company picnic

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company picnic, employee check-ins, team photo, remote viewing, baseball game, company team, Springfield metropolitan, oversized Springfield, air conditioning units, sea shanty, Treasure Island, Black Spot, Captain Smollett, Long John Silver, first person narrative, Blind Pew, black box, captain's death, Jim's sorrow, sea chest, loyalty, mysterious circumstances, seafaring people, pacing, 1800s, bayou, estuaries, ecological phenomenon, water filtration, hurricane barrier.

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Foreign. Welcome to Oh

brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out. Your hosts, Brandon and Collin

on this week's show, company picnic, Ahoy, ahoy. How's it going? Oh, pretty good. How are you? I am, well, I am, I

am attempting to upload at the same time that we are recording. So if that goes poorly, you will be the first to upload.

What are you uploading? No,

my Why are things not an alignment I am. We have started to record all of our employee, like, check ins that we do over zoom, Oh, yeah. And just it makes a nice like point for me to be able to go back and review what went on and how it went and also sometimes, well, most of the time, Megan is not available to be on it with me, and so it gives her an opportunity to go back and look at the video and compare that to the notes that I take during it. So it kind of, we're just trying to do that a little bit more. And I did, I did three check ins today. I'm a little bit behind on uploading. Well, it's fair enough that is, you see that. But, yeah, other than that, we just returned from a baseball game. So nice, yes, how was it? It was It went well, the baseball player was a little he had a headache, so he wasn't all focused laser on the game.

But, you know, it's the first time in many days there's been like, actual sun, right? So he probably is confused about how to deal with that. Yes, right? He probably doesn't know what to do when it's not raining and he can play baseball, so he's probably just that might be the reason he has a hit. He's just shocked. He's in shock. He doesn't

know he was thrown into turmoil. Yeah,

he's just confused about this. His body doesn't know how to respond to this problem. So that could

be part of the reason.

Yep, it's just when there are many things moving at fast pace and with with much momentum, also true towards your face, you need to be a little zippy. Need

to be a bit just kind of

fair enough. So fair enough, no,

it's all good though.

Man. Yeah, we, oh, we, we did. We did our first ever, like, all team photo. Oh,

how

exciting, yeah,

minus one, but that's fine, everyone,

you know. I mean the most of the team photo, the vast,

vast majority of the team photo.

That's fine. That's important, right? As long as over half of the team is there. It's okay, yes,

yes, it was. We had well over half again. We had again, much, much gusto, much, much gusto and joy was there. So that was fun. We it

was it's interesting

because it was Megan's first time meeting 98% of our team.

Oh, nice Yes. And it

was 98% of our team's first time meeting the other 98% of the team. So it was interesting. And we, we had Meg and I, we've been wanting to have a team photo for like, a really long time. It's just daunting to try and think of like, how do we coordinate this because we have visits going on 6am to 10pm like, how do we do this? And so we saw a sliver of opening in our schedule, and we were like, we're doing this in three days. And we got everybody there. And but then we had to decide, where do we take the team photo?

Oh, also, this wasn't organized by like the league. This wasn't like official team photo. Oh, is that what you're telling me? Oh, I'm sorry. I am sorry. Or are you running a baseball league that I don't know? Okay, I

have lost some. Context here, yes, yes, this was for our company's team photo.

Oh, are you playing baseball? What?

No, no, no, yeah, right, yeah, we have the new

pets that are baseball. Okay? I I'm very confused. Sorry, when you said team photo, I was thinking we were still talking

about baseball, like baseball team photo, right?

Yeah. And so I was very I was like, Okay. And then you're like, we never have time, and we have to organize it. I was

like, Wait a minute. I hold on, something is not

computing correctly here. Sorry. Very confuzzled. I don't understand what's happening. Sometimes

I don't use words goodly, the company

photo, I feel like, yes, company photo, company photo, better vernacular, yeah, sorry, we I was thinking that you were playing on your company had a softball team or something. I was really that was happening?

No, that'd be horrible, horrible, I tell you. Anyway. No, we says our company wanted to do a photo Megan and I want to do a company wide photo

for everybody that

I can understand how the logistics of that would be very difficult. Yes,

that was when

is, is there ever a time

when you're not,

like, working, when they're not, yeah, there's no visit. That means there has to be zero visits. Yes, yes, which

is something we listeners, I don't want.

Yeah, obviously, that would be bad. So like, yeah,

yep, that's that is, that is bad times, right? When there's lots of time for things we don't like this, and usually when there is downtime, like that, Meg and I are working to make it not downtime, and so we don't have that kind of time.

So anyway, we, we

were working on that. And, man, it was, it was, it was so wild. So yes, this makes sense as to what now, when I say that Megan has, like, not really met in person, yeah, I was like, what?

Wait, yeah, she hosted the baseball

she lost, she remote, she remote views the baseball team. She stays at home, like, she just

think, like, remote viewing, like psychic. Or you just, like, hold your phone up and watch it, like, okay, psychic. Or she like, FaceTime. So you just, like, hold the phone up by your head and, like, look over there to your wall. She would

hate that very much. Like, I've been listening to more interviews with people who claim to be able to remote view. And it is, it is wild. Have you? Have you looked into this at all?

Not like in depth, right? It's, I've seen it in like, video essay things, right? It's come up from time to time, but I have never sat down

and really thought about that in general. And

of course, like, it shows up every once while, in law and order,

right? They're in a cold, dark place. Like, yeah,

it's fine, yeah. Like, easy. They're near water. Like, This is Manhattan. Everywhere is Stop it go.

Everywhere is near water, yes? So

yeah. And other No, not like, deeply,

because I don't believe in that. So I don't

like, there's a time where I can be like, yeah, sure, maybe there's a connection. And then they're like, and then I remote, viewed Mars 1 million years ago and found a civilization. And I'm like, Well, Brother,

you were doing good. Like they. I feel like some of those people, not all of them, obviously, some people actually believe that they can do that. Yes. Now, does that mean they can actually do that? No, but they believe it, that really other people,

right, like

you, you know, it's like you said, like you're there, they got you, they're conning you. And then they say something like that. You're like, brother, you okay, you just, you gotta learn to just wheel it in a little bit like you can't,

yeah, you're selling past the close here. I need you to stop. Yeah, I had you at being able to visualize the inside of a lock in a room next door? Sure. Yeah, I got you. I got you, every million years in the past, on Mars, on Mars, to find a remote, lost civilization. I think

that's how that works. I'm right. I don't think that's how that works. Like,

yeah, yes. Color Color Me skeptical. But also

Yeah, because a million

years ago on Earth, it would have been the same time period. Weird shocker, just so you know, and that shock after me on

don't know what to tell you. So no, we were not. We were neither remote viewing on earth nor Mars nor anywhere else. We were getting our company team together to take a team photo and celebrate everybody. And so, yes, they had most of the time. So this also makes sense why you really muted on when I was like, and 98% of them had not met the other 98% because you were probably thinking, like, so how are they playing baseball together during the team

like, maybe the parents didn't meet each other, right? Like, because, you know, sometimes only one of the spouses comes. But, like, I was that was seemed like a big number, but it makes sense, if your company, people haven't met each other because they're never in the same place at the same time. Yes, they have, like, conversed with each other, like, widely, but like, not in the face. So that also makes a whole lot more sense. Yeah, I

think somebody's opening line was, man, this is fun meeting together, flesh

to flesh that don't say that don't say flesh to flesh, that's creepy. Bro. Like

it? That has

two contexts. Neither of them are like, PG, right? Like, that's not great. Like, appropriate at all. Yeah, right. Don't say Don't say it like that. Oh, why would you say that? Talk to cats all day. But bro, you can't No Nice to meet. Still out.

Please stop. I am so uncomfortable right now.

No.

Buffalo Bill, is that comment like it was

so fantastic, so

it's not at all so companies, when you do team photos, at least, like, they try and do them in in places that when you post the photo, people will be able to say, I know where they are, right. Like, this is kind of a thing that, yes, in photos you want, it's recognizable. Like, oh, they're local to me, unless

they're in a wood, which I still have

a crazy idea, to take some sort of Hedgehog in wood. I really want,

why? Why would you do this? Ai like, why would you want me? Anyway, yes, so you want it to be recognizable. So I'm gonna ask you, okay, we're doing a team photo. I'm gonna go to one location that needs to be quintessential to our service area. What, where does this? Is this the home service or the Springfield metropolitan service area? Springfield metropolitan service area, sorry, okay, where do you that's what I need to know. Yeah, something that would also be like, kind of fitting with the business and, like, I don't know. Like, it's not, I will say it's nothing pet related,

Bass Pro, right?

Better Park

him and tower,

yeah. Okay, those are good, maybe for later,

yeah, I don't know. Okay. So, like, identify, like, the battlefield mall Park,

yeah, so we had to, we had some suggestions. Somebody recommended that we take it in front of the, the forbidden, the forbidden french fries, oh, the Springfield Art Museum.

Okay, yes. Was one, yes, that would be good. Or the fork, oh,

ding, ding, ding, let's go. I was like, what's something that's funky, that's kind of weird, but that's like, weirdly, like, very hyper, specific to us. And I was like, Megan was someone. Was like, oh, we should do a park. We should do the french fries. I was like, No, there's the world's largest fork.

Although the French fry thing would be good, I think that might be a little more niche. I don't think as many people know about the french fries. It's still there,

right? Oh, it's still there. Yeah, yeah. A long time.

So okay, the French thing is good, that's good, but yeah, the fork,

yeah, yeah. Now I will have to say this is the classifier. And I don't like having to add asterisks after these kind of statements, but the internet sleuths will be a little toting me now, because I did not say world's largest fork by mass, because that is the fork in Springfield, Missouri,

is the by mass, one by mass, oh, there's another, like a there's like, a length, longer fork. Yes,

it Springfield fork is the second tallest, tallest, but by it's only Wait, hold on. It is 30. Five feet high, okay, it's that high. Yeah, it's 35 feet high. Oregon, really, Oregon does not feel like 35 feet high. I mean, when you stand next to it, it, really, it's true.

I only drive by it, it. It

was bested by Oregon putting up a 37 foot high fork in corn,

35 and a half.

But it does weigh 11,000 pounds. Yeah, it is the heaviest. And I will, I will include the link to roadside America, their interview about this, we've made it so is it

still over in Chesterfield? Is that where it is?

It is, it's tucked on the back side of a building. So it's not, it's like, stuck over there.

Like, hiding, hidden away, hiding. Like, yes,

yes. Um, so it is a little

bit hard to find, but worth it, and this is, this is why I'm so glad we decided to do this. We showed up at five in the afternoon on a Thursday, on a Wednesday to take this photo. Okay, as you

do, we showed up at five. There

was already a line of people to have their photo taken next to the fork, really, yes, yes. And then we're out there, perfect, yeah, no. I've got a tripod. I've got all sorts of stuff. We're taking a photo. As soon as I am done, we step away from the fork, two more people come in to get a photo. Whooped in. Whooped in, yes, yes. Hilarious, amazing. Also, just so that you know, I am going to include a link in the show notes. It is from visit Springfield. Mo, sorry, it is from Springfield. Mo.com, and the blog article is called oversized Springfield, and it lists the other objects that are oversized in the Springfield metro area.

There's more there is now I

wasn't aware of, or maybe aware of it, and totally forgotten about.

I will say, the only other one that I was aware of this it was, is the the giant noodle out in front of the craft manufacturing company. Yes, okay, they've got that. Apparently they're also next to the swing right golf driving range. There's a massive golf club out front. Is there? Yes. Then that's where this list goes. Off the rails a little bit, because then they have a large, oversized butterfly mural wings

doesn't count. Then they also

include the large Springfield Missouri mural that's painted downtown, that doesn't count either. Then they include the Frisco rail line, model train suspended from the history museum.

I mean, okay, but like,

it's not like a giant, really region now, like, yeah, you could tell somebody saw the fork and was like, Oh, I have a blog. And someone was like, yes, and the giant noodle. And then they found the giant golf club, and they should have stopped

after that. Three's good, three big things, fine,

like at this tower

and put that on his tallest building. I'm

surprised at this rate. They didn't have a sixth one that was just a slightly oversized brick in the some

there's a novelty pencil in this.

Exactly, yes, this is where or they should have had. Oh, what they should have? Okay, what's one giant thing that you see, kind of on the north side of Springfield, in front of some businesses that they should have included in this list. I saw I was driving on, and I saw three of these out in front of random businesses that had no reason of having these in front of them, the giant suits of armor that are randomly, oh yes, across all of Springfield, yes, that is true.

There's one. It's over off of, like, something like sunshine. It's, like, really random, yes, yeah, it was on that place on Kearney street for a long time, and it got moved, I think, yeah, that's where it was randomly. And there was that big bus, that big, there was that random double decker bus, which I believe is now the bus that the they use the pace the pasty place uses, the London calling bus. I think that's, I think that's the same. Really, I'm not 100% sure about that London calling people. You can verify you. This, but there was suspiciously, a very large London bus in front of like a pawnshop thing for years in Springfield. And then all of a sudden there was a English restaurant that was serving food out of a London bus. And so I don't think you can tell me that those two things aren't related.

Hey, we've never room together. That's what I'm saying. You

know, just saying, I feel like that's the one that comes I don't get. I don't know 100% for sure, but it seems weird that there would be two busses

that seems that seems unlike. Sounds like,

yes. So we, we took our picture in front of the giant fork. The giant

fork, it's so weird that that fork is there, like, because it was in front of a restaurant. It was around for like just a little while. It's like a salad restaurant, yeah, over off of Glenstone, yeah. Is that building still

there? The building is still there. They buy what was Circuit City?

Right? Yep, by Circuit City, it is now.

Is now. Aim forgot about

Yeah, it used to be a salad. It was like a salad. It was like a Sally was green. Yes, it

was green. It was like a green house with a giant fork out front. Yeah, yeah. It was weird. Apparently, the fork was built again. I'm, I turned into, like, a weird tourist guide at this because I'm like, did you know this was used to be for Glenstone back in the late,

yeah, late 90s, late 90s.

And, anyway, so, yeah, we did that, and I it was a lot of fun. We really enjoyed doing I tried to keep it really simple and like, let's just get some forward facing photos, some backward facing photos. Let's then get, like, obviously we have to get a silly photo, you know, clearly,

because together

it is and I was really proud of like, it felt really good having everybody together. It was a little emotional. And I told everybody. I was like, this is weird, because I'm used to talking to all of you very individually, right?

Not all in the flesh, all

over the flesh, not talking to you, flesh. Oh, yeah. When they said that, I was like, Please, no,

please stop.

Clearly, this person doesn't talk to other people enough. That's what's happened here. I guess we need to do this more often, but I'm worried, yeah, socialize your employees.

Oh my gosh. So no, it was good, and I was especially like it, because it's weird anytime you get together and someone's like, no news, funny face, you know, because people it can people feel self conscious about that. But no, everyone really did a fantastic job. And everyone had said, like, this was really nice, even though it was only for like, 17 minutes to all get together and just talk to each other. And so it was, I was like, Okay, I do need to do more of this, even though

it's, it's a lot. Yeah,

great. Glad you all enjoyed this so

much. Yeah, I'm smelling company picnic. You go,

yep, yep, yep. So we'll, we're gonna try to do

it like between these hours. People would just like stop by in between.

So that's what we're thinking of. But, you know, but if people want to see each other and talk, but yes, making it more of a come and go as opposed to like, I think the reason it didn't work the last time because it was like, we're gonna have a sit down meal together and we're gonna stare at each other for an hour and two hours.

That's true. That's a little long picnic. You can see you can do that, but picnic that way, they could be outside company picnic, yeah,

yeah. That's a thing that people do. I think so it is. I've

heard of it before. Yes,

get to this. My when I worked at the factory, they had one I never went, but they had,

like, it existed, yes, it was in a park,

yeah, yeah. So, yeah. So

that was, that was our fun week. That's what we got to to do. Nice, yeah, it was good. Megan, I were talking about it on the way back of like, man, that's happened. Things didn't happen. And it was a long day yesterday.

Uh, but yeah, and it

worked on some air conditioning units, which is fine, important, because both of ours decided to, like, not work at the same time. Yeah, we had one hot day where was like, it's going to be 82 upstairs, and we're not going to be able to do anything about it, but I watched a video and recharged it with some Freon, and I had help with replacing the capacitor in one, and I Dad and I couldn't remember if we had replaced the capacitor in that one? I was like, No, it was just the downstairs one. He was like, Okay. And I open up the service panel for the upstairs one, and I'm like, sorry, we'd only replace the Oh my gosh. We'd only replace the upstairs capacitor, not the downstairs one. Okay, there. That's what it meant. As I open up the downstairs service panel, open this up, and I'm like, this has not been serviced in anyone's lifetime. There is so much just debris in here, and there is more. There are more spider webs and

cobwebs. Clearly, you haven't been in there

then the wiring. So done.

Did you do? Did you do? Did you go official dad mode and get your sharpie and write down on the panel what you like, the date that you did the thing, right?

We, we labeled the actual item that. Okay. That

works too. Yes. Okay. That works

item. Relabeled the capacitor. And I even had, I had had them initial it so that we knew, like, who did this? And it had the day state. And they were both like, why are you, why are we doing this? Well, first thing, this is the thing that your granddad did and does all the time.

Also, it's, it's, it seems like a weird thing, but it's, like, super helpful, because I suffer from this inability to, like, factually tell how long ago things happened, right? Time is convoluted in lordran, right? And I don't know things, because sometimes students will be like, oh, yeah, that was, you know, five years ago. I'm like, it, no,

it was not,

yeah, right? I have no clue so service things, I definitely have no concept of, right? Like, forever, like we have to change our little filter for our air conditioning thing, Oh, why? I'm always like, Oh, we just did that. No, it was not just No, months ago. Yeah, right. So I write down on the filter thing all the all the days I just write down the day I put it in there, because I'm always like that, like, oh, we just did that. And it was like, Oh, that was too long ago, actually. Yes, yes.

And I tried at first to to not to get around this by thinking I'm just going to set a reoccurring reminder on my phone for whenever I change it, and then I'll say, remind me in six months, or remind me whatever, each time I change it, and just kind of have this moving forward. But here's the thing, this got off. We have a water filter that sits underneath our sink, and we got a little spigot specifically for it. We don't have a whole water filtration system. I'm not that. No, I don't have that kind of money. Anyway, I was like, I'll just say reoccurring every it was, it's every six months. We'll just replace this. Well, then one time, I got the alert, and I just kind of swiped it away, and then I could no longer remember if I had and when I had done what. And so yes, then I replaced it. And then I replaced it too quickly after that, and had wasted because I was trying to get back on track. And so then at that point, I just keep a log sheet underneath there. But yeah, like furnace filters and the filters in the refrigerator and under the sink and the also, it's mostly filters, as it turns out, in my life, but like, when we installed our hot water heater, it was like, Okay, I need to write when we installed this brand new, yeah, true, like, just so that I know what's going on. Or when we had, like, we installed a water softener, because our water up here was basically like, do you like mint? Like crunchy water, like it's crunchy up here, like it's real bad. Yes, I don't like that mineralization. Hooray. I started to keep a log of how frequently we were adding salt, right? Because it's like, that's, I don't know, and I can't remember, and whatever. So, yes, this is very. Be important, especially for something where it's I have a hard enough time remembering which of my outside units is for the upstairs and which is for the downstairs. So, like, I'm gonna be hopeless whenever it comes time to know what I replaced and when. Like, well,

especially on things like that, that have to happen relatively, like, very infrequently,

right? But yeah, like you said, it could be, who knows,

maybe never like to do something like that. So it's Yeah, so it's helpful to be like, Oh yeah, yes.

So it is in there for all time. So whether it is us who touches it again or not, oh, that was the other thing. I'm watching this guy on YouTube. And because, oh yeah, because I was asked by one of my technicians, how do we know what to do? And I was like, Haha, look, I don't know what

to do. Wing it, right. Could call

your granddad about this, but true, we're gonna watch the YouTube video. And so I pulled it up,

and if it goes wrong, then, then

I will have to tell and I'll pretend like I haven't done anything, and I'll just pretend like we're starting from zero, and everything will be fine. Yeah, of course. Yeah. No, I was the video. Was just having watching that was a reminder of like, Man, this is nice. I'm very glad that these videos exist, because otherwise I'd be in a real pickle right now knowing what to discharge or not or what to touch on these.

So true. Yeah, yep, so we got to do

some some work. Yeah, gray,

pretty good.

I haven't really done anything this week either, but it's time once again for giving out about bad video game design. Hello, welcome back for two weeks in a row, right? So, just two quick things, right? So, so playing uh, some watchdog legions, right? It's a game about fighting against, like, uh, capitalistic governments, overtaking society. Not topical at all. No reason. That's fun, yeah, but a little right? Light hearted. Light hearted, well, it's about like, it's a game about like, the mechanics, the main mechanics of this game are sneaking and hacking, like security, computer things, right? Okay, that's the that's the game, right? That's

pretty much it not writing manifestos. No, no, no.

It's just like, you solve some light puzzles, you do some hacking things, you do, you do the story, but mostly you just drive around London and break into buildings, right?

Sure. Now

here's the problem. Two problems. First problem, there are a couple times when this game resorts to, like,

shooting gunplay, right, okay, but um,

because you mostly don't have to do that, the combat system is not really robust enough for this to be like a major feature, like, all of a sudden, you're like, mandatorily in

this situation, right? Okay, like that is

kind of odd, because, like, for the most part, you, like, never have to do that, right? You can do, like, strange things and sneak and do all these things, right? But, like, sometimes it'll be like, surprise, it's a gun battle. You're like, uh, yeah, what that's I'd rather not. No, this is not, yeah. So that is a very frustrating thing that happens, right? And the second thing that I encountered today, right? Had a random mission. Have to find some abandoned houses, right? Because they're being bought up by shell corporations and being used to launder money so that people can't have affordable housing in the city. Again, not topical or real world related, even a little bit. But like the directions, one of the directions where it's between this subway station and this street, none of the streets on the map have names.

So what do you do? What

in Why would you give me? Oh, that's why would you give me that? It doesn't make any sense. As far as. I can tell you, Okay, there's no way to discover street names,

right? Like,

sort of just like, wander around for a while in the general area and then be like, Oh, okay, I guess this is it like, like, when you get close, your character is like, Oh, look, I think we've got, you know, they've made some sort of statement. But why would they do why? I don't know, it's the only time this has come up, this whole game, right? Where it's like, oh, it's between the end. All the subway stations are marked because you can fast travel between them, right? You know, a subway makes sense.

But there's no street names anywhere. So I'm I don't know what

is happening, unless I'm supposed to really know about London streets. No about that, I don't. So

your pull up Google

Maps and be like, All right, let's see the actual street name. No, I

was gonna see if you had taken your cab, cab exam.

I have not, right? I am not a geo guesser, right? I don't know what's happening here.

So this is like,

I don't know why you wouldn't give me a landmark that is listed right. Like, you give me two stations. You could give me a station and, like, one of the important the other one is, like, near a building, right? Like, what the building is like, you can tell what building it is, right? Oh, so, like, okay, there's, like, landmark building. Like, Oh, okay, I see it right here. Bucha, like, but this random street, like, what? Yeah, are you doing?

I feel like that's, yeah. I think that's, I mean, do

you think what slipped through somewhere

in your search for something? Did you did you like, did you come across something, sorry, in your search for this, did you come across another clue or something?

Mission guide thing, it says, like, it's between. It gives you a list of three areas to look, right? And one of them is like, one, okay, one of them makes sense. It's like, west of this station. Okay, boom, I can find that station, and then just kind of go, you know, check the couple blocks to the west and give you know, that's fine. That makes sense. Good, good, right? The other one is like, south of this landmark. Okay, fine. I can tell where that landmark is, or it's like, Westminster Abbey. So, like, it's very easy to find, right? It's enormous, right? It's okay, fine. It's like south of there.

Okay, cool. But this other random one, it's like

between this station and this road.

That's what you mean, road that's really bad.

Get out.

Wow. Road names, bro,

you and your name? No names

on the map. Can zoom in all the way on the map, nothing, no names, right? It's not that kind of thing, brother. So, like,

it does seem like a design that would have come up. It's a

bit of a flaw. Yeah, it was a bit, a bit of a flaw there. So, yeah, so that's, that's all I had to give today. Is very strange oversight in game design of what in the heck is happening? Why would you do that? It doesn't make any sense. Not good. Wow. It's very odd, very, very odd. How long

did it take you to find it

a while. I what I did was I hijacked a cargo drone, and I just like you can sit on them and ride them. And so I just whizzed up in the air and just flew around some neighborhoods to be like, ah, there. Whole get out of here. I am not messing so angry, like this is so dumb. Why would you do that?

So I solved the problem by cheating. I

mean, it's a game mechanic, it's fine, it's allowed, but I don't know if that was what you're supposed to do. I don't care. I was like, Look, I'm looking for a mildly disheveled building, boom, flying around, looking, there you go. That'd be easier than driving the streets looking for other stuff. So

done. So that's pretty much

it other than that. Not a lot going on this week. Students had a work bunch still. So yeah, just hanging out home, chilling. We did try to go to the park to, like, walk today, but so humid it would off. Cool, like, because it's been raining, like, every single day forever, right? Like, no, it's like, we need to go try to exercise, but we got that we're both, like, grumpy, like, trying to run through, like, the paste, right? The air is so thick. So did it rain down? By, you guys, it rains all the time. It rained last night. I think it's supposed to rain tonight, too, at some point, right? Like, I don't think it rained today, maybe this morning, like, a little bit, right? But, yeah, yeah, this week it's been raining all the time, like, the other day, what? Tuesday, Tuesday night, it rained a whole bunch, right? Rain forever, right? Like,

right, yeah,

I know, yeah. No, we had a we had a ball game rained out twice now, so we're pretty we're used to this now. It's our games are supposed to be done like next week, and they're extending it now, later and later into June. I'm like, No, yeah, because it's just

so please stop it. The lake's gonna have like, 900 feet of water. It's gonna be useless.

Great. Everything's

gonna be Oh, I'm ready.

Are you? Because I don't know if I right, but the worst that could happen, I don't want to

changing this.

Speaking of miserable places,

that's not the segue I was anticipating. Oh, oh, before we start, oh, I have a recommendation for you. Oh, right. I have a potential new

segment

in conjunction with our new read. Oh, Collin, oh, what do you feel? How do you feel about the sea shanty of the week is,

this? Is this one that we are putting together? Yes,

okay, I'm gonna give you just randomly. A recommendation for sea shanty of the week, right? Because we are reading a book about the sea Okay. Feel like recommendations for sea shanty of the week.

Okay. How do you feel about this? I like this. I do like this. I do like this a lot. I do like me. Don't worry,

I'm not gonna sing it. Okay? I'm not gonna make you sing it. It's fine, okay, right? So I just want to, I just wanted to get your okay thoughts

about I was like, Oh, perfect, perfect. No, wait,

no, let me clarify. Is this one that we are writing or we are just No, no. I would recommend

to you an existing sea shanty.

Oh, okay. This okay. This is fine. I was, I was working. I'm

not right. We're not writing, writing a haiku. No, no, no. We already ride haikus, and sometimes I forget about that. So this would be a lot more writing. We're not doing that. I'm just going to

recommend to you

the Oh brother, C shanty of the week. Okay, right? Like for the duration of

Treasure Island, we like this a lot. There we go. So of course, this week, there's really only one that we can pick for this week. Oh, okay, right, yes, we have to pick yo ho, ho and

a bottle of rum, I guess, right?

It's mandatory. This must be the first

sea shanty right now. Interestingly, this is not a historical tune. This song was

created by Robert Louis Stevenson,

okay, that's pretty good, okay, and there's

the only the chorus part

is in the book, like, I think later on, there's, like, a couple other lines, but that's it. All the billion other verses have been made up since the book was published. Oh, that's cool, right? So it's kind of like fan fiction song, okay, that's awesome, right? That's good. Like, this song was created, like, the chorus part is Stevenson. He made it up for the book, right, as we're about to see in our first three chapters. And then there's like, a whole bunch of other random verses, and these are all just verses that people just wrote, right? Yeah. And so there's no, like, official, like, full, complete song, right? There's all kinds of little. Creations of just in the middle blah, blah, because it's all just made up. This is a Stevenson creation, right?

So obviously that has to be our first sea shanty the week, right? There we go. Yes, perfect. No, I think that's fantastic.

All right, there we go. I'm also

very interested to see the variety of sea shanties that we start to crawl into a hole to find. I mean, that is

true towards the end. It may be a little bit of a slog, but that's okay, right? As

we saw from last time. Yes, listeners will be reminiscent. We'll be thinking back to the voraciousness that Brandon launched into in order to find the death the metal

bands. Death metal band of the week, the World War One, death metal albums of the week, boom, deep cuts in there, Ladies Gentlemen, very Yes, I anticipate some of these would be slightly easier to source. Number one, you just need individual songs. So I'm not looking for sea shanty albums.

That would be very difficult.

And number two, weirdly, this is a sort of somewhat popular genre for the past several years because of the internet. Yeah, based on Tiktok, yeah? Well, yeah, there's the one song that is always but like, it's, it's just a thing, yep. Like randomly, so I anticipate the at first, at least I'll be able to source

several different ones, right?

So we'll see if I can maintain but this week, of course, yo ho, ho and a bottle of rum. There we go. So nice. There we go.

All right, now, now, now we can get down to brass tacks

or kaboom. Let's go brass dog. Brass sea dogs, something, yes,

an old

Buccaneers, perhaps, right? May have

may haves immediately, right? We have a return

of the first person narrative style,

right? Perhaps the

falls back in line to our favorite genre, the kind of sort of memoir, right? That's what we kind of sort of memoir, because it definitely feels like when we're starting here, right,

we are definitely telling the story, right? Everything's already happened. This is him. This is our our narrator, telling the story to you, right? That's kind of what's happening here, yes, so like, immediately, we have Jim here, right? Yes,

telling you the story. And so it's like it feels also like he's just telling you the story. Yes, this is an excellently written, like narrative from that perspective, like already, after the first chapter, I was like, Oh, my God, this is so good. I love this writing. Yes,

no, it was an excellent first person recount. It is, I will say, which does leave you with you don't have all the information. You don't know what's going on in various things. Things do just kind of suddenly happen without much context or explanation. It just is, which is, again, another literary form, which I appreciate very much, favorite

kind of story, right? We just go, right. We're just here.

We're just here. People are coming and going, and we pick up from context again, as we are knowing what to do here. Yeah, and

like we said, we have a we have a indeterminate length of time between the events and the telling right. It's not necessarily clear when this is currently right, because my copy, it just does. The thing was, like, as I take out my pin in the year of grace, 17

dash, so like, you know, it doesn't really matter, there's like, yeah,

it's later. Don't worry about it. Kind of not beholden, but yeah, we kind of go, like, I remember him. I.

As if it were yesterday,

right? And actually, this particular paragraph, second paragraph in, we get a

little sneak peek into

Mr. Stevenson's writing style, right? It's very oratory, right? Yes, he Robert Lewis Stevenson, already in three chapters, I have determined he is going to use every single punctuation mark available to him. Oh, yeah,

yes, right.

Because listeners this, this is a sentence, right? One. I remember him as if it were yesterday as he came plodding to the indoor his sea chest following behind him in his hand barrel, a tall, strong, heavy nut brown man, his Terry pigtails falling over his shoulder in a soil Blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred with black broken nails in the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, living white this one,

yeah, yeah.

It's very like conversation. It flows very conversationally, right? This is writing that you can like, read it out loud, and it is not a problem at all, right?

No, I this. This immediately reminded me of the kind of writing that I had first encountered whenever I read Robinson Crusoe by Defoe. He is also love, like there are entire pages of that book that are just and sentence, yeah, and it is

conveniently one of Stevenson's favorite authors.

Yes. So it Yes, it is. It can be, if this is, this is an

example of, though you have to keep you

focus right of all the way through with a very long sentence, because it's all tied together. It's not just like, chunk, a chunk of little things. It's one long thought. It's very conversational. It is. It reads very smoothly, but yeah, it's not difficult to follow, though. Yes, it's not like some authors, they have,

like, very, very long sentences,

and it's like a slog. Yeah, right. I feel like you're walking

uphill in the mud, right?

Yeah. By the time you reach the end, you're like, Oh my gosh. What did what happened in Yeah, you reach

the end and you go, wait, what? What was this about? What was it? What was talking about? I don't get like,

yes, exactly like that, yep.

So, yeah, we're introduced to young Jim remembering, well, an older Jim remembering some time in the past about when the captain arrived at the inn, right? So we get that his he works at an inn run by his parents, yes. And this man just shows up one day, it's very you get the sense this is very out of the ordinary, right, like sailory, even though it's called the admiral Denbo,

right? Like salary types

don't necessarily frequent the place, no, right? Because it's a little further away from the harbors and stuff like that. And like, they don't make it this far in. So him showing up, not only is he

a very just, like,

like, commanding figure, like, it's also kind of odd that he's there. Like, what are you doing?

Yep, because it is kind of out of the way. It is not like you said. It's, it's not the main haunt for Yes, things. It's not like a well known in, like, we have some ideas, some thoughts of, they're kind of struggling already, right from,

yeah, yeah, because it's kind of on the road, but, like, I guess by the time people make it here, they've probably already stopped at some of the places, right? Yeah, weirdly

So, but, but our our captain here picks it precisely because it's out of the way. Yes. Sneaky, right, suspicious. And

immediately, right, we get, you know, comes in. He's like, Yeah, tell me. I'm gonna stay. Just tell me when my gold runs out, they just throw some gold in the

counter. Just call me Captain. But then he pulls Jim aside, right, and he's like, Listen, I need you to go for me. If you see a man with one leg, like a seafaring man with one leg, I need you to tell me immediately you. I'll give you some money.

That's all he says. And it kind of freaks Jim out a little bit,

a little bit he says, It haunts him. And he says, Yes, man. And like a kid does, he imagines all sorts of conjures and configurations of what this man may or may not look like, and lets his imagination run wild where he doesn't he like, impacts his sleep. He's a little, he's a little wigged out by this, yeah,

because it's like, he says it like,

because, you know, the Catholic comes in, he's kind of like, whatever, his little boisterous, little ah. But when he talks to me, like, Listen, this is kind of, this is see, like, makes it known. This is very important, yeah, this is, like, serious business. And tell me, right? Like, also, just if you see anybody else, weird, but specifically

this part, like, yes, the one leg, right? So,

but boom, off to the start.

Yeah, it's off to start. And he just stays there, right? He just this is where he's going to be now, um,

because he's just there, and

he's decided I'm going to live here for a while. And this is even worse for the end, like the dad does not like this because he's like, scaring away people evil. Yes, he's frightening. And he tells all these crazy stories, and they're like, right, by his own account, he must have lived a life among some of the wickedest men that God had ever allowed upon the sea. And the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.

Right? So he's a very, you know,

sailorly mouthed sailor. He just sits there and, you know, reminisces loudly, colorfully. It's all

the banging on the table a lot, right? Is that where he's talking about this? Oh yeah, this is the yeah right before this phrase, my father was always saying the inn would be ruined for people would soon cease coming there to be tyrannized over and put down and sent shivering to their beds, he says, but I really believe the presents did us good. People were frightened at the time, but on looking back, they rather liked it. It was a fine excitement in a quiet country life. And there was even a party for the younger men who pretended to admire him, right, calling him a true sea dog.

And so he's kind

of like, over the course of the chapter we get says that he's been he's here, and this, like, he's just here for a while, because it's talking about, like, Jim remembers his hat kind of falling apart, yeah, and how his coat is becoming even more ragged, and he would just keep patching it. So, like, it was just pretty much all patches, right. Like, so this is clearly going on for an extended duration, right? Because we get, like, all of a sudden, it's snowing, right? Like, so,

so, like, it's oh no, that he's talking

about the doctor's hair there, but he's been there for a long time, and then he has a bit of a kerfuffle with the doctor, right?

Um, kind of this weekend. This was an interesting way to end this. And yes, I I wasn't sure again, having not remembering anything about the story of is this a way of telling how much of a bluster this man was and that he was really all kind of harmless, or whatever? Or is this to tell us of a backstory of the doctor that he that the doctor is also more than he

portends appears. I kind of think that's what it is, right? Like, I feel like, because the doctor is not afraid to, like, stand up to him, right? And so I think that's what shocks him, the most of all, is like, oh, somebody talked back to me. He's like, ah, yeah, wait a minute. That doesn't happen, right? I'm, you know, you get this sense that, like, even though, and maybe he wasn't like, we learned later, he's not the captain, right? But he was like, a mate, so he was like, of a higher rank. So he is used to just like, going about his business and having people listen to him, right? And so when the doctor claps back at him and is

like, shut up, he's kind of like,

taken aback, right? So we do, it does kind of feel like, number one, it's like he's out of his element, because he's not used to that happening in his environment that he's used to living in. But it does kind of feel like maybe the doctor has, like, he knows. About things, right? He's not just like a simple Doctor guy. He knows, like, you know, what's up. He carries himself very like, in a certain type of way that it thinks like, maybe there's more to him than meets the eye as well, right?

Boom, yes. I this is, this is what I believe as well.

Yeah. So, you know, that does lead us to chapter two, right? Chapter Two, we get the it's been a long time January, right? And so we're just kind of hanging out. Jim's just doing his thing, and

then this other person just shows up. Yeah, we got a character, yeah. And he like, Jim's just like, the

way that he describes him, in the way that he talks about him, he just, like, immediately, where's the captain? He's like, kind of like, warm to him. And he's never, he was never really, like, afraid of him, right? He wasn't, like, really put off by him that much. Immediately, this guy, he's like, oh, oh, this there's something bad about this person, yes, and he, like, tries to play polite and talk, but he like, no, he's on guard immediately,

right? So

that kind of tells you the difference between these two characters, like

this guy is bad news, right, and Jim can tell a lot, right.

And the guy kind of confuses him too, because he said, I remember this one puzzled me. He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him, too. So obviously he something is right. His senses are up. He's sensing that something is off,

yeah, because, yeah, he says, I always had my eye out for a seafaring man with one leg or two. And I remember this one puzzle, I love that with one leg or two, yeah? Just, you know, just in general, just looking out, you know. And so he comes in, he's like, I'm looking for my mate, Bill. And Jim's like, I don't know anybody named Bill. Yeah,

I don't know that, because he doesn't

have a name, right? He doesn't. He's just like, you know that Captain? He's like, I don't know Bill. He's like, I you know there is this one guy, I guess. He's like, Oh yeah, of course. That's him, blah, blah, blah. Like, well, so he just, he's like, he's just gonna sit. He's like, I'm just gonna sit and I'm gonna wait, and you're gonna sit here, and you're gonna wait with with me. Oh no, so that you can't warn him. And now Jim's like, oh, oh no. What

is happening. What am I in the middle of? Yeah, right. And you get the sense that, like, Jim is clearly not

ready for any of this. Because, like, even though he like, like, he doesn't understand what's going on at all, no, because even though he knows that, like the Captain has made it plain that other strangers looking about here might be bad news. Jim's like, I don't know anybody named Bill. The captain's here, though, Jim, that's, it's not exactly what we talked about. Okay, that's not,

that's not what you were supposed to say. He does

it again in the next chapter to be like, Jim, what are you doing? But we'll get to that in a minute, right? So they're just sitting down, right?

You know? Blah, blah. They're waiting. And then I then

the captain comes in. He's like, Ah, hello. What's going on? And the captain spins around right and had the look of a man who had seen a ghost, or the evil one, or something worse, if anything, can be

and so

he's like, Oh, this is clearly bad. So he kind of has to,

they shoot him out of the room, and they're sitting there at the table, right? And he's trying to listen, right? He's trying to listen. And

all of a sudden, there's just like a big, giant roar of noise, and they both have their swords out, and the captain is chasing the other guy out

down the street. Yeah, at down the street.

Right? And another excellent single sentence here. Then all of a sudden, there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises. The chair and table went over in a lump. A crash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant, I saw black dog in full flight and the captain hotly pursuing with both drawn cutlasses and the former streaming blood from the left. Older,

right? So we really get a good picture.

Uh huh, just about what's going on here. What had just happened exactly? He chases him out with the sword. And he almost took his head off, but he whacked the sword on the sign outside the door. My favorite anecdote about this was again, buddy, yeah, he says would have certainly split him to the to the Chine, had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral bimbo. You may see the notch on the lower side of the frame to this day, exactly right. Good. Didn't even again, he's telling the story to somebody. Maybe, I don't know, but like the fact he throws that in there is great. I love that. Yeah, yeah. It's a really good way to tell, like, Yeah, this is we're reminiscing, right? But it's like, it's still really well, I love that part. And yep, that I really smiled when I saw that. Because it really is, like, right? If you were listening or reading or writing a historical account, you would be saying, Oh, and you can see evidence of this event in this way. And it is over here. It fit in perfectly. Yeah,

yeah. And then, basically, after all this excitement, the captain collapses, right? Yes. It just happens that the doctor is coming to see Jim's dad, who was also not doing well, not doing well, right? He's very sick, yeah. And so he stops to take care of the captain, right? And he's very begrudging of that. And he's like, it's unfortunate for you that I'm such a good person and required to take care of sick people, because I don't care about you at all, just basically what the doctor says. It's like, it's very unfortunate. He's like, You're lucky that I'm a good person, and I'm going to be bothered to deal with you, because I have other things I need to worry about. The doctors claims that he's had a stroke, right? And so, because this is the 1700s The answer is, bloodletting. Bloodletting favorite, favorite answer. Have a look at the color of the blood, and so let some blood into a bowl. There we go. They do discover went into in order to do this, they remove his sleeve. They can roll his sleeve up, and they're like, kind of, they're a little Jim definitely taken it back slightly. Now the doctor, it's kind of harder to gage his reaction, but he does. He does have a lot of

tattoos on his arm, right? And so they're kind of like, what is this? Right? Yep, um. And so

they just start calling him Billy Bones, because that's what's on his arm,

clearly executed on the forearm.

Yeah. So they're like, Well, maybe that's his name, I don't know, whatever. And later on, it's kind of weird, because he's like, Now Mr. Bones, he's like, That's not my name. He's like, I don't care whatever, right? So that's kind of weird. I just need to call you something. So yeah, he says you gotta stay in bed. No more room for you, sir,

and take it easy and you'll recover. Basically, his way says, No more excitement, no drinking. Now, go away so I can go see the boy's dad. That's

Yep. And then he goes and tells him, just to our protagonist here, you have to keep him in bed for a week, and don't give him any rum. He says to two things here, to the boy, right? You cannot. You must keep him in bed and, like, still and no, rum doesn't go that well in general, No,

neither doesn't go well, right? It goes right out. Goes right out in chapter three, right? You know, he's like, I gotta give me some drink, right? What's we're we're very clearly, uh, going through some withdrawal action. It's very clearly what's being written about right here, right? And

hard withdrawals. Because, oh yeah, this was this morning, and it says about noon, yes. So we're on the same day of this, this event, I believe, yeah. So we are

detoxing badly, you know, but I mean, he does say I lived on Rome, I tell you.

So that's, that's good. It's been eat, drink, man and wife to me, and if I'm not, have my rum now, I'm poor old Hulk on the lee shore, my blood will be on you, Jim and that Dr swab, true. Okay. Now, again, in the 1700s This is very common for sailors because I. What can you have on board a ship for long duration, right? Rum, right? What can you not have water?

It will go bad, right? Yeah, so you need some. That's why they had, like, frog and all these other things, right? It's because they had to mix the water with other stuff, otherwise it would get all just gross and get all moldy and go bad. You can't drink it. It's full of like algae and stuff, so you have to have spirits in there. So it's, you know, this is one of the old, you know, it is somewhat safer during this time to drink other things not named water doesn't mean it's good for you. It

just means you won't die of cholera, right?

Exactly. Hey, isn't that nice? Yeah,

nobody likes that.

Pardon me, why I drink some water? That's what I just was reaching for, like. So he says, your doctor himself said one glass wouldn't hurt. Come on, you gotta, kind of help me out. Give me boy. Give me one little, you know, so they have this thing. And he says, You gotta stay in bed for a week. He is not pleased about that.

That's no good either. He's very obstinate about this whole thing, and so

they kind of fight about this, all this stuff, and

but next morning, he is downstairs.

Ate his meal as usual

as usual, and back to normal.

And so he's not gonna be bothered by all this. This is extra awkward, because Jim's father has just died, died, died, and so the night before the funeral, he was as drunk as ever, and it was shocking. It was morning to hear him singing away in his ugly old sea song. Also it appears the captain knows one song, one song Exactly.

That's good. Yeah,

that's great. That's really helpful here for months, months and months, knows one song, exactly one. So this is also why I wanted to help the listeners. We need to know more than 1c

we have to be better than our, than our, than our friend here,

we have to know more than one. That's just it's 2025,

we need to know more than one. Yeah, more

than one, right now. Anyway, we'll fast forward here a bit

until after the funeral. Now here we oh, sorry. Hold on. Okay. So No, you go ahead. Oh yeah, I was just gonna now it starts hotting up after the funeral, right? It's weird that, like, Jim knows the audience,

right? He's very on track with this story, because it's very interesting that, like, he's just like, anyway, the day after the funeral, like he there's no really mention of the funeral at all, because he's like, this is the story we're talking about. Yes, yeah, that suck. That happened. Anyway, back to this thing right now, three o'clock on a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I was standing at the door for a moment, full of sad thoughts about my father when I saw someone drawing slowly

near along the road.

Oh, well, and yeah, well, sorry. Prior to this, we are introduced to something called The Black Spot. I did want to touch on that, like, this is where, oh yeah, this gets entered, where he's talking to the the captain is talking to Jim here and, and he's saying, like, but he says, but what is the black spot, Captain? And he says, that's a summons mate. And I'll tell you if they get it, but you keep your weather eye open, Jim. And I'll share with you. Equals upon my honor, because he's talking about, also, like he's going, this is kind of a fugue state, I think, where he was talking about the chest, like in the treasure

days, kind of, yeah, yes, yeah. And so

that we know, like something that really is, you know, coming to us. And, yeah, we find it on this, this chilly morning. Yeah,

it's here, right? The way, like, we we

have some levels, right? We have the captain. And Jim thinks the captain's rather charming, right? He's rough and tumble. But, like, overall, he's, like,

kind of,

you know, he's not. It off by the captain, right? He's annoying and he's loud, but like, overall he like, he's okay with him, right? Then we had black dog a lot more rough, right? We knew that we didn't like that now,

right? This guy like

he was plainly blind for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose, and he was hunched as if age or weakness had wore a huge hole, oh, and wore a huge old, tattered sea cloth with a hood, and made him appear positively deformed, right? I never saw in my life a more dreadful looking figure, right? So immediately, this, this dude is bad news, like, we Yeah,

that's good. Not

good people, this would be the not good, yeah,

um, you know. And so he calls out, where, you know, where am i Exactly? He's like, Oh yeah, you know, here at the admiral bimbo on Black Hill Cove. And he's like, Ah, yes. And he's like, take my hand. But as soon as he touches Jim. Jim describes it as Vice like, Right, totally eyeless creature gripped it in a movement like a vice,

right? So, yeah, that really

changes the the for some reason this was more, I guess, shocking, or obviously, it's much more personal, because it's happening to Jim, and so we're getting his telling of it. It's like, again, this, like, that first set of violence that was in another room. I didn't know what was going on. It was happening over there, and now pain is being inflicted upon me in this instance. And it's, yeah, it's pretty intimidating, yeah.

So like, this guy is, like, Jim immediately knows, like this guy is dangerous, like he doesn't look, you know, he looks bad, but like, even though he's blind or whatever, this is a dangerous person, right,

right? Because he says, You're gonna take

me to him, and you're gonna do it right now. When we get there, you're gonna cry out. Here's a friend for you, Bill. And if you don't, I'll do this. And he just wretches his arm, like, really bad. And he says he gave me a twitch that I thought would have made me faint, like, he just, like, yanks him like, really hard. He's like, I'll just rip your arm off if you don't do what I tell you, basically, right? Like,

so he goes

in, and the poor Captain raised his eyes and one look the rum went out of him and left him staring sober.

Uh huh. Oh, dear. The expression of

his I like this sentence. The expression of his face was not so much of terror as of mortal sickness. Boom. So this guy, kind of wandles up there, hold out your left hand. Boom. I passed something to him in the hollow of his hand and held his stick the palm of the captains, which closed upon

it instantly. He says, now that's done. And turned

incredible accuracy and nimbleness skipped

out of yeah, that is a very weird

that's a weird visual, right? It's like, it's very like

prancing out after all this menace and malice. He's so pleased with the terror that he's inflicted upon these two that he's frolicking away,

right? That is, that is, uh, that is terrible, right?

So this, of course, is your boy blind pew, right, delivering something to the captain,

right? Yeah, it was the black box, yeah.

But yeah, this is kind of weird, right? Where he's talking about 10 o'clock. He cried six hours. So some it's again, something is supposed to be happening,

but he jumps up from the table and,

well, that was it died. He stroked out, and he died right here, right?

And so now he's just like Jim is in a weird spot,

right? The closing lines of the chapter are very interesting, like, is a curious thing to understand. Or I had certainly never liked the man, although of late I had begun to pity him, but as soon as I saw that he was dead. Dead, I burst into a flood of tears. It was the second death that I had known, and the sorrow of the first was still fresh in my heart. So the only really two men in Jim's life, as far as we can tell, have both died within two days of each other, right? Like, like, within it, within a week, basically, yeah, so, so Jim is, like, in a weird spot, right? He doesn't know what to do. He's just kind of like, Oh, I was really upset about passing my father, obviously. And now the only other person that I, you know, know, really, or that we know that he knows about from the telling of this story. Has also just died suddenly, under extraordinarily mysterious circumstances,

right? Two crazy

seafaring people show up looking for him, threatening him. For some reason, Jim has no idea what's happening. He has no idea why they're doing that. The captain's being all vague about it. We know that potentially has something to do with the sea chest, because he's talked about it, like you said, in his little like beaver

dream state. And this is where we are done to done, and I believe earlier to this, he had made a statement about how he probably should have, oh, it was after the captain had told him about the chest and kind of some of this stuff. I think at that time he had said, Jim had said, I should have told somebody else about all this stuff, and, like, the doctor, and that probably would have been good for me to inform them about what was going on.

But is that, was that my Yeah, that's it, yeah, because he, like, has this weird sort of loyalty to the captain, kind

of right, like, yes,

that he didn't want to tell anybody else, even though it's again, it's weird because of again, he's very young. We don't know quite how young exactly, but like, he's a young person, so like, he knows that there's, like, things that he shouldn't tell people, but he did just find two strangers and be like, Oh yeah, the captain's over there. Bro,

yeah, Jim, like, you're

not gonna tell the doctor or your mom, really,

yeah, but like

you're gonna be like, Oh, you mean the captain. You mean that guy said, Don't he said, don't tell people, yeah,

very clearly said to not to do the thing they said to not do the thing that you

did right there.

But like, but yeah, so there you go. That's, that's kind of it, right,

we've, we've, so we'll see how the rest of, uh, part one plays out here next

time.

So there you go. But good, really quick, really quick read, right? It just like blasts along. Yeah. So it does very nice to see that. It's very interesting.

So far, again, I know this is like

we're writing this in the 1800s

about the 1700s

but it is very interesting that mom is like, not in the story. He just like, mentions mom went there and then that's pretty much it, right? Like, nothing else, no other mention of mother at all. Nope. It's very like, is gonna be is very, strange.

Yeah, right. That's not for you. We're not doing that right now. Yeah, that's kind of

weird. But you know, whatever, it's fine.

Yeah? So it's going to be man, this tail is going to be off and running pretty fast after I don't know, like, where this is where it's headed. So,

yeah, I don't really remember the pacing. So I'm gonna be interested to see how this lives. I imagine by the end of part one, we're just gonna be going somewhere, right? Yes, like, I imagine that's what's gonna be doing, going happening here?

Yeah, I feel like we're about to be caught up in something, yes,

yeah, we're very clearly being caught up in a thing, right? Jim is just being like, whisked along here, yep,

you know, just pulled right along into something.

We know what exactly that something is not real sure, unsure, but I think he's like, you can definitely tell that he's very curious about what on earth is happening, just kind of the way that he interacts with the captain, oh, and the way that he does things like, he's very

curious about what in the world is going on. On so, so

that'll be interesting to see how he deals with this going

forward here. So, yes, I'm excited about this.

You keep trucking along here. It's good. I do, I do have a haiku, hooray, and on, not

see related. That's okay.

Except, is it?

Oh, I

did that

adjacent. It's adjacent. It's C adjacent.

Okay, I'll explain that in a moment. Okay, let's do this. Steam rises, spice bites, crawfish dance on paper plates, fingers red with joy. Yes,

all right, see, see adjacent, yes, right? Because in the bayou, which is by the side, estuaries, yeah, boom. Estuaries, important ecological phenomenon, okay? And I like it well known to be adjacent to the sea. So they are, it's almost like their whole thing is being next to the sea.

Personality being defined by being adjacent to the sea.

Yeah. Wow. Imagine being the place where fresh and saltwater mixed together, creating a vibrant ecosystem for literally 1000s of different

animal species. Wow. Not only that,

but being an important water filtration system for the ecosystem as a whole, and important hurricane barrier as distributing

the wetland area. Wow,

we've got that was excellent,

yeah. Anyway,

we will continue this

and see what happens next time. All right, very good.

Love you, love you bye, bye, you