it had no cabbage
Collin walked by a dive bar. Brandon had a picnic. We’re afraid of the mind of a 6th grader.
small dive bars
grimy
computer charger
it had no cabbage
Picnic in the park
Golf cart people
Half day of parent teacher conference
My time management is abysmal
The mind of a 6th grader is a terrifying place
But seriously…what are you eating??
The inscrutable stares
Collin haiku
Sky lifts, then descends,
twenty-one fleeting minutes
clouds blink and it’s done.
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SUMMARY KEYWORDS
traveling, hurricane, American Airlines, flight delays, boarding experience, layover, conference, Q&A session, computer charger, parent-teacher conferences, student presentations, accountability, classroom management, respectful behavior, presentation criteria
SPEAKERS
Brandon, Collin
Collin 00:04
Foreign 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, it had no cabbage.
00:18
Hoy. Oh, how's it going?
Collin 00:23
Pretty good. How are you I'm exhausted, I bet, my goodness,
Collin 00:28
traveling, man, and I'm not even I'm not home yet, so I ha, I come to you from the future. I am still on the East Coast
00:40
tonight. Dilation.
Collin 00:42
Leaving in the nick of time, because a hurricane is supposed to slam into the East Coast in like 36 hours.
00:48
So yeah, that is true.
00:50
Trying,
Brandon 00:52
trying desperately to run away, you and everyone else. So I borrow morning. Fleeing goes according to plan all the other fleeers Is that we're supposed to
Collin 01:03
go up there. Well, yeah, there, there. Had they put out like, a, like, a flood warning for, like, north and and South Carolina, like, way inland to, like, all the way into Charlotte. It's supposed to be really bad ahead of the major storm. Like, I don't know if it's supposed to, if it is supposed to hit, or if it's just the that's where all the rain that, you know, gets sent out in front of the storm as it comes in, right? But yeah, like tomorrow and Tuesday is supposed to be really bad, and so I can be fine, be okay. But yeah, these have been very long days. Oh my gosh. I traveling here. Okay, so this is we typically travel united.
Collin 01:48
American Airlines was the only one that flew into where we need to, given my schedule, and so I flew American Airlines. They are much more, I don't know. They futz more with the stuff before the flights I wasn't quite ready for this. Do they Yes? Like, every maybe it's just, maybe it's because I bought, like, the cheap, cheap seats. But like, leading up to it, every 15 minutes, they'd be like, Oh, you're in seat 13, f, now, 20, 7c, 9b, and like,
Collin Funkhouser 02:16
like, playing around. And then
Collin 02:20
several hours before I was supposed to fly out, it was like, Oh, hey, your first flight has been delayed by two and a half hours. No worry, though. We booked you. We went ahead and automatically booked you your second flight so that it you, so you will make it. Because, if you, because I only had an hour to make that change, two and a half hours late, all of a sudden, I'm like,
Collin Funkhouser 02:39
Okay, well, cool. And then
Collin 02:43
everything was canceled. They're like, just kidding, your flights have been canceled. We're working on it. And then they came back, and they're like, hey, good news, your flights are back on time. We'll see you at the gate. I'm like, I don't trust you at all. Showed up at the airport. They were like, Oh, you're at gate E. And then while I'm sitting there, the little desk counter person was like, hey, everybody here, we need to go to the next gate over. So we all just stood up and walked over to
03:16
one. Then
Collin 03:17
here's the boarding experience that I had at this one. Basically, they opened up the gates and they just yelled, go on get and everybody just kind of like, stormed in to that thing. It was so frenetic, like it was so like, Ha, like, we get in, we sit down, we fly in to Charlotte. As I'm landing, and land in Charlotte, I check my phone, and I'm like, okay, when's my my next flight? I've got an hour
Speaker 4 03:43
layover, and I check, well, no decay,
Collin 03:46
because what they had done, you see, is that they had moved my first flight back, but not my second flight.
03:58
Oh, so
Collin 03:59
my second flight. Now, I had a four and a half hour layover, oh, Charlotte, which I did not want because, admit, I was getting to my I was landing at like, 11 o'clock at night, and I'm like, no. So while attaching down the runway to our gate, I had to go and get my original seat back from the airport, because that flight was still there, that was still there, they just kicked everybody off that was gonna miss their connection.
04:26
Oh, you're like, I'm not gonna miss it,
Collin 04:28
though. No. And here's the thing, thankfully, I had a plane ticket, because there was a wait list of 33
Collin Funkhouser 04:39
people at the gate, and that flight was completely packed. It was
Collin 04:45
a Boeing. What was, oh no, it was an Airbus 319 so it was just six feet across with this, yeah, 60 cross from Charlotte to Greensboro, completely crammed full. That's weird. Completely cram full. And here. Is my favorite part. I thought my flight from Houston to San Antonio, which was 42 minutes long, was like, This is stupid. This is ridiculously short.
Collin Funkhouser 05:10
My flight from Charlotte to Greensboro, 20 minutes long.
05:16
People going to Greensboro, what is I'm so
Collin 05:19
confused, 20 minutes long. And I remember I was just like, I should have just driven the hour and 40 minutes to get to my No. I mean, no, let's not go that far. I did have the thought of like, the thought of like, oh, is this how the 1% feel
Brandon 05:36
Taylor Swift feels every time she takes her plane to go to her Kansas City Chiefs game, right? Yeah, from whatever.
Collin 05:45
Oh my gosh. I feel so bad people that fly from St Louis to Kansas City, that's what they feel. That's what they feel like, exactly. Yes, exactly. So here's even though it's shorter than that, because that's like three hours, like three hours from Kansas City, St Louis. This is driving, driving, not lying.
06:01
But I
Collin 06:04
here's the thing in the town of Winston Salem, which I was staying. It was the Parents Weekend at Wake Forest. It was a convention for book enthusiasts that brought, like, 30,000 people to town. Also, there was a wrestling tournament in town and like one other convention, so there was no extra anything
Brandon 06:27
time to it's apparently the hot place to be right now. Yes, yes.
Collin 06:35
So that was insane. This whole everything was packed like we tried to eat at dinner last night. We got there at six, and it was a place that didn't take reservations. We got there at six and they're like, We can seat you at 830 Do you want that? I was like, No, I do not want that. Actually, no, thank you. So Harvey's, it is like, except we're in the we're in the down downtown area, and there's no, yeah, it's all, you know, everything is the artisanal local craft fair and, like, small dive bars and just No, like, nobody too pretentious. Oh no, I Okay. So here's, here's just so everybody knows. Okay, so Wake Forest,
Collin Funkhouser 07:17
kind of a 2020, school, right?
07:20
A bit, yes, I really realize, like,
07:23
the kind
Collin 07:24
of place where we are. I have never, I've never actually walked past a, like, a a true clothing tailor shop, like, like, a really high end looking one like, sure, like, there's a suit shop, or whatever, but like, this was a high end tailor, and the shop was tailoring, that was it. Then around the corner there was like, another, like, really, like, high end men's boutique, and it's like, okay, that's how I know that this is the next level, because, like, women's boutiques is one thing. But when you're getting to the point where, like, you have men's boutiques with, like, really high end clothes, that tells me that, like everybody is I've seen
Brandon 08:10
places like that. I've seen those I saw those places in like, New York, right? And like Copenhagen, but, yeah, I was not expecting that
08:19
in North Carolina. Oh,
Collin 08:22
same, same. I was very surprised by this very, very surprised. And just all sorts of, like, shot, whatever, downtown. I was like, Oh, it's a downtown. It's gonna be downtown, downtown. Oh, no. Like that cool downtown. That's an art show, grimy. No. Well, I mean, okay, so it does have the Okay, so
08:43
let's talk me enough in the right ways.
08:46
We could talk about the homeless problem, but that's
Brandon 08:49
a different podcast. That's what I mean. That's not what I mean by grimy. I mean grimy in like, a positive so, like, when I think about grimy, I don't think like, not like dirty, not like you, yeah, not like,
09:02
not like New Orleans, right, where you just kind
Brandon 09:07
of like, right, you know, it's kind of like, yeah, right. Except for like, parts of the French Quarter, you're like, it's charming, but also, yeah,
Speaker 4 09:15
like, you know, it's like old and like, a little bit
Brandon 09:21
like, older style, like it could be a little bit dirty, but not like
Speaker 4 09:26
trash on the street. That's not what I mean. Like, just like
Brandon 09:30
more quaint, I guess, like, not so built up and not so gentrified, right? Like how downtown Springfield
Speaker 4 09:39
used, right? Understand, like, not
Brandon 09:43
so just like, Oh, it's just like swanky every on every corner there's like, some sort of, like, weird artisanal cafe or something, right?
Collin 09:51
Not so many people in mustaches and, like skinny jeans, doing, yeah, absolutely,
Brandon 09:57
yeah, like, when I used to be a bit. More grimy and, like, some of it was in the back, but also, like, it was in, like, a, ah, this is a charming,
10:07
yeah, fine, yeah.
Collin 10:09
Where, like, you don't have, like, there's an abandoned building, but not, like, every abandoned Yeah? Like, yeah, I Okay. I understood what you're saying. Like, okay, yeah, it's in revitalization, revitalization phase. No, this was very much like, Oh, this is just gentrified, like, two, yeah. It's like, I yeah, I understand. I understand. So that was, that was an eventful course, I am, I am insanely glad that I got a hotel, like, right next to the conference center, like, right, right next to it. Because parking this weekend, with it being all those things going on, would have just literally been impossible. Like, oh yeah for sure. Like, if I had to drive in 20 minutes, which is some people were doing that. Some people were like, they booked last minute. And so they were like, Yeah, I met an Airbnb 25 minutes away, and I'm having to pay 30 bucks for eight hours of parking, yeah, like, yeah, yeah, yes, but
11:07
imagine having walkable cities. Man,
Collin 11:12
anyway, stop living in a fantasy world. Yeah. It's true, yeah.
Collin 11:18
Now everything went very, very well. I I had somebody come up and ask me. They were like, Hey, how many, like, how often are you emceeing these days? And I was like, this first time, this is it? They were like, like, no, no, really. Like, how often? And I was like, No, really, I don't do this. I don't know why you think this is a thing, but yeah, so
Collin 11:46
I got, I will say I was, they're very kind. They said they enjoyed me as an MC. So I didn't completely blow it. I kept, I did manage to keep everybody on time and all right, that's the real trick, which is the real trick. But I did the like, okay, so like, you know, it's like five minutes, and it's like, I'm gonna stand up for my seat at the five minute mark, and then I'm just gonna slowly, over the next five minutes, get to closer and closer towards you, and then, like, my hand is on the railing.
12:17
Like, mid sentence, ladies and gentlemen, give it up.
12:21
I know what happened. What I did have to do several times was during Q and
12:25
A, get the the hook, the like, big shepherd's
Collin 12:29
hook. I really should have had that. I really should have had that. But no, unfortunately, during Q A, what I did not do, and we didn't talk about, like, we talked about a lot of stuff for housekeeping. And one of the things that like towards the middle of the day, of the day one, I was like, oh, tomorrow I have to announce this. Of like, Hey, we're really glad that you
12:51
have questions.
Collin 12:54
If you has more than one cue, just ask one, and then go back to the end of the line so that more people can ask their cues. Because people would be like, Hi, I have some questions. And they'd like, unroll their scroll, like, flop on the ground, like, question, yeah, we can't do that.
13:17
That's rude, yeah, inconsiderate, right? It
Collin 13:20
is. So today I had to be like, and everybody was so happy for such an engaged Q A session yesterday. What we'd like to do is make sure that everybody gets an opportunity to talk about their question. And so if you have more than one, ask one and then go back to the end of the line, we'll
Collin Funkhouser 13:34
cycle through, oh my gosh. So
Brandon 13:37
that was their email address is also on the screen.
13:41
So person is not disappearing right now.
13:44
You can't they'll be in the lobby. Literally,
Collin 13:47
you're probably sitting next to them, if we're being honest, right?
13:51
Like, go, you'll see them at lunch.
13:55
Go, do this.
Collin 13:59
We then, I then managed to have a wonderful joke throughout the entire conference, because it's what I do. Obviously, somebody, somebody had left a computer charger during one of the breaks somewhere. And so every time I announced that I still had the computer charger, I increased the price that I was asking for. It nice, just like, of course.
Brandon 14:26
So now at $27 ransom, I mean reward.
Collin 14:32
I started at 10, and we got up to $73 before the end of the conference, and nobody claimed it. So I was just like, I'm not, I'm not doing anything with this. It's staying here. This can go in a bit even on a table somewhere. I kept it like during one of the extended breaks, I was like, if you brought a laptop to the conference, please raise your hand. And everybody raised their hand. I was like, if you have a Lenovo laptop, please keep your hand raised. And I was like, if you don't know what kind of laptop. If you have close it and read the top of your
15:02
computer, turn it around real quick.
Collin 15:06
And I was like, Now, check your bag. And I don't know where this came from, but it wasn't
Speaker 5 15:13
anybody there, apparently left. That was the
Collin 15:18
other like, oh man, my computer is dead. I guess I have to leave
Brandon 15:21
to go home now to drive 28 minutes back to my Airbnb.
Collin 15:27
I don't even know, I don't even know the talk. The talk also went over very well. Um, everybody loved the like, because I leaned I think I told you I was gonna lead into the the whale thing. Oh, yes, yes, hard, like, yeah. Really extended metaphors are good, though they are, especially for an hour. Like everybody loves, yeah, tinted metaphors.
15:53
They need to know where they are. They need to have a, you know, grounding, right, yep, footing, yeah.
Collin 16:00
Back to you. My favorite part that I did with it was when I was talking about, there has to be a better way of scaling and managing your business. I started us talking about the life cycle and migratory patterns of the pygmy whale, Pygmy Sperm Whale, obviously, and how, well and how they like to spend part of their time in the Bay of Bengal because of the nutrient rich waters that are fed by the Ganges River, yeah, river that comes in and feeds squid that they like to eat. And if you're in the Bay of Bengal, and you look 430, miles upstream, you can't see it because it's too far over the horizon line, but there you'll find the world's largest watershed in the world. And I clicked the button and it was Mount Everest, right? Yeah. And I talk about how often in scaling, we think that we just pick the highest point on the peak and we march and tread your way through there. When, when, in reality, what we need to be like is like the river flowing downstream. Because rivers shape landscapes. Water always wins. And so what are ways that we can go with the flow? And then I gave three quick examples from other businesses and entrepreneurs in different industries, and lessons from their life and what they did. And then took lessons from that and applied it to that. But you could tell when I started talking about, like, the pygmy sperm whale, people were like, Okay, what are you
17:19
talking about?
Collin 17:19
You just transitioned from talking about Pinocchio and Geppetto in the belly of Monstro. What are we doing?
Brandon 17:26
Stay with me. It's coming. I also like how you have merged your two former career, most recent careers, into one speech. That's very, very good. I know,
17:42
pulling from everything I can to make this happen.
Brandon 17:45
I mean, yeah, we're like, you need to talk for an hour. Like, oh no, actually, I can talk for an hour, but I need to be on a topic that's a different request,
Collin 17:57
right? Like, and I need to be helpful. Yeah, I need to be one person sent me, sent me a picture that they took of their notebook from the conference, and all it said at the top was, like, Collin loves whales.
18:11
I mean, it's true. I mean, it's
Speaker 2 18:13
not who doesn't love whales who doesn't Right?
18:16
Like, come on. Oh man.
Collin 18:19
So I was like, Okay, this is good. Everybody liked it. And I crashed hard yesterday. I was I was exhausted. I was so burned out because, I mean, I had to do sound check at like, 630 in the morning, and then again, see aforementioned discussion about how everything is booked up for dinner. Like, I didn't get back from dinner until like, 1015 last night.
Collin Funkhouser 18:47
Oh, man. And, like, no, like, just, just
Collin 18:51
waiting for dinner, not and then, like, you know, and people are like, Hey, we're gonna go out to so and so I'm going home and not waking up. So ridiculous. This is what are we doing here? Oh, my God,
Brandon 19:03
I didn't hear you say the magic word, taco truck. So I'm going home. Yeah, I'll see you later.
Collin 19:09
Only way I'm going, yeah, the only time I'm going to a second location, if it is, includes taco dry, yeah, and you didn't say that. So I'm gonna eat my What did I have? We ate at a Irish pub last night, and so it was a some, I don't know, I picked quickly, because I was like, I just need to order and get this going. Because I reached the point where it's like I was starting to go past, like I was so hungry, like, because I eat dinner at 530
Brandon 19:38
Yes, because you and dad are just, it's strange.
Collin 19:43
It's eight o'clock and I'm like, I am. I know that if I now that, like, Wait, like, I just have to, we just have to eat, because it's like, that's eight o'clock, East Coast time, so it's really like, nine o'clock.
19:57
It's even worse. I.
20:01
Yeah, so it's how
Brandon 20:02
this is, yeah, that's rough. I don't I was gonna have follow up question, how Irish was this pub? Was it just
Speaker 4 20:12
beer, or did you order, like, coal
20:15
cannon or something like, super Irish? Like, they're just, like, No, we have Guinness bro.
20:22
Like, okay, wow, thanks. Okay, so
Brandon 20:27
their corned beef and cabbage somewhere to be seen. This is exact.
Collin 20:31
I will tell you how Irish. This is on the menu was you could find green shepherd's pie. Okay? It had a shepherd, okay, okay. And on the ceiling had nothing English sign off. They'd appreciate that. And then on the ceiling they had banners of get for Guinness. So it was like, I'm gonna say it's not very Irish. It was not a very Irish, because slightly also, I ate mac and cheese for dinner because, and that was, like a main, oh yeah. It was like a, like a barbecue, like a chicken barbecue, mac and cheese. And I was like, Yeah, that sounds Irish for me. I'll take that. Thank you.
21:16
Yeah, no cabbage. So really not feeling like, yeah, it
Collin 21:22
had no cabbage anywhere, anywhere. Okay, well, that's unless you unless you count them. Wait, does Cobb salad have cabbage that has cabbage in it? I don't think so. No, no, Cobb salad does not have cabbage. I can confirm Yeah. So No, no cabbage was found. It had no cabbage. Yeah, sorry.
Brandon 21:45
The weird thing about Irish pubs, right? They always just say Irish pub, but it's like,
21:52
are you really, like, you don't
Brandon 21:54
ever serve like, Irish food? No, they're just like, Oh no, we have Irish
Speaker 4 21:59
beer. Yeah, we'll play Irish song, yes, oh, it's green.
Speaker 5 22:09
Oh, wow. So much culture, so much, so much.
Collin Funkhouser 22:16
Oh yeah,
22:19
not even the cranberries, right? Not even no
Collin 22:22
was literally nothing. Nothing was good.
22:26
So need our counter posters Come on.
Collin 22:28
No nothing. No homage done to that at all. I know, I know. So then we walked back again, within walking distance to the hotel and collapsed. But tonight, after the end of everything, like, I we had dinner reservations, and I'm like, I'm kind of peopled out. Like, I need to not be talking to people. I just need to kind of disassociate for a little bit. But I was getting stir crazy. I had two hours to do that, and I had going to stir
22:58
crazy in my my room.
Collin 23:01
Yeah, I'm just gonna go sit down through the lobby. And I was sitting in the lobby, in the chair just like disassociated to the max, with just kind of blankly staring at my phone. And then I look up and someone from the conference is like, coming to me with their camera out recording. And they're like, hey, it's the MC Hi. I was just like, Oh, no. I need to get further away. So I kind of ran. I didn't run, but I ran. I said, I said, Oh, hey, hi, great. Then I like, walked out to the coffee shop down the street for a little bit. Was like, Oh my gosh. So I am peopled out.
Speaker 4 23:40
That's too much. Do it too much? But, oh, it was fine. We survived. I fly out bright and early tomorrow to make the long journey home nice.
23:53
It's been my my fun,
Brandon 23:56
fun. Flying back home will be much more smooth, right? Yeah, I hope they're not less confusing, right? And then the
Collin Funkhouser 24:05
way, yeah, less confusing is what. I hope nothing has been updated
Collin 24:12
for now, so we'll see how that
Speaker 4 24:16
goes. But yeah, yeah, so
Collin 24:20
I'm ready to not be like, we also, last weekend were in a hotel because we went to a baseball game with the kids. Oh, yeah. And so I'm like,
24:30
Okay, I
24:33
hotel down. I'm done. That's
Brandon 24:39
fair. That's fair. You might have an eventful month here, of like, very, very much traveling and doing all kinds of things. So this is fair, right? Understand where you're kind of
Speaker 4 24:57
probably like, what have you been up to? Um. Oh, not a lot today. We had a
Brandon 25:06
family picnic with Susan's family kind of sort of situation. It was actually the part of her family that we like never see ever. So it's like her dad's family, right? Like her, the cousins, some of the cousins on that side, they were just like, hey, it's one of those things that, like, I think Susan's mom and this lady have been sort of like, Banting this idea back and forth for ever, right? And it just one of those things that, like, never really came to fruition. And they're just like, No, Sunday.
Speaker 4 25:40
Boom. Doing it. Like, oh, just right.
25:43
Okay, yeah, not, like,
Brandon 25:46
not, it was a little bit more advanced warning than that. But like, hey, sure, this day we're going for it. Like, love it. Okay, so we did that. Just went to the park and had to, they her mom, of course, got there, like, mega early. I don't really know how long they were there, but they like, snapped up one of the pavilions, right, like the nice pavilion, so bang, let's go and I just set up stuff in there, and we just hung out today.
26:15
We did see
Brandon 26:19
some discard, uh, disc golf, golf, cart guys rolling around. Part two,
Speaker 4 26:26
I one of his cousins was like, I was explaining to him my loathing of this. And he was like, he kind of looked at me. He's like,
Brandon 26:35
No, I get it. I hate that. That's awful. Oh. No, oh so we have, we have a bonded of our common solidarity of the the dislike of, yeah, the enemy that is this car, disc golf, golf cart guy. We saw them when we were leaving, loading them on their
26:58
trailers. Oh, drive home, right,
Collin 27:02
right. They gotta bring them in, yeah, yeah. So there
27:05
was, it was even more ridiculous than
Speaker 4 27:07
it sounds, because these four people, yeah, right,
Brandon 27:12
we're taking up a gigantic amount of parking lot space because each one of them drove their own truck, right? And they had a big trailer
27:25
for one golf cart.
27:27
Of course, they
27:29
did couldn't
Brandon 27:31
expect this. We're talking like this is like 16 foot lock. There's, like, Dad's trailer, right? That's how one of them has like a 16 foot long fly by trailer. Oh, wow. The other one, maybe, maybe a little shorter.
Speaker 4 27:43
It was like 12 feet for a golf cart.
27:49
Wow. Man, that was great. Good
Collin 27:51
job. Well, yeah, I mean, what else you gonna do? How else
Collin Funkhouser 27:54
do you expect to get it there?
Brandon 27:59
It's absolutely ridiculous. So yeah, they were spotted again. I don't know. These probably different people. I don't know if they're the same people as I saw last time. I didn't pay that much attention.
28:12
Plus, yeah, so
Brandon 28:13
I saw that anyway. So yeah, it was good time, though, hanging out of the park and just chilling out with people that I don't ever see, really. So it's kind of like, Hey, I don't know you sure, really, you know one of them, actually, so fun fact, one of the people there was the flower girl at our wedding. She's like, 23 now, so that's cool. Yeah, she's in like, college or whatever. That's great.
Collin 28:42
Oh, that'll make you think different, I know, so that's fine.
Brandon 28:51
Wow, I don't know how she actually seems legit Nice. Yeah, cool. Anyway, that's other than that moment today, it was fine. Other than they Oh, gosh, I'm so old.
29:05
Why? Oh no.
Brandon 29:14
So, yeah, that was it. That was fun. It's fun times. Yeah, there's really all we've done this week. I did get I'll tell you this now, because I'm sure this is going to come up more than once, right? I have the most distressing
Brandon 29:28
school related news of all time, right? I get this email Friday, okay? And it's like, Hey, here's the plan for, like, a parent teacher conferences are, like, a month, right?
Speaker 4 29:40
So here's the new plan, apparently, for how parent teacher conferences are going to work this year, right? It's going to be a half day of school, and then parent teacher conferences are going to start at 130 Oh, and they're good. To last until seven o'clock? No, yes, oh, I am so irritating. What is
Collin Funkhouser 30:13
the worst? What? Okay, okay, okay. Parent, teacher conference. What? Okay? I know. Okay, statistically, how many parents are they expecting is going to show up
Speaker 4 30:25
at one o'clock? Yeah, none. Right. They're already, like, maybe some of the ones that come to pick up their kids, but, like, I don't know who is coming at one 130 because they're all working still, right? A lot of times they can't come between.
Brandon 30:44
Normally, this is an event that occurs between, like, four o'clock and seven o'clock or 330 you know, like, it's usually like four to seven, right? Sometimes parents can't come then because they're working,
31:01
yeah, so, like, I don't really know what I'm supposed to do for this duration of time.
31:10
Like, the majority of my conferences last less than five minutes, right?
Speaker 4 31:19
Like, Hey, what's up? How's it going? Blah, blah, here's what I'm seeing. It's really good. Well, okay, bye. Like, it's kind of it, right? Like, yeah, I don't know what, what is supposed to be occurring, uh, during this time. Like, what? What is going on here? Who?
Brandon 31:46
Who are these people that are meeting with parents for like, 30 minutes? Like, what, right?
Collin 31:51
Like, what are they positive? I mean, seriously, like, I mean, have you? I mean, do you have any I mean, I know you say that. Do you have I mean, do you really have any idea? Um, from other fellow teachers.
Brandon 32:02
Like, no, I don't know. Like, I know that, like the lower elementary people, like, sometimes their conferences take longer, right? Because they have, like, a lot of stuff to go over them. But this is like, first
Speaker 4 32:14
grade people, right? Like, our conferences in the middle school are like, Yeah, okay, cool. Like, most of the time it's fine, like, we don't really have normally by conferences, if there's a problem, I've already called you Right? Like, like we
Brandon 32:40
have to sit down and do next week is like, get with and be like, hey. We need to send some letters home to like, these certain children so that we're, you know, we can say that we've talked to them before conferences, like, have another official contact point or whatever, or an email or something, right? Figure out how to get in touch with them.
Speaker 4 32:59
But that's like less than five people, right?
Brandon 33:04
So I don't the rest of the conferences are going to be like, fine, right? Like, right. I'm really concerned
33:16
about, like,
Brandon 33:20
less than 10% of my students, right? Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I the everybody else is doing pretty good, right? I'm seeing some good stuff. It's fine, you know, blah,
33:36
and I need to talk to like, four people. Like real bad. That's it really Adam.
Brandon 33:49
And because, you know, like the way that conferences work, those the people that I like desperately need to speak to will not come. So that's like, no matter what time you have it, they won't be there because, yeah, they don't care, right? That's how it works. That's, that's the the dichotomy here, right? It's always the one person's parents who you like desperately need to speak to,
34:19
will refuse
Brandon 34:22
to talk to you. Everyone will refuse to come to school. That's just how it is, how it is, right? It's just like the facts. It's always like that, right?
Collin Funkhouser 34:31
Like, Yep, yeah. I mean, so like, what?
Collin 34:36
How do you do you try and just at least document like that. You tried to set something up and that
34:42
kind of, yeah, you
Brandon 34:44
have to put in like, a like, Oh, hey, you know, we tried to send this. Or we sent you have to and then, like, because, like, We've some of the kids, like, we've already talked to some of their parents, right? But it's been, like, unofficially, it's like, we've messaged them on, like, the school messaging app thing, or, like, the. A email or whatever. So just, like, for just the office to know, like, hey, yeah, we already talked to them.
Speaker 4 35:07
Boom, right? Because if they're doing, like, really bad or in sixth grade, it's not that they, like, can't do things. Usually, it's that, Hey, uh,
Brandon 35:20
I never get assignments turned in. I have no idea where they are, so I know your child has a bad grade
Speaker 4 35:25
because they never finish anything right, and so they
Brandon 35:31
there's all these assignments, like out there in the wind somewhere, that's just that are just like, not finished and not done. And I don't have them, so I cannot judge their proficiency in any meaningful way because I have no assignments finished. So I just have to make the assumption,
Speaker 4 35:52
yeah, I can't do them right if they never get done. I can't tell if they know what's up or not. So I have to assume that they can't do it, which is why it's incomplete, right? Like, the
Brandon 36:08
people that are missing, like, tons of assignments, like, it's, we have to say, like, I don't know how they're actually doing because it right, and it's never, it's usually not that we can't do them right? It's a combination of, I don't really feel like it right now, and my time management is abysmal. That's kind of how this works. That's really what it is. Like. I don't understand when Mr. Funkhouser says things like, I need this assignment due at the end of class tomorrow. They some of them think like, oh, that's so much time I have to. I don't really have to do that much right now. No, right,
36:50
because I've got all the way until tomorrow. Yeah,
Brandon 36:52
yeah. They don't realize that really only needs two class periods. Yeah, right. And then they're like, Oh, well, I'm not done. Like, yeah, I know because, yeah, goofed around for one whole class period, goofed and then it's, it's almost like, I know how
Collin 37:09
long it should take. That's crazy. I know it's like, that's possible, right?
Brandon 37:15
And so, like, when everybody and then they're like, You didn't give me enough time, you go, Okay, well, this, here's, here's what I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 4 37:24
Everybody else that I've ever given this assignment to can do it in this direction. And based on what you've done today, it could have been done but
Collin 37:40
and movement you had today. Imagine, yeah, I don't know that
37:44
would have happened if you did that
37:45
yesterday, yesterday too.
37:48
It's almost a gasp,
37:50
it would have been possible.
37:57
So it's like, hey, you know,
38:01
what do you want? I don't know what you want. Like, on the
Speaker 4 38:04
one hand, I'm like, Yeah, you know, it's also hard, because it's actually trying to learn about, like, accountability, right? So I've talked to them several times already about, like, if you need help to do your thing, that's fine. That's literally my job. Like, I don't know why you like, but if you need help, and you don't tell me this, oh, wait,
38:32
I'm sorry. Like,
Collin 38:34
I thought teachers could read minds. Have I been I
Brandon 38:39
like to read some of their minds. Imagine me living in this mind of a sixth grader. Is a terrifying place.
Speaker 4 38:49
Like, you know, you are like, hey, you know, if you need help, that's cool. And I am here to help you, actually, in my job description, to help you do things. Yeah, but if you're just sitting there with your paper, I'm assuming you don't need help, because you're just sitting there doing work, because some people just do that, they're just like, Okay, I'm gonna go, right? But I tell them, I don't know if I brought this up before, but I said there is this. I call it the secret signal, because some people seem to not know about it, right? Oh, that if you need help, we have a secret signal here in sixth grade, right? They will alert me to the fact that you
39:31
need help, right? If you just put one of your hands up in the air.
39:35
Now, wait a minute,
39:38
I would see it. Now, are you telling come to you. Sorry.
Collin 39:41
Are you telling me all I have to do? I can wait. Do I have to stand up and come to you?
Brandon 39:49
No, no, you don't have to do that. Please don't do that. No. Okay, so the real reason that I call it speaker signal is because usually they'll just be like, working, right? And we're all. Sitting around. And I sometimes, when we're working, I let them sit like, I call it around the room. They can just sit wherever they want to. Like, some kids want to just, like, lay on
40:07
the floor and do their assignment. Cool, I don't care.
Brandon 40:12
That's fine. Yeah, that's fine. Me. Some people want to sit in my little chairs, okay, cool. Some people want to stay in their desk, neat. Sometimes they want to sit at, like a table I have, like a table with just some, like, normal chairs. They just want to sit there. Yeah, okay, that's fine.
Speaker 4 40:26
Sit wherever you want. I don't care, be comfortable,
40:30
do your work, though, but also
Brandon 40:32
do work, right? So they're like around and so I just sort of like, wander about, right? Just kind of keep an eye on them, see if they make sure they're not doing anything nefarious, mostly being on their Chromebooks illegally, right? Like, but, like, yeah, because we have, like, one of those, we have this thing where you can, like, sync up their Chromebooks. You can, like, monitor their screens, you know, and so you can, like, put it up. You can pull all their screens up on your computer, if you put them in this program thing, right? It's part of our, like, school security deal. But like, I don't really use it, because I just sort of wander around and stare at them. So, like, I don't that's fine anyway. So I'll be wandering around. But like, the reason I call it a secret signal is because some, for a lot of people, will just be like, Yo, Mr. Funkhouser, I need help.
41:18
Like, that's not the signal we talked about this. Like, that's not what the signal is.
Speaker 4 41:26
That's like, if you shout at me, I super unhelpful right
Collin 41:32
now. I want to help you even less. Yeah,
Brandon 41:35
sometimes I will comically, put my hands over my eyes and like gaze, you know, like, how you you put your hand up to your brow, like, garden from the sun. Yeah. I'll just like, look around the room, and it'd be like, Oh man, I could have sworn her, somebody needs help, but I can't see anything. Oh, no, tell me.
41:51
Oh, this is perfect.
41:53
Yes, this is absolutely what
Speaker 4 41:55
is. Then they, like, slowly, put their hand up, like, right.
42:00
Oh, this signal. And then I will, like, run over to them, like,
Collin 42:05
this is, this is the way. This is how, this is what's necessary to teach. Yes, absolutely,
Brandon 42:12
very great. It's just, it's good. System works well sometimes, so
Speaker 4 42:19
I agree. But anyway, if they don't use the signal,
Collin Funkhouser 42:25
I don't know they need any help. Yes, we talk about this. We've talked about this.
Brandon 42:29
So since first quarter is a rough transition period. Sometimes, sure. Again, it's also a workload thing, right? Like, what do you mean? You You are giving me these three assignments
Speaker 4 42:42
this week. Like, yes, that is true.
Brandon 42:45
Do them. Sometimes it's not even three. Sometimes it's like two. Like, yeah, but we're gonna do we're gonna like, bang, bang, bang, bang. Like, we gotta just you think, I do give you assignment and like, we stare at each other. Like, No, we got things to do around here.
43:02
I All
Brandon 43:05
distressed because I told them tomorrow, Monday, right? Spoilers, Monday, tomorrow. Maybe not if you're listening this in the future, actually, when this episode comes out, hi, it's not Monday, right? And if you're way in the future, hello, 2027
Speaker 4 43:24
what I was like to Monday, we're gonna give you your first presentation, and they All like you. Watch their faces fall.
Speaker 4 43:41
It's great. I was really teasing the seventh graders, because they were like, I saw something in the hallway, like we had to give a presentation in this class the other day. And I was like, I this is what I trained you for. We were you should be ready.
Collin 43:55
Remember my presentation? No, I
Brandon 43:59
give them so many we do, like so much, like, through the whole year, we there's like 10 that they have to do, right? Like, maybe not even 10, but there's a bunch that we do. Some of them are like little dinky ones, right? Just like a little thing, but like other, you know, I've, I've trained you for this. We prepared. Okay, what do you mean? Oh, no, I don't know how to present.
44:19
You do too. Yes, you do, yes.
44:24
Oh, it was fine, but
Brandon 44:25
Tomorrow's the first one. We'll get them going. Okay, and it's nice and chill, though, right? It's our, my big plan for the summative geography assessment, right? So this is my secret here. We've been doing geography. We talked about all these places and landforms, and look at all these climate maps and all the stuff, right? So nice, our larb sumtive geography assessment is we are planning our dream vacation to any destination in the world, right, okay, or they have to, like, tell where it is and, like. Like, Sure, the landforms and the climate and all, that's what I need from them. And then they can tell me about, like, the food they're gonna eat and all that stuff. Like, the real, most important thing, yeah, what are you eating when you're going but seriously, like, what's but seriously, what are you eating? I
45:26
very
Brandon 45:28
official geography. That's tomorrow. I like that. That'd be big. That's a big one, so it'll be good. The other thing I do tell them right? The other secret sauce here to any Mr.
Speaker 4 45:37
Funkhouser presentation, if you are a disruptive audience member,
Brandon 45:45
you lose points on your brain. Yes, because people don't like being up here from the class talking. No, right? They really like sitting at their desk talking, but they don't like to talk in front of people. No, if you are being a problem and making it difficult for them,
46:02
you are losing
Brandon 46:03
actual point. Like, I'm not it's in the rubric like, how good a listener ARE YOU? I this needs
Collin 46:10
to be implemented at conferences, because I had to remind these people twice of like, hey, one of the great things about being at an in person conference is all the wonderful personal connections and conversations that we can have. One of the worst times that you can do that is during the Q A session, because we can't hear what the people are asking or talking about. So if you
Brandon 46:29
I have a slide that I show at the beginning of every unit about like, how to be a respectful class member, right? Oh, yes, I'll give you that slide next. Oh, good. Like, we remind I remind them how to be respectful humans, right? Like, what does being a good sixth grade science student look like? It looks like these things. Like, how do we be respectful? How do we be responsible? We have to be safe too, right? It's important, right? I'm gonna be safe? Had I think present? Being present is the other thing I have on there, like being an active listener, like asking questions, participating in discussion, like having only your science materials on your desk. We don't need crayons right now. What are you doing?
47:16
What about what about the other things? Yes, you
Brandon 47:20
don't need scissors, right now. Where did you get scissors? We don't need scissors. Put those away.
Collin 47:25
Nice, yeah. Like, that's
Collin Funkhouser 47:27
not important, yeah,
Brandon 47:30
this time I though, oh, here's my grand is good. This is good stuff, right here, ready? So Ben, we are doing we do this thing, right? So, like, as part of our we're a PBIS school, right? Positive Behavior, something support. I can't remember what The I stands for anyway. Like, we've talked about this before. So we are doing this thing where we are the new the thing that we've transitioned to in like, the middle school is like, we used to give them like points on this thing, right? But we are now giving them like $1 it's like, not a real dollar. It's like a paper it's like a paper token thing, right? Absolutely. We call it a sore Buck because we're
48:07
the Eagles.
Brandon 48:07
Oh, and, wow, I know good sore is an acronym. It stands for stuff anyway, so you're supposed to give them it's like a thing. And then the principals have set up this thing where, like, every two weeks at lunch, it's our turn, and they can, like, there's like, a store, they can, like, buy stuff. Oh, right. They can, like, get, like, for it's like, thinking like, carnival tickets, right? Like, you can buy, like, chips and candy and like, little stickers or whatever, the increase in price, like, if you get, like, a whole bunch, the principals
Speaker 4 48:41
will buy you a bunch, right? Sure, it's like, the top one anyway. So I was like, listen,
48:49
I told the whole class, the whole sixth grade, we had to talk. I was like, All right,
Speaker 4 48:54
look, I'm bad at this. I always forget to give these out. So I want to know what you think you should be doing to
Brandon 49:04
earn them? Oh, right. So I haven't made them. I gave them a half piece of paper, and I said, this is anonymous. You don't have to tell me who you are, right, but I want you to write down all the things like, write down things that you think I should be watching you for. What kind of behaviors like, what kind of good things should you be doing that I can reward you with? Right?
49:25
Yeah, ownership, right, boom, ownership, what's
Brandon 49:28
Aha, anyway, they wrote these down. The majority of these lists were excellent. Oh, right, that were there some, like, dumb stuff on there? Gifts? Right? Yes, right? There were some people like, ah, give Mr. Mr. Funkhouser candy. Like, that's bribery. No, we can't. We're not doing that, right? Candy, that's fine. I'm not gonna pay for it. Weird. So no bribes, right? No bribes here. But, like, all of them were really good, right? And so what I did at the beginning. Of this science unit on Friday was I read their papers back to them,
Speaker 4 50:07
sing, got them right. And it was like, I just read some of the lists on there. And I was like, hey, look, you know, you know what, right? Like, you know the path we
Brandon 50:20
need to be on, yeah, just it's, the only problem is, some of you are over here in the bushes, right? We got to get you back on the path. Right? You gotta Yeah, you know, you know,
Collin Funkhouser 50:30
yeah, you know what to do. But they're really good.
Brandon 50:33
They were just, like, a lot of them, like, clean up your class materials for like, you know, be like, show responsibility. And like, oh, cool, blah, blah, blah. And then a couple of them. I was like, I read this one. It was like,
Speaker 4 50:46
look out for one another. I was like, bro, what do you what mic drop done? Just that's all you got, right? Okay, everyone do this. Do you like this person? Yeah, come on. It's like, you know, you know how to not suck. I seem to do it sometimes. That's what I really need. Yeah, it's in there, it's in there. It's gonna get it out
51:09
very difficult. Sometimes
Speaker 4 51:11
they make it hard, but like so I thought I'm just gonna read their own worst tip. That's how we're going to figure this out this time. Boom, take that.
Collin 51:27
See, that's what I did this week. Oh, very nice. Sad about
51:31
conferences and yeah, starting presentations tomorrow. So it's gonna be awesome,
51:41
fun. They'll be, they'll survive. They
Brandon 51:43
usually like this one, right? I try to, like, really scaffold this one. Like, really good. I have a presentation that I made, right? So I will show it to them. Oh, cool. And then I give I will share that through the Google Classroom thing, so they just have it to look at. I have, like, an example, right? And then I give them a big, like sheet, not a big sheet, but I give them the directions, like, here's all of the, like, a bullet point list. You need to have all of these. Like, this thing needs to be, like, one to two slides.
Speaker 4 52:17
Bang. This thing needs to be, you know, one to two slides, boom, that, like,
52:23
put all of these things in your presentation, yeah,
Collin 52:26
yeah, all of these elements. And I think, I think that's a really good way to do it, because sometimes just giving like a rubric, it's hard to know, like, but what is, what should this finished product look like? Like, I don't know. It's because that's what you're kind of doing. You're saying, Look, this is a visual rubric, or what you want, I want you to do just copy this. Like, not obviously the topic of the words, but like, this,
Brandon 52:48
oh yeah, you can use this format. I guess I show mine. Because sometimes people just, like, they just don't do mine, yeah? Just, like, put their own pictures and words in it. Like, yes, that's fine. They're like, can I just use this as a template, like, yes, yes. Do it? I always try to show them good presentations, yeah, in this, like, I will, usually, because it archives them all right? I have a bunch of them, so I'll try to remember, like, who's a really good from, like, last year, the year before, and I will show
Speaker 4 53:18
those at the beginning, right? Like, or maybe not, like the first day, because, like, if you show them, if you just show them one, they will all just copy that one, right? Yeah, and that's boring and not
Brandon 53:33
really innovating or becoming good at making a presentation, but like, I will show them one, and then, like, maybe the next day, worked on it for a day, and then I'll show them another one, right? Like, you can add these elements. Look at their elements. Look at look at the font. Well, look at that. Look how this is not black and blue. Okay. Stop, wow. Stop crazy. Doing a black background with blue text. Who? No, I never do that. That's, that's not okay. We talk about basic graphic design choices.
Speaker 4 54:04
Okay, color matters, all right, and stop with
Brandon 54:10
white and yellow too. Don't do that. You believe everyone's eyes are burning. Yes, don't I know you like the color red. Do not make your whole slide background
54:18
red, red with blue
Brandon 54:21
text, like, Why? Why did you do these things? It's striking these. It's brain.
54:27
No, you don't understand.
Brandon 54:29
Yeah, I can't understand because I sit at my desk when I'm grading these, and I look at them all on my board all the way on this other side of classroom, and I can't read a thing that's on it because the text is so the same color as the background that I
Collin 54:42
don't understand this is, this is very odd, right? They're like, it looked fine on my
Brandon 54:46
Chromebook. Like, maybe when it's projected on this huge screen thing right here, like, I can't see,
Collin 54:53
go, No, I call, I call Bernie,
54:57
call shenanigans right here. Like, stop.
Speaker 4 54:59
I. Yes. So I do always try to show them examples, because, like, yeah, they need to know what a good one looks like. Yeah, absolutely. Because I, you know, I don't know. I mean, I,
Brandon 55:15
I don't really know how much presenting they've done before. I think in like fifth grade, they do, like, one or two, maybe they do. They've done it a little bit. But, like, I don't know, like lower elementary, sometimes things are more like structured, right? I guess it's it feels. I want to say hand holdy, but that's not the right word. You know what I mean? Like, it's more of a structured process where you like, you know how, like, Laura elementary writes, like, an essay, right? Where they write their five paragraphs, and they like, do the rough draft, and then they go over with the teacher, and then the teacher, like, edits it, and then they fix it, and then it's like that, right? So I think in the Laurel Elementary, I think there's some of that happening, but, like, it's more of a I'm gonna do this, like, a one on one, or a small group with a teacher, whereas I'm like, Yeah,
Speaker 4 56:04
do it go, Yeah, I'll look at it. But like, I want it to be your stuff
Brandon 56:10
on there, so I don't care, like, I don't Yeah, like, as so I don't know how they've ever done one like that before. Like, just, like, done it. Like, I don't know. I'm not really sure. And I think they may have done some, like, the ones they done for like,
Speaker 4 56:25
tiny, like, just little ones. So Charlotte just let them go, go. They get mad at me sometimes because I don't give them, like, explicit directions well, but like, I told them already once I was like, the reason I do that is because I want to see what your
Brandon 56:42
brain comes up with. Oh, yes. Like, I want to see what you do. Like, I especially feel like a presentation, or, like a some of our, like, more arty, crafty projects for social studies, right? Like, yeah, I want you to do it, like, how you think it should be done, yeah, right? Because the as long as you meet the criteria in the rubric. I don't really care what the rest of it looks like. I mean, I care, but like, I don't. When I say that again, it's not like, I don't care. I like, I'm interested to see what happens.
Collin 57:13
There's just a lot of leeway in there, right? Yeah, that's, I think that's where you go. If I tell you, like, if I continue to talk on this, you're just going to make how I would make this, and that's not important. Like, I everybody has a different opinion and a different
57:30
viewpoint on,
Collin 57:32
like, how to put this together. Like, and, yeah, because otherwise, then, like, because we I would, this would happen whenever we would ask people like to write a lab report on certain things. And it's like, if I gave too much detail for what to include in the lab report, I just read 30 copies of my lab report Exactly. And it's like, but that's not what I want. Like, I just, I want to hear how you put together the sentences and how you made the conclusions, and maybe they were different than what I would have said, but like, show me how. And like, Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, sounds fine. It's okay, okay. But yeah, I don't. I already know how I do lab reports. I don't need to have you regurgitate it back to me, because I don't think that's important,
Brandon 58:19
yeah, because sometimes some of the stuff that they come up with is, like, so good. Like, what
Speaker 4 58:23
is happening? Like, I've had some presentations before that are, like, I've looked at them. Like, how did you How'd you even do that?
Brandon 58:32
Like, what is this title slide? This is amazing.
58:38
Like, so, yeah,
Brandon 58:40
I just wanted to do it, like, if they meet the criteria, it's that they don't understand that, sure, really, yeah, because I think I might be the first person that's ever said that today, right?
Speaker 4 58:52
Like, I feel like, like, just like, how
Brandon 58:55
lower elementary works. It's, again, it's much more like, you, oh, you need to do it like this
58:59
here, right?
Brandon 59:00
Yeah, yeah, not to cut, but because they they don't know how to do it at all, yeah, yeah, a lot of things, yeah. So they have to do it within a certain framework, right? Which is fine. I'm not, like, dogging on it. I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm just saying, like, when you're in like, third or fourth grade, that's might need to be how you do certain things, right? Absolutely yeah. Have to know the structure first. Absolutely, right? You have to know the rules before you can break them. You know what I mean? Like, you think about like artists, right? It's kind of how it works, right? Like my kids were talking about Picasso the other day, and I was like, no, no. Picasso was a really, really, really good painter, right?
Speaker 4 59:36
But kind of what happened is, he kind of was, like, bored,
Brandon 59:43
and he wanted to do stuff differently, yeah, and like, more, his style uniquely, like, you ever seen his early stuff when he was, like, a student or whatever? It's like, like, classical style. It's like, killer, like, it's so good, right? And then he went and did a. His own
Collin 1:00:00
thing. Yep, you watch how he started to like, and I think that's, it's typically just like, that trajectory of like, Okay, we're gonna learn one way of doing this, okay, and we're gonna get really good at that. And then what you can start doing is going, now, what would I change? How, where do I see a way to do something different and more unique and little by little. And you do watch that, it like, it's not even, like a de evolution, or whatever, the deconstruction of painting. It's just like you watch his trajectory, and you're like, his first paintings to his last paintings. You're like, if you just put those up side by side, you go, there's this per the same person did not paint this. But yeah, look too many different people, right? Like, yeah. And then you look at the paintings from one year to the next to the next to the next, and you see that evolution of style. And that's what he was doing. He was finding, finding his style over time, yeah, absolutely, yeah. And so, like, that's just kind of how you have to learn things at first in elementary school. That's fine, but like,
Brandon 1:01:00
I do kind of like to challenge them, and some of them get really mad at me,
1:01:05
but you didn't tell me how to do it. It's like I know, because I want to know how you want to do it, right?
Brandon 1:01:12
I just told you, these are the ingredients you need. You can put them in any word you want, to do whatever you want with them in your presentation, but I need these things in there,
1:01:21
right? If they're in there, you're good, right?
Brandon 1:01:26
Yeah, if you've made these, this bullet list, this criteria list, if that is in your presentation, it's fine, right? You're it'll be good. Now, I like it'll be it'll be fine. Presentation, it'll be good, right? Now, if you start putting black backgrounds with red text, that may knock you down, a little bit awesome, but like, I think you mean bonus points, you're not gonna fail, right? If you make bad design choices, I'm not gonna fail. You. Let me take a point off, because we
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explicitly talk about that.
1:02:00
This was, this was, this was, right, it
Brandon 1:02:02
was explicit, direct instruction, right? And if you don't, and if you don't do that, then I'm like, yo, what are you doing?
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Remember, don't make me tap the sign again, right? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 1:02:17
But I like to just see what they come up with, right? So we'll see how mad they get to me this week. We'll let you know
Collin 1:02:30
that'll be interesting to hear back on to see the reactions,
Brandon 1:02:34
yes, keep you updated on how it goes right when they stare at me, like,
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What do you mean? What do you mean?
Collin 1:02:41
You mean you're not gonna tell me exactly how to do inscrutable stairs? Yes, I know. Sorry.
Brandon 1:02:47
They were already mad at me because I basically, like they know that they have to get up in front of the room and present a thing.
Collin Funkhouser 1:02:54
Yep, there you go. Ta da. It's true. It's true people. Yeah, I also told them that I'm
Brandon 1:03:02
giving you so much class preparation time for this. Oh, yeah, right. And it's like, directed, like, I have it planned out, like, exactly what we're doing per day. I need you to be this far every day, right? That. And then at the end, there's even some editing days where, like, if you're not quite done, oh, you still have time to work on it, right? We talk about peer editing, right? Like that. We talk about that kind of thing. So yeah, absolutely have somebody else look at your stuff. And whenever, if you need help with certain things, they can help you do that. So there's even, like, more time
Speaker 4 1:03:36
to work, right? So, like, if you're not done with your presentation on presentation day. But don't
Brandon 1:03:45
worry, that doesn't matter, yeah, because you're just gonna have to present whatever you have done,
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right? Because,
Brandon 1:03:54
no, it's like, this is a situation where, like, this is a hard due date,
Speaker 4 1:03:59
hard and fast, bang, and we have extra structured time to do it. And if you're not done, you have to present your half finished presentation. And I don't care, because we have all this time.
Brandon 1:04:19
We have all these like, we have a work room time, right? Specifically for working on assignments you're not done with during the day, right? We have all this time built in. And if you
Speaker 4 1:04:30
choose not to utilize any of these things, well, then I can't help you. There was no signal given that you were in need of assistance again.
Brandon 1:04:45
Yeah, right. Was deployed, so no help? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I'm too heartless, like, I don't know. Like, maybe that's wrong. People comment like, Don't you believe yourself mean to your kids? Yeah. I they just finished their work on accountability.
Speaker 5 1:05:04
I said I was gonna do it. Now you have to do it. I mean, yeah,
Brandon 1:05:09
they tell me in all my staff meetings, and I'm supposed to hold my kids accountable.
1:05:13
And blah, blah, blah, here you go. What's up? Yep,
1:05:21
and again, it's one of those things, like, if
Brandon 1:05:25
you know now, I want to just make this clear to listen out there, like, if there's a situation where, like, there are lots of people
Speaker 4 1:05:31
who are, like, not finished, right? Yeah, then I know we need another day, right, sure. But if, literally,
Brandon 1:05:39
every single person in the entire grade is finished
1:05:44
except one person, right?
Brandon 1:05:48
And this one person does not have any paperwork saying they get extra time, like they're not like an IEP student,
Speaker 4 1:05:54
right? Yes, like, if they're not one of those people, and they're not on watch, and they have no reason to not be done, then
Brandon 1:06:08
I'm grumpy with it, right? I know there's extenuating circumstances, like, I have little friends who need extra time, and they get extended time, and I help, you know, blah, blah. That's different. That's different. Kettle fish altogether. We're talking about
Speaker 4 1:06:21
them, right, yeah, but like, some of the ones like, Man, look, don't tell you.
1:06:28
Like, I told you and you thought I was joking, and I'm not joking.
Collin 1:06:33
Yes, it is like, Hey, I am going to follow through with this. And I think that takes some
Collin Funkhouser 1:06:38
people like, that's the it
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is interesting
Collin 1:06:42
how few people have actually encountered that in their lives. Even adults of like, oh, this person said this, they actually, like, we encounter that with our employees a lot of times, where it's like, if you do this, you are going to get written up. And they're like, Okay, sure. And then I they just don't believe it's gonna happen, because nobody's ever held them to the standard before, right? And then they're like, why did you write me up? I said I was going to right. Like, the thing, like, this is just Okay, okay, okay,
1:07:13
so, okay, well,
Brandon 1:07:15
we'll see how goes. And again, this is also not including if you're absent, right? If you're absent, obviously, right? There's lots of easily,
1:07:23
levels here, right?
1:07:27
Absolutely, I
Brandon 1:07:28
will. I always have one kid, he's been there because again, when they hear, Oh, this is due in six days, they're like, Yeah, I don't have to work today again. And I could watch them work, not working. And I make a little note, oh, blah, blah, blah, did not work today, so that when they're like, why is my great bad? Like, look at this paper I've been keeping all week, looking at you. Sometimes I even make a whole check and with everybody's name, and I just check my like, make little marks if they're being on task and stuff, right? Like, Oh, here's my record keeping, right? So I can show the principal look, so I can show your Mother
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What's up now.
1:08:17
Nice, yeah, so there we go.
Collin 1:08:20
Okay, well, good, well, I, I do have a haiku, and wrap up here. We'll see. I wrote this. Wrote this on the way in. So, oh, Sky lifts then descends, 21 fleeting minutes, clouds blink, and it's done so good, such a short liking it was so I questioned, oh my gosh, it's so I get to do it again tomorrow, so I'm really excited about this. Yes. Oh, 21 minutes, people,
1:09:04
it's so great. Here is
Collin 1:09:12
so we'll land, we'll do this, and we'll hopefully, hopefully, now I'm done traveling for a while, so All right, be back to normal, yes, and we'll see how
1:09:24
long that lasts. Okay? Well, yeah, we'll see.
1:09:27
Very good. Okay, love you. Hello.
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You.