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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. Longest Uno game ever. Ahoy,
Brandon 0:20
ahoy!
Collin 0:21
You made
Brandon 0:22
it. I did. Sorry about that. It was just like, what if I it it like decided to not respond there for a bit, and then at the end, like right there, it was just like connecting? Question mark. So you know, fine, it's fine. So it's been going good every other time. So we have to have one where it's gonna be like,
Collin 0:44
yeah, of course. If you don't have the one, I mean, yeah, I
Brandon 0:47
mean, what's the yeah? What's the point of any
Collin 0:50
of this? It'd be
Brandon 0:51
weird.
Collin 0:52
Well, how are you? I am well. I am. I I am sounding better
Brandon 0:58
than a little bit better.
Collin 0:59
Yeah. Hey, feel like I'm better than last time. I'm not quite so. However, I do still have that annoying cough where it's like I just can't clear it, and it's really it really bothers me. Where it's like, ah, do I do I try and cough harder? No, that's not helping. Do I try and like no, so I'm just I'm resigned. I'm as fine. I'll be okay. Here I am. I I I persist. Okay, good.
Brandon 1:30
It's good news.
Collin 1:31
I endure. Um, but yes, I am well. I am a little freaked out right now. I did a call earlier, and they had their AI agent join the the call with me because that's the thing, right? Like you have to have your little buddy around with you at all times, and I I got it and I was like, I do need this recording, and he's like, Yeah, yeah, I'll send you a link. So I got the link, and Brandon, there's it scores the conversation.
Brandon 2:04
What?
Collin 2:06
How? Yeah, yeah. Okay, ready. Okay, so, uh, hold on. Where's my? Was
Brandon 2:11
even the point of that? What are you gonna?
Collin 2:13
Okay, so here's my recap. Warned the
Brandon 2:14
conversation. No, no
Collin 2:15
the the report score with overall 87.
Speaker 1 2:21
Oh, so room for improvement, Collin.
Collin 2:23
Engagement. It says 100. Good.
Speaker 2 2:27
Okay.
Collin 2:27
However, here's where it gets real interesting. Sentiment 74.
Brandon 2:33
How does it know? It's algebra. It doesn't know. Come on, ready. So, so my
Collin 2:37
participation score. So then we go into me. I don't know where this is. Actually, I'm not on here, so I wonder if they got an an actual report. It gages the sentiment over time. I should send this to you. It's very interesting and very horrible. So here's the here's the participant. Yeah, this sounds
Brandon 2:59
this sounds terrible. Like
Collin 3:02
this is the individual read score based on sentiment, engagement, and other factors. And I, this is I don't know. I can such
Brandon 3:08
as what? Okay.
Collin 3:10
Oh, here's your engagement, Brandon. Here's your engagement. Ready? This is the attention during the meeting based on audio and facial cues and camera state. There, people. It's monitoring your face to determine how engaged you are. No,
Brandon 3:27
so it's going to read my face. That's not good, right? Yeah, yeah.
Collin 3:33
It's also going to read when you're not looking at the camera, when you may be glancing somewhere else, looking down. Yeah. The other one is the
Brandon 3:40
how is an ADD person like myself supposed to?
Collin 3:44
I can't
Brandon 3:45
engage with a webcam.
Collin 3:49
I know. Then there's the ooh, I love this. There's sentiment, attitude towards the meeting based on audio and facial cues. Bro, this is
Brandon 3:58
this is disgusting. Like that's what. Wait a minute, Brandon. Is horrendous.
Collin 4:04
It gets even better. It it rates the charisma. How positively or negatively others reacted when you spoke.
Brandon 4:14
Okay, like I have a thought, but it's like so not PC that I I'm not going to say it out loud, but like I feel like this person has like a disability that it means that they cannot judge social cues. Okay, I'm just leave it there, and like they need this to tell them how the meeting went because they don't, not like disability, right? The wrong word, but like a medical condition, perhaps.
Collin 4:47
You know,
Brandon 4:48
like this is this is weird inclination
Collin 4:53
towards one thing or another.
Brandon 4:54
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like this is a weird.
Collin 4:57
I am having like I. Really struggling to know why you need to. They also have a score here for bias: how positively or negatively you reacted when others spoke. I need to know.
Brandon 5:14
That's not what bias means.
Collin 5:16
Who on earth did? Oh well, here's what I imagine it. If there's four people on the call and I'm always laughing at John's jokes, but I don't laugh at Dana's jokes, I would get a negative score. If Dana's not funny, yes,
Speaker 1 5:34
right.
Collin 5:35
This is. Oh, and here's the other thing, Brandon. I have to give him
Brandon 5:41
a courtesy chuckle. Good one, Dana. Based off of
Collin 5:45
here's what are you ready for this? No, are you no? Because this is awful
Brandon 5:49
and like the most dystopian thing I've ever heard of my life. Right. No, this is
Collin 5:52
getting so much better. You have no idea. This is called. This is hashtag not. I'm not going to read this. This is not good. So you get the transcript right, and I was like, "This is weird." There are there's black text, then there's red text and green text.
Brandon 6:08
You said this is redacted text.
Collin 6:10
Yeah, redacted, and I was like, "Why do I have red, green, and black text?" Okay, so black text is just normal text. The do you want to guess what the green text and the red text are?
Brandon 6:25
Guessing red text is a bad something, and a green text is a good like engagement. Maybe I don't know. I don't know how you. Braden, you
Collin 6:39
nailed it. You nailed it. Yes, they give me okay. So apparently, this sentence it changes our responsibilities and the way we make decisions and how those impact those people around us. That led to a 13% decrease in engagement.
Speaker 1 7:00
Is it? Wow! Wow!
Collin 7:06
Oh, oh, Brandon, this one.
Brandon 7:08
Were you talking to a salesman by any chance? I
Collin 7:11
was not
Brandon 7:12
talking to a salesman because I feel like this is this is either a salesman or yeah, a person with a medical condition. Like I don't know who
Speaker 1 7:21
else needs this. So
Collin 7:22
he does. This person does like it's not simply that, but like coaching calls with businesses to like help them with HR stuff.
Speaker 2 7:31
Salesmen, like I guess,
Collin 7:32
kind of salesmen.
Brandon 7:33
Salesmen. Okay. See, whenever okay, in 2026, right? Online coaching.
Collin 7:40
Yeah,
Brandon 7:41
is a sales course.
Speaker 2 7:42
Yeah, right. You're selling somebody,
Brandon 7:44
even though you're selling yourself your alleged service. Okay,
Speaker 2 7:49
yeah.
Brandon 7:51
How many times per week would you say this person goes to the gym?
Speaker 2 7:57
Oh. Right, like, are they,
Brandon 8:05
Collin? Did you have a phone call with an alpha dude, bro? Like, is that what's happened here? Like, the dying breed. Hopefully, finally in 2026. Were they? Did they use the phrase maxing at any point?
Collin 8:21
No, they did not. Oh, good. Okay, shoe.
Brandon 8:23
Okay, good. Good.
Speaker 1 8:25
Oh, good. I'm trying to think
Collin 8:27
of where's a where's a good green thing that. Oh, this one got this one led to a 28% increase in engagement.
Brandon 8:34
Oh, a zinger. Look at that. Bam. Got him.
Collin 8:37
Any questions, comments, or concerns?
Brandon 8:40
Oh, yes, the classic.
Collin 8:43
The classic. Oh no! Oh my goodness! I am so confused and put off by this and horrified. I think the worst part he they had to send a link because I was like, I need this um uh recording for myself because my side did not record; it failed to record, and I was like, "I do need this, right?" So I was like, "I need this," and he said this to me: "The only way that I could gain access to the recording is by signing up for an account."
Brandon 9:16
Oh no, oh no, that's bad. That's red flag.
Collin 9:21
Yes. Did you at least
Brandon 9:22
get like a trial period that you can then like not pay for?
Collin 9:26
Uh oh. Yes, it's a seven day free trial. Okay. Good. Okay.
Brandon 9:30
Good.
Collin 9:30
I have downloaded the audio. Uh, the video. I've downloaded, but I need now. So I'm going to make sure I deactivate my account here. Yes. Yes. That is key to whatever
Brandon 9:42
whatever unholy program this is. It's like, except for I feel like whenever you go to like un unsubscribe, right? It's gonna just be like, I'm sorry, Collin.
Speaker 2 9:56
I can't let you
Brandon 9:57
do that.
Collin 9:58
I can't let you do that, Collin.
Brandon 10:00
I can't let you do that, Dave. Like no,
Speaker 2 10:02
no. Ah,
Collin 10:06
oh, Brandon. If you wanted, this is how lazy people are. So I had this. This conversation was an hour and six minutes. Okay, I could light work. Yeah, light work. What I literally, I know it's what. What even is that? We were just getting started, Brandon. I could. I here are my options. I can download a text recap, okay, so a summary of the entire conversation. I can download the full transcript. I can download the full recording, but maybe, Brandon, maybe I don't have time for the full recording. So what I could do is I could download an AI edited trailer of our conversation that I just had. Trailer, trailer for this. But you know what? Sometimes you have a conversation, and maybe I don't want to like pump it up to the bosses and say, "Here, here's a conversation that's coming." You get excited for this. Maybe, maybe I just want to give them the music behind it. Yeah, you know I'm not downloading this because I'm not engaging. No, fair, fair. But like, I download my two things: transcript, recording. I'm done. However, here's the other thing: maybe you don't have time for an hour and six minute and 56 second conversation. Maybe you would just like the highlight reel, and so they also provide you the ability to download the highlights of the conversation.
Speaker 1 11:22
Oh man,
Collin 11:23
the air that Brandon was so dumb. They down highlights included high sentiment and engagement clips, action items, key questions, and through throughout this entire thing, wow! Oh my gosh, this is horrible. This is the most. This is I okay. Yeah, I do. Did I did I get my audio? I'm good. I think I'm gonna unsubscribe from this live. Yeah, do it
Brandon 11:58
right now. Live. Yeah, that's good idea. Like,
Collin 12:01
need to do this. Need to get away
Brandon 12:03
from whatever disaster program this thing is. Like,
Speaker 2 12:06
no, I
Brandon 12:08
don't know who this is for. I don't know who needs to. Oh no! Oh no, Collin, he's engagement maxing. Oh no no! You know? Oh gosh! Oh man! This is oh
Collin 12:22
this is not good. Do you think he like goes back? That's what he coaches. That's coaching. He's coaching engagement maxing. No, no. Or what he does is he goes in and uh has to like he goes in and he he reviews his sessions and like is trying to be like oh when I say this phrase like I guarantee you what this is is you're right during the sales pitch they go be able to go in and look oh I traveled down this road with this and they lost interest and so I didn't so I need to go out and I need to rework the old elevator pitch right yeah
Brandon 13:00
engagement maxing. So okay, I also I just hate that I know what this phrase actually means, but he's gonna mog on the other salesman, right? He's gonna frame mog on the other salesman, right? Boom. We are
Collin 13:11
we are so relevant. This is I really hate that I know
Brandon 13:15
that those are actual words that you can say in a sentence. That really is. Right. I just, I just console myself by remembering that. Oh yeah, you're around middle schoolers all day long. Okay, never mind. Okay, it's fine. It's not me. This
Collin 13:35
is this isn't a reflection on me as a person, right? No,
Brandon 13:39
these are things that you have to know to engage with 12-year-olds, right? This is like how it works. Like,
Collin 13:45
yes. How many X's are in engagement max? Is it just two? I think it depends.
Brandon 13:55
I think it's two, but like, I think if you wanted to really max, you would put more, right? Like, yeah. Does does more X's equal more maxing?
Collin 14:08
Maxing.
Brandon 14:09
That's what I need to know. I mean, TJ Maxx has more X's.
Collin 14:14
So have am I? It's more
Brandon 14:15
maximum.
Collin 14:16
Oh, is I M I as Max is T J? I think that's the real. That's
Speaker 2 14:20
true. Have
Collin 14:20
I maxed like TJ?
Brandon 14:22
Can you max like TJ? That's a real question. That I don't think they do. Right? I don't think they do.
Collin 14:29
No, I don't think so at all. No. So I have I have successfully unsubscribed from that abomination of a product. Oh, what other horrendous? Oh, oh, oh! This is Collin's like AI doomsday rant. Yippee! Now, here's the thing: we use some AI in our business to automate some things to run. Reports to do things like that. I don't use it. I kind of do. You use
Brandon 15:04
it to write your weekly newsletter.
Collin 15:09
I don't. Okay, good. Because my
Brandon 15:12
bosses do. It's really great.
Collin 15:13
So bad. Nothing
Brandon 15:15
like a nothing like a you know inspirational quote that you may or may not every week put into AI detector, and it says 100% AI.
Collin 15:25
Who even? Why are you doing this? No, I mean I will have it be like brainstorm ideas to be like it is fall in Missouri. What is a pet care tip that I could give to somebody who has a an older dog? Oh,
Brandon 15:40
still give them water because it's still too hot outside. Still too
Collin 15:43
hot. Yes. No. My other dystopian view of the future. I got a message about pet sitting, and the person was basically like, "Hey, also here. Pro tip: I understand that it is not in it's not it's it's gauche I guess or whatever to not you know introduce who you are when you send emails or you call somebody like who wants to hear about you I want you to talk no you need to say this is my name this is my background here's where you can find more information about me. I don't like when you send a cold email. You need to give context for who you are as a person. Yeah. Okay. Because it goes it goes in the trash. It just goes in the trash. But then here's the really creepy part. This person is going and they are doing a quote unquote independent, not backed by any app or program or you know corporation study of dog walking and pet sitting companies, and they they're really pushing this like livable wage thing, which I have a lot of thoughts around, like what that actually means, how that's actually calculated, and things like that. So already I'm a little like I don't know about this, and then they're like, "We have pet businesses represented from every state, over 600 businesses across 50 states in the United States." Oh, and don't worry, your businesses have already been included in this. I'm like,
Brandon 17:15
what? Nobody said that. What'd you
Speaker 2 17:20
say
Collin 17:22
I need you to come back hard real fast, and then and then there was like a pitch of, however, we need more in depth information, and so we'd love the opportunity to do in depth interviews with blah blah blah blah blah. Could you please share this out? And I was just like, look, I understand internet data is out there, and I have a public website, so like I can't control. But this is really creepy. Like I'm sorry. Like this, I'm not okay. I'm not okay with what. Yeah, that's pretty
Brandon 17:50
wacky, dude. Like, what in the world is like? Ah, by the way, we've already signed you up. Like,
Speaker 2 17:58
yeah, no, I know. Oh, this
Collin 17:59
was an opt out. I'm sorry you didn't know about that. Here's also the other bad part. I'm fine if you want to compare and talk about living wage. And so what they did is they pulled county, state, and county data to run this stuff that's standardized out there from the Department of Labor and Health. Right. Okay. So that's there. They're putting pulling this in here on the page. On the left hand side of the page is the calculator. It wants you to input how many visits you can do in a day, how much you charge on average per visit, and whether you want to be working five days a week or seven days a week. Okay, that's over on the left side. Then on the right side, it shows you a living wage, and then like a level two enhanced, they don't explain what any of this is. And then below that, they break down and they do an enhanced living wage budget breakdown as to where your money is going. Brandon, the logic thing, logical thing here would be that the information you enter on the left side, how many visits you do, the price per visit, whether you're working five days or seven days, that that information would actually mean something. One you would hope one would no that doesn't that is completely meaningless in all the calculation right that it's completely it doesn't do anything with the other stuff because I calculate I was like okay hey if I can do 10 or 12 visits a day at $32 a visit across 237 average working days per year, based on the Department of Labor, because it includes some sick days and some time off. That that should be $75,000 a year. Did that number appear anywhere on that website after I entered my information? No, no, it did not. It really stuck to the level two livable wage marker for some reason, which was less than what I would be earning had I been working this. I'm like, where's the? It was so confusing. It doesn't make any sense, and it is a poor use of data. And also, might I everything? Might I? The entire website is AI slop. It is not only generated by AI, encoded by AI. All of the language is heavily AI. The graphics are AI. Everything about this is AI. And I'm going. There is no what. Like this is so poorly done and hard to understand. It is it is inscrutable for you to for me to understand how this applies to me because nothing is connected and it all just like is circling. Oh, like one of the things was like, uh, in the budget we have taken into account uh healthcare even. if you're not paying for healthcare, we're still including it in as part of this because you should be budgeting for this. And I'm going, okay, right, right, like forcing. I guess we're forced, like, but that's not how you budget. I'm sorry, like let people. Yeah, that's
Brandon 21:00
true. That's the
Collin 21:03
because then it's like, oh, but this is your average cost for healthcare, and I'm like, no, it's not. I don't pay anywhere close to what you're putting in there. Where can I put in my numbers? You can't. Like the actual what you actually do to build this is you put in all of your information, and then you have it show what would happen if you made more money? That's all that this needs to be. Instead, it is forcing. This is also
Speaker 1 21:27
not super
Brandon 21:28
useful. No, it's not. I don't know who needs that. Like,
Collin 21:32
no, it it makes zero sense. Like, I'm going. Okay, great. So all that this page really tells me is what my budget would look like if I lived on the thriving income level two, which I'm does that ooh who got really excited about knowing that I mean
Brandon 21:53
y'all yeah because all those words in a sentence made so much sense to me oh holy collin like
Collin 21:59
like nothing I do can influence this. I have no idea what's going on, and I'm this is supposed to do what for me? Compare? No, I'm not doing this. So anyway, anyway, I just I'm horrified. And then here's the other thing: you want this person is asking. I'm really reaming this, reaming this because this is this is bad. This person asking people to come and enter their data into this AI data set to be used for I'm not sure, and spend like 45 minutes doing an interview with this person.
Brandon 22:35
It just wants to eat your data so that it can like do more stuff with it. That's all it wants. Is there
Collin 22:41
a picture of this person at all running? Oh no,
Brandon 22:44
because it's not a real person.
Collin 22:45
No, but it even says who is running the study. The study is led by a professional pet sitter with 25 years in the field. Yeah,
Brandon 22:53
named whom? I wonder. I don't know who. A mysterious. The days are gone. Okay, it's not like 1927, and we can't have like mysterious person behind the scenes. I can't do that, right? We can't be Miss Havisham running the study from like inside a room, right? Like we can't. Nice call, nice. Yeah, yeah. That's what the show is really all about: callbacks to other things. That's the it's the real secret. Like, but yeah, like that's what's the point if you're gonna have a big front facing thing like this that's gonna be purporting to do stuff like that? Like, wouldn't you expect that you should have a name attached to it, right? Because like it's a very nebulous. Just be like, oh yeah, a pet sitter. Like, wow, okay, that's cool. Like, I don't know if there's like famous pet sitters, right? Other than you, obviously, but like, you know, like what else? Like, oh, a name that I can attach this to that like people in the industry will like know, right? Like, if it's not that, then clearly it is just like made up garbage, right? Like, what
Collin 24:17
is? Yeah, no, this is it's incredibly Like distasteful, and I'm not even like. There's again. I I understand that the the it's good. Hey, we have an industry that is has lacks data, and somebody's interested in collecting data. Okay, but like also maybe not this way. Like I'm sorry. Yeah, like under
Brandon 24:42
false pretenses, and just to sell it to like another data broker that they're gonna just like target ads at you with because once again everybody like I think part of the problem here is that there is a huge like industry that has developed. Developed like very quickly about like collecting data over the internet, but like there's nothing to do with it. No, you know what I mean. Like there's all these people that are like, oh yeah, we've got to, you know, we're gonna collect this stuff, and then you're like, and then do what? Like, what's the output, and the only output that people can think of is like ads and sales. You're like that's guys like yeah, and because that's the extent of the creativity there. Like you know, one would think that the market would die, but that's because economics isn't real, and like they will just like keep pumping money into this because they think they could get money out of the other side, and they will for a little bit, but like eventually, people are gonna be like, "What are we doing? Like, we have these like reams of data, and like, what are you gonna do with it?" And they're just like, "Yes, I'm gonna hold it."
Collin 26:13
Yes,
Brandon 26:14
yeah, that's good. Yes,
Speaker 2 26:18
yep, like a data dragon,
Brandon 26:20
right? And you just like can't do anything with it. You're like,
Speaker 2 26:22
ah, dang
Collin 26:24
it, smog of the data, right? Yeah, yeah,
Brandon 26:27
data smog, right? Data smog, right?
Collin 26:29
Well, and you bring up a good point because I was trying to think of this, like, really, what is this going to be used for? And they have different sales pitches on here of like, this will be help you to advocate for fair pay and better training and a standard of care. But here's the here's a fine print, people ready? Under the here's the things right at the top. Part one, short survey, about five minutes. Part two, longer survey, survey, completely anonymous, no email needed. And then there's this bullet point. I want just everybody needs to think about what does this mean.
Brandon 27:00
Okay,
Collin 27:02
free report for participants.
Brandon 27:04
But how do I get my report?
Collin 27:07
You have to participate.
Brandon 27:09
But I have to get it emailed to me.
Collin 27:11
Yeah, yeah. But also, people, if it's free for participants, what do non-participants have to do to get access to this.
Brandon 27:22
They have to pay for it.
Collin 27:23
They have to pay for it. And now we're seeing there are tons of industries that have data researchers that spend all their time doing these kind of surveys and doing these, and then they go and sell them to whom? Investors and marketing agencies. And now all of a sudden they get insights that they need to better target their active avatars and their their target audience. That's all this is. That's 100% of what this is. Of yes, it's a workforce study, so that you can sell this to other people,
Brandon 28:00
perhaps insurance people, or perhaps I don't know who else. Yeah. Oh, oh, coaches, of course,
Collin 28:12
or
Brandon 28:13
scammers. That's what you can say. Yes,
Collin 28:14
scammers. Or maybe I don't know. There's a big push of private money and private equity into this into the pet care space, and what do they lack? They lack insight into the businesses, any
Brandon 28:29
understanding of anything, and
Collin 28:31
ethics and morals. And oh yeah, definitely
Brandon 28:33
ethics and morals. They definitely lack that. That's for sure. What they
Collin 28:36
need more than anything before they can drop hundreds of 1000s or millions of dollars into something is is insight and data. So what they would love this kind of study because they're not going to do this kind of thing on their own. So I just see pick up things like that where I'm like, no, no, I don't. This is not okay. Yeah, give me a picture of who you are, and then maybe we can talk. Like you want me to give a lot of my data. Who are you?
Speaker 2 29:01
Yeah.
Collin 29:01
So, anyway, this is that's my that's been my other that's my AI slop. Very
Brandon 29:11
fun,
Collin 29:11
horrendous thing. Anyway, so that has been my that's been my week, old man yelling at clouds. I can't. It's been it's been good, and oh oh, I had to go. Sorry, this will be my last thing. Oh,
Brandon 29:33
okay,
Collin 29:34
Brandon. I answered the phone call. Phone calls five times yesterday, and this is this is how I answer the call. Ready?
Speaker 2 29:43
Okay.
Collin 29:45
Hi, this is Collin with Funky Bunch. How can I help you?
Brandon 29:51
Okay. Okay. Yes.
Collin 29:52
Long pause.
Brandon 29:53
Standard.
Collin 29:54
Okay. Hello. Hi, this is Collin. All right. Hello, hello. Can I help you? Are you person, person, human? Are you a human? I sure hope so. Otherwise, I've got more problems. Oh my gosh! I had that conversation five times.
Brandon 30:20
Collin, your phone voice is too good.
Collin 30:21
It's too good. Apparently, too
Brandon 30:23
professional.
Collin 30:24
Apparently, AI is trying to emulate an almost 40-year-old man with a head cold. This is it. They've nailed it. That's a very
Brandon 30:32
niche study. But you know what? It's you go. Got to go for if you're gonna like. It's better than being broad, right? Like you got to go, got to go narrow.
Collin 30:43
That's how it's so convincing. But here's my favorite one. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I got called, and this time, same conversation. Hi, hi, this is Collin. How can I help you? Hi, this is Ali. I'd like to speak with the the owner or the person. Sorry, the person in charge of marketing and and your website. So immediately I know this is a spammer, right? So I just said, so what? So okay, so someone says I'd like to speak with the owner. What are you phone etiquette? You are supposed to say what?
Brandon 31:13
Please hold. I don't know. If
Collin 31:17
someone called and said I'd like to speak with Collin, you would say I'd say speaking.
Brandon 31:21
Yes, yes,
Collin 31:23
speaking. So I said,
Speaker 1 31:24
"Yeah."
Collin 31:24
I said, "Speaking," and he goes, "Hi, this is Ali. I'd like to speak with the person who's in charge of the marketing and social media." And I said, "You,
Brandon 31:34
you did it wrong. You're supposed to say, 'That's me, bro.'
Speaker 2 31:37
That's what you're
Brandon 31:37
supposed to say."
Collin 31:39
I went around with this four times. the the The spam marketer was like, "Are you an AI?" And finally, I was like, "No, I'm the owner. Talk to me." Yeah,
Brandon 31:52
I am speaking. It is I. And he is. I am he.
Collin 31:56
And he did not believe me. Finally, was like, "Fine," and I hung up because I'm like I was just trying to prove. Like I didn't want to talk to you anyway. You called me. I didn't want to be. No, I didn't want to be here. Like I'm trying to tell you, speaking. That's so. What I have, I don't know how I'm going to answer the phone at all. This is this is an in with the increase of AI agents who answer phones, and I will say, like we are guilty in this because I cannot always get to my phone, and I want more. Like, and but it clearly says, "Hi, this is the this is like an AI agent. Like, it identifies itself, and it says I can take your information and get back, and we'll have somebody call you back. Like, it's very clear.
Brandon 32:39
Yeah, yeah. It's not like, hey, this is Steve.
Collin 32:43
Yes, it is so bad. But so now I'm like, I do not know how I'm supposed to answer the phone, other than just like, hey, like I don't know, I don't go. I'm too. I cannot answer the phone anymore. How
Brandon 32:58
about sup, my funky bro, exactly. How can I like? What's up with you? Are you keeping it funky? Right? Like, eh, eh, eh. See, be good, right? Yes.
Collin 33:16
Yes. Ah, I just, I, I'm so, I'm so, I'm so frustrated by this, and I'm just like, I. So now, like multiple times a day, somebody says, "Are you AI?" And my running joke is, "I sure hope so. Otherwise, I've got bigger problems." Yeah,
Speaker 2 33:38
same.
Brandon 33:50
No, you got it. Oh, you got to do. Oh, okay, got it. I got it. Like, really jerky '80s Wall Street guy phone answer okay? You gotta be like, go for Collin.
Speaker 2 34:05
Go
Brandon 34:08
right when you answer the phone. Just be like, fucking bunch back here. You're go for Collin.
Speaker 2 34:13
I love this. And then they'll be like, oh, like what the
Brandon 34:19
heck? No AI saying that. No AI. No AI saying that. So you gotta kick it way back. Yeah, yeah. You're going for Collin.
Collin 34:27
Oh, this is what. Okay. Yeah. I've decided. I will. I'm going to do an experiment. I the next week. Yes. I'm going to answer. This is this is this is the science people I've
Brandon 34:37
been waiting for. This
Collin 34:38
is funky bunch. Go for Collin and just see how people respond, because yeah,
Speaker 1 34:46
yeah,
Brandon 34:50
yeah. So you gotta like put some swag on it, right? You gotta be like, "Your go for Collin," right? You gotta be like, "Yeah, you go for Collin." You gotta. Really like put some on it, right? Like put some funk on that, right? Put some stank on that thing, right? Like, yeah, you're go for Collin.
Collin 35:08
Yes. Like
Brandon 35:08
pretend you are also on the cast of Wolf of Wall Street, right? And just really be like, yeah, man, you're go for Collin. You go for Collin, right?
Collin 35:17
Yes. Yes. Right.
Brandon 35:20
Pretend that you're about to ask yourself if you've ever heard of Larry Bird, and then that's the voice that you're.
Collin 35:25
I know
Brandon 35:27
that's the voice you're gonna say. Say it. That's perfect.
Collin 35:31
Yes, I know. I this is exactly what I need. I'm thinking. I'm thinking about the kind of haircut that I need to actually get to pull this off. I mean, you can
Brandon 35:43
just like visualize the haircut. You don't have to actually get you can like
Collin 35:46
fully embody this. Oh god. Okay, Megan.
Brandon 35:49
Megan, I'm sorry. Um, like a
Collin 35:51
Leo look here. Uh, yeah,
Brandon 35:54
yeah. You can like you can like visualize it. Yeah. Right. But yeah, I think I feel like uh, your go for Collin is like that's the new move. Okay, that's what you got to go for.
Collin 36:06
Yeah, I. But in
Brandon 36:08
like what with like the Top Gun swag, right? Like, like you go for Collin, like Val Kilmer, like yeah, like
Collin 36:16
could be Val Kilmer. Click your
Brandon 36:19
teeth, like you're go for Collin.
Collin 36:22
Yeah, I like this. I'm gonna finger gun. We're gonna pew. Absolutely, you gotta finger gun. Go for Collin. That's
Speaker 1 36:28
important.
Speaker 2 36:29
Yeah, right. I will add.
Brandon 36:30
I figured. See, you picked up. I was finger gunning the whole time anyway. Yeah. So like, you could pick up on that. See. Yep. It works.
Collin 36:37
Yeah. Absolutely. That'll add at least a 10% swagger count too, so for sure, for sure. Yes. So I. Anyway, this is this is my my burden to carry. So I, you know, my no, this is it. We've solved
Brandon 36:53
it. Okay, this is what we're here for. It's problem solving. This is what we do now. Okay.
Collin 36:59
I guess this is what perfect. Oh my gosh! What about you? What have What have you been up to? This illustration. Well, sort of
Brandon 37:06
preparing for some things, but I need to tell. I have permission to discuss this, right? I need to tell you about. Just I'm gonna just change the subject completely, right? No work stuff for a second here. Okay. Say here's a middle, like intermission here. I want to talk to you about the longest Uno game I've ever played my entire life and how terrible it was. Okay, like I need to so like long standing tradition, right? Like Friday night dinner with Susan's mom, right? This is how it works. This is thing doing it for years, blah blah, right? And she's feeling better now. She has some heart stuff. She got like the cardio inversion, like shocky thing, to get her heart back in rhythm. And she's like, got the pep in her step right. She's good to go. But like, she decides again. Oh, hey, we haven't played Uno in a long time. We should play Uno. I don't know if you've ever played Uno with 290-year-old people,
Collin 38:02
but no,
Brandon 38:04
is tough, right? And it's not tough for the reason you think it is, right? Number one, yes, do they sometimes not remember that there's only like one rule in Urno?
Speaker 2 38:14
Yeah, right. These
Brandon 38:16
these are not people that play card games, right? Yeah, yeah. She is a domino player,
Collin 38:21
understand to the
Brandon 38:22
core.
Collin 38:22
Yes.
Brandon 38:23
All right. And so, like card games, not hard five, right? But like, whatever. They bought some new Uno cards because they used to have some, and then when they moved, they lost them, and whatever. And so they got some new. It's like, oh, we're gonna play Uno, we're gonna play Uno. Five minutes in, right? All we go. I hate this game. Why do I like right? But here's the problem. Okay, after a bit, both of them, like Susan's mom and her husband, right? They both lose focus on the point of the game, right? And as we all know, the point of the game of Uno is to get rid of all of your cards, right?
Collin 39:06
Yes,
Brandon 39:07
but they, I think they think the point of Uno is to make sure everybody has the most cards ever, right? And so, like, their strategy does not involve getting rid of their cards in an expedient manner. It involves constantly making other people draw cards to an obscene amount.
Collin 39:34
Okay, and really
Brandon 39:36
relishing in the fact when they make each other Draw cards, of course, of course. Right, that is the real key here. Right, is is is the vindictive nature of like, oh, I'm gonna make you draw cards now. Oh, I'm gonna skip you. Oh, you're gonna draw even more. Like just making each other draw cards. So this game draw it. It's so long that it's just like mind-numbing
Collin 40:09
because you can't you can't actually make any progress. Like it is it's kind of antagonistic of like get rid of as many cards, and you have somebody who's actively like get as many cards.
Brandon 40:18
Collin, I need to tell you, I confessed to Susan when we got home, I was cheating so vigorously to try to get this game to end. And when I told Susan that, I thought she was going to die laughing. Like I was cheating so hard. That is, and.
Speaker 2 40:39
Like, oh no! Oh,
Brandon 40:50
because they're just so fixated on making everybody draw the most amount of cards of all time. Like, I could not win.
Collin 40:58
That's spic. That is spectacular.
Brandon 41:01
It was so genuinely
Collin 41:03
that is amazing. Wow! It was
Brandon 41:10
painful. It was really painful. So how many?
Collin 41:15
So I, I mean, was it the best, most fun of that? My daughter is well known for also like tee hee heeing her way to this thing, and
Brandon 41:28
I'm gonna sick her on them. I'm gonna do though. I'm gonna
Collin 41:32
days. You just have days together doing this, and I think every time I have to go and reshuffle the deck, I'm just like, oh my gosh! Like, let this be the last one. No,
Brandon 41:45
it what it was never the last one. But it was never the last
Speaker 1 41:48
one.
Brandon 41:48
No, I was like,
Collin 41:50
so who ended up winning? Who ended up? Susan
Brandon 41:56
finally won. Right. Was she also
Collin 41:59
cheating to make this win? Because I no, she had
Brandon 42:01
no idea until I got home, which means I was cheating successfully. But like,
Collin 42:06
I just thought it was funny if both of you were also trying to like just
Brandon 42:10
obscenely cheating. No, I had to shuffle the cards because they can't shuffle, right? Well, number they don't know how to shuffle, right? It's not necessarily they can't or incapable of shuffling; it's that they don't know how to
Speaker 2 42:21
sure
Collin 42:22
shuffle. So it's hard.
Brandon 42:24
I mean, yeah, they didn't have a grandmother who was like, "Do it again, shot." Right, like right. It's nothing but card game. We're playing more rubbish. Yeah, shuffle those cards. Like, and so like every time I was shuffling, I was like sticking cards from my deck from my hand into the pot. Nice, yeah, like perfect. I was trying to do all kinds of things, and I just couldn't whittle it down. Right, I just couldn't. I should have like started pulling out all the wild cards and just like hiding them. Like no, no more draw force for you. Okay, none. We're not going to do that anymore. Like we're just
Collin 43:08
we're not just you know randomly. Yeah, this is you're enjoying this way too much. You're not just going to throw them down
Brandon 43:15
really dilly, right? Just throw them down randomly. Like they would, they, they, they have like this is the level we're dealing with, right? Like they have like just the all of the cards in the world, right? You can, and because they hold them like feet in front of their body, like you can see,
Collin 43:34
yeah,
Brandon 43:34
all of their cards, and you can clearly see that they have a red, and they'll be like, oh, wild draw four! How about green? You're like,
Speaker 2 43:45
you're not.
Collin 43:50
No, not would you go. Yeah,
Speaker 2 43:52
just throw it out any old time. Nice, all
Collin 43:59
this phenomenal. Yes, it's
Speaker 1 44:01
something.
Speaker 2 44:02
Yes.
Brandon 44:02
Oh my gosh, it's something over days. It's terrible.
Collin 44:07
Well, I'm glad you survived the world. I did somehow survive
Brandon 44:10
that, but so yeah, there you go. That's what I did Friday, and then I want to talk to you about. I've been so I've been doing just like my own some reading stuff here, and I have discovered right quite by accident, a new genre of book that I have never read before.
Collin 44:27
Brandon's new genre of book corner.
Brandon 44:29
Yeah, right. So this is quite interesting. This is a this is Japanese detective fiction.
Collin 44:42
Japanese, I'm sorry. Yeah, Japanese detective fiction.
Brandon 44:46
Yeah. So the official word, okay, because of course has official Japanese name. It's the Honkaku, right?
Collin 44:56
Okay.
Brandon 44:56
I think again. My is am I pronouncing that right? No one. This is like, um, it's a Japanese. It's so it's like a detective novel. That word means like orthodox or authentic, right? And like this style of novel treats the detective story as a logic puzzle, and like you, the reader, are fully capable of also solving whatever's happened.
Collin 45:22
Oh, interesting. Okay,
Brandon 45:24
so it's very inspired by like Agatha Christie,
Speaker 2 45:27
yeah, and like
Brandon 45:27
that kind of vibe. Oh, sure. But like the Japanese style, there's like so I'm reading this book and it's got like diagrams in it and like maps and like latitude and longitude stuff. Oh, and like all about that, it's all it's got all the stuff in here. Wow! So like this one is I'm reading the Tokyo Zodiac Murders, right? Which is like apparently a pretty big book in this genre that I just happened to buy by accident like a couple years ago, and then I just had it, and I was like, I'm just going to read this now. So it's like a locked room mystery, perfect,
Brandon 46:05
right? And the so the book is basically like this: this murder happened in like the 1930s, right? And then the book follows two people in like the 70s that are like trying to solve this cold case, so you're like just it's them, just like expositing and like getting all these details in the case and like all this stuff, right? And there's like some primary source documents that they read. They're like, oh, look at this, and then the next chapter is just like that document.
Collin 46:36
All of that. Okay, I really, I really like this.
Brandon 46:39
Or it's like, oh, this, you know, like one of those, like it's like a, it's like a letter that somebody wrote, and then like, oh my gosh, read this, and then you read the thing, right? Yeah. So it's kind of sweet. I'm almost at the end, so I haven't read the end yet, so I don't know exactly what's going on. It's like super convoluted and weird, right? And there's a lot of like, you kind of have to like pick through like, okay, do you like it? You have to kind of like decide like, what information have they given you is like really important? Like, is it here? I'm gonna be honest. I did sort of like zone out when it was doing a lot of like latitude and longitude things. Sure. As so like if that is important, whoops. Like right, if I read the last two chapters here and it's like, oh, the key piece of evidence was this longitudinal figure, I'd be like, yeah, never solving that one. Like I didn't bust out my map of Japan and like overlay the feature, I didn't do that. But like,
Collin 47:44
I mean, you you could have though. I could
Brandon 47:47
have if I if I wanted to go like all in.
Collin 47:49
Yes,
Brandon 47:50
you could do that, right? So I just like this book is like super interesting because it's like I don't think I've read a book that's sort of like this, right? Other than like when you read like Aggie, Chrissy. You're like, you know, following along, and you can kind of like. But there's a lot of books like that. There's always like a something is revealed in the last minute, and then it's like that's the key piece of information, right? Whereas allegedly here, this style of book, like all the information is in it. It's all there, and then you can guess who's done it afterwards. So that's pretty sweet. I'm gonna have to look and see about some more books in this genre. But like, yeah, I just accidentally bought this. I just bought it one time because I was like, oh, that sounds cool. And then like, it was like a sale table somewhere, and I was like, oh, that's cool. I'll get that. And then I had it sitting over my pile, and then after the sci-fi, I was like, "I need to get back to, I need to read something." Then I and like you know, boom! And so I was reading this. I was like, "Holy cow, this is crazy!"
Collin 48:52
You know, this is I I like this a lot. There was a book that the kids had that was kind of like this as well, where oh god. I don't remember the name of it, but it wasn't as I think as intense as this. But they had different. Oh yeah, but like it was like a story, a bunch of kids that were like the world's smartest kids, and they were trying to solve this stuff. And each chapter, or like there were all these clues sprinkled throughout. And sometimes it was like on the spine of the book. There would be you know what you needed to like do something on the inside. So I think it was more of like an interactive book as opposed to what you're talking about here. But I like that a lot because I think it it just it really puts a lot of trust into the reader to be like, no, like you can do this instead of like what a lot of you know modern TV shows do are like nope the the viewer is dumb and they will never be able to figure this out so we have to tell them and I like this more of the no you're you're in on this like you're gonna we're gonna work on this together and get this figured out
Brandon 49:54
yeah it's very interesting that it's like oh here's this stuff and then like you can and then. Because this one's especially interesting because it's like two people going over all the evidence like much later, right? Like they assume that you like all the evidence is there, so they're just like the beginning is a little heavy on the expositing because it's like all dialog between these two people about like he's like telling his friend about it as they're trying to solve this thing, and so there is a lot of like detail in there, right? And it's a lot of like, so you do have to like read it kind of carefully. And I didn't really realize that at the beginning, so like I didn't quite know what I was in for here until a little bit later, and I was like, "Oh, okay, hold on," but like the there's a it's really crazy because like there's a this book it's structured in Acts, you know, like Act you know 1234 right, and um there's these little intra act things, and one of them is like a letter from a person, and one of them is like the thing. But this interact is from the author, and it it's just like a little paragraph, and it's like all of the information required to solve the mystery is now in your hands. And in fact, the crucial hint has been provided already. I wonder if you noticed it. Right, and then he said, "My greatest, my greatest fear is that I might already have told you too much about the case, but I dared to do that both for the sake of fairness of the game and, of course, to provide you with a little help. So let me now throw down the gauntlet. I challenge you to solve the mystery before the final chapters, and I wish you luck. That's the chat. That's just in the book.
Collin 51:44
This is amazing.
Brandon 51:45
See, like, holy schmoly. Okay, buddy, let's go.
Collin 51:50
Let's go for sure. That is exactly like that is. Oh my gosh! Like
Brandon 51:55
excellent is what that
Collin 51:57
is. Perfect, especially because it's like, oh, like suddenly, out like out of nowhere. Like if you weren't following along that closely, like man, how quickly did you start paging back and being like, wait, yeah,
Brandon 52:11
because I mean, like it's so detailed. Like it's very detailed, right? It's like case filey, and like there's like I said, there's like diagrams in here,
Speaker 2 52:20
oof,
Brandon 52:20
maps, and like not like a ton, but like enough to be like, okay, that's weird. Like here's like a family tree of the victims, right? And then there's like again, there's this whole big thing about latitude, longitude, which I can't imagine. Like we went through all that for nothing, so that's probably going to be important for some reason. Here's a diagram of like the scene, right? Like the crime scene. It's just like a crime scene diagram of like here's the bed, here's the door, here's the window, right? Like here are the footprints that were outside in the snow, right? Like it's very. It's crazy, like,
Collin 53:16
and just think of the time that it took that author, you know, oh yeah, together and put together an actual mystery. Yeah, like
Brandon 53:25
that's that's the part that's also really cool. It's like, dang, how did you?
Speaker 2 53:29
How did you do? Like,
Brandon 53:30
yeah, like just the way that you went through all this is pretty cool. Like, here's some maps here and some like all this weird stuff. Like, so, but yeah, here we go. So I'm gonna finish that up here. I'm right at the end. I just have
Collin 53:44
a
Brandon 53:45
couple chapters left, so we'll have to see if I can make any heads or tails of this stuff. So that'll be the plan.
Collin 53:55
I'm excited to hear the outcome of this.
Brandon 53:59
Yeah. So there you go. So that's what I've been doing. The other thing I'm doing, we got to get ready for parent-teacher conferences.
Speaker 2 54:06
Yes, man.
Collin 54:07
They're still they still feel so far away. I'm sure.
Brandon 54:10
Yeah, but it's in two days. So we'll see if anybody comes.
Collin 54:17
Okay.
Brandon 54:18
Yeah. So it'd be all right, but that's like gonna go through tomorrow and just like with my buddy, my teacher, my like grade level teacher people, and be like, okay, so because most of the most of the conferences are gonna be like, you know, how's my kid doing? Like, oh, good,
Speaker 2 54:40
Uh huh.
Brandon 54:41
Right. Like, yeah. I mean, I'll tell you. Like, I have. Like, I'll tell them like specific things. But like, sure, it's gonna be like, yeah, fine. Right. Like, no problem. So like, we just have to get together and be like, go through the list and be like, okay, do we need to say anything about this person? Because what I don't want to do, right, and what you don't want to do is be like. Like for like me to be like oh good and for the other teacher to be like ah bad
Speaker 2 55:04
bad
Brandon 55:05
right so like we just got to get on the same page to be like well we've been noticing right so that we don't and then like we can say the other good stuff like after but like you know we don't want to feel like it's like super contradictory right like
Collin 55:19
right
Brandon 55:20
because you don't want to be like, oh yeah, they're fine for me, and then for the person like, no,
Collin 55:25
right, right. You need to
Brandon 55:27
awkward and like
Collin 55:28
you need to have those conversations beforehand. That's for sure.
Brandon 55:32
So we're gonna we talked a little bit already. Like, there's just like three or four kids that we're like, yes, yes, yes. Come, parent. Down.
Collin 55:44
I have a story to tell. But the
Brandon 55:46
laws of teaching say that those parents won't come. Yeah. One of them will for sure, though, because they always come.
Collin 55:53
There's always so they always come.
Brandon 55:55
He he he. I've had their siblings, and I've never needed to talk to them Before, but now,
Collin 56:02
but now
Brandon 56:03
I do
Collin 56:04
need to have a conversation.
Brandon 56:07
Yes, so that that'll be fine. But yeah, so we just gotta do that, and then like get ready for that, and then be afraid because then we don't have school Friday, and then we're the kids are off Monday, but it's in-service day, so I'm a little trepidatious about that. Sure, don't really want to know because since we were since we're apparently we're just doing all these meetings now, it's like a thing that we're doing. Yeah, apparently having all these meetings with like other schools and like all this other shenanigans, Like, who knows what horrors await on in the in-service day this year? Like, oh no, no,
Brandon 56:52
oh no, could be bad. Like, I mean, I know I did say, like, hey, can I have time to talk to the people in my own school instead, like yeah, can't do that. Like that would be cool.
Collin 57:05
Really, please,
Brandon 57:06
that'd be real fun. I can do that, but I don't know what's. I don't know if they'll be able to fit that into this one since I just told them about that, and they they seem to be like, yeah, we hadn't thought of that yet. Like me, okay. Anyway, like I don't know, and I don't think I was the only one to bring it up either. So, but like we haven't done that, so I don't know what's in store for Monday, and so I am feared because it it could be horrible, like
Collin 57:36
right, or
Brandon 57:37
they'll give me time to do like they've we've had to do all this stuff for like the we're like redoing how they grade stuff or whatever, and so like they've been this like lady, this consultant lady that's been coming in and like meeting with us and asking to do all this stuff, but like we haven't had any time to
Collin 57:56
do it. Oh no, that's you know yeah. So like
Brandon 57:59
between her first two visits, like there was no workdays, so they were like, "Oh, well, you got to do this stuff." I'm like, "When?
Collin 58:07
When? Yeah.
Brandon 58:08
When am I doing that? Right? Like, I, I, not to be like negative, but like, I'm not doing that at home. Like, no, no, that's not, no, no. I'm sorry,
Collin 58:19
because I think haven't you haven't you gotten like they've they've told you not to work outside you know and yeah if in
Brandon 58:26
every again this is me being petty but like if in every single email that you send me like every single like newsletter update quote thing that you send me you have like please remember your contract hours are blank to blank, right?
Collin 58:42
Yeah.
Brandon 58:42
Do you think I'm going to be working on all of your stuff outside of those hours? Answers. I'm not. I'm not going to be doing that, right? Like if you're going to be throwing a massive fit because somebody had to leave like 20 minutes early to go to a doctor's appointment, I'm not working on anything in my house.
Collin 58:58
Yeah, ain't nothing happening.
Brandon 59:00
My house is for house things, right? Like video games and Japanese murder novels. Okay, that is what my house is for. So like,
Collin 59:11
house is for house things. Yeah, like
Brandon 59:14
so like I'm not gonna do that. So I don't know if we'll get time to do that stuff. I mean, I don't want to do that stuff because that's not like interesting, but like it's like click these things and copy them into this page. Like I can't tell you how many times I've done this in past, and the fact that I have to do it again,
Collin 59:32
yeah,
Speaker 1 59:32
it's just very irksome,
Brandon 59:34
right? Like, like I get, I get it. Like the other, the math lady, right? She, like, we did all this stuff like before she got here, like the year before she came. We did all this stuff, so like she, it's good for her because like the stuff that the things that they said were like, oh, these are going to be our like reporting standards that we're going to focus on. Like she didn't get to pick them, so like. I think it's good for her to go through there and be like, "What is this? Why is this here? Get this out of here! That's not what I want." Right? You know, that's fine. That's but like for me, like guys, again, really, no,
Collin 1:00:17
it's fine.
Brandon 1:00:19
But like, I have to like revamp some stuff anyway because like the the state of Missouri has now weighed in and said, "Oh, these should be your priority standards. These are the important things you need to focus on." But but like I said, for science, they're like it's all of them. Yeah, it's every single one, right? And then for like soul studies, they're like, "Yeah, these five are fine." You're like, "What? What do you mean? What is that? What is? What is this?" Yeah, it's like, "What is that even me? What is that?" So I have to go check those ones for sure because like they're like, nah, no priorities for social studies. We don't care. Like, there is no graduation requirement for social studies except for pass the state constitution test.
Collin 1:01:10
Yeah,
Brandon 1:01:11
that is all. There is no other social studies, anything. So, uh, yeah.
Collin 1:01:22
Sorry, I mean
Brandon 1:01:23
whatever. Like it's fine, but like you can tell. Like,
Speaker 1 1:01:33
but we gotta do that, and then so I don't know what else we're doing. But yeah, so there's something else I'm gonna say, but now I don't remember what it was. Hmm. Hmm.
Collin 1:01:47
Well, I will. I will tell you one of my one of my last things, and then if I'll start moving towards a haiku. Okay, that's fine. If I remember it, sure,
Brandon 1:01:58
I'll jump in here. But I.
Collin 1:01:59
So no, my last one was this this week. I also filled out a questionnaire that I got in the mail, and this this questionnaire was for possible jury selection for the federal court out of Kansas City. Oh, I was like, oh, oh, the big one. This is the big one. Whoa, federal now. this is because I got one
Brandon 1:02:24
for just like the normal one.
Speaker 2 1:02:25
Yeah. Also a little bit ago,
Brandon 1:02:27
I had to do the like eligibility thing. Like, have you ever been convicted of a felony? You're like convicted? No. No. Just kidding.
Speaker 1 1:02:35
I didn't.
Collin 1:02:36
No. Nope. Yeah, that's what this was. This was the eligibility questionnaire. You know that they send out, and so they're obviously going out to for their pool of people, you know. And I'm like, like that'd be pretty cool. Get selected for a federal jury case. Would not
Brandon 1:02:53
be cool. Like I was waiting for the this questionnaire to have the like, do you hold any beliefs that would make it difficult for you to serve on this jury, like
Speaker 2 1:03:02
yeah. I was the police
Brandon 1:03:03
are not to protect you. That's my oh man.
Collin 1:03:07
I have so many like I'm aware of jury nullification. Is what I'm aware of. Yeah,
Brandon 1:03:13
like did you know the the modern police were invented by the English to for the occupation of Ireland, what? What? What did you say?
Collin 1:03:23
No, maybe. What'd you say? No, I, I, I did anyway. I filled that out. So, well, pending. We'll see what happens. Oh man, so many exciting things. Okay, listeners, we might
Brandon 1:03:35
have to have a hiatus, right? Collin sequestered. Collin disappears. Federal investigation,
Collin 1:03:43
great! I'm super, I'm super thrilled. I mean, they sent it out to probably you know hundreds of 1000s of people across the area, so I very unlikely to go through that. But yeah, but who
Speaker 1 1:03:55
knows, right?
Collin 1:03:56
No, no, which leads me, which leads me to my other thing that I did that leads to my haiku. I'll just read. I'll just. I don't know. Here's here's the haiku, and then I'll say the backstory.
Brandon 1:04:06
Oh oh. Okay.
Collin 1:04:07
Reverse. I like it. Yeah, I like this. Okay. Documents hidden. Verify who I am now. Deeper, I must go. What? So I got a notification from their from run a business. I have lots of things going on, and I got a notification from the mob at Google that was basically like, "Sure, is a nice thing you got going on over here. Would be terrible if somebody shut that down. And then I was like, yeah, that would be pretty bad. It's oh, it shut down already. Dang it! Because I pay. We've been testing out these things, Google Ads of like, okay, I don't. People say. Try this. I hate ads, but like people say they work, so I'm going to put it out there and see how that's going on and all this stuff. And going through this process, it's like, hey, great, thanks. You're set up and you're paying money and you're getting stuff, and there you go. And it's like cool. And then suddenly, on the back end, they're like, "Oh, you didn't verify your identity for transparency laws and legal reasons, so you need to do that immediately. Otherwise, we're going to shut down your entire account." And then they step back and they smile, and I'm like, "That would have been nice to know before I started this process because that would have
Brandon 1:05:41
been useful to know beforehand. Yes, that would be ideal, right? That's not something you want to spring on a person. No,
Collin 1:05:50
so I'm like, interesting. What documents do you need? And it's like, oh well, the one document you know
Brandon 1:05:57
the ones.
Collin 1:05:58
I know, obviously, you know the document that you need is like the the um what was it? It was like the the letter from the IRS notifying you of your EIN number, and I'm like, the what? I I have an EIN number, but I don't have the original document with that. Like I hoard a lot of things, but I didn't save the. Damn! Why
Brandon 1:06:27
would you save that? Like out of all of this stuff, like
Collin 1:06:31
so. So then I'm like, okay, well, what's the next thing? And they're like, oh, well, if you don't have that, we just need your articles of organization from the state. I'm like, hmm. In order to get my what you you have to pay like $10 to download them online. I'm like, I'm not doing that. So what's my next option? And it's like, oh, well, you just need to get like I don't know this other document. I was like, aha, I have that one. So I go and then I like digging through my documents, and I finally find it, and I take a picture, and I upload it, and it's like instantly, it's like rejected. I'm like, what? And it gives there's Brandon. There's no information as to why this document has been rejected. It's just oh no cool account is now like account is is actually closed now. Nothing is happening. Resubmit, and I'm like, but I gave the what in the world? And then right down at the very like very bottom, it's a white background, and then like the like I don't know, like they increased the the contrast by like point oh one. There's a little bit of there's a little bit of text, and it was like learn about like document specs. Like learn learn more about the document and how to upload it. Basically, is I click on that, and all of a sudden now it's like, oh, you want to upload a document? Oh, well, here's the 20 things that you have to make sure are correct with that document before you can upload it to us, and one of them is that quote all four corners must be visible. What? My photo was just slightly twisted so that the bottom left corner was gone, and there was a shadow on top of the picture.
Brandon 1:08:17
What? That's not real. Come on. What are you? What are you guys doing? Like,
Collin 1:08:21
I'm like, what is this? And so I'm like, okay, okay, okay, okay. So then I like, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna take this picture and I upload it, and then up to upload it, and it's like pending approval. In the meantime, please find these other like other corroborating documents just in case we ask for them. Like, oh, bro, what in the world? And I get it. Like, they're just
Brandon 1:08:48
in case we ask for them. That's not how it works. Like,
Collin 1:08:51
no. So I
Brandon 1:08:53
ask you for anything.
Collin 1:08:55
Back to my document pile of like, oh my goodness, like, what did I save the envelope to prove that this came from so and so? And I'm like taking pictures of the front and back, and I'm getting ready, and I'm finding, and I'm about ready to pay for the $10 fee online to get this document because I'm like, I don't want to pay this, and I'm annoyed. Why don't I have my EIN original document from seven years ago? Like, oh, bad knee. Yeah, how dare you? How dare I? Dare you not keep that
Brandon 1:09:23
one document that no one told you that you had to keep?
Collin 1:09:25
Right, exactly. Like crazy, the one thing. And then I'm like, okay, and then and then just like like two minutes later, the email pops up, and I'm like, you're good, thanks. Like everything's. It was just like you're the most
Brandon 1:09:42
ridiculous. Like, what in the mind?
Collin 1:09:44
Like serious. Like the amount of stuff where it's like, like, oh man, you like business owners they get to do so much stuff and have their own time. And no, no, no. I spend my week trying to prove I'm not an AI and trying to
Brandon 1:09:59
prove that you're. You like trying to
Collin 1:10:01
prove that I am real to people on the phone, to Google, like to the federal courthouse. Like it's just like that's all I'm doing these days. It's just crazy filling out paperwork. It's the most ridiculous thing, and I'm like, so I haven't even bothered putting my papers back. They're all over my pin box. I mean, I mean, really, like at this point,
Brandon 1:10:21
why would you worry about it? Just like it's fine.
Collin 1:10:27
So, so this week it was a deeper. I must go. Like, okay, back to the box. Let's let's keep going. Jeez, so please. Oh my
Brandon 1:10:40
gosh. Yuck. That's. so. Hopefully now you're you, and you can stay you and prove that you're you. So maybe you don't have to do that anymore.
Collin 1:10:54
Maybe maybe they probably won't. They probably won't like that. But for
Brandon 1:10:59
now,
Collin 1:11:00
yes,
Brandon 1:11:00
you're you for now until you're not again.
Collin 1:11:02
Okay, I know. So they're like, actually, we get those documents back.
Brandon 1:11:06
Yeah, they're like, hey, wait, where's that random number that you didn't even know that you needed? Yeah. Oh,
Collin 1:11:12
you didn't. You didn't save the confirmation number from the stuff you registered for this thing. Yeah. For the number, this is what I love. I have a number that I had to register for, and that number I was given a confirmation number for, and they were like, "You must save the confirmation number for the number that you registered for, because we're going to ask for that confirmation number at some point." I'm like, "Of course they will!" Like, why? You have my number.
Brandon 1:11:38
Yeah, I mean, you gave it to me, so like, if you confirmed me, why do I need to give you the number?
Collin 1:11:45
I guess
Speaker 2 1:11:46
right.
Collin 1:11:46
I'm so good, and I'm like, sure. Is this for like identity theft that somebody just didn't find that number? And this is the second time you identification. But like, this is the kind of thing that stops people from being able to do anything in their life. I mean, yeah. I mean, look, I read Catch Point
Brandon 1:12:03
Two. I know what's happening right now. Okay, like
Collin 1:12:06
I know, I know. It's just it makes you feel like you're the insane one because anytime you try and talk to somebody on the phone, they're just like, "Yes, we need the confirmation number. It's the most logical thing in the world," and you're like, "No, what? Yeah, why would you need that? Like, and they're just like, yeah, it's like I can't, I can't do that. I, you must give me confirmation number. Okay, fine. I tried. Anyway, okay. So, but I don't like. It's fine.
Brandon 1:12:34
I'm.
Collin 1:12:36
I know who I am, and we're all good. And we need to between now and the next time we record. I want to try and figure out our book that we need to read for the. Oh yeah, okay, yes.
Brandon 1:12:50
I was looking at some more lists today, and I
Collin 1:12:53
okay
Brandon 1:12:54
still had no luck. So
Speaker 2 1:12:55
yes, do you have?
Brandon 1:12:57
Yeah, we'll text later. But like, yeah, even if you just have like a vibe, but like a oh, like this kind of book, like
Collin 1:13:05
yes,
Brandon 1:13:06
something in like a genre or like a I don't know, like a I don't know the vibe you're feeling because that's what we did the last two times. Like
Collin 1:13:15
yes,
Brandon 1:13:16
last yeah, I know last year we were like you know I'm feeling something Dickensy, right? Like I or like
Collin 1:13:22
no, I I may have. I think I don't know. I will I will send. Oh, okay.
Brandon 1:13:29
You're having a vibe already. Having a vibe
Collin 1:13:31
already. All right. I like this. Yes. So I will. I will send over some vibes.
Brandon 1:13:36
Okay. Okay. Sounds good.
Speaker 2 1:13:39
Yes.
Brandon 1:13:39
Exciting. Let's go.
Collin 1:13:42
Okay, interesting. Okay, I will send over some vibes, and then we will we'll go from there. All
Speaker 3 1:13:48
right,
Collin 1:13:49
very good. Well, good luck on your parent teacher conferences.
Speaker 1 1:13:53
Oh yeah, thanks.
Collin 1:13:55
We'll try this again next time. All
Brandon 1:14:00
righty,
Collin 1:14:01
love you.
Brandon 1:14:01
Love you. Bye. Bye.