Episode 21 - Salty Dawg Saloon

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Being mountain and ready Mountain Dew livewire. Oh, that's what you have. Mm-hmm. Oh, it's a shame that

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It's orange

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What it's orange. It's an orange soda. Oh, well, that's gross

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Wait don't look okay, are we gonna do some type of intro?

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Hi everyone

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I'm Emily and I'm Vince and as you may guess this is the lighthouse lowdown

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It's just gonna be Africa forever

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Unless you want to learn the tone that is our podcast intro

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I will but it won't be intentional. It'll just be pretty

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I'll do it with spite

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You sip my diet DP

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so

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DDP I

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Am NOT the host today. I am the co-host which I guess is always true, but I know it's 75%

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False, what do we call it when I'm not hosting or when you're not host like what are you the host today?

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This is your episode. Yeah, Emily's episode today. I'm talking right now

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It's only it's more of like a special occasion whenever you do the opener and since I write

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the

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You know the descriptions of the episode. I should be sure to mention that it's you it's a special occasion

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So it's not really that you're no, I say you're hosting. Yeah, so I'm the host for this and I'm the co-host or the secondary

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tertiary the commentator junior host other host

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But I just alainia's it's Thursday. It's after work. So we got some sodas in us

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Yeah, as the Midwestern or sometimes say I've actually never heard that except for you. Sody. Oh, it's like I think I got it from some

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My 600 pound life or whatever. Oh, yeah, these two girls. Yeah, it's um thousand pound sisters

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Yeah, but there's one there's one clip that I've because I've never seen the show. Yeah one clip that was like

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Our mama told us growing up that you know

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You eat a sugar and then you drink a diet sody and they cancel each other out and they're telling this to a doctor

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He's like that is

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Inaccurate so maybe it's she I can't remember but the doctor is like that's not science

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I don't know who told you that but you're a thousand pounds. Yeah

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I wouldn't trust it. It's not working so far, but so

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But yeah, I just want to say it's Thursday after work got our sodis. It's snowing outside. Yeah

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Finally have some snow. We have a sponsor for today's podcast. We talked about later, but there's a lot of special things happening

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So I'm excited for this one. Hell. Yeah. Yeah

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So I'm just gonna jump in I'm gonna start with the history buoy which is a

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Promise in our last episode is on foghorns for those that don't know foghorns or fog signals are a sound warning

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to alert other people to danger I would say like marine

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You know voyagers. Yeah sailors, etc. Yeah

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But it's also true for rail like railways trains and stuff really

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Those are technically fog fog well, well they sorry they are used foghorns

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It's not like a train horn is a foghorn, but it uses the same. Okay steam whistle. Yeah

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What I've heard on a train, but I get it's the well a lot of foghorn. Okay

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Well, it's a good way to get into it

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historically fog signals were whistles or

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gongs

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That people would strike or

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Blow later on with compressed air small cannons were sometimes fired as the warning

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But of course cannons were not

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Cannons had to be manually filled and fired by the keeper each time it needed to go off

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Which was sometimes you're short of like five minutes. So he'd just be standing there for ever. Yeah

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so

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Obviously it was efficient

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So it was a good way to get into it

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So obviously it was efficient so they used it for a really long time

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Clockwork systems began being used to strike bells and this included a fun fact that I found a giant

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Triangle like a musical triangle in Maine that had four foot sides

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What? Mm-hmm. This was an 1837 so I couldn't find a picture but this so is there a record of like who made this I?

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Should look it up see if I can find like the patent for the giant triangle the commissioning. I

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Don't know. I'm yeah, it's been over some drawings here. I just wanted to check on the scale. I

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Just want to make sure this says four feet and not four inches 300 pounds of steel

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You'd have to hit it with a hawk, you know, there had to be a mallet to go with it

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That was also just as well. Yeah full swing good stuff

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The first automated steam powered foghorn was invented by Robert Fowless

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Which his own his name almost didn't go down in history and I'll tell you why

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he says that he heard his daughter playing piano from a distance while he was working in fog and

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Noticed that the low tones were more audible than the high tones aside from cannon fire

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Most of the time they've been you know whistles and giant triangles give off high frequency sounds

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And so he is like oh

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What a revolutionary idea that we need to be aiming for the low frequency sounds rather than the high frequency. So we decided

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Designed a low frequency sound device and was initially rejected by the commissioners of lighthouses

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Which is basically the lighthouse board for Canada. Yeah, he wanted it to be built on partridge island

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Which I'm assuming was nearby where he lived or something

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you know test site or just yeah, just to see how it worked and

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You know if it benefited the keepers at all, but he was rejected

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Doesn't really say why I think what they're saying is his proposal was not detailed enough. So they were like go back

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Add some more detail, you know, like really lay it out and then you come back

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So then the plans the more detailed plans that he made were stolen

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by another Canadian engineer who passed it off as his own work and was

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Accepted feisty engineers. Yeah, I didn't put out his name because I don't think he deserves it

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Oh, you want to soil the family name?

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Is it an eight? Wait, is it a name that we would know like is it like no bows? No

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Sennheiser banging Olson

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It was the beginning of Apple

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Fowlis eventually got the credit but he never profited or patented his design. So

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Oh, at least we know that he was the one responsible for coming up with this idea

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But he never gained any money from having his design out there. That's really interesting

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So he's literally he's literally listening to his daughter play a piano and he's at some distance away

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And it's like the what is it the Einstein the Apple the Einstein Apple moment? He's like, yeah

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Yeah, I don't know if that's actually true. Maybe it is. I don't know. I didn't learn in school

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But like he's sitting, you know sitting under a tree. Yeah, essentially and he hears all the low lower keys

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I can hear them more clearly this must be what everyone else hears

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This must apply to the rules of physics like low frequencies across distance on air carry better with more intensity

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Yeah, it's interesting but that's the same reason like, you know, we're driving in kind of a different part of Kansas City, Missouri

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And you hear like yeah, you hear the rolling bass coming from the

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1991 Lexus coupe right next to us. Yeah, but you don't hear the you know, yeah high high piano notes exactly

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Yeah, yeah, I felt bad for him. But foul is everyone remember and have F.o.w. LES

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F.o.u.l.i.s. I haven't been shown anything yet on the great big screen. Yeah, I'm not gonna show you my notes. Are you crazy?

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back on to our

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Foghorn so a couple of types it was hard to find it like I couldn't find a list of

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Foghorn types I think mainly because the kind that's used nowadays is pretty much universal

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It's not like oh you can have this this this was this and here's the reasons you would use each type

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It's just kind of like this is the one we've got

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Yeah, really I found two types one is a siren which is

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You know what you hear for tornadoes or winds hurricanes that kind of thing that's compressed air force through holes in a rotating

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Cylinder and then the other type which is what most lighthouses use today or you know for marine purposes is the diaphone

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Which is what you asked about in the last episode

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So the dive one was originally invented for the organ for sending compressed air

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Compressed air specifically to each note on an organ it's compressed air force through slots under a pistol and I have a gif

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I wonder what the origin of pistol means. Is it a shape or a they say pistol? Yeah, that piston piston

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Okay, well you got me

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There's a little animation so basically it's surrounded by compressed air all the time this like piston and as the

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Compressed the compressed air builds it pushes down on this piston

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Which then opens up these holes for air to escape out of and up here is where you're hearing the noise is the sound of this

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Compressed air shooting out of the piston

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and then as this air pressure goes down and also air sneaks underneath the piston it pushes it back up and

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Unaligns these holes. Yeah, and so then it's like the short bursts you hear whatever kind of physics

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They have going on in here that

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Keeps it in sound bursts instead of it just being prolonged noise or unpredictable

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Yeah, that's what's the diaphragm really cool design and I really appreciate this cutaway. Yeah, so someone made it on Google

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it's actually an

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Animated it's like they took the patent design and then

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Animated it in today. So this is actually the drawing that was in the patent and then they made it into an animation

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Well on the pressure, it's just the pressure changes, which is cool

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Yeah, but it reminds me it's a very similar in concept at least to like a natural gas regulator

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I don't know who listening cares, but I'll say

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As so as this piston moves downward and that channel opens up behind the piston to reset it

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It's essentially you're playing with the pressure. So that's what makes it to to to move

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Yeah, really interesting move rapidly. I would assume

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For the bursts of air. That's cool. And so this piston design was for

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Organ organ instruments like in a church. Yeah, so the pressure would rise and then that would cause the one

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I don't even know what to call them like a chime in that like an organ

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Yeah, I'm sure it was a little different before it was released for this purpose

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But originally the guy that designed it that's what he was designing it for it was for use in an organ

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I'm not sure if they actually used it there or not. Oh, I see

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But then diaphone. Yeah, I don't know if I can post a gif on Instagram in our

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group of photos that we posted so maybe I'll post it as like a I

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Don't know a story you can reference back to look at how it works

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I did have to do a little bit digging to find this so

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Anyway, I'll get it to you guys somehow

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There's a couple other really rarely used types, but the diaphone is like I said most widely used another cool thing

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I saw is that you know in the modern-day age

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Fog horns are activated by a laser that is shooting out to the sea

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And if it's ever reflected back as it would be if there was fog something interrupts the beam

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Yeah, or just it's the air is full of water. So it reflects it back to the

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laser

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I don't know anything about it

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So in my best terms if the laser is ever reflected back

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Which means there's fog then the fog horn is activated so there doesn't need to be someone there saying oh, there's fog

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Turn it on. Yeah, it's like always keeping track so it can turn itself on. That's really interesting

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And uh, well, I'm guessing it's like an infrared laser because it would work day and night

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It's not an optical laser. That's gonna blind somebody and that relies on

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Obviously daytime light. Yeah, that's cool. It's only gone on fog horns. Very nice history buoy

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Thank you. Okay, we're gonna move on to the lighthouse

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Which lighthouse so this one's fun because for two reasons for you one is that

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It's just funky and goofy and I think you'll appreciate that

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Yeah, and also

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You're taking a trip to Alaska soon and you're gonna end up in the town that has this so you

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Will probably be able to go is it near Anchorage? It's Seward Homer

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It's Seward Homer Hope Homer. Oh

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We are going to Homer so you should definitely give this place a visit because it is hilarious and a lot of history

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So I'm gonna put a picture. Here we go. Here we go

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I feel like I looked up lighthouses in Alaska recently and I might have seen

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Like an outlook maybe it was in Homer. I don't recall Seward. I want to say I don't pull this

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Oh, no, Homer has to so we've been to Homer. Yeah, Homer is where we stayed on the spit at lands and resort

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Which was really cool the very end of the spit. I am talking about this subject

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I'm so excited. Let's go also gorgeous views

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Here it is

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Okay

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before you say anything else I

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Didn't see the lighthouse but when we arrived in Homer, we're like we're on motorcycles. We're all dirty

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We got to go eat somewhere. I saw the salty dog saloon on Google Maps on like

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One of the top five options and I don't yeah, I can't tell you anything else

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That's all I know but I was like that's a cool name and that was two years ago. I never remember that name

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Tell us about it, please. So it has the appearance of a lighthouse, but it's not what you think

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It's so for visually for people listening. It is a gray log cabin

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And it actually has a two-part building that's like just connected in between they used to be separate

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And then it also has a lighthouse connected to the back or I guess a light tower. It's like hexagon shape

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Yeah, it could be octagon, but I'm gonna lean towards hexagon. It's got shingles all on the sides

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Which is unique few windows. I'll go more into the structure of the lighthouse

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It's covered in decorative. I mean it's got seashells and buoys and fish nets

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There's like a crab. There's a lot going on. Trap there

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There's a lantern coming out of the roof. Yeah, very nautical

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Very fun. Very funky pretty cool when you see it

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It's like you can't tell if it's gonna be a dump or if it's gonna be awesome

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But yeah, it's so as you can guess by the name it the salty dog saloon

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It's actually a bar slash pub dive bar, but its history is goes a lot deeper than this just being a bar

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So okay, so let's go in is estimated to be built this this main building that has the sign in the front door and everything

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Is estimated to be built in 1897. This is kind of an estimation because they don't know

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For certain when it was built, but during a cleaning in 1970s

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They found newspaper insulation in the walls from the late 1800s. That is cool

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Yeah, so they're estimating that's probably when it was built

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It started out as one of the first cabins built in homer just after homer became a town site

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And this makes the salty dog the oldest surviving structure in homer city limits

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And also the last original structure of the town. Wow 18 late 1800s

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also newspaper insulation, it's pretty hard

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In Alaska, you're like, you know what? It's gonna be cold. You know what let's put some newspaper in there

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Yeah, I know I wonder

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If it was just it was like I think

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I can't remember if it was built originally to be a tool shed as you can guess since we don't know the exact date

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It's kind of just like it was a structure that was built and nobody knows what it originally was used for

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But it has a ton of history changed hands a ton has all this

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Like had many different purposes in its lifetime. So

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It was built at the very very very end of the spit

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Where lots of coal and oil activity was happening, especially because of how accessible it was over there

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And for those that don't know what the spit is. I'm gonna open an alaskan map

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to homer

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And the homer spit is just like a four. It's like four and a half mile

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jut of land out into the

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Kachemak Bay

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I looked up there's a couple different ways they say to pronounce it, but I think it's Kachemak

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Homer spit. Yeah, I think there's a Kachemak National Park

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Kachemak area up there with a bunch of bears pretty sure

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Homers spit. Homers spit

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Nothing particular

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No, it's awesome. Here's Lanzan Resort. I'll talk about that

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Kachemak Bay

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Here's Homer over here. So it's just this long jut you can see that they have ferry routes over here

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Connections, especially maybe cruises would go to Lanzan Resort. I don't know. Is it that nice? No

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Sorry, I mean

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It's uh

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I don't think they have ships that large coming into the the Kachemak Bay

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Yeah, um, and Lanzan Resort is

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I don't know. I don't mean to be insulting. It was a great. It was awesome. We really enjoyed our time there

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I wouldn't call it a resort in typical fashion. Okay, you know, it's not like uh

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It's not like we're talking about in Nassau, Bahamas. Yeah. That's what I was thinking

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There we go. Salty dog

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So originally it was actually further down over here

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Um and moved during its lifetime which i'll talk about as well. Oh

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Would you entertain me and go up to the left on this bit a little bit looking at restaurants?

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I just want to see if I can recognize where we went. You pass an RV park on the way. I don't think we went that far

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I think it's still

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Up on the I want to say there's a woman's name

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I don't know. Well, I'll have to look it up. Maybe I'll comment. There was a couple of restaurants

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And I want to say it was a woman's name and it was really good very good seafood. Um, oh, that's fun

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Yeah clam chowder off the hook

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Some of the places out here are a little touristy and there's nothing wrong with that

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But some of them you can tell have been there a long time

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So salty dog da wg just say one knows maybe you were around here

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Oh pat patty's patty's

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Oh temporarily closed. Oh, it's because it's probably seasonal but yeah

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Also, that's something else. I'm sure you can talk about it, but that's awesome that a building's been out there so long

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When I was riding I rode a motorcycle out there on homerspet. I was just thinking man

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Everything out here has got to be gone in some enormous storm because it is not a lot of land

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It's the road which is a two-lane and then maybe 30 to 50 feet

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Of land on either side maybe 100 I guess but it felt small you felt like you're on the water. It's really neat

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I have something to talk about with that as well

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Sorry, I'm very i'm excited this is a good one. Yeah, I I was hoping you would

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Have heard of this which is hilarious that you actually stayed

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In a place that actually has history with this place. Obviously they are so close together

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So for the first 20 years of its history

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It was served as the first post office in homer a general store a railroad station and a coal mining office

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So it had a lot of different purposes and if you if you look at this picture, it's just

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This is all that there was it wasn't yeah, there wasn't a lot going on. It was just a room

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12 by 12 room. Yeah, which is probably true for a lot of general stores in early 1900s

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At one point it housed three adults and 11 children. There was like some kind of renting happening

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And they partitioned it with just like a tarp in the middle. Yeah, and like heated one side

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And then the other side was maybe still the post office or something

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But I don't I didn't have a lot of history that I could read up along on that

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In the late 1940s, it was bought out by chuck abbott who used the post office as a

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Standard oil company right next to an oil tank farm. So right at the end of the spit. So actually this

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It was used as an office and then he's the one that opened the salty dog saloon. It was just kind of like this fun

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Like they never planned on making any money out of it

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It was just kind of a fun thing that they were just like we should just open a bar because only crazy

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They said in the book like it was like a little bit of a fun thing

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That they were just like we should just open a bar because only crazy they said in the book like only crazy people would open

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A bar at the end of the spit. I can't tell you how many conversations dudes have where they're like, let's start a bar

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Yeah, because we could do this man. You brew beer

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We could make this happen. Yeah

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Yeah, but it said that he just wanted to quote make a buck and increase the value of his company. Hopefully by making it

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more

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Visitable down there, you know like yeah get some get some folks out

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Yeah, just get some life going at the end of the spit. That's so cool

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So he opened it in 1957

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He chose a pirate theme as homage to the quote original salty dogs

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His wife talked about how she like tried to talk him out of it doing a pirate theme

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She's like we're in alaska. Why would we do a pirate theme?

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uh, wait 1957 1957. Yeah

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And uh, he just really wanted he just so badly because he'd go along. Um, catch em at bay and

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And a lot of the decorations that were inside the saloon were things that he found which included old ship bells

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Portholes red and green lights like all kinds of cool fun nautical stuff

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So I think he was kind of just like i'll just dump all this stuff in there and it'll be the salty dog

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Yeah, philis hit which was his wife said quote we never made a scent out of it until we sold it

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But it was a fun time while we had it

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Don't know why I love that the sign is on the roof

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I just for some reason that's unique. Yeah instead of like hanging where the

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The lantern is or something. Yeah

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Yeah, it's very unique looking and those dollar bills play a role as well

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So, okay. So yeah. Yeah, when did they sell?

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57s when standard oil man and philis

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philis

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Owned it they bought it and they sold it when they they bought it in the 40s as an office

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But then they converted it. Yeah opened it as the salty dog saloon in in 1957

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They actually sold it in 1960. I want to say okay, and i'll talk about that

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But first I have the weirdest story that ever happened to the dog and actually

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Was so like just outlandish and gross and weird that it showed up in newspapers as far away as new york after it happened

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And so chuck installed an outhouse behind the bar because what else are you going to do people visit your bar?

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you have to have a place for them to go to the bathroom and

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Just a note that at right both like the day before this happened two men

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Came by the saloon asking for work and chuck turned them away because they didn't they didn't have anything for them to do

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Yeah, and then literally the next day there's a backup on the men's side of the outhouse

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And it was it was just split up by like a partition. It wasn't two separate buildings

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It was like once again a tarp in the middle and a men's and a woman's side

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And there was a backup on the men's side and for some reason he enlisted the help of bruno

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Agostino, I think it is. I'm sorry if i'm pronouncing that wrong, but he was a demolitions expert at the nearby coal mines

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And he's like, hey, can you help me unclog this?

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Bet she could do something like

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Um, what a demolitions expert

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So here i'm going to read it out of this book

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There's an excerpt where it talks about what happens

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It's pretty short, but it's from the dog's tale the story of salty dog saloon the homer spit and the town of homer alaska

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By diane diane ford wood, which is an awesome name

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Go to page 125. I can tell you exactly what happened

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So harold billups who I think was a local that was there around this time

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He wrote a book called in those days and he said

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Quote if one stick would be good two sticks would be better referring to dynamite

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So chuck touched it off. It didn't just blow down as bruno had said it would it blew that stench and

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effluvium around like you couldn't believe

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Some of it blew on chuck's oil tanks and on the salty dog

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And in fact it pretty well covered the entire end of the spit. Oh and that is referring to poop

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Two sticks of dynamite. Mm-hmm

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The book also says that by some accounts from people the raw sewage hit the sides of buildings the laundry the land end resort

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And a warehouse and a good portion of the end of the spit. Oh

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It's like chuck what are you thinking what year is this this is

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1959 I think

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Or maybe 58 it was just a couple years before they sold it and the guy that they bought

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That that bought it from them was earl hillstrand who was the one that developed lands and resort

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Sorry covered your construction site and shit the

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The outhouse would have to be gone, right?

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It says that philis went and put a sign on the outhouse that said out of order and i'm like

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Did they just not have a top on it or forgive my language, but it blew the shit sky high

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There was shit all over the spit. That's what I was like

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It said she put a sign on it and I was like a sign on what like you're telling me something survived

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What well can you what's left to hang a sign on?

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Also, you're walking up to it like

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You really gotta go. Yeah, the sign says not to not all the evidence around here. Yeah

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Yeah. Oh looks like I can poop anywhere actually people complain about port-a-potties on construction sites and football games

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So bad

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Yeah, just the most wild story like who?

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Really was like, yeah, just put some dynamite in there set it on and um, it'll just blow down

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I want so what path of least resistance it's gonna go. I don't

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I i'm guessing I have no idea. I'm guessing this is a

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Latrine it's probably not like piping. It's probably like a steel cylinder. It's or something some in ground

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And they're like, let's make more room like

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With dynamite. It's not like oh a pipe is clogged. Yeah, you know

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Let me pour some dreino in it. It's like

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It's like we're out of room salty dog style

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in the the fecal

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Influence got all the way to the land's end resort. Mm-hmm

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Can we scale that real quick on google maps?

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Yeah, although it's moved. It did move so we can't really know for sure

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But i'm assuming it must have been pretty close for the land's end resort guy to actually fourth of july for his own use

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fourth of july

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That's awesome. I just want to go back

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It's funny chuck went in search of the two guys that came by asking for work after this and was like hey

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I have a job for you

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Still need a job. They actually did it and phyllis said that she participated in the clean up. Mm-hmm

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Oh, so gross. I can't believe it business is booming literally

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Back end business. That is awesome

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So anyway, I just thought that was that was probably did you go a one stick or did you go a two stick when you went to the bathroom?

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Number one or number two that was the most interesting story that I read

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There's a lot of stories in this book if anyone wants to read more about the salty dog saloon. It's called the dog's tale

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They don't have it. Um

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It's from

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19 let me see 1997. I think she wrote it nice 1995 good year. So, um, it's not

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Available for you to read on ebooks or anything like that. It's uh, it's only paperback. So yeah, they're like

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Oh, you know if the walls of this bar could talk well these can in the salty dog. Uh,

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What is it the dog's cafe dog's tail dog's tail? Oh man, I can't read upside down

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It's kind of swoopy. It's swoopy for my own credit. But yeah, if these walls could talk they'd complain

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Wow

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That's awesome

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Alaska became the 49th state of the union in 1959

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1959 and so that's about a year after this happened and a year later

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Earl hill strand who was actually a member of the alaskan house of representatives at the time and was also

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Developing the lands and resort. Yeah, he purchased it and it was like apparently a big stink that he was an anchorage resident

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And was buying the bar. Oh, he's one of them city folk. Yeah

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He had business ventures money talks. Yeah, especially because phil said they didn't make any money on this until they sold it

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So it was probably a good chunk a good hefty sell. Yeah

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was that i'm interested to learn more about that perspective because

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i've i've

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Been on many roads in alaska

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The furthest north we went was to the arctic circle sign on the the nollie highway

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Um, it's really

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or dalton highway, sorry

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It's interesting. Um

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but

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People like i've talked i listened to a different podcast. It's about hunters that had gone to alaska for some hunting expedition and they're saying

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Oh, yeah, where have you been? Oh, you've been to anchorage and fairbanks. So you haven't been to alaska

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Yeah, like those are the those are the cities like I think there's maybe

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I'm gonna misquote but like a million people in anchorage. Yeah, and

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It's it's a city. It's a very small city, but um

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Um, it's not alaska to get to alaska. You have to fly in a bush plane, you know, there's no roads that lead to alaska

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Oh my gosh, that's what people say so

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Well, it's kind of cool. Oh, it's yeah, it's gorgeous, but that's a really interesting story salty dog

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Yeah, so so earl bought it. Yeah hillstrand and he ran it for about four years and then march 27th

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1964 was the good friday earthquake. Do you remember or have you heard anything about that?

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No, I don't know anything about all these earthquakes. Apparently. I know it's another earthquake. I'm being sensitive. I can't help it

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So it's a last week right now

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Right now that just happened in turkey or something

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No, and the death toll is like 40 000 people. No way now. Yeah

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Isn't that insane? That's not good. I don't know the details of it. I might not even have the place correct

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Yeah, do you not get your news from the lighthouse lowdown? Yeah, we don't really know what we're talking about

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Unless it's about lighthouses and then we do and then you can trust us

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So the good friday earthquake the reason why I ask is because a lot of

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People that live like locals they refer to it as a time stamp. That's like, oh, yeah before the earthquake

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You know pre-covid yada yada exactly

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So it was a 9.2

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On a scale of 10

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9.2 that's wild magnitude earthquake and I think the fatalities were only like 150 people because nobody really lives there

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At this time

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Um, well the structures aren't very tall but the earthquake originated from the elution trench

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Uh, which is that weird?

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It's characterized by that tail of islands that connects alaska to russia

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Yeah, well, is it the scott islands?

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Those are the ones triangle island was on no, that's further south. Okay

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Um, I think i'm it's the elution trench is the fault line that caused the earthquake

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And those islands I think they're called the elution islands are projecting upward from this fault line, right?

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That's where that show we watched an episode of a show or a couple episodes where they're looking for treasure. Mm-hmm salty earthquake

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so

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salty earthquake here is

426
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,600
Oh my gosh showing colorful

427
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,220
Like this is a this is australia

428
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,640
Like it's not like oh, we're zoomed into alaska. Whoa

429
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,120
Here's the trench

430
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:15,320
And this star is uh, I think it is 75 miles. Let me see. I did not realize what we were looking at

431
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,440
I know I think that is crazy

432
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:23,960
The epicenter was 75 miles away from anchorage and so and since there's the most people that are the most buildings

433
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,880
It took the most damage from this earthquake, but still relatively low

434
00:33:28,580 --> 00:33:33,480
Casualties from such an enormous earthquake that was felt all the way in antarctica like it said

435
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,840
That it detected this earthquake in equipment. That was in antarctica

436
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,900
Well, it looks like from the radius there. It looks like seattle would feel a 5.0

437
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,080
Which is not close

438
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,080
Canada is in between those two. Yeah

439
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,200
Canada is not small

440
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:57,400
Wow, the earthquake released they estimated 500 years of built-up tension

441
00:33:58,180 --> 00:34:03,640
Uh 600 miles of the fault line moved all at once so it displaced

442
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,160
There was like areas that were displaced up or down 60 feet

443
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,720
So some areas like kodiak were raised permanently by 30 feet awesome

444
00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:19,240
Um kodiak island is awesome and the seward highway had to be reconstructed after the areas southeast of anchorage dropped eight feet

445
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:24,040
Permanently only road that goes out to homer really is one. Yeah. Wow

446
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,960
Must have been a rough time, but tsunamis from the earthquake affected

447
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:35,720
Uh alaska, of course, and then hawaii japan oregon california peru antarctica and many other countries

448
00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:41,240
The largest tsunami recorded was 220 feet tall in chute bay alaska

449
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:48,280
I'm just surprised that only 150 people died like this isn't there's no one there 220 feet tall, especially in those times

450
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,480
Alaska like was became somewhere to go

451
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:58,440
An adventure in the 70s and 80s. I think like that's when it was like oh you can go there like, you know, you can go

452
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,480
See kodiak island see the kodiak bears

453
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:07,080
You know, there's one bear per square mile like that that type of that type of tourism became possible. Yeah

454
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,960
Late in the 1900s. Yeah, that's true

455
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:10,840
Yeah

456
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:17,160
Just for reference this is the strongest earthquake to ever happen in north america and the second strongest in the entire world

457
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:22,440
In the history of the entire world. It's a great. I mean, it's hard to say this is great, but it's great

458
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:24,200
um

459
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,680
For that rather than today in

460
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:33,080
In you know a high populated area anywhere. That's just awful. Yeah, the poor spit so close

461
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,660
It was 8.0. Is that right 9.2 9.2

462
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,520
I can't I can't believe it. Where was the uh, the greatest

463
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:46,760
In the world, yeah, I don't know. This is the second greatest. This was the second greatest in the world

464
00:35:47,780 --> 00:35:49,780
valdivia earthquake

465
00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:54,780
1960 was it also up there a great chilean earthquake

466
00:35:54,780 --> 00:35:56,380
uh, it's

467
00:35:56,380 --> 00:36:00,640
1960 9.4 to 9.6 on the magnitude of magnitude

468
00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:07,500
The salty dog didn't actually sustain a lot of damage, but its location on the spit was not good for the fact that

469
00:36:08,140 --> 00:36:12,620
The spit lowered by 11 feet after that happened. Yeah, so

470
00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:17,900
The tide which was about 18 feet or something when it came in

471
00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:24,140
And then meant that the only thing that wasn't touched by water was the road for a long time. It's incredible

472
00:36:24,860 --> 00:36:31,020
So this was actually when they moved the cabin from the very end of the spit just inland just a little bit

473
00:36:31,980 --> 00:36:33,580
just so that it was

474
00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:37,180
Like it sunk eight feet and not 11 feet. Yeah, that's

475
00:36:37,980 --> 00:36:41,580
Why and where they moved it? Yeah, there's you mentioned the standard oil

476
00:36:41,580 --> 00:36:48,380
Uh tank battery, you know a set of tanks and i'm thinking well, it's a lot of oil

477
00:36:48,860 --> 00:36:53,500
Um, I was like, I don't know if there's room for that. Yeah, that makes sense. What a cool place in the world

478
00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:57,740
I know kind of scary, but it's all right. We can just go back to the nice picture of the salty dog

479
00:36:57,740 --> 00:36:59,740
Nature you scary

480
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:04,940
So nature is metal. I keep interrupting you know, what else can you tell us about the salty dog saloon?

481
00:37:05,020 --> 00:37:10,140
Well, so actually right after this earthquake happened. They added the lighthouse tower

482
00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:12,140
That's what I was wanting to know

483
00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:14,700
And it was originally

484
00:37:14,940 --> 00:37:18,300
A facade to hide a water tank

485
00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:21,340
Which is what supplied the saloon with fresh water

486
00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:24,140
And actually this water

487
00:37:24,540 --> 00:37:30,060
This water tower was like 5 000 gallons and it shipped to them in pieces

488
00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:35,260
Huh pretty big. Yeah, and they had to put it together themselves. I'll talk about it in a second

489
00:37:35,260 --> 00:37:41,260
Okay, just a breakdown of the rooms because then we have the main cabin. We have another structure that was connected

490
00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:46,540
After a little while the one back behind in the photo. Yeah, and then the water tower and then another tiny

491
00:37:47,660 --> 00:37:52,080
Thing that i'll talk about so we talked about the main room already, which was in 1897

492
00:37:52,540 --> 00:37:59,660
And in 1909 a barn was constructed on the wooded homestead. I don't know if you know what that is

493
00:38:00,140 --> 00:38:02,860
I didn't look at it. I haven't heard that uh, i'm assuming it's just

494
00:38:02,860 --> 00:38:06,140
Just land not on the spit nearby or something

495
00:38:06,860 --> 00:38:09,580
later this structure that was built is a barn

496
00:38:10,380 --> 00:38:13,580
Would be trucked to the spit as the second structure for the salty dog

497
00:38:13,820 --> 00:38:18,140
So it was built in 1909, but it wasn't moved over until maybe the 70s

498
00:38:18,460 --> 00:38:22,460
Okay, so it had lots of years on it before it was reconstructed at the salty dog

499
00:38:22,620 --> 00:38:28,540
And this one before its life with the salty dog was originally used as a school a grocery store and a post office

500
00:38:28,540 --> 00:38:35,180
Before now it has like a jukebox and a piano and like lots of benches for people to sit on cool. Yeah

501
00:38:36,140 --> 00:38:38,140
the other thing is um

502
00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:40,700
They have another little building. It's a tiny

503
00:38:41,340 --> 00:38:48,300
Teen tiny little log shanty is how it was described behind the salty dogs that's shown in its early day photographs

504
00:38:48,620 --> 00:38:51,420
I think it's still there as a storage area

505
00:38:52,140 --> 00:38:55,900
But I I didn't have a picture. Hang on a second. I might be able to pull it up

506
00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,380
I guess i'll share here. I just came to my mind

507
00:38:59,340 --> 00:39:01,340
I have an opportunity maybe to go back here

508
00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:06,060
It's a little unsure if we're going to go to homer this time. Oh, no, we're not staying in homer

509
00:39:06,460 --> 00:39:09,500
We changed we're going on a different route to see more things in alaska

510
00:39:10,540 --> 00:39:11,420
but

511
00:39:11,420 --> 00:39:15,980
Something I like to do when I travel is collect pairs of glasses drinking glasses

512
00:39:16,540 --> 00:39:17,660
um

513
00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:22,380
And I have I don't know 20 sets from different places. I've been able to go over the years

514
00:39:22,380 --> 00:39:28,380
Um building up a new collection. So I see if I can get some salty dog glasses. I think they have cool ones

515
00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:34,300
I'm going to show the merchandise at the end of this and i'll give you a little taste of what they have shout out

516
00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:38,380
But yeah, so this is the picture that's from the book

517
00:39:38,380 --> 00:39:42,540
I just took it with my phone and then brightened it so you could see it better. Oh, that's good

518
00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:47,420
It's horrendous, but uh, this is good as it can get so this is the salty dog saloon

519
00:39:47,580 --> 00:39:50,940
I'll talk about this one in a second and this is the little building

520
00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:52,940
it's just like this tiny little

521
00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:56,220
What would be a um little storage shed today?

522
00:39:56,220 --> 00:40:04,220
But in this picture you see it's called the salty pup cafe awesome. Nobody has any history on this tiny building

523
00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:10,460
But philis wrote about it and she said that it's speculated that it used to be a tiny restaurant

524
00:40:11,020 --> 00:40:13,340
And it's called the salty pup cafe

525
00:40:13,420 --> 00:40:16,380
Yeah, but there's no history of that happening and the only thing that they have

526
00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:20,940
Is that a couple of local old timers say that they remember getting bowls of chili?

527
00:40:21,820 --> 00:40:24,460
Quote at a little place at the end of the spit

528
00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:28,300
Towards the end of the 50s, but they can't recall what the name is

529
00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:33,580
And so it's just kind of like that's very likely it. Yeah, but there's no proof that

530
00:40:34,380 --> 00:40:40,300
They actually used to uh, I know the salty pup cafe. I know is awesome

531
00:40:40,860 --> 00:40:44,860
Also salty dog saloon on the left with the sign on the roof

532
00:40:44,860 --> 00:40:49,900
Yeah, the dog and its original location so before it got moved so cool

533
00:40:50,620 --> 00:40:55,900
Yeah, so prior to 1927 it was used as a post office in beluga slow

534
00:40:56,620 --> 00:41:01,980
Slough, I don't know. It's a place but now it's just a storeroom that's used for the dog

535
00:41:02,140 --> 00:41:07,260
But it's kind of a fun history that it maybe possibly used to be a tiny restaurant that served chili

536
00:41:08,620 --> 00:41:12,060
That's all we got. Yeah, take it or leave it also the logs

537
00:41:12,060 --> 00:41:19,420
For this building have evidence of shipworm damage which hints that at some point the wood or the structure had been underwater for a really long time

538
00:41:19,740 --> 00:41:22,060
Oh, I thought you're gonna say it was made of a ship

539
00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:27,980
Well, that could be one of the explanations for the logs having shipworm damage. What are shit?

540
00:41:29,980 --> 00:41:33,100
What are shipworms images

541
00:41:34,860 --> 00:41:36,860
Whoa, oh wow

542
00:41:36,940 --> 00:41:41,420
Okay, holy cow like uh kind of like termites ocean termites, I'd guess

543
00:41:41,420 --> 00:41:43,420
Yeah wreaking havoc for centuries

544
00:41:44,140 --> 00:41:46,140
Wait scientists still can't figure out how

545
00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:49,660
How what how this worm turns?

546
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:53,100
We don't need to go too deep out how it turns

547
00:41:54,380 --> 00:41:57,420
You need to go too deep into that right now. Come on Jenkins get some data

548
00:41:57,740 --> 00:42:01,260
That's what I took away from it is that it's either that it used to be underwater

549
00:42:01,260 --> 00:42:07,420
Which seems unlikely or that the logs that were used to build the salty pup cafe used to belong to a ship

550
00:42:07,420 --> 00:42:11,340
Both are interesting. Mm-hmm. So here's this other structure. Let's talk about

551
00:42:12,140 --> 00:42:16,300
This bad boy right here. You can't really see but there's someone standing in the window creepy

552
00:42:16,620 --> 00:42:21,660
Uh, and it was called the rum locker. It no longer exists, but you can see it in this picture

553
00:42:22,380 --> 00:42:26,460
It was yet another part of the dog in its early days before it was moved

554
00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:30,140
It was possibly the first liquor store to exist on the spit

555
00:42:30,380 --> 00:42:36,380
And Phyllis said the bar manager ran such great deals on liquor that it helped attract customers to the spit itself

556
00:42:36,380 --> 00:42:42,860
It burned down in the 60s. So it no longer is a thing burned down on a rum fire

557
00:42:43,580 --> 00:42:50,540
Possibly a liquor fueled fire it when it when the earthquake happened it was moved but it didn't follow the salty dog

558
00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:52,700
It was kind of like separated

559
00:42:52,940 --> 00:42:54,940
and was just a place where

560
00:42:55,500 --> 00:43:01,420
They the owners stored liquor the rum locker the rum locker, but you could buy you could buy

561
00:43:01,980 --> 00:43:03,980
Like bottles. Yeah

562
00:43:03,980 --> 00:43:07,980
It makes sense. Sadly, we don't have it anymore, but it did exist. We have a picture of it

563
00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:10,300
It's also a good name for a bar

564
00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:16,940
Yeah, the rum locker the rum locker we can make that pirate themed. Yeah also rum kind of interesting

565
00:43:16,940 --> 00:43:19,980
They chose that of all the spirits they could have chosen

566
00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:23,820
Yeah, well we're going for a pirate theme and as we mentioned before pirates don't drink champagne

567
00:43:25,020 --> 00:43:27,740
Anyway, the last building we're talking about is the light tower

568
00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:34,060
I don't I couldn't find any pictures of the inside except for the bottom layer, which we can look up but uh

569
00:43:34,540 --> 00:43:38,700
The light tower was added actually officially marked on marine charts

570
00:43:39,660 --> 00:43:45,740
Which means that it's a true nautical landmark. It's a point of reference. Yeah, so it's not a lighthouse

571
00:43:46,060 --> 00:43:47,740
It's not technically a lighthouse

572
00:43:47,740 --> 00:43:53,420
But it is marked on marine charts and people that pass by this area a lot use it as a point of reference

573
00:43:53,420 --> 00:43:57,820
It's so kind of cool and the only reason that it can't be labeled

574
00:43:58,140 --> 00:44:02,780
I think the way that it's labeled is whatever the uh, the acronym is for

575
00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:06,700
Tower with a light or building with a light or something like that

576
00:44:07,260 --> 00:44:10,540
and it's because the light is turned off when the bar closes, which is

577
00:44:11,420 --> 00:44:14,380
Which varies per season but that is cool

578
00:44:14,460 --> 00:44:14,700
Yeah

579
00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:19,340
It's like you can't really rely on it at night time because it's not the bar is not always open

580
00:44:19,340 --> 00:44:25,580
But if you see the light on that that means the bar is open. That is really cool pretty cool that they put in a lighthouse

581
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:32,620
Yeah, that's not a saloon. That's not a small deal. Mm-hmm. I know it's five stories tall. Well, i'll talk about it has five floors

582
00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:33,980
Okay

583
00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:39,980
The first is a pool room where you can play pool. It's for the bar. There's a picture of it. I know it's wicked

584
00:44:40,140 --> 00:44:41,100
That's awesome

585
00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:46,700
The second is john l's hobby room who is I think the current owner of the lighthouse john l

586
00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:52,940
Warren and his dad is the one who originally bought it john moran. Yeah, so john l. Warren is the current owner

587
00:44:53,820 --> 00:44:58,940
The third and fourth floors are an apartment that's left vacant for when they have family visiting

588
00:44:59,420 --> 00:45:04,300
And that's awesome and they even talked about like they they could have rented it out, but they just haven't ever

589
00:45:04,940 --> 00:45:08,780
They just couldn't ever do it. Yeah, just like a space that they keep saved

590
00:45:09,420 --> 00:45:13,340
And the fifth floor is the lantern room and I haven't I I didn't get to see

591
00:45:13,340 --> 00:45:17,580
What light is in the lantern room? I'm assuming it's some fixed all-way

592
00:45:18,140 --> 00:45:20,700
I'm sure it's not just a lamp, but that could be true

593
00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:24,540
I don't know if you can see it out far enough that people traveling can see it. Yeah

594
00:45:25,260 --> 00:45:30,300
It's got to be a little bit more powerful and if they want to play into the fact that it's a lighthouse

595
00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:35,100
Yeah, that they might put something they might dish out the cash to put something powerful in there

596
00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:36,860
man

597
00:45:36,860 --> 00:45:37,980
That is so neat

598
00:45:37,980 --> 00:45:43,820
Yeah, especially because it used to have the the water tower inside and it was so I said it was 5 000 gallons

599
00:45:44,380 --> 00:45:46,380
And he said it was built

600
00:45:46,940 --> 00:45:52,540
Quote like an old whiskey barrel what yeah, like a wooden water tower that they put

601
00:45:53,340 --> 00:45:58,780
The slide house around the slats together and like put the metal bands around it. Oh, that's cool

602
00:45:59,740 --> 00:46:05,500
Yeah, and he said that they had to dismantle it like bit by bit in order to get it out and some of the wood

603
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:12,140
They said was used in like friends homes to be built because they didn't have any idea what to do with all the pieces

604
00:46:12,140 --> 00:46:15,340
Yeah, that's so cool. I would love to uh play pool there

605
00:46:15,340 --> 00:46:19,820
I know it looks and the pool table is really well taken care of it's not like a dumpster fire

606
00:46:19,820 --> 00:46:21,820
I bet you this place is so busy

607
00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:29,660
It apparently is like a hot spot. Yeah, I mean the spit was busy. Yeah, it was july 4th weekend. But yeah

608
00:46:29,660 --> 00:46:31,660
Oh, it's so much fun. I want to go

609
00:46:31,660 --> 00:46:35,900
They sell patches. You should give me a patch for my jacket salty dog sells them. Yeah

610
00:46:36,220 --> 00:46:38,220
All right. Well, i'll try to get there. Okay

611
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:41,900
Well, so the light tower made it a well-known landmark in the area

612
00:46:41,900 --> 00:46:46,700
But they're also known for their dollar bill tradition, which you can see by the the front door here

613
00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:51,900
I'm gonna pull up a couple pictures. Oh, that's cool. The inside looks like you have some underwear with some

614
00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:53,580
some

615
00:46:53,580 --> 00:46:56,140
People's numbers on it. We have a bra

616
00:46:56,140 --> 00:47:01,180
Booy's lots of pictures a license plate going on here a hat

617
00:47:02,300 --> 00:47:04,700
People just come in and they just tag

618
00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:08,940
Their names on a dollar bill and then tack tack it on the walls

619
00:47:08,940 --> 00:47:15,420
Yeah, or anything else they have around underwear. Whatever. Yeah. Yeah, i'm pretty sure this kind of looks like maybe somebody's id

620
00:47:16,140 --> 00:47:18,140
here

621
00:47:19,260 --> 00:47:23,260
Yeah, so the tradition started um, I'm gonna grab grab my notes away from this

622
00:47:23,260 --> 00:47:30,300
Nice grab. Thank you dollar bill tradition. There was a couple different things that I read about but mainly it's just that

623
00:47:30,940 --> 00:47:32,940
many many years ago a

624
00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:35,500
Visitor tacked a dollar on the wall

625
00:47:35,980 --> 00:47:39,020
Because he knew that his friend was going to be coming by later and he's like hey

626
00:47:39,020 --> 00:47:41,180
This is for this person to buy them a drink

627
00:47:41,180 --> 00:47:46,940
So that's how this whole tradition started is that he tacked a dollar bill on the wall and it became like a big thing

628
00:47:46,940 --> 00:47:49,740
Where people write their names and numbers and whatever else?

629
00:47:49,740 --> 00:47:53,500
Yeah on a dollar bill and leave it behind to leave their mark

630
00:47:54,060 --> 00:47:58,540
Like bondo bozeman, montana bozeman montana. Yeah, I can

631
00:48:00,140 --> 00:48:01,900
Bob

632
00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:03,340
South dakota

633
00:48:03,340 --> 00:48:10,140
Have you ever seen a restaurant that does this or a bar? No, but I saw lots of other places. Well

634
00:48:10,780 --> 00:48:12,780
Lawrence

635
00:48:12,780 --> 00:48:14,300
right

636
00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:16,940
Jefferson's on master not ringing a bell

637
00:48:16,940 --> 00:48:21,820
I mean, I know jefferson's I don't remember dollar pills. I was gonna say estes park colorado

638
00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:24,940
We haven't been there together, but i've been there

639
00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:30,460
Many many times growing up and there was a my favorite restaurant in this entire world is now

640
00:48:31,180 --> 00:48:33,180
No longer the same

641
00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:37,100
Um, but I won't it's a good place still but it's been moved

642
00:48:37,420 --> 00:48:42,220
But it had a tradition of dollar bills on the walls and I was you know, everything is magic when you're a kid

643
00:48:42,220 --> 00:48:44,220
I got to draw

644
00:48:44,220 --> 00:48:47,900
On a dollar bill with like a marker and leave it and then put it on the wall

645
00:48:48,220 --> 00:48:52,220
I think what what the one in estes park did was after a period of time

646
00:48:52,220 --> 00:48:54,620
They'd clean them all off and donate them to some local cause

647
00:48:55,260 --> 00:48:56,700
So I just

648
00:48:56,700 --> 00:49:01,260
Yeah, I think it's a common thing very fond memory for me. Yeah, but it is fun. Yeah to see it

649
00:49:01,260 --> 00:49:02,860
I can't remember anywhere in lawrence

650
00:49:02,860 --> 00:49:03,340
Yeah

651
00:49:03,340 --> 00:49:08,380
It was some place that had dollar bills all over the wall and they they did take them down the next time I had visited

652
00:49:08,380 --> 00:49:11,980
They had started over cool. So anyway, I don't know. I don't know

653
00:49:11,980 --> 00:49:15,580
I haven't heard that if if they do that to this place, but the current

654
00:49:16,140 --> 00:49:21,180
Manager of the saloon estimates there's anywhere between 50 to 60 thousand dollars on the wall

655
00:49:21,660 --> 00:49:27,180
Business ever dries up. Yeah, they got insurance policy on the wall. Look at all of this stuff and

656
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:34,380
This is a real human skull. What they put a sign the last man who wrote a hot check

657
00:49:34,940 --> 00:49:39,180
Oh, that's cool. But yeah, they found a real human skull. I think in the bay

658
00:49:39,180 --> 00:49:42,780
And they put it up here the last man. Yeah, it didn't turn into the police

659
00:49:42,780 --> 00:49:45,980
Yeah, we're gonna turn it in the police but then we thought hey, we have a bar

660
00:49:45,980 --> 00:49:49,900
We put it on the wall. We have crazy stuff on the walls, but look at all of this alcohol

661
00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:56,940
It's a full stocked bar. I've got it. It's too cool. It wasn't quite this cool. I'll be honest, but there's a place I went on the

662
00:49:58,620 --> 00:50:03,580
Denali Highway, which is also in Alaska. That was a bar in a

663
00:50:03,580 --> 00:50:08,300
Cargo ship container one cargo ship. That was the whole bar. It was like five seats

664
00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:13,020
Oh, it's called the sluice box. Oh my gosh. It's uh, I can't remember where we were at

665
00:50:13,820 --> 00:50:16,620
Clearwater Mountain Lodge is the place we stayed

666
00:50:18,140 --> 00:50:24,540
Um, sluice. Yep. There it is. Oh, that's Alaska State Fair sluice box comes from

667
00:50:26,540 --> 00:50:28,540
That's the one

668
00:50:28,540 --> 00:50:35,580
sluice box comes from uh, yeah, that's the one that's a term having to do with

669
00:50:36,460 --> 00:50:41,820
There it is. Oh, come on. I'm losing my brain here. But when they're excavating an area

670
00:50:42,620 --> 00:50:45,820
I think looking for gold. It's the sluice box. It's like a slushie

671
00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:48,620
Yeah, my understanding someone's going to correct us

672
00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:55,340
But so we went to this bar because it's the only thing at the we stayed at this like kind of cabins area

673
00:50:55,340 --> 00:51:01,580
Um, it's the only thing out there and we were the only customers and the only person working the bar was a person

674
00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:06,700
No, but you can tell we weren't the first ones there. Yeah, the only person working the bar was this

675
00:51:07,260 --> 00:51:10,060
The son of the person who owns the cabin

676
00:51:10,460 --> 00:51:15,260
So it was like, you know if you need anything, it's just us like there's no one else around

677
00:51:15,740 --> 00:51:17,100
middle of nowhere

678
00:51:17,100 --> 00:51:22,220
Really beautiful. There's a rainbow in the morning. We woke up. Ah, i'm so excited to go back to alaska

679
00:51:22,220 --> 00:51:26,700
Here I sit in smelly vapor someone took all the toilet paper

680
00:51:27,340 --> 00:51:31,420
Late for work, but still I linger look out ass. Here comes my finger

681
00:51:34,060 --> 00:51:36,060
You're not accepting that

682
00:51:38,860 --> 00:51:42,300
I'm gonna stick with salty dog. All i'm saying is alaska's got some cool bars

683
00:51:43,420 --> 00:51:48,140
It is pretty cool. I love that the dollar bear dollar beer. I mean hey

684
00:51:48,140 --> 00:51:54,780
Eight eight dollar bill tradition lives on in many other places. I i've definitely it's not

685
00:51:55,340 --> 00:51:57,900
Original to this but maybe it's the first place to ever do it

686
00:51:57,900 --> 00:52:03,260
We don't know but yeah money's not the only thing that ends up on these walls that we saw from the panties and the license plates

687
00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:05,500
There's also like business cards

688
00:52:05,580 --> 00:52:08,460
uh bras lanterns hats, um

689
00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:14,700
And lots of other stuff alaska alaska besides the decor. You'll also find like

690
00:52:14,700 --> 00:52:21,660
some like rustic wooden tables a fully stocked bar and a pool table their signature drink is called the duck fart

691
00:52:22,060 --> 00:52:25,660
Which is a shot that's layered with baileys and ca-caula

692
00:52:26,220 --> 00:52:28,220
Kaluha

693
00:52:28,220 --> 00:52:30,220
With some crown royal whiskey

694
00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:37,820
That is interesting. Oh there are pictures baileys and kaluha is like a creamy coffee combo

695
00:52:38,540 --> 00:52:40,540
Baileys irish cream shout out

696
00:52:40,540 --> 00:52:44,300
Let's just go kaluha coffee liqueur i'll get those two and then

697
00:52:45,260 --> 00:52:46,700
Canadian whiskey

698
00:52:46,700 --> 00:52:50,140
I want to go so bad. I'm so jealous that you guys are going

699
00:52:53,660 --> 00:52:55,660
You're welcome to come along

700
00:52:55,660 --> 00:53:01,020
You take a motorcycle class you guys would not i'd be going so slow i'd be like just we don't go that fast

701
00:53:01,020 --> 00:53:05,100
You'd be surprised there. Well, there's times when we burn like the wind but most of the time

702
00:53:05,660 --> 00:53:08,700
Uh, I think the average speed we're going was like 40 to 50 miles an hour

703
00:53:08,700 --> 00:53:12,380
Are you guys taking a new route this time? We're gonna go some of the same roads

704
00:53:13,020 --> 00:53:17,980
Um, but we're gonna try to see some new things. We're actually gonna cross over into canada. Oh neat

705
00:53:18,540 --> 00:53:20,540
You need your passport? Yep. I do

706
00:53:21,260 --> 00:53:23,260
Just put in a request for a new one

707
00:53:23,580 --> 00:53:27,580
So much fun. I can't figure out where I saw this picture of the picture of the

708
00:53:28,220 --> 00:53:30,220
the duck fart

709
00:53:30,220 --> 00:53:37,180
Can you can you look that up duck fart drink? Yeah, there you go. Oh, yeah. Okay. It's an article

710
00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:39,180
an article

711
00:53:39,660 --> 00:53:41,660
There it is

712
00:53:43,020 --> 00:53:48,700
It looks yeah looks like a duck fart. Yeah, we got baileys and then we've got whiskey and uh, kula

713
00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:51,260
Kaluha

714
00:53:51,260 --> 00:53:56,860
That is a strange combo. I know but you know if it's their signature drink, it's got to be something good

715
00:53:57,820 --> 00:53:58,940
maybe

716
00:53:58,940 --> 00:54:01,340
Or it's just like it's like a shot of malort

717
00:54:02,220 --> 00:54:03,660
Oh, yeah. Oh

718
00:54:03,660 --> 00:54:05,660
tastes like pencil eraser

719
00:54:05,660 --> 00:54:09,180
So the lighthouse I did see a photo of it kind of as we scrolled by

720
00:54:09,900 --> 00:54:14,140
Um, oh, yeah, they have a really cool good ones on their um instagram, which

721
00:54:14,860 --> 00:54:19,420
You can follow. Yeah, they're so they're they're actually open during the winter that used to not be true

722
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:21,340
But now their normal hours

723
00:54:21,340 --> 00:54:23,340
Are 10 a.m. To 5 a.m

724
00:54:25,020 --> 00:54:27,020
So they're only not open for five hours

725
00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:33,980
Uh, and in the winter it's open 12 p.m. To 8 p.m. Okay, not open very late. Yep. Yep

726
00:54:33,980 --> 00:54:37,740
It says spring hours opening at 11 and staying until midnight or so

727
00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:42,460
It's cool. I did read in the book that winter months

728
00:54:43,100 --> 00:54:48,380
At least when it was first opened were reserved for like fishermen and and people to actually come and use it

729
00:54:48,380 --> 00:54:50,380
And then the rest of the time

730
00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:52,620
the fishermen respectfully

731
00:54:52,860 --> 00:54:58,620
You know turned it down so that the tourists could be using it in the summer months and not be scared away

732
00:54:59,020 --> 00:55:01,580
That's so funny the locals gave it a break

733
00:55:01,580 --> 00:55:08,080
Yeah, they have uh, their instagram is at salty dog saloon if you want to go follow them their website salty dog saloon.com

734
00:55:08,940 --> 00:55:11,820
And they sell a ton of merchandise including thongs

735
00:55:12,460 --> 00:55:19,100
No comment. Let's see if we go to stuff. There's like glass and drink where everything we got bumper sticker drink koozies stickers

736
00:55:19,580 --> 00:55:25,340
Playing cards. Those are pretty dope. Here's the patch bandana for you motorcycle riding men. Yeah

737
00:55:26,140 --> 00:55:27,660
Yep

738
00:55:27,660 --> 00:55:28,700
joke

739
00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:32,540
Really cool. Also good website as well. They they write a lot about

740
00:55:33,420 --> 00:55:41,020
Sawdust on the grounds of the bar, which I think they still do and it is just put down like this inch

741
00:55:41,820 --> 00:55:47,740
Layer of sawdust or more which collects any spilled drinks or anything. Yeah, and then at the end of the day they

742
00:55:48,380 --> 00:55:53,420
Scoop up all the sawdust and get rid of it and they will check, you know through it for like

743
00:55:53,420 --> 00:56:00,700
Money or they find like wedding rings and it's like all kinds of stuff. They talk about there's been stories of people that come in

744
00:56:01,260 --> 00:56:06,940
Lovers spats heated arguments and the woman throws her ring down and says I am no longer married to you

745
00:56:06,940 --> 00:56:12,700
Like the book is hilarious. Like if anyone wants to give it a read it has a lot of cool stories about this saloon

746
00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:18,700
It's like a litter box floor. Exactly. Yeah, and it's just like turns into like a sludge that they have to pick up

747
00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:24,220
Pick up it's part of the experience man a quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem

748
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:30,140
I've heard that quote before toby keith known to toby keith. Oh my gosh, toby keith. Yeah toby smith

749
00:56:32,060 --> 00:56:36,300
Of uh of the bomb has told us that oh that's the same comment that's funny

750
00:56:36,700 --> 00:56:40,300
But yeah, that's all i've got on the salty dog. So now i'm just browsing but

751
00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:47,180
Yeah, it's just um, it's a faux lighthouse. I thought it would be a super cool super fun. Yeah, no, it's super

752
00:56:47,180 --> 00:56:53,580
Oh, and it's good. There's no like big stories about it, you know some ship crashing or yeah, no some explosion

753
00:56:54,380 --> 00:56:59,420
The earthquake was a lot but right but the yeah lighthouse was after i'll definitely try to get there

754
00:56:59,420 --> 00:57:06,300
I might reach out to him. We'll see so two days the second to last day. We're coming across into wittier

755
00:57:06,940 --> 00:57:11,340
Um on a on a ferry on a boat. That's the plan. So it's like an eight-hour ferry

756
00:57:12,220 --> 00:57:15,020
And then we go through this tunnel which is only a one

757
00:57:15,020 --> 00:57:21,580
One lane tunnel. Oh gosh traffic only goes one way weird. You could wait apparently you could wait hours to get through it

758
00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:25,180
No way, and then and then that spits us out towards

759
00:57:25,980 --> 00:57:31,180
Uh, I believe it's towards seward if I remember right and so to get to homer that night

760
00:57:31,420 --> 00:57:33,420
We may have 12 plus hour day

761
00:57:33,660 --> 00:57:37,660
Um, and we don't we can't predict the boat times and in the tunnel times

762
00:57:38,220 --> 00:57:43,340
So if we don't get there then which i don't think we will the very last day

763
00:57:43,340 --> 00:57:51,180
We'd be going from seward to homer all the way back up to anchorage, which is all of the seward peninsula. Yeah, or uh

764
00:57:52,780 --> 00:57:55,900
Man, my memory is just not confident but that that whole peninsula

765
00:57:56,860 --> 00:57:58,860
So that's what we're planning to do

766
00:57:59,020 --> 00:58:03,820
Maybe we hopefully we can get here, but we may not get to homer. It'd be sad. Hopefully you can

767
00:58:03,980 --> 00:58:07,500
You got to give this place a visit. I'd like to a full house that

768
00:58:08,060 --> 00:58:09,500
Lives in in our hearts. Yeah

769
00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:14,300
I wish I wish we were staying at land's end again because I just go down here for the evening

770
00:58:14,540 --> 00:58:17,260
Yeah, you know try to fight the crowds live it up

771
00:58:17,980 --> 00:58:22,300
Very unexpected salty dog saloon. Thank you for that. I'm gonna like seeing that title in our

772
00:58:23,020 --> 00:58:25,980
Our next episode did you sponsor? Yeah

773
00:58:27,100 --> 00:58:28,140
might as well

774
00:58:28,140 --> 00:58:29,180
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775
00:58:29,180 --> 00:58:35,280
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776
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:41,920
Um, I contacted them i've actually ordered from them before so it's a mostly technology

777
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778
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779
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780
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781
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783
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Towards uh towards the lighthouse lowdown. So just thought we'd give them a mention. I think it's active

784
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:19,200
We'll post how long it's active but like yeah april so we'll include it in the show notes for this episode

785
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,320
So anyone that wants to order something and give a little bit

786
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:29,120
Yeah, I mean inadvertently to the lighthouse lowdown or anything. We appreciate you just listening. That's that's why we're here

787
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:34,480
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788
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Just listen to our episodes. But if you want to do it in a way that

789
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:43,760
You know, you don't have to go out of your way. Just click on the link. Yeah, so we're new on linkedin this week

790
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:50,240
Um making some posts on there. We're big on youtube now is our big our big launch a couple weeks ago. So

791
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:55,840
Uh, we're just gonna keep going. We appreciate everyone listening in and chatting with us. It's been fun

792
00:59:55,840 --> 01:00:03,120
Yeah, and we had a an instagram comment from mum's oh mysteries and murders. Is that what it was?

793
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,120
It's another podcast. It's um

794
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:13,600
A pair of moms from oh australia in the uk edinburgh. Yeah. Yeah, and they just cover true crime very laid-back

795
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:19,760
Casual I haven't listened an episode but vince did and he said it was very enjoyable. They had like fun stories. I listen

796
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:24,320
I listened to one um, and it was regarding this is gonna sound

797
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,760
Just listen to it. It was it was a dog suicide bridge

798
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:32,080
And they were talking there's not a lot of story there, but there's this bridge

799
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:38,560
And over the years many dogs have decided to jump off this bridge in out of nowhere instantly

800
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:41,200
And a lot of those dogs have passed away

801
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:48,800
So that's what their episode is about but they get into some commentary that their accents and their perspectives being moms

802
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:49,600
Yeah

803
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:51,920
That's the gold. I really I really enjoy

804
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:59,120
Oh, I'll have to listen. I was excited. They just commented on our um, flannel island mystery and said we just we just covered this

805
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:04,240
You know, we really like the story of binging your podcast. It's super fun because I love lighthouses and all that

806
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:08,640
So I just sent her back a message said we'd go ahead and listen and if they had any lighthouses

807
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:15,120
Around australia or the uk or anything that had spooky stories, then we would totally cover it because

808
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:18,080
I it's been a long time since I did a spooky lighthouse

809
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:18,640
Spookspook

810
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,640
I've been doing fun lighthouses. My next one is also a fun lighthouse

811
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:24,800
There's more spooky

812
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,440
There's more in our potential cards for you

813
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,520
Uh, I haven't started work on one, but I know I know of one

814
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:33,600
Oh, yeah

815
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:37,440
Yeah, I have the next episode and then vince will be doing the next one

816
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:42,400
So yeah, i've got a couple different ideas and i'm not sure which one i'm gonna move forward with next so

817
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:46,100
I'm gonna do some shuffling. Yeah, it'll be fun. Every day i'm shuffling

818
01:01:46,100 --> 01:01:51,140
Follow us on instagram at the lighthouse lowdown where you can see pictures

819
01:01:51,460 --> 01:01:53,060
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820
01:01:53,060 --> 01:01:59,620
I'll put the link in our show notes where you can watch possibly the screen share of this episode or if it's just too much

821
01:02:00,180 --> 01:02:03,220
Then it'll just be a slideshow of pictures, which will probably be more

822
01:02:04,820 --> 01:02:10,020
I don't know. I didn't do a very good job of the screen work. It's too much stress. We'll just see what happens

823
01:02:10,020 --> 01:02:12,020
Whatever we post we'll post

824
01:02:12,020 --> 01:02:13,620
Okay, sounds good

825
01:02:13,620 --> 01:02:18,840
But yeah and go to our website or uh, you can send us an email at lighthouselowdownatgmail.com

826
01:02:19,780 --> 01:02:26,100
If you want to talk to us about any buoys or lighthouses you want us to cover we've had a couple and um

827
01:02:26,660 --> 01:02:28,980
They're in the works. Our next episode is a

828
01:02:29,620 --> 01:02:34,260
Has a history buoy from someone that requested it. Nice. We'll get to do that

829
01:02:34,260 --> 01:02:44,040
So thanks for listening and we hope you catch us next time on the lighthouse lowdown