a janky pump

Brandon has no hail. Collin rescued a robot. We learn about another not so great movie.

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podcast, laundry, bicycle handlebars, graduation, Bolivar, dance recital, Yarrow plants, property management, pet services, robot vacuum, logging, family dynamics, chainsaw, tidal river, white pants, Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, severed arm, masculinity, toxic masculinity, 1971 movie, Sometimes a Great Notion, HBO, movie review, boring movie, action scenes, summer watch list, book discussion, haiku, lightning.

SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin

Collin  00:05

Oh. Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, a janky pop Ahoy, ahoy.

Brandon  00:20

What's going on? Oh, not a lot this sort of hanging out, really, I don't really,

00:30

no motor school. Man,

Brandon  00:34

this week's been a lot of laundry, like tons of laundry, and just like general housework stuff, you know, Susan still has to work every once in a while because she does the parents as teachers thing. So, like, she had to go work to she's been working this week, but not like every day, right? She's gonna go in, you know? So she doesn't have to work out all the time, but she's still at work sometimes. Oh, okay, they had, like, a story time event thing today. It's like a big they had, like a big picnicky thing, right? So it was a big, big deal. But so, yeah, mostly, uh, mostly nothing. That's pretty much what I've been doing. Pretty exciting. I did. I did today, yeah, right, since it is actually since it stopped raining for a while, right? It's not been like storming outrageously outside. There was no hail. So I went, I put some new handlebars on the old bicycle.

Collin  01:38

Oh, okay, you went from, from what you had the did you

Brandon  01:44

have the bull horns? Yeah, but they were too wide at the white so I got some narrow, like 38

Collin  01:50

I think some try by some try. So

Brandon  01:54

they're still bull bars, but they're smaller. They're more narrow, right? The other ones felt like, when you leaned forward, your arms were like too splayed out, right? And it just felt uncomfortable and weird, right? So I put some narrower ones on there and that from the 10 minutes that I rode around outside today, they were much better, much more responsive, right? They're much more so I don't know. That's all I did today. I was test fit some of those. I have to adjust them slightly. That's what I did today. We're not in fuss with that since, again, it wasn't raining. Finally, there was no chill outside. So I thought, hey, now's a good time to do.

Collin  02:39

What needs to happen right now is for me to go do this thing that needs that I have to be out. Yeah,

Brandon  02:44

yeah. So I went, did that aired up because my tires are so flat, because you sit in the garage, right? Don't write on tires. No. I think one of my, I think the stem of my little air novels slightly bent on how that happens to Oh no. It goes, but

03:05

there's the long ones. They're the one of those ones. The pista, is that what you're talking about? Yeah, that is that that one, not the shreds,

Brandon  03:14

the flat one, right? Yeah, yeah. It's not that one. It's the Yeah. It's the big, tall, spindly looking one. So that has the, yeah, it's that, yeah, yeah. They have those tubes. So, like, it's kind of, you know, it's whatever. But I think one of the things is slightly bent. I don't think it was leaking any it didn't make any noises. Once I got it aired up. And at first I thought it was, but it was the pump handle. I know, I was like, Oh my god.

Collin  03:47

Was always, it happens to always, all of the time. So I'm right there with you where I'm like, dang it, there it is. Oh, it's done. Oh, okay. Like, Oh no,

Brandon  03:59

janky pump, right? It's like, not quite high enough pressure for those little skinny tires, right? So you kind of have to, like, only, yeah, I really, kind of, like, force it in there. But it was the only pump that I could find at Walmart, because, like, they don't have bike pumps Walmart, really, and I did, so it works good enough for what I need it for right now. But, like, sure, whatever. But yeah, so other than that, again, yeah, the pump handle is going down. I was like, Oh, my gosh, is that? Oh, oh, wait, no, it's it's just this. It's just this. Okay, never mind Drat. I know Drat. So, yeah, that's what I did today. Did some light wrenching on the old disassembled the front of the bike. So that's always fun. Yeah, it was good times. That means I have to get more bar tape. Oh, but it's fine, and I have to get some I don't think. I have any more, like, electrical tape

05:03

to attach the bar tape with. So that's fine. I wore my gloves today. It was fine, whatever. Who cares?

Collin  05:12

Yeah, yeah, you've got gloves, you

Brandon  05:15

know, yeah, so I gotta, I'll double check and make sure it's, like, centered, you know, that might be useful, right? But, like, whatever I don't, yeah, pesky things like that, but it was close enough. I think that's pretty much all I did today, laundry, futzing with that. Oh, oh, right. Let's see what I do. Over the weekend, I went, I went to more graduation, even more. Yeah, yeah, more graduation. Action, this time, once again, traveled, traveled far to the city of Bolivar again, right? This is really breaking my record of not going to Bolivar, right? It's really not working out for me here. I think you're good for the next decade at this point. I know. I know. I know, perhaps recession is what I would say, yeah, right, almost like I know people that live there now, weird. Anyway, I would, I would work on that person. No, I went to the mama. Tell her you said that, bro, you went to the Bolivar graduation, right? And, and here, it's very interesting, right? Some things I noticed about the Bolivar graduation, yes, right? Obviously, much larger than my school right by many times, but yeah, a weird thing that I've never seen happen before occurred at this graduation. Right? People were just leaving in the middle, right? They like, saw them cross the stage and they're like, i Bye, and then they would just leave like, you don't do that, though, guys, it's not even that many people, it still was, like, under an hour, right? Just

07:10

like, what? They're just like, they saw him, like, Okay, bye. And then they just left.

Brandon  07:17

Bizarre. It was at, it was at they had the graduation at SBU, right? So it was, like, bigger. There was, like, the gym is, you know, bigger. And I don't know what that Oliver high school gym looks like. Actually, I do. That's a lie, but, you know, it's bigger than that. So there's lots of exit points. And so like, getting out of there was not difficult when it was over, like just walk down the stairs and out the door, done. So I don't know what these people were doing, leaving. I wonder our way through the graduation. I've never seen this Now, granted, do I go to many graduations? No, good question, right? Or especially graduations at other schools that I don't work at, no, but I I've never seen this happen before when I was taken aback, right? Shocked, shocked, I say, so weird. That is

Collin  08:21

weird. What are you doing? I mean, do you think these people were leaving to, like, go get the graduation party started for their people? Right? Maybe, like, right? Like,

Brandon  08:35

I don't know it. I don't because it wasn't, sometimes it wasn't just like, it was like groups of people. It wasn't just like a person, you know, it was like whole section of people just left, like, guys. It's not even that long, right? It's not even that big. It was it? What was it weird that they randomly said the Pledge of Allegiance in the graduation? Yeah, a little bit. But, like, that's

08:58

new. That kind of took me back.

Brandon  09:00

That's not a thing that normally happens either. But you know, whatever, that's fine. If that's your school thing, yeah, you can do that. That's fine. Leaving in the middle of the graduation is the thing I have problem with. I too. That was weird, right? That was weird. Oh, I don't listeners let us know, is this a phenomenon you have witnessed before? Because this was the first time I was confronted with it, and I honestly didn't really know how to handle this. Like, I was just like, staring. Like, you know what is happening? One of the one of one group next to us, they left. But one of the dudes, like, clearly wasn't interested. He, like, whipped out his phone halfway through, he was watching something on Amazon. Probably he's watching bones of all things like, really, bro, you're watching that instead of the that's what he watched. Instead of graduation. Was an episode of part of an episode of bone on the old phone. I was like, That's a weird. A choice right now, first of all, and second, graduation is not even that long, bro, what are you doing? How do you maybe, even with like, over 200 people, it was just like, you know, they just like, they know, they know, there's been people so they're just like, blam, blam, blam, blam, go, like,

Collin  10:18

once at all. I don't know why

10:20

it was a weird, what a weird, what a

Collin  10:24

weird TV show to be watching. I know it's been, it's been over with for like, almost a decade. At this point. He was older guy. Maybe

Brandon  10:33

he just likes to show I don't know it was. It was very strange. But that that aside the believing in the middle, and it wasn't just like one group of people, right? That's the thing that made me really, like, concerned about what was going on around here. Because, like, you know, if, like, one family has, like, or one part of the family has to leave, like, one person, like, yeah, that's what I was expecting. Like, normal, but that's, that's, you know, whatever. But this was, like, dozens of people.

Collin  11:10

I don't like that at all to feel it was weird,

Brandon  11:16

yeah, right, like, you know, and you can't see all of them because they're, like, behind you, whatever. But like this, this seating is basically in the round in

11:24

the basketball station. They like blanketed off one section behind the the speakers, right, you know, the stage, so that you could see. But like,

Brandon  11:35

still, like you notice people leaving, is very weird, I don't know. So that. So I did that. And then also, also I was in another gym. Yes, it's all coming back to me now. I was also in another gymnasium on the day before that, on Saturday, right? Because Susan's, one of Susan's PTA families invited her to their daughter's end of Season dance recital. So I went to a small person dance recital, and it was weird, but, like, it was in this little gym at, like, another local school, and it was like, definitely they under prepared for the number of people coming to the end of season dance recital because it was standing room only for children's dancing. Yeah, I know it was very bizarre, like all the relatives came. Yeah. Now, does this dance studio, have a lot of people that are part of it. Also, yes, but like, I think all the relatives came because it's like the end of school, it's the end of the season dancing. So, like, there, by all accounts, from people that I heard talking there, and what she talked about, but heard from the family that she went to see this was not like this at the last dance recital. So something strange has happened. Like anyway, so we stood, we didn't say for the whole thing. We watched the little girl. Luckily, she was on at the beginning, because she is the smallest of girls, right? So we got to we left, but, but I did. There was a side note that I needed to make sure that you had to tell you,

13:27

so we're watching these things. Out on stage comes a group of small girls in tap shoes and B costumes. And I started laughing, and I was hoping, I was like, Oh my gosh, this has the potential to be the greatest thing

Brandon  13:53

ever. And then they didn't play the song that I thought they were going to and I was sad. What song did they play? They played Flight of the Bumblebee, which fair? Okay. And then there was another song about bugs that they played, but, but that, you know, that's fair, a little on the nose, not fair. But do you know what song I was hoping for? Yeah,

Collin  14:17

this is what I'm, I'm I'm, I'm, I, I, I don't think I'm I don't think my brain's in the right place. No, I don't know.

Brandon  14:26

You don't know. You don't know. I think you might know. I think you're gonna say I'm referencing a very specific music video from the 90s. Oh, oh,

Collin  14:41

okay, okay, okay, okay. Now this is, it's, it's, yes, hold on. Is it the No, oh yeah, yeah, no, rain, yeah.

Brandon  15:04

I wanted that so badly that would have

Collin  15:09

been the perfect callback. Because, I mean, I know, I mean, the average age of the group of people in there, like, yeah,

Brandon  15:15

like, this dance instructor is definitely the right age, yeah, for this, okay, some of the parents may be a little young for blind melon, okay, but like, some of them are not, all right, some of them are not. They know. Okay,

Collin  15:30

no famous. One of

Brandon  15:33

the most famous music videos from the 90s. Ever a dancing B girl, right? Yeah, yeah. I couldn't remember the name. Yeah, right. I sang. I knew the lyrics. I couldn't remember the name of songs. I sang that my phone came in handy. I sang the lyrics and it like immediately knew what I was. Nice. Good job. That's

Collin  16:01

exactly what needs to happen here. Good job.

Brandon  16:05

Assistant, being on the phone. That's, this is what you're for. You know what? This is the only thing I need you from

Collin  16:11

you that is, that is what AI is good for. Congratulations. Yeah,

Brandon  16:13

that's all I need. The only appropriate use for this right now. So, yeah, secure thing. Yeah, this random song from, I didn't realize it was a 1992 special

Collin  16:24

that makes that that is shockingly old. And I'm not, I

Brandon  16:28

know I thought it was later, right? Because I think, but I also revival action came till a little bit later, right? Like, of course, it was immediately after Nirvana, and every band went, nope, can't do that anymore anyway. Yeah, just

Collin  16:44

kidding, but

Brandon  16:46

yeah, so put Yeah. So that was the other thing that I thought about this week. Was like, I need I was disappointed that there was no blind melon, right? Also, I'm putting blind melon preemptively on my short list for Missouri State Fair bands for next

17:02

year, because I think that would be beautiful. It's exactly the right. I know I'm gonna have to make a note of this somewhere and

Brandon  17:13

remember that that that's going on there. Okay, so listeners, mark my words next year, State Fair, music, draft, blind, melon, I'm down for that one. Put a note on my phone. Here I am making notes. Thing right now that's really new, yes, yes. Ai help for this. Okay, I don't. You can't help me here. Ai, you cannot,

Collin  17:47

no, see where this it's, that's the skill. That's a skill set you can't, nope, no, computer's gonna get that. No

17:56

state fair.

Collin  17:57

That is, no of State Fair energy like that is that's a primo stuff.

Brandon  18:03

Have a note. I have a note. I need to move this note because that can't go in the first spot. That's not, oh, allowed

Collin  18:12

to keep it in the first spot so you don't forget about

Brandon  18:15

it. I cannot. I can't. Oh no, movie things. Have to figure out how to use this. Oh, no, I'm just looking. I'll

Collin  18:23

work on that later. I'll work on that later. But you're watching the music video. On flying, yeah, on just silently, and it's, it's inextricable. I don't they're standing on the grassy hill from Windows, Windows 95 and the girls going around, yes, it's so I don't really understand, but great, good stuff. The jiving hand motions. Everyone's in a bee costume

Brandon  18:53

only, yeah, but at the end, right? It's, see, it's beautiful because they, you know, they find their she finds her, people. They're all. Everything is fine, yeah? It's an extended metaphor, yeah. Disguise is a music video. You love to see it, right? This is exactly

Collin  19:16

as only as only the late 90s could bring I know this. I know his hair is gorgeous. Anyway. I know, yeah, okay, well, that's his man that that is, that is a that's a shock to the system to watch that thing today.

Brandon  19:36

Yes, it was mine as well. So, yeah, he watched, you know, you were and then I was like, I was trying to explain this to Susan, and she was like, I have no idea we're talking about. And then I played her the song, and she goes, Oh, I know this song. See, everybody else's

Collin  19:49

everybody knows the song. They all know, even though they don't want to admit it, or they've just forgotten, because they forgot, is what they've done. That's

Brandon  19:57

fine. So you. You go. There you go. I'll let you go because I have, oh, a returning segment, but I want to hear from you first. Oh, I want to hear how you've been doing. Oh, closing deals. And

Collin  20:19

I just realized lost. Oh, here we are sorry, because I had to cough, and I was like, I need to mute for this one. Can never remember the key, right? Like, I don't. I try. I don't do the fast because I don't do the hot keys because I in my ADHD intensity. I'm clicking on, like 17, I'm rotating between 17 with different windows where, like, doing everything because I have to fidget. No. This week was really good. We had some pretty intense thunderstorms and tornadoes kind of in the area that kind of was interesting. We spent our first time in the basement, because the tornado sirens. I wouldn't have gone down, but I have children who are like, like, the first tornado starting? Yeah, it started in Lillian was standing on the stairs going, we're going down to the basement. I was like, okay,

21:13

all right, let's go.

Collin  21:15

Okay, but we've been doing a lot. We set out a camera so we could try and catch what was eating our strawberry patch. Turns out it's just everything, birds, squirrels, rabbits, pretty sure that we have a large groundhog somewhere in our neighborhood that made an appearance on our front porch, not a front porch yard. So, which is weird because we're in the city, but they make home everywhere, right? So, so we set out one to try and catch that. And just, we've only just caught cats, which is fine. But then dad came up last week for a ball game, and with him he brought so we were down at his house. I was down and I had noted, oh, wow, that flower looks very pretty. What's that called? He said, Oh, it's Yarrow. And I went, Man, that's a pretty flower.

Brandon  22:15

Oh. So he said that, yeah, we all know. We all know what's happening. So we showed up with two

Collin  22:23

Yarrow plans, of course, to my house. And this was Megan. And I have been doing a lot of discussion about redoing our front flower beds. Anyway, I don't like them. They had that the thorn bushes, those barbaries. Oh, yeah, right, like we used to have

Brandon  22:41

make with this, yeah, landscaping. I think our school has much those

Collin  22:45

in front of it. You know, we used to have them around at dad's growing up, too, you know? And people like them because they grow year round. They're, they're just kind of bland and non offensive, thorn bush guys, we're putting a hazard in this exactly. We've long not like this, and then we also have these weird, low growing, I not a it's not a you, but it's kind of like a you in bushes. And they never really were doing really well. And then last year, one died, and I just ripped it out, and instead, I put a planter in it, and it kind of like, I kind of liked it, but we were like, well, these views are not healthy. We're gonna have to rip all this out anyway. And then dad shows up with two, two yarrows, and that was that was enough to send Megan and I into an absolute frenzy of ripping all of the bushes out.

23:38

Oh, well, there you go.

Collin  23:41

Make way for the new ones. We did. We ripped out 12345678, bushes. Oh, good grief. Yeah, five barbaries and 433, of the big you bushes, things I don't know anyway, yeah, not you use, yes, the not you use. I don't know what these things are. They were to use anyway. And then we ripped him out. We're like, well, we have two Yarrow, I guess we should go figure out what else we're going to put in

24:15

these fair so

Collin  24:17

we put the Yarrow, kind of like, arrange them gently, and then went and stood in Lowe's for an hour, walking back and forth. And what we have come up with my my vision, my vision for this was our town is called, was it was called, and it still is not by the you people use it was called the queen of the prairie, by you, that's who I still call it this. But back whenever they had the big railroad and they put the cattle drives, would come up from Texas to here, all the way to Chicago, like it was a big, bustling town. It was called Queen of the prairie, and it's a prairie town. And so I'm like, we have to get prairie Bucha. We have to get back

24:56

when Missouri was the waste. Like, this is where. Like 1820 that's,

Collin  25:05

I mean, even back in the early 1900s when our host, when our house was built, right, it was still called Queen City, the Queen City, Queen of the prairie, but is mostly from its heyday in the mid to late 1800s so I'm like, Look, it's a prairie house. It's a prairie build. It's in a Prairie City called Queen of the prairie. We need prairie grasses like I want that there. So what would Laura Ingalls do? Right? That's really what we have to know, right? We ended up getting a lot of some big, some very big, prairie grasses are going to grow, you know, five feet tall, because Megan's stipulation was she wanted something present in the winter. She didn't want it to just be, you know, barren and die, yeah, barren. So I'm like, well, grasses, they're gonna grow up to be giant. And then we get cool, like, rustling and stuff out front. So that's what we did.

Brandon  25:57

Yes, the rustling, yes, it's very important. And

Collin  26:00

then we got some other like shrubs that are like, two foot by two foot, 1000s.

Brandon  26:04

Do your plants make? That's what you're gonna think about in landscaping. Your landscape porch gonna be like,

Collin  26:13

yes, your landscape can shape the soundscape. It's a, it's a, you know, it's a common pneumonia. There we go, that we use in the biz, but we so it's ridiculous. Anyway, I broke a shovel trying to get up one of the bushes. So we had to buy shovel, which Megan was like, oh, no, really, you did this. I'm like, I was trying to save time. I gave it I was going to, like, a little hunka hunka to, like, leverage up the plant. And it was really close, and I gave it a little extra Hunka, and the wooden handle on this shattered. And the other reason that we were doing this so fast was because our city does a city wide cleanup, and so you can put any trash in crud that you want is and they will come with a giant claw. And that's a good reason to do this. So I'm like, we've got to get this done this weekend, and because they're coming on Monday, like Monday. So we got in we really, like it got some nice, pretty flowers in there too, in between grasses. So we'll see how it matures. Sorry, we'll see how it matures and grows. And then, and then we got a bunch more rain. And then this week, we've been working on, you mentioned the business thing. I don't know if I ever told you. Three and a half years ago, I went into that property management company, and I'd asked for a meeting, and they were very happy to have me in and I was going to offer them that I'd like to be their preferred vendor, that if they get a request, that they would just refer out to us, and we would work one on one. And I sat and talked with them for an hour as they peppered me with operational things, structural things, softwares that we used, insurances, all this stuff. And in my exuberance, I thought, well, I'm in I am impressing these people. So I talked a lot, as I am want to do. And then three months later, they rolled out their own internal program, offering, offering offering these services. They just pumped you for information. Just pumped me for information. Yeah, yeah. And also classic, and they offer their own internal services to their residents. And so they, over the last three and three years, I guess roughly three years, that's what they've been doing, is if somebody contacts the leasing manager, they would handle all of this internally. And well, it was wrapped into a larger package of like you could enroll in that you could also get house cleaning services, you could also get laundry services, and you could also get complimentary, not complimentary, but you also get car rental services too. Like all of this was in this weird life services package deal. And then about a month ago they I got a phone call, and it was from the guy who I'd met with, and he was like, Hey, you probably don't remember me. And I was

29:21

like, Oh, I remember you I do

Collin  29:25

Loki, like, we get Yeah,

29:31

and, you

Collin  29:33

know, he explained to me what was going on. And he was like, I was wondering if you come in and sit down, we'd like to have a meeting and talk with you. And can you do it in like two days? I went, Hey, sure, why? I'll just, let me just show up see what you're doing. And in that meeting, I learned that over the last three years, the program has slowly deteriorated and fell apart because they had one person in charge of it, and that person looked. Left under unsure circumstances. They tried to replace that person, but couldn't quite get it. And they were to the point over the last year where they were having, like, the leasing manager go and do these services or Yeah, and they realized that this was not good, and because, for some reason, when they launched these, they decided that they wanted to, they wanted to offer the they were going to, how do I say this? They were going to contract out the house cleaning, and they were going to in house the Pet Services, and hearing them say that, I was like, why that's that's backwards. And so they were like, we realized that was backwards, and so we're flipping this now. And then they just dropped it on us. And they were like, hey, we want you to take over this entire program and you just do it. And it's not like they're getting out of the of this thing. What they are doing is they are pumping this to and they haven't been marketing this at all. So over the last couple years, it's just slowly, like dwindled and dwindled and dwindled. Yeah, they are wanting to make this a better thing, and so now to all 17 of their properties, they're going, this is why I've been really stressed this past week. Fair, they are wanting to now make this so that we it is it is the this property management companies Pet Services as rendered by us like it's all co branded. It's all like our logos right there next to theirs. We are giving them language to use, and people sign up internally through them, and then they reach out to us. And then we take we take that over, and yeah, and so it's, like, really intense. I've never had to parse so many documents before, and I've never had to it's caused a lot of logistics concerns, because right now, it's a pretty small program. Again, the aforementioned, like, past three years, because they were having, like, maintenance workers and lawn crews taking the care of these things. And really have no system for this. And we kind of come in with, like a bull in a china shop, and we're like, out of my way. And so it's little things like, like, oh, when you arrive, you just need to go, go check in at the leasing office to make sure that they know you're here. And I'm like, Cool, cool, cool. Is leasing office going to be open at 6am on Christmas? And they're like, Well, no. And then I'm like, well, then I can, I can't do that. So what do I do? Little things like that? You know that that we have to have to work through. But yeah, today I went and picked up some co branded lanyards for us to have, because that was another aspect of this, of like, well, you're on site. You need to be. People need to know who you are and why you're here. Totally understand that it was fair. Yeah, you know. But like, I can't be checking in and checking out because you're not going to be there, sure?

Brandon  33:31

Yeah, the leasing office open at 1030 at night, right?

Collin  33:36

Or New Year's, or Christmas or Thanksgiving, they're not going to be there at all holidays. Or I know how leasing offices worked. They're also closed all the time throughout the day. Yeah, right.

Brandon  33:49

There have like, a very narrow there's like, a call for appointments. Lot of times they're not just, like, open well,

Collin  33:56

and a lot of times the leasing manager is in there going bump it up. It up. Oh, somebody just came in. They want to show and I need to show them an apartment. Let me lock up, put my out of office, sign up, and I'm gonna, yeah, exactly block the property, right? I'm gonna

34:10

be on property. Well, I show up.

Collin  34:13

What are we gonna do? Right? You can't, yeah, wait for them. Yeah, that's fine, yeah? So, yes. So this is still in very early, early days, but, man, it was so weird like to go through all of this, and they have been very gracious and very open about this entire process, and have it multiple times. Yeah, they've basically just been like, and it's because one of the people that is, there has a big proponent of saying, like, I can tell they're going, we're tired of dealing with this and whatever you need, we will take care of like, like, whatever you need. We will do because we're tired of

34:59

the. Don't want to do it.

Collin  35:02

Want to so it has the potential to get, like, really, really big and pretty, really scary, and also, yes, also, and it didn't land quite so well, like, I realized we've got to go to our team with this, and talk to our team about this, and because, like, they're gonna know, like they're gonna notice if all of a sudden, like, the largest property management company in our area is being like, co branding market mass marketing materials and TV commercials and inviting us to go do all this stuff. Yeah,

Brandon  35:35

when they drive by and see themselves on a sign, like, wait a minute,

Collin  35:39

hold

35:40

might

Collin  35:41

have some questions here, so, you know, and it didn't. What didn't, what was unfortunate is that, like, the week before, we had sent out a survey and like, hey everybody we know, it's been busy the past month or two. Like, want to get a pulse check. How are you feeling about the number of hours that you're getting right. Like, are you getting too few? Like, do you want more? Do you want less? Are you happy with what you're

36:08

getting? And like, 80%

Collin  36:10

of the team responded, but they were happy with the amount of hours that they were getting. Then I we plop this down, and I'm like, what if? What if there was more though? What if there was more though, right? And so it was good. It was good talking to them about that. And have some legitimate concerns, again, that Meg and I are kind of, like, throwing our hands up, like, I don't know, like, I don't know how this is going to work. We go to the property, the company, and, you know, they're a big like, they're big, big corporation, they're in multiple states, and they're holding up their hands, going, we don't know how this is going to work. We've never done a relationship like this before. And I'm like, awesome. This is Hooray, really scary. I mean, it's simple things like, how do we do it? An onboarding of a client? How do we bring them into our system and merge with your system? How do you know that they've booked with us and are moving forward? How do we keep you in the loop? And that's the other thing too. Of I have been out of businessy culture for a long time, and when I worked for the state, it was very heavy on using, like, cc

37:32

on emails. Oh yeah, I

Collin  37:35

haven't had to cc an email in five years because I just, you know, send it to whom I need to send it. And I didn't hit Reply All to an email, and I kind of got my hand slapped, and I was like,

Brandon  37:50

oh, right, right. There will be 15 people

Collin  37:55

on this email, and I can't just absent mindedly hit reply. I have to hit Reply All, because, for some reason, all of them hate their lives enough that they all want to be on this email thread of me going back and forth, discussing intricate details of this process. Sure. Have fun, people.

Brandon  38:14

This is the opposite of how the school email works, right? Everybody hits Reply All, and they don't need to, like, that's

Collin  38:24

yeah, and they don't know

Brandon  38:26

Yeah, I should be like, oh, what? Why are you doing this? What is happening? I don't need to know your answer to this question. Just that's awkward, even though most time is like, yes, like, still annoying things in my inbox that I don't want. Yeah, and then when you need to go back and look at the original email, if like, futs with a lot of things, because it like collapses the window, and you're like, you can only see the like, the last five responses. And like, I need to see the original body, Yep, yeah. Anyway, I man, so

Collin  39:11

this is it's been kind of unreal and a bit surreal to go through this process. Sure thankful for it, but obviously, have some big hurdles coming up, because just logistically, you know, how, yeah, how do we act? How do we keep track of things? Codes are all different. Like, there's just so much that now I'm like, Hmm, well, this wasn't on my 2025, bingo card, but, like, I'm not, you know, like mad, but now I'm like, this is a lot of this. It's gonna be a lot of work,

39:44

yeah. Like,

Collin  39:47

that's a lot, yeah, yeah. But we have, you know, we're like, Okay, well, this may provide us an afford us an ability to actually, actually elevate people to team leads or, like. Like part time, you know, like daily managers, kind of positions. Because my biggest concern is that, especially in the early days, that this will be like an 8020 problem, where it's only generating like 20% of our revenue, but it costs us 80% of our problems in overhead and admin headaches, of all of these emails back and forth, right? Like in all of these, all these processes that are now having to go into place for us to be tracking and monitoring and keeping our hands in and, you know, knowing where things are that could easily eat up all of my day and attention just tending to this, but it's actually not a big part of the business. And so trying to make sure that we get people to realize of like this, we can't. We cannot be having five different hands, handoffs for each new person that comes on, oh, yeah,

41:01

no, that, no, that

Collin  41:04

would be a mess. I cannot be doing. I cannot be doing a personal introduction to every property manager. I cannot have that. I cannot be doing all of these little things, because if this does blow up like that, will swamp us. I will be doing nothing but tending to this. And there is a very easy way for us to, you know, do this in a clean manner. It's just, are they going to be up for that, given how they've operated in the past and how they

41:43

what kind of control people want to have.

41:51

So,

Collin  41:53

yeah, so we are trucking along

Brandon  41:55

these a lot of like, very strange challenges that, like, yeah,

Collin  41:59

right. Like, and now I'm going, yeah, it just and it's also trying to get them to understand the world of what we actually do, you know, because it was a lot of things like, Oh, well, we'll just have the client, the resident. That was the other thing. Like, we call them clients, they call them residents. Like, we'll just have the resident call the leasing office, and then the leasing office can reach out to such and such, and they'll reach out to you. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa,

Brandon  42:26

that's too long of a chain occurring here,

Collin  42:29

so time delay.

42:33

Tell them like, Do you Do you

Collin  42:35

know how many requests we get for services the next day, at 10 o'clock

Brandon  42:39

at night, and they were like, what? Yeah, that's when

Collin  42:45

people want to book their services. They're done from home, they're done from work, they've had dinner, they're relaxing, they're planning out their day, and then they go, Oh crap, tomorrow or or it's Friday and they're booking for the weekend, or it's Sunday morning, right? Like people will get weird hours

Brandon  43:04

I get like, believe me, sir or madam. I also wish that people thought about this more in advance, yes, but they know,

Collin  43:14

so I just told them, like, the less human interaction because so for because there was like, Oh, just the less

Brandon  43:19

links in that chain. That's too that's too much of a delay, right? Like, yeah. And

Collin  43:26

also, I'm like, you don't. The other thing I was trying to really impress upon them was you don't need to reinvent this wheel. We've solved this.

Brandon  43:37

Yeah, that's true. You're hiring, you're contracting us to deal with this. So let us do okay, here's what we do. Yes, okay, done

Collin  43:47

this problem. This is exactly that of you. No, you. Let us tell you how this is going to work and be and so we had a whole meeting where I had generated an entire document of a workflow for onboarding and the various touch points, and who was responsible for what and how it was going to do and what information they got. And then it was like, I told and then I think what really clicked for them was I said, once they're in our software, they book whenever they want, without having to talk to a single person. And they were like, oh, that sounds really nice.

44:23

And I'm like, it, is it? That's why we do it.

Collin  44:27

Yeah, we become more available to them. They don't have to make a phone call. Why do that? And they don't have to do all the stuff. They just log in and go, click, boom, right. That's it, please? That's it. And so, so that's where we're that's the other big lifting here, of like, what we how this actually needs to work, to be convenient, because in their mind, it makes total sense of like

44:56

they want to

Collin  44:59

provide the. Like, high end high touch service, but also they don't want to be available, or can't be available. 24/7 365, and so we're trying to come with some realism of like, here's how you are available. 24/7 365, like, here's how you have contact and touch points. Here's how we've solved that.

45:17

So just like,

Collin  45:21

smile and nod and say yes to what I'm telling you, because it's gonna work. It's gonna work. Like, just, just say, just, just, you know, just, trust me, it's going to be fine. So that's been, it's been wild. And yeah, so we've been working through again, signing bunches of documents, way too much paperwork. Oh, yeah,

Brandon  45:45

not my fave. But you know, it is what it is. It is what it is. But yeah, yeah. So here we go. Much, much headaches, much headaches. And yeah, no funness, right? No, no, I

Collin  45:59

will say, though, real quick. In closing, it's not nearly as fun as the other thing we've been doing this week, though. Oh yeah,

46:05

let's go because

Collin  46:06

we did rescue a robot. What what we rescued a robot? Did I

Brandon  46:14

what in The Iron Giant is going on? How does you how does a person rescue a robot?

Collin  46:21

Our name, you steal one

46:23

of the Boston Dynamics dogs. No, okay, good, okay, good. They will send the century dogs after you did.

Collin  46:32

I tell you, we met one of those.

Brandon  46:34

Yeah, at the air show when you tried to go into the wrong Yeah, right. It's fun in the Top Gun Show when they come out and usher, do you win?

Collin  46:44

And I know sorry, neighbor was walking too. So it's the neighborhood cleanup, right? So everybody's taking their junk out to the side of the road. And it's the time of year where, like you, like we, like going out and like finding cool stuff or weird stuff, and fixing it up and doing that kind of stuff. It's also that time of year where the pilfers come by. The scrap metal lists those people are out.

Brandon  47:11

So the secret success to city wide cleanup is the city picks up only part of the stuff that gets sent out of the curve.

Collin  47:19

Everyone's like, what? How? How is the city going to throw all this away? And, ladies, they don't, they don't. Because by the time

Brandon  47:27

people, people, not in the Midwest, is this the thing that happens, like, where you live? Because this is very common here. Like, I used to work with a guy and he, like, knew, the days he was, like, into like, furniture repair. Oh, yeah, rest and so he was all about it. He would go and he would get all kinds of stuff, and then he would just, like, refinish, like a table, and then sell that sucker. Yeah,

Collin  47:51

okay, you know, like Megan and I, when we were in, we were in Texas, we used to do this. We'd go around, and there was no, no joke, like we managed to, I think some we did this. We went around and we got it was days city wide cleanup, and we hit some somebody had a garage sale, and there was a whole bucket of things that didn't sell. And we'll grab this. I think we made like, $1,500 off of all these items. After we had, like, cleaned it up, some guys threw Sona, like DJI drones that he were like, Oh, these are broken. I can't and I fixed them, and they were just fine, like, that kind of stuff. Well, so I will say this year was good to us. Our neighbor was throwing away this couch because he was like, I just don't have room for this couch. And I was like, Is there anything wrong with this couch? And he said, Nope. And I went, I would like your couch. So we picked it up and carried it across our street. Okay,

48:43

Aaron, what the heck

Collin  48:46

we have this front room that's had nothing in it. It's had this lonely table in there that we harvested the chairs from to make our dining room chairs because that we liked them better. And then there's just been a table. It's kind of been like a semi workbench in our front of our house. It's been weird. And so what I did was we took this couch, which is a beautiful and it's white, cream color, and it's great. It fits right in this wall. I took this little round table that we had, I chopped off 18 inches of it, and I turned it into a coffee table. And now I'm

49:17

like, hey,

Collin  49:20

oh, you mean like the legs, okay, the legs, yeah, yeah,

49:24

that's weird. Why would you it was like a, it was like

Collin  49:27

a, it was supposed to be like a breakfast nook table, yeah, thing was kind of round,

49:31

okay, like a, like a pub table, yeah,

Collin  49:36

yeah, but the top was kind of, it is a little wide anyway, yeah, slam down. It's coffee table. Now, perfect. Now, all of a sudden, look, I made a coffee table, which Megan was like, we don't need a coffee table. Guess what? Table is awesome for putting puzzles together on. Oh,

49:51

yeah,

Collin  49:53

yep. I always need a coffee table,

Brandon  49:57

right? I have one in this room right now. It's really i. It really, doesn't really, this room is too small to be having a coffee table. But do I care? No, no, because I just have one. Yeah. Isn't it practical? Yes? Am I going to keep it also? Yes, like, I don't,

Collin  50:18

but now it's like, this great little spot. And then I realized that we had room for two little sitting chairs. But I didn't have sitting chairs until my neighbor, who we also pilfered the couch from, set out some chairs. And I went, is there anything wrong with these wood chairs? And he's like, Well, the rungs on the bottom are kind of broken. And I went, I have glue, so now we've got two chairs. Boom area. And then my next door neighbor was throwing out a ton of stuff, and we have, again, I know all these people, and so it's fine.

Brandon  50:48

But also, even if you don't know the people, they don't care. They just, they don't want it anymore. So

Collin  50:53

putting it out there, yeah, so he walks out and he puts this, this, this entryway table, you know, one of those, like, it's tall and really narrow, but yeah, and I'm like, Oh, that's cool. I don't have a spot for it right now, but I can find a place for this thing because it's nice. And then he comes out, he puts this little robot vacuum on top of it. And I'm really interested, because this thing is also, like, shiny, it's not dusty. I'm like, well, then that hasn't been used. And so I'm walking over, and I'm looking at the table, and he comes out, and he's like, Yeah, this is my grandma's table. It's just been sitting in our garage and we don't have room for it, and it just needs to go somewhere. And I'm like, okay, cool. And I'm like, the vacuum thing. He goes, Oh yeah, the LIDAR swivel on it. It's busted. And I think you're gonna have, he said, I read up on it, you've gotta, like, crack the whole thing open, and it's got this band in the middle that you've got to replace, and then that will make it work again. I'm like, okay, cool. And at that point I'm thinking, like dad did for us, like, I'll take this, I'll throw it at my children, give them a screwdriver, and we'll work on it. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, right? But if it does so I get it, yeah. And it's one of those, like, self emptying ones too, where it will dock and then it'll suck everything out of the base. Yeah, so, and I'm like, Well, I Okay, and I'm reading up on this, and it's like, Oh, does it say the LIDAR sensor is broken and won't turn here's what you do. You stick a Q tip into this little notch, and then, then you, not violently, but assertively, make it rotate. They said, force it to rotate, and this will solve it. Because what happens is, in especially,

52:55

like, like, dog hair, never stuff in the history of electronics. Has that ever been said before.

Collin  53:00

I know it was like, it move. Just make it move. What can happen is debris and hair can get caught down in this, in the little gears that make this thing turn.

53:13

Oh, okay, and yeah, it won't

Collin  53:17

do it because it won't damage itself. But if you force it and it, like, kind of pushes through that, then it will move. And so I was like, Oh, well, I'm gonna try that before I start cracking this open. And I stuck it in, and I went left. I was like, Oh, it turns really easy to the left. I went to the right. I'm like, Oh, it goes to the right, and I hit a spot,

Brandon  53:36

and I was like, oh, I'll just push through. And went, and it started just spinning freely. And I went, Oh.

Collin  53:50

So I plugged it in, and then it like, did all the setup. And I was like, okay, moment of truth. And it was like, and like, did little scan run of our house, where it just basically went to every room and, like, looked around and then moved on. Was really weird. And then it came back and docked. And I got, like, a map of our home, of all the rooms and stuff, and like labeled. And now it runs every other day at night, and just vacuums the whole downstairs. And then I'm like, Well, this was a good fun. There you go. Me. I rescued a robot. Its name is Roz from the wild Robot series, and the kids love watching it. This is the most important aspect of it. They also, at the end of its vacuuming run, it will give you a map of where it vacuumed and where it had trouble, so you can go and like, what was there that prevented it from being vacuumed. That's always fun to see. It's mission. It calls it Mission complete. Oh.

55:01

Oh, well, yes, well, hey, yes.

Collin  55:13

Very good, very fun stuff. So big week, nice.

55:16

But I did one more thing this week. Okay, right? Yeah, is this how for you? Segment, a returning segment. Love it, right, right. Segment number three, question mark, that's right, ladies and gentlemen, this is the return of fugue state movie reviews

55:47

remind our listeners what

Brandon  55:48

is all about. All right, so this is a personal mission of mine, right? There's a lot of movies in my life that I've seen bits of and I've seen them once, and I have no idea what they are, right? So Fauci state movie reviews is my attempt to discover these movies that, like, I just remember they were like, on in the background somewhere, and I remember, like, a bit of them, and, like, I don't know, a lot of them come from, like, late it, like Fox used to do, like, the midnight movie or whatever, right? And so they would just be, they would just play something like, all the time. And I think it was Fox, maybe even but like, they would just play a movie, like, late at night, especially on the weekends, there's play movies, right? And these are, seemingly, now, when I'm trying to discover these, the most random movies of all time, right? And so I've done two. I did two. The one was the airplane movie. I looked it up earlier from our show notes, and I can't remember what it's called, the pepper one right with Robert Redford, and then the other one was the dragon movie, right? The animated movie about a dragon, right? So I found a third one. I

Collin  57:15

do have to real quick and say if you aren't interested in listening to the previous fugue state movie reviews. The first version of this was actually episode 143 which shares the title fugue state movie reviews. And then there's episode 183 which was build an umbrella, which was also featured this. So you can go back and Okay, listen to that

Brandon  57:41

is part three. This is part that's why I thought I did some research on our site there, and I thought this was part three. Okay, so boom, here we go. I have for you a movie that has long haunted my dreams, right? And I, according to the internet, many other peoples as well. This movie is famous for one scene, one, right, even Quentin Tarantino, allegedly, because, apparently, Quintino Tarantino writes on Rotten Tomatoes, the scene is known for one or this movie is known for one scene, right? And it was a little more traumatic of a scene when I was younger, watching it back the other day, I was like, Oh, that's it, like, I don't even make a big deal about right? Anyway, this is 1970 ones. Sometimes a great notion, which, to be fair, is a not a good movie title, right? Like just one, no, the alternate title that this film is sometimes shown under is, never give an inch, huh? Yes, this is starring your boy, Paul Newman. Paul Newman is this in a directorial capacity as well. So this is the the never young Paul Newman, because apparently, even in 1971 dude was 46 years old. So I don't That's crazy, guys, is world's oldest person, also co starring. The other big name in this movie is, of course, Henry Fonda. Fonda, whoa. What a returning, a returning feature on the show as well. Right, featured in the review, of course, of 12 Angry Men. Anyway, this movie is about logging in Oregon in the 1970s okay, I'm

Collin  59:52

reading the synopsis of it's not just of of loggers, it's of fiercely independent loggers. Oh,

Brandon  59:59

yeah. Oh yes, right? Struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times and competition for big lumber companies, that second one not 100% true, right? Also, the Google summary of, in a nutshell, says this movie is gutsy, intense and menacing. That is no none of those things are true. I Oh, great, right? This movie also has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, but the only 14 reviewers, Oh, good. So of the tomato thing, the popcorn rating is 77 which feels more correct? Yeah, that feels right. The 100% is, I don't know that is, that is incorrect, right? Anyway. So this movie is about very stubborn, Grumpy Old Men in Oregon in the 1970s right? If, well, I'll get to that minute. So the movie starts off with, I didn't know what this movie was about, really. I didn't do any research other than I found the thing, right? I was looking for the scene, and then this movie came up. So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna swatch it, and then I start watching it. And for the first several minutes, I really have no clue what's going on, right? Because it's just like, about a family of vloggers, and it's just like family bantering. You know that Henry Fonda has fallen out of a tree and injured himself because he's got his arm in this big like, cast, like 1970s cast, where he has to hold his arm out, like, 90 degrees to the side, nice, right, like one of those. So, like, he's very clearly injured, but like, you don't find out that he fell out that he fell out of a tree to a little bit later. Oh, right. So the first thing I wrote down is the sound mixing. Why is the rain so loud? Tried, yeah, I was like, I couldn't hear what they're saying, because I could just hear the rain. What's basically happening here is the lumber company workers are on strike, right? They're not working, okay? But the stamper family is an independent log organization, and they don't care about the corporation versus union shenanigans that are happening around them. They just want to get down to the business of working, because hard work and independence and something or other, right? So they don't care. So they're just going about their life, and the town is very, very angry at them, because while all the people are on strike, the town is like, losing money, right? And the like, they're mad at the stampers for some reason, because, like, I don't really know why you only ever hear from the union people. You don't really hear from the lumber corps people, right? Like about why, but apparently them continuing to work is bad for the Union negotiation, which kind of makes sense, right? But so the town is very angry, because the rest of the people in the town work for the logging union, and they're really grumpy, right with with the family, right? So they're getting some pressure to support the strike, but they don't want to not work, because hard work and America and stuff. Yeah. Anyway, that's basically the whole movie right there. Like, if you are named Mike Rowe and you, you like this movie, right? Okay, if you've ever said the phrase, nobody wants to work anymore, oh, this is the movie for you. I see, right? Yeah. This is, like, hardcore, like, old school, like 70s manliness, right? It doesn't necessarily 100% translate to like, 2025 because like, the way that, like, they treat the wives is not, not really very good. And like, do do like, you know, do the women even get to talk at the breakfast table? No, no, they're too bad. What are

1:04:27

you talking about? I mean,

Brandon  1:04:28

yes, but this is brought to light by the long lost brother returning to help the family he's been wandering about, and I believe he's a step brother as well, right? He's not like he's not he's supposed to be Paul Newman's brother, but I think he's a step brother, because there's a whole side plot thing later with the mom, and so they don't have the same mother, right? But anyway, I. He comes in from, like, you know, far and wide, and we get the one joke of the movie, uh, 70s humor. Oh, long hair is weird, right? Like, where did you get all that hair? And he just, like, five people asking that question. And he just goes, well, it grows. That's it, that's it, that's it, five times that happens, right? Wow. There's lots of like, suggestive talk about him being girly. He's got long hair, like girls have long hair, you know, right? Yeah. Anyway, that was funny. So I also wrote down 30 minutes and nothing. That's it. That's the first 30 minutes of the movie that. Yeah, that's it. This is a very slow movie, extremely slow. I did full disclosure, I did not watch this all in one sitting. I definitely paused several times and like, went and did other things and then came back so like, because it just drags on right after I wrote 30 minutes of nothing happening, they take Brother Guy to work, and then we get a very, very long sequence of just logging, that's it. It's just them logging. That's all. That's all there is, right? This is one of those also, like, very, like, 70s kinds of movies about, like, a job, right? Like, the whole movie is just like people doing the job, like trucking or stuff like, like, that's it. It's just it. They're just logging, yeah, like, it's literally just them logging. There's nothing like you're, you're supposed to be, I suppose, being introduced to how logging works through the eyes of the newcomer logger guy, Leland, right, the long lost brother guy for like, this is like, 10 minutes of just logging, and I don't like, it's a bit, it's a bit much, right? And then, like, yeah, so that's kind of it. There's just a lot of stuff that happens for like, a good the middle part of this movie is just like them doing work, and the town being mad about them working. Right there is a town festival slash motorcycle race question mark, and they go to that people move away from their picnic table when they see who's sitting there, because they don't want to be associated with those filthy non union stamper family lame, uh, Paul Newman, of course, races motorcycles, but then he Like crashes, and then he just like, leaves. Like, it's just done, yeah. He just like, quits the race. And he just like, drives the motorcycle over to the picnic thing. And then they play football with people on the beach, I guess, right? They're like, I mean, Oregon has beaches, so, like, whatever, but they go play football on the beach. I guess the joke is, they're, like, you want to play a game with touch football, and it is just full tech football at beach. Like, that's no, oh, because it's disguising, yeah, that, yeah, exactly. So there's that. We get a bit of backstory about Paul Newman's wife, and about how she's, you know, disillusioned with the law. She's, you know, doesn't like it, and it's been tumultuous. And, like, there's a bit of a moment between, like, her and the brother character, but like, it's not like a romantic moment. It's just like a, you know, the I don't know, like sparkle in the eyes moment, but that's as far as it goes, right? And then, uh, there's that, right? So she's disillusioned. She doesn't like the way that they are. He doesn't like the rugged manliness, I guess, of Henry Fonda. It's kind of annoying, really. So the the other brother Joe. His actual name is Joe Ben, which I did not pick up on until the end of the movie. Like, I don't know most of these characters names either, by the way, just like, did that good of a job. Because one, one problem is Henry Fonda's character's name is Henry, and Paul Newman's character's name is Hank.

1:09:52

But not good. It's not like, super memorable. So that's a i. Awkward anyway. So you got, you got Henry fun is Henry, Paul is Hank and then Joe Ben, and then the long hair guys, Leland, right, whatever. So they're doing that there's just like, random things to interact with, like a movie theater owner who's like,

Brandon  1:10:17

wants him to stop. And then the union offices bother Paul Newman so much in the one action scene in the movie, he takes a big, giant, four foot bar chainsaw and saws one of their desks in half and then just walks away, anti climactically. Yeah, anyway, right now, now, so the middle of this movie is basically nothing happening, right? Allegedly, people on the internet say there's good family character development. I don't think that's true. Um, right, so we come to the end, right? There's a Henry Fonda is better. His cast is gone. He's ready to get back to work, because working makes you a man stuff, right? So, so they go and the wife the right? Paul Newman's wife is like, listen, we could just remember how we used to just not do this. Remember how we used to they met in, like, Colorado or something like, I remember she goes this big thing about, remember how, you know, we could just stay in bed. I'll bring you breakfast in here. We can just be together. Blah, blah. And Henry Fonda comes in. It's like, let's go to work, sonny boy. And he's like, okay, Dad, let's go. He's leaves, ooh. I cotton trees in the Oregon wilderness and, oh no, the tree breaks right. It, like splits halfway up, right? And it like twists around and it slams into Henry Fonda, right, yeah, like, it basically rips his other arm off. Oh, right, yeah, in a very dramatic thing and, like, It pins him to this tree, splits. It flails around crazily. It lambs into Henry Fonda, and then the other guy, Joe, like, falls into the water, right? So, so we got our four brothers out there, or three brothers and dad out there. So, so Leland, the long haired guy, takes Henry Fonda to the hospital, okay? And Paul Newman goes to check on Joe, okay, but Joe is he lands in the water and some like log is like laying on top of it in the river, okay? And I wrote, it's the part, this is the part that I remember right, because it's been, they've been talking about the tide rising, right? The last little bit of the movie, the tide. They've been talking about the tide, the tide, the tide, the tide. So they're in this river, which is apparently tidal because they're close to the mouth, and he's in, he's trapped. He's laying in the water. He's like, sitting in the water with this big log over top of him. And he's kind of like, the water's up to, like, this upper chest, right? But the water is coming up, and he's stuck. And Paul Newman is just all like, I'll just get my chainsaw. Just cut you out. And he's just cutting the log. And Joe is just like, hanging out. He like, thinks it's cool. He's like, it's no big deal. I'm just stuck. It doesn't hurt whatever. We're stuck in the thing. But as he's cutting with the chainsaw, like the water, I guess, running through the bar like messes up the engine, and the chainsaw dies. And so Joe is just stuck under this log, and they're trying to see if the as the tide rises, will it float the log off of him. But no, the log, like, rolls backwards and he's pinned underwater, and Paul Newman is giving him mouth to mouth while he's trapped underwater so that he can breathe. This is the part of the movie that I remember from the television. It's terrifying, right? Yeah, right. He's, like, trapped underwater, and like, he'll, he's like, tapping Paul Newman. And then Paul, he'll, like, blow out, and he taps him. Paul, like, dies underwater, and like, gives him mouth to mouth, right? Oh, but eventually, Joe, just like, he can't, like, he dies. He like, can't, they can't do this for long enough that he. He can get the log off of him and he dies, right? So he dies Exactly, yeah, so cut to the hospital, right? Henry Fonda is also dying from severed arm, right? But he, like, has a little small speech about how he accepts his long lost son and he's proud of him for coming back and working proven that he's a man, and then he dies. Yes, everybody dies during all this time. Paul Newman's wife just leaves. He's like, Nope, I'm done. I'm out. Boom, gone, right. So what are they to do? Small montage of Paul Newman being sad, drinking in a cabin. They have all of these logs, and they can't get them to the lumber mill because there's only two and surely there's no way two men can raft these four to five Giant Log rafts all the way down the river. But, or so you would think, yeah, if one of them wasn't Paul Newman, right, the stampers can do it right. Also, I have a side note here that I just wrote, like, man, what in the world? What in the 1970s is happening? Why are so many people in this movie wearing white pants like this is a really weird thing for lumberjacks to be doing, I think, is there's just lots and lots of men wearing white pants. And at one point, Paul Newman is wearing just a completely white outfit. He's like, white painter pants. Painter pants and like, a white denim jacket and like, like, What? What? What is this? I don't know if he's supposed to be like the hero, all in white. What? Anyway, so they, they start floating these logs down. There's one guy in the boat, long haired brother is in the boat, pulling the log raft, right? And then, like, it, it, they've, they've made the the log raft is a very interesting thing, right? Basically, they've made these big diamond shaped things out of logs, and then all the other logs are inside them. So they, they make buoys out of certain logs, and then all the other logs just sit inside those right? So they've made these big, like diamond looking things, or like rectangles, I guess, where they've tied the outside logs together as the buoys, and then inside are just the logs floating freely. Is what it looks like, right? It's just sort of like to corral them all together, right? And then they're pulling that, like a barge train situation, down the river, right? And so there's one person in the barge, pulling in the barge, and then Paul Newman is in the little runabout boat, like pushing the back end around for, like, the big corners, right? That's what's happening here, and in the strangest movie ending of all time, right? The town is gathering to watch this happen, right, to see this impossible feat performed by the remaining two stamper men. And in defiance, Paul Newman produces Henry Fonda's severed arm and ties it to the top of the boat, middle finger extended towards the town as they track by what No, that's weird. Most ridiculously, no, are you serious? Where did you you had that laid breath? They didn't take that with to the corner. Thing like, what? Snug. How did you get possession of just the arm. It's very weird.

Collin  1:19:04

I'm really not okay with that. Yeah,

Brandon  1:19:06

it's, it was really strange, right? Like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Anyway, that is sometimes a great notion. Or never never give a inch. Or yeah, there you go. 1971 Paul Newman, right? A lot of discussions on the internet talk about, like, the depiction of masculinity and how, like, it's kind of, I guess there's a book also, maybe the book does a better job of of delving into this, like, what you might call a more toxic masculinity in 2025 right? Like, and apparently, the book deals more with that particular aspect. Like, the movie kind of skirts around with that, but, like, it doesn't really do anything. With it, right? They just kind of go along to the vlogging, right? It's more logging like, Oh no, how, oh so, how

1:20:13

interesting. Yeah, that's what I'll There you go. Hey, there. So, yeah,

Brandon  1:20:17

this is, this is a, it is a movie. It's very boring for the most part, right? It's like a little under two hours, at least the version I watched, right? I just found it free on the internet to my right. Just watched it so, like, it's a little under two hours, and for the majority of that two hours, like, really nothing is happening. Like, the last 30 minutes are basically all the the action, a couple little bits in the middle. But, like, there's a lot that Mr. Newman could have, like, chopped off this movie, I think, but, but, yeah, there we go. Now I know that the weird guy trapped under the log. Movie is called sometimes a great notion. Yeah, that's what I learned today. Job. So there you go, bang.

Collin  1:21:10

I won't be watching that. I would

Brandon  1:21:13

skip this, right? I would skip this. It's not really that good, okay? Well, we'll see. Who knows Part Four will appear? I'm ready. You know, I found my list of potential candidates, and it is all just like the one movie where blah blah blah happens because I don't know anything else about it. And some of these are really hard to find. When you only know, like one scene of a movie, it's a little difficult to try to search for that, right? So I don't know if it can be difficult to go, what in the heck is this? Yeah, what is actually happening right now? Yeah, like, I don't know how you Google this. I don't know what to do here, but yeah, so there we go. That is my returning segment of few state Movie Reviews. Boom, I love it. You for thank you for my time. Thank you for listening to my rant about a very weird 70s movie, also really one of the first movies ever shown on HBO.

Collin  1:22:34

Yeah, seems weird. Yes,

Brandon  1:22:36

I think they just needed a movie. And they're like, we'll pay you to do this. Paul Newman, he's like, sure, whatever.

Collin  1:22:44

Yeah, I think so, because it

Brandon  1:22:46

would also been like, just a couple years after the movie came out too. So maybe that's why we need that hot new movie. Oh, Paul knew eat something. Oh, David, what you got something?

Collin  1:23:09

Well, won't be on my summer watch list, but that's, that's all right, that's a fine,

1:23:15

hey. Well, I look forward to talking about read list, though.

Collin  1:23:20

Okay, oh yes, that we are actually going to do that this week. Yes, we will work on that. And I will. I'll end us with a with a haiku, hooray. Lightning splits the sky. Wind dances through greening fields. Thunder wakes the earth this week. That's a good one. Very nice time. Here we are definitely, definitely so injury. We'll see what happens, and next time, I think we'll come well, next time we are gonna have our book ready to go. We are okay, that's the plan, all right. We'll actually do it this week. Nice. So we will. We'll

Speaker 2  1:24:12

see, yeah, okay, very good. Well, Love you. Love you, too. Bye.