[Speaker 0] Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Whatever the
[Speaker 0] case may be, this is Mike and, of
[Speaker 0] course, Mike Dell's World. I think this is
[Speaker 0] yeah. Four twenty eight for November twenty second
[Speaker 0] twenty twenty five. Yeah. This is Saturday afternoon
[Speaker 0] in my case. Yeah. So not a whole
[Speaker 0] lot going on here today. I figured I'd
[Speaker 0] just do a quick little update. Napod Pomo
[Speaker 0] is still going on. This is the twenty
[Speaker 0] second day. And, yeah, I kinda had a
[Speaker 0] pretty laid back relaxing day. I went to
[Speaker 0] out to the EAA, the experimental aircraft association,
[Speaker 0] hangar talk session, where I call it coffee
[Speaker 0] klatch. I do that every Saturday over at,
[Speaker 0] the hangar, their offices. EAA chapter two two
[Speaker 0] thirty four. I should know that, shouldn't I?
[Speaker 0] Anyway, so, that was that was fun. I
[Speaker 0] had well, I dropped Kathy off at, the
[Speaker 0] hospital for an MRI she had to have,
[Speaker 0] and then I went over there and had
[Speaker 0] coffee with the guys and then went back,
[Speaker 0] picked her up. And then, we went to
[Speaker 0] meat, market and then, then Costco. Can never
[Speaker 0] get out of Costco for cheap, but, I
[Speaker 0] didn't do too bad in there. And it
[Speaker 0] was busy. It's crazy how quickly, though, that
[Speaker 0] their checkout lines go. It was the the
[Speaker 0] line was lined up literally three fourths the
[Speaker 0] way across the store when, we were we
[Speaker 0] were shopping. And then by the time we
[Speaker 0] got there, there wasn't hardly any light at
[Speaker 0] all by the time we, you know, got
[Speaker 0] ready to check out. So they're pretty damn
[Speaker 0] deficient over there, I suppose, but, find some
[Speaker 0] good deals. Wasn't bad. And then, came home
[Speaker 0] and a friend of ours stopped over with
[Speaker 0] her dog, and, the dogs played. And we
[Speaker 0] sat there and shot the breeze, and and
[Speaker 0] I figured, oh, I better come out and
[Speaker 0] record an episode. Hadn't done one. It was
[Speaker 0] gonna do one last night and never did.
[Speaker 0] So that's what this one is. But like
[Speaker 0] I said, just a quick shorty little update.
[Speaker 0] And I'm gonna tell you what I've got
[Speaker 0] planned for the rest of this month. Tomorrow,
[Speaker 0] I'm gonna do, aviation up north. I'm gonna
[Speaker 0] be talking about, you know, the aviation community
[Speaker 0] around here. Guess I got a little update
[Speaker 0] of that, this morning. And then I'm gonna
[Speaker 0] talk about the blizzard of seventy eight. I'm
[Speaker 0] old enough to remember it. Not by a
[Speaker 0] hell of a lot, but I remember it.
[Speaker 0] And tell you my experiences. And then, gonna
[Speaker 0] do an episode about Iceland in the nineties.
[Speaker 0] I lived in Keflavik, Iceland for a year
[Speaker 0] in, nineteen ninety one. Or is it ninety
[Speaker 0] one, ninety two? No. It was ninety ninety
[Speaker 0] one. Anyway, so talk about that. And on
[Speaker 0] the twenty sixth, I'll be talking about Traverse
[Speaker 0] City still being kind of a small town,
[Speaker 0] but, in other ways, not so much. And,
[Speaker 0] my friend, Chris, I'm sure he's gonna be
[Speaker 0] interested in this one. I'm gonna talk about
[Speaker 0] the state hospital or the Northern Michigan asylum
[Speaker 0] currently known as Grand Traverse Commons. So that'll
[Speaker 0] be interesting, and I'll probably get most of
[Speaker 0] it wrong. So not really. Let's see. You
[Speaker 0] got a couple other, little episodes planned, and,
[Speaker 0] that's gonna do it for the thirty days
[Speaker 0] of of November here. So got, you know,
[Speaker 0] seven or eight more to go, eight more
[Speaker 0] to go, nine more to go, something like
[Speaker 0] that. And, yeah, I kinda I'm thinking seriously
[Speaker 0] about maybe doing a weekday daily show. I
[Speaker 0] don't know if I'd do it on this
[Speaker 0] on this feed or do, it on a
[Speaker 0] different feed. You know, it's hard enough to
[Speaker 0] get people to listen to this one. Of
[Speaker 0] course, you know, when I when I'm not
[Speaker 0] that consistent, you know, that goes. But almost
[Speaker 0] thinking, you know, it might be fun just
[Speaker 0] in the morning when I'm sitting here in
[Speaker 0] the office, before work starts and drinking some
[Speaker 0] coffee, maybe, throw together a little five minute
[Speaker 0] thing, to decide whether I wanna do that
[Speaker 0] either on this feed or a different feed
[Speaker 0] and just, you know, call it coffee with
[Speaker 0] Mike or something stupid like that. I don't
[Speaker 0] know. It might be fun. Keep me in
[Speaker 0] the game. Make me podcast more. But, you
[Speaker 0] know, I'm already doing a weekly with Podcast
[Speaker 0] Insider, and I'm gonna be a rotating guest
[Speaker 0] host on another show coming soon. Actually, it's
[Speaker 0] a show that's been going forever except for,
[Speaker 0] one of the host died. And, anyway, the
[Speaker 0] other cohost is is gonna resurrect the show.
[Speaker 0] In fact, I spent a lot of time
[Speaker 0] yesterday getting the website back up and running
[Speaker 0] properly and getting the RSS feeds running properly.
[Speaker 0] It's both a video and an audio and
[Speaker 0] a live, video show. So I'll be, rotating
[Speaker 0] with three other guest hosts. So every third
[Speaker 0] week, however that works out, I'll be on
[Speaker 0] that show. That's, that's the plan. I'll sure
[Speaker 0] I'll tell you about it when I can.
[Speaker 0] Also, planning our conference down in Florida, December
[Speaker 0] fifteenth through the eighteenth. The, was it, podcast
[Speaker 0] expo or no? What is it? Jeez. I
[Speaker 0] am drawing a blank. Podfest. There we go.
[Speaker 0] Podfest Expo. It's gonna be at the the
[Speaker 0] Radisson Hotel at SeaWorld in Orlando, so that'll
[Speaker 0] be interesting. I'll be speaking there. And, also,
[Speaker 0] my company is sponsoring the podcasters hall of
[Speaker 0] fame induction ceremony, so that'll be interesting. Get
[Speaker 0] to, hobnob with, with royalty there. That'll be
[Speaker 0] fun. Dave Ramsey's gonna be there. I'm sure
[Speaker 0] you've heard of him, the money guy on
[Speaker 0] the on the radio and in podcasts and
[Speaker 0] YouTube and everywhere else. Anyway, he's gonna be
[Speaker 0] there. There's gonna be a couple other, somewhat
[Speaker 0] famous people there plus, you know, I'm gonna
[Speaker 0] be there. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. What do
[Speaker 0] you call that? Imposter syndrome? Anyway, so that'll
[Speaker 0] be that'll be good. We're bringing a pretty
[Speaker 0] big contingent from Blueberry down there this year.
[Speaker 0] Can have, five of us from the team,
[Speaker 0] maybe six. Not for the whole week. Dave
[Speaker 0] and I are gonna be doing the whole
[Speaker 0] week, and then we'll have people popping in
[Speaker 0] and out, coming down for a day or
[Speaker 0] two for that. So that'll be that'll be
[Speaker 0] good. First convention after our founder and CEO
[Speaker 0] passed away a couple months ago or beginning,
[Speaker 0] I guess, the beginning of September. So it's
[Speaker 0] been a while. But, this will be the
[Speaker 0] first public conference we've been to as a
[Speaker 0] company, since, he passed away. So show him
[Speaker 0] we still exist, and, we're still plugging along
[Speaker 0] and and all that. But, so that's really
[Speaker 0] been, you know, what I've been focusing on,
[Speaker 0] you know, this week. Plus, you know, we've
[Speaker 0] had a few technical glitches. You know, CloudFlare
[Speaker 0] went down. Now that didn't affect us directly.
[Speaker 0] Our company doesn't use, at least that part
[Speaker 0] of Cloudflare for anything important. Had a couple
[Speaker 0] of ancillary, websites and services go down, but,
[Speaker 0] you know, so did half the Internet. So,
[Speaker 0] you know, not not not not unique in
[Speaker 0] that way, but, our core services stayed running,
[Speaker 0] and that was good. But, you know, still,
[Speaker 0] the customers don't know, don't know what what
[Speaker 0] is who's. So, you know, it, it did
[Speaker 0] cause a bit of an influx of support
[Speaker 0] tickets. And, then we had a little glitch
[Speaker 0] in one of the pieces of software. We
[Speaker 0] did an update, and it caused a glitch.
[Speaker 0] Didn't prevent it all from working, but it
[Speaker 0] had a glitch. And, we got it, figured
[Speaker 0] out and fixed, and, you know, all is
[Speaker 0] all is well now. But, wow. You know,
[Speaker 0] nothing fills up my inbox more than a
[Speaker 0] a technical glitch with our system. Phone was
[Speaker 0] ringing off the hook and, of course, my
[Speaker 0] other guy, Dave, he was he was on
[Speaker 0] vacation that day, that all that happened. So
[Speaker 0] but, it's alright. I I I survived it
[Speaker 0] and, didn't, didn't drive me to drink too
[Speaker 0] much, so we're good. And, Friday was pretty
[Speaker 0] laid back. In fact, I took most of
[Speaker 0] Friday off and was working on that, website
[Speaker 0] for that other show. So like I said,
[Speaker 0] I'll, let you guys in on, who it
[Speaker 0] is or what show it is and, when
[Speaker 0] I'm gonna be on it. And I'm just
[Speaker 0] kicking eye around this idea of a a
[Speaker 0] kind of a daily little, you know, informal,
[Speaker 0] here's what's going on, five minute thing. Maybe
[Speaker 0] not you know, be maybe what's going on
[Speaker 0] in the news around here? What's going on?
[Speaker 0] You know, just in general, maybe national stuff,
[Speaker 0] maybe local stuff, maybe Michigan stuff, you know,
[Speaker 0] just stuff. Maybe just the weather report. I
[Speaker 0] don't know. But if you're at all interested
[Speaker 0] in that, let me know. You can email
[Speaker 0] me direct, mike at mike dell dot com
[Speaker 0] or go to mike dell dot com. And
[Speaker 0] I don't know. Probably no place to comment
[Speaker 0] there, maybe or shoot me a Facebook or
[Speaker 0] a x post to let you know, let
[Speaker 0] me know if you'd you'd be interested in
[Speaker 0] something like that. I don't think I'd wanna
[Speaker 0] do it seven days a week. I've done
[Speaker 0] seven day a week shows before and, you
[Speaker 0] know, lasted a year on a couple of
[Speaker 0] them. But, yeah, I'm just kinda thinking about
[Speaker 0] doing that again. I've got it down to
[Speaker 0] to, you know it took me four seconds
[Speaker 0] to open up the the software and flip
[Speaker 0] the switch on the mixer board and start
[Speaker 0] talking to you, you know, not putting in
[Speaker 0] music and sound effects and all that stuff
[Speaker 0] all the time. So, this might be easy.
[Speaker 0] And, of course, it might be a pain
[Speaker 0] in the butt. I don't know. But, you
[Speaker 0] know, I'm gonna get back to podcasting more
[Speaker 0] than I used to. You know? Like I
[Speaker 0] said but, you know, the other two podcast
[Speaker 0] related shows, because that second show is also
[Speaker 0] gonna be podcast related, I think. You might
[Speaker 0] even know what it is. But, anyway, I'm
[Speaker 0] not gonna spill the beans on it until,
[Speaker 0] the other cohost is ready. Let's see. I
[Speaker 0] guess that's about it. My wife, since we
[Speaker 0] went to Costco, she picked up some rib
[Speaker 0] eyes, and we're gonna have some steak and
[Speaker 0] baked potatoes. I'm getting back to my, not
[Speaker 0] carnivore, but, keto. So, gotta get rid of
[Speaker 0] the potatoes in the house, so we're gonna
[Speaker 0] pig out tonight. So that's the that's the
[Speaker 0] scoop. It's all that's worth talking about. Tomorrow,
[Speaker 0] I get to talk about aviation, and hopefully,
[Speaker 0] it won't be long and drawn out like
[Speaker 0] the Ham Radio episode, but, it might be.
[Speaker 0] A lot a lot going on around here
[Speaker 0] in aviation. Maybe not so much this time
[Speaker 0] of year, but, definitely in the summer. Catch