Oct 8-Drones, Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Kool & the Gang, CeCe Winans, Matt Damon, Bruno Mars, David Daly

0:19 Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today today. It is October the eighth, now today my co host. Yeah, he's pretty much just a study. He graduated from the Naval Academy in Napolis. Then he became a Marine Corps officer, served four combat tours over in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Then he brought all that experience back home, and now he's doing some really cool thing in the private sector. David, why don't you go ahead introduce yourself. Hey, it's great to be here. I always love talking about history, and you know, so you mentioned a little of my history with my time in the Marine Corps. After I left the Marine Corps, I did a bunch of stuff in corporate America and then kind of stumbled into drones when they were starting to become a little more than toys back and yeah, probably like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, and so with the encouragement of my wife at the time, I started a drone service company, which is Vigilanti Drones and Consulting, and then you know, we provide services like mapping and photography and do some search and rescue operations. With that company, and then a few years later I became a part owner of Altitude University, which is an online education platform that teaches people everything they need to know to become a commercial drone pilot and pass the FA's Part one of seven exam. And then more recently, with some of my business partners, we created a company called High Stakes University, which takes all of that that we learned in the other two companies and applies it to helping law enforcement and security personnel

1:49 maximize the use of drone technology in their operations. So along the way, I started also writing for the industry. So I've been very fortunate to have several hundred articles published within the drone space, and that's kind of where I am. So I'm all things drones these days now. Just in the last ten years or so that you've been doing, how much has the technology drones just increased? Oh, it's exploded. You know, it really went from when I first started playing around the drones in the you know, early like twenty ten timeframe. You know, they were little toys that dating myself, a little bit you could pick up at radio shack, you know. But now they're you know, they can do so many things across many different industries, and you know, the technology is just amazing. I mean everything from finding lost people to inspecting you know, pipelines and electric grids, to you know, doing all kinds of amazing things in cinematography. It's just a very versatile technology that is just continuing to become more and more. You know, the adaptation of it is just you know, extremely extremely beneficial to society and a lot of entities are starting to pick up on that. So, yeah, it is just exploded.

3:04 Well, they're just so I mean that's they're just so convenient. I mean it from search and rescue, even inspecting your gutters, I mean after a hailstorm or something, inspecting your riv and the farmers out there doing their fence lines, and I mean they're just like the wonder tool basically this the century. Yeah, and it's it's when you make the comparison. You know, like any tool, it's not the ideal solution for every single application, but there are so many things that drones can do that just the cost difference and the efficiency is just night and day. You know, when you look at something like aerial photography or cinematography, you know, it used to be that you had to pay, you know, five thousand dollars to have a helicopter go out there and fly. Now you pay some you know commercial drone pilot one hundred and fifty bucks an hour to fly their drone. They you know, can capture you know, pretty much the same type of footage that you need. And it's just you know, really really the economy scale, all the different aspects that it could be applied to. It's just amazing.

4:04 It's pretty neat. Just north of Denver, just three days ago, north of Denver, the suburb up there, they were getting their their drone system set up and everything like this, and they were demonstrating kind of it's probably teaching him and all that kind of stuff. Now while they were actually installing their grown system, they were able to stop, go ahead and get an armed robber and with their throwing and tracking the Wow. So it was like while they were setting it up, they actually already got rewards for it. Wow. That is really really cool. Yeah, it's it's it's amazing that the lives that have been saved by it and the money saved and you know everything that it's helped out with that. So yeah, I think it's going to continue to be you know, a really really important technology that becomes more and more useful to you know, societies across the world.

4:45 Do you ever just go fly for the fun of it? You know, very rarely, just because I fly so much for work, so it's it's kind of lost some of the fun aspect of it in that sense. But I do enjoy every time I get to go out there and fly. So the week Warriors, do you have like a starter drone that you think that you could recommend that maybe this will like basically teach you the fundamentals. Yeah. Dji is like the main company for you know, consumer drones. They have probably seventy percent of the market globally, and I would say they just came out with a mini five pro drone that's you know, probably I don't know exactly what it is, but it's it's probably under one thousand dollars and that's a great drone to you know, just kind of mess around with. You can get some of their older mini drones that are you know, four hundred bucks or around that range, and that's a great level to start at if you're looking at, you know, be able to have a decent drone with a decent amount of flight time, that's got a pretty good camera on it. I'd recommend starting there.

5:45 Well, that's cool, it sounds fun. Hey, do you know what we're going to celebrate today? I think so. I think it's a National day for fluffer nutters. That's right. Yeah, I don't think it's a year in California. I'm in Collin, Adda. I don't think it's something that we're big on. It is National fluffer notre Day. Yeah, I think you had to grow up at Geese to enjoy fluffernetter. Do you know what it is?

6:26 You know, I really don't. I haven't done much with fluffer nutters in my career. Well, it was created in Somerville, Massachusetts in nineteen seventeen. Basically, it's whipped marshmallows. So instead of putting jelly on your peanut butter and jelly, yeah, they put peanut butter and fluffer nutter. It's so too good. But I know, I guess we get a chance to try some fluff for nttter today. You know, it might become a fluffernetter for nettic. Who knows, maybe that's your thing. But we can also celerate Parrogi's if you. Like those, I love those. I'm half Polish, so I'm all about those me too. All right, let's going on in entertainment on October eighth, that's back in the nineteen seventy nine number one album was in Through the Outdoor by Led Zeppelin. Robert John had the number one song with Sad Eyes scenes DG. Shepherd.

7:30 He had the number one country song with Last Cheeters Waltz two two. Someone's el. The ball games all over ash No, She's lost. As the player, please the list, t she Wo. What kind of music you into? I like everything you know. I'm I'm a fan of pretty much all Lately, I've been listening to a lot of metal and rock, but I'm a fan of everything. How about you? I'm pretty much I'm not too happy about the Super Bowl halftime show. Thought, are you have bad Bunny? Or what is it bad Bunny?

8:16 I'm a little behind on some of the newer stuff, but yeah, I'm I'm a fan of almost everything. Yeah, I'm pretty mean too. I mean yeah, I've go eighties airband to country music. It's fine. The number one book was The number one book was A Dead Zone by Stephen King top movie was ten Dadley Mahr. He is having a midlife crisis and then he becomes totally infatuated with Bo Derek, but she's down on her honeymoon in Mexico. Okay, now we're going to talk about how you how you teach him with your university is on that. But what's the importance of actually having a drone license? Well, you know, there's there's a lot of rules when you're flying around in the airspace. So obviously there's a lot of crewd aircraft flying around at all times, you know, especially when you're in more populated areas with airports and stuff.

9:00 So you know, when you're taking that drone up there, it may seem like it's you know, a little tiny toy to some people or whatnot, but that becomes danger to other, you know, people flying around in the airspace. So the importance of getting a license is being able to understand all the rules and regulations and things that you have to consider when you're you know, putting that drone up in the sky. So in the same way that we require people to get a driver's license so they can understand the rules of the road and be safe for other you know, motorists in themselves. That's why you need a license, you know, so that when you start taking off from the ground, you're not going to hit somebody else in the air or do something that will you know, harm yourself. So the FAA has you know, designed that test to really show that you have a you know, basic understanding of how to operate safely within the national airspace.

9:50 And you can get in a lot of trouble too. You can get in a lot of trouble. Yeah, there are there are several people who have paid massive fines for violating the rule rules. And you know then there's also the danger of hitting other aircraft. So you know a number of years ago there was a drone that hit into a black Hawk helicopter. Thankfully nobody was injured in that particular accident, but yeah, it is it is very easy for a drone to you know, hit into an aircraft that's flying around. So for that reason, you know, you definitely need to know what you're doing. It's it's something to take serious, just like you would getting behind the wheel of a car. Okay, And they can always learn that going which where would you say to go? Should they go to high stakes or Altitude.

10:33 Yeah, Altitude is the best place to start for somebody who's looking at becoming a commercial drone pilot. So Alttude University has a online course that's self paced. You know, you buy the license for it, it's a lifetime license, and you just take your time going through our videos and you know there's quizites and flashcards and graded exams and everything that really show you if you're ready to take the tests. And we have had probably close to twenty thousand students go through the course at this point, and our success rate for passing the FA's exam on the first try is a little over ninety nine percent. So it's really only like, you know, a very very small portion of people that maybe get like the test, stay jitters or something that don't pass. But the material is solid, and you know, our students pretty quickly can go through it. You know, we've had some that spend a whole weekend finishing the course and then most people, if you do about an hour day, you can finish it in two to three weeks and be ready to take that exam.

11:34 That sounds like a good deal. And then plus I remember the first time I was given a drone for Christmas, you know, like one of those and you grab it and I think you just like a video game. I'm just going to take it out and fly it. Then I'm looking at what is it prawl or crawl and all this kind of stuff. I don't know. Maybe of these. Things are yeah. And you know what's interesting is is many other countries require you to actually fly a drone as part of a test. The FA doesn't, So you could technically pass the FA's exam to be a licensed a commercial drone pilot having never flown a drone. So it's a little weird that, you know, they don't do that. I think it would probably be a good idea if they did.

12:15 But thankfully there's lots of platforms, Like you know, for Altitude University, we have a really good YouTube channel that I think we're at probably close to thirty two thousand subscribers for the channel at this point, and we have a lot of content on it that'll show you how to learn to fly a drone, so that you're able to do that in addition to passing the test. Right, and that's well, you want to do it legally, but yan, I don't know how to do it too. You want to spend a thousand dollars on that drone and then grasp it. Yeah, and I have unfortunately known many people who purchased a very expensive drone having not flown one themselves, and destroyed it on the first day. So hopefully they had insurance, but if not, they learned an expensive lesson exactly.

12:58 Definitely know to take your course. Yes, yes, all right. Let's see what happened on October the eighth, It was today, in eighteen seventy one, it looked a really bad day for fires in the United States. In northeast Wisconsin, they had their deadly as fire in US history, called the Pestigo Fire. Now, a small fire was set to clear some land for some railroad construction in that area. They'd been dry all summer, they've been going through a drought. Well, a front came through and whipped that little fire up into a huge fire storm. Yeah, it actually Pastigo and twelve towns all around. It burned to the ground. The fire burned on eight hundred and seventy five square miles. Now that's bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Wow, I know that was pretty bad. Now, they know for sure that fifteen hundred to two hundred and five hundred people actually died, but they don't know exactly how many people though, because the sad thing is that all the records that said who was living in that area they all burned up in the fire, so they don't know exactly who was all there. And you think of, well, everybody's got to know about that story, Well, you probably haven't heard about pastigos because also that same day the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy one started. Now that burned three and a half where miles of Chicago to the ground, three hundred people died and three hundred thousand people were left homeless. Seventeen four and fifty buildings were burnt, so of course a lot more people, a lot more impacted.

14:10 So that's why Pestigo kind of got pushed off to the side. Now, in that Chicago fire, was the first story that came out and it kind of stuck for a long time, was that a lantern was kicked over in Miss O'Leary's barn. It was just made up by a reporter who wanted to get the scoop on everybody. It was fake nails. Nobody still knows exactly how or why that actually happened. Nineteen oh six in London, England, Carl Nessler he invented the first device that could put waves and curls in women's hair. Now they demonstrated. He went and got some women together and he put a dozen brass curlers in each of their hair. Eat. Those curlers weighed two pounds, and the women had to sit there for six hours. But it did work. Something we don't have to worry about. Six hours. That's a long time.

14:50 With a curl with twenty four pounds of curlers in your hair. Yeah, wow, dedication exactly, you know. Also today this is in in France. World War One was going on. Nineteen eighteen. US soldier Alvin York became a legend. York and his fellow soldiers were behind enemy lines when a German machine gun opened fire on them. Six of the soldiers were immediately killed. The rests grabbed the wounded in a dove for cover. As they were treating the wounded, York single handedly charged the machine gun, killing twenty five German soldiers. Now the Germans thought that he was out of ammo, so six of them started charging at him with their bayonets. York pulled out his service pistol and shot all six of them. The German officer in charge ran out of AMMO and he surrendered to York. So York then marched one hundred and thirty two German prisoners back to American Lions.

15:41 Then Private York was immediately promoted to Sergeant York he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. And the interesting thing is York originally tried to dodge the draft because he claimed he was a conscientious objector and didn't want to kill people. The Army obviously didn't buy it, and his actions would prove that he was able to do that. Yeah. Total badass. Yeah, Yeah, I mean that's that's a pretty legit. That's definitely a story that'll get you a drink at the bar. That's a lot of drinks at the bar. Yeah. Also, in nineteen forty five, this one's near and dear to my heart. I would not have survived my twenties had it not been for this invention. PIERC. Spencer was working for Raytheon when he discovered the microwave oven. Yeah, it was actually a wartime technology used in radars, and as he was doing experiments, he noticed that the candy bar in his pocket had melted from the waves. So he ended up on this day in nineteen forty five getting the microwave of and patented. It was six feet tall, weighed seven hundred and fifty pounds, and cost five thousand dollars, a bit more than the one that I first had.

16:46 That kept me alive with my ramen. LEO, say, that's a lot. That's a really expensive ramen cooker. Yeah. In nineteen sixty two, North Korea they announced they had a one hundred percent voter turnout and for their election. You know, I know, it's even more miraculous. All one hundred percent voted for the same guy. Amazing. Okay, so are you into boating in water sports? You know, I haven't done much voting myself. Used to surf back in the day, but that's that was when I was a much younger mammal. Sure. Well, in Australia nineteen seventy eight, Ken warby now he got his jet boat up to three hundred and seventeen point five eight miles an hour. Now he was on a river over there in Australia, they had been damned.

17:26 Now that record for fastest anybody's gone on water, it still stands today, almost fifty years later. Thirteen people have tried to break it, and seven died trying to break that record. So and now, to be honestly, no one's even gotten close. Now we've talked a little bit about altitude. That's more for that's Layman who wanted to be commercial fibers high stakes. Now that is pretty cool what you guys are doing up there. Yeah, my business partner, Daphne had actually come up with the idea and you know, between her myself and one of my partners at Altitude University, you know, we had kind of talked about how we can take the knowledge that we are already have and what's already going on in the space and apply it to you know, some of the expansion of drone technology into law enforcement and private security and so basically High State University was born out of that. And what we do is we make you know, there's a lot of agencies out there that they want to get drone technology. In many cases they have grants to you know, get this technology, but they don't have any in house expertise. And because of the way that you know, officers or security personnel have such a high turnover from moving from one position to another, it doesn't make sense to get one person fully trained on all things drones and then you know, they move off and you've lost your subject matter expertise. So what we provide is, you know, we go in there and we build out their program so that it's sustainable and meets the needs of whatever it is that they want to do with that technology. So that's everything from like writing manuals to training how to fly, to getting people certified.

18:56 You know, it kind of took what we had learned in the other companies and put it into a nice way that we can bundle services that are be spoke for each individual agency or you know, security operation. Now, do you guys kind of recommend what drones they should have or do you just work with what drones they actually buy? You know, it's a combination of both. In a lot of cases, if they're just starting, we are making those recommendations and can source those drones for them. But what we find with a lot particularly the law enforcement agencies, are you know, especially when things were picking up with when the wars were going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, there were a lot of grants and funds that were available, and even today with homeland security and stuff where they'll get a drone because they had the money to get a drone, but they didn't do any of the extra stuff to you know, learn how to fly it or know how they could use it. And that thinks. So a lot of times we'll come into an organization that already has their drone equipment and then we build the program around you know, what they have, unless it's you know, so outdated that they need to move to something else.

20:02 So drones kind of like the microwave oven that they've gotten smaller over the years too as technology has gotten better. Yeah, it's kind of a combination of things. You know, the size, they stay pretty much the same size for the different applications. You know, they're more portable, made of stronger, lighter materials and things like that. But where you really see the innovation is in the payload system. So you know, whether it's got a camera, or it's got some kind of lidar or some other you know thing like a gas detector or whatnot. Those are where you really see like the big innovation and then in things like battery technology, so that you know, instead of getting ten minutes of flight time on a battery, you now have thirty or forty or fifty or more. And so you know, it's size.

20:45 You know, you can find things that are smaller or bigger depending on your needs, but it's really the payload that you see the most innovation. And then now you're really starting to see a lot of inputs with AI and machine learning and automation so that you know, the drone can effectively operate without a pilot. Sure, and I'm sure that battery life is extended, but how far can yet just the regular drone actually travel away from like the home base on its own, you. Know, it really depends on the drone. But the interesting thing, particularly in this country, you know, is the technology is actually able to perform far beyond what the regulations allow. You know. So you know, you have in the US, you're limited to four hundred feet above ground level to fly your drone, whereas the drone itself could go thousands of feet you know, in the air. And same thing with distance. You know, a lot of times you can you know, easily find drones for the commercial use that can go you know, probably fifteen kilometers out and still operate fine. But the FAA says you can only operate a drone up to where you can visually see it without any you know, you can't use like binoculars or anything like that. So the unaided I needs to be able to see it, so that limits it to about a mile roughly, you know, before it's really really hard to see that, so they can go really far out there.

22:07 But until regulations update, you know, it's it's only about a mile that you're going to be able to legally fly. See, folks, that's why you want to definitely go do the online course because yeah, what. Do you there are waivers you can get, you know, to to fly further, but you know, you need to do a lot of paperwork and show how you're going to make it safe so that you know it's it's going to be able to operate without causing any issues at that distance. Interestingly, the fa has just put out, you know, a couple of months ago, a proposed set of rules to allow that to be easier, and it's in the process of getting like the public comment on you know, what people like and don't like about it. But probably in the near future it'll be a little easier at least for like organizations and companies, not so much the individual person, but organizations and companies to fly beyond visual line of sight.

22:57 So one of your students comes up there and says, you know, I really like drones. I want to do it. What kind of advice would you give them on what we're after they get their certification and everything where they can actually apply for jobs. At Yeah, well, there's there's really two paths that you can take. You can take the path of you want to be employed as a drone pilot by somebody. So in that case, you know, you want to look for jobs that are like with the electric company or with survey companies and things like that that you can find on you know, job sites like you know LinkedIn or Indeed or whatnot. And then if you want to operate on your own, whether that's as you know, kind of a side hustle or you want to you know, set up your own LLC or whatnot, in that case, it's really about starting in an area that you have a good match of you know, availability in your market and the equipment for it. So for most people who are just starting because they're not going to be able to invest in more high end drones. They'll look at starting in something like real estate photography. You know, fairly easy to get into. You know, you can pretty quickly talk to realtors in your area and see, you know, what they're charging or they're willing to pay for your services and get in there. But yeah, it's if you're looking for a nine to five where you get a four oh one k and then medical insurance and all that, you want to look at the job boards and if you're looking at starting your own empire, you want to, you know, really start analyzing the market and see where your skills and equipment match up.

24:19 The easiest, I'm sure for young people anyway, military probably the best way to start to hop when you think. You know, for young people, you actually can get your license once you're sixteen, so you know, before you can even join the military, you could technically be a commercial drone pilot, which you know, you'd be making much more money than I was making mowing lawns at sixteen, so you know you can start without that. The military is adopting a lot of small drones, so that you know there are you could go into you know, pretty much any of the services and get exposure to that. But I would say your your best bet is if you're sixteen and you get your license, just start partner up with some of the drone service providers in your area, you know, working for them as as a you know, ten ninety nine or or you know, even as an employee, and start building your experience there.

25:10 Yeah, that's a really good call right there. Basically pay for your college, that's for sure. Yeah, And it's it's good pay. You know, you can even starting out, Uh, you know, you can get fifty dollars an hour or so, and very quickly, when you build your clientele and and you know your expertise, it's very common to get one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars an hour as a commercial drone pilot. That's cool, all right. Let's see. It was born on October the eighth, jo joke. Joke, dope shot, dish ships Day. Please don't like this, Shimuday. We don't simple toage. He was like dish ships Day, and you know we don't give up. Eddie Rickenbacker. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in eighteen ninety.

25:54 Now he has a fighter pilot during World War One. Now it's twenty six aero combat victories during they're basically dog that's still the most of any US pilot. Now he was the most awarded US serviceman for valor in World War One. Now, before the war, Eddie was a race car driver. So then after the war he had a little cash in his pocket, he bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He kept it for about twenty years, but made the race he age and then he sold it. Now Eddie he remained in consultant for the United States Army Air Force. Basically they were pretty nice as they were combined at that time. He did the rest of his life. Yeah, he was a big Thames consultant. He had married nineteen twenty two and they had two sons. Eddie he died from pneumonia in nineteen ninety three at eighty two years old. So how much more technology do you think you are in drones than Eddie's and airplanes back in that time.

26:37 You know, it's probably pretty comparable. I'd imagine that with the technology that's in there now. You know, there's a lot of things that he probably wished he was able to have back then, but it sounds like he did pretty good with what he had. Yeah, and you know, the manly part of him because obviously the Red Baron had gotten shot down before the United States entered World War One. But you know those pilots back then, I could have got him. You know, I would have gotten. It, you know, Yeah, for sure. Matizma thing actor paug and he's eighty six. He was born in Paramatta, Australia in nineteen thirty nine. Now Paramatta it's a suburb of Sydney, so yeah, he never lived in the outback on the bush or anything. He was kind of a rich little boy, but he sure acted like it and made a lot of money off it.

27:19 Got famous starring as his crocodile Dundee in those movies. He is also in Almost An Angel and Flipper he is now. Between nineteen fifty eight and nineteen eighty nine, he married and divorced his wife twice. Now they had five children between those two marriages. Then he married actors Linda Koslowski. They were married for twenty four years and they had one son. So do you remember Saturday Night Live the beginning? Too young for the beginning. I was a little young for that. I was born in seventy nine actually, so I just missed it. Also moving away from Australia. Actor Chevy Chase is eighty two today. He was born in Manhattan, New York. In nineteen forty three. He was on Saturday Night Live, but only for a year and a half. Then he went into movies. He did spies like Us Three Amigos, the Flush Movies, the Vegas Vacation Movie, or the Vacation movies, my favorite being in the Vegas Vacation one. On Saturday Night Live. Chevy and Bill Murray actually got into a fistfight one time in Jim Belushi's dressing room. Yeah, Bill said something about Chevy's ex wife. Chevy said something about Bill being ugly and fistsworth rome. They did make up and starting Caddyshack together.

28:24 Chevy married his third wife in nineteen eighty two and they have three daughters, also born today. Writer R. L. Stein is eighty two. He was born in Columbus, Ohio. He's considered to be this Stephen King of children's books. Wrote over two hundred and thirty of the Goosebumps books and the Fear Street books. All total, he has written over four hundred and thirty books and sold over four hundred million copies. He married in nineteen sixty nine and they have one son. Pretty sure for bedtime stories, he probably preferred mom telling the stories than dad. Thanks you a big reader, I am. I love reading, YEA, not too much of fiction, but I really love reading about history and some mathematics, topics.

29:06 And some of those historical fiction. Her kind of really twist your mind too. Yeah. I actually read one once that was a kind of a sci fi twist to that with World War two time period and aliens attacking the Earth and all the world leaders that were fighting each other in World War Two. I had to get together to beat them. It was a pretty interesting novel. That was actually a pretty good transition into Aliens. Actress Sigourney Weaver. She was born in New York City in nineteen forty nine seventy six today now. She first hit in the movie Alien. Then she was nominated for Oscars for Aliens, then Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl. I think her best movie honestly was Galaxy Quest. You see that one? Oh? I love Galaxy Quest? Yeah, yeah, I see him many times.

29:49 Love it be her biggest money making movie. That was Avatar. She has done a lot of theater. I didn't know that Sigourney. She got married nineteen eighty four and they have a daughter. Are you going to. Don't want to dance by standing? Tell man, how are you gonna do it? If you really don't want to dance by standing? The wall? People saying come on the. Now. That was not him singing it. In fact, he has never sing lead. But the group is named for him. Robert cool Bell. He's seventy five. He's born in Youngstown, Ohio, in nineteen fifty. He is the last founding member of Cooling the Game. They're still alive, so him and the new Cooling Gang. They're on on tour right now. If you want to go see him out now. They are schedul They have date schedule all the way through twenty twenty six.

30:41 Now. Cooling the Game they formed in nineteen sixty four when Robert and six of his high school friends they got together. Now, they couldn't come up with the name. They were playing gigs around New Jersey, didn't have any kind of name, so finally they just went with his nickname. They said, all right, cool In the game and Robert he got the name cool. I gave it to himself when he was a little boy. Now some of their big hits that you probably no, we're celebration, get down on it too hot. Now they've sold over seventy million records. Cool he married nineteen seventy one, still together. He married his high school sweetheart. Yep, they ended. She died in twenty eighteen. Up some sorre, I opted to delete that. Up she would have read, father O good all right. Some of their hits are celebration, get down on it too hot.

31:21 They've sold over seventy million records now. Cool he married nineteen seventy one, was high school sweetheart. There together until she died in twenty eighteen. They had two sons, Urabo and you Can. That was CC Winans. She is sixty one today, born in Detroit in nineteen sixty four. She's the eighth of the ten Winans kids. The whole family is talented and successful in music. CC started singing in public when she was only eight years old. Now she is the best selling and most awarded gospel singer of all time. She has also had a lot of success singing duets with her brother beb. She has won seventeen Grammy Awards, which ranks her fourth in the list of artists who have won the most awards for singing. Just for reference, Beyonce's number one at thirty three, So fourth at seventeen. That's a pretty impressive cec Is on tour. She has shows scheduled until next September. She and her husband have one son and one daughter. Moving into the world of acting again.

32:34 Actor Matt Damon was born today in Cambridge, Massachusetts, nineteen seventies fifty five today. His first movie was a Mystic Pizza. He of course won a Oscar for writing Goodwill Hunting with Ben Affleck. Matt has been nominated for Oscars for acting in Goodwill Hunting, in Victus and The Martian. His biggest money making movie is Oppenheimer. In two thousand and three, Matt was actually filming a movie in Miami and went to a bar to have a drink. Obviously, he was recognized by fans and they were pursuing him for pictures and autographs and they were getting kind of touchy. So he actually went behind the bar and asked the bartender if he could hang out there and have some space while he finished his drink. She told him he couldn't just stand there and did he know how to poor drinks?

33:16 So Matt said he had played a bartender in a movie once and started pouring drinks. She put him to work and he made her a lot of money and tips that day. They ended up getting married. Two years later. He adopted her daughter and they have three more daughters. Since that's a pretty cool, cute meat story, isn't it. Yeah, for sure, especially in Holly. I'm just still together and happy all these years later. Is this guy? Yeah, definitely a rare occurrence. Well, compare Matt to this guy TV personality Nick Cannon. He was born in San Diego in nineteen eighties forty five. Today now he says he's a comedian and rapper, but I'm just gonna say he's a TV host. He houstin America's Got Talent, Lipsig Battle's been hosted Mass Singer since twenty nineteen on VH one, and he's been hosting Wild and Wild and Out since two thousand and five. Have you ever watched that?

34:05 I have not. I've never heard of it either, now, Nick Nick. He was married to Mariah Carey for eight years. He should have probably got combat paid for that, don't you think. But here's where it gets interesting. Okay, they had twins. They had a boy and a girl who were twins right now. They divorced in twenty sixteen. Since then, Nick has had ten more kids with five other women. Wow, all right, so he's got to really keep working. We get that child support up. He gave me a wissted in the trash hits Saustanding the trashy, So give me your love song love a cause wat shit so on on the standa side should Crenect look.

34:53 On the pay. So that, of course was Bruno Mars. He is forty today, having been born in Honolulu in nineteen eighty five. His band The Hooligans have been with him since the beginning in twenty ten. They are really popular for their live shows. Some of the number one songs they have is just the Way You Are, what we just heard, Grenade, Locked out of Heaven, and When I Was Your Man. His biggest hit was with Mark ronson Uptown Funk. Brunos sold over one hundred and fifty million records and he's been dating his girlfriend since twenty eleven. I think you put a ring on that by now, wouldn't you Yeah, you would think so, right, Okay, so we've kind of let you all know basically how you can go on for altitude and for high Staggs.

35:38 What do you want? What do you want everybody to know about drones and what they need to be doing. Yeah, I think it's just important to remember that drones are a great technology that has a lot of useful on this So when you see one up in the sky, it is probably doing something that is very helpful to society. And if you want to get into that yourself, check out out to university or contact me on you know, link in, or you know with Vigilanti Drones and consulting and High Stakes University. Look any of those up and you'll find me and my partners and we'll be able to help you make the most out of your drone endeavors. And on the show notes today, we'll have all links to make an nice and easy for you. So yeah, I definitely check out all that kind of stuff. So do you think it's going to come to the point where all are like pizzas and Amazon and stuff are going to be delivered by drones.

36:23 I think it'll come to the point where a lot of it is, but there's always going to be, you know, a need for multiple things. You know. It's like I said, drones are you know, it's like a hammer or screwdriver. There's there's good applications for it, and then there's applications that you know aren't the best for it. So I think that as the technology improves and regulations you know, evolve, we'll see them you know, much more prevalent in our daily lives. But you know, there will still be the need to deliver things the way that they're being delivered now. And and you know, a lot of the things that drones do there will still be like the manual way of doing it as well. It's just you know, when the opportunity is there to have a tool that'll be more efficient and you know, easier to use and whatnot, drones will fill that void. Otherwise something else will, you.

37:11 Know, when it comes to drones. I've been to a couple of drone shows. Now visually they are just incredible. You just watch them and all that kind of stuff, and but I still like the boom of fireworks. Yeah, I actually prefer the drone shows, you know, big surprise, but it's mainly for the environmental side. You know, fireworks are you know, very destructive for the environment in comparison to drone shows. And also, you know, I have dogs and they hate the fireworks, so drone shows are the way to go in my book. Well, man, they do some incredible things with them, that's for sure. Yeah, yeah, all right. Is there anything else you want to talk about today?

37:52 No? I think that's it. You know, just always glad to learn about historical facts. And I really appreciate you and your listeners giving me an opportunity to tell you about what I do in the drone industry and how it can really help society. Yeah. I definitely make sure you get with David and his guys out there. Man, that's a really awesome service for you guys to look up. Now you want to we end with a quote of the day. You got a pretty good quote today. Do you want to read it? Yeah? Today's quote comes from Ernest Hemingway. There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self. That is definitely true. Well, thank you very much for being here today, man, it's been fun. Really talking to you and learning a lot you. Too, Jeff, I really appreciate the opportunity. All right, thank you all for listening. Your appreciate you forget to follow us on you listen to us on.

38:35 Definitely check out today's show notes and descriptions so you can get all the links over to all David's sites and everything. Now we're going to end today with our country underground radio artists. The day it comes from Chelsea out there in Sacramento, California. She wants to hear California's Buck four and his son Cowgirl. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. She's racing Lowen Graham, breaking new harns. Some on Roudio Town. When they turn on the lights, she'll be wearing the crowns.

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