Marionville squirrels

Collin wasn’t arrested. Brandon saw a squirrel. We’re so thirsty we could chase a schooner.

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training schedule, sleep deprivation, office setup, client visits, plant care, squirrels, late-stage capitalism, vacation destinations, local businesses, sea shanty, Hispaniola, coracle, pirate fight, dehydration, shipwreck., Jim Hawkins, impulsive, captain, ship, anchor, pirates, plan, escape route, cheese, parmesan, river, emergency, cat pilling, thirst, scooter

SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin

Collin  00:04

Collin, 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, Marionville, squirrels ahoy. Oh boy. What's going on now? What? How are you? I am I'm alive coming. I guess

00:31

I'm glad, glad for that, that I know.

Speaker 1  00:33

Yes, speaking of good news, yes, no, it's just

Collin  00:38

been, it's been, man. So we train and hire people. We hire them very specific time blocks. We just happen to work from 6am to 10pm seven days a week, 365, days a year. So when I need to train somebody who does 6am visits, means I too need to do that's true. And see the slight see the flaw in my plan. You see where it went wrong. Do see a slight quality plan. And so when the and we always we have to meet. Okay, the first day we meet 30 minutes before our first visit. But my visit is, my first visit is at 530 or sorry, my first visit is at six. So it means we have to show up at 530 Yes, when I am at dad's house, I am 30 minutes away from the visit which I have to leave our house at five.

Speaker 1  01:31

Which means, which means I wake up at 451 I was gonna say, yeah, 450 so.

Collin  01:43

Throw on some clothes and race out the

01:45

doors. Yay.

01:47

What a fun filled exciting.

Collin  01:50

So that was Monday, and then the second day, we don't meet 30 minutes early, because I have to do all like the Yes, yes people, I do have to sit there and do the I nine stuff like, which means filling out paperwork and getting all that stuff taken care of. Now, could I, or should I probably, at some point, convert this into like, the day before they show up for their first day of visits, they come to the office and I sit down with it, probably, probably

02:23

that would make more sense.

Collin  02:26

But for now, you know, but for now, and I would probably, and I would be able to keep it to 30 minutes there as well, and just say, hey, record the 30 minutes. Come by the office. I'll meet you there. It's we should probably just start doing that. It just, I mean,

02:43

you have a whole office. I have,

Collin  02:45

like, I have literally one whole office. I do. I did a two

02:50

rooms even. So, like, you know,

Collin  02:52

you got no furniture, but it has two rooms.

Brandon  02:56

I mean, maybe, yeah, maybe you should get a chair if you're gonna have at least and chair without the card table and folding chairs. Hey, welcome. That's a good impression to make for them. Like, let me fill out your very official tax documents. Like, this is this? Is Mike. Is this the chair you have? This

Collin  03:13

is Yes, yes, please sit, and all will be well. Also, don't ask questions the flickering overhead. Right? Yeah, and like, like, a law and order

03:25

interrogation room, exactly.

Collin  03:28

Sit down. Sit down. Please. Sit be still. And Mary, everything's fine. Why are you? Why are you? You shaking? That's weird. Are you fidgeting? Huh? That's you're hand me over your

Brandon  03:43

social security card, please, yeah, and your ID, right? Don't worry about it. Never mind that

Collin  03:48

I do all this stuff on my phone, because that's what our software allows us to do. So it looks even more shady when I'm like, social and I'm like, very official texting on my phone,

03:58

yeah, yeah, yeah. So

Collin  04:03

that's what we did, and it was fine, but it does mean that I was very tired, and for many days I was like, I have to be in bed. I need to be I need to literally be asleep, by by by eight o'clock, like, I cannot stay up later than you can't imagine. And because, like, have to be like, in bed by eight, let's say bed by eight. And because then I would like, Be awake, I'd be like, Oh, sleep by nine. That was my goal. Is be a truly asleep by nine. In bed by eight, asleep by nine, oh my gosh, it was so hard.

Brandon  04:43

I can't do that. There's no way, even when I had to get up now, and I will, first of all recognize that I'm a much older person. Now, okay, I want you I'm aware of this, so maybe it's different, right? But I. When I was, like, regularly waking up at 430 in the morning to start shift at five o'clock, I was not going to bed till 11 o'clock, midnight. Sometimes then, like, it's just a problem that I have had my entire existence, that's when I go to bed

Collin  05:17

well, and so this is what I was telling Megan, I said, Oh my gosh. Like, I apparently my sleep schedule is such that I woke like I was actually actively trying to do the right thing. Now it's just it was also my sleep schedule was entirely off of because normally it's like, yeah, I'm in bed by 11 or 12 and I'm up at six. Like, that's kind of my jam. But here I am going to sleep at nine, waking up at 430 and I, oh, my goodness, could barely function like I was not okay. In my watch, I do sleep tracking and stuff, and my watch was like, Man, you look at you getting all this hours of sleep and stuff. Good job. Meanwhile, I'm like,

06:05

not the wrong time, right? It's like, a long

Collin  06:07

time. It's wrong time for my body, people, and I wasn't happy about it, so I had to suffer for five days. And it's yeah, I tell you, like training right off the bat, like, hoorah, let's go 6am yeah, for like, three hours.

06:26

Oh,

Brandon  06:28

that what fun is that I'm sounds so exciting. Oh,

Collin  06:31

my goodness, that was mercifully so we did three intensive days of training and, like, find whatever we're good. And then yesterday, they were able to do visits by themselves. I did my own sets of visits. And I was like, Yes, this is as it should be. It's it's five in the morning. I'm driving in. I am not speaking to a soul. I'm just focused on what I'm doing, listening to my podcast. Okay, all is well in the world, with the world, and it also didn't help. I think, I think, oh yeah, I told you about these visits I was having. We take care of the bunny visits. So that went, Oh yes, right. Fell

07:11

into Bunny's week. And

Collin  07:15

I we did not, we did not plan this well. What I should have done was not A, not take these on, but B, demanded more time to do these visits, and it's hard. When we did the meet and greet, had a team member do the Meet Greet, and they were like, yep, well, fine, we'll be able to do everything within 30 minutes. And I'm like, okay, cool, yeah, we'll be able to do everything in 30 minutes at the first person who did the visits earlier in the week was like, Dear God, like there's like we cannot do

Brandon  07:53

in 30 is not possible. I need 45 at least. So

Collin  07:59

yeah. So we had two visits a day, and I had split up stuff between each visit. But then I was like, oh, oh, no, no. This is really bad, like we are. There's no way we can do this, because here's what didn't happen during the meet and greet, an actual walkthrough of the expected tasks, as in, I'm going to start outside the home. I'm going to walk to the front hose to then turn on to then water the seven plants up front, turn that off, set it down, walk around the back of the home, turn on the soaker. Oh, to the back porch to turn like

Speaker 3  08:40

that didn't happen. And then also bunnies on upstairs, cats downstairs. And so, like,

Collin  08:49

you're walking back and forth, you're going in and out. It was like, Oh, the other

Brandon  08:56

thing. Like, one visit for bunnies, one for cats, right? Like, check on the other one. Okay, good, all

Collin  09:01

right. But now everybody got fed twice a day, and, like, Ah, so these, yeah, it was a lot. It was so much. It was, it was an obscene amount of work.

Brandon  09:12

I don't think, I don't think cats need to be fed twice a day.

Collin  09:15

Well, these are, they have some medical problems, and so that's fair. Maybe they take medication and stuff. Yeah, that was the other thing. This was the pillow I had to pill a cat twice a day.

Brandon  09:24

I guess, I mean, I guess we fed our dog twice a day, but, like, his breakfast was, like, barely anything. It was just like, sure, yeah.

Collin  09:31

It also, it also just Yeah. It was the watering the plant stuff that really, oh. And they were like, yeah. And if the if the fish pond is running low, just leave the hose running for like 15 minutes, then come and shut it off.

09:49

Excuse me, what you want

Collin  09:53

me to why? What? Why am I okay? And so then all of a sudden I'm going. Going, well, actually that's not going to work, because, like, at all, at all. So we had to, because the other thing was, like, that's a lot of time to then, like, stop what you're doing inside the house, go outside, walk all the way around the house. Like, that eats up time. So what I did, determined to do was, like, every visit, we're adding water to the fish pond every visit, just add a little bit of water to, like, a little bit more, yeah, to keep up with evaporation, because it was hot this entire that's true. And so then you're having to, like, leave it run anyway. It was just, it was too much. And then we went to the visit that was, like, just watering plants. How was it? There's just plants in the house, no no pets, no pets. They were traveling with their dog, traveling with their dog, but they have a cornucopia of plants. Their back patio is nothing but plants. And then they have the side plants and the yard plans and the front plants and the plants around the pond and all this stuff

11:00

and like, did they not?

Speaker 3  11:03

Did they not see the name of the service? So I don't think it says plant sitter, right? I don't think

11:14

it says the word

Collin  11:16

does still start with a P. So it maybe. So I did, we did say yes to this. It was weird, and it was kind of funny, because I did some training with the staff about it, and everyone was like, freaking out and asking all these questions, and they were worried about this, or worried about that, or worried about blah, blah. And I just started laughing on the training call, and I was like, You guys have taken on, like, reactive pit bulls. You've dealt with giant tortoises. You took that in stride, like all sorts of things. But the plant was a prairie dog, at some

11:47

point, a prairie dog

Collin  11:48

that would crawl into couches. Nobody batted an eye of that. But I tell you to go water a fern in a quarter, and everyone's like, Oh my gosh.

Brandon  11:57

I mean, people are extra sensitive about their plants, though, you know, yeah, and so, I mean, I know that sounds weird in context of a conversation about, like a dog, but like,

Collin  12:09

they really are no, if people are not people,

Brandon  12:12

normally people, yeah, not like Dad. Dad's like, oh, midnight. Anyway,

Collin  12:17

I have no, I have here's okay. I think Dad just likes buying

12:23

plants.

Collin  12:27

I am convinced that he, he just likes going to to the nursery, to the nursery. No, the greenhouse, to the greenhouse. Seriously, I think that that's just

12:40

like having them. Yes,

Collin  12:42

it just likes going honestly, if we're if we're being totally honest, it's, he gets to talk to people, and he gets to, then be the kind of person who just has plants.

12:55

He forgets to watch, then he forgets anyway. Look.

Collin  13:01

But yeah, this is my, this is my new theory is that he's not actually a plant person. He just likes, he's like,

Brandon  13:07

Well, he's an outside plant person, yes, right. But outside plants are like, Yeah, it's fine, yeah, right. And so like, trying to bring that indoors is slightly difficult if you're an outdoor plant person who likes, like, landscaping and stuff, because then you're just saying it doesn't need that much water because it's outside and it's getting more from the soil, and it was blah, blah, right? When it's in a pot in the living room, how hard could it? There's a different, like, amount of attention that needs to be paid, right? That, I mean, I also, I'm not trying to throw too much shade at my dad, because Do I have any plans that I personally take off? No, no, absolutely not. So, like, once that was it, oh, got like, a handle. Did it die? Yeah. But, like, but also, yeah, but also, that's fine,

Collin  14:01

because people are crazy about their plans. They want them. Also, this home isn't like, it's yeah, it's behind. It's a gated community in, like, the obvious South Side and yeah. So it's also missed the looks, right? Because everybody else has really nice plants, and so you've got to have the nice plants and the nice, you know, entrance into the home and all this stuff and blah, blah. And I knew, I knew it was going to be a little bit chaotic when they were like, well, there's our upper garage in our lower garage. And I went, I'm sorry, what? What in the world? What they have an upper garage and a lower garage, as everyone does, I'm pretty sure, gosh, what? Because you have two garages, one for the upstairs and one for the downstairs.

Brandon  14:54

Cannot even deal with this. Like, because

Collin  14:57

they live, they live on a corner. Okay? And and the East West Street, that's the upper garage. But then there's like a hill, right? So then you go down on the North South Street, and there is the lower garage.

Brandon  15:18

Yeah, this late stage capitalism is not it's too much, bro.

Collin  15:23

Well, according to plan, that's what you meant to

Brandon  15:25

say. I mean, it's going according to plan, but that doesn't mean it's going well, that's the Yeah, you put it like that.

Collin  15:31

So, but today, today, I went in for my last visit. The person did not answer the me at the gate. It's fine. I rang five times. I left a message at the gate. They didn't let me in. Okay, somebody let me in.

15:46

Okay, I went in, and I

Collin  15:52

open house. I go inside, I downstairs, and I'm like, huh, there's some talking going on upstairs. I should walk upstairs and announce myself and say hello. And I announced myself to something in the corner, saying, enter code, enter code. Oh. And I went, Oh, because apparently what she was doing was when she would let us in at the gate, she would then disarm the alarm at her house, but she didn't let me in at the time, and so she didn't disarm the house, and I'm standing there, and then it was like, alarm activated. It started going crazy. And I went, Well, I mean, I'm kind of on the actually looked at my watch and went, I guess I should make the most of this. What like? What do I need to get done around the house? And then I the better came of me, and I went, Okay, if the cops do show up, because a lot of times, okay, burglars of the world. Just so that you are aware, the alarm is going off, but a lot of these people do not pay for the actual security system to be calling the police. You may be shocked by this. They just want the loud noise. They don't want police involved at all, because that costs money, and they don't want to pay for that time and time and time again over the last 13 years,

17:19

like houses the size of castles,

Collin  17:22

and they're like, Oh no, it'll just alarm. It'll just buzz for a while. I'll see it on my phone. I'll turn it off. Okay, that's one way to do things.

17:33

But I did have that thought of like, okay, if the

Collin  17:35

cops do show up, would I want them to find me inside the house or outside the house, watering plants. Outside, watering plants, so that's where I went. So I'm out watering plants, and the alarm is just going

17:51

crazy.

Brandon  17:54

No, they need to find you like face down in the yard with your hand spread apart. Contract on the phone open so they can look at it, right?

Collin  18:06

It's actually what they need, yeah, yeah. If we're being perfectly honest, that's exactly what they wanted.

Brandon  18:11

That's what they wanted. That's what they police would want. You know, look, I'm supposed to be here. Please

18:21

don't shoot me.

18:22

So I was hired for this. Come on, I'm

Collin  18:25

supposed to be here. So cut to the cops not showing up, but the client actually calling me and apologizing profusely and letting me know that the alarm was off so I could go inside.

18:39

Now I'm already in there, but okay,

Collin  18:43

like ton and ton, actually, everything's fine. So that was my that was my wake up at 630 this morning to get to do which was fun. Oh, very

Brandon  18:58

nice. This segues nicely into my rant, what to have this week about late stage capital, late stage capitalism ruining things, right? I read an article

Collin  19:07

this Brandon's

Brandon  19:10

been reading. I know it's dangerous, okay, it's bad, but, like, it just popped up in my feed, and it was one of those things, like, I have to know what this is. I have to read this like, I just need to know what they're talking about. And it was like, a travel thing, but it was like, if these are your vacation, like, these vacations prove you're still lower

Collin  19:34

class. And I was like, What? What? Are people's vacation dreams? Not good enough for

19:47

you? Oh,

Brandon  19:48

my. And it was like norms. It was like Disneyland. Like, first of all, who can afford Disneyland in 2025

19:55

not lower

Collin  19:56

class. Nobody can afford that.

Brandon  19:58

Psycho and I. Was gonna pull it back up, but I can't find it in my history from this week. But like, it was like, it was like, Dad, it was like, seeing route

Speaker 3  20:07

66 I was like, You mean a thing that

Brandon  20:12

international, people from all over the world come to the United States to see that thing? What? It's not good enough for you. What kind of list was this weird, lame. It was the dumbest list I've ever seen in my entire life, and it made me so angry. I don't need the same website had another list. It was like, Oh, if you're still, you know, blah, blah, blah signs or destinations approved Europe is like, you know, maybe not the best travel destination anymore. It was like, So you're telling me, if your dream is to visit a European country, that dream's not good enough.

Collin  20:50

What for you? Random

Brandon  20:53

writer on this, like, actual was, like a not random website I've never heard of before in my entire life. Like,

20:59

why are you getting to judge,

Brandon  21:03

right? Like, just because you went to Bali one time and you're like, Oh, my God, France is just so overrated these days. Bro. Like, man.

Speaker 3  21:11

Like, what the gall

Brandon  21:16

is the most disgusting thing ever read. Like, ah, it made me so angry. Just like, Oh, if you've ever dreamed of going to, like, a random place that normal people want to go to, I am going to tell you that that destination is not good enough, right? And it proves that you're not a upper class elite if you want to visit route 66 in Oklahoma, right? Like, what?

21:46

Wow, what are you talking

21:50

about? It made me so grumpy to, like,

21:54

read this and just be like, What? What is this

Brandon  22:00

nonsense? These people are writing this article about the things that you want to do are actually not good enough for them, and it proves that you're just a lower class scum. You're just really your scum class is what it is, right? You deserve to only be in the scum class part of the train, right? You don't get to have nice things if you want to go to Oh yeah, here it is, right. You'll know your lower middle class when your dream vacation is one of these 10 places, okay? Orlando,

Collin  22:35

Florida. Orlando, Florida, a Caribbean cruise

Brandon  22:42

the Smoky Mountains, Myrtle Beach or other Outer Banks, etc, Niagara Falls, a place where millions of tourists go every year, from years all over the world, New Orleans,

Collin  23:02

right? Another place,

Brandon  23:03

another place that, speaking of place that millions of people go every year. And I don't know how this is lower middle class, but Cancun or other all inclusive resorts,

23:17

excuse me, what? Route

Collin  23:22

66 or national parks road trip. No national parks road trip are legitimately wonderful. Stop it.

Brandon  23:28

This says this sentence, I kid you not, says road trips are the working person's sabbatical.

Speaker 3  23:38

Oh, what is this?

23:41

I'm so angry right

23:44

now. New York City,

Brandon  23:47

the largest city in the United States and tourist destination for literal, millions of international tourists, is not good enough for this person that wrote this article, right? Okay, is is ridiculous. Is absolutely the most ridiculous, like poo pooing, a classist nonsense I've ever heard in my entire life, right? And I

Collin  24:18

What is the point of an article like this,

Brandon  24:21

I don't know, maybe to rage bait me, I guess, right? Like, just to make me the angriest person ever. Like, I don't really fully understand why you would make a list like this. Like,

24:36

right? Like,

Brandon  24:38

it's so dumb. Like, I

Collin  24:50

I don't understand. The only thing that I think about this is that

24:56

this is

Collin  24:59

classism. Yeah, and meant to purely like, is this a is this is a hit piece on the middle class to make them more discontent, to spend more money and go more in debt so that the economy will

Speaker 3  25:13

be better, I guess? Yeah, I don't know. Um,

Brandon  25:21

they do have a sentence here that says, Before we dive in a gentle reframe, this isn't about class shaming, except for

25:28

it absolutely

Brandon  25:32

is liar, right? Like this is disgusting. This is it's not. It's it's horrendous. That's what is the most horrendous thing of all time. I, I, I can't it's gross. Is what it is. It's absolutely just the grossest thing of all time. And I, I hate this. I hate it so much. I Your dreams are not good enough, right? You have to aspire to like, I don't really know what you have to aspire to if, like, some of these, like, very costly things are like, not good enough, yeah, for you,

Collin  26:20

yeah, no, you need to be, you need to be renting the your own villa in Bora. Bora, that's actually what

Brandon  26:29

flying like first class, right? Flying scum class right. You fly scum class right. Clearly, you don't deserve

Collin  26:37

to go. I'm surprised they didn't have like, any like, I'm surprised in here, they didn't have the phrase like it. You know what this is? Oh my gosh. This is just a you might be a redneck shtick, because it's like, if you dream of getting upgraded to business class, you might be, yeah, you might be a middle class person. Okay, cool. I guess. Thanks everybody. Yeah, it's

Brandon  27:03

absolutely ridiculous, right? It's, it's so dumb, and I just like the way it's framed, like the phrases in here. It's, it's gross, and I hate everything about this, and it's disgusting. And of course, the I'm not going to say the author's name, because I've been lambasting it quite bad, although I kind of want to right the author's picture here. Their little headshot picture is like a, I think it's ripped directly from Instagram, but you can very, very clearly see it's one of those pictures where, like, they're in focus, but the background is blurry, you know, effect, yeah, but the people in the background are very clearly wearing tuxedos, right? So this is a black this the author's picture is at a black tie formal event, and they're writing a piece. These are the 10 places that are lower middle class vacations. But it's not a class it's not a, you know, class shaming piece. You are gross and disgusting. Yeah?

28:15

No, I think what you're

Collin  28:16

misunderstanding is this is exactly a class shaming piece. Yeah, it is right. Like this, this person, like,

Brandon  28:27

would never like, this person that never eats hot dogs, right? They don't know about, like, overdraft charges, right? They don't know, no, it's disgusting, right? And it's, it's, yeah, so is reviling, and I just want to share that with you before I segue into a happier topic that I need your help

28:49

with. Oh, okay, yes.

Collin  28:52

Let's move quickly away from this

28:56

a happier topic. Yes, speaking of

Brandon  28:58

hot dogs, though, okay, right? I went, we went to a new eating establishment this last week, all right, so we went there. We took Susan's mom and her husband for dinner, right to a new it's new ish in that area, right? So we, actually, we went to Marionville

29:22

on purpose,

Collin  29:25

right? And you weren't looking for the squirrels, right? The squirrels in Marionville?

Brandon  29:29

Yeah, they are. The white squirrels are definitely Marionville. They had one on a picture inside the establishment, as is tradition with Marionville. There is a white squirrel in the building. Okay, so there you go. It's wearing a little Marionville sweater.

29:45

Okay, that's right, I will

Collin  29:48

include an article from roadside America describing what is going on here. That's

Brandon  29:53

true. Yeah? Thank you. Yeah. So, so, so, Maryville is a random town for all of our listeners who are confused. Marionville is a. Town in southern Missouri, where they're like, there are just like, straight up white squirrels that live here. And it's like a known thing far and wide that those squirrels in Maryville are white.

Collin  30:15

It's been that way forever,

Brandon  30:18

because, like, Susan's mom has known about this since she was a kid, right? And so, yeah, it's a very like long lasting thing. Okay,

Collin  30:29

I do okay. I do need to read this. It's a very short article. Thank you. That's

Brandon  30:33

fine. Go for it. This is a good this is appropriate, okay, segue, right, to help me remember that a road trip destination is too lower class for certain authors and that I happen to think it's wonderful and so they can bugger off

Collin  30:48

anyway. Okay, Marionville has had white squirrel since the 1800s according to Doris Rapp the town's former mayor, how the squirrels got there, she said, remains a mystery. Rival theories contend that either a breeding pair escaped from a traveling circus, or that a local scientist named florinley genetically created them.

Brandon  31:09

Press X to doubt that 1880 scientists created

Collin  31:15

but I will also let you know that there is bad blood between Marionville, Missouri and only Illinois.

Brandon  31:21

Would you like to know why? Because they claim to be the home of the white squirrel.

Collin  31:25

Well, yeah, but do you know how they got their white

31:27

squirrels through unscrupulous means? Do they steal a Marion building? She said, an

Collin  31:34

anonymous person said that back in the 1930s a pair of scoundrels trapped a pair, kicked at them and sold them to the town of only Illinois

Speaker 3  31:45

who would dare squirrel mapping. Yes, was

31:50

this Boris in Natasha.

Speaker 3  32:02

So so, so to prevent

Collin  32:05

any further squirrel napping, a word I didn't think I was going to read today, Maryville slaps a $500 fine on anyone caught trying to trap or sell a white squirrel, and Doris says we tried to increase it to 1000 but the state said it was unconstitutional.

Brandon  32:26

The one thing Missouri finds is unconstitutional. What the heck, bro? Squirrel napping is a crime, and I will not stand for it.

32:39

I needed to read that sentence.

Brandon  32:42

I was good. I Wow, wow, big go. Okay, only Illinois. You're dead to me. I just want you to know that you're gotcha

Collin  32:52

anyway. So we went to Maryville on purpose,

Brandon  32:57

right to, you know, for real. And there's a new restaurant there, and it is a like, throwback dining experience, okay, but now the problem is, I don't know how to classify this restaurant, and I'm having trouble. Okay, so it's like an old timey, like, burger and ice cream joint, right? They have like, bur like burgers and like hot dogs, like Frito Pie, that kind of deal, you know? So it's like, very throwback, very old school. I haven't been to a place like this in

Speaker 3  33:30

ages, right? And

Brandon  33:36

I don't know, you know, I guess it's a restaurant. Technically, I don't think Diner is

Speaker 3  33:41

the right word, right? Because it's like,

Brandon  33:44

count you order at the counter and you gotta go sit down and they bring it to you. But it's not like fast food, right? Like,

Speaker 3  33:52

I don't know what to call this establishment. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, because it has the order of a dine in, but not the but

Collin  34:06

with fast food, but like, yeah, yeah, being certain, yeah. But, like, very

Brandon  34:11

old school, right? Nice counter order, go sit, and then they bring it out to you, but they have, like, it's like, burgers, milkshakes, ice cream. You know very they have the, okay, they have this sign. You remember the old you remember skateboard, obviously, right, a staple of this show, skateboard, right? Haven't brought up a long time, but you remember the the food area, right? The old school, like the board that you stick the letters on, yeah, they have that. Oh, right. So, like, it's just so, like, nostalgia bait for you, but like, that's the kind of place we're dealing with here. Perfect, perfect. It's like a, I don't know, like burger shacky kind of situation, right? So I don't really know what a good name for this is, because I. Definitely Diner is not, because diner feels more like full service to me, right, like waitress menu, right? That kind of stuff was definitely not fast food, like proto fast food, almost like, I don't

Collin  35:12

really know, yeah, yeah,

Brandon  35:13

very interesting, but yeah, so we were there, right? So it was we went there. And the reason that we went there number one throwback style diner, you know, her mom really was into that kind of thing, right? But also, they have, like, fresh made hand pies. That's like, their thing, oh, yo yo, yo yo. These were delicious. Like, the burger was fine, whatever the pie,

Speaker 3  35:43

though, forget about the burger pie. What kind of pie? What's this?

Brandon  35:50

So they're little hand pies, right? Freshly made in house, hand pie things, right? They're not the fried ones, so they're baked, right? They have for your eating pleasure, things like strawberry Blackberry, lemon, strawberry rhubarb. What? Blueberry cherry Apple, like, whatever. Go for it nice. Will they put a big fat drop of saucer ice cream on top of that sucker? If you ask them to, yeah,

Collin  36:20

they've been waiting for you to ask all day. It's what they really

Brandon  36:23

have been Yeah. They're like, Bro, why? Yeah, dude, no, I hear we got you. Is the real reason my wife wanted to go here? Oh, she heard the word hand pie. It was like, we're going to marry

Speaker 3  36:35

Hey. Which fair, because it was dang good. But plus, yeah, kudos there. Good call.

Brandon  36:45

That's awesome. So yeah, that was our big adventure of the week. Was, uh, restaurant scouting, I guess this little dinery. I mean, roadside, they have, like, outdoor seating too. But again, it has not been under 90 degrees until yesterday. So no outdoor seating where we went, but they also have the inside seating too, right?

Speaker 3  37:08

So that was pretty cool. It was a nice little, very chill,

Brandon  37:14

super friendly little spot that has delicious pie. So boom, that's the big adventure of the week, pie hunting. So there,

Collin  37:24

oh, man, this is no, this is good. This is very good. I'm I love finding places like that and that they're still around, and it makes me

Brandon  37:36

our town. What's called B and G's, by the way. SHOUT OUT B and G's in janeville, it's recently opened. Like, yeah, and, and, yeah. I think it's recently reopened, like, maybe the springtime, maybe, right? It used to be, like a back in the day, like a ice cream spot, like, I guess a long time ago, because they have, like, vintage pictures

37:55

in there, right?

Brandon  37:56

It's very nice. Yeah, I got it right here. Yeah. I haven't been to a place like that in a long time,

Speaker 3  38:07

right? Long time. It's, it's those

Collin  38:11

kind of things that I that make me really excited. Yeah, oh, cool. They got, like, outside seating, and they

Brandon  38:20

have, actually, they have a window for if you just want to sit outside. They have a walk up window that you can just, like, order at and bring your food to you that way. Yes, because, like, while we were there, a lot of people just came to just get, like, ice cream and stuff. And they just came to the window and, like, ice

Collin  38:35

whatever, you know, yeah. I mean, it's kind of, it's kind of screaming, like a, like, an old dried in, like, diner, like, like, kind of, yeah, is kind of what it looks like, but it's a walk up order. You go, sit down, bring it out. It's these kind of places. So our town is going through this thing where they for some unknown reason. Okay, I'm just getting angry because every, every now and then, I don't know if you see this, you're not on Facebook, so you don't do this, but on the local Facebook groups, people be like, What do you wish our town had? And everyone will say things like, Oh, I wish we had a insert name of soul destroying chain that I have town over from

Brandon  39:23

a late stage capitalist society that thinks that you're not been, oh, sorry, sorry, we switched on.

Collin  39:30

Yes, exactly. And it just sit there and you scroll and you scroll and you scroll, and nobody's saying like, Oh, I'm I would love to have more local stuff. Nobody says that, and so this is why our town is building its third McDonald's. And what? Yes, we have three. And I'm surprised. I'm sure to have three. I don't It's so sad. We have three. Three,

40:01

and it's also

Collin  40:04

why they're going to rebuild an Oh, the what are they rebuilding? It's they already they built their second Taco Bell. We're getting back. Oh, they're good. They're bringing back long johns because it burned down. And they were like, Oh no, we're never gonna have that again. And then they're like, You know what? Never mind. We're bringing it back. You that's what we're doing. You guys, nobody

40:23

even eats of longshores. They don't even

Collin  40:26

know why. Yeah, I guess they don't i They don't remember that. They don't remember that nobody came there, nobody goes there,

40:32

right? Nobody,

40:34

nobody. And

Collin  40:36

it's like, right? This is how the souls of towns get destroyed, is that? But I totally understand from a consumer perspective, oh, man. You mean, go to the weird diner place down the road, like, I don't know, like, what's their food gonna be? Like, it's gonna be weird. I'm not going to like it, but McDonald's always has good fries. So fries and cones are gonna keep them as

Brandon  41:01

well. The sentence McDonald's always has good fries. It's categorically false, right? They're always relatively consistent, but they're pretty mediocre and like, right? Unlike the french fries at BGS, fire, straight fire, if I may borrow a term from the youth, right? They're very delicious.

Speaker 3  41:23

You can get crinkle cut or waffle see what, what I

Collin  41:33

It makes me so incredibly angry because I'm like, that's, that's a richness that brings towns and people together like that's what it is, and that gives you stuff that's different and unique, and stops the monoculture of late stage capitalism taking over everything where you go, where towns stop having individuality, and They're just all the same, and they just become suburbs of each other, right? Yeah, and it's like, that's the part where I didn't really think about this until, sorry, did you? I didn't really think about this until, like, driving around with our kids, and then our kids would start to say things like, Oh, the town has this and this and this. And then we drive the next town over and they'd say, Oh, look, they have a Menards too, and they have a this too, and they have this. Really start to look around and go right,

42:35

like, there's no difference,

42:38

like, individuality, right? Yeah, yeah.

42:40

And it's so sad. It's really sad,

Brandon  42:44

true. Sure, we got on that note. We actually got Susan's mom to eat from the taco truck tonight. It was a large win, right? A big win. You know, that's what, right? Like,

43:04

quesadilla,

Brandon  43:06

right, classic thing, but, like, you know, it's a known thing, but she found it from a new place. So that was good news for all of us involved, because nice now, now

Collin  43:21

you can all go to one place, as opposed to, like, two different places. Put that on

43:25

the list, right? Yes,

Collin  43:29

yeah, it's not. It's annoying,

Brandon  43:33

right? If that's your only option. Because, like, we don't even, like, eat out really anymore, because it's like, Oh, if you want to go out. I mean, except for, like, we try to go to, like, the taco truck, or, like, something like that, because, you know, everything else is just like, the same and you're just like, No, I don't want

Speaker 3  43:50

the same thing again, right? It's just not, yeah, like, when we cool

Collin  43:55

down to Dad's and we're like, hey, what do we want for for dinner, for not going to eat you know, you know, if we're not gonna eat in some you know, the kids will be like, Oh man, let's go get Panera. And I'm like, no, no, we have, I find myself saying this a lot. We have that at home. It's I'm not doing that. You gotta indoctrinate them. You gotta get it like, you know, we don't have at home, like, salties. We're going right? All these exactly salties, we're doing results or heiresses. Like, we don't have an heiresses. We don't have these things. Do do those things here? Okay, right? Like, so trying to get in that, like, No, I know it feels safe because we know it, but that's not there are things we can only get here, and that's okay. That's a that's good to have that kind of thing of like, if that town is known for their whatever, whatever, like, my local town really wants to be known for the goober burger. Like, just stop. Let it die. Stop. Nobody wants nobody wants peanut butter on their hamburger. Nobody wants this.

Brandon  44:59

But they I think people do want that. I don't think they do. Why isn't it? Did you eat it? I have not. Okay, so, so, so what I'm hearing is we need a over the reports of Collins official Uber burger experience, right? Yeah, yeah. I can tell you, then we can definitively say yay or nay. Okay, right. Fine, right. You can't sit here and be like, ah, champion of individuality, and then, like, the most unique thing ever, be like, Kill it. Kill it with fire.

Speaker 3  45:36

I would say, if more people wanted it, it would be more than a restaurant.

Collin  45:41

That's what I'm going to say. Okay,

Brandon  45:43

the more place I just wanted to say that. I just want to say your town has been looking at their McDonald's. They don't know. Okay, right? They're bringing back Long John Silver for some reason, for something wants it look if you wanted

Collin  45:58

the long johns in my town, stop it. I just need you, yeah, to stop it. That's

Brandon  46:06

right. I'm not saying that the internet rumors are true, that it's actually just like a money laundering thing, but it might just be a money

46:20

I guarantee. I just, I don't

Collin  46:27

anyway,

Collin  46:41

you know what? You know, it's not money laundering.

Brandon  46:46

The sea shanty of the week. The sea shanty, oh, yeah, guaranteed to be, to be guaranteed, official, official, yes, right. So I have for you this week,

Collin  47:01

a Swedish sea shanty.

Brandon  47:06

Oh, right. This is from Sweden. I had to pick this one for reasons that you will that will become clear very

47:17

soon now this particular Hold on I killer one is a,

Brandon  47:31

a cause, a, it's called a four biter, CGT right now, apparently, four biter, Like before, like, F, O, R, E, like before. I mean, it's like, it's like a see saw. It's like a leisure time when you're done with your work, right? Maybe it's because you sit at the four castle and say, I don't really know, but that is the like category. So it's not like a work song. It's like a for fun

Collin  48:02

song, right? But this one,

Brandon  48:08

right? I again, it's kind of difficult to research songs in sweet eaters, right? I don't know how old this song is. All I could find is it appeared in a song book in 1942

48:21

so like,

Brandon  48:23

is it an ancient, traditional Scandinavian sea song? No, but Right, it is fantastic because it's called, uh, this Susanna fam, right? It is basically sung to the tune of, uh old Susanna, right? It's about sailing, and it's epic. This is fantastic. It's great, right? The translation is like, you know, I'm sad to be leaving you and, you know, yada yada. Like, you know, I'm going to be going away to my treasure, but I'm going to be thinking about you, you know, yeah, and all that kind of stuff, right? So it's like, you've left somebody on the shore, right? There we go. So, but it is, it is to the tune of old, this old Susanna, oh, Susan Yeah, because I was listening to this and I was like,

Speaker 3  49:32

Wait, hold on. I was a little suspicious when I saw the title, uh huh, because you wouldn't think I was like, right, yeah, because you're kind of like, okay, hold on.

Collin  49:42

And so you listen, and you're like, okay,

Brandon  49:47

okay. And then the key starts to get the chorus. You're like, all right, Bro, wait a minute.

Collin  49:53

Time. Wait a minute. What are you doing?

Brandon  49:57

But yes, so this is, this is. Fantastic. Is great. So this is the Swedish sea shanty of the week. Here we go, boom, okay, expanding the bounds. Bang. There we go, exploring the corners of this. Yes, right, getting all the corners of the compass in on the sea shanty action. Now, back to speaking of Long John Silver's, which is what I really wanted to say, but I get that. CCT sorry, right?

Collin  50:29

It's okay, right? We have quite possibly

Brandon  50:36

the most contrived and random circumstances, instead of events, that I've read in a long time. And

Speaker 3  50:42

right? Because, like, it's just, what are you doing? Why? Why was this the plan?

Brandon  50:54

I don't in these three chapters. I just kept going, seriously, bro, what

Collin  50:59

the only thing that I can think of was, this is, like, the rashness of a young boy, and, yeah,

Brandon  51:04

right, he mentions that at some point, like, right before he he leaves, right? Like, he's just, like, hanging out. So they're just hanging out in the hut, and people are wounded, right? Captain small, we've, we've, we're getting the account of small. It's wounds here, right? No organ was fatally injured, but his shoulder blade was broken and he had a his calf was shot through, right? So he can't really, like, move around a whole bunch, you know, and they're holding him to, like, basically, don't talk, right? That's yeah thing. Like, there's like, still and you know what for what we know about the captain, yeah, right. So,

51:55

so basically, um, the doctor,

Brandon  52:04

once he's doctored everybody, right? We have the dead person. We get them moved out of the way, where we doctor the captain. The doctor grabs the gun and he goes out, he leaves. Oh yes, right, yeah. And he's good, right? And, you know, he just doesn't bother to tell the other people where he's got, I mean, he probably told, like, the Squire and whatever, but like, he doesn't tell who's Gary, Gary ray or gray, or whatever, or Jim, where he's going. So they surmise that he's going to meet with Ben Gunn, right? And we get a little anecdote here from Jim. He says I was right as appeared later. But in the meantime, the house being stifling hot, and a little patch of sand inside the palisade ablaze in the midday sun, I began to get another thought into my head, which was not by any means so right. So he acknowledges that this is kind of nuts, right? But he's just like getting he just kind of gets a little stir crazy, and he's like, I began to envy the doctor walking in the cool shadow of the woods with the birds around him and the pleasant smell of the Pines while I sat Grilling with my clothes stuck to the to hot resin and so much blood about me and so many poor dead bodies lying all around that I took disgust of the place and was almost as strong as fear. So he just, like, gets jealous that the doctor is getting to go out and walk around and he's gonna be stuck here, and he's like, Well, I'm gonna leave too. That was weird. That was kind of weird, right? Like,

Speaker 3  53:43

yes, and he, he just decided to take off. And,

Brandon  53:52

you know, he just, he did have the forethought he thought about, you know, he watched them, they're all starting to be busy. And he just, like, stuck some biscuits in his pocket, and then he he did also have the forethought to, apparently, grab a brace of pistols. Just, you know, that's what you do, just snag him there. And he just,

Collin  54:17

like, leaped. He just like, runs off because he wants to go out and do stuff indeed, right? Does, but not just any like he does. He start off just wanting to go wander, or does? Yeah, this is the part that's kind of not

Brandon  54:34

clear, right? It's a little bit weird. He does feel kind of bad because he was like, Oh, I, you know, I left only two people to guard the house, but, and this is, this is the part that's weird, right? This sentence here, this little sentence is, is strange to me, right? We get this, like, weird, like, because he's telling us this story later. Earlier about what happened in the past. It's a bit weird, so I'm assuming, right? He says, My this was my second folly, right? Because he's talking about leaving as things fell out. I found a opportunity, and the Squire and gray were cleaning, and he bolted for it, and before my absence was observed, I was out of the cry of my companions. He said, this was my second folly, far worse than the first. And as I left, but two sound men to guard the house, but like the first, it was a help towards saving us all. So I'm assuming his first volley was like running to the island to begin with, right? Yeah,

Collin  55:47

jumping on the boat. No, it was the boat that wasn't it when he got on the boat,

Brandon  55:51

yeah, yeah, when he got on Yeah, when he jumped in the in the lifeboat, in the long boats, and came to the island the first time. Yes. So I'm assuming that was his first folly. And this is his second but we can, we can get a small bit of foreshadowing. It was a help towards saving us all. So he didn't know it at the time, but it turns out, this impetuous, insane plan was fine, and it's fine. Don't worry about it. It's

Speaker 3  56:19

fine. So, like, he, you know, he's running to the beach, and he, like, gets it in his head, like, Oh, hey, Ben told me his boat

56:33

was over here somewhere, right? I'm gonna go

Speaker 3  56:35

steal it. What doesn't make sense. What right? Not at all his he like, he sees the the Hispaniola out at the Anchorage, right? He sees his little boat here, and he's like,

Collin  56:59

Yo, I could go out there, right? And so he says, right.

Brandon  57:08

I had, I had, in the meantime, had taken another notion and become so obstinately fond of it that I could have, that I would have carried it out, I believe, in the teeth of Captain small at itself. This was to slip out under the cover of night, cut Hispaniola adrift, and let her go to shore where she fancied.

Speaker 3  57:30

Why? Yep. Why? Yep.

Brandon  57:35

Where did this idea come from? I'm gonna paddle out to this boat and cut the anchor, that'll show the pirates who's the boss. Like,

Speaker 3  57:46

what? Yeah, well, because I the whole point, I was thinking of going well, right? But then, like, won't you not have a boat? Like, Yeah, isn't that

Brandon  57:59

right? Like, I mean, like, yeah, the pirates can't leave you there, but also you can't leave,

58:04

yeah? Because that's what he was

Brandon  58:07

worried about. Him leaving, yeah, I'll stop them from leaving. Losers. And then he's like, wait a minute, yeah. Then I'm going, bro, if you boat Rex, how are you gonna go anywhere? You're just gonna hang out with Ben. I'm be crazy on an island goat and whatever, like, I don't know. And who knows is the wackiest just like, Ah yes, I know what I'll do. I'll run my ship aground. That'll show them, that'll

Speaker 3  58:37

that'll prove it, show those pirates boss losers, like, yeah, wait, what? So he so he does. He sits down, he eats his biscuits, full, full thing of biscuits. Boom, right, attach to that. And he sets out for the thing, right? So

59:02

he's gonna enact his plans. Gonna be great,

Speaker 3  59:06

cut the anchor, somehow. And, yeah, you know, but then, but then

Collin  59:13

he gets over there, and he's like, Now wait a minute, yeah, this is under a lot of tension, yeah, well, we'll get to

Brandon  59:19

that a minute. Yeah, this is a plan, right? That's a plan. So that's what really this chapter. Now the next chapter is where he just, he discovers that, oh, right, this boat is not quite, is Ship Shape, as he might have suspected, right? So he he discovers Ben's boat is a corkle, right? And so if, if listeners or readers are not familiar with a coracle, it's a basically,

Speaker 3  59:44

it's like round, right? It's like a basket

Brandon  59:50

that has skin stretched over the bottom to make it watertight, but it's like a circle, right? This is what Smeagol and deagle were fishing in. Yeah. With rings right, and return the king. Look at the flashback, right. They go. Some connectivity here, um, sort of coracle is, and he mentions that he is so he's trying to paddle a boat that is a circle with a paddle that is basically a kayak paddle, right? Because he mentions his double bladed ends, right? So, as you can imagine,

Collin  1:00:32

when you try and do one thing,

Brandon  1:00:34

does not want to go where he wants to go, yeah, it is a much more treacherous endeavor than he really planned for, right? Yeah, it's very plus. It was made by Ben, right? You know, homemade coracle. So it is a boat. It is wood framed stretch over with goat skin to seal it right. And no mention of the adhesive that was used here, but you probably SAP or some sort. But anyway, gold skins.

Collin  1:01:10

About this is, this is also the, this is also the the note where it says, later, Ben told me that it was not a good boat and it would you set what it says. Oh, yeah, yeah. Later she admitted, he admitted that she was queer to handle till you knew her way, right? Yeah,

Brandon  1:01:26

yeah. It's like, it's kind of messed up, actually. So that is the thing about a coracle, right? And they're quite as far as making a boat, right? It's pretty quick and dirty, right? It's a, it's a boat that you can make, right? Yeah. Actually, in my, in the book, I was reading about shipwrecks, right, about being shipwrecked in the Southern Ocean, they built one out of scrap wood and seal skin, right, to try to, like, go from one island to the other. Anyway. So it's a boat that is makeable. A lot of people, a lot of people, you see, make them and, like, in The Hobbit, right? You make them and you go fishing, right? It's a very like thing, right? But again, not really. It's kind of just a thing that you like. It's like, trying to paddle it in or two,

Collin  1:02:13

right? Like, that's not gonna work, you know, like, right? So it's small, it's unbalanced,

Brandon  1:02:25

and it's a circle, so try to paddle. It makes it go all kinds of crazy. So he has, plus he's a ebb tide, so it's going, it's going all crazy like he is, you know, not really making it's not fun for him to get out there, right? He's not no and he keeps basically just

Collin  1:02:46

going. It's just slow, looping, loping circles on his way. Yeah, there. Yeah, right. And, like, I was thinking about wave forms, right? Whenever,

Brandon  1:02:59

like, ocean waves, because he was expecting, like, oh, the waves are going out, so I'm gonna, like, be able to be pulled on the waves,

Speaker 3  1:03:10

right? But in the ocean,

Collin  1:03:14

right? Though, those waves that are happening, right? They're like,

Brandon  1:03:21

only on the surface, sure, you know. So, so what's going on is, is the an object is, if an object is floating in the water, when the waves go by, it, it's just gonna raise and lower the object. They're not the depth of the water is not moving, so it's not it's very difficult for the waves to carry objects like that. Yeah, right, if there's no current happening under the water, and at this time, there isn't really that current

Speaker 3  1:03:57

happening under the water. And so, like,

Brandon  1:04:03

it's not carrying his boat, like the way that he thought it would. So he's like, Ah, this will carry me. And it's like, Oh, wait. Except for that, it won't right. So it's just a surface wave, and it's not like a bigger transverse wave function that's gonna, like, pull him and carry him somewhere. It's just like, Oh, he's gonna, like, Bob him up and down on the ocean. So he's like, confused and fighting against it, and like, grumpy, and it's not really working, and it's just yeah, and he's just kind of is just making a hash out of it going that way. Yeah. So he eventually does come up and, like, basically, just like, bump into the boat, right? Just kind of like, because of where he launched, it just kind of eventually

Speaker 3  1:04:53

bumped into the side. And, yeah, now I.

Brandon  1:05:01

Is where he's like, yeah, now I can cut it. And then, like, he said, like, you said, he's like, Oh, wait, this is a really, really tight rope, and I can't do, yeah, if I do, it's gonna smash into my boat and I'm gonna drown get

Collin  1:05:20

slapped into next Tuesday? Yeah, absolutely,

Speaker 3  1:05:25

yeah. So I know. So then he's like, oh yeah. Then I paused, and I'm just saying, you're going, I guess in my head, I thought the act of cutting a

Collin  1:05:39

cable for the anchor would be, like, an immense, like, it'd be a big deal, right? Like, but he makes it to sound like, oh, no, this is, this is just done all the time, obviously, yeah, but it's,

Brandon  1:05:52

I, yeah. I think this is also because, you know, I, I'm not a shipwright or anything. But, like, the, you know, the rope is, it's clearly not a cable or a chain, right? It's a rope anchor, you know. But this is not gonna this still, this anchor is gonna be very big

Collin  1:06:13

for even for a scooter, right?

1:06:17

And so this rope is then gonna, in turn, be quite

Collin  1:06:22

large, and he just, like,

Brandon  1:06:26

hacks through it in no time with his little dinky pocket knife, because he opens, like, yeah, yeah, it's basically a pocket knife, like a jackknife, just like, opens. You're like, this is a big rope,

Speaker 3  1:06:40

right? I'm imagining it's quite large, quite you know, it's probably gonna be about the size of your wrist, you know, maybe a little smaller, but he just chopping through it. No big deal. No big we're all good here. Yeah, yeah, I don't understand

1:06:59

this. Was like, Yeah,

Collin  1:06:59

I'm so, so confused, little contrived. But

Brandon  1:07:02

anyway, he cuts through part of it, and then he's like, maybe I should not do that. So he's gonna, like, wait until the wind moves and it, like, pivots the boat around on the anchor, and when it's slacker, then he's gonna cut it, you know, and do that. That's what his plan is going to be, you know? But in the meantime,

Speaker 3  1:07:26

he heard some noises, right? And so he, like, somehow,

Brandon  1:07:34

he, this is where I also am confused about how large this boat is, because, like,

1:07:39

he, there's, like a rope

Brandon  1:07:43

just conveniently dangling near the back, and he kind of like,

1:07:50

and the wind, and he

Collin  1:07:52

can get into the window easily, right? Or did he have to kind of climb up on? Well, I think

Brandon  1:07:55

he was kind of like on the sill on the outside, if there is a sill on the outside, but yeah, he just kind of like, climbed up this

1:08:01

and, like, hopped up there

Collin  1:08:07

with no problem, and was like looking through the window, and was looking at the people fighting. Yeah, right. So,

Brandon  1:08:23

you know, I scooter is not a big ship, sure, but like, I'm trying to look up some like sizes here that I would be familiar with, because, like, you know, it's a smaller boat ship, rather. And so it's not like,

Collin  1:08:40

you know, it's not like a big, like Gunship,

Brandon  1:08:44

where the cabin's gonna be, like, many, many feet above the water, but like, it's still, like, it seems weird. He's like, Oh, hey, look a rope. Oh, hey, I'm gonna climb up here and I'm gonna clean the

Collin  1:08:55

window. I think he even said, like, he wasn't

Brandon  1:08:57

sure why, but curiosity, yeah, I don't know, because he wanted to hear that he heard like sounds of fighting, like it sounded like angry, right? And so he's like, Oh, he recognized Israel Hands, right? And then the other one was Red Hat Guy,

Collin  1:09:12

that that way from the

Brandon  1:09:17

attack on the fortification, right? So Israel Hands and Red Hat Guy are fighting, and so he wanted to, he wanted to know what was going on. And so he's like, creeped up there, and sees them, like,

1:09:34

doing stuff,

Brandon  1:09:36

trying to stab each other randomly, like something happens. And they just like, stop and go somewhere.

1:09:46

Like, this whole person,

Brandon  1:09:50

yeah, I did another stand with it on. And then he then he's like, goes back down. And he's like, Okay, well, whatever. And then he recommences to Collin. Cutting the anchor

Speaker 3  1:10:03

once the ship is moved right. But it was still a little bit too not a good plan, because he, like,

Brandon  1:10:16

he does it, and then it like swings around and smacks into him and, like, bumps him way off. And so he's just like, you know, he's in the boat in his little coracle thing, and, like, he's been kind of whacked out of there. And he just like, oh. He just, like, lays down and goes to bed. Like, what?

Speaker 3  1:10:40

Yeah, this was because, like, my guy forced her, like, this is what I yeah, I don't know how

Collin  1:10:50

this all, like, went wrong, because the schooner slipped around and was gliding through the water, like the schooner was moving herself, and I guess he was kind of along with a ride with this as the schooner was like,

Speaker 3  1:11:09

turning or something. And then

Collin  1:11:14

what does he say? Yeah, then the turn, oh, yeah, he said. I glanced over my shoulder, and my heart jumped against my ribs. There, right behind me was the glow of the campfire. The current had turned at right angles, sweeping around along with its tall schooner and the little dancing coracle, ever quickening, ever bubbling higher, ever muttering louder, it went spinning through the narrows for the open sea. So he got caught in the current of here and now, with the ship swinging freely, he got swept out along with this, and he, just like you said, went to bed. Yeah, I

Brandon  1:11:45

lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff, and devoutly recommended my spirit to its maker. And at the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar or raging breakers where all of my troubles would end speedily. And thought I could perhaps bear to die. I could not bear to look upon my fate as it approached, right? So he's like, Well, I'm just gonna hunker down. I don't want to see death coming. But, you know, I may not make it. I'm gonna be cast into the rocks or something, right? So I must have lain for hours continually beaten to and fro upon the billows and now again, wedded with a flying spray and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge. Gradually, weariness grew upon me. A numbness and occasional stupor fell upon my mind, even in the midst of my terror, until sleep at last, super mean, my seat house, coracle, I lay and dreamed of home in the old Admiral bimbo.

1:12:45

Okay, what we

Collin  1:12:48

got real, real, um, like, I don't know, like, got real overwhelmed with this.

Brandon  1:12:55

Biscuits weren't enough food for him, you know, he's like, Oh, I gotta go. I'm just gonna, well, I'm gonna be dashed upon the rocks of despair. I might as well just lay down, take a nap. Like,

1:13:05

yep, jazz, done, my man. And this next bad chapter is even wackier. Yeah, please keep going. Yeah, yeah. So basically,

Collin  1:13:21

basically in this chapter, if I could summarize,

Speaker 3  1:13:24

boy paddles an ocean, catches ship, yeah, more, right? He's

Brandon  1:13:31

just like, he wakes up and he's just like, cruising around. He's like, where am I? He looks around, see some sea lions. He's like, That's weird, right? He's like, in a slightly different part of the island. He's like, I don't know where I'm at, what's going on. He kind of just like, he's like, looking around and kind of like, figuring out where he is, right? And yeah, he's just like, well, I could try to paddle to the shore, but wait, what's that ahead of me? Yeah, there's a, you know, he sees the boat, right the ship, and he's like, hey, there doesn't appear to be anybody on the ship. That's weird. Right? Right in front of me, not half a mile away, I beheld the Hispaniola under sail. I made sure, of course, I should be taken but I was so distressed for want of water that I scarcely whether to be glad or sorry. It's a thought, right? And so basically, he's like, he sees the ship, but he notices that, like, it's very stop starting, right? It's not, it doesn't appear to be under control, like nobody is controlling the ship. Yeah, right. And so he looks at the ship, he's like, Huh? You know? He thinks, oh, maybe they're still drunk. But he's watching it like go, and then it'll stop as the wind changes, like it, it'll just stop moving. And then all of a sudden, it'll go like you. It, you know, pretty quickly, and then it'll stop again as the wind is kind of swirling and changing. And so he surmises that there must not be anybody aboard, right? Maybe the pirates woke up and, you know, freaked out, freaked out because it was moving. They didn't know what to do, so they jumped over and slammed a short that's what he's guessing, yep, hoping, rather or so, he also

Collin  1:15:25

has some weird thing where he's like, or maybe they're drunk below, and I will just lock, lock the door, lock the door. Yeah, have a ship,

Brandon  1:15:33

yeah. Even though, does Jim know how to pilot a ship? Well, that's the other thing. He knows,

Collin  1:15:39

confidence. He's just like, Oh, yeah. Maybe I'll bring the captain his ship back, and I'm going, I'm sorry,

Speaker 3  1:15:45

yeah. How are you gonna one of you? Yeah, did you? Did you what

Brandon  1:15:52

the other driving force over here is, he's thinking about the water barrels of the ship, and he's

Collin  1:15:57

just like, well, I'm super mega dehydrated,

Brandon  1:16:04

and, you know, dying of thirst, even though I've only been out on the ocean for like eight hours, but I need some water, and the ship has water, so maybe if I go on the ship, I can have some water. That's the other thing in his plan, yes, right? And so basically he just, kind of, like, gets in front of the boat.

Collin  1:16:26

This is his, well, I don't wait. Does he meet? No, because the problem is that mean to the boat would stop and he could get close, and then she'd lurch in a weird direction.

1:16:37

And so she was stopped.

Brandon  1:16:40

He's trying to get close, and he gets in front, and he just, like, again, this is what making me think, you know, Scooter's not just like a super large ship. It can't be because he, like, just stands up and jumps and grabs a hold of the bow sprit, right?

Speaker 3  1:16:58

Yes. And he, as soon as he does that,

Brandon  1:17:04

the coracle gets run over by the boat, right the ship, and so he is now on the boat. He's the captain now, right? Is my name, yes, I guess, yeah. So we'll see. This was these three chapters really like, for what we know about Jim, right? He's really kind of come out of nowhere.

Collin  1:17:37

Of of him just being like,

Brandon  1:17:41

yeah, like, he's a little impulsive, I guess, because he also had that other, like, really weird thing where he was like, Yeah, I'm gonna go to shore with a pirates. That'll be great, yeah, jumps in the lifeboats and goes off. You're like,

1:17:55

what do you what are you doing? Yeah, I'm sorry,

Brandon  1:17:59

but this is like a whole new level of insanity where he's like, Yeah, I'm gonna cut the ship's anchor. Like, excuse me,

Speaker 3  1:18:08

what and where will you go? And then plan come from? Like, from what knowledge

Brandon  1:18:14

of boats and pirates do you think? Yes, this is the plan. This is

Collin  1:18:20

what I need, yeah, and now for him to be like, and now I shall Captain a ship by myself.

1:18:28

Yeah, excellent. The thing that

Collin  1:18:31

Captain Smollett was very clear to point out to the pirates that they were unable to do all of them together. All of them, James will be like, Yeah, I'm gonna do it yeah, I'll bring it so, you know, bull move cotton, we'll see off, yeah, so we'll see where this goes. Um, yeah, my summary for these three chapters is, uh, impetuous, right? I think that's the impetuous nature of Jim Hawkins, that's what, I absolutely agree. I haven't the foggiest idea. Have no idea where he thought it was planned. Like, I don't know. Like, this is just wacky. I don't know.

1:19:18

So we'll see how this goes.

Brandon  1:19:21

You know, we'll see what happens next time tune in. Next time for does Jim's plan play out

1:19:27

or,

Brandon  1:19:28

you know, is it kill halt? We don't know. We'll finally, probably the latter any but, you know, kill hold the core goal. Unfortunately, no problem. So his escape route's gone. We know that done. Yeah, if you swim. But like, we really have no indication the gym can swim like we no idea another strange plan to another thing to not know about him. He's doing all this ocean going.

1:19:57

Guess we'll find out. Maybe we don't know.

1:20:00

Figure it out this time?

Collin  1:20:03

Well, yeah, I am. Yet again, I have no idea what's going to happen, and I still really want to know when the cheese is going to come into play, because I know I

1:20:12

bought some parmesan cheese.

Collin  1:20:16

What's your stuff box? Or

Brandon  1:20:17

whatever it is. I don't own a snuff box, unsurprisingly, but it's in the river. But like, I do have some parmesan cheese ready, right? So I just

1:20:28

case you made Ben, right? Yeah, because I had, I

Brandon  1:20:31

need a case. I need some emergency cheese. I'm ready to go. You

Speaker 1  1:20:35

have it? Have already ready? Love it.

Collin  1:20:41

Okay, well, figure out what happens next time. But before we get that Haiku, great. Okay, sorry, I need water.

1:20:54

You and Jim both, right. Oh,

Collin  1:20:57

I'm so thirsty. I could take I could chase a scooter.

Brandon  1:21:02

I That's the newest umbrella t shirt, right there. That's what's gonna be, I know, the scooter. I love that. That's beautiful. I

Collin  1:21:13

was gonna start saying that now, and I was gonna be so concerned. Okay, okay, firm grip. Jaws open. Cat's fury meets tiny pill victory for now, yes, I have to pill a cat like seven times so many, it's too

Brandon  1:21:41

many. So have all your fingers are on your hands right now. That's

Collin  1:21:45

one two I got, we're good, yeah, I just saw every single time, just there was that, that feeling of this. And then you get it done, you're fine. You move on. But so no cat pilling in my future for right now. So hey, do that and we'll enjoy, yeah, I know breathe. We'll catch back up with the old gym coming up. All right, very good. Well, we'll see this again too. All Right. Love you,

1:22:21

love you. Bye, bye, you.