WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-29

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Speaker A: Was that you, Chris? That is correct. Good afternoon. Yeah, it's six IWh. Well, I lost track, but what is it, about 48 days left?
Speaker B: Well, since today is over, there's 44 more weekdays left.
Speaker A: I'm not marking off the calendar, but what are you gonna do? Have a little party? Have some friends over, barbecue?
Speaker B: I don't have that many friends. Probably not. I might just arrange with some of the people at work that I really, really, really care to say goodbye to. I might, you know, take them to Sutter Butte Brewing or Viking. Happy Viking or something. I don't know. There won't be a lot of people, though.
Speaker A: Well, you got your ham radio buddies. How about we all go to the casino and spend your money?
Speaker B: We do that. I'm taking along one of the guys that I work with. He seems to be fairly, fairly lucky. He lives in North Sac. And so he leaves here and he drives down, and sometimes he stops off at the Hard Rock Casino there. And he's come in the next day and told me that he's taken me out to lunch because he won some money at the casino.
Speaker A: Well, do you gamble? Do you know how to play 21?
Speaker B: I knew the basic rules, but, no, I do not gamble because I know it's a loser's game.
Speaker A: Well, mathematicians don't gamble. What about poker? I don't play. I don't know how it works, but it's a pretty popular game.
Speaker B: Yeah, don't do poker either. I don't have enough friends to play poker with.
Speaker A: Well, don't feel bad. I don't have any friends either. I have a cat.
Speaker B: Yeah, I can generally find enough people to play gin rummy with, and that's my game. And I don't. I know some people bet on gin rummy, actually, or not bet, but they count points and, you know. But no, I don't even do that.
Speaker A: Well, I gotta tell you, Chris, I certainly like money. Not the love. Maybe that's a problem.
Speaker B: I like money. And what money is that? I have, I really like, and I'd rather keep it to myself.
Speaker A: Oh, how about all these people that go after the retirement package? Seniors. You know, they. They dub them, they. They dupe them. They, you know, poor retired people. I'm not laughing. The retired people end up with nothing.
Speaker B: I was actually talking with my mother on the phone the other day, and it. It sounds like somebody was trying to scam her. She said she got some correspondence from somebody that claimed that they were taking over, paying out my dad's pension benefits. My Dad's passed away, but, you know, know. And so in order to make that happen, they needed some information from her. Fortunately, she did not send it. It almost sounds like she might partially have believed it. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I said, if somebody claims that what you do is go to the company that is currently, you know, pay out those benefits and you ask them what's going on.
Speaker A: Sounds pretty brutal. What about when they steal your ID and all of a sudden everything's gone?
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't met anybody like that yet. I know there are lots of people out there and yeah, that must be really tough to recover from.
Speaker A: Well, you see these advertisements for identity security and all like that seems like a good idea to me, but man, I don't want to have to spend any more money to survive.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So it's past five and I'm just coming upon there's a postman out still delivering the mail. And you know, I've noticed sometimes I don't get my mail till like 7 o' clock at night. And I think that's just silly.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's been kind of rough up here. Also, I think maybe they believe it's still the Christmas season. There's a lot of packages, you know,
Speaker B: I don't know. I just think they downsize and they're working the people that are left to death. WPZ A X N.
Speaker A: Yeah, I understand the post office is pretty rough. Even coined a phrase. It's called go postal.
Speaker B: Yeah. I tell you what I do get, I really do. I get upset when I've spent an entire day working and I come home and my mail is not there yet. Like, really? Are you kidding me?
Speaker A: Yeah, we. We get weird hours of delivery, but it's not like I'm expecting a paycheck or anything.
Speaker B: That's true. But I'd like to check my mail before I go inside.
Speaker A: And I don't want to have to
Speaker B: go out and check it again just because it's not there when I check it the first time.
Speaker A: Oh yeah. Rough call. Hey, do you like places? Do you like shopping at places like Costco? I asked just because I went there today. My God, so full of people and they're all old.
Speaker B: Do I like shopping there? No, I wouldn't. I don't hate it. But I also. It's not something that I look forward to. And depending on where you go, I mean, this one here isn't too bad. But there's one down in Rockland just off of Galleria Boulevard or something. And oh my goodness, the parking lot there is always crammed full. And it's just. Yeah, I don't enjoy that at all.
Speaker A: Yeah, I. I had that same feeling. I go there because of the prescriptions. Okay. And pay the membership fee, which is now like 125 or something like that, you know, because a lot of pharmacies won't write for opiates. So pay, pay, pay.
Speaker B: Yeah, no kidding. Well, fortunately for me, because I'm a retired military, I have access to this pharmacy online pharmacy called Express Scripts. And for short term, you know, immediate prescriptions, it's not a deal because it takes, you know, they write a prescription and it takes you two weeks to get your prescription. But for the long term stuff, you know, I get three months supply of medicine for what I would normally pay, you know, each month. So it's a good deal. And, you know, they get delivered to my house, so. But that's only because I meant military.
Speaker A: Yeah. What's another place Costco is crowded and kind of freaky? There's a place I've been to here, a medical clinic where it kind of feels like that a lot of people, you know, in the waiting room. You're going how?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. You're not talking about the emergency room, are you?
Speaker A: Yeah,
Speaker B: yeah, yeah. Oh, well. Well, I have arrived in my location at my destination. So I'm going to go see if they have bothered us to deliver my mail yet. And then I, you know, go inside and get something to eat, I guess. So have a great evening and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6 VCD clear.
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Speaker A: Kk6vcd mobile w e6a x n receiver. Good morning, Chris. Good morning. How are you this morning?
Speaker B: You want to know the truth or a lie? The lie is much shorter. Oh, I'm fine. How are you?
Speaker A: Oh, I'm fine. Yeah. Just. Yeah, waiting for the. Waiting for the week to end and then waiting for the other remaining days of my employment to end.
Speaker B: I believe you're going to be happy when you retire. Really? Just. Just a little kind of hint that I.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, as long as I don't get caught in the trap of just sitting at home all day long.
Speaker B: You mean watching tv, getting a big pot, good drink a lot of beer?
Speaker A: Yeah, that general idea.
Speaker B: Hey, now you're talking. Well, I believe human beings should have time of rest. And it's okay for a man to lay around, you know, recline, watch a movie, stay in bed until noon.
Speaker A: I'm edging towards that on the weekends. Most of the time I don't wake up till 8:39, sometimes 10.
Speaker B: Well, I'm familiar with the term beat yourself up.
Speaker A: I do that.
Speaker B: You know, I always think, you know, God, you're not. You're a terrible guitar player. You suck. And I paint because. Painting for years, I look at it and say, you suck.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you're doing it anyway, so. Hey, to change the subject completely, have you ever taken a train cross country somewhere?
Speaker B: No, but I have a friend who. He passed away.
Speaker A: He was into that.
Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, he loved it. You know, he would get sleeper cars and, man, the food was great.
Speaker A: Yeah. I'm thinking about when I go back to Illinois instead of flying, taking the train. I know it would take a couple of days. Yeah. What, three days to get there? Two and a half, three days to get there. But I've never done it and I have the time now. You know, it's not like I'm gonna be on I won't be burning up vacation days when I'm doing it.
Speaker B: That's good. You know, work out some of these desires. What do they call that? I mean, really might be enjoyable. And I think really, you get a compartment car, you know, your own sleeper and all like that, and, you know, they. They take care of you.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And I talked to my wife about it, and she doesn't want to do it. She. Yeah, I just would be bored stiff doing it. But I think I'd like to try the experience. I did it on a bus once. I took a Greyhound from California back to Illinois and that was a bit rough. But then, you know, you're confined to your seat the entire way, except when you get off and. Or, you know, these are changes. Bus changes, or, you know, you stop at a station. Bus stops for gasoline or. Yeah, to fuel up or something. You know, you get a few minutes to get off the bus and stretch your legs, but otherwise it's rough.
Speaker B: Oh, I heard it's even rougher now. I mean, lots of people crowding into the bus. You know, it's kind of like a little circus.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I don't really remember too much about it, but. And I don't remember too many of the people I did part of the trip. I was sitting next to this French teenager. French father was taking him across country, all around the US On a bus. And we had. So we had interesting conversation for a few hours.
Speaker B: Wow. Well, sometime you'll have to tell me, you know, some of the subjects and what you talked about and how it changed your life. I remember some relatives had a. A Greyhound pass. Somehow they, you know, pay one amount, and then they can travel anywhere they wanted. And here they are in the spare bedroom.
Speaker A: Yeah, I forget what that was called. That was a big thing back in the 70s.
Speaker B: Yeah. Go anywhere you want. You know, show them the path. I never rode the bus that much. You know, Southern California, everybody has a car. You know, Bay Area, I just had a car, so. But I did take bark,
Speaker A: and that
Speaker B: was good, but unreliable and all like that. That's kind of a train. I could say, hey, yeah, man, I've been on trains.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. A few years ago, I went back to Illinois, and my daughter and I went to a Cubs game, and we got on the train, we took the. The. What do you call it? Not the subway. Yeah, the transit system. You know, the commuter train all throughout Chicago.
Speaker B: And.
Speaker A: Oh, my goodness, I was. I had done it when I was a kid. I was astounded to experience how small those things actually are inside.
Speaker B: Are you from Chicago? Is it actually as bad.
Speaker A: As bad as it looks? That's a very broad subject. I don't know. I mean, there's. Chicago is a big city. There's very interesting places in it. Would I want to live there? No.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I hear the bangers have a little device to put on the back of their Glock that makes it fully automatic. And they talk about Chicago a lot when they refer these guns. And the cops don't even want to go to answer the shooting. Oh, whoopee. Hey, I'm busy right now. I'll talk to you in a week.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, haven't been away for so long, I don't. I don't hear any of that. Yeah, I can almost. I can almost see the attitude. Well, they're just. They're just taking one another out, so let's not bother.
Speaker B: Well, Chris, let me tell you something here. The world is kind of falling apart right now, I think. But you know, I always refer back to some of the things I've read about how to live. How you really can get upset about everything. Oh, that's excitable.
Speaker A: You don't have much of a life. Oh, well, all right. So I'm destinated. I guess I better get inside and see what I got to do and see what I can do what. What I'm going to do wrong today. I got a couple of reminders yesterday. Hey, you should be doing that. Yeah, I'm sorry. I apologize.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: Oh, well, have a great day. We'll talk to you later.
Speaker B: 73 KK6VZD Clear W E6A okay, I'll catch you later. Hey, I have an idea. I'm gonna make a call. K06bgy f6iwh see you out there. Ah, see, there's always that.
Speaker A: Always that. Suspense.
Speaker B: Yawn, key and weight. Woody here. Nothing.

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