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Brandon & Collin

Collin is healing. Brandon is watching plays. We pick a book.

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Seats creak as rows fill

Curtain rises as lights fall

A room transported

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Collin 0:05

Welcome to Oh Brother, the podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts Brandon and Collin on this week's show, copied and pasted. Ahoy!

Brandon 0:19

Ahoy!

Collin 0:20

What's going on?

Brandon 0:21

Oh, not a lot, not a lot. How are you?

Collin 0:24

You know, you sound better. I, you know, I feel, I feel better. However, it's like it's moved away from my my throat to now like it's squarely in my my left sinus, like ah yes, yes, yes. Nice, right? It was so bad. I don't know. Did I tell you? It was so bad the other day that like my teeth hurt. Did I tell you about this?

Brandon 0:49

Oh no, but I had that last year. That that's rough stuff. Yeah, I was just

Collin 0:53

like, oh my goodness. And then I start. Of course, like my first thought is, well, surely my sinus isn't hurting so bad that my teeth hurt. Do I have a cavity? Like, do I? Is this what? This is a really bad cavity that only happens when I like bend over or am I like you know doing stuff? Yeah, that's not that's not how that works. And then you're like, oh no, that's not how any of this works. It's just pressure. So been been doing the good old nasal flush, happy fun times, which nobody enjoys. Just going for a little while, but yeah. So that's been. But I am. I am feeling much better aside for the intense, just like central pressure now. Yes, but other than that, yes.

Brandon 1:44

Okay, good news. Yes, yes.

Collin 1:45

Let's go. I know, I know, but no, I, I don't know. It's been, I know. What do you did you survive? You survived your what your parent your

Brandon 1:57

oh yeah, we had parent teacher conferences.

Collin 1:59

Yes, was

Brandon 1:59

pretty good. A lot of kids showed up, but like again, it was from one to seven, and like nobody showed up for us like after six. Anyway, no. Like, so the end was like, we like again. We don't have as many kids this year. We have like far fewer children this year than in the previous years. But also, like, it's just it, you know. So the ones that came, like we, you know, blah blah blah, and most of them, not a big deal, you know, blah blah blah blah blah. But like after a while, there's like people just stop coming. I'm like, oh, okay, Yeah, like neat. So like, it's all right. And then we had some days off. And Collin,

Collin 2:49

oh, what? We

Brandon 2:50

went to the theater.

Collin 2:53

The theater.

Brandon 2:55

Oh yes, yes, the theater. Right. So on Sunday, some friends of ours like we had planned. We went to, of course, Springfield Little Theater. Got to go to Springfield Little Theater. 92nd season. At the Springfield Little Theater.

Collin 3:10

Second. What is this?

Brandon 3:12

Yeah, yeah. I'm non-agenarian theater action here.

Collin 3:18

There you go.

Brandon 3:19

And so we went to go watch the thing. It was cool. We went like Sunday at like 2o'clock. It was like super chill, right? Pretty rad. It's a lot of people there, right? I have to say, right? I have to say, like I don't know, like I know that like in theater circles, okay, some some people really hate on the balcony seats.

Collin 3:42

Okay,

Brandon 3:44

I do love a balcony seat.

Collin 3:45

Oh, right. I like

Brandon 3:47

the balcony because you can see like everything, like so good, right? Especially at like Springfield Little Theater, right? It's like so small that you're like right there. So when you're in the balcony, it's really not that big a deal, right? You can like, you could take in the set better, I think. And this time, bonus, I don't know if you've been in there in a long time, but like we were sitting in the balcony, and we got our seats this time were like the first row of the upper balcony part, so had all the leg room in the world, right? Because our feet were like it was like the aisle is right there, so we're just like ah yo, like let's go, like had had all the leg room in the entire world to just like chill, ah stretch out. It was great. It was amazing. You don't have to like sit with your knee in a seat, right? It was wonderful. It was absolutely so. So I don't get the balcony hate. I don't understand. I like I like a balcony seat, right? It's just nice. It's nice.

Collin 4:52

I too like the balcony, but especially when it it you get to see the whole thing, and I and I. Know like getting to sit down. The thing is, is that a well-designed theater is going to sound great no matter where you are, right? Yeah, and I think that that's the like the one thing where a lot of people complain about balconies. Of whereas, would you just complain about the balcony in like a high school theater? Yeah, or you know, like not a professional or good, good one. Yeah, I understand that. Like, yeah, those those are not good. Well, plus

Brandon 5:26

with all the modern like miking stuff, like it's not a problem, right? Like,

Brandon 5:34

you could like up there in the balcony, you can see there's like speakers like on the ceiling, like it's right there.

Collin 5:40

Yeah, so

Brandon 5:41

like you don't have to worry about it. Whatever, it's cool. It's cozy vibes up in the balcony. It's nice, right? Um. Anyway, so I just want to throw that out there. That I think the balcony gets undue hate. Now, again, I understand this. I could get the balcony hate if you're like, if you were in the Springfield Little Theater in Like 1937, okay, and people are like shouting, right? And you can't hear because they're not loud enough. Okay, I might be able to understand where you're coming from, right? But nowadays, it's fine. It's fine. But we went and saw arsenic in Old Lace, which is like it's like a murdery play, right? Right, topical for reasons that we'll discuss in a little bit. But like,

Collin 6:31

nice. It's also

Brandon 6:32

because it's a play. It's also like there's a. It's like humorous too, right? And so like apparently there's a movie also with like Cary Grant, I didn't know this from like the '40s or whatever, but it's just a play about like it's like a Brooklyn house and like these people, the family is like kind of nuts, and they come home and like all these shenanigans are happening, and it turns out like there's a bunch of bodies in the basement, and then like, who who knows about them, right? How do we keep certain people from knowing about them? Like, we can't tell the police about them. Then, like, evil brother comes home, and he's gonna like extort people. But then, like, it's a whole, it's a whole. There's so many shenanigans involved, right? That it's like it turns out basically that the I mean this is revealed pretty early so this is not really spoilers but spoilers for old plays are not

Collin 7:29

oh no we just lost half our listeners yeah okay there

Brandon 7:33

goes spoilers over the it turns out like that the old the ants that live there like poison people you know, like they they like get boarders to come to their house, and they're like, "Oh, I'm just an old lonely man who has no friends or family," and they're like, "Oh, really? Oh no!" And then they poison him, haha,

Collin 7:54

right? With

Brandon 7:56

unsurprisingly arsenic, arsenic. You know what? You know what? This is the titular arsenic and old lace. It's the old ladies.

Collin 8:05

Old ladies. I like this. I things things that add to the list of things that I thought there were a lot more of growing up. Quicksand and arsenic. Every yeah, yeah, lots of arsenic. Okay. Well,

Brandon 8:17

just just as a heads up, if an old lady enthusiastically offers you elderberry wine. Say no. Okay. Say no. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But they're like, you know. So like, you know, it's a whole thing. But then the other the other thing that's in this movie that apparently is a weird like the 40s is that like bad guy has had plastic surgery to change his face?

Collin 8:45

Right.

Brandon 8:46

This is also like a thing from like old gangster and like old noir things,

Collin 8:50

right? Like

Brandon 8:52

back in the day, right? You go to a surgeon and have like face surgery

Collin 8:58

work done, right? Yeah, like plat. Yeah, like this

Brandon 9:01

is like the beginning of plastic surgery, right? So, like, apparently it's like a noir because I've read this before in other things and like seen it in other media, but like, bad guy has plastic surgery done to avoid the coppers. Yeah, see, like this is like

Collin 9:20

yes, interesting. Who knew?

Brandon 9:25

Yeah, yeah. It's a weird tropes that don't exist anymore. Um, but like that is a part of this also. But yeah, so he's like trying to blackmail because he wants to do stuff and blah blah. And then it turns like everybody's really surprised because they're like the old ladies are like, "No, he didn't do that. We did." And they're like, "You what?"

Collin 9:45

That's

Brandon 9:46

and then like obviously now the fiance we can't let the fiance know from like older guys, right? And then like the cops are coming and he's all like comically leaning on the cabinet, like, "No, officer, what's what do you mean by that?" Don't

Collin 9:59

look in. Here,

Brandon 10:01

yeah. Why would you look in this window seat? That's not. You don't need to go there. Like

Collin 10:05

nothing's ever been in a window seat worth discovering. Yeah, yeah.

Brandon 10:09

So like, it's very funny, and the actors were hilarious. So it was very good. It was very good. So two thumbs up for the the Landers Theater arsenic in old days. Right? Woohoo! Woohoo! That's so yeah. That's what we did, and then so that was a big exciting part, right? And then Monday we did have to have professional development day,

Collin 10:28

everyone's favorite day. Boo

Brandon 10:30

again, boo, boo. Collin, you'll never guess what I did for the like 50,000th time. I copy and pasted learning standards into a different document. Oh my God! Wow! Wow! Amazing! Wow! Holy, holy cannoli! I imagine doing that again.

Collin 10:49

Now, is this is this document one where they're like, is this the the when you say new document?

Brandon 10:58

New document. Is this

Collin 10:59

is the document that, like, this is the one that's going to stick. Like, this one that's going to make all the difference. Allegedly, right? So this

Brandon 11:05

time, allegedly, this was to ensure that everybody is like doing them, right? To making sure that you are covering all of the ones, okay? Because, like, and they were trying. They wanted. I again. I don't know who this is. I think we're just like secretly building stuff just for the administration, right? So that they don't have to do it. But it's like your scope and sequence, which is like the order that you teach stuff. This is the fancy teacher lingo for the order you teach things in. We had to like put them in there in that like chronology, right? And so like this would have been a big giant pain in the took us, except for this is something that I've already done like thrice at least. Oh, so I just had to do it again.

Collin 12:02

Yeah,

Brandon 12:02

and then like I was talking to the the other like the seventh and eighth science teacher, and I was just like, "Hey, by the way, just double checked here in this copy paste session. I do in fact cover all of these priority standards in earth science." So

Collin 12:20

turns out

Brandon 12:20

there you go. As it turns out, I cover all of them except for it's called it's Earth and Space Science. So there's like a couple really random like spacey questions that like don't relate to anything else ever. And I don't. I told her I was like I don't do this like because who in their right mind would have guessed that phases of the moon is a Missouri priority standard? Really? Yeah. What moon phases in what universe is moon phases a priority. Gotta be real. That's weird. I was on. I was not expecting this. I was very hung up on this for like 10 minutes. I was like, "What, guys? Seriously, who, who said this?" The other two are not like these are not things that you need to devote a giant like lesson in curriculum to because it's like, hey, which one's closer, the moon or Mars? Oh, how can you tell based on how big they look? Right,

Collin 13:38

trick question. Like, I mean, it is a trick question because, like, atomically large.

Brandon 13:43

Well, yeah. I mean, it is a bit of a trick question if you're like, which one's closer, Mars or Jupiter? Psych, it's whoa, you know what? Like, yeah. And then the other one is like, how does like mass of a planet equate to its size? Again, where do you put that in a unit? Like, where does that fit in there? Like, what is what is this shenaniganry? So, like, I was like, I conf. I feel very confident about my ability to do all of these things. I don't know what the heck this is, but I'll see what I can do. Like, I don't know.

Collin 14:22

know. No, that's squeeze

Brandon 14:24

it in somewhere, right? I don't know. Just

Collin 14:27

drop that bomb on them on a random Tuesday and be like, "Well, anyway, write that one down and move on." Yeah, so this is a

Brandon 14:33

yeah. So Friday, we're just gonna go out of. We're just gonna talk about the moon. Just one Friday. Just probably Friday the 13th, right? So that still do it. Like I don't. Hey guys, nah. So, so I was a little salty about the moon thing, but other than that, it turns out I am doing all the other things. So that's good. Step one accomplished, but I still have to copy paste them into some other document too. What is happening?

Collin 15:02

Oh, there's now a new new document.

Brandon 15:04

Yes, I don't know. I didn't.

Collin 15:09

Oh, this is the this this just makes me like horrified because like I know what my Google Drive looks like and what my computer hard drive looks like, after like with just like the disarray of of old files and abandoned projects. Oh yeah, I don't want to imagine what like a school like your school's drive. Oh yeah, because imagine

Brandon 15:36

that in a shared drive.

Collin 15:38

Yeah, that's terrifying. Because now

Brandon 15:40

you have shared drive. Oh, great day in the ever loving morning. It's a disaster in there. Like, it's just a wreck. So they're like, you need to find this, and then they're speaking acronyms at me. Like, you need to put this in the. They so I got an email today, and there was like, you need to make sure you place your standards in the CMT. I don't know what that is. I don't know what country music television has to do with anything here. Like, I'm very confused. I don't.

Collin 16:10

That's. I'm gonna be

Brandon 16:11

like, yo, what? What is this?

Collin 16:15

That's even more infuriating. What do you mean? This is not a. This is appropriate for no one, this is helpful. Yeah, you know who it doesn't help

Brandon 16:23

me. Me, because you know who doesn't need to know this? Me, because I already know it. Yeah, the person that made this curriculum, it is I. They're like again, again, they're not talking to me when they're saying these words. They're like, we need to make sure that we align our curriculum with the standards, okay, that's fine. Because like for the English stuff, right? They have purchased curriculum things for all the grade levels, so that it like aligns like vertically and it matches, you know. And that's fine. Sure. And they're like, you need to make sure that, but because it's like a third party thing, like they have to like make sure that it's matching up with like the state requirements and stuff like that, and they do, but like you just have to like put them in the order that like makes sense. You know what I mean? So they were going through and matching, like, okay, this state standard is these things here, and this is like blah blah, right? If you're a person who made your science curriculum from scratch. You don't have to do this.

Collin 17:27

Yeah, right. It's just there, right?

Brandon 17:30

Because you did that already.

Collin 17:33

You know, when you made it, right? When you when you made it, when you

Brandon 17:38

were like, okay, I'm going to teach this subject. What are the things I need to cover? Looks at state standards. Okay, got it. So I'm gonna do these things in this order. Bang! Got them.

Collin 17:48

Tada!

Brandon 17:50

Yeah. And it was also kind of weird because, like, you know, they were like, put them into units, and I was like, well, Really, in sixth grade science, we are the tale of two halves. We have geology, and we have atmospheric science.

Collin 18:15

Yes.

Brandon 18:15

So, like, like first semester is like geology. Now, in second semester is atmospheric science and like a little bit of extra stuff, but like so really, I was like I have two groups and they're like yeah it's fine I was like okay as long as it's actually you're harping on them about all this stuff and I got two okay I just need you know I have two two because it's very different from like math, where like when you do a math standard, you like we'll do it again later, you know. But when you're teaching geology, and then later you're not teaching geology anymore, it doesn't really wrap, you know. Like it doesn't really. Where does that go? Yeah, does it like come back or like reading you know when you're doing the like you know certain reading standards like you can do that standard like all the time you know

Collin 19:10

yeah

Brandon 19:12

or you can like work on it all the time but like in something like science class like once you're done with that thing like it's connected to other things sometimes, but then you're moving on to something completely new, right? So, like, what do you mean? Whatever. Yeah, there's no place. Yeah,

Collin 19:32

it's it's uh it's hard to right like whenever you my start to finish of the year is not a cohesive thing. So yeah, so I can't. It's not like I can tie all this up into a nice, pretty bow. Yeah, yeah. It's not like

Brandon 19:45

I did with social studies because, like, soul studies, like, there's major themes, right? Like, how does the environment like interact with the people that live there, or how do the people interact with the environment? Rather, I said that backwards. Like, okay, you can. Okay, boom. That's a that's one you can look at the whole time, right? Yeah, it's just like how do religious beliefs affect like daily life? Okay, boom, we can do that. We can look at that

Collin 20:11

across time and yeah, for different groups of people and

Brandon 20:14

cultures, right? Whatever, like blah. Like explain how tectonic plate motion changes Earth's features. right? Don't really. That doesn't really come up in the weather unit, right? Like it's not really a thing. Ain't got

Collin 20:28

legs for the rest of the year with that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not really doing a whole lot. A call. That's why I've

Brandon 20:34

broken. That's why I broke geology down into like subgroups, right? Where we talk of, we can answer this question like multiple times. You see, so we can we can learn about it and play tectonics. Oh, then we talk about volcanoes, but we learned a new way that it can do it. And now we're doing earthquakes. Oh, we have another way.

Collin 20:53

Yeah,

Brandon 20:53

did this at all? You see? Well, okay. Yes, are you getting it? Yeah, multiple angles. All right. Oh, oh, it's amazing! Almost like it was planned.

Collin 21:03

Blasphemy! That's impossible, Brandon. I have I have an optimum authority that no one could possibly plan that kind of thing. Yeah, it's true. It's true.

Brandon 21:13

They can. It happens every once in a while. So, but yeah. Anyway, anyway, anyway. Enough of that. Enough of that. Oh, that's cool. So,

Collin 21:20

but it's one of those those things of you don't you know people people don't know what they don't know about education and what it takes to put together cohesive progress and units and things like that. So I I always enjoy hearing hearing about it how that how that works, or does it work sometimes? You know, not sure. Yeah,

Brandon 21:44

but this is where the like doubt sets in because like the way that I'm thinking about doing things, like nobody else is doing that. So I'm like, am I wrong or like what's happening?

Collin 21:58

Yes, right. Like, well, especially if it's a like, right? Like, if you don't have a whole lot of other things to compare to, and you're just like, no, I know that I'm doing this right because I looked at the standards and I'm doing the stuff. But, but I'm sure as you're typing it into the form, you're like, but did I? Am I? What? Yeah, yeah. How does this actually work?

Brandon 22:29

Yeah. So yeah, that's usually what happens, and then I get so down that I like text some of my other friends, and they're like, "No, it's fine." I'm like, "Okay, okay." So the theater was much more exciting. So yes, go to the theater, sit at the balcony, enjoy. Right, boom. There you go. Yes. What about you? What have you been doing?

Collin 22:57

Oh heavens! This week has been since we since we last spoke, which I'm even I'm trying to pull this back up, it's been we managed to go a full week. We hit our nice like chunk a chunk.

Brandon 23:08

No, I can't believe it.

Collin 23:09

I know. Do we

Brandon 23:10

actually do two Tuesdays in a row?

Collin 23:12

Two Tuesdays in a row. This

Brandon 23:14

is unheard of in recent times.

Collin 23:16

This is un unheard of. It is. It also means that for two Tuesdays in a row. I am filled with tacos while recording, so it's all right.

Brandon 23:27

That means it's official. We can have okay again because we're old, right? Collin, complete the sentence. It's been one week

Collin 23:36

since you looked at me. Boom, got him. Okay, there you go. Oh, just checking, just checking. Yeah, no, I. Oh goodness, I um, no, I. Since we last spoke, I gave a man. So I, I, I think I've talked about this. I wanted to go and give a little talk about our business and our new, new, the new business that we we took on. I wanted to go and share about it at a networking thing that I have. I've actually gone to. So this thing's it's called 1 million Cups. Okay, 1 million Cups. Oh yes, had one in Sedalia. I've given presentations there about my business. They have one in Springfield. I've presented there seven times. I think I went to apply at the one out in Columbia, and it was like I I I have never experienced this level of well, who are you, and what do you want, and why are you here? And what's what's the point of this? What are you wanting to do? Where are you from? What's what's what's your like? I we were getting the third degree on every aspect of this process.

Brandon 24:51

Like, bro, can't you read the hat? Like, come on! Like, what do you mean? What do I do? Pet

Collin 24:55

sitter,

Speaker 1 24:56

bam! What's what do you want? That.

Collin 24:59

But here's the thing. Suddenly, well, okay, guys. However, it was like, well, but you like bought, and so it was like this like outsider thing. You know, I was getting that feeling of, oh, I'm I'm being very much othered at this point because you know all that junk, and I was speaking with them, and I had to go through. I had to apply. You always have to apply. It's like, okay, I'm going to apply, and then I didn't hear from them for like over a month, and so I like followed up, and then I like was I went to a meeting, and I approached somebody, and you would have thought I was like about to assault them. They were like, oh my gosh, I I I don't know any, I don't know anything, and then they wanted to do a pre phone call with me. Then they wanted to meet me beforehand. Then they approved, and once they approved, then they assigned like a coach slash trainer to work me through the presentation, and I had to meet with that person in person, and I had like, it was this. I'm like, this is like,

Brandon 26:06

that's that's aggressive, right? Like, did you like, guys? Do you not know that I am Collin Funkhouser MC extraordinaire? Okay, like, and you know, I got you. Like, didn't want to

Collin 26:18

like

Brandon 26:18

pull the card, but then you're like, okay, here's me hosting a conference. Look at this.

Collin 26:23

Yeah, here I'm on Facebook to like

Brandon 26:25

bam.

Collin 26:26

I'm trying to just sit here and like be willing to go through the process and yada yada yada and all this stuff and everything's gonna be fine. But my goodness, it was just a massive slog to get through. And the the whole point, this is a six minute presentation, and in speaking, can do all that for six

Brandon 26:49

minutes. Holy schmoly!

Collin 26:51

In speaking with them, and and it's like it's a what it is. It's a dedicated time where it's like you're supposed to present for six minutes, and then it's like 30 to 45 minutes of discussion about what you're bringing to the table. So you're supposed to keep it really succinct, and then talk about with people. Like that's that

Brandon 27:09

feels that feels kind of like too much time for that. Well,

Collin 27:15

right, but the whole point

Brandon 27:17

six more minutes. The whole point of it is

Collin 27:19

to help get your business like to present a problem and and then brainstorm with them to work through it, and I like here was all the stumbling blocks. A someone and this was all coming from different people. A they they were like, well, we try and make sure that we don't have somebody from the similar or same industry within a couple years of one another, and someone's already presented a couple years ago, and so I don't know if it's too soon. And I'm like, what? I will tell you. I

Brandon 27:55

bet you don't do that with insurance people.

Collin 27:57

I don't, or like

Brandon 27:59

40,000 of them.

Collin 28:00

Anything, right?

Brandon 28:01

Bankers, right?

Collin 28:02

And I will, and and they're making it sound like, um, sound like the, um, ah, like like it's this like this is the universal thing, this universal thing of like everybody does this, but it's like I've presented at two other ones, and I know this, and I know this that I have presented at one, and then within like months, someone else within my industry has come and presented. Like I know that, and so I'm going. I know that

Brandon 28:41

deep, man. I know that this. I

Collin 28:42

know it's not that deep. Okay, and then someone else was like, "Well, you're too far along in your business journey to actually present here."

Brandon 28:54

Collin, you can't improve yourself. How dare you?

Collin 29:00

And I'm, I'm like, well, in a sense, yeah. I've I've been in operations for six years, but I'm entering into a brand new like a

Brandon 29:11

new a new phase of

Collin 29:14

what I'm doing, and this is like the structure of my business is actually brand new, and what I'm proposing is new. So it's not yeah

Brandon 29:22

new to me. New to me,

Collin 29:24

this is what we're talking about. I think between that and like, like apparently all the meetings was like got them through it, and so I I stand up and I'm like I had six slides, and it was funny. Oh, they also asked for my presentation beforehand, and I'm like, "Good luck." Like, okay, okay. There's a, there's a. I have a whole slide. All it is, it's a picture of the sign language symbol for help. Right, where you put your hand out like a plate, you put your thumb up like you're like you're making. A candle with your thumb, and you lift the whole thing up. Oh yeah, right. That's my entire like. Now I'm transitioning to the part where you help me, and and they were like, "Well, we didn't see a part where you talked about your your problems." And I'm like, "Did you see the hand thing, the the sign language simplification?" That's because I'm gonna

Brandon 30:20

talk about it.

Collin 30:21

They were like, "Oh, this is just

Brandon 30:24

background information." Yeah.

Collin 30:25

Well, I'm like, this is just this is just my my cue to transition into talking about this. Like, I've I've got this. Like, don't worry about this. Like, I'm using symbols and pictures to tell this story. I have words as well that I don't need up here. And

Brandon 30:39

it is true

Collin 30:39

when when they are talking to mostly new businesses and people who are like, "Hey, I just had this idea," like they they literally will do what they call napkin days, where it's an idea that you had written out on a napkin over lunch or something. You just want to come in and like that's your stage. So those people tend to be very wordy and very like over explanatory, and I yeah you know so I just be like I do I do be good at this like just don't I am wordy

Brandon 31:11

but I don't type them but I don't

Collin 31:14

and and you know and I've also here's the thing I've also been at presentations where the six minute rule has, at this one, have gone to like the person's talked for 20 minutes, and they're like they're just going, like no, no, like in out succinct, and so we get in. I I present, and then they're like, oh, oh, that was six minutes, and I'm like, of course it is. Of course, what you told me to do did this. I did this. Um, um, like, totally get it. Like, this is this is what I do, and and and it took a little bit for the room to kind of get on board with like what we're struggling with because it's like I'm not struggling with client acquisition. Although, like, sure, tell me more about how I can get more clients. Like, I'm talking about operations in three markets across service areas. Like, you know, with multiple multiple employees, help me like put the pieces together so that Megan and I aren't the glue, and people are like, "Wait, what? Like, what? Or what are you doing?" And finally, they they they like the room had this like sudden like

Speaker 2 32:33

like

Collin 32:34

ah suck moment with this moment where they just like got suctioned to the idea of of like what they could latch onto was was branding and messaging, and that's what the room. That's what the room like settled on. So then it was a discussion of you know brand rebrand to what brand? How are things brought together? And I was intentionally again. You only have six minutes. I cannot go into like everything. Oh no no

Speaker 3 33:06

no no no way!

Collin 33:08

It's um, which means that inherently they are giving ideas or things to things that either like we are already doing. You know, it's it's just so hard. Of like,

Brandon 33:22

yeah, yeah. Like

Collin 33:23

at one point, I had said the phrase like, you know, in our other business, like I I had to explain circuitously how we landed up in Colombia and and how I'm telling a backstory that's not there, and so I have to introduce Funky Bunch, and I just call it Funky Bunch, and I and I have a little map, and what I did was, I had I took a screenshot through Google Maps, and I put a little emblem right over Sedalia, and I had I had it wiggle on the way down to Springfield, and then it like did this like bouncy hop, and as it bounced and hopped, it changed into the creature comforts, and it landed on Columbia, and I'm like, and we like, and we're here now, and but I had just called it Funky Bunch, and so this was a big thing because people were like, well, that doesn't mean anything, and that's you know like, so they went on this like long tangent of how we needed to like we can't use that brand because the name isn't good, and we need to use this new business name because it's much better. And someone was like, "Yeah, you know, if you just did something like, even if you just called it Funky Bunch, like Pet Care, like that would be so much better." And I'm just like, "Uh huh, yeah, wow, that'd be, dang it, that's my actual business registered LLC name. Like, you know, so there are things like that that got them, but but overall it was very you know I thought it was a good discussion and we went the whole time and and and everything but that was just the whole process of just getting there is was was like this marathon for some reason and. I have no idea why it was as hard as it was.

Brandon 35:04

Yeah, that's kind of nuts that it was like so gatekept, right? Like, no, you can't come in here. Like, it was so strange. Yeah,

Collin 35:15

and I'm like, what on earth is going on? You know, and and I just I don't know. It was it was interesting, and I enjoyed the discussion. And then then Megan and I went, and with the kids came out to see the presentation with with Megan. And then we had a thing where we were going to go, and we toured a a boarding facility, and I was reminded why we will never own the board anymore. Like, oh my gosh! Like, we're walking out, and again, this is this is probably one of the best ones that I've ever been aware of, or toured, or even like spoken to the owner. Like, they really go above and beyond what the norm is, and we get out, and the first thing the kids are like, the floor was really sticky, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, you know, it do be like that, like that. That just how it is, and like you know, it was really loud in there. Yeah, yeah,

Brandon 36:16

it's like 14 dogs in there. Like, what do you want?

Collin 36:20

Yeah, yeah, yep, and that's just like you know, and and so we we toured and then we quickly ate lunch and busted home because I was like I am tired of traveling now and I want to I want to get back. So it was a it was also a reminder of of how like I don't live out there, and so I'm like, it's it seems like that that that place more than any other one that we serve like has the most like road construction and major issues and like weird delays and reroutings and so much. Where

Brandon 37:06

saying a lot for Missouri because doing a lot for we do that we do that a lot here. It's kind of our thing. Have you ever been get this kind of communication

Collin 37:14

from my from my team members in other service areas? It's that one specific that is just like every day, hey, just you know, I'm gonna be 15 minutes late because blah blah. This street's closed, or oh, they're resurfacing this, or this one's under construction, or the street's just closed for some reason. Right? What on earth is going on over? That is

Brandon 37:34

kind of crazy. Like,

Collin 37:35

also, Brandon, I I I've hacked this out. I figured this out, and it took me. Oh, let's go! It took me speaking with somebody who wasn't from Colombia to really nail down this idea. Okay, I I was in this presentation, and before the presentation, they do this like, "Hey, does anybody have any events coming up?" And you know, people raise their hands, and they will say, "Oh, it's you know, it's I'm doing this and this. It's Tuesday at 3o'clock. Blah blah blah blah blah." And then normally, this happened in a room, and this happened 20 times in a row. 20 times in a row, because there were 20 different events coming up this month. I counted them. Holy schmoly! Ready for this? Not a single person gave an address.

Brandon 38:26

No. Okay, that

Collin 38:30

was pretty nuts. It was all. Oh, it's at the Starbucks off of Clooney on like like down the road from

Brandon 38:42

the thing, relative directions only. Apparently, it

Collin 38:45

was and I, I, I have coming up this Thursday. I I have two networking things where I people ask to meet with me and just people in business to come out and talk with them. And I was like, great, where do you want to meet? Oh, I think we should meet at the Panera off of the blah blah blah blah blah blah past the second exit, right? Like that. Both of them gave me directions. No shot. What the heck? So now I have 22 independently verified people, and I know these people are from the town, like they are like born. I mean,

Brandon 39:23

clearly.

Collin 39:24

And I was talking with another owner, the the boarding daycare guy, and and I was like, because he moved to town and we experienced some things. I'm like talking to him about this, and I mentioned this. He goes, he goes, oh yeah, they have no idea where it is. They they they couldn't give you a single address because nobody knows where it is at all. He goes, I experience the exact same thing. If I give somebody my address, it's like I might as well tell them get to Mars, right?

Brandon 39:51

That's fair.

Collin 39:51

But I'm like, but GPS, like GPS, is a thing. Like I'm having to go and like what I'm having to. I'm having to go to Google describe where I think this is. You have to

Brandon 40:05

like look up all the Panera's and be like, this one most most fits the description.

Collin 40:10

This is what I'm having to do, and some of them like he referenced they referenced a road that was like a quarter mile away from it, but it was like the kind of like the biggest ish road off of the side. Like it was just like

Brandon 40:25

yeah.

Collin 40:26

Oh my goodness! Like oh yeah.

Brandon 40:28

Oh no. There's like here in town there is a a road right that everybody calls by a certain name, and that name has not meant anything for decades, right? Because it they call it Mall and Paws Road because there used to be a Ma and Paws Diner, oh! But that hasn't existed since like the 60s, right? Like it's been it's very very very long defunct, but that's what everybody calls it.

Collin 40:59

That is

Brandon 41:00

wild. Like it has a name, like it has like a number, right, and whatever. But like people call it that, or they also call it Rabbit Road. I have no idea why they call it that. That must be an even older name that has been lost to my knowledge. But like they call that's what they call it, and almost everybody that you talk to will know what you're talking about if you say that, but the reason that it's called that has long since been defunct. Oh,

Collin 41:30

this is great! I love this so much. Right? Like, it's just, it's just, it's just. I, I feel so like in that moment, like wholly inadequate and called out of like I can't say yes and and I feel bad being like huh like what huh where so I just yeah like just I I make sure I get the name of the establishment then I just go and Google that afterwards I

Brandon 42:00

mean yeah

Collin 42:01

afterwards because it's like I'm sorry, I don't know where anything is. Yeah, no, that's fair.

Brandon 42:05

That's fair. There's also like the there's a gas station that's like called. It's been called whatever like corner for like 1000 years, right? And it's been it's gone under new ownership, and like the official name on the awning has something else on it, and there is a 0% probability that anybody will ever call it that name. It's just they're just gonna be like the corner. That's all the corner, right? Because that's what it's been known as colloquially for ages, right? So there's there's like no shot that anyone would refer to it by its like new name.

Collin 42:46

I, I, and it's like I, I love that. It's great. Like I, I, you know, I'm sure I, I do that if people ask me, you know, locally. But I like I try, but but it's it's just like so much of this. It's and I think I was more hypersensitive to it because of the process of getting to go to the talk. Oh yeah. Well, and it's like

Brandon 43:06

a brand new location you don't go to, right? Like,

Collin 43:10

not only what did I felt feel super othered already to get there, like, but now I'm standing in a room and I literally have no idea what any of these people are Talking about, they yeah yeah just the Charles Charlie Brown's teacher in the background. I'm just like and I I don't have time to write down any of this stuff, but everyone else is like oh yeah oh yeah I'm like oh my gosh like this is and it feels so weird because it's like it's another reminder of what a small town it actually is like, and and what people, the perception of it as a small town to this day, which is just wild to me.

Brandon 43:50

Yeah, because I think a lot of people think of it as like a big place, but if you like go there, you're like, I think of it as a big

Collin 43:55

place. I still do. Yeah,

Brandon 43:57

but like when you actually, I mean, again, how many times have I been there? Like,

Collin 44:02

yeah,

Brandon 44:02

once maybe. Yeah, I've been like nearby sometimes, but like, it's not really that big, right? Like,

Collin 44:09

it's really, it's really not. And and and I was talking with the boarding and daycare guy, and he was talking about how when he moved there like a decade ago, he put his kennel on the outskirts of town so that he could make sure he fit zoning laws and everything. Yeah, it's it's a 10 minute drive outside of town. It's only 10 minutes. Yeah, he said it took people like three years to actually be okay to make the quote unquote make the drive out. He was like,

Brandon 44:42

"When they go so far,

Collin 44:44

what? What are you talking about? It's just like you you tried further to go to Walmart, but because it was outside of town, people were like, 'Oh, it's it's forever away.' Okay, okay, okay.". Whatever.

Brandon 45:10

That's so funny. Okay, there you go. I know.

Collin 45:18

Anyway, so I

Brandon 45:18

was asking my research assistant. She also does not know why it's called that. So, sorry, that's what I was up to there. I'm glad that you survived. Hopefully, you can find your way to these nebulous places, right? You can like navigate here. Maybe there'll be like a banner at least, so that you can get a clue, right? Or like a balloon or something. Like, ah,

Collin 45:45

I

Brandon 45:45

am in the right spot.

Collin 45:47

I did at least manage to write down again, like names of buildings and establishments. So I'm like, I got this. Okay, good. At least I can, I can just put that in. I just need to know that, and then I'll be fine.

Brandon 46:00

Okay. Well, that's good. Hopefully, hopefully you can get here. Have some reading updates for you before we dive into our new topic here. I said I'll let you know how the weird Japanese mystery book went. All right, I did. In fact, I was able to deduce the culprit right in the book. This is very exciting. I was like, "Ha ha!" I was right. So it was written in such a way that you can, in fact, there was multiple clues leading to the person. I got there by motive. Oh, right. I was able to arrive at by mode, but there were also more physical clues, apparently, which make much more sense when you read them. You're like, oh, oh, that does make sense. But one of the key clues to solving the mystery was in reference to something that I was really unaware of, and so like I did miss that a bit, but it did make sense after they explained what it meant. I had to like look up what in the world they were talking about, but it was like the key clue, like old old counterfeiting scheme, right? So whatever. So that book was good, and I was told you I was going to read the Eaters of the Dead book, right? Yes, right. And so interestingly, it appears what Michael Crichton is doing in this book is he has he is pretending like he is translating a different manuscript from this Ibn Fahadlan guy.

Collin 47:34

Oh, I love and presenting

Brandon 47:36

it as this book, right? So like it's like a fake Translation presented to you as like what happened in the travel. So like the beginning part is just the travel log part. It's like the real one, right? And then at a certain point, it starts to diverge, right? Even in the introduction, he makes reference to like this other translation about you know, allegedly he went to this other place, but this historian doesn't think that that really happened, and I don't think any of these people are real people in Dallas thing, right? Like his fake like experts or whatever that he's referencing here, and he's just made up this whole thing, but it's being presented as Michael Crichton's translation of the manuscript from this guy, right? Like, and so it is written like the dude, which is a bit dry and like because he's very like, yes, we traveled and we saw this and we wore like, so it's a little bit meh, but it is interesting that he's like faking this like academia like translation of the paper presentation, and that is this novel, which is pretty cool. Yeah, that's interesting. It was like a plot device, right? Need to have

Collin 49:01

that presented. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So

Brandon 49:03

there's even like footnotes, and you're like, "Why is that a real footnote? What's happening here? What's going on? That's fake,

Collin 49:10

huh?"

Brandon 49:10

He's like, "In this translation, you're like, Michael, you and mine both know that that's not a real translation. What are you doing here? Not

Collin 49:15

happening.

Brandon 49:16

Keeping up the illusion.

Collin 49:18

Yeah, well, I guess fake

Brandon 49:19

footnotes."

Collin 49:23

Nice.

Brandon 49:24

So it's pretty funny. It's very funny. But anyway, Collin. Oh, let's talk about

Collin 49:33

the new, the new reading choice, right? Yes, and this. Oh my gosh! Sorry, I have cough there. That was okay. Fines, fines, fine. Got it. We, this was definitely a. We were. I was racking my brain. I was worried about coming up with a good, yeah, a good book, a good thing to read, and then I think. You you said you were talking about your your mystery novel, and I was like, yeah, I was like, oh, honestly, that to me sounds very wintery. I don't know. Well, fair, right? That was my first like. Oh, I get I get that gives some winter vibes, I guess. Like I can, I can get on board with that. So that's why, that's why I threw, I threw out. We should do some sort of of mysterious mystery solving kind of, kind of a. Oh yeah,

Brandon 50:32

and so here is a rather hilarious anecdote. I think you'll find this great. As I was also perusing lists of books to think about and like investigating genres. I also had come up with this. I was thinking about this author already, and I was thinking to myself, "I wonder if Collin would be into this, be into this person." And then you text me the name of the person. I'm not even joking. I was thinking about this. I was like, I wonder if I can present this idea to him and see what he would say. And you're like, bam! And I was like, holy cow! It was so fun because I encountered them several times. I was like, man, you know, that might be all right. I wonder if he'd be into that. And then you text me their name. It's like, uh huh. Wow. Okay. There we

Collin 51:31

go. You know what? We just we we call them like we see them. That's for sure. That's for sure. That's hilarious. It is

Brandon 51:41

really fucking

Collin 51:42

circling, circling. Yeah, circling

Brandon 51:45

the same point here, like whole

Collin 51:47

point here. So, and not just, and so not just any like. So, this is this is uh this was a distinctive for me of I wanted I was thinking about mystery. I did land on more like of a like a murder mystery. Yeah, thing.

Brandon 52:06

That's fair. Because it's very

Collin 52:08

classic, though. It's a classic. It's a very classic thing in classic literature, and it's been around for a while. Yeah. So that's what I wanted, and and my my original idea for this was murder on the Orient Express. Yeah, because because also that may have been a bit too on the nose. Because that does also happen, like in it is in the way. Oh yeah, by the way, listeners,

Brandon 52:28

it's Agatha Christie, right? Agatha Christie. Sorry, we got there. Right, there you go. That's fair.

Collin 52:34

Yeah. Yes.

Brandon 52:34

Yeah. So that yes, I did. Yeah, and I. The only reason I poo pooed that is because, like, I know what happens.

Collin 52:43

Yeah, yeah. And I

Brandon 52:44

thought, well, if we're gonna read a mystery novel, we can't know what happens.

Collin 52:50

No, right? No. Now I

Brandon 52:54

have never actually read any Agatha Christie, which is weird because, like, I am a big like mystery novel person. Yeah, but I've never actually read anything by her. I just know the Murder on the Orient Express because I have seen like the stage play and like the movie, and then another stage play and like you know the theater. Um, and so like

Collin 53:16

yes,

Brandon 53:17

it's pretty little theater actually. Um, and then

Collin 53:20

ah, there you go.

Brandon 53:21

And so, like, I did think, like, okay, we need another one, like maybe, but I did think it was like I had picked, I like had shot another suggestion out to you, and I was like, well, wait, that's not even like the guy, right? Like, I feel like it has to be a Perot if you are going to read as Christy.

Collin 53:41

Yes, and you know what I mean. And this becomes the it's it's such a it's such classic. It's also a a character and in like this of and I think I like this better than trying to go all like Sherlockian on this as well because yeah, you know, Paul Rowe is is a different variety and different. Like, I don't know. Like, I because I haven't read anything of that and have like the only exposure to Agatha Christie is Murder on the Orient Express. It would have been hard to read something more like Sherlock mystery because I have a lot more exposure to just like all of that universe. Yeah, yeah, like sliced a million different ways. It's sometimes worth exploring at some point. That's true. Yeah, like because most of the exposure is honestly through like I don't know movies or oh yeah weird comics or whatever or like TV shows, or the Great Massage that you see by Great Mass Detective, which, by the way, I am so proud of my children. Yeah, I was. What were we doing? Oh, um, I was. Saying something. Oh, we were we just finished watching the Wallace and Gromit where they where they go to the moon to get cheese. Okay, and speaking

Brandon 55:15

of classic, speaking

Collin 55:17

of classic, the kids had not seen that at all, and so I, we were doing that, and the kids were talking about how one of their favorite parts was in the basement, how the the rats scurry, and so I said, "O rat again, a rat again," and and they passed comments saying the world's greatest rat. Yes, good job. Good job. Like this is this is the most. This is

Brandon 55:48

appropriate. Yes, appropriate.

Collin 55:50

And I went. So I just thought, like, there's so much exposure. Those tropes are kind of for me a little bit too known. So I like this idea.

Speaker 4 56:01

Overexposed, right? Overexposed

Collin 56:03

to going. I don't actually know what is going to happen here, or how this is going to react, or what the the process of elimination and like solving is going. I don't know how that's going to work out or come to the conclusion.

Brandon 56:19

Yeah, I don't either. And so I think that's cool. I also like the fact that this book was published in 1926.

Collin 56:26

Yeah, the one you're gonna read. Yes, right. Yeah, you said you said it's 100 euros old, and I'm like, hey, anything to celebrate an anniversary? I ain't down for this. It's kind

Brandon 56:34

of cool, right? This is also apparently I looked up. This is the fourth novel that Perot appears in, right? And this is like the first like successful

Collin 56:48

one, right? Interesting. Okay, this

Brandon 56:50

was her first book to be published by what became Harper Collins, which was who published her books like all up until like forever. Yeah. So like, that is this is like the first one. So it was kind of a big important book for her too, uh, in that regard, right? So I think I just accidentally found that out today because I was doing some research, right? So listeners, we are going to read the murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Collin 57:19

Dun

Brandon 57:20

dun dun! Right. So all I know is apparently Rogers is not doing well. No, that's all I got.

Collin 57:28

At least not by the end of the book. Yeah,

Brandon 57:30

and I'm definitely not reading the introduction because they always give away things. So I'm skipping all that. I don't even care. You have to skip it.

Collin 57:37

It's not allowed. Yeah,

Brandon 57:38

I could read it after as a like afterward, but not really the beginning because they always give away the goat in intros because they assume that for some reason people reading the introduction to a book have read the book before. Yeah, like well, that's dumb. Why would you do that?

Collin 57:54

Yeah, it's a bit too much. Like I don't know, like familiarity. Like I don't understand. Yeah,

Brandon 58:01

because the people that write them are like fans or whatever. But yeah, I think is interesting. I did some research, some brief, very cursory research about a girl here, Agatha, that you might find interesting. Okay, well, number one, like she traveled a lot as a child, right? Which and she was like a huge like traveling person. Which when you start to look at some of the titles of her later books, make a lot of sense because like she starts to write about places that she's been to, right? So like when she wrote like Death on the Nile, she had been on a boat on the Nile River in Egypt, right? So the way that she would write, I guess she would just like take in all these ideas, and she would just keep like copious notebooks, like with like little fragments of ideas, like all through them. So she would just like she would be like walking down the street and like hear something and be like oh and then bam like have to write it down right so she would have these like crazy things and like I guess she would plot and like diagram out and like come up with all these ideas for like so like everything was done before she sat down to write the book.

Collin 59:23

Oh, that's crazy!

Brandon 59:25

Yeah, yeah,

Collin 59:25

that is. She

Brandon 59:26

had the plot all like figured out. Like she took all these little snippets of things and she would put them together, and then she would like kind of have every like the big plot all outlined and by hand in like notebooks, and then she would go write, right? Which you know, George R. Martin, you should take notes.

Collin 59:46

Yeah. Anyway, just start writing. You just do it. But also,

Brandon 59:49

like, I apparently she did like writing was not an easy thing for her to do, right? I stumbled on several references that. Like she may have had some form of like dysgraphia, where like writing was difficult for her, right? And like her spelling was not great, and so she would later in her life she would use a dictaphone. Oh, for her novels, right? And then somebody would a typist would type them, and then she would go back and reread it and correct it before sending it to the publisher. Right, so like shit, like handwriting was like not great. Like her handwriting wasn't like super wonderful, and she would like she would type stuff, and then later she would use a dictaphone, which I thought was kind of crazy, right?

Collin 1:00:46

Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot. Well, that's um. It's also interesting to. It would be interesting to know, like, obviously, a good writer. Well, I don't know, like a writer who speaks their words. There, that's a very different kind of structure to a lot. Yeah, than than typing it out word by word, line by line. So I'm interested to know, like, does that come across, or how heavily were these then reformatted? Yeah, and then this

Brandon 1:01:17

was one of her earlier ones, so I don't know how if that was. I don't know if this was dictaphone, right? I think that was later, but like, so this one was still written out, and like, it was also like people said that like she, like, I saw some references to like the fact that you like they said that you never saw her writing, right? She would come up with all of this plan, and then when she would write. She would like lock herself in the study, and she would do it all in there. Right?

Collin 1:01:46

Yeah. She

Brandon 1:01:46

would like completely like shut herself off, and then write in the room. And then like that's how that was her process.

Collin 1:01:53

Right.

Brandon 1:01:54

She would just like she would have everything all planned out, and she would know exactly what was going to happen, and then she would go right later. Yeah,

Collin 1:02:04

that was cool. No i I think that's it's obviously a very different process. I think than a lot of people think, or you know that they they would go through these days. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to hunt and peck. I'm going to find the story in there. I'm going to dig this out. I'm going to do these things instead. Going, no, you know, you can you can think through this out. Yeah, she

Brandon 1:02:33

would like think through. That's what it kind of references. That's how what she would do. She would do all that and then like, boom, go that way. So I thought it was very interesting.

Collin 1:02:41

I like that a lot. So

Brandon 1:02:42

yeah. So I was reading a little bit about her. Like she was homeschooled early, right? Like she was like the youngest child. So like they didn't let her go to school, and like they weren't even going to teach her how to read, and that annoyed her. So she taught herself how to read. Yeah.

Collin 1:02:56

I don't need this. When she

Brandon 1:02:58

when she started reading things when she was like five, she's like, no, I. What do you mean? I'm not going to read it. Shut up. Like,

Collin 1:03:04

I can. I can just do things.

Brandon 1:03:06

Absolutely need you to do that. Sounds funny. The only other very odd anecdote seems to be that this. I don't know if this is this relevant at all, but this I just read this. I was like, what in the world, she like she was married to this guy, her first husband, right? He went off to World War One, okay, blah blah. He comes back, right? He's stationed in England, okay? Boom, he lived through World War One, so win there, and then like he just told her that he's leaving her for this other girl, and she like disappears for like a week.

Collin 1:03:42

What?

Brandon 1:03:44

She like vanished, and nobody like four days. Like nobody could find her, and they were like afraid that she had like thrown herself in the river because she was like so distraught or whatever. And like the doctor said that she had like a breakdown. They like diagnosed her as being like a fugue state, right? Like what on earth? Right, she, you know, like Victorian medicine was probably like, oh, here's some laudanum lady, go lay down, right? Yeah, over there, like you're hysteria. Yeah, they probably diagnosed her with hysteria. Hysteria. You know she did. You know

Collin 1:04:19

they did. Yeah, they were

Brandon 1:04:21

like, "Oh, you're just hysterical, lady." Don't worry. So, like, this was reading through some of her biograph, like her autobiography, her biography notes, and I got to that part. I was like, "Wait, what? How old? How old was she? Did she say? Ah, I don't know. I don't remember how old she was. She would have been early, like 20s, maybe. Like, she was born. Oh, she was born in 1890. So this would have been late night, so late 20s, perhaps. Right? It was this very like strange, like anecdote thing where she just like. Didn't handle this well, and they accused her of doing it for like publicity, and she was like, "Whatever, like that's weird." But yeah, it's very, it's very weird, very weird thing here, right? So I just thought that was strange anecdote, right? Um, one more note on our connection to Agatha Christie, right now you've never read Agatha Christie, right? I have never read Agatha Christie, but our mother read a bazillion Agatha Christie novels, right? And

Collin 1:05:41

so, yes, was

Brandon 1:05:42

very annoyed that like we have some of her books here, and like this one is not in the collection of that. I was like, "Wow, what the heck?" Yes,

Collin 1:05:51

yes, that oh, that's so that was that annoyed me slightly. Yeah, I know. Come on, probably read

Brandon 1:05:57

it at some point, but like we have some, we have like a the Reader's Digest, like collected things that she had of like random acts of Christy ones. This one is not in there.

Collin 1:06:05

Oh, oh

Brandon 1:06:07

well, oh well. It's fine. It's fine. Well,

Collin 1:06:09

the and it's funny, you know, I I have distinct memories of of her and Mimi swapping these kind of books. Yes, all the time, all of the time, like that was their thing, where they would each buy one or the other, and then they would read it, and then they would get swapped back. Like specifically, Mimi had that. Do you remember she had that weird basket in her bedroom where she had a bunch of books in? Yeah, and I just remember those having Agatha Christie. So yes, between mom and Mimi, they read these like they were going out of style, and we I've never opened one at all. So this is great.

Brandon 1:06:46

Yeah, and like this is like like you said before, this is a genre that I have read a lot of, right? I if I look at my bookshelf here, there are a lot of like thriller slash like mysteries in the thing here, right? And so, like, this is a genre that I've explored a lot. But just like you said earlier, I have often explored the Holmesy side of this, right? Like, I have read a lot of Sherlock Holmes, like a lot of Doyle, right? A lot of other stuff, but I've never read this, and so I think this is like a good choice for me personally to like fill a gap in my reading knowledge, right? Like, you know, I feel like a bit of an imposter to be like, oh, I do love murder mysteries, and to be like, no, I've never read Agatha Christie. What do you like? That feels wrong. And so we're gonna fix that, right? We're gonna put this in there. I think that would be good, right? Because like this is the the other mystery writer, right? When you say mystery writers, I mean this is like, I mean this is bigger, I think, than Doyle, even because like it's more modern and it's like much more broad. Her, the Agatha Christie website claims that she is the best-selling mystery writer of all time. Are you really? Yes, in English and translation. Wow! Right, this is what I know. I don't have numbers, but that's what they are telling me on the Agatha Christie website, right? Where you can look at a bunch of her information. So it says that she is the best-selling mystery writer of all time, right?

Collin 1:08:44

That's crazy.

Brandon 1:08:45

Yes, and by like the numbers that they're talking about are are enormous, right? Well, and so

Collin 1:08:52

you know, it would make sense.

Brandon 1:08:55

I mean, yes, I'm not. Yeah, it does kind of make sense because she's written she has 66 books and 14 short stories. That's a lot. That is a lot, right? So not only is she widely read, she's also like quite prolific, right? Of a writer, yeah. 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, right? Not only, of course, did she have the Hercule Perot novels, but she also wrote the Miss Marple stuff. That's the other big character that she had like a many, many ones of. Right, so there's another character that she has another detective thing that she's written a lot about as well.

Collin 1:09:41

I didn't know that.

Brandon 1:09:42

Yeah, so, so she's got like multiple things, multiple like whatever, and so it's pretty, pretty nuts here. But yeah, this claims that she is like by far the best-selling mystery author. Okay,

Collin 1:10:01

I like this a lot.

Brandon 1:10:03

Yeah, so we'll see. We'll see. Right now, boom!

Collin 1:10:08

I'm excited for this very much. Yeah, I think it's

Brandon 1:10:11

gonna be good.

Collin 1:10:12

Yes, and so real quick before we jump off here, there are 27 chapters here. Is that right?

Brandon 1:10:20

Yeah, I think that's what mine says.

Collin 1:10:22

Do you want to? Do you want to try and do like I don't know, like I don't know. Do you want to? How many? How many? How many chapters you want to do? I don't know.

Brandon 1:10:30

Well, I feel like it. I don't know. I don't know. We could. We. I don't know if we'll run into a pacing problem like we did last time, I I imagine not. But I also don't want to like blitz through it. Do you want to do three?

Collin 1:10:48

I think we should do three. Try

Brandon 1:10:50

three and see how it goes, and then adjust because I feel like that in my version of the book that will be what will that be? How many chapters has be? Yeah, 30 pages or so.

Collin 1:11:06

Yeah, I think they're fine.

Brandon 1:11:08

I have the like a old like not like I have like a mass market copy, so it's like a smaller book. So my the page count might be a bit longer than in other ones because they're smaller pages, but it's not too bad. It's not too bad. So we can start with three. We'll go with three, and then we'll just kind of see what the pacing is like, and we can go from there. I feel like that's a good starting point.

Collin 1:11:36

Yes.

Brandon 1:11:37

Okay. Boom. Lovely. Lovely.

Collin 1:11:41

We'll do that. So.

Brandon 1:11:44

so to end with, I have for you my haiku here.

Collin 1:11:49

Love it.

Brandon 1:11:52

Okay, open. All right, there we had to pull it up. All right.

Brandon 1:11:55

Seats creak as rows fill. Curtain rises as lights fall. A room transported.

Collin 1:12:07

My, I love the curtains. Curtain rises as lights fall. I love that. And what was that? Wait, what was that last line again? Sorry, I missed that. Oh, it's a

Brandon 1:12:18

room transported.

Collin 1:12:19

Room transported. Yes. Yeah, I know I said already, but

Brandon 1:12:24

the sets are always so good there. Oh my

Collin 1:12:26

gosh, they're really good. They're it's they do they do they go really well there.

Speaker 5 1:12:34

I do. So I go.

Collin 1:12:36

I love it. Love it. Boom. I love again. I was I was so transfixed by that middle middle line. I'm sorry. Ah, I like that one. That's good one. Wait, this is the line. Ah, we got it. Okay. Oh my goodness. Well, perfect. I love that. Okay. Well, we will start diving into our book. I need to remind myself to read. Yes,

Brandon 1:13:00

true.

Collin 1:13:00

And we'll go from there. All right. Okay. Love you.

Brandon 1:13:07

Love you too.

Collin 1:13:07

Bye.

Brandon 1:13:08

Bye.