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So the majority of the population lives where you live. And there's about 100,000 people distributed around the island. And you know, maps do not give a province, you know. Maps are just terrible. And you look at a map, you go, hey, it's not really big. Because then when you hear somebody describe it, you know, it's a totally different story. But anyhow, it's interesting. 400,000 there and 100,000 for the rest of the island. It must be a lot of square acres per each individual. But if that was divided up per person, I don't know how big, you know, how much each person would get. But it would be a lot. Because if the island is really big, and make the best of it, Newfoundland is not just Newfoundland. Technically, the name of the province is Newfoundland and Labrador. Right here in Labrador is the landlocked portion of the province that's actually joined to Canada. And it is much, much larger than the island portion that it runs here. And I'm not sure what the population is up there. But it's bare. I think there's more polar bears in Labrador than there is people. Kilo, kilo, 7, November, Quebec, November. All star node 6222. Located at 400,000. Where's that one going to go, man? All bears. I had a dream. I used to ride a motorcycle. I always said I'm here to take a trip from Missouri up to Nova Scotia. And I wanted to do all backwoods. I didn't want to do interstate or anything like that. I mapped it out, and it was going to be roughly 4,000 miles left, 4,000 miles back down. The way I was going. And I thought, OK, I'm going to need roughly 30 to 40 days to do this trip. I never did it. Never did it. Now I don't have a motorcycle anymore, so I guess I never will. Man, I tell you, I'd love to be able to ride an actual motorcycle. I could get away with just around my own community here because the area that I live in is called Shea Heights. It's like an area. It's up on a mountain. It's like high above the rest of the city. It's about 650 feet where I am above the city. So my repeater antenna is about 650 feet above the city. But the top of this mountain is about 1,200 feet. And I was about halfway up it. And it's good because even though I have a vision problem, my vision is not too bad that I can't drive slowly. On a highway, doing 100 kilometers an hour, 70 miles an hour, it's like 110, my reaction time is not quick enough. I can't judge depth or my distance perception is not good. So I can still jump on my quad doing probably 30 miles, 40 miles an hour and be just fine to go into woods by myself and stuff like that. That's why I'm lucky. I'm in a closed off community because we've got a road that's a mile or two long that separates this community from the rest of the city. So you've got to drive up that road. And it's like one way in, one way out kind of thing. So in this closed off neighborhood, I could ride a small motorcycle like a Grom or a Honda Navi or something like that. I used to ride one of these Coleman outfits, 200 CC adult sized mini bike, they call them. And I used to ride one of those around up here and never had a problem. And now I ride the four wheeler. And I've been pulled over twice, never got a ticket or anything like that because it's known that people have been doing that up here for decades. So police don't really give you a hard time. They'll pull you over, they'll ID you. And I don't even have a driver's license because of my vision. And you're supposed to have a driver's license if you're driving a quad on the road. You're also supposed to have the vehicle insured and registered just like a vehicle, just like a car. Not for off road use, but if you drive it on the road, because there's a law up here that says you can drive an ATV on the road for up to one kilometer to get to or from a trailhead. Like you park a vehicle, you unload your quad, you can drive it for a kilometer on the pavement. But you got to meet all those criteria, right? Insured, licensed, and registered. Got to have a driver's license, all that stuff. I don't have none of that stuff. There's no insurance on my bike. I have no driver's license. I don't have a license plate on it because I only use it in this community. And a cop asked me, driver's license? No. Insurance on the bike? No. He said, see you don't have a license plate on here. I said, no. I said, but, I said, if you parked up here, I said you'd see probably in an hour five bikes with the same exact conditions. Like, you know, people just use them to get back and forth to store. Stuff like that up here. And, you know, you'd see a lot of it. And he was like, well, yeah, I know that. He said, I just got an ID just to, you know, just to show that we make contact or whatever. And, you know, nothing bad about it. You're not going to get no tickets or nothing. So I was like, whew, good. I'm not getting no tickets. It's all good. Oh, just hang on a second. I was getting a phone call. George, I'll be right back. How you doing this morning, George? How's everything out of your way? All right. It's been the first day back to work for the week. No rain. It's kind of nice outside. And nice and chilly. 60 degrees, right off that note, chilly. But it's a nice temperature. What? I am almost to my destination. I'll have to get off here. And pay attention to what I'm doing. But I'll chill to the ground, OK? I want to have a good day, all right? Hi there, George. And, yeah, I'm just waking up and just listening to you guys chatting this morning. All righty. We'll let you run. Have yourself a good day. We're having a nice one here. It's, it looks like the sun is coming out. It's good. It's nice and cool. So that's sort of like a relief for us. It's a relief from all that heat. All righty. We'll catch you later. From maybe 1A, I-4 will lead to end monitoring. What are the errors to the NI stay out there? K0, MAI. I'll be clear for a while. Well, it's only 20 minutes, boys, until the net starts. And no signs of falling asleep just yet, anyway. You know, the thing about living out there, you live in a beautiful place. But, man, it really, you know, it's the taxes that you're paying and the import and the food and stuff. That's the, if it wasn't for that and it was like the rest of Canada, that would be perfect. And you mentioned that those trees are old. So you got old trees out there because they haven't, they haven't stripped the forest clean. So it must be a beautiful place out there where you live. You know, it's a really good place. beautiful place out there where you live. That's probably the nicest places in Canada. Hey, and I looked, you're right. I didn't know they actually, you mentioned it this morning, you're 90 minutes ahead of time. I thought it was an hour. I never knew they did it by the 30 minutes added to it too. So I learned something new today. We're so far East, you know, the way the time zones line up around the world, we're so far East that we've got a half an hour time zone. The only other place I know that does that is Trinidad down in, you know, the West Indies, right? Trinidad and Tobago. They're the only other place that I've ever heard that does that. Apparently there's a few more around the world, but most of them are like GMT minus, you know, one hour or five hours or whatever, you know, the East Coast of the United States is GMT minus five. Then in Canada, you got Atlantic time, which is GMT minus four. And then you got Newfoundland time, which is GMT minus three and a half. So we're just that much further East that they needed to have a different time zone, I suppose. And I think it goes back to pre-confederation times because Canada was only, you know, completed by Newfoundland in 1949. We weren't a Canadian province before that. We were our own entity. We had Newfoundland currency. Our military was the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. It was, you know, we were completely separate from Canada. As a matter of fact, in World War II, there was like no Canadian military bases in Newfoundland. They were all American military bases. And that led to a lot of Americans, you know, marrying Newfoundland women or vice versa. And a lot of Americans settled in Newfoundland too. So there's like some American heritage here as well as Canadian. So it's an interesting spot. But yeah, you're exactly right. I mean, we've got some of the most beautiful ponds and like just untouched forest that you can, you know, actually still go and visit. It's kind of incredible. I mean, where I live, I can jump on my quad, which is parked in the driveway. And within 10 minutes, I could be sat next to a pond with fish jumping everywhere. Just nice beautiful grass all around the place and just park my bike right next to the pond, sit on a bench, man, and watch the ducks and stuff. It's absolutely gorgeous around here. This is repeater station. November, Quebec, November. Even Fisher, Quebec is nice. All the ponds in Washington. The only way that you're going to catch a fish in Quebec is if you pay $1,000 and they drop you, you know, in a pontoon plane. The plane will fly you into a place where you can go fish and that still has fish. Wow. That's a, because you know, I love fishing and there's no fish here. I tried fishing in all the places and there's no fish because everybody else did the same thing. So there's no fish left. Yeah, it sounds perfect out there. It's like paradise out there. You know, it's a really nice area. I saw a YouTube video on St. John and look at the airplanes that missed the airport. They flew up into the mountains. They crashed there. The planes are still there. You know, they don't take the planes away. They're, they look beautiful out there. You know, it's a perfect place. Especially when you got the, well, you got the quad. That's that there, the quad and all those trails. Boy, I used to do that back in Connecticut. That's a semi-second. I used to take the dirt bike on the power lines, which was the only place, you know, that I could take it. But yeah, it's a perfect place there. My friend wants to get a quad. And I was thinking about getting one. The problem is we don't have any place to store them during winter time. So that's why we're not going to get one. You got it made out there. To be honest with you, what I does with mine, I just leaves it in the driveway and I put a heavy duty tarp over it, go to Costco, get one of the really thick tarps and tied a little eye hooks down to the frame of the bike. And number one, man, I've been parking my bike like that now for three years and never had an issue. I can go out and I can pull that thing over first click and it'll start up immediately. No issue whatsoever. It's, it's good, man. You know, some people put some in garages and sheds and stuff like that, you know, especially buy a brand new one. I mean, mine is 25 years old and it's still in great shape. It's a 2000 and it's still in great shape, especially for the age. But when I got it, I had a bunch of work done to it. All the electrical was replaced, all of the bearings and the, you know, suspension bushings and all that stuff was replaced. I had the carburetor rebuilt. Oh man, whole bunch of stuff done to it. You know, all the running gear, all regular maintenance that needs to be done. I had done to it. So it still runs absolutely fantastic. And it's a, it's manual transmission. So you got the, you know, the ability to change gears whenever you want, you know, so if you're being, uh, you know, someone's getting a little too close to you on the trail, you can just drop the gear down and hit the throttle and boom, just like a motorcycle kind of thing, right? Yeah, exactly. I still like a motorcycle over a quad though, cause I was trying to tell my friend if you get a quad, you have a chance that you could get that stuck. You're going to have to have a winch on it. You know, uh, you get a motorcycle stuck too in the mud. I had that happen to me. I had to leave my bike and my friends come help me. I couldn't get it off myself, but you gotta be careful with that stuff. But yeah, it sounds like you got it all set. At least you got all the bearings and everything in tip top shape. Yeah, I'd like to do that again. I used to do it, like I said, when I was a kid and now that I'm retired and, uh, you know, I got all the time, I'd like to at least try to motorcycles again. I'm not going to drive it fast like I did when I was a kid, but you know, uh, I used to have a CR 250 with a two cycle and that thing was like a rocket machine, but today I'd be happy on a, maybe a 250 with a four cycle engine, you know, something slow, you know, like a wish bike, not, not, not, not nothing, not, uh, you know, uh, you know, nothing really powerful, just something I can put around on a 250 man. That's a big boyfriend. You know, that's the same frame as on a 450 pretty much. It's just a difference in the motor. I don't like a bike that I can't flat foot. Uh, when I learned, I, I can't say even really learned because they've been on one, half a dozen times. And I mean, I was okay with the clutch and, you know, shifting gears and stuff. I, you know, I only stalled it the first time and the second time I was good to go to get it in the first and then second and third. And, you know, I didn't take it over or a little bit or anything like that, but I like, if it was for me, I'm, I'm five 10, five 11, and I would want the one 25 just for me, just for putting around, because like you say, my vision is bad. A one 25 that'll still get you up to 80 kilometers an hour with no trouble at all. And that's what my quad can do. It can do 80 or 85 kilometers an hour. I had it going that fast on pavement. And, uh, my buddy was behind me. We were out trail riding and, uh, he was behind me when we came off the trails and we hit the pavement. It's kind of like a highway, you know, like a two lane highway. And, uh, so I got on the pavement and I just, you know, gradually got it up to fifth gear and I had the thing pinned. And you know, what it's like riding a quad, I mean, you're just riding on the knobs on your tires. Your contact point is small, right? So, and I've got like knobby off-road tires on this thing. So this bike was floating doing 80, 85 kilometers an hour on this highway. And, uh, when my buddy caught up to me, I was speedometer on my bike. When he caught up to me, he said he was doing 90 just to catch up to me. And he said, when he got behind me, it was about 80 to 85 kilometers an hour that I was doing. And, uh, mistake, right? Cause if you've got a turn quick or something jumps out in front of you, you ain't got a prayer stopping or turning that thing at those kinds of speeds. Yeah, I guess with the knobbies and stuff that would have been vibrating a lot too. Yeah. That's uh, you know, I had a, you know, another bike that, uh, I had before, you know, I had the 250, I had a, uh, um, a 100 Honda 100. It was a four cycle engine and it was for a child, but you know, I remember I was 16 years old when I had that cause I, uh, I put it back in my car in the truck and took it with me once. But yeah, it's, uh, but even, you know, uh, a little Honda 100 that's meant for a little kid, you know, I got on that thing and I, I had that bike for like two years. I mean, I drove it all over the place. It just wouldn't die. It was a Honda. The motor always started. I just had to adjust the points in it. That's all I ever did. I hit the points with clothes. If you let us sit too long, you'd have to put 20 thousands or something with a pillar gauge. We keep the thing timed. But yeah, I had a lot of fun and that was only a Honda 100. The seventies, the eighties and the one hundreds are a pretty small frame size. Then you get into the 125 and the one 50 it's roughly the same frame size as bigger than the 70 and the 100. But, uh, it's like a medium size in between the two 30 and the two 50. And that's just like frame size just for booting around for me would be just perfect because I can like just flat foot on both sides of the bike to keep it balanced. But I found it to Yamaha 230, the TTR 230 or the Honda CBR 250 or not CBR, sorry. The, uh, what is that? CRF, CRF 150 or 250. Sorry. It was just too big. Uh, I couldn't flat foot it. So the bike was like lean in one way or another. And I didn't figure that that would be a good fit on a trail. Like, cause if you got to, you know, you can get messed up on a trail or going up the hill. I want to flat foot that bike. I don't want to be having to lean it to one side and down, sit on one foot and stuff, especially where I'm not an experienced rider on two wheels. Now don't get me wrong on a quad. Oh buddy. I'm usually the guy leading the pack when it comes to the cross because it's stable, right? It's really stable. And so when a group of us get together, like a couple of my buddies and my dad and my brother, we're all riding our own machines and I'm usually leading the pack, especially when we're on pavement. My dad's actually seen me a couple of times. You mean you got to slow down or you're going to kill yourself because the way my tires are on the back, they're like a tractor tire pattern. Like, you know, like the rows of like, you know, knob, it's like a tractor tire pattern. And on the front, it's just knobbies, right? It's just got knobs every, you know, all over the tire. So when I'm doing on that, especially on pavement, it's not vibrating very much because I barely touched the pavement. I mean, it's floating above the pavement for the time that they're for the duration that each knob is touching the pavement. It's almost like feels like the bike is floating when you're doing, you know, above eight on a bike like that. It's dangerous as all hell. But, you know, it's really fun to get a trade off rate. It's how fun versus how dangerous. And sometimes I push it a little more than I should. But that's why I don't have a dirt bike because I figure they're a lot less stable, you know, and it's easier to loop them much easier. Like if you hit a bump and your wrist flicks back on that twist throttle, you could get flicked off into the woods very easily. With a quad, you got a thumb throttle. And I like that because I can be holding on to the bars really sturdy and I don't have to worry about the whiskey throttle, you know, if I flick my wrist back, you know, from hitting the bump or something like that. And I know that's something that seasoned riders, you get, seasoned riders, you know, you get used to that. But I'm not a seasoned rider on two wheels. I mean, I've really only started riding a four year, like three or four years ago. I mean, I've ridden them dozens of times over the years, but having my own is only three or four years ago. And before that I was riding one of those 200cc Coleman outfits with the CVT transmission, the belt drive on it. And those are limited, right? Like with the engine that's in them, they're governed. So you can only do 35 kilometers an hour, that's it. That's all those engines can do. Until you strip the engine down and you put a billeted steel flywheel on it and a billeted steel side cover and, you know, a high powered clutch and a bunch of other stuff, then you can get them up to like, you know, 80 or 90 kilometers an hour. But I didn't do it like that to that two wheel bike. And it would have been good to do it because that bike had balloon tires on it like a quad, right? One in the front, one in the back. It wasn't those like skinny dirt bike tires. This thing had like eight inch wide tires on it. So going faster on it would have been a good thing. I probably would have just stuck with that bike if it was faster. But I like the quad. I gotta say, I mean, I got a stereo on there with two 100 watt cone speakers from like a motorcycle setup mounted on the bars. So I got, you know, nice loud music on there and a communication thing in the helmet and stuff like that. So it's, it's safer, I think, with my vision restrictions and my, you know, wish to have speed. And I mean, I've rolled a couple of them over the years, you know, roll the bike or something like that. Luckily, I never got hurt, but you could very easily get hurt, right? And that's what I kind of worry about. So I don't really go by myself riding anymore like I used to in the beginning. Because my brother in law's brother had a bad accident a couple of years, last year or the year before, where one of the back wheels came off his quad while he was riding, he was drifting around a little bit and he pulled out the axle and the whole worksheet came right off with the wheel. The axle literally separated from the, from the CV joint in the middle, like your rear differential. It came right out from the differential and the wheel was left on the side of the road with the axle sticking up off it. And that bike flipped and they went off, off the side of the mountain and he broke his wrists and his arm and broke himself up pretty bad. He cracked his helmet like an egg. So I mean, if he never had to be wearing a helmet, he probably would have been dead. But my point is, is someone with perfect vision that's been riding quads for like 30 years can get into an accident like that with my merely three or four years experience, you know, solid experience, I could do worse to myself. So I stopped riding by myself pretty much all together after that. Yeah, you got to be careful on those things, especially quads. I mean, even on a motorcycle, I think they're both just as dangerous, but somehow I, I, I, I don't know, I just feel safer myself. I feel safer on a motorcycle because of, you know, I guess a quad, if you went up a big hill, you know, I can get up on a bike and I, I lost bikes, motorcycles, you know, I went over, you know, dumped them going up the hill, but motorcycles isn't bad because you can just jump off of a quad and the thing hits you and lands on you got to be really careful. Another thing I know you could do with tires. I think I told you this before a year or two ago, you know, if you could get some 632 screws and you drill a hole through your knobby and you put these little 632 screws in nut, nut, nut them and weld them in place with a little spot welder here, we have a little weld machine. You take it out on the ice and you can really have fun. You know, when it was really ice, like a pond is frozen over with a perfect nice, nice ice and you could really, that'll dig in and you can really have a lot of fun. I seen that done in Connecticut. It's something to do if you have an old pair of knobbies you want to hold on to and use them for that. Man, I follow a YouTube channel called Seaboys TV and the boys do all that kind of crazy stuff. They've even started out dirt bike tires and all kinds of stuff, man, with screws and that you just screw them in with a screw and a washer on it and weld the washer to the screw just like what you're saying and man, oh man, you can do some damage on some ice with a pair of those outfitted. That's for sure. Anyway, what time we got here? We got four minutes till net, man. I'm going to stand by that short gray is there in the background looking to get ready. George is pretty surprised to hear me on an hour before net, but like you say, I didn't go to bed last night, so I'm still awake for the next little while. Anyway, the old one UKZ with AB1AR. It's almost nine o'clock where you are right now. It's almost nine o'clock. Yeah, it's getting late in the day where you are there. All right, I better shut up now. The net is going to be starting. AB1AI, Affordable to Me, too. I didn't even say anything because Darryl doesn't get on in the morning, so I figured, you know, that I'm smart. AA4H. You could have run, but you could have jumped in on the conversation. Yeah, I could have, but I didn't. I just wanted to let you know why I didn't because I wanted you to get your, uh, in whatever you could without me interfering. I had these a few times this morning and didn't really hear anybody and then I heard George ID, so I jumped in and started having a chat back and forth with George and then brought in Hobden there and we've just been having a chat ever since then. But, um, yeah. Anyway, I'm going to stand by here. I'm looking forward to Greg getting started. I'm not in a situation this morning where I've got to worry about waking up for the net because if I had to go to sleep at like 6.30 in the morning when my friend went home, then I wouldn't be up right now, let me tell you, or 7.30 in the morning, 7 o'clock in the morning, whatever it was. I can't remember exactly, but, um, yeah. Either way, I'm going to stand by for that. I'll be going to UKZ. Yeah, I heard you this morning. I heard George twice this morning, but I was working on an email with a friend that's in the hospital, so that's why I didn't get back to you. I'd be standing by for the net.