Metal detecting hobbyists who love tweaking their detecting devices are jokingly described by their peers as dials and smiles. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Smiles and Dials”
Among detectorists, those people who use metal detectors to find cool stuff buried underneath the earth, there’s a term: dials and smiles.
Dials and smiles.
Yeah.
Always like a rhyming compound.
What does that mean?
That’s a hardcore detectorist. That’s somebody who really loves tweaking the dials on their detector. They’re really into the technology because there’s, of course, a whole range of these metal detectors.
Oh, yeah.
I can see the fascination of the Gazich as much as the discovery.
Yes.
I can see you really getting into that, Grant.
I can see me getting too far into it. I need to go to some of those East Coast cities, though, where they have many more hundreds of years than we do in California of settlement by the French and the English and the Dutch and the Spaniards, and we have a greater chance of finding something important.
Of course, we could always find a lost wedding ring or something like that.
But dials and smiles. That guy is all dials and smiles. He really likes tweaking that equipment.
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