Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to the drone Deer Recovery podcast. I'mike.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: And I'm Kevin. On this week's bloopers, Mike actually loses his dog. Tries to find it with a thermal drone.
[00:00:07] Speaker A: Like real life.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Actually loses his french bulldog. Freaking out.
[00:00:11] Speaker A: Yep. We talk about agricultural drones again because we're passionate about ag drones.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Talk about pet recovery, and we talk about a video about the t 40 you're gonna see in our channel probably tomorrow that you've never seen before on YouTube. Stick around, you.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Are you serious? Like, that seems crazy because it feels like last week we just got started, and we're 16 episodes in. We've missed a couple of episodes as we were getting gone, but we're doing pretty good. 16 episodes. And it's really amazing to hear how many people actually say they listen to podcasts. We just got back from the Harrisburg sportsman show. Good show.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Crazy show.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: Insane.
I think they say between 175,000 to 200,000 people go through that show. I experience it.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: And even during midweek, people walking all the time past the booth.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I thought midweek would be slow week, but it almost felt like midweek was almost as busy as the weekends, because I think what happens is so many people are like, it's going to be busy on the weekend. Let's go midweek and Wednesday. Thursday comes around. There's people everywhere. I'm like, what is.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: Mike, you were there from the first day, the whole show to the end.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I was there for eight days. I was not there for nine days. It's a nine day show. So on Sunday, I went back home. My sister was getting baptized, and they wanted me to be there, so I was, you know, Austin and Jason were the only ones there, thanks to Austin and Jason to packing up the booth. I mean, holy smokes. Took you 4 hours, didn't it, Austin, to take that thing down?
[00:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just a process, two people tearing that thing down.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: You had a t 40 on top of the booth at that booth.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: It looks huge. Like, when we set it up here in our shop, in the context of all of the booths, like, the hundreds of vendors, it just all melds together, and it doesn't look that big. It makes me think, Mike, we got to go bigger.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: Oh, jeez. That's like when we were at shot show.
You see these booths just massively huge. And it becomes that thing. It's like, for you to stick out, you got to go bigger, bigger, bigger. I don't think we have to do that. Our thing is so unique that it makes people interested and for sure with the agricultural side, you see these big twelve foot drones. People stop and look and they're like, oh my gosh, that technology is so cool. Anyhow, we're talking a lot about the expos. If you guys are listening to this right now, we are in Shipshawana, Indiana, at the Michigan Event center. If this goes live when it's supposed to, which should be on Friday noon, we would still be there at the show. And it goes from Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So if you guys are listening and you're in the Indiana area, Michigan area, come down. See us Saturday. I got to do a seminar.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: This is exciting to me. This is the first one that you're going to do kind of like a seminar at an expo event like this.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I should probably know what I'm going to be talking about. I don't really know what I mean.
[00:03:19] Speaker B: It's a little bit like, I mean, that's not surprising to me, Mike, because when we sit down to film this podcast, I said, hey, Mike, what are the topics? And you said, just hit record.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Here's the deal. People want real.
They just want real authentic. And I think that's why so many people tune in. To listen or to watch us is like we're being as real as we can. I had this interview on the outdoor life. Did you read that one?
[00:03:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:44] Speaker A: Oh my gosh, what a good write up. Make sure to go to outdoor life and check out that blog. But he was asking me some of my stuff, like what I'm showing know, should you show all this? And we've talked about it on other podcasts, like working class Bow Hunter podcasts and stuff. But it's like, yes, I feel like we should because you and I have talked about being real and this know who we are. And that's why the people are tuning in is because they're listening to Mike and Kevin at drone deer recovery. Just be real. Like, this is who we.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: So Mike, what do you say? Because you kind of mentioned, I had an email I saw yesterday of a guy said, you guys are showing way too much.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Oh, you had an email.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: The PETA guys, they're going to use this to kind of shut down hunting, especially Bo, because there's way more wounded animals than what people previously thought.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: They're not going to shut us down because of this. What if this makes wounding animals better, right? Meaning not like go wound an animal, but that there won't be as many wounded animals? If we can use the data that we have now on shot placements and to think about if I try to shoot through this little hole, I might get this arrow whip and throw my air off because we're showing is this is what's maybe, maybe it'll make us all better hunters. That's what I'm saying. So just to say that PETA is going to grab this content and use it to shut us down, I just don't see that happening.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: I think it was shut down hunting in general, not just.
[00:05:10] Speaker A: No, no, that's what I'm saying. I agree when I say us, shut us down. I'm a hunter, so like, they're going to shut us down. Me as a hunter, I just don't think that that's going to be a thing.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Yeah. It does seem, though, that when you see these videos of these bucks that are wounded and if I did a lot of hunting, it would just reinforce, you just got to take shots that you're super confident in.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: Yeah. But then I even tell people, there's this one guy that came up to me at the show and if you're listening to it, I don't want to put you down, but he's like, if you can't track your animal, you shouldn't have it. I'm like, what are you talking about? If you can't track your animal, you shouldn't have it. He's like, if you're a good tracker, you will find that animal 100%. I was like, wait 1 second here. What if that thing walks over to a river and then gets in the river and swims down the river and then say, like 300 yards down the river, it comes back out? He's like, you go to the river, he went left or right? I'm like, this makes no sense. So to say that you got to be just a really good tracker, you're going to find all your animals. Not true.
[00:06:14] Speaker B: Not true.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: Technology helps us in ways that we never thought that it would.
We often bring up the cell phone.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: So was he saying you should use a dog or not use a dog? No, you're a good tracker. You don't even use a dog.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: No, you don't use a dog. If you're a good tracker, you're going to find your deer no matter what. Just had the winner of the drone deer recovery kit giveaway if you guys were following along. We basically gave a whole drone deer recovery kit away to a lucky winner. And this lucky winner is from North Carolina. He's on the way up here. I text him this morning. I was like, good morning. Checking in to see if you're on schedule to arrive at noon. He states, Mike, I would miss my third wedding before I cancel on you. I'm like, okay, guy seems like he's on the way. Yeah, he's excited. So I think this winner, I don't know for sure, but I feel like this winner is exactly what we were hoping for, is somebody that maybe couldn't afford a drone or just really wanted a drone and is going to use it to do deer recovery.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: Somebody who's passionate about doing.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Yeah, and I think he is doing deer recovery with another guy's drone. So we might do a podcast with him later. I don't know. It just depends.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be awesome. No, it was totally random. I mean, we were like, picking a name, no idea who it was, but we were hoping that it's the kind of person that would actually use this passionate about it. And man, the best thing ever would be if it actually was the start.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: Of a brand new business.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: Brand new business and even a brand new career. Because I keep telling people when you do a thermal drone and you go out there and you make money and you see how it works and you kind of fall in love with flying drones and getting paid, it opens up the doors to so many other industries, so many other things.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: And what we're doing, we started out in thermal, now we're doing ag.
[00:08:06] Speaker A: Agricultural.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: Agricultural.
[00:08:09] Speaker A: We just can't tell them about the other thing yet, about mapping.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: There's other doors that open up, right? Thermal is an entry and it opens up the world. And for some guys who want to transition into a full time drone career, it's like they'll end up making way more money. Know, full year, like all year round.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: With agriculture.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: With agriculture.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Because what I've been telling guys at the show is they look at a thermal drone and they're know, I'd like to do this full time. Full time work for a thermal drone is very difficult. I mean, there's guys right now. Had a guy call me yesterday, he's like, Mike, I'm busy. I'm slammed with pet recovery stuff lately. But he had some questions about doing herd analysis. So you can do thermal drone related stuff for a while, but it's not going to be full time, 100% at the time, unless you get really into the. Because we talk about like doing thermal roof inspections and thermal power line solar. Yeah, you can do that. Had a couple of guys at the show talk about power line inspections.
Had no idea.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: It seems like I heard one guy at the show say, states are more and more upping the requirements. And so all these companies inspections, and they have to get the same power line inspected. Was it every six months, I think in California.
[00:09:25] Speaker A: Yeah, California is one of the biggest states right now, pushing for power line inspections because of the forest fires and stuff. The one guy walked up to us and he's like, yeah, the power company in California. Probably not everybody, right? There's multiple different companies that produce power in California. But he was like, when they get winds up to 30 miles an hour, they shut their power off because they don't want to risk it falling down.
[00:09:52] Speaker B: Those are a huge deal out there. Fires, like thousands. Like, I have cousins out there who have had to leave their houses because it's like, you see the smoke and it's coming and it's like they evacuate everyone. It's a big deal.
[00:10:03] Speaker A: Happens every year.
So what they're inspecting is the insulators that hang off the power pole, that insulator, they inspect that with thermal, and they also use a Zoom camera to check for cracks. He said, basically, if it cracks, it starts arcing and the insulator would become hot, and then that would show them that there's a weak point. So had no clue. He said, this one guy, he was like, yeah, we used to get in a helicopter and lean out the helicopter with a thermal and trying to inspect these things. So I do believe there's more industries that drones will be used for than we're thinking about already.
Let us know if you've already seen them on the power line.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: And Mike, just thinking of the savings for the electric company to hire a guy with the drone instead of a guy with a helicopter and another guy with a thermal scope out the side of mean. It would seem to me you can make some good money flying a drone, and the electric company is still going to save 1000%.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: I had another guy walk past. He was in the oil and gas, and he's like, would this work to do gas line inspections for leaks? And I assume it's flir technology, that it would pick it up and had that guy from Minnesota tell me that that's what he does. He's flying the M 300 series. So the next step up and using thermal to inspect gas lines for leaks. So we're just saying these things so they're on the record. So in 510 years, we're going to be like, you remember when Kevin and Mike were talking about this thing and then everybody's doing it.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Let's talk about more. Like, what were other interesting conversations you had at the show, like maybe some.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: Unexpected conversations, had a PA game commissioner walk up. He took his name tag and flipped it around so I didn't know who he was and started talking to him. And I could tell that he likes the technology. And so I was just like, bluntly, are you a commissioner? He was like, I am. And so I was, like, basically telling him about the technology. What can drone deer recovery do to make their decision easier and faster? Right. Everybody wants things fast, but I can tell you right now, folks, do not hold your breath. You probably will turn blue and be dead because they do things so slowly in Pennsylvania that it's just shocking.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: That's something we heard again and again and again from different people who are kind of frustrated with the speed.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Yeah. And so that's basically what he told me. He was like, Mike, we are talking about it. So the commissioners are already talking about the technology, but there's no way for us to initiate them to do a vote or anything like that. It's just, I guess it's in their hands. And so I was like, well, surely there's something we could do here. And he's like, the only thing he really knows is have people email the game commission general box. We should try to find the email for that. But he said, just send your concerns or your questions or your comments to the game commission general box. If we could do that and get, like, 15,000 emails, how cool would that be? People telling them that we want to use this? I don't know. That's what he said.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: So how was the commissioner saying that a vote or a decision is initiated then?
[00:13:23] Speaker A: He never said.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: He just said they don't have the power to initiate a decision. Like, to bring it to a decision. They don't have the power to do that?
[00:13:30] Speaker A: No, I think they do.
I just think they don't. That's what's so confusing about it.
The only other way is legislatively when a bill is put in, and then it forces them to do something about it. But that could go years. And so I don't know. I don't know how this whole thing works. I just know that he said it's going to be slow. They're talking about it. Some commissioners are for it, others are against it. And so you just have this thing about, hey, we see the technology, but we're not really making a quick decision.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Okay, well, that's interesting. Yeah, interesting. What else? What are other interesting conversations?
[00:14:10] Speaker A: Well, you better keep talking. I'm going to drink some bubbler.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: I think of the guy who had a 600 acre farm.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Orchard.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Orchard in Florida, right?
[00:14:20] Speaker A: No, this guy's in Pennsylvania. He has a 600 acre apple orchard, and he was really talking to us about using drones to spray his apple orchard. Currently, he uses nine tractors, all over $100,000. And I think if he gets a system set up properly, that one trailer rig from drone, deer recovery or new way ag could replace eight of those tractors. So that was really cool.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: And he has to spray those multiple times a year.
[00:14:52] Speaker A: Right.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: It's like a lot of spraying happens.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: Yes. I'm not an orchard grower myself or a fruit grower, but, yeah, it sounds like he has to spray even.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: Just think of, like, replacing. I mean, if he has eight tractors, that means that there's eight people driving those tractors, right?
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: Because it wouldn't make sense if. Yeah, I mean, that's the only way it makes sense. Eight of them. So to think of doing that with only two pilots, with two drones, that's kind of. I mean, just in the savings of payroll alone is kind of mind boggling.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Plus just your expense of keeping the tractors.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: So the other guy was in Florida, had 600 acres of swamp something invasive species were coming in, and he was saying spraying those with a side by side or four wheeler or even an airboat is the best way, but it takes forever. He said it would have been, like, a week to spray 600 acres.
[00:15:40] Speaker A: Yeah. So we're talking about agriculture a lot on this podcast is because we're passionate about it, and I think that's where people are going to get into and make life changing money. Jason is our business partner. He's been researching drone spraying. Asian countries have been so far ahead of us in the drone spraying world that it's not even funny. He said in China last year, how many acres do you think were sprayed with drones?
[00:16:04] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: If you were just to guess, like, just throw a number out there.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Can you tell me how many acres there are total in China?
[00:16:11] Speaker A: No, but if you were to guess, we did 11,000 acres in 24 days. In Indiana, they have been.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: I mean, there's 500,000.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: 500,000 acres. 180,000,000. Some acres were sprayed with drones in China.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It can be done.
People think, no, drones can't do these big fields. No, drones can do big fields. You just put more drones in a big field. It totally can do it.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: 100.
[00:16:42] Speaker A: And think about how much safe.
[00:16:44] Speaker B: 80 million.
[00:16:45] Speaker A: 180,000,000 acres.
Somebody fact check me, because this is what Jay was telling me yesterday.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: I'm like, what, man?
[00:16:54] Speaker A: No, but it can be done because they have so many. He even had the data of how many drones have been sold in China, and it's like hundreds of thousands. Here in America, we're struggling to sell 10,000 ag drones, and the reason for that is regulation.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: So I wonder if those 180,000,000 acres, were they sprayed with the t 40? Or do you think by and large they're being sprayed with like the t 50, t 60, the bigger?
[00:17:23] Speaker A: I think it was probably multiple different types of drones, different sizes of drones. I don't know for sure.
I just know that there's a market for it. Our FAA is slowing it down, and it doesn't make sense to me because it is like, it totally is safer than having helicopters or airplanes fly these fields. There's almost every year, I forget what the percentage is, but how many guys crash in that industry because there's things that are unknown. You're flying super close to trees, power lines, roads, houses, that type of thing. And putting drones out there in these fields just makes perfect sense. Yeah. So if you're worried about thousands of acres, how can one drone spray that? It's not how many one can do, it's how many can multiple drones do. What is that saying when it says many hands make light work or something like that? Many drones make light work. Like, just put more drones out there. That's what I'm saying. Instead of having one airplane, do 2000 acres have, maybe, I don't know, five, six drones do 2000 acres. That's what I'm thinking.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: I like it.
[00:18:39] Speaker A: Okay, let's move on from. Because some people that are listening to this.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: What's this?
[00:18:44] Speaker A: They want to listen to drone deer recovery type stuff. Our season is over here in Ohio. It closed two weekends ago. The last recovery that I personally went on was in a snowstorm for Kaden McGuire. If you guys know him, if you check him out on TikTok, but he had hit a buck and couldn't find it because of the blowing snow. And his track basically just. He wasn't able to find it because of the snow, went out there and was able to successfully locate the buck. The buck was not dead. So if you want to see that video, check that out on our YouTube channel. That's the last one that I did. I don't know if any of our other guys here in our office did any recoveries. Are you aware of.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: Austin, when was your last recovery? Do you know?
[00:19:30] Speaker B: Good question.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: Outside of dogs and pets? Yeah. I feel like it was two weeks before the season, so a little while.
[00:19:39] Speaker B: Yeah, a little while.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Oh, that being said, drone pet recovery. I was literally doing drone pet recovery on my own dogs on Sunday. Yeah, we have these two french bulldogs walked out back in the woods. We don't do this a lot, but when we talked to the dogs, we're like, do you want to go on a walk? And it gets them all fired up. Didn't put leashes on them. I was like, usually they don't do anything. They just walk in front of us a little bit. We walk out back on the backside of the farm here in the timber, because they're going to do a reclaiming project back there, and we wanted to check it out, and me and Karen are talking there, and I'm like, where the dogs at? And all of a. Like, we started scrambling. I ran around in the timber, and I was, like, yelling for him. Can't find these dogs anywhere. Nowhere. I tell Karen, I got to go get the drone here. I left some of my batteries at the show because Jason was packing up with my charger and stuff, so I just left it there. I had one pack of batteries. My controller was almost dead. When I got back to my house, and I pull this thing out, I start flying, because they were only gone for, like, 45 minutes. And I was like, if I don't find them in the first hour, this is where pet recovery gets so hard. There's so many variables, and it just shows. So I get the drone out, and I fly it out back, and I start telling Karen, I'm covering 40 acres. Just like that snap of a finger, 40 acres. Can't find them. I tell Karen they're gone. Listen to me. I know that these dogs are gone because I cannot find them. I'm finding swirls and the normal stuff.
I get in the car, I start driving around, go on the other side of the timber, which is a road probably from where we were, almost three quarter mile to the next road. Get over there, knock on the door of a neighbor, and I'm like, hey, we were on a walk. Dogs ran off. She's like, there was just a lady here, said she picked up a pug because a french bulldog kind of looks like a pug.
What? I'm like, what? This just happened 30 minutes ago. They ran away, and somebody had already picked them up, had picked up one of them.
[00:21:52] Speaker B: So how far away do you think they were picked up from where they had. Like, how far did they go in that 30 minutes or whatever and these.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: Are just little, short, stubby legs, but.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: They traveled like, what, half a mile?
[00:22:04] Speaker A: I'll measure that up. But it was like, I can't believe how quickly these little dogs got that far. And so why I'm saying this is because when somebody calls us to do a pet recovery, and we want to do pet recoveries, we want to help you try and find your pets. But it's like they can go so far so quickly that it's crazy. So I'm going to measure this how far they would have gone. And this is just going to be approximate of how far they would have gone. Oh, so it's not that far. Actually, 677 yards is how far they would have made it to the road if they would have went in a straight, straight line. Maybe they went left or right or whatever.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Well, how lucky are you that somebody.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: Like that picked up the dog anyhow? Okay. Yes. So somebody picked up the dog, and that lady was like, I sent him up to the neighbor, go up there. I quickly go up to that neighbor, and he was milking his cows. And I was like, hey, was somebody here with a little blue car? That's all I got was a little blue car. And he's like, yeah, they had a little pug. And I was like, no, that's a french bulldog. He's like, yeah, I didn't get their phone number, but I got their license plate. And I was like, okay, call the homes county sheriff's department. I was like, hey, can you run this plate? I want to see if I can.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:23:20] Speaker A: Plate numbers wrong.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I was like, good detective work. That guy was on it, your neighbor?
[00:23:27] Speaker A: Yeah. But what was so cool about this is the people that picked up the french bull dog. They were looking for the owners of it. They weren't just capturing it and keeping it their own, because they could have very well done that. It's like a $3,000 dog, and they could have kept it. But no, thank the Lord that they were good people. They just kept going from one neighbor to the next. Finally, a neighbor that raises dogs was like, yeah, I'll take them in because it probably is somebody local. He took them in, and in the meantime, somebody must have said something. And our community is awesome in certain ways, and then other ways. It's know, a lot of talk gets around real fast. And this guy calls me and he's like, hey, Mike, how's your evening going? I was like, not that great. I lost a dog. And he's like, well, I think I can help you with that. And I'm like, okay, random guy.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: You know this guy?
[00:24:20] Speaker A: Well, I do know the guy. After know told me who he is. Picked up my dog or took it into the house. Long story short, I got our french bulldog back. The other one came back on its own.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: Never found him. He just came back?
[00:24:36] Speaker A: Yes, he just came back. But she could have been for him.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: She could have been in water or who knows where. But, man, that was stressful. So I can't imagine what some of these people feel like when they lose their pet. And Austin is out there with drone pet recovery, like, experiencing this firsthand. Because if you wanted to talk to, like, people are like, we should have filmed it. They wouldn't have made a video.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: You're not filming.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: I'm not. I'm, like, focused on getting.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:25:08] Speaker A: So I just can't believe it happened to me. I literally, truly had to use my thermal drone to try to find my dogs. Unfortunately, there's no way to find pixel because she was in somebody's car. That's why it's so hard to do drone pet recovery. Because if you have a dog that is a pet, oftentimes they go to homes. If they go to a home and they go underneath a porch, there's no way your thermal drone is going to find that. But there are still scenarios where you can.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Mike. I lost a dog because somebody picked him up in a car when I was 14. The last dog I ever owned, I was 14, and my dog was being babysat for me while I was, like, in Kansas, because I lived in Central America. The guy left the door open, bless his heart.
No ill intent, but not that good. My dog goes out on the street, and a car picks him up, drives off. Never found him again. Never owned a dog since.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: And when I got back from my trip in the States, I was 14 years old. Two weeks later, I have this vivid memory of telling my dad, we have got to go looking for this dog. We drove around for 30 minutes an hour two weeks later, after somebody picked him up in a car, and there was no chance of finding him. But I just remember, as a 14 year old, I was not going to not go look for my dog. So it makes me think, like, when we get these calls, like, the cat in New York City who got out and is somewhere in a one block, probably in a tree, and the owner is like, it'll cost $900 to get the closest pilot here. I don't care. Send them.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I know what that is. For some people that are listening to this. That. They don't love pets. Right.
They just don't love pets. They don't like cats. They don't like dogs. They don't like anything. They just like human beings, but not like furry friends. It's like, you don't understand, but if you like furry friends, it's crazy what you do for them. It's almost weird, if you ask me.
I would have probably done about anything to find them.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: You would have paid $500.
[00:27:17] Speaker A: But then I told Karen, I was like, after I knew pixel was picked up, I was like, I feel better about that than I would if I know she's still out there. Because french bulldogs can't regulate their body temperature, so if they get too cold, they're freezing, and they're dying. If they get too hot.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: So you literally had to find them that night.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: 100%. Yeah.
[00:27:37] Speaker B: They had a four hour, six hour. What do you think?
[00:27:41] Speaker A: It wasn't super cold that night, but they would have died.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Yeah. So, french bulldog.
French bulldog. Like, just get some other dog, because they are high maintenance.
If it's too hot, if they're out too long, it's too hot. They will overheat, and they will die.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: And just for the record, when we're working in here, sometimes it's like, suddenly, Mike gets up from his desk and walks over and opens the door. I don't even hear it, but I guess you hear the dog snorting outside or kind of like. And those dogs, they come in and they go out as they please, like they own the place.
[00:28:19] Speaker A: I don't think of that. But now that you say that, I apologize. I don't know.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: When you guys find a deer, you're high fiving and hugging. When I find an animal, they're sobbing.
[00:28:30] Speaker A: And I'm like, if you guys don't know Austin, check out drone pet recovery. Austin has a true passion of finding people's lost pets. I'm telling you, like, I have a passion in this drone deer recovery, and I'll do what I can to try to find somebody's buck. Austin is like that with pets. I remember first time Austin came up to me, I was out spraying. Yep. I was spraying next to this county road, and this car pulls up, and there's this guy in this outfit, like, white shorts and white t shirt. He was a painter. That's what he did. He was painting, and he's like, hey, micah, I'm awesome, and I'm flying drones. I'm like, guy, like, 1 second here. I'm like, flying drones. He gets all fired up, and he's like, well, I want to do drone pet recovery. And I really be passionate. I'm like, okay, guy, I didn't quite take him seriously well, and you were.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: Busy in the middle of something, right? You were spraying.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And so, no, what I'm saying is the guy had passion from the get go before he ever even started it. So if you guys want to check out those videos, make sure to go over there, check them out, share the videos, give them some love, because the guy puts in work 100%.
[00:29:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Wow.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Sales pitch. Hey, give me.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: Appreciate it.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: I'll take some. That ad revenue, the whole $5 that you make people think we're just getting rich off of YouTube. No, that's not true. I mean, YouTube is awesome for us because YouTube is a massive search engine. They keep pushing this content out to people. And really, where we are making our money is not so much on ad revenue right now. We will become rich on YouTube. Wink eye at some point. But it's just eyeballs, right? Like seeing the technology, the new technology, and then investing and buying into it. But just saying that we're getting rich on YouTube with ad revenue. Not the case as of now.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: Yeah, but I feel like we are. Like, the channel is 16 months old. 17 months old, something like that, probably.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:37] Speaker B: It's like the fact that we already are able to generate.
[00:30:41] Speaker A: Monetize.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: Monetize. Generate some income to at least subsidize the cost of editing and all that stuff. I mean, that's amazing.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: Definitely. I feel blessed. I appreciate all you guys that do watch. I seriously, seriously mean that. When guys come up at the show and they're know, tell me, hey, I watch you on YouTube. Thanks so much for what you're doing. And I talk to them and listen, like, you see me now when I tell you thank, like, I am being serious. You could do anything else that you wanted, but you're watching us. That really means a lot. So if you're watching this or if you're listening to that or listening to this, I really do appreciate it. Means a lot. And if you want to share it, share it, because that helps get the word out there.
[00:31:24] Speaker B: Another interesting conversation I had with a guy who works in.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Wait. We just kind of cold turkey stopped that drone pet recovery thing. Should we just stop it? Let's tell them. If you do want to hear more drone pet recovery stuff, let us know in the comments, and then we'll keep talking. Because I could go all day long because I've had pets since I've been four. Anyhow, sorry to interrupt you pony.
[00:31:47] Speaker B: Back when you were a kid, you had a pony. Was that your pony?
[00:31:49] Speaker A: Always had ponies? I mean, how else were you supposed to get around Kevin?
[00:31:52] Speaker B: Good point. Yeah, good point.
[00:31:53] Speaker A: I grew up amish, now they have e bikes.
Okay, go.
Wow, I apologize. I interrupted you so many times.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: I don't think there's any other podcast in the world like this one where we go from amish ponies to talking.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: High tech thermal drones.
[00:32:14] Speaker B: There's nothing like it. So that's okay. That's good. I talked to an FAA enforcement officer at the show. He works for the FAA and he's one of the people that hire contractors or contracting companies to enforce FAA guidelines and rules. And he was telling me, he said the part 108 is coming in.
[00:32:39] Speaker A: 108?
[00:32:39] Speaker B: Part 108? Yes. He said there's a three year kind of. Whenever you have new regulation like that, that comes up, there's 36 months where there's open discussion about it and it cannot be approved before 36 months. So that already started. And the part 108 is what's going to unlock bigger drones than what the t 40 is capped right now, he said. So in the next two to three years there will be bigger regulations because those are already proposed. They just have to get sign off from all the different parties involved and stuff. So the 108 is already been the way I understood it. I forget what he said, the period that it's in, but the way I understood it's already been presented and now it's just being refined and reviewed. Yeah.
[00:33:23] Speaker A: I'd be curious to know exactly what you're talking about. Part 107, if you're a part 107 pilot, it allows you to fly drones up to 55 pounds, but not over 55 pounds. If you guys watch us fly these big agricultural drones, you have to fly under a 44 eight seven exemption where you get an exemption from the FAA to fly those heavier drones. So if I understand this correctly, the part 108 would maybe allow you to fly drones over 55 pounds without the exemption.
[00:33:56] Speaker B: I'm not sure about the exemption. It just is going to unlock bigger drones than what the part 137 exemption or the.
[00:34:04] Speaker A: Exemption.
[00:34:05] Speaker B: So it's going to allow bigger drones than what that's capped at now, he said. Also, the visual line of sight, all of that is being redefined and opened up, and I don't know what it'll end up being, but all of that stuff is being looked at because the 107 is what holds back the visual line of sight is the way I understood it.
[00:34:25] Speaker A: From what he said, a lot of it. Yeah.
[00:34:27] Speaker B: So the 108 is basically the FAA.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: Kind of revolutionizing or just keeping to.
[00:34:33] Speaker B: Expand the regulation to keep up with technology.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: Well, that is exciting.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: And he also said around, because you're talking about the Super bowl, which is going to happen that Saturday, and how they prevent drones and stuff like that. He said DJI has specific scramblers that they make for DJI drones that they make available to, like, law enforcement. Yeah, well, or I think in this case mostly to third party, privately owned companies that the FAA hires to regulate. But he said what they don't tell you is that the drones are actually faster at like, because you scramble a channel and it moves to a different channel. It's doing that all the time, frequencies and stuff. He said, what happens when you shoot the best DJI blocker gun currently you shoot it at a drone is the drone is faster at changing channels than what your DJI drone is or your blocker is at preventing those channels from. So it jumps to a new one. And then he says the pilot regains control for a little bit, moves forward, and then that gun kind of jumps to it and it stops. Wow. And it just does.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: Well, when did you have this conversation? I would have loved to talk to this guy.
[00:35:43] Speaker B: Yeah, you had a whole line of people waiting to talk.
[00:35:45] Speaker A: Oh, maybe.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: He also said that DJI drones are the easiest ones to block because DJI actually produces the scrambler. He said if it's not a DJI drone, he said it's hit and miss if you can actually shoot it out of the sky with one of those block guns.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Yeah. That's interesting. That's cool. I wish I would have got to talk to him. So check into the part 108. The way it sounds, it could be something brand new which will help us here in America move these drones forward.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: Yeah, we got to get to 180,000,000 acres sprayed, right?
[00:36:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: You think there's that many acres in America? Like farmland?
[00:36:24] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me?
[00:36:26] Speaker B: I have no idea. You think there is?
[00:36:28] Speaker A: Yeah, there's insane amount of acres.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: Well, let's do it.
[00:36:32] Speaker A: I'm searching this right now. How many farm acres in us?
Oh, my gosh.
Google tells me that there are 893,400,000 farm acres.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: What?
[00:36:54] Speaker B: So that's a big number.
[00:36:56] Speaker A: Oh, it decreased.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: Kind of makes sense.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: Total land in farms decreased 1.9 million acres to 893,400,000 in 2022. But there you go. Yeah, there's a lot of room to spray acres. Anyhow, I think that's enough. We went all over the place in this podcast. Let us know what you guys like listening. What do you want to hear us talk about? Because we're talking drone pet recovery, we're talking agricultural drones. We can talk drone deer recovery stuff. The way I feel, if we always just talk about drone deer recovery stuff, it's either legal, woohoo. Legal stuff with states and stories that we've had on recoveries. I don't have a problem with that. But it feels like it's the same story over. It's like we launch our drone and we fly for 15 minutes and there is your buck, because that's how it works with a thermal drone.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: And on the legal side, it's like, well, there's nothing new really to report other than it's in progress.
Same for like, the Michigan lawsuit. Nothing really to report. It's in progress. These things take time. And that's just the way.
[00:38:05] Speaker A: That's all we got for this one. I don't know what else we'd add to it, but I appreciate you guys listening to us on the drone Deer recovery podcast. One thing before we go, we might be starting our own channel just for our podcast. So we're thinking about taking it off of the drone deer recovery main channel and having the drone deer recovery podcast channel. So be watching for that. It works best for the algorithm. So that's probably coming here.
[00:38:36] Speaker B: Can we just end by saying that probably by the week following this podcast being released or the week after, you'll see the t 40 do something that you will have never seen anything like it on YouTube.
[00:38:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I've never seen it.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: And we didn't believe it, and it actually happened. And there'll be a video coming your way.
[00:38:56] Speaker A: Yeah, actually, I think our editor said that video should be live by Thursday. So I was going to release it.
[00:39:03] Speaker B: Friday, same day that you're listening to this, go to our channel and look at that video. If we haven't delayed that video because we're trying to get it just right.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe don't hold me to that. It might be Monday, but yeah.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: Is it crazier than lifting a deer up with a drone, do you think?
[00:39:21] Speaker A: I just don't understand how it could fly.
[00:39:25] Speaker B: Honestly, the best part about that was just Mike is there. He's standing there and he's just. He's confused. It's like there's no other word. Other. He's just so confused.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: He's about as confused as you guys are right now. Trying to listen.
[00:39:41] Speaker B: And he looks over at me, he's like, I don't get it.
And then I have guys coming down over there hollering and shouting, and Jay is like, pumped. And Dennis is laughing, and Mike's like.
[00:39:56] Speaker A: It doesn't make no sense.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: Doesn't make sense. We still don't quite. We still don't understand it.
[00:40:02] Speaker A: But you're going to want to watch the video for sure. Anyhow, that's it. That's all we got. I appreciate it, and we'll see you guys on the next one.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Pace. Bye.
