baseballs, bruschetta, and battles on the ​​pelennor

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baseball, batting cages, allergies, historic ball field, glove size, lavender restaurant, Top Gun 2, phone upgrade, graduation, Missouri State Fair, John Hardy, haiku, summer reading, cleaning, dishwashing

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Brandon, Collin

Collin  00:04

Music. Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your host, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, baseball's bruschetta and battles on the pellinor field.

00:20

Ahoy. Ahoy.

00:24

Pretty good. How are you? I

Collin  00:26

am full of allergies. Oh no, currently, so I am going to do my best to be on the mute switch. Pretty hardcore. But if I fail, I'm sorry. We were doing I was doing so well. I was doing so well. And then we went, and there is a at the park nearby. They have a, it's actually a historic ball field. Been around for like, 100 years, or whatever. Oh yes. And they are doing a complete multi million dollar Reno on this and but next to it, they have batting cages that you can just like, walk up and use. So I was out there batting with the sounds like you're dealing with allergies and trying to stay you mentioned a historic ball field nearby, undergoing a multi renovation, okay, but in Notes app, what are you doing,

01:42

brother, calm down.

Collin  01:43

How did you become unmuted? Why? Why were you talking? Oh, that was horrifying. Okay, well, cool, cool, cool, anyway, but in

01:58

on this, get out

Collin  02:00

really uncomfortable. Why was that unmuted?

Brandon  02:03

I don't know it. I didn't push anything. It wasn't me. No, maybe in your allergy, mute button. Oh, dance in my huge

Collin  02:14

state that I was in. Um, probably was got too, not that I would. Are you saying that I might futz with things and like, I don't know. Never. No, that's what I was saying.

02:33

Yeah, batting cages. Yes,

Collin  02:37

we were at the batting cages, and we were there for a while, and then all of a sudden, I was like, We're doing good. Okay, we're gonna go home. We're gonna need water. Now on my home, I'm going, huh? My nose is kinda little stuffily. And then after that, it's just been basically eight hours of non stop sneezing forever. So dust

Brandon  02:58

of the baseball diamond, well, the dirt, yeah, yeah, yeah,

Collin  03:03

the real Pollin from the wind didn't have anything. I

03:07

was on the, no, it was on the,

Collin  03:11

you know, batting intense light tar that you put, yeah,

Brandon  03:17

I mean, no, no, that's, don't do that. It's illegal, just ask George Brad, don't do that. But question, were you batting, or were your children batting? Oh, sorry,

Collin  03:28

my children were batting. We were working. We didn't get in there. And one of the specific children to work on the swing, and one

Brandon  03:40

that plays baseball today, he was there, but I don't know if you were also No,

Collin  03:46

all there watching and helping and encouraging. But no, we were. We were all there just throwing. Then we practiced with catching, working with hand position of the glove, the mitt, as they call it in the game. In the game, some say it's a myth. It's true. Some say, and we did find out, that his glove is too his mitt is too small and so for him. So apparently, you measure from like, if you imagine a glove in front of you, there's this, like you've got it on your hand. You turn you facing it towards you, so it's open, like you could put it over your face, like a mask. Yes, along the bottom edge is a bunch of stitching that's wrapped around you. Measure from there to the top of the index finger. And that's apparently the size sized knit, and they have it for different ages and different positions, and so I knew that, so we have to go. Because he was like, he I saw him messing with it. I was like, what's going on? And he was like, I don't think my pinky can go any further. And I was like, Huh? And so. Yeah, we did. We asked Mr. Google. And I was like, like, in the end of the baseball player, right? Yeah. Like, this makes sense. So we got to get you a new one. So that is our priority tomorrow. And then he said, Oh, are we going back to the we have a little supply store here where we go to and they're great. I'm very thankful that they're here, because there's no other place. And I don't want to have to go shop at Walmart for these things, and I don't want to be on I don't want to be spending hours of

Brandon  05:29

my day the whole time. I did not hear you at all for a minute. I don't know what just happened. Like,

05:34

oh no, sorry.

Collin  05:40

Oh no, I need to pull it. What is going on? I don't

Brandon  05:44

know. But like, I was in the I said something, and you respond. I was like, Oh. I was like, I was checking these. Did I just freeze? What's Oh,

Collin  05:51

no, probably it's probably me, hold on, I'm gonna check my anyway. I'm glad that we have a little sports store, the local sports store here, so I don't have to go to Walmart for these things, or spend hours of my life, oh yeah, on the internet, on Reddit, basically looking, yeah, that's true.

Brandon  06:13

I'm pretty sure that Walmart would be super unhelpful in this there would just be like, some gloves, and be like,

Collin  06:22

Well, they'd be like, Okay, are you gonna buy this or not, right? So we're gonna go talk to them. And he was like, Oh, do you know that at that store where we're gonna go to like, did you know that they sell a bucket of balls? And I was like, I do know that they sell a bucket of balls. And he was like, Can we look at those? Okay, okay, yeah, we'll go, we'll go look at the bucket of balls to see if we're going to buy one. Oh, well, all right. But does he

Brandon  06:57

want it for the balls or the bucket? This is the real question. It's actually

Collin  07:02

a really good question. What he wants it for is for the balls we have. We have quite a few. But like, you do have to then stop and go, like, pick them up, so, like, you can't get, oh, yeah, swing, swing, swing, swing,

Brandon  07:20

right. Slows down the batting. Yeah,

Collin  07:25

yeah. So, so that's what we are. We're going to be working on. But he did plan his, he did have his first game. This is the big week for us, first game, and I'm very and it was the opening opening pitch, first swing, he hit the ball and made it on base. So let's go opened it up well and he they are each each year, the teams for the city have major league themed after, you know, they're, themed after Detroit Tigers is what his is. Okay, nice. And he found out that Detroit Tigers have two colors that you can use, either dark blue or orange.

Brandon  08:18

I wonder which one he will pick. This is where

Collin  08:21

things get interesting, because he still has the socks that he had from last year, where he was the where he was the Cardinals, but he had, was he Cardinals? Wait, what was he? No, no, he was the Cubs. Sorry. Oh my gosh, I'm finally kicking in. Okay, cubs, so he's got dark blue socks from the Cubs. Last year we went and bought them Orange Socks because he really wanted those. But then he realized, Oh, the team has both, and I have blue socks and Orange Socks. So what did he decide to do one of each time he had one sock was blue and one sock was orange. Well, he was up, and I was like, yeah, that's that makes sense. This is the perfect, absolutely. But he did end up playing catcher, and so that was fun. He did not like that one very much. And I was like, Oh, that's a rough one. I was like, say, Man, absolutely same, so, but it was a good game. They did. They did win, but I don't, I don't know if they won, because nobody really counts. It's just, you know, there. So, you know, we, we did that, but it was, it was all good. That's very good, hooray. Well, yes, and then we did. We had a new experience this week. There is the owner of the restaurant. Have you? Rid of the aviary in Oh,

Brandon  10:02

yes, I've been here before, right? Yeah,

10:05

yep, it's good.

Collin  10:08

She has a new restaurant that's only been open like two years, and by it's with like, 30 feet from her house in Cleaver, Missouri, and it's called lavender falls, okay, and it's only open in May and June each year. Ah,

Brandon  10:28

okay. And is that? Is that? Because that's when the lavender is

Collin  10:31

blooming, that's when the lavender look at that turns out, baby,

Brandon  10:36

let's go. Turns out. Um,

Collin  10:41

and what she had, she it's an old, like, it's an old property, and she had an old farmhouse, and she had this old, basically, cattle cow barn, milk barn. Which are these? You can tell because they're, like, low and wide of these really old ones, yeah. And also, on her property, just happens to be a 300 foot waterfall coming out of a cliff. And so she turned the cow barn, and she, like, spent a lot of money on this, so I'm gonna say this, and it's not a cow barn anymore, like, turn it into a restaurant. And

Brandon  11:17

yeah, then the then the town council came and they served her a planning notice, right? And they said, You cannot have this on your farm. And then they made her take the road away.

Collin  11:32

Oh, wait a minute, maybe, maybe something a little different. But, yeah. So it's this really cute restaurant, and obviously things are lavender themed, because she planted a bunch of lavender. She's gonna be field next to it, and then the Falls come from the waterfall. Yes, on property. So yeah, so that that was we, we had to make our reservation in February for this and three, yeah, yeah. And so we really, kind of, we kind of, we really took a gamble with this, of like, well, I guess we're going to be available here, I hope. Because within three days of them opening, all of the spots were completely booked, yeah, for sure. And so we, we arrived and we, we had to drive. Obviously, it is two and a half hours south of us, which is a long drive. And I was like, Well, my kids, I don't want to, just like, spend two and a half hours in a car to, like, then sit for the go straight to sitting, because that's not fun. So we may have arrived, like, an hour early for, you know, for the six o'clock slot. And we did scare them a little bit because we show up. And then we're just like, hey, they said you could walk around on their website, so we're gonna walk around. And people kept being like, Do you have a reservation? Like, yeah. It's like, I do. It's not till six. And they're like, well, that's not, Oh, you're here early. Yeah, I know it's fine. I'll be It's okay. We had to come a long way. Okay, look at the water, yeah, but yeah, and everything was not everything, but, like, obviously, they're very heavy with the lavender theme and their food, and they have a little shop where you can buy lavender hand sanitizer and lavender bath scrub and lavender lip balm and lavender lotion. So we bought most of all of that. And I was like, as Megan said, Well, you can buy this online. I was like, but it's different because we're here in the store. Like, this is the original. We're here. We're just got it. Did you look at you and go? No stop online is just as valid

14:10

and so

Collin  14:14

very good. Lavender lemonade, lavender sweet tea. I had a steak. No, I had shrimp. We had, oh, look at a Caesar salad. I haven't seen one prepared like this, but I don't go to fancy restaurants very often. Caesar is made with what? Romaine lettuce. Okay, yeah, head of lettuce. Head of romaine lettuce, right. Cued into each one of those was then grilled and then, while still hot, put back on the plate, did lots of the cheese that comes on that, and then drizzled with the caesar dressing and a little bit of balsamic vinegar. So as you cut. You had to cut it yourself. You like, made your own while you ate it. This thing was amazing. That's it was so good. Also, the presentation was a little like, Oh, that's a lot of

Brandon  15:11

also, not a Caesar salad, but that's okay. Well, you know, it's fine.

Collin  15:17

I know I said vinegar kind of throws it off there. Kind of

Brandon  15:23

makes it not Caesar the grill. That's like a wedge salad.

Collin  15:27

It was almost like a wedge salad. Yes, it was like a it was like a merger of two. Yeah, it was interesting. It was interesting. And then Megan got the salmon, and then at the end, I'm like, Well, okay, like we're here. Like, let's just go ahead and, like, we're gonna go all out, like we all got drinks, which we normally don't do. Like, we're like, we're gonna get waters. And we're like, but we're here, we're gonna get, of course, I have to get the lavender sweet tea the law. And of course, they set it down in front of me. And I'm like, like, yeah, oh man. And they sit down in this little, tiny, like, it reminded me of the glass, like a Long Island Iced Tea would come in, like tall Oh, yeah, right. And I look at this, and I go, Oh, I should have asked if they do free refills, because I this is not going to last very long. They don't. I bet for that, I will tell them this. I don't know how many times the servers have been yelled at about people having empty cups on their table. But my goodness, our waitress was all about this. Like we would get, I couldn't get half down before another one would be placed right next to me. And yes, they were free. So that was okay, like, like, and it was all four of us, like you just, she just kept glasses, glasses, glass. There was a time where I think we had like, nine glasses on our table. They really didn't want us to be parked. No,

16:52

that. I mean, that's good, I guess. Yeah,

Collin  16:53

I know. I was like, hey, I'll take that. Instead of, like, trying to, like, passive aggressively jingle my glass somewhere with the awkward eye contact from across the room of like,

17:04

yeah, that's weird. Don't do that.

Collin  17:06

Nobody. No, they don't know, no. And then, of course, at the end, I'm like, well, we've all gone out already, so like, what's for dessert? And then she's like, What do you want for dessert? I was like, Well, what do you have? Obviously, and she list some things. I'm like, well, obviously we're getting cheesecake, because it was a lavender cheesecake, okay. I mean, you know, and we split him, like nobody else was all that, like, still hungry, but like, we gotta do dessert, because that's what we gotta do. And I was like, oh, right, like, each slice is like a, it's like a $10 cheesecake. I should not,

Brandon  17:44

should not have mentioned this out loud. Oh, dang it. Maybe

Collin  17:48

I should not have. We all split too, and we all, we were fine, but yeah, yeah, I was like, Oh yeah, that was, it was very good. It was very delicious. Beautiful time to be out, still a little chilly out in the evening, but can't complain. And so my, my, that's my review of, oh, we started. We started the day. Started the evening with bruschetta. And I haven't had a good bruschetta in a very long time. And what I think is a good bruschetta is the the toast, the bread has to be crispy and hot, and the toppings have to be cold, yes, fresh out, right? What tends to happen is the bread just gets mushy and soggy from the toppings and everything just kind of gets lukewarm and just becomes kind of like, yeah,

18:50

that's fair. That's a fair assessment. I would say

Collin  18:54

this was perfect toasted, super crisp bread, still hot, like it was hot plate and the tomatoes and everything on top, ice cold. And I was like, children, this is done perfectly.

19:10

Take notes, kids, absolutely, this

Collin  19:13

is what we expect. And when I say bruschetta, this is what we expect in this household. Working Yeah. So, yeah, it was good. We Yeah, and we had a good time. Evening, fun had by all and oh, all their emails and texts were like, remember, there's no parking. So, like, don't take two cars if you're going to meet here with a friend. Take one car. Only take one car because I have no parking remember. Yeah, no parking field because the

19:51

council won't let me build

19:52

it's on the side of

Collin  19:54

a hill. The way, the way the parking is, is you cut, you careen off this little, this high. Way, and you go straight into like a hill that does this hard switch back and like there's, there is no parking. And so we had a car pulled up behind us, a minivan. And I, I don't remember how many people can fit in a minivan, like

20:23

seven to eight people. You okay?

Collin  20:25

So when nine full grown women piled out of this thing, oh, yeah,

Brandon  20:30

hey, they were they were being serious. Here, I was like, you,

20:35

you listened you. Yeah, that huge job.

20:40

Way to follow those directions. Yes, right. Maybe not

Collin  20:43

the safety laws, but it's

Brandon  20:47

fine. It's fine. Okay. Maybe they, like, all parked, like, met somewhere nearby, and then just just up the last little bit to, yeah,

Collin  20:56

yeah. Maybe they did that, that last mile and delivery, and in arriving the little restaurant in the middle of nowhere, everybody does it, sure. That's yeah, obviously like a word to use

Brandon  21:09

to think people do for sure. So

Collin  21:13

anyway, we had a good time, and I highly recommend this place. So there you go. If you can get in, which you can't, which you can't, drat, yeah, you cannot get in anymore. The way is shut. They are coming. They are coming. Oh my gosh. I um, we are reading through Lord of the Rings. We are on the last book right now, and it is just as Rohan comes to Gondor. Oh yeah, I I was reading with this. The kids last night do this. We didn't get there tonight because we were busy. But like, last night, I was not, like, emotionally ready for this scene, like, seriously like this,

22:08

just

Collin  22:09

like rocked me as they're coming, and especially as they had in, sees the battlefield, and you see, like, he withers down a little bit of like, the weight and enormity of what is about to happen and take place is before him. And he kind of, you see him old, and then the day breaks the dawn. Like the charge like, oh my goodness, I had to, yeah, I had to stop reading for a little bit and be like myself right now. Kids, like, this is this, this is how writing is done. This is like, my goodness,

Brandon  22:50

oh yeah, it's so good. The pros is so strong. It's like, Yeah, it's amazing.

Collin  22:55

Yeah, I just, I was so that's what we were doing, that I was trying to pull it up because I wanted to. I can't, I can't get there fast enough. But that's all right. But, yeah, that's, that is a good

Brandon  23:14

I mean, it's a very powerful scene in general, but like, just that whole that, plus the stuff that the ending stuff is so good, like, it's just so good. I just love again. The way that token structure is a sentence, right?

Collin  23:31

It's just,

Brandon  23:33

I've no, it's just very easy to read, right? Because of the things where he just, like, pulls you along, like, let's go, right? I know we talked about this ad nauseum during the hobbit reading, but

Collin  23:46

Oh yeah, yeah, like even before, even before all of this in the in the previous chapter, right? It's talking about how the Lord of the Nazgul comes in. He and Gandalf are having this like, standoff, right? And this part is just like, like, the the intensity here. And it says, it just, oh my gosh, like, it's everything's building up to this. There's so much tension between Gandalf and the Nazgul. And then he has this, this how he ends the chapter. Gandalf did not move, and in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed, shrill and clear. He crowed, rocking nothing of wrecking, nothing of Wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky, far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn, and as if in answer, there came from far away another note, horns, horns, horns in dark mendolian sides, they dimly echoed great horns of the North, wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last like Whoa, yeah. That, oh boy, yes. Like, oh man. I just, I just, and then, and then you get to the next chapter, and there's the items you know arise, arise speech, and he's going, and snowman's outpacing everybody, and it's just

25:31

epic,

Collin  25:33

epic, epic, yeah, yeah. So two lessons folks, um, one, I already told you how you need to make your bruschetta and two. This is how you This is how you write, okay, this is just do, do this, like, man, anyway. So that's like I said, when I say this week has been a big week, big week, big week. It's big we have baseball. We've had bruschetta and we've had battles on charge. Yes, the charge, right? Boom, yeah. Sorry. How about you any any battles or, well, I

Brandon  26:10

have a juxtaposition for you. Oh, okay, yeah, so I will juxtapose that with a movie that Susan and I watched a couple weeks ago. Right? Just on again,

Collin  26:20

since we have actually connected the Internet to our

Brandon  26:23

television right, perusing about, you know, yeah,

Collin  26:28

we watched a movie that, like, I'd say the writing is not good, and, oh no, it kind of like,

Brandon  26:39

I Susan said it was okay. She'd like to be fine, but, like, this movie

Collin  26:42

doesn't need to exist at all, right? And this is, of course, Top Gun two, right? Oh, jet Boogaloo,

26:52

or whatever it's called. I don't

Collin  26:56

know it's like, I know, I

Brandon  27:02

seem to have read somewhere that there was, like, a lot of delays in making this movie, right? There was like, things that happened. They like, wanted to make sequel, but like, they didn't, you know, like, that kind of thing. But this movie, the biggest problem I have, this movie, other than like, the plot is

Collin  27:20

thin, right? Thin, right, yeah. Like, like, like, the,

Brandon  27:32

like, the meat on top of a Bucha, right? That's what it's been like, like, thinly sliced ham. It's like, sorry like, there's because it's like an unnamed

Collin  27:47

they're like, Oh, bad people. That's the enemy. It's not, it's just a bad like, why are they bad? Where are they? Who is this

28:03

we don't know just to be

Collin  28:04

a fair, a feared,

Brandon  28:05

yes, right? There's a lot of snow, so it's like,

Collin  28:11

we don't know who it is. It's bad. They're bad.

Brandon  28:14

I don't know. I'm we're supposed to assume it's like Russia or North Korea or somebody, but they never say a

Collin  28:19

name. So like, you just whatever. The biggest problem I have with this movie, though, is I've called it, I've named it the grease problem, right? Because almost every single

Brandon  28:35

character in this movie is too old to be in this movie.

Collin  28:38

Oh, yeah, right, like, it's so like, I believe

Brandon  28:49

in the original Top Gun Tom Cruise is like 23 something like that. 24 maybe, yes, this tracks right for, like, young hot shot, you know, blah, blah. This is like, appropriate, right? So not only in this movie is he, like, in his, like, mid 60s or whatever. So, like, that's kind of weird, though. One of the premises of the movie is, like, this mission is like, so dangerous and requires such highly skilled piloting that they're bringing back past graduates of Top Gun to like, be put through training and to qualify to go through the mission. That's where all the tension comes from. Yeah. But like all the actors are like, 35 to 40 years old? Well, yeah, and so, like,

29:47

like, How long ago did they

29:49

graduate Top Gun?

Collin  29:51

Yeah, is there?

Brandon  29:55

Is that really what you got? You got you gotta do the graduates I've got 15 years ago, being like. Yeah,

Collin  30:00

him, he's the best part. Like,

Brandon  30:06

so, like, it just feels wrong, because just about all the actors are just, they just are too old, well, to be playing this role. Like, that's not to say that they do a bad

Collin  30:14

job, right? It's just to say I don't believe him, right? I don't believe them at all. Like, homie

Brandon  30:21

is like, one of the main characters is like, during the time of filming, the actor is 36

Collin  30:28

not old really at all, but

Brandon  30:31

too old to be playing young Hot Shot pilot.

Collin  30:36

Yes. Well, like, there's like,

30:39

you know, a character that is ostensibly supposed

30:41

to be like, 2627

Brandon  30:47

right? Because I'm assuming you're like, oh, they just graduated. It's blood that they have recently graduated from Top Gun, right? Yeah. And so that's like the last two to three years, I would think. And if we're mathing by Tom Cruise's like the original cast age of, like, early 20s, which was probably where you would go

Collin  31:07

after you've joined the Air Force, right? Like, you know,

Brandon  31:13

this doesn't fit, so, right? Like, the movie's fine, but, like, the plot is a little bit thin, and every single, almost, almost every single action this movie is too old to play the character they're playing, especially Tom Cruise, bro, what are you doing? Oh,

31:35

no, 6060s,

Brandon  31:37

of year old Tom Cruise flying fighter planes around like, come on, come on, we do it. Yeah. Oh no. So it's like, it's fine, I guess, and but it's just like a it's an okay movie. It definitely is not like the best movie ever. Here's my two year late review of pop God's too old, and there's no point. Plot. Okay, got it well. And it's also like the main plot point is also like, if two people would have had a conversation, like several years ago, there would be no tension at all. Oh, right, yeah. Oh,

Collin  32:20

it's one of those, yeah, I don't like that. Yeah, when the main with the main, like, you know, the driving

Brandon  32:29

motivation of somebody is, like, a misunderstanding that happened years ago, and it could have been resolved with like,

Collin  32:36

a sentence,

Brandon  32:38

like, this is thin boys, like, your main conflict is, is that? Um,

32:44

yeah, wait, this is not a good messaging, right?

32:47

Like, what? Like, what are you doing?

Collin  32:53

No, no, yeah. It's like, hey, what if we just didn't communicate at that? Maybe that would help everything, and we'll be just fine. That's so weird,

Brandon  33:01

I don't know. But anyway, that was my these are my loose thoughts on top gun too.

Collin  33:07

Well. Do I have some news for you? Oh man, Top Gun three. Oh no. This not good. Is officially on the way. This is bad.

Brandon  33:20

It's bad. Can we not have Tom cruising this one? Well?

Collin  33:24

So here's what people are thinking, because details are scarce, being tight, lift, okay? But what they are doing is they are thinking that this will be the baton handoff. It's what he was unable to do in the Mission Impossible franchise, right? He was never able to say, here's the next person that's supposed to, you know, like James Bond had, yeah,

Brandon  33:53

and I feel like, I feel like Mission Impossible is a franchise that they could have done that.

33:58

Oh, yes, because you just need, uh, Ethan,

Brandon  34:03

that's it, right? That's all you need. It doesn't have to be Tom Cruise. You just stop making with Tom Cruise and you just make the next mission possibly be with another

Collin  34:11

person. Yeah, that's all you gotta do. Stupid, easy to do. But because he's such a draw and he's such a name for Scientology. What? Who said

Brandon  34:22

that look levels yet or No, it's not a real thing that you could do

Collin  34:30

well. I mean, you can hold these two things anyway, not giving any more highlight to that. But yes, I think the running theory as as I have skimmed Screen rant.com for this link in the show notes, the hope and thought is, is that these this will be the passing of the baton to the next person. But yes, they already have, already have a director. They've got confirmations from returning staff. Sure returning crew and actors and actresses are coming, yeah. So

Brandon  35:05

I want to see, like in my ideal world, I want to see 0% of these actors returning for this movie,

Collin  35:13

zero. This movie should be about Top Gun flight school. It should be about,

Brandon  35:19

yeah, young pilots learning to fly and do pilot things, right? Doesn't need to be. We don't need the maverick story, right? This the tompkin two centers around the conflict between Maverick and goose's son, who is now

Collin  35:35

a pilot, also, right? Da na, na, wow. How terrible,

Brandon  35:41

yeah, right. Whatever they had to, like, manufacture drama for this, right, yeah.

Collin  35:46

But, like, I don't care about goose's son. That's interesting. Like, I don't need character continuity all the time for sequels to work, because Top Gun spoilers. It's the name of the flight school. Yeah, it's not

Brandon  36:07

Tom person. It's not Tom Cruise. He is not Mr. Top Gun, okay?

Collin  36:14

Like, that's not how this works. So that's,

Brandon  36:21

I don't know. I don't need that. If there was a sequel, I don't or another one,

Collin  36:26

right? I don't need that. I don't need

Brandon  36:31

any, I don't need any characters connected to Maverick at all. And here's, right, you can have a picture on the wall of like, you can have the like, Maverick and Val Kilmer shaking hands. Picture you're on. I don't care. Just leave just like pan pass it up. There you go. Fan service. Moving on.

Collin  36:51

Done, right? I don't need, like, direct references.

Brandon  36:54

I don't need you to call him on the phone. I don't need I need that because it like drags the movie down, and it like you spend a lot of time over there, like shoehorning all that stuff in when you should just be, like, dog fighting fighter jets. Like I Why is that a hard concept to make a movie around? Right? Like planes, doing crazy plane stuff. On. Oh, no,

Collin  37:23

yeah. I mean, you could definitely, like you could, unfortunately, they didn't play into this at all, but like, you could see a movie of, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull it back a little bit, because people are gonna want to see Tom Cruise in a cockpit. Okay, they just are. So you could have him be an instructor, right, struggling with his like, who, who's not out doing the flights on a daily basis, who's still doing, like, trading missions in a simulator, and, like, trying to figure out the one move? Well, then, like in

Brandon  37:53

this movie, he kind of is that he's like a test pilot, yeah, at the beginning, he's not, he, I guess, according to the lore that's now official, he, like, was trying to be, he was an instructor for a while, but he was too, like, rash surprised, and so they kicked him out. And so he's just been, like a Navy Test Pilot

Collin  38:14

after forever, but like, he's, he's trying to figure out this one move to combat something that they know somebody like the Soviets have Right? Like, sure, we'll just, we'll just use that word, like, whatever. And, but he can't be in the plane, and he's got it in, but one of the hot shots figures it out too. And, like, they work together. And then, like, I don't know, like, you could have a hand off, like, that, um, but instead, it's just going to be him, probably not doing any of that.

Brandon  38:43

Yeah, I just don't need that. I just need to school, right? You can do the school thing. You can be doing crazy playing stuff, I don't know, whatever, but, like, it doesn't, it's too convoluted. There's too many plot lines. Like, this is not a movie that needs a lot of plot lines, right? Like, it's not, does not. It's not that kind of movie, right? It's like a popcorny, well, that was cool movie. I don't need like, drama.

Collin  39:09

This random Tom Cruise apparently

Brandon  39:15

read kindling a flame with Jennifer Connolly. For some reason I don't know what that's about. Like, I don't,

Collin  39:22

yeah, you don't need any of this. All unnecessary. I don't need any of that. So

Brandon  39:31

whatever. Like, it was fine, but it's too much. And again, everyone's too old. That's the that's the biggest problem. That's near me. It feels wrong, because everybody is like, the, like, young, hot jet pilot, or almost 40 years old. Like, that's, that's not how that works. That's, yeah, because if you fit in the Navy, right, and you're almost 40, you're like, retiring, right? Like. You're getting ready to retire, you can, like, like, even if you sign, like, your tours, or sign up if you even, like, if you're gonna do, like, career Navy, like you're almost done, right, like, you got a couple years left, and then you just, like, full retire. Like, what do you mean, young, hot shot pilot? Like, what we talking about?

Collin  40:20

Yep, that's wrong.

40:25

You just be out and done, like,

Collin  40:28

Oh my gosh. Well, whatever, yeah, well, we'll see. We'll see what they do for number three, yeah, it probably would be

Brandon  40:41

wonky, but yeah, we go, what else did I do? I all, oh, I had to go through, pulled the old trigger, right? Had to go through on the old phone upgrade, right? Oh, so that's what we did there. Did that last weekend. Yes, okay, that's what we did last weekend.

Collin  41:04

How? How is the phone upgrade process in 2025

Brandon  41:09

it's not too bad, right? Like we, we just like, it's all right. It's kind of weird. Like you this, it's very plausible to, like, do all of this on your own. But, well, yeah, I said plausible. But we just went into the store, right? The problem is finding the official corporate phone store, not just like, oh, the one with the name on it

Collin  41:36

that has, like,

Brandon  41:40

it's like, affiliated, but not like the official one, because, like, we can't there's one here in town, but like, it's not like the officially run store. So like, all of the offers and stuff that the company, the phone company, gives you to do, things like are not valid through the third party store. Oh, interesting, right? Okay, yes. Annoying thing about phone stores in the world, international listeners, please tell me how this. I don't know how this works in other places, right? But you can write to us, like, comment on this, tell us what's up. But like here, like you get you can do for like, just so we decided to do it because they were running like a trade in special deal, right? So if you trade in your own phones, you get, like, a pretty good rate and to then put towards new ones, you know, blah, blah. So, like, Okay, that's good. Let's do that, but it's only valid at the official

Collin  42:32

store. I see, right?

42:34

All the other stores will not

Collin  42:38

do the thing, right? They won't valid. It's not valid there. So you can't they can't help you, which, what's the point? Why would you do that? So we went ahead and just pre ordered the phones. Had them shipped to us right there. Somehow

Brandon  42:56

arrived safely, because they were here like during all that like, crazy rain stuff that we had, yeah, like, that's the day they were delivering. So, like, yeah, whoopsie. So we had them here. We got those. And so we took them up to Springfield, to the store, and then the dude, like, helped us transfer all the data over so you can, like, download the little switcher app thingy. Like, I'm kind of glad we went and had him do it, because my phone was being stupid, like, not staying connected to the thing, right? And, like, they tried to do it. Like, you could just jumper the phones with the

Collin  43:38

for the data transfer. Like, if you just put the

Brandon  43:41

plot, you know, you put the Accord in, you can just jumper them across. But one of the reasons that I need a new phone is because my old charging port thing was, like, not working. And, like, you couldn't you had to, like, put it in there, just so and then, like, leave it so that it wasn't, like, firmly holding the charging cable anymore, and so, like, it kept, like, bugging out and not transferring the stuff and not doing the thing. And so we had the guy do it all for us. So

Collin  44:13

that was good.

Brandon  44:15

So it was nice to just like, okay, whatever. Go have him do it. It's fine. Blah, blah, blah,

Collin  44:21

perfect, right?

Brandon  44:22

And you did it. So that's good. It's very strange to have used my phone the entire day today without charging it at all, and I'm sitting currently at 20% battery. That's interesting. That's a new phenomenon. Yeah, yeah. Like last time I charged my phone was yesterday, so that's crazy. That's good. And that's a, I like that part of having new phones right battery that's functional still, so that's handy. So

Collin  45:09

I know, I you know, and we reached that well, well, I'm glad that that went well, and I'm glad that you got, got it, yeah,

Brandon  45:17

transfer. Nick, right. Shout out. Nick, he's, Nick, a real one. He's he knows what's

Collin  45:23

up all your help. Yeah. And the other thing that's weird is, like, nowadays,

Brandon  45:30

it basically formatted my new phone exactly how my old phone was. So, like, it threw all of the apps on there, most of them in the exact same location that they were before, so you don't have to affect dig around and find it. It kept the folder things that I had, right? Like, I have, like, several apps and, like, you know, you put them in, like, little folder thing you do. It kept those, kept all the stuff like that didn't used

45:57

to be

Collin  46:00

a thing. Oh, well, congratulations on you just got yourself a new project for getting your phone taken care of, because, yeah, you have to put it all back together, sort it all out, and do all this weird stuff and figure out where that app went or whatever. But like,

Brandon  46:15

so did that also be just going through randomly because it is a new phone. There's like 20 billion apps on here that I don't require. So I've,

Collin  46:24

did you do it? You did a good app purge. Apparently, got rid

46:27

of those, right? And some ones that I had on my old phone, that's, like, I don't need this anymore. We can get rid of that. Like, I don't, like,

Brandon  46:36

I haven't used this a long time. We'll get rid of that. So it's a good excuse for purging, you're right, but like, so there's some stuff on here. It's pretty good, but yeah, so that was a that was an adventure. So that was our big adventure last weekend, which had it took forever, took a lot longer than we were supposed to. We were supposed to go to we're gonna we went early so we could do that and then come back and make it in time for a graduation party thing, right? Yeah, we didn't make it to the graduation party. Oh, no. So that was whoops Whoopsie daisy, but we saw her later awkwardly at somebody else's graduation party, like tapes. Take this envelope too. It was in the car. It wasn't that big deal. She was cool too. But like, so that that kind of messed up. So that was our bad thing last weekend, was dealing with that. So I think I like, do all the RE, gotta re buy all the things, right? You gotta get more cases because your case don't fit anymore. Oh, I know. I just bought like, and the guy, the dude, was like, oh, like, we're gonna need some cases in the street. He's

Collin  47:51

like, he goes, Don't buzz in here. Oh, I was like, Nick, yeah, Nick is my favorite person, because that's Nick is the man, right? Yes. I was like, got you.

Brandon  48:03

He's like, don't do it. So I don't, we just, I just bought a random one from Walmart just to have for right now. It's kind of like, Susan just bought it. She was like, here, just use this, because it wasn't that much. And it's like, fine and whatever, until you figure out what else you want. Like, it's pretty good. It feels large, so I don't, I'm just coping with that. That's some, oh, difficult things to do, right? But it's all right. It's good. We had to put this, we had to do screen protector stuff, right? Gotta do all that

Collin  48:33

blah, blah. So we bought,

Brandon  48:37

Susan got this one that she read the good stuff, mad on, like, the internet, whatever. And she it's like, this thing, you, like, put it, you put your phone in there, and, like, holds it, and then you just, like, load the screen protector in, and then pull the deal, and it

Collin  48:53

just, like, on there, right? Yeah. And she did it. And she was like, What the heck? Why is this blah, blah, blah. It turns out it it applies the screen protector so good that we couldn't tell it and put it on there. Oh, oh, wow,

Brandon  49:13

wow. So we're like, what the heck, Bro, why is this working? I understand. And then I looked at the very edge. I was

Collin  49:18

like, wait, wait, hold on, actually, no, actually, that that's on there. It's so it worked so efficiently that you couldn't even tell it worked. So that's amazing. Pretty good.

Brandon  49:37

Yeah, so it's not bad, except for I did find out, and this is not something I had ever thought of. Would ever be a problem? Ever it? It the way that the screen protector is designed like makes it look bizarre when you look at it with sunglasses on.

Collin  49:54

Oh, really, well, do you have or do you have polarized I don't know. I don't

Brandon  49:58

think so. No, I. Well, I just think it's a way the screen thing is designed, like, when you look at it, like with the sunglasses, it's like double, I think there's probably, like, some sort of glare thing on there, maybe I see, yeah, and so it's like double glaring. So it makes it look kind of like a little bit weird, not like bad, but like, unusable, but like, ah, like, first time I looked at it was

50:20

like, what is, Oh, interesting.

Collin  50:23

I know some screen protectors will have, like, a privacy thing where you can't, no, this doesn't have that viewing angle can be to see it, right? Okay? I'm thinking like,

Brandon  50:39

I don't know if it's like a glare thing, or, like how it's manufactured, just like,

Collin  50:46

you know how, like, 3d glasses work, yeah, right, how they

Brandon  50:51

have, like, basically slits that go in two different directions to allow light to come in at different angles, and that makes it look 3d It's kind of Like, I don't know if it's like that, because when you hold your phone horizontal, or, I mean, vertical, it looks kind of funky. But if you turn your phone horizontal, it doesn't look weird at all.

Collin  51:10

Oh, interesting with the sunglasses on, huh? So I don't know. I don't know,

Brandon  51:15

whatever, I'll deal with it, but isn't it Sure? Yeah, like, this is the most bizarre thing ever, like, what?

Collin  51:24

What is going on that

Brandon  51:26

is interesting, huh? And that was, let me think it's just some sort of, like, polarized coding or whatever, because when you turn it

Collin  51:33

horizontally, it doesn't have, it doesn't make it look weird, sure. Yeah, it's very weird. So I discovered that I also discovered something horrifying this

51:47

week, right? Oh, yeah, not horrifying, really, but like

Collin  51:52

I, I was doing something here, and I had the realization. I was like, Dad, I get it now a few moments later, Hello, yeah, Hi.

Brandon  52:09

How's it going? Yeah, fine. That was weird. I don't know what I'm saying. Very, very weird. Middle of

Collin  52:15

sentence, and just gone. It ended at the perfect time, because you were like, Oh, Dad, I understand, boom, you disappeared. So I've been waiting. Oh, they go deep suspense, deep suspense. Sorry, okay, I understand

Brandon  52:32

Zen and the Art of dishwashing, right? Is what it is, all right. This is why I get it right, just sitting there, washing the pots and stuff, just like focused in solely on the active dishwashing right? Is just like a very meditative state. You're just like, whoa. So I was in there, I was like, doing of the pots and the cooking pots and stuff, and all of a sudden I just was like, no, no, dang it. I get it now. Ah, no, did you? Did you lose track of time? What was your city? No, I was just like, sitting there, like, doing something and, like, I don't know, I just had this realization of, like, Ah, this is like the most distracting thing ever, because in order to get the pot clean, you have to focus only on the pot. Yeah, right. Gonna give all your energy to the pan. Otherwise, it'll still be dirty because you'll have missed a spot. Oh, yep, playing. Oh no, right? Like, oh no. And there's also, like, sometimes I do it, like, I'll start washing stuff in the kitchen if, like, Susan's mom or something is over here, and they're just like, sitting there talking,

Collin  53:59

sure, and I'm not including

Brandon  54:00

the conversations at all. Just like, not like, in a bad way, not like they're ignoring me. It's just like, it's not about something that I can input, right? Sure,

Collin  54:09

yeah, you're like, you're not needed. It's, yeah, you're not needed Absolutely, yeah. So it's not like, a negative way. It's not like they're shunning me or anything,

Brandon  54:18

right? But like, they were over here for dinner the other day, and I was like, I'll just stop washing the pan. And then went, that's when I went, Oh no,

Collin  54:30

excellent. Oh no, sorry.

Brandon  54:38

Since this podcast is tagged as philosophy, I just wanted to put that out there. This is the new we're gonna be working on this, right? Because

Collin  54:46

I like it. That's perfect, you know? I mean, I'm right there with you. There are times where it's like it is. It's kind of nice, especially I don't know it's part. Of the, like, taking all of the chaos and just turning it into, not chaos, right? Just like, yeah, now it's all gone. I love that so much. It's so weird because, like, chaotic environments, literally anywhere else, don't bother me at

Brandon  55:23

all. Like, you can, like, move around them and through them, you know, in a certain way, like my little room here, like it's just, you know, most people would look at this and go,

Collin  55:36

what is happening right now? Yeah, but

Brandon  55:39

I can navigate and move through it, but like, in the kitchen, right? And there's only so much room. You can't stack really, you can't like things have to be in their spot in the kitchen, yeah? And like that. Otherwise, things can't function. You know what I mean? So, like, it's one area, at least the one area of my life, I think other people don't have weird thing that I do, but like, the one area of my life where, like, the kitchen needs, like, cleaned up a little bit, right? Yeah, I can handle like, a little bit of like, stuff out, you know, like a little couple things here and there, but like, on the whole like, no, no, we have to move these things through

Collin  56:32

when we when I'll start to cook maybe, like, Okay, it's time to get dinner ready. I'm like, awesome. Let's get dinner ready. And then what do I spend the first many minutes doing, washing the dishes that are by the sake, right? Because it's like, no, because I'm a Bucha, there's gonna be more dishes, more, more, yeah, and I have to make make room for this, because if I don't make room, then it's just going to be really

Brandon  57:01

worse, right? Like, yeah, because I always start by putting up any dishes that are already in the dish rack thing, yeah, right. Like, if there's dishes in the dish rack those, even if it's like two things, I'm like, I'm going to put that up first, so that I just have room in case I need this for some of these things, because I need space in the drying rack. I gotta get everything out, get everything away, so that new things can go nice, right? So it's like, it is almost this weird, like process. It's just a weird process because, like, I can somehow, this is, like, also the one area of my life where I can devote like, 100% of my attention to this thing.

Collin  57:44

It's nice, it's nice, right? Yeah, other

Brandon  57:48

things I can't do that, or I don't do it well, right? I was like, I can do this and that and like, blah, blah. But like, when you're doing that thing,

Collin  57:59

right, it's like you are doing that only,

Brandon  58:04

and you can focus only on this task, yep. Like, really cleaning in general is like that, I guess, because, like, when you're vacuuming, like you can't, like, vacuum and do other stuff like that just doesn't work because you have a vacuum in your hand, right? Like, I so that doesn't work, but the dishwasher and washing dishes like that, it's just like, I'm gonna focus only on this. You gotta feel around the pot to make sure you didn't miss anything, right? You gotta use all your senses to, maybe not smell, don't smell the dishes. But like,

Collin  58:39

that's not what we need in our lives,

Brandon  58:41

yeah, but like, you can, yeah, feel all around, make sure there's not little things sticking in there. So you can, like, get it out, you know. So, yeah, this, I just had this realization. It's like, Oh no, I think I understand a little bit. Dad, there we go, nailed.

Collin  58:59

We go. Just, I guess maybe be glad you don't have a yard to really zone out in.

59:07

And that's true. I would make it then I wouldn't. I probably wouldn't handle

Collin  59:11

that well. So

Brandon  59:16

I true other than, other than my deep philosophical discovery here, not a whole lot. I only have one week of school left. Oh, nice winding down. It's very busy week. But like,

Collin  59:30

because, like, all the things are happening this week, right? We have, like, a field trip and Field Day and the other stuff.

Brandon  59:42

Tomorrow we have device turn in in the tech department, right again, turn in all their little Chromebook things, right? Oh,

Collin  59:51

so that's gonna be tomorrow. So just lots

Brandon  59:55

and lots of like, random stuff to do. Then I gotta finish clean my room. I don't like doing that. I know I just talked about how cleaning convenience info, but not my classroom, not classroom that's hasn't that's bothersome educational that's just like, Ah, dang it. I gotta pick all this stuff and get it out of the way. Yeah, now

Collin  1:00:15

I'm inconvenienced.

Brandon  1:00:17

It's, yeah, it's cleaning so that they can move literally all the things out of my room. So it's like, Where can I put this so they don't have to carry it? Number one, that way, I know I get it back, just because, like, moving everything out in the hallway, like, it can be hard to keep track of where it's not supposed to go, even though you're supposed to label everything like, you know, like a random box, like, if I you know, but Where'd that come from? I mean, how would I expect people to remember that that's mine?

Collin  1:00:44

That's unrealistic, yes.

Brandon  1:00:48

So it's like, oh, I need to find a place for this so that nobody else has to mess with

Collin  1:00:57

it. Well. So that's just the whole process. But yeah, hopefully that goes well eventually. All right,

Brandon  1:01:04

so, yeah, we had graduation yesterday, really, oh yeah, yeah,

Collin  1:01:10

yesterday.

Brandon  1:01:12

I don't know when they did. I haven't been to graduation very long. Time. Number one,

Collin  1:01:16

I forgot air horns were. Thing that was

Brandon  1:01:19

my surprise. I did. I yeah, they people do it. I don't whatever. I just forgot about it. And so I was very like, let's take it back for several years. They were doing our graduation at, like, on the weekend at like, two o'clock, okay? And it was great. Yeah, it was this the best time, right time. And so then, I don't know when they started it, but they're like, no, no, seven,

Collin  1:01:50

no, that's a bad time, guys, come

Brandon  1:01:52

on. Like, if you do it early afternoon, you can have, like, graduation party stuff. You can do it after right blah, blah, like, seven, come on. Like, I know we're not a big school, so graduation doesn't really

Collin  1:02:05

take a long time, but still, no, that's not what you do. You don't

Brandon  1:02:11

that's I veto this. This, yeah, it's like, I liked it when it was like, two o'clock, right? Everything

Collin  1:02:16

was over by like, three. Boom, you've done better. You have to, yep, right? That gives people all

Brandon  1:02:26

kinds of time afterwards with their family, and they can do all kinds anything they want, right? You know, whatever. So I don't know. Also, I think just because I live my life where I eat dinner, usually between seven and eight, right? I I'm learning, you know, I've learned that this is a very not normal thing, right? The majority of people that I know in my life do not do this. Yeah, right, but because I eat dinner all the time between seven and eight o'clock, when people are doing activities at seven, I'm just like, what? Why?

Collin  1:03:00

That's my dinner time me up because

Brandon  1:03:01

I now have to, like, restructure and think about, Do I eat before

Collin  1:03:06

or after? Yeah, right. And like, I don't,

1:03:15

I don't know. Like, this messes with me, right? Like, I

Collin  1:03:21

Okay, oh my gosh, it's, it's a problem, sorry, right?

Brandon  1:03:27

Because I don't want to eat too early, because I'm not a person that goes to bed early, right? So, like, I usually go to bed like, somewhere between 11 o'clock at midnight. So like, if I eat too early,

Collin  1:03:41

right? If I eat it, like five or six, then I I'm still,

Brandon  1:03:45

that's like, many hours before I go to bed. So I'm like, Oh, I might be hungry again. I don't wanna do that, right? Yeah?

Collin  1:03:51

You don't wanna be eating that late. No, I don't eat that for you. Yeah? So I try to eat later, but, like,

Brandon  1:04:00

people throwing graduation at seven o'clock really puts

Collin  1:04:04

me quandary, that that throws it off. That's too I know

Brandon  1:04:07

there's only me, only a me problem. I think anybody else does this, I don't know. I'm sure you're not the only one, but everybody else eat dinner like, way early. So I have no idea, but I had, I figured I struggled like I did. I had to, like, really think about it, but I decided to go to graduation this year, because this year's graduating seniors are the kids that I had in the first kids I taught in fifth grade.

Collin  1:04:35

Oh, are you serious? Yeah. Oh, my

Brandon  1:04:39

I figured, like, you know what, I should go like, I kind of want to go see him, right, you know? So that's so I went first. My first kids graduated yesterday, yeah, bang, there we go,

Collin  1:04:56

see Oh, that's really cool. How, how was it seeing him walk across? The state. That was pretty good.

Brandon  1:05:01

I was pretty good. I got to see several of them afterwards. That was nice. So got

Collin  1:05:05

talked to him a little bit. So pretty good, pretty good. Kind

Brandon  1:05:11

of makes you old. You're like, dang, you were like 11, just like yesterday.

Collin  1:05:22

Gretch, grudges. Yeah, bang. So

Brandon  1:05:27

that was my big emotional day yesterday. Was deal with that, because I was kind of sad to see some go. Some of them are pretty good kids, so

Collin  1:05:35

they're all right, but yeah, so I

Brandon  1:05:39

decided I like, I don't want it. I was like, I don't know if I want to go, Yeah, but yeah, I yeah, I did right, like, because I got, there's some people that I really do want to see. So, yeah.

Collin  1:05:52

So that's what we did yesterday, pretty much. That's pretty much it. Think that's

1:06:01

think I caught up. I think that's all nice,

Collin  1:06:04

yeah, well, that's that makes it a big week. The only thing that I need to follow up with is we have to check in on our very standard bear update.

Brandon  1:06:17

We had, yeah, slots available. Still, was this correct? We did,

Collin  1:06:22

and I, I, I'm just gonna read these. Okay, oh, no, okay, well, it's fine. It's fine. So I honestly don't even remember what we didn't have. I think last time we did not. So we had Wynonna, Judd, yes, we had Blues Traveler. Yes, we had Oliver Anthony, okay, oh. Then we had the MSF shootout, truck and tractor pulls. Do we have that one?

1:06:50

Maybe? Okay, yeah,

Collin  1:06:51

we did have that one. We did not have filling in August 11, the pro pulling League, State Fair shootout. No more.

1:07:04

Oh,

Collin  1:07:05

I need to make a mental note of this somewhere, of the number of tractor pulls and racing, because I don't remember that. Okay. Then we did have, on the 12th an acoustic evening with John Anderson, yes, with exile, should say. Then we had Josiah queen, with Claire Leslie. Then we had Huston Westbrook, HUD sorry, Hudson Westbrook, ah chancy Williams, or Chauncey Williams. Then on the 14th, we get Flo Rida, yes, okay, with Paul Russell. Then we had a blank and then we had the 2025, power eat 410, Sprint Car B modifieds and Super Stock race. Yes. So now we come to the 16th, and this is a man I have never heard of before. Oh, no at all. And even whenever I went to look up music that this person has done, I fell, I fell flat. I don't know. I do not know this person. However, I can tell you that he is the most expensive evening, what to go out and see. Now, you may know this man. You may know John Hardy. I do not okay, I I didn't either. But if you would like to see him, it will cost you the top $80 what to see him, to stand on the track, if you just want to sit in the grandstand. It is $70 he's more than Flo Rida and Winona. Judd

Brandon  1:08:51

here being more expensive than Wynonna, a lot.

Collin  1:08:55

What he What is this? Now, I will say his name is Mike, John. What he is, oh, party with an i, p, a, r, d, i. Now I will say because

Brandon  1:09:08

of world events currently, I typed in John and I just got a list of Popes. That's what I

Collin  1:09:15

do. Nope, no, not one of those. Wrong one. Yeah, he is actively touring. He won, he was the 2019 CMA and ACM Album of the Year. Okay, he's actively winning awards, and he's still producing a lot. One of his music videos had like 128 million views on it, things such as, apparently, head over boots and dirt on my boots, cowboys

1:09:48

and plow boys, cowboys.

Collin  1:09:51

Okay, there you go. So

Brandon  1:09:55

this, I will pull some children tomorrow and see if i know i. Who, if they know who this is. I think

Collin  1:10:04

that this is part of his Honky Tonk Hollywood tour. Oh, fifth is fifth album he is actively so this is the other thing he's actively touring this. Ah, so I think that is why he is so big. Um,

Brandon  1:10:29

anyway, I am not clicking on this YouTube link. I will not destroy my YouTube my I carefully curated YouTube algorithm with, oh yeah, I'm sure it's super carefully curated. Anyway, my

Collin  1:10:44

Oh, no, mine is straight garbage and trash. It is not perfect, not perfect, but, like, it's not bad. Yeah. So anyway, I was blown away when I was like, genuinely, I don't know, and this isn't one of the I don't knows, of like, okay, there are some people here who the I don't know is, and their tickets are cheap, like I expect that, but for me to go $80 okay? Anyway, we'll see. I don't I'm interested to see what your whole brings up for coming out here. And have they heard dirt on my boots trying

Brandon  1:11:16

to be charging more ticket price the Judd. What is this? Is a crime.

Collin  1:11:25

I'm not a fan either. So that completes Missouri State 2025, Missouri State Fair lineup. Okay, as we have it, pretty lackluster compared to artists. If I'm if I'm being honest, I'm very excited about the slip, but that's

Brandon  1:11:48

all right, so I guess it's called fantasy booking for a reason. Yeah, but, you know, I don't really feel like I should fantasy book like nine tractor pulls and a sprint car thing, that'd be pretty boring. I think next year, that's all I'm going to do. No fast cheating. I'm just gonna come.

Collin  1:12:01

No, I'm gonna but, but I think what you have to you have to do is you have to come up with the weird names of the tractor pulls. Yeah. So anyway, to cheer me up, I have a haiku. Aha. So here we have Cercis canadensis. Heart

1:12:27

shaped leaves, magenta buds,

Collin  1:12:29

edge of woods in bloom.

1:12:36

Yes, yes, oh. Oh, it's the going

1:12:49

Latin, yes, yes, how

Collin  1:12:52

to get the scientific name in there. Not complete,

Brandon  1:12:58

all right, that was beautiful. I so good.

Collin  1:13:09

Ah, see, I feel better about the lackluster 2025, Missouri State Fair grandstand things already, and that's what it's supposed to do. So have incredible hakus Like this? Look at that. I know maybe we'll just have an oh brother haiku night. I think, yes, night at the fair.

Brandon  1:13:27

I mean, I think we have quite a collection. I think maybe we should publish that haiku book, right? I feel like that.

Collin  1:13:33

I know. Have you ever looked at Amazon? Uh, self publishing? Yeah. Hey. Help Kindle, Direct Publishing. You can do all sorts of stuff in there. You can actually get it printed anyway. I just say, yeah, yeah. I feel

1:13:49

like, you know Volume One, you know, you know, I've no

Collin  1:13:56

no, it has to be volume two. We've already,

1:13:58

you're right, you're right. We have established this.

Collin  1:14:05

That's true. Okay, well, maybe I'll put, you know what? I'll put that on your to do list. How this pans out. Hi, don't have that enough time on my plate, sure. I'll look into this.

1:14:21

Okay, well, we also need to start looking the summer

Collin  1:14:24

readings. Oh, yes, this was on my thought today, because I do want to get this Yeah, I want to get this done, though. Yes, so we need to start working on that for sure. Okay, so that's what that will be, what we work on behind the scenes. Sounds good, okay, well, we will see what happens next time. All right, love you. Love

1:14:51

you too. Bye, bye.