Episode 80 - Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse

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We're ready. Anytime. Hi, everyone. I'm Emily.

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And I'm Vince. And this is The Lighthouse Lowdown.

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I tried to copy the way you said it before we

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started. The Lighthouse Lowdown. Oh, before.

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Yeah, you say it like a wrestling announcer.

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Just seems right. Whatever those are called.

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All right. It's going to be a... shorter episode

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today okay short episode a little one i i liked

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the name of the lighthouse so that's why i selected

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it but it didn't have like a whole lot of history

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around it so that's what happened nice i do have

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a history buoy and i should have looked at i

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should have looked at the patent for this one

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because i'm sure it would have had a better explanation

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for how this works but we are covering the sun

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valve for our history buoy oh i thought that

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was the lighthouse Sun valve lighthouse. That

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would be so cool. But no. So I kind of, I looked

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up, I wanted the history buoy to be, what do

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you do to a lighthouse in order to automate it?

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And so it's actually not that easy to find like

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just an article or something written about that.

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So I had to just look at what people invented

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that started automating lighthouses. Well. So

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like, what do you mean? Because I would argue

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that there's been various levels of automation.

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Exactly. Well, that's what I mean is that I'm

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looking at now the beginning of automation. There

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was some, they did stuff before this, but like

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the real start of having automated lights is

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from this invention called the Sun Valve. Okay.

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By Gustav Dahlin. I'm just going to try to pronounce

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his name there. So. It is a large black metal

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rod surrounded by three polished metal rods.

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And those are all enclosed in a glass tube. And

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so the concept is that the black rod in the center

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would absorb more heat than the others when the

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sun would rise and would therefore expand in

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the sunlight. And then this expansion would cut

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off the gas supply in the valve during the day.

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which in turn would switch the lighthouse off.

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That's awesome. I know. Cut off the gas flow,

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light turns off. That's incredible. And then

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after the sun would set, the black rod would

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cool down again and open the gas and thus turning

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the light on. So the gas, when it's available,

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is lit by a pilot light that's always burning.

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So I think that was one of the things that was

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a struggle is that if the light, if the little

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flame went out, then there's no light. But it

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was pretty reliable. They used it for a lot of

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buoys. Of course, yeah. For some lighthouses.

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That's incredible. For those of you who are just

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listening, we're looking at an image that looks

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like a Martha Stewart pepper cracker. Oh. Something

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like super high tech. Is it pepper cracker? To

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me, this looks like a component that someone

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would steal in a future movie, like a futuristic

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movie that's imperative for some big. This is

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the combobulator. Come on. You see the combobulator

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is broken. Where is that from? There's a series

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of guys on TikTok that go and lowball people

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for cars. Oh, no. Yeah, it's kind of tragic.

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I think one of them got arrested lately for something.

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I'm not sure. But one of the things they'd like,

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they'd introduce themselves. This guy's Tommy

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Tough Knuckles. You know, that's like how he'd

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introduce himself. And they get under the car

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and they're looking at, you know, various vehicles.

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And he'd say, oh, the convoy is busted. The owner's

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always kind of like. okay whatever like and then

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yeah because they're saying a bunch of stuff

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so anyways that's what i this looks like a compopulator

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i think i don't like people being punked like

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that no i'm uncomfortable watching when people

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are like just think they're having a normal interaction

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it's like what yeah they're trying to sell their

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corvette and there's some of these like 20 year

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olds show up yeah i think i just feel bad when

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people are confused that's why i'm i hate it

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oh no please stop Okay. So anyway, I wanted to

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say something. So it's a gas valve. So it opens

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and closes gas supply. Yes. And then the pilot

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light is separate, which is usually burning.

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Yeah. I would, I would guess that this caused

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a lot of problems, not some problems, probably

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some explosions. Cause if you ever have, like

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I worked for a natural gas company for a little

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while, if you ever have a gas leak, that's not

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being burned, it can build up to an explosive

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level as you're probably aware of from work.

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They've got to have some control system. If this

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was going to be what they relied on, then they've

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got to have some way to control that it's not

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building up, but it's just stagnant until the

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valve is open. It'd be so scary. If it didn't

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turn on for the day and you see it from the ground,

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you have to go up and go in there and get the

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gas out. Do not create a spark. No static electricity.

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Yeah, true. Well, speaking of explosions, Gustav

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won. the Nobel Prize for this invention in 1912.

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And he couldn't accept it in person because he

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was blinded by an explosion during experiments

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for like when using this type of gas. I can't

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remember what it's called. Damn. Like really

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light, like acetylene. Yeah. So at the end of

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his career, he was blinded, but he was still

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doing experiments and like invented a couple

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other things even. I think acetylene is white

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gas, if I remember right. We had these lanterns

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as kids when we went to go camping. There's two

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types of lanterns we had. One was the conventional,

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you know, shell lifts and closes. And the other,

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so that burns kerosene. And the other was, I

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think, was called white gas, and I think it was

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acetylene. Could be wrong on there. Many an effect

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check. But those would fill these, like, pouches

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with gas, and the pouches would ignite, and it

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was, like, white. It would burn super bright.

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It was this super bright lantern. Yeah, powerful.

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Well, feel bad for Gustav. Yeah, he was all right.

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But he was there. He just wasn't, he couldn't

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see. They just said he couldn't pick up his ward

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in person. Damn. Also, 1912, I wonder if he was

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kind of like, people didn't want to see him because

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he was blind. Oh, no. That's terrible. That's

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what I'm saying. I know it was a bad time for

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anyone to have problems. Well, did they have

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a ceremony? I think they do for Nobel. Is that

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in Sweden? Is that where we, in Stockholm? That's

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interesting because... No, for those of you who

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are not here, which is everyone, the cat just

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jumped onto Emily. Just the one thigh, though,

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and then tried to balance so all the claws were

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out. I don't understand why you would do it to

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me. Okay, what I was going to say is that Gustav

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was Swedish, and so... Does that make sense?

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Yeah. Swedish inventor. I can't help myself.

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He's looking it up. I'm looking at white gas.

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Oh. There's a couple things I didn't know. Yes,

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it is. Oh, good. Well, this is the fuel I was

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thinking of. Is it acetylene? Acetylene, turns

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out, is hard for me to spell. There's a Y in

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there. Okay, I got it wrong. It's not the same

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thing. Okay. I have to redact what I had said.

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Whatever. It's the same vibe. Sorry. And that

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was the cat jumping off. Ow! Look! Yep. Remember,

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you love these guys. Why would you jump off if

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you don't have secure legs? They're going to

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bleed. Yeah, so Emily's now bleeding out of her

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leg for this podcast and this cat. I would also

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just want everyone to know this is the cat that

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had its ACL repaired recently. Which, if you

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think about it, if you were to repair an ACL

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on a cat, you can't have that cat jump. Yeah.

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And cats can't be trained or controlled. Or controlled.

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So we put that cat into a tent. A tent. In our

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house for eight weeks. It was like, I think the

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tent was maybe two weeks. Or maybe three. And

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then we had to take all the furniture out of

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our room. I was jumping somewhere else he shouldn't

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go. Bo, hey. He's good. It's fine. But just to

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close out the story, we had the cat in the tent

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in the house, and that required us moving all

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the things we had out of the bedroom, sleeping

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on the floor, I think for about eight weeks.

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So this cat is loved, and that pain you hear,

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that's love. That's just one of the prices you

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pay by owning a cat. I'll accept it. Permanent

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skin damage. Do you want something for that?

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Do you want to take a pause? Yeah, maybe I should

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clean it. Let's clean it. We'll come back. All

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right. All right. I'm ready to go. Back in the

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game. Sorry. You're good. Looking at pictures

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of us yesterday at the wedding of our friend.

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Oh, yeah. So, picking out a couple of those.

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Are you going to post them? Yeah. Cute. You never

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post stuff. Yeah, I know. Never. No big deal.

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Kind of a big deal. So I got us, and the cat

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got us off track. But that was it. So we got

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our automatic valve Nobel, and his name was Gustav,

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and he was blind, and he didn't get his package.

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He didn't get his package. He wasn't there to

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receive his package, his reward in person. Yeah,

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but it wasn't like he was just a recluse after

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that. He kept inventing, which I just think is

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really crazy cool. It's good, too, because if

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you're going to go blind for some cause, it's

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nice to be recognized for. The breakthrough that

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you made. Well, I was just thinking his face

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isn't damaged. I saw a picture after the explosion.

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That's why I thought it was correct. You were

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saying about the white, like it burns a bright

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white. Like if there was an explosion, it may

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be bright enough to blind you. That's what I

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was thinking. It could be pressure, though. Just

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a pressure wave. Yeah. My grandpa lost sight

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in one eye from a bullet that went by. He was

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in World War II. in service in world war ii so

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it didn't possibilities it did not hit him but

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yeah bullet came close enough to travel that

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it took his eye out so yeah anyways eyes are

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very also to know that a bullet went that close

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to your head i know and if it was probably two

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inches yeah three inches left or right then i

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wouldn't be here isn't that crazy this podcast

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yeah might not be the same would not be here

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Okay. History buoy closed. Very good. Thank you.

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Next is our lighthouse. Episode 80. Episode 80.

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It's a big one. And we're going to be covering

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Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse. Lobster Cove Head

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Lighthouse. I kind of wish it was just called

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Lobster Cove Lighthouse, but I understand. Or

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Lobster Head. Lobster Head. Also would be an

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excellent name. So we're going to stay in Canada.

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I did Nova Scotia last episode. Two in a row.

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I know. So a little bit north of that is the

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island of Newfoundland. That's obviously I was

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looking around. Snooping around Canada. Yeah,

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when I was like, what else is up here after we

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did Peggy's Cove? And then I saw Lobster Cove

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and I was like, lobster? And that's how this

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happened. I've heard Newfoundland is just gorgeous.

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I know a lot of Canada is, but. Well, this one's

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nestled in a national park. So there's like all

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kinds of good hiking and like fjords and stuff.

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I'm excited. Okay, so I'll pull up a picture

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of our location. You can see Nova Scotia down

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to the south. And then we have. That's Newfoundland.

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Well, it's Newfoundland and Labrador, and then

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the island itself is Newfoundland. Okay. So I

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got a little zoomed up part so you can see the

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area of the lighthouse that we're covering. Wow.

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So on the west side of this island, there's a

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tiny bay called, I want to say it's Bon Bay,

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which splits into two fjords, the east and the

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south arm. As you can see, one is east, one is

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south. And the east is super deep and surrounded

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by the national park that I was talking about,

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while the south is more shallow and small with

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Woody Point and some other small settlements.

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Okay. In 1889, G .C. Fern, who was part of the

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legislative assembly for the district that included

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Lobster Cove, so just a position in the government,

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he shared concerns from his residents about needing

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a lighthouse in this area. At the time... A local

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fisherman was running a light in his own house.

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No way. Yeah. For the good of the fishermen.

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The residents each donated a pint of oil each

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week in order to fuel this light. So it was like

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this big community effort. Everybody was aware

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of needing a light because they were all contributing

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to one in somebody's house, which is just so

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funny. Fern thought the government should be

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supplying a light, obviously, at this point.

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And he said, quote, a stately old dame has offered

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to keep the lighthouse free of salary. and said

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she, quote, you may be sure it will always be

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burning for I have three boys on the banks. That's

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nice. Yeah, she's like, I would do it for free

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if you would just get a light out here because

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all my sons are out on the water. I want to make

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it safe for them. What a nice old dame. I know.

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It's so funny that's how they said it. A stately

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old dame. She doesn't even require a pay. I know.

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She just needs a wall. For free. That same year,

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four new lighthouse locations were selected.

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along newfoundland's west coast including lobster

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cove head so legit he did a good job do you do

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you know did you think about uh i'm thinking

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i'm not knowing that fishermen stopped his light

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because there was this new one built i don't

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know now my little lantern's nothing well i'm

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sure he wasn't doing it for fun i don't know

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it also would be nice to take uh Kind of take

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the pressure off of having to have the only running

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light. Can you imagine how stressful it would

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be? And because that's not his only job. We're

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used to our light keepers. He's fishing as well.

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Yeah, he's also fishing. The light keepers are.

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I guess, like, got to wake up in the middle of

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the night and make sure the light's burning.

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I wonder what kind of light he had. I don't know.

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Or if it was just, like, some makeshift, like,

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little thing. Something that used oil, though,

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right? It wasn't, like, a fire. Yeah. Wood fire.

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They picked lighthouse locations the same year

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that he brought up the issue, but it was another

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nine years before they had built all the necessary

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buildings for this lighthouse, which was like,

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oh my gosh, almost a decade. I mean, in lighthouse

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history, it's not that bad. In lighthouse construction,

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that's pretty bad. Construction is bad, yeah.

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They've been able to get stuff done within a

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year for sure. So this was just nine years is

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kind of crazy. But the lighthouse was lit in

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spring of 1898 and pulled up an old photo. We

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got a nice weather vane on top. It's a round

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iron tower painted white, and it was connected

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by a 20 -foot walkway to the keeper's dwelling,

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which was white and had black roof on the walkway

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and the keeper's cottage. And it had a fifth

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order lens that flashed every two and a half

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seconds. 26 feet tall. Very, um. That's only

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26 feet tall? Mm -hmm. Wow. This image, I guess

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the image is from below. Yeah, the lighthouse

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is up on a rocky, like, outcropping. And I've

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never seen, that's what I said wow about. I've

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never seen a staircase as the transport between

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the keeper's house and the tower. What's it called

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where it's protected? Walkway? Yeah. That's all

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I got. But I know what you're talking about.

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There's a name. It's a walkway built into the

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house. It's like a hallway that goes between

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the... I can't remember. Yeah, I know what you're

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saying. This one's got siding on it. The stairs

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is so interesting. Window. And it's cut out to

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match the shape of the rocks. That's really nice.

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Yeah, it's very unique. When they opened it,

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they also opened it as a signal station. So they

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had flags on a signal pole, and then each flag

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represented a letter of the alphabet or a phrase.

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And so our listeners, if you want to know what

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we're talking about, episode 54, our history

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book, we cover nautical flags. Sure did. And

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what those mean. So it's actually really interesting.

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Pretty cool. Be fun to be able to communicate

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with just flags. Really cool. And that's what

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those masts are often for, right? It's like a

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mast on land. Yeah. I have an example. I have

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a picture coming up where you can see the flags.

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So this one I think is probably different. We're

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not in the U .S., so maybe it was more standardized

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in the U .S. But there's only three keepers total

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at this lighthouse. The first was Robert Lewis,

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and he served for five years until William Young

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took over in 1902. He and his wife Esther. Esther.

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Esther. Esther, I would guess. It's a T -H. So

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I'm like, Esther. I don't know. In my head, I

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must have been thinking Esther. I'll just, it's

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fine. We're so sorry to Mrs. Young. They raised

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eight children at the lighthouse. Wow. And one

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of them, George, took over in 1941 until 1970.

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George and his dad both served like 39 years

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and 29 years. Yeah. It's kind of crazy. That's

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crazy. One family. Yeah. Little small town action

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over here. Because it's still, it's not like

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a booming area and you're still on an island.

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So in a lot of cases in history, lighthouses

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that are on an island away from big cities, they

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don't, keepers don't last for really long stretches

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of time. Must have been more of a local mindset.

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Fishing focus, and then obviously they had some

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trade probably in that cove, that bay with Nova

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Scotia. I saw on the map Prince Edward Island,

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PEI, is up, it's northwest of, what is that?

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Oh, yeah, Nova Scotia. Yeah, but it's Prince

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Edward Island. I've heard lots of people, a couple

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people I know have physically gone there. They

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said it's just really stunning, that set of islands.

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Yeah, I feel like, I don't know enough about

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Newfoundland to say whether or not it's a thing

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people travel to. I'm trying to get a scale of

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how far that would be across the bay and how

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difficult it would be to travel. I mean, it looks

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like the distance is comparable to Maine. Yeah,

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cool part of the world. It looks like you may

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go there to this area for the national park.

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If you're like a national park person. Yeah.

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What does that say? That national park name?

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Grossmorn. Okay. Grossmorn. I don't know. Lots

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of green up there. Oh, nice photo. There's where

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they would keep their signal flags. So it's just

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a flag post and they would raise and lower any

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communication, weather and such. This looks like

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a recent photo. It is. Yeah, this is what it

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looks like today. It's interesting because I

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didn't read anything about there being red trim

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around the keeper's house, and it has red trim.

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So, you know, in old pictures, it's hard to tell

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if it matches the black roof or if it's red.

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Yeah, and we've seen a couple, but an all -white

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lighthouse is actually not that common. No, because

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they usually want it to stand out from clouds.

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I mean, you can even see in this picture from

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a distance, it would probably blend in pretty

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well. But it's on the highest point, I would

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guess, the local highest point. And they said

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it's 20 -something feet tall, less than 30. 26,

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yeah. Nothing crazy, but yeah, it is pretty high

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up there. 1969, the lighthouse was fit with automation

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equipment, and the light was eventually transferred

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to Parks Canada. So they are in charge of maintaining

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the light. Nice. Yeah. 1990, it became a recognized

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federal heritage building. Nowadays, the Keeper's

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House is a museum, which is open this year, May

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16 to May 13. Oh, sorry, May 16 to October 13.

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It's open 10 a .m. to 5 .30 every day. And there's

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also park rangers on site that will give you

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all the history of the lighthouse and the surrounding

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national park and all the people that live there.

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So I pulled up a picture of they have some stuff

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in the Keeper's House to make it look like when

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they were living there. And so you can like walk

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around and see what they used and they have like

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a bunch of exhibit stuff. And then you can see

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the entrance. There's a picture of the inside

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of the walkway to the front door of the tower.

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It's pretty cool. Kind of spooky. I'm not scared

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when I see this picture. It looks like you're

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going, it's like a door you should never enter.

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I guess the end of it. So it's this stairway

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that's painted red. Like everything's red. Yeah.

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And it looks like they have some steps of what

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was required of the lighthouse keepers on there,

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which is kind of cool. Yeah. On the treads. But

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then, yeah, the top of it, I guess, is kind of

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ominous. Single bright light. Yeah. Right over

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the red door. Which is interesting because the

00:22:01.529 --> 00:22:04.869
lighthouse is white. They really embrace the

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red. I was going to say, I wonder when they painted

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that whole thing red. Well, and the floor of

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the house is red. Did you notice that? Yeah.

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Okay, so the trim must have been red to go with

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the theme. Yeah. Red was on sale. Yeah. But it

00:22:19.890 --> 00:22:21.609
looks really cool. I mean, you might as well

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do something different. It is really neat. A

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different space. That entry looks really heavy,

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heavy duty. So if there was some crazy storm,

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it could probably still be safe in the lighthouse

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itself. And then I just want to point out, I

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see a wood stove. Not a traditional wood stove

00:22:37.890 --> 00:22:42.529
like for heating, but for cooking. Yeah. That's

00:22:42.529 --> 00:22:45.049
really cool. My great -great... Let me think

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about that. Yeah, my great -grandparents, I guess.

00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:50.329
When stoves used to be fancy, so now they have

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little claw feet and everything on them. Yeah,

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claw feet and a little window into the firebox.

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Yeah. Really neat. Pretty neat. I would love

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to visit. Looks awesome. Yeah, I feel like it

00:23:00.829 --> 00:23:03.410
would be a fun little stop. I wonder how you

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get to Newfoundland. Do they have a flight, or

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do you have to take a... ferry or a boat? I would

00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:12.640
guess you take a boat. They may have, I mean,

00:23:12.660 --> 00:23:15.740
everywhere has an airport for bush pilots and

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whatnot in Canada and Alaska, like the outer

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areas. But it might be big enough of an island

00:23:23.940 --> 00:23:27.039
that has a full -size airport. Newfoundland has

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several airports, including Gander International

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Airport. Hey, look at us. St. John's International

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Airport. Okay, so it's all kind. They're probably

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small flights. It looks like... I was thinking

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that Newfoundland would have one area where they

00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:46.519
have the most concentrated people. But the airports

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are completely, they're on every edge of Newfoundland.

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Can you just look at one of them? They're probably

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not, you know, like Denver International. It's

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probably not going to be big. And this is a different

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part of the world, but just of interest. Like

00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:04.660
Alaska, we're talking to some people that have

00:24:04.660 --> 00:24:12.000
a house in view of Denali. And they were talking

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about a lot of the places in Alaska, you cannot

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reach them by road or by boat. You can only fly

00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:22.140
in. And so people, that's why bushcraft, small

00:24:22.140 --> 00:24:28.140
aircraft are so, bush planes are so popular up

00:24:28.140 --> 00:24:30.160
there. And I wonder if parts of Canada aren't

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the same. Yeah, I guess that would make sense.

00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:35.579
If it's like densely, dense vegetation and everything,

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you wouldn't. Go through all the effort of putting

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in a road. It would actually be really difficult.

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But, you know, if you have a lighthouse, probably

00:24:42.980 --> 00:24:47.240
reach it by boat. Yeah. In the fjords. I should

00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:49.980
have put some pictures in here of the, like,

00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:54.319
what's the word I'm trying to think of? The local

00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:58.299
town? Just the nature, like, around there. Like,

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a picture of the fjord, not just a Google map.

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But we'll have to search it. Well, the Google

00:25:03.819 --> 00:25:06.730
map was awfully green. Green? And deep blue water.

00:25:07.930 --> 00:25:10.349
Very attractive. Good reason to visit this place,

00:25:10.490 --> 00:25:14.150
aside from the lighthouse. But that's Lobster

00:25:14.150 --> 00:25:16.730
Cove Head Lighthouse. Very nice. Just a little

00:25:16.730 --> 00:25:19.829
episode, little bite. Shortisode. Yeah, shortisode.

00:25:19.970 --> 00:25:21.630
With our little break, we're sitting at just

00:25:21.630 --> 00:25:24.789
over 30 minutes right now. Oh, good. Yeah, I

00:25:24.789 --> 00:25:27.269
guess you'll be leaving next week for Sweden.

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And I'll expect a Swedish episode when you come

00:25:30.710 --> 00:25:33.150
back. Yeah, I gotta prepare. I'll probably have

00:25:33.150 --> 00:25:36.460
a shortisode as well. Okay. but uh i gotta figure

00:25:36.460 --> 00:25:39.819
out a recording too busy traveling too busy out

00:25:39.819 --> 00:25:43.579
seeing sweden world flying internationally you

00:25:43.579 --> 00:25:47.700
know how it is yeah flying flying into gutenberg

00:25:47.700 --> 00:25:54.720
uh something like that something like that um

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and then eventually flying home from stockholm

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okay so so but you guys are doing like a big

00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:04.380
you guys are driving okay South. So we're going

00:26:04.380 --> 00:26:07.099
to go. Start in Stockholm and end in Stockholm?

00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:09.160
No, start in Gutenberg and end in Stockholm.

00:26:09.339 --> 00:26:11.859
Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, so fly in there, go south.

00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:15.519
I wanted to, it's not, they're not doing tours.

00:26:15.700 --> 00:26:17.460
This is such a side note. But one of my other

00:26:17.460 --> 00:26:21.039
hobbies and interests is cars. And there's a

00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:24.799
manufacturer called Kuningsegg, which is in Sweden.

00:26:25.259 --> 00:26:27.480
Different pronunciations of that as well. Yeah,

00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:29.740
of course. Anyways, worth looking up if you're

00:26:29.740 --> 00:26:33.309
into cars. Starts with a K. But we're going to

00:26:33.309 --> 00:26:37.069
go south. We're going to go to the area. Oh,

00:26:37.089 --> 00:26:40.750
my gosh. The land of glass. So there's an area

00:26:40.750 --> 00:26:43.289
of Sweden that's known for glassworks and crystals.

00:26:43.329 --> 00:26:52.190
What? Yeah, like crystal cups, glasses. So I'm

00:26:52.190 --> 00:26:54.109
hoping to buy some glasses there and bring them

00:26:54.109 --> 00:26:58.809
home. That's so cool. I know. Oh, Emily's missing

00:26:58.809 --> 00:27:01.920
out. I love glass. If only we'd gotten married

00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:06.880
earlier. What? Then you'd go along. Oh, it's

00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:10.200
like permanent family only. It was spouses. I

00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:13.900
don't even know if spouses were included. It's

00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:17.000
a family heritage trip, so I should fill in everyone

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:20.079
who's still listening. We're going to go see

00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:24.059
some of the people who are related to us in far

00:27:24.059 --> 00:27:26.849
distant past, some of the Swedes. That helped

00:27:26.849 --> 00:27:29.309
me with my blonde hair and tall height. Nice.

00:27:30.109 --> 00:27:33.569
And then mom wants to show us some of the things

00:27:33.569 --> 00:27:36.670
that her mom showed her in Sweden that were important

00:27:36.670 --> 00:27:40.029
to my grandma. Her name was Gertrude by Trudy.

00:27:40.529 --> 00:27:45.970
Trudy Johnson. So anyways, half of my family

00:27:45.970 --> 00:27:49.990
was Swedish, and my mom wants to show us, me

00:27:49.990 --> 00:27:52.589
and my brother, some of that history and some

00:27:52.589 --> 00:27:56.710
of those places. Is your mom 100 % Swedish? she

00:27:56.710 --> 00:28:00.990
is okay yeah my mom's well you know american

00:28:00.990 --> 00:28:04.609
north america united states citizen right but

00:28:04.609 --> 00:28:07.829
like uh from her heritage was all swedish yeah

00:28:07.829 --> 00:28:10.089
because i told somebody at work this made me

00:28:10.089 --> 00:28:14.490
smile my mom's maiden name was johnson so trudy

00:28:14.490 --> 00:28:19.670
trudy's maiden name was uh swanson okay gertrude

00:28:19.670 --> 00:28:22.970
swanson yeah and i don't know before that but

00:28:22.970 --> 00:28:27.240
i think i remember If you go back, there's another

00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:30.339
Johnson in that family. Really? Or another Johnson

00:28:30.339 --> 00:28:33.299
Swanson. Like, you know, Johnsons, but they weren't

00:28:33.299 --> 00:28:35.079
related to these Johnsons or something. Yeah,

00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:38.720
of course. Or Swansons, I guess. And anyways,

00:28:38.980 --> 00:28:44.359
you take away what you want from that. But yeah,

00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:46.480
my dad's side didn't have any Swedish heritage.

00:28:46.579 --> 00:28:50.940
So I'm a mixer. Yeah. But turned out tall and

00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:57.369
arrogant. Eric, I'm 50 % German. Yeah. My mom's

00:28:57.369 --> 00:29:02.750
100 % German. Yeah. From, where'd she grow up?

00:29:04.529 --> 00:29:07.529
Bremen, Kansas. A lot of the, so I say that,

00:29:07.650 --> 00:29:10.589
a lot of the small towns in Kansas, again, fun

00:29:10.589 --> 00:29:13.490
fact for you who are not in Kansas, were settled

00:29:13.490 --> 00:29:17.430
by Germans and Volga Germans, which was, you

00:29:17.430 --> 00:29:21.049
can look that up too, but Volga with a V. They

00:29:21.049 --> 00:29:24.339
were, transient through Germany. So they had

00:29:24.339 --> 00:29:27.680
one generation in Germany from I think what was

00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.359
Prussia? Now I'm guessing. And then came to the

00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.380
U .S. and came west because it was open and they

00:29:33.380 --> 00:29:35.180
could do what they wanted. And there's whole

00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:38.140
communities like where I grew up, Hays, Kansas,

00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:42.680
where there's very few last names. There's a

00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:44.759
lot of shoemakers. There's a lot of Dinkles,

00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:50.039
Schmitz. There's like huge families. And now

00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:51.880
in modern culture, a lot of those people stay

00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:53.859
there. Like my good friends from high school,

00:29:53.900 --> 00:29:55.480
a lot of them still live there because they want

00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:58.640
to be around their family. So big family town,

00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:02.180
long history. And they think of themselves as

00:30:02.180 --> 00:30:05.839
German heritage. That's kind of up for debate,

00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.339
depending on who you ask. It's just one generation

00:30:08.339 --> 00:30:10.720
in history. Like, Volga Germans are not Germans,

00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:13.900
according to some other German heritage. Yeah,

00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:16.900
if you were, like, fully German, like, your ancestors

00:30:16.900 --> 00:30:19.460
are from Germany, you'd probably have a problem

00:30:19.460 --> 00:30:21.960
with someone being like, I'm German. Who cares,

00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:24.299
you know? But if that's part of your life, like,

00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:27.019
we don't care, because... Yeah, we don't care.

00:30:27.549 --> 00:30:29.950
Well, maybe you should care because you're going

00:30:29.950 --> 00:30:35.930
on an international trip to meet your Swedish

00:30:35.930 --> 00:30:38.869
family. Yeah, my roots. Yeah, so you seem like

00:30:38.869 --> 00:30:40.730
you should care a little more. Well, about that,

00:30:40.789 --> 00:30:43.450
but you know what I mean. So for the Volga Germans,

00:30:43.650 --> 00:30:46.069
so if you go to Hayes, you can find in several

00:30:46.069 --> 00:30:49.569
stores this food called a birak, which is like

00:30:49.569 --> 00:30:53.289
sourdough or white bread, and it's filled with

00:30:53.289 --> 00:30:56.970
hamburger and cabbage or lettuce. And then, you

00:30:56.970 --> 00:30:58.569
know, you dip it in ketchup if you're me. And

00:30:58.569 --> 00:31:01.990
it's like a hot pocket, like a heritage hot pocket.

00:31:02.490 --> 00:31:04.609
And everyone there would tell you, oh, these

00:31:04.609 --> 00:31:07.089
are German. They're from Germany. You know, sauerkraut

00:31:07.089 --> 00:31:09.750
and now cabbage and hamburger, you know. They're

00:31:09.750 --> 00:31:11.970
not from Germany. They're not in Germany. No

00:31:11.970 --> 00:31:15.289
one knows what that is. A beer rock is not the

00:31:15.289 --> 00:31:18.609
same thing in Germany. And it's not like the

00:31:18.609 --> 00:31:20.809
Americanized version of a hamburger versus Hamburg,

00:31:21.069 --> 00:31:24.960
Germany. It's a different. Wow, you have a lot.

00:31:26.099 --> 00:31:27.980
I mean, I grew up there. It was a whole thing.

00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:30.980
You have a lot of history. The high school used

00:31:30.980 --> 00:31:34.359
to make beer rocks by the hundreds and sell them

00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.119
as a fundraiser. So the high school, I think

00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:39.519
the cooks, you know, staff would volunteer to

00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:41.559
make hundreds of these things. They'd sell them

00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:45.220
packs of 12 frozen. Oh, my. Anyways, so we had

00:31:45.220 --> 00:31:48.539
a lot of beer rocks growing up. Harmless, just

00:31:48.539 --> 00:31:50.400
a little harmless fun. Yeah, a little crossover

00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:53.009
of culture. Yeah. I'm going to try to learn some

00:31:53.009 --> 00:31:55.769
of that when I go to Sweden. Excellent. I think

00:31:55.769 --> 00:31:59.410
we're meeting a lady named Monica. Oh. Who's

00:31:59.410 --> 00:32:03.190
a relative of mine, I think. And my mom told

00:32:03.190 --> 00:32:05.509
me another, a guy, he's too old to meet us now,

00:32:05.630 --> 00:32:08.109
but she met with him when she went there last.

00:32:08.390 --> 00:32:12.650
And I want to say his name was like Oslo. Cool

00:32:12.650 --> 00:32:16.829
name. Oryx and something like that. Those were

00:32:16.829 --> 00:32:19.069
very different names you just said. I think there's

00:32:19.069 --> 00:32:22.509
a couple people in my mind. I was trying not

00:32:22.509 --> 00:32:27.609
to name the snowman from Frozen. What's his name?

00:32:27.829 --> 00:32:32.049
Oh, Olaf. Olaf. You know what? It could be. It

00:32:32.049 --> 00:32:34.670
could be. Oh. My mom mentioned. I have some vague

00:32:34.670 --> 00:32:36.869
memory of you actually saying that. I think that's

00:32:36.869 --> 00:32:40.809
the snowman from. Yeah. I think it is. So you

00:32:40.809 --> 00:32:44.089
can see as this example, my mind is not most

00:32:44.089 --> 00:32:46.769
accurate, but we do have fun. You got to check

00:32:46.769 --> 00:32:49.089
out the spreadsheet a little more. You got to

00:32:49.089 --> 00:32:52.680
get. on the spreadsheet. Absolutely. Okay, we'll

00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.740
wrap this up. We'll wrap this up. But we're going

00:32:55.740 --> 00:32:57.779
to Sweden. You're going to Sweden. I'm going

00:32:57.779 --> 00:33:01.660
to Sweden. And you have to bring me back gifts.

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