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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and this is short stuff as I said already and this is short stuff so let's go.

So when I was a kid, I don't know if your dad ever did this, something tells me your dad may have had a brief foray into metal detecting.

It seemed to be maybe a little bit of a, I don't know about FAD or craze if it was that widespread but I know quite a few of us in our age group who's mothers and fathers for some reason more fathers than mothers and they were generally more mothers going seriously like you're going to spend three hours on the beach doing that.

Roaming around the beaches and forests of America with a metal detector hoping to in my dad's case, I think he was probably hoping to strike it rich with some rare find.

Yeah, I think all of them were secretly.

Some of them might have tried to play like, you know, they were really just in for the science or whatever but they were hoping to find some roaming hoard for some reason in Indiana.

And I thought it was cool at the time because I would do anything to try and get my dad to pay attention to me.

So I would tag along and I would metal detect right alongside of them and I thought it was pretty cool and I found myself when I heard about magnet fishing just recently I learned that this is a thing.

Yeah saying, oh wow, that looks like something I might want to try and then I went, oh my god, I've become my father.

Yeah, yeah, where you like maybe I'll strike it rich, no, but I just think it's kind of cool and fun.

Well, I think you can get into it and it will be easy to get into because the barriers for getting into magnet fishing are purposefully kept low so that everybody can get into it because it's supposed to be really fun past time.

And we should tell everybody what magnet fishing is. I mean, if there's ever been a term that we needed to define, it's magnet fishing.

Are you fishing for magnets? Yes.

Are you using magnets to try and get a fish out of a lake?

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