Hearing your own voice forces your brain to actually process the words instead of just scanning them.

Man, that hits different when you know the hands that touched it. I've dug some bottles on my uncle's land in Indiana and it really does make you stop and think about all those old sites in a new way.

So when you say hold it two full seconds with the arm locked out, is that the same hold time you use for every signal or does it change based on how far out the guy is? Curious because on a long boom you've got the whip in the line working against you too, and the signal can look like it's bouncing even when your arm is solid. What I keep running into is the guy on the hook not watching the hand at all, he's watching the load, so no amount of slow signals fixes that. Do you make your rigger lock eyes with you before you give the go, or is that something you just hope happens? Feels like half the miscommunication isn't even the signal itself, it's that nobody agreed on who's watching who.