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Coming up this weekend, they'll be at Dalton,
Florida on the 24th. That would be Saturday.
And then March 3rd, they're getting closer to
here. They're getting up to Cave City, Kentucky.
And then March 18th, they'll be in Toledo, Ohio.
And they did mention online today. They have
their Hamvention reservations done so you can
visit them at Hamvention as well or give them
a call at 920 -435 -2973 or online at PL -259
.com and tell them you heard it on HamTalk Live.
My guest tonight is Michael Coulter, W8CI. He
is the official spokesperson for the Dayton Hamvention.
And Mike resides in Xenia, Ohio, and is a past
president of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association
and a former Hamvention general chairman. He's
currently the treasurer and a board member of
DARA and the finance chair for Hamvention. And
he is an active musician, a Skywarn net control
and HF operator. Had the opportunity to travel
quite a bit around the world including Tunisia
and the Peace Corps and the speaker about ham
radio in Germany cutter and India so We've had
Michael on several times talking about hamvention.
We're glad to have him back with us tonight.
Good evening Michael and welcome back Hey Neil,
it's you've got a great show and I like the way
you run your show you're doing a great thing
for amateur radio and it's always a pleasure
to get to talk to you especially about one of
my favorite events and that's the Hamvention.
So thanks and thanks for everybody who's out
there tuned in and if you do have a question
I'll do my very best to answer them and I know
that we're going to get to a period of time here
where you can call it in. Yep, absolutely, and
we thank you for coming on and all your work
with Hamvention and all your volunteer staff
and your volunteer hours to make all that happen.
Well, we're about three months out and we knew,
you know, the first year was a little bit of
a learning curve and there were some changes
that needed to be made and we had you on in July
to talk about that a little bit. Bring us up
to date on how some of those projects are coming
along for some of the improvements for this year.
Okay, we'll talk about the new building because
we worked hard with the county commissioners
and the expo center folks and it looked like
you know everything was going through with the
new building and we'd have it in time for hand
-vention. And we heard that from everybody. And
when it came down to it, when they got the bids
out and everything, they were not going to be
able to get the building done before Hamvention
18, but it will be done for Hamvention 19. So
we still are going to have some tents, or maybe
just one big tent. We're really, really, really
sorry about that. I mean, we have every intention
to have that done, so this will be our last year
of that. Plus, we also got the Fairgrounds Furniture
Building, which is another, I think, 7 ,500 square
feet, which is very significant. But that was
probably one of the negatives. And the other
one was, got a lot of comments about mud, and
even from people that weren't there, say, are
saying, you know, I don't wanna go there because
it's so muddy, you know, and that's what my friends
told me. But you know, we had a monstrous rain
the night before that, I mean, monstrous, and
I think we had two to three inches of rain, and
that was hard to get all that drained out, and
even though the flea market area is drained,
we think we can improve it, so. I'll take a pause
a minute. Then if you want me to talk about that,
I'll be glad to. Yeah, sure. And I'd also like
to hear a little bit more about the new building,
like where it would be situated and how much
space it'll be and kind of the style of the building.
Because a lot of the buildings I've noticed are
kind of long and narrow and very segmented. Is
this going to be more of an open? concept kind
of building? Well, I'm surprised that the three
very large buildings are all open. I don't know
if you recall that, but they're also on the sides
there are halls and there's different things
there, but huge areas inside each one of those
buildings. The Fairgrounds Furniture appears
that it will be all, you know, an open building
much like It'll be bigger than if you remember
where Bob Hiles area was in that real nice building
It's going to be right next to that In the same
complex and it will be a nice open building The
new building will be actually a u -shaped building
and it'll be located right out So those of you
have been there and give you a little bit of
a visual It'll be directly across from where
the three main buildings are you'll have in the
center point There's a is a flagpole Then you
had a lot of delicious vendor spaces and then
you had a little road that went by But it's right
in that complex and it's gonna be right right
in the whole complex area across from basically
where the beer truck was. For those of you there,
you probably know where that is. Does that help
you at all? And the total square footage, I can't
recall it off the top of my head, I should have
that number, but it matches if not a little bit
more than the tent space that we had to use,
the total tent space last year. And so by getting
that fairgrounds furniture building, which is
part of, you know, owned by the fair complex,
the Expo Center, that significantly cut down
on the amount of tent space that we need. So
once again, you know, I really regret, I mean,
I got on and announced that, yeah, we're gonna
have the building. But I will say that as soon
as we found out we couldn't get building supplies,
we wanted to make it clearly known that, hey,
we can't get this building before Hamvention
this year. Now, we're not paying for the building.
So we're a little bit more at the mercy of the
county. And the county and the city people and
township people are really behind us in trying
to make this stuff happen. Does that help you
a little bit? Oh, the new building will have
heating, it'll have air conditioning, it'll have
restrooms, running water in there, and it'll
be a very nice building. They're upping their
game there to have what they call a world -class
expo center. And they've left a room that maybe
a few years from now, they put a second and a
third building in there. gratifying to work in
it within a community that loves us and supports
us and wants to help so Yeah, and then The other
question came came up was will that construction
start before Hamvention or do you think that'll
be after I? Can tell you right now. We do not
want it to start until after Hamvention and,
um, we don't want all that, you know, possibility
of all that equipment and everything. You take
up a lot of space and, and it'd be a distraction.
No, we're going to get that done. Start. Um,
Oh, I don't know exactly when they'll start.
They have a county fair that'll come up sometime
after that. And they'll start right after that.
So we'll, it will not interfere at all with Hamvention.
Okay. So you're thinking probably after the fair,
then after their too big events. Right, right.
There's still plenty of time then to get things
going. So that's our plan and that's their plan.
And we totally like the idea. We don't want that
construction going on the same time as, um, as,
uh, Hamvention. Okay. Now you mentioned the,
uh, the fairgrounds furniture building that,
uh, was there and they had cleared out some space
for us to use, uh, that was kind of storage.
uh... last year and now uh... that buildings
going to be available and and i know some people
have been kind of concerned of about uh... you
know uh... are we the reason that they're leaving
and and you know we hate to see you know uh...
a long -time business uh... go away uh... because
you know we get together once a year so uh...
can you can you tell us a little bit about that
well here's what i can tell you is that uh...
we had him mention Never pressed to get that
building. Are we glad to get it? Oh my god. Yes
We're thrilled to get it. But did we go to the
expo center people and The powers to be there
and say you need you need to evict them, you
know, that's not our intention There were other
Circumstances that I'm not even privy to that.
I don't even want to know but I will tell you
that the date amateur radio association and he
mentioned had absolutely nothing to do with trying
to get this uh... building you don't get them
to leave you know i i live uh... just out by
having a mailing address but i live out the countryside
south of zinnias and and it's hard when you know
we're getting blamed for something to really
have a part of however you know we we do get
the benefit of it and uh... i'm sorry to see
them lose the business and or get get evicted,
but at the same time, I guess I'm very happy
for us. Um, but we had absolutely nothing to
do with that happening. Thanks for asking that
question. Yeah. And, and then, yeah, let's go
back to the, to the mud. I know you said that
you've got some, some plans to improve on that.
And we kind of skipped back to the, to the new
building for a minute. So let's go back to, uh,
the plans there on some of the drainage for some
of the parking areas and flea market and that
kind of thing, how that is coming along. Okay,
I'm sorry I skipped ahead a little bit before
giving you an opportunity to ask me a question.
So I'll be a little bit brief. The county engineer
is really a big supporter of He even has told
me personally, whatever you guys need, just let
me know. So we told him, and we really need help
with this mud. And so the county engineer and
his people are designing or have finished the
design of, I don't think it's hard to do, but
where the vehicles came down through, they're
going to take up about three inches of the earth
and they're going to put these, I guess called
grindings, asphalt grindings down, roll them
in. And my understanding is that it doesn't take
long for that to really be a nice, decent surface.
It won't be, I don't know if you can skateboard
on it, but it'll be definitely a nicer surface
for vehicles to travel on. And we're gonna start
with the worst areas first, and we're hoping
to get 100 % done with it, but we might not,
depending on the timing and the weather here.
That is all gonna happen soon, and whenever they
start that, I'll be going up there and taking
pictures so I can prove to people, hey, this
is really happening. So the other idea we had,
it would have been, we thought maybe we could
sell boots or something, right, if everybody
went in and pre -marked it. Get a little extra
money there to pay for that. to pay for the expo
center, right? Yeah, there could be. We were
thinking about hand -vention commemorative boots.
And we were also thinking about selling some
2017 commemorative flea market mud at maybe $20
.95 a jar. And we even thought, man, if people
even act now, they could get free shipping in,
too, for the price of one. But we act that idea.
You know, I like the boots idea. You can even
put the little logo on there, you know the whole
thing Yeah, well You know, it was a tough year
and you got what we you know what we in our club.
I mean we Kind of look at it. Well So we take
a slam and we're gonna keep on hammond and that's
sort of our our slogan of what we do with our
six hundred i hope i get it right six hundred
fifty seven volunteers i think that we have to
work with us and uh... it's amazing to have that
much dedication and passion for an event and
you know my job i have a little of a little bit
of a job in in in producing all of this but um...
i have to thank all of our volunteers and i want
to say something about hamcation and uh... folks
up in michigan are put that on huntsville people
uh... so many of these ham fest around the country
that i think it's really important that we all
say thank you to whatever volunteers are just
thank you because i'm not getting paid and they're
really doing it be the passion and love for for
amateur radio and they're giving back. And if
you've ever stood out there in that hot sun and
directed traffic or whatever it is that you're
doing for it and taking a lot of grief about
things, thank a volunteer. I wouldn't get that
in. Go ahead, Neil. It takes a lot of volunteers
to pull everything off, and we sure appreciate
every last one of them. Well, we are going to
take a break here in just a minute, but first
I do want to tell you about some changes that
Will be coming to ham talk live and our hamvention
coverage We again will preview many of the activities
that will be going on in and around hamvention
during that weekend during about six weeks leading
up to the big event. And we will broadcast live
again from the hotel there at Spring Hill Suites,
Dayton South, Miamisburg, just down the road
from the Dayton Mall on Hamvention Eve as we
have the last two years. But this year we're
changing the theme a little bit. We've been taking
your calls and visits at the conference room
there at Spring Hill Suites and kind of getting
a feel for what liked and what you were looking
forward to at Hamvention, but we're going to
change it up a little bit this year. We're going
to give you all the information you need to make
your Hamvention experience even better. So, HamTalk
Live will have an exclusive Hamvention weather
forecast and that's going to come from Eric Elwell,
KD4BNT, and he is the chief meteorologist at
Storm Center 7 WHIO -TV right there in Dayton.
And we're going to have a Dayton and surrounding
area traffic report. We'll have up -to -the -minute
information on parking, on -site parking, remote
parking, and busing. And Michael's going to connect
us up with some people on that so we'll have
the official word on parking right up to the
last minute and you'll be able to tune into that
the night before Hamvention and so you'll be
well prepared for everything that we can possibly
Tell you ahead of time. We're gonna do that right
here on hamtalklive .com and it'll be on the
podcast too So if you can't catch it right at
nine o 'clock that night you can you can catch
it after that and and thanks for for taking the
time to to set us up with with some of the parking
and traffic people so that we can Get all of
that going Michael Well, yeah, I think it's a
you know a great service that you're going to
offer and It's going to be our first year of
attempting that with you, but I do want to remind
people that we will have a talk in frequencies
and We will have be able to you will be able
to do some off -site parking And if I could speak
a second about off -site parking sure Exciting
that you know you'll be able to see all that
on the website as it all continued to unfold
to continues to unfold But these bus drivers
that bring people in they know all the backgrounds
too and It's it's interesting a lot of these
bus drivers Just I guess that I don't know if
they're actors or musicians or what but I've
been hearing stories of people singing on the
buses and having a really great time on the buses
and then Even though the traffic jam occurred
on the Friday of hand -vention, I did hear there
was a lot of fun of people that were on, you
know, talking frequencies or whatever frequency
they jumped on, and they actually had a pretty
good time. I don't think everybody had a good
time being in a traffic jam. And speaking of
traffic jams, if you were there last year, you
recognized that on a Friday morning, it was pretty
tough. We got with our sheriff and said, you
know, is there anything you could do to make
this better? And so he and his deputies got together
and Saturday morning, there was as many, if not
more people that came and didn't hear any complaints
about traffic. They've really modified the flow
on it. Plus, in the meantime, the Green County
Sheriff got his amateur radio license. He's one
of us now, so we're really excited. Hey, there
we go. And there's two or three more of the county
people that are, you know, kind of twisting,
I'm twisting their arms. You know, you know,
it's just gotta be a big thing for the area.
You better get your license and you'll, you know,
you'll be, you'll really be part of it. So, so
with that traffic control and working on that,
we think we got that one lit. Now, will there
be problems? Yeah, of course there could be.
You know, any big ham fest has some traffic problems.
But I don't think that we're going to experience
the traffic jam -ups we had last year. And I
do want to thank the City of Xenia. Again, they
have closed their schools in Xenia on the Friday
of Ham Bench, just to cut down on the traffic
in the area. So we're very excited about that,
too. How many ham fest have you been to? where
they close the schools down for it. And we're
also trying to work with a lot of those students
to bring them in to the event and continue working
with youth there. Go back to you for a minute
there, Neil. Yeah, that's all great stuff. And
in fact, I had just looked that up again to see
if they were doing that again, because I'm still
looking for somebody to do the hammy costume.
And so I was looking to see. And sure enough,
they're having a professional development day
that day. So that'll cut down on a lot of the...
the school traffic. Well let's go ahead and take
a break here and when we come back we can start
taking some calls. We've got some tweets already
as well so we will do that right after this word
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And we do have a tweet to talk about and a couple
of comments here, but we do have our first call
on the line. So good evening, Mark. Welcome to
HamTalk Live. Good evening, Neil. Yeah, this
is Mark in for BCN. A BCD, binary coded decimal.
And I'm the chairman of the Huntsville HamFest.
Yeah. And I had a chance to talk to Mark here.
few weeks ago, and we're looking forward to Mark
being on the show. But Mark had some things to
throw in here about Hamvention. So go ahead,
Mark. Well, OK. Thanks, Neil. And good evening,
Michael. It was great to run into you and spend
some time with you and the contingent down there
in Orlando, you and Ron Kramer and Jack and the
rest of the crew that were down there. Learned
a lot from you guys. And I heard you talking
here on Neil's program about what you're going
to do to address some of the issues from last
year. But I wanted to call in to suggest there's
one thing you don't change, and that's the food
service. Those vendors were absolutely great.
You know, the chicken noodle soup that I had
one day for lunch, as good as grandma's, that
Ohio beef hamburger I had the next day was equally
good. And so that's one thing you guys are really
doing right up there. And, oh, I guess one more
thing. You mentioned moving the beer truck. I
hope you don't move it too far. Over to you,
Michael. Hey, Mark. It's a pleasure to get to
talk to you. And I'm going to take this opportunity,
Neil, and tell you that, you know, people are
always comparing, you know, Hamcation, Hamvention,
Huntsville, you know, Tokyo, Pre -Bridge Toffin.
But, you know, we all know each other. And we're
all good friends and we really work hard. If
whatever Mark needs, he gives us advice. He asked
us for advice and same with the gang down in
Orlando or Germany. And I'm telling you, it's
a, it's a, he might have, you know, DX groups
and contest groups, but we run these big ham
fest and we have to work together because if
we're, if they're successful and we're success.
every every we want everybody to be successful
because it helps all the vendors and never once
is it us versus them it is i mean we support
huntsville we support hamcation great events
wonderful events and we each provide something
different so i really want to make that clear
it's there's no like you're not going to get
me upset or get me going about which is best
hamcation or hamvention or huntsville or any
of them because they're all great, and even the
General Chairman, I wish I could recall his name,
from the Michigan Speedway. We got to talk to
him a little bit too, but we share a lot of ideas
and we learn from each other. Wouldn't you say
that's true, Mark? Absolutely, that's very well
put, Michael. I don't think I could embellish
on that at all. Go ahead. Well, I appreciate
you calling in with your support. Those of you
who haven't been to Huntsville, it's a great
event, it's growing and it's now under, and Mark
is working so hard to make this, you know, we
all love Charlie. I knew Charlie for years and
we'd share information and then Mark came on
and he comes sheepishly up and says, hey, I'm
Mark from. I'm the new guy down there at Huntsville
and he's totally accepted and we're really glad
to be glad that he's in there. He's a very smart
guy and pulling his team together. So anyway,
great Mark. I'm looking forward to seeing you
guys up in Dayton and got a couple of other ham
fest to visit around here. A couple of smaller
events, Chattanooga, Dalton, names probably not
familiar to you, but you probably have a bunch
of stuff. similar ham fest around your area throughout
the year to visit i'll be doing that in the next
couple weeks uh... tola homma uh... tennessee
we've got uh... several in the area and it's
always good to network and meet with these folks
but uh... michael like i said it's uh... it's
great to to be a part of this uh... this organization
down here in the uh... the uh... the working
uh... relationship that we all have is is extremely
good but like i said your food up there absolutely
wonderful looking forward to another bowl of
chicken noodle soup in uh... uh... late in may
So, uh, I'll, uh, I don't want to steal your
thunder tonight. Uh, so I just say, uh, good
evening and, uh, 73 we'll see you in a couple
of months. 73 there, Mark. Thank you, man, for
calling in and now we'll see you soon. 73 Mark.
Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Now, now, now Mark's
speaking of food here. Um, the tweet that we
were just talking about, I don't know if Mark
was listening at that point or not. Uh, maybe
he was eavesdropping on us and we didn't know
it, but. Brian Love, KC9KUH, tweeted us earlier
in the week and wants to know, Michael, are the
pork chops coming back again this year? He said
he'd love to have another Hamvention pork chop.
So, the answer is? The answer is of course. And
not only that, the Cattlemen's Association will
be there. And a lot of this stuff comes right
from the farm in Greene County. Right to you
know to the butcher shop and then right there
So I've heard a lot of great things about the
food and and he's right, you know that I can't
remember name of the company that does the Homemade
noodles and real mashed potatoes. I mean that
is so good. I ate really well when I was there
and But I want to add something else is that
we think we can improve this. And so we are bringing
in, and we work with the people there, the fair
people, the expo center. And we actually get
last final say on who they're bringing in. And
we told them, yeah, we need some more different
kinds of food to come in there. So we're bringing
in even more. We feel there are really gonna
be great choices for food. And then we are working
on possibly, Getting the picnic tables that we
have placed a little bit better with a little
bit more of them Excuse me around that Bending
bending areas so people will be able to sit more
and we I think that's an important thing at any
big ham fest or it is for us is that people need
a place to sit down and talk to their friends
for a little bit take a rest take a break and
and It made me enjoy some of that good food.
And so we're going to try to have more shade
and more picnic tables. And we're working hard
on just improving that whole center layout. Does
that help you, Andy? Neal, does that make you
hungry? Yep. Yep. It does. It does. And I remember
the bourbon chicken and the grilled chicken wrap
that I got. And they were both excellent. But
Michael, the one thing that I asked you about
And you know, I don't know where the disconnect
was, but the, the, the cheesecake on a stick
thing. And here's, and here's Jill combs. I already
had this in the script, Jill. It wasn't she's
chatting in here in the, in the chat room and
saying, Oh, I see how it is. The pork chops are
more important than cheesecake on a stick. So,
so, so Jill and I kind of teamed up on this and
ham talk live. We, we, we go the extra mile.
to investigate this cheesecake on a stick thing.
So I found out what happened with the cheesecake
on a stick. Now, the cheesecake on a stick was
kind of a Dayton Hamvention tradition, but it
kind of disappeared all of a sudden. And so I
tracked it down and it said Libby's Gourmet Desserts
in Cincinnati. They're the ones who made them.
But what they did was they sold those to someone
and they got a a couple of freezers and they
went up and sold those. So it wasn't them directly
selling them, but I was able to pick up a couple
of those and they are the right ones and everything.
It's Libby's Gourmet Desserts. And I said, can
you come back and sell these? And he said, well,
if we can find someone to sell them, we will
be happy to provide them and sell them and work
with them and deliver. Get all of that going
and so if we can find somebody to sell those
we can bring the cheesecake on a stick back but
but Jill and by the way Jill's KD8 QGA had that
written down here She found out that the person
who was selling it was a distant family member
of the Wampler family that owned Hararena. So
that's how it got there was that, you know, they
were selling it. So now since it's moved, you
know, they didn't have, you know, the inside
connection. So, so can we, can we do something
on this cheesecake on a stick thing? You know,
Neil, I am really moved and very impressed the
fact that you could take the time to do this
extremely deep dive into the history and Um,
basically the journey, it's like the silk road
of, um, cheesecake on a stick. So then you've
left me totally speechless and you've left me
with no way out other than to try to figure something
out for you. So, well, I guess if you have somebody
that you want wanting to make some money at Hamvention
and wants to sell some just, well, all we gotta
do is give them the phone number and they'll.
I even invited the guy on the show. He didn't
want to come on the show, but I invited him on
the show. Wow. Wow. That's pretty impressive.
So I didn't know you loved it that much. I mean,
you know, you must be a very much, you know,
the funny thing is I only got it one time, but
I always went by it always wanted it, but I'd
always go buy it. And then One year, I finally
said, okay, I gotta try this. And it's pretty
good stuff. There we go, we got it. Burning up
a lot of time on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we are.
Honestly, I'll take a look. Got a lot of things
cooking, but I don't have that cheesecake cooking
yet. And since you have somebody was at jail,
it's interested in it too. I'll ask. I'll ask.
I will do that much. I want somebody that wants
to sell it. They will, they will, uh, they will
do it. And by the way, Jill will be out there
on her golf cart all day Sunday. She says, volunteer
to shuttle. We've got another question here from
Dr. Scott Wright, KZeroMD, any new vendors or
forum ideas for this year? Maybe something for
Mac users on ham radio? Maybe that would be something.
Any ideas there? Was that called KZeroMD? Yes,
KZeroMD. Okay. And what was his first name again?
Scott. Dr. Scott, right. Okay. Hey, Dr. Scott.
And, um, thanks for calling in on this, or I
don't know how you got to maybe you, uh, Twitter
chat room did it. Twitter did. Okay. Twitter
don't have tweeted. Anyway, um, we are working
on forums right now. We don't have it, uh, finalized,
but, um, uh, I just got, uh, we are actually
going to have, um, a fifth forum area. Instead
of just four, we're going to have five. And one
of the things that we're really looking at is
our theme this year is based around emergency
communications, you know, amateur radio serving
the community. And we thought that was very appropriate,
you know, due to the fact that we've had so many
bad storms, fires, floods, typhoons, all kind
of You know in hurricanes all over the world
So we're going to be focusing on some of those
things a lot more than we have in the past I
do like his the idea for his topic and Neil if
you could Somehow send that to me in the end
I can take a look at that, but we haven't got
everything finalized yet. We we are looking for
very good forums You know interesting people
have interesting things to say and by the way
my my friend Fred Lloyd Who started QRZ is coming
this year, and I think it's his 20 or 25th anniversary
of QRZ and no We're going to try to do some kind
of a forum around what he's doing He's a very
delightful individual if you've never had a chance
to listen to him Yeah, I've been trying to get
him to come on here, so we'll keep trying. Well,
we've got like one minute left. We've got one
minute left. Is that one minute? One minute.
One minute. So the awards deadline, you extended
that. When's the new? Deadline for that if somebody
wants to nominate today, it's over today today.
Okay. All right. They got all be at, I want to
say something really quickly. Sure. If you're
one stay on a hamvention .org, um, check that
website out regularly. If you have any personal
questions, uh, in terms of, uh, questions you
can't get answered anywhere else. I am good on
QRZ. I tell my friend, but, um, You can email
that to me, but we certainly take the input.
We take a lot of grief too, but we feel it's
very important to be an important pillar for
amateur radio. None of us get paid for it. Neil,
I want to thank you again for having me on your
program. All right. Well, thank you for coming
on. We look forward to talking to you again in
a few weeks as Hamvention draws near but we thank
you for the update of how things are coming along
so far. But that is a wrap for this week's edition
of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest Michael Coulter,
W8CI and everyone out there in cyberspace for
listening and calling and typing in and invite
you all back next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern
Time. When Andy Malusi, KK4LWR, will be here
to talk about the Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative,
or CARI, and for a list of all of our upcoming
guests, you can find that over at HamTalkLive
.com. Just click on the show schedule link. So
for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7
-3, 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours. Thanks
for watching!