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Mike Dell's World number 1 76 for 02/17/2011.

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Believe it, I did

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Meanwhile, deep down and tall on the ground,

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I'm gonna get to train cars, rumbling around

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back and forth, turning it to the factory,

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taking away the people that I'm bringing them

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back to me, damn down, again and again

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they, so I'm a naked with it with

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the wind, but I don't see how they

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remain, but I'm gonna keep it all up

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still safe. When every day, there gets

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And that's the deadly gentleman,

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and it's called Helloapocalypse.

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It's an interesting group because, they're an all

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acoustic string

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instrument group that,

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has no guitars.

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No guitars and no drums, I don't think.

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So kind of a cool thing. It's kind

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of a a fusion of,

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of almost rap and,

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almost bluegrass, but,

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not quite either one of those. They're kinda

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hard to describe.

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Anyway,

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I think I've played them on the podcast

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before, but never that song.

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Hey. How's everything going? Thanks for,

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tuning in to this edition of Mike Dell's

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World. Been kind of

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a busy week in my world.

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Of course, it's all pretty mundane stuff.

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Since the last time we talked,

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Kathy and I

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made our trip down to Novi in Detroit

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area,

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and it was,

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interesting trip. It was kinda nice. I got

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a little time to to vegetate in the

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hotel room while, Kathy worked, which is usually

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the opposite. You know, when we go to

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Vegas or

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or, some other place, usually, I'm the one

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that's working, and she's,

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she's the one that gets to lay around

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the hotel room or, go play or whatever.

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So,

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but, anyway, it was an uneventful

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trip, but, interesting, and I'll tell you about

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it.

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But first, gotta talk about our sponsor.

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Why is why do I say our sponsor?

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My sponsor,

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Leonard Peacock.

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And I'm gonna have to,

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open up a web page here so that

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I can make sure that I get this,

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this right.

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And that's peacock.com.

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And I believe it's,

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no. I got it backwards.

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It's peik0ffeik0ff.com,

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And it's Leonard Peekoff and his podcast. He

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does,

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podcasts about

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Ayn Rand's

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Objectivism,

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theory or whatever you call it.

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But, anyway,

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he, he does,

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you know, bunch of little short ones where

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he answers questions using

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the objectivism

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philosophy of Ayn Rand,

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and he also does a longer,

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more or less weekly podcast. But

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said he's, he was a friend of of

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Ayn Rand, before she died.

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He was given the rights to her books.

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You might have heard of,

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what is it, Atlas Shrugged is one of

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them, and, there's several other ones. And plus

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he's also

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written a couple books, but it's it's interesting.

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He he does,

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you know, he answers questions

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using the Objectivism,

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philosophy.

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You know how you would answer the questions

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and

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and, it's pretty cool.

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And he's just Ian Ryan's revolutionary

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philosophy to real world problems. So, anyway, give

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it a try. He's,

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he's been advertising,

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you know, on and off with with the

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show and and several others on the Blueberry

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network.

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And,

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I said it's worth a listen. I've subscribed

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and,

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and I listened to them. Whether you agree

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or not, you know, that's another question. So

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give it a listen, see if you do

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agree. Or if you don't,

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let me know about it. It'd be a

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good topic of discussion.

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So anyway, that's, peacoff.com,

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www.peikoff.com,

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where you can search for

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peacoff

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in

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the iTunes directory or in Google and you'll

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find it.

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Anyway,

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let's see. The trip to Detroit and Novi

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area, we took off Friday morning,

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which I got off work

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08:00, and then we were on the road

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at nine.

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Drove the new car down there, by the

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way. Very nice, nice ride.

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Like I said, I I had a

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I think I told you about it last

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time, but I I did a, a moderate

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upgrade to the old Camry. And the old

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Camry,

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is now at my, niece and nephew.

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Niece and her husband. I guess I could

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call him nephew. I don't know. Nephew in

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law. Is that right?

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he's,

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using that to get back and forth to

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school. He lives in Muskegon or they live

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in Muskegon, and he, goes to school in,

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Owasso, which is near Lansing.

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drive or whatever. That's kind of the commute

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and does it two, three times a week

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depending on which classes he's taking

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that semester. So that car will get a

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lot of, I 96 time,

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which,

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is good for it. And, you know, 215,000

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miles,

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needed to be replaced. So I had a

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moderate upgrade. I got

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Cam Camry Celera, couple years newer and with

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half the miles on it. So

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just over a 100,000

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in the Celera. And

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said so far, I like it, but we

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took that down to

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Novi to Detroit. Farmington Hills actually was where

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and Kathy's convention was in Novi, the Novi

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or Novi Exposition Center or whatever they called

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it. I don't know. But, she worked that

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what do we do Friday night?

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we got to the hotel room, I crashed,

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went to sleep for a few hours. Well,

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Kathy went to the Expo Center and set

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up her booth.

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Got that all, going, and

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I don't know what we did. I don't

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think we did much.

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We went out went out someplace to eat.

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I know that much. But, other than that,

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wasn't I guess it wasn't that memorable. Oh,

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no. We went we didn't go anywhere to

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eat. We ate right there at the hotel.

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pub there called the Red Lion, part of

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the Holiday Inn Hotel there in Farmington Hills,

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and, I think we're pretty good at deep

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fried stuff that you shouldn't eat, but, we

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let's see. Saturday,

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you know, Kathy didn't have to be to

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the Expo Center till noon.

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we we actually ordered in room service and

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had breakfast in the room, and then she

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went off to

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do her thing. And, I drove up to,

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Fenton, Michigan, which is,

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kinda between Detroit and Flint

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went to a place called Guns Galore.

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fairly large firearms dealer, and

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that was interesting. Nothing to write home about.

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lots and lots of guns, you know, guns

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galore, but they also had lots and lots

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of people, so you really couldn't get up

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to the counter to to,

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handgun department,

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you know, just because it was so busy.

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for casual browsing of of handguns, but

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the, rifle and shotgun section was, open enough

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to where, you know, you can kinda

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check things out. But like I said, it

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was just something to do.

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Then, headed back to, Farmington Hills, and

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got back on Saturday,

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evening. And

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let's see. What do we do Saturday

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evening?

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Yes. Saturday evening, we went into Downtown Detroit.

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First, we headed towards the,

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was it MGM Grand? That's right. MGM Grand

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Detroit Casino.

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Yeah, Detroit has gambling,

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and, we checked that out.

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All I can say it was it was

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way too crowded,

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you know, like the MGM Grand in Las

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Vegas, unless it's a really busy Friday night

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on some special event weekend. You know, the

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the place is nearly deserted.

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Grand in Vegas.

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Not deserted, but definitely

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not crowded

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unless you're, you know, around the lion cage

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or around the,

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rainforest cafe or, you know, some of the

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more popular places, you know, around the casino.

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But the the gaming floor is not super

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busy in Vegas.

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But I'll tell you what, every single table

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was packed. Every single slot

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area was, you know, not quite totally packed,

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but damn close.

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And then what really sucked was all the

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tables were set at $15 minimums.

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And, you know, I'm not gonna play blackjack

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at $15 a hand. You know, out in

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Vegas,

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you know, I have some of the bigger

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ones, you can't really get less than 10.

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But usually, you can find some $5 blackjack

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or even some $3 blackjack. You know, if

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you go downtown or you go to Mid

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Strip, you know, like O'Shea's or

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or Imperial Palace or something like that.

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$15 a hand and crowded,

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no thanks. So we didn't really play any.

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Sort of hung around for a little bit,

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then we decided, oh, let's go to see

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what the Greektown Casino is like.

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So Greektown

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Casino,

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it's another big casino. It's not quite as

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big as the MGM Grand, but, it's a

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pretty big

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place.

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But it was even more crowded because we

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got sucked into the

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parking deck,

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went all the way up, but I I

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believe it was six or eight floors of

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the parking deck and couldn't find a parking

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spot. So then we had to go back

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down six or eight floors, and by the

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time we were done with that, we said,

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oh, to hell with it.

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And Kathy's friend had

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recommended a bar up on

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on 8 Mile.

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You've heard Eminem talk about 8 Mile and

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Kid Rock.

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Well, anyway, there was a bar up there

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on 8 Mile that,

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that was became highly recommended

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by Kathy's friend there. So, we thought, oh,

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we'll go up there, have something to eat.

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They're supposed to be known for their burgers,

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but being that Detroit has a pretty big

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Greek influence,

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we,

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you know, anyway, we went to this burger

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place, this bur or, this bar, and Kathy

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had a burger, and I had a, a

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gyro or as I call them gyros because

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that's how they're spelled.

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That's the pita bread, lamb,

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whatever whatever,

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and Greek

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sandwich, and that was really good. And, that

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that,

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establishment

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become becomes highly recommended except for I can't

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remember the name of it.

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So, anyway, I'm gonna take a a little

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break here and play a a song by

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another group that I've played here before.

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It's,

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oh, geez. Song of the Lakes.

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It's kind of that,

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I don't know what you call it, maritime

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themed

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group. They're right here from Traverse City, and,

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this one's called Winter Walk. And, it's kind

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of appropriate, although, we're we're kinda having a

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meltdown right now, but

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it's it's been winter and it well, still

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is. We got lots of snow on the

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ground, but,

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you know, supposed to get into

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the high forties, low fifties today. So a

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lot of that snow is gonna go away,

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but, we could still take a winter walk

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with the song of the lakes.

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Snow is falling, the sky is gray.

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Brown leaves cling

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to the oaks

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today.

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I stand

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firm and high.

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The wind whistles

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and rushes by.

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Lakes are frozen,

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the air is clear.

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March is living

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and dying

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with fear.

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Greyhound flies

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so proud and free,

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reminds me of where I long to be.

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Loudest sky

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of winter breeze.

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Raven's cry is among

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the trees.

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Children play

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when snow drifts white.

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The joy and laughter

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fill

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the night.

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Lakes are frozen,

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the air

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is

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of where I long to be.

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Clear. Mars is living a life

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with deer.

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Rayon flies

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so proud

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and free.

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Reminds me of where I love

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to be.

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This podcast is part of the Blueberry Network.

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Find other fine podcasts at www.blubrry.com.

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That's blueberry with no e's.

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And thanks, Joanne, for

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for announcing that. It's my friend Joanne from,

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Adelaide,

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Australia.

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Forget which,

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which state in Australia that's in it. I

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guess that's that's terrible, isn't it? But, they're

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on some sort of funky time down there.

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I talked to her and her husband,

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I don't know, week and a half ago

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or two weeks ago on Skype and,

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you know, it was,

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I don't know, 11:00

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at night here and it was, like, 01:30

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in the afternoon

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down there. Something like that. I don't I

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don't remember the exact,

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time conversion, but they're on a half hour

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off

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time zone and, like, thirteen and a half

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hours ahead or twelve and a half hours

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ahead,

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something like

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that. But, anyway,

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let's see.

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We do Sunday. Sunday, same thing. Kinda hung

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out. We actually went out to breakfast Sunday

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morning

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to a Coney Island place,

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not not for hot dogs, but I guess,

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you know, these Greek restaurants down there, you

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know, do the normal breakfast thing. But

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to this little Coney Island place, it was

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right, near the hotel and

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had a really good breakfast.

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And,

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came back to the hotel and, Kathy got

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ready to go, and I kinda lounge around,

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veg, and watched the TV and,

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read some stuff on my Kindle and surf

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the Internet and didn't, didn't really accomplish much,

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but it was very relaxing.

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And, then I went and picked Kathy up

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at the convention center when she was done.

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We loaded all the,

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you know, stuff for her booth in the

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in the car, and

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and on the way back to the hotel,

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we stopped off at this, really good Italian

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place

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that had been re recommended by the same

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friend that recommended the bar over on 8

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Mile in Detroit.

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Or was it Detroit or was that

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I don't know. There's so many areas of

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Detroit. I I you know, the whole the

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whole Southwest corner of the state of Michigan

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is Detroit as far as I'm concerned.

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But, anyway, I went to this Italian place.

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Oh, it was really good. And their salad

433
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was to die for,

434
00:22:19,890 --> 00:22:21,430
the salad dressing, anyway.

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And, I forget what I had.

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Some sort of

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garlicky

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spaghetti or linguine dish with,

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mussels and

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00:22:34,055 --> 00:22:37,255
shrimp. Kathy had the veal Parmesan or no.

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Chicken Parmesan,

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not veal.

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And,

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yeah. It was really good.

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00:22:44,179 --> 00:22:45,380
And then, hey.

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It's, Monday morning. Yeah. We, you know, spent

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one more night in the hotel. And on

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00:22:50,259 --> 00:22:51,079
Monday morning,

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Valentine's Day,

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00:22:54,734 --> 00:22:55,634
Let me backtrack.

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00:22:56,174 --> 00:22:57,955
You've heard of, Pawn Stars

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00:22:59,134 --> 00:22:59,535
on,

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00:23:00,335 --> 00:23:02,595
on the History Channel. That's at Vegas

454
00:23:02,974 --> 00:23:03,474
pawnshop.

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00:23:03,934 --> 00:23:05,775
Kathy and I actually went there in in,

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00:23:06,255 --> 00:23:06,755
October

457
00:23:07,490 --> 00:23:08,390
when we were in Vegas

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00:23:08,849 --> 00:23:10,769
along with the rest of the Raw Voice

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00:23:10,769 --> 00:23:11,269
team.

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00:23:12,369 --> 00:23:13,970
Well, most of the rest of the Raw

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00:23:13,970 --> 00:23:15,109
Voice team, anyway.

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We all

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took the rental van and, went to the

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Pawn Stars pawn shop, which is actually called

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Gold and Silver Pawn. It's right on Las

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Vegas Boulevard

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between the Stratosphere

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and, in downtown.

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And,

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00:23:32,975 --> 00:23:34,434
anyway, I went there, but

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on Sunday morning

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not Sunday. Monday morning

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00:23:39,750 --> 00:23:41,589
well, you see, I was gonna backtrack and

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tell you about this other show. There's another

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show on the true TV network, the old

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Court TV, the TRU

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network,

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and it's called, Hardcore

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Pawn. And it's,

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you know, very similar to the, Pawn Stars

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show on history,

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only it's set in Detroit

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in a rather bad neighborhood of Detroit.

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I guess it'd be on the

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I wanna say the North Side Of Detroit,

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but I am not actually sure. It's it's

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right off at 8 mile

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and,

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what was it? Greenfield.

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Greenfield and 8 Mile

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on the corner

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is

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the the,

494
00:24:26,505 --> 00:24:27,724
it's a shop called,

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American Jewelry and Loan,

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and it's run by

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a guy named Les, the owner, and his

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son and daughter. And it's

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quite a bigger place than the gold and

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silver shop there in Vegas, and they don't

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deal in as much high end stuff as,

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as you see on the History Channel, but

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00:24:50,325 --> 00:24:51,845
it's a cool show. If you get if

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00:24:51,845 --> 00:24:54,565
you get the True TV network or Court

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00:24:54,565 --> 00:24:55,065
TV,

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00:24:56,325 --> 00:24:58,244
look them up there. You know, put it

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on your DVR. It's definitely an interesting show.

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00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,400
But, anyway, being Valentine's Day and being that

509
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,440
it was a jewelry shop, I thought, well,

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00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,900
jeez, what a better way to

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to,

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get a Valentine's gift. You know, Kathy and

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I are fans of the show.

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00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:14,539
So we went

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over to the

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the shop.

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And like I said, it's in not the

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00:25:20,804 --> 00:25:21,304
greatest

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00:25:21,764 --> 00:25:23,845
part of Detroit. It wasn't bad. You know,

520
00:25:23,845 --> 00:25:26,825
it's not the greatest part of Detroit, and

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00:25:27,125 --> 00:25:28,585
and definitely this pawnshop,

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00:25:29,605 --> 00:25:32,264
deals with a a lower end clientele

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00:25:32,565 --> 00:25:33,065
than

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00:25:33,740 --> 00:25:34,240
than,

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00:25:34,619 --> 00:25:35,680
the one in Vegas.

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00:25:37,580 --> 00:25:40,220
And, you know, it was interesting, but Kathy

527
00:25:40,220 --> 00:25:42,619
found a a little silver ring that that

528
00:25:42,619 --> 00:25:44,480
she wanted and, you know,

529
00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:48,059
sterling silver was on sale and and all

530
00:25:48,059 --> 00:25:49,875
that good stuff, which just makes her happy

531
00:25:49,875 --> 00:25:50,615
as hell.

532
00:25:51,234 --> 00:25:51,734
And

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00:25:52,115 --> 00:25:53,955
when we went to check out,

534
00:25:54,434 --> 00:25:56,275
the owner of the shop, you know, the

535
00:25:56,275 --> 00:25:59,095
star of the TV show, checked us out.

536
00:25:59,714 --> 00:26:00,535
Cool dude.

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00:26:01,075 --> 00:26:02,994
I think his name is Les. I am

538
00:26:02,994 --> 00:26:05,519
not positive because I, you know, I watch

539
00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:07,519
the show, but I don't pay that much

540
00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:09,200
attention. But, like I said, if you ever

541
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,600
get a chance, we went there. What's funny

542
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:12,660
is we've been to

543
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,680
a lot of places that that were based

544
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:16,180
on

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00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:17,700
reality shows

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00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,500
or that reality shows are based on,

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00:26:21,414 --> 00:26:23,355
remember, American Casino,

548
00:26:24,055 --> 00:26:24,555
from

549
00:26:25,015 --> 00:26:28,234
gosh. That that probably five, six years ago,

550
00:26:28,934 --> 00:26:29,914
that was based

551
00:26:30,775 --> 00:26:32,134
I'm not sure if that was the show

552
00:26:32,134 --> 00:26:34,134
that was based at Green Valley Ranch or

553
00:26:34,134 --> 00:26:35,494
if that was the one at the Golden

554
00:26:35,494 --> 00:26:35,994
Nugget.

555
00:26:37,109 --> 00:26:38,869
But there was another you know, there was

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00:26:38,869 --> 00:26:40,410
one called American Casino,

557
00:26:40,789 --> 00:26:41,769
and I

558
00:26:42,230 --> 00:26:44,470
don't remember what the other one was called.

559
00:26:44,470 --> 00:26:46,650
But, one of them was at the

560
00:26:47,029 --> 00:26:49,049
the Golden Nugget, and one was at

561
00:26:49,534 --> 00:26:52,575
Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, Nevada. It's just

562
00:26:52,575 --> 00:26:53,714
outside of Vegas.

563
00:26:54,494 --> 00:26:54,974
If you,

564
00:26:55,454 --> 00:26:57,054
take a left out of the airport, you

565
00:26:57,054 --> 00:26:58,494
end up in Henderson. If you take a

566
00:26:58,494 --> 00:27:00,654
right, you end up on the strip. But,

567
00:27:00,654 --> 00:27:01,154
anyway,

568
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:04,420
we've been to

569
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,019
Green Valley Ranch while that show is being

570
00:27:08,079 --> 00:27:08,579
filmed.

571
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,619
We've been to the Golden Nugget

572
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,240
while that show is being filmed. We've been

573
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:14,980
to the

574
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:16,740
Pawn Stars

575
00:27:18,075 --> 00:27:18,575
shop,

576
00:27:19,034 --> 00:27:20,875
you know, and that show is being filmed.

577
00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:21,534
Not not

578
00:27:21,914 --> 00:27:23,674
not not that the cameras were there at

579
00:27:23,674 --> 00:27:25,115
the time we were there, but, I mean,

580
00:27:25,115 --> 00:27:27,034
it was in production at the time we

581
00:27:27,034 --> 00:27:27,694
were there.

582
00:27:27,994 --> 00:27:29,054
And then this

583
00:27:31,759 --> 00:27:32,980
hardcore pawn,

584
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:34,819
we've been there. So

585
00:27:35,599 --> 00:27:37,220
I don't know. I guess we're chasing

586
00:27:37,599 --> 00:27:40,160
reality shows. Hey. Hey. Hey. You can count

587
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,640
the Mackinac Bridge too as one of those

588
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,420
because, Mike Rowe and

589
00:27:45,325 --> 00:27:46,225
Dirty Jobs,

590
00:27:46,845 --> 00:27:47,345
was

591
00:27:47,725 --> 00:27:49,585
on the Mackinac Bridge, and

592
00:27:49,965 --> 00:27:51,884
we go over the Mackinac Bridge every now

593
00:27:51,884 --> 00:27:52,545
and again.

594
00:27:54,285 --> 00:27:56,684
So, anyway, I got one more song just

595
00:27:56,684 --> 00:27:58,065
because I wanna play it.

596
00:27:59,325 --> 00:28:00,225
Not that it's,

597
00:28:01,850 --> 00:28:02,509
not that

598
00:28:03,210 --> 00:28:04,650
it has anything to do with what I'm

599
00:28:04,650 --> 00:28:05,610
talking about, but,

600
00:28:06,809 --> 00:28:07,210
this is,

601
00:28:08,009 --> 00:28:09,470
my friend, Todd Taylor,

602
00:28:09,850 --> 00:28:12,190
and his version of Freebird.

603
00:28:13,924 --> 00:28:14,404
He's the,

604
00:28:15,285 --> 00:28:17,305
banjo man, Todd Taylor.

605
00:28:27,045 --> 00:28:28,744
Should've rewound that, I guess.

606
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,720
And, of course, that was, Todd Taylor, the

607
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,660
Banjo Man. You can find him

608
00:33:18,484 --> 00:33:18,984
at

609
00:33:19,285 --> 00:33:22,265
toddtaylorbanjoman.com,

610
00:33:22,644 --> 00:33:24,724
I believe. Let me make sure. Yeah. It's

611
00:33:24,724 --> 00:33:27,785
toddtaylorbanjoman.com.

612
00:33:28,565 --> 00:33:30,825
Todd's currently the Guinness World

613
00:33:31,285 --> 00:33:33,705
Records fastest banjo player,

614
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,519
And, I guess he now is endorsing Gibson

615
00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:38,019
banjos.

616
00:33:38,559 --> 00:33:39,460
Used to

617
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,099
endorse recording king banjos, but, hey, whatever.

618
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,579
Banjo's a banjo's a banjo.

619
00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:48,419
You know,

620
00:33:48,964 --> 00:33:51,065
that's that's the whole thing about the banjo

621
00:33:51,125 --> 00:33:52,424
is, you know,

622
00:33:52,805 --> 00:33:55,204
tie some strings to a gourd with a

623
00:33:55,204 --> 00:33:57,365
two by four on it, and as long

624
00:33:57,365 --> 00:33:58,964
as you can get the strings tight enough,

625
00:33:58,964 --> 00:33:59,865
it's a banjo.

626
00:34:00,805 --> 00:34:02,025
But, anyway

627
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,460
So, anyway, we we completed our trip from

628
00:34:06,460 --> 00:34:09,340
Detroit to back home on Monday, and, I

629
00:34:09,340 --> 00:34:11,599
went back Monday night and

630
00:34:12,539 --> 00:34:12,860
to my,

631
00:34:14,059 --> 00:34:14,719
a k

632
00:34:15,260 --> 00:34:17,340
a day job, which is actually a night

633
00:34:17,340 --> 00:34:17,980
job. But,

634
00:34:18,539 --> 00:34:19,039
anyway.

635
00:34:19,554 --> 00:34:22,355
And, hey, hopefully, the audio on this sounds

636
00:34:22,355 --> 00:34:23,335
alright. I

637
00:34:24,114 --> 00:34:27,315
found out two things about my audio setup

638
00:34:27,315 --> 00:34:30,054
here that I'm I am, gonna be rapidly,

639
00:34:31,474 --> 00:34:31,974
addressing.

640
00:34:32,799 --> 00:34:34,159
One is the,

641
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,199
USB interface that I've been using,

642
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,059
the old Gryphon iMic,

643
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:43,699
seems to be prone to extra noise.

644
00:34:45,264 --> 00:34:47,764
And so I'm now recording into

645
00:34:48,385 --> 00:34:51,744
a external digital recorder. I'm not, recording into

646
00:34:51,744 --> 00:34:54,485
the computer. I'm recording into my Sony recorder.

647
00:34:56,144 --> 00:34:57,960
And that'll take care of that,

648
00:34:58,599 --> 00:34:59,900
noise issue, hopefully.

649
00:35:00,359 --> 00:35:03,659
And the other thing is that, my Behringer,

650
00:35:06,119 --> 00:35:06,619
Zenix,

651
00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:10,139
u b eight zero two Eurorack

652
00:35:11,364 --> 00:35:11,864
mixer

653
00:35:12,325 --> 00:35:14,025
has started to die.

654
00:35:14,405 --> 00:35:16,105
I'm still using it right now,

655
00:35:16,724 --> 00:35:17,125
but,

656
00:35:17,525 --> 00:35:18,005
it,

657
00:35:18,644 --> 00:35:20,825
it slowly lost certain things.

658
00:35:21,765 --> 00:35:22,985
The FX bus

659
00:35:24,590 --> 00:35:27,869
died. And, the last, what's up with that

660
00:35:27,869 --> 00:35:29,489
podcast with Jim Farley,

661
00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:32,449
had to be post edited

662
00:35:33,630 --> 00:35:35,949
instead of, live to the hard drive or

663
00:35:35,949 --> 00:35:36,929
live to the

664
00:35:37,390 --> 00:35:39,090
flash memory as

665
00:35:39,390 --> 00:35:41,625
the case may be because

666
00:35:43,684 --> 00:35:44,324
he couldn't,

667
00:35:44,644 --> 00:35:46,025
hear any of the music

668
00:35:46,404 --> 00:35:47,924
that I was playing or any of the

669
00:35:47,924 --> 00:35:50,184
sound effects or anything else and,

670
00:35:50,484 --> 00:35:53,045
you know, through the, mix minus setup. I

671
00:35:53,045 --> 00:35:56,429
know I'm doing some some podcasting naval gazing,

672
00:35:56,429 --> 00:35:56,929
but,

673
00:35:57,630 --> 00:35:58,130
anyway,

674
00:36:01,309 --> 00:36:03,010
so we got a new mixer coming.

675
00:36:04,030 --> 00:36:06,369
This is coming by Farley Express.

676
00:36:07,635 --> 00:36:10,114
Jim actually is gonna gonna be here in

677
00:36:10,114 --> 00:36:10,614
town

678
00:36:11,155 --> 00:36:12,534
next weekend. Hopefully,

679
00:36:13,635 --> 00:36:14,775
maybe on Saturday

680
00:36:15,235 --> 00:36:16,614
or maybe even Friday.

681
00:36:16,914 --> 00:36:18,675
I'll have him here in the studio, and

682
00:36:18,675 --> 00:36:20,695
we'll, record a live,

683
00:36:21,750 --> 00:36:23,269
what's up with that with both of us

684
00:36:23,269 --> 00:36:25,750
in the same studio. That, that would be

685
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:28,409
different, wouldn't it? But he's bringing me a

686
00:36:29,670 --> 00:36:30,730
16 channel,

687
00:36:31,349 --> 00:36:34,070
mixer board that, he assures me is way

688
00:36:34,070 --> 00:36:35,289
bigger than I need.

689
00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:38,315
Guess it's supposed to be 30 inches wide,

690
00:36:38,315 --> 00:36:39,835
so I'm gonna have to find some desk

691
00:36:39,835 --> 00:36:41,054
space for it. But,

692
00:36:42,315 --> 00:36:44,474
anyway, he's bringing that up with him when

693
00:36:44,474 --> 00:36:45,775
he comes north

694
00:36:46,474 --> 00:36:48,500
in a couple of weeks. I I guess

695
00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:50,579
he's going to New York this weekend and

696
00:36:50,579 --> 00:36:52,119
then, the weekend after,

697
00:36:53,059 --> 00:36:54,760
he'll, he'll be up here.

698
00:36:55,139 --> 00:36:55,639
So

699
00:36:56,260 --> 00:36:59,460
that'll be good, and, hopefully, that'll solve the,

700
00:36:59,859 --> 00:37:02,739
the rest of my audio problem. So so,

701
00:37:02,739 --> 00:37:05,905
hopefully, I I did alright with this, digital

702
00:37:05,905 --> 00:37:07,445
recorder this week, and

703
00:37:08,224 --> 00:37:10,625
and, we'll get it nailed down and, and

704
00:37:10,625 --> 00:37:12,704
I'll quit talking about it as soon as

705
00:37:12,704 --> 00:37:13,364
I do.

706
00:37:15,025 --> 00:37:15,525
So,

707
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,960
anyway, I don't have any more music that

708
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,280
I wanna play right now, and, I don't

709
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,440
have any idea how long I've been talking.

710
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,400
That's that's another disadvantage of recording into this

711
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,980
particular recorder. It doesn't have a good

712
00:37:29,414 --> 00:37:29,914
counter

713
00:37:31,255 --> 00:37:33,594
of time, and I also don't have a

714
00:37:34,054 --> 00:37:35,355
level meter. So

715
00:37:36,295 --> 00:37:38,454
kinda winging it, then looking at the level

716
00:37:38,454 --> 00:37:39,434
meter on the

717
00:37:41,255 --> 00:37:41,994
on the

718
00:37:43,735 --> 00:37:44,235
Behringer

719
00:37:44,909 --> 00:37:45,409
AutoComm

720
00:37:45,789 --> 00:37:46,289
Pro

721
00:37:47,069 --> 00:37:47,569
XL,

722
00:37:48,030 --> 00:37:49,650
compressor limiter gate

723
00:37:50,589 --> 00:37:52,109
wonder machine, but,

724
00:37:52,670 --> 00:37:54,750
you know, it only gets so close, so

725
00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:56,510
I might have to do a little post

726
00:37:56,510 --> 00:37:58,204
edit. Let me know how

727
00:37:58,505 --> 00:38:01,005
you how you think the audio sounds.

728
00:38:02,425 --> 00:38:04,744
And, generally, it sounds better on speakers than

729
00:38:04,744 --> 00:38:06,825
it does. Yeah. I noticed the last few

730
00:38:06,825 --> 00:38:07,325
episodes

731
00:38:08,744 --> 00:38:10,664
sounded better on speakers than they do on

732
00:38:10,664 --> 00:38:12,744
the headphones. For some reason, there's some sort

733
00:38:12,744 --> 00:38:13,619
of crackle,

734
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:15,780
on the peaks,

735
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,559
you know, when I'm listening on headphones, but

736
00:38:18,559 --> 00:38:20,159
I don't hear it when I'm listening on

737
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:22,659
speakers. So, yeah, could be alright.

738
00:38:24,639 --> 00:38:25,139
Anyway,

739
00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:27,460
we're gonna call this a podcast,

740
00:38:27,839 --> 00:38:28,339
and

741
00:38:29,255 --> 00:38:29,735
we'll,

742
00:38:30,135 --> 00:38:31,494
catch you later. Hey.

743
00:38:32,295 --> 00:38:33,894
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744
00:38:33,894 --> 00:38:35,434
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745
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749
00:38:47,380 --> 00:38:50,039
That's mikedell.com

750
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752
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753
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761
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766
00:39:23,025 --> 00:39:25,364
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768
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770
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773
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776
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777
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,059
there's a banner there. So,

778
00:39:51,375 --> 00:39:54,735
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779
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788
00:40:12,750 --> 00:40:13,250
anyway,

789
00:40:13,630 --> 00:40:14,690
I'm out of here.

790
00:40:14,989 --> 00:40:15,889
Get you later.