We aren’t in the right tax bracket. Collin is recovering. Brandon needs a Charlette. At least 5 pirates were involved.

A different tax bracket
double wammy egress
Looking a bit reclusive
Find a charlette
Catch the vibes properly
Collin has a review:
https://www.tentpoletech.com/
Brandon and ranting…about washing dishes
Mandatory jump to recipe
oh brother recipe page!
Sea Shanty of the week!
Work song
Drunken Sailor
Blaggards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ9YrMAxHVE
Treasure Island: Chapters 4-6
At least 5 pirates were here
Haiku:
The fallen linger
New life thrives in their shadow
Legacy endures

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS technical issues, client bookings, last-minute trips, personal assistant, tent pole replacement, fiberglass poles, recipe websites, sea shanty, Captain Flint, blind beggar, pirate treasure, doctor's house, squire Tolan, summer camp, baseball games, Treasure map, squire, Billy Bones, pirate ledger, adventure, Jim, Captain Flint, pirates, Bristol, cabin boy, Doctor, Trelawney, Silver bars, City Park, new trees SPEAKERS Brandon, Collin

00:05 Uh, hoy, ahoy.

Collin 00:06 You came on and then you disappeared.

00:10 Yeah, it was gone. Well, it was, it was,

Brandon 00:13 I haven't it pulled up, right? I always try to pull it up like, you know, 10 minutes or so ahead, and so it was just sitting there, hanging out, and all of a sudden it goes not responding. And I was like, what? It was open. It was working.

00:27 I had everything open already. And then it was like, no.

Collin 00:33 It's like, No, I just don't want to respond today. Yeah. It

Brandon 00:36 was like, No, I don't what if I did it. But no. And I was like,

Speaker 2 00:40 but it was, it was open.

Collin 00:44 Everything's fine.

Speaker 2 00:45 It was already open. That's the part that's ridiculous, like, whatever. So it's back, Hi. How's it going? It's well,

Collin 00:58 like it, oh, oh, well, good. Glad to have you back. It's fun, yes, so it should be

Speaker 2 01:05 good now, hopefully, hopefully we'll play nice. See, yeah, we'll

01:10 see. So, how are you? How's it been?

Collin 01:13 Man, I'm, I don't know if I'm fully recovered from last weekend. Still. It's, yeah, it's, it's summertime. And with summertime, this is when people wake up on Friday and then say things like, Hmm, I don't want to be here anymore. And so they book a trip, and then they call me, or they text me and they say, Hey, I'm leaving today. And so our weeks, it's this weird. It looks like a dumbbell of, you know, where, like, the middle is very thin and then either end is just crammed full. Yeah? Not, I cannot add

Brandon 02:00 anymore, yeah, I see that. But, man, sometimes, like, get angry when you say things like this, because I'm like, bro, I want to just be like, Yeah, I'm out. Let's go. Not at you, at your clients that are just like, these people that are just like, Yeah, I'm going on trip now. Pi like, what? What is this? What? How does this work? Yeah, and these people, I know they aren't. It's not like they're going, Oh, I'm driving to Kansas City. No, no. They're like,

Collin 02:38 I think I just really need to be in North Carolina or whatever, you know, like,

Brandon 02:43 yeah, like, that kind of trip. And it's not like, a little bit away,

Collin 02:50 it's a ways away, a fur piece, right? No, it's like, this requires hotels. This is and even if it was the driving like, you're still you're driving like, how are you what? How do you

03:07 so, I'm a man. I bet some of

Collin 03:09 them are flying, right? Oh, no, a lot of them are flying. That's the other part that gets the

Brandon 03:16 who's just, who's just flying randomly places like, what is going on here? What is happening? I don't know. Not me, so that's who. So it means that, like, we get no bookings on Monday, no bookings on Tuesday, no bookings on Wednesday. So you're like, Oh, it'll be a nice, slow week. Oh my gosh, seven

Collin 03:38 people booked everything. Seriously, I had, I had eight people booked today. Oh

Brandon 03:41 my gosh. I was trying to think of a number that was too high, no, which is why I picked seven. No. Now it is across both service areas, but like ours, still, that's area where we live. They are the worst, literally, the worst, the

Collin 03:58 worst. I don't know how we attracted so many last minute Louie clients here, but we have them. And today I had like again on this this past Monday.

04:08 Lou Yes, yes, this past Monday,

Collin 04:12 it's Meg, and I talk about our clients a lot. I like it. That's good this Monday, we had nobody for this weekend in the service area, and we had nobody yesterday, on Tuesday, and we had nobody yesterday, and today we have three, and tomorrow we'll probably so it's like, yeah. And here's the thing, like, it's that time of year, and we have these kind of clients. We have the kind of clients who are the is the weather nice to take the motorcycles out for a ride. Kind of clients. We have the what's the weather like for golf, kind of clients. And so these activities are very last minute. They don't want to book something and then have the weather cry. So that's fair. It makes sense. We have those clients in here too. In addition. To the ones who just disappear, like, I'm leaving for a week, where,

Brandon 05:05 what, why, that's the one that gets me, like, that's, yeah, I can understand. Like, oh, hey, we're gonna run down to, you know. Like, if it's you like, Oh, we're gonna go to Kansas City for the day. Like, down here, a lot of people are like, Oh, we're gonna, you know, be fun. Let's go to Eureka Springs, or, like, you know, something like that, right? Like, it's not, like, super far, but, like, yeah, it's far enough that you can, like, make a whole day out of the thing, you know, just wait to get out. Yeah, yeah. Not, like, I'm going to Oregon. Like, what?

Collin 05:37 Or no, we decided we're going to go to Florida, like, when, yeah, how decide I'm I too, am traveling, but I, I did that five months ago and decided what I was going like, I don't. I've had

05:53 to plan my trip for, like, year, two years. Like, that's what,

Collin 05:56 yeah, I know. So I just, it's another world, right? It's another world. I What is, yeah, it's another tax bracket, is all I'm going to

Speaker 2 06:07 say, yeah, not one that I'm in. I'm in either, yeah, it's just that's, that's like, we have, okay, so we have this clear

Collin 06:16 sponsors, if you're listening, we're gonna, if you would like to help us make other people's lives miserable by not planning here, and

Brandon 06:24 to help you same time, clearly, help us, help you, right? That's what it's all about. Yeah, obviously,

Collin 06:33 we have a client who is in like this, is above that tax bracket. They're kind of client who have their own personal assistant for some reason. Like, oh, bro, that's crazy, right? Like, I don't know. Like, when we, when they book services, the personal assistant is the one who contacted us and set up everything and took care of all this stuff.

06:54 And

Collin 06:57 yes, I didn't. I didn't the client didn't fill out any of the information until, like, the personal assistant set up all that stuff. So because the the client said, Hey, I need somebody to walk my dog, and the personal assistant said, I'm on it, right? And just took care of it, yeah? And this, of course, this person, they're how now they're not. Their only home is not in in town, obviously, oh, yeah, clearly, like, it's but, like, they will, they, they are one of the worst of, like, Well, we, I've decided I'm going to be spending the next month or two in Mexico at my other, you know, house. Like I told Megan, I said I can't even get in that mindset of, like, let me prepare my second house for my arrival. And let me like, how do you what? Like, like, what is, how do you set those wheels in motion? Like, who do you call to start stocking up your your other estate, right? Like, I don't even know. Like, I definitely don't

Brandon 08:01 know. It's wild. Haven't got that Italian Billy yet, so I have no idea.

08:09 But this is what I'm talking about. Like

Brandon 08:11 I I think could be we're so close. I mean, there, that's true. It's on the cusp. Actually, it's not, but, you know, could be,

Collin 08:24 I still, I still, look, there's still some pretty good ones. There are

Brandon 08:27 a lot of really good ones, yeah, but like, that's yeah, and

Speaker 3 08:34 a little bit of elbow grease. And then you could, you two, have two elbows I, yeah, and probably equal amounts of grease. Yeah, it's true. Did we do we go through this? Do we do? We look at what, how much it costs to Yeah,

Collin 08:48 yeah, remember, yeah, we have to stay over there for a while and make it worth it. I

Brandon 08:53 mean, that's giant I can, I can probably handle that. You know, it's fine. A

Collin 09:00 giant fly just buzzed by me. Where did you come from? What is this?

Brandon 09:04 Well, yeah, it's the season for bugs to infiltrate your house, just like randomly, even somebody like me who doesn't really go outside, like, my point of ingress and egress is the garage, right? So it's like, double whammy. Like, I don't open the back door. Like, who does that? But there's still just, like, randomly. There's just, like, all these flies in here, like, where, how, where did you come from? Like, what is, what is going on? I don't understand. Like, they're just the sneakiest little things, like, Oh, here's another spider. Why?

Collin 09:46 I know we have started to we have, I don't know what this okay, this may say a lot about us. We have a jumping spider in our kitchen. That is, he's safe because he's really. Good at catching flies.

Brandon 10:01 Yeah, that, you know, that's I do allow those spiders in. It's the spindly looking ones. I'm like, I bro, nope, yeah, the creepy one, they're not useful. They're just there, yeah? Well, I mean, they're probably useful, but they're all the ones that are, like, gonna harm me if they buy me. So I'm like, Nope, you look. Oh,

Speaker 2 10:20 reclusive, yeah, sandal. Like, give me that chunk. Like, wow, absolutely. That's what it's time for now. Or you get out of here,

Collin 10:31 bro, I don't care for your fiddle. Get out.

Brandon 10:35 Yeah, you get away from me. I don't need that in my life. So, yes, that's, yeah, it's, it's just annoying, like they're so sneaky, you know? It's almost like they're insects and small, and can get into tiny places that I don't know exist. Wait a minute, I know a minute

Collin 11:03 I had reason to be in my attic recently, and I remembered why I never go in my attic. A No, yeah, very hot and be I just started thinking about those things of how many organisms are living up here right now. I need, yeah, I mean,

Brandon 11:22 like, the garage, I see a bug in the garage. You're cool, you're good. You can't hang out like spiders in the garage. Help to create a barrier, right? For all the bugs that are trying to enter the house through the garage. You gotta make it through all the spiders, right? So, boom, you stay there spider and do spidery stuff and, like, rape them. You know, the blockade of them from coming in here, but then the spiders come inside. Like, no, there's more bugs out there. I promise they're not in here. They're they're outside. So you gotta go, buddy. You gotta get out there and find them like it's right

Collin 12:05 here. Are speaking of fish in the ocean. Here's the bugs in the world. Is this a way?

Brandon 12:11 Yeah, it's not in here, right? And I'm trying to keep them under control in here. You You can, if you want to be pest control, this is not the place for you to be. You need to find a new I've got that kind of

Collin 12:23 wraps right now, it gets a little awkward for there to be two of us doing

12:27 this, yeah, right. That's,

Brandon 12:28 yeah, I got this. You're the outer security layer, right? That's, that's your bag. You can your outer security, not the, not interior security. So you gotta go find your spot and take care of it out there. So, yeah, it's fine. It's a mutualistic relationship here. I mean, I'm trying to make it that way. They don't really, they're not into that, right? Trying to be symbiotic here, but they're not really connecting their stuff in their bounds. Yeah, they really are. It's a it's a problem. So, like, I don't know,

Collin 13:05 oh, well, maybe, maybe, if you just talk to them

Brandon 13:07 more, I may help. I'll try help. I'll try see if I can find a Charlotte or something, right, to, like, really

13:16 catch the vibes properly, right?

Collin 13:19 Well, there was that phrase. So

Brandon 13:25 we're all about layers here, right? That's what we're all about on this show, yep, really

Speaker 2 13:33 strange references and layered context. That's what it's all about

13:37 layers. Yeah, man.

Collin 13:41 So beside the bugs and the bookings, it's been a pretty this week has been very weird. The kids have been in

Speaker 3 13:54 summer camp of sorts, so it's, it's weird having them out of the house,

14:02 and then yeah, true, also,

Collin 14:04 also still being crazy busy, like, that's the other part. But yeah, it's been pretty, pretty, pretty standard. We're wrapping up the baseball games. We got two more. Oh no wait, howdy, this the son there. He is. It's getting tired. It's getting tired, especially after, like this past week, it was our first we had one, yeah, well, like last week, he had three games, then we went through the weekend, they came in, and he had a long day at camp, and he went to play the game, and I could definitely just like, pretty zombified out there, just like

Speaker 3 14:47 hulking around, like, oh no. And so afterwards, had to applaud him. I was like, but you showed up. Your team needed you. You were here. Sure, great job. Like, I know you would rather have been in bed, but,

15:07 like, two

Collin 15:09 hours ago,

Brandon 15:10 it's true, beautiful summertime. I mean, at least a lot of summer ball leagues say things like, I don't know why, but they're like, ah, you know, it's a great time for a game in the summer, two o'clock. Like, no, that is incorrect. What are you doing? That is the wrong answer. We are not Oh, at least it is of evening. You know, that's that's nice, you know, that's good? Yes, yeah,

Collin 15:49 I do. I bring, also this week, a review to you. Oh, I have a review to me. A review to you. How exciting. You may recall, we had an incident, we had reason for need of a tent pole replacement. Ah, yes. And so this disappeared from my mind because I couldn't be bothered to remember this. And it wasn't through Amazon. And so I had no idea where anything was. Amy perfectly, but my ordering process now I'm, of course, speaking with tent pole technologies. It's a wonderful website. And here's what happened. I actually went to Eureka and was like, hey, I need a replacement pole because this one broke. And they're like, oh, hey buddy, we're not in business anymore. Eureka as a brand, isn't even a thing. Sorry, so. But these people will hand make you a tent pole, right? I was like, oh boy. But the Eureka representative was fantastic. He gave me all the specifications, and basically the verbiage, he said, copy and paste this to them, and they'll make it for you. And I was like, great, right? I called them to verify a few things. He talked me out of the aluminum poles. I was like, good call. Thank you. Thank you. I placed the order and then completely forgot about this, and it showed up on Wednesday, which was yesterday, and

17:22 and I will say, like, what a fantastic

Collin 17:25 service. Tentpole technology, five stars across the board, wonderfully packaged, nicely bound, and just excellent tent poles, if, especially if you compare to the standard ones that this thing came with, which is a bit frustrating, because you're like, well, it's the main manufacturer. Surely, like they're in the tent business, surely they would want good tent poles. No, right? Somebody's gonna cheap out on something. But if your only job, you're so the only thing you make are tent poles, right? Like you're going to want these to be the best darn tent poles out there. Like they, they, that's the only thing that they want, because that's the only thing speaking to their name is true.

Brandon 18:12 If they're, if they're a singular industry, that would be kind of important, right? And it

Collin 18:18 was, I mean, talk about seamless like, I copied and pasted the verbiage, and I could have figured it out. Anyway, I would give them the make and model, and they just want the total length from tip to tip of an assembled pole, and

18:30 the material pretty easy, fair,

Collin 18:35 so they can spec it out and look at all this stuff, and immediately could tell the the the fiberglass much better, even lighter than the pole, than the fiberglass from the main manufacturer there. I don't know why. I'm trying to obscure the name of Eureka. It's rip. I mean, I guess, yeah, the dead.

Brandon 18:57 I am a little bit confused that you were able to talk to a eureka representative if there is no

Collin 19:04 Eureka so, like, that's

Brandon 19:05 interesting. Like, yeah, are they just, like, attached to another company that's just,

Speaker 3 19:10 like, here's what happened Johnson outdoors. Johnson outdoors bought Eureka. They also own Jetboil old canoe, hummingbird, Minn Kota, Cannon and scuba Pro.

Brandon 19:27 Ah, okay, they took this where my Teddy Roosevelt stick. We gotta break up this.

Collin 19:34 They have a website. It's called Eureka camping.johnsonoutdoors.com/us.

Brandon 19:41 This. Terribly inefficient URL.

Collin 19:46 However, if you search for things like Eureka help or help Eureka, it'll taste is what comes up. Okay, that's good. And I filled this out and I look this was announced back on October 19 of 2023 we are not. Longer going to be here. They closed down October of last year. Done nothing. No more. I was like, surely, nobody is watching this intake form. Nobody, right. Why would anybody be watching this intake form? But no, you filled this out. And a very nice man replies and says, Hey, I can't help you, but, like, directly, but here's this information. I was too shocked, because I was like, if this doesn't go through, I don't know what I'm going to do, because I have to be honest, tentpole technologies, their website, not the most confidence inducing website in the world that I've seen before. It's pretty like, again,

Brandon 20:41 single use industry, like, sometimes, web design, yeah? Not it,

20:48 right? No. So

Brandon 20:49 it's like a Chinese restaurant situation, right? Where you're like, ah, that restaurant looks kind of dingy, yeah? But you want to go in there,

21:01 right? You're like, oh, man,

Brandon 21:03 like, is that the cleanest restaurant I've ever seen in my life? No, no. Does that mean I want their egg rolls? Yes, that's what that means.

21:12 You see that meme that's like, I just realized I'm X years old and I've never seen a commercial for a Chinese restaurant. Oh,

Collin 21:21 right, yes. Why would you why would why would it be necessary for one

21:27 true anyway, sorry, derailed back to No, you're fine. Tentpole

Collin 21:30 technologies. Tentpole technologies, they you put together. And the one thing this is how I knew that these were my kind of people. What? Well, what they Well, first off, I knew that they were my kind of people, because they talked me out of upgrading to aluminum poles on the phone. I was like, Okay, if you

Brandon 21:46 understood. But the fiberglass, the fiberglass, you can

Collin 21:52 cut it straight, like you come in the pole, and then you can just cut it straight through with a saw and kind of like, clean up the edges a little bit. This is what came from Eureka is it's not very well finished, okay. Like, they like chamfer the edge of the pole after it's been cut. Like, it's this nice uniform sanding thing that kind of just tapers it just at the minuscule amount, but it gets rid of all the rough edges of the fiberglass.

Brandon 22:20 Probably makes it stronger, so there's not, like, cracks in it from the cutting. Yes. Is that true? Is that

Collin 22:26 how fiberglass works? Yeah, because it's it's solid, right? Any kind of fracture like this creates a point of stress that can be, you know, whatever, yeah, it also makes

22:34 explode in your hand. Hypothetically,

Collin 22:36 hypothetically, yeah, it's all out. Now, I don't feel any pain

22:42 like you get duct tape on it.

Collin 22:45 And I did that. So Lillian got one in her in her hand, and she was like, our hurts. I was like, go get duct tape. And the whole family was like, What are you doing? I was like, trust me, put on the duct tape. I put it on, rubbed it on, and I ripped it off. I was like, do you still feel it? She was like, No,

23:01 I know. Man,

Collin 23:04 I know. So it also, when you're assembling it, because it's tapered just a little bit, it goes into the other piece. Oh, better, yeah, doesn't get caught. Doesn't get caught. So just put it, the whole thing together, right, assembled out of the box fits perfectly, exact same all this great stuff. And we assembled the tent, and the kids got to stay in the 10 tent for the afternoon and experience that stuff. But just like, from beginning to end, it was one of the more like, I thought that there'd be a lot more back and forth from tent pole technologies. But blissfully, there was not because of they want to know the again, well, they have to know the diameter, the total length and the material, and then they just make it for you, right? There's no, it's so nice. It was so nice. And they'll even, I was reading on their website. So the polls are fantastic. I think it's gonna last a lifetime. And I'm kind of wondering if I want to get the the rain fly that, because it has special rain fly poles that extend it out a little bit. I want to go get those replaced just, just to make everything just like, you

Brandon 24:22 know, like, Primo, yeah, I don't know,

Collin 24:25 but I also found that they will if you have a custom project, and I don't know what this means in the tent world, but if you have a custom tent, they will help you make polls for

Brandon 24:35 it. And I, I love that. I love

Collin 24:39 this so much.

Brandon 24:42 That's pretty sweet. Their website doesn't look too bad. No, it doesn't. But

Collin 24:46 pulling across the website looking for tentacle replacements. Like,

Brandon 24:49 that's fair. It's kind of, yeah, it's a little, it's a little

Collin 24:54 whatever. But anyway, I can't, you know, I have to endorse them. Like, full. Heart full, full, throated hearted here because it was great. It was a wonderful experience. And the polls are fantastic, and we're looking forward to using them soon. So no,

Brandon 25:08 I was, I got on here mostly to see, like, what other poll options are

25:14 there, other than

Brandon 25:16 aluminum and fiberglass? Turns out, carbon. I should have seen that one coming. Seen, yep, carbon coming. And I don't know what this other one is, this cyclone Max poles thing. No idea. Yeah, extreme weather. I don't know what. I don't know what this is. I don't know what that means. That's what I was trying to figure out, like,

25:43 what is this one? I don't know.

Brandon 25:45 What is a cyclone Max poll? They'll also like, sell cyclone and cyclone Max. What is it? What? I don't know. They'll also Max me to repairs

Speaker 3 25:59 instead of just replacements, but also they'll do parts. So if you have, like, parts of a pole that you

Brandon 26:09 need, yeah, this has got like 90 degree anchor things like tip things, what is, what is this material? I don't understand what this means. Oh, this unique process provides, it's a multi directional construction. Unique process provides similar characteristics as carbon fiber, same weight as aluminum, and 80% more durable in wind and flex testing. Oh, keeping the material at a lower cost. There we go. Do I would have thought aluminum was heavier, though.

Speaker 3 26:47 No, aluminum is the lightest ones against these. Yes,

Brandon 26:51 aluminum is lighter than carbon. Yeah, it's not as dense in order

Collin 26:57 to make it flex and stuff,

26:59 yeah, but, man, I just seem to remember my aluminum

Brandon 27:01 foals back in the day. They were unwieldy beasts, very heavy.

27:12 Interesting.

Collin 27:13 I Yes, double plus good on this. I enjoyed, enjoyed it a lot. So it was also just, I don't know it was. It was neat and fun, though.

27:24 Yep, we're very good,

Brandon 27:29 pretty good. I don't know if I've ranted about this before or not, but I was thinking about this the other day because we had talked about Zen in the art of dishwashing, right? Yes, right, how it's a single, focused task, it's kind of like a meditative and it's just like you and the dish, right? However, I do have a slight amendment to this philosophy as it stands. Currently, something that is not Zen in dishwashing is trying to wash dishes in someone else's house. Oh, right. Oh, because, like, we were at Susan's mom's house, right? And we had dinner, so I was just gonna go wash some stuff. And like, like, the pan, you know, whatever. And, like, I was very confused, because there was an extreme lack of dishwashing material, right? And I was just like, What in the world? Like, ow, ow, right? Because, like, in your own dish zone, like you have a system, and you have all of the pieces to make that system work, right? But I was thinking about this to, like, dishwashing, highly individual task, right? Like, extremely individual task, and so not everybody has the same stuff that you have. And, like, there is, you know, obviously some, like, very clear substitutions, like, oh, instead of this, they have this. And that makes sense, right? But, but, like, some people, like Susan's mom, like, don't even have a thing. I'm like, What is going on? Well, or you reach for

Collin 29:19 this also happens when you, like, reach for the tip, like, you said, like, the particular kind of scrubber. Or like, oh, this, this dish towel isn't working. This wash, lots of working. Let me go get the, you know, whatever brush. Oh, that's not here. I don't have it. And then you find yourself just like, making do

Brandon 29:37 a lot of the time, yeah? Or kind of, like, trying to use somebody else's workbench, right? Like, it doesn't really make sense to you, right? Because, like, in our sink, we have like, an old dish scrubber, right? This is to be used just for, like, random things, right? It's just like a brush. It's one of those, like, handheld brush things. It's like you hold it in your palm and the bristles are in the bottom. And you scrub with it. It's great, right, of course. So we have, like, an old thing like that. We have the old, uh, like, scraper thing, right from the like, you know those little scraper deals, right? We have a little plasticky scraper thing to, like, scrape pans and stuff. We have, like a dish rag. And then we have a, like, this thing that Susan got at some point. And it's like, a, it's a little, like, it almost looks like a little ramekin. And then there's a brush that sits in it, and that's where you put the dish soap. So you can, like, soap the brush and then like, hammer down on the stuff, washing it that way, right? It's very handy. It's very like this, yeah. And so, like, oh. And then we have, like, a steel scrubby thing for, like, pots, you know. And also, like, like a really big scrubby thing, like, Susan's mom had like a dish, like a washcloth. That was it there. I was like, what? How do you do this? When you wash your dishes, she goes, Oh, we don't. We just soak it. It's like, for how long? Oh, oh, no. Like, how long he's like, Oh, he's soaking this thing. They do the old thing where you just, like, they have, like, the dish insert deal, and they're just like, oh, we just put a bunch hot water this. We just put everything in there, and then we kind of like, wipe it off, and then, like, either put it in the dishwasher or just, like, scrub it with this and we call it done, like, no, no, that's, that's incorrect. I don't,

Collin 31:31 I don't, you know, I'll do the, you know, just the soaking method. I just don't have that kind of patience, right? Like, I,

Brandon 31:41 I'll do it, but what I'll do is, I don't, like, I won't soak the whole dish. What I'll do is, if I have a pan, I'll just, like, put water in the pan, yes, and I'll just that, right? I'm not soaking everything else. That's ridiculous. I just, like, lightly run some water on it and then hit it with the old brush, like, knock off the big stuff, and throw it, like, plates and stuff. You just knock off stuff. We put it in the dishwasher, right? Just kind of like, yeah, absolutely, it's stuck. You know, once they're stuck on it, it's gross, but is very, is a very Unzen, right? Being in someone else's environment, trying to do this task was not so particularly relaxing.

Collin 32:22 I'm so sorry, it's

Brandon 32:23 all right. So it was funny. I was like, Oh, we have a slight amendment to this particular thing. The other thing that was very annoying this week, right? Half another continued, right? Part two, I want to talk briefly about everyone's least favorite thing, right? I don't know who wants this. I don't know who it's for. I don't know who enjoys it, but I'm talking about Internet recipes, right though, the ones that are like a blog form, and it's like, yeah, here's 880 pages, right? Here's a novella, just talking about my personal life experience and things that I do to make this dish. And then the recipe is like it the buried somewhere at the bottom right. Again, I don't know who wants this, right? Also, because they're always on, like, the jankiest websites that have like this, like 16 ads that are open at the same time. And when you're trying to look at the recipe on your phone, right, there's like, a banner ad, and then like some, like floating, stupid video ad, and then some, like halfway page, like the ad that, like, pops halfway down you like, it's awful. It's the most idiotic thing in the world, it's so poorly designed. And again, I feel like it was not designed for a mobile experience, which in 2025 is the dumbest thing that you can possibly do. Like, why would you not design something to be viewed mobily, right? Like if you were only expecting your customers to be looking at a website on a desktop computer. Yeah, in 2025 What is the matter with you? What? What is what? What is this garbage, right? And I know these people that are designing this are younger than me, right? I know this to be true, to whoop why? Why? What are you doing? Well, so you hate your customers, that's what I want to know. What you're losers, and you hate your customers, and I despise you, okay? But anyway, that's not the. Whole rant. That's a side note. The problem with this particular one that we were trying to use this week, right when I say we I mean mostly Susan, but the the recipe part at the bottom right and the soliloquy at the top, describing in great detail their feelings that they have whilst they bake this thing. Yes, were not the same procedure. They were different. So somebody wrote this big, long story about how they bake with their grandma or some garbage, and then the directions, when they gave it to you in direction form, it didn't match, right? It said, like the recipe was, it was like, roast chicken stuff, right? But it supposed to be like, in the bottom thing, it was very clearly pan roasted chicken, right where you you brown it, you do the stuff. You put the other things in there. You cover it, you let it sit on the stove for however long till it's done right in the body of this essay that they were writing their 17 page essay for their English class, they indicated that it was to be put in the oven at some point, but nowhere in the directions did it say anything about oven temperature.

Speaker 2 36:32 Oh no, oven time. Oh no, right?

Brandon 36:39 Is actually the worst written recipe I've ever seen in my life. Like it was, it tastes fine, it tastes good, you know. But you know, it's whatever. But like the amount of words used to describe how to make what amounts to pan roasted Mediterranean chicken stuff not necessary, right? It's so unnecessary and then to not even have the continuity to be like, Ah, yes, I'm gonna give you this big, long, overly dramatic retelling about my mood One spring day that I had while I was cooking and blah, and then not even give the directions, the same is that is the dumbest thing. That's real bad, and it's a real bad, right? And proof that editors are important, right? I This, this is right. Main crux this story I just discovered right now, editing and editors, having other people edit your stuff, important, right? Important? Yeah, okay, especially things like that. Like, I don't know what's going on here, but that was awful.

Collin 38:02 Well, you know, people flocked to I too, have seen this, and it is one of the more more frustrating things on the face of the planet, and I know exactly why they do it, at least. I think this is it. Page, time on page bounce rate, yeah, you sell more ads that way, right? You sell more ads, right? Because it they spend longer time looking at and scrolling and good. And it just, yeah, that's exactly, and it's so it's been ruined, and the Page Layout is then ruined, because a lot of times people design a website and they add a block for ads, and then they don't have control over what ads show up there? Yeah, it's just purely who bids the most to be put on that ad and who's managing it. And so that's where that distortion comes in. But as an as a like as a creator of content, how gross to have something that maybe you did spend a lot of time, maybe you did want to write about how your grandma used to hand pick the cherry tomatoes that she used in her salad like that, you and you want to tell that, and then you're gonna put it up against and just throw the winds and mercies of the Internet to put stuff next to that. I don't understand this at all. I

Brandon 39:12 don't care if you do that, but here's what I would suggest. Here's what I would require. Right at the very top of the page. You need an immediate hyperlink thing, jump to jump to jump to recipe, bam, yes, so I can skip your pages and pages and pages of dialog. Okay, that's cool, right? But like, if I'm like, maybe you read it the first time, neat, and then now you need the thing, because you're in the middle of making it, and you need the recipe pulled up, right? I don't have, like, why you're cooking chicken. You can't be like, scrolling through, like, this memory lane, flashback nonsense. Okay, do you need the recipe so you need a jump to recipe button? Yes, right? I think if we're gonna do this, we should require a jump to recipe button that works, not a fake one, right? I know what you can do. You're gonna put one on there and be like, Oh, that's an ad. Leaders, no. Psych, yeah, yes. Jump to a recipe. Feel like that's mandatory. It should be mandatory.

Speaker 3 40:31 Oh, my god, yeah, I Yeah, it is, um, it is infuriating. I just want to see the recipe. Yeah, I

Brandon 40:39 just want to see the thing. I just want to see how to see. How do it? That's all I need. Or, like, I need to see the ingredients again, right? Maybe you're making a list to go shopping. Like, how do you see the ingredients? Scroll for a minute to get down to the bottom right? No, stop it. Blah.

Speaker 3 40:59 Well, hopefully we can, we can work on that, yeah,

Brandon 41:07 our own. Oh, brother. Recipe page, soon I can cook exactly three things. So it'll be short. Yes, very good. Which

Collin 41:18 is what people want. Anyway, they don't want to do the scrolls.

Brandon 41:21 That's true. So no, I mean, your choices will be short. So what I'm saying, you can only pick three things. It's all this. Yes, there you go. Oh brother, oh brother. Cookbook, oh man, let's go. Oh brother. Cook's YouTube channel. What? Let's go. How are we getting shorts of Collin cooking things. Okay? Me weighing stuff

41:43 on the stove. Yeah, let's go. Okay, this is something that I've actually

Collin 41:47 thought about. The way my kitchen is set up the pantry. We've got this in our kitchen. It's kind of long, but it's got a central island. It's narrow. It's like half the width this. Note, this will make sense to nobody else. It's half the width of Dad's Island, okay, for sitting at, but it's this long, kind of like bar, and you can walk all the way around. It nice. But the pantry, our pantry, is directly opposite of our sink, so you're washing dishes, right? You can walk around the little bar thing, and you go into the pantry, that would be the perfect place to set a camera, because you can set it back enough. But then the sink, the the counter, then right behind me is another little bit of a counter, and the oven. I have thought

42:30 about this, Julia, let's go to

Collin 42:32 set up it just like did cook ridiculous stuff. Like, today I'm going to make the recipe on the back of the tollhouse cookies, right? Like, this is really what I want to do with

Brandon 42:43 this channel. I mean, that's the exact thing that you should do, right? Or, like, those ridiculous things, like those ridiculous stations, like, I'm gonna make this. What sandwich can I make out of these leftovers in my refrigerator? Right? Yes,

Collin 42:58 right, yeah. And why does it need more pickles on it exactly. Yeah, today I'm going to be putting together something from my refrigerator. But, yeah, I just want to, like, I think that'd be so much fun. Is just, it'll be hilarious show about following the directions on the backs of boxes.

Brandon 43:14 Hey, you know what? You can test them out, see if they're good, right? Yeah. Oh, this would be, you know, what this needs is this? Like, I think that that's there. This has legs.

Collin 43:27 I mean, that next level of of, what could it be added? Like, we're getting to a little bit of America's Test Kitchen ask here, right?

Brandon 43:34 That's fine, but, like, the average American kitchen, that's how it works. Average, you make it and be like, Oh, bro, that would be really good if it had this.

Collin 43:42 Yeah, I don't have Cuban. So what I do have, right?

43:47 Yeah, that's like, Have you

Brandon 43:48 ever, okay? I need you to watch a future canoe video, because this is kind of how he functions, yeah, be like, like he was doing something that. He was like, yeah, have that. So anyway, he was just like, making recipes that, like other people, like viral recipes, right? He just makes them, but he just does it like that, where he's like, Yeah, I don't have an onion. So moving on. It's great. Oh my gosh. It's very fantastic. My favorite one, he was made, I don't remember what it was, but they've, like, needed three spices, and he was like, something, something in oregano. And he only had oregano, so the way that he edited it was, like, they were like, Oh, you got to put in the basil. He was like, oregano, oh. And they were like, and then the time, and he was like, oregano, and oregano, ah, oregano, yes, bam, duh. It was great, best thing ever. So that'd be fun. I would definitely watch you bake this. This be great, like today, Betty Crocker's recipe,

Collin 45:08 or even tonight, every now and then, we'll get these coupons for, like, HelloFresh, like those delivery boxes. Oh yeah, it's it's ridiculous, right there. But, and I enjoy these very much. They had a little bit of variety, and it's kind of nice not to really think about it, because it's like, oh, I pre planned for the week, and it's just grab a bag out your fridge, right? It's nice. Like, putting together one of those. Like, it's nothing, I'm just following these directions anyway. I just

Brandon 45:36 the best thing about that, we did a trial, one of those things one time, right? Like, you can also they, you also just, they come with, like, a recipe card, yeah, just totally keep the card too. I know I could just make this now. Like,

Collin 45:50 yes, no. Now, sometimes they do send weird things, like, that's today. Today we had like, a, oh, there's, like, a sweet chili sauce. I'm like, this is definitely process from somewhere. I would have to find this in my town. I don't just

Brandon 46:05 have I have some employee Thai sweet chili sauce in my fridge. There you go. Thanks. Get it from the Asian grocery store. You could put it on literally everything. It's great, yes, just, well, it doesn't matter. Like, oh, this needs a little something. Ah, maybe it's this, bam.

Collin 46:31 So we'll see. We'll see. Let me

Brandon 46:33 All right, we'll workshop that one. That'd be hilarious.

46:37 Yeah, yes,

46:38 yes. We shaky phone video of me cutting onions badly. Yeah, perfect,

Collin 46:47 yep, we'll zoom in by stepping forward, right? Yes,

46:55 perfect. There you go. Yeah. So I do have for you, of course, the sea shanty of the week. Oh, yes, be ready for that. Yeah,

Brandon 47:08 I feel like Right. Got now before we start this, I do want to say listeners, yes, I am aware of the difference between a sea shanty and a C song, all right? But for the purposes of this ongoing segment, I feel that I'm going to just combine them all together and songs to be sung at sea, colloquially known as sea shanties in 2025 right? So that's what it is, however, like, just so you know, a C and T, it's like a work song, right? Repetitive Cadency, right? For like, hauling lines, stuff like that, right? A C song, songs that sailors sing like after dinner time to like for funsies, right? So, okay, that's what, that's kind of the difference, right? But today I do, of course, have a official sea shanty, right? Sort of, I feel like, in honor of the late captain from the story, right? You know, in his honor, I feel like the best one we could do this week is drunken sailors. This is very important. Just briefly, interestingly, this is a real song, right? We thought last week, the Yo ho ho in a bottle of rum is a song that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, and then it has become like a C song. But this is an official song. Its earliest recorded singing is somewhere in the 1830s right? So it was used on ships, right? It does kind of share a similar tune to, like an Irish folk song, right? So it's probably sung on English ships. Imagine, you know, they take everything from the Irish and

49:21 maybe, it's my

Brandon 49:29 earliest kind of somewhere in the 1830s is its first recorded like usage. So that means it's probably older than that, right? So it was first recorded like that. It was a thing in the early 1830s so it's almost certainly older than that, but that is the classic drunken sailor, right? And all the refrains kind of answered the question, yeah. Right? What? What do you do? And they're either all either again, this is one of the it's like 20 bazillion verses to this song, so there's not like an official version, right? It's just like whatever. But they all have to do with either, what are you going to do with him, to wake him up, to get him to work, or What shall his punishment be? Too drunken at this time, right? That is the two, the two options for, you know, the verses for the song, right? Of course, the refrain is always the same. And then there's the way Hey, and up she rides this part, and which is probably the hauling bit, right? Because that's the part that they would all repeat together, I bet. And so that's what they would haul lines and do stuff that you do on a ship. So bang. That is this week's sea shanty.

Collin 51:01 Shanty. The classic,

Brandon 51:03 classic. For some reason, I have known this song since I was a youth. I don't really know why. I don't know where I heard

Collin 51:12 that, and I'm trying to remember if the version that's in my head,

51:17 is there a rock? Is there a

Collin 51:19 is it did drop, drop kick. Murphy's didn't do a version of this, did they?

51:23 Not that I'm aware of, but that doesn't know they did

Brandon 51:27 the sailing up to Boston. So, yeah, I know they did that way, but I don't know. There's a whole bunch of versions of this, but I don't know about that, and I don't know why I I would know this, but I have known about this song for absolute ages. So I don't know if it was in like a movie or like a TV show or what, at some point, but this is a song that I have known about for a very long time, like in popular culture. So it's weird that, like, a song from the 1830s is still like prolific enough that I have known about it and have sung it, yeah, like before the great sea shanty revival of the 2020s obviously, which I think is odd, and I I've been kind of racking my brain trying to figure out where it could come from. But the Wikipedia page for this song has no useful information in that regard, so

Collin 52:40 I don't know. Here I'm going to send you over a version that I just found that is in my head as the one that I hear whenever I think of this song. I don't know why, I don't know where, I don't know where I would have heard this

52:55 one at all. But the the

Collin 53:00 version from the blackguards is the one that is in

Brandon 53:04 my head. I don't know if you know that does sound right early. I've heard this. Yeah, hold on. I don't wanna play in the speaker, but, oh, you're fine. You're listening. Yes, I have heard this before. Now, somebody else covered this too, but, yeah,

Collin 53:24 I don't think this is obviously the first version, right, that I ever heard, no, but this is definitely, for some reason, quintessential in my head, especially whenever, like, the the break, where it's just the bait, the the drum kicking, when he's singing. I don't know why that this is this. Is this? Is

53:41 it that does sound familiar? I know, but this band

Collin 53:47 is still going. They're still they're touring in Little Rock coming up, oh, let's go. Oh, the Hibernia Irish Tavern

Brandon 53:55 in Little Rock. Oh, let's go. This. Okay? Let's go. I can get a team black shirt. Okay? Is there a that's favorite part, Collin and Brandon, Google, the internet, Googling things. I think I've heard of the players. Now, that does sound familiar, it does, but why? Anyway, I'm all this. It doesn't sound like a thing that my so, like, yeah.

Collin 54:46 I like, like you. I don't know where I would have come across this song, but it's good.

54:59 Indeed. Well anyway, that leads us to our next chapter. Does

Brandon 55:07 four? Yes, four. Counting Roman numerals is hard sometimes, so I had to, once again, I have neglected the two bookmark strat, so maybe one day I'll figure this out. Look around for a second, scrap of paper to put in my book here, if only there was, if only there was more scraps of paper around me. Oh, wait, actually, just as a side note, I have the, I don't really know where I got these, but I have some, like, random Toy Story, four stickers that somebody got from McDonald's, and that's what I've been using, is bookmarks. So, like, I just, this is fantastic. They're not like, they're still on the backing, right, and I just have a pile of them, and that's what I use for bookmark since, again, I read like, four books at a time, sometimes that that's what I have in here currently. Just as a, you know, side note. It's either that or some random post it note. So boom, that's amazing. Anyway, Chapter Four sea chest, right? So our intrepid captain has just expired after being visited from the blind beggar, right? And so Jim and his mom are freaking out. OBS, right? As you do when a random sea captain just dies in the middle of your in a small bit of freaking out is important, right? So they they're like, well, dang it, what do we do now?

Collin 56:45 Well, immediately, obviously, their life has been kind of falling apart this. And immediately the thought turns to, well, he's we're owe money from him, right? How do we collect on on all of this? Then, right? Like, that's true. That does become a plot point, obviously, move forward over the next but like this is a thought of like, well, yeah, we gotta get

Brandon 57:11 but as they also feel that they are in great peril, they run to get some help, right? First is what they do, right? And so they run down the road. They go kind of the opposite direction that the blind dude went, which is good planning. Good job planning. Good job on that one. Um, and so they've ran out, and it's a frosty, foggy evening, question mark, morning, I

Speaker 3 57:41 don't know. I'm a little lost too. It must be in the morning. No, it had to be the same day,

Brandon 57:49 right? Yeah, late, kind of like afternoon. It's afternoon, yeah, it's afternoon. So it's, it's frosty and foggy, right? Yeah, cuz it's only six, and they said they'd be back later, at 10 anyway. So they run right? They run down the road to, like a neighboring establishment thing, right, to like a town little the little town, right, a couple 100 yards away the inn is kind of like outside on the road, right? But so they run to the they call it a hamlet, right? So they run in there, and they're like, We need help. Blah, blah, blah, and nobody, no one, no one says, right, the we get a bit of a insight as to why here, because Jim does say the name of Captain Flint, though it was strange to me, was well enough known to some there and carried a great weight of terror, right? So Jim doesn't really know what's going on, but some of the other people are like, they know enough to be like, yeah, no, we don't want to get involved in that, right? So, so nobody will, is gonna go back with them, right? And I did like the right, where the next little bit, where he says they say that cowardice is infectious, but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener. And so when each head had to say, my mother made them a speech, right? She basically said, Fine, if none of you would dare to be, you know, to help us, blah, blah, we're gonna go without you. No thanks to you big, hulking, chicken hearted men.

59:35 This was, this was most excellent.

Brandon 59:39 And they leave right? They just leave. Now. There's one person who like, says he will go get, like, official help, right? He like rides off to go look for other help somewhere else, but like, he doesn't go with them. So that's good. Thanks a lot, guys. What the heck?

Collin 1:00:00 Yep, they run off and say, we'll get you help. Eventually we'll be on their way. Yeah,

1:00:05 jerks, whatever. So they run back. They

Collin 1:00:07 gave him a gun, right? They said, Here's Oh yeah, and there's a horse here in case you need to run away quickly,

Brandon 1:00:12 yeah, which didn't come into play at all later, so that was an odd thing. Yeah, right. So they go back, right. And then this is the part where you talk about where mom is all of a sudden, like, Yo, we just need to get the money. That's ours, and then we can scarf her, right? And do they look at the they check him right. They're looking for the key, right? Turns out it's like, tied around his neck, right? And so they were doing this stuff, and they checked all his pockets, and they're like, We don't have this.

Collin 1:00:49 They this. The scene has been set to because there's a full moon and fog is rolling in, right? So it's also extra super creepy that they're doing this and they're around him,

Brandon 1:00:59 yeah, but it has to be, they say it's like six o'clock. So this has to be, like, winter, winter, which winter? Yeah, because, like, you know, England, Southern Cross of England, winter, getting dark at, you know, being dark at six o'clock. This makes perfect sense. So, like, that makes that because here in Missouri, it gets dark at, like, six o'clock in the wintertime. So that's fine. Because they they mentioned that because they look at the spot, they like, like, what the heck is this anyway? And on the other side there is some writing, and it says, You have till 10 tonight. 10, yes. And so they're like, off. It's not even six, right? We're fine. Turns out they were un fun, so they grab the key, they run upstairs, and they open the chest, and they're both like, What the heck is all this stuff? Jack enjoyed this part because he like, they open it, and they're just kind of like, what is this? Yeah,

Collin 1:02:04 yeah. Well, it says immediately on top, right, a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded they had never been worn. My mother said, yeah, right.

Brandon 1:02:15 And then under that, the miscellaneous sea began, yes, a quadrant, attentive. I don't know what this is. Cannikin. I don't know what that is. Yeah, tobacco, two braces of very handsome pistols. That means four pistols, right? Because the brace is two braces, two. So if there's two braces, there's four, four. Boom, some silver, an old Spanish watch and some other random stuff. They trinkets. There's a compass. And then they're, like, really confused by there's just, like, seashells, seashells. And they're like, What the heck? Why? Right? Why? I have often wondered since why he should have carried about these shells with him in his wandering, guilty and hunted life, which, too fair, good question. Um, another point, Jim, they're not, it's like they're heavy or anything. So, I mean, doesn't hurt to have them in the box, I guess so, no, but the very bottom they find what they're looking for, right? There is a satchel of money, and then just some, like

1:03:42 papers, just a bundle, yeah, but yeah, looking like papers.

Brandon 1:03:47 So Jim grabs that, and his mom is like, very determined. She's like, I'll show them. I'm an honest woman. I have my dues and not a farthing more. And she takes out the money and starts to try to count it. But there's a problem. Big problem, yeah, big problem is there's like, all kinds of random coins in here, right? Is from all kinds of different countries, right? They describe it as doubloons and Lou daughters and guineas and pieces of eight and, and I know not what? Besides all shaken randomly together, and so she didn't know. She was very determined to only take what she was owed, but she did not know how much these coins were worth, and so she was trying to sort through them to find English ones. But there weren't very many English ones in there. Oh, so she was having a rough time, so she landed on what getting guineas, right? Yeah, yeah. They were the scarces. And is with these that my mother only, it was with these only that my mother knew how to make her account, right. So. So she was being very stubborn. And this this, I don't It's not supposed to be this way. I don't think. But this scene, to me, is very humorous, right? Where they're like, We gotta hurry. We gotta hurry. She's like, No wait. The juxtaposition of like, Jim is clearly wanting to hurry, and she's like, No, we're going to be fair and we're going to be honest. We're going to be the opposite of these dirty pirates blah, blah. But also, there's this, like, ticking clock that they're going against, and to me, at least, this was a very just humorous interaction, right? Of, like, I thought it was kind of funny. I chuckled a bit,

Collin 1:05:43 right? Not just a ticking clock, but also a tapping. Okay,

Brandon 1:05:50 nice. Good transition. I like, right? If I do hear it, it comes any like the blind man comes back. We like, jiggles the door handle, and Jim is like, Oh, well, he knows the door is locked, so he knows we're here, so we really need to run away now, yep, we know absolutely, yeah, and that's what they do, right? They escape, but they don't really make it very far, because they like see or hear the people running down the road. So they basically like run down the road a little bit and dive under a bridge, right? They hide under this bridge. But Jim's mother is so distraught now that she just sort of faints, you know, because she's a woman in the late 17, early 1800s so obviously she's just gonna faint randomly. That's, you know, to women do in the 17, 1800s just can't hashtag, just yeah, just thing that happens and like, so he like, drags her under the bridge a little bit, which is very weird to me, this like, strange juxtaposition of how we treat Jim's mom in this chapter. Because, like, number one, we don't have a name for Jim's mom, right? I know that she's about to exit the story for the rest of it right now, but we never get a name for her, which is odd. And then, like the fact that she was quite bold in the beginning of the chapter, right, yelling at the men, saying, If you can't do this, then we're gonna blah blah. And here she just faints randomly when they're in the ditch, which is odd, right? Like, yes, is a very odd like, what is, what is going on here?

Collin 1:07:56 But also, for the story, a bit convenient to write out for the moment a character to move, keep

Brandon 1:08:04 for the for the plot. I mean, yeah, that's true too. Like, she's, yeah, this is basically just a plot device, but it's a really weird plot device for just be like, nope. Anyway, mom fainted by now. Like, what? Come on, Robert, what are you doing, right?

Collin 1:08:29 Yeah, and, and that's where we end with. The End of Chapter Four. Write them in the ditch, yeah? Wondering what's going on and who's running towards them? Yes,

Brandon 1:08:41 yeah. Chapter Five starts off we, you know, they just, but he's like, peeking out. And we have this scene of the blind guys here with several other people, right? Four to five other knaves, right? Like, here to ransack and look right. And so he does. He's a bit paused, uh, concerned that the door is now opened, because, like, five minutes ago it was closed, and he's like, Ah, dang it. I know what that means. Oh, well, we better look anyway. So they all run in there. They start ransacking the place, right? They go upstairs, and they hear, like crashing and weird noises. And they do make it upstairs, and the guy throws open the window, and he's like, No, they've opened the chest. There's nothing here. I like he's very mad now.

Collin 1:09:44 Oh, right. And he said, um, yeah, bill's been overhauled. Ready? Nothing left. And then, yeah, this is where the blind man says, um, it's these people of the end, it's that Boy, I wish I had put his eyes out. Cried the blind man. Pew, right?

1:10:00 Yeah. Oh,

Speaker 3 1:10:03 this is a real bad dude that we're Yeah, that we're in with Yes.

Brandon 1:10:09 And so they're just kind of sitting there, right? And they Jim, here's a noise. And like, earlier, he thought it was like the people coming, but he, like, realizes this must be some sort of, like, lookout, right? Because it's like a whistling kind of noise. So there's somebody over, like, on the hill, right? If signal to warn them of approaching danger, right? If they keep referring to this person named Dirk, who I think is up on on the hill, right? And so they're, you know, you know, the other guys are like, No, we gotta go. We can't be here. And they're, you know, they're signaling someone's coming. And Pew is like, the blind guy is like, God, forget that it. We gotta find the thing. They can't have gone far. We gotta look. And then so everyone's looking, but like, it's implied through here that the while the blind man is like, yelling at them to look and be doing all this stuff, they're just kind of like, half heartedly, yeah, they're doing the old college try here. Yeah, they're mostly having one eye on an escape route. Yes. And they're just like, oh yeah, they're, like, rustling some stuff around. Definitely looking, yeah, we're definitely, I'm definitely looking really hard over here, right? You know, and then, but turns out the warning was important because Jim can all of a sudden hear the galloping of horses coming right and there is a pistol shot, which he infers to be Like the last signal, like imminent danger, bang, runaway. Two. Glitch. We get another, again, kind of darkly humorous juxtaposition. Here is that, with now, yeah, with pew, right now, all the other pirates scarper, bang, they're on. Yeah, they're gone immediately. And he's, he obviously can't flee the scene with a quickness, because he's blind, and so he's, you know, when, like two seconds ago, he was cursing them and yelling them and ordering them about and being making himself in charge of the situation. Now he's like Johnny Black Dog Dirk. You won't leave old pew mates, not old pew

Collin 1:12:43 as he's running around and stumbling in

Brandon 1:12:46 trying to run away, which he like, stumbles in front of a horse and is just trampled. Yep, yep, that was no no, okay,

Collin 1:13:01 yep, fell on aside and and moved no more. I know what that means. Yeah, that's not the he moved them more for the scene. That's,

Brandon 1:13:09 yeah, it's the exhumed pew here. Boom. Then yes. So they, they're like, Oh, okay. So these are, like, some, I guess, soldiery dudes, right, like, who were found by like, a patrol that's just out and about. Yes, other guy from the inn would that they went to at first in The Hamlet. He was running for help, and he ran into them, and so he told them what was going on, and he brought him back here. So that guy helped, right, there you go. And so they're like, Oh, well, this part is weird. Now, right? This feels a bit odd, but he's like, Well, Jim's like, Yeah, I think they were looking for this. And the person in charge is like, um, well, I should like it to be put to safety. And he's like, Yeah, sure. Um, I'll take that, I guess. And Jim goes, actually, I think I was thinking about giving it to the doctor, right? Dr, livesy. Livesy, I don't know. And the guy's like, oh yeah, that's a much better idea. But you take it to him instead, yes, like, he doesn't want anything to do with this

Collin 1:14:36 very quick to defer away and say, fantastic. Good play. Yeah. Jim's

Brandon 1:14:44 like, actually, I thought maybe the doctor. And he's like, Yeah, perfectly right, yes, yeah, because it's perfectly right. He interrupted very cheerfully, perfectly, like a gentleman in a magistrate, yes, yes, higher per Yes, push it down the getaway. Yeah.

Collin 1:14:59 Yeah. You don't get to his position by taking on much responsibility for life. So

Brandon 1:15:04 yeah, and so now again, they're just like, all right, you go to the doctor or go to the doctor's house and young Hawkins and we'll do something with your mom. Bye, like, where this is it? Mom's gone. By, see you later. Mom,

Collin 1:15:21 feels great.

Brandon 1:15:23 We had that time. Mom, very weird. Yeah, right. But this chapter, again, is very like the next chapter, like six. This is very much just like a how do we accelerate the plot chapter? Because it kind of is weird that they're just like, yes, bang. Like, it's odd to me, right? Like, I don't know, but, like, we get to the doctor's house and he is there with the Squire tolana, right? They're like, hey, Squire, yeah, cool. Was definitely correct casting to be played by Fauci in the muvids invitation. 100% that was, I was definitely correct. I don't know. Yeah, well, they're, they're talking and whatever, the square is a weird dude, and like,

1:16:28 pager stuck. They're like, Oh, we brought the thing. And they're both just, like, very

Brandon 1:16:33 pleased. They're like, Oh yes, hooray. Good for you. And he wants to show him the thing, and he's like, do you know about this? Here's this thing. I just wanted to bring this to you because I didn't know what it was, and so I thought you might be able to tell me what's going on with this random pile of papers, right? And again, the squire is there just saying weird, encouraging things to jam. It's very odd, I don't know.

Collin 1:17:09 Yeah, he's very lauding the behavior, both him and the dance. Was that, right? He was saying how brave he was for or how happy he was that Pugh was no longer there, right? And like, how they Yeah, that was all good. And he's did a good job

Brandon 1:17:23 of running off the pirates, yeah. But then we do get he's here for Mr. Backstory man, right? Because He's the doctor, is like, so I have you heard of this Captain Flint, and of course, the squire knows all about him, right? Oh, heard of him. Heard of him. You say he was the bloodthirstiest Buccaneer that sailed. Blackbeard was a child told Flint the Spaniards. I like this part. The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him that I tell you sir, I was sometimes proud that he was an Englishman. That is the most English sentence ever, right? Like he was a terrible guy, and he was so awful. But he did steal a lot from the Spanish show. And they like, kind of like the old boys,

Collin 1:18:19 you know, if I'm saying, yeah, oh, well, there's that. Yes, the squire definitely plays the it's this bit of like, again, this like, heard of him, like, Hey, do you know about this? Know about it? Mr. Exposition here? Yeah, I think that happens three times in this, in this interchange. It really

Brandon 1:18:41 does, right? He's just, like, moving the story. And because, like, you know, he was like, Oh, do you think he had any money? And the squire is like, money by the squire. Have you not heard the stories?

Speaker 2 1:18:57 What were these villains after? But money? Why do they care? What do they care for but money? For? What would they risk their rascal carcasses? But for money? I love that so much. Yep.

Collin 1:19:11 And then he says, uh, you know, is this Sure? Supposing, but treasure? How much would the actual treasure be? Amount, sir, which will

1:19:23 amount to this. If we have the clue you

Brandon 1:19:25 talked about, this is, this is the part where we're like, Ah, here's Mr. Inciting incident himself, right? Like, ah, it will amount to this. If we have the clue you talk about, I fit out a ship in Bristol doc, and take you and Hawkins here along, and I'll have that treasure in search, treasure if I search a year, right? Yes. And this is also weird. He's just like, Yeah, I'm gonna bring Jim. Jim's just like, what Jim? I just I'm trying to get rid of this thing and be left alone. And you're like, oh, bring Jim. Do. Jim's kind of like, wow, whoa. What do you mean?

Collin 1:20:03 I too, thought that was very weird. If they're like, and this child, welcome child. You like to come with us on this

Brandon 1:20:11 like, Now, wait a minute. Why are we bringing the kids? Yeah, we'll get back to that a second. But they open it up, and they try to figure it out, and they read it, and the first they open the book, right? And it appears to be like a very odd bone. Mr. Billy Bones is like account book. It's his ledger, right? Yeah. It's like an odd pirate ledger, and they kind of deduced it. It's like, oh, this is how he kept track of the money that he was owed from certain things, right? He made little notes of, like, to have him remember, like, Oh, this is that time we did it here, and I should be owed this much money and like that. So it's like his share of treasure stuff. That's what they're inferring. This is right? So with his, like, own personal spin on a ledger, right? It takes a moment to figure it out. So, like, What in the world is this? Yes, but the squire probably what it would look like if I tried to make an accounting book, right? Like, not really make any sense to be like, what's going on this,

Collin 1:21:28 right? Lots of arrows drawing and things scratched,

Brandon 1:21:31 yeah, absolutely. Well, yeah. And then then they get the other one up. They're like, ah, but we Okay, that's good. Now we'll open the other one, right? And now said the square for the other he's very excited to see what this other thing is. And it is the map. Yes, boom, the map. This is probably what the pirates were searching for. I would say this is definitely it, because this is most definitely just a treasure map, not with one, but three. Count them, three crosses of red ink. Oh, right, yeah, two in the north and one in the southwest. Boom. So there's definitely three, but there is one that says

1:22:25 bulk of treasure here. I

Brandon 1:22:28 don't really get much more clear than that. And there's some like directiony bearing stuff here, right? So there the squire is very pleased with this. He's very excited. It kind of is inferring that there's, like, one that's like, where did that part go? Oh, yeah, there's, it's talking about how there's, like, the three things are three different things. There's a little note here from the I'm assuming JF is the flint guy. I probably don't know. I'm just assuming, right, there's some bearings here. And it says, Oh, the silver bars. The bar silver is in the north Dash. And then it says the arms are easy found, so they must have buried some, like guns or something, right? Perhaps, that's what that means. And so the squire is very excited. He says, I started once for Bristol, in three weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe 10 days, we'll have the best ship, and your choice of crew, Hawkins shall come as cabin boy. You'll make a great cabin boy. Hawkins and you lives, the Livesey, the doctor and I, the admiral, will take red Ruth Joyce and Hunter, who I'm assuming are his people. And he's just like, let's go.

Collin 1:24:02 He's on fire for this. He's always this. He has been the squire. Has Been waiting around for this his entire life. He Yeah, it's really in your little it's a little like, whoa, okay, easy there.

Brandon 1:24:15 Yeah. So we don't really have any indication that he is qualified for such a task, and it doesn't really seem

1:24:23 like he's qualified to be Admiral, right? Like, when you say it like that,

Brandon 1:24:30 he's like, Jim, you'll be a great cabin boy. And again, I'm just imagining Jim

Collin 1:24:35 being like, just bringing this here

Brandon 1:24:40 to you guys. I want away from this thing. But like, we don't get any input from Jim here. Like, oh, we just the squire is just like running away. We have no idea about Jim's thoughts at all, which is kind of odd. But again, I'm just assuming that he's like,

Collin 1:24:59 what? I guess. But we do know that two chapters prior to this was and he was in the ditch. The it opened with my curiosity was greater than my fear. So he's a curious boy. He's ready

Brandon 1:25:10 true for adventure. Yes, true. And then we leave with, I like this part, so this was very funny to me. This like this end paragraph here, where he's like Trelawney said, the doctor, I'll go with you, and I'll go to bail for it. So will Jim again, which Jim is like? What? There's only one man I'm afraid of. And who's that? Cried the squire. Name the dog, sir. You. You find the doctor for you cannot hold your tongue. Yes, we are not the only men who know of this paper. But he's like, You need to shut up.

Collin 1:25:52 Which, which makes sense, right? We all Yeah. Wire has been very forthcoming with lots of details and information about everything else in between this point. So people

Brandon 1:26:03 have already come and tried to kill Jim, right? And like, we can't have you going around, blabbing around all this stuff, because we know that there was at least like five pirates here a minute ago, and one, well, at least, yeah, and one of them is dead, but that means there's at least five or six more out there running about the countryside, hiding, you know, trying to escape, blah, blah. So, like, people know about this. They know there are people that know we have this thing, yeah, so you can't go what they there are people, more importantly for Jim, really, there are people that know Jim has this thing, and they don't know what he did with it, but they know that he had it, and they're out there running around, which, again, the lack of concern for Jim's well being here is very hilarious. And they're just like, but, I mean, he doesn't say, Jim and I shall stick together in the meanwhile. So he's kind of like, I'll stay here and look after Jim. You can take your man and go do whatever it is you're gonna do, but not one of us must breathe a word of what we found. Nope. And then we get this ominous line, I'll be as silent as the grave. Yeah. China went, Oh, I believe that.

Collin 1:27:23 I'm also worrying. Is this a bit foreshadowing? It was what I was worried about, actually, was, oh, is, is, is the squire not gonna be around with us for very long too?

Brandon 1:27:35 Yeah, also fair, but, like, we just don't, like, I don't believe you, because you've already like you said they he exclaimed loudly his knowledge of Captain Flint thrice in this chapter. So he seems a bit excitable, and the proposition that he's going to be able to undertake this task stealthfully, I stealthily, not very, not very like, I don't have high hopes for that.

Collin 1:28:07 Not looking good here. People not looking good at all. So we will, we will see, I don't. We will see what happens in there? Yeah, we will see that

1:28:21 concludes

1:28:22 part one

1:28:25 part. There we go. Well, it's good, yes, there we go. I like it. I don't think you do. I like this part, although it was a bit

Brandon 1:28:39 it does this part does feel a bit like forced and rushed, right? But again, you know, kind of makes sense. It feels like Stevens is like, yeah, yeah. We gotta find a way to get to the good bit anyway, which I don't necessarily mind. I don't need 700 pages of backstory about Jim's whole entire life, and honestly, I don't need all that. So that's fine. I don't like that in the book, so, but this is last, the end of Part One. Did feel the bit?

Collin 1:29:10 Yeah, we got some. We rushed through the plot

Brandon 1:29:14 there to get, I mean, mostly just with the end, with the squire, he's like, and Jim shall come. Like, what? What do you mean, Jim? Yes, and nobody questioned it, yeah, not even Jim. Like we don't. The fact that we don't get Jim's input here is interesting. So I'm going to be interested to see if we have input from Jim about this in the next chapter is to see kind of what he thinks about this plan and what his feelings are like, excited, yeah, does he have, like, much trepidation, like, where are we in? The goings on? I want to hear from Jim here, not just the squire, okay, well, you, you heard it. Mr. Uh Stevenson, let's hear from Jim. Yes, here we go. We'll see. Okay, nice. I'm, yeah, I'm liking it a lot. Yeah, me too. It's good. It's really fun, really, like, quick to read and fun. So I like, I've been liking it so far. And again, I really like his writing style. It's very easy to read. So I like that. So if you're ready, I do have a haiku. Yes, right? Once again, about a trip to the City Park. Here we go. The Fallen linger. New Life thrives in their shadow. Legacy endures. Oh, they're finally, they're finally cleaning up all of the trees that were knocked down and all the crazy storms that we had. Yeah, and they have, they've been planting new sampling trees. That's cool. I like that. So they've been finally cutting up. I mean, there's a bunch of trees down, so they've, they've been working on this, but they're a lot of them are now. A lot more of them are picked up. And so they've been planting new ones. So that, I thought that was nice.

1:31:17 It was like, Ah, all right, here we go. Look at this.

Collin 1:31:22 Yes, so

1:31:25 that's my once again, another Haiku, bat trees.

Speaker 2 1:31:29 It's fine. The one pretty good. One might be my third one, but that's fine. Don't worry. It's important. It's okay, okay.

Brandon 1:31:38 I like it, right? I was excited about planting new trees. That's good news.

Collin 1:31:45 It's always good to see. I think about that a lot when we walk through our our park, our park is coming up on, Gosh, 130 years old, or something like that. And obviously, you know, like, not all the trees, like most trees aren't, aren't original. Like, let's be very real. But, like, some of them are 80 years old, 90 years old. And so I think about that a lot as I'm walking through the park, going, yeah, these are all kind of the same age. And so as these start coming down, this park's gonna look really different for a long time. And it kind of makes me a little sad thinking about that. But they don't last forever, and they are actively coming in and planting things around the park and trying to bring in bigger trees and things like that, so it won't be like

1:32:41 all like homogenous, tiny saplings,

Collin 1:32:44 right? They've been planting for a while, but at the same time, it's like you only have so much room for a park. You can't have every square inch covered with trees, so you have to do have to wait for things to to move on. But anyway, so it's a problem, but that's cool. I'm glad they were planted once again.

1:33:02 Yes, see.

Collin 1:33:05 Very nice. But we will continue on with our endeavor here, and three more next week. Three more. I think that's good. Yes, that's good pace we may have to do I think soon we're gonna have to work on scheduling a double recording week to get caught up. Yeah, that's true. I'll tell you

Brandon 1:33:27 the dates that we're actually gonna become Sure. So also, yes,

Collin 1:33:34 yes, we can do that. We'll keep an eye on that. That sounds good. Okay,

1:33:37 all right. Okay, love you. Love

1:33:39 you too. Bye, bye, you.