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This is The Launch, episode 25 for June 17th, 2025. Streaming live from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, we greet you all a good morning, a good evening, 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. And my name is Brent. Hello, you two. Well, we have quite the show coming up, so just a few things I want you to know about before we get going. You can call us live. After we play the Song of the Week, we'll take calls. Or if you want to call after the fact, you can leave us a voicemail.
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Yes. Yeah. So the kids' last week of school is this week. Oh, wow. Finals yesterday, today, tomorrow. They have Thursday off for Juneteenth, and then they go back Friday. That's really weird. It is weird. It's like the third year in a row. Like on that Friday, you know nothing's going to happen. So many people are going to be gone. Oh, yeah. You were right. Kids are just not going to show up. But then the ones that do are going to get to have like a cool experience at school. Yeah. Like that once a year only kind of experience. So last week we talked a little bit about how to get them outside for the summer.
Today I just wanted to talk about how things are going to change at my house now that they are out of school. One, I don't have to set an alarm for 645 to get all three kids up in the morning. Does that mean you're going to sleep in? Which means I can sleep in until like 7. Nice. Maybe 7.30 on some days, which is nice. Because right now what it is is I wake up at 6.45. I check and make sure Bella's awake and then Abby and then Dylan. And then I go back to bed for a couple minutes and then I get up and I wake up Dylan. And then I go back to bed for a couple minutes. Oh, that's torture. And then I wake up Dylan.
I have a hard time going back. I know. Then I get in the shower and then I wake up Dylan. Wow. Like it is ridiculous. That was me when I was a kid. Was it? Oh, 100%. Did you require a lot of prodding to get out of bed? Still do. Yeah, that's true, actually. I'm always really impressed when you do manage to do it. Well, thank you. That's a little like triumph every morning. Yeah, it is. If it's still morning. Another thing is, of course, I'm going to have kids home all day or day wanting me to do stuff during my work day, right? Which is going to be super annoying. And they're going to eat me out of the house, right? Like there's going to be so much food consumption.
Or when they go out, they're going to constantly be asking for money so they can buy food. Literally, Bella just texted me asking to door dash McDonald's to her. She just asked me yesterday for 20 bucks to go buy food. She should become friends with Emma, I think. Yeah, she asked me for money yesterday, too. But I said no, because the day before, not only did I, she grabbed two cans of Pringles, and I gave the girls waters, and then I went and bought them pizza sticks so that they wouldn't ask me for money. But then they wanted to buy whatever, so I sent them $15.
But I was trying to avoid that. And then, yeah, yesterday, Bella asked. That's funny. Did you give it to her? I did because she figured out to play the game where she and she and then and then she'll go to Hadea eventually. Oh, wow. Yeah, that started. That's incredible. Yeah, that I'm going to have that. OK, well, anyway, so one of the cool things about my day job is we get summer Fridays. So every other Friday, it's we have it off. Oh, that's cool. The whole U.S. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to that. thankfully my boss said this week since we have Juneteenth off at work to go ahead and take Friday off too so I'm like okay yeah geez yeah because summer Fridays don't start until the 4th of July weekend our.
Boss never gives those those days off. He's a jerk. So those are some of the things, some of the adjustments going on in the house. Also, I am working on fixing my backyard. Oh, is that picking back up? I mean, maybe. That's a big project. Yeah, basically. I haven't actually seen it. Can you give us some background? Well, I mean, you could have. Did you see the blue tarp when you brought your van over? No. No way. Okay, well, it's in the background of the picture that I took of you. But anyway, so a big retaining wall was put in, but I added 145 cubic yards of fill dirt to level my backyard.
But in October, it was too wet to level the yard and get mud. Yeah, it was just absolute slosh. So I called a dude that I knew that could do it, and he's like, yeah, I'm not coming out there. This is not the season. Call me in the spring. Yeah, it makes sense. Right. And I'd already talked to this dude a couple of times because he was going to do the topsoil layer for me. And anyway, so I called him last or a couple of weeks ago. And he's like, so you remember how I was complaining about Trump and how Washington state taxes suck? And I'm like, yeah, I do remember that. And he's like, yeah, I moved all my equipment to Utah.
Wow. Yeah. And I'm like, OK, so I guess. And he's like, no, no, no. I promised you that I would help you with your yard. I will you know if you can wait for me I'll be here I'll be here next week in Washington and I have contacts I can rent equipment and get this done for you that's insane he hasn't seen it though he might take one look and be like peace out maybe. You should send him some pictures or a video or. Something no no no no I need him to reject me in person no I need I need to cry in front of him and be like I need a backyard it has been a long this tarp it's getting like the sun reflection, melting damage from the windows nearby, you know?
Oh, wow. Yeah. It could be a total fire hazard. And yeah, I just, I'm so ready. I hate the sound of rain hitting this stupid tarp. It's literally a 20 by 30 tarp and a 30 by 50 tarp. That's how much of my backyard is covered by tarp right now. And I just want it gone and I want to start this grass process. Yeah. If you take the tarps off, it'll just, the grass will find its way. But it needs to be smoothed out and whatnot, right? It does. Yeah. Yeah. It needs to be leveled. Yeah. Even just minimally. Like, let's not add any more fill. Let's just level what's there and call it good because I just want a yard.
So anyway, that's in progress. There will be updates over the summer. That would be a nice win if you got it. I mean. Yeah. You know, and then it's just sort of done. It's like one of those things. Well, then I can do the other things like put up the fence and I don't know. I might get the kids a trampoline, another trampoline. I don't know. Any catios in your future? Oh, the second floor deck is actually before catio. Oh, that's sweet. Second floor deck. Again, I don't know if anybody's going to build upon what is already there, but that will be another whole adventure.
But first, I want to get the dirty stuff, like literally dirty stuff out of the way. I don't want to build a new deck and then have it covered in this film of leveling dirt. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, let us know what is stressing you out this summer. Boostin, do you have a summer project, a summer stress? We want to know it. Well, as Andrew said, the kids are almost out of school. And that means it's almost time for our annual summer road trip. And most often we've gone to Montana. But after, you know, doing it a lot, it starts to get a little old, even though I could do it every year. Kids like variety.
You know what I mean? I could literally go every year and be happy because you just go soak in beautiful hot springs. But we thought, you know, we'd start changing it up. So about two years ago, we went to the Oregon coast. And so we've kind of been looking for other things to do. And this year, we thought, wouldn't it be fun to go up to Brent's house, go see Uncle Brent and say hi to my mountain? It's more of a cabin, I would say. Yeah, well, and a mountain. Definitely. That mountain is, we probably have the best view of anyone in the city of your mountain. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it.
Fisher Peak. You've got to see it. Yeah. So it's not too long of a drive relative to some of the other trips we've taken, but it'll be a good trip. And it'll go through hot spots of eastern Washington and Idaho. I mean, it'll probably be a little warmer at your place than it is here now, too. So it'll be that. Yeah, probably a little drier as well. We don't, you know, getting away from the ocean, that's for sure. Brent has teased there are some hot springs in his neck of the woods. There are, like, the tourist versions. We will, I think, not go there. There are the secret locals versions that are tucked away in the forest.
Ooh, tucked away hot springs in the forest? That's where we're going. All right. Okay. I'm up for that. So we thought we need to get jubes ready because every trip you got to kind of reduce. So this next weekend we're going to do what we call the yearly purge. We do it almost before every annual summer road trip. And that is everything comes out of the storage base. Almost everything comes out of the house. and then we only put back in the stuff we need. And in preparation, we've been reorganizing like how we store all the bedding and everything like that.
So the shower is going to be used while we go down the road, but easily available if anybody wants to shower on the trip. So that'd be nice. And... big thing and this is like a top three all time my entire 10 years of owning jupes that i have wanted to solve and we are finally in the home stretch and it is proper cooling for my power bay so dear audience picture a bus and along below the windows like on the long the bottom half of the bus is a bunch of storage bays and in like the case of jupes there's like six on the passenger side and six on the driver's side and in one of these we have six batteries an inverter a solar controller, a charge controller, we have a bunch of gear.
And under normal operation, it tends to do just fine. But when we hit the road for the summer, heat becomes a real battle. You've got heat created by the engine of the RV and the exhaust and the transmission, which are kind of in that general area. That just happens to heat up all of the lower bays. And then you also have heat created by the alternator that is sending power to the batteries. And in the summer, you also have a lot of solar coming in. And solar charging creates some heat. And then we really make things worse when we run the AC units inside the RV. One AC unit alone draws around 14 to 1600 watts, both running simultaneously, which you really need when it's hot out, like, you know, 95 degrees Fahrenheit and above.
Both units running 3000 watts. And that has to be inverted from DC power in a battery, in a lithium battery, to AC power. And that inversion process generates a lot of heat. So you've got all these, you've got the motor, you've got the charging, you've got the 3,000 watts for the air conditioners. It creates a situation where I have to sometimes pull the rig over, open up the vents, set up a box fan, and blow across the storage bays to try to cool her down so we can keep running the AC. And it's really jank, but it also means I'm leaving my storage bays open every random place I stop, which is not always a great idea, especially since, you know, my battery bay has got like very high end equipment that somebody would love to just come and nab.
But it does get the job done. So this week, we're finally going to fix on that. Finally, one of my top three things I want to get fixed in Joops. And what we're going to do is we're going to cut some holes and we're going to add some fans and we're going to do some pass through airflow. But it originally started with my idea of I was just going to go to the storage bay door where these batteries are at, take a saw and just cut through the damn door and put a vent in the thing. You know, I need to do something and I'm just at my limit with this. And Brent looks at it and he says, there's a better way. And you did.
You came up with a solution that you won't even be able to tell from the outside we've done. Yeah, I was really trying to convince you not to drill a giant hole in the side of your rig. I think it took me like about two weeks to convince you finally to come, you know, to the bright light. There's a way I was looking because I managed to stick my face under your rig that the storage bins aren't actually like completely touching. There's a bit of an air gap between them. and I saw that as a perfect opportunity to stick a little bit of venting in that space so you could still get fresh air coming in and drill the hole in the side of these storage bays which is effectively under the rig so you won't even see it from the exterior but it'll still perform the same function. That's the idea anyway.
And we're going to use a boat bilge fan that's designed to cool a storage area or an engine to pull that air. So it'll pull in cold air and it'll suck out the hot air And if we get this done, I think we could get it done this week. I think this will solve the heating issue and we'll be able to go down the road with the air conditioners going and not fry all the equipment. This is an elaborate plan to cover the fact that you're going to sneak illegals into Canada. How would that be? I got to have good power. Ventilation down there. You got to keep everybody comfortable.
Keeping them in the storage. Yeah, I don't have the keys, officer. Only I'm the illegal because I'm going to... But speaking of, speaking of though, you're going to... Take Lady Joops to another country. You've never done that before. Right. That never actually hit me. What might you need to do? Like, do you have everything in order to, like, and all I can imagine is that we're the millers. So we're the fishers. I'm a little concerned, like, about, I mean, Levi has all his paperwork. But how much are they going to go through the rig? It's not California. It's just Canada.
Yeah. But, I mean, do they go through an RV and look for stuff? You know, because I got a lot of guns. They might have you open here. Oh, my gosh. Storage units. I've never been in an RV when it's crossed, but I've been certainly behind an RV when it's crossed. And they do the same as a car, just talk to the driver, and that's about it from what I can tell. I can smuggle Jeff's mom's oranges, and it'll be okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You can't smuggle them out of California, but you can bring them to Canada. I never did. I wouldn't have. No. So I'm looking forward to checking off this problem.
Then we get out there. We'll have a nice, comfortable drive through eastern Washington where it can get quite hot. And then we'll go hang out and check out my mountain. And while we're parked there, I think the cooling system will also keep the batteries nice and comfy when we're running the AC out there. I was thinking about this last night when falling asleep, as you do these projects, and you try to think of all the things you didn't plan for before you get into it. And it reminded me exactly of the problem we are trying to solve with the servers in the garage here, trying to keep them cool.
Remember, we discussed, like, do we build a box with, like, some kind of input and output exhaust fans trying to just pull all that heat out? And it's basically the exact same problem. So, considering we didn't succeed with the server, hopefully our luck's changing with the batteries. Comfort's on the line, Brent. And some batteries. Yeah. And we haven't even looked at what we need to do with my van for comfort. No. Yeah. Well, you do. Hmm. Oh. Yeah, I know. We better move on to that next week. I guess we'll look at that later. One problem at a time, Brent. Okay. All right. Well, we have some voicemails, and a guy named Ryan calls in about dogs.
Hello, Launch Crew. This is a guy named Ryan. Long time, ace time, I think. One of the topics was dogs and dog names. My family just picked up two Bichon Frise puppies because we need something hypoallergenic. Everyone's super allergic to dogs, but we also love dogs. We could not come up with a good pair of names for them. We debated for weeks. And then finally, we decided to go with some nonsense words. So their names are Gabu and Ganilla. And Gabu is the word my youngest would use when he wanted a gummy. And Ganilla is how he used to pronounce vanilla.
And as soon as we came up with those two names, everyone was super on board. And so, anyway, that's the origin story of those two names. I'm really enjoying the episodes. Please keep up the great work, and I'll talk to you again soon. Thanks. I love the idea of kind of preserving these words that the kids come up with. It's so sweet. They're the best, and then they stop saying them, and I miss them. Right. Act, act. My cat Rocky that I got that I ended up adopting from a neighbor a couple of houses down. Rocky's original name was Smurgle.
And Mittens, who unfortunately passed away right as I was adopting Rocky, like they got in a fight and Mittens didn't make it. And Rocky just had an injury. And then after that injury, I adopted him through that recovery. Anyway, Mittens name was Chenzu. And both of those and then Gorbash was the third cat. These are crazy names. So it's from like some sort of 80s comic cartoon or something. But anyways, they sound nonsense words, too. They are really. Hey, we got a live call. Let's take it now. What do you say? Let's take our live caller. I'll bring him into the conversation right now. Live caller. Hello. Are you there on the line right now? Are you there?
Yes. Hi. What's your name and where are you calling from? My name is Jordan. I'm calling actually right now from St. Louis. We're on a summer road trip with our family. Hello, Jordan and family. Nice. Where are you going on the road trip? Well, we're starting from East Tennessee and... We went to Mammoth Cave yesterday. We're going to St. Louis and eventually ended up in Glacier National Park and then coming back down to Texas and going home. Whoa. Are you in a rig? Are you in a truck? What vehicle is everybody traveling in? How many of you are there?
There's five of us. We're in a truck with a travel trailer. All right. Wow. He sounds like Hank Hill. He sounds like maybe he should record the number. Yeah, let's do some work. We got you here. Wow, that's a heck of a road trip. So total, is it how many weeks? Four to five, depending upon some stops. We've left a little leeway in some rooms, so we can extend stays or shorten them, depending upon what we like and what we want to see. Wow, that's a heck of a summer trip. Are you doing campgrounds? Are you doing some boondocking? Are you doing a mix? You got a harvest host? Tell me how you're... Last two stops, we were overnights at Cracker Barrels.
Nice. We've got some campgrounds, some KOAs. some BLM land. We've got a mix of all of it. That's the way to do it. The cracker barrels and the... The KOAs are nice, too, just because you get all the facilities and they usually have, you know, pretty decent campgrounds, but they're a little expensive. Needless high-end ones, though. Yeah, you've got to do some laundry with the trips that long. You've got to find some places to do laundry. No Harvest Host in there, though? Not at all. The way we get to RVs is weekends normally, so we don't join any Harvest Hosts or Boondockers. So we haven't mixed any of that in there.
Yeah, that makes sense if you don't travel too much. Well, man, that sounds like a hell of an adventure. I hope you guys have a great time. I'd love to hear how it goes when it's all done. Self-hosted got me into the Jupiter Broadcasting Network. I'm doing a lot of dollar-rich tracking locations. I used Pinch Flat and made a playlist for my kids that downloads and imports into Plex. So every day I'd say, hey, watch, you know, episode one, two or three. And it tells them about the state we're going through. What we're going to see.
Like Mammoth and the Arch, Gateway Arch. And it's videos peppered all throughout the U.S. that they get to watch and learn about before we go to it. That's a great idea. I definitely noticed the road trips really help actually cement the size of the country and the states, and it really does. It's a great time to learn. That's a brilliant idea and a great use of self-hosting in Pinchflat. I might steal on that idea. I might steal that. You're doing it better than we are. I've tried my hardest to find a way to justify buying a Starlink Mini to mount. On the truck somehow so we could have internet in the truck.
But I couldn't justify the cost when AT&T's in-vehicle Wi-Fi is $25 a month. So if they run out of service, we'll just go on a hike. Yeah, again, if you were in the rig throughout the year, it would probably be worth it. But the other thing about the Starlink, you know, I mean, I love it. I live on it, but you can't have branches in the way. And there's a lot of places where in the summer it's nice to park to have shade and then you don't have Starlink. So sometimes it's nice to have cellular. You can't really, I think, live only on Starlink. You kind of have to have the cellular anyway. So if you could only have one cellular, I think is probably.
Well, we're getting a little bit of both. My actually RVing or convoying with my parents, they're tagging along with us and he has a Starlink with him. That's so cool. We're piggybacking off of that when we're at Campgrounds. Do they full-time? They do not full-time. They're retired, but they go long trips here and there, but they don't full-time. Yeah, they got the Starlink. That's awesome. Wow. Well, I'm a little jealous. I hope you have a great trip and I hope everybody's safe and everybody has a good time, gets through the down moments when they do happen and all that stuff. And let us know how it goes. Leave us a voicemail or call back in in the future.
Well, we are on the road for about four weeks. If you want to call on a Tuesday, call on a Tuesday. Nice. All right. Thanks, man. Safe travels. Have a good day. All right. So that was fun, right? That was great. Yeah, that's great. Thank you for calling. All right. So back to the voicemails. We have Bo in Tennessee. Hey, Launch. This is Bo again. I was... Catching up with Ann caught up now, actually. I guess the one you all just finished. I haven't heard that one yet. But I wanted to call in about braces and band. I totally forgot about this, but in the late 90s, early 2000s, I had braces and played trumpet.
It sucked. It was pretty painful. I remember that and then forgot until just now. I played trombone as well, which is not as bad. The embouchure is much looser. The mouthpieces are bigger. And I wonder if that's part of why I started playing more drums in addition to the other drummer breaking his arm, which is a pretty classic way to become the drummer in a band situation. Anyway, yeah, that was tough. I don't know if braces are better. Maybe they are. And I have no idea what Invisalign is like. But that was a special pain of growing up that I completely forgot about. So thanks for reminding me.
All right, y'all. Have a good one. Oh, yeah. Bo, where am I? Hendersonville, Tennessee right now. Oh, another Tennessee. All right. I've got to get down to Tennessee. We've got family down there. It's great. So the update is Bella wants to do Invisalign now. Oh, that's probably a good call. Yeah. But the whole thing is on hold because the pediatric dentist doesn't want to touch her teeth. She needs a cavity filled, and it's too close to the root. And it's the one where the same dental place refused to work on it and literally called it garbage teeth.
Yeah. He said, yeah, I'm not touching that. It's a garbage tooth. All four of them are garbage teeth. This guy's like a tooth elitist? Yeah. So in 2020, when everything was shutting down, I had to take her to a dentist that I didn't know to have this filled. And thankfully it worked out. But now there's a cavity near it. Anyway, so they want to refer her to an adult dentist because it's an adult tooth, which is crap because she's 11 and kids can go to their pediatric dentist until they're 18 or 24 is what the gal said. She's the best about brushing her teeth, too.
She what now? She's the best about brushing her teeth. And flossing. Yeah. Like, she's, yeah, I am buying her the floss picks all the time. But it's those midnight treats under her bed there. No, that's Abby. Yeah, that's totally Abby. That's 100% Abby. But, no, she's got the crowding, you know, and she doesn't get all the way back there. It's the molars. So, anyway, it is kind of on hold until I can get a second opinion from my dentist. And then I might just bring her back to the pediatric dentist. Is this really a garbage tooth? That's what you're going to ask him? No, no. I just want his opinion. And I don't want to – I'll tell him afterwards what we've been through.
Yeah, see what he says. Yeah. All right, only a couple more left. Crashmaster is one of our last voicemails this week. Hi, JB. Members Feed, you're talking about insurance, car and home. This is Crashmaster from Connecticut again. Progressive is a good option. If you have AAA insurance, you can have them broker it as well. Good choices there. Okay. Well, there you go. Okay. That was pretty. Crash Master, are you in insurance? Right, yeah. Would that be handy? I was expecting him to say something like that. Yeah, that'd be really great to know. Did he tell us that before? We should have a network of lawyers, accountants, insurance people.
We need friends. All right. Now, Producer Jeff is calling us out for perhaps shoddy work at the farm last week. You ready for this? No, I'm not. Okay. Okay. I've got some concerns here, guys. What are you all doing? You ran that spider cable that was there? First off, was it the same cable we were playing with when I was there last time? That's 30 amp cable. It was 120 volt. There's only three prongs. It was 10 gauge, guys. Come on. Okay. If you're running 10 gauge at its own length, at the original single cable length, that's 30 amps. You don't want to pull 50 amps off that.
What? Even if you, say, drop the neutral or drop the ground and just use two lines and a neutral to get your 240 volt. First off, you're not grounded. That's not safe. Second off, it's still only 10 gauge. Please don't pull 50 amps off the 10 gauge. Every 100 feet, you should be upsizing as well. If you're going 300 feet, you got to at least upsize twice on that. I mean, three times really, but realistically twice would be fine. If it was a single cable, but the fact that it's connected and daisy chained, no, no, no, no. No. What if the connections are rusty? Is that a problem?
You guys are nuts. I mean, fine. Run Brent's van. It'll be fine. 120 volt. He's not pulling a bunch of stuff. That AC doesn't pull a lot. That would be fine. But if you try to run the RV on that, just don't run your ACs, I guess. And at least ground the van to like one of the purlins of the building, like from the frame to one of the purlins, you know, a clamp or something. If you do end up dropping the ground on that three wire extension cable, the spiker box. Oh, man, I wish I was there. Oh, no. Yep. Hashtag we need you, Jeff. Yeah, Jeff, come on. So is his recollection of the cable correct? I don't remember.
Luckily, it is incorrect. Oh, good. I wasn't there when he was here setting up the plug that we inevitably have been using because he was kind enough to do some beautiful work of pulling a plug out of a very sketchy panel. A farm panel. A milk shed farm panel. Let's just say it's bad. And that plug's appropriate. plug-in lady jupes and we've been using that to basically use get power to the 300 foot away location where you want to park um luckily the cable i don't know which one he was looking at when you guys were together i wasn't there but the cable that we're using luckily is not whatever he's recalling so the the one we have is six gauge which is much much much thicker and it is rated for 50 amps and it is typically used for extending cables and power on job sites exactly like what we're doing and it's pretty heavy gauge stuff like you hauling this thing around you need to like you know put your weight into it so i think uh luckily it's not as sketchy as jeff was suggesting like dropping a ground and just sending power through that instead and not having ground or anything i mean it's still sketchy it is definitely still sketchy it's just on a different level.
It's still, you know, yes, it can be seen as sketch. A sketch that fits within our comfort zone. But his was sketch and dangerous. I think we're just sketch. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there may be danger. We don't know yet. We'll know once we really start pulling. I mean, that's one of the things we have yet to test is just we have, you know, we've taken a meter out there and, you know, made sure we each each line's good and the neutrals good and, you know, all that. Like, did you test at the farmhouse? Yeah, we tested all through all the way through at the farmhouse and we tested at the end. Okay.
We put heaters on there to generate some load on each leg of the 50-amp line, and did all some, you know, and we saw some voltage drop, so I'm a little nervous, but we also saw some voltage recovery. We'll see. I do wish you were here to check it out, Jeff. I'll just say that. Tell us what we're doing wrong. Yeah. All right, well, that means with all our voicemails for the week, you need to call and leave us a voicemail, and you can also call during our song of the week, which is right now. This is a value-for-value track. If you boost during the song, 95% of the sats go to the artist.
And this one is one of the well-known value for value artists who has a brand new track. It's You and Me by Two Weeks in Nashville. I don't even know how this happens, but Microsoft has the weirdest software bug in Windows 11. And only in Microsoft's crazy spaghetti code world of Windows could this even be possible, and they don't even know how it happened. But recently, an update to Windows 11 has caused some systems to play the Windows Vista boot sound from 2006 when they log in. You remember the Vista boot sound? Ah oh yeah it's coming back.
Now so how weird is it 11 years go by and they they do some sort of update to in the preview build of windows 11 and it switches login sounds to vista i have a question yeah why. Is that sound still in there somewhere. Right right i guess because you can have the option to play it if you want but it's kind of nostalgic it's funny though because it happened And the week that Apple introduced liquid glass, which a lot of people say looks a lot like Windows Vista. And then this bug comes out reminding everybody of the old Windows Vista. Microsoft confirms it is an issue and that they are working on a fix.
They just don't know exactly what caused it yet. I have several theories. One is that it's an insider just kind of trolling everybody. Yes. Chat room. Wes says troll too. I think it's an insider as well. Another one is maybe it's just a preview of what's to come with Windows 11, you know? Maybe. Maybe they're going to update the UI. I actually would be interested to have a full Vista theme. It'd be fun. Okay, Andrews, get your checkbook out. Ooh. Okay, there's a few things I like about this one. It's in our area. It's going to be fantastic for controlling audio and the environment.
Barely used. It was only used for a few years. It has a full mechanic shop, and it's a little bit closer to Brent's house. It's like 30 miles west of Spokane. Oh. Wow. Uh-huh. It's a unique property. It's coming in at $1.45 million, so it's a bit of a stretch. Just outside my budget. Doesn't it? I mean, it might be worth a little extra stretching because check this out. It was covered by the local news recently. It's that impressive. A unique property for just over $1.4 million is on the market in a rural part of Lincoln County. Let's show it to you.
It's near Sprague, Washington, 34 miles west of Spokane, and it has everything you'd want for country living. Wide-open spaces, stunning sunsets, and no neighbors for miles. There's just one thing. It's an atlas miso silo from the old days of the Cold War, something like that. And it's massive. But what makes this property truly special lies buried deep underground. It even has the attention of the USSR during the 60s. Marissa Rio gives us a tour of the Cold War era bunker that's now outfitted for modern living. This property may not look like much from the outside, but inside you're launched into something really special.
This property is a missile base from the Cold War. The base went active in 1960 and decommissioned in 64. This is Thomas Continos, and this property was once his father-in-law's. Since his passing, he and his- It's got a pool table. Wow. Right? His wife have decided to sell it. In 95, he started creating his masterpiece. The property is on 24 and a half acres. 24 acres, lots of room to run around. The main floor includes a shop, room, and bathroom. As Thomas takes me on this walk through history, he shows me the elevator his father-in-law built, connecting the main floor to the underground. I'm sure that passes code.
There's a game room equipped with a basketball hoop, Bedrooms, bathrooms, a library, and more. It's livable. I mean, this is one of the first livable ones that you've shared. And all constructed by the last owner. Now check this out. This is where the past meets the present. So this is the entrance we'd have Brent go through just to make him feel it. So it's a tunnel to a large metal door. These are the original tunnels built back in the 1950s. When you open this two-ton door here, you're now on the outside. And this is where crews would enter and leave the corridors. Like a time machine, the tunnels lead you to this. They backed the missile in.
hang the missile, and then close that 47-ton door. So this 47-ton door, which was built to accommodate missiles, happens to be just big enough to fit Joops. I mean, how perfect is that? Joops can park in there. It's the missile silo with the flame pit still inside. Okay, right now it's got a pool table, it's got a bunch of acreage, 24 private acres, 13,000 square foot underground structure, 3,000 square feet of modern living space, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, an elevator, a custom-built elevator, ideal for preppers, developers, or perhaps a podcast studio. So maybe if it's not for you, maybe I'll link it in the show notes and somebody in the audience can buy it for us. Does that seem like a good idea?
Maybe we'll go that route. Brent, maybe if you're interested. I don't think there's an HOA, so I think that meets one of my requirements. Okay, all right. And we have a handful of boosts today. Turd Ferguson comes in as our top booster with 25,332 sats. Frisk boost. Are you still planning to call listeners? Yes. I just haven't gotten my crap together. And I want to have a good reason to call. But I do need to get that together. Second boost from Mr. Turd Ferguson. I got my kids a YMCA pass. They went twice. Turns out I just wanted quiet. Skip the Y and have them start a podcast.
They know a guy. I don't know. I don't think my kids would want to do a podcast. I don't know. What would their podcast be about? Dylan's would be about Minecraft. or math. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah, math. He told me yesterday, he's like, mom, I failed my math final. And then he just had like, he could not not smile. He got 95% on it. But yeah, okay. So a couple things about this. Math podcast would be good. It would be. Wes would listen. So my boyfriend did introduce me to Turd Ferguson. Oh really? Yeah. So now I understand the clip. I have a new pop culture reference data point. So that's cool. How was it?
Well so i don't like saturday night live like i don't like it at all um but it is nice to like i did watch it it was kind of funny yeah it's i don't know so i oh turd she's burning you right now no it's just a fine line between between slapstick and just yeah yeah comedy like it's it just doesn't always hit right so it hits wrong most of the time so anyway but it's cool to have that reference and then uh the ymca you know they can literally walk there and i will probably go there so i think they'll use it more than twice um but that is uh it's not a bad idea i think i think dylan would really enjoy doing a podcast oh man.
You know when he was younger you know before he became a teenager and self-aware and awkward about about you know embarrassing himself he was such a natural i'd have him pop on the live stream and he would just i remember that. Yeah total natural so i think. He's got it in there somewhere. Yes outdoor. Geeks here with 5 000 sats, He says, that's some tasty bass or bass. Could be bass. I like bass, actually. Fish or waves. Right. Have you ever had bass? Oh, plenty. I mean, they're kind of like smallmouth bass in the river that I grew up on. So I grew up with the bass.
Yep. Yep. I grew up on a lake with a lot of bass. Feeding on them. I still prefer the rainbow trout over the bass. I agree. And also, like, if you can get some pike. Oh. The hard part is cleaning it. The great part is cooking it. Well, thank you, outdoor geek. Noble Payne, Mr. West Payne, boosts in with 5,555 sats. All right, he's got a quiz for us. E&M quiz. You've got a fat copper wire carrying 100 megahertz RF. Most of the current flows through, A, through the center, B, evenly across the section, C, just along the surface, or D, only at the end points? Do you know, Brent? Do you know? This is a hard one.
So RF here is radio frequency. Yes, right. 100 megahertz. Is Mr. Payne going to give us the answer? It's quite low. Oh, yes. Would you like to phone a friend? Most of the current flows through either the center, throughout the whole thing, on the surface, or just at the, okay, it's not only at the end points. Oh, that was my, that was my hunch. Oh, do you have a reason why you hunched that direction? I like the D. Oh. I think I know. I think I know. I don't know. It just seemed logical. Anytime I've seen copper, it's like hot on the ends. So it just, I don't know.
I feel like I know, but I think people should boost in with their answer because I don't want to embarrass myself. But I think I know the answer. I don't know at all. So it's a completely uneducated guess. Don't think I know anything about what even the question is. Let us know. Just to be clear. Let us know. Okay, again. Wes says, boost in with your answer. Again, so here's the quiz question. You've got a fat copper wire carrying 100 megahertz RF. Most of the current flows through A, through the center. B, evenly across the section. C, just along the surface. Or D, only at the endpoints.
Is fat an important operative word here? Like, why is it a fat copper wire? Oh, I think you've got something there. It's F-A-T, right? It's not the file. No, it means the type of wire, right? I think you caught something there. That's a fat wire. All right. So thank you, everybody. We didn't have a bunch of boosts this week. In fact, it was a little bit of a light showing. I know you don't like our little show. It's fine. It's fine. But we did have a batch of you, nine of you stream stats as you listen. So you stack 7,444 stats. Thank you very much for that.
And when you combine that with our boosters, the show stacked a total of 43,331 stats. Speaking of Saturday Night Live. But we do appreciate everybody who supports us via a Jupiter Party membership or a boost. If you'd like to support episode 26, boost right in and you can do with a message. I want to let everybody know we do have a bit of a PSA as well. So before we get out of here, I got to mention with the summer road trips coming up, there will be a little disruption to the old show schedule. So you need to be aware. There will be no episode on July 1st. I believe that'll be our victim at week right there. We're going to we're going to take that week off.
That's the one that takes the hit. But it'll be worth it. We'll come back refreshed, and I'll hopefully have lots of success stories about how the cooling system worked fantastic in the RV. The kids had a wonderful time, and my mountain called to me, and we had a deep connection. I'm hoping we'll find out. You're going to hike to the top, right? What? No, that's what drones are for. I'm just going to sit back in the RV and send the drone off. That's what I plan to do. All right. Links to what we talked about today are weeklylaunch.rocks. You can join us next Tuesday or catch it in your podcast app Wednesday morning.
Shout out to editor Drew, who makes that possible. That's it for us. So from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, thanks for listening. And we'll see you right back here next week.
This is The Launch, episode 25 for June 17th, 2025. Streaming live from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, we greet you all a good morning, a good evening, 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. And my name is Brent. Hello, you two. Well, we have quite the show coming up, so just a few things I want you to know about before we get going. You can call us live. After we play the Song of the Week, we'll take calls. Or if you want to call after the fact, you can leave us a voicemail.
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Yes. Yeah. So the kids' last week of school is this week. Oh, wow. Finals yesterday, today, tomorrow. They have Thursday off for Juneteenth, and then they go back Friday. That's really weird. It is weird. It's like the third year in a row. Like on that Friday, you know nothing's going to happen. So many people are going to be gone. Oh, yeah. You were right. Kids are just not going to show up. But then the ones that do are going to get to have like a cool experience at school. Yeah. Like that once a year only kind of experience. So last week we talked a little bit about how to get them outside for the summer.
Today I just wanted to talk about how things are going to change at my house now that they are out of school. One, I don't have to set an alarm for 645 to get all three kids up in the morning. Does that mean you're going to sleep in? Which means I can sleep in until like 7. Nice. Maybe 7.30 on some days, which is nice. Because right now what it is is I wake up at 6.45. I check and make sure Bella's awake and then Abby and then Dylan. And then I go back to bed for a couple minutes and then I get up and I wake up Dylan. And then I go back to bed for a couple minutes. Oh, that's torture. And then I wake up Dylan.
I have a hard time going back. I know. Then I get in the shower and then I wake up Dylan. Wow. Like it is ridiculous. That was me when I was a kid. Was it? Oh, 100%. Did you require a lot of prodding to get out of bed? Still do. Yeah, that's true, actually. I'm always really impressed when you do manage to do it. Well, thank you. That's a little like triumph every morning. Yeah, it is. If it's still morning. Another thing is, of course, I'm going to have kids home all day or day wanting me to do stuff during my work day, right? Which is going to be super annoying. And they're going to eat me out of the house, right? Like there's going to be so much food consumption.
Or when they go out, they're going to constantly be asking for money so they can buy food. Literally, Bella just texted me asking to door dash McDonald's to her. She just asked me yesterday for 20 bucks to go buy food. She should become friends with Emma, I think. Yeah, she asked me for money yesterday, too. But I said no, because the day before, not only did I, she grabbed two cans of Pringles, and I gave the girls waters, and then I went and bought them pizza sticks so that they wouldn't ask me for money. But then they wanted to buy whatever, so I sent them $15.
But I was trying to avoid that. And then, yeah, yesterday, Bella asked. That's funny. Did you give it to her? I did because she figured out to play the game where she and she and then and then she'll go to Hadea eventually. Oh, wow. Yeah, that started. That's incredible. Yeah, that I'm going to have that. OK, well, anyway, so one of the cool things about my day job is we get summer Fridays. So every other Friday, it's we have it off. Oh, that's cool. The whole U.S. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to that. thankfully my boss said this week since we have Juneteenth off at work to go ahead and take Friday off too so I'm like okay yeah geez yeah because summer Fridays don't start until the 4th of July weekend our.
Boss never gives those those days off. He's a jerk. So those are some of the things, some of the adjustments going on in the house. Also, I am working on fixing my backyard. Oh, is that picking back up? I mean, maybe. That's a big project. Yeah, basically. I haven't actually seen it. Can you give us some background? Well, I mean, you could have. Did you see the blue tarp when you brought your van over? No. No way. Okay, well, it's in the background of the picture that I took of you. But anyway, so a big retaining wall was put in, but I added 145 cubic yards of fill dirt to level my backyard.
But in October, it was too wet to level the yard and get mud. Yeah, it was just absolute slosh. So I called a dude that I knew that could do it, and he's like, yeah, I'm not coming out there. This is not the season. Call me in the spring. Yeah, it makes sense. Right. And I'd already talked to this dude a couple of times because he was going to do the topsoil layer for me. And anyway, so I called him last or a couple of weeks ago. And he's like, so you remember how I was complaining about Trump and how Washington state taxes suck? And I'm like, yeah, I do remember that. And he's like, yeah, I moved all my equipment to Utah.
Wow. Yeah. And I'm like, OK, so I guess. And he's like, no, no, no. I promised you that I would help you with your yard. I will you know if you can wait for me I'll be here I'll be here next week in Washington and I have contacts I can rent equipment and get this done for you that's insane he hasn't seen it though he might take one look and be like peace out maybe. You should send him some pictures or a video or. Something no no no no I need him to reject me in person no I need I need to cry in front of him and be like I need a backyard it has been a long this tarp it's getting like the sun reflection, melting damage from the windows nearby, you know?
Oh, wow. Yeah. It could be a total fire hazard. And yeah, I just, I'm so ready. I hate the sound of rain hitting this stupid tarp. It's literally a 20 by 30 tarp and a 30 by 50 tarp. That's how much of my backyard is covered by tarp right now. And I just want it gone and I want to start this grass process. Yeah. If you take the tarps off, it'll just, the grass will find its way. But it needs to be smoothed out and whatnot, right? It does. Yeah. Yeah. It needs to be leveled. Yeah. Even just minimally. Like, let's not add any more fill. Let's just level what's there and call it good because I just want a yard.
So anyway, that's in progress. There will be updates over the summer. That would be a nice win if you got it. I mean. Yeah. You know, and then it's just sort of done. It's like one of those things. Well, then I can do the other things like put up the fence and I don't know. I might get the kids a trampoline, another trampoline. I don't know. Any catios in your future? Oh, the second floor deck is actually before catio. Oh, that's sweet. Second floor deck. Again, I don't know if anybody's going to build upon what is already there, but that will be another whole adventure.
But first, I want to get the dirty stuff, like literally dirty stuff out of the way. I don't want to build a new deck and then have it covered in this film of leveling dirt. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, let us know what is stressing you out this summer. Boostin, do you have a summer project, a summer stress? We want to know it. Well, as Andrew said, the kids are almost out of school. And that means it's almost time for our annual summer road trip. And most often we've gone to Montana. But after, you know, doing it a lot, it starts to get a little old, even though I could do it every year. Kids like variety.
You know what I mean? I could literally go every year and be happy because you just go soak in beautiful hot springs. But we thought, you know, we'd start changing it up. So about two years ago, we went to the Oregon coast. And so we've kind of been looking for other things to do. And this year, we thought, wouldn't it be fun to go up to Brent's house, go see Uncle Brent and say hi to my mountain? It's more of a cabin, I would say. Yeah, well, and a mountain. Definitely. That mountain is, we probably have the best view of anyone in the city of your mountain. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it.
Fisher Peak. You've got to see it. Yeah. So it's not too long of a drive relative to some of the other trips we've taken, but it'll be a good trip. And it'll go through hot spots of eastern Washington and Idaho. I mean, it'll probably be a little warmer at your place than it is here now, too. So it'll be that. Yeah, probably a little drier as well. We don't, you know, getting away from the ocean, that's for sure. Brent has teased there are some hot springs in his neck of the woods. There are, like, the tourist versions. We will, I think, not go there. There are the secret locals versions that are tucked away in the forest.
Ooh, tucked away hot springs in the forest? That's where we're going. All right. Okay. I'm up for that. So we thought we need to get jubes ready because every trip you got to kind of reduce. So this next weekend we're going to do what we call the yearly purge. We do it almost before every annual summer road trip. And that is everything comes out of the storage base. Almost everything comes out of the house. and then we only put back in the stuff we need. And in preparation, we've been reorganizing like how we store all the bedding and everything like that.
So the shower is going to be used while we go down the road, but easily available if anybody wants to shower on the trip. So that'd be nice. And... big thing and this is like a top three all time my entire 10 years of owning jupes that i have wanted to solve and we are finally in the home stretch and it is proper cooling for my power bay so dear audience picture a bus and along below the windows like on the long the bottom half of the bus is a bunch of storage bays and in like the case of jupes there's like six on the passenger side and six on the driver's side and in one of these we have six batteries an inverter a solar controller, a charge controller, we have a bunch of gear.
And under normal operation, it tends to do just fine. But when we hit the road for the summer, heat becomes a real battle. You've got heat created by the engine of the RV and the exhaust and the transmission, which are kind of in that general area. That just happens to heat up all of the lower bays. And then you also have heat created by the alternator that is sending power to the batteries. And in the summer, you also have a lot of solar coming in. And solar charging creates some heat. And then we really make things worse when we run the AC units inside the RV. One AC unit alone draws around 14 to 1600 watts, both running simultaneously, which you really need when it's hot out, like, you know, 95 degrees Fahrenheit and above.
Both units running 3000 watts. And that has to be inverted from DC power in a battery, in a lithium battery, to AC power. And that inversion process generates a lot of heat. So you've got all these, you've got the motor, you've got the charging, you've got the 3,000 watts for the air conditioners. It creates a situation where I have to sometimes pull the rig over, open up the vents, set up a box fan, and blow across the storage bays to try to cool her down so we can keep running the AC. And it's really jank, but it also means I'm leaving my storage bays open every random place I stop, which is not always a great idea, especially since, you know, my battery bay has got like very high end equipment that somebody would love to just come and nab.
But it does get the job done. So this week, we're finally going to fix on that. Finally, one of my top three things I want to get fixed in Joops. And what we're going to do is we're going to cut some holes and we're going to add some fans and we're going to do some pass through airflow. But it originally started with my idea of I was just going to go to the storage bay door where these batteries are at, take a saw and just cut through the damn door and put a vent in the thing. You know, I need to do something and I'm just at my limit with this. And Brent looks at it and he says, there's a better way. And you did.
You came up with a solution that you won't even be able to tell from the outside we've done. Yeah, I was really trying to convince you not to drill a giant hole in the side of your rig. I think it took me like about two weeks to convince you finally to come, you know, to the bright light. There's a way I was looking because I managed to stick my face under your rig that the storage bins aren't actually like completely touching. There's a bit of an air gap between them. and I saw that as a perfect opportunity to stick a little bit of venting in that space so you could still get fresh air coming in and drill the hole in the side of these storage bays which is effectively under the rig so you won't even see it from the exterior but it'll still perform the same function. That's the idea anyway.
And we're going to use a boat bilge fan that's designed to cool a storage area or an engine to pull that air. So it'll pull in cold air and it'll suck out the hot air And if we get this done, I think we could get it done this week. I think this will solve the heating issue and we'll be able to go down the road with the air conditioners going and not fry all the equipment. This is an elaborate plan to cover the fact that you're going to sneak illegals into Canada. How would that be? I got to have good power. Ventilation down there. You got to keep everybody comfortable.
Keeping them in the storage. Yeah, I don't have the keys, officer. Only I'm the illegal because I'm going to... But speaking of, speaking of though, you're going to... Take Lady Joops to another country. You've never done that before. Right. That never actually hit me. What might you need to do? Like, do you have everything in order to, like, and all I can imagine is that we're the millers. So we're the fishers. I'm a little concerned, like, about, I mean, Levi has all his paperwork. But how much are they going to go through the rig? It's not California. It's just Canada.
Yeah. But, I mean, do they go through an RV and look for stuff? You know, because I got a lot of guns. They might have you open here. Oh, my gosh. Storage units. I've never been in an RV when it's crossed, but I've been certainly behind an RV when it's crossed. And they do the same as a car, just talk to the driver, and that's about it from what I can tell. I can smuggle Jeff's mom's oranges, and it'll be okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You can't smuggle them out of California, but you can bring them to Canada. I never did. I wouldn't have. No. So I'm looking forward to checking off this problem.
Then we get out there. We'll have a nice, comfortable drive through eastern Washington where it can get quite hot. And then we'll go hang out and check out my mountain. And while we're parked there, I think the cooling system will also keep the batteries nice and comfy when we're running the AC out there. I was thinking about this last night when falling asleep, as you do these projects, and you try to think of all the things you didn't plan for before you get into it. And it reminded me exactly of the problem we are trying to solve with the servers in the garage here, trying to keep them cool.
Remember, we discussed, like, do we build a box with, like, some kind of input and output exhaust fans trying to just pull all that heat out? And it's basically the exact same problem. So, considering we didn't succeed with the server, hopefully our luck's changing with the batteries. Comfort's on the line, Brent. And some batteries. Yeah. And we haven't even looked at what we need to do with my van for comfort. No. Yeah. Well, you do. Hmm. Oh. Yeah, I know. We better move on to that next week. I guess we'll look at that later. One problem at a time, Brent. Okay. All right. Well, we have some voicemails, and a guy named Ryan calls in about dogs.
Hello, Launch Crew. This is a guy named Ryan. Long time, ace time, I think. One of the topics was dogs and dog names. My family just picked up two Bichon Frise puppies because we need something hypoallergenic. Everyone's super allergic to dogs, but we also love dogs. We could not come up with a good pair of names for them. We debated for weeks. And then finally, we decided to go with some nonsense words. So their names are Gabu and Ganilla. And Gabu is the word my youngest would use when he wanted a gummy. And Ganilla is how he used to pronounce vanilla.
And as soon as we came up with those two names, everyone was super on board. And so, anyway, that's the origin story of those two names. I'm really enjoying the episodes. Please keep up the great work, and I'll talk to you again soon. Thanks. I love the idea of kind of preserving these words that the kids come up with. It's so sweet. They're the best, and then they stop saying them, and I miss them. Right. Act, act. My cat Rocky that I got that I ended up adopting from a neighbor a couple of houses down. Rocky's original name was Smurgle.
And Mittens, who unfortunately passed away right as I was adopting Rocky, like they got in a fight and Mittens didn't make it. And Rocky just had an injury. And then after that injury, I adopted him through that recovery. Anyway, Mittens name was Chenzu. And both of those and then Gorbash was the third cat. These are crazy names. So it's from like some sort of 80s comic cartoon or something. But anyways, they sound nonsense words, too. They are really. Hey, we got a live call. Let's take it now. What do you say? Let's take our live caller. I'll bring him into the conversation right now. Live caller. Hello. Are you there on the line right now? Are you there?
Yes. Hi. What's your name and where are you calling from? My name is Jordan. I'm calling actually right now from St. Louis. We're on a summer road trip with our family. Hello, Jordan and family. Nice. Where are you going on the road trip? Well, we're starting from East Tennessee and... We went to Mammoth Cave yesterday. We're going to St. Louis and eventually ended up in Glacier National Park and then coming back down to Texas and going home. Whoa. Are you in a rig? Are you in a truck? What vehicle is everybody traveling in? How many of you are there?
There's five of us. We're in a truck with a travel trailer. All right. Wow. He sounds like Hank Hill. He sounds like maybe he should record the number. Yeah, let's do some work. We got you here. Wow, that's a heck of a road trip. So total, is it how many weeks? Four to five, depending upon some stops. We've left a little leeway in some rooms, so we can extend stays or shorten them, depending upon what we like and what we want to see. Wow, that's a heck of a summer trip. Are you doing campgrounds? Are you doing some boondocking? Are you doing a mix? You got a harvest host? Tell me how you're... Last two stops, we were overnights at Cracker Barrels.
Nice. We've got some campgrounds, some KOAs. some BLM land. We've got a mix of all of it. That's the way to do it. The cracker barrels and the... The KOAs are nice, too, just because you get all the facilities and they usually have, you know, pretty decent campgrounds, but they're a little expensive. Needless high-end ones, though. Yeah, you've got to do some laundry with the trips that long. You've got to find some places to do laundry. No Harvest Host in there, though? Not at all. The way we get to RVs is weekends normally, so we don't join any Harvest Hosts or Boondockers. So we haven't mixed any of that in there.
Yeah, that makes sense if you don't travel too much. Well, man, that sounds like a hell of an adventure. I hope you guys have a great time. I'd love to hear how it goes when it's all done. Self-hosted got me into the Jupiter Broadcasting Network. I'm doing a lot of dollar-rich tracking locations. I used Pinch Flat and made a playlist for my kids that downloads and imports into Plex. So every day I'd say, hey, watch, you know, episode one, two or three. And it tells them about the state we're going through. What we're going to see.
Like Mammoth and the Arch, Gateway Arch. And it's videos peppered all throughout the U.S. that they get to watch and learn about before we go to it. That's a great idea. I definitely noticed the road trips really help actually cement the size of the country and the states, and it really does. It's a great time to learn. That's a brilliant idea and a great use of self-hosting in Pinchflat. I might steal on that idea. I might steal that. You're doing it better than we are. I've tried my hardest to find a way to justify buying a Starlink Mini to mount. On the truck somehow so we could have internet in the truck.
But I couldn't justify the cost when AT&T's in-vehicle Wi-Fi is $25 a month. So if they run out of service, we'll just go on a hike. Yeah, again, if you were in the rig throughout the year, it would probably be worth it. But the other thing about the Starlink, you know, I mean, I love it. I live on it, but you can't have branches in the way. And there's a lot of places where in the summer it's nice to park to have shade and then you don't have Starlink. So sometimes it's nice to have cellular. You can't really, I think, live only on Starlink. You kind of have to have the cellular anyway. So if you could only have one cellular, I think is probably.
Well, we're getting a little bit of both. My actually RVing or convoying with my parents, they're tagging along with us and he has a Starlink with him. That's so cool. We're piggybacking off of that when we're at Campgrounds. Do they full-time? They do not full-time. They're retired, but they go long trips here and there, but they don't full-time. Yeah, they got the Starlink. That's awesome. Wow. Well, I'm a little jealous. I hope you have a great trip and I hope everybody's safe and everybody has a good time, gets through the down moments when they do happen and all that stuff. And let us know how it goes. Leave us a voicemail or call back in in the future.
Well, we are on the road for about four weeks. If you want to call on a Tuesday, call on a Tuesday. Nice. All right. Thanks, man. Safe travels. Have a good day. All right. So that was fun, right? That was great. Yeah, that's great. Thank you for calling. All right. So back to the voicemails. We have Bo in Tennessee. Hey, Launch. This is Bo again. I was... Catching up with Ann caught up now, actually. I guess the one you all just finished. I haven't heard that one yet. But I wanted to call in about braces and band. I totally forgot about this, but in the late 90s, early 2000s, I had braces and played trumpet.
It sucked. It was pretty painful. I remember that and then forgot until just now. I played trombone as well, which is not as bad. The embouchure is much looser. The mouthpieces are bigger. And I wonder if that's part of why I started playing more drums in addition to the other drummer breaking his arm, which is a pretty classic way to become the drummer in a band situation. Anyway, yeah, that was tough. I don't know if braces are better. Maybe they are. And I have no idea what Invisalign is like. But that was a special pain of growing up that I completely forgot about. So thanks for reminding me.
All right, y'all. Have a good one. Oh, yeah. Bo, where am I? Hendersonville, Tennessee right now. Oh, another Tennessee. All right. I've got to get down to Tennessee. We've got family down there. It's great. So the update is Bella wants to do Invisalign now. Oh, that's probably a good call. Yeah. But the whole thing is on hold because the pediatric dentist doesn't want to touch her teeth. She needs a cavity filled, and it's too close to the root. And it's the one where the same dental place refused to work on it and literally called it garbage teeth.
Yeah. He said, yeah, I'm not touching that. It's a garbage tooth. All four of them are garbage teeth. This guy's like a tooth elitist? Yeah. So in 2020, when everything was shutting down, I had to take her to a dentist that I didn't know to have this filled. And thankfully it worked out. But now there's a cavity near it. Anyway, so they want to refer her to an adult dentist because it's an adult tooth, which is crap because she's 11 and kids can go to their pediatric dentist until they're 18 or 24 is what the gal said. She's the best about brushing her teeth, too.
She what now? She's the best about brushing her teeth. And flossing. Yeah. Like, she's, yeah, I am buying her the floss picks all the time. But it's those midnight treats under her bed there. No, that's Abby. Yeah, that's totally Abby. That's 100% Abby. But, no, she's got the crowding, you know, and she doesn't get all the way back there. It's the molars. So, anyway, it is kind of on hold until I can get a second opinion from my dentist. And then I might just bring her back to the pediatric dentist. Is this really a garbage tooth? That's what you're going to ask him? No, no. I just want his opinion. And I don't want to – I'll tell him afterwards what we've been through.
Yeah, see what he says. Yeah. All right, only a couple more left. Crashmaster is one of our last voicemails this week. Hi, JB. Members Feed, you're talking about insurance, car and home. This is Crashmaster from Connecticut again. Progressive is a good option. If you have AAA insurance, you can have them broker it as well. Good choices there. Okay. Well, there you go. Okay. That was pretty. Crash Master, are you in insurance? Right, yeah. Would that be handy? I was expecting him to say something like that. Yeah, that'd be really great to know. Did he tell us that before? We should have a network of lawyers, accountants, insurance people.
We need friends. All right. Now, Producer Jeff is calling us out for perhaps shoddy work at the farm last week. You ready for this? No, I'm not. Okay. Okay. I've got some concerns here, guys. What are you all doing? You ran that spider cable that was there? First off, was it the same cable we were playing with when I was there last time? That's 30 amp cable. It was 120 volt. There's only three prongs. It was 10 gauge, guys. Come on. Okay. If you're running 10 gauge at its own length, at the original single cable length, that's 30 amps. You don't want to pull 50 amps off that.
What? Even if you, say, drop the neutral or drop the ground and just use two lines and a neutral to get your 240 volt. First off, you're not grounded. That's not safe. Second off, it's still only 10 gauge. Please don't pull 50 amps off the 10 gauge. Every 100 feet, you should be upsizing as well. If you're going 300 feet, you got to at least upsize twice on that. I mean, three times really, but realistically twice would be fine. If it was a single cable, but the fact that it's connected and daisy chained, no, no, no, no. No. What if the connections are rusty? Is that a problem?
You guys are nuts. I mean, fine. Run Brent's van. It'll be fine. 120 volt. He's not pulling a bunch of stuff. That AC doesn't pull a lot. That would be fine. But if you try to run the RV on that, just don't run your ACs, I guess. And at least ground the van to like one of the purlins of the building, like from the frame to one of the purlins, you know, a clamp or something. If you do end up dropping the ground on that three wire extension cable, the spiker box. Oh, man, I wish I was there. Oh, no. Yep. Hashtag we need you, Jeff. Yeah, Jeff, come on. So is his recollection of the cable correct? I don't remember.
Luckily, it is incorrect. Oh, good. I wasn't there when he was here setting up the plug that we inevitably have been using because he was kind enough to do some beautiful work of pulling a plug out of a very sketchy panel. A farm panel. A milk shed farm panel. Let's just say it's bad. And that plug's appropriate. plug-in lady jupes and we've been using that to basically use get power to the 300 foot away location where you want to park um luckily the cable i don't know which one he was looking at when you guys were together i wasn't there but the cable that we're using luckily is not whatever he's recalling so the the one we have is six gauge which is much much much thicker and it is rated for 50 amps and it is typically used for extending cables and power on job sites exactly like what we're doing and it's pretty heavy gauge stuff like you hauling this thing around you need to like you know put your weight into it so i think uh luckily it's not as sketchy as jeff was suggesting like dropping a ground and just sending power through that instead and not having ground or anything i mean it's still sketchy it is definitely still sketchy it's just on a different level.
It's still, you know, yes, it can be seen as sketch. A sketch that fits within our comfort zone. But his was sketch and dangerous. I think we're just sketch. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there may be danger. We don't know yet. We'll know once we really start pulling. I mean, that's one of the things we have yet to test is just we have, you know, we've taken a meter out there and, you know, made sure we each each line's good and the neutrals good and, you know, all that. Like, did you test at the farmhouse? Yeah, we tested all through all the way through at the farmhouse and we tested at the end. Okay.
We put heaters on there to generate some load on each leg of the 50-amp line, and did all some, you know, and we saw some voltage drop, so I'm a little nervous, but we also saw some voltage recovery. We'll see. I do wish you were here to check it out, Jeff. I'll just say that. Tell us what we're doing wrong. Yeah. All right, well, that means with all our voicemails for the week, you need to call and leave us a voicemail, and you can also call during our song of the week, which is right now. This is a value-for-value track. If you boost during the song, 95% of the sats go to the artist.
And this one is one of the well-known value for value artists who has a brand new track. It's You and Me by Two Weeks in Nashville. I don't even know how this happens, but Microsoft has the weirdest software bug in Windows 11. And only in Microsoft's crazy spaghetti code world of Windows could this even be possible, and they don't even know how it happened. But recently, an update to Windows 11 has caused some systems to play the Windows Vista boot sound from 2006 when they log in. You remember the Vista boot sound? Ah oh yeah it's coming back.
Now so how weird is it 11 years go by and they they do some sort of update to in the preview build of windows 11 and it switches login sounds to vista i have a question yeah why. Is that sound still in there somewhere. Right right i guess because you can have the option to play it if you want but it's kind of nostalgic it's funny though because it happened And the week that Apple introduced liquid glass, which a lot of people say looks a lot like Windows Vista. And then this bug comes out reminding everybody of the old Windows Vista. Microsoft confirms it is an issue and that they are working on a fix.
They just don't know exactly what caused it yet. I have several theories. One is that it's an insider just kind of trolling everybody. Yes. Chat room. Wes says troll too. I think it's an insider as well. Another one is maybe it's just a preview of what's to come with Windows 11, you know? Maybe. Maybe they're going to update the UI. I actually would be interested to have a full Vista theme. It'd be fun. Okay, Andrews, get your checkbook out. Ooh. Okay, there's a few things I like about this one. It's in our area. It's going to be fantastic for controlling audio and the environment.
Barely used. It was only used for a few years. It has a full mechanic shop, and it's a little bit closer to Brent's house. It's like 30 miles west of Spokane. Oh. Wow. Uh-huh. It's a unique property. It's coming in at $1.45 million, so it's a bit of a stretch. Just outside my budget. Doesn't it? I mean, it might be worth a little extra stretching because check this out. It was covered by the local news recently. It's that impressive. A unique property for just over $1.4 million is on the market in a rural part of Lincoln County. Let's show it to you.
It's near Sprague, Washington, 34 miles west of Spokane, and it has everything you'd want for country living. Wide-open spaces, stunning sunsets, and no neighbors for miles. There's just one thing. It's an atlas miso silo from the old days of the Cold War, something like that. And it's massive. But what makes this property truly special lies buried deep underground. It even has the attention of the USSR during the 60s. Marissa Rio gives us a tour of the Cold War era bunker that's now outfitted for modern living. This property may not look like much from the outside, but inside you're launched into something really special.
This property is a missile base from the Cold War. The base went active in 1960 and decommissioned in 64. This is Thomas Continos, and this property was once his father-in-law's. Since his passing, he and his- It's got a pool table. Wow. Right? His wife have decided to sell it. In 95, he started creating his masterpiece. The property is on 24 and a half acres. 24 acres, lots of room to run around. The main floor includes a shop, room, and bathroom. As Thomas takes me on this walk through history, he shows me the elevator his father-in-law built, connecting the main floor to the underground. I'm sure that passes code.
There's a game room equipped with a basketball hoop, Bedrooms, bathrooms, a library, and more. It's livable. I mean, this is one of the first livable ones that you've shared. And all constructed by the last owner. Now check this out. This is where the past meets the present. So this is the entrance we'd have Brent go through just to make him feel it. So it's a tunnel to a large metal door. These are the original tunnels built back in the 1950s. When you open this two-ton door here, you're now on the outside. And this is where crews would enter and leave the corridors. Like a time machine, the tunnels lead you to this. They backed the missile in.
hang the missile, and then close that 47-ton door. So this 47-ton door, which was built to accommodate missiles, happens to be just big enough to fit Joops. I mean, how perfect is that? Joops can park in there. It's the missile silo with the flame pit still inside. Okay, right now it's got a pool table, it's got a bunch of acreage, 24 private acres, 13,000 square foot underground structure, 3,000 square feet of modern living space, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, an elevator, a custom-built elevator, ideal for preppers, developers, or perhaps a podcast studio. So maybe if it's not for you, maybe I'll link it in the show notes and somebody in the audience can buy it for us. Does that seem like a good idea?
Maybe we'll go that route. Brent, maybe if you're interested. I don't think there's an HOA, so I think that meets one of my requirements. Okay, all right. And we have a handful of boosts today. Turd Ferguson comes in as our top booster with 25,332 sats. Frisk boost. Are you still planning to call listeners? Yes. I just haven't gotten my crap together. And I want to have a good reason to call. But I do need to get that together. Second boost from Mr. Turd Ferguson. I got my kids a YMCA pass. They went twice. Turns out I just wanted quiet. Skip the Y and have them start a podcast.
They know a guy. I don't know. I don't think my kids would want to do a podcast. I don't know. What would their podcast be about? Dylan's would be about Minecraft. or math. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah, math. He told me yesterday, he's like, mom, I failed my math final. And then he just had like, he could not not smile. He got 95% on it. But yeah, okay. So a couple things about this. Math podcast would be good. It would be. Wes would listen. So my boyfriend did introduce me to Turd Ferguson. Oh really? Yeah. So now I understand the clip. I have a new pop culture reference data point. So that's cool. How was it?
Well so i don't like saturday night live like i don't like it at all um but it is nice to like i did watch it it was kind of funny yeah it's i don't know so i oh turd she's burning you right now no it's just a fine line between between slapstick and just yeah yeah comedy like it's it just doesn't always hit right so it hits wrong most of the time so anyway but it's cool to have that reference and then uh the ymca you know they can literally walk there and i will probably go there so i think they'll use it more than twice um but that is uh it's not a bad idea i think i think dylan would really enjoy doing a podcast oh man.
You know when he was younger you know before he became a teenager and self-aware and awkward about about you know embarrassing himself he was such a natural i'd have him pop on the live stream and he would just i remember that. Yeah total natural so i think. He's got it in there somewhere. Yes outdoor. Geeks here with 5 000 sats, He says, that's some tasty bass or bass. Could be bass. I like bass, actually. Fish or waves. Right. Have you ever had bass? Oh, plenty. I mean, they're kind of like smallmouth bass in the river that I grew up on. So I grew up with the bass.
Yep. Yep. I grew up on a lake with a lot of bass. Feeding on them. I still prefer the rainbow trout over the bass. I agree. And also, like, if you can get some pike. Oh. The hard part is cleaning it. The great part is cooking it. Well, thank you, outdoor geek. Noble Payne, Mr. West Payne, boosts in with 5,555 sats. All right, he's got a quiz for us. E&M quiz. You've got a fat copper wire carrying 100 megahertz RF. Most of the current flows through, A, through the center, B, evenly across the section, C, just along the surface, or D, only at the end points? Do you know, Brent? Do you know? This is a hard one.
So RF here is radio frequency. Yes, right. 100 megahertz. Is Mr. Payne going to give us the answer? It's quite low. Oh, yes. Would you like to phone a friend? Most of the current flows through either the center, throughout the whole thing, on the surface, or just at the, okay, it's not only at the end points. Oh, that was my, that was my hunch. Oh, do you have a reason why you hunched that direction? I like the D. Oh. I think I know. I think I know. I don't know. It just seemed logical. Anytime I've seen copper, it's like hot on the ends. So it just, I don't know.
I feel like I know, but I think people should boost in with their answer because I don't want to embarrass myself. But I think I know the answer. I don't know at all. So it's a completely uneducated guess. Don't think I know anything about what even the question is. Let us know. Just to be clear. Let us know. Okay, again. Wes says, boost in with your answer. Again, so here's the quiz question. You've got a fat copper wire carrying 100 megahertz RF. Most of the current flows through A, through the center. B, evenly across the section. C, just along the surface. Or D, only at the endpoints.
Is fat an important operative word here? Like, why is it a fat copper wire? Oh, I think you've got something there. It's F-A-T, right? It's not the file. No, it means the type of wire, right? I think you caught something there. That's a fat wire. All right. So thank you, everybody. We didn't have a bunch of boosts this week. In fact, it was a little bit of a light showing. I know you don't like our little show. It's fine. It's fine. But we did have a batch of you, nine of you stream stats as you listen. So you stack 7,444 stats. Thank you very much for that.
And when you combine that with our boosters, the show stacked a total of 43,331 stats. Speaking of Saturday Night Live. But we do appreciate everybody who supports us via a Jupiter Party membership or a boost. If you'd like to support episode 26, boost right in and you can do with a message. I want to let everybody know we do have a bit of a PSA as well. So before we get out of here, I got to mention with the summer road trips coming up, there will be a little disruption to the old show schedule. So you need to be aware. There will be no episode on July 1st. I believe that'll be our victim at week right there. We're going to we're going to take that week off.
That's the one that takes the hit. But it'll be worth it. We'll come back refreshed, and I'll hopefully have lots of success stories about how the cooling system worked fantastic in the RV. The kids had a wonderful time, and my mountain called to me, and we had a deep connection. I'm hoping we'll find out. You're going to hike to the top, right? What? No, that's what drones are for. I'm just going to sit back in the RV and send the drone off. That's what I plan to do. All right. Links to what we talked about today are weeklylaunch.rocks. You can join us next Tuesday or catch it in your podcast app Wednesday morning.
Shout out to editor Drew, who makes that possible. That's it for us. So from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast, thanks for listening. And we'll see you right back here next week.
