FATHER FISH N THE MORNING

So, let me Pin it. Fish, I'm late. Hello, hello. Rebecca. Happy birthday. I'm John Shane. And who's this? Jenny. Happy to see you at AquaShop. All seven of my aquariums are Father Christmas style. It was delighted, delightful to see you too, Jennifer. We certainly had a good time. Michael, hello from the UK. Hey, Corinna, the rest is here. Let's see. I need to see if I can do this, play his birthday. I should have played that as the start for the DVD. I don't know. I'm kind of dangerously screwed up this morning. Okay, let's get rid of that. I got to double check myself here now because I'm in a mode where I do things thoughtlessly and it winds up being the absolute worst in the world to do. the wrenches yet. Vegas Platties. Hello, Vegas Platties. Good there. What I was gonna try to do, maybe get Darisha's birthday song up. If I can find, there we go. I don't know where he put it exactly. Probably in here it is. Right. Let's see. Do-do-do-do-do. What's my do? This is. Things are a little weak and screwed up this morning. So just bear with me, you don't mind Trying to get something together here soon So, well, thank you, Dura It was just like I've got a strange echo Thank you, Dura It was just like that's in that I think I may not survive tomorrow Ah, getting wacky here Find where we are And I'm gonna get in gear We're gonna make it all Make it all happen We get a lot of happy birthdays Cumberland Creek hello hello good to see you sorry I was late this morning I have been struggling with with ever since the trip of keeping going stopped going for a little while there I think I'm okay now let's see uh one of the things that was interesting I probably made as you'll see one of the strongest statements for natural aquarium that I probably have ever made and Of course, I did it in the midst of the major manufacturers, and I was putting it out over a mic that reached the entire hall. I didn't get any feedback, particularly. I don't know that there was any impact. It was a remarkable experience being able to speak to the very people. I think I said it. I think I said the industry has destroyed the hobby. I think I used just exactly those words. So, you know, Aqua Show is not likely to have me back. They depend on those big guys to really make the show. Frankly, I don't think they do. I don't think they do for anyone, really. For one thing, they're not there selling product. They're there doing identity politics, if you will. You know, they're there to shake hands and say hello to people. maybe give out a gift name recognition that's what they're there for name recognition now they do put their product line out you can see it and talk about it and i'm sure there are people who are interested in doing that but they put up major displays wonderful it's amazing displays so i can't remember which one it was that had on one side of an entire aisle it was like six bays long the whole thing spread out full of all their product just really really amazing so that's a big part of it i'm sure they spent a lot of money on these shows and the crowd was great and it was a big crowd i'm sure it was 10,000 there there people came from not just New York in New Jersey. They came from Massachusetts, from Virginia, from West Virginia, from Philadelphia, from Pennsylvania, from Maryland, Delaware. They came from all over the entire region, which is really, really remarkable. That was a wonderful thing to see, too. And to have so many people come up and say it's Father Judge and get their picture taken. We bought this little machine that makes printed pictures that i'm able to uh to autograph and we did that we charged five dollars for it which is kind of a nominal fee but it helped us to pay for the paper and the ink we sold easily 20 probably more probably 25 or 30. uh it was that was pretty impressive i estimated that there were roughly ten percent that might have been a little high actually but about ten percent of the people who walked by recognized the name father judge said well that's that's ten out of a hundred a hundred out of a thousand a thousand out of ten thousand and there were probably a thousand people who came up wanted to shake hands say hello um and and talk a little bit about their experience so it was pretty steady there was not a time very very short breaks of time where we did not have somebody at the booth taking a picture buying a person getting a book we took we took four boxes of books up and sold out we could have sold another box probably so that was exciting too By the way, those of you who have ordered the autographed copy of the book and not yet received it, we did finally get the last autographs from Timbuktu. They arrived in the mail Friday, I believe, or Thursday. So we will be getting those books out to you this week. And I apologize for the delay. It takes a long time to get mail out of anywhere else in the world to here. I mean, a long time, like a month or more. It used to be a lot better. It's really a lot worse than it ever used to be. Yeah, right. There we go. We have a guy in here. Look at this. Well, thank you all for coming in. I've had my feet tangled up most of the morning just trying to figure out how to get up and how to get going. But anyway, here we are. Anyone who would like to come up and chat is more than welcome to do so. Please do feel free to do so. I was looking to see Cinnamon. She is sick and was not able to attend our show. So that was a real loss. So we would love to have seen her. I hope you're feeling better, Cinnamon. I hope things are really improving for you. let's say I'm trying to think of something well it'll come to me oh what else we're going to redo our web page um I talked to uh super cyclists a wonderful store just in Dover Delaware with uh really amazing owners they they uh they're very online savvy so they're going to help us get some things get some things together there and see if we can't make our our shop look a little better and be easier easier to to navigate just as we were leaving last night i uh a couple of people came by if you heard that michael lobello at uh michael was on my live stream early on when we were in Florida his owner of the Tampa Bay Society he showed up in my shop before it was a shop one day and he was like he Michael had a presence about him that just overwhelmed the room he had a powerful presence and it was one of joy joy at being there joy at meeting everyone and it filled everyone else's else's hearts he was an amazing man delightful man um and a man who i got to know not better than most as well as most again his whole life was uh was tropical fish was the hobby and friends he had a big fish room but more importantly he he had a heart for for fish people for the clubs for the camaraderie, for going out and collecting, for just being part of that whole scene. And it was amazing. He was the primary auctioneer. Whatever club he attended, he would attend as many as he could. He regularly attended four different clubs, kind of one a week throughout the month, and was the auctioneer for all of them. and just had so many little jibes and comments and ways of doing things that really were a lot of fun. So we will miss Michael. Michael was a presence, a vigorous and powerful presence, and he certainly will be missed. That's the third club member I've lost in, I guess, two years. Chuck Eidelberg, who was a dear friend and very close to me in our club in Venice, passed about a month ago. And Bill, before him, Bill Presley, passed about a year ago. Excuse me. Let's see if we have it. We wish you 100 years. Let's see. Let's get on YouTube. I can read these easier. Right. Well, darn it. you know what's it's really strange the way this thing works i wonder there are a lot of comments i'm not seeing that are in my shopify i don't really understand apparently the way the system works you got to be careful man i'm pushing buttons again apparently the way the system works is see yeah it does it's um it creates huh it creates two streams or rather yeah creates two streams two separate streams on youtube one one for uh landscape and one for portrait for computer or tablet and the other for a phone and what that does it means you have to bring both of them up in order to be able to see all the comments that our morning stream is all about well it's all about you so it's all about the you know giving people a chance to to chat and interface not only to chat with each other but now right now we have about 15 people each and one online and one in the uh i mean one on computer laptop and the other on uh on cell phone and you guys don't get to talk with each other and i can't i can't separate that i mean it's it's strange it's like i don't know why they do it i certainly didn't select for that uh although maybe there is a button somewhere i can push that i'm going to start pushing buttons again not everybody called christian that's all it's on his phone good morning christian who says Boston austin and the NCE micro fish escaped his 10 gallon a few days ago i spotted him in the windowsill about an hour and a half i ran i can't find him try to get him back in his tank a crazy animal that's funny i had uh tasso tasso Hart Tasso Hart Tasso Hart Hello Tasso Hart nice to see you who else is here austin uh sweet sweet rev wish you a hundred years fish fan link uh no lot no no lad Nolan Charles, there it is, good morning Nolan and Zephar Nolan top chat and do I have the link here? I don't, let me put the link in this one as well, maybe I can do it you know, let's see what comes up, one of you control V, uh-huh, there, and now I find it and I will pin it, all right let's jump back over to go in and get everything up for you, maybe we don't I don't know, it just pinned the live stream again, I think I would pin my comment now, that's or did that happen? I guess there haven't been any other comments in here well whatever, John Shane, hello John thank you so much, yeah 86 today and I think I'm slowing down, I feel like I'm slowing down so I don't mind the speed, I just uh I just want to be able to keep going, that's all you uh your YouTube, of your computer, go to YouTube Studio and click the create button top recorder then select go live, well I'm live well yeah that's, I know I can do that and I can go live instantly which is uh and we did that for the uh for our talk yesterday about the cello i'm i'm live on StreamYard i use that because it's got some features that i like and it just makes it makes it better to be able to bring people up and do it and do intros and all of that sort of stuff so so i tend to now i'm sorry there must be a button that allows you to only only uh how does how does it know the difference between what people were holding i can't imagine that the technology is that sophisticated to be able sending out a signal to know what signal to send out or does it send them both and the only one i've met who knows it's so it's not on my level of capability in a sense at retro south you're a legend austin needs help bad austin okay well i had some children bring in uh some bullfrogs two of them escaped we managed to catch one the other one we didn't catch we did get it the next day which amazed me that it survived the day um they had to stay moist and there was no water for them beginning to but they managed to to make it and survive and we got them back in the in their container the morning friends Eduardo from Christian, Peplum Creek, Rebecca, we said hello, is that the end? Peplum, Peplum, Peplum, Peplum, Jazzy Eyes. Now, let's see if we can find Jazzy Eyes and give Jazzy Eyes a wrench home. I don't know which one I'm, you know, there it is, right there. Hi, how are you? I'm good, Jazzy Eyes, thank you. Let's see if we can get you a wrench here. Well, that's odd. According to this, we have one. try this again oh there's another one manda manda cl ad moderator okay we got manda now let's see if we can get jazzy eyes uh there we go we got you baby clicking and then there we go screaming austin in your store austin sorry explain how to do this and uh okay wishing you a happy healthy year ahead well thank you so much man awesome and looks like dance doesn't it except it's spelled wrong this will make it oh that will make it one stream so if i oh yeah oh all right so if i open it in if i create the uh string the stream in youtube i'll only get one stream whereas creating it in maybe is it broadcasting both i'll bet it is i bet that's the issue i think i'm correct for that think account so that makes sense so that's where it's happening it's happening in StreamYard i'm selecting both formats and StreamYard's so so it's not YouTube at all it's StreamYard doing that okay i'll have to check that and make sure when i set up the stream for tomorrow that i unclick that that'll make it easier for me and i try to stay in the middle of the screen so i think those of you who are watching on your phone, won't have any trouble with it. Alright, I'm on the end. There it is. And we've almost run out of time just babbling. Meaningless babble it is. Well, it's nice to meaningless babble with you all. And it is a delight, in fact. So, I need to get over to the shop. I'm at home, obviously. Need to get over to the shop. By the way, I should mention the pictures. There are three pictures in here. The one further to your left is a picture of my grandmother when she was married. She was 18, and she was married in, when was it now, about 2015. I mean, 1915. She was married in 1915. Next to that is my father, who was born to her two years later. Two years later, he was the oldest of three all of them are gone now uh my uncle his brother lived to 94 so i've got i'm i'm on the heels of somebody who really had some longevity and the other is the cat what we would call the cat Tom Tom the cat um tom showed up where did he come from? Yeah he he showed up In Florida, when I moved into a double wide and set up my first fish room in Florida, someone found this little kitten full of fleas and knew I was looking for a cat and offered him to me, and I took him in and cleaned him up. Tom was with me for about 15 years and was just really a good and steady friend. And he didn't go out much and didn't much care whether he did or not. Generally, oh, now, wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm getting mixed up here. I'm thinking of his mother and him. His mother was the stray. She was a long-haired tabby, and she loved being outside. That's what kind of made it click in my brain, because I'm saying that about Tom, which is true. But his mother, what was her name? I don't think I remember. anyway she she had to be outside she would see it was a stray as a little tiny cat she was a stray she much preferred being outdoors would dart out the door every time it was open i took her to a cattery and had her bred to a i think it was the lynx mix so tom was a bigger cat he was a big tom and tom lived in our shop for however long the shop was open 12 years or so, 12 15 years and was just a regular in the shop, we come visit everyone to walk in the door wherever he was he would come greet him, he never was a pest about it he was very much the gentleman, liked to be petted like to be touched, didn't mind being picked up I had a woman come by one day who does portraits for pets, and she did this one, and then wrote a poem about it. I'll read the poem to you maybe tomorrow. We're about out of time here and I can't get a microphone over to there and I don't want to take it off the wall and all that stuff but I'll read the poem to you at some point. The picture is frozen here Why is the picture frozen? I don't know, but it is If the picture is frozen, that shouldn't matter. Foxy sent flowers for 30 jewels Thank you, Foxy Happy to see you. Foxy, what is this? Happy birthday, Father Fitch. Oh, I see. She sent flowers for 30 jewels. Well, thank you Engage with your audience. Why is that? What is this? Why is there a one there? Corporate horizontal thingy That sounds complicated Dual streaming orientation. Yeah, I just realized that That's exactly right Thank you, Austin, very much I'm going to do that because I really don't want two separate streams to be able to chat with each other. And frankly, that's one of the main reasons that one of the two, can't say that if people come and join us in the morning well i'm out of gas i've got to get going uh i'm gonna run on i will plug in again in the morning i promise to be here on time don't hold me to that but i will make every effort and i love you all i got everything good morning and happy birthday from victoria texas this is jack jacker 75 gallon tank probably about three years So using your method, and it continues pretty much maintenance-free ever since. Pepland, you two wasn't very smart, not moving the horizontal and vertical shafts. And what's this? We've got comments here that aren't showing elsewhere. Okay, we've got all the instructions there. Mander, happy birthday. Thank you. That was the show. It was spectacular. and they gave me a chance to talk. I didn't realize until the day before that they had me on the list to speak and that was fun and I was absolutely on fire. Probably the single best presentation I have ever made. It went about half an hour and I was able to introduce Lucas and get him up on stage with me, Lucas Brett. So that was a joy. it was just really really wonderful and one of the staff came by and said we need to get you in chicago i said well pay my way i'm there be fun to do um austin talking about how to have it not having a light you can buy a light on amazon look for led floodlight led outdoor floodlight It's waterproof. It's plenty of light. Get the 100 watt for anything above 39, 39 or a 50 watt. Here's Brenda. Hi there. Hi. It's almost 10 o'clock. Well, I just finished an hour live stream. My clock says. I thought you went on at 10. I do. Well, I got ahead of myself, didn't I? started early oh my god I did it again I thought it was late I I thought I was late yeah I'm looking at my clock and says 10 I looked at it and it said 10 an hour ago I must have had my hand but my wrist turned or something I can't lose them like my well we got it we're done now I'm just signing off all right so I'll be there in a bit well that was nutty I thought it was 10 o'clock like I thought it was starting late, actually. I thought it was 15, 20 minutes late. Lord, talk about being witless. Well, this is going to be the way it's going to be from here on. We're all in big trouble. Because you're not going to be able to depend on me for anything. Austin just fixed it. Tom was a good kitty. He really was. He was a really sweet cat. And not all cats are sweet. They really are. you can also get deals on fish this is Jennifer Blatz and Harts yeah Pebble and Creek do buy through Pebble and Creek take a look at there oh we did get a big bag I bought a big bag of plants leftovers from lucas probably 200 that have his label on them we're going to let them go for below retail so we'll we'll put a bunch of them up and it'll be kind of a grab bag but it's only going gonna be a few bucks so it'll be fun we can buy a bunch of save the whole playlist goose bumpy melodies uh talking about foxy's playlist i expect go to this jennifer's in trouble finally it's always the last bell early birthday stream yeah well can stream another hour um i don't think i'm i don't have enough in my brain to do it uh besides i need to get the car unloaded from from Acushnet so i gotta get it over there and get the boys for rooting stuff out so i will see you all tomorrow morning love you all bye