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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hey, Philip. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.
Hey, you guys. Hey, Philip. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm just going to comment right away, and I encourage our listeners to watch the video. You've got one of the most neatly curated beards I've seen in my life. I mean, it's incredible. I feel like you had a jeweler come in. And maintain your beard. Yes. Impressive.
Yes.
Very impressive. Philip, tell us a little bit about yourself. Where do you live? Where are you coming to us from right now?
So I live in the Williamsburg, Virginia area. So Colonial Williamsburg, if you've ever been here, right in that area, Eastern Virginia. So yeah, this is where I live at. And tell us about yourself. What makes you tick, Philip? Oh. All right. Well, I grew up in this area, so I've always been a huge fan of history. Yep. So love history. I live here. I'm married to my wife, Karen.
She's a high school math teacher. I have two teenage boys. We love being outside, whether it's in the woods, hiking, boating, whatever it may be. So that's kind of our world.
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Chapter 2: What is relic hunting and how does it work?
Okay. I feel like this is a dating app now. And I like, you swipe right if you're interested or left? Swipe right, right? Right. You swipe right and if you're really interested, you swipe up for a super swipe.
Get out.
Yeah, that's right. I just swiped you up, Philip. Yeah. Super swipe. Because you like history, which I love. Now I see in my notes here, it says you're a relic hunter. I don't really know much about that. What do you do? So it's it's a hobby.
It's so relic hunting. If you it's kind of like using a metal detector. Oh, OK. You go out looking for.
Well, I guess if you're in Williamsburg, Virginia, you've got lots of stuff. I mean, mostly there's probably Civil War stuff and there's probably also Revolutionary War. What else? Absolutely. I mean, absolutely. That sounds like you'd hit pay dirt. Go ahead.
Yeah. So growing up in this area, it was sort of all around me. I live right between Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, Cold Harbor, all the battles outside of Richmond area. So I kind of grew up right at the epicenter of that sort of history.
And so what are you finding when you got your metal detector? What are the things you're pulling out of the ground that are exciting to you?
Um, also we find bullets, Civil War bullets, American Revolutionary bullets. We find buckles, sometimes old cannonballs and artillery shells and buttons and coins and all sorts of things.
What's one of the coolest things you ever found? Like you pulled it out of the ground and you thought, this is awesome.
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Chapter 3: What kind of treasures can you find in Williamsburg, Virginia?
And one of the things I would say is most of the stuff you find when you go hunting or relic hunting is trash. You find shotgun shells and beer cans and more beer cans and anything metal you can think of that's been in the ground for a long time. Most of what you find is not worth keeping. It's not Civil War or American Revolution. But this particular day, I...
I dug a hole and pulled out of the ground. I wasn't sure what it was at first and realized quickly. We live, if you know anything about the Hampton Roads area, that's a lot of military bases that have been in this area for a very long time. And realized pretty quickly what it was and moved it. I don't know. I sort of got told I shouldn't have done this later.
I picked it up and moved it to a tree line and stuck it next to a tree. I don't know why I did that. You started juggling it.
Yeah.
kicking it like a hacky sack you kicked it like a hacky sack for 20 minutes while you were listening to a fish album there you go You okay there, Sona? Laughing pretty hard. Sona, when you laugh, don't move away from the mic. Get those laughs right in there. I work hard for those.
Okay, for the record, let me just say this. Sona has the best laugh.
She does have the best laugh.
She has the best.
But, Phillip, you know what drives me? Phillip, this drives me crazy.
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Chapter 4: What is one of the coolest finds in relic hunting?
I knew that was going to happen with you, but that's okay. Because I wanted to, no, but my goal was that she would laugh at some point because, oh. You guys, real quick, we're getting off the relic hunting stuff for a moment. I listen to you guys all the time in the car on XM radio. So I listen to you guys. There you go, a little plug for XM. I listen to you guys.
So you guys are the voices in my car. And so we've talked about Sona has the best laugh.
You know what? I will agree. You have the best laugh, Sona. You've always had the best laugh. And I considered you one of the treasures I pulled out of the ground.
Does that work as a compliment? It was so close. It was almost close.
When I met you, you were dirty.
Yes, I get it.
You know that, right?
I get what you tell people. I like jumped out of a bush.
No, but you had soil on. Maybe the first year of me knowing you was me brushing you clean.
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Chapter 5: What should you do if you find a live grenade while hunting?
Yeah, that's that's over half of it is just spending the time to study. It's really dorky, but it's a ton of fun. But just look at old maps and history and the Library of Congress has maps that you can access online. So you look at those and then figure it out where you can go. But then getting permission to go to those places.
Obviously you can't go to any national parks or state parks or anything like that. So it's, it's finding private property, farmers, people that own land that you ask permission. Can I come on your property and dig holes? Um, and can I, can I search for, search for, for relics for, for old things that might be on your property? And a lot of times they'll say no. And sometimes they'll say, yeah.
Okay. And do they have a deal? Like if you find something valuable, they get to, they want to keep it.
Sometimes. It sort of depends. Most of them actually don't really care. What I've run into is they just kind of go, I don't really care. That's your thing. It's not my thing. So whatever you find. There's others who have said, hey, I'd really like to see what you find. And then there's others you can maybe work a deal with and go, hey, let's split whatever it is we find.
I'm intrigued. There's part of me that would want to go around and fool guys like you, like drop things in the ground. Do you know what I mean? Go out and buy, you know, go and buy like what looks like a knight's helmet. and then drop it in a hole.
Just hide and watch them?
And then hide in a bush and watch you guys come by and think that you've found, oh my God, King Arthur's Court, they hung out here in Williamsburg, Virginia. I know that's a bad thing I'm admitting to, but.
No, there's people that do that. No, really? That's not cool. No, there's a guy. No, there's a guy here locally who has been known for decades as one of the best replica makers of Civil War buckles and things like that. Right. And if he made one that wasn't quite perfect, he was known to go in the Cold Harbor area and bury it and hide it. What a dick.
And people would find it and lose their minds. Oh, fantastic. I love this.
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