A Laid-Back Saturday Update

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Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the

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case may be, this is Mike and, of

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course, Mike Dell's World. I think this is

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yeah. Four twenty eight for November twenty second

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twenty twenty five. Yeah. This is Saturday afternoon

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in my case. Yeah. So not a whole

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lot going on here today. I figured I'd

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just do a quick little update. Napod Pomo

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is still going on. This is the twenty

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second day. And, yeah, I kinda had a

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pretty laid back relaxing day. I went to

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out to the EAA, the experimental aircraft association,

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hangar talk session, where I call it coffee

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klatch. I do that every Saturday over at,

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the hangar, their offices. EAA chapter two two

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thirty four. I should know that, shouldn't I?

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Anyway, so, that was that was fun. I

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had well, I dropped Kathy off at, the

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hospital for an MRI she had to have,

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and then I went over there and had

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coffee with the guys and then went back,

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picked her up. And then, we went to

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meat, market and then, then Costco. Can never

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get out of Costco for cheap, but, I

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didn't do too bad in there. And it

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was busy. It's crazy how quickly, though, that

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their checkout lines go. It was the the

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line was lined up literally three fourths the

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way across the store when, we were we

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were shopping. And then by the time we

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got there, there wasn't hardly any light at

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all by the time we, you know, got

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ready to check out. So they're pretty damn

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deficient over there, I suppose, but, find some

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good deals. Wasn't bad. And then, came home

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and a friend of ours stopped over with

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her dog, and, the dogs played. And we

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sat there and shot the breeze, and and

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I figured, oh, I better come out and

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record an episode. Hadn't done one. It was

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gonna do one last night and never did.

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So that's what this one is. But like

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I said, just a quick shorty little update.

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And I'm gonna tell you what I've got

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planned for the rest of this month. Tomorrow,

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I'm gonna do, aviation up north. I'm gonna

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be talking about, you know, the aviation community

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around here. Guess I got a little update

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of that, this morning. And then I'm gonna

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talk about the blizzard of seventy eight. I'm

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old enough to remember it. Not by a

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hell of a lot, but I remember it.

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And tell you my experiences. And then, gonna

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do an episode about Iceland in the nineties.

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I lived in Keflavik, Iceland for a year

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in, nineteen ninety one. Or is it ninety

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one, ninety two? No. It was ninety ninety

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one. Anyway, so talk about that. And on

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the twenty sixth, I'll be talking about Traverse

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City still being kind of a small town,

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but, in other ways, not so much. And,

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my friend, Chris, I'm sure he's gonna be

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interested in this one. I'm gonna talk about

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the state hospital or the Northern Michigan asylum

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currently known as Grand Traverse Commons. So that'll

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be interesting, and I'll probably get most of

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it wrong. So not really. Let's see. You

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got a couple other, little episodes planned, and,

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that's gonna do it for the thirty days

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of of November here. So got, you know,

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seven or eight more to go, eight more

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to go, nine more to go, something like

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that. And, yeah, I kinda I'm thinking seriously

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about maybe doing a weekday daily show. I

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don't know if I'd do it on this

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on this feed or do, it on a

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different feed. You know, it's hard enough to

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get people to listen to this one. Of

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course, you know, when I when I'm not

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that consistent, you know, that goes. But almost

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thinking, you know, it might be fun just

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in the morning when I'm sitting here in

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the office, before work starts and drinking some

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coffee, maybe, throw together a little five minute

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thing, to decide whether I wanna do that

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either on this feed or a different feed

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and just, you know, call it coffee with

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Mike or something stupid like that. I don't

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know. It might be fun. Keep me in

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the game. Make me podcast more. But, you

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know, I'm already doing a weekly with Podcast

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Insider, and I'm gonna be a rotating guest

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host on another show coming soon. Actually, it's

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a show that's been going forever except for,

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one of the host died. And, anyway, the

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other cohost is is gonna resurrect the show.

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In fact, I spent a lot of time

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yesterday getting the website back up and running

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properly and getting the RSS feeds running properly.

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It's both a video and an audio and

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a live, video show. So I'll be, rotating

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with three other guest hosts. So every third

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week, however that works out, I'll be on

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that show. That's, that's the plan. I'll sure

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I'll tell you about it when I can.

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Also, planning our conference down in Florida, December

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fifteenth through the eighteenth. The, was it, podcast

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expo or no? What is it? Jeez. I

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am drawing a blank. Podfest. There we go.

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Podfest Expo. It's gonna be at the the

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Radisson Hotel at SeaWorld in Orlando, so that'll

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be interesting. I'll be speaking there. And, also,

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my company is sponsoring the podcasters hall of

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fame induction ceremony, so that'll be interesting. Get

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to, hobnob with, with royalty there. That'll be

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fun. Dave Ramsey's gonna be there. I'm sure

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you've heard of him, the money guy on

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the on the radio and in podcasts and

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YouTube and everywhere else. Anyway, he's gonna be

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there. There's gonna be a couple other, somewhat

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famous people there plus, you know, I'm gonna

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be there. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. What do

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you call that? Imposter syndrome? Anyway, so that'll

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be that'll be good. We're bringing a pretty

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big contingent from Blueberry down there this year.

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Can have, five of us from the team,

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maybe six. Not for the whole week. Dave

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and I are gonna be doing the whole

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week, and then we'll have people popping in

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and out, coming down for a day or

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two for that. So that'll be that'll be

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good. First convention after our founder and CEO

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passed away a couple months ago or beginning,

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I guess, the beginning of September. So it's

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been a while. But, this will be the

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first public conference we've been to as a

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company, since, he passed away. So show him

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we still exist, and, we're still plugging along

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and and all that. But, so that's really

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been, you know, what I've been focusing on,

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you know, this week. Plus, you know, we've

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had a few technical glitches. You know, CloudFlare

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went down. Now that didn't affect us directly.

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Our company doesn't use, at least that part

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of Cloudflare for anything important. Had a couple

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of ancillary, websites and services go down, but,

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you know, so did half the Internet. So,

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you know, not not not not unique in

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that way, but, our core services stayed running,

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and that was good. But, you know, still,

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the customers don't know, don't know what what

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is who's. So, you know, it, it did

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cause a bit of an influx of support

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tickets. And, then we had a little glitch

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in one of the pieces of software. We

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did an update, and it caused a glitch.

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Didn't prevent it all from working, but it

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had a glitch. And, we got it, figured

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out and fixed, and, you know, all is

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all is well now. But, wow. You know,

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nothing fills up my inbox more than a

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a technical glitch with our system. Phone was

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ringing off the hook and, of course, my

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other guy, Dave, he was he was on

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vacation that day, that all that happened. So

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but, it's alright. I I I survived it

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and, didn't, didn't drive me to drink too

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much, so we're good. And, Friday was pretty

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laid back. In fact, I took most of

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Friday off and was working on that, website

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for that other show. So like I said,

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I'll, let you guys in on, who it

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is or what show it is and, when

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I'm gonna be on it. And I'm just

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kicking eye around this idea of a a

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kind of a daily little, you know, informal,

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here's what's going on, five minute thing. Maybe

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not you know, be maybe what's going on

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in the news around here? What's going on?

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You know, just in general, maybe national stuff,

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maybe local stuff, maybe Michigan stuff, you know,

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just stuff. Maybe just the weather report. I

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don't know. But if you're at all interested

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in that, let me know. You can email

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me direct, mike at mike dell dot com

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or go to mike dell dot com. And

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I don't know. Probably no place to comment

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there, maybe or shoot me a Facebook or

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a x post to let you know, let

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me know if you'd you'd be interested in

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something like that. I don't think I'd wanna

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do it seven days a week. I've done

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seven day a week shows before and, you

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know, lasted a year on a couple of

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them. But, yeah, I'm just kinda thinking about

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doing that again. I've got it down to

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to, you know it took me four seconds

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to open up the the software and flip

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the switch on the mixer board and start

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talking to you, you know, not putting in

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music and sound effects and all that stuff

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all the time. So, this might be easy.

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And, of course, it might be a pain

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in the butt. I don't know. But, you

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know, I'm gonna get back to podcasting more

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than I used to. You know? Like I

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said but, you know, the other two podcast

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related shows, because that second show is also

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gonna be podcast related, I think. You might

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even know what it is. But, anyway, I'm

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not gonna spill the beans on it until,

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the other cohost is ready. Let's see. I

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guess that's about it. My wife, since we

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went to Costco, she picked up some rib

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eyes, and we're gonna have some steak and

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baked potatoes. I'm getting back to my, not

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carnivore, but, keto. So, gotta get rid of

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the potatoes in the house, so we're gonna

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pig out tonight. So that's the that's the

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scoop. It's all that's worth talking about. Tomorrow,

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I get to talk about aviation, and hopefully,

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it won't be long and drawn out like

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the Ham Radio episode, but, it might be.

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A lot a lot going on around here

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in aviation. Maybe not so much this time

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of year, but, definitely in the summer. Catch