Digging Into Our Scottish Heritage ... and Model Trains - Data Drive Podcast - Episode 14

Tracing their ancestral roots, Robbie and Jeff dive deep into their Scottish heritage and family genealogy. The guys discuss what it takes to design and register an official family tartan with the Scottish Tartan Registry, the hidden privacy traps of modern DNA kits, and why Jeff's ownership of a couple of one-foot plots of land in Scotland gives him a fancy title. They also tackle the unique challenges of tracing a family tree through centuries of phonetic name changes, share how a trip to the Barrie model railroaders show inspired a custom-coded smartphone app, and share the backstory behind Mel Brooks finally making Spaceballs 2! Read the complete show notes, comment or rate this episode, view pictures and obtain links from this episode at https://category5.tv/shows/datadrive/episode/14/ Support This Podcast #Cat5TV #DataDrivePodcast Running time: 44 Minutes 15 Seconds 0:00 Introduction 0:55 Dreaming of Robbie Ferguson Way 1:49 Jeff Weston Road, With Everything Weston 2:48 Jeff's Quest to Find His Ancestral Lineage 4:32 Jeff's Concerns About DNA-Based Ancestry Tests 9:33 Registration of a Family Tartan in Scotland 12:30 Orillia Scottish Festival 2026 - Celebrating Clan Ferguson 13:06 The Prohibitive Cost of Tartan Weaving 13:45 Jeff's Lairdship in Scotland 14:25 Hiking the Highland Trail 14:40 Galen's Loblaws Distribution Centre 14:58 A Smooth Commute: Zooming Through Queensville, Ontario 15:29 Barrie Allandale Railroad Modellers Train Show 16:50 BARM Model Railroad Club Layout 18:25 Model Train Scale and Gauges 18:49 Making Your Own Model Trains 20:04 Robbie's Son's Model Train Hack: Adding Sound to DC Railroad 23:13 Lua The Programming Language; Reminiscing About Minetest 23:52 Wishing for Flying Cars and Drone-Based Taxis 24:50 Flight Rules and Regulations for Flying Cars 25:40 Accelerating the Commute with Human-Carrying Drones 26:12 The Sophistication of Mesh-Based In-flight Crash Prevention 26:42 The Problem of Privacy and Being Tracked 27:33 Strava's Accidental Military Base Mapping 29:12 Human Selfishness Poses a Challenge to Technological Progress 30:43 Direct Bed-to-Work Drone Flight 31:08 Construction Lane Ending and Being a Kind Driver (or not) 32:11 Drivers: Turn on Your Headlights and Pay Attention 33:42 The Drive Continues and Sun Starts to Set 34:30 Data Drive - Now on Cable TV (ROGERS tv Channel 10 Barrie) 34:54 Looking Forward to Spaceballs 2 ... The Movie Sequel 38:56 How To Send Comments to Data Drive 39:18 Post-Production Magic 40:25 The Irony of a Web Creator's Show Making it to Cable TV 41:13 Jeff is Late to the Cable TV Service Game: Thank You Bundles 42:42 ROGERS tv is a Commercial-Free Viewer Experience 43:32 Closing Thoughts