Branson vibes

We are NOT in person. We went boating. We struggle with ship terminology.

  • No in-person

  • Patterned after a mother-in-law

  • Lake of the Ozarks…gives Branson vibes

  • Bald knobbers..are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Knobbers

  • Treasure Island chapters!

  • Promote the boatswain

  • I present to you…ship terminology

  • Haiku:

    • Placid blue expanse

    • Brings new life to ancient shores

    • Strewn between the peaks

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SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin

Collin  00:04

Foreign 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, Branson vibes, ahoy

00:21

ahoy. Hello there. Unmuting and trying to pull the microphone towards me at the same time. It's

Collin  00:27

difficult, difficult to manage, difficult to manage. It's fine. So many things, so many things going on. So Long time, no talk. I know

Collin  00:43

keen, keen listeners will know that we signed off last week saying that we were going to be doing the the annual in person at the lake recording, but we stayed up too late talking about other things, and

Brandon  00:58

it is kind of hard to do this in a small place where everyone else is gone to bed already, also

Collin  01:05

sleeping. So,

Brandon  01:07

so, you know, there's that, right? Yes, the children and our father go to bed very early, and so we sort of work around that a little bit. So it's fine. It's fine.

Collin  01:19

Yes, this is true. So we are just post sun

01:28

and boating. I mean, big boat, yes, not Sun boating. Sun burning. What? Sun burning?

Collin  01:35

I, yeah, I, I feel like I got I did very well this year. No, horrific burns. So I

01:44

think that's true, pretty good, but bad, good job.

Collin  01:50

Oh my gosh, there is a I tried to sign in with. I was getting into zoom, and now that every new is tricky, every piece of software has AI involved. Um, every time I log into zoom or start up a zoom call now, uh, three different things pop up on my computer that'll say, Are you doing a zoom call? Do you want the AI to do something with that? Do you want? Do you want to handle that? You want to do zoom thing? And it's just, it's like the birds from the seagulls from Finding Nemo. Oh yeah, as soon as something happens, there's all the AI is like, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, just hitting. No, no, no, no, no, no, stop. Go away. Be gone. I will summon you when needed. And it's, it continues just to be nobody has Microsoft hit it out of the park with Clippy. Okay, and so peak, that was peak, that was peak, and that's the only thing people have thought

Brandon  02:56

of is now they're like, sat over there and waited for you to ask them something and then that was it that looks like you're writing a letter. Yes, thank you. Thanks. I butt out, man, yeah. It's like, it's like an overbearing, like, parent, right? Like, I see that you're doing this.

Collin  03:17

Get away from me. It is. It's like, I see you're in a meeting there, huh? Doing a little meeting there for buddy. You want some help with your No, I don't need with anything. I don't help with notes. Yeah?

Brandon  03:31

It's like, it's just like, oh, yeah, the business AI model is basically just, like, patterned after a mother in law, right? Like, so I see that you're over there and you don't have a snack. Doing that so disappointing that you're doing it that way. If only there was a better way to do it.

Collin  03:54

Asked, I would have, you know, yeah, done something. But guess we're not,

03:58

yeah, it's like, Oh, I see. I guess you're just gonna do that over there, man, if they program the sign we're done, the AI chatbot gets the the

Collin  04:16

so I don't mean to rat out anyone in specifically here. However, I use a and have used for a very long time, even before this AI craze or whatever, like five years ago, there was, there's this thing for transcriptions called otter.ai, you. Oh, yeah, upload your audio file and it will transcribe it for you, and it is pretty good, like it's as far as that goes, I can't afford to pay somebody to transcribe. The cost per minute to have a live person transcribe is astronomical, and so now, whenever. I go to export, because you throw it in there. It's, you know, on the web, and you go to export the transcript like, Okay, you have given me words. I want a document with those words. Yeah, every time that I do this, I go to export, a little drop down will pop up, and we'll go, are you exporting to chat? GPT, why not use otters own AI features and not and I'm like, actually, no, I'm not exporting this. I just want text. Just leave

05:33

this to like word, okay, get out of here.

Collin  05:41

I just want to do the thing that you do. I just want that. I'm not gonna go pace, don't worry. Like, do I need to sign a waiver that's like, no, no, I'm not doing anything with this. That's okay, sensitive, much my goodness, okay,

Brandon  05:54

yeah. Like, you're gonna go and you're gonna take this thing that I did and take it somewhere else, man, like you're at your mother in law's house and you say you're gonna go buy cookies. There's like, there's perfectly good cookies right here.

Collin  06:15

Why are you doing that? Cookies at home? Would you do that? I'm I made cookies exactly. I just don't want Yes, that is what's happening. Thank you, Otter, thank you. It's every time I have to click no. And so what used to be a single export button is now an export, and it's, I have to hit three buttons to

Brandon  06:43

make you like. Are you sure? Are you like? Are you really sure? Why do that? Are you good?

06:48

Are you leaving me? Oh my gosh,

06:52

I'll be back. I promise. Ah, so

Collin  07:04

greeted with that, I was like, Yeah, this is wonderful. It's it's continuing to make all of our lives

07:10

better, not or worse, you know, whatever. It's fine, I guess. Oh, oh, so I'm slowly

Collin  07:28

recovering. I don't think I've been hydrated since Tuesday. Is what I've realized. Wow, shocking. This is like so much I've had so

Brandon  07:39

after all the yelling you did at your son, not yelling, but I know being like drinking water, drinking water, drinking water, drinking water. And here you are, though, here I am. It's not drinking any water

Collin  07:50

at all making sure he was

07:51

hydrated. Yes, by forgetting to hydrate yourself. Good job. I've

Collin  07:58

had water. I've drinking. I've had a lot of water. It's just not enough water. That's

Brandon  08:02

true. We're also outside for the entire day, so that'll do it. That also makes it difficult. Yes, it's not like it was really humid or anything. It's not like the lake is felt like it's been raining for, you know, months straight, and the lake is like, 30 feet higher, I know,

Collin  08:27

literally all the water, if I will say this, if you, if you looked at cost per cost per night, per Lake volume this year was a, really a better deal. This was a much more lake.

08:44

It's a lot more lake this time. So that's true. This is

Collin  08:51

what I'm saying. So

Brandon  08:53

people except, you know, just watch out, you know, we don't hit the playgrounds or the really large sandbars or

Collin  09:05

trees, the massive trees, just in the river, in the lake. River thing floating, yes, I mean,

Brandon  09:14

it used to be river, so it used to be, it's fine. It's, uh, together, some say, still

Collin  09:20

kind of technically a river, since there's lateral flow.

Brandon  09:23

That is true, especially now it's a lot of lateral flow, yeah, because all the dams are just open,

Collin  09:30

no, let it all out.

Brandon  09:33

All of it is wide. Well, that one has to have it like Mega open, because all the other ones before it are open. So, like, oh, right, you know what I mean. Like, that one, like, Bull Shoals has to be open because table rocks open, right? And, like, I don't really know if tiny como is actually, is there even a dam there? Like, is that actually a. Acres that just like, people say it's like, I don't know. I don't think there's actually like, it's very tiny compared to all the rest of them, right? It's like, eensy especially compared to Bucha. Bucha is very long. It's very big. I'm trying to think, where is the where is the damn Martini como, that's what I'm saying. Is there even one in Forsyth. I mean, there it's, that's kind of where it sort of, right. But like, Is there even really a lake there? Because, like, the Table Rock dam is down by just like the point Royale thing, right? Like, over there. But like, is there really? I mean, it's got to be somewhere over there. Or does it even really, I don't know how tiny combo is technically a lake, because it's like, I think

Collin  10:53

there is the most rivery of all. It is the most river I am looking at some structure right now. It does not have, like, your typical dam, like, with, like, power generator and stuff. I This just looks like, was it Ozark beach dam? Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think this is just a small little wall,

Brandon  11:13

yes. Okay, yes. This is just a lump Yes.

Collin  11:18

Because yes, if you look at to the if you're looking at

11:21

the damn, just like, What is

Collin  11:24

going on, you look to the right of the dam

Brandon  11:26

and the left of the dam, the it is all

Collin  11:30

the same width. There is no yeah, it's, which is not what typically happens with And damn,

Brandon  11:38

yeah, it's Yeah, exactly. They're not, yeah,

Collin  11:43

yeah. Plus, it's just so stinking close to Bull Shoals.

Brandon  11:47

Like, it just, wow, yeah, it's, it's, that's why it's like, it's weird to look at it. Between Table Rock and Bull Shoals, there's just, like, a extra bit of squiggle. And you're like, No, no, that's Lake Chaney combo. Like, is it? Like, I don't

Collin  12:05

think no, is it really, that's true. It's the slack water between Table Rock and Bull Shoals. People, you can't, yes.

Brandon  12:16

Like, that's not, actually, it can't do that, correct? No. But then if you go up river more, you got beaver over by, like Rogers, right? It's also very large, right? Because it's on the same white river system that goes all the way over there.

Collin  12:35

Oh, yes, Beaver, yes. Beaver Lake is quite extensive

Brandon  12:40

in the and then you got, I think, yeah, Beaver Lake is very big as well. So, yeah, yeah, Tamarack, take on my home. Buchalls, yeah. And then it goes, is that? Is that real? That's not real. What is that?

Collin  12:59

I don't know. I know. No, no, yes,

Brandon  13:03

okay, yeah. But then it finally is like, Oh no, just white river now. Thank you very much.

Collin  13:09

Yeah, it's just all white river after that. So yes, but everything is up and exceptionally So, like the kids wanted to go from our place where we were staying up to the cookies restaurant, but by via boat. And I said, No, we do. We do not have that much time, that

13:37

much gas. It's actually quite far.

Collin  13:43

You have to go so far south like, before you start going,

Brandon  13:49

Yeah, because it's wiggly, right? So you would have to go way down the lake and way over like, yeah, that would be insane. Maybe not, maybe not, maybe yeah. That's

Collin  14:03

yeah, that's not, that's not something we're gonna execute. We're gonna

Brandon  14:07

that's true. It's a good thought, Good thinking, you know, yeah, but

Collin  14:13

good ambitions, gladitions,

Brandon  14:14

maybe find it closer. Surely, there's a closer Marina, somewhere else, I don't know, work on that for later. Like, another place you can go. But like, yep, just really want to travel by boat. Like,

Collin  14:33

yep. Just really want to do this. And I think that's, yeah, I get it. Like, it's, it's fun. Everyone wants to, wants to do that. But no, not doing. But also, no, like, also, no, not. I'm not having hours, like, if there was a, if there was a some dock, within 15 to 20 minutes that we could go to, like, and have dinner and just take the boat there. That'd be fun. I do,

Brandon  14:57

yeah, but that's fair. Are not, I don't know if that is a thing. It's

Collin  15:03

possible. It's not on Bull Shoals, yeah, not on basically, remotest of the Yes, remote void of everything, okay? Like, yeah, it's not populous. In the least. If you want that, you have to go to Table Rock or like the Ozarks, and nobody really wants to go there.

Brandon  15:25

No, I don't really like, like the Ozarks, really, it's not really very, it's weird. I don't know. I don't know why I think it because it i Okay, never mind. I know why. It's because it gives Branson vibes. It's like, Branson light, okay, you know, like, the infrastructure built around Lake of the Ozarks is just like, it's so artificial. Just like, oh no. It's just, we just want tourist people coming. That's it. That's all that's there. So it's just like, weird strip malls and like, hotels and mini golf and like, that's it. That's all there is, right? And so, at least not all there is. But like, that's a large portion of what it is. And so it feels not good, right? It's just It gives Branson, which is not what I like in my life. Okay, I don't. Yes, so, so I think that's why, because it is, it is is a difference between promoting tourism, right, and building only for tourists, you know? Yeah, that's a bad difference. And I think a lot of there are many places that get it wrong, right? And it's like, do you want to draw? Like, you know, that's the we think about Branson, right? It is. It's like, when you go to Branson, it's weird to think that people live there. Oh, it is, right. People live here. How? Right? There's a giant King Kong on the roof of this wax museum thing. Like, how do people live?

Collin  17:20

Yeah, it is. It's kind of like where you go, hey, you know, people think when you're living in Paris or these things like, Man, how is it like living around the Eiffel Tower? How do you get used to that? It's a bit different when you ask people like, how do you get used to the giant gorilla on a roof or the Titanic replica on the side of the street with the iceberg. Like, what's it

Brandon  17:44

like? Nostalgia, you know, no, and like, that's the other thing that's weird, right? Like, but that's what like, I think we talked about this a little bit earlier, but that's the thing that, like, people in Spain and stuff are so bad at right? People in Spain, if I get this wrong you please feel free to correct me here, but like, it is, like people want to go to Spain because it's Spain, right? Like, they just want to be in Spain. Yep, you know what I mean. But a lot, some people in the some of the Spanish cities, are like, oh, we need to build stuff, especially for the tourists and all the people that live there are like, Ah, no, you should be taking all this tourist money and using it to make my life better, because that's what you said you were doing, and now what you're doing is making weird stuff only for people that visit, and stuff that won't help me at all, and I don't want so squirt gun time. Blam, like, that's what,

Collin  18:44

yeah, and you're right, it's they, some may say that in like, like, the Ozarks, they're really trying hard to make fetch happen. Like, it's really

18:55

and, but that's like,

Collin  18:59

to be fair, because, like, what else is there, right? But it was definitely a, hey, we're going to build this lake, and then we're going to turn it into something, just for something's

Brandon  19:07

sake, right? Exactly, yeah, it wasn't something that was already there, that people were coming for, right? They were like, no, no. If we build it, they will come like, literally, like, I so it's a bit weird. And so I can see why people that live by these places are like, Wow, I can't, can't deal with it, and not even live that close to Branson. But I don't even like Branson for sort of this reason. Like, I don't like to go there because, like, why? Thing, I don't like shows. So I guess if you're like a person that likes theaters and shows and stuff, I mean theater with like a hillbilly twist. I. Uh, you know that's what.

Collin  20:05

But yeah, yeah, it is. It's not like, yeah. I think people we need to make sure we understand this is not theater, as in, like Broadway, or even off Broadway. This is no its own thing. I mean, I don't know

Brandon  20:19

if there are things like that there, I don't think so. It's very like music oriented. It's very like a type of comedy, right? Susan's mom just, they went down there just for funsies. They went to go see the baldknobbers. Hey, you know, like you do, which is, you know, slightly awkward, giving what a bald knobber is, historically, it's weird that that's a comedy show, like a family dinner music comedy show thing kind of weird. That's, it's a name that you could pick, so that's distressing, but like, they love that kind of stuff, right? So they've been to, like, the Dolly Parton, whatever that thing is called, and, like, they've been to the baldknobbers, they've been to, you know, all these other places so, you know, whatever, if you like it, that's cool, but that's just not my vibe. And if you don't like that stuff, there's not a whole lot of other things that brands are free to do. I mean, go to silverware city, I guess, right, yeah. Like, that's, as far as I'm aware, that's the only things that are in Branson. I don't know what else people do there, like, there's mini golf. Like you can mini golf for days, but then, yeah, it's an outlet, shop, right? It's like, when it depending on who you ask, like people like

Collin  21:54

Branson in the area, for different reasons, there's a huge contingent that like that area, because it's outdoorsy, right? And it has the Ozark vibes and the nature aspect, and then they throw like a Tanger Outlet Mall, shopping strip center in the middle of the scenic, rustic beauty, yeah, and David Copperfield things and an amusement park is, like, it's a very, it's very interesting. Like, I Yeah, again, they're really trying hard to make it a thing, make it an attraction, to bring people there,

Brandon  22:35

yeah. So it's, it's kind of, again, some people are like that. People come from far and wide to witness that thing, so it's for

Collin  22:48

reasons. Ah, yeah,

Brandon  22:51

I just don't know. Again, that's just sort of not my thing. So sure I don't know. I'm just not the target audience, I guess. And perhaps also

23:00

being there is also like very just living near it for so long. It's kind of like,

Brandon  23:08

Man, I don't know, oh, if I like this, but you know, it's fine. But yes, we had to hear all about that when we came back there tell us all about their trip to Branson. Trip to Branson. I'm had to go see their new furniture, a couch update. So we had to go see, yeah, go see the couch update happen, right? So that was good. It's like, right? When we got home, like, well, you can you come over for a minute? But, sure, fine.

Collin  23:42

How was it? Were you impressed by the

Brandon  23:43

couch? It's good, yeah, it's nice. They like it. So that's all it was about, very happy. They're very proud of their new furniture. So, boom, yeah, you can sit upon it. There you go. Nailed it, yes, son, like, that's what we're looking for people, it's what we need.

Brandon  24:12

So, yeah, that's pretty much it nothing to just trying to unload everything we got home today, pretty much it the excitingness. So yes, thank you very fun. Appreciate everything you guys did up now. Everything says good times. If you want, please jump into reading, right? Yes, yes. So that, so here you go.

Collin  24:40

We were on a boat the past couple days. Speaking of boats. Oh, yeah,

Brandon  24:46

speaking of boats, here we go. Jim. Click Back, getting ready to get on a boat here, starting of my chapters. Hold on. Click, yeah, I know I did that. All I get one day. I. Would use a second bookmark, right? One thing, but not this day.

Collin  25:06

No. If I were true, a power user, I would just use the the quick, the quick back button on this oh, I can, like, bookmark various spaces and just, I can tab between them, but I don't do that so

Brandon  25:23

that it's not too bad, right? It was much worse last summer with your boy Mark Twain. I was like, Oh, 7000 pages ago. Gotta find this anyway. So chapter 10, the voyage of foyer. So we're getting bustled up, right? We're getting everything going together, and we really get a lot more, I think, of the fish out of water sentiment here, because we have a lot of Buccaneer sailory Speak, right? My version I'm reading has a ton of, like, asterisky things at the bottom being like, oh, yeah, that's what this is, or this is how you pronounce this word, right? Like, so perhaps even the reader is like, what's a cap stand? Why is Boson spelled that way? What is what is happening? Oh, understand what's going on. So they're, they're like, loading up the boat, right? We're getting everything ready to go, and we're loading up right? And we also learn randomly that people called Silver barbecue, you know, just like out of nowhere.

Collin  26:38

That's also weird, yes, yeah, there is a dizzying amount of terms and references. And I think this is further to make it confusing to both the reader and to our boy here for just to put us in that perspective of now, you're having to keep track of two different names in different contexts. And it, I know it does add to that little bit of what, what this is. All this is all going pretty fast now,

Brandon  27:07

yeah. So also, I think some of it is like a bit foreshadowee For the next chapter, because you get like, you get a sense that, like all of these, all of these people know each other already, which is, well, and

Collin  27:26

how do, like, how do we know that they know each other so well? Well, they're doing some work, and then suddenly, what are they doing? Yeah, broke out

27:36

into song, into

Collin  27:38

a song that we've may have heard once or many times, right? This is where, yeah, they say 15 men on Dead Man's Chest. And then the whole crew, right? The whole crew, yeah, we all know each other. Yoho

Brandon  27:55

chorus, bottle of rum, yeah. And, and then we get, you know, we get the thing that this is a work song, because, like, on the third ho drove the bar before them with the will on the capstan, so they're raising anchors and setting sails and things. And it's weird. It is a bit weird too, that, you know, the person that seems to have given the order to do this is silver, right? He's like, Hi mates. And then they start going, like, wait, wait a minute, you're a cook. We've given orders here, right? What's happening? You're just a cook, right? Yeah. And so they started, they had begun their voyage. They took off, right? This is much better than calling that giant anchor up my hand from both the way around this weekend that was we should have practiced.

28:52

It's okay.

Collin  28:53

I also love the author's Liberty here to say, I'm not going to relate that voyage in detail. It was fairly prosperous. And yeah, anyway, moving on, there's

Brandon  29:03

a lot more. It is interesting, yeah, because he goes, well, well, he does say there are, you know, I'm not gonna talk too much. However, there's three things that I wanna talk about, yes, right? Like, we're gonna talk about three things, right? He's just, like, it was good ship anyway. However, like, the most of it was boring. However, there are three important things that happened that are required to be known for the story. Right? First off, we gotta talk about Mr. Arrow. Right? Apparently horrible person. Right? Terrible who? Would like show up mysteriously inebriated, right, right? But that was by no means the worst of it, for after a day or two at sea, he began to appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks, stuttering tongue and other marks of. Drunkenness, and everyone's like, bro, where, what? And they're like, are you? He's no, no, no, of course, definitely not. We didn't even have what, what's going on, right? Yeah.

Collin  30:11

And if, and if you, and if you were so sober, deny solemnly that he had ever tasted anything but water,

Brandon  30:17

of course, right? Of course. So he was not only useless as an officer and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate, he must soon, you know, perish outright and, um, you know, all of a sudden, just one day, he's just not there anymore, yep. And little bit suspicious right in the captain's just like, Yeah, well, must fall on overboard anyway. So we have have a guy here who, under mysterious circumstances, was highly inebriated much of the time and then vanished. And the captain's response is, yeah, oh, well,

Collin  31:03

happens all the time. Happens

Brandon  31:04

all the time. So they have to do some promotion, because he was like the mate, so they have to do some suspicious promotion, right? They promote the Boson, which is for reasons unknown to science, spelled boats Wayne, but pronounced bosun.

31:28

I have no idea why, right? That's a fun, fun one like so. If you've ever wondered, listeners, it is officially pronounced bosun, but is not spelled as such.

Collin  31:43

No,

Brandon  31:46

for some reason that I don't, I don't know, right? So they promote that guy, you know, which he was a great confident of Long John Silver, which is, you know, is serious, right. Also, they had, what was this here? They, yeah, so, boom. And they, so, they kind of talk about some other crew member, also the coxswain, which is spelled Cox Swain, again, excellent. Why? What is going on here for other people to say, no, no, the English is perfect. It makes great sense. No, I present to you ship terminology, sailors, right? Yeah. And then we get this big long thing about Long John, how he gets about the boat, right? He sort of has tied his crutch about his neck and is swinging along on some ropes that he's rigged up in the galley. And so he just sort of like uses the ceiling to whip around and, you know, zip about in the thing and do all the stuff, right, which is very interesting. It reminds me, I don't know if you remember this right, but our great grandmother, right? She used to she had a crutch, and this has kind of made me think about how she used to hop around the kitchen, like cooking, but she had a crutch in her arm, and she would just, like, hold it and just like, just like, zip around the kitchen, but with the crotch, like, cooking stuff. Like, yeah, what's happening? Have to think about that. That was kind of funny, right? We're introduced to the parrot. Oh, yes, this was interesting. Has a suspicious name, does he? I calls my parrot Captain Flint? Yeah for no reason. Yeah at all, for no particular reason. We get this big, long, very elaborate backstory about this parrot. And we get, we know, he's talking about how the parrot, like, yells pieces of eight all the time, right? And this parrot is old, and he's, you know, he's, he claims that the parrot is 200 years old. I feel like that's, I'm not a parrot expert. I know they're long lived. Feel like that might be slightly too

Collin  34:30

long, yeah, not, not that long lived,

Brandon  34:33

yeah. But you know, he is, you know, long drawn silver. So we don't know, but we have heard, we do hear that he has, he's very his parrot has been around the world here, right? She has sailed with England, the captain England, the pirate. She's been at Madagascar and Malabar and Suriname and Providence and Portobello. She was at the fishing up of the. Wrecked plate ships, right? And so this, you know, all around like Indies and Goa and everywhere. So it's very,

35:08

it's a well traveled oceanic parrot here that we get introduced to. Very, very strange. And then see what was the third thing in this chapter.

Brandon  35:26

We do her. We do learn that the captain in the squire are not really seeing eye to eye very much here, right? They're still kind of well, mostly the captain is mifted squire for, you know, telling everybody all about the plan, right?

Collin  35:46

Yep, he's still not letting that one go,

35:49

which fair, right? But at the end of the chat,

Collin  35:57

oh, this is where he starts talking about the Yeah, this is it goes on a little bit to talk about, yeah, the captain and the squire, and how the one thing, the one thing that the captain did give the Squire was, he said, you got a good ship, right? He's like, Yeah, this is actually, actually a good ship. Not too bad. Good job on this one.

Brandon  36:20

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, um, basically, sun is setting right, and Jim decides, Ah man, I need a little snacky snack as Oh yes, oh yes. Obviously, needs a sweet obviously, you know, starts getting a little bit late. Need a little snack Reno, so Jim decides to head down. He fancies himself an apple, right? And as there are not many apples left, which leads us to believe that we have been sailing for a bit, right? Yep, old Jim has to kind of get in the barrel to get the apple. But while he's there, chapter 11 happens,

Collin  37:13

and I love the chapter title. What I heard in the Apple Barrel. That's very good. Yes, one note we know what to expect. Yeah. So

Brandon  37:23

to set the scene here, the closing lines of the last chapter, right? He gets in there, he hears a voice, and he's like, getting ready to, you know, he's like, what's going on? And somebody like, sits against the barrel, and he's getting ready to get out, but till he heard who was talking, right? And the closing line here is, it was Silver's voice. And before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there trembling and listening in the extreme of fear and curiosity, for from these dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone. That's a good sentence, really. Yes. See honest here,

Collin  38:14

and then we go barreling straight into chapter, the next chapter with uh, with silver off doing this.

Brandon  38:24

Yeah, right. So he was, he starts talking about Flint, right? Flint was captain, and I was quartermaster. And now all of a sudden, we're like, and he starts talking about stuff. He's like, I lost my leg in the same broadside as old pew lost his sight.

Collin  38:50

So some connections are being made

Brandon  38:52

with this one. Yeah. So Yeah. Basically we he's talking to like this section. It's silver. And is it hands, Israel Hands, the coxswain set. This one is the younger, some other guy. Well, there's three people here.

Collin  39:13

It just said, Ah, cried. Another voice that of the youngest hand on board. So he's talking to, I don't do we get his name. I don't remember,

Brandon  39:21

I don't think so maybe, well, Israel is there later. Yes, on the next page, he shows up. So he was the coxswain, who we learned earlier was already a buddy of silver. So this is kind of a recruiting mission, right? We've learned that not all the crew are fiendish fiends with devilish intense nope, but a lot of them are sort of Yeah, over half probably.

Collin  39:55

And so this is where, this is really him, kind of, you're right, kind of recording. Shooting, trying to woo the younger hand into, like, being in awe of this, what's going on in their plan? Basically,

Brandon  40:08

yeah, yeah. And so they're kind of getting him on his side, right? And so he's, like, kind of just telling him about what's going on, right? Oh. He starts talking about stuff, and he starts talking about his plan.

Collin  40:22

He's what I like this again, we want to jump back into earlier in this conversation real quick. Sorry. He says, what he's saying, I laid up 900 safe from England in 2000 after Flint. That ain't bad for a man before the mass all safe and bank. Again, the squire being like, Ooh, he's got a bank account, right? Where he get his money? Okay, yeah, learning now. But he says, From pillaging. That's why. He says, Where's all England's been now, I don't know where's Flint's why most of them aboard the here, going, oh, like, okay, okay, yeah,

40:54

I see. Oh no.

Collin  40:56

More worth understanding, yeah, with the backgrounds of these, these labs, yeah.

Brandon  41:00

And he starts talking about, well, what are you gonna do with all if you do this, what do you do with all your money? He's like, by now, my missus has, uh, sold my in, oh, right, has cashed out my bank, and she's gonna do this and this and meet me here. And he's like, can you trust her? He's like, Yeah, of course, it's fine, yeah. So yeah.

Collin  41:30

So he's, he's really transitioning, finally getting set up for a different life, yeah.

Brandon  41:36

And by we are getting some, you know, they are kind of talking in code slightly, but kind of, you know, about a page and a half in here, GM, all of a sudden, goes by this time, I had begun to understand that the meaning of their terms by a gentleman of fortune, they plainly meant neither more nor less than a common pirate. And that little scene that I had overheard was the last act in the corruption of one of the honest hands, perhaps one of the last ones left aboard. But on this point, I was soon to be relieved for silver giving a little whistle, a third man strolled up and sat down by the party. So this is where hands comes in. Visual hands comes in, and they start talking about stuff, and there's kind of talking over the plan, right?

42:21

And so this is, again, Jim describes this as a dozen or so words. This goes on for a

Collin  42:27

long time, right? Well, again, the first dozen words was, what scared, oh, yeah, maybe the first Yeah, okay, maybe. But yeah, hands. Hands is getting antsy. He's ready to take this place over now, because he's like, Yeah, I want their wine and I want their pickles. I want to take this on. And silver is having to kind of talk him down off the ledge basically, like, hey, now wait a minute.

42:53

I

Collin  42:55

these guys will let the captain do all the work, like, we're all good hands on the ship.

Brandon  42:59

Yeah, that's that is one interesting point that I want to bring up, right? They basically their, their plan, if they had their, if Silver has his way, what he wants to happen is they go to the island. They dig up all the stuff. They work together. They do all the thing. They get loaded back on the ship. They get most of the way home, and then bring the trap. Yes, right? Because they do talk about silver does mention he's like, Well, we need the captain. Like we are good hands. We are all good sailors. But Can any of you chart the course? Yes, like we can follow a course, good enough. Can you chart the course? And none of them can do that? Nope, right? None of them can actually, like chart the course and chart the way back home to where they're going. None of them possess that Captain E skill, right? They can follow the course, they can follow bearings, they can read the sea. They can do stuff, but they can't plot over and again. This is like, presumably, a very long way across, right? I'm imagining we're in the West, indies, Caribbean, some place, you know, we don't really have a lot of clues, but like someplace like that, perhaps, right? So we'll see if we get more actual information on that. But that's kind of what I'm envisioning. We're going so we are going across an ocean, and so they do need a certain set of skills to be able to pull this off successfully, and they don't have that one, the most important one, to help them escape, right? Like they wouldn't do them a whole lot of good to do it now, especially before they had any treasure. And then they definitely don't know how to get back to England, right, other than just be like, go that way, which, that is not how boats work, right? Right? I don't know a lot about shipping, but I know that's not how that works, right? Because they have to, you know, have to go with the wind. And they talk about trade winds and stuff, so it's a big deal. So they're, that's kind of the plan. He wants to wait until the last possible minute, right? That's what he wants to wait for, in his mind, that would be the perfect plan, right? And so that's where we go. But, uh, everything else about I think we're almost out of this chapter. We do get to the end, and one of the guys is like, Hey, throw me an apple. Jim's like,

Collin  45:37

yep, just the sort of brightness fell upon me in the barrel and looking up, right?

Brandon  45:41

Yeah, oh, I found the moon had risen and was silvering the mizzen top and shining white on the luff of the for sale. And almost in the same time, a voice of the lookout shouted, land, hon, I do

Collin  45:56

like I do like silver, saying here towards the end, where somebody says to luck, and one says, here's to old Flint and silver. Said, here's to ourselves and hold your love plenty of prizes and plenty of duff.

Brandon  46:09

That's pretty good, right? But yes,

Collin  46:13

then we do Land Ho and I like the title for the next chapter. Yes, mine is titled chapter six, which, because I have it broken into different books. Oh, whatever. Mine so it is. It's Book Two, chapter six, whatever. Oh, that. It's very weird. This

Brandon  46:32

one is count chapter seven for me, or no, this one is chapter 12, actually, okay. That makes anyway, yeah, because it's Book Two chapter, okay, that makes sense. Book Two chapter, okay, yeah. So yeah, we get into the council of war is chapter. This is a good one, right? It's pretty good, um, the beginning part of this is, though, is kind of weird, right? Because we all come down here and they're all like, Hey, um, the captain goes, Hey, has any of you ever seen that land before? And Silver's like, oh, yeah, I that looks kind of familiar. I was on the blah blah blah one time came over here, and so I was sailing with a guy, and he told me all about it, and I believe the Anchorage is on the south sir. He's like, Oh, yep, that's, uh, you know, that's what my guy that told me called skeleton Island. Don't worry about the name. Everything's fine. Um,

Collin  47:32

the big mountains called Spyglass, yeah, and

Brandon  47:36

very overly detailed thing. He's like, but I just heard about it, you know, it's fine. I'm asking your pardon, yep. And then Captain Smollett says, I have a chart here. And he says,

Collin  47:51

Long John's eyes burned in his head as he took the chart, but by the fresh look of the paper, I knew he was doomed to disappointment. This was not the map we found in Billy Bones chest, but an accurate copy

Brandon  48:07

and then all things, names, heights and soundings, a single exception of the red crosses and written notes, yep, sharp

Collin  48:15

as he as must have been his annoyance, silver had the strength of mind to hide it so Jim is even watching the silver now, yeah, right to see how he's gonna hand. This is, oh yeah, that's, that's the spot. Pretty drawn out. Who might have done that, I wonder.

Brandon  48:35

Yeah, come on, yeah. Find a billy bone Captain bones, trying to tell you beware the one, yeah, and he's like, oh yeah, this, this right here, Captain kids Anchorage, just the name my old shipmate called it so crazy. Yeah, wild bro slaying on real thick, right here. It's nuts, right? So anyway, they go and they do their I do like the I was surprised at the coolness of which John avowed his knowledge of the island. And I Oh, I was half frightened when he I saw him drawing nearer to myself, right? But he just came over. He's like, hey, just let me know if you want to go adventure, and I'll get you some lunch and whatever. And Jim is like, Okay, right? Thanks. Like, huh? Like, I don't.

Collin  49:31

And then as soon as he has a chance, he he waits for the the captain to finish, and then he runs up to them. Well, this is

Brandon  49:41

pretty clever, right? He's kind of like, he doesn't like, run open to the well, no, but he's just kind of like, he just kind of is walking by get it's like getting when you get down there. Sin, for me, I have things to tell you. I have terrible news. Dr, lively, just like, he, like, doesn't blink. He's. Just, like, packing his pipe or whatever. He's like, Okay, thanks. And then, right, he's just, he just, he says, All right, thank you, Jim. And that was it. He plays it off nice. Like, that's what I wanted to know, you know, giving it the old like, yep, like you were talking to me. It was, I was talking to you. Of course, everything's fine. Pretty dope. So they play it cool, right? Play it cool. They the captain issues some grog for the men, because they've been doing such a good job, right? So, you know, that was good for them. He's kind of distracting, maybe a little bit,

Collin  50:40

oh well. He says, the cheer followed. That was a matter, of course, but it rang out so full and hearty that I confess I could hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood. Yeah, he's like, Oh man, I know all of these people don't like us and want us to kill us. They're all in this, right? They're really playing this well.

Brandon  51:02

So they the, he does, right? They go down, they, you know, the captain, and them go to the cabin, right? And and they send for Hawkins, right? And they're like, Well, what did you want to say? And he spills the story. And he's, they're like, Ah, god. And like, now captain said the squire, you were right and I was wrong, yep, and no, like, it's weird that that's all he said. But like, Huh? But,

Brandon  51:41

yeah, so this is their plan. So they're trying to figure out what to do now, um,

Collin  51:47

oh, yeah. And, and the captain just comes right out and says, We can't go back. I mean, yeah, we're already here. Like, Well, and, and he's been, he's saying, like, if we go back now, um, it's all done, like, they would rise and go against us at once. So there's no point,

Brandon  52:06

yeah, so we but second point was we have time before us, at least until this treasure is found, right? And they still there are, based on the conversation, right? They know there still are some faithful hands that are not corrupted by villainy just yet. So they kind of want to suss out who that might be, to try to figure out who that could be, right? But before they do that, they do, they take some stock here, and they're like, Well, as far as like we can for sure, count on seven, including Jim, yep, yep, yeah, so seven to at least 19 swarthy pirates. So this is what we're left with. Now, we know the game right? Everyone knows the game

Collin  53:00

well, and I will say here at this point, the doctor does say, Well, we actually have quite an advantage, because the pirates trust Jim, and they don't know that Jim knows their plan, so Jim will just be a double agent for us. Thanks, Jim. This is awesome. Yeah, Jim's kind of like altogether helpless, right? All right. It's like, okay, right? And said, it was indeed through me that safety came, which is interesting, that, again, he's doing a little bit of foreshadowing here to this, at least, that's the way I read this, of like, a little bit yeah. Like, yeah, I'm this is gonna work out,

Brandon  53:40

yeah? But like, it is, and I think, you know, it's a little bit like, I am the key here, right? This is, he's also kind of admitting, like, this is a big responsibility, right? If, if this is going to be good and people are going to be safe, it falls to me. And he's a little bit like, Oh dear. Oh well, that's surely going to be fine. Oh, oh, no. So

Collin  54:11

yeah, and then we we end and we go off into, for me, part three, or book three, part three? Yes, yeah, part three is only three chapters too. So, yeah, we'll read all three. Let's read all Part Three next

Brandon  54:25

time. Yeah, I was just looking at that. I was like, Wow, this one is shorter than the rest of that wasn't I didn't realize

Collin  54:30

that interesting. I was just that works,

Brandon  54:34

true. There we go. I like it. Yes, yep, doing well. So this is, this is good and good? Yeah, we've hooked it up here. We've kind of, we're really on the track now, and we do now get some like, sense. It's going to be a little bit like cat and mouseY. Like, yeah, Jim knows things that the crew doesn't know, but the crew knows things that Jim doesn't know. So it's going to do a little like spy versus spy. Action going on here, which is kind of interesting, right? Yes, so that, I think that'd be cool to see, because we're at the island now too. So what's going on,

Collin  55:11

yeah, and how long is this going to take to get wound up, or, you know, get really, you know, to the, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm interested to see this,

Brandon  55:19

yes. So, you know, I did forget about the sea shanty of the week. She's I haven't pulled up here, and I forgot to do it before we started. So I do have one? Okay, do you have one? I've been researching many. I was singing some on the boat this week. Totally not weird at all.

Collin  55:41

I you know, it's fine. It was necessary. I see you getting in the groove. It's totally fine. It's Yes.

Brandon  55:49

So it's very tricky. So this week we're going with blow the man down right, the classic from the 1860s right? And was quoted in the Syracuse daily. Courier is in 1867 so that's at least, least 1860s right? So this is the, the pretty good one. I don't really know where I know this song from, but I do? I don't know if it's in a movie or something. The Wikipedia page for this one is bit sparse, but this is the the blow the man down. Come all you gun young fellows who follow the sea way. Hey, and blow the man down. So it's like the very repetitive. So this is definitely a shanty work, songy one.

Collin  56:44

So which, which we know helps make sure your work gets done on time. Yes,

Brandon  56:49

right, as was demonstrated in this reading this week as they were raising the captain, right? Look

Collin  56:55

at that. How nice. Boom,

57:00

nice. That is our sea shanty of the week. Is a blow the man down. Boom, very nice. Yeah, go like that a lot.

Brandon  57:13

Excuse me. Also, haiku time. Haiku, yes, yeah, find that. Ah, there we go. Too many tabs open on my phone here, all right. Bill Haiku, inspired by and written during time

Collin  57:32

upon the lake, outfitting very nice,

Brandon  57:41

placid blue expanse brings new life to ancient shores strewn between the peaks.

Collin  57:56

Very nice, very nice, yes, hey, yep. What a wonderful way to cap that off. Indeed. It was good week, good chapters, good Haiku, good times. Yes, indeed. Now, who made those peaks in those shores? Though, I think we need, I think listeners will remember our last conversation about our time at the lake and how it was actually ancient civilizations.

Brandon  58:30

Oh, no, no, no, he's not. So, no, yes,

Collin  58:42

absolutely, it's totally

Brandon  58:43

fine. Was the US Army Corps of Engineers, mostly, that made the lake, but, and then,

Collin  58:49

I don't think so. We'll save that for another time back half of the back half of the next show get into conspiracy corner.

Collin  59:08

Very good. Well, we will continue this, and we will need to get a double schedule coming. Yeah, look at next week and get some two things scheduled, I do believe can be gone

59:24

week after. Yeah,

Collin  59:26

okay, well, we'll coordinate that. Yeah, yeah,

59:30

sounds good. Okay,

Collin  59:31

all right, well, until next time, until next.

59:35

Love you, love you. Bye, bye. You.