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This is The Launch, episode 19 for April 22nd, 2025. Streaming from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, we greet you all a good morning, a good evening, or whenever your timeline may fall, time appropriate greetings indeed to one and all. This is The Launch. My name is Chris. And I'm Angela. Hello, Angela. We have a lot to get into today. I have a few things I want everyone to know before we get started. We'd love if you call us live. We'll be taking your calls after the music. Phone number is 774-462-5667. That is 774-462-5667.
You can catch the podcast live on Tuesdays, except for perhaps next week. Keep an eye on the calendar. But of course, the voicemail box is always waiting for your call. We have a weekly chat room. No, we have a 24-7 chat room at weeklylaunch.rocks. It gets a little extra busy weekly when we're going live, though. So it's a little weekly, I suppose. In fact, everything is linked at weeklylaunch.rocks. You can go over there. You can contact us. You can, I don't know, click the links. It's a website, so you know what to do. Just check it out. And we love hearing from you. Well, Andrews, there's a few things on our minds.
Both of you have, both of us, both of you. There's two Andrews in studio today. And no, but something both you and I have to deal with, because we both have travel coming up, is this enhanced driver's license ID that's required to travel by May. And boy, have I like like like most only 30 percent of Washington state so far has followed these new rules. We're just a month away now from what you travelers need to get a real ID to pass through TSA checkpoints. The new requirement takes effect May 7th in Washington. An enhanced driver's license or enhanced ID card do meet the standards for real ID.
You can also use your passport to get through TSA. But if you still need to get an approved form of ID to travel, the Washington Department of Licensing now says make an appointment quickly at a licensing office. It takes two weeks to get your ID in the mail. So how are you feeling about this? Okay, well, so we all got passports like a year or two ago. So that is a suitable alternative, thankfully. But I actually got my enhanced driver's license back in 2018. Yeah, they've been offering it for a while. No. Well, and they've been threatening to implement it for that whole time as well. But it gets really complicated because especially as somebody who has been married and dropped their last name. So I could say as a female or a wife or whatever, but it actually anybody, you know, some some dudes change their last name, too.
So when you change your name, you have to provide the entire official paper trail for why your name's changed. Right. And, uh, so that I had to get like a copy of our marriage certificate, our, um, I had to show the divorce decree, even though I still have my last name, your last name. But because you changed it when we got married a thousand years ago. Right. Yeah, exactly. Wow. And so what's funny is I was talking to my mom the other day and she was saying, yeah, you know, I really want to get back up to Washington because, uh, she abandoned me five years ago and went to Vegas.
yikes that was so funny anyway I mean facts that's how I feel but you're not really. Bitter about it or anything. She hasn't yeah no she hasn't come back up and this is what she's claiming but what's funny is I know because it's not implemented yet and it hasn't been a big problem. For like five years. Anyway so she's like yeah well I did the whole you know tried to do the whole enhanced driver's license process but they need my marriage certificate and I ordered one And I even expedited it, but I still haven't received it. And I'm like, dude, mom, you gave me your marriage certificate. I have it.
I could just send you a PDF like in 10 minutes. Oh, no, no, no. She has to have the original. She can mail it. No, I'm bringing it. Oh, yeah, you're going down there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm bringing it. Well, that works out. Yeah. So the thing that I don't know, even though I know I went through the enhanced driver's license process in 2018, I can't tell what the difference is. Like, I can't tell that I have an enhanced. There is supposed to be like a... I tried to compare it to another driver's license that is definitely not enhanced. And yeah, no, no, it's not the shimmer tree that's on there.
So, but supposedly there's an RFID chip in it. Cool. So I keep it in a sleeve so that I don't get associated with crime. So I tried to get one because I recently, with my birthday not too long ago back in January, it was time for me to renew. Your license expired. Yeah. Mine expires this year, too. So I go in, and she's like, do you want to do the enhanced driver's license for the real ID stuff? And I'm like, yeah, I probably should just get that done. Thankfully, I have not changed my name or anything like that. Right. Yeah, super easy for you.
And she brings it up on the computer. She's like, oh, the printer's down. I'm like, your printer? Do you want me to take a look at it? Oh, my gosh. I'm IT. I'm like, I don't mind taking a look at it if you want. She's like, no, no, no. Oh, my gosh. That's so funny. It's the state printer for these particular enhanced driver's licenses. It was just offline back in January when I wanted to get mine. So, like, sorry, you've got to come back again and, you know, go to the DMV and wait and then get a new license. So you just got a regular license then?
I just got a regular one. Huh. We should compare it after the show. Yeah. And, I mean, I have, like you said, my passport. Does it look like mine? I don't remember being shiny like that. And I don't have, like, a flag on it either, I don't think. Oh. So, you know, I did see that the flag was I was because I tried to Google it really quickly before the show. Yeah. Yeah. It's I'm I'm I'm not really a super big fan of these types of things. But I think this system, you know, if it makes traveling simpler. Maybe that's that's why I did it. Because I was going to Canada for a martial arts conference. That's how they get you.
But and then I got and I didn't have a passport at that point, but I do have a passport now. So I think I'm covered either way. Yeah. Well, I want to know. Those of you out there listening, where do you draw the line on the travel identification? Like, have you signed up like I have for the TSA pre-check? Maybe you got the global entry or the clear where you're scanning your eyeballs or whatever it is. You know, I hate that you can just pay more money and that makes you safe. Yeah. You know. They check your background. I was. Yeah, I know. Once. Like, maybe you waited to do all your crime until after that moment.
And I just renewed mine. So when they checked on me, it was like five years ago. Right. Yeah. I could be a terrorist by now. I'm not. But I could be. You know what? else I saw when I was booking my flight? What? You can pay to contribute to lower emissions. Yeah, yeah. And so it tells you the equivalent of how much carbon emissions you're, how? Don't worry, they'll roll that in. They'll roll that in. Where's, like, it doesn't actually say what the money. How it's going to lower. Well, I suppose they know how much fuel is being spent on that flight. Yeah.
And they know what the economy of the flight is, and then they just break it down. Although, if you're really, if you're to be honest about it, they need to know how heavy you are. What it looked like. No, no, no, no. No, it was just saying, hey, you can donate money to lower carbon emissions. They're probably just buying offsets. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's all, you know, pretty soon it'll just get rolled in. Don't worry about it. It'll be an extra fee. So let me know where you draw the line on the travel stuff. Have they broken you down? Here's my hot take.
I will celebrate the day they finally get rid of the TSA. God bless. Hopefully it doesn't go on record, but I think the TSA was a Bush-era jobs program. And the airports were not built with the TSA in mind, and it has screwed all of them up. And every study that's been done shows they've typically missed the weapon or the bomb that they tried to sneak through as a test. So my hot take is no TSA. However, that said, I do have the TSA pre-check. So they got me! I'm wondering if they got you. Boost in and let us know. It's LinuxFest Northwest this weekend in the beautiful Bellingham, Washington.
25 years of LinuxFest Northwest at Bellingham Technical College. And Angela is doing not one, not two, not three, but four sessions. Yep. Now it's the same session repeated, right? Hey, that's a clever idea. Why didn't I think of that hat? But, you know, actually, I think that some of the speakers should double up and do like one each day or something. You know, granted there's capacity. Yeah, maybe different time slots on Saturday versus Sunday or something. Yes, exactly. But I am doing, I am actually like basically going to be the face of LinuxFest. The session that I'm doing is how to LinuxFest Northwest.
And it basically just covers, you know, FAQs and all the things, you know, how you can support, where you can find things. Food. Lunch, right? Yeah, exactly. Like lunch is important, where the coffee is. You got to keep the brain energy going for the learning. Yeah. So each day at opening, I will do a session and then again after lunch before the afternoon sessions. And that way the people that come in the afternoon can still like find out, you know, the deets about the conference. We've never done this before. Right. Linux Fest has never done anything like this. Yeah. No.
It's a good idea. It's because I'm on the board now and I am making it happen. Here's an idea. Hey, guys. Here's an idea. Yeah. So I have an idea for you because we've decided we're going to live stream Saturday and Sunday. Oh, good to know. From where? Nervous from the RV. Oh, with mobile. And so what I want to do is you'll be done before we're on air because we're going to start at 10 a.m. our time. But what I want to do is send Brent out. Oh, yeah. After your first session and do like a little recap of your session. with him that we can then play on the live stream a little bit after we get started. So we can kind of start the stream with how to fest.
And then we'll, you know, of course, tell people to catch the thing. So we'll, yeah, so Brenton, probably somebody else like myself will be out there mobile capturing audio. And then we'll have a couple of us back at the RV. And whoever's out there mobile will also kind of be curating folks to send back to the RV to come sit with us and chat. Look at Wes's title suggestion. Linux Fest North Lunch. Linux Feast North Lunch. It's like, it is so perfect because Bellingham is north of here. Like, it's just, I mean, that's a great one. It's a good one. It's a chef's kiss. Yeah, and there's going to be an after party each night or just Saturday?
Well, there's so many events. You can go to meetup.com slash LinuxFest Northwest. You know, hold on. Hold on. Say it again. I'm going to put a link as you say it in the show notes. Meetup.com. What was it? Slash LinuxFest Northwest. Okay. And so there's a Friday stroll. There's a Friday game night. There's Saturday breakfast. There is Saturday dinner. And then there's Saturday after party. And then there's Sunday breakfast. And then, of course, live Linux unplugged from LinuxFest Northwest on Sunday, as well as live streaming from Jupiter Broadcasting the whole time, apparently. Yeah, well, at least most of Saturday. Yes, boy, there's a lot of meetups on this page.
Look at that. Yeah, meetup.com slash LinuxFest Northwest. The stroll around Bellingham in the evening. Yeah. Or Friday. Yeah, the Friday stroll. I could see that being really nice. We get set up. Maybe we join the Friday stroll or something if people want. Yeah. I bet that stops with, you know, sneak into that bar, sneak into this place. There are plenty of bars. Yeah, there's going to be a little bit of that going on and other things. So, yeah, we'll tell you how it goes. We may have a different live time next week. So our LinuxFest Northwest report might be on Monday, but we'll try to update the calendar. and, of course, market pending in the podcasting 2.0 apps so you know what's coming up, okay?
So don't worry about it. We'll keep you informed. It is week three of On the Road, Running from the Rats, And it's gone pretty well considering it's, I think we're two solid weeks now of being totally off-grid, just running off solar and generator from time to time. We've been really lucky that the weather has been super nice. So we've actually been generating a fair amount of solar, except for yesterday. But when we drive, we also generate power, and we had to drive yesterday. So that worked out. I thought maybe I'd give you a little report on how it's going. So let's set the tone. imagine the last three weeks your humble podcaster on the run 120 miles worth of moving around just our local area.
I've ended up hopping from farm to farm the last few weeks. Didn't even really intend to. We packed up and left our spot early Monday morning and headed off to one of my favorite spots. If you head out east towards the Cascades down Highway 20, there's this area they call the Foothill of the North Cascades. And out there is a giant active farm. Yeah, lots of cows. It's been in the family business since like 1940s, and they've passed it down by a couple generations now. And they own attached to the farm about a full square mile of forest, some of which they've logged over the years for their own uses.
So as a result of the logging, there are RV accessible pathways and there are clearings where we can park the RV and even get a good Starlink and good solar. But it's out there in the woods. It's all off grid. There's no water, no power, no pooper. It's just what you have in your rig. So that means with our setup, we can last... If it's just Hadiyah and I, six days or so. If it's us with the kids, three or four days. The tanks are really the limiting factor, you know, showers and pooping and peeing. And then eventually you'd run out of gas, but we don't use a lot of gas. That's mostly just for the generator. So we stayed out there from Monday till Saturday.
And I can't describe quiet, like how quiet this place is. How loud quiet is? Yeah, in a way, right, because you hear like every bird on a branch and all that kind of stuff. And the stars are really bright. We had clear skies. The downside is it's an hour and 45 minute drive each way. So I get worn out. The kids get tired of that drive. Like it's just, it's just not sustainable. So we stayed out there till Saturday morning from Monday to Saturday. We had the kids on board Saturday and we packed up early and set off to a new location to another farm called the Strawberry Fields Alpaca Ranch.
and it is a working alpaca ranch and they've got a lot of alpacas they're such derpy looking animals how they are but also funny um it was kind of location-wise fantastic because it's 10 minutes from the studio so that was a real treat and about 20 minutes from everything we had to do that weekend and the owner there chris is a super nice guy who was really flexible with our really crazy arrival schedules and all of that but it's very active right there's lots of people there there's noise there's machinery so we went from like dead silence to like, trucks and tractors and you know alpacas um and we paid for uh power so because.
It's an option. Yeah it was an option but then when we showed up somebody had parked their car in the spot that had power so we had to park in the no hookup spot but we still paid for the power uh so we're like all right time to move on you know when you're paying for something you're not getting let's get out of here and Hadiyah's family owns a retired farm so we we went up to yet another farm is our third farm and it's a little rougher because it's older it hasn't been active for about a decade so. It's neat in the sense that it's a whole huge-ass farm that you get to explore and walk around. It's got old farm buildings and ancient farmhouse and milksheds and cattle feeding areas and even the weird stuff.
You can see, oh, this is the drainage ditch for the waste, which is all cleaned out now. But you can see how they worked it all. And it's got lots of little nooks where you can almost feel like you're on a different spot. You don't even really feel like you're on the same property. And so we parked off in one of these nooks. It's on a ledge, and it overlooks a valley with some ponds. It's really, really picturesque, but again, there's no hookups, right? So we're just kind of running off grid on everything. And I think, though, we're good to stay here until LinuxFest.
I think we can make it till Friday or Saturday, and then we'll head up to Bellingham, and that'll be our next camping spot. And we'll have to find a place to get gas and dump all our takes. But it's been just funny. It's like one farm to the next farm to the next farm, and two of those were working farms where there's just a lot going on. And then this last one, it's like you can visualize what it used to be in its heyday, but now it's just sort of kind of slowly deteriorating because they don't really use it for much anymore. Yeah, but good scenery.
Yeah. Yeah, that is nice. This is way better than like in the core of residential with roads, paved roads and a bunch of cars and neighbors. Yeah, it's quiet too. It's quiet. It's private. There's nobody around. So it really feels secluded. And it is great to have, you know, right out the big windshield. We got the pond and there's ducks and all that kind of stuff. So, you know, we've kind of been on the run for nearly a month now, or it will be, I think, after LinuxFest. It will be just about a month. And our neighbor tells us they've deployed some additional poison. That's about it.
So I think what we'll do is with the warmer weather after LinuxFest, we'll probably head back to the home base, deploy traps, bait, lights, sprays, anything I can think of. Cameras for confirmation. Yep. And I'll just kind of roll the dice and hope we're okay for the summer. And then, you know, later fall, I think we're going to have to find somewhere else. Maybe I could work with Hadiyah's family to build out a spot on the farm that works for us. But I don't really know at this point. It's been a crazy month. Just planning and moving all the time is really something. To put 120 miles on and only really be within a 60-mile radius the entire time.
Yeah. And that's just the RV. Then there's all the cars driving. Like, we're getting gas every two days. It's crazy. So it'll be nice to have it settled down, even though I do feel like the situation isn't completely resolved. After LinuxFest, it should pretty much be settled. And we'll see. you know if i i'll have the bucket traps out i'll have all the stuff and if i you know if i start seeing critters what. Are the bucket traps is that just filling it with water so they they go in. Yes and they drown they you do a ladder and they walk up the ladder and then you have like sometimes you could put like a little food or something on the top of the bucket lid but yeah they walk on the lid and then the lid opens and they fall in oh okay yeah surprisingly effective.
Yeah no at that campground uh where that gal gave me the hot chocolate and the mice got into it she had a bucket with just some water. In it. And and there were like three dead mice in it no no trap on the top they just they wanted water and they went in and they never came out. I don't know maybe they like a ladder too it's weird it's spooky how effective it can be so i'll have those out but you know then i have to check them and then deal with it if i do catch something and if i catch something and i start catching a lot of something i think i'm gonna get the hell out of there again yeah that sucks yeah we'll see we'll see but this is this is the best I think we're going to get.
I think this is as good as it gets, and I think I'll take it at this point. Now, you know, you know, we love your voicemails, so we'd love it if you left us a message. name in town if you wish to opine that number again is 774-462-5667, 774-462-5667 and we want your calls because we love this part of the show and sledgehammer is our first caller this week. Hey, Chris, you can call me Sledgehamster. Long time listener, first time caller. Look on Amazon. There is a tape that Honda originally invented that has cayenne pepper in it that you wrap around wiring.
Apparently the... Yeah, so I'll cut it there because that particular call has the drops. But yeah, so there's a tape I can wrap some wiring. And, you know, it's too spicy. the capacia or whatever it's called what is it the the thing that's in this i. Don't know as soon as you said that. I just dropped the name it's capsic or something i don't know but i uh i need to open up my dash and work on my um cameras and it's like if i'm in there and why not yeah why not yeah maybe so that's a great tip sledge hamster did call back and that one didn't have the clicks.
Hey launch crew sledge hamster again my first car was a 69 ford galaxy 500 sounds cool And I had to quit band after I started playing trombone in sixth grade. I played up until my senior year of high school. But having bought the car, mom and dad said, we're not buying gas. We're not paying insurance. You get a job. So I had to quit band. Oh, my heart. Just appreciate you guys. Enjoy listening to everything the Jupiter Broadcasting crew puts together. And again, greetings from Middle Tennessee. Bye. Thank you, Sledge Hamster. Shout out to Tennessee. Yeah, so they had both convertible and hardtop versions of the Galaxy V8 with Cruise-O-Matic.
That's pretty neat. That's a classic. Look at that. Look at that thing's a boat. It is. It really is. Yeah. What a cool first car. Thank you, Sledge. Sir Lurksalot called in. Hey Chris, this is Sir Lurksalot here. I have so many things I could talk about back to you guys, but I'm just going to try to keep it brief. I'll warn you though, like I come with my verbose flag set all the time. It's difficult to be concise, but long story, a long time ago, I was in seventh grade and I saw a computer, maybe it was fifth grade, no it was fifth grade, and it was in about 1978, and I was enamored with them, wouldn't shut up about them.
82, we got a computer, Commodore 64. I about fell over when we got that for Christmas. I was so excited. And learning on these things young, I learned to type before I got into high school. And when I got into high school, they still didn't really have much in the way of computer classes. They had the beginnings of them. But I took a typing class and learned how to properly put my hands in the right place for typing, which made a huge difference. And then I would say years later, I was about 20, and I realized I wasn't really having to look at my hands to type. I was touch typing.
And having been interested in music when I was younger, well, in high school, I should have taken band. I would have really got a lot out of that. But instead, I was too interested in science and math and other things and computers for sure. But like I said, they didn't have a lot of computer programs back then. So I decided in my 20s that because my fingers seemed to know where the letters were before I could, as fast as I could think about it, that I could teach the same thing. You know, if I picked up a guitar, I could teach my fingers. And that gave me the patience to kind of apply myself at it.
And I've enjoyed it. I've just followed my ear and done it for fun. I've never been a part of a band or anything like that. But I get an awful lot out of playing music and I play them now more than ever because I just get better and better. With regard to music theory, yeah, I wish I had the theory then. All along I've picked up some on my own. Oh, he ran out of time on the call. He ran out of time on the call. But you know, Lurks, that is a really good insight. Like, if you taught yourself how to touch type. Yep.
Wow. That's a... I wasn't sure. I assumed that he was going to go for the guitar. I was going to say it, but his pacing, I couldn't estimate his pacing enough to inject it without accidentally talking over him. So that's really cool. Yeah. Thanks, Lurks. And that's a great insight to share. Also, the limit is two minutes. Yep. For the future. We love you rob called in. Hey all this is raving rob uh calling in to talk about episode 17 uh with the concerns about the rat infestation and controlling them, i'm a certified pesticide applicator here in washington and oregon uh the bit about there being a product that will kill a rat by making it thirsty and drying it out It's completely false.
What? Without going too much into the weeds on this, there's two main methods to deal with rodents outside of straight fumigation, traps and glue boards or rodenticide. Most commonly, a Gen 2 anticoagulant is the active ingredient in the rodenticide being used, which is essentially a concentrated blood thinner. Rodents will not feel thirst. They'll feel woozy and want to sleep, which I don't know about you but I want to sleep where my bed is so they'll go and die in your home because that's where they've been chilling, Um, as for the flooding, the crawlspace to deal with the rats, that has to be one of the absolute worst solutions I've ever heard of.
Pests are looking for all kinds of three things, food, heat, and you guessed it, water. Uh, you'll be doing no harm to the rats and even helping them. I couldn't help but laugh at that. Yeah. Anyways, that was my rant. If you need any advice or help, even if I can't necessarily physically be there, feel free to hit me up. Thank you for the great show, and I hope you all have a good one. That's a great call. I hope it's Rob. Rob, what would your estimate be of the likelihood there's a lot of rats in there? If it's been at least, I'd say, six months to maybe a year, and they've heard them in the walls, they've heard them underneath the floor, they've seen holes, do you think it's five rats or do you think it's 500 rats?
Right. That's what I— What's the magnitude? What I got from that is that rhodicide or whatever it's called is probably going to kill them, but they'll die. Where they're most. Which is horrible. It's going to stink. The glue traps are my least favorite because they're still alive when you find them. But then at least they're there. And then, of course, the bucket trap. Wow. That was really good. Thank you. And I took some notes. Appreciate that. Outdoor Geek's back with a call. Hi, Angela and Chris. Outdoor Geek here. I wrote two haikus on the subject of burnout. Burnout is real bad. There are no easy fixes. Do less of the cause.
Go outside now, please. Do the polar opposite of the burnout cause. Do you remember the game Myst? These haikus were written in the personal journal that came with my copy. Whoa thanks. For the shows bye-bye. Awesome callback. Do less of the cause i like that that should that be the title of this episode. Yeah less of the cause i don't like that dude you know, mist was was the thing about mist is that it held this extended period in my life because it was what was the go-to video game for the libraries and stuff. So library computers, you get upgraded very often. For years, it was the go-to game.
What kind of game was it? Like a puzzle-solving game. It was, because it was on old computers, it was very high-resolution graphics for the time, but you didn't move around. It was sort of a click and move, click and move. You'd probably recognize it. I know, yeah, I probably would, but all I can think of is a different game, a board game. Like there's... Risk. I'm thinking of Risk in my head. I'm visualizing risk. Do you recognize the poster at all? Does that ring a bell at all to you? No? Nah. Yeah. Yeah, you might... If you saw the gameplay, it might... It was sort of a classic computer game.
Oh, I do. You recognize that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw one, yeah. That one right there? Yes. Yeah, that's like where the first level is like, yeah, it's pretty, it's funny, it just lived in our computer gaming lives for so long at a certain age. Kind of like a Monopoly. Yeah. Pre-loaded. Yeah, it was on all the machines. All right, our last voicemail this week comes from a guy named Ryan. Hey there, Launch Crew. This is a guy named Ryan. One time, fifth time. This is going to be a bit of a downer. You know, I haven't really been engaged with a trip to space. You know, there's other things going on in the world that are distracting me.
The whole thing feels a little tone deaf right now, you know, just rich people doing rich people things. I'm not really into it. In fact, you know, people used to criticize space research when there are so many other things going wrong on Earth. And for a long time, I just thought they were silly. But I don't know. As I've gotten older, I've learned about Project Paperclip and, you know, just the general underbelly of the space program in general. And, you know, it's lost some of its luster for me. You know, the other thing is we shot William Shatner up into space a couple of years back. And when he came back, he said it felt like a funeral to him that he was watching the Earth die when he was up there.
And that's pretty humbling. And, you know, and to me, just in general space, the future right now feels more like something out of the Expanse or the Murderbot series than it does Star Trek when I was growing up. Anyway, I'm too risk averse to even try and ride a controlled explosion up into space. And I don't think that's going to change in the foreseeable future. So anyway, they can't all be happy ones, I guess. But I enjoy the shows and I look forward to hearing more from you. Have a great day. You know, your car is really just a series of controlled explosions and we ride around in that all the time. It's pretty weird.
Yeah, I think it was a little showy. I agree with you. Definitely. I lied. We actually have one more voicemail. It's from Noodles. Hey there, JB. This is Noodles, or Nate, from Fresno, California, where it is hot. And just calling to let you know that you guys were talking about how your children are musicians. I played the violin all the way from like fifth grade, actually, all the way until the end of high school. And then I sing in choir from seventh grade all the way until now. I'm 25 years old now, so I don't even know how many years that is. A lot. And honestly, I think choir is far better than playing the violin.
I think it's just more intuitive, better. But the basics of learning the violin really helped with my music career in general. um i really liked the gaming episode of uh linux unplugged but i agree with uh i don't remember who called in but he said that it would be really well really well suited for the launch and i'm inclined to agree with that one anyways just hope you guys have a great show this time i won't be listening to it live but i'll be listening to it downloaded and have a great day bye-bye thank you noodles. T-T-T-T-L-S All right.
So you can call us 774-462-5667. And the line is open. Now we're going to play our song of the week. And then if you'd like to call in, you can, and we have some more coming up, including a couple of really out there stories and an investment property. I might want to pull the trigger on this week. I'm going to try to get it before Ange does. But first, one of my favorite value for value music artists, yes, I've played one of his songs before. His name is Ollie, and this is a new track, and it's titled Deep Ends. We'll have a link in the show notes to Deep Ends by Oli. If you boost while that song was playing, 95% of the sats go to Oli.
And it's not Depends. It's Deep Ends. Did I say Depends? No, no. If you say it too fast, it does sound... Anyway, I really like that song. Yeah. He does great work. And the other thing, too, that I've noticed, now that I review a lot of these songs, is that Oli has really high-end mixes and mastering compared to some of the other ones that are really amateur. We got a caller. Let's take our caller on. Let's see. Caller, hello. Where are you at right now? Falling down the stairs. In the rain. Mississippi. Is this Magnolia Mayhem?
Yes, it is. Sounds like a lot of mayhem in the background. I don't know if this is going to work. This is kind of crazy. That's what I was cleared up. What kind of storm is going on there, man? Are you all right? I got called. I'm not even supposed to be working today. I got to be able to deliver it now on the right. Oh, man. I tell you what. I will make it a voicemail and sort the story of the clock. All right. I'll take you up on that. Sounds good. Thanks for calling. Good luck out there. No problem. See you later. That was awesome. Oh, boy. I mean, we know rain, and that sounded like some real rain out there.
well we do have some great boosts and adversary 17 comes in with our baller boost our big supporter of episode 19, Sixty six thousand and one sets. How about that? Now he began playing trumpet in the fifth grade. My school had introduced had an introduction to band night where they set all the instruments out and we were able to play them and try them. I couldn't figure out how to play any of the reed instruments. So I tried brass. Given that without even trying, I was able to match pitch with just the mouthpiece. Brass was for me. I chose trumpet to start. I played that in band up to the ninth grade.
That year, though, only the trombone we had graduated. I decided that over the summer, I was going to learn trombone and play that the rest of high school. But I had to rewrite my brain to understand the basics of clef. Am I saying that right? clef and then bass clef and then match those notes with the seven different positions and use my embouchure to tune the pitch. It was quite a bit. He said, the few times I had played since high school, I had been pleasantly surprised to remember how to play both without issues. Trombone is fun, but you get quite a workout moving the slide around.
No kidding. And he gives also a happy 16th birthday with 16,000 stats to Dylan. Nice. If Dylan was listening he would demand those sats although i did get him a nice little batch of uh bitcoin, um which right now was looking like a good buy because i bought around when you did recently and uh i just set those aside for his birthday i haven't given them to me yet but i told them about him it's hard to give them but i'll do it i'll do it uh thank you adversaries it's always great to hear from you and we really really appreciate it the immunologist is here with 6,010 sats. And I don't know if that is a number for something.
But I think it just might be. He says, here, I can finally shine with some expertise. I love that. I love this because this show does cover a wide range of things. There's something for everybody in this show. So share it with your friends. Continue. You can be allergic to egg whites, yolk, or both. Mayonnaise tolerance is a bit tricky since there are less allergies in yolk, but boiled egg is potentially less triggering than raw yolk found in mayonnaise. Okay. Well, what is happening with me with cooked eggs? Yeah.
I don't even know. Because you're never eating raw eggs. Right? Well, definitely not. Oh, well, I mean, yes, I do over medium eggs where the yolk is, you know, not cooked through. But, yeah, I'm basically using cooked eggs as a laxative right now. Oh, my God. all right see there you go why does it happen we don't know we don't know but what i do know, IR Joe comes in with 3,072 sats. It was Kiowa Joe with the battle bus. I should probably have tried to mumble less. Oh, oh, oh, oh, for the call. How is it only now that I hear the members' bootleg feed for the launch? Now I have to go listen to all the episodes.
Yes, yes. There is premium content before and after the released version of the show. Yep. We really make it for the members. Not that I mind, considering I went spelunking for the back catalog, You Tried to Hide, and I listened to those as well. Oh, you sneaky. Although I didn't catch the KB catalog live, but I did listen to the bootleg feed when it's available. You, sir, you win the prize for Motivated. Yeah, the reason why I hit the back catalog is it was a totally different show. It was just me vibing before Coda Radio. And I don't even say vibing. Thank you for the boost.
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Thank you very much, Outdoor Geek. Appreciate the voicemail, too. Nice to hear from you. Otterbrains here with our final boost of the week, and it's 10,000 sats. My go-to for managing stress. A co-op video game with my kid. a cup of hot chocolate while watching the Big Bang Theory and catching up with a friend on the phone you know I love all of those so much co-op video gaming is my favorite the only way I ever finish a video game if it's co-op, well you know with the exception of Mario's and stuff single player games I just don't tend to stick with but if it's a social experience then I will and also my go to would probably be Star Trek The Next Generation, although in the evenings with dinner I've been watching Cheers from the beginning, and I just got to the season where they replace Diane and the show gets way better. I was a little worried when Diane left.
You know, when I was a kid watching Cheers, the Diane episodes were always the really old episodes. And then the ones where Christy Alley comes on were always sort of like the newer ones. So it's I didn't realize it took like five seasons before Diane leaves because there's like 11 seasons of Cheers or something like that. Wasn't Christy Alley Diane? No. No, a different actress played. Oh, okay. Yeah, Christy Alley plays Rebecca. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Oh, you know what? It's because she's in It Takes Two, and I think her name is Diane in that.
Oh. That's what, yep, just threw me off. Yeah. I mean, you know what? Show, surprisingly good. Kind of holds up, I have to say. I was very impressed. I've been enjoying it quite a bit. It's a nice dinner show. Thank you, everybody, who boosted in. We really appreciate it. We had five of you stream sats while you listened. Not a big one. Not a big showing this week. 4,385 sats. But the boosters, including our baller-like adversaries, they did the heavy lift this week. Thank you, everybody. With you, we stacked 94,468 sats. If you'd like to boost in the easiest way to do it is with fountain fm they do all the hosting for you but you can also self-host to go all the way to fully sovereign there's a lot of great apps listed at podcast apps.com strike is a fantastic way to get sass we'll put some links in the show notes to help you out thank you everybody who's either a member of jupiter party, or boost in each individual production to support that episode we really appreciate it keeps us going, Okay, Andrews, I got some stories for you to wrap us up. This one, I feel like is a PSA.
I could see just about any gal doing this or a dude new to makeup. Man, a North Carolina mom glues her eyes shut by mistake. Check this out. It's bad. One wrong drop. And when it hit my eye, like, it immediately burnt, like, really bad. Kanitha Faggart's eye is now glued shut after mistaking her nail glue for eye drops. She says the shape and size of the bottles are similar. It wasn't until I went to rub it and when I came back my finger got stuck on my eye and that's when I was like it clicked. I was like that was nail glue. Faggart called her daughter to take her to the hospital where nurses tried to soothe the burn.
And they were just trying to flush the eye, just water water and it just wasn't doing anything. Faggart's daughter documented the scary mistake on TikTok. that video now has more than 11 million views. So many people have commented and said, oh, this happened to me when I was younger. This happened to my brother. And I'm like, that's when I realized that it does happen a lot. Poison control experts say it's not uncommon for people to make this mistake. Doctors expect her eye will stay glued shut for another month and a half. I haven't had like any peaceful sleep. Like I have horrible headaches.
And they said that the glue can also be messing like with my sinuses. The tables have now turned for this Concord mother out of work until further notice. I'm a nurturer. I'm a foster parent. So I'm used to taking care of people. I thank God for my kids and my friends, like because they literally have to do everything, like take care of me. So you seem to feel like a month and a half wasn't too bad. But I'm like, I mean, better than going blind or, you know, who knows what her vision will be like after this. But holy moly, I can't even imagine.
I know. I know. So awful. and in the video version the camera operator like for a solid 10 seconds locks in on her hands and her massive nails like this gal's got a set of nails you know. I was thinking glue has typically a consistency that's not water like contact solution so how could this be but maybe nail glue you know I've never done nail glue whatever maybe it is more liquid. Yeah I bet it goes on like liquid covers the nail right because she had big nails that were applied Yeah. Smashes down. I don't know. So what's interesting is I am allergic to contact solution. So I actually can't even use contact solution in my eyes. I just have to do the dailies. And if my eyes dry out, I just have to take them out.
Now, this is a little extreme. I'm not going to say I couldn't see myself doing this next story. But I mean, I never have. But there was a man. This is a big brain guy. You're going to go on a list. I know. I got to be careful this episode. But listen to this big brain. OK. So his girlfriend approaches him and she's like, hey, bae, will you house sit my pet while I go on a cruise? His name is Joshua Lau and he has been sentenced to eight months in prison for emailing a bomb threat to Carnival Cruise Line because he didn't want to watch his girlfriend's pet while her and her family went on a cruise.
Oh, her and her family. OK, because I know. Right? Yeah. You know what you did. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, at first you're like, well, is she going without him? Like, who's it going with? Yeah, right. Exactly. It was a family cruise. Here's what he wrote in the email. This is, again, big brain stuff. Keep it tight. Keep it short. Right? This is good tips. Quote, hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your cruise ship, on your Sunrise cruise ship. Well, as you can imagine, this led to a full panic by Carnival. They swept over a thousand rooms on the ship.
It already departed at this point. The cruise was diverted en route to Jamaica as a result. Authorities quickly traced the email back to Lau, who had been living with his girlfriend and their family at the time. So he was also living in the house that the pet already lived in. Oh, my gosh. When they tracked him down, he says, this is all my fault and I take full responsibility. Prosecutors and FBI officials emphasized the serious consequences of such false threats and highlighted the strain they place on resources and potential widespread fear. this is he could have gotten five years in prison yeah he's getting eight months and.
There's no fee like because that is an expense to do all that like that's crazy. How lazy do you guys so dude is bumming off his girlfriend's family living there and doesn't even want to watch the pet, Bro, not only should you watch The Pet, you should vacuum that freaking place. You should mow the lawn. It should be spotless. Yeah, bro. Like, come on. Step up. That's ridiculous. Okay, okay, okay. Last weird story. I had to fit this one in because you're going to see this one going around on the internet this week because it's just wild. You're never going to believe the direction this interview goes.
There was a rather violent Queensland carjacking. And, well, about 20 seconds in, the interview takes a turn you won't expect. Witnesses are recounting some of the drama that unfolded on the Sunshine Coast this afternoon. Two sisters have told how their mother and man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way, only to find the gun-wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. Here's some of what they had to say. And one guy, he was up there with our mum, and he went up there, and he was coming back down towards us. And he goes, run, he's got a gun. And our hearts started to pound and I said, well, Mum, where's Mum?
And poor Mum was stuck up there, but apparently our brave Mum, she goes, are you all right? Because he had all blood all over his face. And he goes, I'll shoot you. She goes, hey, I'm here to help. And Mum distracted him to make him look the other way and he looked the other way and Mama ran into the bush behind the fence. And the guy goes to her, I'll find you and I'll shoot you. All I was thinking about when we were running, I hope he doesn't fire. Yeah, we were so blessed. How close to him do you think you were? Well, see, he was up there. And we were passed out of the driveway.
Yeah, yeah. You don't think of all of that at the time. No, you just run for your safety. That's crazy. How wild is that? They are almost perfectly in sync for 80% of it. It almost sounds like the vocals got doubled for a moment. Right. It's just the wildest thing. These sisters who live on Steve Irwin Way just have quite the story where the mother tried to distract a gunman. there was multiple alleged car thieves involved it was really something but you just can't get past the fact that these two ladies talk almost exactly in sync and so i just had to play that video is going around like crazy now as we get out of here i just want to float another investment idea past you andrews all right okay this one it's a little extra special with a lot of potential.
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And it's rough. But I look at that. That's potential. right there and 10 acres. Yeah, this is really cool. And it sounds like bunker sounds like dirty and whatever, but there is like a residential. Loft up top. Like so the barn, so the bunker lives under this barn and the barn has like an apartment in it. And it's like a well furnished with air conditioning, flat screen TV, a large kitchen. So on top of the bunker is a regular old residential home. And then below is where all the potential is. I mean, it's so neat. And, you know, with a half-mile-long driveway, we probably don't have to worry about road noise.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's $750,000, and it's in Kansas. But this sucker right here, I mean, no HOA. Right. Okay, that's pretty great. Oh, yeah, in the airfield. Yeah. You know how you always wanted to be a pilot? You know, you could just fly in. You buy it and then find its restricted airspace. No. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own the ultimate Prepper's Retreat. I've actually never seen a bunker in this good of shape with 10 acres of land at this price. Yeah. If you wanted to live in the middle of Kansas, I suppose. I'm zooming out right now to get it. It looks like they've been trying to sell it for quite a while, though. It hasn't.
Yeah, it literally, it's sort of east, middle of Kansas. So if you know the Kansas area, it's not far from Hillsborough. So it sold in December 2020, and then it got listed for $280,000 three times in 2020. That's a way crazy better price. Yeah, and then in May 2023, $649,000, and then July 2023, $799,000. And so now it's gone down 50,000 a year, about a year later. I wonder if the apartment refurb up top is the new. Oh, that could be, because it does look fairly new. It looks modern. Yeah. It looks brand new, actually. Yeah.
Oh, wow. What a, I don't know what kind of life I got to live where I'm seriously buying a 23 acre in total. Holy smokes. Yeah. Jeez i saw i saw this at 10 acres in the thing but this 23 acres in total it's got its own um missile silo it's got its own airstrip it's got multiple cement pads for rigs it's got a half mile long driveway paved. A 700 square foot studio. And then, you know, you do whatever you want underneath. I don't know. You could prep. You could build a factory. I don't care what you're doing. You could have a factory. I mean, you could fly in the shipment straight.
You're welcome. I'm going to put a link in the show notes, but you better get it before I do. Because I'll tell you what, that Bitcoin shoots up to like $5 million tomorrow. I'm going to buy that. That's going to happen. All right. All right. I think that's it for us. If you want to check that property out, it is actually kind of cool to look at. We'll have a link in the show notes. Those show notes are at weeklylaunch.rocks. Now, don't remember, we might be live maybe Monday next week. We're not sure. We're going to get it dialed in as it gets closer. So stay on your toes if you're a live streamer, and we always want you there.
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This is The Launch, episode 19 for April 22nd, 2025. Streaming from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, we greet you all a good morning, a good evening, or whenever your timeline may fall, time appropriate greetings indeed to one and all. This is The Launch. My name is Chris. And I'm Angela. Hello, Angela. We have a lot to get into today. I have a few things I want everyone to know before we get started. We'd love if you call us live. We'll be taking your calls after the music. Phone number is 774-462-5667. That is 774-462-5667.
You can catch the podcast live on Tuesdays, except for perhaps next week. Keep an eye on the calendar. But of course, the voicemail box is always waiting for your call. We have a weekly chat room. No, we have a 24-7 chat room at weeklylaunch.rocks. It gets a little extra busy weekly when we're going live, though. So it's a little weekly, I suppose. In fact, everything is linked at weeklylaunch.rocks. You can go over there. You can contact us. You can, I don't know, click the links. It's a website, so you know what to do. Just check it out. And we love hearing from you. Well, Andrews, there's a few things on our minds.
Both of you have, both of us, both of you. There's two Andrews in studio today. And no, but something both you and I have to deal with, because we both have travel coming up, is this enhanced driver's license ID that's required to travel by May. And boy, have I like like like most only 30 percent of Washington state so far has followed these new rules. We're just a month away now from what you travelers need to get a real ID to pass through TSA checkpoints. The new requirement takes effect May 7th in Washington. An enhanced driver's license or enhanced ID card do meet the standards for real ID.
You can also use your passport to get through TSA. But if you still need to get an approved form of ID to travel, the Washington Department of Licensing now says make an appointment quickly at a licensing office. It takes two weeks to get your ID in the mail. So how are you feeling about this? Okay, well, so we all got passports like a year or two ago. So that is a suitable alternative, thankfully. But I actually got my enhanced driver's license back in 2018. Yeah, they've been offering it for a while. No. Well, and they've been threatening to implement it for that whole time as well. But it gets really complicated because especially as somebody who has been married and dropped their last name. So I could say as a female or a wife or whatever, but it actually anybody, you know, some some dudes change their last name, too.
So when you change your name, you have to provide the entire official paper trail for why your name's changed. Right. And, uh, so that I had to get like a copy of our marriage certificate, our, um, I had to show the divorce decree, even though I still have my last name, your last name. But because you changed it when we got married a thousand years ago. Right. Yeah, exactly. Wow. And so what's funny is I was talking to my mom the other day and she was saying, yeah, you know, I really want to get back up to Washington because, uh, she abandoned me five years ago and went to Vegas.
yikes that was so funny anyway I mean facts that's how I feel but you're not really. Bitter about it or anything. She hasn't yeah no she hasn't come back up and this is what she's claiming but what's funny is I know because it's not implemented yet and it hasn't been a big problem. For like five years. Anyway so she's like yeah well I did the whole you know tried to do the whole enhanced driver's license process but they need my marriage certificate and I ordered one And I even expedited it, but I still haven't received it. And I'm like, dude, mom, you gave me your marriage certificate. I have it.
I could just send you a PDF like in 10 minutes. Oh, no, no, no. She has to have the original. She can mail it. No, I'm bringing it. Oh, yeah, you're going down there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm bringing it. Well, that works out. Yeah. So the thing that I don't know, even though I know I went through the enhanced driver's license process in 2018, I can't tell what the difference is. Like, I can't tell that I have an enhanced. There is supposed to be like a... I tried to compare it to another driver's license that is definitely not enhanced. And yeah, no, no, it's not the shimmer tree that's on there.
So, but supposedly there's an RFID chip in it. Cool. So I keep it in a sleeve so that I don't get associated with crime. So I tried to get one because I recently, with my birthday not too long ago back in January, it was time for me to renew. Your license expired. Yeah. Mine expires this year, too. So I go in, and she's like, do you want to do the enhanced driver's license for the real ID stuff? And I'm like, yeah, I probably should just get that done. Thankfully, I have not changed my name or anything like that. Right. Yeah, super easy for you.
And she brings it up on the computer. She's like, oh, the printer's down. I'm like, your printer? Do you want me to take a look at it? Oh, my gosh. I'm IT. I'm like, I don't mind taking a look at it if you want. She's like, no, no, no. Oh, my gosh. That's so funny. It's the state printer for these particular enhanced driver's licenses. It was just offline back in January when I wanted to get mine. So, like, sorry, you've got to come back again and, you know, go to the DMV and wait and then get a new license. So you just got a regular license then?
I just got a regular one. Huh. We should compare it after the show. Yeah. And, I mean, I have, like you said, my passport. Does it look like mine? I don't remember being shiny like that. And I don't have, like, a flag on it either, I don't think. Oh. So, you know, I did see that the flag was I was because I tried to Google it really quickly before the show. Yeah. Yeah. It's I'm I'm I'm not really a super big fan of these types of things. But I think this system, you know, if it makes traveling simpler. Maybe that's that's why I did it. Because I was going to Canada for a martial arts conference. That's how they get you.
But and then I got and I didn't have a passport at that point, but I do have a passport now. So I think I'm covered either way. Yeah. Well, I want to know. Those of you out there listening, where do you draw the line on the travel identification? Like, have you signed up like I have for the TSA pre-check? Maybe you got the global entry or the clear where you're scanning your eyeballs or whatever it is. You know, I hate that you can just pay more money and that makes you safe. Yeah. You know. They check your background. I was. Yeah, I know. Once. Like, maybe you waited to do all your crime until after that moment.
And I just renewed mine. So when they checked on me, it was like five years ago. Right. Yeah. I could be a terrorist by now. I'm not. But I could be. You know what? else I saw when I was booking my flight? What? You can pay to contribute to lower emissions. Yeah, yeah. And so it tells you the equivalent of how much carbon emissions you're, how? Don't worry, they'll roll that in. They'll roll that in. Where's, like, it doesn't actually say what the money. How it's going to lower. Well, I suppose they know how much fuel is being spent on that flight. Yeah.
And they know what the economy of the flight is, and then they just break it down. Although, if you're really, if you're to be honest about it, they need to know how heavy you are. What it looked like. No, no, no, no. No, it was just saying, hey, you can donate money to lower carbon emissions. They're probably just buying offsets. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's all, you know, pretty soon it'll just get rolled in. Don't worry about it. It'll be an extra fee. So let me know where you draw the line on the travel stuff. Have they broken you down? Here's my hot take.
I will celebrate the day they finally get rid of the TSA. God bless. Hopefully it doesn't go on record, but I think the TSA was a Bush-era jobs program. And the airports were not built with the TSA in mind, and it has screwed all of them up. And every study that's been done shows they've typically missed the weapon or the bomb that they tried to sneak through as a test. So my hot take is no TSA. However, that said, I do have the TSA pre-check. So they got me! I'm wondering if they got you. Boost in and let us know. It's LinuxFest Northwest this weekend in the beautiful Bellingham, Washington.
25 years of LinuxFest Northwest at Bellingham Technical College. And Angela is doing not one, not two, not three, but four sessions. Yep. Now it's the same session repeated, right? Hey, that's a clever idea. Why didn't I think of that hat? But, you know, actually, I think that some of the speakers should double up and do like one each day or something. You know, granted there's capacity. Yeah, maybe different time slots on Saturday versus Sunday or something. Yes, exactly. But I am doing, I am actually like basically going to be the face of LinuxFest. The session that I'm doing is how to LinuxFest Northwest.
And it basically just covers, you know, FAQs and all the things, you know, how you can support, where you can find things. Food. Lunch, right? Yeah, exactly. Like lunch is important, where the coffee is. You got to keep the brain energy going for the learning. Yeah. So each day at opening, I will do a session and then again after lunch before the afternoon sessions. And that way the people that come in the afternoon can still like find out, you know, the deets about the conference. We've never done this before. Right. Linux Fest has never done anything like this. Yeah. No.
It's a good idea. It's because I'm on the board now and I am making it happen. Here's an idea. Hey, guys. Here's an idea. Yeah. So I have an idea for you because we've decided we're going to live stream Saturday and Sunday. Oh, good to know. From where? Nervous from the RV. Oh, with mobile. And so what I want to do is you'll be done before we're on air because we're going to start at 10 a.m. our time. But what I want to do is send Brent out. Oh, yeah. After your first session and do like a little recap of your session. with him that we can then play on the live stream a little bit after we get started. So we can kind of start the stream with how to fest.
And then we'll, you know, of course, tell people to catch the thing. So we'll, yeah, so Brenton, probably somebody else like myself will be out there mobile capturing audio. And then we'll have a couple of us back at the RV. And whoever's out there mobile will also kind of be curating folks to send back to the RV to come sit with us and chat. Look at Wes's title suggestion. Linux Fest North Lunch. Linux Feast North Lunch. It's like, it is so perfect because Bellingham is north of here. Like, it's just, I mean, that's a great one. It's a good one. It's a chef's kiss. Yeah, and there's going to be an after party each night or just Saturday?
Well, there's so many events. You can go to meetup.com slash LinuxFest Northwest. You know, hold on. Hold on. Say it again. I'm going to put a link as you say it in the show notes. Meetup.com. What was it? Slash LinuxFest Northwest. Okay. And so there's a Friday stroll. There's a Friday game night. There's Saturday breakfast. There is Saturday dinner. And then there's Saturday after party. And then there's Sunday breakfast. And then, of course, live Linux unplugged from LinuxFest Northwest on Sunday, as well as live streaming from Jupiter Broadcasting the whole time, apparently. Yeah, well, at least most of Saturday. Yes, boy, there's a lot of meetups on this page.
Look at that. Yeah, meetup.com slash LinuxFest Northwest. The stroll around Bellingham in the evening. Yeah. Or Friday. Yeah, the Friday stroll. I could see that being really nice. We get set up. Maybe we join the Friday stroll or something if people want. Yeah. I bet that stops with, you know, sneak into that bar, sneak into this place. There are plenty of bars. Yeah, there's going to be a little bit of that going on and other things. So, yeah, we'll tell you how it goes. We may have a different live time next week. So our LinuxFest Northwest report might be on Monday, but we'll try to update the calendar. and, of course, market pending in the podcasting 2.0 apps so you know what's coming up, okay?
So don't worry about it. We'll keep you informed. It is week three of On the Road, Running from the Rats, And it's gone pretty well considering it's, I think we're two solid weeks now of being totally off-grid, just running off solar and generator from time to time. We've been really lucky that the weather has been super nice. So we've actually been generating a fair amount of solar, except for yesterday. But when we drive, we also generate power, and we had to drive yesterday. So that worked out. I thought maybe I'd give you a little report on how it's going. So let's set the tone. imagine the last three weeks your humble podcaster on the run 120 miles worth of moving around just our local area.
I've ended up hopping from farm to farm the last few weeks. Didn't even really intend to. We packed up and left our spot early Monday morning and headed off to one of my favorite spots. If you head out east towards the Cascades down Highway 20, there's this area they call the Foothill of the North Cascades. And out there is a giant active farm. Yeah, lots of cows. It's been in the family business since like 1940s, and they've passed it down by a couple generations now. And they own attached to the farm about a full square mile of forest, some of which they've logged over the years for their own uses.
So as a result of the logging, there are RV accessible pathways and there are clearings where we can park the RV and even get a good Starlink and good solar. But it's out there in the woods. It's all off grid. There's no water, no power, no pooper. It's just what you have in your rig. So that means with our setup, we can last... If it's just Hadiyah and I, six days or so. If it's us with the kids, three or four days. The tanks are really the limiting factor, you know, showers and pooping and peeing. And then eventually you'd run out of gas, but we don't use a lot of gas. That's mostly just for the generator. So we stayed out there from Monday till Saturday.
And I can't describe quiet, like how quiet this place is. How loud quiet is? Yeah, in a way, right, because you hear like every bird on a branch and all that kind of stuff. And the stars are really bright. We had clear skies. The downside is it's an hour and 45 minute drive each way. So I get worn out. The kids get tired of that drive. Like it's just, it's just not sustainable. So we stayed out there till Saturday morning from Monday to Saturday. We had the kids on board Saturday and we packed up early and set off to a new location to another farm called the Strawberry Fields Alpaca Ranch.
and it is a working alpaca ranch and they've got a lot of alpacas they're such derpy looking animals how they are but also funny um it was kind of location-wise fantastic because it's 10 minutes from the studio so that was a real treat and about 20 minutes from everything we had to do that weekend and the owner there chris is a super nice guy who was really flexible with our really crazy arrival schedules and all of that but it's very active right there's lots of people there there's noise there's machinery so we went from like dead silence to like, trucks and tractors and you know alpacas um and we paid for uh power so because.
It's an option. Yeah it was an option but then when we showed up somebody had parked their car in the spot that had power so we had to park in the no hookup spot but we still paid for the power uh so we're like all right time to move on you know when you're paying for something you're not getting let's get out of here and Hadiyah's family owns a retired farm so we we went up to yet another farm is our third farm and it's a little rougher because it's older it hasn't been active for about a decade so. It's neat in the sense that it's a whole huge-ass farm that you get to explore and walk around. It's got old farm buildings and ancient farmhouse and milksheds and cattle feeding areas and even the weird stuff.
You can see, oh, this is the drainage ditch for the waste, which is all cleaned out now. But you can see how they worked it all. And it's got lots of little nooks where you can almost feel like you're on a different spot. You don't even really feel like you're on the same property. And so we parked off in one of these nooks. It's on a ledge, and it overlooks a valley with some ponds. It's really, really picturesque, but again, there's no hookups, right? So we're just kind of running off grid on everything. And I think, though, we're good to stay here until LinuxFest.
I think we can make it till Friday or Saturday, and then we'll head up to Bellingham, and that'll be our next camping spot. And we'll have to find a place to get gas and dump all our takes. But it's been just funny. It's like one farm to the next farm to the next farm, and two of those were working farms where there's just a lot going on. And then this last one, it's like you can visualize what it used to be in its heyday, but now it's just sort of kind of slowly deteriorating because they don't really use it for much anymore. Yeah, but good scenery.
Yeah. Yeah, that is nice. This is way better than like in the core of residential with roads, paved roads and a bunch of cars and neighbors. Yeah, it's quiet too. It's quiet. It's private. There's nobody around. So it really feels secluded. And it is great to have, you know, right out the big windshield. We got the pond and there's ducks and all that kind of stuff. So, you know, we've kind of been on the run for nearly a month now, or it will be, I think, after LinuxFest. It will be just about a month. And our neighbor tells us they've deployed some additional poison. That's about it.
So I think what we'll do is with the warmer weather after LinuxFest, we'll probably head back to the home base, deploy traps, bait, lights, sprays, anything I can think of. Cameras for confirmation. Yep. And I'll just kind of roll the dice and hope we're okay for the summer. And then, you know, later fall, I think we're going to have to find somewhere else. Maybe I could work with Hadiyah's family to build out a spot on the farm that works for us. But I don't really know at this point. It's been a crazy month. Just planning and moving all the time is really something. To put 120 miles on and only really be within a 60-mile radius the entire time.
Yeah. And that's just the RV. Then there's all the cars driving. Like, we're getting gas every two days. It's crazy. So it'll be nice to have it settled down, even though I do feel like the situation isn't completely resolved. After LinuxFest, it should pretty much be settled. And we'll see. you know if i i'll have the bucket traps out i'll have all the stuff and if i you know if i start seeing critters what. Are the bucket traps is that just filling it with water so they they go in. Yes and they drown they you do a ladder and they walk up the ladder and then you have like sometimes you could put like a little food or something on the top of the bucket lid but yeah they walk on the lid and then the lid opens and they fall in oh okay yeah surprisingly effective.
Yeah no at that campground uh where that gal gave me the hot chocolate and the mice got into it she had a bucket with just some water. In it. And and there were like three dead mice in it no no trap on the top they just they wanted water and they went in and they never came out. I don't know maybe they like a ladder too it's weird it's spooky how effective it can be so i'll have those out but you know then i have to check them and then deal with it if i do catch something and if i catch something and i start catching a lot of something i think i'm gonna get the hell out of there again yeah that sucks yeah we'll see we'll see but this is this is the best I think we're going to get.
I think this is as good as it gets, and I think I'll take it at this point. Now, you know, you know, we love your voicemails, so we'd love it if you left us a message. name in town if you wish to opine that number again is 774-462-5667, 774-462-5667 and we want your calls because we love this part of the show and sledgehammer is our first caller this week. Hey, Chris, you can call me Sledgehamster. Long time listener, first time caller. Look on Amazon. There is a tape that Honda originally invented that has cayenne pepper in it that you wrap around wiring.
Apparently the... Yeah, so I'll cut it there because that particular call has the drops. But yeah, so there's a tape I can wrap some wiring. And, you know, it's too spicy. the capacia or whatever it's called what is it the the thing that's in this i. Don't know as soon as you said that. I just dropped the name it's capsic or something i don't know but i uh i need to open up my dash and work on my um cameras and it's like if i'm in there and why not yeah why not yeah maybe so that's a great tip sledge hamster did call back and that one didn't have the clicks.
Hey launch crew sledge hamster again my first car was a 69 ford galaxy 500 sounds cool And I had to quit band after I started playing trombone in sixth grade. I played up until my senior year of high school. But having bought the car, mom and dad said, we're not buying gas. We're not paying insurance. You get a job. So I had to quit band. Oh, my heart. Just appreciate you guys. Enjoy listening to everything the Jupiter Broadcasting crew puts together. And again, greetings from Middle Tennessee. Bye. Thank you, Sledge Hamster. Shout out to Tennessee. Yeah, so they had both convertible and hardtop versions of the Galaxy V8 with Cruise-O-Matic.
That's pretty neat. That's a classic. Look at that. Look at that thing's a boat. It is. It really is. Yeah. What a cool first car. Thank you, Sledge. Sir Lurksalot called in. Hey Chris, this is Sir Lurksalot here. I have so many things I could talk about back to you guys, but I'm just going to try to keep it brief. I'll warn you though, like I come with my verbose flag set all the time. It's difficult to be concise, but long story, a long time ago, I was in seventh grade and I saw a computer, maybe it was fifth grade, no it was fifth grade, and it was in about 1978, and I was enamored with them, wouldn't shut up about them.
82, we got a computer, Commodore 64. I about fell over when we got that for Christmas. I was so excited. And learning on these things young, I learned to type before I got into high school. And when I got into high school, they still didn't really have much in the way of computer classes. They had the beginnings of them. But I took a typing class and learned how to properly put my hands in the right place for typing, which made a huge difference. And then I would say years later, I was about 20, and I realized I wasn't really having to look at my hands to type. I was touch typing.
And having been interested in music when I was younger, well, in high school, I should have taken band. I would have really got a lot out of that. But instead, I was too interested in science and math and other things and computers for sure. But like I said, they didn't have a lot of computer programs back then. So I decided in my 20s that because my fingers seemed to know where the letters were before I could, as fast as I could think about it, that I could teach the same thing. You know, if I picked up a guitar, I could teach my fingers. And that gave me the patience to kind of apply myself at it.
And I've enjoyed it. I've just followed my ear and done it for fun. I've never been a part of a band or anything like that. But I get an awful lot out of playing music and I play them now more than ever because I just get better and better. With regard to music theory, yeah, I wish I had the theory then. All along I've picked up some on my own. Oh, he ran out of time on the call. He ran out of time on the call. But you know, Lurks, that is a really good insight. Like, if you taught yourself how to touch type. Yep.
Wow. That's a... I wasn't sure. I assumed that he was going to go for the guitar. I was going to say it, but his pacing, I couldn't estimate his pacing enough to inject it without accidentally talking over him. So that's really cool. Yeah. Thanks, Lurks. And that's a great insight to share. Also, the limit is two minutes. Yep. For the future. We love you rob called in. Hey all this is raving rob uh calling in to talk about episode 17 uh with the concerns about the rat infestation and controlling them, i'm a certified pesticide applicator here in washington and oregon uh the bit about there being a product that will kill a rat by making it thirsty and drying it out It's completely false.
What? Without going too much into the weeds on this, there's two main methods to deal with rodents outside of straight fumigation, traps and glue boards or rodenticide. Most commonly, a Gen 2 anticoagulant is the active ingredient in the rodenticide being used, which is essentially a concentrated blood thinner. Rodents will not feel thirst. They'll feel woozy and want to sleep, which I don't know about you but I want to sleep where my bed is so they'll go and die in your home because that's where they've been chilling, Um, as for the flooding, the crawlspace to deal with the rats, that has to be one of the absolute worst solutions I've ever heard of.
Pests are looking for all kinds of three things, food, heat, and you guessed it, water. Uh, you'll be doing no harm to the rats and even helping them. I couldn't help but laugh at that. Yeah. Anyways, that was my rant. If you need any advice or help, even if I can't necessarily physically be there, feel free to hit me up. Thank you for the great show, and I hope you all have a good one. That's a great call. I hope it's Rob. Rob, what would your estimate be of the likelihood there's a lot of rats in there? If it's been at least, I'd say, six months to maybe a year, and they've heard them in the walls, they've heard them underneath the floor, they've seen holes, do you think it's five rats or do you think it's 500 rats?
Right. That's what I— What's the magnitude? What I got from that is that rhodicide or whatever it's called is probably going to kill them, but they'll die. Where they're most. Which is horrible. It's going to stink. The glue traps are my least favorite because they're still alive when you find them. But then at least they're there. And then, of course, the bucket trap. Wow. That was really good. Thank you. And I took some notes. Appreciate that. Outdoor Geek's back with a call. Hi, Angela and Chris. Outdoor Geek here. I wrote two haikus on the subject of burnout. Burnout is real bad. There are no easy fixes. Do less of the cause.
Go outside now, please. Do the polar opposite of the burnout cause. Do you remember the game Myst? These haikus were written in the personal journal that came with my copy. Whoa thanks. For the shows bye-bye. Awesome callback. Do less of the cause i like that that should that be the title of this episode. Yeah less of the cause i don't like that dude you know, mist was was the thing about mist is that it held this extended period in my life because it was what was the go-to video game for the libraries and stuff. So library computers, you get upgraded very often. For years, it was the go-to game.
What kind of game was it? Like a puzzle-solving game. It was, because it was on old computers, it was very high-resolution graphics for the time, but you didn't move around. It was sort of a click and move, click and move. You'd probably recognize it. I know, yeah, I probably would, but all I can think of is a different game, a board game. Like there's... Risk. I'm thinking of Risk in my head. I'm visualizing risk. Do you recognize the poster at all? Does that ring a bell at all to you? No? Nah. Yeah. Yeah, you might... If you saw the gameplay, it might... It was sort of a classic computer game.
Oh, I do. You recognize that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw one, yeah. That one right there? Yes. Yeah, that's like where the first level is like, yeah, it's pretty, it's funny, it just lived in our computer gaming lives for so long at a certain age. Kind of like a Monopoly. Yeah. Pre-loaded. Yeah, it was on all the machines. All right, our last voicemail this week comes from a guy named Ryan. Hey there, Launch Crew. This is a guy named Ryan. One time, fifth time. This is going to be a bit of a downer. You know, I haven't really been engaged with a trip to space. You know, there's other things going on in the world that are distracting me.
The whole thing feels a little tone deaf right now, you know, just rich people doing rich people things. I'm not really into it. In fact, you know, people used to criticize space research when there are so many other things going wrong on Earth. And for a long time, I just thought they were silly. But I don't know. As I've gotten older, I've learned about Project Paperclip and, you know, just the general underbelly of the space program in general. And, you know, it's lost some of its luster for me. You know, the other thing is we shot William Shatner up into space a couple of years back. And when he came back, he said it felt like a funeral to him that he was watching the Earth die when he was up there.
And that's pretty humbling. And, you know, and to me, just in general space, the future right now feels more like something out of the Expanse or the Murderbot series than it does Star Trek when I was growing up. Anyway, I'm too risk averse to even try and ride a controlled explosion up into space. And I don't think that's going to change in the foreseeable future. So anyway, they can't all be happy ones, I guess. But I enjoy the shows and I look forward to hearing more from you. Have a great day. You know, your car is really just a series of controlled explosions and we ride around in that all the time. It's pretty weird.
Yeah, I think it was a little showy. I agree with you. Definitely. I lied. We actually have one more voicemail. It's from Noodles. Hey there, JB. This is Noodles, or Nate, from Fresno, California, where it is hot. And just calling to let you know that you guys were talking about how your children are musicians. I played the violin all the way from like fifth grade, actually, all the way until the end of high school. And then I sing in choir from seventh grade all the way until now. I'm 25 years old now, so I don't even know how many years that is. A lot. And honestly, I think choir is far better than playing the violin.
I think it's just more intuitive, better. But the basics of learning the violin really helped with my music career in general. um i really liked the gaming episode of uh linux unplugged but i agree with uh i don't remember who called in but he said that it would be really well really well suited for the launch and i'm inclined to agree with that one anyways just hope you guys have a great show this time i won't be listening to it live but i'll be listening to it downloaded and have a great day bye-bye thank you noodles. T-T-T-T-L-S All right.
So you can call us 774-462-5667. And the line is open. Now we're going to play our song of the week. And then if you'd like to call in, you can, and we have some more coming up, including a couple of really out there stories and an investment property. I might want to pull the trigger on this week. I'm going to try to get it before Ange does. But first, one of my favorite value for value music artists, yes, I've played one of his songs before. His name is Ollie, and this is a new track, and it's titled Deep Ends. We'll have a link in the show notes to Deep Ends by Oli. If you boost while that song was playing, 95% of the sats go to Oli.
And it's not Depends. It's Deep Ends. Did I say Depends? No, no. If you say it too fast, it does sound... Anyway, I really like that song. Yeah. He does great work. And the other thing, too, that I've noticed, now that I review a lot of these songs, is that Oli has really high-end mixes and mastering compared to some of the other ones that are really amateur. We got a caller. Let's take our caller on. Let's see. Caller, hello. Where are you at right now? Falling down the stairs. In the rain. Mississippi. Is this Magnolia Mayhem?
Yes, it is. Sounds like a lot of mayhem in the background. I don't know if this is going to work. This is kind of crazy. That's what I was cleared up. What kind of storm is going on there, man? Are you all right? I got called. I'm not even supposed to be working today. I got to be able to deliver it now on the right. Oh, man. I tell you what. I will make it a voicemail and sort the story of the clock. All right. I'll take you up on that. Sounds good. Thanks for calling. Good luck out there. No problem. See you later. That was awesome. Oh, boy. I mean, we know rain, and that sounded like some real rain out there.
well we do have some great boosts and adversary 17 comes in with our baller boost our big supporter of episode 19, Sixty six thousand and one sets. How about that? Now he began playing trumpet in the fifth grade. My school had introduced had an introduction to band night where they set all the instruments out and we were able to play them and try them. I couldn't figure out how to play any of the reed instruments. So I tried brass. Given that without even trying, I was able to match pitch with just the mouthpiece. Brass was for me. I chose trumpet to start. I played that in band up to the ninth grade.
That year, though, only the trombone we had graduated. I decided that over the summer, I was going to learn trombone and play that the rest of high school. But I had to rewrite my brain to understand the basics of clef. Am I saying that right? clef and then bass clef and then match those notes with the seven different positions and use my embouchure to tune the pitch. It was quite a bit. He said, the few times I had played since high school, I had been pleasantly surprised to remember how to play both without issues. Trombone is fun, but you get quite a workout moving the slide around.
No kidding. And he gives also a happy 16th birthday with 16,000 stats to Dylan. Nice. If Dylan was listening he would demand those sats although i did get him a nice little batch of uh bitcoin, um which right now was looking like a good buy because i bought around when you did recently and uh i just set those aside for his birthday i haven't given them to me yet but i told them about him it's hard to give them but i'll do it i'll do it uh thank you adversaries it's always great to hear from you and we really really appreciate it the immunologist is here with 6,010 sats. And I don't know if that is a number for something.
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I don't even know. Because you're never eating raw eggs. Right? Well, definitely not. Oh, well, I mean, yes, I do over medium eggs where the yolk is, you know, not cooked through. But, yeah, I'm basically using cooked eggs as a laxative right now. Oh, my God. all right see there you go why does it happen we don't know we don't know but what i do know, IR Joe comes in with 3,072 sats. It was Kiowa Joe with the battle bus. I should probably have tried to mumble less. Oh, oh, oh, oh, for the call. How is it only now that I hear the members' bootleg feed for the launch? Now I have to go listen to all the episodes.
Yes, yes. There is premium content before and after the released version of the show. Yep. We really make it for the members. Not that I mind, considering I went spelunking for the back catalog, You Tried to Hide, and I listened to those as well. Oh, you sneaky. Although I didn't catch the KB catalog live, but I did listen to the bootleg feed when it's available. You, sir, you win the prize for Motivated. Yeah, the reason why I hit the back catalog is it was a totally different show. It was just me vibing before Coda Radio. And I don't even say vibing. Thank you for the boost.
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Thank you very much, Outdoor Geek. Appreciate the voicemail, too. Nice to hear from you. Otterbrains here with our final boost of the week, and it's 10,000 sats. My go-to for managing stress. A co-op video game with my kid. a cup of hot chocolate while watching the Big Bang Theory and catching up with a friend on the phone you know I love all of those so much co-op video gaming is my favorite the only way I ever finish a video game if it's co-op, well you know with the exception of Mario's and stuff single player games I just don't tend to stick with but if it's a social experience then I will and also my go to would probably be Star Trek The Next Generation, although in the evenings with dinner I've been watching Cheers from the beginning, and I just got to the season where they replace Diane and the show gets way better. I was a little worried when Diane left.
You know, when I was a kid watching Cheers, the Diane episodes were always the really old episodes. And then the ones where Christy Alley comes on were always sort of like the newer ones. So it's I didn't realize it took like five seasons before Diane leaves because there's like 11 seasons of Cheers or something like that. Wasn't Christy Alley Diane? No. No, a different actress played. Oh, okay. Yeah, Christy Alley plays Rebecca. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Oh, you know what? It's because she's in It Takes Two, and I think her name is Diane in that.
Oh. That's what, yep, just threw me off. Yeah. I mean, you know what? Show, surprisingly good. Kind of holds up, I have to say. I was very impressed. I've been enjoying it quite a bit. It's a nice dinner show. Thank you, everybody, who boosted in. We really appreciate it. We had five of you stream sats while you listened. Not a big one. Not a big showing this week. 4,385 sats. But the boosters, including our baller-like adversaries, they did the heavy lift this week. Thank you, everybody. With you, we stacked 94,468 sats. If you'd like to boost in the easiest way to do it is with fountain fm they do all the hosting for you but you can also self-host to go all the way to fully sovereign there's a lot of great apps listed at podcast apps.com strike is a fantastic way to get sass we'll put some links in the show notes to help you out thank you everybody who's either a member of jupiter party, or boost in each individual production to support that episode we really appreciate it keeps us going, Okay, Andrews, I got some stories for you to wrap us up. This one, I feel like is a PSA.
I could see just about any gal doing this or a dude new to makeup. Man, a North Carolina mom glues her eyes shut by mistake. Check this out. It's bad. One wrong drop. And when it hit my eye, like, it immediately burnt, like, really bad. Kanitha Faggart's eye is now glued shut after mistaking her nail glue for eye drops. She says the shape and size of the bottles are similar. It wasn't until I went to rub it and when I came back my finger got stuck on my eye and that's when I was like it clicked. I was like that was nail glue. Faggart called her daughter to take her to the hospital where nurses tried to soothe the burn.
And they were just trying to flush the eye, just water water and it just wasn't doing anything. Faggart's daughter documented the scary mistake on TikTok. that video now has more than 11 million views. So many people have commented and said, oh, this happened to me when I was younger. This happened to my brother. And I'm like, that's when I realized that it does happen a lot. Poison control experts say it's not uncommon for people to make this mistake. Doctors expect her eye will stay glued shut for another month and a half. I haven't had like any peaceful sleep. Like I have horrible headaches.
And they said that the glue can also be messing like with my sinuses. The tables have now turned for this Concord mother out of work until further notice. I'm a nurturer. I'm a foster parent. So I'm used to taking care of people. I thank God for my kids and my friends, like because they literally have to do everything, like take care of me. So you seem to feel like a month and a half wasn't too bad. But I'm like, I mean, better than going blind or, you know, who knows what her vision will be like after this. But holy moly, I can't even imagine.
I know. I know. So awful. and in the video version the camera operator like for a solid 10 seconds locks in on her hands and her massive nails like this gal's got a set of nails you know. I was thinking glue has typically a consistency that's not water like contact solution so how could this be but maybe nail glue you know I've never done nail glue whatever maybe it is more liquid. Yeah I bet it goes on like liquid covers the nail right because she had big nails that were applied Yeah. Smashes down. I don't know. So what's interesting is I am allergic to contact solution. So I actually can't even use contact solution in my eyes. I just have to do the dailies. And if my eyes dry out, I just have to take them out.
Now, this is a little extreme. I'm not going to say I couldn't see myself doing this next story. But I mean, I never have. But there was a man. This is a big brain guy. You're going to go on a list. I know. I got to be careful this episode. But listen to this big brain. OK. So his girlfriend approaches him and she's like, hey, bae, will you house sit my pet while I go on a cruise? His name is Joshua Lau and he has been sentenced to eight months in prison for emailing a bomb threat to Carnival Cruise Line because he didn't want to watch his girlfriend's pet while her and her family went on a cruise.
Oh, her and her family. OK, because I know. Right? Yeah. You know what you did. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, at first you're like, well, is she going without him? Like, who's it going with? Yeah, right. Exactly. It was a family cruise. Here's what he wrote in the email. This is, again, big brain stuff. Keep it tight. Keep it short. Right? This is good tips. Quote, hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your cruise ship, on your Sunrise cruise ship. Well, as you can imagine, this led to a full panic by Carnival. They swept over a thousand rooms on the ship.
It already departed at this point. The cruise was diverted en route to Jamaica as a result. Authorities quickly traced the email back to Lau, who had been living with his girlfriend and their family at the time. So he was also living in the house that the pet already lived in. Oh, my gosh. When they tracked him down, he says, this is all my fault and I take full responsibility. Prosecutors and FBI officials emphasized the serious consequences of such false threats and highlighted the strain they place on resources and potential widespread fear. this is he could have gotten five years in prison yeah he's getting eight months and.
There's no fee like because that is an expense to do all that like that's crazy. How lazy do you guys so dude is bumming off his girlfriend's family living there and doesn't even want to watch the pet, Bro, not only should you watch The Pet, you should vacuum that freaking place. You should mow the lawn. It should be spotless. Yeah, bro. Like, come on. Step up. That's ridiculous. Okay, okay, okay. Last weird story. I had to fit this one in because you're going to see this one going around on the internet this week because it's just wild. You're never going to believe the direction this interview goes.
There was a rather violent Queensland carjacking. And, well, about 20 seconds in, the interview takes a turn you won't expect. Witnesses are recounting some of the drama that unfolded on the Sunshine Coast this afternoon. Two sisters have told how their mother and man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way, only to find the gun-wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. Here's some of what they had to say. And one guy, he was up there with our mum, and he went up there, and he was coming back down towards us. And he goes, run, he's got a gun. And our hearts started to pound and I said, well, Mum, where's Mum?
And poor Mum was stuck up there, but apparently our brave Mum, she goes, are you all right? Because he had all blood all over his face. And he goes, I'll shoot you. She goes, hey, I'm here to help. And Mum distracted him to make him look the other way and he looked the other way and Mama ran into the bush behind the fence. And the guy goes to her, I'll find you and I'll shoot you. All I was thinking about when we were running, I hope he doesn't fire. Yeah, we were so blessed. How close to him do you think you were? Well, see, he was up there. And we were passed out of the driveway.
Yeah, yeah. You don't think of all of that at the time. No, you just run for your safety. That's crazy. How wild is that? They are almost perfectly in sync for 80% of it. It almost sounds like the vocals got doubled for a moment. Right. It's just the wildest thing. These sisters who live on Steve Irwin Way just have quite the story where the mother tried to distract a gunman. there was multiple alleged car thieves involved it was really something but you just can't get past the fact that these two ladies talk almost exactly in sync and so i just had to play that video is going around like crazy now as we get out of here i just want to float another investment idea past you andrews all right okay this one it's a little extra special with a lot of potential.
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And it's rough. But I look at that. That's potential. right there and 10 acres. Yeah, this is really cool. And it sounds like bunker sounds like dirty and whatever, but there is like a residential. Loft up top. Like so the barn, so the bunker lives under this barn and the barn has like an apartment in it. And it's like a well furnished with air conditioning, flat screen TV, a large kitchen. So on top of the bunker is a regular old residential home. And then below is where all the potential is. I mean, it's so neat. And, you know, with a half-mile-long driveway, we probably don't have to worry about road noise.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's $750,000, and it's in Kansas. But this sucker right here, I mean, no HOA. Right. Okay, that's pretty great. Oh, yeah, in the airfield. Yeah. You know how you always wanted to be a pilot? You know, you could just fly in. You buy it and then find its restricted airspace. No. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own the ultimate Prepper's Retreat. I've actually never seen a bunker in this good of shape with 10 acres of land at this price. Yeah. If you wanted to live in the middle of Kansas, I suppose. I'm zooming out right now to get it. It looks like they've been trying to sell it for quite a while, though. It hasn't.
Yeah, it literally, it's sort of east, middle of Kansas. So if you know the Kansas area, it's not far from Hillsborough. So it sold in December 2020, and then it got listed for $280,000 three times in 2020. That's a way crazy better price. Yeah, and then in May 2023, $649,000, and then July 2023, $799,000. And so now it's gone down 50,000 a year, about a year later. I wonder if the apartment refurb up top is the new. Oh, that could be, because it does look fairly new. It looks modern. Yeah. It looks brand new, actually. Yeah.
Oh, wow. What a, I don't know what kind of life I got to live where I'm seriously buying a 23 acre in total. Holy smokes. Yeah. Jeez i saw i saw this at 10 acres in the thing but this 23 acres in total it's got its own um missile silo it's got its own airstrip it's got multiple cement pads for rigs it's got a half mile long driveway paved. A 700 square foot studio. And then, you know, you do whatever you want underneath. I don't know. You could prep. You could build a factory. I don't care what you're doing. You could have a factory. I mean, you could fly in the shipment straight.
You're welcome. I'm going to put a link in the show notes, but you better get it before I do. Because I'll tell you what, that Bitcoin shoots up to like $5 million tomorrow. I'm going to buy that. That's going to happen. All right. All right. I think that's it for us. If you want to check that property out, it is actually kind of cool to look at. We'll have a link in the show notes. Those show notes are at weeklylaunch.rocks. Now, don't remember, we might be live maybe Monday next week. We're not sure. We're going to get it dialed in as it gets closer. So stay on your toes if you're a live streamer, and we always want you there.
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