Ep4089_BardsFM: The American Brand - Leroy Cox and the Precision Maker of Dreams

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Scott Kesterson

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🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Leroy M. "Roy" Cox (1906–1981) was the founder of L.M. Cox Manufacturing Co., the company that produced Cox model engines making them the most common 1/2A Class 0.049 cubic inch engine in the world. It was a world of making, fixing and doing to fly a model aircraft with guide wires. Leroy Cox built a culture that dreamed about flying and being free. #BardsFM_TheAmericanBrand#CoxManufacturing#LeroyCox Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com MYPillow promo code: BARDS >> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939. EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS >>> TheFoundersBible.com Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here...DONATE: Click hereMailing Address:Xpedition Cafe, LLCAttn. Scott Kesterson591 E Central Ave, #740Sutherlin, OR 97479

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0:00.0	I'm I'm Oh
0:21.6	I'm
0:22.6	A
0:23.6	A
0:32.6	Oh Hey, good morning all.
0:52.9	Today is the 19th of April in the year 2026.
0:59.3	You know, when I grew up, Gen X is an interesting group, and I mean this.
1:05.9	I'm very proud to be Gen X.
1:08.6	As we were right in the cross-section of technology, we had the analog culture, which was
1:14.9	very much heightened and mastered, I guess I should say, coming out of World War II
1:21.4	and all the industries that went along with that.
1:25.2	And then you had this new introduction of a digital age, which, I remember when the first computers came into high school, a pet, P-E-T, and there was also the K-Pro, which was the first portable computer.
1:40.0	Really interesting time.
1:42.5	And also the first Apple.
1:46.4	And, you know, there's lots of, I remember working on a program at that time.
1:51.3	It was just almost impossible to do off of a, I was trying to build my own periodic table.
1:58.1	And I had this whole vision of what it could do, like click on a, on a periodic number
2:04.1	or letter set. And then it would give you the three-dimensional modeling of the molecules,
2:09.5	all the breakdowns and compounds, and then eventually allow you to assemble them into chemistry
2:14.4	codes to show you what the actual molecule was looking. Like I was working on that concept.
2:18.3	But at the time, that type of programming and accessibility was, with those young home computers,
2:28.3	was difficult, if not impossible, to certain degrees, especially when working on an Apple framework,
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