nature itself is ragebating me

nature itself is ragebating me
Brandon & Collin

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podcast, nature, rage baiting, audio issues, field day, David Attenborough, graduation, Bigfoot, Sasquatch, rental car review, Nissan Rogue, state fair, music guests, Tech N9ne, Rick Ross

SPEAKERS

Collin, Brandon

Collin  00:04

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, nature itself is rage baiting me.

Brandon  00:19

Ahoy, ahoy,

Collin Funkhouser  00:21

oh my. my goodness, you are loud. Oh, sorry, I

Brandon  00:25

didn't do it. Wasn't me. Stop faffing with your buttons.

Collin Funkhouser  00:28

Well, so here's, here's the problem we have out of our little computer box here thing I had, and I had a splitter, and

Brandon  00:41

you turned yourself down so far I couldn't hear you talking anymore.

Collin Funkhouser  00:45

Oh, hold on.

Brandon  00:47

Oh, it's all gone wrong.

Collin Funkhouser  00:48

It's been a problem.

Brandon  00:50

Oh dear, you sound like you're in another room, but like not, because you actually are in another room. It's like we were in the same, like if we were in a gym, and you were like on the other side, like,

Collin Funkhouser  01:04

and you weren't there

Brandon  01:06

back again. All right.

Collin Funkhouser  01:08

Nope, nope. Oh, sorry. Oh, please.

Speaker 1  01:15

Legally distinct music from a trivia show, because it's not no copyright, please. And

Collin Funkhouser  01:26

why is this not hold

Brandon  01:33

on? Get it off. Holy

Collin Funkhouser  01:36

switch. Okay, that happened. What happened? Whoa, nope. Things are popping. Hold on. Pop locking and dropping

Brandon  01:48

like you kicked the spring reverb just right now. That's like,

Collin Funkhouser  01:52

okay, hold on. We're gonna swing this around. Okay, let's see what happens. That was interesting noise. Okay. Yes. Hello. Wonderful. Ah, yes. Ah, okay. Okay, all right. All right. Sorry. Ahoy, don't touch anything. Yeah, I don't know, just happened. I probably need to go and just re like wiggle,

Brandon  02:31

but not now,

Collin Funkhouser  02:32

not now.

Brandon  02:33

Yeah, not now.

Collin Funkhouser  02:34

To be the perfect time, it's the perfect. No, it's not. Well, so this is actually okay. So this is the saga of this week. Well, okay, so I've had.. anyway, I had a little splitter dongle thing of like, okay, you want to listen. I only have one little audio out for headphones on this, and so in order to have Megan hear things while I also hear them, I have to have to split it, and that crashed hard this week, and so I had to remove the splitter, and ever since then things have been a little, little wonky, so

Brandon  03:22

interesting.

Collin Funkhouser  03:23

Yes, so I'm going to be very gentle, very, very delicate with all.

Brandon  03:29

It's fine,

Collin Funkhouser  03:30

everything is fine. I'm not replacing all of you right now, don't worry. But this is a bit precarious right now. I have to have to push this too close anyway, so how's it going?

Brandon  03:47

Oh, pretty good, actually. Not good. Tomorrow is going to be like completely borked,

Collin Funkhouser  03:53

so why a bork tomorrow?

Brandon  03:56

Okay, so get ready for the tomorrow's field day, right? Right. Somehow the cafeteria was not alerted to the fact that it was field day. Oh yeah, although it's been in the all the announcements for like the month, right? The cafeteria apparently did not know that tomorrow's field day, and on field day everybody eats lunch at the same time.

Collin Funkhouser  04:33

Yeah,

Brandon  04:34

but on a normal, because they used to do like sack lunches, whichever, yeah, or you just come in and get the train leave, right? Tomorrow,

Collin Funkhouser  04:42

that's

Brandon  04:43

not.. we don't

Speaker 2  04:43

have that. No, not what happens. You're

Collin Funkhouser  04:48

like, what's the plan? Then,

Brandon  04:51

yeah.. well, I got an email earlier today that just said, like, right before we got, like, at 230 that was like, I. Meet with you tomorrow to discuss the plan, like, oh no, oh

Speaker 2  05:06

no,

Collin Funkhouser  05:07

that's not good,

Collin Funkhouser  05:08

that's

Brandon  05:08

not a good plan, right?

Collin Funkhouser  05:10

Tomorrow

Speaker 3  05:12

is, they've

Collin Funkhouser  05:13

just buying pizza for everybody,

Brandon  05:16

I don't know, I don't know, I feel like our field day might be like, go until lunch movie time, right? Like, I feel like that might

Collin Funkhouser  05:26

be fair

Brandon  05:29

surprise. It's movie field day

Collin Funkhouser  05:33

to

Brandon  05:34

watch a movie about track and field. Yeah, so right? Like, I don't know. I have no idea, but I'm not very excited about tomorrow. I'm already not excited about field day, and this is definitely not helping. So,

Collin Funkhouser  05:57

no, what? Okay. Well, that'll be an adventure of things.

Brandon  06:05

It'll be something. It will be something. So, yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm not looking forward to that at all. But you know, Collin,

Speaker 4  06:17

what

Brandon  06:18

I have good news for you.

Collin Funkhouser  06:21

Oh no, good news,

Brandon  06:23

good news. It.. I don't know if you know this, Collin, but it is a celebratory time, right? It is time for great enjoyment and mirth and happiness.

Collin Funkhouser  06:40

Yes. Okay.

Brandon  06:40

Because David Attenborough turned 100 years ago.

Collin Funkhouser  06:43

Oh, yes, yeah, yes, he did, didn't he? And he's looking good at 100 looking, I know, amazing,

Speaker 4  06:59

still

Brandon  06:59

producing things, probably too.

Collin Funkhouser  07:03

No, I think I think I actually did see that he was, he's still doing voiceovers.

Brandon  07:07

Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 4  07:09

yeah,

Brandon  07:09

yeah. It's crazy, crazy. This man is magical, right? It's excellent news, right? So I just want to make sure that we highlight this, because we, I know that we both love David Attenborough. All right, I just need to make sure that we mentioned live here that it was his birthday. He is celebrated 100 years, most of that time teaching us about the planet, right?

Collin Funkhouser  07:36

Yes, and being just quite simply amazing at it as well,

Brandon  07:44

yeah, true.

Collin Funkhouser  07:46

So, yes, I, this is good. I like this a lot. I did. I got to see a lot of clips floating around social media, the Albert Hall clip of them singing happy birthday to him was very cool and nice. I don't know. Did you get to see that?

Brandon  08:08

I think I saw that on something. I think it showed up on the thing somewhere. It was like part of the thing I saw. I don't remember, but yes,

Collin Funkhouser  08:17

I just.. I just thought of another top five list.

Brandon  08:20

Oh, oh,

Collin Funkhouser  08:21

top five, David Attenborough. Well,

Brandon  08:26

that'll be difficult. There's only 700,000 things, and I've seen like only a small beat of exactly. I have another one for us for the future too, but later on, it's too much stuff. Other than that, celebratory event. We did have graduation last weekend. Sad times, sad times. Crying, there's no.. everything's fine. I'm fine. You're crying, I'm not crying. Talk about sure. So, the people that graduated this year are the kids that I had for two years in a row, right? They, I had them in fifth grade, and then I moved to sixth grade the next year, so I had them again, children, right? Those poor, abused children, right? I had,

Collin Funkhouser  09:16

yes, it's twice the suffering,

Brandon  09:20

I know, right. I don't know how they managed it, but so I was pretty good. Went there, lots of pictures, lots of good stuff, right? It was kind of funny. There was a little girl I was talking to, and she was just like, I don't know, I'm just crying. I don't know why I was like, it's alright. I was like, I hope it's because you have lots of happy memories. She's like, I do like all it was very sweet.

Speaker 4  09:46

Yeah,

Brandon  09:47

but but we did, we did make history here. I some helmet, and it's to get a shout out in a graduation in a commencement speech, yeah. Better yourself. Special shout out. Thanks to mr. Funkhouser. Dang, dang! Holy cow! I saw him later. I was like, you made me cry. What are you doing? So it's

Speaker 4  10:14

that.

Collin Funkhouser  10:17

So we

Speaker 3  10:17

got a shout out, friend of the show, Pablo. Shout out the show.

Collin Funkhouser  10:23

Thank you. It's great.

Brandon  10:25

It was very sweet. It was super nice. So it was good. It was good. Then, so yeah, that's how we're just kind of wrapping up the end of the year. I have all my things picked up, mostly I have my labels on things, there we go, boom. Oh, I have to label it, because I have to move it all out of the room to clean the floor and do the waxing, and the blah blah blah blah blah. So, you have to label everything, so that it comes back.

Speaker 4  10:55

Oh,

Speaker 2  10:55

I gotta make sure I get it back again.

Brandon  10:58

I always put matching tape labels either with what, with my room number on it, right? It goes in there.

Collin Funkhouser  11:05

Yes,

Brandon  11:06

put it back in there. Let's go,

Brandon  11:11

so you know, whatever. But that's kind of it, wrapping up, winding down, right. Oh yeah, the other thing I texted you about out of nowhere, mostly to remind myself to talk about this later. Okay, I had.. we talked last week about.. was it last week we talked about the, yeah, about the ridiculous.. maybe two weeks ago.. the ridiculous, like Bigfoot video things that came up on my feed, right?

Collin Funkhouser  11:39

Yes, that was.. that was two weeks ago. Yeah, I think so. Based on the yes, excellent title by the way. Good job.

Brandon  11:50

But I watched this video, right? I had to click on it because the title was just like ridiculous. How they get you? I know, I know, they click it. Yeah, but if you read the comments, which again

Collin Funkhouser  12:01

also

Brandon  12:02

at least a third of the comments are just bots, so like you know that's good, because it means there's not as many insane people out there.

Speaker 4  12:10

Sure,

Brandon  12:10

but this video was talking about like the comparison he was making was like between like Sasquatch, which he believes this man has said sad things like interdimensional being portal, right, like spiritual being, like these are words he's used to describe Sasquatch.

Speaker 4  12:33

Okay,

Brandon  12:33

like they can be invisible, all right, like these are this is things this person. Oh,

Speaker 4  12:39

this is amazing.

Brandon  12:40

He was talking about how the evidence for the Loch Ness monster is like super sus in lame,

Speaker 5  12:55

right?

Collin Funkhouser  12:56

How does one I I, so, like, I don't even know, don't I know,

Brandon  13:13

like, bro, just eating too many, like, mushrooms in the forest. Okay, that's like what's happening right now, like, he was talking about, like, oh, the like, and he was

Speaker 5  13:24

like saying

Brandon  13:25

things like, oh, well, the environment doesn't support the sustainability of such a creature, and you're like, bro, say that again,

Collin Funkhouser  13:39

but, but, no, totally

Brandon  13:43

right, and and then he was saying he said something like, I know I understand his line of thought, it was because it's like a more confined space, right, but he was like he was like multiple surveys of the area have turned up zero to or inconclusive evidence of such a thing, and I was like, say that again, but

Collin Funkhouser  14:07

hey guys, you're real close, just keep, if you could say it slower, actually

Brandon  14:14

miss a man, maybe into a mirror, wrote a picture of a tree that had fallen over, and been like, yes, this is a side of a Sasquatch marking its territory. Like, brother, what do you mean?

Collin Funkhouser  14:28

Oh, from Dos Wind,

Brandon  14:34

what are you talking?

Collin Funkhouser  14:38

This is the

Brandon  14:38

man that didn't understand how branches broke. Okay, like, I don't know.

Collin Funkhouser  14:46

Does he have.. I mean, other than the, like, the environment, does he.. does he really like.. he has no.. what does he think of, like, the photos and like the sightings and stuff? Like, how does he use.. how does he stay consistent with.

Brandon  15:00

This is the this was what I was thinking about while I was watching, and it's not really, yeah, like the logic here is not consistent, even like within the whole thing, but like especially compared to the like Sasquatch videos that he puts out, right? Like the internal logic of like how he thinks about things is not there, right, like one because there's like a Native American story about a Sasquatch, clearly real. Okay, but because there is no, you know, super ancient picked legend that he is aware of, like clearly cannot be real, like,

Speaker 2  15:43

what are you talking?

Collin Funkhouser  15:47

I don't even know.

Brandon  15:50

It was such.. it was such a painful thing to.. like, I didn't.. I need you to know that I had never.. I didn't finish any of these videos that I watched, right? I watch like parts of it, and then I'm just like, oh my god, I cannot, and that's just like none of these have been watched for completion, right? The watch time is quite a low percentage here, because you kind of just like listen to part of it, and you're like,

Speaker 4  16:15

what

Speaker 2  16:16

on about,

Collin Funkhouser  16:18

yeah, that's the maddening part about this, is that lack of consistency, you know, of like there's nothing. This just tells me that it doesn't matter what you were to show this person, they're always going to have a way out and around it, like there's just.. there just is..

Speaker 4  16:36

there is

Brandon  16:37

a preconceived

Speaker 4  16:38

answer.

Collin Funkhouser  16:38

Yes, and like

Brandon  16:41

you can draw historic parallels to this, right, because you know they're like, if we think about how the mountain gorilla was kind of quote unquote discovered by like European scientists, right, like you know nobody believed it was real for a long time, yeah, right. They would be stories about it, no. And because of where they lived, you know, it's like super remote and accessible, and like, you know, nobody believed it, but because it is an animal, there are patterns of behavior that occur, and then, like, it was eventually found, right? And I feel like the quote unquote Bigfoot is like an interdimensional spiritual being, is like the biggest cop-out of all time I've ever heard. For like, where is a breeding population?

Collin Funkhouser  17:34

Well, yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  17:34

why can't we?

Brandon  17:35

Why is there no baby, right? Again, the question of, like, he keeps bringing up the, like, you know, the skeptics will say, like, well, why is there no body? Like, yeah, that's also true, like,

Collin Funkhouser  17:49

good, good, they keep bringing it up, goods, a good point,

Brandon  17:52

good point, like, I understand things decay very quickly in a lot of those environments, as, like, heavy forested, or the Pacific Northwest, like rainforest environments, right, but

Collin Funkhouser  18:04

also,

Brandon  18:05

also not all of it, right, and so by saying, oh, but it's like a spiritual being, like, yo,

Collin Funkhouser  18:17

my favorite,

Brandon  18:18

what, what do you mean, like that's the biggest, like, cop-out of all time, like, I can't,

Speaker 4  18:24

yeah,

Brandon  18:24

like, well, there's obviously no mortal remains because it's on, like, a higher plane of existence, man, right? Like, unbutton that shirt, is that a, is that a Grateful Dead T-shirt, or at the end of there? Like, what are you on, brother? Like, holy, I real bad, it makes me real bad, not as bad as the Tartarian people, but like it's pretty bad, like I guess

Collin Funkhouser  18:53

sounds like it's pretty fun. Absolutely. Absolutely,

Brandon  19:02

quite terrible. It's quite terrible. Let's use your update on this saga, this like most insane thing I've ever heard in my entire life, right?

Collin Funkhouser  19:13

Definitely, yeah,

Brandon  19:14

that's it's pretty, it's pretty great, right. Um, yeah, so that I'll go ahead and get it out of the way now, too. By the way, I do have a sixth grade quote of the week for you, because it's kind of on this topic, right? It goes tangentially with this, so I'm gonna flip it in right here. Right? Are you ready for this? Now, this was this was written in our writing assignment today. Okay, that makes this even more hilarious.

Collin Funkhouser  19:46

So this is something that they person wrote this down. They

Brandon  19:51

wrote this down.

Collin Funkhouser  19:52

Okay,

Brandon  19:53

okay, it's as if nature itself was rage based. Me,

Speaker 4  20:01

yes, yes, this is amazing.

Collin Funkhouser  20:17

This is a good one.

Brandon  20:21

This is so we, we were writing our final writing assignment for our reading class, right? We have just, we finished Hatchet,

Speaker 4  20:30

oh

Brandon  20:31

right, so we, we've read, we finished the book, we watched the super great 1990 movie adaptation, A Cry in the Wild.

Collin Funkhouser  20:42

Okay,

Brandon  20:43

as you do, starring one of the dudes from Honey X from the kids. The neighbor kid,

Collin Funkhouser  20:49

most

Brandon  20:49

excellent, plays Brian in this movie, right? Like the older brother neighbor kid, that's Brian, but the assignment that I gave him was, this is actually.. I stole this. Okay, so I didn't come up with this. I need you to stop. Full disclosure, I did steal this assignment, but like the.. it's the writing prompt is: imagine that you are Brian, and you come back to school the next year, right? What is every.. what is every English teacher ask you to do on the first day of school? Tell us about your summer.

Collin Funkhouser  21:25

Tell us about

Brandon  21:29

what if you're

Speaker 3  21:30

Ryan. What do you write about?

Collin Funkhouser  21:34

This is perfect. I love this so

Brandon  21:38

much. It makes me happy. I love, I love this writing prompt. It's so good, and that is where that she wrote that. She wrote that in her letter today as Brian, right? Like she was talking about all the negative things that kept happening, right, like eating the bad berries, and like not being able to catch the fish, and the

Brandon  22:02

stupid moose attacking, right?

Speaker 4  22:12

Right, like

Collin Funkhouser  22:13

that's pure gold,

Brandon  22:15

right? It's a beautiful sentence. It was as glorious. I just started laughing immediately while I was reading it, and she knew what I read.

Collin Funkhouser  22:23

So happy for that, that, that just like that is everything. Everything,

Brandon  22:28

it's so good.

Speaker 2  22:32

Yes, I So other than fiddling with buttons, Collin, what have you been up

Collin Funkhouser  22:50

to? Oh my goodness. Well, let me first cough off microphone here, so don't break anybody.

Brandon  22:58

Yeah, no, saying my nose is so runny, like it's very annoying.

Collin Funkhouser  23:02

Yeah, it's been just one of those times. No, I, we have a car in the shop. Did I tell you about what happened to my vehicle? I think I did. I think I told you, log, yeah, log and log, yeah. Had the car in the shop, we're doing so, which actually is like very nice, because it means I'm using a rental, and I was down and back in Springfield on Monday, I was down and back in Springfield yesterday, and I'm going to be down and back in Springfield tomorrow, so good times.

Speaker 4  23:40

These

Brandon  23:40

gas prices are you crazy, bro?

Speaker 5  23:43

What do you

Collin Funkhouser  23:43

look

Brandon  23:45

kind of bad?

Collin Funkhouser  23:46

All of this was pre-planned, and need I have to do this, so

Brandon  23:50

that's gross.

Collin Funkhouser  23:52

It's real gross, which is why I'm glad that my rental gets like 40 miles to the gallon.

Brandon  23:58

Yeah, you are,

Collin Funkhouser  24:00

however, as is, want to do, I do have a review of a random rental vehicle for

Brandon  24:10

us. Oh, you corner

Collin Funkhouser  24:13

rental review corner. Yeah, so I know

Brandon  24:18

the reviewer, the listeners love this segment, right? Collin, which is where Collin pretends he's James May, right, and he fastest car in the world, which is a rental car, obviously, as

Collin Funkhouser  24:32

we all know. Oh,

Brandon  24:35

by the way, Clarkson's Farm returning in June.

Collin Funkhouser  24:39

Oh, and did you see the, they have a, the Grand Tour ish thing, where the guys,

Brandon  24:46

yeah, I haven't watched

Speaker 4  24:47

it,

Brandon  24:47

but I saw that it exists,

Collin Funkhouser  24:48

yeah, they're basically their commentary on the Grand Tour, yeah, which

Brandon  24:55

I haven't watched any of that,

Collin Funkhouser  24:56

no, I

Brandon  24:58

might need

Collin Funkhouser  24:59

to, ah.

Collin Funkhouser  25:00

I'm about

Brandon  25:00

to be very free, so large pile of books here, including one that we'll talk about next week

Speaker 4  25:16

out there.

Collin Funkhouser  25:16

I will keep this brief, because we do have a top five list to get to. Oh, we do. Yes, so this is my sixth day so far review of a 2026 Nissan Rav, or not sorry, Nissan Rav Nissan Rogue L S V S V

Brandon  25:42

numbers letters something right,

Collin Funkhouser  25:44

those things don't make any sense to me at all, and

Brandon  25:47

that's fair.

Collin Funkhouser  25:48

I, in my many, many hours driving in this car, here are my thoughts. This is the where car manufacturers, they're trying to bring in electric car features into ice vehicles. Let me explain. By D by D, okay? I

Brandon  26:09

don't like this. I don't like where this is going,

Collin Funkhouser  26:11

right? So, if you drive an electric vehicle, which I just did today, you, when you pull up to a stop sign, or stop light, you stop, you take your foot off of the gas, it doesn't roll, it does not roll, there's no rolling to this, because the brakes hold and they wait for you to press the gas, it's just how they go, and so this, this rogue has by default the auto hold feature on it, so that if you drive, you come to a stop sign, you press your foot on the brake, you can, when you lift your foot off the brake, you go nowhere, because it engages the parking brake on the vehicle for you, and

Speaker 2  26:56

then, yeah, I don't, I don't like that,

Collin Funkhouser  26:58

as you go, then it will, will roll and move forward. Right, this is very confusing to me.

Brandon  27:05

I don't like that. Like, that's not how this

Collin Funkhouser  27:08

works. I want to have rolling, and on electric vehicles, you can actually change how the braking works, like how severe you want the region, how heavy braking to be. This, you can actually press and hold on a button in the center console, and it will turn it off. Okay.

Brandon  27:21

Oh, good. Okay, that's good.

Collin Funkhouser  27:22

But get that out of here. It's on by default, like you have, and it keeps turning back on at random times. Also, I have yet to figure out, like I have turned this car off twice, and it did not shut off. And it happened to Megan one time too, where she went, she pushed a little button to stop. That's the other thing, the button to stop. Imagine where the steering wheel is, and you have the steering column that goes in, and then there's that bit of dash to the left and right of the steering column, where typically you would push the key to turn and yield. That's where they've been pushing the button. No, no, what you do is you take your hand where you think it's gonna go, you go over to the right six inches and down underneath a lip, and it's back under there. So you actually have to like lean forward and like push this button,

Brandon  28:12

so you want to feel like you have a secret button.

Collin Funkhouser  28:15

Yes, yeah, because the button is also black and does not light up whenever you get in.

Speaker 4  28:21

What's

Brandon  28:21

wrong with the big this button? Like, if you're gonna have a button,

Collin Funkhouser  28:25

just put it right there,

Brandon  28:26

put it on there,

Collin Funkhouser  28:27

because Brandon, because electric vehicles don't have start stops, they're always on.

Brandon  28:33

So, here's my other question: Is this just because they're using the same dashboard from an electric vehicle in here, and they're like, and there's no hole in it. Um, banks..

Collin Funkhouser  28:44

I don't, I don't think so, because Nissan doesn't have electric vehicles like

Brandon  28:51

Nissan. What are you doing? People buy Nissans because there's like 400 billion little storage compartments in them.

Speaker 4  28:59

Yes,

Brandon  29:00

that's what people want a Nissan for.

Speaker 4  29:02

Yeah,

Brandon  29:03

they want it because it's like we're not reliably Japanese, and there's like 100 like quirky little storage compartments here, there and everywhere.

Collin Funkhouser  29:13

You'll have people for days,

Brandon  29:15

yes, right? People like that. You had to have a ton of stuff in your car, but you can never see

Speaker 4  29:19

it. No, right? This is

Brandon  29:20

why people want Nissan,

Collin Funkhouser  29:22

the one big, the one thing, like, so to that end I reached into the door pocket that's in the lower portion of the driver side door, and it like kept going, it was,

Brandon  29:33

yeah, you see,

Collin Funkhouser  29:34

door of holding, I was like, where is this, and I could fit my entire, like, I have one of the big now jeans, it just like swallowed it and disappeared, and I just kept putting stuff in there. So, yes, this is why people, they buy them, because they are relatively inexpensive. They're not like nice premium vehicles, they're not supposed..

Brandon  29:55

no, no, no, no..

Speaker 5  29:56

but they're like

Collin Funkhouser  29:56

supposed to be like Anne Carr, like this is their mitt, they're like..

Brandon  30:00

A more utilitarian,

Collin Funkhouser  30:01

they're just, just an car,

Brandon  30:04

yeah, exactly,

Brandon  30:04

pretty reliable.

Speaker 4  30:06

Yes,

Brandon  30:07

right,

Collin Funkhouser  30:07

they're not, they're

Brandon  30:08

fairly reliable. I mean, they're not like Honda, but like, they're pretty good, right? Like,

Collin Funkhouser  30:12

exactly. And I think overall that is the feeling that I get driving this. It's pretty good.

Brandon  30:19

I feel like that means that they kind of don't know their niche, right? Like,

Collin Funkhouser  30:23

yeah,

Brandon  30:23

I mean, if you're competing with Honda and Toyota, like, directly, yeah, I mean, like,

Collin Funkhouser  30:31

but they're also cheaper than Honda and Toyota, like, so, like, yeah, it's kind of that thing of, like, if you would like an off-brand Honda or Toyota, you get Nissan. I

Brandon  30:44

think Collins quote, Nissan

Collin Funkhouser  30:49

other things that they have done to electrify this, not electrify. First off, Brandon, whenever you pull the stock to clean your windshield, because I have to do this a lot, because I drive a lot. Typically, the little spray nozzles sit on the hood and spray up onto it, and then the wipers go. No, they've gotten so far where the now, where this is a technology, is how far it has fallen from the Bentleys of your, the spray is in the windshield arms windshield wiper. Oh,

Brandon  31:22

that feels like a bad idea.

Collin Funkhouser  31:24

Okay, which means it sprays, it goes.. this is, you could, you hold it, it goes, and then it wipes. That's it. And it's that's it. You can't just like,

Brandon  31:35

you can't like hold her down and like really get it.

Collin Funkhouser  31:38

That's it. Also, randomly, one time I was trying to clean the front windshield off, and I pulled the stock forward to me to clean, to spray and clean, and and the back wiper just started going like nice and randomly. Okay, yeah, that was odd. Also,

Collin Funkhouser  31:54

I have not

Brandon  31:55

have the goat, you have the ghost in the machine, knees

Collin Funkhouser  31:58

there on that I was driving in the rain, I had to have the back one on. This is just again talking about quality and like cheapness. I have not been in a vehicle where I have heard the relays click on and off for the back windshield since

Collin Funkhouser  32:17

a while,

Collin Funkhouser  32:18

since my 1990 Jeep Cherokee,

Brandon  32:21

as we say, this is a very 80s thing to happen, right? Like fairy, hear the

Speaker 4  32:26

like

Collin Funkhouser  32:26

the in under in the dash, I could hear, and then to a wiper would go, and there was all the way over, so this was not fun. The other, so that was one thing, the other thing, and this will be my last bit when you go to shift. Okay, so they have this. It's so funny how, if you watch this, this needs to be studied. The length of the, the gear shift that once you know it's on the floor. I remember Dad's Chevy 1500 right with this black step side, oh yeah, right,

Brandon  33:07

super mega long, super

Collin Funkhouser  33:09

mega long. Now, now, imagine that has been shrunk, so it's just the little top nubbin. Okay, the top sits on the center console, and you just, you push it forward two clicks to get into reverse, or you can click it back towards you to get into drive slash manual. Now, if you want it in manual

Brandon  33:36

pushing forward for reverse, of course, that makes perfect sense, like that's exactly what you want,

Collin Funkhouser  33:42

so you push for it. In order, in their defense, in order to get to reverse, you do have to click a side button to then slide it extra, extra forward. Okay, I'd love a side button to engage.

Brandon  33:50

That's true, but like every car used to have a side button on things.

Speaker 4  33:53

Yeah, yeah,

Brandon  33:54

right, exactly. A big fat T handle,

Collin Funkhouser  33:57

yeah. So imagine that that little T handle has been shrunk, it's just a little top nubbin right there, right. And then, but then Brandon, if you push forward to go to reverse, you go back one to do a neutral back one to go drive, it's D slash M, and and then. Okay, so I said this would be my last thing, manual. Okay, what is manual at 2026 Nissan Rogue SV?

Speaker 4  34:24

Probably not manual,

Collin Funkhouser  34:27

I mean, oh, it

Brandon  34:29

is. It is. They

Collin Funkhouser  34:30

have, they have paddle shifters.

Brandon  34:35

Oh, yes, because it's f card now. Like,

Collin Funkhouser  34:38

obviously,

Collin Funkhouser  34:38

that's the other thing that I have the steering wheel. It's not round, right? It's flat on the bottom, because it's supposed to be sporty. Why?

Speaker 4  34:48

Why

Brandon  34:48

you are James May?

Collin Funkhouser  34:51

No, you have no.. there should be no manual on this. There should be no flappy panels. There should be no. Flat portion of the steering wheel have the ridiculous little nubbin, it is so tiny brand. Imagine if you took a penny, cut the penny in half, and put it in a slit, that's this little rocker button. You click that tiny thing forward one to get into sport, and then gross, it's in standard, and then back to be an eco, that is by this little knob shifter nubbin thing, and you can just toggle it, makes no difference, the engine just like shifts more, it just it drives worse when you put it in sport, and it drives worse when you put it in eco, just in a different direction. So leave this in standard, though, the whole time you will, you will thank me for this, but you pull out, you pull, I have pulled, I've pulled into my parking spot. We're looking at the nubbin. I have not described how you get into park, because there are three things on this R in D slash M, and

Speaker 4  36:00

that's

Brandon  36:00

perfect. Like

Collin Funkhouser  36:02

that's whenever I had to. I actually had to look at this to figure out what was going on, because this black gloss top to this with, like, it's this weird, like oblong puck thing, where it's glassy plastic on top with rubber around the outside, so you can really get a grip on it when you're going.

Brandon  36:22

Oh yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  36:22

okay.

Brandon  36:22

Of course,

Collin Funkhouser  36:23

slightly, slightly offset off to the little right hand side of little tiny nubbin. Okay, is what you can barely perceive to be a button, and what is on top of that button, the letter P, so when you're ready to park, you pull up and you press a button, and this park set all everything else, R is forward, N is forward, EM and D are backwards. Park, push the button. This is the electrification of this car. They have taken this concept. I, this is how Tesla spark. If you want to park a Tesla on the right-hand stock behind the little steering on the yoke, there you just push in a button that says park, and that's what you do. This, this is what they're doing, is they're going. Hey, everything is drive by wire, everything is disconnected from anything real. So, let's just run with that and take the the electrification of the ice vehicle. Is is this right now? And it is horrible.

Brandon  37:35

It's quite terrible. That's fair. That's yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  37:40

but the other thing is, Brand is, I recognize that as electric vehicles become more popular, this is just the norm. People expect to push a button, like everyone upheaval when Chrysler and Dodge made the little turn dial thing.

Brandon  37:56

That's fair, yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  37:56

right, like that blew people's minds. How could you possibly do this? This is really no different than

Brandon  38:04

I. It's.. I just think, why? How could.. why did you put it next to the volume knob and the air conditioner?

Collin Funkhouser  38:10

That is,

Brandon  38:12

that's the

Brandon  38:12

problem. Like,

Collin Funkhouser  38:14

yes,

Speaker 4  38:14

it's a

Brandon  38:15

different color, and it's bigger, but it's still next to all the other knobs.

Collin Funkhouser  38:19

They went a little knob crazy, so yeah. Overall, I have spent way too many hours in this thing. It hauls like I needed it to for some events. It does. That was the other thing. I was down and back on spring on Saturday, home on Sunday, down back on Monday, down back yesterday, down back tomorrow. So, putting in the miles in this thing, it's doing what it needs to, because it is supposed to be an car. It's which also angers me, because it's not. It should not have this much of an opinion about how to be driven, right? It should not be that it is not designed, you, Nissan, you do not have an opinion when you are designing and bland car, that's

Speaker 2  39:04

it. Just

Collin Funkhouser  39:05

normal. So I will finish up my week. I return it on Friday, assuming they can get my bumper in for my other car, and we will go back to now. Of course, this is coming from somebody who the car that I want to be driving has has Toyota's little cruise control nubbing nubbin on the steering wheel. It's the one down around like the 3o'clock or the 4o'clock position. It sticks out, it's about the size of your thumb or a thumb drive, because we're also that old, and that's how you do this, and that little nubbin survived on Toyotas and Lexus on their SUVs from, oh, I don't know, 1991 through 2020

Brandon  39:55

so keep the same part forever, right? Exactly, I mean, that's

Collin Funkhouser  39:58

they amortize amortized. The crap out of that little blast. Yeah, I know I'm not the kind of person who's like, ooh, all doing crazy, but also, if you're gonna go crazy, just make it make sense. And I did. I was so lost in the rogue for no, for no reason, because it's not a special car, that's the other annoying,

Brandon  40:21

yeah, that's that's the other, that is the annoying bit, right? Like, it's

Speaker 4  40:24

just

Brandon  40:25

it's all this like shenanigans, but it's just like indistinguishable crossover SUV thing. Are we still using the word crossover? Is that still the buzzword? I don't really know, but like that's what it is, like it's just a pretty indistinct small SUV thing.

Collin Funkhouser  40:48

It's so funny,

Speaker 4  40:48

like,

Collin Funkhouser  40:49

because

Brandon  40:49

we were in it

Collin Funkhouser  40:50

for, had it for two days, I had to go grocery shopping, parked in the grocery store, my kids walked up to three wrong vehicles. on our way to this car

Speaker 5  41:04

that tracks right, like that sounds about right,

Collin Funkhouser  41:08

and I was like that, that summarizes everything,

Brandon  41:13

tells you all you need to know, really, right?

Collin Funkhouser  41:15

Absolutely,

Speaker 4  41:16

yes,

Brandon  41:16

that's it, you know, that's all,

Collin Funkhouser  41:18

yes. So I will finish, and to cap this all off, right? I'm driving in Springfield, Southfield, actually in Nixa, and I'm driving. I am, I am obeying all the speed limits, buying all the sun, of

Speaker 4  41:36

course. I have done,

Collin Funkhouser  41:38

I have done nothing wrong. I'm literally driving in a straight line. I look up in my rearview mirror, and the person behind me, swerving, flashing their lights, and taking both hands off the wheel to give me a unique wave, let's say, and they keep then taking their thumb and their right hand, and they keep throwing it over to the right, and they're yelling something, and I'm like, oh my goodness, I'm looking around, there's no emergency vehicles, I'm the only one on the road, I'm for once driving the speed limit and going, what is what is it? So I'm starting to like really panic, I'm looking, I don't have anything dragging behind me, and I look this person's mouth, and I'm really bad at reading lips, but I could distinctly hear or see him saying go home, and I'm like, what, and then I remember the license plates on my rental,

Brandon  42:46

oh,

Collin Funkhouser  42:48

are from California, so I did. I gave a jaunty ahoy wave back, and kept doing what I was doing, and then they had to end up exiting, but I was like, oh, wow, man,

Brandon  43:17

or Collin, perhaps the car is so indistinguishable, he thought you were someone else.

Speaker 5  43:24

What's my son doing out here? Driving around, you need to get

Speaker 3  43:29

right. Yeah,

Brandon  43:31

yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  43:31

probably would have been, yeah, better, better.

Brandon  43:35

What a loser,

Collin Funkhouser  43:36

absolute loser,

Speaker 5  43:40

a loser, brother. What do you mean?

Brandon  43:42

What, as the kids would say, it's not that deep, bro. Like, it's like

Collin Funkhouser  43:52

I.

Brandon  43:54

it is. It is insanity.

Collin Funkhouser  44:01

Oh my goodness. Oh, yeah, yo.

Collin Funkhouser  44:06

So that's.. oh, but you know what? Pretty

Speaker 4  44:18

fun.

Collin Funkhouser  44:19

Yeah, you know what is also fun. Oh, I think I do. Collin, what? Oh, it's maybe planning some musical guests.

Brandon  44:29

Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  44:31

yes,

Brandon  44:31

I'm.. I'm still shocked that we're doing this in May. All right, I don't know how the Missouri State Fair Planning committee has done this task already, a task they usually leave until very late in the

Collin Funkhouser  44:48

eye. Okay, so I have a connection to the state fair, I don't know what they're called, the like the board or. Whatever. Who oversees the nonprofit who oversees the fair? I do have a tangential connection there, and I, I have heard that this is something that they have recognized they have been very bad at for years to come, for years previously. Oh,

Brandon  45:14

okay.

Collin Funkhouser  45:15

And that,

Speaker 4  45:16

what you're

Brandon  45:16

telling me, I need to be on the ball for next year too.

Collin Funkhouser  45:19

We have to be, because basically, what they are trying to say is they have a goal of bringing in better talent to the fair, and

Speaker 4  45:30

this

Collin Funkhouser  45:30

obviously requires them to get planning,

Brandon  45:34

more planning,

Collin Funkhouser  45:35

more planning,

Brandon  45:36

yeah, yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  45:37

so expect this to come up and I to be more, more of a struggle in moving forward.

Brandon  45:46

Luckily,

Speaker 4  45:51

what

Brandon  45:55

the thing in my note app that, like, keeps I keep track of it throughout the year, so I've been, I have some like banked to think about, yes, so

Collin Funkhouser  46:04

yeah, now my notes for all of my bands live in the Google Doc, and I didn't reference them at all, so keen listeners may think that I am duplicating some picks, and a who cares, that that's probably good, because that just shows that there's more need for that, because it keeps coming back up in the discussion, but also I'm not going to go back and look, because I want to stay fresh and keep coming up with new, different, different things,

Brandon  46:41

and see, you've already duplicated bands in the first two years that we've done this, so

Speaker 4  46:46

exactly, so just

Brandon  46:51

because I did go back and look just at the ones that we did flat before, right from last year and the year before that, right? I went back and saw, like, what, because I was like, what did I pick before? I don't even remember, like, I remember, like, two, and then I was like, I need to look, and so I looked at yours too, and you have already duplicated, so it's fine, but, like,

Collin Funkhouser  47:13

man,

Brandon  47:14

and I was mostly looking for, like, we, we did four before, because we did it so much later in the year, and there was only like a couple spots left, so it's fine, but like that's what I was confused about, because I don't remember doing that many, that's what I was really looking for, but then I wrote down a little note about what I had picked before, just so I could remember for myself, because sometimes when I do this, I like, I do it, and I put it on the episode, then I erase it from my notes app. Oh, and then later I'm like, wait, hold on, maybe I shouldn't have done that, maybe I need to reference that again to go back. Okay, okay,

Collin Funkhouser  48:00

no, I. I just sit down and wing it,

Speaker 4  48:06

so that's

Brandon  48:06

right. But I like throughout the year, because I'll like, sometimes I'll be humming a song, or I'll like hear a song, and I'll go, oh, that would be good for the state fair list, right? And so I just, I write it down, so I keep like a, like a bank of, like, oh, what could I use, right? Or if I could come up in conversation and somebody be like, "Do you remember this band? Like, "Oh my gosh, that'd be perfect. Hold on, let me write this

Collin Funkhouser  48:30

for no particular reason. Keep going.

Brandon  48:32

Yeah, let me get my phone out and make a note. For no reason at all, everything is fine. And I'm sure I have it written on this notepad thing here that I have, but it's like, so incredibly full that, like, I don't.. going back through would be slightly problematic, but it's fine. Okay, because there's a lot of stuff on here, really. When I go back and look, it's like, oh my gosh, there's so many things,

Collin Funkhouser  48:56

because it's all here,

Brandon  48:58

and I've had this for

Speaker 2  49:00

ages, so so yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  49:05

well, would you, would you like to go first, kick us off? Yeah, I'm fine. I'm gonna do mine in no particular order,

Brandon  49:16

yeah. This, that's also mine. I just, I just kind of wrote down some, and then I struggled with one real bad, but then I was like, no, there's a perfect answer waiting here, and I just am going to embrace it, and I'm going to go with it. So that was coming soon. So the first band that I thought of, right, I was thinking here, and I was like, man, this is a band that, like, unexpectedly to me, anyway, has become very popular online within the last year, like it was showing up everywhere, and it was like all over the place, and it was in tons of like shorts, and like the kids know the song from like TikTok and stuff, and like they're all. So on tour right now, somehow magically

Collin Funkhouser  50:02

missing dates in August,

Brandon  50:06

perhaps, but Collin, for my first state fair band, I think we should take a little journey to the land down under, that's right, men at work, that's what I'm pulling out, we're going for men at work.

Collin Funkhouser  50:23

Yes. Okay, man, you, we

Speaker 4  50:30

are,

Collin Funkhouser  50:31

we are

Collin Funkhouser  50:32

coming out swinging, coming out swinging.

Collin Funkhouser  50:35

Holy cannoli,

Brandon  50:37

I think they might be on tour sometimes with men without hats, so we could just like bring them into the okay, like we can dance, we can dance down under,

Collin Funkhouser  50:48

can indeed.

Brandon  50:51

Yeah, I'm gone. I'm going minute work. Wow, yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  50:55

that's I, yeah. Okay, I will keep.. I don't know, men at work rock band. I think that this is a field rich with opportunities, and I think that not old rock bands, but we'll call them legacy rock bands, are good field to try and go with this, so I true. My first one that I will mention fits in with the band had they had Foreigner, what, last year or two years ago, I think. Yeah,

Brandon  51:33

one

Collin Funkhouser  51:34

that slots right in is The Black Crows.

Brandon  51:39

Oh, there we go. Nice.

Collin Funkhouser  51:41

Yes, everyone loves Remedy. I think Thorn and My Pride will be a good, good stadium.

Brandon  51:47

That's true.

Collin Funkhouser  51:48

Sing along, I'll open with The Black Crows.

Brandon  51:55

Okay, I'm a counter with my Lone Country Act.

Collin Funkhouser  52:00

Okay,

Brandon  52:01

okay. I kind of got slightly sidetracked with my late 80s and 90s rock bands here,

Collin Funkhouser  52:08

but no, see, that's what I'm talking about. It's so hard not to,

Brandon  52:12

yeah, yeah. But there was one, like, when we talked about whoever is going to be on this this year, that's like 1000 years old,

Collin Funkhouser  52:20

okay?

Speaker 4  52:20

And I

Brandon  52:20

was like, man, I wanted to put this person, but like, they're kind of old, and I felt bad, but, but they still do do some tour dates, and then I was like, no, no, we're bringing them out, bringing them out, we want them on tour, Collin, I give you Junior Brown,

Collin Funkhouser  52:39

Junior Brown. okay,

Brandon  52:45

because you're wanted by the police, and my wife thinks you're dead,

Collin Funkhouser  52:52

because

Brandon  52:53

that song is amazing.

Speaker 4  52:54

Yes. Oh my gosh,

Brandon  52:59

that sounds so good. All his love songs really good. His little surf caster slide guitar thing that he like built and plays is great, like. And who doesn't love the hat? Is amazing,

Collin Funkhouser  53:12

I know.

Collin Funkhouser  53:12

Hats people,

Brandon  53:13

such a hat. That's such a 90s cowboy hat, right?

Collin Funkhouser  53:15

Such a hat.

Brandon  53:19

So I think I'm going junior brown, right? Got to have nice country acting state fair. It's kind of important, and I think it should be junior brown, just because I don't like a lot of country. I definitely don't like very many modern, like hardly any. Read zero, a modern country artist, but dang, I look like every junior brown

Brandon  53:41

I

Speaker 4  53:42

Oh, good.

Collin Funkhouser  53:44

That's okay. I like that one a lot. Okay. Well, my country one, he's a newer artist, so you can look him up. But I think, whatever, his name's Riley Green. He has a song, I wish Grandpa's never died, that I think would just be like, I think grandstands were practically built for this.

Brandon  54:06

That does feel right. Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  54:08

right, right. So it's kind of a newer country's a younger kid also fits in with some of the state fair lineup. They always have that one where they're like, huh, like

Collin Funkhouser  54:17

it's up

Brandon  54:17

and coming.

Collin Funkhouser  54:18

He's a very up and coming kind of guy, so I will, I will, I will reach out for this one, not my biggest cup of tea, but he won the like 2020s new male artist of the year, and so like he's like in this like up and coming kind of thing, so I vote Riley Green to fill in that slot, and that'll be the least known of the rest of my selection. So I'll counter your better known country with my not known country at all.

Brandon  54:50

It's all right. It's okay. All right, before I slip back into the final rock bands, we know the state fair has to have some rap acts. Is we have to cover all the genres,

Collin Funkhouser  55:02

okay? This is

Brandon  55:03

very hard to think about, right? Because I am like not just like a huge rap guy, right? Yeah, I'm not like immersed in the biz, right? Like rappers are interesting, because, like, even if you haven't heard from them for a long time, they're definitely out there doing something somewhere, because it's like such a DIY like thing.

Brandon  55:31

Oh yeah,

Brandon  55:32

they're like, "You're like, man, that person, I haven't heard about that person forever. You're like, "They've put out nine more albums. What in the world? Yep,

Collin Funkhouser  55:39

they are still heavily touring, yes,

Brandon  55:43

yeah, so a lot of them are heavy, like heavily touring, just like all over the place. They're putting out their own stuff, they're like sometimes they're now producing their own stuff, or they're so.. it's a very DIY kind of vibe, and so like there's a lot of stuff going on here. So I was trying to find somebody that, like, would be real familiar, and like people would know that are like our age, right? It would be a good fair. And then I just thought, you know, no, no, wait a minute, hold on, I have to think about this differently, because this is the Missouri State Fair, so we should be bringing the best Missouri rapper to the state fair, right? That can only be Tech Nine, Tech Nine, right? Like, who else could it be? Who else is the best rapper in all of Missouri, nobody, it's tech, it's technology, right? That's that's who we got to bring to safer. It's got to be tech, right? It would, because he's still out there, he's still putting out music, he's still awesome, right? Tech nine songs are great, right? We love tech. Okay, Rep. Casey, let's go like the real, the real best rapper in all Missouri is Tech Nine.

Speaker 4  57:04

Yep,

Brandon  57:05

this is a fact. Okay, like,

Collin Funkhouser  57:11

yeah. No, he.. I think making him the from Kansas City, it makes sense, right? It makes so much sense that he's also on my list this year, led for Collin.

Brandon  57:26

This is the first time we have had a duplicate on the state fair list.

Speaker 4  57:30

Oh, this first

Brandon  57:33

time, and it's beautiful that we can come together with tech like this, right? We got, I think, like,

Collin Funkhouser  57:38

there you go. It just tells it just sums it all up, so yeah. Tech, he's also on my list, because you know, I like, he's a still in what, he's still an indie rapper, right? He's still like you said, he's like, he's kind of bootstrapped, they do their own thing, there's no big record, so it would also be very fitting from the artist perspective of it fits right in with being homegrown and all that stuff, so yeah, I think I think tech nine fits between a tractor pull and a demolition derby is all

Speaker 4  58:10

I think,

Brandon  58:10

so I don't know if he thinks that, but like definitely I think that I think so, I think the state fair amphitheater thing needs some tech nine.

Speaker 4  58:22

Yes,

Brandon  58:23

that's what they need, right? That's what you want to hear from your back porch. I'm a Slack, right, lads. Oh, you know what, I'll try. We'll try and go with them. Oh, so okay. So we got tech

Speaker 1  58:39

nine,

Collin Funkhouser  58:39

right? Yeah, love it.

Brandon  58:41

Two more,

Collin Funkhouser  58:42

two more,

Brandon  58:42

right. And so I did lean pretty like 90s alternativey

Speaker 4  58:49

this year with the

Brandon  58:50

rest of my stuff, right. Both of them could probably be classified in here. So the first one, right, I think mostly because I, the reason this ended up on the list is, it was on the radio the other day, and when I got in the car, so, oh yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  59:05

okay,

Brandon  59:06

I forgot about it. So everybody loves them, right? I think they could draw real big. Collin, wait, how you feel about Collective Soul? Oh, I was just listening to Collective Soul yesterday, yes. Same Spotify playlist with collectives. I was listening to it

Speaker 1  59:40

yesterday. So great. Perfect. Oh, I would.. I was gonna

Brandon  59:49

let your

Brandon  59:49

life shine down.

Collin Funkhouser  59:50

I would lose it for shine. I would.. I think everybody.. I'm pretty sure everybody would.. I would totally. Like, oh, that is brilliant. Oh, funny. Oh, yes. I think that is amazing. It also, I was just listening to some collective song, so I, yeah, it's

Speaker 4  1:00:19

great.

Collin Funkhouser  1:00:19

I think I think that is also just epitomizes fair. I think great. I think it'd be great. Okay, so my I'm gonna swing back country here.

Brandon  1:00:32

Okay,

Collin Funkhouser  1:00:33

okay, because it's a state fair, you can't get away from country, and I, I spent some time, I tried to find, I tried. Who is the most fair coded human alive? And I know, like, when you do, you see the person, you hear the person, you go state fair, huh? Like, I just like, just like they're everything that they do is built around that, and so that's why I think this is a reach, it's a reach goal, but I think we need to have Dolly Parton out to the state fair,

Speaker 5  1:01:14

that is a reach of pretty high,

Brandon  1:01:19

weirdly, I think she would do it, though

Collin Funkhouser  1:01:22

she totally would do this. No reason for, but you know what, that'd be, that'd be pretty cool. Everyone loves Dolly Parton, even people who don't love Dolly Parton love Dolly Parton. So be a great place of unity around, and Dolly Parton comes to Sedalia. Come on, perfect. Like, what

Speaker 4  1:01:42

could go wrong there?

Collin Funkhouser  1:01:43

What could go wrong? Yeah.

Brandon  1:01:44

Oh my gosh. Oh, that's so good. Well, my final band is also like a firmly 90s. This is definitely like a.. we think about like 90s, like alternative, like kind of like weird stuff, like

Collin Funkhouser  1:02:02

sure.

Brandon  1:02:03

This is a band you should think about, right. And I know it's ready for the state fair, because this song was in a bunch of commercials last year. And all I can say, Collin,

Speaker 4  1:02:15

all

Brandon  1:02:16

I can say is that my life is pretty plain, right? I think it's time for Blind Melon.

Speaker 4  1:02:21

Yeah, this day fair.

Collin Funkhouser  1:02:24

Oh, this is so good. Yes, I would. I would wear, I'd wear a bumblebee outfit to this.

Brandon  1:02:34

Imagine how many people would wear bubble bee outfits to this day fair.

Speaker 1  1:02:39

Everybody, everybody

Brandon  1:02:41

would have to, they would wear costumes,

Speaker 4  1:02:43

yes,

Brandon  1:02:44

or they would at least wear the like headband things,

Speaker 4  1:02:49

right, with

Collin Funkhouser  1:02:50

antenna, yeah,

Brandon  1:02:51

definitely wear that, for sure, 100%

Collin Funkhouser  1:02:55

no,

Brandon  1:02:55

How many like 40 year old women would be doing that, all of them,

Collin Funkhouser  1:02:59

yes, all of them would be necessary. I think this is amazing, you know. My, my fifth pick, what is.. is also well, they're, they're, they're one, their number one hit is, is turning 30 years old this year, and so I can't, it, I can't imagine what would bring more, more pure state fair chaos, more, more making the dads in the crowds lose their ever loving mind.

Speaker 3  1:03:39

Oh no,

Collin Funkhouser  1:03:41

if we got some bop from Hanson, I think they don't even.. no one else knows any of the rest of their songs. They should come out. There's sing bop, and then Hans normally. Okay, I think I

Speaker 4  1:04:02

think

Brandon  1:04:02

you've killed me.

Collin Funkhouser  1:04:04

Hansen needs to make a state fair appearance at 30 years on. Come on, perfect, I Hey, yes, so I think so. What do we have here? We have ran. You have recommended a minute work, Junior Brown Tech Nine, Collective Soul, Blind Melon, like just solar

Brandon  1:04:44

solid,

Collin Funkhouser  1:04:44

yeah. I've got Tech Nine, Riley Green, the Black Crows, Dolly Parton, and Hanson. Also, also pretty, pretty good, pretty good lineup. Brandon, do you want me to tell you so? Since we've last spoke, they've been,

Speaker 4  1:05:01

yeah, yeah, they've been avoiding this,

Collin Funkhouser  1:05:04

yeah, they've announced one more guest, and they still have two more to come.

Brandon  1:05:09

Oh, okay, so we'll keep you updated, listeners, because I know you're all on the edge of your seat, brand waiting with bated breath.

Collin Funkhouser  1:05:16

They did, in fact, add a rap artist.

Brandon  1:05:19

Oh, it's not tech, is

Collin Funkhouser  1:05:21

it? To this, it's not tech, it's not tech. We're just going to get that out of the way. No, it's somehow even weirder because they're bringing Rick Ross because, because it's Rick Ross,

Brandon  1:05:45

you ain't hustling, son. You lion,

Collin Funkhouser  1:05:48

but because, because it's a rap artist, he does have an ensemble, right? He does have one who comes along with him. So,

Speaker 4  1:05:56

yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  1:05:57

you'll be for just $65 you can come, and you can hear not just Rick Ross, but he is traveling with Murphy Lee,

Brandon  1:06:07

oh, the St. Lunatics. Okay,

Collin Funkhouser  1:06:09

twista,

Brandon  1:06:11

okay,

Collin Funkhouser  1:06:12

and the Yin Yang twins.

Brandon  1:06:15

Oh my gosh, it is 2004 once again. Holy. so

Collin Funkhouser  1:06:24

happy.

Speaker 4  1:06:27

Okay,

Brandon  1:06:27

listen, Collin, I think that the Yin Yang twins give like the most state fair energy. Have you seen the MTV crits with the Yin Yang twins? It's the goofiest thing, like, like, if you weren't aware that most of those houses were rented randomly by people, watch the Yin Ying Twins one, and over there, like, yes, my ship statue, yeah, ships, you know, like, they

Collin Funkhouser  1:06:58

have no idea what's in there. They're just

Brandon  1:07:02

no idea what's going on at all. They're just like, yeah,

Collin Funkhouser  1:07:11

I saw.

Brandon  1:07:17

I will say, though, will say, as a person who was like 18 in 2003 2004 right, I do have a very special place in my heart for crunk music. Okay, like, I

Collin Funkhouser  1:07:32

shouldn't, I should not be here, but is it good?

Brandon  1:07:36

Not objectively, no, but is it hype? Yes,

Collin Funkhouser  1:07:40

yes,

Brandon  1:07:41

and sometimes that's all that matters, right? Like, if you're looking for like substantive rap lyrics, the Yin Yang twins are are not where to go, right? You need like Black Star,

Speaker 4  1:07:56

right?

Brandon  1:07:58

You need Common, okay? But sometimes you just need to get hype, and that's where you need the yin yang twist. It's all about balance. Sometimes you need both. It's almost like a yin and a yang,

Speaker 4  1:08:12

if you will.

Collin Funkhouser  1:08:12

Who knows? Yeah, I have a link to the YouTube to YouTube clip of this feature, they start at 1239 in this clip, and I just, I just paged panda, I love

Brandon  1:08:36

it's so clearly not their house,

Collin Funkhouser  1:08:38

right? Like they just showed up, and they're filming this. He's picking up a movie statue. He's making, yeah, look

Brandon  1:08:46

weird. You didn't buy that, right? Like,

Speaker 4  1:08:48

just

Collin Funkhouser  1:08:49

learned that that's in this house. Yeah, so

Brandon  1:08:52

we just got here too, bro. Like,

Collin Funkhouser  1:08:55

so this, yeah. So that is the new new edition, the Rick Ross with Yung Yang Twins, Twista and Murphy Lee. Okay, in addition to everything else, so so far this is theirs. They started with Bailey Zimmerman, the All American Rejects, Russell Dickerson pulling, pulling Three Dog Night and Little Big Band Skillet, Nate Smith, and Rick Ross, Little Big Town. Still two more, two more. Fill this out. I've heard

Speaker 3  1:09:24

what a pivot rickroses

Collin Funkhouser  1:09:27

down.

Speaker 3  1:09:28

What a

Brandon  1:09:30

massive 180 like

Collin Funkhouser  1:09:31

back to back nights, baby. It's gonna be

Brandon  1:09:34

that's whiplash right there, like I don't know.

Collin Funkhouser  1:09:38

Jeez. Yeah, so yes, we, I'll keep you posted on what, what gets, what gets posted,

Brandon  1:09:48

all right. Please do, please do. And then next week we will reveal our summer reading book, right? We did decide on the one, yes, we. Did decide on the one. Okay, good. Because I will just do next week will be the like the intro reveal and talk.

Brandon  1:10:05

I will

Brandon  1:10:06

talk about our.. I think we should talk about, uh, if we have any history with the genre. Yes. Hint, hint,

Collin Funkhouser  1:10:13

hint.

Brandon  1:10:14

Right? I think we should do that, because I'm not in reading, really. Spoilers. So I'm just talk about that. I think that'll be important to kind of discuss, right? Our history with the genre in all forms of media, potentially, because I feel like, yeah, anyway, precursor knowledge. But there we go. I did order, I did order it again, so who knows when it'll show up?

Collin Funkhouser  1:10:42

Okay,

Brandon  1:10:42

it was on thrift books for really cheap, so like, gotta use copy, so like, who, who knows when it'll actually get here?

Collin Funkhouser  1:10:49

Yeah,

Brandon  1:10:52

so you know, since, since who knows what's happening over at DHL, nobody knows, no,

Collin Funkhouser  1:10:59

they're not even trying,

Brandon  1:11:01

so we just.. that's why I want to go ahead and order it, because I want to use.. because it was like $4 yes, like doing that, but we'll see, we'll see. Okay, so live for you, little with your, with your teaser for next week, because we do love continuity here on

Speaker 4  1:11:22

the podcast,

Collin Funkhouser  1:11:22

obviously.

Brandon  1:11:23

Right, it's one of our words. Yeah, now I have your haiku this week.

Speaker 4  1:11:37

Nice.

Brandon  1:11:37

Here we go. Hallways now silent, only memories remain echoing through time.

Collin Funkhouser  1:11:49

That's okay. Okay, don't you were sappy this week. I

Speaker 5  1:11:56

was, I was,

Collin Funkhouser  1:11:57

that's good. Yes, yes, good, good way to end out there. So, you guys, when officially, you guys come up like within a week, you'll be done, is that right? Or

Brandon  1:12:11

Friday? Friday,

Collin Funkhouser  1:12:12

oh gosh, yeah, within this week,

Brandon  1:12:14

within this week, yeah. So, it's Wild Field Day, and day after that, it's a half day. So,

Collin Funkhouser  1:12:19

okay,

Brandon  1:12:20

Dunski, my grades are already posted, so

Collin Funkhouser  1:12:24

yeah, no stress.

Brandon  1:12:27

So did I give them a worksheet the last few days? Yes. Am I gonna grade that? No,

Collin Funkhouser  1:12:34

do they? Do they know that

Brandon  1:12:41

I think they might suspect that, but also I'm not gonna tell them if they listen to this afterwards. Gotcha, but like, yeah, we're not

Collin Funkhouser  1:12:51

okay. Nice, very nice. Okay. Well, great way to just lots to look forward to then, and we will

Brandon  1:13:00

next time. Yeah, tune in next week for the big reveal.

Speaker 4  1:13:03

Yeah, okay with that. Love you,

Brandon  1:13:08

love you

Speaker 4  1:13:08

too. Bye bye.