hectares of desk
Brandon brings back a returning segment. Collin used his emergency tennis balls. We talk, more mecha anime!
A returning segment!!
Things heard in 6th grade. “Wait where’d they put my baby!”
No dimensions
Hectares of desk
I’m an old man now
Display of yardstick
Emergency tennis balls
Pooch plunge
Brandon visited a store.
More mecha anime!
The world of Bubble Crisis
Haiku
Loud barks fill the air
Fur flashes, flying headlong
A splash of surprise
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Collin 0:05
Welcome to Oh Brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts Brandon and Collin on this week's show, Hector's of desk. Ahoy!
Brandon 0:19
Ahoy! What's
Collin 0:20
going on? Oh,
Brandon 0:22
it actually rained a touch, so I was excited.
Collin 0:25
You guys just got a touch. Yeah,
Brandon 0:28
it was just like a. Oh, okay, just kidding.
Collin 0:33
We got over three inches of rain. Oh, it started when I texted you yesterday, and I was like, "I can't record it. This is a horrible storm coming through. That's fair. Ended about like 10 o'clock this morning, maybe 9o'clock. Holy cow! Yeah, yeah, definitely kind of you know like simmered down a little bit overnight, but it was still coming down. So it was a lot. So I emptied the rain gage off the front. Was like, yeah, that's that there, be three inches.
Brandon 1:07
Dang, cool
Collin 1:08
boy.
Brandon 1:10
All right,
Collin 1:10
cool boy.
Speaker 1 1:12
Yeah,
Collin 1:12
yeah. I saw my friends as a farmer, and he was very happy today. Extremely thrilled about the rain, even though
Brandon 1:22
all his corn is already dead. Ah, yes.
Collin 1:25
Still, still, there. You know, even when there's too much rain, farmers are happy for it. So this is what I have learned. That's true. Because
Brandon 1:33
there hasn't been any since June.
Collin 1:37
June, pretty much. So
Brandon 1:40
yeah, yeah.
Collin 1:43
I think we had some a little in August at the beginning, but yeah, it's definitely been for us a long time. I know for you guys too. So it's it was it was nice. So well, other than a light rain, what have you been up to?
Brandon 2:06
Uh, oh well, I do have.
Collin 2:08
Oh, oh,
Brandon 2:09
a returning segment, Collin, for you. Okay, I have.
Collin 2:14
Oh,
Brandon 2:15
things heard in sixth grade. All right, we're back in session. All right, and so we can now commence having out of context statements from sixth graders about their class. Okay, so start off with a doozy. Okay, just out of nowhere. Well, like here go no context. Ready?
Speaker 1 2:39
Sure.
Brandon 2:40
Wait, where'd they put my baby? Yeah, there you go. That was
Collin 2:50
yeah, that was today. That was today. Yeah, yeah. Now,
Brandon 2:56
or yesterday, rather, it was yesterday. So the the the the rest of this is that we were doing. It's already like first science quiz time, right? Because like first unit short, it's like you know whatever review stuff, blah blah. So short quiz so that we can talk about like how does mr. Funkhouser's test take a class, take a quiz, right? And so we were doing a review on Kahoot, right? The infamous Kahoot thing, and like they, you can like pick your little like avatar deal after you sign your name in, and a very popular thing for whatever reason among sixth grade boys is to have your character have a pacifier. I don't know why, but this is always a very popular thing. But they had moved it to a different location, and so he was very distraught that he could not find the correct. Because like some of them, it's like a figure, so you can have like a brain or like a skeleton or like a moose or whatever, and then you can give them like a hat or sunglasses or apparently a pacifier, for reasons that are unknown to me, really. But
Collin 4:09
don't understand. Yeah,
Brandon 4:11
I don't understand the draw of that. But you know, fifth grade boys want the pacifier on their own thing.
Collin 4:17
They do. Okay, it is just
Brandon 4:19
known, and so and so that was what they wanted, and they had moved it, and it was very-he thought it was gone. Oh no! Very distraught. But
Collin 4:30
all was all was okay. Yeah, yeah,
Brandon 4:33
everything's fine. Okay, fine.
Collin 4:36
Make sure now the story had a happy ending, so no freaked out.
Brandon 4:39
Yeah, it's okay. It's okay, but other than that, not a lot really going on currently. I was doing some room reorganization here, and so I've like moving things around, and I've I've I've attempting to actually you know use my desk that I have in here.
Speaker 1 5:00
And not just novel.
Brandon 5:01
I know, I know. Imagine using a desk for desk things and not just a place to stack stuff. Okay, it's
Collin 5:10
weird. Why would you shocking? Really,
Brandon 5:11
right? Right. Does some of this have anything to do with the fact that I may or may not be continuing to build Gundam models. It's fine. Don't worry. That's not important right now, and and needs space in which to accomplish said task. It's fine. It's fine. Don't worry. So I've been moving some things around here, right? Doing some stuff. I actually finally got around to buying wall hangers for my guitar, and so like, oh, I actually I've been thinking about doing that for like way too long for the process to actually hang it up to be like sub five minutes. It's like, dang, that really that's procrastination for you, ladies and gentlemen. That's really what that's.
Collin 6:04
You know, sometimes things just take a little bit. It's totally fine.
Brandon 6:10
Takes a bit to get around to it, right? Like, literally, it's pretty bad.
Brandon 6:17
Five minutes, and he was done. And I've been putting that task off for actual years. I think at this point.
Collin 6:27
Oh, it isn't this. This is the thing about that kind of project. Of it, like it's just I have these things all of the time where it's oh well, why didn't I do that sooner? Well, I don't know. Otherwise, I would have done it sooner. There's something. I think part of it
Brandon 6:45
is like a combination of just like the procrastinating brain. That's like, oh, that will be pretty simple. I can, I don't have to worry about that right now, right? That's like, yeah, that's how the procrastination brain functions. You're just like, oh yeah, I don't really, I that'll be that'll be simple. I don't got to worry about it. I'll I'll just worry about that later.
Collin 7:05
Yep.
Brandon 7:06
And then you never do it.
Collin 7:07
Nope. Because it will be. And then you finally get
Brandon 7:10
around to it. That's so actually easy. Um, they're just on there, and I'm just like, oh,
Collin 7:18
dang it.
Brandon 7:19
Well, Darn! But the the thing that I was going to get to here, so I was going to buy. I was you know moving some stuff around, getting rid of some stuff, well, like moving things, right? Throwing away some like random things that I have that I don't. Like, where did where did this even come from?
Collin 7:37
Yeah,
Brandon 7:38
things that I'm sure I was keeping for some reason, and now the reason escapes me, and so now is the time for that to go away. But I was looking for like a small like desktop like organizer thing, like you know that those little deals that have like little shelves or like little like file deals, whatever. You know what I mean? Yeah, those things, and I. I have discovered that if you are shopping for things like that on the internet, in no location will they tell you the dimensions of said products.
Collin 8:13
Oh, kind of a big important thing that you need to know, right?
Brandon 8:19
Like a very crucial. So I I was ranting, seeding to myself earlier today. Like, why are there no dimensions anywhere in like the product description? Nothing specifications. Nothing like like other information. Nothing. Nothing.
Collin 8:41
Like
Brandon 8:42
absolutely nowhere was it going to tell me how big this is, and my desk is not like large, and so like when you like all the product desks are like, ah, like my school desk, right? Like my desk at work, it's like incredibly massive, right? Like feet across and like feet deep. Right, just like monster old like metal teacher desk. Right, this is what I have at work. Right, so like you can put literally anything on there. Who cares? Five acres of space. Right, literal hectares of desk space. Not at home.
Speaker 1 9:17
No. Right,
Brandon 9:18
home has a very small Desk, right? I don't know if you noticed, but I have that random small desk that was in Mimi's basement.
Speaker 1 9:30
What? You
Brandon 9:30
remember that, like brown one that was down there? Yeah, she's just like store stuff. I have that.
Collin 9:34
Yeah, I didn't know that. Okay, that's that. Which
Brandon 9:38
apparently actually belong was like not hers, and it came from somehow Dede's house in Kansas City. This is like a 1960s Montgomery Ward build a desk.
Collin 9:58
That is insane.
Brandon 10:00
Yes, Dad like like retopped or he like repainted the thing and then like gave it to me because like I'm gonna take that and he was like not till I fix it was like sure okay whatever that's fine like I don't
Collin 10:13
okay
Brandon 10:15
God is right you know how he is right yeah but anyway like the thing that was ranting about the most is like it like put dimensions on things that you want people to buy, right? This does not need to be a surprise. Like how big is this? Like is it eight inches? Is it 14 inches? Like these are very crucial in desktop space allotment, right? Like every, you know, inch. I will take centimeters. Okay, I have the technology to measure in centimeters. Okay, I know we can do. All Americans possess this, but I possess the technology to measure in centimeters. So give me the centimeter that I can do that, okay? Like, give me a dimension, right? That's just
Collin 11:06
that's all you need. Yeah, and and spoiler too. Even if you don't have the thing to measure, you can also convert because that's a thing too. That is the thing that you can has been known to science for. Imagine
Brandon 11:20
calculating in 2026, crazy, right? Absolutely crazy.
Collin 11:25
Seems a bit sketchy to me for being honest.
Brandon 11:29
I know. I just I because I'm an old man now, right? I just have a tape measure. Okay, like I just have it, and I just use it for things, and I can read it, and I want people to tell me how big the thing is that I'm trying to buy. Okay, like I can go over and I hold my tape measure out and I like turn it this way and I go like very like Midwest vibes. Okay, you take the tape measure and you pull it out and you hold it up and you go, yep, and then you turn it to the other axis, and you go, uh huh, uh huh, yeah, yeah, and you kind of flip it back and forth a little bit,
Collin 12:06
do some figure, and you
Brandon 12:07
visualize the size, and you kind of go, okay, well, about there, and then you you make a little pretend corner, and you flip it right the other way, and you like, yeah, okay, or you like lay down a pencil, like this is one edge, and you go, and then you lay down another pencil, and you go, ow, ow, okay, yeah, that's
Collin 12:28
that'll do. This
Brandon 12:30
is advanced stuff, okay? Maybe people outside the Midwest don't know about this like very highly advanced measuring technique that we have, right? Like, but I
Collin 12:40
guarantee you, they don't. That's for sure. They have no idea, no idea that this technology exists, or that people are capable of reading it and understanding what is going on.
Brandon 12:53
Yeah, yeah. So, like, I can, I can do that, right? I can even if I feel froggy, right? I bust out my! I have a vintage yardstick here. Okay, from an a local defunct now long defunct Osmobile dealership.
Collin 13:16
Oh yes,
Brandon 13:20
the phone number printed on the side has letters in it for when you tell the operator to whom you would like to be connected.
Collin 13:32
This this means this is a quality piece of equipment that you are working with. There
Brandon 13:37
are actually only five numbers.
Collin 13:40
Wow! Yes, yeah, not not going to yeah, not a whole lot here, people. No, not a whole lot here. No,
Brandon 13:47
right? This was I found this in like Susan's grandmother's shed, like years ago, like before she passed away. This is where this was, and I was like,
Collin 14:01
"Wow,
Brandon 14:02
can I have this? She was like, "Well, yeah, I didn't even know that was there. Just like, "Okay,
Collin 14:07
good, thanks. I need this. This is 1,000,000% mind now. Very
Brandon 14:12
important. Okay, like you have no idea.
Collin 14:16
This is this is going to become a lot of about my identity as a person, just so that you're aware,
Brandon 14:22
absolutely, man. Like,
Collin 14:24
that's great.
Brandon 14:29
Absolutely, there's actually one of these in the local history museum.
Collin 14:33
No,
Brandon 14:34
yeah, they have a display of yardsticks featuring local businesses. Sorry,
Speaker 1 14:43
I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't ready for the phrase display of yardsticks. Yeah, this is this is a
Brandon 14:52
thing that existed apparently. Like you need some local advertisement yardstick. Right, and I, you know, I can guarantee you, right, the the one end, right, just it's a big fat one too, like it's really like wide, right, like nice and wide. Yeah, they use the whole
Collin 15:13
tree for it
Brandon 15:14
for your large printed address of business establishment here. Absolutely. Also, right, you've got the one end; it's got a hole in it, and so it's you know clearly this was just hanging on a peg in in a room or a garage, and that's where it was supposed to live. But like, you could clearly see all of this stuff. But yes, I was also aghast whenever I saw the display of many different yardsticks.
Collin 15:44
Yeah, that's that's intense.
Brandon 15:49
Like the menus, I get right. There's like a little thing with like the restaurants that are long gone, and like you know, there's like bank pens and stuff like that. But then like the yardstick display, I was like, "Yo,
Collin 16:01
yes,
Brandon 16:03
and then I went, "Yo, I have this
Collin 16:06
one. Look at me, man.
Brandon 16:08
So it was a lot of complex emotions, like really close together. Kind of think so,
Collin 16:12
but you're like, "How do I how do I feel about this? Right? Exactly. Like, is that is that what I really need?
Brandon 16:22
But also, you're like also proud. He's like, yeah, I got that. Like, no one else. Who else got that? That's right, me.
Collin 16:33
Yeah, I got this.
Brandon 16:34
Yeah, it's like a, it's like exclusivity here. Like, who who else has this Oldsmobile dealership yardstick from like the 40s? Not you. That's what's up.
Collin 16:49
Not you. That's amazing. I, ah, I, you know, it makes me think of all the the the marketing memorabilia and swag that it's it's hard to remember just how long that that has been around like we often think oh man everyone's got a branded pen or everyone's got now you know in the pet industry it's the the food saver lids that you can put on for wet food cans, right? They bring in those, and but everybody, you know, you go to vendor fairs, and they've got the, or down at you know at a conference, they've got the the sponsors, and it's like I can get keychains, or I can get this, like that kind of thing has been going on for as long as marketing has been around.
Brandon 17:39
That's true,
Collin 17:40
right?
Brandon 17:40
Actually, like the other side note, I have this like, like I don't usually use like that kind of stuff. But like this year, like at school, like some local insurance thing, like gave us gave everybody just like a little bag of like stuff, and it's like a notepad and like a pen, and the pen is actually pretty good, right? It's very nice, right? And so I'm like, okay. Plus, it's blue, and I just I use blue pins all the time, right? Like, I don't really know why I settled on this, but I use blue. So like, it was blue. It's very nice. It's very nice pen, right? But also in this bag is a device, and I don't know what it's for. Oh, this is new. I don't know. I so here's my hypothesis, right? It's like a disc, but it like opens up like a mint, like those icebreakers mint thing, but it like there's a compartment inside that twirls about. It like rotates, so I I don't know if this is like a medication holder,
Collin 18:52
right? But
Brandon 18:55
I don't actually know its true purpose because it looks like the icebreakers mint thing. There's like a big opening, and then on the other side a little tiny opening, but it's like it's about 50% smaller than Icebreaker's Mint thing. Actually, maybe more like 60% smaller, and it's clear with like green or whatever. But like, and there's just a little thing in there that rotates independently of the the rest of the body, and I don't know why you need that.
Collin 19:31
Yeah, that's
Brandon 19:33
I have. I just set it on my desk because I just look at it sometimes and go, "What are you?
Collin 19:39
Very confused by this.
Brandon 19:41
It's weird. Okay, I'm I'm I'm imagining maybe it's for like medication, but like there's not like a time of day indicator, you know, like etched in it, like oh, this is like. Morning, you know that would make sense to me. Like morning, afternoon, you know, some medications you have to take at night. Some taking, you know, whatever. Like that's not there.
Collin 20:10
No.
Brandon 20:11
So
Collin 20:13
that doesn't quite fit with it. Do I just
Brandon 20:14
put my own mints in this? Maybe do I? What do I do? Because if you buy mints, they already come in a box. So why would you need a differenter box for the mints? Like that seems extraneous. I don't. Nobody needs an extraneous mint box. Well, well, you say that.
Brandon 20:36
But like, do do you? I don't know, like because it's also not labeled. There's no place for labels. You can't be like, "Oh, this is my Tylenol. This is my antacid, right? Like, you know, that's a dangerous game. You don't have unlabeled pills.
Collin 20:55
Oh, back in the day, we just had they just had one pill, and it was. Oh yeah, I mean not everybody is like everybody's like
Brandon 21:03
grandma just has a pill bottle that's just like full of random stuff. Yes, and then they like squint at it and go, no, no, this is the Tylenol. This is definitely the Tylenol. I'm actually feeling better now. I don't need mixtures for a walk. Yeah, I don't. I don't need mysterious purse medicine from from you of a known origin. Like this could either be a Tylenol or a Vicodin. I do not want. I'm not playing taking that gamble. That is okay. No way.
Collin 21:30
It's not what we're here about. Yeah.
Brandon 21:33
No. Okay. It's not about to turn into a house episode. No, sir. Okay. I'm not.
Collin 21:39
Right. Not doing that. Oh my gosh! I don't, man. Yeah, you got my brain thinking. Yeah, if I remember, I'll send
Brandon 21:47
you a picture tomorrow. Just be like, this is the thing.
Collin 21:49
Yeah,
Brandon 21:51
but the pin is very nice. So I actually did use that branded thing. So there you go. That's but
Collin 21:57
okay. That's wild, huh?
Brandon 22:01
It's really bizarre. I've never received something and just been so confused about what it was. What is this for? Like, not even like a white elephant exchange. I mean, I've been like, huh, huh, what is that?
Collin 22:21
I'm. I'm I'm lost. I'm very
Brandon 22:26
perplexed right now. Please help.
Collin 22:33
Yes, the obscure marketing things continue.
Brandon 22:46
Very much so. I never heard of a wet food resealer before.
Collin 22:53
Yeah, yeah. It's a. It's like a little either a hard plastic or a soft silicone, like extra lid that like snaps down over the edge, the lip of the the metal can. So it's a food saver kind of thing, and you know, oh, I need to give my dog half a can. Well, I don't want to just put the can back in there without a lid. So yeah, put the lid save the food saver on. This is this
Brandon 23:23
is a bit more convenient than trying to stuff the can in like a ziplock bag. 1,000,000% That is the other option. Where it's like, let me cram it in there and figure.
Collin 23:39
Yes, yes. This is exactly the issue that it is trying to solve because that's what we do as well. Or what I would get, I'd get lazy and I would just take the plastic bag. I'd set the can down. I would just put the plastic bag like over the top of it, and I wouldn't really like seal the bag. Yeah, like set it in there. Be like, like put some
Brandon 23:57
foil on it, like it's old meatloaf. Just like probably
Collin 24:01
fine. Now, so this is big in the the the pet world because now you can you get it branded, and then you go to events and you hand out your branded Food Saver lids, and everyone uses they use wet food. Now every time they put the wet food
Speaker 2 24:19
can, ah,
Collin 24:20
they're thinking of you.
Brandon 24:21
It's true,
Collin 24:22
but unless they
Brandon 24:25
got a tennis ball, losers in
Collin 24:30
line. Only problem with that is that if they have a cat, they kind of go, "No, I don't need that.
Brandon 24:37
True. I mean, I was going to say the only other problem was carrying all the tennis balls like that. Well, yes, it is nice at
Collin 24:44
least because then people typically only take one. True, right? They're not coming by and grabbing five of those puppies. They can't. Where are you putting them? Nowhere, because I'm not giving you a bag. So you better hope the booth next to me has better. True.
Brandon 24:57
Wear your cargo pants just for. Big emergencies such as this. Yes, emergency branded tennis balls for
Collin 25:04
my dog.
Brandon 25:05
Yeah, play all the fetch. Oh, you lost a ball. Here's a second ball. Yeah, like
Collin 25:13
that. Where are these balls coming from?
Brandon 25:19
Like a cloud car, just keeps pulling
Collin 25:22
out. Was what's this behind your ear? Yeah, tennis ball. Just be that guy at the dog park. Oh man, don't be that guy.
Brandon 25:35
Don't do that. So desirable. Point out from behind the dog's ear. Yeah. What's that?
Collin 25:40
Oh man! Oh no! Underneath the car. What's that? Oh wait a minute! Yeah, you could. I guess you could do that if you needed to. I mean, or not. I
Brandon 25:54
guess if you want to be that guy, that's fine. But like again,
Collin 25:58
again, people do not be that guy. Yeah,
Brandon 26:01
or you pretend to throw it, and you like, oh no, here it is, right? Like, oh my goodness. Anyway, anyway, after my my very, I don't know how we got there. Tangential statement. How was your week, Ben, Collin? What have you been up to? Oh my god. Other than gaging the rain, of course. Like, obviously.
Collin 26:22
Well, that is what you're required to do is gage rain. So this week, what did I do? Hold on, let me put my email here. It's hard. Yeah, hard to know. Hard to know where was I? No, I. What days? What days? What seriously? Seriously? Seriously? What did I do? You know, I did some training and bringing people on, and oh, I went to our first ever pooch plunge.
Brandon 26:52
I'm sorry, what?
Collin 26:54
Obviously, everybody knows what a pooch plunge is.
Brandon 26:58
I do not. Is this a dog diving competition?
Collin 27:01
Ah, it's not a talk diving competition. However, imagine you are a public park.
Speaker 1 27:07
Okay, you
Collin 27:08
have you're approaching the end of pool season. Aha! What could be something that you could do as one last hurrah fun thing before you going you're going to drain and sanitize the pool anyway for the winter.
Brandon 27:24
You're gonna just go ahead and completely blow the filters out by filling them with dog
Collin 27:29
hair. Yes. Yes. There we go. Might as well. Right. Mine as well. Gonna replace them
Brandon 27:36
anyway. So let's blow them out.
Collin 27:38
Oh my gosh! So we we did this we did this thing, and I did you
Brandon 27:48
take your dog or you just the tennis balls?
Collin 27:50
No, no, no! I went and set up a little table, and was giving away free pup cups for a business, and I and tennis balls, obviously. No, I was not. Those things are very. Those are like a buck 50 a piece. I'm not kidding. Okay, never mind. Like no pub cups, it is, which are basically
Brandon 28:09
just whipped cream. Okay, much better. Now, now,
Collin 28:12
do I? So here's the thing. Do I spend? Let's see here. Do I write about 30? Yeah. So our we there pop cups is such a loaded term. Many people think it's just going to be normal whipped cream. Other people think it's going to be ice cream, like a dog ice cream. Oh yeah. There is a the hashtag not sponsored, but there is a if you go to PetSmart in the frozen section, people, there are canisters that look like human whipped cream. It is not, but they are called pup cups, and there is flavored whipped cream for dogs, with flavors such as bacon, pumpkin, peanut butter, chicken, and plain.
Brandon 29:02
We've talked about this. Talked about this. Nobody wants pumpkin. Nobody
Collin 29:06
wants pumpkin. And your
Brandon 29:06
dogs don't actually like bacon. You just like bacon, and you just like commercials. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And
Collin 29:12
turns out a lot of dogs are allergic to chicken, so you don't buy that one either. Yeah, that is
Brandon 29:17
kind of a surprise because they do like that. That's a big, heavy advertisement thing, right? They're like, "Oh, this one has chicken in it, but like, actually, actually, no, they don't. They don't actually want those. Weirdly, dogs,
Collin 29:29
dogs, allergic chicken don't. Basically, what's happening there? So we get bacon, pumpkin, peanut butter, and plain. Those are the four that we get, and I showed up, and the reason we do this because there are people who go like, okay, yes, is one can of these like $11? Yes. Does it only have 30 servings in it? Also yes. However, what are my other options? Am I actually going to go buy actual dog ice cream and scoop that out for them? No. No, and really,
Brandon 30:02
that's not bad, right? $11,
Collin 30:04
right? For 30.
Brandon 30:05
For for 30, that's only 37 cents
Collin 30:08
a thing, a thing, right? Right,
Brandon 30:10
like yeah.
Collin 30:11
So, but here's what other
Brandon 30:12
quick division here. Here's what other people do.
Collin 30:14
They'll go and they'll get like Cool Whip, like a big tub of Cool Whip, and like spoon it in, yeah. Or they'll get actual like peanut butter and they'll do like a Cool Whip peanut butter cup and then hand that over. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Hey. However, it's more
Brandon 30:34
expensive, and also some of the ingredients in there are not great for dogs' stomachs. Right.
Collin 30:40
And what's the also also to this? I have a line of 15 people.
Brandon 30:47
Yeah, we're not mixing up, right?
Collin 30:50
I'm not slopping one on the next. I want to go high. I've got peanut butter, bacon, pumpkin, or plain. What do you want? Okay, exactly. What do you want? Peanut butter, pumpkin, bacon. I believe
Brandon 30:59
you mean what can I get for you today?
Collin 31:02
Yeah, no, yeah, I'm a little, but it's like like this is how long it takes to fill a cup.
Brandon 31:06
Are you a teenager at Starbucks? What do you want?
Collin 31:08
What?
Speaker 1 31:09
Give me that. I just look at him
Collin 31:10
and go, what? But this is how long it takes to fill the little, and you go and you got buy the little like white little like they're not the shot glass size. No, because
Brandon 31:19
they're wider, right? A little bit, so that the dog can like
Collin 31:22
yeah get
Brandon 31:22
its snoot in there.
Collin 31:24
It's it's like the okay. Do you remember there was a time in the world where people would buy the the the paper cups that would only go in the bathroom.
Brandon 31:37
Yes.
Collin 31:37
Okay, it's a yes. Okay, and then they make them out of plastic now, yeah. I
Brandon 31:42
have some in my science cabinet. Okay,
Collin 31:44
those size, those sizes. Yeah. Okay, they're a little bit wider, but they're not very tall. This is exactly how long it takes to fill one.
Speaker 2 31:53
Yeah.
Collin 31:53
Okay, that's how much time I need. So I
Brandon 31:56
mean, yeah, you don't want to like handcraft.
Collin 31:59
I don't want to have to pop the top, find the spatula, stir it, stir. Also, where am I putting that dirty spatula back on the table? Exactly. Eww, gross. Like if they get a water thing, stuffing need
Brandon 32:11
400 spatulas.
Collin 32:13
No, right. Am I doing one at a time? Am I doing little individual spoons, batches, right? Like, yeah. Am I doing prep work for this? No, I am not doing that. So I got all set up, and I and I had bought. I had to buy some earlier in the day, and here's the thing: they come like hard frozen, like frozen, and they're supposed to thaw out over like 12 hours. And I'm like, well, if you did it earlier
Brandon 32:38
this week, it thawed out in like five minutes. Like, yeah, five.
Collin 32:41
This was my thinking. I'm gonna put them in a cooler, but I don't have any ice in the cooler. And over the course of like eight hours, they'll probably be fine. Well, I okay. So the cooler did a little bit better than that, and so I had all these flavors, but I only had plain and bacon. Okay, and I kept forgetting, Brandon, that I only had access to plain or bacon because when I opened the lid, I saw that there was peanut butter and there was pumpkin, and so I kept saying I've got peanut butter, pump pumpkin, bacon, or plain.
Brandon 33:15
Except for I don't actually have that because it's still frozen.
Collin 33:19
Okay, Brandon, I'm not. I'm not proud of this. But when they would say, "I want like pumpkin, I'd be like, "Right, and so I would just take plain and be like, "Because they're like they're not gonna eat. I mean, they're not
Brandon 33:34
gonna eat it. That's true.
Collin 33:36
And the dogs are just gonna devour it and try and eat the cup too. It's more of a feeling. Look, I am not proud of this, but I also just want to say, like, oh, I'm sorry, and then they'd have better business bureau is
Brandon 33:48
now coming to your door, right? Yes, KY three investigates,
Collin 33:54
giving out free mislabeled free pup cups, and then yeah,
Brandon 33:59
mis local businessman passes off plain as peanut butter at local pool event.
Collin 34:07
The news at five. So I, anyway, but this event they had two stages, so I had to be there to set up at 430. That's when I could start setting up. The gates opened at 530, and it went from 530 to no, no, no. I am sorry, I got this wrong last time. Okay, I had to be there at 430. The gates opened from five until six, and then they had a 30-minute break, and then the second group came from 630 to 730.
Brandon 34:40
Oh, okay, okay. So stages, okay. Stages.
Collin 34:43
See, this is important, and
Brandon 34:46
yes,
Collin 34:46
it was, it was a a madhouse. I've never been to one of these before, and I, I have strong opinions about dog parks and. The why you people should never take their dogs to dog parks. Don't like take your dog to poop poachers till the kids. I was gonna
Brandon 35:09
say how awful did that water look at the end of the night? That's all I can think about right now.
Collin 35:16
It was real bad. Like how much
Brandon 35:18
poop was in there? There
Collin 35:19
was poop. There was vomit because dogs like
Brandon 35:22
oh yeah
Collin 35:23
are inhaling water constantly and then they're mats of hair mats of hair like because here's the thing Brandon people those dogs
Brandon 35:33
are also dirty when they just dump in there so it's like mud bathed them
Collin 35:36
before also so here's here's the sequence of events ready owners got home, went straight to the pooch plunge, and what did they do in between those things when they got home from work? They fed.
Speaker 1 35:51
Oh, they fed dinner,
Collin 35:54
and then they came
Brandon 35:56
swimming, and then they're running
Collin 35:57
around, inhaling water, just drinking water, jumping. They're vomiting all over the sides. Dogs are just like they're fighting over balls, and they're going out. And there, I mean, this is a full-on pool, so there's a there's a 12 foot deep end, right? And there's just a dog like hanging out underneath the diving boards, and and they they have the human lifeguards over there, and I didn't speak to any of the human lifeguards, but I, I want to know. It's like, how do? What are your thoughts on this? Are you are you here for the dog, or are you here for the person who falls in trying to get their dog? Like, I think probably
Brandon 36:37
the second one.
Collin 36:38
I think for the second one, no one was jumping in to save your your German Shepherd from drowning. Like no, sorry. Like that is not happening. No. They they had like a little splash pad area, you know, for little kids. So that's where the little dogs were. But then the bigger dogs want to go run and play around in that. So then we've got like twice as many dogs from the shallow area, and then they're like chasing, and then of course, I, I, I had the suggestion, and I did, I did say this as I left. I was like, maybe, and they've been doing this for like 13 years, you know. So like, this is just old hat to them. There's no issue. I'm just looking at this from like a how much insurance do you have kind of perspective? Like, I I think maybe when you have the online sign up link, maybe once that's successful, it should redirect them to a video on how to do off leash dog recall, and it's just 30 minutes of somebody screaming, "Stop chasing your dog, because spoiler here: when the dog is running away from you, and then you go running after the dog, shouting its name, you have now engaged. The dog thinks
Brandon 38:02
it's playtime.
Collin 38:03
You have now engaged in playtime.
Brandon 38:05
Yes,
Collin 38:05
and so now you are someone who is in public chasing your dog all around the pool, and the dog is having a blast, and you're getting very angry, and everyone is just like stopping and staring. No, so there's some skills to work on before coming. And overall, like behaviorally, it was fine. And dogs were out there, and everyone, a lot of them had like, if they had multiple dogs, they had a matching dog towel set to drive the dogs off with. They had dog life jackets, and there was a pug, and his life jacket had this massive shark fin on the back, and where it wrapped around his neck was the jaws of the shark, and so as he's swimming, and like it's just this shark lovely bracky cephalic sound, like the shark that's like the shark mouth is kind of like gently opening and closing as he's pulsing through through the water, gnawing
Brandon 39:16
upon his head, like
Collin 39:18
yeah, it was that was my personal favorite one, and there was a photographer there, and I I didn't see the pug at first, but I heard someone squeal, and my head whipped around, and the photographer had just spotted the pug, and I was like, okay, yeah, there you go, and was
Brandon 39:34
laughing uproariously, which is the correct response. Let's be honest, it is, it is to to that situation,
Collin 39:41
but by far my absolute favorite thing happened at the second thing because what they do is they stage the dogs outside. They have to go. They have to register for this. They do pay a small fee to enter for this, and they have to prove all their vaccination records and all the stuff to to attend. And so they're not checked in.
Brandon 40:00
Then
Collin 40:00
at the allotted time, they open the door and it is just this like
Speaker 1 40:04
madness,
Collin 40:05
mad dash. That the dogs like they're doing the Looney Tune cartoon thing where their legs are spinning and they're not going anywhere. Yeah, it's like and they shoot off. There are other dogs who are running forward and then running back to the owners and then running forward and then running back to the owners, but the winner of this was a black lab named Ted. Ted
Brandon 40:35
already winning.
Collin 40:36
Already winning is an adorable dog. He liked pumpkin was his favorite pumpkin. Nah, but or was it? Did he
Brandon 40:44
get plain? We never know. He got pumpkin.
Collin 40:45
They were everything was everything was thought off by the time Ted came in. Okay, okay, good.
Brandon 40:49
Oh yeah, by round two. Yeah, Ted could have whatever he wanted. Ted could have whatever he wanted.
Collin 40:53
The owner came in. Ted launched and was in a race with this Other dog, okay. Ted, massive black lab. Other dog, this small like Visla thing, like turn on a dime. Both of them realized what they were actually running towards at the exact same moment. The Visla veered right. Ted started to make the turn and claw his way back, but he's sliding with such force because he's a big black lab that his momentum is still carrying him towards the pool as he's clawing, trying to start running back the way he had came. Oh no, Ted! Momentum, and he just. Oh no, Ted flies off off of the pool, and then goes just splash, and he just disappears below the water. It comes.
Brandon 42:04
Poor Ted,
Speaker 1 42:05
poor Ted,
Brandon 42:06
poor Ted, indeed.
Collin 42:07
It was my favorite because you just did. You could tell both of them were like, ugh, like actually no, like
Speaker 1 42:15
Uno.
Collin 42:15
Ted made it. The best part was he he did a 180, Brad. He was pointed in the opposite direction. Oh no! Mass too great, too
Speaker 1 42:28
much mass, too much, and just
Brandon 42:36
no. As my eighth grade science teacher would say, a nerda,
Collin 42:40
Lima. Exactly. This was Inerda in textbook definition. So I watched. I'm. I'm. I lost it, and the owner is just. She's. She's losing. She's laughing so hard, and Ted finds the stairs and comes crawling, crawling out. He um he he he he didn't go back in the water for the rest. I mean
Brandon 43:13
yes,
Speaker 1 43:14
poor Ted
Brandon 43:15
did not need yeah no he did
Collin 43:17
but uh but no ended ended the night well uh there was a rescue next to us, and we so they had dogs there. What they do is they bring dogs who are eligible for adoption, and I didn't know this was a thing.
Speaker 1 43:34
Oh yeah,
Collin 43:35
but they schedule public or they schedule-I don't know what to call them-like the visitations with possible families at public events like this. Oh, interesting! Yes, so this is part of their. Hey, you can if you want to see Francis. Francis, you can see how they act
Brandon 43:58
like out and about. Yeah,
Collin 43:59
Francis going to be at this event, you can schedule a time from six to 630, and then someone else can schedule a time with Francis from you know seven to seven. Like they, and so that way, it gets people out. They can see the dog. They're not just looking at them in the back of a crate, you know, cowering. They can see how they're actually doing exactly,
Collin 44:18
which I thought is really cool. And so all night long, of course, the those dogs are just running around having a blast. And so every every now and then someone would come wrong. Have you seen Francis? His 630 s here, Francis and I am like, I don't. I think he went that way. You know, it was it was funny as they were scrambling to find people, but it was it was good. And there was this there was this little dog. She had been in the rescue for like I don't know. She'd been in and out of Foster's for a year, and she was over here on my right. And at the at first, she was so terrified of. But over the course of the night, as she's watching me give out pup cups and stuff, she slowly starts to inch a little bit closer. But I I turn and look, and then she turn and scamper, and I run back to the her to the person, and I then I I ignore and I get back and I'd catch her and she'd be right by my leg, and but and then staring intently at each one that I was making, and so at the very end of the night, I she's right by my leg, and I don't look at her, but I'm making one, and I I just hold it down by my knee, and it's gone in a flash. Oh, nice! You go stealth, stealth, and then she scampers over to the person next to her. I'm like, I take that as a win. Yeah, count it. I'll take that as a win. But just all night, just a little closer, a little closer. That's really funny. Yeah, run away. A little closer, a little closer. Yes, it was great. So I that was that was I I did that. I ended, and of course it was so hot because that was on Tuesday, and it was like
Brandon 46:04
oh yeah, gross. It was like 100 degrees here on Tuesday. It was again, yeah.
Collin 46:09
And I'm standing out there, and what surrounds every public pool? Concrete. Yes,
Brandon 46:14
cement for as far as I can see.
Collin 46:17
So I was standing from 430 until like 745 on concrete, and I've got like my cooling towels. I had brought all this water, and it vanished over the course of time. Immediately, right? Just it's all gone. I brought a little tiny battery-powered fan, which just reminded me how hot the air was. I was hitting my yeah. This is
Speaker 1 46:38
not blow dryer. Like this is
Collin 46:40
nice. Let it cool off here.
Brandon 46:45
Yeah, blow this hot air across my brow.
Collin 46:48
Nice, delicious. Why is this making me sweat more? Yeah, this is actually
Brandon 46:53
worse. Wow, I know.
Collin 46:54
Don't know how. Why am I doing this? Oh my goodness. Oh, yeah. that was that was my that was the highlight. Side note to my week. It's pretty good. Pretty good. I think so.
Brandon 47:18
I did forget about one thing. So I just have another small comment here. We did go out to eat with some of our friends, right? We couldn't make it like the beginning, but we always go out like the because they're all teachers, so we go like at the beginning of school, like the oh, but like he wanted to go like stop. We were Springfield, waited this place. I don't even remember, and but he wanted to stop by the store that was like right there before we went to eat, right? And Collin constantly tell you that I experienced a very had a very weird experience. Like I went into the store and I just had absolutely no idea what I was doing in there. Oh right, it's like I don't. I'm so overwhelmed and I don't really understand what any of these things are. I did, Collin. I ventured into a comic book store in 2026, and let me tell you, let me tell you about holy overload, Batman. Like I, it was just like tables full of those boxes that have like things poking out. That's like, oh, this is this one, and this oh, the
Collin 48:20
sleeves, right? Yeah,
Brandon 48:21
the sleeve. But like, some of them were sleeves, like in plastic, and some of them were just like individually in there. It's like the ones on the shelves, like the racks that are like flat facing. You can see the covers. Like, okay, I can understand what I'm looking at here. But there are so many other comic books in these boxes that just have little name. You know how, like, at the CD store. They used to just be like, "Oh, this is the like the Who section, and then like all the Who albums were there, and then like, "Oh, here's like or like you know this one, and then like they're all over there. Like it was like that, but comic books, and I don't know any of them. And even the ones that I knew, I was like, "What am I even looking at right now? Like the amount of product in the store was like so staggering that I was like, how does a person even find what they're looking for, right?
Collin 49:12
I know. And also,
Brandon 49:13
this is another like comic book problem of like, how do you know what you are looking for? Like, if you're reading like a series of things. How on earth are you supposed to find that, right? I could have very easily just gone over and been like, ah, this random Star Wars one. Yes, aha, but I don't know what that is. I have no context about what if this is part of another, like it's probably part of some sort of like multi-part story arc situation, right? So, like, I don't know. How would you know what to buy? Well, you have to be very up on things to venture in here. Like, you can't just go in there not knowing what's happening.
Collin 49:53
Well, I wonder. I think part of that, though, is the like, what am I going to find? I think there's some of the because here's I think there are two kinds of people who walk into that store. I just want to find something, and then there are the other people who come in and they want to talk to the proprietor about the whatever whatever release from you know 2005 Catwoman thing. Well, there was also the
Brandon 50:17
third type of person, which was my friend, who was like, "Oh, this issue just came out, and I need to pick it up because I've been reading and keeping up the series. See, see that person also. Yeah, and then the fourth person
Collin 50:27
of you-they were drug along. Yeah. Oh, that was also
Brandon 50:31
me. I'm here too. I'm just looking at things, going, man, that's a lot of boxes. I don't know.
Collin 50:38
Wow. How do you dust all this stuff? I was
Brandon 50:42
like, "How do you even find anything? Like, you know, it was just-it was a very overwhelming experience, right? I haven't felt like that. Like, man, I don't know what's going on in this Store like,
Collin 51:01
yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Brandon 51:04
Like, there's like, you know, like I know enough about right of things. Like, oh, I recognize this, and I know what that is. I'm saying it's like Batman or whatever, but like, there's other things. I'm like, yeah, I don't know. I have no idea what I'm looking at. What even is this? Like, what does this mean? Like, what is going on? I have got to get out of here. Like I can't.
Collin 51:24
And and please, nobody ask me any questions. That's true. That's true. That's definitely a place that, as soon as someone opens their mouth, like as soon as you open your mouth, you they will immediately know that you have no idea what you're talking about. Like that's true. I don't think this is not a really place for normies. I feel like, yeah,
Brandon 51:46
or like out of the loop people, right? Because when was the last time I read a comic book? Oh Lord! So like I don't. It's been a minute. So it's been a long time since I read a physical comic book, I read read some digital ones before, right? In like the last 20 years, but not like a physical comic. I haven't read one of those in ages, right? Like, especially not a singular book, like like a graphic novel like collection. Like I read one or two of those in the past, not the recent past, mind you, but like I have done, but but definitely not just a comic book.
Speaker 1 52:35
What?
Collin 52:36
Yeah, coming in just especially because there's just there's so much in there of like there is so
Brandon 52:41
much in there limited crime
Collin 52:43
or like some people will look for specific illustrators like I yeah I know enough about this where yeah
Brandon 52:51
or because they like collect that like thing right or whatever yeah
Collin 52:54
yes yeah so was this did you get the sense that this was more of a like collector's place or no? This was a
Brandon 53:02
reader's place. Oh, because it was like there was not a lot of like displays. There was not a lot of like glass cases with stuff inside it. It was like it's on the rack, right? The new releases are on this rack, and everything else are in boxes with just like again, it looked like seedy warehouse in there, right? Just like rows and tables and tables and tables of boxes with little file tags sticking up. Be like, this is this this Spider Man. This is the Amazing Spider Man, which is different, by the way. This is this. These are other names that I've never heard of. Conan, right? Boom! You want some Conan comic? There you go. Red Sonja, there it's over there. Like I recognize the names of these things, but not to a degree that I could be like, ah yes, that right. Like I I need you know what I mean. Like I just recognize the name from like popular cultural context, but I have no like connection to the media really, right? Like especially the comic book media, so it's like, oh yeah, I know what that is, but like, I don't know which one of those I would you would buy. I mean, it's probably you know when you buy comic books like that, it's basically just like I like the way that one looks. Okay, I'm getting it. Like it's not really that deep, right? It's not like a, I believe you know it's not that deep burrow, but like you just buy one, like whatever. But because, as opposed to like lots of other media, like although it has risen in price substantially, like a single comic book was some of them were like $3. So like, you know, if you bought it and didn't really like it, oh well, like okay, not really out like tons of right. It's a
Collin 54:46
it's a low in that sense. It's a nice low barrier. Like okay, okay, three bucks. Yeah,
Brandon 54:51
no low barrier entry. Some of the older, like other more random ones, like you know, like $2, like whatever. Like okay, that's fine. Some of the new ones, I think. Like four, but like I don't know, I didn't price a whole bunch stuff. I just looked at a couple random stickers and was like, "Oh, okay, that's not super unreasonable. The far cry from like 50 cents, but like you know, whatever. Like
Collin 55:15
you know, still that's what we have. It's what we have. So
Brandon 55:18
yeah, I mean, relatively relative to lots of other things, like not that bad. So, like, if you buy a $3 comic book, and it's like not the greatest thing you've ever in your whole entire life, it's fine. You know, put on jump. But that was just another experience that I had this last week. That was like, this is this is weird being in here. Like, I've been in an actual comic book store in ages, right? Like,
Collin 55:46
yeah, I'm gonna say. I think I bought a Joker comic book on a trip when we were in like Chicago one time. Yeah, maybe.
Brandon 55:56
Also, there was a comic book store in the mall, the Belgian mall that I think we bought like just random things like Batman or like something. You know what I mean? Like yeah,
Collin 56:05
yeah.
Brandon 56:06
But again, that we were like 10.
Collin 56:10
Yes,
Brandon 56:10
right. Like that was some like
Collin 56:13
yes.
Brandon 56:14
You know, like it would have been a long time ago. Like you know, we've been like 10 and seven or something like that. So, like, or you know, six and
Collin 56:25
it's been a minute, seven and 11. Yeah, it's been a minute, dear listeners. Been
Brandon 56:29
just a few years ago. So that you know. Ugh. Anyway, that to say, the segue into our final segment of the week, Collin.
Speaker 1 56:42
Oh,
Brandon 56:43
how about some more mecha anime? Now,
Collin 56:46
is
Brandon 56:47
this okay? So, this anime OVA series that I watched. There's a lot less episodes involved this time, like eight plus three. So, like, not many, like 11 total, perhaps. Okay, now we're gonna stretch the rules a little bit. Like, is this a mecha anime? Not exactly. Is there mech in this anime? Sometimes yes. Okay, so we're gonna count it. I make the rules here. I just made this up, so we're gonna count it. Okay, Collin.
Collin 57:24
Absolutely.
Brandon 57:24
Imagine.
Collin 57:26
Imagine a
Brandon 57:26
cyberpunk setting. Okay. Girls with guns trope, but they're Batman. But yeah, right. But Batman mercenaries. Yes. Okay. Yes, Collin. This is the world of bubblegum crisis.
Collin 57:49
Okay. Okay.
Brandon 57:52
1987 zone.
Collin 57:53
Oh, bubblegum crisis. Bubblegum crisis. I got a now.
Brandon 57:59
Allegedly, the title refers to like the city, like it's like so much tension. It's about to burst
Collin 58:07
like a bubble. See, I think
Brandon 58:10
that's that's what it's supposed to be referring to.
Collin 58:13
Sure,
Brandon 58:14
but it is kind of a dope name just in and of itself, right? So this this story, I'm gonna say follows. More on that in a minute. Four women who are actually mercenaries. Okay, now you've got your classic tropes here. There's the cool rocker girl, who is basically, for all intents and purposes, the main character. You have so this what's her name? Her name is Priss, yes. And then there's Cilia, who's like the brains of the operation, right? She's responsible for the Batman aspect of this. She also works in like a women's store, like a clothing store. Then there's what Nene, who is like the cutesy girl who works for the police department, and then Lena is also there. She oh
Collin 59:14
there we go. I love it's the fourth
Brandon 59:16
one. She kind of she does aerobics sometimes like that. Not so. So yeah, then yeah. But they don't. When they fight crime, they don't have like a mech suit, but they're like a hard suit, right? So it is like a big giant robotic suit of armor that they wear, but it's like more sleek than like a mech.
Collin 59:39
Interesting, right?
Brandon 59:41
So it's like the hard suit that that that's what they refer to it as, and they are fighting in Tokyo, right? Of course, because it's Mecha Tokyo, obviously, and there has been like a a big earthquake, and so there's like giant like socio economic divisions, and like everyone, this this series really like. You think it's gonna like delve into some themes, but then it's like anyway, like you know, like I watched a little bit about how the show was made, and they had some like good ideas,
Collin 1:00:12
and then I, I, this okay, yeah, and
Brandon 1:00:18
then production got taken over by like, hey, wouldn't it be cool if?
Collin 1:00:22
Ah, oh, the hey, that's nice. What about? I love this. Yeah. So like,
Brandon 1:00:29
there's like economic disparity and like stuff. There's like a mega corporation. They're name. They're called like Genom, and they are like in charge of everything. And they have developed like what is called they in universe is called the Boomer, and it's like a like a Android thing, right? And so like these these like biomechanical Android deals are like you know they're supposed to like take over and they they like do jobs and stuff like that, right? But obviously, they go crazy, and people use them for nefarious purposes. And so there's like a police department that's like the AD police, advanced police department that's in charge of fighting against boomer crimes, but they're really bad, and they're underfunded, and there's police corruption, blah blah. So, these four women form an organization known as the Night Sabers.
Collin 1:01:30
Ooh, that's a good. That's a good name. See,
Brandon 1:01:32
that's a good name. And they are these like mysterious vigilantes slash mercenaries who like fight boomer crime in Mecca, Tokyo, in actually like the far distant future of like 2032. Oh God, like that's what. Okay.
Collin 1:01:52
Oh no. Wait a minute. Yes. Oh
Brandon 1:01:55
no. This is bad. So like this show offers a lot, but also is missing a lot. Right? There are there was apparently some production problems. The apparently what happened is in the Japanese version, the the character Pris is played by like an actual singer lady. Okay, but then like they were supposed to be like songs and stuff. But then, like there was some disputes with like labels and things, and so like character developments, like did it happen? Maybe, and like there was just a lot of wacky things that happened behind the scenes. So, so the the is there a good cohesive story. No, is there strong character development? No, is there ripping soundtrack? Absolutely.
Collin 1:02:54
Oh, because the eight is there amazing. Is
Brandon 1:02:58
there amazing animation and like tons of fight scenes. Also, yes. So like, that's what this anime is for. It's just like action eye candy, like animation craziness. As far as like storyline goes, yeah. Like the first couple episodes are to go together, and then like there's a standalone episode here, and then like these two episodes go together, kinda, and then like here's another stand. Like it's it's not a cohesive a situation, so it's it's kind of like a oh here's just like a slice of what's happening as a nightsaber in America, Tokyo, right? Like it's. And so, there is a sequel, short OVAC series that is three episodes called Bubblegum Crash, and it is not as good as the original one, but at least those three episodes kind of all go together, sort of a little bit, and there's like a big dramatic ending, and the guy, like the bad guy, was a bad guy that was around in like the beginning of the first one, and you're like, "Huh? What? What? Okay. Anyway, like, it's very crazy, but it's interesting to watch. And they have motorcycles that transform into like armor that they wear over their armor, and they fly. So that's cool, right? They have that going for them.
Collin 1:04:39
Yes. Okay.
Brandon 1:04:42
There are. are apparently also other spinoff series. There's like an 80 police series. I did not watch that, and there is like a revamped, like a Bubblegum Crisis 2040, which, from what I read, has it's like a much more character driven show. So it's not as like. Bastic and like insane as Bubblegum Crisis. It's more like about the characters, and they actually have like you know a personality that is distinct in some way, and there is character development.
Collin 1:05:14
Yeah,
Brandon 1:05:14
but the action in the original one is like way more over the top and nuts, and lots more motorcycle chases down the highway after giant robots, which is cool. So, like, I
Collin 1:05:27
love it.
Brandon 1:05:31
So it is a cool show, but also everyone's probably like, "What is going on right now? Like, it looks cool, but like plot wise, no, there is no.
Speaker 1 1:05:48
Oh my
Brandon 1:05:49
gosh, it's wild.
Collin 1:05:53
And then so seriously, there's no like question, like character person like season like finale thing, like there is like kind
Brandon 1:06:03
of a finale. Also, I think the show got like canceled partway through, right? Like from what I was reading, like the originally, like it was made like during the time where OVAs were making like a ton of money, but then like as it kept going, it was like it's like right at the tail end of like the big direct to video OVA thing, where like kind of like 1990 ish, it stopped being so popular, and like all a lot of them started losing money, and the studio had taken the money from this, and they were they had invested into like a bunch of other projects, so they kind of spread themselves too thin, and so they're like, ah, ah. But um, anyway,
Collin 1:06:46
yeah.
Brandon 1:06:49
And again, it it kind of feels like the guy who directed it, right? From what I what I researched a little bit, was like there was not a like we're gonna sit down and we're gonna script out eight episodes that like tell a cohesive story, tight
Collin 1:07:07
thing. Yeah,
Brandon 1:07:08
it's kind of like they had a really big idea for the first like three.
Collin 1:07:13
Cut the out. They went, oh no, and then they were
Brandon 1:07:17
like, oh, we planned 13 of these, and they only made 11. So like, God. so, like the end of Bubblegum Crash. It's like, oh, what is happening? I mean, like the end of the the first Bubblegum Crisis thing. Like at least that last episode, it's like a standalone episode, but it's very epic, and there is character development, and you get to learn about some of the characters in different ways, and it's very like big, over the top thing with like a giant epic battle on the roof of the police station and like explosions and all stuff. Like,
Collin 1:07:55
wow!
Brandon 1:07:56
So it's that. That's what like, yeah, it's like the classic like there's a bad guy who's been watching the nightsabers, and he developed boomers specifically to destroy them based on their own strengths and weaknesses, right? Whoa, like that's never happened before. And then they come through and like join. They you know they they band together and through the power of togetherness, are able to overthrow
Collin 1:08:25
them together. They, yeah, yeah.
Brandon 1:08:28
Because there are some random ones on the side where, like, one character is like, "No, I just can't do it anymore, and then they leave, and then like the other girls like really struggle without them, and then they come back, and then they totally like kick butt, right? Like it's one of those kind of thing. So it's very tropey, right? Like there's not groundbreaking things here, but the suits are cool and the animation is cool and the action sequences are kind of nuts. So that's why goes a long way. Yeah, yeah, that's why. Yeah, that's why you watch this, right? Story, yeah, character. Because there's like episodes where they're like, "Oh, look at this character! Never see them again. Like,
Speaker 1 1:09:06
who?
Brandon 1:09:08
Yeah, who's that guy? We we don't talk about this.
Collin 1:09:12
Never knew him.
Brandon 1:09:14
So it's kind of crazy because it's not exactly a cohesive thing. Again, I didn't watch the the redo one. Right. The other thing that is kind of hilarious is the the right when when people talk about like should you watch like the sub or the dub of anime right watching the English version of this is like a special kind of funny because there is a lot of like no like that like the this is the some of the voice lines are like what is happening they'll like get punched by a mega robot and just be like ah like that's the response like it was there was like no. Rector in the room when they were doing the line reads, right? They were just like read, and they were just like you know reading
Collin 1:10:08
idea what wasn't what was going on or what was on the screen. I think so. Yeah, yeah.
Brandon 1:10:15
Just read these lines because especially the like exclamations, like the no nay nay, like it's like a big, like they're falling off like a 40-story roof, and they're like, no, that's it. Like that's like that's all the emotion that you get, right? Like, brother, man, they're like, nay, nay, but it's like, no, it's just like, no, don't fall. Like that's
Collin 1:10:40
they probably you can imagine that they probably only had voice actors in for like a day, and and needed to get this like okay let's go go go get yeah we do all eight episodes yes this week right like
Brandon 1:10:56
kind of what it felt like for like the VHS release right I'm gonna do that so it is. It is one of those ones that potentially it was like when people like, oh, should you watch the sub or the dub? Like, yeah, I mean, the English one is pretty funny, but like the I did watch like part of the episode in Japanese just to like compare them, right? And it was like, oh, oh, that's better. Yeah, okay, that's
Collin 1:11:22
you know that's interesting. I do that sometimes, and I. It's interesting to see the the English dubs. You write versus the the subtitles, and I've I've heard a few movies where it's like, oh, I like different aspects from each one of these for how it portrays these, and then sometimes, sometimes it's just really bad. Sometimes it's yeah, but sometimes it's
Brandon 1:11:49
so bad that it's funny, and I'm like, no, I'm just gonna keep watching these guys
Speaker 1 1:11:54
hilarious.
Collin 1:11:57
Yeah, that's great.
Brandon 1:11:59
So yeah, so there you go. That's what I watched this week. Not exactly a mecha anime, but the AD police do have mechs, right? There's like a Detective Leon guy. He's like the main detective guy, and he's like has this like oh the nightsabers, but then he's like yay the night, right? It's like a whole thing, but he has a mech that he fights boomers in, so it qualifies for the
Collin 1:12:30
absolutely. I think that's what definitely.
Brandon 1:12:33
And since I made the rules up, like it definitely qualifies. Okay, they're wearing robot suits. Good enough. Good enough. Are they 80 feet tall like a Gundam? No, but like it's fine.
Collin 1:12:45
There was machines. I think that's what you. Yeah,
Brandon 1:12:48
yeah. There's machines. Cool cyberpunk. Evil corporation. Uh, people fighting over AI. That would never happen. Uh, like all kinds of
Collin 1:13:00
no
Brandon 1:13:01
crazy stuff. So they go, they go. Bubblegum. Plus, the name is kind of dope, right? Like bubble gum crisis.
Collin 1:13:10
Yes. No, I do like it a lot. I'm a big fan. I'm a huge. It is
Brandon 1:13:17
also just very 1987. Like, oh
Collin 1:13:20
yeah,
Brandon 1:13:20
very much so. Like if you just look at a frame, you're like, "Yep, got it. Like if you look at what the characters are wearing, like their normal clothes, you're like,
Speaker 2 1:13:31
"Yeah,
Brandon 1:13:32
that was 1988.
Collin 1:13:33
Yeah,
Brandon 1:13:34
100%
Collin 1:13:36
I feel that. Oh my god! There you go.
Brandon 1:13:45
So that's I just want to leave you with that this week. I wanted you to. I just wanted to introduce you to this insane thing that I was.
Collin 1:13:53
I think it's perfect. I love this a lot. I I think very thankful for this time. There you go. My goodness. Okay. Well, I can. I can round us out here with a little bit of a. Oh, hold on. Something moved with a little bit of a and an haiku.
Speaker 2 1:14:22
All right,
Collin 1:14:23
for our enjoyment. Sorry. There we go. Gotta open it, right?
Speaker 1 1:14:29
It's stuck,
Brandon 1:14:29
right? It's fine. Scroll all the way bottom of the like 5 billion of these that we have now. Like, look.
Collin 1:14:35
Find it in my notes, and try not to let the pollen completely close in my windpipe as I finish out here. So here we go. Loud barks fill the air. Fur flashes flying headlong. A splash of surprise. Nice, Ted. Poor Ted. Poor Ted. He tried so hard. Oh no! Poor guy. It's okay. Oh, there we have it. Oh. Okay. Well, we will reconvene next time. All right. Love it. Okay. Well, we'll talk to you then. Love you.
Brandon 1:15:31
Okay. Love you. Bye. Bye.