Semi-Annual Update – MDW-381

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Hey,

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it's a beautiful sunny summer
day with puffy white clouds

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or maybe it's dark gray clouds.

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Maybe it's raining. Maybe
it's hailing where you are,

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thunder and lightning.

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Maybe you're being torn apart by cats,

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regardless of your personal situation.

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Thank you for listening
to Mike Dell's world,

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Man. Good morning. Good evening. Good
afternoon. Whatever the case may be. Oh,

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pick out the music.

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I made this thing a while
back that intro and, uh,

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I found it when rummaging through
the old computer. So, uh, anyway,

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welcome to Mike Dell's world. I have
no idea what episode number it is.

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I'll figure it out,
but I'm back. I'm here.

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Um, still busy.
gosh, been May 15th,

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uh, just before we went
to podcast. Uh, and now,

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uh, it's just before going to
podcast movement in Dallas, Texas.

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So I'll be down there, uh,

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Monday night through Saturday noon or so,

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and if you're in the area, give me a
bump and, uh, or stop by the booth.

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If you're going to the conference,
whatever, uh, might be able to meet up.

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We're staying at the shirt and
right downtown, uh, in Dallas.

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So looking forward to
that, we got some, uh,

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new announcements at blueberry, of course,

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and got a really big one on
Monday, which will be interesting.

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You might be able to see that in
action. Uh, maybe this weekend sometime.

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I don't know. Uh, we'll see, uh, if,

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if we get it that ready or, or
if it's, uh, a little delayed,

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but who knows? So it's been
a busy summer and, uh, gosh,

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it, uh, sort of seems like summer's
already coming to a close, but, uh, yeah,

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it's middle of August, so I
guess it's not closed yet.

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And we still got some pretty nice
weather here in Northern Michigan.

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Uh, some of the highlights of, uh,
what's been going on here is of course,

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you know, working like
crazy, uh, and, uh, you know,

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trying to get all this stuff
out for podcast movements.

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So after that we can kind of relax
and I get to my home projects,

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got a bunch of those. I did get a
fence put up in my backyard. Uh,

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uh, we had some houses built there
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you know, just, uh, needed
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So I put a privacy fence across
the backyard and it's been, uh,

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been rather nice, uh, having
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like we used to have before they put
the houses in the woods, but, uh,

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we didn't know the property was for sale.

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Otherwise I'd have probably
tried to buy it, but oh,

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well stuff happens. So let's see. Oh,

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I got a new toy here. Also got, uh,

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the road caster pro two and

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it's been okay. I've had
a couple of glitches, uh,

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recording podcast, insider, uh,

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cuz for some reason it doesn't
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the audio dies out, but uh, it
doesn't seem to happen on zoom.

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So we'll use zoom to
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roader fixes it, but it's
got some pretty neat effects.

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So like this.

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Yep. And uh, I can go high
pitched hello out there.

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Yeah. It's kinda silly or it can
sound like a megaphone. Hello,

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welcome to Mike McDonald's world anyway.

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or robot.

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This is a robot.

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Anyway, lots of stupid buttons
to push, but , I love it.

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You know, I wish this thing
was out, uh, 15 years ago. Uh,

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would've been fun then, but
uh, glad it's out now. Uh,

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and I use it all the time, you know,
for normal work stuff. Uh, if you call,

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uh, blueberry for sales
support or billing,

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chances are, uh, I'll be talking
through the roader to you.

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so got the phone piped
into the thing, but it's quite the,

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quite the device, uh, for
the podcasters, but, well,

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let's see what else? Oh, my,
uh, old blue van that, uh,

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I had enough miles on it to
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drove it on its final
drive about a month ago.

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I went and drove that
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he ended the keys over and
it was, it was time the, uh,

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steering rack had gone out
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I mean you could still steer it,
but there was zero power steering.

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So the ride was, it was a little
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It didn't matter when you're going, you
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uh, anyway, got that gone.

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And so we're just down to the
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and been doing a lot of camping as well.

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I took an entire 10 days off and spent it,

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uh, sitting in the shade next to
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I got a couple of books read and uh,

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really didn't do much else
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which is exactly what I want to do when

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I take vacation. And, uh, we've
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in fact, when we get back from Dallas, uh,

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my wife will already have the
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turtle lake and I'll, uh,

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stop there on my way home
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I'm flying out of Manistee, Michigan,
uh, BL if you wanna look it up,

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it's a Nicky little airport.

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I'm gonna be flying out on a
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but it was like half the price
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the airline tickets and, you know,

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then I connect to American
in Chicago to go to Dallas

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and, uh, same thing coming back.
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half the price as traverse
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so thought. Why now try that? Uh, it's uh,

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a little airline called
Cape air and literally they,

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I think it's eight passengers will fit
on the, on the plane plus the captain.

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Uh, I don't think they have two pilots
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It's not a true airline. It's
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still the price was was right. And
actually I like flying on smaller planes.

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So it'd be interesting to say
the least, uh, to do that.

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So I'll be coming back
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about halfway back is where the
campground is that, uh, that, uh,

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we're going to, so we'll,
I'll spend Saturday night,

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Sunday night there and we'll
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And so it'll be a nice
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end of a, a week of going to a conference.

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It should be fun. We're taking four people
and, uh, got a pretty big booth. And,

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and uh, like I said, we'll have a lot of
buzz cuz of our new product coming out.

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Like I said, if you watch Mike dell.com,

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you might get a glimpse of
what the new product is. Uh,

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maybe we'll see might just
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our developers are, uh,
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getting the final touches
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if all goes is planned, it'll,
uh, it'll be out on Monday.

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So that's kind of cool. Um, let's see,

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a couple weeks ago spent a week down in
Columbus, Ohio with the, uh, whole team.

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We got the, the whole team
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at the Columbus office. First time that
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uh, for anything big. I mean, there's,
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go in there once a week or whatever,

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or twice a week maybe to pick
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you know, most people are, most of
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I always worked from home, but
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got to ride down there
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our CFO and uh,

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and staff lawyer and
co-owner of course. And uh,

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so I rode down there with him and
that was, uh, that was a lot of fun.

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Don't don't get to talk to Barry too
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he's been podcasting as long as
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he does the home based
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uh, he does it pretty
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I don't know if it's monthly now or
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but, uh, he's been at it
forever, so it's great.

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And you know, it's an interesting show,
you know, even if you're not into, uh,

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being a home based travel agent. In fact,

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I don't think a lot of people
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mostly he talks about
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cruising and that kind of
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pretty good show. Um,

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of course I'm a Glu for
punishment, uh, as Lester said,

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uh, how can I, uh,

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pod fade a show if I don't have
an extra show to pod fade

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so starting next month,
I'm doing the auto history

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podcast@autohistorypodcast.com.

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So if you want to hear me a little
more often, that's the one to go to?

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Of course I, uh, do podcast insider every,

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every week or almost every week I'm on
it, but there is an episode every week.

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Um, we haven't missed one and I don't
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So that's good. Uh, like I said,

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I'm the king of inconsistency,

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but it's good. Uh, let's see, uh,

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what's going on here
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of course we had the cherry festival and
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and, and, uh, look at all the
airplanes prior to the air show.

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And of course, uh, met the
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uh, got to, uh, talk to an air force
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was kind of entertaining. Uh, now, uh,

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the air force recruiters are
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So I got one of his cards. I thought
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that had air force and
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I guess that's the same with the Navy
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but, uh, it was, uh, it was cool.

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Talked to him a little bit and uh,
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There's a couple of MIGS
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or maybe it's a MIG 21. I don't
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And lets see a couple F sixteens.
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Uh, there was a Harrier, a V eight
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Uh, of course fat Albert, the C one 30.

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Of course they got a new one
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Uh it's I don't know J
model I guess, but it's the,

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the one with the six Kevlar
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So it was quite, uh, quite cool, but uh,

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got to hang out there and uh, also
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uh, vault, I guess you'd call it, but uh,

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they have a big storage facility here
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either own, you know, people
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they have around or store for people
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you know, all of Haggerty. I dunno
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but it's a classic car insurance
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And like I said,

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they probably have 60 or 70 cars in
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house every month and I actually got to
go to one of those. So that was cool.

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Got to see some needle cars and uh,

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all that got to see the model a, that, uh,

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Haggerty bought all the parts
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and built the car right there at the
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Pennsylvania to driver city, Michigan
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red line rebuild, uh, rebuilt the
engine and, and got it going. And,

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uh, that was sitting over there.
Nice, nice looking old model a, uh,

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two door coop or no two door sedan, I
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not the rumble seat. I'd love
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Uh, it's super simple and uh, all
the parts are still available in,

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you don't have to worry about no stinking
computers or body control modules.

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so that's gonna be
one of my episodes for, uh,

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auto history. Talk about the model a
I'm hoping to line up a, a guest, uh,

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Paul shin.

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He's kinda like one of the
number one model a experts around

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and, uh, got a pretty, uh, uh,

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pretty pro uh, prolific, I
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YouTube channel. So look up Paul shin,

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if you're interested in all kinds of
model a stuff, but uh, trying to get him,

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uh I've in, uh, in
emailing his wife and, uh,

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she kind of takes the reins
and booking him for stuff like that.

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And also, uh, have a,

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a lawyer slash author
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has a YouTube channel, uh,
Steve Lato of Lao's law,

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but he does a lot of things about
cars. He wrote a couple of books,

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actually wrote three books. One
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Chicago based car that, uh,
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I think is in 47, I wanna
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Tucker 48 is, uh, what they call
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I think, 50 something of them and
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otherwise they'd get in trouble
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investors or something. I don't
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There's a whole movie
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he wrote a book about the Tucker.
He wrote a book about the, uh,

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Chrysler Turine cars back in the, you
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they had a program where
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turban orange Chrysler, turban cars,

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and the model name was
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And they built, uh,
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53 maybe and all of them,
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turban bronze or orange, kind
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there's only two of them in private hands.

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All the rest of them were either
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Chrysler museum in Auburn
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I think they got three of 'em and
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Jay Lenos runs and I don't know about
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Steve actually got to drive a couple
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I know he drove one at the Chrysler
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he got to be friends with Jay
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Jay Leno wrote the forward to,

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I believe the Tucker book and
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He also wrote a book about the,
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the Chrysler or, uh, Dodge
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super bird, you know,

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the ones with a ridiculous wing and the
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they ran in NASCAR for a couple of years.

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So he wrote the book on that and
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uh, oh, what's his name?
Geez, I'm trying blank. Uh,

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Richard Petty. Yeah. He got to drive
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wing car, uh, Plymouth,
super bird. And then, uh,

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there was another one he
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charger or whatever they call
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so he wrote those three books
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I I'm hoping to interview him about
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got a U2 pilot, uh, you
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U2 spy planes.

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taxi out and when they come in the land,

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they have another YouTube pilot
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guide them around because it's really
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both because the windows are kind of
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they're flying it. So it's
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and be in the right spot to
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I'm gonna talk to this guy
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uh, they used over the years for,

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for that purpose, you
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they're not all gonna be interview
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Volkswagen Beatle. I'll do the
model a, uh, whether without Paul,

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I don't know, probably do the
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Henry Ford and Coca and John DeLorean.

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So it's gonna be all about the automotive
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sometimes a type of car sometimes,
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something I'm currently
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and I really gotta get back into
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spend all my time working
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so it's just as well that I,
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Of course I always do this one may
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I'll always do this one. Uh,
this is, uh, you know, kind my

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therapy, I guess, you know, I know, you
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but, uh, those of you that
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I do appreciate that again.
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Jim Farley to record with me one of
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with that. That might be fun. Uh,
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uh, we haven't done one together
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maybe I'll bring my
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I'll put it in the truck
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on Monday so maybe
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a podcast from the campground,
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but, uh, we'll see. But yeah,

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that's really about what's going on
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eating camp and goofing off. And,
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doing the fence build and I got some
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I really want to take September and
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uh, on the weekends, hopefully
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just to catch up on things around
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we're uh, about to, uh, embark
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that's the whole reason I built this
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cuz I had the office in the basement
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the water levels got high
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which kind of flooded my basement a bit.

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and uh, you know, drain system
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decent sump pump and, you know,
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hopefully, uh, next time the water levels
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uh, flooding in the
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that'll be good. So other than that,
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uh, making a little short,
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we'll try to have some, uh, more
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go check out auto history,

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podcast.com and also
you'll notice that you may

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have noticed, or you may notice on this
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pre-rolls post rolls on here.
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uh, on my part, but uh,

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blueberry launched
programmatic advertising and
of course I've been testing

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it. So on my two shows, uh, you'll,

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you'll hear maybe some ads
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but if you hear something you don't
think should be, uh, advertised. Sure.

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Let me know. And even if you, if you
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add in, it'd be great. Uh, cuz uh,

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I got a direct line with the company
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I wanna filter out stuff
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but there shouldn't be any
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alcohol gambling adult,

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I think was the categories that
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family safe though, this show
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but yeah, whatever. So
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I wanna play the theme song I picked
for, uh, for auto history. Uh,

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everybody have a good
time until next time.

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And again, uh, if you
wanna get ahold of me,

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mike@mikedell.com and
any comments, questions,

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or uh, just say hi, look forward
to, uh, hearing from you.

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Here's the, uh, theme
song for auto history.

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Of course I'll duck it down
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anyway kind of an neat song I thought,

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of course I'll never play it. Uh, this
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just, I said it's good
background music, I guess. So,

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uh, anyway, thanks for listening,
everybody have a good time.

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We'll catch you next time.