Sept. 19, 2025
Missing People, Missing Time and Missing Podcasts – MDW 404
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In episode 404 of "Mike Dell's World," titled "Missing People, Missing Time and Missing Podcasts," host Mike Dell opens by greeting listeners and noting the episode number's significance, linking it to the theme of being "not found" or "missing.
In episode 404 of “Mike Dell’s World,” titled “Missing People, Missing Time and Missing Podcasts,” host Mike Dell opens by greeting listeners and noting the episode number’s significance, linking it to the theme of being “not found” or “missing.” He reflects on his absence since May 29 and shares personal experiences of loss.
Mike addresses the passing of his father in December, which has left him feeling a sense of missingness, particularly as he takes on household responsibilities his father used to manage. He also shares the recent unexpected death of his cohost Todd Cochrane, which has thrown his company, Blubrry Podcasting, into turmoil. Mike recounts attending Todd’s funeral, where many podcasting peers gathered to celebrate Todd’s life and legacy. He shares memories of attending Podcast Movement in Dallas with Todd and how their dynamic was central to the experience, highlighting the challenges he faces now without him.
The episode then transitions into updates on Mike’s life, including difficulties with time management, ongoing flight training, and personal projects around his home. He talks about the stress of caregiving and estate management for his family, as well as the trials of hauling campers and maintaining his mother’s camper for friends.
Mike also discusses his recent flight checkride and his experiences with repairing his truck, illustrating a hectic summer filled with both personal and emotional challenges. He mentions his plans for the upcoming winter, expressing hope for a more manageable snow removal routine.
As he continues, Mike describes renovations he’s undertaking at home and reflects on the need to update his podcast more frequently, acknowledging his last episode was significantly delayed. He shares his intention to keep listeners engaged and updated about both his personal life and the progress of his other show, Podcast Insider, which is currently on hiatus.
He concludes by thanking listeners for their support and asking them to stay tuned for future updates as he navigates the ongoing adjustments in his life, reaffirming the poignancy of the episode’s theme of missingness. Mike wraps up the episode with a reminder of the ongoing journey of understanding loss and the changes it brings.
00:01 - Introduction to Mike Dell"s World
00:15 - Episode 404: Not Found
01:14 - Missing Loved Ones
02:50 - Todd Cochran"s Unexpected Passing
05:10 - Celebration of Todd"s Life
08:05 - Managing Family Responsibilities
09:36 - Flight Training Progress
12:26 - Truck Troubles and Adventures
14:43 - Thoughts on Future Vehicle Choices
19:38 - Plans for Future Podcasts
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Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the
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case may be. This is Mike, and this
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is Mike Dell's world.
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Yeah. I say this every time, but, this
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this episode number is four zero four,
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which is also a euphemism for not found.
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Well, obviously, I haven't been found since, May
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29 as far as this podcast goes. Of
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course, I've done a few episodes quite a
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few episodes of podcast insider,
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but, you know, I I think this the
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theme of this show is missing,
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because,
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you know, 04/2004,
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it's, that just means not found. Well, also,
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it could be mean missing.
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So,
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of course, you know, my dad passed away
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in December and, over the summer, I felt
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him being missing
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because I'm doing a lot of the things
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that he used to do around the the
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house there and, plus I'm doing the things
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I need to do around my house, plus
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I'm still working on flight training.
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So it's, you know, just
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a lot of time has been missing.
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And of course, people, you know, the dad
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being missing
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and and all that. And then, this, a
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week ago,
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Monday, so almost two weeks ago,
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we had a shocker at work. Todd Cochran,
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my cohost on Podcast Insider and,
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you know, prolific podcaster and the CEO of
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my company here, Blueberry,
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passed away unexpectedly
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on his way home from visiting his kids
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out in Washington state.
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So that sort of threw the company into
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a turmoil for the last couple of weeks,
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and
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we're,
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we're doing doing okay. You know, we've
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sort of figured out what what we gotta
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do to go, you know, to move forward
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and, you know, Blueberry is not going away.
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Hence, you're getting this podcast because of Blueberry.
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But,
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yeah, that's been really hard and, you know,
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it's like, you know, I get into a
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meeting or something and I wanna I wanna
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make a snide comment. You know, I don't
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have my buddy to do that with anymore.
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That's what we would usually do is we'd
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have what we call back channel during
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Zoom meetings
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and and whatnot. And, you know, just three
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weeks ago or maybe more than that now,
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but,
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at Podcast Movement in Dallas, you know, you
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know, of course, we worked the booth together,
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Todd and I. And then, you know, we
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both spoke there and and all that stuff.
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And but on the off hours, we were
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out hunting bourbon and eating barbecue
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in Texas and, you know, just having a
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good old time and holding court the bar
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at the hotel,
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you know, all the the normal conference stuff.
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it's just hard to believe that, you know,
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poof, you're gone. It was totally unexpected. He
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was 61
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and had a
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transient blood clot or something. I don't know
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the the whole story.
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One of the cool things though is I
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was able to go down to
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his homestead there in
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in Quincy, Michigan
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and help his mom a little bit and,
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you know, Sherry's still around doing well.
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his sons,
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his son Chris, youngest son is,
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gonna attempt to take over Geek News Central,
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Todd's main show. He wants to get it
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to at least episode 2,000.
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So I went down there and helped him
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fire up the studio and figure out how
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everything works, and I got him set up
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with equipment he can take back to Hawaii
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to to do the thing.
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So,
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hopefully, he's got one episode out. I haven't
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seen whether he put out the second one.
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He said he was, recording one, but,
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again, you know, with all the turmoil. And
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we went back down for the funeral or
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I did, and there was a lot of
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podcast luminaries there. Rob Greenlee, Rob Walsh,
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from Libsyn,
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Dave Jackson,
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Daniel Lewis.
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About half of the blueberry team was there.
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You know, some of them are way across
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country and whatnot. But,
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and Marlo Anderson
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came from North car or North Dakota,
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the Tech Ranch guy,
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and the
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guy that does the,
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National Day calendar. There you go. And, by
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the way, today's cheeseburger day, just in case
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you're wondering.
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By the way, this is being recorded on
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Friday 09/19/2025.
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So, yeah, that
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that celebration of life or funeral or whatever
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was
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was really good. And of course, you know,
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I've known the family for as long as
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I've known Todd pretty much.
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So, and they're not too far away. It
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was about a four hour drive each time
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I went down there, and I'll probably go
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back down there at some point and help
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Sherry
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with some stuff, but, we'll see.
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And I participated in a the final
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new media show, which he normally Todd would
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normally
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cohost with Todd or with, Rob Greenlee.
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And we had, Rob Greenlee, of course, Rob
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Walsh from Lipson,
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Adam Curry from MTV and podcasting two point
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o and The Daily Source Code and kind
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of the co inventor of podcasting or or
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the podfather as we call it.
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So, you know, it was it was good.
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We had some, you know, funny stories and
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and good stories and and all that stuff.
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So if you wanna go check that out,
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go to newmediashow.com,
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and that'll be posted there for a long
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time. I'm sure Rob's not sure whether he's
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gonna continue that show or not.
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It could happen and maybe not. We don't
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know.
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But anyway, so yeah, that's been the latest
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shocker. But, you know, going all the way
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back to December, I think I did, you
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know, a couple of shows in May. One
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of them was stupid, the last one, four
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zero three, but
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they played with AI weather forecasting and whatnot.
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one before that, you know, explained what was
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going on and and all that. And all
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winter long, you know, having to, you know,
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blow snow and haul the tractor around and
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blow snow and haul the tractor around.
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Just never got well, I figured it would
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let up after the snow, but and it's
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not, you know, anything to do with my
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mom. It's just
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things to do with everything and everybody.
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You know, my my time has not been
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my own as far as
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any free time. So we'll we'll call that
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404 on my free time.
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So, hence,
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I haven't really sat down to podcast. I
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should just carve out time, but, you know,
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this is a this is a show. I,
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flip the mic on whenever I think I
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want to, and,
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yeah, I appreciate you guys hanging around. But,
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yeah, it's
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it's
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one of those things.
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But, yeah. So, you know, this summer, it
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just flew by. You know, we're already feeling
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the fall cold a little bit here and
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there. It hasn't been cold last few days,
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but,
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let's see.
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Just give you a big overview of all
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this stuff.
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Campers. You know, we went camping, and I've
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had to haul the campers, both campers, dad's
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camper for mom and my sister and whatever,
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and and then I gotta go back and
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haul my camper. And, you know, we went
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camping a couple times, and then my mom
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loans out her camper to her friends, which
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I really think is cool and, you know,
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I have no problem doing it, but I
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have to
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I have to pull the camper because I
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inherited I inherited dad's truck, and that's the
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one that pulls the camper. So
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so I had to deliver the camper out
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to one of the campgrounds for these friends
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of hers and
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and he's,
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he does home dialysis, so he can't really
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camp in a tent and
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this camper really works out for him and
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they're doing great. And then I did it
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again this fall
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or late summer,
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and that was kind of a problem because
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at some point during the
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year,
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my,
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I don't know how you what he's a
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relative ish sort of, kind of.
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But my
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cousin's
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grandfather
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and my aunt's father
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was 97
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years old, and he passed away. And my
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mom was the executor.
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And so I did a lot of hauling
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stuff around for, for the the estate, you
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know, because they sold the house, and I'd
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get some of the stuff that they didn't
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sell out of the house.
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And of course, my mom bought
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a kitchen table,
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which is really nice. Antique wooden kitchen table
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is really nice. And,
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you know, of course, I hauled that and,
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you know, again, it was just a lot
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of a lot of a lot of as
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I call it. Plus, I'm still trying to
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get my flight training finished.
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I took the checkride
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about a month ago
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and screwed up a couple of maneuvers, so
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I have to go do do a recheck.
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So I've been, training with my instructor on
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the on the items that I missed. I've
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got till October 15 to finish that, but,
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shouldn't be too much of a problem,
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barring weather and airplane delays and
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whatnot. But,
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so that's still going along swimmingly except for,
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like I said, I botched a few maneuvers.
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You know, I did a short field landing.
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You gotta land
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on a spot on the runway,
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and you can't land anything before the spot,
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and you have to land within a 100
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feet for this particular checkride
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of the spot, you know, beyond it.
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Because, you know, you're simulating. You're landing on
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a really short runway.
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And I hit the spot
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perfectly,
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but I did it from five feet up.
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And, yeah, it's not acceptable.
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It was a rather rather rough landing
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and, you know, and a couple other little
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maneuvers I had to I have to reshow
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the in the,
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examiner,
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but, that shouldn't be a problem. We've, you
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know, flown a few times since then, and
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I think I got everything dialed in. We're
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gonna do one more
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next week. And then
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after that, the following week, I'll take the
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the recheck or the check ride, finish the
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check ride, and hopefully,
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that'll be that. And I'll have the rating.
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So it's all good.
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Let's see what else has been going on.
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Of course, you know, there's always
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visitors. You know, we're in a tourist area,
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so we have friends and family that show
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up. And, of course, you know, you gotta
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kinda entertain them. And,
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you know, we had a a garage sale
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that, took up a lot of time and
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took a really long time to to
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get rid of.
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So I had to move some stuff out
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of the driveway and all that. Also, when
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I was hauling that camper or not the
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camper,
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the
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the kitchen table that mom bought,
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I
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jackknifed the trailer into the side of the
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truck and put a nice big dent in
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the side of the truck, which sucked.
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So I had to get that into the
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body shop. So, anyway, I put it in
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the body shop when we went to Texas
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for the conference,
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and it was supposed to be done. But
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just before that,
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I had to, haul a camper out to
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or no.
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At just after that, I had to haul
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a camper out to another place for these,
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friends of my mom's. Of course my truck
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was still in the shop longer than it
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should have been so I ended up
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hauling it out with a borrowed truck and
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that was a little stressful because I didn't
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know the truck very well and it's a
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36 foot camper, and the truck's just a
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half ton, the one that I borrowed.
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And, you know, it was a little squirrely,
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but we got it out there, got it
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parked for them, got it set up.
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And then, you know, I figured I'd get
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my truck back, and I did except for
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when I went to go get my truck,
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it it quit running. You know? And this
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is a relatively new truck with low miles.
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And so I had it towed over to
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the dealership, and the dealership was supposed to
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get it done on a Friday.
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And I was supposed to go pick up
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the camper
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on Saturday.
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Well, my truck wasn't done on Friday.
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And then
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on Monday, it wasn't done. And on Tuesday,
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it wasn't done. That was over Labor Day
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weekend. Of course, it wouldn't be done on
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Monday. But anyway, by Wednesday, I finally got
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it back, but I had to use that
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borrowed truck
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both directions,
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for this camper pole. And
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that was
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an adventure
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for sure.
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But, anyway, got the truck back. Dents gone.
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The fuel pump went out. That's what was
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wrong with it. And come to find out
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it was still under warranty, and it was
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a known issue with that truck. I have
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a 2020 Tundra
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with,
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I guess, now 46,000
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miles because they put a thousand miles on
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it this week back and forth to,
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Quincy,
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two trips.
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So
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but, you know, it's low miles for a
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five year old truck. And,
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you know, I love the truck. It was
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dad's last truck and,
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you know, it's got all the bells and
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whistles. And it's a, you know, heavy duty
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truck, so I can pull the big campers
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and
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I think I'll pull stumps, I guess. I'm
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not gonna do that. But,
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anyway, nice vehicle, and I'll probably have that
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as long as it'll have me.
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Although, you know, I kind of worry about
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the electronics,
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but they're getting better. And Toyotas are always
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pretty good.
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At least,
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in fact, that's all we have left is
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Toyotas.
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I've got my old '99 Corolla with a
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stick shift and Kathy's got a Highlander
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SUV.
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So, we're all Toyota family at the moment,
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but I think I might,
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sell that Corolla
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or or whatever and get a get a
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fun car.
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I'm thinking, maybe a a Miata
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or
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a or a Porsche Boxster
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or an Audi TT convertible,
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Something. Yeah. Something I'd only drive in the
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summer anyway,
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but we'll see.
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I don't know if I need that headache.
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Maybe I'll just save my money and buy
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an airplane that,
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that's kind of come up in my list
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too. Maybe build one.
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But, yeah. You know, toys, toys.
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But, yeah, it was, you know, with
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Todd missing from work, that's, that's been, like
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I said, a hardship.
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You know, dad missing as well. That's, you
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know, I wouldn't call it a hardship. I
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mean, I guess it is the order of
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things, but it's, you know, kinda hard to,
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you know I don't don't have my buddy
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to call, you know, either Todd or my
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dad.
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You know, I have other friends, obviously, but,
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you know, we always had
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always had the stuff, especially with flying. You
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know? My dad was an instructor
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and air taxi pilot and few other things
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in the aviation world, and,
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you know, it was always cool to
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to chat with him about flying and and
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airplanes and whatnot. We'd get into those conversations.
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And, well, I got my uncle, dad's brother.
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He was also all of those things, instructor
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and air taxi pilot and, you know, he
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had an airplane
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and so, you know, get to talk to
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him, but not nearly as much.
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So, anyway,
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I'm sorry I've been missing, but
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that's that's what's been going on in in
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my world.
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I was trying to think of anything else
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of interest
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that's happened since May.
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We've had kind of a weird summer. It's
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been, you know, really hot and dry at
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times, and then we get dumped on with
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water
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and with rain. And they say this winter
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is supposed to be an El Nino winter,
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which usually means we get dumped on some
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more. So
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but I think I'm gonna handle the the
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snow removal a little differently.
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I'm gonna leave the tractor out at the
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farm and
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and,
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you know, take care of that as soon
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as I can because, you know, mom needs
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to get in and out, whatever.
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And then only bring the tractor into town
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to do mine on the weekend, you know,
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say on Saturday. I'll go out there, get
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the tractor, bring it in, plow here,
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and in the meantime, I'll just use the
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walk behind blower,
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to
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clean out the driveway enough to get in
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and out,
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and I think that'll be a lot less
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stressful than hauling that camper every time, Or
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camper, the tractor every time.
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You know, so that that's that's the story.
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I think I think I'll go back to
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that method rather
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than rather than every time.
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And that'll give me a little more time.
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And tomorrow,
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you know, usually
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on Saturdays,
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I do
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some aviation stuff. We go over to the
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hangar and do some hangar talk with the
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EAA group or
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or I go flying or you know whatever.
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Saturday mornings, I usually have something going on
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and I just decided now this last couple
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weeks have been stressful.
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So tomorrow morning, I'm gonna attempt to sleep
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in, which means I'll probably get up at
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five.
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That's alright. I'm gonna sit in my easy
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chair and drink coffee and
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surf the web on my iPad or read
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a book or
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watch some YouTube, whatever, and then got some
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chores to do.
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We have, you know, I think I told
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you I live in a in a log
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cabin, in a real log cabin, you know.
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And we had a rotten log.
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They just the the face of it, it
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was rotten. The structure is okay, but
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it just was getting rotten. So I
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cleaned it out, you know, cleaned out all
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the rotten wood and filled it full of
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that Great Stuff foam,
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and then put
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some
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reinforced
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heavy duty boards to hold the top log
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to the to the,
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I guess,
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what do you call it, the foundation because
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it was the bottom log
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and reinforced
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that and then put a flat board over
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it. And I'm gonna be painting that.
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And I'm also gonna be working on my
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studio
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slash office slash shed slash man cave out
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here in the backyard.
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I'm gonna paint the back wall. Right now
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it's kind of a brick orange
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color and it just doesn't look good on
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camera.
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So I'm gonna paint it the same off
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white and got the rest of the walls.
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So tomorrow afternoon we'll be painting
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and I got to paint the door.
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The back door gets all scratched up from
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the dog and or dogs.
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We have
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dogs here sometimes,
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extra dogs, and they always like to scratch
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on the back door, and the back door
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is real wood.
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So,
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throw a coat of paint on that too
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while I'm at it.
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But, yeah. Hopefully, I'll get it I get
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a day off, and I'm gonna make it
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more of an effort to, at least update
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this one more often. You know, I can't
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guarantee it, and I've said it a thousand
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times. Well okay. 404
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times, probably.
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But,
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yeah, I hope not to be missing as
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much as I have been.
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So, again,
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you know, thanks for staying subscribed.
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And, if you just ran across this,
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I was much more prolific in the first
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couple 100 episodes
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than I have been
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since. But,
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yeah, just my fun little podcast course. Podcast
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Insiders sort of on hiatus right now. Mackenzie
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and I are gonna carry that show on,
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and we may bring on another team member.
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We kind of round robin that when Todd
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was doing it and
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and ironically we have Todd's last recorded podcast
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episode and it was podcast insider with McKenzie.
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We're trying to decide whether we're gonna put
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that out or not. We probably will, but
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we'll, we'll probably edit in some
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some
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announcement or whatever. And then
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our editor Kate is working on a best
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of reel
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for
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for Todd. So we'll probably put that episode
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out before we resume the normal episodes over
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there.
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So be sure to check out podcastinsider.com
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if you're interested. You know, it's all about
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podcasting and what's going on at Blueberry and
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Raw Voice and,
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you know, the the greater podcasting world.
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So
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anyway, I will cut this off and everybody
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have a good however long it is till
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I'm back.
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Again, like I said, they've been rather missing
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and, you know, this episode number
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is actually apropos,
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four zero four. I was gonna do a
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comedy
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bit with the four zero four thing, and,
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of course, that was before all the
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all the, events of the last couple of
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months. So
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anyway, everybody have a good one. Catch me
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later.
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Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the
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case may be. This is Mike, and this
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is Mike Dell's world.
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Yeah. I say this every time, but, this
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this episode number is four zero four,
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which is also a euphemism for not found.
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Well, obviously, I haven't been found since, May
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29 as far as this podcast goes. Of
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course, I've done a few episodes quite a
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few episodes of podcast insider,
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but, you know, I I think this the
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theme of this show is missing,
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because,
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you know, 04/2004,
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it's, that just means not found. Well, also,
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it could be mean missing.
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So,
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of course, you know, my dad passed away
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in December and, over the summer, I felt
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him being missing
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because I'm doing a lot of the things
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that he used to do around the the
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house there and, plus I'm doing the things
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I need to do around my house, plus
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I'm still working on flight training.
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a lot of time has been missing.
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being missing
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and and all that. And then, this, a
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week ago,
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Monday, so almost two weeks ago,
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we had a shocker at work. Todd Cochran,
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my cohost on Podcast Insider and,
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you know, prolific podcaster and the CEO of
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my company here, Blueberry,
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passed away unexpectedly
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on his way home from visiting his kids
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out in Washington state.
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So that sort of threw the company into
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a turmoil for the last couple of weeks,
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and
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we're,
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we're doing doing okay. You know, we've
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sort of figured out what what we gotta
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do to go, you know, to move forward
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and, you know, Blueberry is not going away.
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Hence, you're getting this podcast because of Blueberry.
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yeah, that's been really hard and, you know,
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it's like, you know, I get into a
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meeting or something and I wanna I wanna
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make a snide comment. You know, I don't
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have my buddy to do that with anymore.
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That's what we would usually do is we'd
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have what we call back channel during
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Zoom meetings
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and and whatnot. And, you know, just three
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weeks ago or maybe more than that now,
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but,
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at Podcast Movement in Dallas, you know, you
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know, of course, we worked the booth together,
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Todd and I. And then, you know, we
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both spoke there and and all that stuff.
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And but on the off hours, we were
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out hunting bourbon and eating barbecue
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in Texas and, you know, just having a
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good old time and holding court the bar
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at the hotel,
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you know, all the the normal conference stuff.
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it's just hard to believe that, you know,
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poof, you're gone. It was totally unexpected. He
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was 61
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and had a
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transient blood clot or something. I don't know
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the the whole story.
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was able to go down to
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his homestead there in
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in Quincy, Michigan
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and help his mom a little bit and,
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you know, Sherry's still around doing well.
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his sons,
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his son Chris, youngest son is,
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gonna attempt to take over Geek News Central,
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Todd's main show. He wants to get it
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to at least episode 2,000.
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fire up the studio and figure out how
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everything works, and I got him set up
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with equipment he can take back to Hawaii
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to to do the thing.
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hopefully, he's got one episode out. I haven't
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seen whether he put out the second one.
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again, you know, with all the turmoil. And
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we went back down for the funeral or
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I did, and there was a lot of
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podcast luminaries there. Rob Greenlee, Rob Walsh,
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from Libsyn,
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Dave Jackson,
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Daniel Lewis.
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About half of the blueberry team was there.
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You know, some of them are way across
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country and whatnot. But,
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and Marlo Anderson
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came from North car or North Dakota,
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the Tech Ranch guy,
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and the
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guy that does the,
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National Day calendar. There you go. And, by
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the way, today's cheeseburger day, just in case
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you're wondering.
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Friday 09/19/2025.
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that celebration of life or funeral or whatever
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was really good. And of course, you know,
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I've known the family for as long as
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I've known Todd pretty much.
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was about a four hour drive each time
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I went down there, and I'll probably go
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back down there at some point and help
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with some stuff, but, we'll see.
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new media show, which he normally Todd would
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normally
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cohost with Todd or with, Rob Greenlee.
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Walsh from Lipson,
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Adam Curry from MTV and podcasting two point
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o and The Daily Source Code and kind
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of the co inventor of podcasting or or
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the podfather as we call it.
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and good stories and and all that stuff.
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go to newmediashow.com,
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time. I'm sure Rob's not sure whether he's
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gonna continue that show or not.
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know.
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shocker. But, you know, going all the way
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back to December, I think I did, you
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know, a couple of shows in May. One
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of them was stupid, the last one, four
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zero three, but
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they played with AI weather forecasting and whatnot.
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one before that, you know, explained what was
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going on and and all that. And all
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winter long, you know, having to, you know,
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blow snow and haul the tractor around and
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blow snow and haul the tractor around.
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Just never got well, I figured it would
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let up after the snow, but and it's
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not, you know, anything to do with my
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mom. It's just
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things to do with everything and everybody.
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my own as far as
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any free time. So we'll we'll call that
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404 on my free time.
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I haven't really sat down to podcast. I
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should just carve out time, but, you know,
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this is a this is a show. I,
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flip the mic on whenever I think I
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want to, and,
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yeah, I appreciate you guys hanging around. But,
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yeah, it's
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it's
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one of those things.
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just flew by. You know, we're already feeling
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the fall cold a little bit here and
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there. It hasn't been cold last few days,
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let's see.
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Just give you a big overview of all
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this stuff.
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Campers. You know, we went camping, and I've
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had to haul the campers, both campers, dad's
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camper for mom and my sister and whatever,
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and and then I gotta go back and
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haul my camper. And, you know, we went
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camping a couple times, and then my mom
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loans out her camper to her friends, which
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I really think is cool and, you know,
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I have no problem doing it, but I
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have to
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I have to pull the camper because I
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inherited I inherited dad's truck, and that's the
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one that pulls the camper. So
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so I had to deliver the camper out
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to one of the campgrounds for these friends
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of hers and
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and he's,
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he does home dialysis, so he can't really
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camp in a tent and
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this camper really works out for him and
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they're doing great. And then I did it
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again this fall
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or late summer,
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and that was kind of a problem because
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at some point during the
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year,
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my,
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I don't know how you what he's a
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relative ish sort of, kind of.
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But my
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cousin's
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grandfather
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and my aunt's father
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was 97
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years old, and he passed away. And my
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mom was the executor.
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And so I did a lot of hauling
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stuff around for, for the the estate, you
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know, because they sold the house, and I'd
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get some of the stuff that they didn't
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sell out of the house.
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And of course, my mom bought
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a kitchen table,
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which is really nice. Antique wooden kitchen table
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is really nice. And,
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you know, of course, I hauled that and,
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you know, again, it was just a lot
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of a lot of a lot of as
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I call it. Plus, I'm still trying to
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get my flight training finished.
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I took the checkride
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about a month ago
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and screwed up a couple of maneuvers, so
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I have to go do do a recheck.
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So I've been, training with my instructor on
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the on the items that I missed. I've
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got till October 15 to finish that, but,
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shouldn't be too much of a problem,
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barring weather and airplane delays and
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whatnot. But,
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so that's still going along swimmingly except for,
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like I said, I botched a few maneuvers.
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You know, I did a short field landing.
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You gotta land
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on a spot on the runway,
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and you can't land anything before the spot,
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and you have to land within a 100
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feet for this particular checkride
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of the spot, you know, beyond it.
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Because, you know, you're simulating. You're landing on
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a really short runway.
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And I hit the spot
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perfectly,
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but I did it from five feet up.
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And, yeah, it's not acceptable.
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It was a rather rather rough landing
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and, you know, and a couple other little
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maneuvers I had to I have to reshow
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the in the,
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examiner,
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but, that shouldn't be a problem. We've, you
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know, flown a few times since then, and
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I think I got everything dialed in. We're
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gonna do one more
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next week. And then
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after that, the following week, I'll take the
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the recheck or the check ride, finish the
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check ride, and hopefully,
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that'll be that. And I'll have the rating.
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So it's all good.
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Let's see what else has been going on.
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Of course, you know, there's always
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visitors. You know, we're in a tourist area,
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so we have friends and family that show
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up. And, of course, you know, you gotta
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kinda entertain them. And,
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you know, we had a a garage sale
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that, took up a lot of time and
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took a really long time to to
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get rid of.
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So I had to move some stuff out
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of the driveway and all that. Also, when
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I was hauling that camper or not the
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camper,
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the
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the kitchen table that mom bought,
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I
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jackknifed the trailer into the side of the
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truck and put a nice big dent in
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the side of the truck, which sucked.
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So I had to get that into the
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body shop. So, anyway, I put it in
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the body shop when we went to Texas
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for the conference,
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and it was supposed to be done. But
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just before that,
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I had to, haul a camper out to
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or no.
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At just after that, I had to haul
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a camper out to another place for these,
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friends of my mom's. Of course my truck
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was still in the shop longer than it
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should have been so I ended up
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hauling it out with a borrowed truck and
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that was a little stressful because I didn't
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know the truck very well and it's a
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36 foot camper, and the truck's just a
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half ton, the one that I borrowed.
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And, you know, it was a little squirrely,
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but we got it out there, got it
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parked for them, got it set up.
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And then, you know, I figured I'd get
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my truck back, and I did except for
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when I went to go get my truck,
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it it quit running. You know? And this
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is a relatively new truck with low miles.
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And so I had it towed over to
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the dealership, and the dealership was supposed to
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get it done on a Friday.
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And I was supposed to go pick up
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the camper
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on Saturday.
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Well, my truck wasn't done on Friday.
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And then
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on Monday, it wasn't done. And on Tuesday,
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it wasn't done. That was over Labor Day
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weekend. Of course, it wouldn't be done on
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Monday. But anyway, by Wednesday, I finally got
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it back, but I had to use that
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borrowed truck
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both directions,
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for this camper pole. And
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that was
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an adventure
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for sure.
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But, anyway, got the truck back. Dents gone.
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The fuel pump went out. That's what was
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wrong with it. And come to find out
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it was still under warranty, and it was
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a known issue with that truck. I have
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a 2020 Tundra
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with,
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I guess, now 46,000
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miles because they put a thousand miles on
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it this week back and forth to,
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Quincy,
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two trips.
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So
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but, you know, it's low miles for a
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five year old truck. And,
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you know, I love the truck. It was
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dad's last truck and,
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you know, it's got all the bells and
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whistles. And it's a, you know, heavy duty
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truck, so I can pull the big campers
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and
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I think I'll pull stumps, I guess. I'm
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not gonna do that. But,
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anyway, nice vehicle, and I'll probably have that
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as long as it'll have me.
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Although, you know, I kind of worry about
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the electronics,
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but they're getting better. And Toyotas are always
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pretty good.
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At least,
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in fact, that's all we have left is
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Toyotas.
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I've got my old '99 Corolla with a
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stick shift and Kathy's got a Highlander
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SUV.
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So, we're all Toyota family at the moment,
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but I think I might,
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sell that Corolla
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or or whatever and get a get a
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fun car.
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I'm thinking, maybe a a Miata
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or
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a or a Porsche Boxster
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or an Audi TT convertible,
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Something. Yeah. Something I'd only drive in the
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summer anyway,
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but we'll see.
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I don't know if I need that headache.
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Maybe I'll just save my money and buy
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an airplane that,
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that's kind of come up in my list
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too. Maybe build one.
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But, yeah. You know, toys, toys.
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But, yeah, it was, you know, with
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Todd missing from work, that's, that's been, like
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I said, a hardship.
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You know, dad missing as well. That's, you
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know, I wouldn't call it a hardship. I
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mean, I guess it is the order of
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things, but it's, you know, kinda hard to,
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you know I don't don't have my buddy
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to call, you know, either Todd or my
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dad.
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You know, I have other friends, obviously, but,
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you know, we always had
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always had the stuff, especially with flying. You
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know? My dad was an instructor
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and air taxi pilot and few other things
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in the aviation world, and,
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you know, it was always cool to
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to chat with him about flying and and
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airplanes and whatnot. We'd get into those conversations.
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And, well, I got my uncle, dad's brother.
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He was also all of those things, instructor
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and air taxi pilot and, you know, he
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had an airplane
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and so, you know, get to talk to
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him, but not nearly as much.
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So, anyway,
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I'm sorry I've been missing, but
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that's that's what's been going on in in
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my world.
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I was trying to think of anything else
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of interest
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that's happened since May.
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We've had kind of a weird summer. It's
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been, you know, really hot and dry at
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times, and then we get dumped on with
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water
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and with rain. And they say this winter
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is supposed to be an El Nino winter,
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which usually means we get dumped on some
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more. So
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but I think I'm gonna handle the the
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snow removal a little differently.
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I'm gonna leave the tractor out at the
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farm and
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and,
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you know, take care of that as soon
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as I can because, you know, mom needs
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to get in and out, whatever.
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And then only bring the tractor into town
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to do mine on the weekend, you know,
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say on Saturday. I'll go out there, get
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the tractor, bring it in, plow here,
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and in the meantime, I'll just use the
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walk behind blower,
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to
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clean out the driveway enough to get in
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and out,
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and I think that'll be a lot less
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stressful than hauling that camper every time, Or
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camper, the tractor every time.
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You know, so that that's that's the story.
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I think I think I'll go back to
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that method rather
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than rather than every time.
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And that'll give me a little more time.
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And tomorrow,
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you know, usually
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on Saturdays,
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I do
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some aviation stuff. We go over to the
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hangar and do some hangar talk with the
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EAA group or
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or I go flying or you know whatever.
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Saturday mornings, I usually have something going on
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and I just decided now this last couple
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weeks have been stressful.
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So tomorrow morning, I'm gonna attempt to sleep
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in, which means I'll probably get up at
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five.
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That's alright. I'm gonna sit in my easy
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chair and drink coffee and
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surf the web on my iPad or read
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a book or
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watch some YouTube, whatever, and then got some
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chores to do.
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We have, you know, I think I told
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you I live in a in a log
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cabin, in a real log cabin, you know.
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And we had a rotten log.
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They just the the face of it, it
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was rotten. The structure is okay, but
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it just was getting rotten. So I
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cleaned it out, you know, cleaned out all
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the rotten wood and filled it full of
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that Great Stuff foam,
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and then put
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some
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reinforced
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heavy duty boards to hold the top log
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to the to the,
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I guess,
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what do you call it, the foundation because
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it was the bottom log
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and reinforced
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that and then put a flat board over
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it. And I'm gonna be painting that.
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And I'm also gonna be working on my
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studio
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slash office slash shed slash man cave out
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here in the backyard.
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I'm gonna paint the back wall. Right now
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it's kind of a brick orange
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color and it just doesn't look good on
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camera.
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So I'm gonna paint it the same off
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white and got the rest of the walls.
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So tomorrow afternoon we'll be painting
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and I got to paint the door.
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The back door gets all scratched up from
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the dog and or dogs.
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We have
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dogs here sometimes,
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extra dogs, and they always like to scratch
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on the back door, and the back door
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is real wood.
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So,
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throw a coat of paint on that too
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while I'm at it.
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But, yeah. Hopefully, I'll get it I get
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a day off, and I'm gonna make it
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more of an effort to, at least update
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this one more often. You know, I can't
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guarantee it, and I've said it a thousand
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times. Well okay. 404
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times, probably.
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But,
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yeah, I hope not to be missing as
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much as I have been.
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So, again,
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you know, thanks for staying subscribed.
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And, if you just ran across this,
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I was much more prolific in the first
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couple 100 episodes
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than I have been
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since. But,
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yeah, just my fun little podcast course. Podcast
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Insiders sort of on hiatus right now. Mackenzie
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and I are gonna carry that show on,
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and we may bring on another team member.
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We kind of round robin that when Todd
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was doing it and
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and ironically we have Todd's last recorded podcast
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episode and it was podcast insider with McKenzie.
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We're trying to decide whether we're gonna put
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that out or not. We probably will, but
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we'll, we'll probably edit in some
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some
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announcement or whatever. And then
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our editor Kate is working on a best
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of reel
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for
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for Todd. So we'll probably put that episode
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out before we resume the normal episodes over
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there.
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So be sure to check out podcastinsider.com
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if you're interested. You know, it's all about
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podcasting and what's going on at Blueberry and
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Raw Voice and,
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you know, the the greater podcasting world.
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So
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anyway, I will cut this off and everybody
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have a good however long it is till
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I'm back.
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Again, like I said, they've been rather missing
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and, you know, this episode number
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is actually apropos,
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four zero four. I was gonna do a
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comedy
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bit with the four zero four thing, and,
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of course, that was before all the
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all the, events of the last couple of
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months. So
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anyway, everybody have a good one. Catch me
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later.