Missing your rambling relatives this holiday season? You're in luck! Tune in to Jason and Skip as they ramble through weather reports, amp fixes, book recommendations, reflective impedance, reverb-driven line-out and more on our 141st episode!

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Some of the topics discussed this week: 

:48 Weather report: Rain in the West, bomb cyclones in the PNW

4:32 A 1968 Heathkit catalog with DIY Harmony Guitar kits

6:35 Thanksgiving at the Simmons house

7:09 A noisy Alamo; Pathfinder, the band (link); bands named after amplifiers 

8:49 Our sponsors: Grez Guitars; Emerald City Guitars and Amplified Parts (Jensen speakers are currently on sale!) 

10:58 Deluxe Amplication's red can El Pato Practice amp! (link, I said green on the podcast...my bad)

11:50 Pre-order William J. Simmons' new book, 'Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art' (pre-order link) 

12:51 Recommended reading: 'The Golden Ocean' by Patrick O'Brian

14:33 What's on Skip's bench? The secret solid state guru in Sacramento, not to be confused with the washing machine guru

18:54 The Truth About Vintage Amps Patreon page; guided tours of the Skip universe? 

20:50 Jason interviews a yogi on the Fretboard Journal podcast (link) 

22:35 Adding a half-power switch to a push-pull amp?, tortilla chips 

29:48 Would a variac set to 110v help new amps? 

31:49 Mullard 10M tubes; going back to school; Skip has all the NOS Amperex 12AX7s  

37:58 A Denver TAVA meetup?; one filter cap or two in a Gibson GA-25? Replacing non-polarized electrolytic caps by twisting two regular negative caps together

41:03 More on Skip’s new (old) Fender Duo Sonic

48:26 Using your Fender’s reverb circuit to drive a speaker; Sherlock Holmes’ lazy brother

52:36 Skip is going to make an outboard tremolo pedal

53:09 Why do some reverb tanks have bags?

52:22 A non-alcoholic cocktail featuring ginger ale and cranberry juice

56:02 "I smile at pretty solder joints;" Riddim Restoration of Bellingham, Washington (link) 

1:00:45 An early 60's Geloso 215AN, a diode bridge and a choke to create negative voltage; and Denver chocolate pudding cake  

1:07:14 Reusing old blown transformers

1:09:00 KVMR Community Radio (link)

1:10:05 A mid-‘50s theremin schematic; the Theremin documentary  

Hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons and co-hosted/produced by Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal. 

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