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Did you see that SEARS drone video?! · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Every now and then I just I get blown away
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  Speaker 1: by the musical prowess of my producer, Will Raymond, because
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  Speaker 1: that's a perfect song for the segment here. It's a
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  Speaker 1: segment about drone flying. It's about flying through the air.
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  Speaker 1: I came across a video on Facebook that. Again, this
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  Speaker 1: is an audio medium that we're using right now, so
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  Speaker 1: probably not the best, but I'll do my best to
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  Speaker 1: describe it right now. It's of the Sears building. It's
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  Speaker 1: being demolished right now. It's a first person drone video
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  Speaker 1: just whipping around this site, over the construction equipment, at
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  Speaker 1: one point through a small corner that's been demolished. It
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  Speaker 1: is a gorgeous video. It showcases a windsor institution that
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  Speaker 1: is amidst change and demolition, and it's an incredible medium
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  Speaker 1: to be able to tell a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: story from joining me right now is the film the
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  Speaker 1: filmer of that, the videographer of that, Drew hit En
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  Speaker 1: Rah Drew.
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  Speaker 2: Hit from Hit Films joins me right now.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Drew, how you doing, Hey John, how's it going
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  Speaker 3: very well?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me here. Hey, so you're an incredible videographer.
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  Speaker 1: Full disclosure, I know you from We went to high
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  Speaker 1: school together, way too long ago now to begin to discuss,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you were doing filmmaking back then. It's
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  Speaker 1: no surprise that you are now a professional in your field.
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  Speaker 1: This is obviously something that you did for fun at
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  Speaker 1: showcases some of your skills here. Why don't you tell
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  Speaker 1: people just in your own words about this video that
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  Speaker 1: you put together here from the series building?
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  Speaker 3: Well, thanks for having me, John. I'm been a FTV
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  Speaker 3: pilot and drone operator for the past eight years and
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  Speaker 3: owner of Hit Films, and we do a lot of
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  Speaker 3: aerial video for our construction customers and automation clients. And
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  Speaker 3: I saw the Sear's demolition happening and I thought to myself,
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  Speaker 3: this would be the perfect opportunity to go FPV drone
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  Speaker 3: it and it turned out awesome. I was really pleased
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  Speaker 3: with how it turned out.
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  Speaker 2: So FPV being.
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  Speaker 3: First person view, so we fly with video goggles and
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  Speaker 3: we see HD transmission of what the drone sees in
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  Speaker 3: real time, and it really does feel like you're flying, so.
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  Speaker 1: You actually you have goggles on that are showing you
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  Speaker 1: exactly what the drone is seeing as it's flying.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, in real time. We use the DJI Goggles two
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  Speaker 3: and the No. Three transmission system on a ten inch
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  Speaker 3: FPV quad. So this is a long range quad which
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  Speaker 3: can go up to twenty kilometers away, which is pretty
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  Speaker 3: wild technology. And it's just advanced so fast over the
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  Speaker 3: past five years, and in the barrier to entries even
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  Speaker 3: it's the lowest it's ever been, So it's a fun
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  Speaker 3: hobby to get into.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty kilometers is a pretty far away to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, have you?
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  Speaker 2: Have you pushed it to the limit.
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  Speaker 3: I've pushed it to around eight At that point.
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  Speaker 1: You're a little afraid. Eightometers is still a far.
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  Speaker 3: Away away, pretty scary.
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  Speaker 1: So what happens like.
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  Speaker 2: If you, like, can you lose the drone?
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  Speaker 1: Like, how how does it work if you are eight
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  Speaker 1: kilometers away and something goes wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Well with these ones versus other DJI drones, This one's
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  Speaker 3: a kind of a custom built one from Eye Flight,
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  Speaker 3: and there's not as many redundancy like backup systems like
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  Speaker 3: the other drones have, But this does have a GPS
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  Speaker 3: returned to home, so if there's an emergency, or if
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  Speaker 3: there's a loss of signal or loss of video feed,
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  Speaker 3: you can hit a button on your controller and it'll
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  Speaker 3: reverse and head back home and land generally where you
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  Speaker 3: took off. But this is this is all manual, right,
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  Speaker 3: So you're you're flying all the input that you give
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  Speaker 3: the sticks, the drone is going to react to that.
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  Speaker 3: So if I let go of the controller, the drone
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  Speaker 3: will keep going that direction, versus other hobbyist drones and
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  Speaker 3: a DGI drone you can pick up at best BUYE.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, it's amazing how the areas to access are as
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  Speaker 1: low as you said that they are. So I've used
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  Speaker 1: obviously different technology, but virtual reality goggles, and I've played
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  Speaker 1: some games where I've been in simulated height right, and
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  Speaker 1: I've had my stomach drop out from me because I'm
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  Speaker 1: generally afraid of heights. Do you like, would you ever
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  Speaker 1: be afraid of heights while wearing these goggles? Like?
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever feel like, Oh no.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not necessarily afraid of heights, but it does give
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  Speaker 3: you that feeling of that, you know, I pit in
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  Speaker 3: your stomach. So when flying FPV is suggested to sit down,
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  Speaker 3: I can get out a nice chair, sit down, and
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  Speaker 3: by the time I'm done flying, I'm leaning all the
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  Speaker 3: way to the left or all the way to the right.
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  Speaker 3: It can be a little disorientating.
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  Speaker 2: That's so interesting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you first get into FPV?
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  Speaker 2: Was it just like for fun?
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  Speaker 3: Originally I was building drones back in I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, larger quads for aerial use for the video
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  Speaker 3: production company. And FTV became more affordable and I started
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  Speaker 3: working with some companies in China that manufactured them, so
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  Speaker 3: we were making promotional videos for them. So I was
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  Speaker 3: getting a lot of free drones of the time in
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  Speaker 3: exchange for videos, and we ended up I just fell
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  Speaker 3: in love with with it. And back then we were
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  Speaker 3: flying analog, right, So imagine looking through a TV, an
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  Speaker 3: old TV set with the static on the screen and
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  Speaker 3: being able to go from analog to digital and HD video.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's a whole new, whole new game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh for sure. How fast do these things get going?
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  Speaker 3: Some of my five inch squads can go up to
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  Speaker 3: two hundred kilometers an hour. What they're flying almost completely,
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  Speaker 3: you know, up and down.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred kilometers an hour? Yes, And what's the distance
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  Speaker 1: on those ones?
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  Speaker 3: The distance something those is a little less and your
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  Speaker 3: flight time is only around four minutes on a four
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  Speaker 3: s lightpo It drains the battery pretty quick. But that's
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  Speaker 3: more for FTV racing and that's been a big thing
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  Speaker 3: too with the Drone Racing League and sports based FPV
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  Speaker 3: racing on television, which is kind of cool how it's
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  Speaker 3: become mainstream.
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  Speaker 1: And so talk a little bit about the racing a
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  Speaker 1: bit more so, how like what are the tracks?
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  Speaker 2: Like am I saying like is it a track?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, it's tracks and gates and different gaps to
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  Speaker 3: fly through, and it can be anywhere, you know, even
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  Speaker 3: on on on TV where they have these drone racing
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  Speaker 3: legs that they're in like modified stadiums and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: power plants and really cool locations to fly and uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's all about speed and it's just it's it's a
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  Speaker 3: very futuristic way of seeing point of view racing.
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  Speaker 1: And so are people racing like with the goggles on?
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  Speaker 3: Like you you said, Yeah, they're all racing with analog
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  Speaker 3: goggles because analog has less latency, so you want your
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  Speaker 3: reaction time to be super fast when you're when everything's
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  Speaker 3: happening in real time. So they're flying old school with
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  Speaker 3: analog and it's pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Lunch and you're using what a controller like an Xbox
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  Speaker 1: controller or something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, similar to an Xbox controller. They make specific controllers
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  Speaker 3: for aerial use and for FPV flying a little different,
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  Speaker 3: but it's generally the same idea.
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  Speaker 1: So you're doing this for fun obviously, but also for
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  Speaker 1: commercial purposes as you said, So you've got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of clients.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Like we're at hit films or industry leaders
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  Speaker 3: and producing commercials and corporate videos for the machine automation
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  Speaker 3: and robotics industries and windsor and typically we don't really
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  Speaker 3: do the FPV stuff for paid customers because it can
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  Speaker 3: be a little a little bit much versus you know,
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  Speaker 3: more cinematic shots with the other aerial rakes, but it
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  Speaker 3: definitely adds a unique perspective to fly through an excavator
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  Speaker 3: or fly through these cool locations.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely for sure. I mean I just again just
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  Speaker 1: watching through this video right now. You chose the perfect
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  Speaker 1: time of day at sunset, either sunset or sunrise.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was sunset sunset Golden hour, that's when it
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  Speaker 3: looks the best.
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely just a gorgeous video that you've put
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  Speaker 1: together here. It's so cool that you've got clients that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing this for, not necessarily with the FPV but
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  Speaker 1: more of the cinematic stuff. I just I find it
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  Speaker 1: to be so interesting that something that one it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been possible to do something like this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the past, the closest that you could get would
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  Speaker 1: be renting a helicopter, right and then doing a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of video editing to try to mimic it. But it's
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  Speaker 1: incredible what you're able to do with As you said, how.
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  Speaker 2: Big was this drone?
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  Speaker 3: This is a ten inch quad copter, so with as
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  Speaker 3: yeah about it's yeah about ten inches.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just super cool stuff. Where is the coolest place
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  Speaker 1: that you've ever FPVD?
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's a good question. I've fpv'd windmills and factories.
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  Speaker 2: Like windmills between the blades.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well within within reason. You gotta fly safe and
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  Speaker 3: you know, be safe about it, oh for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But it's still a cool story to tell.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Drew, I want to thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: your time. I really appreciate it. This is really cool.
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  Speaker 1: People can check this out. What's your website.
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  Speaker 3: Hytt dot ca or on Instagram Drew h y Tt awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Go check him out, Like, share and subscribe. Drew, thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for your time.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks John, I appreciate it cheers.
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  Speaker 1: That is Drew hit from Hit Films. Go check out
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  Speaker 1: that Searies video. We're gonna take a quick break right now,
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  Speaker 1: and when we get back on the other side, tell
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  Speaker 1: you what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: We're just gonna open up.
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  Speaker 1: The phone lines again and uh, you got a comment,
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  Speaker 1: you got a question, you want to chat about, something,
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  Speaker 1: you want to riff, Give me a call five one
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back after this, and I'll still be John Lidkey.