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The Longmont Potion Castle · 2026

American Drawbacks

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  • SPEAKER_02: Hi, this is Bob. How can I help you?
  • SPEAKER_01: Hi, Bob. This is Jeff Boyardee. How are you today?
  • SPEAKER_02: I'm all right. How are you?
  • SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm okay. Thank you.
  • SPEAKER_01: I'm calling in hopes of putting together a custom solution.
  • SPEAKER_01: I'm calling from American Drawbacks here in Larkspur, Colorado.
  • SPEAKER_02: Okay.
  • SPEAKER_01: And specifically, we're looking to augment our laser workstations that are working with you.
  • SPEAKER_01: I'm more of an ear witness.
  • SPEAKER_01: Someone was talking about you all over there,
  • SPEAKER_01: and I thought I just give you a call myself.
  • SPEAKER_02: So you already have lasers?
  • SPEAKER_01: Yes.
  • SPEAKER_02: And you're looking to have work done on the workstations?
  • SPEAKER_01: One of the things we're trying to accomplish is we're looking to integrate a goggle-type apparatus,
  • SPEAKER_01: which can potentially use sensors to fire lasers,
  • SPEAKER_01: hands-free or translate impulses or brainwaves into an actuator that will fire our laser.
  • SPEAKER_01: Something comfortable.
  • SPEAKER_02: What kind of laser do you have?
  • SPEAKER_01: Well, what we do, we are currently engraving onto giant spheres, about 600 feet in circumference.
  • SPEAKER_01: And we've been using these sabers made by a company in Mount Vesuvius.
  • SPEAKER_01: But we're looking at.
  • SPEAKER_01: to go hands-free over here.
  • SPEAKER_01: Have you ever worked with a hands-free apparatus of any type?
  • SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean, no.
  • SPEAKER_02: I haven't heard of that kind of application.
  • SPEAKER_01: And neither have I.
  • SPEAKER_02: And also the other thing is
  • SPEAKER_02: we don't work on other people's laser systems.
  • SPEAKER_01: I see.
  • SPEAKER_02: We build, you know, our primary business is selling our lasers.
  • SPEAKER_02: And we offer custom integration services
  • SPEAKER_02: along with our lasers.
  • SPEAKER_01: Okay.
  • SPEAKER_02: But we're not, you know, like all the people call me and say, yeah, I got a, I got a, I got a, I, I, I bought a laser from Keyon's,
  • SPEAKER_02: and I want to buy an enclosure from you.
  • SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
  • SPEAKER_02: And we don't do that.
  • SPEAKER_01: Well, I see where you're coming from.
  • SPEAKER_01: That doesn't preclude us from doing something together.
  • SPEAKER_01: We'd be more than willing to purchase a laser from you.
  • SPEAKER_01: Okay.
  • SPEAKER_01: We're working with giant carbon steel spherical balls hanging from.
  • SPEAKER_01: from cranes and we want to be able to 600 feet we are working with giant carbon steel
  • SPEAKER_01: spherical balls yeah they're hanging from cranes and we want to just we're looking for precision sending
  • SPEAKER_01: the lasers precisely where we need and these sabers from this Italian company just are not giving
  • SPEAKER_01: us the results that we're satisfied with and because we've got OSHA now breathing down our
  • SPEAKER_01: neck so that we wanted to go hands-free operation or at least
  • SPEAKER_01: something ergonomic with ergonomic engraving action that we need.
  • SPEAKER_01: You understand.
  • SPEAKER_01: It's all part of our future commemoratives program where we actually predict certain outcomes
  • SPEAKER_01: of everything from sporting events to gambling tournaments to rodeos so that we can already
  • SPEAKER_01: have merchandise available instantly after the event.
  • SPEAKER_01: That's what sets us apart here at America.
  • SPEAKER_01: American drawbacks.
  • SPEAKER_01: We've tried everything from those sabres from the Mount Vesuvius Company to we actually
  • SPEAKER_01: climbed rope and scaffolding in order to burnish these enormous steel specks.
  • SPEAKER_01: Wait a minute.
  • SPEAKER_02: I want to see this.
  • SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to get my head around this, so forgive me.
  • SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
  • SPEAKER_01: No, sir.
  • SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
  • SPEAKER_01: Oh, sir.
  • SPEAKER_02: Saber lasers.
  • SPEAKER_02: How do they spell, there's a number of different ways to place to spell saber.
  • SPEAKER_01: Spelling saber.
  • SPEAKER_02: Yeah, how do they spell?
  • SPEAKER_02: Go ahead.
  • SPEAKER_01: S-A-B-R-E.
  • SPEAKER_02: Okay, that's a different.
  • SPEAKER_02: Sabre.
  • SPEAKER_01: And we believe giant spherical structures are the future for, you know, corporations looking to stand out
  • SPEAKER_01: and institute enormous ball bearings on their campuses for display purposes.
  • SPEAKER_01: So that's sort of been the bread and butter of our whole operation here.
  • None: Oh.
  • SPEAKER_01: Do you perhaps offer a type of wand,
  • SPEAKER_01: which would allow more freestyle approach?
  • SPEAKER_01: Something with like a whip action or lasso action with your laser?
  • SPEAKER_02: No, they're not designed to move, and they're really, I mean,
  • SPEAKER_02: they're galvanometer-steered lasers, so they need to be held perfectly still.
  • SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
  • SPEAKER_02: I can't find anything on saber laser, because I'm
  • SPEAKER_02: I see a lot of stuff on lightsabers and, you know, and, uh, uh, oh, yeah, what is their
  • SPEAKER_01: URL?
  • SPEAKER_01: Uh, I could have my assistant send over the URL for this company where we got these
  • SPEAKER_01: sabers from, but it's just imprecise, uh, when we burnish.
  • SPEAKER_02: Okay, so Inova saber is what I've found by, uh, that's a brand name by coherent.
  • SPEAKER_02: So.
  • SPEAKER_02: So you want to put, you got this 600-foot ball made out of steel.
  • SPEAKER_01: Yes.
  • SPEAKER_02: And it's on a crane.
  • SPEAKER_01: Correct.
  • SPEAKER_02: And you want to laser engrave information into it.
  • SPEAKER_01: Exactly. Exactly.
  • SPEAKER_02: And you want it to do it while it's held up in the air, hundreds of feet, I would presume.
  • SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
  • SPEAKER_01: when we transmit syntax and embed our desired object, you know, just like anybody else,
  • SPEAKER_01: we want end users to identify with our object, just like they would using a verifier or a data matrix scanner.
  • SPEAKER_01: And our laser cavity here offers serialization, you know, prefix and suffix,
  • SPEAKER_01: alpha numerical ID and vector scalable data, which guarantees our clients that our etchings
  • SPEAKER_01: will be readable, scannable, retrodimensional in nature, but without the right apparatus to transmit
  • SPEAKER_01: the syntax, we're kind of behind the eight ball a little bit.
  • SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the audio, by the way, the audio, the audio, that...
  • SPEAKER_02: that's coming over the phone.
  • SPEAKER_02: It's very surreal.
  • SPEAKER_02: There's like an echo in your voice.
  • SPEAKER_01: Oh, let me take you off.
  • SPEAKER_01: Here, let me take you off speaker.
  • SPEAKER_01: Can you hear me a little bit better?
  • SPEAKER_02: That's so much better.
  • SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry about that.
  • SPEAKER_02: So, I think, um, I think our lasers are really more designed for a shop and or a manufacturing environment
  • SPEAKER_02: where things are, the lasers aren't really designed to move around.
  • SPEAKER_02: There's, you know, there's cables between them.
  • SPEAKER_02: and particularly for the type of wattage that you would need to get into steel.
  • SPEAKER_02: And so you would have to be able to, the laser would have to be,
  • SPEAKER_02: I don't even know how you would be able to get something that weighs 30 pounds and it takes
  • SPEAKER_02: up a lot of my desk space to get up in the air like that.
  • SPEAKER_02: They're not really not portable.
  • SPEAKER_02: I don't really think they would survive in that.
  • SPEAKER_02: that type of environment that you're talking about.
  • SPEAKER_01: Oh, shucks.
  • SPEAKER_01: Well, the fishing rod action was something that the boys on the board recommend if we look
  • SPEAKER_01: into and investigate.
  • SPEAKER_01: Something where we could whip the laser wherever we choose and more of a freestyle application.
  • SPEAKER_01: And I hear what you're saying about the immobility of it.
  • SPEAKER_01: You have to be immobile and you have to be in a fixed location.
  • SPEAKER_00: And that's fine.
  • SPEAKER_01: Is there any device you offer which would allow more of a, um,
  • SPEAKER_01: fishing real action when transmitting lasers.
  • SPEAKER_01: Because we want to ensure unique identifiers with all of our spheres.
  • SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't, I don't even, I don't even know where to point you.
  • SPEAKER_01: Oh, shucks.
  • SPEAKER_01: We're trying to burnish these enormous spheres that we have.
  • SPEAKER_01: And we work under viaducts, typically.
  • SPEAKER_01: And so something that would be, you know, be protected from the elements as well.
  • SPEAKER_01: Well, is this ringing a bell with some kind of custom solution that we might fabricate?
  • SPEAKER_02: Not even close.
  • SPEAKER_02: We don't have that sort of capability.
  • SPEAKER_01: Oh, no?
  • SPEAKER_02: No.
  • SPEAKER_02: I mean, we make, you know, we can build a custom cabinet that you can put widgets in and we can build, you know,
  • SPEAKER_02: turn tables or fixtures for the laser, but, you know, for parts.
  • SPEAKER_02: But this type of thing and that, I mean, like, no.
  • SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's totally beyond.
  • SPEAKER_02: And we're not that big of a company.
  • SPEAKER_02: We don't have that sort of capability.
  • SPEAKER_02: I mean, I, and I don't, and I don't know who does.
  • SPEAKER_01: How about a laser shower type of application?
  • SPEAKER_02: A laser shower.
  • SPEAKER_02: Now you're just waving on.
  • SPEAKER_02: We do, we do low-power pulse lasers.
  • SPEAKER_02: So, totally beyond what, you know, I don't even know if, I don't even know if such a thing.
  • SPEAKER_02: thing exists.
  • SPEAKER_01: Well, these were avenues that the boys on the board wanted us to explore.
  • SPEAKER_01: Can I ask you something?
  • SPEAKER_01: Would it be okay if I put my project manager on with you, Joe?
  • SPEAKER_01: He could answer maybe more specifics in terms of what you do currently offer and what we could
  • SPEAKER_01: presently buy at the present time.
  • SPEAKER_01: Would that be okay?
  • SPEAKER_01: If I just put him on, he'd love to talk to you.
  • SPEAKER_01: Hold on just one sec.
  • SPEAKER_01: Joe, Bob is on the phone.
  • SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to put him.
  • SPEAKER_01: on. Just please speak to Joe, real briefly.
  • SPEAKER_00: All right.
  • SPEAKER_01: Thank you. Hold on one sec for me.
  • SPEAKER_00: Hello.
  • SPEAKER_02: Hey, Joe, this is Bob over at RMI Laser. How are you doing?
  • SPEAKER_00: Why are you calling me?
  • SPEAKER_02: Jeff was trying to tell me what he needed as far as a laser to mark on these big spheres,
  • SPEAKER_02: and I was trying to tell them that it was way.
  • SPEAKER_02: under capability, and I didn't even know where to point him.
  • SPEAKER_00: I still don't know why you call me.
  • SPEAKER_02: I wasn't calling you. Jeff was calling me, and then he put you on the phone.
  • SPEAKER_00: Who's Jeff?
  • SPEAKER_00: You vote a couple of criminals. You'll be in jail tonight, because I report this to the police every
  • SPEAKER_00: time I get through. You're a motherfucker piece of shit. Get a job piece of shit.
  • SPEAKER_00: Get a job.
  • SPEAKER_02: Have a job. Get a job. Get a job.
  • SPEAKER_02: You want to come down here, put me in jail.
  • SPEAKER_02: Come down.
  • SPEAKER_02: here, pussy. I'll whip your butt.
  • SPEAKER_00: I won't put you. But I report to the police and you will be dropping in jail.
  • SPEAKER_00: You called, you called me. I didn't call you. You called.
  • SPEAKER_00: A piece of shit. I never call you.
  • SPEAKER_00: I didn't call you. Your piece of shit.
  • SPEAKER_00: The ball to tell me that.
  • SPEAKER_00: The piece of shit.
  • SPEAKER_00: Mother fucking chicken shit, ass. You're not worth him away a piece of shit.