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All right. Well, yeah, I jumped on Saturday. Oh, man. You know, H.G. Wells wrote about the time machine. I got to ride it. It was amazing. I just, you know, I was like 20 years old again. And more than that, I traveled back to the night before all the paratroopers jumped into France and Europe on D-Day because the plane that we flew in actually dropped jumpers into France and as it taxied up and we got into it and it took off and you know I was having all kinds of serious mental gymnastics about you know my predecessors but it was just it's hard to describe yesterday's video okay I got I had a helmet cam and it worked perfectly and the video starts from standing on the runway and having this 82 year old airplane come rumbling down the runway towards us turning around and we get on it and you know there was there were two it made two passes across the the lake it was a big lake and I was on I was on the second go-round so and the video stops when when the recovery team is dragging me up on the pontoon boat for an adult beverage but 23 minutes long just a little bit over that now let me reset real quick in addition to that the the people that put the event on there were two GoPros mounted on the wing right beside the door there were two cameras inside the airplane pointed forward one was forward one was at the door I really didn't have I don't have the skills and knowledge I haven't taken the time to figure out how to move things from my phone to the YouTube from the camera to the phone to the YouTube or whatever I can't do it on the computer at home and all the videos that the the the organizers did is available to me online so what I'm going to do is I'm when I get home it's not going to be right away I've got three clips three short clips one of the loading taken off second one is going out the door and the third one is the the nice ride down and if you want Daryl I still have your phone number right I'll send them I'll try and send them to you it seems to have a problem sending it to iPhone I don't know sometimes I'll give her a couple tries but I'll send you I'll send you my little clips but what what my plan is when I get home I'm going to use use some software that I'm myself how to use and I'm going to meld the two sources together and I'm going to start with you know us standing there and then once we get in the air I'm going to try and switch back and forth between their camera on the inside looking at me me looking at the door going out the door then the wing camera showing me coming out the door and it's probably could be a good 30 minutes long and I'll put that on YouTube and once on my Sheldon YouTube page but once I get all that put together I'll put a link up let everybody know and I'll probably have a link on my QR Zed page too but it's a gorgeous day perfect weather nobody got hurt 160 of us jumped I got to hang out with a bunch of old friends a bunch of new friends and I told my wife when I talked to her on Sunday after the jump I said I you know I have to apologize I I told you a lie but it wasn't an intentional lie because I told her I just want to go down and jump one more time and you know no no no no I'm going back the hero of the jump to me was the old green beret from Vietnam 82 years old and it was his tenth jump with these guys so yeah it uh it was well worth the time and money I'll be home today but uh but that's the story there I'll be around for one more go around uh but then I'm gonna have to stop and get gas and you know do the little little boys room thing but but there you go uh W2A That is absolutely awesome and I can't wait to see the video. You don't even understand. I mean, there's one thing to watch, you know, that stuff online, you know, there's lots of it there. But it's different to watch a video of someone you know actually doing it. And yeah, I just shot you a text anytime you have a link or if you want to try and send me those videos. Temple supports RCS now, we've only done that like for several months. It shouldn't be an issue, couldn't send videos these days, it's much easier. I can send longer videos to Andrew. Hopefully they go through, man. I'd really like to watch. At the bottom of the list, ladies and gentlemen, let's go ahead and make another call for check-ins. Anybody anywhere that would like to join the Cowabunga Net here on this Wednesday morning, please go ahead with your call signs now. This is V01.