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I'd have lost Peter, but he might be back. Gellow, V01UKZ, this is KC2PKG. Do you think somebody could have backed into it or hit it with a car? Or just different kind of damage? Over to you, V01UKZ, this is KC2PKG. Yeah, no, I don't think it could have been hit by a car, Grey. It's parked in the driveway dead on. But it's like right up against my neighbor's driveway, in my driveway. But again, it's like lease shares, like a parking lot-sized driveway. And it was parked in the driveway head on, so I don't think so. But someone, I just got off the phone with a repair place here in town. And he said, parts and labor, I'm looking at $500 or $600. And that's, it would be less if I don't need a new head. But that's, he said, probably around the maximum. And that's including labor. They charge us $65 an hour. And he said, I'm looking at probably $100, $150 for a header pipe. The exhaust, he said, is fine. It's not the whole exhaust that would need to be replaced. He said, and luckily, if the head needs to be replaced, I don't need a piston or rings or anything like that. He said, all of that is inside the cylinder. He said, the head is a different part from the cylinder. He said, that's where the exhaust bolts are. I just got off the phone just now and to read the motor sports. And he was saying they could do it. And, but yeah, I'm just frustrated, man. My mind is everywhere here this morning. But it looks like someone intentionally done it, man. Kicked it or hit it with something. Because, excuse me, because it's just the way it's snacked. It's like one of the bolts are completely snapped and the exhaust is hanging by one bolt. And he said, I need to get the exhaust gasket kit and the head gasket kit. And he said, all that is included in the quote that he gave me. So, I don't know, man. I'm just looking at like what I got here that I could literally get rid of that I don't need to cover the cost of this. He said he could have it done for me in a week if I could, if I could get everything together. Like, I mean, I got HTs here. I got that new set of headphones I just bought. Affordable, affordable screen. I don't know, man. My mind is just reeling. I can't imagine going the whole summer and being barred up in this friggin' house like I've been for the first part of the summer. When the weather's been crappy, so. I'm nice and I want to get out and can't. So, I don't know, man. I don't know. It's a piss off is what it is, to be honest with you. But, I'll get through it. I'll get through it. And this is an actual place that does mods and dirt bikes and motorcycles and stuff like that. So, he knew exactly what he was talking about when I described it to him. He said it's a good thing that the exhaust is still good, he said, because that would have, you know, been a more expensive piece. Pretty actual muffler and stuff, but all that is still good. I mean, there's nothing wrong with any of that. It's just where the tailpipe connects directly onto the motor. It's like one of the studs are snapped off. Because it's snapped off, you're going to need to drill it out. And if it can't be drilled out, he said it might be able to be drilled out. He said it might not cost me. It's about, you know, for $400. But, he said if the head has to be replaced, then they've got to replace gaskets and all that kind of stuff. He said, and that adds, you know, a couple hours to the maintenance time. He said, once they get at it, he said they don't slack off. He said they'll get it done and, you know, give me a fair rate. But, ugh, just disgusting. I can't imagine that it was done, one of my cats once in. Had to be done by a spite, someone that was really spitey and really angry. So, I don't know. But anyway, we'll get through it, man. Other than that, man, I hope you're having a good day. Hope everybody down there, out here is having a good day. It wasn't Saturday. It was yesterday. Dinner time. I can't even recall, man, Saturday to Sunday here on that off. Like you say, I was so pissed yesterday. I just slept most of the day. And, umm, I'm not 100% with it here this morning, but at least now I know it's what I've got to work towards after calling the repair place. V01 UKZ, keep me on the list, man. I'll be here. I'm happy I'm here this morning. Looking forward to the questions, especially the one about what's not allowed. I'm due drop in. I like that one. V01 UKZ. V01 UKZ, this is KC2 PKG. And, umm, yeah, that, umm, I've been sort of nagging. I'll tell the story when we get to that question. But, umm, for now we're going to pass it over to KB0MAI. Way to go, George. This is KC2 PKG. Yeah, thank you, Greg. I'd say damn now. $65 an hour. That is a great rate for a mechanical race for a mechanic these days. That's dirt cheap. Umm, when I used to take my motorcycle and budget something that I couldn't feel comfortable doing, it was $135. Those parts are so... And that's about the norm. I'm not here down in the States, at least in the Central United States. I'm sure it's even higher on these roads. The West Coast is something like that. The agency's not in the back. They're not moving on to this JDI bike. If I can get another bike, I need some major work done, I'll be shipping up the area to have more to hunt in. So, umm, what do... Oh, umm, can you reset the button? So, I don't want to go back to the chat, GBT. Umm, so, I have discovered that I can alter my work by quite a bit. I mean, yesterday I took a Black and White Street photo. The gentleman sitting on the bench in the wall, waiting for his wife to come out of the store. Terribly important. It turned out to be a really good picture. And I started thinking, one day, you know, I can use black and white, and I can do that. I just took all the color out of it. So, I can't get the color back, and I thought, I wonder if I can turn this into an oil painting. Chat, GBT. And, umm, loading the up thing, as long as it's not long gone, and, you know, it would go quick too. It would go, umm, three or four minutes, right? I know you're on a priority basis, when I mess with the report, and before I pay for the office service. I might wait five, ten, fifteen, even thirty minutes to have to come back and give me the results sometimes. It was a little like three, four minutes, on each one I did. But, I asked it, and turned it into a oil painting. Now, I thought, how is he going to do that? Because, I stripped all the color out of his smile. It's already in braids, so, what is he going to do? And he came back and gave me the colored representation of the oil painting. I was amazed by the colors of his painting. It looked like an oil painting, and had all the aspects of an oil painting. And, umm, just like, wow, this is awesome. I don't know how I did it, you know, but it did it. And so, I did watercolor, and I went out and some drawings. You know, my work just changed the way it looks, you know. And, yeah, it's pretty awesome, I like that. But, what worries them? So, that all happened, right? I also went to do some research behind the progress of autonomous trucks. You know, how close are we getting to the point where there aren't any truck drivers anymore? I was amazed by, you know, how far they've gotten. You hear rumors near and there, and articles. It's basically, you know, in certain states, we're testing them down in Texas and California. Unmanned trucks now, which is pretty wild. And, talking by 2013, the West Coast, for all the right operations, transporting from state to state, the truck, umm, it didn't have its own trucks on the road. Now, the overall whole country, the number of people that have seen the satellites, they're talking probably, we can say in 20 years, and it's based on how far the technology comes. But, the main part of it is, is how well we as American people will accept this on our own, and then the regulations, you know, in Congress and there, like each state will do something like that. But, they say on our side, 20 years, no more drivers on the trucks. On, over to the local, they have, umm, they have a little bit different, the line goes on a little bit further, and that's mainly because of, you know, you have to get out, you have to get, umm, the cargo to the society, you know, and, you know, you can't help but miss that. I'm sure they'll do it. Oh, it's even more amazing, one more, reset. Yes, we're extremely behind China on, they are in stage four. They have it all set up for stage four right now. They're in stage three, umm, and they still have drivers in the trucks, and more of a supervisory position than anything else. But, stage four is completely autonomous, and they already got all the regulations in place, they got all the equipment in place, and they're looking at being completely autonomous in just five minutes. So, I've got all that, I've got all that, SHAD GPG just doing the research, you know what I mean? Man, China's gonna beat us again. Back to neck control, KV0MA on. KV0MAI, this is KC2PKG, yep, the regulations are settled. That's gonna be an interesting fight, and I'm sure that the insurance companies are gonna have a lot to say in that, because that's the first thing that pops into my mind, but I was in the insurance business for a long time. So that's gonna be interesting, but cool, I can't wait, I'm excited by that. Josh, KV5IRQ, I'm passing the ball to you, this is KC2PKG, pop quiz coming up, everyone. KC2PKG, this is KV5IRQ. My nephew's been to that with us last night, he's 16, he wanted to talk to me and Danielle about a few things, and so he's been around to us last night, I'd take him home this morning. He's reached our school on Wednesday, our school here starts on Wednesday. Little man, my little G son, he has back, he has meet the teacher tonight tonight, so we are very excited about that. Cautiously optimistic, but he does well, I mean it's pre-K, so I'm guessing he can't really do bad. So yeah, we are pretty excited about school starting this year. Yeah, so the KG3PKG thing, you can make the pattern being ahead of the curve, yeah that makes a lot of sense, you have less regulatory hurdles to jump, less insurance like they said, hawks telling you what you can and can't do. And then they got something we don't have, a dictatorship, this is what we're doing, and it gets done. We don't work like that here, so at least not completely at the moment. So yeah, they would be ahead I would think, although from what I understand, their AI isn't quite to the par of what we have. Although the North WAF, researching with the KG3PKG is awesome, if you're a paid member, or a paid, I don't know what you call it, a paid supporter of KG3PKG, you'll probably notice that there's a few other options that you can play with, like AI Agent. Think of AI Agent like a computer, you're willing to expertly tell it what you want it to do, and it will go up and do it, whether that is logging on web pages for you, doing deep research for you, or even running a bot for you. I have a bot on my Discord server, my personal Discord server, that runs on my BPS server that was built using chat GPT. It pulls out a lot of the weather information from that area, from multiple sources, but primarily from the National Weather Service. It will let me know if there's a fire problem around me, or if there's inclement weather. It doesn't just do the daily, here's the forecast, I mean, it waits until there's a large, or there's actual, themes happening before it comes back, and it tells me, hey, this is happening, be aware. So it's just one of those little things I wanted to try out playing with. This is all with GPT-4. I'm telling you, GPT-5 is a leap, a huge leap. They, in the video, the introduction video that opened the app, it's important to note that they compared the last three models to students and teachers, I guess is the best way to put it. I'm going to take a real quick one here. So back when I first started using chat GPT, they were on, gosh, what model were they on? I wonder if they, maybe, maybe the model reports, but I don't remember. But I got to use three a lot, and it was pretty cool. It drifted a lot, hallucinated a lot. You know, if I didn't know the answer, I learned that it would kind of make it up, and you really had to watch it like a hawk. But GPT-4, oh, it wasn't so bad. GPT-3 was like talking to a high school student, what the video kind of treated it to. I'm really smart and high schooler, you know. Maybe in the top 5% in the United States of high school students, but yet it's still a high school student level. GPT-4-0 means that level to a college student, maybe a graduate student, you know, a really difference. Well, the difference between 4-0 and chat GPT-0 is actually GPT-5, it's on chat GPT's platform. The GPT-5 is, now you're talking to a doctorate in everything. So there's deep research, that's another tool you can use. Remember, on AI agents and deep research and a few of the other tools, even though you pay for it, you're still limited. You get hex amounts in a month, and when you run out, they either drop you to a lower tier, or you just can't do it for the rest of that month. I did that with deep research last month. I was doing a lot of research though, so I knew I'd probably be at my limit. Fortunately on deep research, it does change it to a smaller, a mini research. So you submit a lot of really good researchable stuff. I just thought I'd give you little things, but I've learned so many things on our computer. You're talking about all work and everything? That's awesome. I mean, I like playing with it over the weekend because it helps with prompting. And I'll be honest, the entire region, I am playing with these little characters, or a little art, or whatever I'm doing on there. You know, it ended up becoming very profane as to whether I could make a computer and draw things back in. No, it's to learn how to prompt, and how to prompt well. What I was prompting is how AI works. It's just how it works. Yes, you can get on there and say, hey, tell me the weather. Hey, you know, it's a constant restaurant that serves Chinese. Any of them tell you. It's been a little more gutso than Google. But if you use it like Google, you're missing out on a lot. So anyhow, that's probably more than enough. I was driving home and I had a few moments to talk. I'm gonna send it back to you, Greg. KC2BKG. This is KG5. Alright, go ahead. KC5IRQ. This is KC2BKG. Well, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. And you'll keep telling us, while you kick the tires, chat GPT5. Neat. Neat. Ron, any use for AI in your investing or anything like that, this is KC2BKG. Over to AA4HO. Yeah, I asked it about pattern trading before. It's got a lot of good information. I'm not sure about something, you know, how it's – I don't make a trading violation. I ask the questions. It's really useful for stuff like that or setting up in a brokerage account different things. You can ask it, you know, what differences are, like, you know, between a bank and a brokerage. You could ask – it's got all kinds of things. Tax simplifications. It's not going to tell you, you know, how to – it could give you aid. But, John, resources on how to trade, if you wanted to find out for, maybe recommend books or courses. Let's see, some of the other things I might have used it for in that respect. I think you got the idea, though. I got this message on X. So many people are crypto crazy. I mean, it's unbelievable. If they get any indication, you know, you like crypto, it's like, you know, they're all over you. You know, like this last person, you know, that just mentioned, that messaged me. You know, I try to tell them, you know, well, if I trade any crypto assets like ETFs, Ethereum, or – along with other stocks, you know, I don't only just do that. And I kind of try to tell them, you know, that it's probably better, you know, you don't focus just on one thing. I mean, people are crazy about it because so many people make money, but people lost money in that, too. Some people got crushed. And I don't have, you know, the resources to tell them all that. But it's – some people had to give back a lot of what they mean on it, you know. But it's better, you know, to do more than just one thing. AA4HO, this is KC2-PTG. It's running its way into our lives. It's so interesting. I am not a big AI user at all. I really don't have anything to do with it. So I'm a little slow in the uptake here, but I'm looking forward to it. N0BF on the train on its way to Chicago. I'm passing the ball to you. This is KC2-PTG. Okay, open holes. This is N0BF. Thanks, Gray, and I'm enjoying it. Look out the window, watch the – just watch the world go by heading to Chicago. And just a glorious day. We saw the sun rise over Sandusky Bay this morning. Man, that was flat beautiful. At breakfast, and now breakfast number two or lunch number one. Something's going to happen at Chicago. Anyway, that's what's going on here. And AI is interesting about that. Let me know if AI6 can forecast the future. This is N0BF. Thank you. N0BF. Yeah, you came in clear as well that time. That's good. That's real good. Yeah, forecasting the future. I'm sure somebody's already working on that. They just need a methodology. I can ask the supercomputer anything. All right, let's see. We're down to the bottom of the list. We'll get some check-ins, and then we're going to pop quiz land. So if you'd like to get in on the cow bung and net, be Monday, August 11th edition. Come down with your call sign. This is KC2-PTG.