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Looks like another 56 degree morning and 6 in p.m. good morning.

Well Mr. J. There's something there just in case you're listening this morning only there's a good deal you you guys used to be interested in quartzite Big trouble in little court site that's the title that was hella interesting about the law corrupt law enforcement in that little dinky town crazy 3,000 people that guy went off his rocker. Anyway looks like the good morning list in the news nobody's on any of the channels there on HS so N6MTM listening.

Wow. Add target and starbucks to the leaving California businesses. Wow. N6 NTM.

Speaker A: 41 degrees 4:1 light fog, Chico, California. And it's gonna be a great morning, I bet you. Good morning all you two meter aficionados. This is KN6MGK.
Speaker B: Hey, can you hold it down? There's people trying to sleep.
Speaker C: Not no more. It's after 7, man. I waited that long. Well, it's good to hear we got life out here.
Speaker B: I'm emptying out the back of the truck. It looks like Home Depot is going to be the next one you hear leaving California and next to Starbucks and Target. Oh yeah. Yep. I'm emptying out the back of the truck so I can fill it up with closing store
Speaker C: stuff. That's
Speaker B: all right. You know, you know, you know what it's time to do. You have to keep. You have to keep jumping ship here, Jay. If you got an extra 20 or 30 thousand dollars hanging around, I would invest in. In Dutch, bro. Probably going to be off the chart buying old Starbucks buildings.

Speaker A: Yeah, I've noticed on my Windows 10 stuff, you know, it's not like when they did the last. Microsoft did it the last time they did that, when everyone liked a particular operating system and then they phased it out like this, you know, they were putting up notes all the time, you know, leading up to and after. I mean every time you, you know, turn on your computer, it was just glaring. You're out of service, you know. But the Windows 10 stuff doesn't seem to be doing that.
Speaker B: Yeah, I got out of the whole computer thing, what, a couple of years ago. Yeah, too many blue screens over the years for me.
Speaker A: Everything runs on computers so you couldn't get out of it. There's no way. All the vehicles. I bet you your truck has 20 of them on it.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, well I, you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about home computers. Oh yeah, I got two tablets at night here. I only use one primarily, but only because I can't throw the older one away. Still works and does everything perfectly. Go Apple.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's a computer. So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker B: I don't care. It ain't a home computer like the one that I had no, one trouble after another. Just what you guys are talking about, all the spyware and the, and the hackers and you name it.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, if you have a Mac like that tablet you're talking about, you're not going to have the problems of a PC user. Not typically because, you know, not too many hackers mess around with Apple. It's too hard. Same with Linux. It's a Unix fakes system. So yeah, you can still get hard drive crashes and stuff like that, but you can get that on a tablet too.
Speaker B: I haven't seen it yet. Yep, I've seen reoccurring kaka there. That's, that's why I don't have a big home computer, because I had some good ones there. Even put together a couple of my own. That's part of my decline into the whole electronics thing. Yeah, that's how they're empty in target stores right now. People are just coming in and loading a card up with electronics and they're, they're hitting stores with 20 and 30 people stealing in groups. And a good part of them, even though with enhanced security they just can't stop them all and they can't prosecute the ones they do catch. Yeah, money's running out the backside.
Speaker A: Well, if there's one company I cannot shed a single tear for, it's Target. They have been one of the most woke companies I've ever seen in a long, long time. And they wouldn't permit Salvation army bell ringers. They wouldn't say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, that special rainbow merch. I haven't been going there for years and years and years. I mean I wouldn't go there in a pinch. So people down talk Walmart all the time unfortunately. But Walmart was and is with an American company. With American, you know, real people that were running that at one point in time, sure they've gone awry a little bit, but nothing like Target. And so yeah, I wouldn't care if they closed every damn Target. And this is KN6MGK.
Speaker B: Jay staying out of all this. Well, Target ain't going anywhere. They're just, they're just getting out of California. Yeah, same with Starbucks and Google. Silicon Valley. We can go on and on and on at this point. Really? You really can. You could recite names for well over 10 minutes. They're going to sell California to China which is the equivalent to it falling off into the ocean. Hello.

Speaker A: Yeah. Yep. Well, Target is a place that, let's see, I'm gonna have to give it 10 years ago. It may be longer. But where, like when we had real, real Black Friday deals. They had some decent deals then, but that was probably 10 years ago or more. I'm sitting here looking up an article that came out two weeks ago talking about Target expand, expanding in all these states. And there's two listed in California. So it says they're going to open new stores in Bakersfield and Paris. P E R R I S, wherever that is. Don't know. So if they're pulling out of California, then why are they opening new stores in California?
Speaker B: Because they're just relocating in areas that had. Still have, they're still actually showing a profit. Yeah, that's what I watched this morning. Elizabeth something. I don't remember her last name, but that is one of the best podcasts you could listen to. Not, not to introduce a new topic. But they're seeing crime going up with the transgender group because they're jumping on board because they've always been the minority when it comes to the population on the nasty sexual habits and the sex changing stuff. That was in the news this morning too. And the, the charts are showing that's been on a steady rise. They're just jumping on the bandwagon. Transgenders because there's such a small movement by themselves. But you add the pile on factor of everybody else that's complaining. Look at Minnesota's opening their arms to transgender, though. Oh, yeah, because they're losing their Somali people left and right. Watch welfare and EBT and all that. Well, it's the same thing. You watch how that rises in the surrounding states to Minnesota. Trump's gonna have to get pretty damn busy with bringing the military in in order to stop the crime. And here on the better news. The better news is, yeah, it looks like Mr. Clinton is gonna escape some prosecution because he was the president. But Hillary, her ass is hanging out of the the wagon on that one because guess what, she lost to Trump. She ain't gonna get no presidential immunity. And they're both, they're both going to jail here shortly, within the next two weeks, maybe three weeks, something like that. But I just watched a great thing there on that this morning from a lawyer. I'm ashamed to say I don't remember his name, but he has a great podcast and he explained the whole Clinton and Comey and all that stuff right there. They, they didn't show up for their congressional hearings there. They were subpoenaed and well, the next step is jail for their. But you, you wait and see how fast that happens. So we're starting. Enough time has gone by, we're starting to see the, the, the poop hitting the fan. No way around it.
Speaker A: Yeah. So you know, Bill Clinton, you know, I think he's not too far from meeting his demise one way or the other anyway, so with him and yeah, he was president, so a certain immunity scheme that they seem to get. But yeah, Hillary, I can see how she could be hung out to dry. And she's the wicked witch of the west anyway, so she's the one who's really, really evil in my mind. So. But whatever, we'll see what happens. I'll believe that when I see it. By the way. And going back to Starbucks, I mean the latest thing I see least on the Internet is I could look through some more articles, but closing like 30 locations in California, 32 locations or something. And they're saying from, you know, San Francisco, Danville, San Ramon. Well, anyway, with Starbucks, I mean, they put them little Starbucks stores in all over, like sometimes in the Save Mart here in Chico and they'll have so many locations in an area they just pepper to death. So I could see them closing them. I don't see how that's like leaving all of California. I think they've got like 8,000, 18,000 locations or something. So I don't know to say that they're leaving California when they're only closing 30 of them anyway. But like I say that, you know, the interesting thing about that CEO, my wife, I think she has his book one books or something that he wrote. He's kind of a moderate kind of a guy, but yet he's still a leftist, you know, So I don't know, I do patronize them a little. Not the right word. Anyway, I go to their, to their stores occasionally and so forth, especially when the guys want to meet there or something. And I support, especially in paradise, the local place there where people work and you know, there doesn't seem to be any other coffee shops. There was some before the fire, but nobody wanted to come back. Hardly nothing. That was a nice hangout spot. So nevertheless, I do want to support the local, the local business if I can kn6mgk.

They're all going to be doing better if Starbucks closed. Now listen, most, most of the Starbucks news, and it's way more than the numbers because I. This is 14 hours ago released. Write, write it down, Jay, because this is someone you'll want to go watch. It's titled they Defend defied Congress. That's 14 hours ago, that release. And it's with Ron Chapman. Ron Chapman, he is an attorney and he's been all over this stuff for about the last five years. Some of the best information when it comes to political law. Fantastic. He doesn't leave nothing out. He's been all over this stuff. I've been watching him for about eight, nine, maybe, maybe a year. But Northern California is not going to be as affected. We're talking from Sacramento south. And even though I did see they were gonna, they were gonna leave or. Home Depot in Sacramento, just the business, just Northern California is the least affected because we don't have the homeless out there living off, stealing from stores. So. And the Mexicans too, by the way, because they're losing their funds and everybody else is doing it. So it's, they're piling on and, and, and news comes. Rubbing his hands together. You can see the horns starting to grow out of his brittle creamed hairdo. Not that it hasn't been happening for a long time, but yeah, he, he's liking, just. I don't know who's paying him. Probably the Clintons. I'm just kidding. But it, but it is a possibility. A lot of the rhetoric that you see happening in the news, the Minnesota soda style, the New York City style, all these states here wanting to govern, it's, it's up for grabs. The power, the greedy. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the, the Clintons are in on that. And, and I'm, and I'm not saying that they're, that they're doing this stuff because they want to control. What they're trying to do is shift the narrative. They're trying to make so much big news that going after them becomes old news. Okay. And that's how the media, that's how they've been using the media to, to escape. No accountability. But, but America is a little smarter than that. Although this next, the generation I'm not so sure of. There's two teachers on both ends of the United States claiming these are the absolute stupidest kids they've ever seen. And you know, it's true. The test scores and, and stuff and the evaluations of the schools and stuff. You, I'll bet you any money somewhere down the road you're going to go back and see that Biden's. Not Biden's but Obama's free lunches. That food was tainted. Oh yeah, this next generation man. There's no hope for it no matter what Trump gets done. And all I can say is Jay is you and me are sitting pretty good. It's a good time to be getting old because eventually we'll go to where we're supposed to be living and the earth is not our home. It was never designed to be that way. Heaven is home. Yeah Steve, well anyway I'll be praying for you. Any help I could send your way from above if that's even possible. And I'm pretty sure it is too prayer. But man, looks like you're gonna be here a little longer than me and Jay. It's not a laughing matter but I can't help but giggle about it because it's just my outlook.

Speaker A: I didn't know. I thought I met your only sibling. Yeah. Oh, see, that's
Speaker B: the part I didn't know. I didn't know you had any grandkids, and I. So I thought that this morning's news was that Jennifer was going to have kids.

Yeah, from this point on, that sounds like some in person communication. Which brings up my next question. You were talking about trying this bagel place, but I think I'd like to try that blue lagoon for. For. For breakfast, if you're up to it.

Hell I'm ready this morning. So if you get a wild hare. Yeah, I know. Steven's never tried that. Of course, he doesn't venture way up here. Between that and the price of breakfast, probably more than he wants to attempt.

Yeah, maybe I better. Maybe I better make a note here to write a. A letter to Newscomb. Reminded him that Stephen owns property.

Well, I was over there making some coffee for the wife and stuff, so I missed out on some of that. But, heck, we've been banging our heads on the wall for a few months now, huh? A couple months. I'd have to look back myself. I'm a little concerned about that new note that was put out yesterday because it's moving up the list of usage, so I'm wondering if that battery's going to hold out.

Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Within about 30ft probably. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. But anyway, yeah, if that thing holds up, you know, I'm thinking maybe even John would want to get a node to be included into that mesh there so that for off grid communications might be a good thing to fall back on. But yeah, if that one's gone, it seems like it's not going to connect in with all the other things. I mean, I was looking at it on Net View earlier and it was putting lines everywhere. It was amazing what it was doing.
Speaker B: I'm not sure how it applies to me. I was going to rely on Starlink, except for I'm having second thoughts now. The price increases and the gigabytes applied right on the edge of sending back this Starlink mini. I don't know. You're not going to get TV over that mesh.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, we're not talking about EMP or whatever because that would be a catastrophic scenario for all electronics for sure. But they aren't like, they shut like Iran. Just a good use case. I could send you videos of what they're doing, but they're shutting down all of that Starlink stuff. And these little private mesh nodes are a little tougher. So anyway. But nevertheless, I mean like all the Internet stuff and all that tv, I mean, who watches TV anymore, really? A lot of propaganda out there. So. But people are using a lot of the Starlink type stuff, whatever, to watch live streaming and all that for sure. And I know other people that do it like 50 gigs, 5, 0 gigs or whatever. That ain't nothing by the way, not these days. So yeah, the ones up in Yankee Hill that we're running may all have the normal unlimited plan, but yeah, it's like 100 and some odd dollars a month. I mean, I don't think it's 150 yet, but might be 130 bucks a month.
Speaker B: Yep. 165 for unlimited roam, whether there's going to be a gigabyte thing. So they're giving you 50% off there. They're giving you a hundred gigs instead of 40. And yeah, you ain't gonna watch no movies even on 100 gigs. So I'm pretty sure this Elon's testing the waters. He's seeing who's gonna go with it and then who isn't. So it sure would have been nice. That means I can send back this projector. $2,000. Oh brother. But it was worth a. I needed to educate myself. So it is a hell of a nice TV and a movie watching device, but I can get. I can get something.
Speaker A: I.
Speaker B: We have. We have the damn. Oh, I had two names come to my brain there. We got our own little server there, Jay. So there's enough movies on that puppy, at least on mine. I don't know about you if you didn't get anything from Trevor, but,
Speaker A: yeah,
Speaker B: I could always take that four bay deal with me and still be able to watch movies and stuff. But Trevor got a nice 4k projector for under 300 bucks, or around 300 bucks, so he's pretty happy with that one. That would be worth the investment as far as RVing across the country, because we're getting pretty close. Yeah. Is that a digital antenna? Aw, Jay, heck, that news is worth buying your breakfast for.

Speaker A: Oh, I thought, I thought that crank and the big knob
Speaker B: and all that stuff was to hold the tarp up so that it let the air conditioner breathe. I was just kidding. I knew you'd get
Speaker A: a giggle out of it, Jay. You know what? I'll extend. I'll go to just to put a smile on
Speaker B: somebody's face, even if it's temporary. Oh yeah.
Speaker A: I haven't read deep enough in the book, but I do have the paperwork out of the binder that was just not clipped in. You know, the stapled and, and clipped stuff. Yeah, I've been reading about it. Yeah, when I was away from home for a couple of days. Well, that's all good stuff. No, I'll look for the switch. And I, I thought I saw the crank, but I, I didn't see no switch for the amplifier. Heck, I might end up throwing something small in there. Really want to do the. I really want to do the projector thing because that gives me a. Almost, well, the full deal from the cabinet over to the curtain hanger over there. That's. That's almost 50 inches. I'd like to have a 50 inch TV, but anyway, I'll get a good look at it. I'm probably going to end up down there. I got to go get hay and, and I, I got three more circuits done at John's house. I'm ready to go to overhead lighting, new wires. I'm moving right along on getting
Speaker B: his place wired up. He already bought, he
Speaker A: already bought them. Same circle light, LEDs, hos. I don't know. He also has 10 foot neon or. I mean not neon, but fluorescence. But yeah, he's probably got 10 of those big circle lights like I got LEDs.

Speaker A: It's like you put J. Steven
Speaker B: to sleep. Jay Hos. I haven't heard that term. Okay, well, John,
Speaker A: ceiling isn't tall like mine. Mine were pretty damn good for, for three of them. In my space, he's got three bays and that. I'm not talking about garage doors. He's got 14. He's got a 12 foot door, and he has two, two car garage doors. And. Oh, let me see, the other roll up is about 10ft. So he's got three bays all bigger than. Well, two of them are bigger and one of them is about two thirds the size of the shop we got. So you can see how much wiring. I think I'm a little over 1,000ft in wire right now. And that's not even including the 210 foot drop out to the RV hookups.

I don't know if I'd do that to it. Yeah, but the, but the little. Well, you. Plus you're in the dirt, so. Traction on a remote controlled dealy. Bob, that, that would be a little reaching, but I could do it here with the entryway being cement and not very slanted, just enough to work the rain. Yeah, I don't. I don't move things in and out. And. And the. The Corvette's been up for sale for six weeks at least. Not a single person interested. So anyway. And the Fiat's already registered in Idaho just for the savings. Yeah, I'm. I may do the 38 Chevy Idaho. I could get away with it here because I don't drive it enough for the cops to say, hey, that guy don't live in Idaho.

Speaker A: Be nice. Even if you're out on the country and open road and all that stuff. If you're backing up onto something to level the trailer or whatever, you could do it right there where you put them in place. And you think that things got enough strength to get it up on one or two
Speaker B: of those little plates. All right, thanks. All
Speaker A: right, Steven. Had enough time to get coffee. I'm gonna take a standby since I've been hogging it. No breakfast for you this morning Off.

Speaker A: Garage?
Speaker B: It looks like it. I thought I had something else happen today. I wanted to go get those two towers at the airport, but I'm waiting for a comeback. I went down yesterday and looked for the second one and didn't find it. So I want to get them both at the same
Speaker A: time. Yeah, you
Speaker B: do. I walked that other one off that's down there. It needs to get a little bit cut off of the bottom. The wind. The wind bent it slightly at the bottom, so not a big deal. Otherwise the galvanized looks good and it's 33ft.
Speaker A: All right, I'll be back
Speaker B: shortly. Maybe 8:30 or something like that. On 9 o'. Clock. Whatever you decide.
Speaker A: At the Blue Lagoon. All right, let's call at 8:30. I'll be back in 6, 10. Shut up, Steven.
Speaker C: I always
Speaker A: say
Speaker C: just enough to get everyone riled up and poke the bear. That's what we do. Yep. Yeah, I'm making my
Speaker A: breakfast right now. Then I'll head over to Panera
Speaker C: in about an hour. Kick back there for an hour or so, see what happens. Then we'll come back over here and work around here, I guess. Then I'm thinking tomorrow I'll be up in paradise.

How come did Ann sound so good a few weeks ago on on the Net and now this week and last week she wants to go back to something that sounds really. Good. Yeah, she was talking about, you know, field day. And I almost think that they, a couple of them, her and maybe Robin were getting confused that this is winter field day. So anyway, but wanting to publicize it or something. Is there some way they can publicize it to get people to the, to the event or whatever? But. But we know that winter field day is nothing compared to summer Field day. Yeah, yeah, but there was a. I don't know if you stayed on and listened to that new station that was on and he was on HT. He kept saying he was listening to 1-467-70 anyway, having a hard time trusting that because he was also saying his call sign incorrectly. And I tried to correct him at least twice anyway, but I wouldn't think you'd hear anything on 770. But he kept saying that. So I don't know what I'm thinking. You know, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. But anyway, I said, well, you might try listening to 146, 670. I told him to look at it when he's not keyed up. I thought about that too. But even 770 wouldn't make sense, right? Because it's. It should be like 170, not 770. Maybe he's. Maybe he's seeing the 170 and not 770 because it's 600 off on VHS. Anyway, I was trying to get invited, you know, hopefully show up on Fridays and stuff like that because that'd be great to work with him on some of that stuff. Newer operators, you know, I didn't want to bring in the Regalia repeater. He was sounding okay on the 670 using an HT from wherever he was up there, but just, you know, confuse him or something, you know, he couldn't even say his call sign correctly. Oh, yeah, yeah. See, I've dealt with new people before, people I haven't heard before. So I've went overboard many times. Many times. And so I've tried to learn not to go overboard anymore. Too much information at one time can really make some people Mike shy or panic or not like us anymore type of thing. So I just trying to stick to, you know, being nice about things like even hearing the Roger beep and trying to say it's up to you, you know, it's kind of optional, I guess. But, you know, most of us turn it off.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah? Yeah, I was hoping. Hoping to get him to come to like a Friday coffee thing or something, you know, I don't know. You should know how far that goes. I've been there. I don't even. I don't even go there that often, I don't think, you know, to be honest. But I've been there before when some. That one lady that was baking cookies, she came up from Chico and been there when other people have just come up for. No, you know, not know. I even brought a friend, a friend or two one time when I went there. Trying to get them interested. You know, it's the type of thing where some people can get interested. But I could tell you that if I took some of my friends to like some of these meetings and stuff, they would not be interested at all. They're just too dry and boring, you know, I mean, no excitement. You know, events is where you. Where you get more interest. Even like that's why I was mentioning the kids fishing day thing. If a person could just set up a table and maybe easy up and little literature out there and be operating on radios, that's all they'd have to do. You know, people get interested. Yep, that's the way you do it. But you know, it gets kind of poo pooed, you know, I think you guys set up at that veterans event and you had probably some good results from that. So same type of thing. Apple
Speaker B: seed days, gold nugget days, any of that kind of stuff. Yeah. Glad to be willing to help out again. All right, I need to go turn my sausage links. KN6MGK.

Speaker A: I was on the phone with the VA. Yeah, 8, 12, 15 minutes. I got time to get there. Did Stephen say he was
Speaker B: gonna show up? All right, very good. Walking out the door. N6mtm.
Speaker C: Yeah. Hey, I don't know what you're talking about. So I'm not showing up somewhere that I don't know about. KN6MGK.
Speaker A: No biggie. We're gonna eat breakfast at 8:30 at the Blue Lagoon. You're more than welcome if you feel like it. See ya.
Speaker C: Yeah, okay. Yeah. Nope. First I heard of it. I don't even know where Blue Lagoon is, whatever that means. So, yep, I'm down here in chico. Have fun. KM6MGK Good morning.
Speaker A: All right, it was foggy down there, I'm told, just like yesterday. Some of it'll burn off, but it stayed. So I came home about 4 o' clock yesterday. Halfway up sky highway and partially in Chico. All right, I'm out the door. N6 NTM Blue Lagoon. Supposed to have an excellent breakfast and for a much lower price than anybody else. Even beats cozy.