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🗓️ 27 November 2014
⏱️ 121 minutes
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0:00.0 | I grew up in the 70s, you know, 70s, and I was in high school in the 80s, but I was already an adult. |
0:05.6 | Yeah, I know. I know you're older than I am, but not that much, but still. Do you remember the CB radio? |
0:10.0 | Yeah, we had one. We had several. |
0:14.8 | But you weren't truck drivers, were you? |
0:16.3 | You didn't have to be. That was the great thing. It's not just about truck drivers. I mean, |
0:19.7 | that's the thing. It was a way of, like you'd mentioned before, it was as a predecessor, |
0:25.3 | we're not using. And they take, we're not using. And in life, you say he's mentioned it, we've |
0:29.6 | talked about this before, just between us, because it was a fun, fascinating kind of thing for the time. |
0:34.9 | You didn't have anything else like that, where you could, for a minimal amount of money, |
0:39.6 | you could purchase the set up. You didn't need to, like we had an antenna, we put up in our house. |
0:43.4 | Nice. And my grandfather did. So he had, he actually had two, because there's a B antenna, |
0:48.5 | which looked like a big H. And then there was the Omni-directional kind of, |
0:52.4 | right? Amazing. I'm remembering this now at the Omni-directional would pick up from, |
0:57.6 | from all, omnidirectional would pick up from all directions. Right, but the range probably wasn't as good. |
1:01.5 | No, neither were, were really good. But we're going to get to this. I think what, |
1:05.4 | what Scott's leading up to here? Well, I mean, this thing, I, there was a point when I was young, |
1:09.8 | when my, my mom raised me alone, and I, because my parents were divorced, and a very close |
1:14.1 | relationship to my dad, so no bad blood there. But just, you know, there was a time which my mom and I |
1:18.4 | were moving from Colorado. Yes, I was born in California, but until I was in eight or nine, |
1:24.0 | I lived in Denver, Colorado, and my mom and I moved back to North Carolina, where the bulk of her |
1:28.8 | family was. And on this trip, we had a CB, and you know, we had the U-Haul truck with all our |
1:34.2 | worldly possessions in it. Did you have a CB in the car? Yeah, we bought it and brought it with us, |
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