Sept. 6, 2024

The Evolving World of Podcasting Technology (and more) – MDW399

The Evolving World of Podcasting Technology (and more) – MDW399
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The Evolving World of Podcasting Technology (and more) – MDW399
The Evolving World of Podcasting Technology (and more) – MDW399

Human Shownotes and links - We went to the Opening game for Michigan football last weekend. We camped in Ypsilanti Michigan. We also went to the Michigan Flight Museum https://miflightmuseum.org/ (formerly known as the Yankee air museum). -

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Human Shownotes and links

We went to the Opening game for Michigan football last weekend. We camped in Ypsilanti Michigan. We also went to the Michigan Flight Museum https://miflightmuseum.org/ (formerly known as the Yankee air museum).

New hardware –
Audiosigma Podmoble DSP – https://bswusa.com/audiosigma-podmobile-dsp/

Rodecaster Pro II – Nice, but quirky

Value 4 Value – https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app
Podcasting 2.0 Webinar – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gi53y2uMc8

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In the last episode, I talked about dumbing down the phone. A friend (Zack) gave me his old Light Phone II to play with. So far, I like it. It’s a bit too small to read comfortably but other than that, it’s great to not have something distracting. https://www.thelightphone.com/shop/products/light-phone-ii-black

I’m really thinking about buying the Light Phone III when it comes out. https://www.thelightphone.com/shop/products/light-phone-iii

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Having a lot of fun flying the RV-12is at Giving Wings in Traverse City – https://flygwa.com

https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-12is/

I’m thinking a lot about maybe building an airplane. Not sure which one yet. Likely a Kolb or a Challenger. Something 2 place with a 60-100hp engine.

AI Shownotes:

In Episode 399 of “Mike Dell’s World,” host Mike Dell discusses a range of topics spanning personal updates, podcasting technology insights, and his experiences with new gadgets and flying. Starting with a personal update, Mike shares stories about his recent camping trip during the Labor Day weekend, his visit to the Michigan Flight Museum, and his recent sickness which he humorously calls “the plague.” He reflects on the local security concerns he observed during a visit to Ypsilanti and the inconvenience of parking nightmares in Ann Arbor.

Transitioning to podcast-related content, Mike introduces the new podcasting device he encountered at Podcast Movement in DC—the Audio Sigma PodMobile DSP. This device simplifies podcast recording with features like a noise gate and portability, working seamlessly with mobile platforms. He explains its advantages over other equipment such as the Rodecaster Pro, emphasizing its ease of use.

Mike then delves into advanced podcast technologies and services, such as various podcast apps that support new features like live streaming notifications and interactive elements like “boostograms” linked to cryptocurrency. He praises the efforts of the Podcast Index for fostering innovation and moving podcasting away from being dominated by big companies.

The conversation shifts to Mike’s experiments with reducing smartphone dependency. He discusses using a Light Phone, a device designed to minimize distractions by stripping down smartphone functionalities to essentials like calls, texts, and basic apps. Mike evaluates its benefits in helping users focus more on real-life interactions.

Lastly, Mike shares his enthusiasm for aviation, particularly his experiences flying an RV-12 IS sport plane, and contemplates building his own aircraft. He wraps up the episode by encouraging the audience to explore new podcasting technologies and reminisces about his past episodes and plans for future content.

Throughout the episode, Mike maintains a casual tone, mixing technical discussions with personal anecdotes and reflections on life’s simplicity and technological advancements in podcasting.

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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 number three ninety nine.

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Oh my gosh. Gonna hit four hundred at

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some point. But, at my latest rate of

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publishing, it might be a while. Hopefully not.

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I do plan on doing this more frequently,

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but I always say that and never do

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it. So your mileage may vary. But, thanks

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for staying subscribed and or following because I

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do put stuff out from time to time.

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I don't know if you can notice any

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difference in the audio. Probably not. But, yeah.

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I got new toys, which I'll talk about

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here, in a little bit. But, a little

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bit of a personal update. Yeah. Nothing crazy

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in, in, you know, as far as life.

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It's all going swimmingly. Like I said, nothing

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crazy going on. Busy at work and busy

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with other podcast projects and whatnot. As you

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know, I always talk about, Podcast Insider and,

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the Auto History podcast, which goes in fits

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and starts. But, eventually, we'll get that on

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a on a somewhat regular schedule. It's a

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little bit different because they have a cohost

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and scheduling. Doesn't always work out, but that's

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alright. Fall seems to be in the air

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here at least this weekend, but, it's supposed

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to kick back up into the nineties after

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this weekend, but, today's high is supposed to

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be sixty. So, I don't know what that

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is in Celsius, but it's it's it's a

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little on the chilly side, you know, when

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you're used to seventies and eighties and sometimes

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nineties. But, you know, that's Northern Michigan. Don't

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like the weather. Wait a minute. But, but

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all that's going good. We we did go

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down to the opening game for the for

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Michigan football, last weekend over the Labor Day

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weekend, and then we camped, you know, all

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of Labor Day, in a town called Ypsilanti.

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And if you go look at the show

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notes, you'll look at the, the spelling of

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that town, and it doesn't look anything like

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it sounds. But the true pronunciation is Ypsilanti,

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and it's basically, between Ann Arbor and Detroit.

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You said not too far out of Ann

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Arbor, and that's where, Michigan, University of Michigan

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is. So, but, yeah, we decided we just,

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take a take a camping trip instead of

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get a hotel or driving down, driving back.

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It was a night game, so didn't wanna

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get home at, three in the morning. So,

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we we've thought we'd bring the, camper with

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us. So that's what we did, and we

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got to leave the beagles at home. Both

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beagles are doing good, but, they're a pain

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in the butt camping, because you can't really

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leave them in the camper, and you can't

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really leave them in the car when it's

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hot out. And and, yeah, it's just inconvenient.

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So, my mom came over and watched the

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dogs for the weekend. That was cool. And,

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made a made a a very relaxing ish

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trip. The other thing we did while we

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were down there, we went to the, Michigan

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Flight Museum, which is formerly known as the

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Yankee Air Museum. That's on the grounds of,

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Ypsilanti Airport or Willow Run Airport, actually, is

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what it's called, but it's in Ypsilanti. And

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that's the old b twenty four bomber factory

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back from World War two. In fact, in

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the museum, they have a whole section about

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Rosie the Riveter, which is based on a

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a person that worked at that bomber plant

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and, actually had you know, got to watch

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a video of of her, being interviewed. So

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I'm guessing sometime in the seventies or eighties,

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but, it was really interesting, if you ever

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seen the poster with, you know, the the

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the woman with the you know, looked like

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she was a factory worker, you know, holding

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her arm up. So we can do it.

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And, that was Rosie the riveter riveter. And,

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like I said, she worked in the b

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twenty four factory there in, at Willow Run.

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So that that was cool. And, you know,

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the museum's got some cool airplanes. They got

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a a Blue Angel f eighteen. They got

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an f four from the Vietnam era. They

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got a bunch of World War two stuff,

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and an f eighty four jet from, the

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Thunderbirds. So they got both the Navy and

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the Air Force covered there, and, it's a

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really neat museum. It's it's it's smallish, you

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know. Of course, I'm used to the, museum

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of the you know, National Museum of the

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US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, which is

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huge. And, I was in Washington DC a

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couple of weeks ago and didn't make it

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out to, the Uber Hazy Center at, Dulles,

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which is a big museum as well, but,

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I'll make it there someday. Did get to

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walk around the Washington Mall and, visit all

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the the war memorials and the Lincoln Memorial,

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Washington Memorial. That was that was cool, but

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I got about five miles in that day.

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And I came home on Friday. I was

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sore as hell. I sat down in the

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recliner and fell asleep, and I woke up.

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Apparently, I caught the plague while I was

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out there and, was sick for, I don't

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know, four or five days. You know, no

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voice and just generally yuck. You know, felt

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like a cold. I don't I don't know

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what I had. I didn't get tested for

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COVID. What's the point? But, you know, it

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was the cold, flu, COVID, whatever it was.

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I call it the plague, but, all better

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now. A couple weeks later, good to go.

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But, yeah, one thing I did notice being

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close to Detroit and, you know, I have

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no particular problem with Detroit. A lot of

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lot of it's quite nice for a big

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city, but there's a lot of sketchy areas

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in Detroit. But, apparently, there's some sketchy areas

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in Ypsilanti. We, were coming back from Ann

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Arbor, went over went over to Ann Arbor

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to visit my nephew who lives there. And

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on our way back, we oh, we need

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to top off the gas. And so, you

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know, we get off the freeway in Ypsilanti,

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and they pull into a gas station, and,

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none of the pumps work. What the heck

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is this? And, so then I go to

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another station and none of the pumps worked.

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Like, I I don't get it. So I

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went in that one, and I go in

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there and the and the clerk at the

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gas station is behind bulletproof glass. And if

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you wanna buy anything, he has to put

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it through a little little hole in the

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thing. And it's, yeah. Okay. Whatever. And I

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went to another gas station, and the the

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pumps actually worked. And but, of course, went

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in. And, again, everybody's behind bulletproof glass. You

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know? I've come to the conclusion there's two

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things. You know, in Ann Arbor, it is

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not like that. But Ann Arbor, it's impossible

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to find a place to park in Ann

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Arbor. Just absolutely you know, of course, game

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day, it's gonna be real crazy, but even

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this was after game day. And it just

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can't find a place to park or even

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stop. So I ended up you know, we

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went to a a deli. She wanted to

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get some stuff at the deli, and I

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couldn't find a place to park. I dropped

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her off, and I circled around the block,

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circled around another block, went up down the

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street. There was no place I could just

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sit and wait. There was no place to

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park and get out of the truck. And

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I just don't know how, you know, between

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those two things, you know, if if if

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it's high enough crime area where the the

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gas station attendants have to be behind bulletproof

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glass, I don't wanna live there. Same thing

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with the parking. If if I have to

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pay to park, and and that wasn't even

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an option in parts of Ann Arbor. It

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just was no parking. But, in other parts,

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they have paid lots. That's fine. I don't

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mind that if I'm just visiting, but I

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will never live somewhere where paying to park

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is routine. And I'll never live somewhere where

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my local gas stations have to be behind

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bullet bulletproof glass. You know? I understand that

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happens in a lot of places in the

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country and all that. And I understand that

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that's kind of a tough job to be

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a gas station attendant. But in my humble

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opinion, they should have a twelve gauge behind

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the counter and, you know, that, or or

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some other form of self defense for the

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the workers. And, you know, that might detour

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some of the crime, but, you know, you

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never know. I just don't wanna live in

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a place like that. You know, I don't

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mind visiting. It's, that just happens from time

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to time. I get it, but I don't

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have to like it. Anyway, so that's kind

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of the personal update. So I was talking

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about, did you notice any difference in the

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audio here? Probably not because I had this

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I have this new device set up similar

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to the old Rodecaster. And I shouldn't say

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old. It's pretty new too. But, I was

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at Podcast Movement in DC. That's what I

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was there for. And I met the guy

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that invented this device called, let me see.

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I wrote it down, Audio Sigma PodMobile DSP.

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And if you wanna see it, it's at,

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b s w usa dot com. I'll have

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a link in the show notes over at

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mike dell dot com. But, it's a neat

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device. This particular one, he hand built. Now

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it's being manufactured in Texas. So it's, all

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US made, and it's a a really simple

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mic interface, USB. And and it also works.

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It's powered off of the USB, so there's

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no power cord. You can plug two mics

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in it. It has a compressor limiter gate.

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It's called he calls it the, denoiser. And

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you just hold the button with the mic

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plugged in, and it will adjust to the

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room, the noise level, and all that stuff.

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And, pretty much, you know, you can set

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different levels of the noise blanker. I've got

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it set at the mid level because I

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don't think I'm in a too noisy spot.

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But it was absolutely amazing, and it's a

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small device. You know, I would say four

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inches by six inches and maybe an inch

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and a little bit thick. And it's really

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super simple controls. You got a gain knob.

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You got a headphone volume knob. And then

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on the backside, you got a couple of

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buttons for the denoiser and the level of

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the denoiser and, you know, couple other things

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like that, but it's super dead simple to

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set up. And the really cool part about

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it is it'll run off of an iPhone

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or an Android or a iPad. So you

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just plug the USB into that device and,

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you know, do the denoiser thing and set

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your gain and, whatever recording app you have

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on your phone and or pad. It works

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just the same. And you can also that

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has well, has what looks like a network

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plug on the bottom of it, and you

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can actually take these and string them together.

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So if you've got, you need four microphones,

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you plug two of them in together. If

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you need six, you plug three of them

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in together. It's it's a really cool setup,

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and and it's really portable. That's that's what's

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pretty wonderful about it. It, it just it

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just works. And, you know, that's always the

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the way in podcast hardware. In my opinion,

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the easier it is to record, the more

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likely you're going to record and keep recording.

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So with this thing, literally, I turn it

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on and hit record. You know, it doesn't

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have all the bells and whistles that the,

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Roadcaster has. The Roadcaster is cool because, you

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know, you can fire off carts and and

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whatnot. And I suppose you could do the

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same thing depending on what kind of recording

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software you're using. But, man, this thing is

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super dead simple, and it's really cool. I

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I I really, really like it. You know,

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and it comes with a little case that

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you can throw in your backpack. And if

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you wanna record mobile, you you can do

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that. Have to bring the mic and the

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cable. It has XLRs. It does, it even

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does phantom power if you wanna do a

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condenser, which I don't recommend for most people.

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But, yeah. It's, it's really cool. So check

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that out, the Audio Sigma PodMobile DSP. And

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I've been using it, basically as my main

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phone and Zoom stuff, you know, right here

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in the office. I, have disconnected the, the

00:14:05.645 --> 00:14:09.165
Rodecaster Pro two that I have. And it's

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a really nice device too, but this one

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is quirky. So, you know, I I would

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come into work in the morning, the phone

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would ring, and it'd answer and, you know,

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of course, it's through the through the Roadcaster.

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And the Roadcaster apparently had lost connection with

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my computer. And I even tried two different

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comp three different computers. I just bought, the,

00:14:37.255 --> 00:14:41.175
what I call a mini max. But, Mac

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mini, you know, that's maxed out on RAM

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and storage and and processors. So, you know,

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I've got the m I think it's m

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three pro or m three, whatever the top

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one is. And, you know, I figured, okay.

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Well, I'll just get some, you know, big

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hardware, and that that should make the RodeCaster

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play nice. And it still has issues. So

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I I've kinda given up on that for

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now. I I I'll put it on the

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shelf and let it collect a little dust

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and probably bring it out at some point.

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But, I'm really liking this, Pod Mobile. So

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that's the that's the thing here. Let's see.

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We had a webinar yesterday, Blueberry and Fountain

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and a guy from Chris from, Jupiter Broadcasting

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put on this, webinar talking about Blueberry and

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all the podcasting two point o stuff, and

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value for value and whatnot. And, you know,

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I gotta tell you, if you're not using

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a modern podcast app, which you can find

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over at podcast apps dot com, or I'll

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have a link directly to it in the

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show notes there. But, you know, you can

00:16:01.085 --> 00:16:03.805
do a lot of things. You know, it'll

00:16:03.805 --> 00:16:07.805
show the transcripts. It'll show, you know, there's

00:16:07.965 --> 00:16:09.965
you know, you can do a boostogram if

00:16:09.965 --> 00:16:12.125
you're hooked up with a wallet, and fountain

00:16:12.125 --> 00:16:13.885
makes that really easy to set up a

00:16:13.885 --> 00:16:17.730
podcaster wallet or a listener wallet. Oops. I'm

00:16:17.730 --> 00:16:20.370
getting called here. Hang on. We'll put it

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on pause. Is it recording? Yep. Okay. I'm

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back. I'm not used to stopping these in

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the middle, but had a phone call I

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had to take. Just the way it is.

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But but anyway, these modern podcast apps, you

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got all these things. You know, my favorite

00:16:46.160 --> 00:16:50.240
in air quotes is Fountain. You know, go

00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.480
check it out. You know, one of the

00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.145
cool things about Fountain is, you know, say

00:16:56.205 --> 00:16:58.765
one of the podcasts you listen to does

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a live stream. It will pop up and

00:17:02.205 --> 00:17:05.265
give you a notification saying, hey. This, podcast

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is going live. And you can hit that

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and you can listen or watch, depending on

00:17:10.110 --> 00:17:12.670
if it's audio or video, right in the

00:17:12.670 --> 00:17:16.350
podcast app. That's that's pretty cool. But, you

00:17:16.350 --> 00:17:18.030
know, the and it also has the value

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for value. Like, I this one's enabled for

00:17:20.350 --> 00:17:22.190
value for value. So if, you know, you

00:17:22.190 --> 00:17:24.350
could stream Satoshis. You can put in a

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boostgram, and I'll get that. It's a a

00:17:27.445 --> 00:17:29.365
a kind of a paid comment, you know,

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and it's hundred millionth of a Bitcoin is

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each Satoshi. So, you know, you send thousand

00:17:36.885 --> 00:17:39.790
Satoshis, and that might be a quarter, something

00:17:39.790 --> 00:17:42.190
like that. But, you know, the the cool

00:17:42.190 --> 00:17:45.490
part about it is it gives you interaction

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with podcasters that are that are, you know,

00:17:48.670 --> 00:17:51.630
value for value enabled. And there's quite a

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bit of them. If you go to podcast

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index dot org, you can search for podcast

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there or within fountain there, and and there'll

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be a little dollar sign or whatever that

00:18:01.544 --> 00:18:03.625
it denotes that that one is value for

00:18:03.625 --> 00:18:06.985
value enabled. And, it's a really good way

00:18:06.985 --> 00:18:09.909
to interact with podcasters. I do it pretty

00:18:09.909 --> 00:18:12.809
regularly on the podcasting two point o show

00:18:13.350 --> 00:18:16.950
with Adam Curry and Dave Jones. And, you

00:18:16.950 --> 00:18:18.870
know, it it's really cool. They'll, you know,

00:18:18.870 --> 00:18:22.070
read your boosts on air, or on the

00:18:22.070 --> 00:18:25.765
on the show, either live or, the recorded

00:18:25.825 --> 00:18:31.185
show afterwards. But, you know, it's, you know,

00:18:31.185 --> 00:18:34.405
podcasting two point o and the podcast index

00:18:35.970 --> 00:18:40.450
project. It's it's mainly for free speech. You

00:18:40.450 --> 00:18:43.010
know, it it it's taking control away from

00:18:43.010 --> 00:18:45.730
the big companies. Podcasting has always been free

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and open via RSS. And, you know, the

00:18:49.730 --> 00:18:55.735
the podcast index also has a, namespace initiative,

00:18:56.434 --> 00:18:59.554
the podcast namespace. You know, that way it's

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generic and it's not controlled by any company,

00:19:02.355 --> 00:19:04.934
but it adds features to the to RSS,

00:19:04.995 --> 00:19:08.750
which is has not happened since Apple joined,

00:19:08.890 --> 00:19:11.790
you know, podcasting back in two thousand five.

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A lot of the innovation has gone away,

00:19:15.450 --> 00:19:17.610
you know, because, well, why bother? Apple's doing

00:19:17.610 --> 00:19:20.730
it. And, that that's been the the case

00:19:20.730 --> 00:19:23.985
up until a few years ago. And now

00:19:23.985 --> 00:19:27.825
with this, podcast namespace, we're adding things like

00:19:27.825 --> 00:19:31.905
transcripts. The show has a transcript. And if

00:19:31.905 --> 00:19:33.745
you're in a podcast two point o app

00:19:33.745 --> 00:19:36.820
or you're listening on the website, you'll see

00:19:36.820 --> 00:19:40.120
there's a closed captioning button. And, you can

00:19:40.660 --> 00:19:43.380
see, you know, what what's going on as

00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:46.820
it's going on. So, that's pretty cool. And

00:19:46.820 --> 00:19:48.820
that's one of the podcast two point o

00:19:48.820 --> 00:19:52.575
features that Apple actually adopted. So if you're

00:19:52.575 --> 00:19:55.855
listening on Apple Podcasts, you you can see

00:19:55.855 --> 00:19:58.434
the transcript of just about any show now.

00:19:58.655 --> 00:20:01.535
And that's, thanks to the podcast two point

00:20:01.535 --> 00:20:05.530
o project or podcast index project. You know,

00:20:05.530 --> 00:20:09.930
same same thing. They're interchangeable. But, you know,

00:20:09.930 --> 00:20:12.570
there's a lot of new stuff coming in

00:20:12.570 --> 00:20:18.725
podcasting that, you know, it's not. It hasn't

00:20:18.725 --> 00:20:22.404
happened in years. You know, and Blueberry, the

00:20:22.404 --> 00:20:25.445
company I work for, is the the leader

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in, podcast host adopting these these different tags,

00:20:30.179 --> 00:20:32.020
as they call them, or feature. We call

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them features, so they're kind of invisible to

00:20:34.580 --> 00:20:38.580
the user. But you can add chapters. You

00:20:38.580 --> 00:20:42.355
can add, you know, album art. You can

00:20:42.355 --> 00:20:45.155
have chapters where the album art changes every

00:20:45.155 --> 00:20:47.235
subject. I don't do that. It's a lot

00:20:47.235 --> 00:20:51.875
of work, but you can do that. We

00:20:51.875 --> 00:20:56.130
got a more robust location tag, which, you

00:20:56.130 --> 00:20:59.590
know, shows up in certain apps that, that

00:20:59.890 --> 00:21:02.290
put that in. And it's all up to

00:21:02.290 --> 00:21:04.370
the app developers what they put into their

00:21:04.370 --> 00:21:11.145
app. Fountain, Podverse, you know, pod podcast guru.

00:21:11.205 --> 00:21:12.565
There's a whole bunch of them. Like I

00:21:12.565 --> 00:21:15.225
said, go over to podcast apps dot com.

00:21:15.845 --> 00:21:18.425
And, you know, there's there's all these new

00:21:18.885 --> 00:21:22.485
modern podcast apps that, and some legacy apps

00:21:22.485 --> 00:21:25.950
in there too. You know, like podcast addict

00:21:25.950 --> 00:21:28.830
for Android, has adopted a lot of the

00:21:28.830 --> 00:21:31.550
tags, and they've been around way longer than

00:21:31.550 --> 00:21:34.430
the the two point o project. Of course,

00:21:34.430 --> 00:21:37.230
Apple did the transcript, and, they did one

00:21:37.230 --> 00:21:41.035
other tag for verification called the text tag.

00:21:42.295 --> 00:21:44.795
So they they're, you know, embracing the namespace

00:21:45.255 --> 00:21:48.375
somewhat. You know, they're not, they're not all

00:21:48.375 --> 00:21:53.470
in on it. What's the other one? I'm

00:21:53.470 --> 00:21:55.550
trying to think of the name. It's another

00:21:55.550 --> 00:22:00.670
popular podcast app. Jeez. I forgot. Someone that's

00:22:00.670 --> 00:22:03.310
owned by Automatic, which is the people behind

00:22:03.310 --> 00:22:08.514
WordPress, and, it's a popular one. Marco from

00:22:11.455 --> 00:22:14.255
boy, I'm just drawing blanks today. I don't

00:22:14.255 --> 00:22:19.850
know why. But, I've been using Cast o

00:22:19.850 --> 00:22:24.750
Matic as well as Fountain. What is Marco's?

00:22:25.450 --> 00:22:26.730
You I'm sure you heard of it if

00:22:26.730 --> 00:22:32.565
you're on Apple. I don't know. It's not

00:22:32.565 --> 00:22:36.405
showing up on my phone here. Oh, well,

00:22:36.405 --> 00:22:39.765
I'll think of it later, maybe. Overcast. There

00:22:39.765 --> 00:22:44.105
we go. Overcast. And, he hasn't yet adopted

00:22:44.245 --> 00:22:47.669
any of the tags, but he's close, I

00:22:47.669 --> 00:22:50.470
think. I hope. Everybody's bugging him about it,

00:22:50.470 --> 00:22:52.549
and he doesn't really like people telling him

00:22:52.549 --> 00:22:56.390
what to do. So who knows? But, yeah.

00:22:56.390 --> 00:23:00.995
It's, it's quite the quite the project. And,

00:23:01.155 --> 00:23:03.475
you know, if you're a podcast listener, as

00:23:03.475 --> 00:23:06.215
you obviously are, or or a podcast creator,

00:23:07.155 --> 00:23:09.875
go check out podcast index dot org and

00:23:09.875 --> 00:23:11.554
all the stuff they got going on over

00:23:11.554 --> 00:23:14.169
there. One of the really, really cool things

00:23:14.169 --> 00:23:16.650
about a lot of these podcast apps, these

00:23:16.650 --> 00:23:21.789
new ones, is Podping. And what that is

00:23:21.929 --> 00:23:24.250
is okay. So on Apple, if I publish

00:23:24.250 --> 00:23:27.895
this episode, say, four o'clock, it might not

00:23:27.895 --> 00:23:30.375
be an Apple for five to twenty four

00:23:30.375 --> 00:23:36.795
hours. But if you're on Fountain or Podverse

00:23:37.335 --> 00:23:40.135
or Cast o Matic or any of those,

00:23:40.135 --> 00:23:42.950
they use the index, and they use Podpeng.

00:23:43.890 --> 00:23:47.330
So within two minutes, you know, I would

00:23:47.330 --> 00:23:49.570
say, you know, it's sometimes even faster than

00:23:49.570 --> 00:23:53.090
that. Your listing will update. You know, if

00:23:53.090 --> 00:23:55.110
you're a podcaster or if you're a listener,

00:23:55.170 --> 00:23:57.455
you know, as soon as as soon as

00:23:57.455 --> 00:24:00.175
I publish this, you'll have it available in

00:24:00.175 --> 00:24:06.015
fountain, really, really, really quick. And, you know,

00:24:06.015 --> 00:24:08.815
of course, with my publishing schedule such as

00:24:08.815 --> 00:24:13.230
it is, quick is probably not too important.

00:24:13.850 --> 00:24:17.130
But, you know, it, it's just one of

00:24:17.130 --> 00:24:21.690
the other features that, really makes makes this,

00:24:22.410 --> 00:24:26.005
you know, enhance the listener experience and even

00:24:26.005 --> 00:24:30.405
the podcasters experience. So, very cool. Well, enough

00:24:30.405 --> 00:24:33.045
about podcasting since I got rid of, my

00:24:33.045 --> 00:24:37.570
podcast related show other than, Insider. Know, I

00:24:37.570 --> 00:24:39.250
don't get to talk about this stuff all

00:24:39.250 --> 00:24:42.150
that much. So, yeah, that's what I'm doing.

00:24:42.370 --> 00:24:44.610
Also, in the last episode, I talked about

00:24:44.610 --> 00:24:49.515
dumbing down smartphones and, you know, the death

00:24:49.755 --> 00:24:52.075
scroll and, you know, people are just tied

00:24:52.075 --> 00:24:54.075
to their phones. They go out to dinner

00:24:54.075 --> 00:24:56.655
and, you know, there's there'll be two people

00:24:56.715 --> 00:24:58.315
sitting at the table, and they're both on

00:24:58.315 --> 00:25:00.635
their damn phones instead of interacting with each

00:25:00.635 --> 00:25:04.520
other. So, you know, I also talked about

00:25:04.520 --> 00:25:07.080
the light phone, and I thought that might

00:25:07.080 --> 00:25:10.620
be a cool way to have some smartphone

00:25:10.840 --> 00:25:15.320
features without, without all the distractions. Well, come

00:25:15.320 --> 00:25:18.805
to find out, one of my friends slash

00:25:19.025 --> 00:25:23.345
listeners, Zach had an old light phone with

00:25:23.345 --> 00:25:25.425
a cracked screen, but it still worked just

00:25:25.425 --> 00:25:28.785
fine. And, the cracked screen doesn't even bother

00:25:28.785 --> 00:25:31.345
me. And, anyway, he he gave me his

00:25:31.345 --> 00:25:32.920
light phone to play with. So I got

00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:36.040
a light phone two here, and, I got

00:25:36.040 --> 00:25:39.320
a secondary number, because I'm not ready to

00:25:39.320 --> 00:25:45.145
take the plunge completely. And, yeah, it's, it's

00:25:45.145 --> 00:25:46.985
exactly what it's supposed to be. In fact,

00:25:46.985 --> 00:25:49.145
it's kinda weird. I'll I'll I'll have the

00:25:49.145 --> 00:25:51.465
thing sitting here on the desk, and I'll

00:25:51.465 --> 00:25:53.145
open it up again. You know, open it

00:25:53.145 --> 00:25:55.705
up and, like, oh, okay. Nothing's happening. Well,

00:25:55.705 --> 00:25:59.050
of course, nothing's happening because I'm not letting

00:25:59.050 --> 00:26:01.630
it happen. I don't want it to happen.

00:26:01.930 --> 00:26:03.930
If somebody calls me on it, it rings.

00:26:03.930 --> 00:26:06.410
I answer it. Someone texts me, it pings,

00:26:06.410 --> 00:26:08.090
and I look at the text, and I

00:26:08.090 --> 00:26:10.490
can text back. It does voice to text.

00:26:10.490 --> 00:26:13.804
It's but that's really all it does. It

00:26:13.804 --> 00:26:16.125
also has podcasting on it. I don't know

00:26:16.125 --> 00:26:19.164
how they do it, but, that works really

00:26:19.164 --> 00:26:21.585
good. You have to subscribe to the shows

00:26:21.804 --> 00:26:24.929
on, on the web interface. And you log

00:26:24.929 --> 00:26:26.770
in to your Light Phone account, and you

00:26:26.770 --> 00:26:28.770
can subscribe to shows. And they sync to

00:26:28.770 --> 00:26:31.330
the phone, and it even does Bluetooth to

00:26:31.330 --> 00:26:33.330
the car. So, you know, you can have

00:26:33.330 --> 00:26:37.330
that. It also has navigation and a couple

00:26:37.330 --> 00:26:41.145
other things, but it's very rudimentary. But there's

00:26:41.145 --> 00:26:44.025
no web browser. There's no email. There's no,

00:26:45.145 --> 00:26:48.345
you know, Facebook app or Twitter app or

00:26:48.345 --> 00:26:51.325
x app, whatever. It's none of that. So,

00:26:51.465 --> 00:26:53.545
you know, you can't just play on the

00:26:53.545 --> 00:26:57.440
phone unless you're texting somebody or talking. There's

00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:01.040
nothing to play with. And I I think

00:27:01.040 --> 00:27:04.960
if more people got on that program, I

00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:07.440
think we'd be a lot happier. You know,

00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:12.375
this sitting there death scrolling Facebook or, x

00:27:12.375 --> 00:27:15.655
or Instagram or whatever. This thing doesn't even

00:27:15.655 --> 00:27:17.915
have a phone or a camera on it.

00:27:18.775 --> 00:27:23.730
It's it's just a smarter dumb phone. The

00:27:23.990 --> 00:27:25.510
only thing I have to say that I

00:27:25.510 --> 00:27:30.070
don't particularly care, for is the screen is

00:27:30.070 --> 00:27:32.470
just a little too small for me to

00:27:32.470 --> 00:27:34.790
comfortably read, and I haven't found a way

00:27:34.790 --> 00:27:36.745
to blow up the text. And there may

00:27:36.745 --> 00:27:38.665
be a way to do that. But if

00:27:38.665 --> 00:27:41.225
the text was just a couple sizes bigger,

00:27:41.225 --> 00:27:44.445
it it would be more practical for me.

00:27:44.745 --> 00:27:48.345
You know? Old guy thing. Or maybe I

00:27:48.345 --> 00:27:51.110
need to get my, cheaters a little stronger.

00:27:51.410 --> 00:27:54.530
We'll see. I get an eye appointment, I

00:27:54.530 --> 00:27:58.450
think, Monday or something. So, may maybe that's

00:27:58.450 --> 00:28:00.370
it. I just need to adjust my glasses

00:28:00.370 --> 00:28:04.235
a little bit. But, I I really like

00:28:04.235 --> 00:28:06.955
the thing. It's teeny tiny. It's, it's a

00:28:06.955 --> 00:28:11.434
quarter the size of my iPhone. And, you

00:28:11.434 --> 00:28:13.515
know, it's easy to carry around in your

00:28:13.515 --> 00:28:16.130
pocket. You don't have to you know, it's

00:28:16.130 --> 00:28:19.970
it's it's just it's cool. So I've I've

00:28:19.970 --> 00:28:23.009
been playing around by, you know, I set

00:28:23.009 --> 00:28:25.730
my iPhone to forward phone phone calls to

00:28:25.730 --> 00:28:31.534
this, this other discreet number. And they carry

00:28:31.534 --> 00:28:34.115
that and leave, and it doesn't track you.

00:28:34.815 --> 00:28:37.554
There's there is a GPS, but it doesn't,

00:28:38.014 --> 00:28:40.335
you know, track all your movements like, you

00:28:40.335 --> 00:28:45.370
know, iPhone and Google and and, Facebook and

00:28:45.370 --> 00:28:48.730
everybody else you've given location privileges to, tracks

00:28:48.730 --> 00:28:51.390
where you've been and where you're going and

00:28:51.850 --> 00:28:54.410
and all that stuff and pops ads up

00:28:54.410 --> 00:28:56.490
on it for it, you know, and certain

00:28:56.490 --> 00:28:59.875
apps. And and this thing just doesn't do

00:28:59.875 --> 00:29:03.815
that. It's a phone, and it can text.

00:29:04.035 --> 00:29:06.195
And what's really cool is it does voice

00:29:06.195 --> 00:29:09.395
to text because I hate typing on those

00:29:09.395 --> 00:29:13.940
little screens, screen keyboards. But it has a

00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:18.500
screen keyboard, and it's usable. But, yeah. So

00:29:18.500 --> 00:29:22.740
far, I like it. I'm debating. They cut

00:29:22.820 --> 00:29:25.380
they have the Light Phone three coming out,

00:29:25.380 --> 00:29:27.885
which does have a a couple other features.

00:29:27.885 --> 00:29:30.145
It actually has a a camera on it,

00:29:31.725 --> 00:29:34.365
but it's essentially the same sort of thing.

00:29:34.365 --> 00:29:36.205
I think it's a little bigger. I don't

00:29:36.205 --> 00:29:38.545
know. I have to look at a comparison.

00:29:38.845 --> 00:29:43.500
But, Yeah. It's, it's so far so good.

00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:45.020
I I I really like it, and it

00:29:45.020 --> 00:29:48.300
does exactly what it's supposed to do. And

00:29:48.300 --> 00:29:52.540
that's, that's part of the the charm of

00:29:52.540 --> 00:29:55.075
it. You know, a dumb flip phone is

00:29:55.075 --> 00:29:59.555
fine for just talking on the phone, but

00:29:59.555 --> 00:30:01.955
it's hard to text on because you gotta

00:30:01.955 --> 00:30:05.235
do the t nine texting and, and it's

00:30:05.235 --> 00:30:07.175
not good. And most of the flip phones,

00:30:07.540 --> 00:30:09.540
I think there is a modern flip phone

00:30:09.540 --> 00:30:14.180
that, that actually does have, voice to text.

00:30:14.180 --> 00:30:15.860
I think I could live with a with

00:30:15.860 --> 00:30:18.820
a, a flip phone too if I had

00:30:18.820 --> 00:30:21.245
voice to text. You know, texting is just

00:30:21.245 --> 00:30:23.565
a a way of the way of life

00:30:23.565 --> 00:30:26.445
these days, it seems. So it's good to

00:30:26.445 --> 00:30:30.605
have that capability. But, again, you know, it's

00:30:30.605 --> 00:30:32.125
something like if you go to a restaurant

00:30:32.125 --> 00:30:33.725
and you get your light phone, there's nothing

00:30:33.725 --> 00:30:35.245
to look at unless you're getting a lot

00:30:35.245 --> 00:30:37.460
of text. But, there's just nothing to look

00:30:37.460 --> 00:30:39.299
at. So you have to be with the

00:30:39.299 --> 00:30:42.019
people you're with, and and I really like

00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:45.299
that. So, we'll see when the light phone

00:30:45.299 --> 00:30:48.100
three comes out whether I, take the plunge

00:30:48.100 --> 00:30:52.555
and do that. But, so far I'm liking

00:30:52.555 --> 00:30:54.795
it. You know, there is a couple of

00:30:54.795 --> 00:30:59.195
disadvantages in not carrying your your smartphone around.

00:30:59.195 --> 00:31:01.355
But I think what I might do is

00:31:01.355 --> 00:31:04.415
I'll carry the light phone and the iPad.

00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:07.640
So, you know, the iPad, you're not gonna

00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:11.560
sit at the at the, dinner table and

00:31:11.560 --> 00:31:13.800
use your iPad because it's too big. But

00:31:13.800 --> 00:31:15.980
having it with me, then if I absolutely

00:31:16.120 --> 00:31:18.280
need to look something up on the web

00:31:18.280 --> 00:31:21.155
or whatever, you know, have the iPad nearby.

00:31:21.295 --> 00:31:22.815
I'm not gonna carry it, but I'll put

00:31:22.815 --> 00:31:26.255
it in the car. You know, so that

00:31:26.255 --> 00:31:28.675
that might be the solution. I don't know.

00:31:29.375 --> 00:31:31.395
I'm not quite ready to take the plunge,

00:31:31.935 --> 00:31:34.015
you know, putting my main number on on

00:31:34.015 --> 00:31:37.380
the light phone, but, as a secondary. And

00:31:37.380 --> 00:31:39.620
then I can easily forward my I can't

00:31:39.620 --> 00:31:42.020
forward text messages, though. I wish I wish

00:31:42.020 --> 00:31:44.659
I had that capability, but iPhones do not

00:31:44.659 --> 00:31:48.260
have that capability that I know of. So,

00:31:48.820 --> 00:31:51.545
anyway, that that's that's my report on the,

00:31:51.945 --> 00:31:55.625
on the dumbed down phone thing. Like I

00:31:55.625 --> 00:31:58.265
said, I'm really thinking about the, the light

00:31:58.265 --> 00:32:01.545
phone three when it comes out. It's it's

00:32:01.545 --> 00:32:05.325
kinda expensive, though. Like, five hundred bucks. But,

00:32:06.059 --> 00:32:07.980
again, you know, do you pay for an

00:32:07.980 --> 00:32:10.620
iPhone? I I think I paid twelve hundred

00:32:10.620 --> 00:32:12.700
for the one I got, and, you know,

00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:16.080
they're not getting any cheaper either. So, anyway,

00:32:17.665 --> 00:32:21.505
let's see other things. Really having a lot

00:32:21.505 --> 00:32:25.025
of fun flying the RV twelve IS over

00:32:25.025 --> 00:32:28.085
at Giving Wings Aviation here in Traverse City.

00:32:29.265 --> 00:32:33.440
It's a sport plane. Looks kinda like a

00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:35.600
little fighter jet if you ask me, but,

00:32:35.840 --> 00:32:38.500
it only weighs thirteen hundred and twenty pounds

00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:43.540
maximum and, about thirty foot wingspan, low wing,

00:32:43.600 --> 00:32:47.675
bubble canopy, stick controlled rather than a yoke.

00:32:48.375 --> 00:32:51.015
There's no steering wheel looking thing. It's just

00:32:51.015 --> 00:32:53.415
a stick like a fighter jet. Got a

00:32:53.415 --> 00:32:56.935
single throttle because it's because it's, fuel injected,

00:32:56.935 --> 00:32:58.635
so you don't have to deal with mixture.

00:32:58.695 --> 00:33:01.450
You don't have to deal with with carb

00:33:01.450 --> 00:33:04.250
heat or anything like that. It just, put

00:33:04.250 --> 00:33:06.330
the power where you need it and fly

00:33:06.330 --> 00:33:09.950
the airplane. It is a little bit high-tech

00:33:10.649 --> 00:33:13.529
in that, the avionics on it are, you

00:33:13.529 --> 00:33:16.125
know, like a couple of iPads glued to

00:33:16.125 --> 00:33:21.404
the the layer shield or the dashboard, I

00:33:21.404 --> 00:33:24.304
guess, you'd call it. And, you know, GPS

00:33:24.365 --> 00:33:26.205
in the middle and the radios in the

00:33:26.205 --> 00:33:30.850
middle and whatnot. It's got full autopilot. It

00:33:30.929 --> 00:33:35.250
it's really a sophisticated little airplane. But, you

00:33:35.250 --> 00:33:37.890
know, the the cool thing about it is,

00:33:38.770 --> 00:33:41.804
you know, they're cheap to run. They only

00:33:41.804 --> 00:33:44.044
burn about three or four gallons an hour,

00:33:44.044 --> 00:33:46.524
which is half what a Cessna one seventy

00:33:46.524 --> 00:33:48.524
two would burn. But, of course, one seventy

00:33:48.524 --> 00:33:53.005
two is twice the weight and and, not

00:33:53.005 --> 00:33:56.764
significantly bigger as far as wingspan and length.

00:33:56.764 --> 00:33:59.670
But, yeah. So that's been a lot of

00:33:59.670 --> 00:34:03.350
fun. I've been, been flying there, for now

00:34:03.350 --> 00:34:10.065
about a year, and enjoying it a lot.

00:34:11.085 --> 00:34:13.565
It's, it's it's a fun airplane to fly.

00:34:13.565 --> 00:34:18.605
It's, definitely, something that would be nice to

00:34:18.605 --> 00:34:22.625
own, but they're a little expensive. Not terrible,

00:34:23.005 --> 00:34:26.650
but, you know, they're brand new airplanes. They're

00:34:26.650 --> 00:34:30.810
not, fifty year old Cessnas and and all

00:34:30.810 --> 00:34:32.650
that, which, like I said, there's this charm

00:34:32.650 --> 00:34:34.990
to these old airplanes. I I'm really thinking

00:34:35.690 --> 00:34:37.845
about building an airplane, but I don't think

00:34:37.845 --> 00:34:39.925
it'll be an RV twelve. Although they are

00:34:39.925 --> 00:34:42.325
available in a kit, but that's a lot

00:34:42.325 --> 00:34:44.265
of work and and a lot of money.

00:34:45.285 --> 00:34:47.685
I think, the cheapest you can get a

00:34:47.685 --> 00:34:49.765
RV twelve, you know, all the kits and

00:34:49.765 --> 00:34:51.685
the engine and everything still close to a

00:34:51.685 --> 00:34:56.060
hundred thousand dollars or somewhere in there. And

00:34:56.060 --> 00:34:58.780
you can buy them factory built for probably

00:34:58.780 --> 00:35:01.900
a hundred and fifty thousand, but it's a

00:35:01.900 --> 00:35:04.300
lot more fun than a Ferrari for the

00:35:04.300 --> 00:35:07.260
same price. So, you know, I don't think

00:35:07.260 --> 00:35:09.505
I'm in that ballpark. But I am thinking

00:35:09.505 --> 00:35:12.705
about building an airplane, probably a Colb or

00:35:12.705 --> 00:35:17.185
a Challenger or a GT four hundred or

00:35:17.185 --> 00:35:22.145
five hundred. I forget the manufacturer of that

00:35:22.145 --> 00:35:25.600
one, but they're ultralight kind of looking airplanes,

00:35:25.820 --> 00:35:28.880
but they're more substantial. They're sport light sport

00:35:29.420 --> 00:35:32.460
and, usually have about a sixty to a

00:35:32.460 --> 00:35:36.895
hundred horsepower engine. Build time on them is

00:35:36.955 --> 00:35:39.675
significantly less than an all metal airplane. So

00:35:39.675 --> 00:35:43.595
they're fabric covered and, the Kolb has folding

00:35:43.595 --> 00:35:45.435
wings, which should be handy because I could

00:35:45.435 --> 00:35:48.050
build the thing in the garage and and,

00:35:48.050 --> 00:35:49.490
you know, put it on a trailer and

00:35:49.490 --> 00:35:51.430
haul it to the airport to fly it

00:35:51.490 --> 00:35:54.610
and then fold the wings out. And then

00:35:54.610 --> 00:35:56.130
when I'm done, fold the wings up, put

00:35:56.130 --> 00:35:57.970
it back in the trailer, and haul it

00:35:57.970 --> 00:35:59.410
home. I wouldn't have to pay for a

00:35:59.410 --> 00:36:03.635
hangar. But then again, you know, I'm sure

00:36:03.635 --> 00:36:06.055
that becomes a pain in the butt, but,

00:36:07.155 --> 00:36:11.475
neat little airplanes, that that Colb, the I

00:36:11.475 --> 00:36:14.995
think it's the Firestar model. It's a two

00:36:14.995 --> 00:36:19.339
seater and and, you know, flies about seventy

00:36:19.339 --> 00:36:22.720
five miles an hour and, you know, stalls

00:36:23.420 --> 00:36:27.119
at some ridiculously low amount of, of speed.

00:36:27.180 --> 00:36:29.099
So, you know, how much trouble can you

00:36:29.099 --> 00:36:31.420
get in, at forty miles an hour? You

00:36:31.420 --> 00:36:35.415
know? And, the one downside of that is

00:36:35.415 --> 00:36:38.055
you gotta be a lot more cognizant of

00:36:38.055 --> 00:36:41.494
the wind conditions. You know, with the RV,

00:36:41.494 --> 00:36:44.535
I can have up to eleven knots of

00:36:44.535 --> 00:36:49.319
crosswind component, and, that's the the the the

00:36:49.319 --> 00:36:51.319
quote, unquote limit. I'm sure it would do

00:36:51.319 --> 00:36:55.400
more than that. But, you know, for for,

00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:58.119
sanity's sake, you you know, you don't wanna

00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:00.359
go when it's gusty winds in the wrong

00:37:00.359 --> 00:37:03.615
direction and all that. But, like I said,

00:37:03.615 --> 00:37:04.975
I'm sure it could handle it, and I'm

00:37:04.975 --> 00:37:06.895
sure I could probably handle it. I don't

00:37:06.895 --> 00:37:10.175
know. I've done an eleven knot crosswind in

00:37:10.175 --> 00:37:13.615
it, and no problem. So probably go a

00:37:13.615 --> 00:37:15.135
little higher. But, you know, a Cessna one

00:37:15.135 --> 00:37:17.920
seventy two is fifteen knots crosswind. It's the,

00:37:18.240 --> 00:37:22.480
demonstrated max, although I'm sure it would do

00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:26.480
more too. You know, I've flown the one

00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:30.180
seventy two and, compared to the RV twelve,

00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:32.964
the one seventy two is a truck, and

00:37:32.964 --> 00:37:37.845
the RV twelve is, like a Miata. About

00:37:37.845 --> 00:37:43.385
the same size, interior space and, and handles

00:37:44.005 --> 00:37:47.210
really, really good. You know, you don't have

00:37:47.590 --> 00:37:48.869
to move the stick a hell of a

00:37:48.869 --> 00:37:50.550
lot to get a a lot of movement

00:37:50.550 --> 00:37:53.110
out of it. And, that can be good

00:37:53.110 --> 00:37:56.550
or bad depending on your training. But, you

00:37:56.550 --> 00:37:59.744
know, I've flown it enough now. I got

00:37:59.744 --> 00:38:02.385
about sixty hours in it and, you know,

00:38:02.385 --> 00:38:04.944
it's pretty natural now. If I got back

00:38:04.944 --> 00:38:06.865
in a Cessna, I I don't know what

00:38:06.865 --> 00:38:12.009
I would do. But good stuff. Like I

00:38:12.009 --> 00:38:16.329
said, continuing the flying hobby here and and,

00:38:17.130 --> 00:38:19.450
gotta get some, some more flight time in.

00:38:19.450 --> 00:38:22.109
The weather hasn't been conducive to my schedule.

00:38:22.730 --> 00:38:25.230
Every time I have time, either the airplanes

00:38:25.369 --> 00:38:27.825
are busy. Got a couple of them over

00:38:27.825 --> 00:38:31.105
there giving wings. And, either the airplanes are

00:38:31.105 --> 00:38:34.405
are booked when, my schedule allows it or

00:38:34.465 --> 00:38:37.025
when they are available and I'm available. Some

00:38:37.105 --> 00:38:39.585
the weather's not right. You know, low clouds

00:38:39.585 --> 00:38:43.050
or too much wind or, you know, some

00:38:43.050 --> 00:38:46.010
some other thing. So in the last couple

00:38:46.010 --> 00:38:48.030
of weeks, I've kinda struck out a lot.

00:38:48.250 --> 00:38:51.070
I've had several flights scheduled and then canceled.

00:38:51.690 --> 00:38:55.175
But, this weekend, I I plan on flying

00:38:55.175 --> 00:38:56.935
a bit, and the weather looks like it's,

00:38:57.335 --> 00:39:00.535
conducive. And, and, there's at least one airplane

00:39:00.535 --> 00:39:05.175
available, maybe two. So, yeah, it'll be fun.

00:39:05.175 --> 00:39:07.640
Go and I'll have a link to the

00:39:07.640 --> 00:39:10.600
RV twelve and, giving links in the show

00:39:10.600 --> 00:39:14.440
notes over at mike dell dot com. And,

00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:19.880
yeah. So, yeah, that's my update. Again, I

00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.805
I always say this, but, sorry I take

00:39:22.805 --> 00:39:26.164
so long between episodes. But a lot of

00:39:26.164 --> 00:39:29.525
times, it's just a matter of, when I

00:39:29.525 --> 00:39:33.125
have time to podcast, I don't have anything

00:39:33.125 --> 00:39:36.260
to say. Or if I have a lot

00:39:36.260 --> 00:39:39.060
to say, I don't have the time. And,

00:39:39.220 --> 00:39:41.940
you know, I I started, an I started

00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:46.660
this episode three ninety nine, probably a month

00:39:46.660 --> 00:39:50.154
ago. I was gonna do one, and, that's

00:39:50.154 --> 00:39:52.154
when the RODECaster messed up on me. I

00:39:52.154 --> 00:39:55.595
recorded the whole dang thing, and, and then

00:39:55.595 --> 00:39:58.474
I didn't have a good file. So now

00:39:58.474 --> 00:40:01.275
that I got this new gizmo, the, POD

00:40:01.275 --> 00:40:06.880
Mobile DSP, Hopefully, I won't have any technical

00:40:06.940 --> 00:40:09.339
glitches. So when I have time, I flip

00:40:09.339 --> 00:40:13.279
on the mic and go. So, anyway, again,

00:40:13.339 --> 00:40:18.565
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00:40:21.925 --> 00:40:26.565
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00:40:26.565 --> 00:40:29.285
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00:40:29.285 --> 00:40:32.265
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