Brandon is listening to a car alarm. Collin is watching bulldozers. We remember malls.

Car alarm
Two baseball games
Working after school!!
enormous nightstand
bulldozers project
Netman for cats
Car alarms
Malls
Natural elbow position
Car alarms!!!
Haiku:

Summer persisting
Refusing to relinquish
It’s fiery grasp

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car alarm, teacher appreciation game, baseball game, furniture moving, Liberty Pond renovation, remote control truck, feral cat wrangling, screen door, cat room, soundscape changes, window down, summer persisting, weather complaints, winter reading, podcast hosts

SPEAKERS

Collin, Brandon

Collin 00:00

Collin, welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, bulldozer project,

00:17

Ahoy, ahoy. Oh, not a lot, you know, figure out

Brandon 00:25

what's happening in my life. Other than that, you know, Oh, no. Oh, it's fine. There's just one. Matt, yeah, you know, a little bit. Let's just

00:34

closing into the first quarter existential crisis. Everything's fine, though, normally everything's good. Okay. Oh, oh, wait. Can you hear that? Oh, oh,

Brandon 00:46

okay, good. So my neighbors have this truck, right? And the car alarm just goes off all

00:56

the time. Always, it just goes and it hasn't

Brandon 01:01

done it in a while, and I think maybe he was uptown doing stuff, but now it's back and it's going off again. Oh yeah, beautiful. Just car alarms for days, just all it's like all the time. I don't know what happened. I don't know what's happening. I don't know why it does this, but his truck car alarm goes off. Truck alarm, I guess, I don't know, it goes off all frequently, like all the time, like it went off like 30 minutes ago, and it just went off again. So that's cool. He's sitting on there. No, is there something? Either somebody's sitting on the keys, or it's hypersensitive, and the random neighborhood cats are about, you know, I don't know. I don't know that's what it is like. The cats are running around looking

01:50

at it, and it's just like, oh,

01:53

freak out time. I don't know if that's what's

Collin 01:55

happening, but it's very strange. So I don't know.

02:05

Oh, at least it gives you something interesting to do. It's

Brandon 02:07

true tally mark how many times it goes off. That's what we'll see. How many times it goes off during the recording. That would be fun and exciting. Stay tuned, listeners for this brilliant I think

Collin 02:30

anybody Yeah, this week has been, it's been very busy, right?

Brandon 02:34

Like, I don't really know how this happened, but yeah, Monday

02:41

was the I A was the like, I don't I don't know that what the official

Brandon 02:51

name for it is, but it's like Teacher Appreciation baseball game. Surprise. It was surprise, though they were just like, there was no, like, real prior warning of this feature. So it was just like, Oh, hey. Like that baseball coach emailed, like, halfway through the afternoon. He was like, hey, the Teacher Appreciation game is tonight.

03:18

The like, oh, no, I mean, it was fine, but, like,

Brandon 03:29

we went to the baseball game Monday night, so that was a very long day. And then, you know, it was cool. It was good. You see all kids, right? And they like, it's thing where they like, they at our school, they do this thing where they like, bring you a jersey, right? And you like wear the jersey of the player to the game that, like, you know? So it's cool, right? It's I really appreciated it. But I was also like, Coach, I was not, it's not the kids that I was always like, Coach, you can't, you can't be like, Yo, there's a game in three hours. See you later. Like, what

04:01

you can't

Collin 04:02

be doing that man? Like, usually a baseball game,

Brandon 04:05

you guys would be dropping baseball games on people with no prior warning, right?

Collin 04:08

Like, yeah, there's a long, lot of time,

Brandon 04:12

a lot of time, it was two baseball games, technically, because they also had, like, a JV game. Like, you definitely can't be dropping double baseball, like, out of the blue, just like, surprise, man, I got,

Collin 04:31

yeah, no, that's not what. So that was, it was fine. It was fun, you know. But like, oh yeah, yoy. And then, of course, like, I'm old man,

Brandon 04:42

like, my back the bleachers. No, like, because they're just like metal bleachers, right? Just like the bench.

04:53

Oh, yeah. And they moved. They moved our i.

Brandon 05:00

So like they switched which dugout is the home dugout, and it's cool, right? And I believe they did this because they have built a new, like batting cage situation, right?

Collin 05:16

And so now there's two, right? But the new one

Brandon 05:24

is closer to the other dugout, so the home team was like, no, no, obviously that's the one. That's the dugout that they're going to use now, right? But I think they left, they didn't switch the bleachers because I think the bleachers on the other side are better. They just left the they, like, moved some more. There's like, more on this side now, but like, I think the good bleachers, like the big, robust one, I think it's still over on the other side. I don't know if it's actually better, but it looks a little bit more

Collin 05:54

substantial. So, like, I don't know, but they where did you sit?

Brandon 06:01

Well, I did sit over Well, at first I went and sat down where we always sat. And I started looking around. I was like, wait a minute, there's no but because it's like the way that it's sitting that like the the concession stands are, like, right behind home plate, right the concession stand slash announcer slash scorekeeper building thing. He was like, right behind home plate. So when you first walk up to one side of the bleachers, you can't see the other side, right? And so I sat down, and I was like, wait a minute, these people are wearing blue. Oh, that's wrong. And then I just happened to, like, I could see, like, a little bit of corner.

Collin 06:42

I was like, Hey, wait, everyone's sitting over there.

Brandon 06:45

Oh, I see, because I go to baseball games so frequently. I was like, I see what has happened. And then I was filled in on the fact that we have changed

Collin 06:55

home dugouts right to the other side, right so we had to go sit around with because, you know, I wanted to

Brandon 07:03

go sit by all the other teachers. I don't want to sit by. They didn't want to sit in my teacher Jersey by the opposing team. That's weird. How can I cheer against them if their parents are there, you know? Like it was

Collin 07:21

proudly informed me that the home dugout is supposed to be on one side of the field like all

Brandon 07:29

is this a thing? Which side is it? I I don't know. I don't know about bases at warbles, so if

07:39

only there was another brother that we could ask. There was a professional in this arena,

Collin 07:45

right? I'm sure, yes, look the one. Ah, we have a question here. And I know, I know.

Brandon 07:54

Oh, how dare he be a successful coach and responsible new father? That's just,

08:01

I tell you, Hey,

Brandon 08:07

go. So I don't know what I so in our school, at least it was on one side, because it was closer to the best

Collin 08:13

facilities, right? And so they were like, Yeah, well, the home team's gonna get that one, but now they've moved it to the other side because that's where the new batting cage is and stuff. But that all I don't know, and it's on the first base side. Now I don't know if that was where it was supposed to be all along. I don't know the answer to these questions. Oh, it's a mystery. But now it's over there.

Brandon 08:42

So anyway, it was good times. It was a lot of fun. Great over there, right? Had fun hanging out with some of the other teachers, right? Stayed. Had to make sure he stayed and watched my peep play a little bit. So that was good. Like I said, really appreciate it. It was really awesome today. Do that. It's really weird. Like, I know that we're like a small school, right? We do feel kind of good because it's like this high school kid is picking a middle school teacher, right? That's, yeah, yeah, there you go.

Collin 09:18

Sounds pretty good. So that was fun. But yesterday, I had to, like, do work after school. Gross, right? Illegal, so I had so, so here's a, here's a, I'm gonna give you the full story, just so that you can understand the ridiculousness

Brandon 09:43

that I'm dealing with here, right? So, so a couple weeks ago, it was Susan's mom and her husband's like anniversary,

Collin 09:53

right? So they

Brandon 09:56

three, I think they've been married three years now, right? So. It. They decide they're gonna go to brands, right, the mecca of all things, right? Good Branson for just like a weekend getaway, you know, just do whatever. And they go down there. And what has occurred is they have stayed, they stayed in a hotel room

10:16

that had a king size bed, okay?

Brandon 10:20

And then this made Susan's mother

Collin 10:24

decide, oh no, they needed a king size bed in their life. And so, no, no, no, they went furniture shopping. Oh, and somehow she talked him into not only procuring a new king size bed, complete with like enormous bed frame, but also four additional pieces of bedroom furniture.

Brandon 10:55

How did she pull that up to and including two brand new nightstands, oh, one dresser and one matching chest of drawers. Okay, so, wow, this, also, this chest of drawers that they got is comically large. It is actually taller than Susan's mom, which, you know, fair, not exactly a difficult feat to accomplish, but so I went over to see it today. I was like, how are you gonna use the top drawer? And she's like, well, he's gonna use that.

Collin 11:33

Oh cow, but the furniture was delivered today, but that means that yesterday, all of the old furniture had to be moved out, and so I had to go do that yesterday. Oh, you were mover.

Brandon 11:54

Extraordinary to be a mover. Again, back to my one true calling in life, carrying stuff, all right? That's really Yeah, as it turns out, yeah. It turns out that's all I'm actually good for, is just carrying heavy things around. Like, I don't

Collin 12:15

we moved out all their old furniture, so, like, so we moved out their bedroom furniture, right? And then

Brandon 12:24

it was very complicated matter. So they were, they ended up donating some of it to, like local family,

Collin 12:30

right? So, so we moved a lot of it out to the garage so the other people could come get it right. And then

Brandon 12:40

we also had to play a bit of musical chairs, because some of the bedroom furniture was going to be repurposed into the guest bedroom, right? So then some of the guests bedroom furniture was also leaving, right?

Collin 12:54

So they're just playing musical musical chairs with the bedroom suite, and it's very odd and a very confusing time, just like a really weird thing. And also,

Brandon 13:12

as previous As mentioned, the stuff that they got is so big, like it doesn't it kind of doesn't like fit well in the apartment bedroom. Is it too much bedroom furniture in here you have this massive chest of drawers and this massive dresser and two enormous nightstands, like, who needs a nice stand? It's like two feet across. Like, what is this?

13:46

The big so big?

Brandon 13:49

Yeah, it's really big. They're really big. And also the bed is enormous, because they have like a big bed frame with it too, right? It's got like, drawers under it and stuff. I was like, how are you gonna get in this bed? You're so small. Like, what do you need? A ramp? Like, what is

Collin 14:06

my god, yeah, it's gigantic. So, so, yeah, I don't, I don't know it feels, feels like a lot, like a little

14:19

too much stuff, if you ask me.

Collin 14:21

But, you know, I just envision that you go and you get those little stairs that people buy. That's what we were talking about.

Brandon 14:29

The little like ramps of the little dogs climb up on the bed with right? The dogs get up there on the bed, I think, like the little shits.

14:39

I think, I think that

Brandon 14:42

she's gonna need, man, he's tiny. It is enormous.

Collin 14:46

So I don't know that would be, that will be fantastic. But I

Brandon 14:53

don't know where they fit the ramp, because it's so cringe in there, because they have such huge furniture, I don't stand i.

Collin 15:00

Ah, so confusing. Like, I don't, I don't know. Don't know. I don't know. I meant they like, I don't know they like, insist on having a guest bedroom in a two bedroom apartment. Like, they just, like, they can't not have it because one person uses it like once a year. Sometimes they like they're gonna have it all the time, forever, and now it is also but they have so much

15:39

furniture I have no idea what's happening.

Collin 15:43

It's crazy. Already have so much. They already have so much, and they just got new living room fridge. Oh, man, they

15:53

really are just changing everything out. My goodness, they

15:56

are. They're just changing it all up, right?

Collin 15:58

They're just getting, you know, all knew everything, but, you know, whatever, I don't know, but, like, it's, it's a lot, and I it's a lot of stuff, and I don't like moving it all, so I don't, right, yeah, I think you need a you need to really sit down and ask them, like, Okay, how many more times we do this. And I mean,

Brandon 16:24

they are buying me dinner on it. They're insisting on buying dinner on Friday. So like, you know, we'll work for food. But like, still,

Collin 16:33

I'm still gonna grumble a little. Definitely going to grumble at least a little bit.

Brandon 16:39

Hey, at least the furniture I moved out, it was lighter than the stuff they moved in looks like. So that's good. Got out of that deal? Oh, I escaped the worst of this.

16:49

Ah, you only had half the work.

Brandon 16:54

Yeah, I am. I do feel lucky that they were able to get their furniture delivered at like noon, because otherwise I would have roped into unloading it too. I would have been rough, because that stuff is big.

17:08

Thankful for early delivery windows.

Brandon 17:10

Yeah, thank you furniture delivery people for having a time suitable where I could not

17:18

be there to help because, yeah,

Brandon 17:23

man alive, it's been my week so far, right? That's been it, I don't know

Collin 17:34

a lot. Yeah, hopefully you've been able to sit down a little bit. Yeah, all right. Ah. Yeah, cool stuff hasn't had it been that cool?

Brandon 17:48

Unfortunately, no, it's terrible. It's so high I was talking about that at recess, again, like outside recess, 80 degrees. Like, what is happening?

17:58

It's October. Now stop. Why I'm over this. Like, really need.

Collin 18:19

Yeah, what was that? Earlier? I was it earlier last week or something, we had like, three inches

Collin 18:26

in and a and so we got this deluge of water, and our how I described to you the project that they're doing at the local at the pond at a park nearby us.

18:42

No, okay, so Liberty pond also was originally called Liberty Lagoo, and

Collin 18:57

in the park, it was kind of like a swampy area for a very long time. And if you talk to people who are from here, born and raised here, they're older, they have lots of memories of going ice skating on this thing wintertime. It was just stuff like, well, 57 years ago, the town wanted to do a renovation of liberty. And so they trained it, installed an actual, like, little gate damn thing, because it is filled basically from runoff from like, all the surrounding neighborhood and streets in the town. And so they, like, scraped all out. They sprayed in a concrete liner around the edge of it. Oh, left the bottom. Left the clay bottomy thing. And then there it was. And what's cool about it, it's this little pond, and there's an island. Of the pond. And then you can, like, go across this bridge. It's really neat strip our house, we walked through all Yeah, well, it's concrete coming up on 60 years old, maybe seven.

20:12

Oh, I think I see where this is going.

Collin 20:18

Not the best condition. A lot of the rebar is exposed and whatnot. Yeah. So they were like, We're gonna redo this. And so they went the process of draining it, at which point started that. They started this project in of this year. And, oh, they started just, they just opened up the court, and we're like, let all the water go and then, oh my, oh no. They just, like, drained it all. But of course, then people were like, Well, what about all the fish? So you had to combine and to get all the fish out. Then people were like, Well, what about frog? We're not getting frogs. So citizens were going in there and trying to save the frogs that were in there, and then finding fish in there and blaming the city not doing enough.

Collin Funkhouser 21:03

And then, like we found, like you could look down, like massive muscle bed were in this thing with, whoa, really, with muscles the size of my hand, whoa thing, like, big one, and some of them have been dead for a long time, yeah, but definitely some like that were there. And these are huge muscle beds. But I when I say bond, like, I'm kind of cutting this thing short. It's a pretty big body of water, and, like, there are these muscle beds that are in there. So there was, like, gonna do about these this and

Collin 21:36

they slowly let the water down. And basically their plan was, we're going to let it drain naturally, and then once all the water will start rooting around. Well, of course, that process takes four ever Yeah, and while it's drying out, and before they started getting all the heavy machinery, of course, we walk down into the bottom of the pond. Because why not?

Brandon 22:02

Like, obviously, you know, like, as you do, you

Collin Funkhouser 22:06

gotta go down and like, pull up muscle shell look at like, yes, what you gotta do. So we, we explored a lot the bottom of Lake. And now the past two months, month and a half, they have the big, big, like, not nine dozers, but like, big D sticks, cat six dozers. Yeah, the big, yeah, pushing stuff around. But it's still really goopy, still really goopy. And so

Collin 22:38

what they've started to do, and because we got all this rain again, this is a reservoir. This is meant to take blood waters from streets and from overfills and things like that. It's meant it's a catchment basin. So they can't, just, like, stop the inflow. They have to work out all this water that's in there. So now they have this big industrial pump that's been one in that just pumped water out onto the stream get it done because whatever reason,

Collin Funkhouser 23:05

the overflow valve is, like, still, like, I don't know, like, six feet up from the bottom of the pond, and so there's just Collin that just sit there. So they gotta pump that out.

Collin 23:17

But it's still so mucky that these guys are moving around. They're trying to get the bottom, dig down to the plate, get rid of 70 minutes on 70 years of

23:29

all of the, all the muck that's been washed in. Yeah, and I

Collin 23:40

they, they because it's been so bad, they've they can't scoop. They just be just the front end loader will scoop up this thing, and it's basically just all water, and they're not getting anything. What the city has started to do is the city runs a compost

Collin Funkhouser 23:55

plant where you go take all your cheese, your trees. Don't take your cheese. You could take your cheese too, that's fine, but take your trees, and then they'll, like, wood chipper them and create mulch, and then they'll create compost this stuff. Yeah, so they're just hauling in now.

Collin 24:14

They're bringing over the mulch that they've been wood chippering, dumping it on top of the muck so that they can actually sit up and absorb

24:22

some water. Oh my goodness,

Collin Funkhouser 24:25

scoot back out. Whoa, that's crazy. And so it was funny, because we're watching this and really goes, isn't that creating more work for them? And I'm like, Well, yes and no, like, yes in the sense that they are immediately hauling back out stuff they just brought in. But also,

24:55

but also, yes, oh.

Collin 25:03

Up. This is, yeah, it's just, like, it was just, it's just crazy watching this, and I'm like, you know, that's not my, not my job. So they're excavating this stuff, like, way down, really digging down into this thing. Then they're gonna bust out all the concrete and put a really nice walking path around the whole thing that makes it a little bit more accessible for everybody. And then put another liner in there. But it's not the concrete liner. It's like not rhyolite, but like the what they use for, like, aquaria, like that backsplash, that stuff. Anyway, it's, oh, okay, yeah, it's actually meant to be in water, not just concrete, where they're like, surely it'll be fine. Yeah, it's gay.

Brandon 25:54

What is concrete, if not man made, cemetery rock really to be real. Yeah? Is

Collin 26:07

they're working on this, and the goal is to have this hopefully done by the winter. But I'm like, I don't know about that, like, because we're quick approaching this.

Brandon 26:21

Well, I mean, we're quick approaching the winter time. Are we quick approaching the winter weather?

26:29

Well, so I don't know. It might be okay, you know,

26:33

like it might be fine. I don't know.

Collin 26:39

Yeah, yeah. So this has been our, like, sometimes daily, multiple times a day, like, we'll go out, go for a walk, and walk down and where, how far they've been progressing, and all that stuff. We like, watch the dozers, like we've walked around. Was it two weeks ago now, we just sat and watched the dozers and the front end loaders for probably two and a half just like that. Wow. Okay, they were like, what else they're gonna do? Like, here, I want to do this picture so you can see extent to which this, that one. And then I show you a picture of where it is today. It filled in with a lot and lots and lots of water. And so they're still working on it, but, oh, okay, okay, that like they are getting down right?

Brandon 27:45

Yeah. So, Pawn So, yeah, pond is not exactly the right word here.

Collin 27:51

And then basically, if you look at the next picture that I sent you, that was taken from the executive bot, and you can see how the water has filled in that entire higher area. Oh, my, yeah. It's like, that's what they're up against. And so they've kind of up, yeah,

28:17

it's kind of insane here, yeah,

Collin 28:18

and they're focusing on the upper end of this thing, and they're just adding mulch to it. So the connection,

Brandon 28:23

yeah, is it shallower up there? Is that why it's like that? Yes, is this, is this a deeper end that looks like another picture?

Collin 28:30

Yes, yeah, that's, yeah, okay, that's the deepest. So their seepage is real from the ground here. Oh yeah, yeah. You can see that being going. It's just and you can actually see, if you zoom in on that second photo that I sent you, if you zoom in, you can see that same bulldozer way in the background by the yeah over there, and move it to higher ground, yeah. But he's working over there. He's actually just working and pushing and trying to push in a

28:59

different spot,

29:02

move to a different spot. That's crazy.

Brandon 29:07

Yeah, cinnamon also does not seem very interested in the bulldozer, like everyone else is like, wrapped attention, and she is like, whatever. I don't be

Collin 29:16

honest, because she was based in the corner, just like sighing aggressively at everything. We'd be like, we're gonna move over here. You could basically just get her go.

Collin 29:31

She's a herding dog. She had to follow us. She had no choice in the matter. Well, obviously she's gonna help

Collin 29:37

it. Annoyed. I But yeah, the bulldozer project is going on. Really nice, really well, good to know. Yeah, we've been, we've been able to keep, keep track of it too remote Collin truck over there. But. This has been one of the coolest things to watch, is his focus, and like how locked in he gets on the little truck, and it's pretty intense. I've never had a remote control vehicle that has three different power settings at the room, okay? I was

Brandon 30:24

saying, Hold on, you. Can you finish the sentence? I was like, Okay, wait a minute. Okay, that's better.

Collin 30:29

But like at the remote, you can determine if you want to use 50% of the power, 75% of the power, or 100 power. Why would you ever want to use 50%

30:42

of the power? Because it is almost like,

30:44

rock crawl, and they like, go, like,

30:47

yeah, it is uncontrollable. At it is, it is okay,

30:56

there's that, I guess. But like,

Collin 30:58

it's because it's, it's just, like, I don't know under what conditions you would need to use 100% unless you were doing like track racing, but anytime there's, like, a small divot or deviation or rock or gravel, if you're in 100% you just flip. You just go for reading around a corner, like you cannot keep it it is, it is just like, just going, hey. And so we, and you can also change how sensitive the hearing is.

31:27

Oh, yeah, I've seen those with a little, like, a toddle slider thing

Collin 31:32

like that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And so, like, we've been messing around with that, of like, yeah, at like, the like, this, the higher speed. I don't need it twitchy, like, I need it to kind of, yeah, settle in a little bit, because that's where, like, you can just barely breathe on the thing, and it'll just lift, yeah. So we have gone out there, and he's been finding all the ways that he can to make the truck flip over, like, do a back flip or front flip, perfect.

Brandon 32:07

So this is exactly what remote control cars are for. That is good job.

Collin 32:11

Yeah, absolutely it is. So of course, there's a speed bump, right? I think I sent you that

Speaker 3 32:18

video of like, Oh yeah, that was target number one, right

Collin 32:22

where it was just like, I mean, obviously, like, we're gonna try and hit this going forward. We're gonna hit this going backwards. We're gonna hit this head on. We're gonna hit this at an angle. We're gonna hit this.

Collin Funkhouser 32:33

Like, yes. And then for a while, he got into this thing where, you know, he was doing it, Bill and I were there watching, and he, there was a puddle by it. He just, it was so funny, at full speed, slammed through the puddle, and which was, of course, I mean, obviously, why else would you obviously, yeah, are you gonna not

Brandon 33:00

splash your sister with a remote control car at a puddle? In a puddle, like how, I mean, I feel like it's just a law. You just

33:06

have to do that right? Pretty sure.

Collin 33:14

So this has been his new obsession. And what's cool about this little rock is it's also, like, it's from, like, a hobby side of this. So like, you can, like, upgrade the shock you want to, or you can change out the motor if you want to. Or you can, like, swap. The parts are swappable, and it's very easy to access.

Collin 33:41

We're we're not doing any of that, right? We're not swapping and, like, upgrading right

Collin 33:46

now, not yet. But, like, it's just cool. Like, he likes being able to, kind of to disassemble and take all the parts out, check them, clean them, and then put them back. But that's also a very

34:01

scratching all the little bits of his brain, right?

Collin 34:09

Nice, yeah, that's been, that's been our, our last, I mean, and all that's basically happened, I mean, still trying to get back through landed

Brandon 34:28

trip. That's true. You got out just in time. That's for sure.

Collin 34:31

I know. I know the whole time I told in front of the host of the conference is real big on having, like, in sales, having some kind of pressure, like, talks a lot about the technique of, like, have an end date sale. Have, I'm only offering five of these. Have, I'm over offering whatever. Yeah, so, of course, I'm like, limited time offer.

Speaker 3 34:57

You just watched infomercials, right? Like, I. It's all that Call now

35:01

and receive so I

Collin 35:03

said in the sales tax. Of all sales tax, our host is arranged a hurricane they hit with by the end of the conference. We have to be done one way

Collin 35:17

or another. Get out while you can. Jesus, we're pretty much like,

35:33

my goodness, that's a

Brandon 35:36

little much. But you know, it was fine. It's fine,

35:40

especially because she lives there and the rest of

Brandon 35:43

us were leaving, oh yeah, oh dear, oh no,

35:48

oh no, oh that's worse. That's not good.

Brandon 36:13

So I need to know more about this cat wrangling that you were doing. Oh, the other day. I need to know how did this go? And how does a bass network for catching cat? That's that's really what the listeners want to know, right? This is the product review that we've been waiting for

Collin 36:31

for ages. Okay, we need, yep. So this is the client near where I live, and they have a room for foster Cat, cat room, and then he has two dogs and two free room, cats that are like cats,

Collin Funkhouser 36:54

and most foster cat people will dedicate a room. What I have learned is that they will remove the original solid door from

Collin 37:07

the and the doorway, and instead, either install a zip up MESH thing that you would put on, like that porch door, yeah, or you put in an actual screen door. So a lot of people will do that. They will change out their solid door for a screen door you have on a port like, okay, so I would think that this just me being a naive, non cat person, but doesn't don't screen doors and cats not notoriously, mix well together. But this is true. However, if you have feral cat or cat that may not be your biggest fan, you need to know if they are right by your door when you open it True. True is fair, additional, typically, that makes sense. Have a cat room. Have more than one and so to help with airflow, it

38:14

just turn the fan on. Put screen door in there.

Collin 38:19

So put the Febreze out. Just go, my employee come in, let the cats out, or let the dogs in the backyard, fed the inside cat, got into the cat, gone through the cat, or the cat, shut the door behind and was kneeling to pet one cat. But while She kneeled, she spooked the other two, and they kind of went, and she was like, Oh, that was weird. And then she realized she looked behind her and in the one of the cats had run into the bottom left corner of the screen door that has not fully lapped, pushing open, yeah, and allowing it to skirt out

Brandon 39:04

quickly, out letting letting the cat out of the proverbial bag,

Collin 39:09

if that, if the bag was the shape and size of a room of a screen door, and with within the drawstring was a screen door, it works? Yeah, we'll go with it. It's finally into the hallway, and look to her left, and there's the cat, and she kind of crouched down, and the cat bolted straight underneath the couch. Then I got a call, right? And I'm like, got my way. And as I get into the

Collin 39:38

house, I'm walking into the garage, and look over on my right, and I see two broom

Collin 39:42

and a bass. And I go, and I walk into the house, because I'm like, looking in the garage, and I'm walking in, I'm like, there's lower, there's this, there's all the yard stuff, and then there's like, several brooms and a bastard. And I'm just like, I. Kind of out of place, kind of weird, whatever. I don't see fishing gear. It's all by itself on the wall and against the house. And first off, the cat is it's in the so it's a it's an electric sofa. We push a button and the reply, and it's in. It went not just underneath, not just up in, but the back where you're, where you lean your back in. You know, that's typically, like eight inches deep, or whatever. That's hollow. The cat is up inside that. Oh, and so, because we tipped the couch over, and I'm searching the bottom, I don't find it. I look under the flap, I don't find it. I look on my back portion of and it's crammed all the way up in there. I'm like, Haha, like, That cat is not come out, like I I'm not reaching my hand in there. What? No. Plus, there are springs that the cat is, like, wrapped around that, like, yeah, and, like, the metal struts are up in there. Like, what the heck I'm a little worried about. And so, yeah. Like, okay, well, we're gonna leave the cat here just a minute. Let's get the rest of the house prepped so we got all the other and because he's cat person, his second bedroom is also a cat, but there's no cat, of course, right, right? So I'm like, Okay, I'm like, open that door and we'll funnel the cat into that room. And there's a bunch of little hidey holes in there, so the cat will hide when it goes to that okay, yeah, but I gotta get out of the bag. Make a safer place. Yeah, get out of the back of this couch. And so I'm like, looking I'm like, I can't get into this. I don't know I'm gonna. So I'm starting to figure like I am about to need to walk away from the situation and just be like, where the cat goes. The cat. I am not losing a finger. And that's whenever I was messing with the cushion on the back of the slip, because it was, it was kind of falling forward. And so I grabbed the cushion and I pulled it down, and I noticed that it pulled away. It was still attached to the back of the sofa, but there was behind the cushion. So what did I do? I took the zipper and it went zipped, and a cat's head was sitting there looking at Hi. Anyway, I bet

42:32

it loved that that was folded

Collin 42:35

out went around my love seat, which was the same of the same kind of thing that the couch was and I was like, go into that lovely I'm going to freaking but it ran around the side. I was like, told my employee. I was like, get into the kitchen. So she got into the kitchen to block that way the cat went down the hallway, try, couldn't go right, because that went the garage, bolted left, back into the cat room that has an open door. Oh yeah, her funnel shut that door, the other screen, honest. I mean, yeah. I mean, I would expect it to be after all this, that, and now I'm going, Okay, I've got a cat who doesn't like me, doesn't want to be close, or anybody, but I have to transport it from one room to another and the doors, unfortunately, the way, the what I had hoped to do, what I could do was, well, what direction does the first cat room screen door open? Maybe I could just, oh, oh, yeah, the hallway that would have been handy. Okay, no, it opened to the left, and so it would have just blocked it away like it just, it wouldn't have worked, and I couldn't move the door from the hinges in order. I'm like,

Brandon 43:48

Ah, plus the hallway. This is the Clarkson's farm pig thing. This was happening right here, in the wrong configuration, but not with cats.

Collin 44:04

So I'm like, Okay, let me think here these cats rescue, because you must transport these. Let me go to the garage to get crates. Let me get a crate, and maybe I can do that. And so I am walking. Into there, I grab one of his coats off of a big, like car heart, thick coat that I'm like, oh, good call, right? Worst comes worse. I'm just throwing this big car coat over the cat, and I'm just balling it up. And I'm getting out of here. Yeah, for sure, while I'm in the right garage, I'm grabbing a cat carrier. I've got the Carhartt coat, and I look over to my writing the within a shining light bath above, says to myself that. Of how the heck do you think he got these cast in here in the first place? Yeah. Well, the bastard, obviously, yeah, clearly, I grabbed that. Come inside. I have a Carhartt coat and a bassnet. My team member goes, What are you doing with that, I said, Just get ready to open the door when I tell you to what's what category

45:25

gladiator is that man, like dude with the trident in the net.

Collin 45:36

Pretty much what I did, I got the cat into a corner, and I just scooped straight up as fast as I could while simultaneously. So in my right hand I've got the net. I scoop. I go towards the cat, if, like, I'm not okay with this. There's the hiss. I'm like, Look, this is going to be really fast. I scoop up and jerk quickly upwards my right hand simultaneously with my left hand. I bring the coat up and over my head and slam it down on top of the net so that the cat hit a lid. I then reach I then reach up and grab both sides of the loop of the net with my hand. When the cat is in the net, I'm holding it out my body so it doesn't make contact with my leg, because I know, once it makes contact, will not let go. And I'm like, get the door open.

46:26

Yeah, there's a guy hallway

Collin 46:28

and going around the door and then inside. And as soon as I put the net like it barely touches because cats waiting down and I open, I let go of the hard heart the cat shoot up out of there and make the beeline towards this top shelf that he's built on the wall. It just sits there staring at me. Wow. Okay, of course, my team member goes like, I kind of want to keep one of those nets in my car all time, like me too, me too

47:06

might not be a bad idea. That's my

Collin Funkhouser 47:11

holy cow, yeah, it was, was intense. It was, it was, it was pretty fun. And again, I'm sitting there, like, if I did not have the net, I genuinely don't know what the cat would have just I would have just had to, like, make do with this, stuck with that cat in that second cat room, and just distributed some supplies between them, and been like, peace. Be with you. Here you go, like,

Collin 47:38

I'm not getting you out, but it wasn't happening. And so now we have the new protocols for how to enter into the first chat room. Actually, it doesn't

Brandon 47:49

happen again. Side note, car alarm. Anyway, it's the my little Latin is not good, but the retardious Gladiator, the net man, that's you, Collin, you're the net man, right.

48:13

The retailer bang

Collin 48:14

with having been like awake for all of 11.

Brandon 48:21

What a what an exciting way to wake up, yeah, and then run the gladiatorial combat, feral cat,

48:32

right? AKA,

Brandon 48:34

you know, it's a lion, right? Lion sometimes, right? This is what we have here, Collin, some gladiatorial

48:41

combat, right? I like it. Ah, yes, that is Yeah.

Collin 48:52

Movie now. Ah, I need to good. Yep, we survived. Did all that good news, right? Oh, yeah, that was, that was my nice oh, a third time it went off and it's back on again. Oh, told you. I keep you updated. Do you, I mean, wait, can you hear that from like your like your room, or is it just, uh, not usually, or you can hear it every other place in the house, oh, and in the front room here, definitely we hear the living room. Yo, yeah, it's fine. Wow, pretty exciting. They gave you, yes, truckload blaring. I mean, there was a time I remember distinctly. There was a time. Where the car alarms were not. They were they were overly sensitive. I mean, do you remember the time where they had introduced, kind of, like the motion kind of car alarm? Yeah. And I think some of that is the

Brandon 50:16

because for a while, like a lot of people were getting aftermarket car alarm, right? Yeah, so they weren't a standard option, and so people were getting them installed afterwards. And those were

Collin 50:30

particularly finicky, right? Yeah, like, due to, you know, who knows the wiring and, you know, just the aftermarket

Brandon 50:39

system or whatever. Like, some a lot of those were, like, also, particularly, like, finicky, right? They just go off randomly, like, breathe on the car. It's like, oh so no, no stop, why?

Collin 50:56

But, yeah, especially, like, as you walk through where this really now this listeners, there used to be places called Ball. Ball people congregated to go shopping in one centralized location, and surrounding wheels were acres and acres and acres of asphalt.

Brandon 51:15

It's true. We were talking about that the other day, because we're talking about the kids at school, like a lot of them just like, go

Collin 51:21

to Walmart and just like, hang out, right? And I was like, why do they do that? That's so weird.

Brandon 51:25

And this other lady that teaches in the hallway with me, she's, like, my age, and she goes, they don't have malls anymore, Brandon. I was like, okay, fair, okay, fair, that's true either, yep, I don't have those.

Collin 51:40

I don't have those. And so while you would pull up to the mall, you would park your car, or parents to park your car, and then you as you walked up, you would see if getting close to vehicles on the way up would set off the alarm on your way inside.

Brandon 51:59

Sometimes you could set them off by closing your door too loudly.

52:03

Ah, there is, there is that, or

Brandon 52:09

not that this ever happened to me, right? But Let's hypothetically,

Collin 52:15

if you would

Brandon 52:18

be driving, I don't know some sort of 70s muscle car with, uh, very short exhaust pipes, um, we would also set off car lot that. This is a hypothetically, right, obviously, if I would not know anything about this, yeah, one of my friends told me clearly, you know, it wasn't me, I would

Collin 52:46

never do that, right? But, yeah, that's,

Brandon 52:51

that's allegedly a thing that could happen is that you could set off car alarms in the parking lot by vigorously revving your engine again.

Collin 52:59

Allegedly, allegedly, yeah. I mean, yeah, those old cars, sometimes you had to get them going a little bit, right? They may run a little rich. You got

Brandon 53:08

out, yeah, you know, the sometimes the carbus will get, you know, get stuck a little bit. So you just gotta, like, ah, get him give a little Yeah. Let's make sure those, make sure those barrels are opening up a little bit, you know,

53:18

you know, fine.

Collin 53:27

Oh, allegedly, allegedly, that's part of the, I mean, I know the Have you ever done the looked into the like sound the world has lost stuff. You've looked into this, I don't think so. Like, like, the sounds that offices have lost, you know, like, or like sound of rotary dial phone or, oh, yeah, like, like, that kind of stuff, just how the soundscape of cities and life have changed as technology, like has advanced and changed as well. But it's definitely one of those things you don't really think about, oh yeah, I don't hear those sounds anymore. Don't hear this one of them is, like a lot of cities, but you know what noise kind of important? I need noise ordinances for these. But I realized the other day something as simple as I remember, again, very it was a very recent in high school, how, how prevalent was to like, right? And maybe this is just because of the station of my life, but I would love to hear your opinion, because you are most more you're much more adjacent, like school adjacent, like the prevalence of riding around with windows down. Oh yeah, for sure. That's, I think we talked about this before here. Yeah, that's the thing that is. Not done, and it's a shame, right? Like, yeah, now again, can it be annoying? Absolutely. And I get why some people don't do it. But you know what? There are times where it's just like, I need listen this song requires scroll down the window. Why have you ever okay?

Brandon 55:28

Maybe this is a me thing, but I have definitely, like, had those moments you were pulled up to somebody at the stoplight and then, like, sang along to the song that's blasting out of their car. It's great. It's so funny,

55:41

wonderful.

Brandon 55:47

No, I think have a little moment sometimes, right? It's nice little moment, and then you just drive off. It's fine. Humanity is what it is, yeah, it's the moment of recognizing,

Collin 55:59

yeah, the personhood, who that individual was, and doing a quick like, I'm entering your timeline, we're going to have a moment, and then I'm exiting timeline, yeah, over here, yeah, recognize that person, even if you don't like song, just have just sing along.

Brandon 56:16

Anyway. Yeah, liking is irrelevant to being able to see that's,

Collin 56:21

it's a it's one of those moments of like, I see you, I recognize and you would do. And those just like real short like pleasantry are so like hard to come by. Of those personal interactions, those those recognitions of who you are, not, not really as impactful whenever somebody posts like a playlist on Twitter and you thumb up, that's true,

56:52

that's fair. That's not as exciting of interaction,

56:55

right? Like it's just, yeah, I don't, I

Brandon 57:02

don't think Susan likes having the window down the car. So the other problem that we have so, like,

57:09

I'll put it down. Like, if she's not there, I'll just drive out with it down. I don't even

57:22

care. I yeah, I admit,

Brandon 57:27

yeah, you have to do the mildly unsafe thing, right? Like, is my hand out the window? Yes, is, or is my arm in the window, as we're driving without the window with the windows down, yeah, it's where it goes. Just goes like, all right, nope, there you go, just automatically without thinking it's like, funk, Oh, okay. It lives here. Now, here's my elbow window, like this, where it goes. It's a natural position that my elbow wants to adopt it has a mind of its own in these scenarios where she's like,

58:05

Oh, well, there you go.

58:15

Well, have to do that tomorrow. Then I guess