Episode 61 - Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey

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I'm Vince.

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Hi everyone, I'm Vince and I'm Emily and you're listening to the lighthouse lowdown

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You don't like to keep in our technical difficulties. I love to keep them in. Well, welcome to the show everybody episode 61

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Well everybody thank you for joining us welcome to episode 61 and

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And I think this is the most

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Well timed episode of mine so far. What I recorded for the time of year you're gonna see

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Do you know what we're talking about yet? No, no

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Look at the screen

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Lighthouse challenge of New Jersey the 25th anniversary is this year 2024

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So it started 99 and we're gonna talk about what the lighthouse challenge of New Jersey is

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I'm surprised you don't know pretty is that his seat? I don't know which one that is. Okay. That's funny

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I didn't even think about it, but New Jersey. I don't think is

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No his seat is over on the west coast. Isn't that Portland Oregon or not Portland, Oregon though? Yeah. Yeah. So

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No, that's okay. I don't know what lighthouse that is and I will try to figure it out

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Maybe I'll label it on screen now

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If I can find it

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If not sitting here both staring at the screen expectantly everyone's rolling their eyes like I have to go to YouTube now

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Anyways, so this is episode 61. I think I'm gonna jump right into our buoy though before we go back to the episode

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I like buoys and my booty is early on

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So, oh, it's another patent. It's another patent. I love patents excited for that. So

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No, no, no

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Okay, first what is the lighthouse challenge?

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So I would like to know I'm gonna read their description from the website which we'll explore today

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So the lighthouse challenge of New Jersey is an annual event that takes place on the third weekend of October each year

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Okay, third weekend. We're almost there. The challenge is to visit

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Hear me. Oh 11 lighthouse sites three life-saving stations and one museum over a two-day weekend

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We would absolutely make it we could do it. If anybody listened to our Cape Cod episode, we would absolutely make it. Yes

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The and we'll talk about it. We'd be overnighting. We would be I drew up some maps

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Oh, this is just in case you're gonna make me those. Here's the problem. You know me. You're gonna make me want to do this

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Well, we have a whole lighthouse tourism

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Segment I guess that's gonna be starting as we go on these trips. What are the days October 19?

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The third weekend. Let me pull it up on my little computer

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spooky

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That would be the 19th 20th

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Unfortunately, we are busy this year playing in the trick-or-treat scramble at Minor Park and potentially hosting a party golf

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Golfing it up golf and party party. I hope so because this is the

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This is the third year now. I've tried

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Third time's the charm, right? Yes

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Yeah, I've tried for three years to be in the scramble and each year something has happened. Something has happened. You've been busy

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Broken or your leg was broken. Oh, yeah, and then I had to travel

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And it got pushed back a weekend. Yeah, was that

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I can't remember in any case

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So for you will tell everybody the Minor Park is it's a golf course near where we live

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Trick-or-treat scramble. So every year they do this fun golf tournament

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Where it's it is competitive, but not really everyone wears like fun outfits and costumes

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But it's obviously right before Halloween and it's Halloween themed they decorate the course you hit a tee shot off of a

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Hey, bail, you're sitting on you

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Hole is a trick or a treat, right? They all have something fun. So we love golf, especially when it's goofy. So

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That's what we'll be doing this weekend, but you could be participating

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In the lighthouse challenge of New Jersey 25th year. I'm jealous. So

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The challenge route covers the Atlantic Coast from Sandy Hook to Cape May

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I should go top to bottom Sandy Hook to Cape May

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Oh and the Delaware Bay and River Coast from Cape May to Palsboro. Okay, that's a lot. That's that's

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New Jersey that shape. Okay

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Rehoboth Beach where you were recently is right across from Cape May

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So we'll see that on the map. I wanted to take a little

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Water tour well water tax over to the other side

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Yeah, but I was there for a very limited amount of time. So I had to pick and choose

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Yep, which is true for this as well. So yeah the the

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The thing they say on the site

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So take the challenge and learn more about these historic treasures of New Jersey

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A small registration fee enables you to collect a souvenir from each of these

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Please join us for a fun family weekend and explore our website for more information

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New Jersey is pretty small, right?

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Yes, the coastlines not crazy. It's not crazy. It is ambitious. Do you does you do have like?

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miles

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I mapped it, you know, I mapped it. You know, I spread sheeted it. I

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Got all engineer up in there. Yeah, speaking of spreadsheets. This is just a little side note

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That this kid is a little bit of a

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That this continues in real life too where I just bought a truck and Vince sent me a

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spreadsheet to use to track how much gas I put in

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It's so funny

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Yep, track your gas track your maintenance and service intervals

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So it'll tell you based on when you input your gas and the mileage your vehicles at

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When to change your oil and do your rear differential and rotate your tires all those fun things

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So that every time you ask me you need to change your oil on my I don't know when was last time you did it

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I don't know. She has no idea. I have all the history on my cars

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Oh my gosh, so I've already blown my buoy, but here we are back into it. Okay. Yeah, so

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To all every time you got it really. Mm-hmm. Okay, cuz I already but just get it started

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Um to all whom it may concern be it known that I

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Celadon El

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Dabol that's I know

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Name of New London in the state of Connecticut have invented a new and improved

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mode of making signals by sound which I term fog alarms

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So this is interesting and this is just the top of the patent

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So I wanted to I wanted to show it obviously it's the title. It's the patent number

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And it's dated. Yeah, 1860, which I think is fascinating. Yeah, so this is one of the oldest on

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United States Lighthouse Society US LHS on their site. This is one of the oldest ones I could find and

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I picked it because for one I understood it more or less. There's some I don't understand on there be honest with you

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and two

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No, it's

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It seems like it was important. I think all these

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Patents were important. Otherwise, they wouldn't be documented. Of course, but I

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Don't know. I've seen some of this technology and other things and I wonder if this is the

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Founding of the technology or incorporation. You'll see what I mean

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Like did this fog alarm come before like a fog horn or come before a fog bell?

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No, so they had fog bells

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There were already fog alarms fog horns and fog bells at this time

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this is a way to automate and diversify the sound to make different sounds and

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To project the sound in a better way at least in an improved way. I don't know better improved and

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I'll tell you well, let's talk about it

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And then I have a paragraph written on my screen that says what makes the patent unique because every patent has to be

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Because every patent has to be unique in its use of something

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We studied patents in school just a little bit

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So you can't just take like I can't patent something that everyone says or or copyright something everyone says or patent something that people already have

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They did recently the murer the demure. That's ridiculous the person who came up with it

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The whole third sound. Yeah, I roll. Yeah, they went to patent or not patent. They went to copyright

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I guess trademark the money and someone already did it like they took too long and

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There's someone doing that full-time

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It's devastating because like the amount of money you can make off of that when it's trending is

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Insane and they just don't get it. They just don't get to have it because someone else was like

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Let me just sneak in here and grab it even though they have nothing to do with they have nothing to do it

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Like how do you prove you don't that's one of the reasons I don't really want us to be on tik-tok as a as a creator

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Is tick-tok is like the the biggest thing for youth right now?

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And I say that because we're middle-aged according to the people on tick-tok

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Well, I have it but the point I'm just saying is people they take your sound or they can they can clip your content and

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Rebranded as their own or put a voiceover

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Whatever and like on YouTube we can also do that. I allow that on YouTube if people want to take clips from our show

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They're welcome to do so. Yeah, but I just feel that the YouTube community

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There's more effort that would go into that versus like let me I'm already on my phone

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let me just click this and I'm gonna say my opinion now and like

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Yeah, disagree with the lighthouse lowdown like that trend. That's like kind of dying out now

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But it's like a split screen where they just sit there

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They just sit there while another video plays and they act like yeah, I don't sometimes they don't even nod along

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It's like sometimes I block out their face because I can't handle the ick of watching them

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Pretend to react to stuff. It's silly. It really it doesn't add anything deep into online trends, but here we are very demure

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very cutesy

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So I'm gonna go to another slide and this is the diagram that's shown on

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There's only a couple pages to the patent but on the diagram area and all of these are labeled with letters

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And this diagram shows the whole assembly together. So I've gone through the thing on the right the T

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Yeah stands for trumpet. Okay, so I went ahead and labeled everything

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Look at you. Why are there so many trumpets?

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Everything is a trip it

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Okay, our podcast listeners can't see all this funny thing

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So I labeled the diagram all let's say 20 pieces all with the word trumpet

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So now I'll go to the real one. I saw two trumpets and I was like

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You named trumpet wise so now on this one which is actually properly named there are still two trumpets

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so the big T on the right is a trumpet and then on the bottom it's a

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Zoomed in view to show a trumpet and a read which makes noise like a buzzing sound to play a trumpet

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You buzz your lips or a read can play

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Yeah, sorry for the headphone users out there it's kind of cute it sounded like um, like a like a foghorn well

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Nice. I can't wait to listen to that back. I'm excited for that

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So I played trumpet growing up for those folks who care

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You executed it perfectly. Thank you. My sister would be proud. She's a professor of trumpet

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So there's a lot to talk about here, but the whole assembly we're looking at on the screen is a mechanism

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That's put together to do a couple things it compresses air like just ambient air

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Okay, and into a chamber they called it a I called it compressed air tank on here, but it's like a

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Air storage box is what they need. They didn't really have like tanks common out at that time at least compressed gas

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Thanks box of metal

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so I'll talk through the process but compressed air stored and then a gear

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Rotates see the ratchet and the cam on the left

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Yeah, and so as those spin they actuate this stem and spring so go that goes back and forth and

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That opens and closes an air valve which obviously releases compressed air into a tube and then the trumpet

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okay, so by mechanical means you can be building up air pressure and then

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By the shape of the cam you can machine and carve and shape different cams

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It will make different intervals of sound

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It will make different intervals of sound as it spins

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Yeah, I see what you're talking about by the speed of the rotation the shape of the cam you can build in articulation

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Through just a spinning gear which is really neat

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I went way down. Oh, no rabbit hole and I won't take you all the way but just to the entrance. Okay, so

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All of this work goes into the machine at point P

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Which is the shaft of an air pump right in the middle and so the shaft needs to be driven by some mechanical means

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Could be a boiler could be animals could be by hand

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But that compresses the air and also spins the mechanism. Okay, so it's like a little bit like clockwork

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So there's something called an a hot air engine which is like a small tabletop

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Cylinder that goes back and forth that uses a heat source like oil

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It's a whole thing

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I was really interested in it because I studied a little bit of thermodynamics in college and

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It doesn't seem to make sense, but I figured out what it is

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It's a sterling cycle engine if anyone's a nerd out there like myself and they've been around for a long time

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Apparently they're tiny motors less than one horsepower and they were used to like run popcorn machines and spinning

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Assembly like they were often like kind of fun Z things but the guy who wrote this patent actually called it out

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He said a hot air engine would be ideal for this purpose. Wow, I think

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He knows more than I do

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But I'm not sure if that would have worked because they make so little power

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But anyways, I think this actual innovation worked

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I think the hot air engine was likes me saying you got a brand new car and it could use electric motor or a diesel

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Or a gap like the source of power doesn't matter in the chassis of the thing. So

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Compresses air spins plays trumpet sound and he was saying that you could have multiple trumpets for different pitches

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You could direct the sound on where the trumpet is located

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because it's compressed air and not steam a lot of the

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Steam whistles and fog horns at the time were run by steam. They would have condensate problems

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Oh, yeah today we know how to deal with as engineers at the time

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They hadn't perfected all the manufacturing and processes controls that we have now

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So steam would often build up condensate in a long tube

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So if you wanted to have your trumpet or your your horn out somewhere away from your boiler

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It was a problem. It had to be right at the boiler

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Otherwise, you'd have the condensate would block the line and we get jammed. It would make the sound

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You had to have someone working on it all the time. So

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Having having dry air allowed them to put the trumpet anywhere basically and then he showed an alternative on top

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In case you don't want to try but you can still use a whistle which is shown as that W on top

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kind of cool, but the

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So I'm gonna read the things that make this unique

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What I claim as new and desire to secure by a letter patent is

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There's four items. Oh one the general method substantially as herein set forth by which air has been

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Mechanically condensed shall be applied to the

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Mechanically condensed shall be applied to the sounding of a trumpet or a whistle for the purpose of giving marine signals by sound

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to

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the use of the cam see when used for purpose of communicating a series of signals more

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Intelligible than the mere independent sounds substantially as set forth

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What is happy saying you can do patterns? Yeah. Yeah, but what is with the way people used to write?

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That that could have been like, you know, he spent forever on this yeah quill

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Like no, no, there's no need for a henceforth

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Three the combination of the cam see the stem D and the valve e

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For the purpose of giving a variety of sounds of a trumpet or whistle for the purposes and in the manner above described

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He's saying the same thing

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For the trumpet T in combination with the reservoir are in connecting pipe L when used for the purpose herein set forth

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Salion L double

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There are two witnesses listed

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Anyways, you know if this was used at any lighthouses

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That will be a great thing for me to know I

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Feel like it must have been yeah

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Everything is I feel like everything's

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There's the steadfast ways that things were done

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But that doesn't mean that all lighthouses everywhere like the ones with spotlights on them were probably

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Using the tried and true, you know fog horns and fog whistles and stuff. But yeah

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Maybe they gave it a shot given the the military

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Ask nature and history of running lighthouses. I feel like

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Being creative is not really the thing to do

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You want to be consistent you want to know the process, you know, yeah, there there was I

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Actually don't know where I saw this or heard this but there's no excuse for a lighthouse keeper to not be familiar

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with the the way the lighthouse operates

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Where did I see this might have been in my reading for this episode?

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Like it is no excuse they were encouraging if there's ever a mechanic that visits

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Or an engineer that comes to do a project or improvements or whatever the lighthouse keeper was encouraged to ask questions

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Non-stop, yeah, and they use their own words for that

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But it was you know, if something goes wrong and you can't fix it or you don't know what's going on

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You can't raise your hands and go

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The engineer installed some fancy shaft air pump down there and I just I don't know what the hell that is

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It just yeah, that doesn't fly

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The first line of defense for the lighthouse

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It's every single aspect so they gotta be well versed in everything. I just feel like it's a different attitude than

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Today like a lot of a lot of things now are just

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Well, I don't know. That's not my job. Yeah

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So I hate to say I really don't know where this was used. I do feel it was used because it's pretty intricate

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But it seems practical the way it's described. So yeah, it's patented. So there must have been some utility. Yeah

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so

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Any questions on our buoy for the day? No. All right

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We're back to the lighthouse challenge of New Jersey. Yes. So this is the 25th year

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So they must have started in 1999 which kind of blows my mind. I feel like that's ahead of

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The big wave of lighthouse

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Tourism around the time where how lighthouses were pretty dilapidated. Maybe that was the point was to bring people to areas that needed some

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Yeah, renovations. I don't have a strong correlation, but there's some like when we talked about

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And we're gonna see New Jersey, obviously, so we're gonna be in the area but

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I've seeking light in Atlantic City. Yeah

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we talked about how it's kind of gone through some booms and busts as far as having funding and

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Being in good shape at least from the outside. I think that's true of a lot of lighthouses, especially in the US and it follows economic trends

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So this is y2k was 99. I think that was a smaller impact

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But then there's 2008 big economic crash and then unfortunately 2019 was kovac kickoff. So yeah, I'm hoping

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Hope is keeping me alive that everything's on the way up

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So we just getting interested in lighthouses in the last couple years and starting to talk about them

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Can be a part of it the money and the means to travel and right see things

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Yeah, if you don't have if you don't have money to pay the bills, you're not gonna go

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Tourism activities. Yeah

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So this is it's cool though. I mean it has it's 25 years is a while to be doing this. So this is a

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This year's souvenir is a blue and silver booklet. It contains a brief history of each site

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I want one including how many years it's been in operation as well as a brief history of the challenge itself

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It's gonna be a fat pamphlet or you get one. It's a little it's just one

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So this is in a way, it's a lighthouse passport

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Yeah, so obviously you can take your lighthouse passport from the US LHS to this challenge and you get stamps

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But also this has its own sticker system. So

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Indeed at each stop you'll collect a silver embossed sticker. Whoa to place it on the page of each site

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Which is that's cool to me. I just it's simple, but it's cool. It's fancy you receive your booklet when you register

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So you can register at any of the stops funny enough and you'll receive your silver sticker for any given stop at that stop

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We went so the first one you go to whatever order you go to them in there's I think there's a best order

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But if you happen to go to one you're gonna do as many as you can. They should all have this material for you. Okay

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So you collect all the stickers will be given a completion sticker

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For your book and they'll be entered in the drawing for our three prize baskets. Is it bigger than the normal stickers?

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That's what I want to find any images. I think they actually makes new stickers

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Okay, that would make sense. You wouldn't want people to just be well, you can't put them off because they're silver embossed

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Yeah, and they're I don't know. I mean, I'm sure it's pretty straightforward, but I think it's a nice idea

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Especially for people who don't have

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Yes, LHS passport system. Yeah, I love this idea still do your own thing and you're entered to win one of the three prize baskets

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I don't remember if I go over what those are or not. And this is at the end of October is when

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People kind of stop

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Closer the season. Yes. Yeah, we're like the technically we're past the end of the season

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We're like a lot of lighthouses are cut their hours and yeah

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It's less visiting times but October is when it really hits because it starts to get cold

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Anywhere coastline or on the lake that's cold

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Really cold. It's not like Kansas cold in October. We'll still have a party. That's slightly outdoors, right?

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Yeah, I mean, it's the time of year you could go out to Hawaii or you could go to the Bahamas see Toby Smith in his lighthouse

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There's lots of options just cold time of the year

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So

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This is this is an image actually from the lighthouse challenge website

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So someone I think recently put this together. Well, that's a lot more than I thought it is a lot

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It's going on and it's a lot of area. So the way that I the Sandhook is up north. I

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believe

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These two I saw one of these which one Finns Point

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Down here Finns Point light. Yeah, the one that's just south of Wilmington. Oh

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Up here. Yep. It's near the airport for Philadelphia near is a relative term. Well, this

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Traffic is so crazy. This one which I can't remember which we'll look at it. I can't remember which way

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I know which one it is the last one

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Tennecom. Yes

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Tennecom, I don't know how to pronounce it. I'm guessing it's tennecom, but tennecom tiny come tiny come like

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I couldn't go to that one, but I did see it from the Philadelphia Airport while I was on one of those

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Walking treadmill things that oh, yeah faster. Yeah, I saw I remember that far there. It's a skeleton light

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It looks very similar to Finns Point

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So oh

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it is

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Tennecom or tennecom tennecom. I'm just reading it on screen. I'm not reading the actual

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We don't have to go too deep into some of these I'd like to cover anyway, and we will

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For the moment I had to make a

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For the moment I had to make as you saw just on the last screen two maps because there are so many locations

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I can you can only put in oh

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Ten of them. I didn't know that. Yeah, I faced that problem a couple times

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Google Maps you can do better

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But so I made the assumption

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I was just kind of playing around maybe somebody can weigh in and see if there's a better way if we were to do

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This in the future, but I was thinking for flights because we live in Kansas City. We could fly into Philadelphia and fly back

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But you'd have to start at tennecom

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Go to the south coast and then up the east coast and then you kind of have like a

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It's two and a half hours this drive back

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You're right, it's up. This is the first two maps

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I'll show the second map but

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So I had two flights one. I just priced out right now. It's mmm

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September right now. Are you gonna pitch this on our next vacation?

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Well, it's all series, honey

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So if we were to go

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If we were to go round trip to Philadelphia, it's only 299 bucks

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When you're not going last minute like I did then the price is actually pretty reasonable one month ahead. It's not bad. I mean

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Philadelphia, I think just has good prices in general. Yeah. Now if you're to end up north in

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New York area and fly home

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LaGuardia, I think is the airport I'm looking at

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Up here Newark, sorry from Newark

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Then that flight I did a multi-city so into Philadelphia out of New York

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New York 686 so not the affordable way to go and my problem is that if we flew into New York

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I would want to see a lot more lighthouses like we do have to go to Montauk and I like that you have liberty

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I just can't give a mouse a cookie. I

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Want it all I want it all

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So

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Tennecom

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Finn's point is out west here and you got East Point Cape May

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This is one of the museum locations. I can't know which one that is

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There's a life-saving station 30 Ebsikhan so you go out to oh

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My gosh

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Atlantic City, thank you

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and then up the coast

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Oh, you just went by a bunch of golf courses. I know I looked at some of them. Don't worry

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Barnagat

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it's cool spot and then

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Squan Beach life-saving station. So there's a couple life-saving stations and as as the the entry said

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It's not I can't find my mouse

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It's not what is it 15 something like that? There's like but there's like 13

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actual places to stop okay, because some of them are including both a museum or a life-saving station and

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Also twin lights. Is that Navey sink? It sure is

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Okay, this this would be I would be so all over this the seagirt twin lights

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And then I wonder if this is the fastest route. It must be this little interchange

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Back to Philadelphia. So this this takes you in like a full

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rectangle all of the whole border really and this

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Before I sound too stupid. Is that accurate? Yeah, I think so. I think this is right

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Look for the tiny border lines. See I think it's at the river. Oh, yes, you're right

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Okay, sorry, sorry everybody I'm from the middle of here anyways

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This is like a two-hour drive just get back to the airport. So if you and again, that's not a big deal

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But if you're trying to do it in a week days

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It's three days two days

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like you can't go unless it's

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Opening time on Saturday. The challenge is between those hours. It's let's see if I can see it. It's a lot of gas

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Sites are open from 8 a.m. To 6 p.m. Both days of the weekend. Okay, Saturday Sunday 8 a.m. To 6 p.m

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Okay, so you don't even really have a chance. No, you do people do it. No, I'm just saying like it's 6 p.m

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I would think they would just stay open until like 9. I don't know. I'm giving I'm giving people too much leeway

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They got a drive. So the full

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Drive the full for two days the full driving time is 9 hours and 19 minutes

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401 miles that's the loop that I did. Okay, so now but you don't have to get back to the airport

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Yes, that that extra there's two hours in there. That's just

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But could save it till Monday to Neekom is at the airport. Basically, it's across the river. Yeah, so it's not basically

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It's like 45 minutes

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across the river 30 minutes

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Oh

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my gosh

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Traffic's crazy. Well, I'm not from traffic. Yes, not to pay it across a bridge. I know you looked into it

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No, I didn't look into it. I did it. Oh my gosh

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I'm sorry. I'm gonna pull up their website. Oh, it's for reference. I can't read that lighthouse challenge and jay.com

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So you can can do this. It's a pretty good website and I'm zoomed way out

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So this is the thing that I read earlier and two goes

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So 11 lighthouse sites three life-saving stations one museum over the two-day weekend. I

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Think I'm just gonna show through this I have some things to read but these are all FAQs

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I have up a real map. That's what I was referencing

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The sites this is I didn't spend as much time as I could have on here because it's just all the research

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Like this would get us started on any of our episodes

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Yeah, so like I covered Epsi can lighthouse and this is a video I've already seen and it's got a nice description

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Brief history. I assume this is the type of thing you would see inside of the booklet, right?

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Just a little bit of coverage on each stop YouTube videos which connects with with me pretty well

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And there's one that's not included in this that I'm shocked by what we'll get to it later

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Oh my hours and directions for all these sites

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Also, I gotta say

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Downloadable directions really well done. This is a very good

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Hours or keep going up

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Going keep going

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Okay, it says please note if you arrive at five minutes to eight for a night climb, you won't have enough time

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Oh, but you know what I'm saying like it says 6 p.m. Or you can do a night climb 6 to 8 p.m. So

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You actually do have a chance until 8 p.m. Well night climb sites, which is not all of them

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Yeah, I'm just saying so those that are open at night climbs, which is not all of them

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Just trying to give a little bit of hope out there for people

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slow drivers

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Yes

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family fun I

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Read this and it really made me smile like how to do it with kids and survive from a mom and they talked about like

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Counting the steps give them a camera like a disposable camera

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As you pull up to any lighthouse like have them run the map and like see if they can spot it

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It sounds like so much fun. Yeah keep them occupied kids would really like this board. They would get in a car for that long

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Yeah, it's a lot of it's two days insane drive but it's just like one of them said have snacks for every stop

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Oh like themed snacks. Well, it's just snacks. I would be all over themed snacks

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So you think you'd like to be a lighthouse keeper here's some of the rules they talked about kind of interesting. There's a bunch more 74

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It's just some that they highlighted

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They have this booklet which is a coloring book for kids

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Every lighthouse on here and in museum as well. So this is Epsi can which I don't know if you recognize that's beautifully done

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They all have a little animal in front. So like there's some with a fox. There's some with a yeah

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little rabbit

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Barnagat light museum just it's it's really light-hearted

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And it's fun for I assume I don't have kids fun for kids and I feel like this would be something you could do as a family

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Yeah

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Dolphin on that one. So would do it and they would like it

427
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I don't know who did this but whoever did did a great job and it's available for free online. That's cool

428
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,760
some

429
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,360
horseshoe crabs

430
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:44,080
So you eat and stay now i'm traveling. Let's go stay overnight. So i'll be honest with you

431
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:49,040
I gotta be honest. I looked at just a couple I just clicked. Okay. I thought you were gonna say all of them

432
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:53,040
No, no, no, just a couple that would be like you. I think the stay overnight

433
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,040
is chosen by

434
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,800
My voice is gone. I think the hotels and um

435
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:04,640
A lot of them are motels and whatnot. They're not the fanciest which I wouldn't expect of course

436
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,200
But a lot of them look

437
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,480
Kind of like the quality of place that we stayed in when we went to cape con

438
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,680
Which was an affordable option for going to a cool place. Yeah, so I think that's probably true

439
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:20,560
We probably have good relationships with the in-cap

440
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,440
we like probably have good relationships with the innkeepers

441
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,120
um and hotel owners, I mean so

442
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:33,680
Depending on how you travel depending on your budget depending on what you're doing that that is what it is

443
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,360
Okay, that's a good thing to have as a resource now. I looked at the eateries and I was excited

444
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,800
A lot of these places look so good chubby pickle

445
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
off the hook

446
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,600
The chubby pickle the fishery navisink fishery

447
00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:57,440
salty whale shore pour coffee any descriptive word followed by an animal is

448
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,680
Someplace I want to go sailing cow the sailing cow was worth visiting

449
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,280
The filling station the blue pig

450
00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:11,920
So these are fun, but a lot of them look really good. And again, they're not i'm sure there's nicer options on here

451
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:17,120
Uh a lot of them that I clicked through because I love restaurants. It's what I do when I travel is I eat like a crazy man

452
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,200
We ate like crazy

453
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,000
They are they look really good and local so

454
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:29,680
Ocean city lots of good suggestions. Yeah, so whoever again whoever put this together kudos to you. It's really well done

455
00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:31,920
Then I don't know

456
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,880
I didn't go to this site, but it's a good one. It's resources

457
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,920
Uh, we last list down here is our united states lighthouse society up in washington

458
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,720
There's a national lighthouse museum. I clicked on this and learned I did not know that it opened

459
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,160
Not long ago, but it looks really cool. So we might talk about that

460
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,040
That's pretty close to the statue of liberty, isn't it?

461
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,080
Yeah, I wanted to go there

462
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,640
Well, it's statin island is not um, pull it up. I gotta see

463
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,440
This is statin island

464
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:07,680
And the statue of liberty is over here, but it's at the tip right? This is statue liberty. I know the the um

465
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:12,800
Um lighthouse museums at the tip st. George area. Oh my gosh. You got it

466
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:20,480
Wow, that's crazy. How did you know that because we went to we flew we had that eight hour layover in new york

467
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,960
And I was trying to find

468
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,760
What I wanted to do the most and it was this museum. Oh my gosh, but we couldn't make it happen

469
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:34,160
I just knew it. Well, I watched a couple things one of the queens. I don't know which one visited there

470
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,480
So there's a big press thing covering it

471
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:42,960
Um, but they have one of the queens they have a lighthouse full of lighthouses like models. Are these harbor?

472
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,320
Lights brand or something

473
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,360
I don't know. I want to go so bad. Yeah, it looks really cool

474
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,360
You believe people just live near here and they can just go anytime they want

475
00:37:54,240 --> 00:38:01,600
They don't know how lucky they are at work today just to contrast that I was telling my co-workers about how to milk a cow

476
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,200
How to that all cows have horns?

477
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,200
more or less and

478
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:13,120
How do the options to dehorn a cow and look at all the lights how much milk cows make so it's crazy

479
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,200
And we know different things

480
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,000
I don't know anything about cows and I also live here

481
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,640
well

482
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:27,040
So anyways, this looks really neat. I don't even know what i'm looking at. Staten island a ferry. So let's go back

483
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,440
Okay. Yeah, we got it's a very good. There's other cape may ocean

484
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,000
ocean city tourism

485
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,360
Um new jersey lighthouse society didn't know that's in nevis ink

486
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:39,840
um, so

487
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,840
They do a good job whoever put this together

488
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,240
I really I don't know

489
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:50,480
It must be an organization called the lighthouse challenge of new jersey. Maybe it's through new jersey lighthouse society. I'm really not sure

490
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,200
Yeah, but it's a very good website some of the things simple easy to follow

491
00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:00,960
I don't really want to the symbols good. I just we're already seeing it. What do I want to look at while I do some talking?

492
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:07,360
So one of the things they said backed by popular demand are secret stamps

493
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:12,080
This year there will be a secret stamp at three of the stops at the challenge

494
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:18,240
What do you mean? It will be unique to the 2024 challenge and only available during the challenge weekend

495
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:22,560
Make sure you ask the stops on the challenge if they have one of the secret stamps

496
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:29,520
I love it. What what stamp like this is? I don't know never seen one

497
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,400
They're very

498
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:37,200
elusive if anybody out there has an image of a secret stamp

499
00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:40,400
from

500
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,400
Doesn't matter where yeah

501
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:49,840
Secret let us know and it's nice because people would make a beeline for that specific location if they knew that they had a secret stamp

502
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,640
All right, most valuable lighthouse doing the challenge in order to mvl

503
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,920
Most valuable lighthouse, right?

504
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:02,720
So there's a bunch of faq

505
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,200
Frequently asked questions that are on here

506
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:13,040
I'm going to read some of them, but if you want to you can reach out to lhchallenge nj

507
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,920
At gmail.com if you have any questions

508
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:21,440
So when is the challenge we talked about it's the third full week of october. Uh, how do I register?

509
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,080
How do you think you register?

510
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:26,080
um

511
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,080
carrier pigeon

512
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,760
smoke signal

513
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:36,240
Telegram telegraph and light characteristics. No, um, there is no pre-registration. Okay

514
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,480
Trick question you register at the site where you start and you can start at any of the sites

515
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,400
It takes a few minutes. They ask for your home state and how many are in your party?

516
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,200
And then of course they'll collect your registration fee

517
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:54,000
Of course, I think it's oh, what does it cost is the next question? I was gonna say I think it's five bucks

518
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,720
It's five bucks. The cost is five dollars to register

519
00:40:57,340 --> 00:41:01,120
Spectacular for that you get your souvenir holder the booklet

520
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:08,240
Um, the special stamps is here for the 25th challenge. There's no other cost unless you decide to climb the lighthouses

521
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,880
Some of them charge a fee

522
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,440
Uh, it said children 11 and under are free

523
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,640
To climb with an adult. So that's a good way to

524
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:23,120
Just put it together. Yeah safe and safe and sound and a lot of times they just take donations and

525
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:30,800
People are generous if they've made it that far. Yeah, I also tend to buy at least one thing from each gift shop

526
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,040
Everywhere we go

527
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:38,160
If it's a pin or a patch or a book I always buy a t-shirt

528
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,160
Oh, I just got reminded

529
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,800
There was a cool t-shirt

530
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,800
there's a cool t-shirt with um

531
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:49,280
the gay head fresnel lens on it and they had it on display in the

532
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:55,040
Gay head lighthouse. No. No the marlowe's vineyard. Oh, yeah museum and

533
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:02,160
I asked where they were keeping the shirts so I could buy one and they were out and I said can I buy it off the

534
00:42:02,220 --> 00:42:04,220
Mannequin and she said no

535
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,400
Why not? I don't know

536
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,400
I was like really?

537
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,520
I didn't know you asked that I did I wanted it

538
00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:14,560
I can't I can't believe they said no me too

539
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,360
I thought for sure I could have it

540
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,400
What color was it? It's gray

541
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,160
You love gray

542
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,040
shirts

543
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,960
Anyway, sorry for the tangent. No, but but it is a good way to get money going

544
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,440
it's not an exclusive club where you don't have to pay a bunch of money up front, but just by

545
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,920
Having people there they usually end up spending some money and that's just good news for the lighthouse

546
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,160
I mean we we talk about it all the time, but we just called in we were

547
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:42,720
some of the guests on

548
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:48,320
The 40th anniversary of the us LHS lighthouse extravaganza virtual really well done

549
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,760
Jeremy de Etremont runs it. He did a great job. So

550
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:57,840
What I was thinking about it remember how in cape cod especially we climbed lighthouses

551
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:03,920
We climbed lighthouses. Yes, and it was kind of hard for me as a full-size person to get the tiny holes

552
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:10,240
Yeah, so one of the questions do I have to climb every lighthouse to complete the challenge? No, not

553
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,560
Be on the ground. You just have to visit the site

554
00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:16,800
Yeah, so it's good for you if you manage to do it is what they say exclamation point

555
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,920
um, but you certainly don't have to climb them and

556
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,960
I think that can make it a lot faster

557
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:29,200
So like maybe if you're just gonna spend a couple minutes at each place and it's a road trip

558
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,080
Yeah, that's probably the fast way to do it. So I would hate that pick a favorite

559
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,800
It doesn't have to be like, okay, let's go. Let's go. Let's go

560
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:43,360
Yeah, you don't have to run through it. But it is I mean the board challenge is right. It's it's a lot

561
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:50,160
It is challenging so you can you could start you know how to do the challenge is what i'm reading right now

562
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:55,680
There's a infinite number of different spots out there that you could go to each one of the other sites

563
00:43:56,240 --> 00:44:00,960
So you could do the downtime everything we talked about the time and the locations

564
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,600
There are 14 stops since one stop has two lighthouse sites

565
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,440
Which one oh

566
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:10,880
um, but

567
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,880
You can we'll find it in a minute

568
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,400
Uh, you can start to finish any of the sites. So you plan your own route

569
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,440
Maybe it will be in contention.

570
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,600
There's several trips that are already on the list

571
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,120
for our lighthouse tourism exploits.

572
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:26,640
I don't know of them.

573
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,560
The Pacific Northwest has two of them at least.

574
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:31,560
In October?

575
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,060
Oh, I don't know if we can afford to do.

576
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,000
Listen, flights are cheap.

577
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:37,820
We're gonna be driving.

578
00:44:37,820 --> 00:44:39,600
We can sleep in the car.

579
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,480
If anyone wants to sponsor us here

580
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,120
at the lighthouse lowdown, we are young.

581
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,320
Help us do this.

582
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:46,160
That'd be great.

583
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,360
We have no sponsors at this time.

584
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:50,600
We don't make money from this podcast.

585
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,000
I have no prospects.

586
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:54,380
I am 29.

587
00:44:54,380 --> 00:44:56,280
We do this for the fun.

588
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:57,880
I'm not even 29 yet.

589
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,040
No, you're not, but you are tomorrow.

590
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:01,840
Everyone say happy birthday, Vince.

591
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,000
Happy, happy birthday.

592
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:03,840
Stop.

593
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:10,120
Anyways, what happens if you complete the challenge?

594
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,000
Your last stop, let them know

595
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,480
that you've completed the challenge.

596
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,200
Oh, God, that would suck.

597
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,480
If they close and they're walking by you, fight them.

598
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,160
Actually tackle them to the ground.

599
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:22,000
Don't do that.

600
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,320
They'll check to see your stickers

601
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:27,880
for visiting all the sites.

602
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,440
And then you'll receive a completion sticker

603
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,880
and your name will be entered into a drawing

604
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,320
for a prize basket filled with lighthouse goodies.

605
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,920
There are three prizes with the grand prize

606
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,600
worth more than $500.

607
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:41,520
Nice.

608
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:46,280
So question that I don't know if you'll know the answer to.

609
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,680
This pamphlet, does it have a spot for the sticker

610
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,560
that's the exact shape of the sticker?

611
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:54,480
I don't know.

612
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,080
Because that would drive me crazy.

613
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,200
I was imagining that you're covering part of the image

614
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,640
or part of the text with your sticker.

615
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:03,480
Oh, okay.

616
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:04,300
But it's up to you.

617
00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:05,140
Yeah.

618
00:46:05,140 --> 00:46:05,960
I don't know.

619
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:10,440
I envisioned like a grid board of empty sticker spots

620
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,520
and then you put the sticker in the spot.

621
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:13,360
Let's get it.

622
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,440
They described each page as having an image

623
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,240
in the history of the lighthouse you're visiting.

624
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:21,080
So how many steps, the years?

625
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,680
I bet there's a little blank space at the bottom

626
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,480
that's you put the sticker.

627
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:26,320
I don't know for certain.

628
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,280
If you lost your pamphlet.

629
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,720
You'd have to re-register.

630
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:32,160
No, like what if you're like driving

631
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:33,480
and you're like, where's our pamphlet?

632
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:34,840
Oh my gosh.

633
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,080
You'd have to re-register.

634
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:38,400
You'd lose your stickers.

635
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,220
You'd have to call every lighthouse,

636
00:46:40,220 --> 00:46:41,800
get them to say, yeah, he was here.

637
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:42,640
Do you remember me?

638
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:43,480
He was tall.

639
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,220
Yeah, true.

640
00:46:45,220 --> 00:46:46,840
Blonde and tall.

641
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,160
But a grand prize of worth more than $500.

642
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:50,000
That's pretty hefty.

643
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:50,820
It's pretty good.

644
00:46:50,820 --> 00:46:52,320
It's gotta be a state, a lighthouse, right?

645
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:53,620
What else are they gonna?

646
00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:55,640
I don't know.

647
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,480
It's like a pair of Bose headphones.

648
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:58,400
Like they're not gonna, you know.

649
00:46:58,400 --> 00:46:59,220
Yeah, true.

650
00:46:59,220 --> 00:47:01,040
It would have to be nautical related, I would think.

651
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,880
I don't know, maybe it's the ocean.

652
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,060
Oh.

653
00:47:04,060 --> 00:47:04,900
So.

654
00:47:04,900 --> 00:47:05,720
Wait.

655
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,100
Does it say how many people usually participate?

656
00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:11,540
Nope, didn't say.

657
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:13,400
I don't know.

658
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,800
I wanna know how likely I am to win these prizes.

659
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,000
What's the percentage that I win?

660
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,160
Yeah, you could have good odds, honestly.

661
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,920
So if you Google the lighthouse challenge of New Jersey,

662
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,140
there's their site.

663
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:27,340
Here's a what is it?

664
00:47:27,340 --> 00:47:28,600
Oh, there's a video someone made.

665
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:29,440
Oh, ooh.

666
00:47:30,860 --> 00:47:34,320
What is of the lighthouse doomsday list?

667
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:35,160
Oh.

668
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:36,100
Oh no.

669
00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:37,080
Lighthouse digest.

670
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,800
I wanna get that now that we've moved.

671
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,640
It's a list of endangered lighthouses

672
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,000
compiled by the lighthouse digest.

673
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:42,840
That's sad.

674
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:43,680
That is sad.

675
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,240
We're like ooh, what's the lighthouse doomsday list?

676
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:47,800
And then we're like, oh.

677
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,280
So we're off track here, but.

678
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,960
Sorry, I really got us off.

679
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,280
That might be a pamphlet book.

680
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:56,640
Wait, wait.

681
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:57,640
Scroll down.

682
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,360
I think I saw right there.

683
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:01,200
Whoa.

684
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,580
Collection coin album.

685
00:48:04,580 --> 00:48:06,000
Oh, okay, this is not the same.

686
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,560
Well, it might've been, it was the 20th anniversary.

687
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,200
So that's in 2000.

688
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,200
Oh, pressed penny version.

689
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,240
I can't even.

690
00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:14,600
Bro.

691
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,240
Okay, we're going to Facebook, everyone.

692
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:17,640
Hold on.

693
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:18,480
2019.

694
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:19,840
Oh, that was cool.

695
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,160
That's so cool.

696
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:22,200
Penny collector.

697
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,640
For those of you listening, it's a pressed penny,

698
00:48:26,260 --> 00:48:28,520
the coin collection book that they did

699
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:29,680
for the 20th anniversary.

700
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,840
So instead of stickers, you press a coin at the location

701
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:33,800
and get the coin.

702
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,480
Really cool.

703
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:36,300
Awesome.

704
00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:38,220
And they still have it on Facebook as their,

705
00:48:38,220 --> 00:48:39,680
maybe it's year specific.

706
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:40,520
Let's see.

707
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,040
No, as the Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey,

708
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:44,460
they were proud of that one.

709
00:48:44,460 --> 00:48:45,300
Yeah.

710
00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:46,120
Cool.

711
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,680
This is a, so I hate to say it,

712
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,560
because it never, I never find a good Facebook page.

713
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,500
We need to do the challenge just for the.

714
00:48:52,500 --> 00:48:53,440
Just for the swag.

715
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:54,280
Merch.

716
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,240
So for those of you that are being dragged along

717
00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:01,000
just by listening, I'm sorry,

718
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,720
we're exploring the Facebook page

719
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:05,000
of Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey

720
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,600
and looking at their pictures.

721
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:07,440
Looks like a lot of volunteers.

722
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:08,360
Can you go back?

723
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:09,520
It says, my husband and I did this

724
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,120
for the first time this year and had an awesome time.

725
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:12,800
We were cheered on by several people

726
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,440
as we were on a motorcycle, even in the rain.

727
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,820
They invited a motorcycle group.

728
00:49:18,820 --> 00:49:19,920
That's awesome.

729
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:21,120
Well, it's on my bucket list.

730
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:21,940
That's cool.

731
00:49:21,940 --> 00:49:22,780
I'm a big fan of this.

732
00:49:22,780 --> 00:49:24,960
Easy, easy bucket list item.

733
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,200
I was happy to find it.

734
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,040
So back in our slides now, we're looking at the map again.

735
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:35,200
What lighthouse is in this area that they did not include?

736
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:36,200
And why?

737
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,000
I don't know the answer to why yet.

738
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,680
I gotta be honest with you.

739
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:40,520
You have any thoughts?

740
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:41,520
We have covered it.

741
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,840
In fact, I covered it, which cuts it down some.

742
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:49,320
You ready for a hint?

743
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:50,160
Yes, please.

744
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:51,860
The name of a cow breed.

745
00:49:51,860 --> 00:49:53,180
Oh, Hereford.

746
00:49:53,180 --> 00:49:54,240
Hereford Inlet.

747
00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:55,080
Hereford Inlet lighthouse.

748
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:55,900
Why not?

749
00:49:55,900 --> 00:49:56,740
I don't know.

750
00:49:56,740 --> 00:49:58,440
Obviously, if you wanna go learn about that,

751
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,880
episode 57, July of 2024.

752
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,880
Are they doing a renovation right now?

753
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,760
It looks in great shape in the images that we saw.

754
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,400
I couldn't remember if you mentioned at the end

755
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,960
that they were in the middle of some kind of restoration.

756
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,240
Maybe, I mean, that's so often.

757
00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:14,080
Yeah, sure.

758
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,040
Maybe it's a different ownership.

759
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:18,600
Maybe it's not public.

760
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,440
I actually can't remember and I just covered it in July.

761
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:22,280
It's hard.

762
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:23,100
We cover a lot of stuff.

763
00:50:23,100 --> 00:50:25,160
So I'm gonna go listen to it on podcast.

764
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,120
That's why I record all this

765
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,800
is because I can't remember anything.

766
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,620
But so Hereford Inlet lighthouse,

767
00:50:31,620 --> 00:50:33,400
which I remember being fascinating.

768
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,160
This is one of the images from that episode

769
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,400
where the ground had all washed away.

770
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,440
So they had to move the whole keeper house,

771
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,400
which we've heard before, but it's always crazy.

772
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:43,980
A tale as old as time.

773
00:50:43,980 --> 00:50:46,060
So there's some sources.

774
00:50:46,060 --> 00:50:48,540
And this was the lighthouse lowdown.

775
00:50:48,540 --> 00:50:50,240
What questions do you have?

776
00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:52,360
No questions, but this is definitely something

777
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:53,780
I wanna be doing.

778
00:50:53,780 --> 00:50:55,720
You're the one who put it on my radar.

779
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:57,600
So you gotta suffer the consequences.

780
00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:59,920
I hate to say like New Jersey.

781
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:02,880
I don't know of anything there.

782
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:03,880
Now I do.

783
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,420
But like it's far away from my world.

784
00:51:06,420 --> 00:51:09,600
I haven't spent a lot of time in that part of the country.

785
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,120
If you said, hey, let's go to New Jersey.

786
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,320
I have no idea what we do.

787
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,620
But now I know.

788
00:51:14,620 --> 00:51:15,460
Now I know what we do.

789
00:51:15,460 --> 00:51:19,760
Now I know exactly what we do only October third week.

790
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:20,840
The third week.

791
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,800
And of course you can go to these lighthouses

792
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,040
when they're in season other times.

793
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,120
It's just not gonna have the stamps and stickers.

794
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:32,120
The challenge is the allure of the whole thing.

795
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:33,200
I would like to do this.

796
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,560
I think it's fun that it's a weekend.

797
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,100
I mean think about from our case

798
00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:40,920
where people are gonna get used to me

799
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,160
talking about lighthouse tourism.

800
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:43,160
I think it's a big thing.

801
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,560
It's very exciting to me for personal reasons.

802
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,880
And it's also important for what we're talking about.

803
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,960
Which is preserving and being excited about lighthouses.

804
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:55,880
But for us and others who may fly in

805
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,840
and see an event like this,

806
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,960
we don't have a lot of time off for vacation.

807
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,840
But hey, it's two days.

808
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,520
If we can get one more day,

809
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,640
or if we're really just drinking Red Bull,

810
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:09,880
we can take no days off.

811
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,040
And just fly there and fly back.

812
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:14,980
Just backpack it.

813
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,160
You know what I mean, small bag.

814
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,260
We're not spending time on the beach and all that.

815
00:52:20,260 --> 00:52:21,920
But it is October.

816
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,800
So maybe the thing that you'd wanna do is a road trip.

817
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,120
Maybe that's the best October weather.

818
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,520
You wouldn't be passing by all the beach and be like,

819
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,320
oh I wish I was laying out there.

820
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,000
Cause you wouldn't be.

821
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:34,840
Right.

822
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,380
But yeah, some of the other trips

823
00:52:36,380 --> 00:52:38,280
that are just really tempting to me

824
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:43,280
is up to the Pacific Northwest is really in my mind most.

825
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,560
To the north coast of Washington.

826
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,560
And then if we could poke across to Victoria,

827
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:48,720
we'd go international.

828
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:49,560
Yeah.

829
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:50,920
Victoria Island.

830
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:52,440
I had some family history up there.

831
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:57,200
And then we looked at Oregon, the coast.

832
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,720
What is the Cape Disappointment?

833
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:01,000
Columbia River.

834
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,440
So the Columbia River Bar in that whole area

835
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,240
has a bunch of lighthouses and shipwrecks

836
00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:07,000
and life saving museums.

837
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,400
And it's also just really pretty.

838
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:09,960
Those are two over there.

839
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,480
Florida has some that I've looked at.

840
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,360
Maine is a really big one that we've looked at.

841
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:16,700
Love to go to Maine.

842
00:53:16,700 --> 00:53:17,540
Yeah.

843
00:53:17,540 --> 00:53:19,320
Talked to Jeremy about going up his way.

844
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,680
So there is a lot.

845
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:26,920
Bahamas, there's several in the Bahamas we've talked about.

846
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,480
Overseas stuff.

847
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:29,800
There's lots of overseas stuff.

848
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:31,640
Across the pond.

849
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:33,320
Lots of ponds.

850
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,440
Spain has a lot of good lighthouses.

851
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:36,280
Yeah.

852
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:37,560
I'm gonna butcher it.

853
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,680
Camino de Ferros, something like that.

854
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,080
Was one of my episodes.

855
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:42,680
It's the hiking trail.

856
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:43,520
Yeah.

857
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,840
Of lighthouses that ends at Finisterra.

858
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,040
This is the end of the earth.

859
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:50,360
So very cool.

860
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:51,200
Now I'm off track.

861
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,560
But the point is, I love lighthouse tourism.

862
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,280
This seems like a really fun trip.

863
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:56,880
Good for them for putting it together

864
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:58,680
and doing such a great website.

865
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,640
And I think it looks like other people have done it

866
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:02,480
and had a great time.

867
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:03,300
So.

868
00:54:03,300 --> 00:54:04,140
Yeah.

869
00:54:04,140 --> 00:54:05,880
My pleasure to cover it.

870
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:06,800
It's on the list.

871
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:07,840
Thank you.

872
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:09,720
Thank you all for listening.

873
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:12,920
Find us anywhere that you podcast.

874
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,160
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875
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:15,080
Leave us a voicemail.

876
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:16,360
Send us a message.

877
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:18,720
I run the YouTube very poorly.

878
00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:21,320
So if you wanna go make comments there,

879
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:24,520
like, subscribe, that's all good news.

880
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:26,580
The only other thing that I wanna say

881
00:54:26,580 --> 00:54:28,800
is that we are working on hats.

882
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:30,980
I can officially say we've started that.

883
00:54:30,980 --> 00:54:33,880
Now that summer is over entirely,

884
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,080
I'm working on ball caps.

885
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:36,920
So maybe in the springtime,

886
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,740
you'll see ball caps either for sale or.

887
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:41,880
Or we'll hand them out.

888
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:42,720
We'll hand them out.

889
00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:45,960
It's not a good idea about patches.

890
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,000
Yeah.

891
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,920
Lighthouse specific patches to go on it,

892
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,080
like a Velcro, like on the hat.

893
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:53,320
Yeah, I'm trying to brainstorm

894
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:55,840
if anybody's up and up on that.

895
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:57,520
Like a hat that we could have

896
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,160
or maybe two different cuts,

897
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:00,880
men and women's typical styles,

898
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:05,320
but have a logo of ours either off to the side

899
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:06,960
or on the back or something.

900
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,800
And then it'd be really fun like to meet the people

901
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,400
that are donating their time

902
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,720
and helping us to see these lighthouses

903
00:55:14,720 --> 00:55:17,920
and tell them about our podcast

904
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,640
because I can't help myself,

905
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:20,920
but also give them a hat

906
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,280
that would have both the lighthouse lowdown as a call out,

907
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,160
but also where they're working,

908
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:29,560
where they're volunteering a project they're on

909
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,080
for the main feature of that hat.

910
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,320
I just think it'd be fun.

911
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:38,040
Entertain interchangeable patches on the same hat.

912
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:38,880
Yeah.

913
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,760
So like if you care about lots of lighthouses,

914
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:43,240
you can have lots of patches.

915
00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:44,080
That's right.

916
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,000
There's lots of like military style hats that do that.

917
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,000
I have a couple of those.

918
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:49,840
All right.

919
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:51,200
Anything else you wanna say before we say goodbye?

920
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:52,040
No.

921
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:53,120
Well, thank you all for joining

922
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,400
and we'll see you next time on the lighthouse lowdown.

923
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:58,200
Goodbye.

924
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:13,600
Moving up.