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Ep. 21 Hooked On XJs Calls In: Wild Potato Bug Story & Identity Theft Drama | XJ Talk · Jeep Talk Show

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AmetKaz Hehe別離軸 actions Good evening, guys.
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Thanks for joining us on the Jeep
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we'd like to talk about,
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some things that we don't.
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Maybe it's just things
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I want to talk about.
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My name's Tony.
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It's Mutteroy on XJTalk.com.
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And tonight's going to be rambling and
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talking and taking phone calls.
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It's kind of a general BS show.
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Well, BS-ing on the show.
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I don't think it's a BS show.
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Well, guys, as I was saying in the intro,
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we just have a
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general call-in chat type of
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show today.
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No official guests.
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If you would like to be on the show, you
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can call in and we can
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talk about whatever it
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is that you'd like to talk about.
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Something interesting, I hope.
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Most people have things that are
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interesting to talk about.
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My wife tells me that sometimes I don't,
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especially if I just got
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to be watching a show on one
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of the size channels and I'm coming in to
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explain to her about
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the nature of dark matter
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and dark energy.
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Yeah, she listens, but
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she's not real happy about it.
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So let's see.
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We have Dalton 4x4.
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Glad you could join us tonight, Dalton.
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I think you were feeling ill last week
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and had to beg out and go get some rest.
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I hope you're feeling better this week.
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And there's Hot Himmi and
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Order Dean and Mongolia.
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Special welcome to our Mongolia guest.
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And PIXJ, who I received a very nice
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sticker today that has
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either a CJ or a Wrangler on
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it and not a Cherokee.
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But it's still a very nice sticker and it
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was very nice of you
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to send that over to me.
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Thank you.
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And that's it.
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Not a great plethora of
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viewers today, but that's okay.
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People can catch up on the podcast
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available on iTunes.
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Just look for XJTalk and just that little
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bit will get you to
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the podcast recordings.
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And gosh, I guess there's
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about 13 or 14 of them now.
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So if you've missed some shows, you can
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go and listen to all
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those past shows and perhaps
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see how the show has improved, hopefully,
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over the last few months.
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We started at the end of December and of
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course we're now into April.
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And they said that it
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wouldn't work, but it has.
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I guess if you go by the number of people
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that are listening,
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watching to the live show
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and listening to the podcast,
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that maybe it isn't a success.
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But I'm going to keep after it.
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Several people seem to enjoy the show.
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We have people in here every week.
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And I guess actually it's been a little
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more successful than the
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Houston meet and greets
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we were having because we wound up with
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three people, the same
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three people, the last three
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times at the Houston
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area meet and greets.
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I guess it was really a
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problem of being underfunded.
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No hats, t-shirts,
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scannily clad bikini women.
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There was nothing but
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Jeeps and guys to talk to.
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I guess that's, you know, there wasn't
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even free drinks at Sonic.
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We were going to the Sonic.
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You know, it may have even been that.
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Some people may have wanted some more
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adult entertainment and
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beverages, hot wings and
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you know, so and so forth.
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I think nobody here, nobody in the chat
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room of Houston, but I
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think Big Jim was trying
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to get another get together going and
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I'll have to ask him
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when he gets back online,
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which by the way, I think his internet
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service is not available
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right now for some reason.
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He had told me that he was going to try
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to send me some
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pictures of the new color XJ
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Talk stickers on his Jeep, but he said he
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would probably have
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to steal some wireless
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access to get it to me
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and get the pictures to me.
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So I don't know exactly what's going on
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with Big Jim 350, but
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he's always here in spirit.
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I just wanted to say XJ Talk is the best
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f***ing sight in the
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f***ing world and if you think
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you know a better
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f***ing sight, f*** you.
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By the way, this is Big Jim 350.
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Bye.
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I always have to
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remember to wait for the bye.
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So anyway, things are going well.
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I had posted up last week that I was, or
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maybe the first part
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of this week, I can't
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remember, about a little concerned about
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the post being not
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having as many posts on the
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site and many of the regulars stepped up
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and posted away and there was quite a bit
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of post activity.
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So I really appreciate that and I try to
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be mindful of changes to the site.
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I want to do things to upset the general
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population or especially turn off any new
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people that think that it might be a
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little heavy handed.
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I know that some of the sites that you
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may go to, some of the
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other, well I guess really
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any of the forums out there, no matter
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whether it's Jeep or not,
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you sometimes get the feeling
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that you're there for the entertainment
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purposes of the admin and moderators.
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And sometimes that entertainment is just
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to be ridiculed and
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meant to be made small in
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some way, shape or form.
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So I try to be really mindful of that
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because I don't want our
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site to come across that
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way.
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And by the way, if you notice, you should
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see the, for those
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watching on Ustream, you
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should see the phone number up on your
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screen scrolling across.
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And if you want to
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call in, go right ahead.
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I really don't have anything planned.
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I was just going to do some
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general chit chat about stuff.
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So I know there's not a lot of people in
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the chat room, but if
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you would like to call in,
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feel free, especially those of you that
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haven't called in before.
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The numbers you can see is
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530-675-4102, 530-675-4102.
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And if you're listening to this after the
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show, you can still
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call that number and leave
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a message and you know, a little
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feedback, a little
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comment about the show, whatever
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you like.
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Well we got a caller.
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Let's see who we got.
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I'll bet you it's Dalton.
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Who we got?
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Oh hey, this is Hooked On XJs.
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Hotdog XJ?
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Hooked On XJs.
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I still didn't get it.
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Hooked.
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Truck.
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H-O-O-K-E-D XJ. Hooked On XJs.
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Hooked On XJs.
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I am fighting, actually.
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Hey, okay.
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We're alive.
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Where are you listening from?
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That's just, we're just
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north of Baja, California.
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No, I mean, I don't see on the Ustream
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thing, I don't see any
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guests or anything on.
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You're kidding me?
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No.
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No, we got three--
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Oh, go figure.
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Yeah, we got three
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viewers and we've got no guests.
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So I really expected it was one of these
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three people, one of
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these four people that are
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in the chat room.
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Well, I can't help if you
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get lucky once in a while.
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Yeah, I get lucky all the time.
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Yeah, I tried to buy one of your bitchin'
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stickers online and it
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wouldn't let me buy it.
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It must know you very well then.
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What kind of problem were you having?
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I want one of the printed stickers.
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Yeah?
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And when I clicked on it,
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it doesn't show up on PayPal.
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Only if you click the
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plotter cut stickers.
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I thought I had tested both of those.
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Well, I have a lot--
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That's all.
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Because I don't think anybody has ordered
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those, come to think of it.
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I think all they've
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ordered are the die cut.
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So I'll have a look a little bit here
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after the show actually and see.
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I'm glad you brought
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that to my attention.
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I'm surprised nobody else has.
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Yep.
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I thought that I had at least one good
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question to ask you on the live webcast.
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Please go right ahead.
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Anyway, I love your
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show and Big Jim Rocks.
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And Don't Ever Change is a
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promo for your show. I love it.
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That's great. It's a classic.
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And how?
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So anyway, that about does it unless you
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got any questions for me.
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Oh, I thought you had a
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question you were going to ask.
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That was it, the sticker question.
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Ah, okay. I was getting
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prepared for something.
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Well, let's go back a little bit.
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This is Hooked on XJ.
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You've been on the site here for what, a
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month? Maybe shorter?
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No, I joined up last year.
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And anyway, I'm an
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out of work plumber now.
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And anything else I've done
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is out of work too right now.
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And so anyway, I've been spending a
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little extra time on the website.
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I thought it was kind of fun.
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I've never been a
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member of any forum before.
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And I started to have a
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little bit of fun there.
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And I thought to myself,
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"Gee, Tony's a f***ing old guy.
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And what a better way to
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support him than to buy a sticker."
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You can't even do it.
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For real.
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I'm really surprised because I think Paul
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in Punisher in Florida is also a plumber.
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And I think he's
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working at Walmart currently.
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I think most of his
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plumbing was new construction.
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So I can understand where he would have a
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problem since, you know.
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That's all I've done is new construction.
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And it's really hard for a new
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construction guy to get
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into service plumbing.
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See, that's where I was going.
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I was really surprised that a plumber
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would be out of work.
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But if all you were doing is new
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construction, I guess
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I can understand that.
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Yeah, you know, we're
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the guys that put it in.
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You need a bumper sticker that says that.
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Yeah, once we put it in, no doubt.
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Yeah, once you put it in,
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you don't want to take it out.
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No.
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Yeah, this was the fastest growing area
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in, I think, in California at one time.
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And when my parents moved here in 1980, I
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stayed in Orange County, California.
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And my parents moved into a city, and the
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population was 1,500.
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My goodness.
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And this area is famous for
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avocados and wine and horses.
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And actually four-wheeling and dirt
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bikes, because the metal
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militias from this area.
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Okay.
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And not enough.
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You're probably too old.
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And I wouldn't even know who they were
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unless I saw their stickers around.
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And my ex-girlfriend's neighbor was a guy
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named Bo Manley that's on.
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He was in the metal militia, and then he
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broke himself up, I
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think, in Guatemala real bad.
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And he had to retire at like 23.
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So what is that?
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Is it a band, a biker gang, or what?
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Oh, it's the guys that do backflips, off
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double jumps and stuff, and
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then, you know, X-game stuff.
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Gotcha.
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Yeah, and they're all tatted up.
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And there's a big controversy here right
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now about their "S" and their name.
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It looks like an "S" off the SS Army.
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Okay.
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Yeah, and I'm not into that.
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But, you know, I mean,
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I'm not a kid anymore.
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And back in our day, we had our own team.
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It was called Team Swollen.
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Those were dirt bikes.
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And I guess we were like doing it in
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reference to the size of your testiculars
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after you do like a
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three-hour desert race.
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Yeah, well, you have to have them that
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size to do the race, and
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then they're that size.
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Not really.
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I mean, you know, I will give, you know,
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this much acknowledgement is that, you
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know, as a child, I was very fortunate to
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have parents that gave me things
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that other kids didn't get.
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And, you know, I'm sure there was some
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other people out there that were, they
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could have been and would have been
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really great, you know, dirt bike riders.
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They had the same
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opportunities that I had.
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You know, but for the most
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part, this town exploded.
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It's turned into two
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cities of 100,000 each.
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My goodness.
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That is big, especially from 1500.
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And this area was the largest cattle
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ranch on Earth at one time.
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And there's a lake here named Vale Lake,
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and the veils had a ranch up on top of
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this place called the Santa Rosa Plateau,
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which at one time was a great off-roading
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area, and now it's a wildlife preserve.
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Of course.
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Yes, but the veils of Vale, Colorado,
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pretty much started this whole area here.
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And...
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I was just going to ask real quick now,
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you mentioned Orange County a while ago.
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Orange County is like, is
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an actual county, right?
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That's not the name of a town, is it?
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No, actually there is an Orange City, and
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what's ironic is the, you know, all the
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county offices and everything
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are in the city of Santa Ana.
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But Orange County, it goes all the way to
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the beach and all the way to the
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foothills right before an
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area we call the Valley.
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And I don't know if you ever saw the
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movie Valley Girl, but that's
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the Valley I'm talking about.
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Gotcha.
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And that actually was, you know, things
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have really changed here. It's just not
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the place, you know,
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it was when I grew up.
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Well, I'm sure a lot of people moving
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into the area has made a change.
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Well, you know, for what a house would
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cost in Orange County, you'd get the same
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house out here for
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almost a quarter of the price.
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Oh, interesting. I didn't realize that. I
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thought everything in
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California was sky high.
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No, actually, I think my parents were
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buying like 10-acre lots out here for
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like $15,000 back when they moved here.
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And then, you know, that same property
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now would be worth, you know, like a mil.
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But the property values have just really
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dropped off here in the last two years.
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Well, that's understandable with the way
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the economy has been going.
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Sure. You know, I mean, I remember, you
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know, working on the track homes and, you
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know, it seemed like every month they
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were like raising the prices on these
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houses like $10,000.
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Yeah, and we never got any raises. In
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fact, the wages actually had gone down in
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probably like the last five years.
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Yeah, I think a lot of people knew what
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was coming before it got here, and they
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were probably raising those prices just
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to try to buffer up.
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So whenever it got bad, the builders
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would have some money to live off of.
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Sure, you know.
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To weather the storm.
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Yeah, you know, I really don't think they
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saw it coming because, you know, there's
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like complete big piece of land that are
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all cleared and graded for track homes
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with the streets in it, and
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they're not building on them.
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Well, let me know.
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No, and then I saw on the paper here.
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It was maybe like a year ago, and there
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was a track of homes are working on just
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northeast here and those are the Aussies.
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But anyway, yeah, the bank took it over
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and they brought in bulldozers and just
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plowed down the whole project. It was all
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sticked up, which means framed up.
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And it knocked over the whole thing. I
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don't know what's going
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on, but it's not good.
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Yeah, it was probably a liability. They
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didn't want kids going in there and
20:29
getting hurt, so they weren't going to
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finish up some bulldozers.
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Yeah, I know. We used to go
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raid them and make a treehouse.
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Yeah.
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I'm sure you did, man.
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Yeah, had a nice treehouse and had a BB
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gun fight and they were in the treehouse
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and I just shot into an opening and they
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came out of the
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treehouse. So it worked out well.
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Ah, cool. That reminds me of a story that
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I'll share with you.
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Yeah, one of my friends and we had a dirt
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quad fight and he nailed me in the head
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and then I tackled him.
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And in our fort, we had potato bugs and a
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jar and I made him eat one.
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I'll have to look up a potato bug online
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to see how nasty that looks.
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You know, imagine a
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cockroach on steroids.
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Wow.
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They're big. I don't, you know, they
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probably have a different name other than
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a potato bug, but
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that's all I know them by.
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You know, I'm sure there's a scientific
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name besides potato bug,
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but big old nasty bugs.
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Yeah, we made him swallow it. And then he
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was allergic to bees, too. And I had a
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jar of bees I used to
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threaten him with all the time.
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So this was a close friend, right?
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You know what? We were actually like the
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closest friends and then unfortunately
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for him, he really thought
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he was Johnny Depp on a blow.
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Oh, no.
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And we kind of went. I was I was busy
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racing dirt bikes and he was off to
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Colombia and Hawaii.
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And yeah, he actually.
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Well, I hope I don't take up too much
22:15
time. I could go all night, but but
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actually he ended up
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using my name in a homicide.
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And I and my dad, when I worked for my
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dad, I was a truck driver and his
22:30
insurance company called him up one day
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and said, hey, your
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son's canceled on the policy.
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And then I went to court to find out what
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it was. And I had three warrants. And I
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remember two of the judges said, you
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know, I go, look, I go, I don't live on
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moon moon something
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court in Newport Beach.
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I've never even drove in a bullhole. And
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that's not even my signature. And two
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courts dismissed it. And the third one,
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the lady goes, I go, you know, maybe
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there's another Brian McDonald.
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And she goes, oh, let me show you my
23:06
situation here. And I go, yes, ma'am.
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She goes, would all the Juan Rodriguez's
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police stand up? And like
23:12
about 10 guys up in the car.
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And she goes, do you see my situation? I
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go on, well, sorta. And next thing I know
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I had to get an attorney. And anyway, he
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told me to change my signature because I,
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I used to sign everything up.
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I guess very legibly. And then I turned
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it into a scribble. And so anyway, so
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then I got all that behind
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me after I got the attorney.
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And then I remember being in the hallway
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of the courtroom and he went up to the DA
23:48
and they talked for like five seconds and
23:50
they shook hands and he came back and he
23:52
goes, yeah, your case dropped.
23:54
Oh, cool. And so I went back to work. I
23:57
go, dad, I got my license
23:58
back. And he goes, oh, cool.
24:01
So about a year went by my ex life. One
24:03
day she called me at work and she goes,
24:08
you're never going to believe what
24:09
happened. And I said, what?
24:12
She goes, I just got a call from the
24:14
Venice police. And I go about what?
24:18
They're looking for you. And I go, for
24:20
what? And she goes, it seems that you
24:24
were involved in a homicide.
24:26
I'm like, really? News to me. Yeah. She
24:30
goes, I go, really? And she goes, she
24:33
goes, yeah, she goes, but it, but they
24:35
asked me if you're, if, if my husband was
24:39
a five foot six, 200 pounds, dark brown
24:42
hair and dark brown eyes.
24:44
And she said no. And then they asked her
24:49
if the name Robert Smith rang a bell and
24:52
she goes, oh yeah, that was my husband's
24:55
best friend growing up.
24:57
He goes, oh, well he's been using your
24:59
husband's name and he's down here right
25:01
now. We have him under arrest. That's
25:06
lied. I never spoke to him after that.
25:10
Do you think one of the reasons he was
25:14
using your name is
25:15
because Smith is so common?
25:18
Oh no, not at all. Actually we lived two
25:22
doors away from each other and I remember
25:25
his address and even his phone number and
25:29
our birthdays were 10 days apart.
25:31
I gotcha. So it was probably he could
25:32
remember most of the information. It just
25:35
seems like it would have been safer for
25:37
him to steal somebody else's identity.
25:41
I don't know. I haven't killed anybody.
25:44
Well, it probably was paybacks for that,
25:46
that potato bug incident.
25:49
You know, you got a point there. I've
25:50
never really gave that much thought, but
25:53
that could be valid for sure.
25:55
The bees, you know, the bees. There's
25:56
another thing. Somebody's allergic.
25:59
Allergies is not a thing.
26:01
Well, my last name's McDonald and he sung
26:03
every McDonald's hamburger song and the
26:05
farm song to me every day until I beat
26:09
him up and then we became best friends.
26:13
Yeah, that's pretty much how my wife and
26:16
I met, except she beat me up.
26:19
Ha ha! Those are the kind of
26:21
chicks you want to hang on to.
26:23
Yeah, that's a keeper, all right. I just
26:26
want to thank you a lot for calling in.
26:28
I'm pretty bad about staying here on the
26:30
phone and chatting for a long period of
26:32
time and not giving me a
26:33
look up and the show's over.
26:36
I'm all good, man.
26:38
I'm sorry?
26:39
I'm all good. I just wanted to call in
26:41
and make you aware of the sticker
26:44
situation and also to inquire if they
26:47
were not available or what the story was.
26:50
Nope, nope, nope. We have them. Certainly
26:53
have them. I made that second trip over
26:56
there to get them. I sure want people to
26:57
have them if they want to go on there and
27:00
order one. So I'll check that out as soon
27:02
as the show's over. Thank you very much.
27:05
You're welcome, Tony. You guys have a
27:08
great evening over there and thanks to
27:10
everybody out there and XJ Talko had.
27:13
Thanks.
27:13
Talk to you later.
27:14
All right, good night.
27:17
Well, that was a bit of a surprise
27:19
because, you know, like I said, I don't
27:20
see him in chat. We have a guest there
27:23
now, so maybe it was just the--it just
27:26
wasn't updating very fast.
27:28
So anyway, the phone line's open. And no
27:32
offense, Dalton. You're just somebody I
27:33
can count on to call in. So I just
27:36
figured that was you because you have no
27:39
aversion to calling in
27:40
and being on the show.
27:42
But that was a nice welcome call. So
27:49
anyway, just looking to see who is here
27:55
in chat. Looks like Mark
27:58
from Detours has joined us.
28:00
I like this boom mic, but it's kind of
28:03
hard to find a place to put it and still
28:07
be able to see both screens.
28:08
Oh, yeah, Mark was commenting on the mic
28:11
that was hanging down here. Let me move
28:12
it over a little bit.
28:13
That's the wrong way.
28:18
There we go. You can kind
28:19
of see the boom mic that way.
28:26
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I was talking to
28:29
a guy about a salesman at Full Compass
28:33
today about getting a microphone--what's
28:37
it called?--pop shield pop
28:39
filter. There we go. Pop filter.
28:40
That way, if you're drinking soda, you
28:42
don't get it on your microphone. No,
28:44
actually, it's a little disc. You see
28:47
probably one of her music videos when
28:51
people are recording songs.
28:53
It's a little bit more like a song. It's a little bit more like a song. It's a little bit more like a song. It's a little bit more like a song.
28:53
And then, as long as the vocals into a
28:54
mic, it keeps the popping noise, the pop,
28:57
pop, pop, pop, like you can
28:58
probably hear when I say pop.
29:00
And also, too, when I breathe into the
29:02
microphone. So the pop filter is supposed
29:05
to eliminate that or at
29:06
least knock it down quite a bit.
29:10
We're arbitrating back and forth on
29:12
price. And they're not really expensive,
29:14
but I'm cheap. So I want to try to get it
29:16
for as little as I can.
29:18
And then I'll have a little pop filter on
29:22
here. Maybe the show
29:22
will sound a little better.
29:24
And that's kind of an interesting thing.
29:26
Since I've started doing podcasts, I've
29:29
been listening to other podcasts.
29:31
And mainly just for entertainment. But
29:33
also, too, it gives me an idea of the
29:36
level of content and quality that's being
29:39
put out on the other shows.
29:41
And there is a show, the survivalist
29:47
podcast, I think it's what it's called.
29:49
And the guy is good. He has a lot of
29:53
interesting information. It's one of
29:55
those deals about, you know, you don't
29:57
want to have a lot of debt.
29:58
You want to have gold and silver. So
30:02
whenever the country goes to hell, the
30:04
monetary system goes to hell and still
30:07
buy things with your gold and silver.
30:09
And also, too, the government doesn't
30:11
necessarily have to know about your gold
30:12
and silver because it's, you know, in
30:14
your basement someplace or I don't know,
30:18
buried in the dark recesses of your Jeep.
30:21
Anyway, so it's an interesting podcast to
30:23
listen to. But the audio quality of that
30:26
show is horrible. It
30:29
is really, really bad.
30:30
It sounds like somebody talking into a
30:34
cheap headset
30:35
microphone on a PC or a laptop.
30:38
Yet he is in that group of that type of
30:43
podcasts, he's the number
30:45
one. So it's totally on content.
30:48
And that just kind of reminds me of what
30:51
I'm doing here. I'm spending a lot of
30:52
time on the electronic side of things.
30:54
And I enjoy that part of it. I enjoy all
30:57
those little wires that you guys were
30:58
making fun of me today on.
31:00
And I'm just looking at the chat room.
31:05
And I've been spending a lot of time
31:07
getting things set up and sounding good
31:09
and not so much time on the content.
31:12
So hopefully some of the guests that
31:16
we've had have been helping out with the
31:19
show quality content wise.
31:22
And also, too, I hope that you can hear
31:24
and understand them well.
31:27
So I don't know. Like I said, we don't
31:29
have a lot of people in
31:30
the chat room tonight.
31:31
But if you would like to call in, the
31:33
phone is open. And also,
31:35
too, Skype is available.
31:36
I just don't, it doesn't seem like very
31:38
many people use Skype. But as you can
31:40
see, the phone number is 530-675-4102.
31:47
530-675-4102. You should see it scrolling
31:52
across the top of your screen
31:53
if you're watching the show.
31:55
And like I said earlier, if you are
31:57
listening to the show after, you know,
32:00
when it's not live, listening to the
32:02
recording, the podcast,
32:03
you can still call that number and a
32:07
recording, you know,
32:09
voicemail will answer the phone.
32:11
And you can leave a message if you would
32:13
just leave your name and where you're
32:15
calling from and your question, comment,
32:17
or rude or lascivious remark.
32:20
You know, I don't care. And then we'll
32:23
probably play it on the show because it's
32:25
kind of fun to have things to play.
32:28
And like the promo we had from Big Jim,
32:32
that's one of the things that
32:34
we got via the voicemail line.
32:39
So most people seem to like to call in on
32:41
the landline, which you can certainly do.
32:46
So if you guys, anybody in the chat room
32:50
have any questions or
32:52
comments? Happy to entertain them.
33:01
It seems that Mark wants somebody to call
33:05
Spank Me. Is that your 900 service, Mark?
33:11
Fifty cents a minute. Now, do you think
33:13
you could last a minute?
33:15
I would want 900 Spank Me. I bet not.
33:22
Let's see, get a PEI says, get a plastic
33:25
ring and a piece of pantyhose.
33:28
Well, you know, I was looking at, he's
33:31
talking about the pop filter.
33:33
I was looking at a video on YouTube
33:37
today, I think it was, and
33:39
the guy took a, not knitting,
33:44
what do you call those things? It holds
33:46
cloth and then a cross stitch.
33:49
It's a little circular cross stitch thing
33:51
that holds the material.
33:52
He got a four inch because he likes the
33:54
four inch and not the six inch. I'm sure
33:56
that's, you know,
33:58
each individual's choice.
34:01
Anyway, he likes the four inch circle.
34:05
And he took some pantyhose, a nylon
34:07
pantyhose, and doubled it and stuck it,
34:11
stretched it across
34:13
that cross stitching frame
34:15
and put the frame on top of it to hold it
34:19
in place and screwed it down.
34:21
And he used some number, he wanted some
34:25
number two for reading and talking.
34:29
He used some number two cable so it was
34:33
very thick and able to, he could bend it
34:36
and put it where he wanted.
34:37
So he basically used that as the goose
34:39
neck for this thing.
34:41
He attached it to that and then I think
34:42
he used a hose clamp or something to
34:45
attach the other end of
34:46
the cable to the mic stand.
34:48
So he made this little thing and I figure
34:51
he spent, he said $10, but I think that
34:56
piece of copper cable
34:58
number two gauge cable, maybe not two
35:03
feet, maybe it was only a foot or so.
35:05
That probably would have been
35:06
five or six bucks by itself.
35:10
So I don't know. I can get it from full
35:13
compass for about $15.
35:16
And I don't have to have hose clamps or
35:18
anything else. Yeah, hose clamp.
35:22
Mark says hose clamp.
35:24
Ah, there's Fireman Ray.
35:27
Glad to have you. I'm kind of moving my
35:29
head over to the side
35:30
so I can read the screen.
35:31
I guess I could just
35:32
move the mic and look at it.
35:35
Yeah, the other thing on this deal, I
35:37
wish they would set it so that you
35:38
wouldn't have to update the
35:40
viewers to get a new viewer.
35:44
See who the new viewers
35:45
are. The viewer count updates.
35:47
And you guys can see this too. If you
35:49
click on the little icon of a man right
35:53
above the send button,
35:55
it will show you who all is in the chat
35:57
room by name and how many guests.
36:03
So anyway, I'm not
36:05
getting any more calls.
36:07
Mark, you ought to call.
36:09
You like talking on the phone.
36:11
You can make all these
36:12
colorful comments on the phone.
36:21
I was talking to, by the way Mark, I was
36:23
talking to Matt M.S.
36:25
Mornberg from XJ Talk.
36:27
I was talking to him the other day or
36:28
chatting with him on Facebook chat.
36:31
And I was asking him, he told me that he
36:35
had ordered the backbone system from you.
36:39
And I said, how long is it going to be
36:40
before you get that?
36:42
And I think he said three to four weeks.
36:46
And I was just really surprised because I
36:49
think that that rear bumper that I got
36:53
from you took as long.
36:55
Maybe a little longer. It's
36:57
been a while since I ordered it.
36:59
But I was real surprised that you were
37:00
having that long a lead
37:01
time on a smaller item.
37:07
Ten years.
37:10
I think Mark's having his own
37:11
conversation in chat.
37:13
It's not listening to me.
37:19
Oh yeah, a few of you had posted today
37:22
about, I think, I know Dalton you did.
37:25
Maybe somebody else did as well about
37:28
wanting a detour sticker.
37:29
Dalton, I can't remember if you ordered
37:31
any XJ Talk stickers or not.
37:34
I think you did.
37:35
If you did, and I remember, I'll stick a
37:39
detour sticker in there
37:41
when I send you your stickers.
37:50
Well, I guess that's good. Yeah, I guess
37:52
you did tell me about
37:52
that last time we spoke.
37:54
Mark says in the chat, this is a screen
37:59
named Detours, backed up like a $5.00.
38:02
Actually it says "Dala".
38:05
Well, you know, times are hard. So, $5.00
38:12
goes a lot further than it used to.
38:21
Okay, good Dalton. I'll just need to
38:23
remember to stick one in there.
38:26
Yeah, Mark sent me several stickers and I
38:30
was going to take them out to the next
38:31
Houston area meet and greet
38:34
and just kind of hand them
38:36
out to anybody that wanted them.
38:37
But like I said earlier in the show, Big
38:41
Jim had started a thread
38:43
about getting another one going.
38:45
And then there was some discussion about
38:48
if it should be closer to the Katy area
38:51
or closer to the Condor area.
38:53
And most everybody that's a member of XJ
38:57
Talk in the Houston area is
39:00
really the north of Houston,
39:02
Conroe and so on and so
39:04
forth, Reenie, Big Jim, Matt.
39:07
Actually I think Patrick, who still
39:11
hasn't posted a picture of his fabulous
39:16
A-pillar Detours USA
39:19
A-pillar Light Mounts,
39:21
he posted it on Facebook, but he hasn't
39:22
posted it on XJ Talk.
39:25
I'll tell you that. That's
39:26
being grateful right there.
39:29
But anyway, I think he actually lives out
39:32
close to the Astrodome.
39:34
So that would be the one exception. And
39:36
Scott, XJ4IV, he lives over here about
39:40
three miles from me.
39:41
So I do have quite a few people in the
39:44
Houston area. I'm
39:46
kind of happy about that.
39:47
I think all that happened with Reenie.
39:52
Reenie's unlike me, who I'll talk to
39:57
people on the internet
39:58
and I'll do this show.
40:00
Reenie really is an outgoing person.
40:02
He'll talk to you all day long and find
40:04
out all kinds of things about you.
40:06
He's a very friendly person. And of
40:08
course I blame him for getting the first
40:10
name thing going on the site.
40:13
I wasn't all that comfortable with doing
40:15
the first name thing and I was afraid
40:17
that some of you guys
40:17
might not like it either.
40:18
But Reenie was just saying, "Hey, what's
40:21
your first name? I don't want to go by
40:22
this. What's your first name?"
40:23
And everybody jumped in and made a mod so
40:27
that we could see
40:28
everybody's first name in their post.
40:31
So it seems like that
40:33
was a real good way to go.
40:35
And that's the nice thing about the site.
40:37
It was only my vision to get it going.
40:40
And what we have now is the vision of
40:43
what all you guys want.
40:46
We keep adding to it and
40:48
making it better, I think.
40:50
You may see the light changing on my face
40:54
here. That's because the
40:56
screensaver is kicking in.
40:59
And I noticed that when I was watching a
41:00
playback of the show, last week's show.
41:04
And I thought, "What's changing? Why is
41:06
the lighting changing?"
41:07
And then I realized
41:08
the screens are on blank.
41:10
So part of the lighting that you see is
41:12
the light coming from the screen.
41:18
Dalton4x4 says, "Okay, y'all, I've got to
41:21
sign off. Cold meds are kicking in."
41:24
So I guess that's what's wrong with you.
41:25
You had a pretty bad cold.
41:28
Well, go get some rest, man. And
41:30
hopefully you're not missing work.
41:32
If you are, you really do need to get
41:34
some rest so you can at least function
41:37
well enough at work.
41:38
Keep that job going.
41:40
Thanks for moderating for me tonight. I'm
41:41
sure there wasn't anything to do.
41:43
But just being there and being blue kept
41:46
everybody in line, I'm sure.
41:48
Audience Question]
41:55
Actually, you know, I spoke with my wife.
41:58
One of the people that I've listened to
42:01
about podcasting is he and
42:05
his wife both do podcasts.
42:09
Every Thursday, they do a series of about
42:11
five or six one-hour shows.
42:14
And then they put them up. I mean, he
42:17
does this for a living.
42:18
He's got like these five or six shows
42:19
that he does weekly, and he
42:22
makes a living off of that.
42:23
I guess about half of his income is from
42:26
doing those podcasts.
42:26
The other half is doing consulting work
42:29
for people that are trying
42:30
to learn about podcasting.
42:32
So anyway, it's kind of funny because
42:36
they'll do a couple of shows.
42:39
Well, they do one show together, and then
42:42
I think she has a show, and
42:44
then the rest of them he does.
42:46
Well, they actually got started in
42:47
podcasting by watching and commenting on
42:52
the television series Lost.
42:56
And I think within the first week, yeah,
43:00
I think this is right.
43:01
I think this is what he said.
43:02
The first week that they started doing
43:04
this, and they were
43:05
just watching the show.
43:08
Watch Lost, and then they would do a
43:10
podcast and comment on it, just them
43:12
talking about it really, of that episode.
43:16
And I think they got 14,000 downloads or
43:21
subscribers or whatever.
43:23
So it kind of got him hooked that anybody
43:25
would be that that many people would be
43:26
interested in hearing what he had to say.
43:29
So here a while back, my wife really
43:33
likes watching Biggest Loser,
43:35
and she really likes it when I sit there
43:37
and watch it with her.
43:38
I don't particularly care for the show,
43:40
and I guess that's part of the reason why
43:43
I make comments while
43:44
the show is going on.
43:46
And it's apparently fairly entertaining
43:50
because she laughs, and she likes me to
43:52
watch the show so I can provide
43:54
commentary while she's watching so she
43:57
can laugh about the show.
43:59
So it dawned on me that it might be
44:02
pretty cool if I could get two
44:04
microphones set up in
44:05
here and two cameras.
44:08
But instead of watching The Biggest Loser
44:13
and then doing the
44:13
podcast and commenting on it,
44:17
it would be to watch the show and comment
44:20
on it while it's going on.
44:21
And this is the same type of thing that
44:23
if you ever watched
44:25
Mystery Science, what was it?
44:29
Mystery Science Theater 3000.
44:32
It was these robots sitting in the front,
44:36
the pseudo front of the theater making
44:39
comments, and that's kind of what I do.
44:41
And she makes comments back, of course,
44:43
but I'm the one that usually makes the
44:46
off-color remarks, and she laughs.
44:48
So I thought that would kind of be a neat
44:49
thing that we could try, where she
44:51
watches, she reacts, she makes comments.
44:54
I make comments, and we do
44:55
it while watching the show.
44:56
So perhaps what we would wind up doing is
44:59
for a few people, I don't
45:01
know, 5, 10, 15, 15,000,
45:04
that they would turn the volume down on
45:06
Biggest Loser and listen to us.
45:09
So anyway, that comment about getting my
45:12
wife in here and let's talk
45:13
into her, it could happen.
45:15
It just won't happen on this show,
45:17
because she doesn't want to
45:18
hear anything about Jeeps.
45:20
She likes the Jeep, but she didn't like
45:23
it enough to listen to all
45:24
the stuff that I talk about.
45:26
I remember when I first figured out how
45:29
the 4-wheel drive
45:31
mechanism worked on the Jeep,
45:35
that I was really excited understanding,
45:38
when you put it in 4-wheel drive,
45:44
what that meant and how it locked the
45:48
front and the rear
45:49
together and so on and so forth.
45:50
And I was explaining that to her because
45:52
I was excited that I understood it.
45:54
And she's just trying to be a good wife
45:57
and listen, but that just was not
46:00
something that she was
46:01
interested in at all.
46:05
We could have a cooking show.
46:06
Now, see, now you're talking about
46:08
getting into a whole big cost of overhead
46:13
camera and cooking
46:16
two meals and etc., etc.
46:19
So now, it wouldn't be that big of a
46:24
problem setting up two
46:25
microphones and two cameras.
46:28
And then, I don't know what we would do
46:31
as far as fixing it so
46:33
that we could watch the show.
46:35
But I'm sure I could
46:36
figure something out.
46:39
Anyway, it could happen. I
46:41
think it would be kind of fun.
46:43
If nothing else, it would be fun for us
46:45
to give it a try and maybe listen to it
46:48
years later and laugh at.
46:50
I think it would be a blast to be able to
46:56
do what the gentleman that I listened to,
47:00
the podcast Answer Man,
47:02
PodcastAnswerMan.com, if you want to know
47:04
more about podcasting.
47:05
He's very detailed, very good.
47:07
I think it would be really cool to have
47:10
your job be podcasting.
47:14
I mean, it's like having a radio show,
47:16
but you don't have to deal with anybody.
47:20
I mean, there's no program directors,
47:21
there's no owners, there's
47:23
no this, that, or the other.
47:25
There's no FCC, at least not so far.
47:28
You just do what you think is best, and
47:31
the people vote with their
47:34
attendance, their download.
47:36
They're listening to your show.
47:38
It's a really, really neat
47:43
idea of a business model.
47:46
I don't know that. I suspect it's like
47:49
you see some people that go
47:51
and audition for something,
47:52
and next thing you know, they're in a
47:55
movie or selling songs, and they're
47:59
making millions of dollars,
48:01
and they're very popular, and then
48:02
there's those ones that you see that get
48:04
up there and try, and they fail.
48:06
And they're not necessarily bad, they
48:07
just didn't have that spark
48:09
that made them interesting,
48:10
more interesting than the other person.
48:13
So you never know.
48:13
Of course, if you
48:14
don't try, you don't know.
48:16
And I've been fairly
48:17
successful at things that I've done.
48:19
I don't know that I'll be successful, any
48:22
more successful than I have been on
48:24
podcasting than what I am now.
48:27
But just like the podcast dancer man
48:32
says, if you've got five
48:33
people that listen to you,
48:35
that's a lot, because that means they're
48:40
setting aside time to
48:44
come and listen to you,
48:46
whether it be a live show
48:48
or listening to the podcast.
48:51
So don't worry if it's
48:53
100,000 or five people.
48:55
If you just got one
48:56
person, that should be enough,
49:01
but that should be something that you
49:05
shouldn't measure your success by the
49:06
number of people that listen.
49:09
Although, I'm sure Jay Leno probably
49:14
measures his success by the number of
49:16
cars that he has in his multiple garages.
49:21
The thing that surprised me is I don't
49:22
think he's, I believe he's married, but I
49:25
don't think he has any kids.
49:27
And I don't know if it's the lifestyle or
49:30
just a personal
49:31
choice, maybe a little both.
49:34
But I'd hate to live my life
49:37
and not have at least one child.
49:41
So anyway.
49:48
Oh, there's VW Fool Y has joined us.
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Let's see. I think we've
49:53
got a few more people in here.
49:56
Maybe just one. Lost one, gained one.
50:03
No tech in chat. You guys can talk about
50:06
tech in the chat room. That's fine.
50:10
PIXJ was asking Detours if he knew what
50:15
tie rods would work from a
50:17
Grand Cherokee on a 99XJ.
50:19
You know, that's a great question to ask
50:22
on the site because I know actually I
50:23
think that's already on the site.
50:25
I think that that
50:26
information is already there.
50:28
And that reminds me of kind of in
50:30
thinking about coming up with a page,
50:33
perhaps a new front page to the site.
50:36
Sorry. Perhaps a new front page to the
50:38
site that isn't the forums.
50:41
That would be kind of like a map or a
50:44
guide into the forums and have different
50:48
groupings of things like front end parts.
50:52
Things that you could do by getting other
50:59
parts like Grand Cherokee tie rod, the
51:02
Grand Cherokee Dana 35 disc brakes.
51:06
Things that you could get and put on your
51:09
XJ to improve the performance or improve
51:14
your chances of not bending a tie rod.
51:17
And it kind of, because the search thing
51:20
in the V-Bulletin software leaves a
51:23
little bit to be desired.
51:25
In fact, I'll give you a tip. When I'm
51:28
trying to find something on the bulletin
51:31
board and I can't find it,
51:32
I'll actually just go to Google and type
51:35
in XJ talk space and then whatever I'm
51:39
looking for. Whatever
51:40
makes the most sense to me.
51:42
And it is amazing to me how quickly I'll
51:46
find the information I'm looking for.
51:47
And I may have tried for five, maybe even
51:50
ten minutes on using the
51:54
built in XJ talk search.
51:56
And boom, Google does it, you know,
51:59
usually first try and it's
52:01
usually at the top of the page.
52:03
So, you know, give that a try. That might
52:07
save you some searching time.
52:08
But anyway, I'm hoping to make some more
52:10
changes to the site and come up with some
52:13
things to make it a little more
52:14
interesting for you guys.
52:15
Hopefully it's been
52:16
pretty interesting so far.
52:21
Well guys, we're going to wrap it up a
52:22
little early tonight. I've been having
52:24
some horrible
52:26
difficulty in forming words.
52:30
And I don't want to be like one of those
52:32
reporters that you see that start
52:34
spitting out gibberish.
52:36
Actually, I'm a little tired. I got up
52:38
early this morning and couldn't go back
52:41
to sleep. So I think
52:42
that's probably what it is.
52:45
Actually, the Grand Cherokee Heavy Duty
52:49
Fan Clutch is a very nice mod.
52:51
And I've done that to mine, trying to
52:56
solve some of the heat
52:57
creep problem I have.
52:59
And it does make a difference. It squeals
53:01
like a stuck pig whenever
53:05
you get it to a certain RPM.
53:07
But it does make a big difference on
53:09
cooling off the water, or the cooling I
53:13
should say, running through the radiator.
53:15
And I think that write-up is on XJTalk.
53:19
Well guys, thank you very
53:21
much for joining us tonight.
53:23
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53:40
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53:42
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53:45
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53:48
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53:51
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