hawaii. Nice. Yeah. Just boom right off the bat. I I didn't I got every state except Alabama, Louisiana, Nevada, and Alaska. Those are the only four states I was missing in The US.
[00:50:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Ah, well Mhmm.
[00:50:07] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I I yeah. I mean, it was it was it was actually pretty good, so I was wore out, though.
[00:50:16] Bryan Goodwin:
I bet.
[00:50:18] Duuude-Ron :
Come Sunday evening, I was I was wore out. In fact, I think I stopped probably about 06:00. I said no more because, I say I still had to edit the podcast and get it up and running. So so I just took a break and just chilled out for a little bit and then did the podcast, got it edited. K. So
[00:50:42] Rich Chelson:
but yeah. Well, you know what? You made, you know, your two a couple of your bucket list.
[00:50:50] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[00:50:51] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I'm getting almost every state. You know, too bad you didn't get every state. And then, you know, this is the most context that you have made in any given one contest.
[00:51:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. No. No. Yeah. I mean, it was it was good for me as well. You know? I was I was I was floored. And that's the thing. When I was running the pileup, I mean, I was just looking right at the log screen. I wasn't looking at you know, because the the other window that I have open records my count and lets me know how many contacts I've made in an hour, how many contacts I've made in the last ten minutes and stuff. K. I was running so fast. I didn't even have time to even glance up and look. Because as soon as I got done typing that information, said thank you 73.
I said QRZed. Wham. That freaking sounded like, you know, a herd of cats meowing at the same time.
[00:52:01] Rich Chelson:
Everybody tried to, you know, claw their way in. Right. Right.
[00:52:08] Duuude-Ron :
So yeah. No. It was it was it was fun, though. I enjoyed it. It was it was fun. And and finally and and what was funny, it just died. It it it all of a sudden, it popped up, and I ran hard for a solid freaking hour. Well, actually, it was an hour and, like, five or six minutes, and then it died. That's it. And I'm like, I just I just let the mic go push back from the from the table. I'm taking a break. I'm not calling CQ anymore. I'm not calling QRZ. No. I'm just hushing right now. And I just What's QRZed? QRZed is a, is a, Morse code abbreviation for who is calling me.
[00:52:56] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:52:57] Duuude-Ron :
So it's just when you're doing Morse code, sending QRZed is a whole lot easier than trying to do each letter of who is calling me. Oh. We just say, Curezet. And that's that's mainly a Morse code, but, I mean, I'll Afternoon. Voice side.
[00:53:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:53:20] Duuude-Ron :
We've just stole it and used it ourselves on the voice side because it's faster. Because in a contest, it's it's it's all about speed. Yep. Right. You know? So that's why we're just like, boom. There it is. So
[00:53:37] Rich Chelson:
So do you have blisters at the tips of your fingers from No. No. From you bring all that information?
[00:53:44] Duuude-Ron :
No. Believe it or not, I I was I was actually kinda surprised, but no. I mean, honestly, I mean, yes, I know I was hitting the keys, but I don't think I felt them.
[00:53:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:53:56] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it just because, I mean, when I'm going, it's just I I get in the zone, and I don't think. I know where the keys are at on the keyboard. Sometimes it's you know, sometimes I get stupid finger syndrome.
[00:54:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:54:13] Duuude-Ron :
But, you know, other times, it's just I know where the keys are at. And as soon as I hear the call, I can I can just reach down and just hit them and then tab, put any other information I need, and then come out? Thank you. Have fun. See you later. Bye. Now now the one coming up in December, that's gonna be easier, and I'll probably be able to make a whole lot more contacts because I wanna say 59 That's all the information I'm given. And then 59 Mhmm.
[00:54:50] Rich Chelson:
And
[00:54:51] Duuude-Ron :
and if I'm talking to a ham here in The States, they'll say 59, let's say, Tennessee. Okay? Soon as they say that, boom. We're gone. See you later. Bye. Now if now since I say this this next one's a big one, is what the whole world's gonna be in on this one. Europe, all these other countries, everything. And and if I work them, I'll still say 59Mississippi, and they'll say 59 number 235 or number 2 or whatever. They have to give me a serial number. I get my my state.
[00:55:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:55:33] Duuude-Ron :
So yeah.
[00:55:34] Bryan Goodwin:
But because we're America. We we we don't have to go off in those darn serial numbers.
[00:55:40] Duuude-Ron :
No. We've we've got a few contests at where we do run serial numbers. Oh, well.
[00:55:46] Rich Chelson:
But And the serial the serial number is your license, your radio.
[00:55:52] Duuude-Ron :
Nope. Nope. Nope. Okay. Starts at number one and goes till you stop.
[00:56:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh?
[00:56:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking.
[00:56:05] Bryan Goodwin:
How? It's simple. You count from one. Can you count So the first contact to your serial number is 1. Yep. The seventeenth, contact to serial number 17.
[00:56:16] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Oh, gotcha.
[00:56:18] Duuude-Ron :
If it's number 562, it's 562. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, those those are actually the easier contest, but this next one, it, you know, won't be that bad because I don't need this whole long string of information.
[00:56:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:56:39] Duuude-Ron :
But, I mean, it was still fun. I enjoyed it.
[00:56:42] Rich Chelson:
Well, good. I'm glad you're having such fun on
[00:56:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Talking to your radio buddies.
[00:56:49] Rich Chelson:
No. On on frequency ten or whatever it is.
[00:56:53] Duuude-Ron :
No. Well well, on this last one. Frequency ten. You're funny, dude.
[00:57:00] Rich Chelson:
Whatever it is.
[00:57:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, on this on on the November sweeps, I could run any band from a 160 meters down to 10 meters.
[00:57:12] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Yeah. Okay.
[00:57:14] Duuude-Ron :
And and so I was down on ten, fifteen, twenty, forty, 80. I didn't try one sixty because my antenna doesn't like one sixty. So but now the one in December, that is strictly 10 meters.
[00:57:29] Bryan Goodwin:
So The rich which frequency is is like the funny channel on on a CB radio?
[00:57:37] Duuude-Ron :
We don't have one.
[00:57:38] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't have one where everybody's just fucking annoying.
[00:57:42] Duuude-Ron :
Well, there's one. Yeah. There's there's seven dot two hundred on the 40 meter band, but those guys are are are assholes. They're mean. Seriously, if if if if you try and jump in and join a conversation, if if they don't like you or whatnot or or if they're having a bad day, they will tell you to fuck off and leave.
[00:58:08] Bryan Goodwin:
So so is the total room for the for the ham radios?
[00:58:12] Duuude-Ron :
Pretty pretty much. Pretty much. Yes. I mean, that's I mean, I I don't I don't even stop on 7200. 7205 is normally okay. They're still the old fuckers that sit there and bitch about how how they never should've removed the the code requirement on the license. They just bitch about fucking everything.
[00:58:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:58:38] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And it's like, shut the fuck up, guys.
[00:58:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Get off my lawn. My frequence frequent well, how would you say that? Freaking the lawn. Yeah.
[00:58:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, yeah. There you go.
[00:58:52] Duuude-Ron :
And then I mean double lawn. I mean, it is it is their right when they're on that frequency. It is it is their right to talk about anything they want.
[00:59:01] Rich Chelson:
You know? And that's why And you know what? If you get that small group of guys that just wanna bitch at at each other, to each other, whatever, and they're enjoying it, hey. You do you, boo.
[00:59:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Exactly. You do you, boo. You know? But sometimes it's just after a while, after hearing it for so long, it just it's just annoying. Fucking really.
[00:59:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, that's that's why you that's why I never listened to to that's why I never turned the damn radio on anyhow, but especially, you know, on channel nineteen.
[00:59:39] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:59:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Because it's just good god, man. Yeah. You're talking about shit nobody cares about.
[00:59:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It exactly. This is what this is what these two frequencies 7200 is the main one. And and anybody who's been a ham for for any length of time, you know, they've been told multiple times just they would just Zoom. I don't pass that frequency. They don't wanna talk to you. You're not gonna talk to them. You know? So it's just when I come up to that frequency, I just keep going. And then, you know, I'll go down to, like, 195 or, you know, down to 175, which is my bandage. Right. Find someone down there to talk to. So, yeah, I just I just I just roll away.
[01:00:30] Rich Chelson:
You know, and and it's you know, I got a radio in this new truck. I got I just turned 66,000 miles on this Freightliner, and I have yet to hook up the hand mic in the radio that's been there since we got the truck. Right. Right. I look at it every day. Think, you know what? I should hook up that hand mic and
[01:00:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But knowing you're right, if you even look at that hand mic too long, you're gonna get too deep distracted. Right.
[01:01:06] Rich Chelson:
You know, and I don't know what our AI parameters are. Nobody can tell us in my company, not even a safety department can tell me what our AI is what's the parameters on the AI of what their this particular company is looking for. Yeah. But when I get a good song come on, yeah, I'll turn the radio up to 20. I think it goes only I think it only goes up to 28, but I'll hit it I'll hit a twenty, twenty one, listen to the song, turn it back down. You know, it will the system ever, you know, deduct me or point me, like, three points because the music is too loud? Yeah. Who fucking knows?
[01:01:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I don't know how your sensitive yours is set because mine, I fucked around with it enough that I know how to set it off and have fun setting it off. Because what it does is it pays attention because, basically, it puts you puts your head in a box. So as you're moving, it's got a vertical axis, a horizontal axis, and so it could tell because of because of that box what you're looking at. And so if your head is turned to the same place your hand looks like it's going to Mhmm. It'll actually ring off a distract. Yes. And so I've actually had fun putting my hand on the dash, tilting my head so that my nose is pointing at my hand and driving your They just and you're and you're so distracted.
Distracted. Wow. Yep. Just got a do you know me?
[01:02:58] Rich Chelson:
Yes. And I have yet to hear, and the volume on ours is very low. But it'll tell me what's the most common one.
[01:03:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Or she been more likely.
[01:03:11] Rich Chelson:
No. Please stay in your lane. Because if you're too close to the lines, it'll tell me that I am, you know, out of my lane. Yeah. And, I mean, the the system will pick up not only the the painted lines, but it'll pick up the scars in the road and tell me that I'm out of my lane. I'm like,
[01:03:37] Bryan Goodwin:
nope. Still in the center of my lane. Just like the road. There's a there's a Facebook video running around right now that I've seen a couple three times where it's Sam's here is the greatest thing for truckers, and that you're distracted. It's like, I'm walking out the road. Lane departure. I'm in my same lane. Right? Right? And and he keeps making comments to whatever the whatever the, machine, the AI is saying. I was like, well, why don't you tell you got somebody to talk to?
[01:04:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh, that's true. Yeah. I'll tell I'll tell that voice is like he's like, no. It's like it says mind your lane. Mind your lane. Actually said yeah. Please mind your lane. Yes. And I've gone back right after she says that and says, yeah. Mind your own damn business. And all that shit gets recorded.
[01:04:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm. Oh, yeah. Oh, I bet you I bet you safety just has a heyday with all my conversations with them. Because there's a lot of times just tingling, distractions. Like, yeah. I'm a fucking hitting the goddamn radio button, asshole. Yes.
[01:04:53] Rich Chelson:
Well, and there's and there's stuff that the system, it says, but it doesn't get sent forward to Right. My boss or the safety department. But if it gets sent to my boss, it gets sent to the safety department, the vice president, the president. Yep. And there's so many people within that freaking chain that gets this message.
[01:05:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[01:05:22] Rich Chelson:
So but the four drivers or the shuttle drivers, we all got and I was shocked as holy hell. Every single one of us got a Linux certificate because that's the company that does our cameras is Linux.
[01:05:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[01:05:42] Rich Chelson:
And did not have any recordable incidences in the third quarter. There you go. And all the drivers got that, which fucking shocked the hell out of me.
[01:05:56] Duuude-Ron :
I see.
[01:05:58] Rich Chelson:
You know, especially for one driver, I was extremely shocked. But that's okay. We all got certificates.
[01:06:06] Bryan Goodwin:
I got a pat on the back.
[01:06:08] Rich Chelson:
That's about it. And my and we were in a safety meeting, so which is half of the plant because the maintenance does theirs in the afternoon. Everybody else does ours in the morning with the drivers Right. All that. And my boss says, now you can frame them. You can crumble them up and throw them away. Hell, you can even use them as toilet papers. I don't care what you do. Just know that you received it. And, you know, and he and he know and he knows that everybody was thinking the same thing. Why the fuck did you waste paper? You coulda just said that. Good job, guys. Good job.
You didn't have any recordable incidences for the entire quarter. Didn't have to didn't have to waste the damn paper.
[01:07:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But some people kinda like to have a certificate. You know? You got a little award, you know, with a gold star. You're you know, kinda feel a little better about yourself.
[01:07:15] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I have a whole great big what? Three one inch binders of my Attaboys for the military. Military. Yeah. They're all stuffed in a bag up under the bed, and that's where they've been at for since I've been out of the military.
[01:07:39] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. But, see, that's you. Someone else like Brian was saying, I mean, that could make someone else's day.
[01:07:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Someone's got a whole wall just dedicated all their their attaboys, good jobs, and and and keep it all keep keep on keeping odds. You know? They've got their There's
[01:07:59] Rich Chelson:
there are Shadow boxes for shadow box. Yep. That's the only thing I have hanging on the wall is the shadow box of my uniform and my coins is in there as well. And it's not a shadow box of my uniform. It's just the ribbons, the freaking the coins and all that other stuff that came off my uniform Yeah. Placed where they're at on my uniform. That's the only thing that I got hanging on the fucking wall. Yeah. However, I know a lot of retirees, they have several rooms with their metals and the all their stuff that are up on the wall, and we'll have several rooms with all the walls filled with their military
[01:08:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Accomplishments. Yeah. Accomplishments
[01:08:55] Rich Chelson:
and accolades.
[01:08:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. All them letters of accommodations and whatever else you wanna add to it.
[01:09:03] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Let's see. I got 12 army achievement medals. I got 10 ARCOMS and two MSMs, plus all my other country awards. But you know what? The most the one ribbon that I have on there that means more to me than anything
[01:09:30] Duuude-Ron :
is the mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer
[01:09:35] Rich Chelson:
mer mer mer mer mer that's the one that means the most to me because the director of the Fort Hood Habitat for Humanity was the one that put me in for the ward because he was retired sergeant major, so he knows all that stuff. And he was the one that submitted the award in to my unit for my volunteer service with Habitat. That's that's the one ribbon out of fuck. I don't even know. 15 ribbons that I have, that's the one that means the most to me.
[01:10:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I can see that. Because those are when you actually have someone that you know who's actually going through doing a, I appreciate everything you've done. That's those are the ones that actually ring home. The ones that where it's just kind of a hollow on it. Everybody here has done a really good job. You know? Good job. Alright. You all gonna get a get a ribbon? There you go. Alright. Have a good day. Hey. Alright. That makes that make it all that, all that special.
[01:10:48] Rich Chelson:
Yep. That is true. And I got another one. Well and I didn't you can't double up on the meritorious volunteer service ribbons. I don't think there's like like you can with an AAM, an ARCOM, an MSM. Good what what the hell is that? Rich, what's the one you get every three years? Good Conduct Medal. Yeah. Good Conduct. Yeah. Where you can stack the leaves onto the medal for it tells you how many you got.
[01:11:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. Yeah.
[01:11:24] Rich Chelson:
But the outstanding volunteer service ribbon doesn't have that. So and the other one that I did was the volunteer work that I did for my church when oh, this was I don't even remember what hurricane it was that hit North Carolina back in '80 damn. Like, '86, '80 no. '96, I think it was. It wasn't Katrina, but I don't know what hurricane it was. But, you know, there was a lot of uprooted trees and so on like that. And our church had a, you know, relatively large piece of plot, and we had a couple of, you know, big trees come down. So I helped to volunteer get those down and but if you did any volunteer for that, you know, you got put in for the volunteer service ribbon.
Okay. So that one that one doesn't mean as nearly as much to me as the one for Habitat because the director wrote up the award and submitted it into my unit.
[01:12:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay. I see. Yeah.
[01:12:47] Rich Chelson:
And I think I was the only one that he had ever done that for. So that one means a lot more to me. But, yes, no. I don't display any of my shit whatsoever.
[01:12:58] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. Only indicator that you that I've got that I was in the navy is I've got I've got still got my pea coat hanging up in the closet, and my sea bag is just watered up in the closet. And yeah. Yeah. That's that's about the extent of it.
[01:13:17] Rich Chelson:
The sea bag meaning duffel bag
[01:13:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. Your big Oh. Your big green tube tube looking, you know, the bag looking backpack, you know, thing.
[01:13:29] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I gave that mine as well as, I don't know, how many uniforms to a homeless guy so he could have some clothes. Even though they were fatigues, you know, he was he was very thankful.
[01:13:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yeah. There's only a couple things that I've out of the out of my, original, pack that I really kinda wish I'd held on to. I mean, that's just they've it's just disappeared to to the sands of time, but one is my watch app. It's just one of those where it's a it's called a watch caps, the black knitted stocking cap. Okay. You know, a beanie. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. So it's navy blue. It's black, but they call it navy blue stocking cap. And, those things were freaking nice. Flap it on your head, fold it up. And I mean, it made you feel like you were like, old Burgess Meredith's character from from Rocky because he had one. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[01:14:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't remember his name.
[01:14:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Mickey, I think. Uh-huh. Mick, no.
[01:14:38] Rich Chelson:
It might have been. But, yeah, I know it's Mickey, but,
[01:14:42] Bryan Goodwin:
yeah, I've always well, I always wanted to get, at least go to a army navy store and at least pick up another one. I'm sure they're probably well, I would think that they're now about 50¢ a piece, but I'm sure with inflation and everything, they're probably $25 a piece now. So
[01:14:57] Rich Chelson:
Easily, I'm sure.
[01:15:00] Duuude-Ron :
All I know is the Army Navy store here in Pascagoula. You you better have your own mint when you go in there.
[01:15:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to have that. And and there's a and the original book that they give you, they're supposed to have all the teach you how to tell you how to do everything. So if you ever wanted to know how you're supposed to, you know, fold the clothes or whatever and you forgot how, it's called the Blue Jackets manual. And I lost that one, you know, probably, oh, about a year after year after I got out of the out of the navy. I was because I was looking for it, and I could not find it to save my life. So
[01:15:38] Rich Chelson:
I think I threw mine I think I threw mine out, went in route to go into airborne school after AIT. But I'm I know the type of book that you're talking about because it gives you all the rank the rank structure with the colors,
[01:15:56] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, all that good shit. Yeah. How do you fold your towels? How do you fold your shirts? How do you fold your socks? How do you fold your underwear? How do you fold your pea coat? How do you fold everything? How what what what goes in first as opposed to last into your c bag. I mean, they tell they tell you everything. Okay. Beautiful. Beautiful brook. A wonderful brook. Just told you everything. And, yeah, I've just pissed me off after I lost that. And I've again, I'm sure I could probably find it quite easily if I went over to, over to an army navy store. I bet you you probably also find it over at, over on Amazon. I just hadn't even thought of looking over there until just now. I was gonna say
[01:16:38] Duuude-Ron :
you could probably get a paperback copy on on Amazon. Oh, yeah. It's a paperback. It's You'd shit if they had a hardcover. You'd be like, oh, I'll Hey. Hardware. Hardware. And and initialed I want it special. You know? Make a story that your drill sergeant had it special ordered for you. Yeah. Or, No one's gonna believe you, but, you know, you know, whatever you you do goo, boo.
[01:17:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yeah. I'd also like to to go off and and just search around and see if I could ever find a, a copy of the Kitty Hawk cruise book from whenever I went on the Westpac. So, basically, the the the, navy would create it's it's a yearbook, except they were fucking expensive yearbooks. But it it it was it was bound. It looked like a fucking yearbook, except instead of classes, they had the different divisions. And so it was it was it was always kinda cool, but, yeah, whenever I was, when I was in the navy, they were offering around. It was, like, a 150, $200 for a for a cruise book. I was like, yeah.
No. Thank you, dude. I I can't afford that.
[01:17:51] Rich Chelson:
Oh, $200?
[01:17:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Ew. They're fucking expensive. Yeah. Gosh. I'd have to ask Scott. Scott bought one. So
[01:18:01] Rich Chelson:
Well, maybe maybe he will photocopy it
[01:18:04] Bryan Goodwin:
and I'm sure there's a copy of it on online. You can buy or not buy. You can go on and and actually look at it.
[01:18:11] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[01:18:13] Bryan Goodwin:
I would like to have a physical copy of it.
[01:18:15] Duuude-Ron :
Well, if that book has an ISBN number, you could probably find it on Amazon. Yeah. Probably.
[01:18:22] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't know if it does or not.
[01:18:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't know if it does either.
[01:18:26] Bryan Goodwin:
So I've never even looked to see if it had an ISBN.
[01:18:31] Duuude-Ron :
Usually, just about no. I'm not sure with the military, but but just about any book ever printed since, like, a hundred years ago had or maybe not that far back, but the last, you know, sixty, seventy years Yeah. Is a ASBN number.
[01:18:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And, you know, we definitely show our age when, you know I graduated in 1986.
[01:18:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright.
[01:18:58] Rich Chelson:
You know, back in the days where you had that fucking 30 pound radio that took 12 d sized batteries batteries. Yeah. That may last you a fucking week or something. Yeah. Yeah. And carrying that motherfucker on your shoulder, and you were cool. Yep. We were some dumb motherfuckers.
[01:19:20] Bryan Goodwin:
We had strong shoulders, though.
[01:19:22] Rich Chelson:
Yes. We did.
[01:19:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Well and we had a lot stronger fucking skin as well. Well, yeah, we all that most of that was just because we got slung off off of merry-go-rounds and witch hats and and monkey swings and everything else. Some of us fell out of trees.
[01:19:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And you know what? Did you die?
[01:19:44] Bryan Goodwin:
No. And that was the important part. Because if you die, your parents would kill you.
[01:19:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. If you died, your parents would kill you. You're gonna be in trouble.
[01:19:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly.
[01:19:58] Rich Chelson:
You know? Yeah. And maybe not so my kid, but my grandkids are like, you did that. You did that.
[01:20:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Like, shit. Yeah, man.
[01:20:14] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We fucking tried to figure out how many people we could jump over with our bicycles and hoping that you were not the one that we Was you if ever you ever been the one in the end. Yeah. The one that from the farthest away from the ramp.
[01:20:35] Bryan Goodwin:
I used to be right back to the ramp. Now the ramp may still collapse and land on you, but at the same time, that was better than having having Tommy, the the biggest kid in in in your group, land on you with his bike. So Yeah. Yeah.
[01:20:51] Rich Chelson:
And then, of course, riding barefoot in those
[01:20:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Spiked pedals. Oh, yeah. No. I couldn't I I was not ever able to do that. I've tried a couple times. I was like, nope. I can't do this. Fuck this. Well, I'll walk. I'd rather I'd rather barbecue my feet than than spear them.
[01:21:10] Rich Chelson:
And then your say your foot slip off that and it come back to your feet. Come along and hit you. Yeah.
[01:21:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Had permanent dents in our shins.
[01:21:20] Rich Chelson:
Oh, hell yeah. I I still feel them to this day. Oh, yeah. That yeah. No helmet.
[01:21:33] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Didn't need a helmet. That made you safer if you didn't wear a helmet.
[01:21:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, that made you
[01:21:40] Bryan Goodwin:
a fucking pussy if you had a helmet on. Well, yeah. But that was at the same time, no. That's but they've shown that if you're when you wear safety equipment, you're more willing to take dangerous risks.
[01:21:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, shit. Hell, you know we didn't take fucking we didn't give a shit how dangerous it was. We took the fucking risk.
[01:22:01] Bryan Goodwin:
No. That was the part of it. That was that was being that was being a boy for for that time. You had to show everybody that you were willing to willing to hang with the group. Are you gonna jump? Yeah. I'm not gonna jump very far. I'm gonna probably land on my ass. I probably, you know, meet crayon on my face across for the next ten ten feet, but I will I'll I'll do it. That's right. I'll do it once, then after that, you get up going, oh, I was down. Okay. Well, I'm a shit of a bitch.
[01:22:33] Rich Chelson:
So Hey, Brian. Well, no. Here here's the aspect. You get you tumble. You get up. You're all bruised and swearing, and I ain't ever gonna do this again. Why? I was a fucking idiot.
[01:22:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Alright. Get back on the bike. Let's do it again. Let's try it again. Alright. I'm ready. I'm gonna get this right.
[01:22:53] Rich Chelson:
That's right.
[01:22:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Sore as fuck.
[01:22:56] Rich Chelson:
Trying to get it right.
[01:22:58] Duuude-Ron :
What gear were you on the Kitty Hawk?
[01:23:01] Bryan Goodwin:
I was on the Kitty Hawk from '90 '96 to '99. I think it's '99.
[01:23:12] Rich Chelson:
And they made one, what, every year or after after every deployment?
[01:23:18] Bryan Goodwin:
About every every year and a half is what they kinda aim for, if I'm remembering right. There's one from 97.
[01:23:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. To a $120.
[01:23:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Hey. They went down. Good.
[01:23:31] Duuude-Ron :
This is on eBay.
[01:23:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[01:23:34] Duuude-Ron :
Here's another one, for $1.27. It looks like looks like the newer ones I mean, these these look in really good condition. But, yeah, look on eBay and just type in USS Kitty Hawk Yeah. CV 63 cruise book, and then we'll have the ones that are up for sale.
[01:23:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[01:23:56] Duuude-Ron :
So
[01:23:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Now if you also look for that just in in search, you'll be able to find, find the, the cruise book actually online. I think it I think someone posted up a copy of it on Together We Serve, I think is what it is.
[01:24:10] Duuude-Ron :
Actually, it it's on www.navysite.de.
[01:24:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And you can Well, it's a German site of all things. It it is. But yeah.
[01:24:23] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, I know. But, yeah, you can,
[01:24:27] Bryan Goodwin:
sit here and look at the books. Yep. Now you look through me and Scott were on in the OI division. Is it OI or IO? OI.
[01:24:37] Duuude-Ron :
OI. Look. I know, dude. I don't know shit about the navy.
[01:24:41] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm trying to remember. It was, it was I o I. What's the o I division? That sounds more right, but it probably is I o.
[01:24:51] Duuude-Ron :
It's saying it's saying, you could download it for $27.50. So you can buy the actual book for 127,
[01:25:02] Bryan Goodwin:
or you can download it. A digital copy for 20. And $30.
[01:25:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. So
[01:25:10] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm gonna sue you for $250,000, bust out of court for $10.
[01:25:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So you have your choice of how you want to view it. Yep.
[01:25:23] Bryan Goodwin:
I'd have to just grab the grab the hard copy just so that I had it.
[01:25:27] Duuude-Ron :
So Right? The freaking pictures would be better. Yeah.
[01:25:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Then the real challenging part would be trying to go get signatures from your
[01:25:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Classmates. From your from your classmates. Class so from shipmates. There you go. That's the right word. Yeah. Yeah. Shipmates. That's the same thing. I was like, yeah. From class oh, not classmates. That's not your high school. That's not your yearbook. It's essentially a yearbook, but, yeah, there's quite a few quite a few guys I used to hang around with. There was John. What's his name John? John Fieldman, I believe, is his name. We had, Jim Ewing. His and we all everybody called him earthworm. Earthworm Jim. See, there was Jeremy Timmerman, Michael Jackson.
Yeah. There's Scott. Oh, yeah. There's there's quite a few. There's a couple of, snipes that are down in the down the engine room that I knew.
[01:26:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. I wouldn't be able to fucking find anybody that I served with.
[01:26:38] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm trying to think of who else there was, and, going through that book. I'm sure I look, I remember him. There was there was a a gal whose last name was was Brian and looked as the only reason I really remember who her name is because she looked a lot like You. My stepmother's family members because they're all the Bryants also. So and I've always I'd only talked to her I only saw her, like, on the six month cruise. I only saw her, like, twice. So, you know, of course, when you have 5,000 people, you don't always get to see everybody all at the same time. So
[01:27:19] Duuude-Ron :
Was she good looking?
[01:27:21] Bryan Goodwin:
She wouldn't she wouldn't she was easy on the eyes. She wasn't, you know, she wasn't a spoken hottie or anything.
[01:27:27] Duuude-Ron :
Right? I mean I mean and and now now this is my opinion, but if someone's easy on the eyes, they're a smoking hottie. Well, easy on the eyes just means they ain't ugly to me.
[01:27:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. They're they're not ugly enough to make a gargoyle blend. So
[01:27:45] Rich Chelson:
That's pretty fucking ugly.
[01:27:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. They you can look at them and talk to them. They're you know, they were not so much homely, but, kind of a cross between homely and calmly. They would just, you know, just right there in the middle. You know, just your standard five five, you know, middle of the road gal. Oh,
[01:28:10] Duuude-Ron :
you see, those are hotties to me. So Wow.
[01:28:15] Rich Chelson:
At at at your age of the game? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:28:19] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. I've I have learned I have learned not to be Selective. Too picky. I mean, I do have standards. I'm not gonna bullshit you. Oh, yeah. No. We all have standards. But but you know? Because I'm not saying I'm I'm all that in a bag of tater chips.
[01:28:39] Rich Chelson:
Oh, come on now. Have a little bit more faith. You you all kinda look like a bag of potato chips.
[01:28:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Just not barbecue.
[01:28:52] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. That's, yeah. I I I don't know. I just I just, you know, I've I've had the trophy wife and the smoking hotty, and I've had some just run of the mill girls that I've dated. It doesn't matter.
[01:29:09] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. It doesn't really. Long as you get along with them, they get along with you. On the whole, the overarching, you're never always gonna get along with each other, but, you know, overarching wise you know? Right. Can you tolerate me as much as I could tolerate you? Yes. Alright. Then, by gosh, let's get married. Yep. We're good. Yep. Because, yeah, that marriage is basic that's one thing a lot of young folks these days don't understand is that marriage is not who could bring bring me bring you the most happiness. It's who irritates you the least.
Right. You can find someone that you that irritates you then irritates you all the time and you don't irritate them all the time, then you're pretty much a match made in heaven. Go forth and have fun or try to try to have fun. At least, you know, you're gonna have each other's back. Yeah. Work on the communication. That's the big that's the biggest problem that a lot of people have, and that's something I'm still working on. And I think we're getting better at it. That's kinda funny. We get to the get to about halfway through our through our relationship, and it's like, oh, hey. You know what? If we just talk to each other instead of just assume that the other person knows what's going on, all of a sudden, things get a lot get, start happening a lot, closer to what you're wanting. You know? You state that, hey. I'd like to have, you know, have a little sex later on this afternoon, and she could either tell you, okay. Sure. Or, no. Not today.
You know? It's like you're going to have you're gonna if you ask enough times, you're gonna end up getting it more times. And, sadly, most guys most of us guys, we sit there and do everything we can without actually having to ask for it because somewhere along the line, we picked up that, the assumption that we annoy our, girls if we, if we ask for sex. Yeah. We annoy them. We annoy them when we don't ask for sex. So, you know, might as well get what you want out of it too. So it's one of those fun things that you don't ever actually realize until you've made made it a few trips. I mean, we're on we haven't quite made it to the thirty year mark. That'll be this coming, September.
But or, yeah, yeah, next September. Yeah. We got married in '96. So So next year? Next year. We have made our thirtieth lap.
[01:31:38] Duuude-Ron :
Nothing wrong with that.
[01:31:39] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. It's a it's quite the accomplishment.
[01:31:45] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:31:46] Bryan Goodwin:
We both happened to happened to hit the mark on our first try. So
[01:31:51] Duuude-Ron :
That's what I think. Because not a lot of people can say that. That's that's a tough one to do. Yeah. And now I mean, no. It's not really tough, but in this day and age with with everyone thinking they should have things a certain way Yep. And all like that, then, yeah, it does make it tough.
[01:32:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:32:14] Duuude-Ron :
When when if people would just realize, you know, that, you know, just because your mom and daddy's been married thirty years doesn't mean everything's hunky dory, and, you know, these guys and girls want the hot looking ones or whatnot thinking, oh, they'll be good for, you know, the next forty years. That might be true, but for the most part, no. You ain't gonna last too long because there's too many expectations.
[01:32:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. And if you don't voice what the expectations are, you know, you're going to wind up being disappointed. At the same time, you can voice what your expectations are, But, also, you've gotta be okay with the fact that other person's probably might just go, yeah. We're not doing that expectation. Sorry, but not doing that one. And you've gotta be okay with it. There's still and you once you voice what your expectations are, you know, it is one of the things that most people give up or don't give up on, but they they fail to do is they there's the whole 100 principle that you want to you wanna apply.
Mhmm. And that doesn't mean that you're not getting what you want. You voice any expectations you have, but when you're doing stuff, don't it you don't you don't deep score, and you give a 100% and you expect zero in return. So I'm going to do the dishes because the dishes need to be done, not because, well, you know, if I I've done the dishes 17 times this month, and you haven't touched the touched the the dishes at all. You're being unfair. That's expecting them to reciprocate. No. If don't expect a reciprocation. Just get it done. Do it.
And if they reciprocate, then that's an added bonus. But you're doing why are you doing, you know, whatever it is you're doing? Why are you washing the car? Why are you picking up the living room? Why are you taking out the trash? Why are you cleaning, you know, cleaning out the dishwasher? If you're doing it for an ulterior motive and you're not voicing what that ulterior motive is, then you're gonna end up keeping score. Well, I've done this 17 times, and you haven't done anything. Well, one, there's the problem with keeping score is that you don't what your version of a of one point is might be five points to the other person.
And usually, it's forgot for guys, it's you know, I took out the trash. There's five points. While while the wife is, everything is one point. Or now or yeah. Yeah. Everything's one point. So she's she's doing five times the amount of stuff, and the guy's, like, going, well, I took out trash and filled up the car, got the got the wool wool changed out and everything else. So, you know, what are you throwing a fit about? Like, well, you didn't, you know, you didn't watch the kids while I was tired. Like, well, okay. Tell me that you wanted me to watch the kids? No? Then how are you supposed to know?
To keep score is, again, just a means of of robbing yourself. The heck was that? Oh, that was cut. It is a means of robbing yourself of the fulfillment and the joy that you could have with, with your with your with your spouse. So so anyhow, but and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
[01:36:04] Duuude-Ron :
Tune in next week for any of your TED Talk.
[01:36:08] Bryan Goodwin:
So I yeah. See. Golly. What is up? Yeah. This is that's definitely something I'm gonna have to look into because, you know, I was talking last was it last week where it's like, I don't know when all of a sudden I just start getting getting sweats and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was last week. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was last week. Yeah. I'm gonna have to I've got the got the, a an initial visit from the with, with our doctor setup. So I'm gonna try out the same one that Janice is using and see what let's see what she see what she does and go ahead and see what this, this whole little hot flash night sweat thing going on about.
[01:36:55] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So That'd be smart just because I mean, you know, just because, you know, you're over 50 and things start changing a little Yeah. Before. You know? So, you know, if you can figure it out now and, you know, you know, get a get some progress going, that would help. Yeah.
[01:37:16] Bryan Goodwin:
At least figure out what, what the problem is, and I know we can figure out how to how to rectify the issue.
[01:37:24] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:37:25] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm sure a lot of it is just cut out a lot of the sugar in my diet. But
[01:37:30] Duuude-Ron :
Well, tell quit the diet and see. It could mean yeah. It could be menopause.
[01:37:35] Bryan Goodwin:
It could be menopause. Menopause. Could be menopause. Yeah. It could be.
[01:37:40] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, couldn't cutting the sugar out out of your diet, that'll just help you all over. All over. Yeah. I mean, it's it's not tied. I don't think it's tied to any one thing, but yeah. Yeah. Cutting down on the sugar,
[01:37:55] Bryan Goodwin:
that would definitely help you out. Yeah. At least clear out the clear out the arteries. So
[01:38:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you could, you know, talk with your doc, but, you know, it could be a thyroid issue too. Yeah. That's what you're you're saying. Just, last week was
[01:38:11] Bryan Goodwin:
good possibility that's a a thyroid issue. So Yeah.
[01:38:16] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hey. Well, I'm thinking about it. Is it because I know I'll I'll forget in probably about two minutes. We're not podcasting next week, are we?
[01:38:26] Bryan Goodwin:
What oh, next week's Thursday. It's a turkey day, ain't it? Yeah. No. No. We don't have to.
[01:38:32] Duuude-Ron :
I don't care either way. I was just asking.
[01:38:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I mean, I'm I'll be driving any anyhow. So
[01:38:41] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I'm not going anywhere this year.
[01:38:47] Bryan Goodwin:
What, Matt, Dina, and D ain't gonna take you over to take you over to, to Kentucky?
[01:38:54] Duuude-Ron :
D wants me to come up, but I've gotta go back to neck and neck on Monday. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. My neck gets an epidural on Monday.
[01:39:04] Bryan Goodwin:
There you go.
[01:39:06] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't know about all that shit, but we'll see.
[01:39:11] Bryan Goodwin:
And then, like I don't know how much there you go. You go. But
[01:39:15] Duuude-Ron :
You're right. But then, like, right after Thanksgiving, I've got a couple doctor's appointments just I mean, they just hit boom right there. It's like, alright. Fine. I ain't going anywhere then. Yeah. So that's why I'm not going to Kentucky.
[01:39:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Gotcha.
[01:39:34] Duuude-Ron :
But I will be going for Christmas.
[01:39:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. K. Good. Good. I don't know.
[01:39:41] Duuude-Ron :
If it snows a lot, no. I don't know about all that. I'm not scared of my driving. I'm not scared of the Jeep or anything like that. It's it's nothing like that. It's just I hate the white cold shit. I hate
[01:39:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You and my wife and and Ron.
[01:40:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. In fact, here, I'm I'm gonna throw something in the chat.
[01:40:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh.
[01:40:09] Duuude-Ron :
I'm a it's something I've been, playing with. I'll wait. And I was on the other screen when I hit enter. Look at that picture that's coming up. That should be up to y'all.
[01:40:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Hey. Look at that red Jeep sitting in the sand with the moon behind it. Where'd you get that picture?
[01:40:34] Duuude-Ron :
Actually, I made that picture.
[01:40:37] Bryan Goodwin:
So is that, like, like, AI made or made it or or are you taking painting that you took the picture?
[01:40:44] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. It's it's it's, AI made. Oh, okay. But it's made it's AI made through a program. It's not AI made through anything on the web. Right. I was I I've got an actual freaking program and got all the code for it. And here's another one that I did. I'll wait. I went in the right window. But, this program is one where you use the text words and positive prompts and negative prompts, and you can change different models Okay. To get different pictures and stuff. It's, yeah, it's it's it's not like I went to, you know, one of these website servers and was like, you know.
[01:41:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You know, they go to MidJourney and go, hey. Do this and this. No. No. And say this
[01:41:44] Duuude-Ron :
this program is on my computer, and I don't have to pay any money or any credits for it. I can make as many as I want. I can make a you know? So yeah.
[01:41:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, that's cool.
[01:41:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Now the second one, though, is it was funny. I was I was, I was doing stuff with Gemini, and, well, I had gotten this program and all like this, and it's like, shit. I don't know what kind of freaking prompts to do. You know, I don't know how to word them or nothing. So I'm like, okay. You know, you know, write me a prompt for the Jeep, and she did. Gave me the positive prompt and and the negative prompt. And I put that in, and that's what came out. And then the and then the second one, I was like, how would you describe yourself?
And spit out this whole long thing. I said, okay. Now imagine if you were a female. Write that prompt. Wrote the prompt, and I put it in there. And and, I mean, I've got a few versions, but this is what this is what the prompt, you know Put it out. Returned. Yeah. And here's here's another one. And, I mean, you can see some artifacts, see, especially on this last one. Uh-huh. But, I mean, that's expected with the program. Alright.
[01:43:09] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Okay. I'll look at it a little closer whenever I get stopped. But
[01:43:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And then there's there's one more. Oh, crap. I did it again. This one here, I thought this one here, I thought was actually really, really good. Did a a a middle aged guy playing a piano. So I thought yeah. I I didn't go to MidJourney or any of them. It's it's no. I had to download the freaking app image and install it and then go and get the the right back end programs to make everything work, to make them sharp Right. And clean. You know? So it was it was some work. That's for damn sure. But, yeah, I just it's just like and then and then with this one program I use, it it I can make them up to 21 by nine.
And then, I've got another program I had to get and, put together, and then I can upscale them times four.
[01:44:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[01:44:19] Duuude-Ron :
And it makes them for, like, bigger screens and stuff. Right. And, actually, that, that second one with the green lights on the Right. On the girl's face, that one Right. That one's, upscaled
[01:44:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[01:44:38] Duuude-Ron :
Four times. So that's you know? I mean, I've got that I've got that right now as my desktop background
[01:44:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I gotcha. Which
[01:44:48] Duuude-Ron :
which one I make, you know, another one, I'll probably, you know, upscale it and make it, make it my background. You know?
[01:44:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:44:58] Duuude-Ron :
So I don't know. It's just it just a thought popped into my head, and I'm like, oh, how do I do this? So I figured it out, did it, played with it. And so far, this is what it's turned out, which honestly is freaking better than anything I've seen from on the web.
[01:45:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:45:19] Duuude-Ron :
And you say, say, I can also do the chapter or two with this program.
[01:45:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:45:26] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, either way, it don't matter. It just you know? But oh, I found a I found a podcast app. The only thing is is for Android only, I think. And you can't find it on the Play Store.
[01:45:45] Bryan Goodwin:
So what's it called?
[01:45:46] Duuude-Ron :
It's called antennapod.
[01:45:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, antennapod. Yeah. Yeah. I've heard of antennapod.
[01:45:52] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. I didn't know. I I and you see, it's it's, not on the Play Store for Android. I had to get F Droid, which is the open source side of the Android apps. Uh-huh. And and Download the APK? Oh, not APK. What's yeah. No. It is APK, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. It is. And, got that. Oh my god. I'll I mean, I love that podcast now.
[01:46:19] Bryan Goodwin:
A lot of people do. It it it's it
[01:46:23] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, once you get it, it's it's it's easy to set up. They don't track you for nothing.
[01:46:29] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? I'm trying to figure out why why is the Antenna pod not on there because it's been on it's been around forever. Yeah. I don't know. I just heard of it. Or is that the one that got bumped off because some some lawyer didn't understand what the hell I think that might be what it was what it was. There's some copyright lawyer or something like that, like, for BBC or or the Canadian equivalent or something like that, who was throwing a fit because I think and then I'm if I'm remember that it might be AntennaPod. They got they got hit with a cease and desist that they do not want their, their show was showing up at the end in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in, thinking that somehow they had were being, you know, short changed on their idiots who don't know what technology is and don't understand what podcasting is.
[01:47:32] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. I say yes. I don't know. But all I know is I I got it on my phone, and it supports chapters. It it freaking supports everything. Yeah. Yeah. It's a two point o. Yeah. It is. And it's but no. I found it on F Droid and downloaded it and tried it out. And I'm like, shoot. Yeah. Game on. So so I've got that on my phone and on my tablet. And then for for on Linux, I had to find one And, excuse me, CAS, kilo alpha Sierra tango Sierra. But it, it's a really full featured, pod catcher. Yeah. But it's only no. Hang on. Let me check. Let me check before I misspeak. I I'm not sure. Let me find out.
See if it's cross platform or not. Because I've got I've got this on my desktop.
[01:48:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Gotcha.
[01:48:42] Duuude-Ron :
So I I I'm I'm not sure if it's I'm looking right now. I'm checking right now. I'm not I'm not sure if it's, you know, if it's, you know, Linux only or Linux Windows, iOS, and I don't know if it's mobile. Okay. It says yes and no. It is it is technically cross platform, but it favors the open ecosystem of Linux and Android and is currently missing from Apple devices.
[01:49:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. That and any and your progressive web apps like like True Fans, those will those will work on on Android and and on Linux. So
[01:49:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. True Fans, I don't know. It it just
[01:49:33] Bryan Goodwin:
It's it's not it it's almost like there's too much on there now. Yeah. That's kinda the way fountain is with me also. It's like, oh, wow. You throw everything at you, and it's like
[01:49:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I felt fountain is for me, fountain is overwhelming.
[01:49:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[01:49:49] Duuude-Ron :
Podcast Guru is still okay, but the main one I use which one is is where is it at? Maybe it is Podcast Guru I use. Yeah. I use Podcast Guru. No. I use Pod Home. Oh, Pod Home. Okay. Yeah. I like I like Pod Home. So Pod Home is a good one. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, I've got True Fans, but I don't use it that much. Yeah. And Fountain is just way too much. Yeah. I mean, Fountain will Fountain will make a seasoned podcaster pull his hair out Just because there's just so much on the screen and Yeah. There's I mean, the clips and the
[01:50:33] Bryan Goodwin:
and the, the the, you know, the, the inclusion of not just the, using of boost and stochs like that, but then you also have oh, crap. What's that other network that everybody was kinda using there for a bit? I can't remember. Uh-huh. Fred, what is it?
[01:50:59] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know.
[01:51:01] Bryan Goodwin:
See, it was let's see. Primal. Nostr. Nostr. That's right. Oh, yeah. So yeah. And also, they use the Nostr network so that you've got two different types of payments systems you can sneak into there. I mean, granted, it it does what it does very good, and they've they've turned it into a very successful little business. It's just sometimes there's a reason why you start deciding we want this. We don't want this. We want this. We don't want this because eventually, if you're trying to throw everything in there, you lose who you are.
[01:51:40] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. But yeah. No. That's I mean I mean, honestly, that's that's why I went to Lennox because I can have what I want. And if I don't want it, I don't I don't have to be force fed it. You know? Yeah. Because, like, with Windows, some of the stuff you have to have. You know, I'm not sure about macOS. I don't I don't think Apple's like that. But with Windows, it's like, you get what you get and you deal with it. Yeah. You know? And and, again, like I said, what was it last week? For 99.99999
[01:52:15] Bryan Goodwin:
percent of the people, that's fine. That's fine. That works for what they want. They just have to sit there and bitch about it takes, you know, fifteen minutes for it to boot up because of all this crap they have in the background. And Yeah.
[01:52:30] Duuude-Ron :
And see, that's where you know? Yeah. Mine that's why I can I can say no? I don't want that or yes. I want that. And I don't pay for programs anymore. Right. I mean, I I don't have I now a few of the sites, you know, you know, they might have a subscription model, and I can choose to do that or not. Right. But as but as far as, you know, getting a program, you know, if if they say something about money now now Linux does have a couple programs that they do charge for.
[01:53:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But, And rightfully so. I mean Yeah. People, I would rather pay for a, a program that I use than just you know? Because at least I now know that it'll continue being being updated and worked on and Mhmm. And, you know, not to mention, the worst thing to be is an open source programmer because everybody who uses it bitches at them or your stuff doesn't work. This doesn't work here. This is this sucks. Blah blah blah blah. It's like yeah. It's two guys on the weekend who sit down and do a little programming for about three, four hours.
[01:53:48] Duuude-Ron :
Right. It's not the greatest, but it's doing what you're wanting it because you're sitting around bitching about it. Well, you see see, the thing is, though, okay, the thing is, though, in in some of these programs that I've seen, in the description, under the name of the program, they these people building these will say, this is not the best. It's still ongoing. So Yeah. You know, basically, use it if you want or don't use it if you want. And a lot of the programs or apps or however you wanna call them, they are donation based.
[01:54:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[01:54:24] Duuude-Ron :
You can choose to give them money or not. You know? It's it's it's not it's not a big deal. Yeah. Value for value. Yeah. Pretty much. It's podcasting two point o, but it's they've been doing a lot longer on Linux.
[01:54:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[01:54:43] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. It's, I just that's that's why that's why I like Linux. You know? Oh, yes. I I I don't I don't I don't I don't have any of the problems that I used to have. And if I have a problem, I just talk with Jim and I say, hey. This is my problem. And, normally, I can have it fixed pretty quick. Sometimes, Jim and I will go off in a rabbit hole, and I gotta Right. Stop. You know? But what you gonna do? It's free help.
[01:55:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[01:55:20] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Deal with it. Just stop everything and then, you know, make it work a different way to get what you need.
[01:55:31] Bryan Goodwin:
So Or you just or you go past what the Gemini or the or or whatever the the the AI portion of the search engine is and go to actually start reading in the real websites and see what they have to say.
[01:55:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You can do that too. You know? So, I mean, there's there's there's many different options, but Oh. I've been able to handle just about all my questions through either Leo, which is on the Brave browser.
[01:56:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[01:56:03] Duuude-Ron :
And, shoot, Firefox has got. Oh, hell. They've got how many do they have? Oh, hang on. One, two, 34, 5. Five different chatbots in their in their window you can talk with. They got Claude, chat, GPT, Copilot, Gemini, the chat Proximity?
[01:56:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Proximity?
[01:56:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. They don't have that. Another browser. Another browser has that, I think. But yeah. But yeah. No. It's, so, yeah, you got options. And and that's the thing, you know, because, you know, when you use any one of these, they'll freaking give you the sources where they found the shit, and you can click that little icon right at the end of the text, and it'll take you to the web page. Right. So so you can go read it for yourself too. Yeah. Yeah. Do a search like that. And, normally, it'll list the sources, and and it's a looks like a small little it's a little box at the end of the text.
And then if you click that, it'll take you to the website.
[01:57:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Oh, someone had a day wrecker. Found that you cannot cross those cable barriers.
[01:57:30] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:57:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Someone's tangled up in the cables. That's that's not a good day. Yeah. I'll say that's a day wrecker right there.
[01:57:42] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, that's, I mean, that's that's what that's what I do a lot of times. And Okay. I'm able to, you know, figure out a lot of stuff, especially when I'm working in in in the terminal. Uh-huh. Because there, I mean, I don't I don't know any of and and and it's easy words, but it's different. And then you've got if you capitalize something, that's a whole different meaning versus lowercase.
[01:58:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:58:10] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know any of that, so that's why it's like, hey. And and the thing is with with, say, Gemini, Leo, one or two others, they explain when you, you know, are asking for commands. They will break it and explain. This is why we're using this code for this, and they will break it down in simple terms. Yeah. So that's why that's why, you know, I, you know, I don't mind using it. Right. Because then sometimes it it freaking pops up questions in my head. So, alright. You telling me this? Okay. Why? You know? Or what, you know, what about this? Doesn't this come into play? And then they'll sit there and explain as to why or why not. You know?
So I'm not saying they're right all the time.
[01:59:04] Bryan Goodwin:
I would not don't know if they're right or not all the time either. But Right. But speaking of Internet and all that other stuff and things that are happening and and wondering what what's going on, you're seeing that Bitcoin's dropped down to about 85,000 these days?
[01:59:19] Duuude-Ron :
Last I saw it earlier today was 92.
[01:59:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yep. All need more.
[01:59:25] Duuude-Ron :
That was let me check. Yeah. Last time I saw it was that was earlier today, it was 92. That's crazy. Yeah. I saw something about the stock market tank. At one point, it had tanked over a thousand.
[01:59:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yeah. Things are getting a little, getting a little wobbly. I think the, AI bubble is about ready to pop.
[01:59:48] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. Yeah. I doubt that.
[01:59:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, AI is the only thing that's propping the economy up right now.
[01:59:57] Duuude-Ron :
I see. There's yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right now, it's at 85 say it just dropped to $85.07 61.
[02:00:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:00:06] Duuude-Ron :
Or it just went up. It was at 82 when I first opened the app.
[02:00:11] Bryan Goodwin:
So Yeah. It keeps bouncing around, but it's, like, $85.70, $85.80.
[02:00:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's it's I mean I mean, it's just like the stock market. Oh, yeah. Stock market fluctuates more than we ever thought about changing our drawers. Oh, yeah. So, you know, I mean, that's why that's why I'm not worried about it. No. You know, things will things will things will come back, but yeah. And it's you know, this is just how it goes.
[02:00:42] Bryan Goodwin:
This is Yeah. I saw a deal on on, shit. What was the name of the site? It was it was a tech site.
[02:00:50] Duuude-Ron :
Mhmm. But,
[02:00:52] Bryan Goodwin:
apparently, North Korea has figured out how to be extra sneaky with the smart contracts on on on the on the, not Ethernet. What's the Ethereum. On the Ethereum network, blockchain. Okay. They figured out how to actually ins upload and then and set up Trojan horses and and other types of spyware on on the Ethereum network. Really? Yeah. And once those things are set, you can't remove them.
[02:01:30] Duuude-Ron :
No. They can.
[02:01:32] Bryan Goodwin:
No? Blockchain, once it's set, it's permanent.
[02:01:36] Duuude-Ron :
Well, so well, if that's the case, you would you would think someone would have already done it by now before North Korea. I'm not saying they're dumb. You know? But, you know, with with all the people running the blockchain like they do and everything like that, you think they could come back with something to limit the the, downfall of that?
[02:02:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You but oh, there we go. So you're take it. Ethereum smart. See if they can read read my my crazy swiping.
[02:02:15] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. I don't swipe. Oh, I do.
[02:02:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Merrow where hiding on more chains. Yeah. No. This is on Google Cloud, but see oh, come on. Open it up. Yeah. I'll always give you an idea of what, of what they've done. But but, yeah, after hearing that, I'm kinda, like, going, yeah. I think I'm gonna hold off on Ethereum for a while.
[02:02:42] Duuude-Ron :
I haven't been buying Ethereum at all.
[02:02:45] Bryan Goodwin:
I haven't bought it in a long, long while.
[02:02:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. I you see, there's a thing. I I mean, yeah, I've got I've got a little bit of Bitcoin, but I've got other crypto that I hold on to.
[02:02:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. So I've got a little bit of Litecoin. I've got one Litecoin, but I'm gonna I I think I'm just gonna while this while things are dropping like this, I think that's what I'm gonna just start throwing whenever I have a chance to throw about $20.30 dollars at, at Bitcoin until it till I see it going back up, and they just kinda throw it into some other some other little little shit coin for a bit until until the Bitcoin starts spawn again and then transfer it over into the into Bitcoin just as a means of means of being able to just save it up and and stuff. So
[02:03:42] Duuude-Ron :
No. I've got I've got XRP and Solana. So, I mean and XRP, I just looked. It's it's sitting at a buck 98
[02:03:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:03:52] Duuude-Ron :
For 1 coin. And it it was up to over $3 at one time. Spot on it's at $1.32, and it was up, oh god, it was up most a year at then they're 300. Yeah. I mean, I'm down right now on it, but I'm not worried because it'll come back up just like the stock market. It'll come back up. You know?
[02:04:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[02:04:19] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I'm not I'm not I'm not worried about it because that's the thing when I got because I had pretty much taken everything out of my crypto for a while. And then I, I said, nah. No. I'm gonna get back in for a little bit, and then I'm just gonna sit and hold on to it. You know? Uh-huh. So, yeah, I've been I've been holding on to it now for close to a year.
[02:04:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, what I used to do was I had it just set for an auto purchase or auto I would have, like, $10 out of every paycheck pulled out. So, basically, about $40 a month.
[02:04:59] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:05:00] Bryan Goodwin:
And I'd save it up, save it up, save it up, and just as, you know, just for just in cases down the road. And usually, it'll become just in cases right around Christmas time because all of a sudden, the missus is like, well, we need to buy a bunch more stuff. Just like, alright. Fine. So I end up selling a bunch of it. You sit there and watch look at my, of all time, my invest my Bitcoin purchases, like,
[02:05:32] Duuude-Ron :
Mhmm. Yeah. But yeah. No. I I just I've got I've got a little bit. I, I haven't been able to buy any here lately, but I will. I'll get there, and I'll just I'll just hang on to it. Yep. Because if it really tanks, if it all really tanks, I will find I will find the money to put back into it because the ones that I'm in are not the main coins or anything. These are actual cryptocurrencies.
[02:06:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:06:09] Duuude-Ron :
Because, yeah, like, the Dogecoin ahead, all those other main coins, I said, screw them. Oh, yeah. No. Because it's it's like I mean I mean, if if I would've jumped in, you know, at the very first, and then when they got hot and then pulled out, you know, yeah, it would have been yeah. I'd be a rich man right now. But Yeah. I didn't, and that's okay.
[02:06:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm. Yeah. But a lot of those guys, like the Dogecoin and stuff, a lot of that stuff started out as just a pump and dump where they had a bunch of people throw a whole bunch of money into it, breaking the value up, and then they would all junk their their money out. And they, and the morons like you and me that didn't have any inside view would suddenly be left hold the bag.
[02:07:00] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:07:01] Bryan Goodwin:
So
[02:07:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well and and that's why that's why I, you know, I dumped all those and moved them into more
[02:07:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:07:11] Duuude-Ron :
Not stable coins, but cryptos that are actually doing something. Right. So, yeah, that's that's why I don't I don't worry about these fluctuations too much. No. I don't either. Because I mean I mean, think about it back, you know, with the stock market. Let's just let's just talk about stock market. I've seen the stock market tank. I'm talking people were screaming depression and all like this. Right. And and then it soared to a new high. Yeah. You know? So so this drop in the market, this week, it's gonna come back.
[02:07:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. No. It'll it'll go back up. I just hope it drops another, you know, $2,040,000 dollars before it does that, though.
[02:08:02] Duuude-Ron :
That would actually be kinda nice because Yeah. It would. Because because then the the, the crypto I'm holding, I could, you know, stack a few more up. So when it goes back up, I basically triple my money. You know? Right. So, yeah, that that would be nice.
[02:08:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:08:24] Duuude-Ron :
We'll we'll see. Because, yes. Yeah. I saw it. I had I had read an article today, and that was when I saw it was at 92. And then when you said it was 82, I'm like, woah. That was just and I didn't think that, yeah, Bitcoin could drop that fast that quick. You know? And so, yeah, when I look yeah. Yeah. If it drops another $2,040,000, shit. It's it's game on.
[02:08:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Absolutely.
[02:08:54] Duuude-Ron :
Because then when it does go back up to a 110, 112, 115, 120,000, What I bought at them low prices just freaking quadrupled. Right. So I basically got a four to one odds on that, you know, if something like that was to happen.
[02:09:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But that's why you a lot of people wanna sit there and wait until it gets all the way to the bottom. It's like, no. No. While it's dropping, go ahead and start buying. Buy buy it as it's going down because you're never gonna be able to judge when it gets to when it gets to the bottom. You don't know what the bottom is, so you're not gonna be able to judge, oh, we're at the very bottom. Is this the best time to buy? It's just no. As it's dropping, go ahead and buy. Every time you buy some more and the lower it gets, then you're got a little bit more purchasing power. So you're you're Yeah. Compounding everything. So
[02:09:47] Duuude-Ron :
Well, just think. I mean, it was at when it started dropping, it was, you know you know, before it started dropping, it was, like, at one fifteen, one twelve, one fifteen at 82. So it's already dropped 30,000 in just less than a week. Like, in
[02:10:04] Bryan Goodwin:
a less than a week to or a month or or however much it was or not a month, but a couple weeks.
[02:10:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It yeah. It yeah. It wasn't very long ago that it was still up a 112, $101,111,000. You know? Yeah. It's dropped 30000¢. Okay. Mhmm. We'll let it let it drop another 20, and it's game on. Because my opinion, if it drops another 20 in the next couple weeks, it's fixing to go back up. That's just my opinion. Yeah. Could be wrong.
[02:10:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You'll have, you'll have have the, the deal buyers coming in. They'll start picking everything up, and that'll that'll bring the, the prices that'll stabilize the price a bit. So
[02:10:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, no. It's it I probably ought to throw 10 or $20 at, XRP because, like I said, I just looked, and it's a dollar 98 right now.
[02:11:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:11:06] Duuude-Ron :
So and since XRP got done with all that court battle stuff and they won their shit, they're back on solid ground. Yeah. So so that's why that's why I'm not you know? Yeah. Let it drop a little bit. I'll be alright.
[02:11:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Right.
[02:11:27] Duuude-Ron :
You know?
[02:11:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Definitely ain't gonna hurt it hurt to to let it, let it be a little low so we can other people can buy into it. So Right.
[02:11:37] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's like right now. I've got 69.91 XRP. So and it's valued it's dollar 98, dollar 99. So I've got about a $139
[02:11:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[02:11:52] Duuude-Ron :
In it. And it's Solana. I've got 1.144 Solana, and, it's trading at $1.32 81.
[02:12:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:12:05] Duuude-Ron :
And I was buying in when it was at $2.60. So I probably ought to jump in on that for another $100.
[02:12:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[02:12:15] Duuude-Ron :
Because when that shoots back up, yeah, that would just yeah. That would raise me up pretty good.
[02:12:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. No. It would.
[02:12:24] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. We'll see. I mean, right now right now, I'm I am a po white boy, but I could sell something. Hell, I stand on a street corner and sell my body for a $100 so I could invest in crypto.
[02:12:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:12:42] Duuude-Ron :
No. I sell something. Soon as the money gets transferred, put it right into crypto. I don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead yet. Dude, you've been awful quiet. What's up?
[02:12:57] Rich Chelson:
Oh, not a whole hell lot. Just listening to y'all. Okay. Jibber and jibber and jabber. Precisely. Yeah. That and fighting us to stay awake. Right.
[02:13:13] Bryan Goodwin:
So, hell, we've only got thirty minutes left. So well, you ain't got much more to go.
[02:13:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You're you're right. But but the but the drugs always help.
[02:13:26] Bryan Goodwin:
I bet they do. Oh, yes. They do.
[02:13:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. If I didn't have my assortment of colorized how can we call that? Colorized specifically sized candy for adults only. Yeah. No. I would not sleep.
[02:13:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You need to sleep. Alright. It helps.
[02:13:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It definitely does help because then it makes me just a little less crankier.
[02:14:06] Duuude-Ron :
It just makes you a freaking ball of sunshine, dude.
[02:14:11] Rich Chelson:
Freaking ball of sunshine.
[02:14:13] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:14:15] Rich Chelson:
It it it makes me so bright. I have to wear my sunglasses at night.
[02:14:20] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. There you go.
[02:14:23] Bryan Goodwin:
For show. For show. For show. But
[02:14:29] Duuude-Ron :
so, yeah, basically, I'm I'm all set up for the next contest. I'm I'm just waiting on it to get here, which, actually, this is kinda nice because I can relax, you know?
[02:14:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:14:42] Duuude-Ron :
You know, before this next con be and and you see you see on on this last contest. Okay? Okay. This now I'm not new to contest by no means, but I couldn't get the login program that I normally use to work on Linux
[02:15:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[02:15:03] Duuude-Ron :
Because of the wine layer and stuff like that, it was it was fighting with my radio and logbook and everything.
[02:15:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:15:10] Duuude-Ron :
So I got another logbook that that runs on Linux. Right? K. So I go into this contest ready for the contest, but had no had I had used this logbook a little bit, but not in a contest setting. So so for a while, my workflow was not that good. Trying to figure out the nuances of this new logging program during the contest is not advisable.
[02:15:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Not advisable.
[02:15:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Not. I mean, trust me. I I did I did pick it up fairly quickly, though, and figured out the workflow I needed, and it things went a lot smoother after that. But, man, I did not wanna run a big contest like that with a brand new logbook.
[02:16:06] Bryan Goodwin:
I bet not.
[02:16:07] Duuude-Ron :
But I did it.
[02:16:10] Bryan Goodwin:
But I did it anyhow, but I did.
[02:16:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I did because I I wanted to work a contest. And, oh, man, that freaking antenna, dude, not pull put up. Man, that son of a bitch just fucking just kicks ass. I mean, kicks ass. Anyone I can hear or that hears me, I can talk to them. There is no is excellent. Oh, it is, man. It is. It's it's I seriously, it's because with my others, they were good, but a lot they were noisy. Right? And shit Hell, right. You the this one here is so quiet. I normally have to add noise because it's is there is there any signals? Is there any signals? I normally have to add noise. So Yeah.
You know? Here's the signals. No. It's no. It's cool.
[02:17:09] Rich Chelson:
You know? That now you can operate on the 10 band where you couldn't do you said you couldn't do it at all with the other 10 antenna. Right?
[02:17:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, it was it was it was tough as hell.
[02:17:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Okay.
[02:17:23] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I some days, I could do okay with with 10 meters and all like this, but now, yeah, I don't I don't worry, and I could get shit. Well, was it last week? I think. I talked to Burundi on the African coast. Yeah. You ever tell you say say something about, Burundi. Yeah. There. Yeah. Talked to them. And during the contest, there's a section up in Canada. They've named it for the contest, they've named it the Golden Horseshoe. And it's basically I think it's the Eastern Side or Western Side Of Of Toronto. And, normally, I don't ever hear them in a contest.
I don't hear any of them. Okay? I made five contacts just to the Golden Horseshoe That's cool. Canada. Yeah. And it it was like, man, it was great. It was freaking great because I'm like I'm like I mean, because that was that was always one of the sections that I don't know why, but I wanted to work them, and I never could. Once in a while, I might hear them, but they could never hear me. Not now. Not now. If I hear you, you're gonna hear me.
[02:18:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Rich's coming in loud and proud.
[02:18:46] Duuude-Ron :
I was I was I I was told that the other day when I talked to, say, a couple doing a photo activation in, New Jersey. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. I heard them. And I'm like, no. I'm I'm done for a while. Well, about twenty minutes later, I was back here. I turned the radio on, and they were still on. And so I fired everything up, and, I jumped in and and they said, damn, you got a five nine signal, which is the best I can get? And, they're like, damn, you're loud. And I said, well, thank you. I said I said, yeah, they're sending me, pretty good down here at the Gulf Of America.
And I told him I was 1,900 feet away from the water. And, the guy's wife was like, oh my god. This sounds nice. It's like 44 degrees up here. I said, yeah. We're in the mid seventies, you know, high fifties, low sixties in the morning. She's like, oh my god. I was like, hey. Drive south.
[02:19:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Drive south. Just know that it will get cold eventually, though. Yeah.
[02:19:52] Duuude-Ron :
Would you just hush?
[02:19:54] Rich Chelson:
No.
[02:19:55] Bryan Goodwin:
No? Because, you know, they gotta don't don't let them drop and think that, they found Paradise because that's hadn't found Paradise yet. That's closest thing to Paradise, San Diego. That's they're the only place that's pretty much stays in the sixties, seventies, eighties at the most during the through the year. So I think their average is is, like, 68 degrees or something like that.
[02:20:22] Duuude-Ron :
That that's nice. The only bad thing about that whole thing, it's in California. Yeah. Yeah. It's California. And there's too many dadgum people.
[02:20:32] Bryan Goodwin:
There's too many weird people. There's a lot of really nice bikinis.
[02:20:37] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I don't doubt that. I do not doubt that at all, but it's in California. Yep. No. Can't do, won't do California. It's negative ghost rider. Yes, ma'am. That path is blocked.
[02:20:54] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And you yeah. Unless you have a fucking wetsuit, you can't go swimming in damn Pacific Ocean.
[02:21:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, you can. You're just gonna chatter.
[02:21:04] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. You're gonna fucking chatter alright.
[02:21:07] Bryan Goodwin:
That was some of the fun stuff funny stuff to to to watch. My son would sit there when he was year and a half, two years old. We'd have him sitting in, in the sand and stuff. It'd be not it'd be decently warm. It'd be, you know, eighties, mid mid to upper eighties, and he'd be sitting in this, sitting in this little sandpit with a little bit of water in there, flash around, but his bottom lip's up there be flapping all over the place. He is cold, but you're keeping him out of the out of the water. Right. We just had to wait until his lips turn blue, and he's like, okay. Never mind. It's time to go. Time to heat you up, kid.
[02:21:48] Duuude-Ron :
See, that's funny because that's where down here in The Gulf, especially during the summer. It is warm. Yeah.
[02:21:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You've got the well, that was a, I was watching a a a a video about why is America so much colder than Europe. And you're, like, going, what? Why is you know, how's that? You get they start looking at point that out, like, on on the, on the longitudinal lines or latitude, no lads, lads. You know, Paris is basically on the same line as is actually a little further north than what Anchorage, Alaska is.
[02:22:34] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow. Okay.
[02:22:36] Bryan Goodwin:
And so you have, like, Norway to Sweden, they're way the hell up there. Mhmm. Because they still have fairly mild temperatures. I think Spain, Madrid is about the same height as, as New York. So they're a lot further north than what The US is, but they often do not have the freezing temperatures that we do. Right. And that was because the the Atlantic current goes goes down to the to the Equator, goes across from east to west, goes up, circles around the the Gulf Of America, and then comes out and runs across upward to Great Britain and and and and that area. And so it warms the air while The US, where I most of our air gets our air gets cold because of the Pacific currents.
Okay. So, yeah, Pacific currents are cold except whenever we get the El Nino, and then that's when all of a sudden things start getting warm. Right. Right. And that's where we get the funky, weather that we had, like, this year where we had all the rain show up so far south.
[02:23:54] Duuude-Ron :
So I picked a very good place to live at. Yeah. See? I and and that's the thing. I didn't really think about it. I just I knew I was coming down this way, and I was gonna drive as far as I could until I couldn't drive no more. I'm like, okay. I I didn't even research it really down here. I just looked at it. And it's like, yeah. I remember running through there, and everyone was always real nice. Screw it. That's where I'm going.
[02:24:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:24:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I mean, I I didn't know what was going on. I, you know, I knew it was warmer than where I was at in February. So I was like, see you.
[02:24:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. And come to find out you got bozos and and other great items that, make life there quite nice.
[02:24:46] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. In fact, where did me and Jim and Dana went to I think we went I think it was a River Road Marina. It's just it's just right here on the North Side Of Pascagoula. Okay. They had you know, we just hung out there. They had karaoke, and and they serve food there. And, yeah, I had the crab stuff flounder. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh, that shit was good. I wanna tell you what right now. That was that was some good vittles right there. It was spicy, but it was good. I it was oh my gosh. I mean, it's like, boom. In fact, when they have it again, I'll probably go get the bad thing is that it's expensive.
$25. Oh, yeah. But but you get 25. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. 25. But but you get a plate full. You know? I mean, it's it's it's not it's not no too little pieces. It's it's, you know, it's crab meat on top of a piece of flounder that's been seasoned really well and cooked. And then Right. I can't remember what size I had. But yeah. No. It was it was a powerful lot of food. It it damn sure filled you up.
[02:26:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, good.
[02:26:15] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, that was that was actually really good food to eat.
[02:26:19] Bryan Goodwin:
That's good. Good. Good. Very good to hear. So
[02:26:22] Duuude-Ron :
And and that dude that dude, actually, when we're sitting there, dude came out and brought his telescope. He's got one of them serious business fuck telescopes. I mean Got the refractor and mirror in there and all? Yeah. It took him thirty minutes to get it set all all set up as its own stand and everything. I mean, it's one of them huge ones. And he pulled up the moon. Now I've seen the moon. I've seen pictures. I've taken pictures. I've seen the moon, and the moon sees me. But Yeah. But through this telescope, I used my phone and got a picture.
And Okay. It's oh my god. The detail on it is freaking in in crazy. And then Right. And then I got talking with him, then he switched it to, Saturn. Oh my god. That was cool as shit now. Saturn Oh, yes. Saturn was tiny because it's so far away. Away. But it was so crisp and clear. Mhmm. It it was it was the rings look like they were it was a knife. You know? Right. It was cool as shit. And two of Saturn's moons were just off to the left of it. Oh, man. It was awesome.
[02:27:42] Bryan Goodwin:
That is cool. Yeah. Yeah. I've always liked going through and looking at, the different types of, different plans and stuff. Just the issue I always had was that I'd never had the money to buy buy a a respectable, telescope.
[02:27:58] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. Now now this guy said he had used smaller ones and, you know, it had worked, but, you know, over the years, he had well, he said his wife left him, so he said fuck it. He he had bought a telescope.
[02:28:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Time to splurge.
[02:28:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. He did. And and the thing is he had bought these pieces used. And I asked him, I'm like I'm like, you know, what you got in this setup right here? He said, oh, about 10,000.
[02:28:27] Bryan Goodwin:
10,000?
[02:28:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's that's just in the telescope. That's just in the telescope he had standing on the ground you you could look through. That's not Right. That's not counting the rest of the equipment he had in his trailer.
[02:28:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh.
[02:28:43] Duuude-Ron :
And and he had the keypad keypad he could punch in, and the telescope just turned.
[02:28:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay. Yeah. And and it would track it.
[02:28:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And and so, yeah, he was on the moon, and then he switched it to Saturn and and everything. And I was like, that's pretty freaking cool. But, yeah, you could you could definitely see some stuff. Right. So but so, yeah, we got dinner, karaoke,
[02:29:13] Bryan Goodwin:
and we got to stargaze. Some some some astronomy going on. So Right. That's cool. So well, it is 09:50, so I guess we need to start getting this old big bird landed. So, anyhow, guys, I wanna say thank you to everybody who is listening to us and has been listening to us and coming back to listen to us. I'm glad that he knows that there are people out there who do enjoy, and and are quite the glutton for punishment. So you're we we have a different means of doing this show than what most people do. We talk about what we wanna talk about. And with many shows, especially on YouTube and stuff like that, they really censor themselves on the topics they talk about. They may they may wanna try to talk about, you know, suicide and try to bring awareness to it, but they won't actually say suicide. They'll say something like self deletion or sell or something to that effect or that is just as equally lame because the the advertisers don't wanna have don't wanna be associated with that word.
And if you're about mental health, well, then you kinda how do you how do you actually bring forth the the awareness of that when you can't actually even talk about what you wanna what you wanna be able to talk about? So we have decided that we don't want to have to censure ourselves in in any way. We wanna talk about we wanna talk about how we wanna talk about it. And if you don't like it, that's okay. You don't have to like it. But if you like it, then great. Awesome. We'd love for, we'd love to know what type of value we've provided for you. And that's why the whole value per value model works so so well for us because I don't have to worry about, did I offend a sponsor?
And what and I don't have to worry about interrupting a a good conversation for, for a mattress. I can have the conversations that we wanna have. And here at the end, then we talk about, you know, what is it what what type of, value did we bring to you? And there's several different ways that you can you can reimburse us for the value that we I didn't tell you. It could be that you just share this the show out with your friends, family, and or or enemies. You share that share that with them. You can let them let them know what what the show is, what it's about, and and why you like it.
And that would be just a great way of being able to give back to the show. If but there's also the three t's of of value for value, and that's time, talent, and treasure. Time. If you've got some time you wanna give and to to say just say thank you and you wanna be able to do something for us, then great. You'll reach out to us. You can talk to me over on CircleCast. That's c I r c l e c a s t at g mail dot com, or you can get ahold of Rich. That's r chelson. That's chelson,chelson@gmail.com. And we'd love to let you know what we can we need help with. Or you can, if you honor a certain talent, maybe you're good at databases, maybe you're good at graphic design, maybe you're good at, at coding up a website, maybe you're good at, at something else.
You can provide your value. Maybe you're a good script jockey and you can, prompt jockey and you wanna be able to, to create chapter art or or episodic art. Everybody can do that. Everybody can create all the art that they wanna create based on a based on something we were talking about, and you could submit it to us. And what we'll start doing is we'll start taking them all in, and we'll start having debates over, well, I like this one for this, well, this one for this. This is a great chapter, chapter or episodic form because that kinda covers everything that we talked about. And so we will give it a post it up, and I still will give you credit for what you what you created. We're not gonna go off and say, well, this is all I do. And no. This is we we aren't we aren't selfish in that way. We'd love to be able to to avoid, your, or voice out that you're the one that did all the hard work and and came up with the, with the art that you came up with. So we'd love to be able to to do that, but all you have to do is start creating possibilities of of art that you would like to see posted up. And so and all the only thing we require is at least to be about 1,500 by 1,500 pixels, and it needs to be square.
If not, we can I can always square it up a little bit if and and that'll that'll help out tremendously? But you can also do treasure, and this is where you can go to support this show on any podcasting two point o app. And if you don't have a podcasting two point o app, you could do so by going over to podcast go to podcastapps..com. And there's a whole slew of podcasting two point o apps out there that will allow you to support the show through the funding tag, or if you wanna, support the show in some other way, they have, just all these different options. And if you're like to listen to the show live, we've got, most podcasting two point o apps have, the the live item tag, and that allows for everybody to, to come on and listen to the show live while we're recording it.
And and so it's an option that the legacy apps like Apple and Spotify won't ever have. So with that, I wanna say thank you again. And, Rich, what do you got to say?
[02:35:47] Duuude-Ron :
Not too much. Just wanna say thanks to everyone who is still coming and listening. I looked before we jumped on, and Singapore is is, like, at a 130 some odd downloads, it seems like. Yeah. I mean, there it's crazy. I love it, though. And our our friends across the pond there in England are are starting to gain traction. So, I mean, apparently, we're people are listening to us, and and, you know, I enjoy it. And, you know, like like Brian said, you know, share this out with your friends, your family, your loved ones. Help people you hate. Who cares? You know? You You're probably never gonna talk to them again. So you know? But if they listen and laugh, who knows? Y'all might be mates in the future and have a pint.
That's my attempt at being English. Okay? I know it's a sorry attempt, but, oh, well. But, yeah, just send us an email if if you wanna talk to us, and that's rjelson@gmail.com or brian. You can send him one at circlecast@gmail.com. And if you wanna hear the dude's infinite wisdom, if he's not asleep right now, just send an email to me or Brian. We will make sure the dude stays awake at least to read the email and give his his impart his his knowledge. So other than that, thanks for listening. Keep coming back. We won't be on next week because of Thanksgiving here in The United States. I figured I had to add that since we have now I have more people listening
[02:37:25] Bryan Goodwin:
who might Out out of The US than in. So
[02:37:28] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh. So now that we have more people listening outside The US than in. Right. Right. So yeah. No. It's cool. But either way, you know, thanks for listening, and catch us again a week after next. So do what you got. You awake yet?
[02:37:43] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I'm awake. Like I said, just listen to y'all chitter chatter. So, yeah, Rich and Brian have already thanked everybody for, coming on and visiting and listening to us each and every week. Again, yes, thank you very much. We enjoy your you downloading our show, and we hope that we will continue to, oh, give you our little bit of knowledge. And, I mean, that's saying it very lightly. We have very little information, but shit. Lost my train of thought. I was gonna say, just dribble right out of here. Yeah. That's right. The the, the train and the caboose both fell off the track, and all the cars in between.
Damn. So, again, because I'm tired. So but, yes, again, thank you very much for everybody that downloads.
[02:38:50] Bryan Goodwin:
So alright, guys. Well, again, thank you. Rich, Ron, thank y'all for both coming on and sit down and allowing us to have a conversation. Hopefully, next week, I won't sound quite as weird as I do, because, hopefully, half of face will actually stop swelling as much as it has, and I will look back to being normal. I actually send send you a a picture of my face there, Rich. I went ahead and took one just for posterity. So you can see that, yeah, I'm quasi modoed pretty good. So so, but, anyhow, guys, I wanna say thanks again for y'all coming on, sit down, talking with talking with each other for for the three hours, and we will talk to y'all the week after next since we're well, I'm not gonna be eating turkey. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be driving. So anyhow so, guys, y'all take care, and, we'll talk to you later. So till then, bye.
Later. Peace out.
[02:39:50] Duuude-Ron :
Alright, guys. Catch you later. Yep. Yep. Alright. Thanks a lot. Bye, guys. Bye.
Hey, man. Hello, and welcome to Two Grumpy Vets and a Duuude, this is a show that each week allows for three friends to get together and live life intentionally. We do this by throwing a little social commentary with our own weird sense of humor and our thoughts together to show folks that living and having weekly conversations is a good way to help each other out, help men become better men. And so now on with the show with Bryan, Rich, and the dude.
[00:00:35] Duuude-Ron :
There he is. How looking like kids with a tear Mister Brian.
[00:00:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Hello. How are you? I am I'm I'm I'm riding struggle bus today.
[00:00:49] Duuude-Ron :
What are you struggling with? Why are you
[00:00:52] Bryan Goodwin:
About a month ago, I ended up having a tooth go nuclear. Right? And so I went to the doctor. I got some antibiotics and, some, and a steroidal just to to get the the swelling down and all that. And it worked great, went away, used up all my my antibiotics, used up all my my, my, prednisone, and and was good. I was meaning to call Dennis to have them look at it and got completely sidetracked and and all everything else and just never got around to doing it. And then everything goes fine until the night before yesterday, and I was like, okay. Tooth's starting to hurt ache a little bit. So it's probably need to go ahead and make sure everything's all brushed out. Thinking I probably got, like, a piece of food or something caught in the in the cavity.
Right. Well, I don't know. I must have knocked something some plug that had formed out of it because I'd knocked that loose. And the and, the following day, started to hurt again like it did before, and I was like, oh, okay. Okay. Well, let's see if we can hold this because we've got I've got we're fix to change insurance companies. They're going from from UnitedHealthcare going over to Blue Cross Blue Shield. I was like, alright. So I'll I'll see if I can just suffer through this. I'll just take my aspirin. We'll we'll be good. No. No. This morning, I woke up looking like fucking quasi fucking moto.
The whole right side of my face is all swollen and drooping a little bit. And, god dang, I have just been completely wiped out tired. I mean, I went to the I I went ahead and went to urgent care just to to to get some antibiotics to knock it down. But but, yeah, it was like, holy snot, man. This is I because it's swollen up enough that I've got I could see my cheek in my peripheral vision on my right eye.
[00:02:53] Duuude-Ron :
That's pretty bad. Yeah. Now now you do know, even though you have insurance and even though they're fixing to change, you can still go to the dentist, and they'll still they'll still pay out.
[00:03:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, if they well, the dentist I thought I was I was gonna go to, went over there today. As soon as I got finished with the, with doctor, I ran over there and was like, alright. So what do y'all, find out if they don't actually carry our insurance or not in that network? I was like, oh, no. Okay. So got a, got a got to talking around a little bit, found one that actually accepts our our insurance. One accepts both. They they accept Ameritas and and Blue Cross Blue Shield. So I was like, alright. Sweet. Sweet. Alright. So I've got them. The only problem is I don't get to see them until the December 15. That's the first opening they have. So Oh my god.
[00:03:50] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I'd be like, you better load me up on drugs then. Well,
[00:03:56] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm gonna I'm gonna hope that they, they get in there and go, oh, hey. Look. Because they're, you know, they're just an initial overview is to see what's going on, what's not going on, yada yada yada. And, I'm hoping they're gonna look at it and go, oh, hey. Yeah. We're gonna go ahead and yoink that tooth out.
[00:04:12] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, they should.
[00:04:14] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm hoping they will.
[00:04:16] Duuude-Ron :
I tell them, yank this, son of a bitch. Fix this, but we can worry about everything else later.
[00:04:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You know? Absolutely. So that's but yeah. No. It's just the, the antibiotic that I'm taking, it, I've got the pharmacist warrant or suggested that I take take a probiotic with it because it's gonna be apparently, it has a tendency to give you the shits. Not quite anal leakage, but, you know, still the shits. But and so got, got that taken, taken a daily probiotic for ten days. And and then, yeah, a, my antibiotic once every eight hours.
[00:05:08] Duuude-Ron :
So Lovely.
[00:05:10] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Lovely. Lovely. So get that all all taken care of, and hopefully, I bet you won't forget about it this time. Oh, no. No. I already got the I already got the plug itself. I'm about to forget the damn thing. But, yeah, it's it's it's it's a bunch.
[00:05:31] Duuude-Ron :
So It is. I don't doubt it. Dude,
[00:05:35] Rich Chelson:
you showed me up? Yeah. I know.
[00:05:39] Duuude-Ron :
What are you knowing about? We we're gonna talk about you.
[00:05:43] Rich Chelson:
You know what? That's fine. Why not? Seems like everybody else does. What why should I why should you guys miss the opportunity?
[00:05:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, you know,
[00:05:54] Rich Chelson:
because Of course. Yeah. You know? And that and that's absolutely fine. And just just know one thing, you're not gonna hurt my feelings because I don't have any. So
[00:06:05] Duuude-Ron :
I know that. I've known that for, what, years now.
[00:06:09] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Years now. So, you know, now that's the debate you guys and the debacle that you guys are gonna have to argue with when you're talking about me because are you wasting your resources and energy and air? Probably. To do this? Well, okay. That's fine. I don't care. Yeah.
[00:06:33] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm probably wasting my air. I have nothing but hot air. So you know?
[00:06:39] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I know. We all know.
[00:06:43] Duuude-Ron :
So, dude, what you've been up to?
[00:06:46] Rich Chelson:
Oh, just the same old shit every week. So let's see. Worked home. Work home, work Walmart home. There you go. Work home Gotta change it up. Work H E B home. I gotta go to H E B yeah. I gotta go to H E B tomorrow because I need smokes.
[00:07:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Well, well, I Is that something you can get over at H E B? Yeah. Sure.
[00:07:13] Rich Chelson:
That's the only place that carries them.
[00:07:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, really?
[00:07:17] Rich Chelson:
Yes. I've been to two smoke shops, and they don't even carry
[00:07:21] Bryan Goodwin:
these nasty cigar things. Oh oh, that's right. Yeah. You do cigars. You don't actually do cigarettes.
[00:07:27] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because I can't afford fucking cigarettes. Well, if I'm gonna kill myself, I might as well kill it. Might as well kill it. Cheaply as possible. There you go. As cheaply as possible because I'm a cheap motherfucker.
[00:07:40] Bryan Goodwin:
I was gonna say, have you looked at buying just tobacco shag tobacco and and a cigarette packing machine and just making your own smokes?
[00:07:49] Rich Chelson:
Oh, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Oh, that's too much work? Okay. You need because that's that is way too much work. Just like making dinner.
[00:07:59] Bryan Goodwin:
See? No dinner made for you.
[00:08:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. See, I'm not a rich. I don't smoke my own briskets. I don't do any of that shit. I will fucking put a pan on the stove with some water, heat it up, throw a few hot dogs in there. I'm fucking good to go.
[00:08:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's more work than I expected you to do. You could do the same thing if if you get a plastic bowl, put your adducts in there, run some water over them three minutes in the microwave, and they're done.
[00:08:31] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, Y'all boil your hot dogs?
[00:08:34] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. Oh, gag.
[00:08:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Gag? Yeah.
[00:08:39] Rich Chelson:
What do you do? Man. How do you do your hot dogs?
[00:08:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Essentially, I fry them. Okay. Yeah. I'll cook them on the grill, or I will cook them on the or I will, or I'll put them in the frying pan and just just up there and shake them until they look like they're look like they're pretty much warm all the way through.
[00:08:56] Rich Chelson:
Oh, well, you know what? I will eat hot dogs that are, you know, on the stove, in a pan with some little bit of oil and, you know, you get your
[00:09:08] Bryan Goodwin:
char marks on it. Yeah. Gotta have the I have the the the the root of the animal flesh or Yes. Leftover animal flesh or whatever it is to actually eat them.
[00:09:19] Rich Chelson:
There you go. So I prefer stove. You know, yeah, I'll I'll boil some water, throw those things in there, and when they start the ends start opening up, they're done. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Or I can or I can put it in a pot pie. All I have to do is hit fucking, you know, whatever the number is for the oven and he'll press preheat. The stove will tell me when it's at temperature. Throw those some bitches in, Put a timer on. When the timer goes off, pull them motherfuckers out.
[00:09:58] Duuude-Ron :
And you know you can do pot pies in the microwave as well. Five minutes.
[00:10:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, unless you got Marie Calendar, and Marie Calendar is still about twenty minutes in the knicker.
[00:10:09] Rich Chelson:
I don't know. Well, there's some there's some things I will do in the microwave. There's some things I just I'm set on the stove. Just
[00:10:17] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, that's fine. Go for it, dude. I'm not saying that, but, you know, I'm just saying, you know, since since you don't like to do all that work, I'm just I'm just giving you easier options because this I've done I've tried it. Okay. And and as far and as far as, Marie Callender's, I ain't that freaking fancy. And she's
[00:10:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, they're a little more expensive than than the other, but
[00:10:45] Rich Chelson:
Bullshit.
[00:10:46] Duuude-Ron :
They're a lot more expensive. I Oh. I don't know what store you're going to, mister Barney Pegs.
[00:10:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Go to Walmart? Where do you go?
[00:10:57] Duuude-Ron :
I don't buy Marie Callender, so I don't go nowhere. Oh. I I I think I've tried them things once or twice, and and I was actually pissed off for the money I spent because they don't give you no food. Yeah. But I don't know. Yeah. Let's see let's see. It's Anyone who says gluten, that's not enough food.
[00:11:19] Bryan Goodwin:
But, you know, it's the gluten free stuff. I don't know if that's No. I don't do gluten free. No.
[00:11:25] Rich Chelson:
That you know? But, you know, their their chicken, you know, was farm raised, never in a, you know, industrial setting.
[00:11:37] Duuude-Ron :
You know? God forbid. Like like,
[00:11:40] Rich Chelson:
really? Well, you know, that's the cost of those meals, and I ain't fucking paying them. I don't give a shit if the chicken has all kinds of antibiotics put in its system. Don't give a fuck. White meat is white meat. I'll eat the motherfucker. Doesn't matter.
[00:12:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Don't care. Yeah. It's so funny. My wife will eat I mean, even things like Marie Callender. I mean, when she goes when it comes to eating, like, pot pies and stuff like that, she won't touch the meat. She'll sit there and she'll pick pick all the meat out of it because she's just like, no. It's just that means just a barrel of that roast. It's been it's it's the leftovers. It's stuff that they didn't have, weren't able to do, to to sell as as part of a bigger piece of, piece of of of of meat. So Wow. This is essentially the whips an asshole chicken. So
[00:12:37] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, that's fine, but, you know, when you get hungry, you're gonna eat that meat. Oh, yeah. I mean I mean so I mean and and so we can say, oh, I'm not gonna eat that. I'm not gonna eat this. And you know what? When you get hungry enough Hungry enough, you'll you'll eat it no matter what.
[00:12:55] Bryan Goodwin:
You can go eat. That's that's for damn sure. Yeah. I got hungry enough. I might accidentally even consider, but I I that's closest I dare I'd get is just consider even possum peters. So, yeah, just might consider. Possum Peters.
[00:13:11] Rich Chelson:
Possum Peters?
[00:13:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Vienna sausages? Oh. Oh, okay. Nasty fucking things. Oh, god. No. Oh, hell yeah. Those are just they they stink. Barbecued ones. Oh, god. No. That's even worse. No. The freaking barbecued, Vienna sausages are good, man. Yeah. No. Vienna sausages are just nasty.
[00:13:37] Rich Chelson:
No. And so expensive now?
[00:13:39] Duuude-Ron :
Dollar 50 a can.
[00:13:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. They used to be 50¢.
[00:13:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. They had to do And you get, like, what? 8, 7? 7 or 8. Yeah. Yeah. But forget a dollar 50. I mean and if you think about it, Venice sausages
[00:13:57] Bryan Goodwin:
is the same thing as spam is. Just a No. No. No. No. No. No. Spam's a little different. I mean, it probably has all the same types of meat in there. It's just different different seasonings. No. No. Get the barbecue plate. They're good. Oh, god. No. I ain't doing some that when it comes to barbecue, anything processed like Vienna sausages, even barbecue spam, no. No. Barbecue I don't know what it is about their the barbecue they use. It is just the nastiest fucking it's almost as bad as barbecue flavored chips.
[00:14:29] Duuude-Ron :
Barbecue flavored chips are
[00:14:31] Bryan Goodwin:
okay. Yeah. They're Yvonne, you know, if you're starving.
[00:14:37] Rich Chelson:
Well, maybe you. I mean, I'll eat them. Yeah. I'll do you know what? I'll eat some I'll eat the hell out of some barbecue potato chips. Hell, yeah. Now Vienna sausage? Nah. I ain't gonna I you know what? I have to agree with Brian. I ain't touching that fucking Vienna sausage now. Spam? You know, spam's not so bad. But if you keep it up and you deep fry it with some potatoes,
[00:15:03] Bryan Goodwin:
good stuff, mannered.
[00:15:05] Duuude-Ron :
Man.
[00:15:06] Rich Chelson:
Okay. So Square. Here here's your last resource of you're starving to death. Okay. Omelette with ham, MRE.
[00:15:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I I would I I've not ever had it, so I'd choke it down at least once just to go, yeah. We're not touching that no more. What the fuck? I don't know. What the hell? You put Brian, you put a fucking hot sauce on it. It fixes it. Yeah. Hot sauce fixes everything. Yeah. Oh, wow.
[00:15:36] Rich Chelson:
And you know what? Every MRE comes with a small bottle
[00:15:39] Bryan Goodwin:
of Tabasco sauce. But does it really?
[00:15:42] Rich Chelson:
Yes. It does. And, I mean, those things are fucking small.
[00:15:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. They're they're a three or four squirt bottle.
[00:15:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. About that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't get a whole hell of a lot. But you know what was really fucking cool is I would take the those Tabasco sauce balls, but I ain't no fucking Tabasco. New fucking way. Dump them out, clean them out, and put sand in them when I was over in Iraq for Desert Shield, Desert Storm and send them back as Christmas presents.
[00:16:24] Duuude-Ron :
And That's a totally free way to do it.
[00:16:26] Rich Chelson:
There you go. And no and back then, if I woulda known then what I know now, I could have sent Heidi, like, several 100 of those bottles, and they woulda sold for $10.20 dollars each at that time.
[00:16:46] Duuude-Ron :
You'd have been a millionaire
[00:16:48] Bryan Goodwin:
probably. But, of course, it would have already been spent, but you know? Gonna say a debt or a a thousand there.
[00:16:56] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's I think maybe that. Thousand there. A thousand there. Yeah. Maybe.
[00:17:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Maybe. Maybe not. I don't know. But, anyway,
[00:17:05] Rich Chelson:
yeah, I didn't have that fucking hindsight, but that's okay.
[00:17:09] Bryan Goodwin:
You mean the foresight?
[00:17:10] Rich Chelson:
You've got the hindsight. You just Oh, I got the hindsight. The foresight. Yeah. No. Fucking I always usually lose that game all the fucking time. Every fucking time, I'm I'm in the the section at the ballpark that's you know, how you have the nine players out on the field? I'm the tenth player behind the wall playing left out.
[00:17:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Kinda like that. What is it? Progressive commercial where the guy sits down and he's right behind the pillar?
[00:17:43] Duuude-Ron :
Oh,
[00:17:44] Bryan Goodwin:
damn. Farmers. Farmers. Yeah. Right.
[00:17:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Sit and sit. Yeah. This dude sit he finds his seat, sits down, and he's right in front of a pillar and a home run gets hit, and he just has to sit there because he can't see it. Can't see it.
[00:18:02] Rich Chelson:
But at least the seat was back far enough to where he had a little bit of leg room
[00:18:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:18:08] Rich Chelson:
I'm sure.
[00:18:10] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, but still I mean, I'm not spending however much money on a baseball ticket or a football ticket for leg room.
[00:18:18] Rich Chelson:
I ain't spending that kind of money on any sporting ticket. Them sporting tickets are freaking phenomenally expensive.
[00:18:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Well, it's like concert tickets.
[00:18:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, when I went to Saint Louis for a class, this has been about ten years ago,
[00:18:43] Duuude-Ron :
the instructor
[00:18:45] Rich Chelson:
got tickets for all the students. And, I mean, there was, oh, close to 30 students. K. So and there was two or there are back to back nights that Saint Louis was playing, I think it was Diamondbacks. And the face we were probably about 40 rows up on 1st Base. No. Maybe not that far back. It might have been 30 rows back. $289 a ticket.
[00:19:30] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's what that's what they normally cost. What did he get them for?
[00:19:34] Rich Chelson:
Because I don't know. They they something got them, but yeah. Well yeah. Or the company because we're gonna be there, you know, you know, your hand I pat your back. You pat my back. Who knows? But I was a little bit more worried about the homework than I was the game, but we went to the game. But 200 and the the face value on the ticket said $289 or something like that. I'm like, yeah. I don't think so. And then beers? And it's ten years ago. Yeah. Beers are, like, $8.
[00:20:13] Bryan Goodwin:
$8. Mhmm.
[00:20:15] Rich Chelson:
And I see oh, I have no doubt in my mind. But there was one dude that had a fucking case of 24 that he bought. So 24 times eight. Yeah.
[00:20:32] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That was right at $200.
[00:20:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:20:36] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Because they stopped selling beer at the seventh inning.
[00:20:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, we didn't even stay till that late. I think we left, like, the fourth. Oh, shit. Doing the homework and see, this is metallurgy crap. The molecular level of metallurgy. All the calculations and so on like that. Yeah. Homework would take about four to six hours a night. Yeah. Yeah. But we went to the game, and, you know, I think we left it, like, the start of the fourth inning. And as we were going up, because there was there was four of us there that night on 1st Base, and then they had the other section that they got tickets for was on the 3rd Base line. As we were walking out, there was this grandma with her grandson. He may have been eight years old, nine years old.
And, I mean, when you went up underneath the the second tier, even though it was open, man, there was no air circulating. It was hot.
[00:21:54] Bryan Goodwin:
I bet.
[00:21:56] Rich Chelson:
And so as we're walking passing by, we just said, here you go. Those four c's down there, right down there, here's tickets for them. Man, grandma started crying. I'm like, cool. You know what? You guys enjoy the rest of the rest of the game at closer seats. Knock yourself out. You might be able to say hello to the 1st Basement. Who knows? But that is the only game, baseball game, I have ever been to live because I ain't gonna pay that kind of money for watching a sport that bores the hell out of me. Now maybe one of you two are baseball fans who would love to go see a baseball game live, knock yourself out. Me, it's boring as shit.
[00:22:49] Duuude-Ron :
I've watched quite a few Cardinals games live.
[00:22:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Well I'll watch them I'll I'll watch them in person, but television, watch them on on on the television? No. I can't. I can't do that. Just boring. It's not.
[00:23:06] Rich Chelson:
I can't do either. Football? Not gonna do either. Hockey? Not gonna do either. Basketball? Oh, hell no. No. No. Those kinds of sports are not for me. Now dirt track racing? It's a different ballgame. Yeah. If they're on, you know, like, I don't do a couple of car channels, oh, hell, yeah. I'll sit and watch sprint cars.
[00:23:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:23:40] Rich Chelson:
And and they're even better live because you can smell that fuel. Oh, yeah. When they're when they're going around that tray racetrack. Oh my god. It's one of those yeah. Let me get that $20 bills $20 bill and, you know, roll it into a straw and suck up some of that fuel. Buddy,
[00:24:04] Bryan Goodwin:
good flavored stuff right there.
[00:24:07] Rich Chelson:
You know? Yeah. So you asked me how my week was going yesterday. Was really I you know what? I I don't know why this dude did what he did, but I had this car, I mean, cut me off by, like, two tenths of a second. Almost took out the bumper, but I didn't see it coming because I wasn't looking at the mirrors at the time. And she just shot in front of me. I mean, fucking close. I didn't honk the horn, didn't do anything. And then a guy from a bug company, don't know the name of it, you know, the ones that come out and do your lawns. Right. He leaned over in his truck and looks up at me with the kind of look of you're gonna do something about that?
And I'm thinking to myself, and I looked down at him. He was looking at me, and I'm like and then I just look up and to the front of me, and I'm thinking the look on his face, you gonna do something about that? I'm like, thinking to myself, yeah. I'm gonna do something about that. Seems how my truck is governed at 65 miles an hour, and she's going well past 65 miles an hour. Yeah. Let me get out of jump out of the truck at 65 miles an hour and run up to the car and maybe what? Slap her?
[00:25:42] Duuude-Ron :
Right?
[00:25:44] Rich Chelson:
I'm like, yeah. No. I ain't gonna do shit about it. My truck can't go that damn fast. Just I was dumbfounded by that guy's facial reactions. I'm like, yeah. No. Can't do any can't do a damn thing about it. I'm doing anything. You know? And why honk the horn? She's already fucking in front of me. So I gotta let off from the gas so because she can I can get my cushion back from the camera?
[00:26:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, camera doesn't throw up a shit pit.
[00:26:25] Rich Chelson:
And then because camera doesn't have any common sense whatsoever, and then continue on my journey, and the bug guy just continued down the center lane. I'm like I'm like, you you go get them there, buttercup. You got a vehicle that can probably catch up to the car. I can't. Right. What you what you gonna do about it? Just it's it is amazing, the daily adventure of driving a truck
[00:27:03] Duuude-Ron :
on the interstate. Oh, yeah. So much so.
[00:27:07] Rich Chelson:
And especially in heavier or densely or populated places like Dallas, Austin.
[00:27:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[00:27:15] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Those are just such an adventure. So that was my day yesterday. Today was just babbling.
[00:27:29] Bryan Goodwin:
It was just babbling. Nothing big.
[00:27:32] Rich Chelson:
No big deal. It's just traveling. Well, I got to drive in the rain all day long. So
[00:27:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, y'all get a lot of rain today?
[00:27:40] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah.
[00:27:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Has that system hit you guys yet? Yeah. Yeah. It's been it's been raining here, but I was I figured it was actually coming more from the West than it was from from the South. So that's why I was kinda like, oh, hell. Okay.
[00:27:55] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That system came from the, hurricane that was out on the Pacific.
[00:27:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay. Well, good. Because we've been needing some more rain.
[00:28:05] Rich Chelson:
We definitely do because there was a snippet on the radio. As I'm driving, I just fucking had to laugh at it. It's like because when the commercial was made, we were at a very high drought warning. You know, burn bans in effect for freaking 90% of the state, and I'm sure there still is because we didn't get a lot of rain out of this, but we got some rain. So I'm sure the ban ban or or the burn bans are still in effect, and they're talking about for people that are going to deep fry their turkey to be extra cautious because of the burn bans. I'm like, wow.
Yep. Wow. Are you kidding me?
[00:28:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Nope. Nope. People people are famous for for starting grease fires because they don't know how to
[00:29:07] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because some of them fucking put a goddamn frozen turkey into the goddamn hot oil. There's a fucking genius for you right there. Let it cook it and a thaw it all at the same time. Doesn't quite work that way. And, see, I'm not gonna deep fry a turkey because where the hell are you gonna put the gizzard stuffing at if it's not in the fucking belly of the turkey?
[00:29:34] Duuude-Ron :
Who says you can't cook it inside the belly of a turkey?
[00:29:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, I can in the oven, but, you know, how well would that work with in the oil bath or the oil sauna for the turkey?
[00:29:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You would probably have to do that separate on the stove.
[00:29:52] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. So, you know, I'm not gonna deep fry turkey because, you know, that stuffing tastes real good, you know, when it comes out of the bird. Even though there's plenty left over, you can only stuff so much inside the bird. Right. So we shall see come Thanksgiving time frame.
[00:30:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Also, the problem is a lot of people will go off when they try to try to deep fry their their turkey. The bird's still freaking frozen.
[00:30:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You can't defile it
[00:30:26] Bryan Goodwin:
and cook it at the same time in an oil bath. Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay. Okay. I see what you're saying now. Oh, yeah. Actually, you can, but, it gets really lively.
[00:30:38] Duuude-Ron :
You actually pull the turkey out and let it thaw just a little bit and then pull the neck and the gizzards and all that out. And then, yes, the rest of it, even still frozen, you can
[00:30:51] Bryan Goodwin:
deep fry it. And Yeah. But you're gonna again, you're gonna still have your you're gonna have your your the reason why the the oil gets all bubble extra lively and stuff is because the, because of the moisture that's that's frozen in the turkey.
[00:31:07] Duuude-Ron :
I know this. I've I've I I have done this before, and it takes two handles or two people with handles, one on each side, and you slowly let it in. And, yes, the bubbles get lively. The oil gets lively, but it doesn't splash all over it unless if you go slow. If you go fast, then, yeah, you're screwed. You're going to constantly
[00:31:31] Bryan Goodwin:
not have Thanksgiving.
[00:31:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You're going the shit's gonna fucking explode.
[00:31:37] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. But if you go slow and set it in, in about forty five minutes, you're gonna have a done turkey. But if you want to inject it or anything, then you have to let it thaw just for a couple hours at least so you can get the needle in there and then inject your stuff, you know, under the skin all all around the bird, then deep fry it.
[00:32:03] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Or or take a turkey out of the freezer a week before turkey before Thanksgiving. Yeah. We were good. It'd be ready, and it's it's it'll and it'll cook beautifully. Yes. It will. Hell, you could even do a brine. If you wanted to brine your turkey, you could do it then.
[00:32:21] Duuude-Ron :
Most turkeys come pre brined.
[00:32:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Now you brine it. No. Well, I ain't doing none of that fucking shit. That's too much work, guys.
[00:32:31] Rich Chelson:
Too much fucking work.
[00:32:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Yes. Yeah. I don't mind the hard work. I mean, heck, I I like to make make jambalaya by by scratch from scratch. So
[00:32:45] Duuude-Ron :
that's a that's a good bit of
[00:32:49] Bryan Goodwin:
a that's a good bit of work because that's usually about about three hours of of cutting and prepping and all that. So by the time you get done, it's, you know, it's easy. Once you're once you're actually doing the process of cooking it, it's it's easy. It's just the prepping is what takes so long.
[00:33:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I believe you. Am I gonna make any jambalaya? Nope. But you'll eat mine.
[00:33:15] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I don't know.
[00:33:17] Rich Chelson:
Hell, yeah. Just tell me when I need to be there, you know, and I'm good. Oh, I'll I'll let you know. Fact, I will be fifteen minutes late. You put it into the bowl to let it cool off a little bit. And then I'll knock on the door and say, okay. Where's my jumping light at? Where is it? As soon as, like Try here. And then as soon as I get done leaving, I'll say thank you and leave.
[00:33:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. Alright. No. No. We're not sitting around talking. No. We ain't doing no chitchat.
[00:33:48] Rich Chelson:
No talking.
[00:33:50] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm just here for the food.
[00:33:52] Rich Chelson:
That's right. Just here for food. Oh, I'm so fucking rude, but that's me.
[00:34:02] Duuude-Ron :
That's alright. Now
[00:34:06] Bryan Goodwin:
what else is happening in y'all's world? Not too much. Not too much? So what did what was happening yesterday? Missed y'all at the at the vet call.
[00:34:18] Rich Chelson:
Oh. Oh, yeah. No. My ass was in bed at fucking 08:30.
[00:34:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh.
[00:34:26] Rich Chelson:
04:00 comes awfully fucking early. Damn it. Oh, literally. I get you. Yes. It does. Yes. It does. Comes awfully damn early. It comes way too damn early. No shit. Especially when I can at least saw down another fucking tree. Yeah. Make them into lawn. Yeah. Got got,
[00:34:45] Bryan Goodwin:
got all but the three biggest ones. At least top cut the tops off of them. I've got, so I'm slowly getting getting the the tree stuff taken care of, by the way. So but, going I went ahead and, all I'm gonna do is when I get next week or next time I'm off, when I head over and I'm gonna I've gotta get a a, a better saw because mine's just mine's puking itself to to death. So it was just it it wasn't it wasn't doing the doing the job anymore, so I gotta grab a new one and gonna get, get everything cut down down as close to the ground as I can.
And then I'm gonna take a spade bit, and I'm gonna drill a big old hole, and then I've got some got some round up. Wanna wanna understand that that does a pretty good job when you when you get it into the the middle of the tree. So so hope I hope I hope I hope I.
[00:35:46] Rich Chelson:
Or better yet, when your neighbor gets a stump grinder from, I think it was Lowe's. And I said, hey. Can I can I borrow it? He's like, yeah. You could borrow
[00:36:02] Bryan Goodwin:
it. Yeah. The only problem I have is I have Yeah. I'm always paying $250
[00:36:07] Rich Chelson:
for two hours for this thing. I'm like, okay. Can I borrow it?
[00:36:12] Bryan Goodwin:
So you mind if I borrow it?
[00:36:16] Rich Chelson:
And I got two stumps down that needed to come down. Thank goodness. Yeah. Yep. And they ain't getting no growth out of them son bitches because I went, like, about, oh, probably six inches into the ground.
[00:36:30] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[00:36:32] Rich Chelson:
But, you know, I offered him, you know, hey. I'll what do you want what do you want me to give you for, you know, my usage of your rental? Yeah. He's like, yeah. Don't worry about it. I'm like, okay. You sure?
[00:36:49] Bryan Goodwin:
You pass it up, my man.
[00:36:52] Rich Chelson:
But that's okay. He's got, well, he ain't he ain't rich by any stretch of the word, but he's a lot more well off than I am. Alright. So but he's he's the one that got me that duck for my Jeep.
[00:37:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[00:37:13] Duuude-Ron :
That you still don't have on your Jeep?
[00:37:16] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Fuck you, Rich. How about that? Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. It will. By the time next visit rolls around, it'll be on the fucking cheap.
[00:37:30] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. Let's see. Yep. I hope so. I mean, I'd like to see it out close and in person.
[00:37:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, it will next trip,
[00:37:41] Duuude-Ron :
it will be on the Jeep. Okay.
[00:37:45] Rich Chelson:
I just gotta have I just have to figure out a way to fucking get it glued get the bolt glued into the duct and make sure that it's gonna freaking it isn't gonna spin, so I might have to drill a couple smaller holes or smaller bolts. You know, just so it's it doesn't spin around like a, you know, a dancer on a on a pole.
[00:38:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:38:14] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, you could use JB Weld or grill a glue, and that would hold.
[00:38:20] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Probably gonna get some epoxy. But, yeah, once it sets and I don't know how freaking hollowed or how much the duct how hollow it is, but we'll find out.
[00:38:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:38:35] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. On the epoxy, you'd you know, once the guy gets once it gets into the the threads, yeah, it'd probably
[00:38:42] Bryan Goodwin:
hold that bolt pretty tight. Oh, yeah. It'll hold it real tight.
[00:38:46] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, that and Loctite would do the same thing.
[00:38:49] Rich Chelson:
Well, possibly. But I will have it on the Jeep the next time I come to visit. Okay. And it'll be and it will be the only Jeep or the only duck that you will see on my Jeep, well, from the outside. Because I got a couple now I got a few special ducks that I have up in my molly bar where I put my radio at. Yeah. You know, just sitting there on the inside of that that molly bar, but you can't but you can't see them unless you're inside the Jeep. Right. On the driver's side. So, no, I'm still not a duck person except for those those select few that now I might double tape them to the bottom of the moly bar, you know, to where you can see them, but still, you ain't gonna be able to see them. They they ain't gonna be on the damn dash.
Right. I'll still I'll still reduck another Jeep if I get one. And one of these days, I'll get rid of all those ducks that we got at Jeep Jamboree or whatever it was called, Jeep in the Coast. Yeah. I'll get all those damn things handed out one day. We got an event coming up Saturday, so I'd probably be able to get rid of about 20 of them. Right. That'd be cool. That'd be cool.
[00:40:16] Duuude-Ron :
And that'll leave you about, what, another 30 more?
[00:40:20] Rich Chelson:
No. No. I'd I don't have that many anymore because I have taken a handful of them out of the backpack and had them, and I've reduct. So I got about probably maybe 30 left.
[00:40:37] Duuude-Ron :
So you're running low. You need me to send what I have. Yeah. Yeah. Send some more.
[00:40:43] Rich Chelson:
No. No. No. No. No. Need more ducks.
[00:40:45] Duuude-Ron :
Dude, that's good. I'll have a load. I can mail it to you, and you wouldn't even know about it.
[00:40:51] Rich Chelson:
Yes. I know, Rich. And then, see, this is where you need to get out and reduct the ducks because we know that you they you ain't gonna put them on your dash either.
[00:41:05] Duuude-Ron :
No. I'm I'm using mine as Christmas presents. The kids are gonna love the shit out of it. Brit's gonna hate me, but I don't give two shits.
[00:41:16] Rich Chelson:
There you go. I'm with you on that one. But,
[00:41:21] Duuude-Ron :
you know, that's only, what, two or three each? And I'm still I'm still gonna have probably oh god. With what I got in my console plus what I got in those bags still in the dining room.
[00:41:35] Rich Chelson:
Uh-huh.
[00:41:36] Duuude-Ron :
I've got probably another 30 or so myself.
[00:41:40] Rich Chelson:
Well, get get get to handing them out there, stud.
[00:41:45] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you know, I just don't think about it.
[00:41:48] Rich Chelson:
Neither do I.
[00:41:49] Duuude-Ron :
Honestly.
[00:41:51] Rich Chelson:
You're I don't either. And they will and once and when I do remember and grab a handful and put them up in the center of my console where the, you know, the other bar is that I had my radio on and, you know, but, again, just like you, forget every time I freaking head out.
[00:42:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I do. I mean, I I just yeah. That's just what I do. I forget. I will say, though, I have achieved a new standard in AM radio contest for my Oh, yeah? Yep. Because this last weekend, I had a contest.
[00:42:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:42:38] Duuude-Ron :
325 contacts.
[00:42:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright.
[00:42:42] Duuude-Ron :
At one point, I ran over 60 contacts in an hour. So, yeah, that was that was insane.
[00:42:55] Rich Chelson:
Because I call sign, my call sign, your call sign, my call sign. Okay. Next.
[00:43:00] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. You see, on on this one here, we had to give a little more information. We had to say our our our call sign, our precedence, which is were we low power, high power, single, whatever. You know, they had a a single letter designation for each class. And then you had to say that. You had to say your call sign again, and then you had to say the year the last two numbers of the year you were licensed, and then you had to say your state. You know, like, for me, Mississippi is MS. So, I mean, that but
[00:43:42] Rich Chelson:
at a moment USA.
[00:43:45] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. You don't have to say USA. Uh-huh. Just just the state. But, yeah, I ran 325 contacts and my best ever before. And one thing I did different on this is I found an open frequency. Kinda surprised me, but I found an open frequency and I parked my butt there. And I Right. And and I started calling CQ. Well, apparently, someone had spotted my call sign on the Spotty network, and that's how I was running a pileup trying to make, you know, all these contacts, and that's where it that's where I made these 60 contacts in an hour.
[00:44:30] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Because your name because your name was on that one particular site?
[00:44:34] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and it was my state mainly is because most people don't get Mississippi in their log for you know, during contest.
[00:44:45] Rich Chelson:
What why is that?
[00:44:47] Duuude-Ron :
Because I don't think there's many Mississippi hams that do contests.
[00:44:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:44:55] Duuude-Ron :
So so when when they found out that, oh, shit. Someone from from Mississippi is on is is, you know, parked on this frequency, I mean, oh my god. I mean, it was a freaking it was crazy. It was a pileup.
[00:45:12] Rich Chelson:
And there was 60 people 60 people that completed their ham bucket list.
[00:45:20] Duuude-Ron :
I would think so. I would like to think so. I don't know, but probably yeah.
[00:45:25] Rich Chelson:
So I'd look at it like that.
[00:45:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, no. And that's I mean, yeah. No. Hell, yeah. That's but, yeah, it's just, yeah, it was it was it was crazy. And for some reason, after that solar storm, the band was just singing. The bands all the bands were singing. I mean but, yeah, I had never made the highest contact count I had ever had in a contest was 188. And this time, I had 325.
[00:45:58] Rich Chelson:
Wow.
[00:46:00] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Big jump. So
[00:46:03] Rich Chelson:
and then Was this the was this the the big November, whatever it was called Yes. Contest?
[00:46:12] Duuude-Ron :
Yes.
[00:46:13] Rich Chelson:
Okay.
[00:46:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yes. This was the big November sweeps contest. Now now the one coming up next month, this one's even bigger, and and this one's all on one band. It's it's it's see, it's on the 10 meter band. So And you see, the one last weekend was only thirty hours long. The one in December will be forty eight hours. So
[00:46:40] Bryan Goodwin:
so, yeah, that'll be another big one. So how do these guy how do some of these guys if you've gotten you were kicking butt with the 300 knot 300 whatever contacts. How do some of these people get, like, a 4,000, 5,000 contacts?
[00:46:56] Duuude-Ron :
They call constantly. Seriously, they call constantly.
[00:47:02] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And they're for forty eight hours, they got their meals right there. They probably got a makeshift toilet right next to them.
[00:47:10] Duuude-Ron :
No. I mean I mean, they do well, some of these people, some of the single operator hands, you know, I mean I mean, you do have to take breaks. You I mean, you you like in trucking, you have to log, you know, at least thirty minute break. You know? Oh, shit. Oh, really? Really? Yeah. On on on a lot of them. Some of them, no. You you can run the hold from the time it starts till the time it ends. But, I mean but then you have the multi multi stations, which has multiple transmitters, and they might have five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten people and or more. And then they just All work as a company. Every so often. So so, I mean, I mean, there are some people that that when it's contest season from the time it starts till the time it ends, about the most thing they would do is go to the bathroom, ask the friend to grab something a quick that's quick. They don't cook nothing, and they make sure there's a coffee pot or their drinks right there. And they just they just call and and and this is how they can get two, three, four, and five thousand contacts.
So yeah. But, yeah, for me, for just a single operator, one one radio, and I'm not sure. I mean, I took well, I slept, and I took breaks and stuff like that.
[00:48:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, I know you would have to because you can't sit still for very long without
[00:48:43] Duuude-Ron :
starting to get into some pain. So Yeah. Yeah. No. It's so yeah. I but I was still averaging, which is which this here is another high for me. I was averaging 15 to 20 contacts per hour.
[00:48:58] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[00:48:59] Duuude-Ron :
And and I I didn't run the whole contest. Like I said, I slept and took breaks and, you know, stuff like that. But, I mean, I was I was still able to keep my average job because before, I would run only, like, 10 to 11 contacts an hour. So 15 to 20 is pretty good.
[00:49:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:49:19] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, it was it was it was a lot of fun because there was there was four hands from Canada when they found out that I was parked on a frequency. I nailed, like, those four contacts back to back.
[00:49:33] Rich Chelson:
That's cool.
[00:49:35] Duuude-Ron :
They don't they don't normally hear me. You know? They don't hear Mississippi, so that's why they were jumping on. So and I got I got shit. I got four stations in Hawaii. Nice. Yeah. Just boom right off the bat. I I didn't I got every state except Alabama, Louisiana, Nevada, and Alaska. Those are the only four states I was missing in The US.
[00:50:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Ah, well Mhmm.
[00:50:07] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I I yeah. I mean, it was it was it was actually pretty good, so I was wore out, though.
[00:50:16] Bryan Goodwin:
I bet.
[00:50:18] Duuude-Ron :
Come Sunday evening, I was I was wore out. In fact, I think I stopped probably about 06:00. I said no more because, I say I still had to edit the podcast and get it up and running. So so I just took a break and just chilled out for a little bit and then did the podcast, got it edited. K. So
[00:50:42] Rich Chelson:
but yeah. Well, you know what? You made, you know, your two a couple of your bucket list.
[00:50:50] Duuude-Ron :
What's that?
[00:50:51] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I'm getting almost every state. You know, too bad you didn't get every state. And then, you know, this is the most context that you have made in any given one contest.
[00:51:05] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. No. No. Yeah. I mean, it was it was good for me as well. You know? I was I was I was floored. And that's the thing. When I was running the pileup, I mean, I was just looking right at the log screen. I wasn't looking at you know, because the the other window that I have open records my count and lets me know how many contacts I've made in an hour, how many contacts I've made in the last ten minutes and stuff. K. I was running so fast. I didn't even have time to even glance up and look. Because as soon as I got done typing that information, said thank you 73.
I said QRZed. Wham. That freaking sounded like, you know, a herd of cats meowing at the same time.
[00:52:01] Rich Chelson:
Everybody tried to, you know, claw their way in. Right. Right.
[00:52:08] Duuude-Ron :
So yeah. No. It was it was it was fun, though. I enjoyed it. It was it was fun. And and finally and and what was funny, it just died. It it it all of a sudden, it popped up, and I ran hard for a solid freaking hour. Well, actually, it was an hour and, like, five or six minutes, and then it died. That's it. And I'm like, I just I just let the mic go push back from the from the table. I'm taking a break. I'm not calling CQ anymore. I'm not calling QRZ. No. I'm just hushing right now. And I just What's QRZed? QRZed is a, is a, Morse code abbreviation for who is calling me.
[00:52:56] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:52:57] Duuude-Ron :
So it's just when you're doing Morse code, sending QRZed is a whole lot easier than trying to do each letter of who is calling me. Oh. We just say, Curezet. And that's that's mainly a Morse code, but, I mean, I'll Afternoon. Voice side.
[00:53:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:53:20] Duuude-Ron :
We've just stole it and used it ourselves on the voice side because it's faster. Because in a contest, it's it's it's all about speed. Yep. Right. You know? So that's why we're just like, boom. There it is. So
[00:53:37] Rich Chelson:
So do you have blisters at the tips of your fingers from No. No. From you bring all that information?
[00:53:44] Duuude-Ron :
No. Believe it or not, I I was I was actually kinda surprised, but no. I mean, honestly, I mean, yes, I know I was hitting the keys, but I don't think I felt them.
[00:53:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:53:56] Duuude-Ron :
You know, it just because, I mean, when I'm going, it's just I I get in the zone, and I don't think. I know where the keys are at on the keyboard. Sometimes it's you know, sometimes I get stupid finger syndrome.
[00:54:12] Rich Chelson:
Yeah.
[00:54:13] Duuude-Ron :
But, you know, other times, it's just I know where the keys are at. And as soon as I hear the call, I can I can just reach down and just hit them and then tab, put any other information I need, and then come out? Thank you. Have fun. See you later. Bye. Now now the one coming up in December, that's gonna be easier, and I'll probably be able to make a whole lot more contacts because I wanna say 59 That's all the information I'm given. And then 59 Mhmm.
[00:54:50] Rich Chelson:
And
[00:54:51] Duuude-Ron :
and if I'm talking to a ham here in The States, they'll say 59, let's say, Tennessee. Okay? Soon as they say that, boom. We're gone. See you later. Bye. Now if now since I say this this next one's a big one, is what the whole world's gonna be in on this one. Europe, all these other countries, everything. And and if I work them, I'll still say 59Mississippi, and they'll say 59 number 235 or number 2 or whatever. They have to give me a serial number. I get my my state.
[00:55:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[00:55:33] Duuude-Ron :
So yeah.
[00:55:34] Bryan Goodwin:
But because we're America. We we we don't have to go off in those darn serial numbers.
[00:55:40] Duuude-Ron :
No. We've we've got a few contests at where we do run serial numbers. Oh, well.
[00:55:46] Rich Chelson:
But And the serial the serial number is your license, your radio.
[00:55:52] Duuude-Ron :
Nope. Nope. Nope. Okay. Starts at number one and goes till you stop.
[00:56:00] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh?
[00:56:01] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking.
[00:56:05] Bryan Goodwin:
How? It's simple. You count from one. Can you count So the first contact to your serial number is 1. Yep. The seventeenth, contact to serial number 17.
[00:56:16] Rich Chelson:
Yep. Oh, gotcha.
[00:56:18] Duuude-Ron :
If it's number 562, it's 562. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, those those are actually the easier contest, but this next one, it, you know, won't be that bad because I don't need this whole long string of information.
[00:56:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[00:56:39] Duuude-Ron :
But, I mean, it was still fun. I enjoyed it.
[00:56:42] Rich Chelson:
Well, good. I'm glad you're having such fun on
[00:56:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Talking to your radio buddies.
[00:56:49] Rich Chelson:
No. On on frequency ten or whatever it is.
[00:56:53] Duuude-Ron :
No. Well well, on this last one. Frequency ten. You're funny, dude.
[00:57:00] Rich Chelson:
Whatever it is.
[00:57:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you see, on this on on the November sweeps, I could run any band from a 160 meters down to 10 meters.
[00:57:12] Rich Chelson:
Okay. Yeah. Okay.
[00:57:14] Duuude-Ron :
And and so I was down on ten, fifteen, twenty, forty, 80. I didn't try one sixty because my antenna doesn't like one sixty. So but now the one in December, that is strictly 10 meters.
[00:57:29] Bryan Goodwin:
So The rich which frequency is is like the funny channel on on a CB radio?
[00:57:37] Duuude-Ron :
We don't have one.
[00:57:38] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't have one where everybody's just fucking annoying.
[00:57:42] Duuude-Ron :
Well, there's one. Yeah. There's there's seven dot two hundred on the 40 meter band, but those guys are are are assholes. They're mean. Seriously, if if if if you try and jump in and join a conversation, if if they don't like you or whatnot or or if they're having a bad day, they will tell you to fuck off and leave.
[00:58:08] Bryan Goodwin:
So so is the total room for the for the ham radios?
[00:58:12] Duuude-Ron :
Pretty pretty much. Pretty much. Yes. I mean, that's I mean, I I don't I don't even stop on 7200. 7205 is normally okay. They're still the old fuckers that sit there and bitch about how how they never should've removed the the code requirement on the license. They just bitch about fucking everything.
[00:58:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[00:58:38] Duuude-Ron :
You know? And it's like, shut the fuck up, guys.
[00:58:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Get off my lawn. My frequence frequent well, how would you say that? Freaking the lawn. Yeah.
[00:58:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Well, yeah. There you go.
[00:58:52] Duuude-Ron :
And then I mean double lawn. I mean, it is it is their right when they're on that frequency. It is it is their right to talk about anything they want.
[00:59:01] Rich Chelson:
You know? And that's why And you know what? If you get that small group of guys that just wanna bitch at at each other, to each other, whatever, and they're enjoying it, hey. You do you, boo.
[00:59:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Exactly. You do you, boo. You know? But sometimes it's just after a while, after hearing it for so long, it just it's just annoying. Fucking really.
[00:59:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, that's that's why you that's why I never listened to to that's why I never turned the damn radio on anyhow, but especially, you know, on channel nineteen.
[00:59:39] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[00:59:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Because it's just good god, man. Yeah. You're talking about shit nobody cares about.
[00:59:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It exactly. This is what this is what these two frequencies 7200 is the main one. And and anybody who's been a ham for for any length of time, you know, they've been told multiple times just they would just Zoom. I don't pass that frequency. They don't wanna talk to you. You're not gonna talk to them. You know? So it's just when I come up to that frequency, I just keep going. And then, you know, I'll go down to, like, 195 or, you know, down to 175, which is my bandage. Right. Find someone down there to talk to. So, yeah, I just I just I just roll away.
[01:00:30] Rich Chelson:
You know, and and it's you know, I got a radio in this new truck. I got I just turned 66,000 miles on this Freightliner, and I have yet to hook up the hand mic in the radio that's been there since we got the truck. Right. Right. I look at it every day. Think, you know what? I should hook up that hand mic and
[01:00:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But knowing you're right, if you even look at that hand mic too long, you're gonna get too deep distracted. Right.
[01:01:06] Rich Chelson:
You know, and I don't know what our AI parameters are. Nobody can tell us in my company, not even a safety department can tell me what our AI is what's the parameters on the AI of what their this particular company is looking for. Yeah. But when I get a good song come on, yeah, I'll turn the radio up to 20. I think it goes only I think it only goes up to 28, but I'll hit it I'll hit a twenty, twenty one, listen to the song, turn it back down. You know, it will the system ever, you know, deduct me or point me, like, three points because the music is too loud? Yeah. Who fucking knows?
[01:01:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I don't know how your sensitive yours is set because mine, I fucked around with it enough that I know how to set it off and have fun setting it off. Because what it does is it pays attention because, basically, it puts you puts your head in a box. So as you're moving, it's got a vertical axis, a horizontal axis, and so it could tell because of because of that box what you're looking at. And so if your head is turned to the same place your hand looks like it's going to Mhmm. It'll actually ring off a distract. Yes. And so I've actually had fun putting my hand on the dash, tilting my head so that my nose is pointing at my hand and driving your They just and you're and you're so distracted.
Distracted. Wow. Yep. Just got a do you know me?
[01:02:58] Rich Chelson:
Yes. And I have yet to hear, and the volume on ours is very low. But it'll tell me what's the most common one.
[01:03:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Or she been more likely.
[01:03:11] Rich Chelson:
No. Please stay in your lane. Because if you're too close to the lines, it'll tell me that I am, you know, out of my lane. Yeah. And, I mean, the the system will pick up not only the the painted lines, but it'll pick up the scars in the road and tell me that I'm out of my lane. I'm like,
[01:03:37] Bryan Goodwin:
nope. Still in the center of my lane. Just like the road. There's a there's a Facebook video running around right now that I've seen a couple three times where it's Sam's here is the greatest thing for truckers, and that you're distracted. It's like, I'm walking out the road. Lane departure. I'm in my same lane. Right? Right? And and he keeps making comments to whatever the whatever the, machine, the AI is saying. I was like, well, why don't you tell you got somebody to talk to?
[01:04:08] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Oh, that's true. Yeah. I'll tell I'll tell that voice is like he's like, no. It's like it says mind your lane. Mind your lane. Actually said yeah. Please mind your lane. Yes. And I've gone back right after she says that and says, yeah. Mind your own damn business. And all that shit gets recorded.
[01:04:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm. Oh, yeah. Oh, I bet you I bet you safety just has a heyday with all my conversations with them. Because there's a lot of times just tingling, distractions. Like, yeah. I'm a fucking hitting the goddamn radio button, asshole. Yes.
[01:04:53] Rich Chelson:
Well, and there's and there's stuff that the system, it says, but it doesn't get sent forward to Right. My boss or the safety department. But if it gets sent to my boss, it gets sent to the safety department, the vice president, the president. Yep. And there's so many people within that freaking chain that gets this message.
[01:05:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[01:05:22] Rich Chelson:
So but the four drivers or the shuttle drivers, we all got and I was shocked as holy hell. Every single one of us got a Linux certificate because that's the company that does our cameras is Linux.
[01:05:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[01:05:42] Rich Chelson:
And did not have any recordable incidences in the third quarter. There you go. And all the drivers got that, which fucking shocked the hell out of me.
[01:05:56] Duuude-Ron :
I see.
[01:05:58] Rich Chelson:
You know, especially for one driver, I was extremely shocked. But that's okay. We all got certificates.
[01:06:06] Bryan Goodwin:
I got a pat on the back.
[01:06:08] Rich Chelson:
That's about it. And my and we were in a safety meeting, so which is half of the plant because the maintenance does theirs in the afternoon. Everybody else does ours in the morning with the drivers Right. All that. And my boss says, now you can frame them. You can crumble them up and throw them away. Hell, you can even use them as toilet papers. I don't care what you do. Just know that you received it. And, you know, and he and he know and he knows that everybody was thinking the same thing. Why the fuck did you waste paper? You coulda just said that. Good job, guys. Good job.
You didn't have any recordable incidences for the entire quarter. Didn't have to didn't have to waste the damn paper.
[01:07:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But some people kinda like to have a certificate. You know? You got a little award, you know, with a gold star. You're you know, kinda feel a little better about yourself.
[01:07:15] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I have a whole great big what? Three one inch binders of my Attaboys for the military. Military. Yeah. They're all stuffed in a bag up under the bed, and that's where they've been at for since I've been out of the military.
[01:07:39] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. But, see, that's you. Someone else like Brian was saying, I mean, that could make someone else's day.
[01:07:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Someone's got a whole wall just dedicated all their their attaboys, good jobs, and and and keep it all keep keep on keeping odds. You know? They've got their There's
[01:07:59] Rich Chelson:
there are Shadow boxes for shadow box. Yep. That's the only thing I have hanging on the wall is the shadow box of my uniform and my coins is in there as well. And it's not a shadow box of my uniform. It's just the ribbons, the freaking the coins and all that other stuff that came off my uniform Yeah. Placed where they're at on my uniform. That's the only thing that I got hanging on the fucking wall. Yeah. However, I know a lot of retirees, they have several rooms with their metals and the all their stuff that are up on the wall, and we'll have several rooms with all the walls filled with their military
[01:08:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Accomplishments. Yeah. Accomplishments
[01:08:55] Rich Chelson:
and accolades.
[01:08:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. All them letters of accommodations and whatever else you wanna add to it.
[01:09:03] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Let's see. I got 12 army achievement medals. I got 10 ARCOMS and two MSMs, plus all my other country awards. But you know what? The most the one ribbon that I have on there that means more to me than anything
[01:09:30] Duuude-Ron :
is the mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer
[01:09:35] Rich Chelson:
mer mer mer mer mer that's the one that means the most to me because the director of the Fort Hood Habitat for Humanity was the one that put me in for the ward because he was retired sergeant major, so he knows all that stuff. And he was the one that submitted the award in to my unit for my volunteer service with Habitat. That's that's the one ribbon out of fuck. I don't even know. 15 ribbons that I have, that's the one that means the most to me.
[01:10:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. I can see that. Because those are when you actually have someone that you know who's actually going through doing a, I appreciate everything you've done. That's those are the ones that actually ring home. The ones that where it's just kind of a hollow on it. Everybody here has done a really good job. You know? Good job. Alright. You all gonna get a get a ribbon? There you go. Alright. Have a good day. Hey. Alright. That makes that make it all that, all that special.
[01:10:48] Rich Chelson:
Yep. That is true. And I got another one. Well and I didn't you can't double up on the meritorious volunteer service ribbons. I don't think there's like like you can with an AAM, an ARCOM, an MSM. Good what what the hell is that? Rich, what's the one you get every three years? Good Conduct Medal. Yeah. Good Conduct. Yeah. Where you can stack the leaves onto the medal for it tells you how many you got.
[01:11:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. Yeah.
[01:11:24] Rich Chelson:
But the outstanding volunteer service ribbon doesn't have that. So and the other one that I did was the volunteer work that I did for my church when oh, this was I don't even remember what hurricane it was that hit North Carolina back in '80 damn. Like, '86, '80 no. '96, I think it was. It wasn't Katrina, but I don't know what hurricane it was. But, you know, there was a lot of uprooted trees and so on like that. And our church had a, you know, relatively large piece of plot, and we had a couple of, you know, big trees come down. So I helped to volunteer get those down and but if you did any volunteer for that, you know, you got put in for the volunteer service ribbon.
Okay. So that one that one doesn't mean as nearly as much to me as the one for Habitat because the director wrote up the award and submitted it into my unit.
[01:12:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay. I see. Yeah.
[01:12:47] Rich Chelson:
And I think I was the only one that he had ever done that for. So that one means a lot more to me. But, yes, no. I don't display any of my shit whatsoever.
[01:12:58] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. Only indicator that you that I've got that I was in the navy is I've got I've got still got my pea coat hanging up in the closet, and my sea bag is just watered up in the closet. And yeah. Yeah. That's that's about the extent of it.
[01:13:17] Rich Chelson:
The sea bag meaning duffel bag
[01:13:21] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. Your big Oh. Your big green tube tube looking, you know, the bag looking backpack, you know, thing.
[01:13:29] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. I gave that mine as well as, I don't know, how many uniforms to a homeless guy so he could have some clothes. Even though they were fatigues, you know, he was he was very thankful.
[01:13:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yeah. There's only a couple things that I've out of the out of my, original, pack that I really kinda wish I'd held on to. I mean, that's just they've it's just disappeared to to the sands of time, but one is my watch app. It's just one of those where it's a it's called a watch caps, the black knitted stocking cap. Okay. You know, a beanie. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. So it's navy blue. It's black, but they call it navy blue stocking cap. And, those things were freaking nice. Flap it on your head, fold it up. And I mean, it made you feel like you were like, old Burgess Meredith's character from from Rocky because he had one. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[01:14:31] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I don't remember his name.
[01:14:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Mickey, I think. Uh-huh. Mick, no.
[01:14:38] Rich Chelson:
It might have been. But, yeah, I know it's Mickey, but,
[01:14:42] Bryan Goodwin:
yeah, I've always well, I always wanted to get, at least go to a army navy store and at least pick up another one. I'm sure they're probably well, I would think that they're now about 50¢ a piece, but I'm sure with inflation and everything, they're probably $25 a piece now. So
[01:14:57] Rich Chelson:
Easily, I'm sure.
[01:15:00] Duuude-Ron :
All I know is the Army Navy store here in Pascagoula. You you better have your own mint when you go in there.
[01:15:08] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to have that. And and there's a and the original book that they give you, they're supposed to have all the teach you how to tell you how to do everything. So if you ever wanted to know how you're supposed to, you know, fold the clothes or whatever and you forgot how, it's called the Blue Jackets manual. And I lost that one, you know, probably, oh, about a year after year after I got out of the out of the navy. I was because I was looking for it, and I could not find it to save my life. So
[01:15:38] Rich Chelson:
I think I threw mine I think I threw mine out, went in route to go into airborne school after AIT. But I'm I know the type of book that you're talking about because it gives you all the rank the rank structure with the colors,
[01:15:56] Bryan Goodwin:
you know, all that good shit. Yeah. How do you fold your towels? How do you fold your shirts? How do you fold your socks? How do you fold your underwear? How do you fold your pea coat? How do you fold everything? How what what what goes in first as opposed to last into your c bag. I mean, they tell they tell you everything. Okay. Beautiful. Beautiful brook. A wonderful brook. Just told you everything. And, yeah, I've just pissed me off after I lost that. And I've again, I'm sure I could probably find it quite easily if I went over to, over to an army navy store. I bet you you probably also find it over at, over on Amazon. I just hadn't even thought of looking over there until just now. I was gonna say
[01:16:38] Duuude-Ron :
you could probably get a paperback copy on on Amazon. Oh, yeah. It's a paperback. It's You'd shit if they had a hardcover. You'd be like, oh, I'll Hey. Hardware. Hardware. And and initialed I want it special. You know? Make a story that your drill sergeant had it special ordered for you. Yeah. Or, No one's gonna believe you, but, you know, you know, whatever you you do goo, boo.
[01:17:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yeah. I'd also like to to go off and and just search around and see if I could ever find a, a copy of the Kitty Hawk cruise book from whenever I went on the Westpac. So, basically, the the the, navy would create it's it's a yearbook, except they were fucking expensive yearbooks. But it it it was it was bound. It looked like a fucking yearbook, except instead of classes, they had the different divisions. And so it was it was it was always kinda cool, but, yeah, whenever I was, when I was in the navy, they were offering around. It was, like, a 150, $200 for a for a cruise book. I was like, yeah.
No. Thank you, dude. I I can't afford that.
[01:17:51] Rich Chelson:
Oh, $200?
[01:17:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Ew. They're fucking expensive. Yeah. Gosh. I'd have to ask Scott. Scott bought one. So
[01:18:01] Rich Chelson:
Well, maybe maybe he will photocopy it
[01:18:04] Bryan Goodwin:
and I'm sure there's a copy of it on online. You can buy or not buy. You can go on and and actually look at it.
[01:18:11] Rich Chelson:
Oh, okay.
[01:18:13] Bryan Goodwin:
I would like to have a physical copy of it.
[01:18:15] Duuude-Ron :
Well, if that book has an ISBN number, you could probably find it on Amazon. Yeah. Probably.
[01:18:22] Bryan Goodwin:
I don't know if it does or not.
[01:18:24] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't know if it does either.
[01:18:26] Bryan Goodwin:
So I've never even looked to see if it had an ISBN.
[01:18:31] Duuude-Ron :
Usually, just about no. I'm not sure with the military, but but just about any book ever printed since, like, a hundred years ago had or maybe not that far back, but the last, you know, sixty, seventy years Yeah. Is a ASBN number.
[01:18:48] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And, you know, we definitely show our age when, you know I graduated in 1986.
[01:18:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Alright.
[01:18:58] Rich Chelson:
You know, back in the days where you had that fucking 30 pound radio that took 12 d sized batteries batteries. Yeah. That may last you a fucking week or something. Yeah. Yeah. And carrying that motherfucker on your shoulder, and you were cool. Yep. We were some dumb motherfuckers.
[01:19:20] Bryan Goodwin:
We had strong shoulders, though.
[01:19:22] Rich Chelson:
Yes. We did.
[01:19:24] Bryan Goodwin:
Well and we had a lot stronger fucking skin as well. Well, yeah, we all that most of that was just because we got slung off off of merry-go-rounds and witch hats and and monkey swings and everything else. Some of us fell out of trees.
[01:19:40] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And you know what? Did you die?
[01:19:44] Bryan Goodwin:
No. And that was the important part. Because if you die, your parents would kill you.
[01:19:50] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. If you died, your parents would kill you. You're gonna be in trouble.
[01:19:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Exactly.
[01:19:58] Rich Chelson:
You know? Yeah. And maybe not so my kid, but my grandkids are like, you did that. You did that.
[01:20:12] Bryan Goodwin:
Like, shit. Yeah, man.
[01:20:14] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. We fucking tried to figure out how many people we could jump over with our bicycles and hoping that you were not the one that we Was you if ever you ever been the one in the end. Yeah. The one that from the farthest away from the ramp.
[01:20:35] Bryan Goodwin:
I used to be right back to the ramp. Now the ramp may still collapse and land on you, but at the same time, that was better than having having Tommy, the the biggest kid in in in your group, land on you with his bike. So Yeah. Yeah.
[01:20:51] Rich Chelson:
And then, of course, riding barefoot in those
[01:20:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. Spiked pedals. Oh, yeah. No. I couldn't I I was not ever able to do that. I've tried a couple times. I was like, nope. I can't do this. Fuck this. Well, I'll walk. I'd rather I'd rather barbecue my feet than than spear them.
[01:21:10] Rich Chelson:
And then your say your foot slip off that and it come back to your feet. Come along and hit you. Yeah.
[01:21:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Had permanent dents in our shins.
[01:21:20] Rich Chelson:
Oh, hell yeah. I I still feel them to this day. Oh, yeah. That yeah. No helmet.
[01:21:33] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Didn't need a helmet. That made you safer if you didn't wear a helmet.
[01:21:38] Rich Chelson:
Well, that made you
[01:21:40] Bryan Goodwin:
a fucking pussy if you had a helmet on. Well, yeah. But that was at the same time, no. That's but they've shown that if you're when you wear safety equipment, you're more willing to take dangerous risks.
[01:21:54] Rich Chelson:
Oh, shit. Hell, you know we didn't take fucking we didn't give a shit how dangerous it was. We took the fucking risk.
[01:22:01] Bryan Goodwin:
No. That was the part of it. That was that was being that was being a boy for for that time. You had to show everybody that you were willing to willing to hang with the group. Are you gonna jump? Yeah. I'm not gonna jump very far. I'm gonna probably land on my ass. I probably, you know, meet crayon on my face across for the next ten ten feet, but I will I'll I'll do it. That's right. I'll do it once, then after that, you get up going, oh, I was down. Okay. Well, I'm a shit of a bitch.
[01:22:33] Rich Chelson:
So Hey, Brian. Well, no. Here here's the aspect. You get you tumble. You get up. You're all bruised and swearing, and I ain't ever gonna do this again. Why? I was a fucking idiot.
[01:22:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Alright. Get back on the bike. Let's do it again. Let's try it again. Alright. I'm ready. I'm gonna get this right.
[01:22:53] Rich Chelson:
That's right.
[01:22:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Sore as fuck.
[01:22:56] Rich Chelson:
Trying to get it right.
[01:22:58] Duuude-Ron :
What gear were you on the Kitty Hawk?
[01:23:01] Bryan Goodwin:
I was on the Kitty Hawk from '90 '96 to '99. I think it's '99.
[01:23:12] Rich Chelson:
And they made one, what, every year or after after every deployment?
[01:23:18] Bryan Goodwin:
About every every year and a half is what they kinda aim for, if I'm remembering right. There's one from 97.
[01:23:26] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. To a $120.
[01:23:29] Bryan Goodwin:
Hey. They went down. Good.
[01:23:31] Duuude-Ron :
This is on eBay.
[01:23:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[01:23:34] Duuude-Ron :
Here's another one, for $1.27. It looks like looks like the newer ones I mean, these these look in really good condition. But, yeah, look on eBay and just type in USS Kitty Hawk Yeah. CV 63 cruise book, and then we'll have the ones that are up for sale.
[01:23:55] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[01:23:56] Duuude-Ron :
So
[01:23:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Now if you also look for that just in in search, you'll be able to find, find the, the cruise book actually online. I think it I think someone posted up a copy of it on Together We Serve, I think is what it is.
[01:24:10] Duuude-Ron :
Actually, it it's on www.navysite.de.
[01:24:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. And you can Well, it's a German site of all things. It it is. But yeah.
[01:24:23] Duuude-Ron :
Well, yeah, I know. But, yeah, you can,
[01:24:27] Bryan Goodwin:
sit here and look at the books. Yep. Now you look through me and Scott were on in the OI division. Is it OI or IO? OI.
[01:24:37] Duuude-Ron :
OI. Look. I know, dude. I don't know shit about the navy.
[01:24:41] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm trying to remember. It was, it was I o I. What's the o I division? That sounds more right, but it probably is I o.
[01:24:51] Duuude-Ron :
It's saying it's saying, you could download it for $27.50. So you can buy the actual book for 127,
[01:25:02] Bryan Goodwin:
or you can download it. A digital copy for 20. And $30.
[01:25:07] Duuude-Ron :
Yep. So
[01:25:10] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm gonna sue you for $250,000, bust out of court for $10.
[01:25:17] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So you have your choice of how you want to view it. Yep.
[01:25:23] Bryan Goodwin:
I'd have to just grab the grab the hard copy just so that I had it.
[01:25:27] Duuude-Ron :
So Right? The freaking pictures would be better. Yeah.
[01:25:32] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Then the real challenging part would be trying to go get signatures from your
[01:25:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Classmates. From your from your classmates. Class so from shipmates. There you go. That's the right word. Yeah. Yeah. Shipmates. That's the same thing. I was like, yeah. From class oh, not classmates. That's not your high school. That's not your yearbook. It's essentially a yearbook, but, yeah, there's quite a few quite a few guys I used to hang around with. There was John. What's his name John? John Fieldman, I believe, is his name. We had, Jim Ewing. His and we all everybody called him earthworm. Earthworm Jim. See, there was Jeremy Timmerman, Michael Jackson.
Yeah. There's Scott. Oh, yeah. There's there's quite a few. There's a couple of, snipes that are down in the down the engine room that I knew.
[01:26:33] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. No. I wouldn't be able to fucking find anybody that I served with.
[01:26:38] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm trying to think of who else there was, and, going through that book. I'm sure I look, I remember him. There was there was a a gal whose last name was was Brian and looked as the only reason I really remember who her name is because she looked a lot like You. My stepmother's family members because they're all the Bryants also. So and I've always I'd only talked to her I only saw her, like, on the six month cruise. I only saw her, like, twice. So, you know, of course, when you have 5,000 people, you don't always get to see everybody all at the same time. So
[01:27:19] Duuude-Ron :
Was she good looking?
[01:27:21] Bryan Goodwin:
She wouldn't she wouldn't she was easy on the eyes. She wasn't, you know, she wasn't a spoken hottie or anything.
[01:27:27] Duuude-Ron :
Right? I mean I mean and and now now this is my opinion, but if someone's easy on the eyes, they're a smoking hottie. Well, easy on the eyes just means they ain't ugly to me.
[01:27:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. They're they're not ugly enough to make a gargoyle blend. So
[01:27:45] Rich Chelson:
That's pretty fucking ugly.
[01:27:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. They you can look at them and talk to them. They're you know, they were not so much homely, but, kind of a cross between homely and calmly. They would just, you know, just right there in the middle. You know, just your standard five five, you know, middle of the road gal. Oh,
[01:28:10] Duuude-Ron :
you see, those are hotties to me. So Wow.
[01:28:15] Rich Chelson:
At at at your age of the game? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:28:19] Duuude-Ron :
Hey. I've I have learned I have learned not to be Selective. Too picky. I mean, I do have standards. I'm not gonna bullshit you. Oh, yeah. No. We all have standards. But but you know? Because I'm not saying I'm I'm all that in a bag of tater chips.
[01:28:39] Rich Chelson:
Oh, come on now. Have a little bit more faith. You you all kinda look like a bag of potato chips.
[01:28:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Just not barbecue.
[01:28:52] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. That's, yeah. I I I don't know. I just I just, you know, I've I've had the trophy wife and the smoking hotty, and I've had some just run of the mill girls that I've dated. It doesn't matter.
[01:29:09] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. It doesn't really. Long as you get along with them, they get along with you. On the whole, the overarching, you're never always gonna get along with each other, but, you know, overarching wise you know? Right. Can you tolerate me as much as I could tolerate you? Yes. Alright. Then, by gosh, let's get married. Yep. We're good. Yep. Because, yeah, that marriage is basic that's one thing a lot of young folks these days don't understand is that marriage is not who could bring bring me bring you the most happiness. It's who irritates you the least.
Right. You can find someone that you that irritates you then irritates you all the time and you don't irritate them all the time, then you're pretty much a match made in heaven. Go forth and have fun or try to try to have fun. At least, you know, you're gonna have each other's back. Yeah. Work on the communication. That's the big that's the biggest problem that a lot of people have, and that's something I'm still working on. And I think we're getting better at it. That's kinda funny. We get to the get to about halfway through our through our relationship, and it's like, oh, hey. You know what? If we just talk to each other instead of just assume that the other person knows what's going on, all of a sudden, things get a lot get, start happening a lot, closer to what you're wanting. You know? You state that, hey. I'd like to have, you know, have a little sex later on this afternoon, and she could either tell you, okay. Sure. Or, no. Not today.
You know? It's like you're going to have you're gonna if you ask enough times, you're gonna end up getting it more times. And, sadly, most guys most of us guys, we sit there and do everything we can without actually having to ask for it because somewhere along the line, we picked up that, the assumption that we annoy our, girls if we, if we ask for sex. Yeah. We annoy them. We annoy them when we don't ask for sex. So, you know, might as well get what you want out of it too. So it's one of those fun things that you don't ever actually realize until you've made made it a few trips. I mean, we're on we haven't quite made it to the thirty year mark. That'll be this coming, September.
But or, yeah, yeah, next September. Yeah. We got married in '96. So So next year? Next year. We have made our thirtieth lap.
[01:31:38] Duuude-Ron :
Nothing wrong with that.
[01:31:39] Bryan Goodwin:
No. No. It's a it's quite the accomplishment.
[01:31:45] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:31:46] Bryan Goodwin:
We both happened to happened to hit the mark on our first try. So
[01:31:51] Duuude-Ron :
That's what I think. Because not a lot of people can say that. That's that's a tough one to do. Yeah. And now I mean, no. It's not really tough, but in this day and age with with everyone thinking they should have things a certain way Yep. And all like that, then, yeah, it does make it tough.
[01:32:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:32:14] Duuude-Ron :
When when if people would just realize, you know, that, you know, just because your mom and daddy's been married thirty years doesn't mean everything's hunky dory, and, you know, these guys and girls want the hot looking ones or whatnot thinking, oh, they'll be good for, you know, the next forty years. That might be true, but for the most part, no. You ain't gonna last too long because there's too many expectations.
[01:32:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. And if you don't voice what the expectations are, you know, you're going to wind up being disappointed. At the same time, you can voice what your expectations are, But, also, you've gotta be okay with the fact that other person's probably might just go, yeah. We're not doing that expectation. Sorry, but not doing that one. And you've gotta be okay with it. There's still and you once you voice what your expectations are, you know, it is one of the things that most people give up or don't give up on, but they they fail to do is they there's the whole 100 principle that you want to you wanna apply.
Mhmm. And that doesn't mean that you're not getting what you want. You voice any expectations you have, but when you're doing stuff, don't it you don't you don't deep score, and you give a 100% and you expect zero in return. So I'm going to do the dishes because the dishes need to be done, not because, well, you know, if I I've done the dishes 17 times this month, and you haven't touched the touched the the dishes at all. You're being unfair. That's expecting them to reciprocate. No. If don't expect a reciprocation. Just get it done. Do it.
And if they reciprocate, then that's an added bonus. But you're doing why are you doing, you know, whatever it is you're doing? Why are you washing the car? Why are you picking up the living room? Why are you taking out the trash? Why are you cleaning, you know, cleaning out the dishwasher? If you're doing it for an ulterior motive and you're not voicing what that ulterior motive is, then you're gonna end up keeping score. Well, I've done this 17 times, and you haven't done anything. Well, one, there's the problem with keeping score is that you don't what your version of a of one point is might be five points to the other person.
And usually, it's forgot for guys, it's you know, I took out the trash. There's five points. While while the wife is, everything is one point. Or now or yeah. Yeah. Everything's one point. So she's she's doing five times the amount of stuff, and the guy's, like, going, well, I took out trash and filled up the car, got the got the wool wool changed out and everything else. So, you know, what are you throwing a fit about? Like, well, you didn't, you know, you didn't watch the kids while I was tired. Like, well, okay. Tell me that you wanted me to watch the kids? No? Then how are you supposed to know?
To keep score is, again, just a means of of robbing yourself. The heck was that? Oh, that was cut. It is a means of robbing yourself of the fulfillment and the joy that you could have with, with your with your with your spouse. So so anyhow, but and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
[01:36:04] Duuude-Ron :
Tune in next week for any of your TED Talk.
[01:36:08] Bryan Goodwin:
So I yeah. See. Golly. What is up? Yeah. This is that's definitely something I'm gonna have to look into because, you know, I was talking last was it last week where it's like, I don't know when all of a sudden I just start getting getting sweats and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was last week. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was last week. Yeah. I'm gonna have to I've got the got the, a an initial visit from the with, with our doctor setup. So I'm gonna try out the same one that Janice is using and see what let's see what she see what she does and go ahead and see what this, this whole little hot flash night sweat thing going on about.
[01:36:55] Duuude-Ron :
Right. So That'd be smart just because I mean, you know, just because, you know, you're over 50 and things start changing a little Yeah. Before. You know? So, you know, if you can figure it out now and, you know, you know, get a get some progress going, that would help. Yeah.
[01:37:16] Bryan Goodwin:
At least figure out what, what the problem is, and I know we can figure out how to how to rectify the issue.
[01:37:24] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[01:37:25] Bryan Goodwin:
I'm sure a lot of it is just cut out a lot of the sugar in my diet. But
[01:37:30] Duuude-Ron :
Well, tell quit the diet and see. It could mean yeah. It could be menopause.
[01:37:35] Bryan Goodwin:
It could be menopause. Menopause. Could be menopause. Yeah. It could be.
[01:37:40] Duuude-Ron :
But, yeah, couldn't cutting the sugar out out of your diet, that'll just help you all over. All over. Yeah. I mean, it's it's not tied. I don't think it's tied to any one thing, but yeah. Yeah. Cutting down on the sugar,
[01:37:55] Bryan Goodwin:
that would definitely help you out. Yeah. At least clear out the clear out the arteries. So
[01:38:02] Duuude-Ron :
Well, you could, you know, talk with your doc, but, you know, it could be a thyroid issue too. Yeah. That's what you're you're saying. Just, last week was
[01:38:11] Bryan Goodwin:
good possibility that's a a thyroid issue. So Yeah.
[01:38:16] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, hey. Well, I'm thinking about it. Is it because I know I'll I'll forget in probably about two minutes. We're not podcasting next week, are we?
[01:38:26] Bryan Goodwin:
What oh, next week's Thursday. It's a turkey day, ain't it? Yeah. No. No. We don't have to.
[01:38:32] Duuude-Ron :
I don't care either way. I was just asking.
[01:38:36] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I mean, I'm I'll be driving any anyhow. So
[01:38:41] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, I'm not going anywhere this year.
[01:38:47] Bryan Goodwin:
What, Matt, Dina, and D ain't gonna take you over to take you over to, to Kentucky?
[01:38:54] Duuude-Ron :
D wants me to come up, but I've gotta go back to neck and neck on Monday. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. My neck gets an epidural on Monday.
[01:39:04] Bryan Goodwin:
There you go.
[01:39:06] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I don't know about all that shit, but we'll see.
[01:39:11] Bryan Goodwin:
And then, like I don't know how much there you go. You go. But
[01:39:15] Duuude-Ron :
You're right. But then, like, right after Thanksgiving, I've got a couple doctor's appointments just I mean, they just hit boom right there. It's like, alright. Fine. I ain't going anywhere then. Yeah. So that's why I'm not going to Kentucky.
[01:39:33] Bryan Goodwin:
Gotcha.
[01:39:34] Duuude-Ron :
But I will be going for Christmas.
[01:39:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. K. Good. Good. I don't know.
[01:39:41] Duuude-Ron :
If it snows a lot, no. I don't know about all that. I'm not scared of my driving. I'm not scared of the Jeep or anything like that. It's it's nothing like that. It's just I hate the white cold shit. I hate
[01:39:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You and my wife and and Ron.
[01:40:01] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. In fact, here, I'm I'm gonna throw something in the chat.
[01:40:08] Rich Chelson:
Oh.
[01:40:09] Duuude-Ron :
I'm a it's something I've been, playing with. I'll wait. And I was on the other screen when I hit enter. Look at that picture that's coming up. That should be up to y'all.
[01:40:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Hey. Look at that red Jeep sitting in the sand with the moon behind it. Where'd you get that picture?
[01:40:34] Duuude-Ron :
Actually, I made that picture.
[01:40:37] Bryan Goodwin:
So is that, like, like, AI made or made it or or are you taking painting that you took the picture?
[01:40:44] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. It's it's it's, AI made. Oh, okay. But it's made it's AI made through a program. It's not AI made through anything on the web. Right. I was I I've got an actual freaking program and got all the code for it. And here's another one that I did. I'll wait. I went in the right window. But, this program is one where you use the text words and positive prompts and negative prompts, and you can change different models Okay. To get different pictures and stuff. It's, yeah, it's it's it's not like I went to, you know, one of these website servers and was like, you know.
[01:41:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You know, they go to MidJourney and go, hey. Do this and this. No. No. And say this
[01:41:44] Duuude-Ron :
this program is on my computer, and I don't have to pay any money or any credits for it. I can make as many as I want. I can make a you know? So yeah.
[01:41:56] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, that's cool.
[01:41:58] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Now the second one, though, is it was funny. I was I was, I was doing stuff with Gemini, and, well, I had gotten this program and all like this, and it's like, shit. I don't know what kind of freaking prompts to do. You know, I don't know how to word them or nothing. So I'm like, okay. You know, you know, write me a prompt for the Jeep, and she did. Gave me the positive prompt and and the negative prompt. And I put that in, and that's what came out. And then the and then the second one, I was like, how would you describe yourself?
And spit out this whole long thing. I said, okay. Now imagine if you were a female. Write that prompt. Wrote the prompt, and I put it in there. And and, I mean, I've got a few versions, but this is what this is what the prompt, you know Put it out. Returned. Yeah. And here's here's another one. And, I mean, you can see some artifacts, see, especially on this last one. Uh-huh. But, I mean, that's expected with the program. Alright.
[01:43:09] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? Okay. I'll look at it a little closer whenever I get stopped. But
[01:43:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And then there's there's one more. Oh, crap. I did it again. This one here, I thought this one here, I thought was actually really, really good. Did a a a middle aged guy playing a piano. So I thought yeah. I I didn't go to MidJourney or any of them. It's it's no. I had to download the freaking app image and install it and then go and get the the right back end programs to make everything work, to make them sharp Right. And clean. You know? So it was it was some work. That's for damn sure. But, yeah, I just it's just like and then and then with this one program I use, it it I can make them up to 21 by nine.
And then, I've got another program I had to get and, put together, and then I can upscale them times four.
[01:44:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[01:44:19] Duuude-Ron :
And it makes them for, like, bigger screens and stuff. Right. And, actually, that, that second one with the green lights on the Right. On the girl's face, that one Right. That one's, upscaled
[01:44:37] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay.
[01:44:38] Duuude-Ron :
Four times. So that's you know? I mean, I've got that I've got that right now as my desktop background
[01:44:46] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, I gotcha. Which
[01:44:48] Duuude-Ron :
which one I make, you know, another one, I'll probably, you know, upscale it and make it, make it my background. You know?
[01:44:57] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:44:58] Duuude-Ron :
So I don't know. It's just it just a thought popped into my head, and I'm like, oh, how do I do this? So I figured it out, did it, played with it. And so far, this is what it's turned out, which honestly is freaking better than anything I've seen from on the web.
[01:45:18] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:45:19] Duuude-Ron :
And you say, say, I can also do the chapter or two with this program.
[01:45:25] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:45:26] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, either way, it don't matter. It just you know? But oh, I found a I found a podcast app. The only thing is is for Android only, I think. And you can't find it on the Play Store.
[01:45:45] Bryan Goodwin:
So what's it called?
[01:45:46] Duuude-Ron :
It's called antennapod.
[01:45:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, antennapod. Yeah. Yeah. I've heard of antennapod.
[01:45:52] Duuude-Ron :
Okay. I didn't know. I I and you see, it's it's, not on the Play Store for Android. I had to get F Droid, which is the open source side of the Android apps. Uh-huh. And and Download the APK? Oh, not APK. What's yeah. No. It is APK, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. It is. And, got that. Oh my god. I'll I mean, I love that podcast now.
[01:46:19] Bryan Goodwin:
A lot of people do. It it it's it
[01:46:23] Duuude-Ron :
I mean, once you get it, it's it's it's easy to set up. They don't track you for nothing.
[01:46:29] Bryan Goodwin:
You know? I'm trying to figure out why why is the Antenna pod not on there because it's been on it's been around forever. Yeah. I don't know. I just heard of it. Or is that the one that got bumped off because some some lawyer didn't understand what the hell I think that might be what it was what it was. There's some copyright lawyer or something like that, like, for BBC or or the Canadian equivalent or something like that, who was throwing a fit because I think and then I'm if I'm remember that it might be AntennaPod. They got they got hit with a cease and desist that they do not want their, their show was showing up at the end in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in, thinking that somehow they had were being, you know, short changed on their idiots who don't know what technology is and don't understand what podcasting is.
[01:47:32] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Yeah. I say yes. I don't know. But all I know is I I got it on my phone, and it supports chapters. It it freaking supports everything. Yeah. Yeah. It's a two point o. Yeah. It is. And it's but no. I found it on F Droid and downloaded it and tried it out. And I'm like, shoot. Yeah. Game on. So so I've got that on my phone and on my tablet. And then for for on Linux, I had to find one And, excuse me, CAS, kilo alpha Sierra tango Sierra. But it, it's a really full featured, pod catcher. Yeah. But it's only no. Hang on. Let me check. Let me check before I misspeak. I I'm not sure. Let me find out.
See if it's cross platform or not. Because I've got I've got this on my desktop.
[01:48:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Gotcha.
[01:48:42] Duuude-Ron :
So I I I'm I'm not sure if it's I'm looking right now. I'm checking right now. I'm not I'm not sure if it's, you know, if it's, you know, Linux only or Linux Windows, iOS, and I don't know if it's mobile. Okay. It says yes and no. It is it is technically cross platform, but it favors the open ecosystem of Linux and Android and is currently missing from Apple devices.
[01:49:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. That and any and your progressive web apps like like True Fans, those will those will work on on Android and and on Linux. So
[01:49:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. True Fans, I don't know. It it just
[01:49:33] Bryan Goodwin:
It's it's not it it's almost like there's too much on there now. Yeah. That's kinda the way fountain is with me also. It's like, oh, wow. You throw everything at you, and it's like
[01:49:43] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I felt fountain is for me, fountain is overwhelming.
[01:49:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[01:49:49] Duuude-Ron :
Podcast Guru is still okay, but the main one I use which one is is where is it at? Maybe it is Podcast Guru I use. Yeah. I use Podcast Guru. No. I use Pod Home. Oh, Pod Home. Okay. Yeah. I like I like Pod Home. So Pod Home is a good one. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, I've got True Fans, but I don't use it that much. Yeah. And Fountain is just way too much. Yeah. I mean, Fountain will Fountain will make a seasoned podcaster pull his hair out Just because there's just so much on the screen and Yeah. There's I mean, the clips and the
[01:50:33] Bryan Goodwin:
and the, the the, you know, the, the inclusion of not just the, using of boost and stochs like that, but then you also have oh, crap. What's that other network that everybody was kinda using there for a bit? I can't remember. Uh-huh. Fred, what is it?
[01:50:59] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know.
[01:51:01] Bryan Goodwin:
See, it was let's see. Primal. Nostr. Nostr. That's right. Oh, yeah. So yeah. And also, they use the Nostr network so that you've got two different types of payments systems you can sneak into there. I mean, granted, it it does what it does very good, and they've they've turned it into a very successful little business. It's just sometimes there's a reason why you start deciding we want this. We don't want this. We want this. We don't want this because eventually, if you're trying to throw everything in there, you lose who you are.
[01:51:40] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. But yeah. No. That's I mean I mean, honestly, that's that's why I went to Lennox because I can have what I want. And if I don't want it, I don't I don't have to be force fed it. You know? Yeah. Because, like, with Windows, some of the stuff you have to have. You know, I'm not sure about macOS. I don't I don't think Apple's like that. But with Windows, it's like, you get what you get and you deal with it. Yeah. You know? And and, again, like I said, what was it last week? For 99.99999
[01:52:15] Bryan Goodwin:
percent of the people, that's fine. That's fine. That works for what they want. They just have to sit there and bitch about it takes, you know, fifteen minutes for it to boot up because of all this crap they have in the background. And Yeah.
[01:52:30] Duuude-Ron :
And see, that's where you know? Yeah. Mine that's why I can I can say no? I don't want that or yes. I want that. And I don't pay for programs anymore. Right. I mean, I I don't have I now a few of the sites, you know, you know, they might have a subscription model, and I can choose to do that or not. Right. But as but as far as, you know, getting a program, you know, if if they say something about money now now Linux does have a couple programs that they do charge for.
[01:53:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But, And rightfully so. I mean Yeah. People, I would rather pay for a, a program that I use than just you know? Because at least I now know that it'll continue being being updated and worked on and Mhmm. And, you know, not to mention, the worst thing to be is an open source programmer because everybody who uses it bitches at them or your stuff doesn't work. This doesn't work here. This is this sucks. Blah blah blah blah. It's like yeah. It's two guys on the weekend who sit down and do a little programming for about three, four hours.
[01:53:48] Duuude-Ron :
Right. It's not the greatest, but it's doing what you're wanting it because you're sitting around bitching about it. Well, you see see, the thing is, though, okay, the thing is, though, in in some of these programs that I've seen, in the description, under the name of the program, they these people building these will say, this is not the best. It's still ongoing. So Yeah. You know, basically, use it if you want or don't use it if you want. And a lot of the programs or apps or however you wanna call them, they are donation based.
[01:54:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[01:54:24] Duuude-Ron :
You can choose to give them money or not. You know? It's it's it's not it's not a big deal. Yeah. Value for value. Yeah. Pretty much. It's podcasting two point o, but it's they've been doing a lot longer on Linux.
[01:54:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[01:54:43] Duuude-Ron :
But yeah. No. It's, I just that's that's why that's why I like Linux. You know? Oh, yes. I I I don't I don't I don't I don't have any of the problems that I used to have. And if I have a problem, I just talk with Jim and I say, hey. This is my problem. And, normally, I can have it fixed pretty quick. Sometimes, Jim and I will go off in a rabbit hole, and I gotta Right. Stop. You know? But what you gonna do? It's free help.
[01:55:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[01:55:20] Duuude-Ron :
You know? Deal with it. Just stop everything and then, you know, make it work a different way to get what you need.
[01:55:31] Bryan Goodwin:
So Or you just or you go past what the Gemini or the or or whatever the the the AI portion of the search engine is and go to actually start reading in the real websites and see what they have to say.
[01:55:47] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You can do that too. You know? So, I mean, there's there's there's many different options, but Oh. I've been able to handle just about all my questions through either Leo, which is on the Brave browser.
[01:56:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[01:56:03] Duuude-Ron :
And, shoot, Firefox has got. Oh, hell. They've got how many do they have? Oh, hang on. One, two, 34, 5. Five different chatbots in their in their window you can talk with. They got Claude, chat, GPT, Copilot, Gemini, the chat Proximity?
[01:56:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Proximity?
[01:56:29] Duuude-Ron :
No. They don't have that. Another browser. Another browser has that, I think. But yeah. But yeah. No. It's, so, yeah, you got options. And and that's the thing, you know, because, you know, when you use any one of these, they'll freaking give you the sources where they found the shit, and you can click that little icon right at the end of the text, and it'll take you to the web page. Right. So so you can go read it for yourself too. Yeah. Yeah. Do a search like that. And, normally, it'll list the sources, and and it's a looks like a small little it's a little box at the end of the text.
And then if you click that, it'll take you to the website.
[01:57:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay. Oh, someone had a day wrecker. Found that you cannot cross those cable barriers.
[01:57:30] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, okay.
[01:57:34] Bryan Goodwin:
Someone's tangled up in the cables. That's that's not a good day. Yeah. I'll say that's a day wrecker right there.
[01:57:42] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, that's, I mean, that's that's what that's what I do a lot of times. And Okay. I'm able to, you know, figure out a lot of stuff, especially when I'm working in in in the terminal. Uh-huh. Because there, I mean, I don't I don't know any of and and and it's easy words, but it's different. And then you've got if you capitalize something, that's a whole different meaning versus lowercase.
[01:58:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[01:58:10] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know any of that, so that's why it's like, hey. And and the thing is with with, say, Gemini, Leo, one or two others, they explain when you, you know, are asking for commands. They will break it and explain. This is why we're using this code for this, and they will break it down in simple terms. Yeah. So that's why that's why, you know, I, you know, I don't mind using it. Right. Because then sometimes it it freaking pops up questions in my head. So, alright. You telling me this? Okay. Why? You know? Or what, you know, what about this? Doesn't this come into play? And then they'll sit there and explain as to why or why not. You know?
So I'm not saying they're right all the time.
[01:59:04] Bryan Goodwin:
I would not don't know if they're right or not all the time either. But Right. But speaking of Internet and all that other stuff and things that are happening and and wondering what what's going on, you're seeing that Bitcoin's dropped down to about 85,000 these days?
[01:59:19] Duuude-Ron :
Last I saw it earlier today was 92.
[01:59:23] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yep. All need more.
[01:59:25] Duuude-Ron :
That was let me check. Yeah. Last time I saw it was that was earlier today, it was 92. That's crazy. Yeah. I saw something about the stock market tank. At one point, it had tanked over a thousand.
[01:59:40] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep. Yeah. Things are getting a little, getting a little wobbly. I think the, AI bubble is about ready to pop.
[01:59:48] Duuude-Ron :
No. No. Yeah. I doubt that.
[01:59:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, AI is the only thing that's propping the economy up right now.
[01:59:57] Duuude-Ron :
I see. There's yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right now, it's at 85 say it just dropped to $85.07 61.
[02:00:06] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:00:06] Duuude-Ron :
Or it just went up. It was at 82 when I first opened the app.
[02:00:11] Bryan Goodwin:
So Yeah. It keeps bouncing around, but it's, like, $85.70, $85.80.
[02:00:16] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's it's I mean I mean, it's just like the stock market. Oh, yeah. Stock market fluctuates more than we ever thought about changing our drawers. Oh, yeah. So, you know, I mean, that's why that's why I'm not worried about it. No. You know, things will things will things will come back, but yeah. And it's you know, this is just how it goes.
[02:00:42] Bryan Goodwin:
This is Yeah. I saw a deal on on, shit. What was the name of the site? It was it was a tech site.
[02:00:50] Duuude-Ron :
Mhmm. But,
[02:00:52] Bryan Goodwin:
apparently, North Korea has figured out how to be extra sneaky with the smart contracts on on on the on the, not Ethernet. What's the Ethereum. On the Ethereum network, blockchain. Okay. They figured out how to actually ins upload and then and set up Trojan horses and and other types of spyware on on the Ethereum network. Really? Yeah. And once those things are set, you can't remove them.
[02:01:30] Duuude-Ron :
No. They can.
[02:01:32] Bryan Goodwin:
No? Blockchain, once it's set, it's permanent.
[02:01:36] Duuude-Ron :
Well, so well, if that's the case, you would you would think someone would have already done it by now before North Korea. I'm not saying they're dumb. You know? But, you know, with with all the people running the blockchain like they do and everything like that, you think they could come back with something to limit the the, downfall of that?
[02:02:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You but oh, there we go. So you're take it. Ethereum smart. See if they can read read my my crazy swiping.
[02:02:15] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yeah. I don't swipe. Oh, I do.
[02:02:19] Bryan Goodwin:
Merrow where hiding on more chains. Yeah. No. This is on Google Cloud, but see oh, come on. Open it up. Yeah. I'll always give you an idea of what, of what they've done. But but, yeah, after hearing that, I'm kinda, like, going, yeah. I think I'm gonna hold off on Ethereum for a while.
[02:02:42] Duuude-Ron :
I haven't been buying Ethereum at all.
[02:02:45] Bryan Goodwin:
I haven't bought it in a long, long while.
[02:02:48] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. No. I you see, there's a thing. I I mean, yeah, I've got I've got a little bit of Bitcoin, but I've got other crypto that I hold on to.
[02:02:59] Bryan Goodwin:
Right. So I've got a little bit of Litecoin. I've got one Litecoin, but I'm gonna I I think I'm just gonna while this while things are dropping like this, I think that's what I'm gonna just start throwing whenever I have a chance to throw about $20.30 dollars at, at Bitcoin until it till I see it going back up, and they just kinda throw it into some other some other little little shit coin for a bit until until the Bitcoin starts spawn again and then transfer it over into the into Bitcoin just as a means of means of being able to just save it up and and stuff. So
[02:03:42] Duuude-Ron :
No. I've got I've got XRP and Solana. So, I mean and XRP, I just looked. It's it's sitting at a buck 98
[02:03:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:03:52] Duuude-Ron :
For 1 coin. And it it was up to over $3 at one time. Spot on it's at $1.32, and it was up, oh god, it was up most a year at then they're 300. Yeah. I mean, I'm down right now on it, but I'm not worried because it'll come back up just like the stock market. It'll come back up. You know?
[02:04:17] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah.
[02:04:19] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, I'm not I'm not I'm not worried about it because that's the thing when I got because I had pretty much taken everything out of my crypto for a while. And then I, I said, nah. No. I'm gonna get back in for a little bit, and then I'm just gonna sit and hold on to it. You know? Uh-huh. So, yeah, I've been I've been holding on to it now for close to a year.
[02:04:47] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Well, what I used to do was I had it just set for an auto purchase or auto I would have, like, $10 out of every paycheck pulled out. So, basically, about $40 a month.
[02:04:59] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:05:00] Bryan Goodwin:
And I'd save it up, save it up, save it up, and just as, you know, just for just in cases down the road. And usually, it'll become just in cases right around Christmas time because all of a sudden, the missus is like, well, we need to buy a bunch more stuff. Just like, alright. Fine. So I end up selling a bunch of it. You sit there and watch look at my, of all time, my invest my Bitcoin purchases, like,
[02:05:32] Duuude-Ron :
Mhmm. Yeah. But yeah. No. I I just I've got I've got a little bit. I, I haven't been able to buy any here lately, but I will. I'll get there, and I'll just I'll just hang on to it. Yep. Because if it really tanks, if it all really tanks, I will find I will find the money to put back into it because the ones that I'm in are not the main coins or anything. These are actual cryptocurrencies.
[02:06:07] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:06:09] Duuude-Ron :
Because, yeah, like, the Dogecoin ahead, all those other main coins, I said, screw them. Oh, yeah. No. Because it's it's like I mean I mean, if if I would've jumped in, you know, at the very first, and then when they got hot and then pulled out, you know, yeah, it would have been yeah. I'd be a rich man right now. But Yeah. I didn't, and that's okay.
[02:06:35] Bryan Goodwin:
Mhmm. Yeah. But a lot of those guys, like the Dogecoin and stuff, a lot of that stuff started out as just a pump and dump where they had a bunch of people throw a whole bunch of money into it, breaking the value up, and then they would all junk their their money out. And they, and the morons like you and me that didn't have any inside view would suddenly be left hold the bag.
[02:07:00] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:07:01] Bryan Goodwin:
So
[02:07:02] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well and and that's why that's why I, you know, I dumped all those and moved them into more
[02:07:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:07:11] Duuude-Ron :
Not stable coins, but cryptos that are actually doing something. Right. So, yeah, that's that's why I don't I don't worry about these fluctuations too much. No. I don't either. Because I mean I mean, think about it back, you know, with the stock market. Let's just let's just talk about stock market. I've seen the stock market tank. I'm talking people were screaming depression and all like this. Right. And and then it soared to a new high. Yeah. You know? So so this drop in the market, this week, it's gonna come back.
[02:07:52] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, yeah. No. It'll it'll go back up. I just hope it drops another, you know, $2,040,000 dollars before it does that, though.
[02:08:02] Duuude-Ron :
That would actually be kinda nice because Yeah. It would. Because because then the the, the crypto I'm holding, I could, you know, stack a few more up. So when it goes back up, I basically triple my money. You know? Right. So, yeah, that that would be nice.
[02:08:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yep.
[02:08:24] Duuude-Ron :
We'll we'll see. Because, yes. Yeah. I saw it. I had I had read an article today, and that was when I saw it was at 92. And then when you said it was 82, I'm like, woah. That was just and I didn't think that, yeah, Bitcoin could drop that fast that quick. You know? And so, yeah, when I look yeah. Yeah. If it drops another $2,040,000, shit. It's it's game on.
[02:08:53] Bryan Goodwin:
Absolutely.
[02:08:54] Duuude-Ron :
Because then when it does go back up to a 110, 112, 115, 120,000, What I bought at them low prices just freaking quadrupled. Right. So I basically got a four to one odds on that, you know, if something like that was to happen.
[02:09:16] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. But that's why you a lot of people wanna sit there and wait until it gets all the way to the bottom. It's like, no. No. While it's dropping, go ahead and start buying. Buy buy it as it's going down because you're never gonna be able to judge when it gets to when it gets to the bottom. You don't know what the bottom is, so you're not gonna be able to judge, oh, we're at the very bottom. Is this the best time to buy? It's just no. As it's dropping, go ahead and buy. Every time you buy some more and the lower it gets, then you're got a little bit more purchasing power. So you're you're Yeah. Compounding everything. So
[02:09:47] Duuude-Ron :
Well, just think. I mean, it was at when it started dropping, it was, you know you know, before it started dropping, it was, like, at one fifteen, one twelve, one fifteen at 82. So it's already dropped 30,000 in just less than a week. Like, in
[02:10:04] Bryan Goodwin:
a less than a week to or a month or or however much it was or not a month, but a couple weeks.
[02:10:10] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. It yeah. It yeah. It wasn't very long ago that it was still up a 112, $101,111,000. You know? Yeah. It's dropped 30000¢. Okay. Mhmm. We'll let it let it drop another 20, and it's game on. Because my opinion, if it drops another 20 in the next couple weeks, it's fixing to go back up. That's just my opinion. Yeah. Could be wrong.
[02:10:39] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You'll have, you'll have have the, the deal buyers coming in. They'll start picking everything up, and that'll that'll bring the, the prices that'll stabilize the price a bit. So
[02:10:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, no. It's it I probably ought to throw 10 or $20 at, XRP because, like I said, I just looked, and it's a dollar 98 right now.
[02:11:05] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:11:06] Duuude-Ron :
So and since XRP got done with all that court battle stuff and they won their shit, they're back on solid ground. Yeah. So so that's why that's why I'm not you know? Yeah. Let it drop a little bit. I'll be alright.
[02:11:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Right.
[02:11:27] Duuude-Ron :
You know?
[02:11:28] Bryan Goodwin:
Definitely ain't gonna hurt it hurt to to let it, let it be a little low so we can other people can buy into it. So Right.
[02:11:37] Duuude-Ron :
Well, that's like right now. I've got 69.91 XRP. So and it's valued it's dollar 98, dollar 99. So I've got about a $139
[02:11:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Okay.
[02:11:52] Duuude-Ron :
In it. And it's Solana. I've got 1.144 Solana, and, it's trading at $1.32 81.
[02:12:04] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:12:05] Duuude-Ron :
And I was buying in when it was at $2.60. So I probably ought to jump in on that for another $100.
[02:12:14] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah.
[02:12:15] Duuude-Ron :
Because when that shoots back up, yeah, that would just yeah. That would raise me up pretty good.
[02:12:22] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. No. It would.
[02:12:24] Duuude-Ron :
I don't know. We'll see. I mean, right now right now, I'm I am a po white boy, but I could sell something. Hell, I stand on a street corner and sell my body for a $100 so I could invest in crypto.
[02:12:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:12:42] Duuude-Ron :
No. I sell something. Soon as the money gets transferred, put it right into crypto. I don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead yet. Dude, you've been awful quiet. What's up?
[02:12:57] Rich Chelson:
Oh, not a whole hell lot. Just listening to y'all. Okay. Jibber and jibber and jabber. Precisely. Yeah. That and fighting us to stay awake. Right.
[02:13:13] Bryan Goodwin:
So, hell, we've only got thirty minutes left. So well, you ain't got much more to go.
[02:13:19] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. You're you're right. But but the but the drugs always help.
[02:13:26] Bryan Goodwin:
I bet they do. Oh, yes. They do.
[02:13:31] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. If I didn't have my assortment of colorized how can we call that? Colorized specifically sized candy for adults only. Yeah. No. I would not sleep.
[02:13:53] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. You need to sleep. Alright. It helps.
[02:13:57] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. It definitely does help because then it makes me just a little less crankier.
[02:14:06] Duuude-Ron :
It just makes you a freaking ball of sunshine, dude.
[02:14:11] Rich Chelson:
Freaking ball of sunshine.
[02:14:13] Duuude-Ron :
Right.
[02:14:15] Rich Chelson:
It it it makes me so bright. I have to wear my sunglasses at night.
[02:14:20] Duuude-Ron :
Exactly. There you go.
[02:14:23] Bryan Goodwin:
For show. For show. For show. But
[02:14:29] Duuude-Ron :
so, yeah, basically, I'm I'm all set up for the next contest. I'm I'm just waiting on it to get here, which, actually, this is kinda nice because I can relax, you know?
[02:14:41] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:14:42] Duuude-Ron :
You know, before this next con be and and you see you see on on this last contest. Okay? Okay. This now I'm not new to contest by no means, but I couldn't get the login program that I normally use to work on Linux
[02:15:02] Bryan Goodwin:
Uh-huh.
[02:15:03] Duuude-Ron :
Because of the wine layer and stuff like that, it was it was fighting with my radio and logbook and everything.
[02:15:09] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:15:10] Duuude-Ron :
So I got another logbook that that runs on Linux. Right? K. So I go into this contest ready for the contest, but had no had I had used this logbook a little bit, but not in a contest setting. So so for a while, my workflow was not that good. Trying to figure out the nuances of this new logging program during the contest is not advisable.
[02:15:44] Bryan Goodwin:
Not advisable.
[02:15:46] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Not. I mean, trust me. I I did I did pick it up fairly quickly, though, and figured out the workflow I needed, and it things went a lot smoother after that. But, man, I did not wanna run a big contest like that with a brand new logbook.
[02:16:06] Bryan Goodwin:
I bet not.
[02:16:07] Duuude-Ron :
But I did it.
[02:16:10] Bryan Goodwin:
But I did it anyhow, but I did.
[02:16:13] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I did because I I wanted to work a contest. And, oh, man, that freaking antenna, dude, not pull put up. Man, that son of a bitch just fucking just kicks ass. I mean, kicks ass. Anyone I can hear or that hears me, I can talk to them. There is no is excellent. Oh, it is, man. It is. It's it's I seriously, it's because with my others, they were good, but a lot they were noisy. Right? And shit Hell, right. You the this one here is so quiet. I normally have to add noise because it's is there is there any signals? Is there any signals? I normally have to add noise. So Yeah.
You know? Here's the signals. No. It's no. It's cool.
[02:17:09] Rich Chelson:
You know? That now you can operate on the 10 band where you couldn't do you said you couldn't do it at all with the other 10 antenna. Right?
[02:17:18] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. Well, it was it was it was tough as hell.
[02:17:21] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. Okay.
[02:17:23] Duuude-Ron :
You know, I some days, I could do okay with with 10 meters and all like this, but now, yeah, I don't I don't worry, and I could get shit. Well, was it last week? I think. I talked to Burundi on the African coast. Yeah. You ever tell you say say something about, Burundi. Yeah. There. Yeah. Talked to them. And during the contest, there's a section up in Canada. They've named it for the contest, they've named it the Golden Horseshoe. And it's basically I think it's the Eastern Side or Western Side Of Of Toronto. And, normally, I don't ever hear them in a contest.
I don't hear any of them. Okay? I made five contacts just to the Golden Horseshoe That's cool. Canada. Yeah. And it it was like, man, it was great. It was freaking great because I'm like I'm like I mean, because that was that was always one of the sections that I don't know why, but I wanted to work them, and I never could. Once in a while, I might hear them, but they could never hear me. Not now. Not now. If I hear you, you're gonna hear me.
[02:18:43] Bryan Goodwin:
Rich's coming in loud and proud.
[02:18:46] Duuude-Ron :
I was I was I I was told that the other day when I talked to, say, a couple doing a photo activation in, New Jersey. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. I heard them. And I'm like, no. I'm I'm done for a while. Well, about twenty minutes later, I was back here. I turned the radio on, and they were still on. And so I fired everything up, and, I jumped in and and they said, damn, you got a five nine signal, which is the best I can get? And, they're like, damn, you're loud. And I said, well, thank you. I said I said, yeah, they're sending me, pretty good down here at the Gulf Of America.
And I told him I was 1,900 feet away from the water. And, the guy's wife was like, oh my god. This sounds nice. It's like 44 degrees up here. I said, yeah. We're in the mid seventies, you know, high fifties, low sixties in the morning. She's like, oh my god. I was like, hey. Drive south.
[02:19:48] Bryan Goodwin:
Drive south. Just know that it will get cold eventually, though. Yeah.
[02:19:52] Duuude-Ron :
Would you just hush?
[02:19:54] Rich Chelson:
No.
[02:19:55] Bryan Goodwin:
No? Because, you know, they gotta don't don't let them drop and think that, they found Paradise because that's hadn't found Paradise yet. That's closest thing to Paradise, San Diego. That's they're the only place that's pretty much stays in the sixties, seventies, eighties at the most during the through the year. So I think their average is is, like, 68 degrees or something like that.
[02:20:22] Duuude-Ron :
That that's nice. The only bad thing about that whole thing, it's in California. Yeah. Yeah. It's California. And there's too many dadgum people.
[02:20:32] Bryan Goodwin:
There's too many weird people. There's a lot of really nice bikinis.
[02:20:37] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, I don't doubt that. I do not doubt that at all, but it's in California. Yep. No. Can't do, won't do California. It's negative ghost rider. Yes, ma'am. That path is blocked.
[02:20:54] Rich Chelson:
Yeah. And you yeah. Unless you have a fucking wetsuit, you can't go swimming in damn Pacific Ocean.
[02:21:01] Bryan Goodwin:
Well, you can. You're just gonna chatter.
[02:21:04] Rich Chelson:
Oh, yeah. You're gonna fucking chatter alright.
[02:21:07] Bryan Goodwin:
That was some of the fun stuff funny stuff to to to watch. My son would sit there when he was year and a half, two years old. We'd have him sitting in, in the sand and stuff. It'd be not it'd be decently warm. It'd be, you know, eighties, mid mid to upper eighties, and he'd be sitting in this, sitting in this little sandpit with a little bit of water in there, flash around, but his bottom lip's up there be flapping all over the place. He is cold, but you're keeping him out of the out of the water. Right. We just had to wait until his lips turn blue, and he's like, okay. Never mind. It's time to go. Time to heat you up, kid.
[02:21:48] Duuude-Ron :
See, that's funny because that's where down here in The Gulf, especially during the summer. It is warm. Yeah.
[02:21:54] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. You've got the well, that was a, I was watching a a a a video about why is America so much colder than Europe. And you're, like, going, what? Why is you know, how's that? You get they start looking at point that out, like, on on the, on the longitudinal lines or latitude, no lads, lads. You know, Paris is basically on the same line as is actually a little further north than what Anchorage, Alaska is.
[02:22:34] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, wow. Okay.
[02:22:36] Bryan Goodwin:
And so you have, like, Norway to Sweden, they're way the hell up there. Mhmm. Because they still have fairly mild temperatures. I think Spain, Madrid is about the same height as, as New York. So they're a lot further north than what The US is, but they often do not have the freezing temperatures that we do. Right. And that was because the the Atlantic current goes goes down to the to the Equator, goes across from east to west, goes up, circles around the the Gulf Of America, and then comes out and runs across upward to Great Britain and and and and that area. And so it warms the air while The US, where I most of our air gets our air gets cold because of the Pacific currents.
Okay. So, yeah, Pacific currents are cold except whenever we get the El Nino, and then that's when all of a sudden things start getting warm. Right. Right. And that's where we get the funky, weather that we had, like, this year where we had all the rain show up so far south.
[02:23:54] Duuude-Ron :
So I picked a very good place to live at. Yeah. See? I and and that's the thing. I didn't really think about it. I just I knew I was coming down this way, and I was gonna drive as far as I could until I couldn't drive no more. I'm like, okay. I I didn't even research it really down here. I just looked at it. And it's like, yeah. I remember running through there, and everyone was always real nice. Screw it. That's where I'm going.
[02:24:26] Bryan Goodwin:
Right.
[02:24:27] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. I mean, I I didn't know what was going on. I, you know, I knew it was warmer than where I was at in February. So I was like, see you.
[02:24:38] Bryan Goodwin:
Yeah. Yeah. And come to find out you got bozos and and other great items that, make life there quite nice.
[02:24:46] Duuude-Ron :
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. In fact, where did me and Jim and Dana went to I think we went I think it was a River Road Marina. It's just it's just right here on the North Side Of Pascagoula. Okay. They had you know, we just hung out there. They had karaoke, and and they serve food there. And, yeah, I had the crab stuff flounder. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh, that shit was good. I wanna tell you what right now. That was that was some good vittles right there. It was spicy, but it was good. I it was oh my gosh. I mean, it's like, boom. In fact, when they have it again, I'll probably go get the bad thing is that it's expensive.
$25. Oh, yeah. But but you get 25. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. 25. But but you get a plate full. You know? I mean, it's it's it's not it's not no too little pieces. It's it's, you know, it's crab meat on top of a piece of flounder that's been seasoned really well and cooked. And then Right. I can't remember what size I had. But yeah. No. It was it was a powerful lot of food. It it damn sure filled you up.
[02:26:13] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, good.
[02:26:15] Duuude-Ron :
So, yeah, that was that was actually really good food to eat.
[02:26:19] Bryan Goodwin:
That's good. Good. Good. Very good to hear. So
[02:26:22] Duuude-Ron :
And and that dude that dude, actually, when we're sitting there, dude came out and brought his telescope. He's got one of them serious business fuck telescopes. I mean Got the refractor and mirror in there and all? Yeah. It took him thirty minutes to get it set all all set up as its own stand and everything. I mean, it's one of them huge ones. And he pulled up the moon. Now I've seen the moon. I've seen pictures. I've taken pictures. I've seen the moon, and the moon sees me. But Yeah. But through this telescope, I used my phone and got a picture.
And Okay. It's oh my god. The detail on it is freaking in in crazy. And then Right. And then I got talking with him, then he switched it to, Saturn. Oh my god. That was cool as shit now. Saturn Oh, yes. Saturn was tiny because it's so far away. Away. But it was so crisp and clear. Mhmm. It it was it was the rings look like they were it was a knife. You know? Right. It was cool as shit. And two of Saturn's moons were just off to the left of it. Oh, man. It was awesome.
[02:27:42] Bryan Goodwin:
That is cool. Yeah. Yeah. I've always liked going through and looking at, the different types of, different plans and stuff. Just the issue I always had was that I'd never had the money to buy buy a a respectable, telescope.
[02:27:58] Duuude-Ron :
Right. Right. Now now this guy said he had used smaller ones and, you know, it had worked, but, you know, over the years, he had well, he said his wife left him, so he said fuck it. He he had bought a telescope.
[02:28:11] Bryan Goodwin:
Time to splurge.
[02:28:14] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. He did. And and the thing is he had bought these pieces used. And I asked him, I'm like I'm like, you know, what you got in this setup right here? He said, oh, about 10,000.
[02:28:27] Bryan Goodwin:
10,000?
[02:28:28] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. That's that's just in the telescope. That's just in the telescope he had standing on the ground you you could look through. That's not Right. That's not counting the rest of the equipment he had in his trailer.
[02:28:42] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh.
[02:28:43] Duuude-Ron :
And and he had the keypad keypad he could punch in, and the telescope just turned.
[02:28:51] Bryan Goodwin:
Oh, okay. Yeah. And and it would track it.
[02:28:54] Duuude-Ron :
Yeah. And and so, yeah, he was on the moon, and then he switched it to Saturn and and everything. And I was like, that's pretty freaking cool. But, yeah, you could you could definitely see some stuff. Right. So but so, yeah, we got dinner, karaoke,
[02:29:13] Bryan Goodwin:
and we got to stargaze. Some some some astronomy going on. So Right. That's cool. So well, it is 09:50, so I guess we need to start getting this old big bird landed. So, anyhow, guys, I wanna say thank you to everybody who is listening to us and has been listening to us and coming back to listen to us. I'm glad that he knows that there are people out there who do enjoy, and and are quite the glutton for punishment. So you're we we have a different means of doing this show than what most people do. We talk about what we wanna talk about. And with many shows, especially on YouTube and stuff like that, they really censor themselves on the topics they talk about. They may they may wanna try to talk about, you know, suicide and try to bring awareness to it, but they won't actually say suicide. They'll say something like self deletion or sell or something to that effect or that is just as equally lame because the the advertisers don't wanna have don't wanna be associated with that word.
And if you're about mental health, well, then you kinda how do you how do you actually bring forth the the awareness of that when you can't actually even talk about what you wanna what you wanna be able to talk about? So we have decided that we don't want to have to censure ourselves in in any way. We wanna talk about we wanna talk about how we wanna talk about it. And if you don't like it, that's okay. You don't have to like it. But if you like it, then great. Awesome. We'd love for, we'd love to know what type of value we've provided for you. And that's why the whole value per value model works so so well for us because I don't have to worry about, did I offend a sponsor?
And what and I don't have to worry about interrupting a a good conversation for, for a mattress. I can have the conversations that we wanna have. And here at the end, then we talk about, you know, what is it what what type of, value did we bring to you? And there's several different ways that you can you can reimburse us for the value that we I didn't tell you. It could be that you just share this the show out with your friends, family, and or or enemies. You share that share that with them. You can let them let them know what what the show is, what it's about, and and why you like it.
And that would be just a great way of being able to give back to the show. If but there's also the three t's of of value for value, and that's time, talent, and treasure. Time. If you've got some time you wanna give and to to say just say thank you and you wanna be able to do something for us, then great. You'll reach out to us. You can talk to me over on CircleCast. That's c I r c l e c a s t at g mail dot com, or you can get ahold of Rich. That's r chelson. That's chelson,chelson@gmail.com. And we'd love to let you know what we can we need help with. Or you can, if you honor a certain talent, maybe you're good at databases, maybe you're good at graphic design, maybe you're good at, at coding up a website, maybe you're good at, at something else.
You can provide your value. Maybe you're a good script jockey and you can, prompt jockey and you wanna be able to, to create chapter art or or episodic art. Everybody can do that. Everybody can create all the art that they wanna create based on a based on something we were talking about, and you could submit it to us. And what we'll start doing is we'll start taking them all in, and we'll start having debates over, well, I like this one for this, well, this one for this. This is a great chapter, chapter or episodic form because that kinda covers everything that we talked about. And so we will give it a post it up, and I still will give you credit for what you what you created. We're not gonna go off and say, well, this is all I do. And no. This is we we aren't we aren't selfish in that way. We'd love to be able to to avoid, your, or voice out that you're the one that did all the hard work and and came up with the, with the art that you came up with. So we'd love to be able to to do that, but all you have to do is start creating possibilities of of art that you would like to see posted up. And so and all the only thing we require is at least to be about 1,500 by 1,500 pixels, and it needs to be square.
If not, we can I can always square it up a little bit if and and that'll that'll help out tremendously? But you can also do treasure, and this is where you can go to support this show on any podcasting two point o app. And if you don't have a podcasting two point o app, you could do so by going over to podcast go to podcastapps..com. And there's a whole slew of podcasting two point o apps out there that will allow you to support the show through the funding tag, or if you wanna, support the show in some other way, they have, just all these different options. And if you're like to listen to the show live, we've got, most podcasting two point o apps have, the the live item tag, and that allows for everybody to, to come on and listen to the show live while we're recording it.
And and so it's an option that the legacy apps like Apple and Spotify won't ever have. So with that, I wanna say thank you again. And, Rich, what do you got to say?
[02:35:47] Duuude-Ron :
Not too much. Just wanna say thanks to everyone who is still coming and listening. I looked before we jumped on, and Singapore is is, like, at a 130 some odd downloads, it seems like. Yeah. I mean, there it's crazy. I love it, though. And our our friends across the pond there in England are are starting to gain traction. So, I mean, apparently, we're people are listening to us, and and, you know, I enjoy it. And, you know, like like Brian said, you know, share this out with your friends, your family, your loved ones. Help people you hate. Who cares? You know? You You're probably never gonna talk to them again. So you know? But if they listen and laugh, who knows? Y'all might be mates in the future and have a pint.
That's my attempt at being English. Okay? I know it's a sorry attempt, but, oh, well. But, yeah, just send us an email if if you wanna talk to us, and that's rjelson@gmail.com or brian. You can send him one at circlecast@gmail.com. And if you wanna hear the dude's infinite wisdom, if he's not asleep right now, just send an email to me or Brian. We will make sure the dude stays awake at least to read the email and give his his impart his his knowledge. So other than that, thanks for listening. Keep coming back. We won't be on next week because of Thanksgiving here in The United States. I figured I had to add that since we have now I have more people listening
[02:37:25] Bryan Goodwin:
who might Out out of The US than in. So
[02:37:28] Duuude-Ron :
Uh-huh. So now that we have more people listening outside The US than in. Right. Right. So yeah. No. It's cool. But either way, you know, thanks for listening, and catch us again a week after next. So do what you got. You awake yet?
[02:37:43] Rich Chelson:
Oh, I'm awake. Like I said, just listen to y'all chitter chatter. So, yeah, Rich and Brian have already thanked everybody for, coming on and visiting and listening to us each and every week. Again, yes, thank you very much. We enjoy your you downloading our show, and we hope that we will continue to, oh, give you our little bit of knowledge. And, I mean, that's saying it very lightly. We have very little information, but shit. Lost my train of thought. I was gonna say, just dribble right out of here. Yeah. That's right. The the, the train and the caboose both fell off the track, and all the cars in between.
Damn. So, again, because I'm tired. So but, yes, again, thank you very much for everybody that downloads.
[02:38:50] Bryan Goodwin:
So alright, guys. Well, again, thank you. Rich, Ron, thank y'all for both coming on and sit down and allowing us to have a conversation. Hopefully, next week, I won't sound quite as weird as I do, because, hopefully, half of face will actually stop swelling as much as it has, and I will look back to being normal. I actually send send you a a picture of my face there, Rich. I went ahead and took one just for posterity. So you can see that, yeah, I'm quasi modoed pretty good. So so, but, anyhow, guys, I wanna say thanks again for y'all coming on, sit down, talking with talking with each other for for the three hours, and we will talk to y'all the week after next since we're well, I'm not gonna be eating turkey. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be driving. So anyhow so, guys, y'all take care, and, we'll talk to you later. So till then, bye.
Later. Peace out.
[02:39:50] Duuude-Ron :
Alright, guys. Catch you later. Yep. Yep. Alright. Thanks a lot. Bye, guys. Bye.
