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Christopher Mitchell

Aug 27, 2026

3:08
Something ridiculous.
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Something...
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And, and we have physical, uh, proof.
3:11
But it, it's not just that site.
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There's a, it's a, it's a larger extension.
3:15
If you're a history buff like me, it was a beautiful excuse to dive deeper into that.
3:20
But also, you know, it's not like that trail is just history.

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All I wanna do is chase icebergs.
22:10
So how do you get there and then how do you get around once you are there?
22:14
Most people are going to arrive via flight in St. John's.
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Personally, I'd recommend spending three, four days in St. John's.
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There are a lot of sites in and around St. John's that you'll want to visit.
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It's not just the city.
22:28
I mean, the city itself, like George Street is the famous street where there's live music and always something going on, but it's actually what's around it.
22:35
You'll want to go up to Signal Hill.

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So aside from bringing lenses, what is the most important thing people should understand before they visit? What do you want to leave them with?
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Yeah.
9:35
So I grew up in Salt Park in Houston and we was evicted from several homes.
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And it got to a point where my dad shut down a church.
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We had to live in the church for a year and a half.
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Didn't have any.
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My birthday's on Christmas.
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That's how I get my name, Chris.

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I remember Red Cat in Houston.
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So let, let, let, let's go, uh, Chris, I, I'm gonna, y- you can probably wrap your answer into this because, um, bring this thing in for a landing here in a few moments here, but kind of like just thinking about like looking ahead, and I was interested d- to you, Chris, from ILSR's vantage point, tracking community broadband networks across the country, what makes the tribal broadband movement, for lack of a better term, distinct from other community broadband efforts, would you say?
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I think the challenges that it faces.
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I mean, you know, it's not easy for a municipality, let's just say like a city in Iowa, to decide to build a network, but, uh, there's a process, there's, uh, you know, a stability.
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Um, there's, uh, a sense of how to approach capital markets because they have authority to bond.
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And then you take that into, um, into Indian country where, um, there's, uh, usually less, uh, in terms of capital available.
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Uh, they're not able to borrow because, uh, because the land is held in trust by the federal government.
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They can't just access the same sort of financial instruments that a municipality can.
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So, like, why don't you two, as w- before we head out of here, kind of give us a picture of what people can expect and, and, and how, like, people that might wanna get involved in these things in the future f- like, find out more about it.

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