Brandon played in the field. Collin learns how much baseball is. We think about Clemente.

The field event that needs to go away

No half days
OFFICIALLY!! Training Spotify
Spotify is better than Amazon Music
my tower gets created
How much is a baseball?
Inverse between size and disposability
Robert Clemente: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clemero01.shtml
Networking bingo with cards…
Brandon’s (avantguard) Haiku

New memories etched
Into the classroom walls; Not
easily removed

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Field Day, water balloon toss, high school helpers, ice skating extravaganza, motion cueing, accessibility features, baseball equipment, volleyball leagues, networking bingo, business cards, Spotify algorithm, Amazon Music, classroom cleanup, lunch balance

SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin

Collin 00:04

Foreign Welcome to Oh brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon and Collin on this week's show, no half days ahoy. Ahoy.

00:20

Oh Is your

Collin 00:23

Wednesday? Ah, yes, some say it is Wednesday. Say, pretty good, really, not too bad. Yeah, very tired, but oh no. What's going on? Well, that's all right, we had, it's the last week of school, so like all kinds of zaniness is occurring, right? So we had, we had our big field trip yesterday, and then today was Field Day. So, right? Oh no, so you got to Oh, and today was hot too. Oh no, yeah, it was a little bit hot, but it wasn't

Brandon 01:03

too bad, right? They, they, they, it was better, right? So they sort of revamped Field Day, right? So they, the past two years, we've had it in a city park, yes, right? Yeah, remember this, but they did not do it that way this year, right? So this year is back at school, right? So just back at school, complete with the high school helpers, are back for better or for worse that is occurred, right, right? You'll never believed this, that the high school girls were extremely helpful and many of the high school boys less so. I know shocking doesn't seem a shocking turn of events. You know that is, that is right? The one, the one the worst track, the worst Field Day event ever, right? They do every year. I forget to talk to him about this, like they need to this, this event needs to go away. Oh, right. They have the this thing. They call it. It's on my little schedule. It's called the water balloon toss. You know the thing where you, like, have a partner, and you toss a balloon to them, and then, if you are successful, you take a step backwards, and then you just continue this. And whoever is the furthest apart at the end wins, sure, right, right? So they do this, right? But then, so there is a giant trash can full of water balloons near high schoolers all day long. So what do you imagine happens not to these balloons? No, no, all they do all day long, yeah, is throw them at each other. Yeah, that's right, that's what happens. So at the end of the day, the kids who are supposed to play the water balloon toss never get to, Oh, right. Or they get to do it like once, because

Collin 03:13

you've run out of all of the water balloons are

Brandon 03:16

gone. It's a finite resource all the time, yes, all the time. They're always gone, and it's so annoying. And, like, obviously he tells them to not do that, right? And but then when he's out, you know, doing stuff, because he's driving around in the little gator deal, like, monitoring all the stations and making sure people are rotating and doing stuff so he is not always, like, directly near these people. And so obviously, when they don't see coach, they don't listen. That's like, wow, out of mind. Yeah. And so, like, then, you know, like, elementary school teachers feel weird about, like, getting on to high school, or sometimes, you know what I mean, yeah. Because, you know, and so this, this event needs to to stop. This event needs to be replaced with something else, I don't know what, but that we just get rid of it. That's what we got. I'm gonna talk to him about this. I gotta keep forgetting to but that's just, we should that just has this needs to go. Yeah, no good. It's no good. It's bad times, right? Other than that, it was good. We the So luckily, this year, my scheduling worked out thusly, that they spread out the field day games over a much broader, like, over the whole campus, right? Oh, so normally, normally there was, like in the past like we haven't actually had we've had it in the in a city park for like two years, right? So it's but before that, the majority of the Field Day events were confined to the baseball outfield, which sucks, right? Yeah, because that's just not there's, it's just a, just a barren zone of heat and, like desperation, like there's no shade in the middle of an outfield. Yeah, right. But this time there was only 11235, events over there. Oh, right. And I got to go there first today. So, like, Haha, it was not hot when I was there, nice, yeah, because there's no no, there's famously, there's no shade in the outfield, yeah, yeah, that would make baseballing extra difficult if there was, let's say, a giant American Sycamore, just like, right in the middle center field. Yeah, that would be, that would be weird. There's trees, like, behind our baseball field, but sure, that's not super helpful when you're on the baseball field. No, right, but I got to go out there first thing in the morning. So, like, at nine o'clock. Oh, so, like, that was fine, you know, yeah, and then the rest of the time I was there was enough, like the events were spread out so much that there was a couple inside, like, one thing was, like a bathroom and refill water bottle station, like during the you could just, like, sit in inside and do whatever. So, oh, nice, between me going to go outside first and to the baseball field first, and then all that other stuff. It was too wasn't too bad, right? Managed to dodge most of the water pollution. And there was enough, yeah, definitely that. And then there was enough, like, shade in the rest of the places where we could, like, where I could hide away from the

Collin 06:56

sun, yeah, by we, I mostly

Brandon 06:57

mean me, but like, you know we were, we could get out of the sun a little bit, right? So that was very helpful. Um, so it was, it was pretty good, right? Like, I think my kids are dead, um, because, like, we had our big field trip yesterday, which is, of course, the ice skating extravaganza, yes, right? So famous. They've had two days of like, extreme physical activity, because yesterday, we went ice skating and swimming, and then today we had field day all day. So oh my gosh, they're kind of, we'll see if they're actually physically able to move tomorrow. Yeah, pushing those guys

Collin 07:43

to the limit there.

Brandon 07:44

Yeah? Because even in some days it's a field day, some of the high school kids were like, what's wrong with your children? It's like, Well, we did go to our ice game trip yesterday, and they went, Ah, oh, okay. Because there was a couple games where, like, they were not running at all. They were like,

Collin 08:06

oh, and it was some of the early the first games in the morning. So they were probably like, not quite awake yet, right? Well, it's nine o'clock in the morning. We're like, all right, you gotta run and play spiders

Brandon 08:15

and flies. You're like, ooh, but what if I didn't do

Collin 08:20

that? That sounds like something I'm not going to do.

Brandon 08:22

Yeah, right. It's something you knock into nine o'clock. Pretty fun. Yeah, it was interesting to watch them do that. It was really funny, though. But yesterday went really good. We had no catastrophic injuries in a great in a great shift from last year, no injuries, right? Like last year, I don't know if you remember this, it was exceptionally catastrophic, right? Somebody had to go to the hospital. It was, like, all kinds of insane. We remember this? Yeah, so we talked to them like, I think generally, these kids are a lot more responsible and receptive to saying things like, I need you to not do that. Sure. And they're like, Okay, I won't do that. Whereas last year, it's not really a thing that happened. Yeah, right. So they did a good job, right? Capture, control. Ice skating went pretty well, right? The majority they all at least tried ice skating. Some of them noped out pretty quickly. Oh, yeah, right. They're like, yeah, no, we're not doing this. And so that it was a it was pretty funny. So they at least tried it, which was good, right? I was like, you guys should try it, right? Because who you know, you might be good at it. You might never go on skating again. So, you know, give it a shot, right? Give it a whirl, yeah. And so that was good. And then they're swimming. They enjoyed swimming, right? They. Swim in the pool there. And, you know, it's really, really

Collin 10:04

hot in the pool room, so it's miserable for me personally, but the kids really had fun.

Collin 10:08

Oh no,

Brandon 10:12

it's like, a big indoor pool room, right? So it's all, like, humid and gross and like, so that's that sucks. But I like, you know, so you just have to sit there for, like, we're swimming for like, an hour and a half, maybe close to that, so that it wasn't pleasant just sitting in there. It's funny to watch them, like, do weird things. But like, man, it stinks into there. It's so hot. Yeah, that's, that's not that's not good. That isn't good, right? That's no good. But this time also we got to, because at the, if you remember, all the way back in the fall from the we had a school carnival thing. Oh yes, yes, you're famous carnival. Yes, all the famous school carnival, the beaker ball version two, right? Extreme so successful that we were, like, all the money that we make at the carnival we use for the field trip. That's like, how it works, right? So we actually, this time, we raised so much money that we bought pizza for everybody instead of, like, having to get school lunches. So we went to a park, right? We had the pizza delivered to the park, you know, we hung out and we played on little thingies, and then ate some pizza and little pavilion deal, and then, so we did that first, right? So get down. All got down there. This isn't Springdale, Arkansas, by

11:42

the way, so we drove all the way down

Brandon 11:43

springs, all right, yeah, well, and then did all that stuff. So it was, it's a long day, but it wasn't as long as it normally is, because we a lot of times, if we don't, like, in the past couple years, we haven't been able to buy pizza until, like, we've stopped at like, a McDonald's or something on the way back home, and that takes like forever and blah, blah. So we get home like, even later. But this time it was like, Look, if we're getting pizza, we should not do that. So we were home earlier. It was great. Like, Ah, yes.

Collin 12:20

Which is, which is nice when you can just ease into, yeah?

Brandon 12:25

Because, like, one year we got back and it was like, seven o'clock, right? Like, it's a bit long, it's bit long. Well, yeah, bit rough. So I bet I proved this plan a lot better. It's much more. It's much more better to do this. It was pretty good. I also on on the bus journey, journey, right? So, bus riding, right? Nobody likes bus riding. I have a question for you. Do you ever get car sick, if you're like reading in the car, I used

Collin 13:04

to I do not anymore, okay, right? So

Brandon 13:09

I do a little bit not like sick, sick, but like queasy, like weird feeling. Okay, before I'm reading, I can do lots of other things, but reading bothers me in the car, like it annoys me, right? Interesting. So I was doing some research, right? I had seen a thing earlier in the week, right? There's some new, like, adaptive technology for your phone, right? Some accessibility technology, I believe, is what you call it, right? It's called, like motion cueing, right? Have you seen these?

Collin 13:43

I have. I've heard vaguely about this,

Brandon 13:45

right? So you can either I think the iPhones have it, I think, right? And I downloaded an app, right? But it's like a overlay that, like, plays over your screen when you turn it on and there's like, little dots on the side of your screen right. And when your phone moves, the dots wiggle right. But it's because the wiggling dots match the wiggling of the car. It can, like, help cut down on that, like, motion sickness, eye fatigue, stuff I see, yes, because it like, it matches, it's not like the phone is not going against the vibration of whatever's moving. So, like, you can, because I don't get like, it doesn't bother me if I'm sitting in like, the front seat of a car, right? But if I'm reading or something in the backseat organ on a bus, you know, like, man. So I tried it out. I downloaded this, and it was it, I think it kind of worked. Oh, I think I a little bit, I don't know exactly right, but I was able to, like, read some articles on my phone instead of just like, staring at the kids. Um. Am, the whole time I was able to read stuff. I was able to like look at. I was also reading many, many lists of like books, right, like we were talking about. So I was trying to figure that out, doing some research there. But I think it helped me

15:17

to not be like all like queasy feeling, and then, because I never, like, gotten like, sick, sick, like, thrown up sick, but it's always just, like, my head is like, I

Brandon 15:29

don't like this. So I think potentially it worked now, I don't really, I wasn't going to run a, like,

Collin 15:40

a real test of, like, not using it on the way down and see how crazy I can get. Yeah, I didn't really feel, like, really pushing that envelope, right?

15:47

Like, sure,

Collin 15:51

I agree. Probably not a good thing to do,

Brandon 15:53

not the best plan in the world to do. But like, you know, I think maybe it was successful. So listeners, if you have trouble that, check out some. Look into the motion cues, right, see how that goes for you. And that's what I learned this week.

Collin 16:19

Yeah, well, and it's, you know, it's one of those things. I hate the calling it an accessibility feature a lot of times makes you think like, oh, I don't, I don't need that. That's not like, it's not for me. Yeah, right. And instead going like, oh, but no, really like this, it's for you a whole lot sooner than you can imagine. In a lot of cases, like, I have some turned on on my phone that I honestly don't even remember what I've done, because it's like they just helped my life be so much like using the phone and trying to remember what I've turned on. Yeah,

Brandon 17:05

there's a lot of interesting stuff on there, like that. You can just, like, mess with that. It, like you said, there is a bit of a stigma where it's like, oh, accessibility. I don't need that. I'm not like, you know, because there's like, a stigma that it's for like this people with disabilities, right? Yes, that's not necessarily true, while it is definitely for those people, right? It's not just for

Brandon 17:27

those people, because, like, and, like you said, anybody can get a benefit out of some of this stuff, because, like, some of it's just, like, really handy stuff, right? Like, oh, you're like, oh, man, I Oh, that might be a thing that you want. So you should. It's the only thing that I think people

Brandon 17:41

don't look at right, like, because they there's that like, I don't know, I guess it's just, I guess you would call it a stigma, right? Of like, oh, I can't do that, right? But like, even just like text quality stuff, right? Just like making your things like a slightly higher contrast, or doing some magnification stuff, or like, changing the font style, right? Because there's some things that show like certain fonts are just you can read them better, right in a lot of situations. And if you just change the font style, like, you can actually read the things, like, faster, right? And, like, more accurately because of the font. Like, there's certain fonts that that's what they're designed to do, right? And so there's just, like, little things that you can, like, tinker with. And it might just be a thing where he's like, Oh, hey, that actually is nicer to look at, and I

18:45

can use it.

18:49

Wow. Yeah, no. Like, the

Collin 18:53

little things, like, for some reason for this one, like, call, what was it? It was Call Alerts, like, if you're wearing earbuds or headphones, oh, alerts is, like, in an accessibility feature, it's like, you can mess around with when and how it does that. And I was like, Well, yeah, that's that's actually very nice. One of the ones I really like on the iPhone is when you do, like, a FaceTime call with somebody, you can do live captions. It will automatically generate captions, which, I don't know about you, I find myself more and more having captions just on by default in a lot of movies that I'm watching these days, it's, they're very dark, and they like to they like to mumble.

19:36

You know, that is true. We do like the,

19:39

yeah, the audio mixing in some movies is not it's bad. I don't know what they're doing.

Collin 19:48

And so it ends up being like, and same thing whenever you're on a phone call with somebody, sometimes it's like, I'm in a bad spot to hear audio, or they're in a bad spot. And it's like, I can, we can actually just have this. You. Tech. This basically text conversation with live transcription happening right now. And this is very nice, yeah?

Brandon 20:07

That is pretty cool that that's actually a thing that can happen, right? That's very handy, yeah?

Collin 20:16

Oh my goodness. So you're gonna sleep well too. So when is your last day of

Brandon 20:20

Friday, cool Friday. Yeah, coming up soon

20:28

is a full day.

20:30

Half day, yeah, it's a full day. They got it in their

Brandon 20:33

heads that I don't know why, like, this year has zero half days. They're just that's what they decided, like, no half and I think everyone complained so much. I think next year it's gonna be Yeah, the half day again. I think next week calendar, they're putting it back. I'm not sure about that, but we have to, have to check it. But it's really Yeah, no half day, which is weird, like, no half day on the last day of school is kind of odd. It's like, what we do for all day, yeah? Because honestly, like,

Collin 21:12

it's a lost day anyway. Nobody pays attention. Nobody. It's not like

Brandon 21:16

we're gonna have instructional time, right? Like, with all of our device, oh, that's Monday. Was device turn in day. That's the other thing that happens. Device turn in day,

Collin 21:25

right? You did you guys have so we had an announcement. So obviously, our kids are in public school, but we had a an announcement come out, and we were seeing it all over Facebook. Apparently, kids were shoving their graphite pencils into the charging port of Chromebooks to make them catch fire.

Brandon 21:53

As far as I'm aware, none of our kids did that. Yeah, I think,

21:59

I don't know. I hope that that's bad plan. Yeah.

Collin 22:02

They were like, oh, because it was this trend going around on social media, you could make it, like Spark, like some people found out, you can make it. You could basically, you could make contact. They were learning electrical circuitry and making a complete circuit.

Collin 22:14

Oh, wow. Completing the circuit with graphite. Yeah, yeah, is

Collin 22:19

doable. It would create conductivity with graphite. That's true, yeah, yeah. And it's a little bit insulated because it's got a wood pencil around it. But anyway, yeah, and so our school, the school was like, please, please don't. Please do not.

Brandon 22:36

Yeah, that's an expensive circuitry experiment, right? Like, because, yeah, that like, in the majority, at least in our So, in our paperwork, right? Like, at the beginning of where you get you have to, like, sign a contract to be able to use one of these, right? And it basically says, like, there is a fee, like a renter's fee, every year to get the device. And that fee covers, like small maintenance things, right, like, if something little messes up, right? That fee covered it, you know, I'm sure, right. But like large, like very breaking things you will be charged to replace for either, either for the repair or potentially the replacement of the device. Who, right? Like, if it's that serious, like you are past, you are now responsible for the replacement of that device, right? So that's that's a, that's a real expensive Yes, circuitry method,

Collin 23:46

like, that's a bad plan, yeah, here's

Collin 23:49

a cheaper one. People, a potato, yeah, yes,

Brandon 23:53

right, and a digital clock circuit go, would get you similar results, yes,

Collin 24:00

and it's still useful when you're done with it, because you still have and potato,

24:07

a potato clock, yes, then you can bake it. Yes. See,

Collin 24:13

when you're done with the testing circuitry, you can still consume the potato. Wow. Potato.

Brandon 24:19

It's true. It's true? Yeah, no, I think I think somebody mentioned that, and I was like, oh, because I think some one of my kids was like, Is it true that if you do this, this will happen? I was like, Yeah, don't do that. That's a terrible idea. Why never do that? Really, a good rule of thumb is, if you have an electrical port or socket, do not stick things into it. That's really, really the best plan, right? Yeah, unless it is a plug designed to go into there

Collin 24:56

and you are putting the correct thing in, yes.

24:59

Yes, like, if it's that, other than that, don't do that, right? Please

Collin 25:06

don't go just sticking random things into stock, because we should know this, right? We should know not to do this, right? It's a bad

Brandon 25:13

idea. Yeah, yeah. It's almost, you know, you get, you get, you know, distributing

Collin 25:20

swords from pawns, shoving random things into, you

Brandon 25:24

know, charging ports, and don't do that very

Collin 25:28

both bad forms of government. True.

Brandon 25:31

Very, true. 40, the only other thing I did this week is, officially, Oh, finally. I don't know why. I don't know. Maybe it's just because I'm lazy and I don't like down. Don't like downloading things, right? But because my phone did come while I was deleting apps off here that I didn't want, right? I

Brandon 25:49

was like, well, I should probably keep this Spotify app that sounds Oh, right, yeah. So this week has been spent training my Spotify a little bit, right? My Spotify algorithm here to become excellent, right? I have discovered immediately two ways in like immediately discovered two ways in which Spotify is far superior to the Amazon music, right? Just in case you were curious.

Collin 26:20

Oh, I am, I am ready. I am ready for this. Two ways, right? First

Brandon 26:24

way, if you try to listen to an album on Amazon music, for some reason, there is no you can only play them on shuffle

Collin 26:32

mode. Oh, yeah, until you, until you upgrade, right? Which is a crime,

Brandon 26:37

okay, that's not how this works, all right, nobody wants to hear albums out of order. I don't know why that exists. I don't I'm not trying to mess with that. No,

Collin 26:47

I know. I know why, because, because nobody wants it. They're trying to get people to upgrade. I don't even

Brandon 26:54

know why the shuffle button. I mean, it was like, for like, back on your iPod, right? You could hit shuffle and it would just play like, random songs that you had, right? That's okay, I guess. But like, I don't want an album order to be shuffled, so Spotify doesn't pigeonhole me in that method. I can listen to the album all the way through, right? I can do that and right. I think there's just more artists are on Spotify, right? And with my very hyper, specific niche interest in 90s punk music, right, the second Spotify recommended gutter mouth to me. I was like, Yeah, okay, this,

27:45

they are, like, really great

Brandon 27:49

throwing. And I was like, okay, all right, this is like, I don't think Amazon has face to face, right? I don't think they have that, right. I don't think, I don't think

Collin 27:59

that exists, okay, what what I have found with Spotify is they're really good at, like, finding in the boundaries of like, Oh, okay. Like, for me, they'll be like, Okay, you like, you know, like, you like, mid 90s, or they say, like, early, 2000s late 90s, like, Emo, punk rock, okay, well, do you like it this emo? And I'm like, no, no. They'll pull it back a little bit. Like, okay, okay, how about this punk and, like, you know, pull it back. Like, I when it does those kind of random stuff, I don't know, it's

28:31

very, very, very, yeah, it's definitely there.

Brandon 28:33

But when they're Yes, but I'm the opposite one. Like, do you like it this punk? Like, yes, more please. I don't want, well, yes, do I need you? Do I need more distillers? Yes, yes, yes, I do, right? That's what I need to my life, like most normal, like music, algorithms are not going to immediately recommend you screeching weasel, okay, fair, but, but, but also, if I did, yeah, and that is the correct answer, right? The correct answer is, how, how 90s pump Do you want to get? Yes, screeching Weasel is the answer, right? Gutter mouth is the answer, yeah. It just is. It is right. That's, this is where we're trying to go, right? These are, this is exactly where we're going, okay? So that was very handy. So it's like, okay, why did I wait so long do this? This is immediately better, right? Ka Blam, so there we go,

29:34

especially also following the podcast on Spotify. Now there you

29:38

go. Official, right? I

Collin 29:41

forget this, does the does the show art show up on Spotify? Oh,

29:45

it does, okay, okay, good. Does, indeed,

Collin 29:50

I don't listen on Spotify. I have one, have it there so I can check on things every now and then. Remember, there was a time where I had every, uh. Uh, Spotify every podcast app that I could have downloaded on my on my phone. That was just a bad choice. I ended

Collin 30:09

up that's fine. Just check about things, right? Yeah, because it was well, because

Collin 30:12

for a while, certain features in, like, show notes, like, the big thing, okay, the big thing that I really messed around with way too long was hyperlinks in,

30:23

oh, yeah, text

Collin 30:24

of some would not do. You had to display a naked link. You couldn't do like. HTML wrapper to be like, click here. And then if you looked at the HTML code, it's like, click here. Carrot, you know, printed, you know, it puts it in there. Some of them weren't doing that for a lot, for a while, so you had to have both the naked and the hidden ones, because otherwise they weren't clickable. So it's very so it's like, okay, well, does this one? Notice? This one? This is what, no keeping track of that. That was, yeah,

30:58

it's

Collin 30:59

kind of messy. Yeah, it's fair, but I didn't do that anymore.

Brandon 31:06

I mean, that's all right, that's fair. So no, if it's not worth it, don't worry about it, but get rid of that. Okay,

Collin 31:14

yeah, so that's why I did that too. So I was like, Okay, well, because I used to listen to it on just the Google thing, but since

Brandon 31:20

that stopped being supported at all, Oh, I know, which is really annoying, because I had a bunch of stuff on there, and they're like, Oh, this is unsupported now,

Collin 31:27

but guys, come on Google, killing something yet again,

Brandon 31:32

I was pretty I think this is an instance of, like, we're gonna make something just like in this space, just so that we can have a presence there, and then it's like, actually, nobody asked for this, and maybe we should just focus on doing these things.

Collin 31:47

Maybe that was actually the best idea

Brandon 31:51

kill it off, like, for the five people that were using it, like, Ah, dang it. Well, okay,

Collin 31:59

yeah, but it's always anyway, so yeah, that's when that that dropped out. I know

32:05

a lot of

Collin 32:07

people, actually turns out a lot of people were using that because it was just right there on the phone. It was

Brandon 32:12

included, yeah. And it's also, I think it might have also been a thing of like, oh, well, maybe it wasn't that people weren't using it, but like, Oh, we don't really have resources to devote to this like we thought we would, because maybe we overextended, because we just thought we should do literally everything. We should have all the pies all the time, like, oh, or not, like, I'd maybe just right,

Collin 32:34

yeah, maybe we'll focus on, try and focus on things and make sure the ones that we actually have are

Brandon 32:40

working. So, yeah, so who knows, but yeah. So I'm officially on the old Spotify Reno, training it up, trying to make sure it knows that, yes, I do want to listen to the Vandals how that's exactly correct. That is what nice. So, yeah, that's pretty much been my week,

Collin 33:04

just getting ready for last week's school too. So last day school, so I've also been having to clean

Brandon 33:08

the old classroom up. Never a fun task, right? As a person who just has stuff everywhere, the end of the year, when you're like, you must clean up everything, like, oh no.

Collin 33:24

Could we define Oh no, everything.

33:27

This is a traumatic time for me, right? Like, I

33:30

felt like this. My room looks so empty and weird. I don't like it, oh,

Brandon 33:37

like, pick up all this stuff. Or, like, probably six waves, like, Ah, no. And like, have to make my thing tomorrow. But like, I have to, I basically done. I have a couple things to put away. Like, I try to, because, again, they have to move everything out of the room so that they can, like, clean and they like, strip and wax the floors, and they do all that stuff right. Go all out, yeah. And so all the for they had to move out most things, right? But I have some, like, very large shelves and stuff, and they leave all that stuff in there, right? Because, why would you move that? It's huge. Yeah, I'm not moving that so. And they're, like, big, huge cabinets full of stuff. Like, Nah, just go around it, right? So these wax around them and, like, I'm pretty sure they're like, stuck to the floor at this point. But so really, my strategy is get as many things as I can, pile them on my shelves, right? Just throw them on the shelf. It's fine, yeah,

Collin 34:43

get them on there. They're immovable objects. Anyway, everything's

Brandon 34:46

Yeah, fine people. So I just kind of pile up there, and I have this big, I have a lab table, right? It's like, part of the it's like, it's like an island, right? So it's like, not going anywhere either. And so I have these, like. Basically they're like, those milk crazy things, you know, they can buy it like Walmart for like, a few dollars. There's much of those. And so I just stack them up on there, and I use them during the year for things. They like, Hold binders, student binders and stuff. But once the students take all their binders home, I start filling with my stuff. I just pile it up on the table. There's, like, this giant mountain, great, oh my gosh, it's fine. It's fine, full of, like books and like binders and like random stuff and like things off of my desk, yeah, like things I don't have any place to put it, like this rock I can put this in here, yeah, like, yeah. Oh, nice. So that goes into my tower, gets created, and then go from there. And then I just have to label everything else with my number, room number, right, so that it comes back, needed back in my room. Do

Collin 36:00

you have it? Do you have your, do you have your? Do you have your room number, like, secretly tattooed on various surfaces and stuff? Some things,

36:09

yeah, it's like, on

Brandon 36:10

the on the bottom right, some things, like, like, side tables or whatever, like, You got to get, got claim that stuff, because if it's out in the hallway for a while. Some people, it has been known to happen, right? We come back and your thing is gone, right? Because somebody was walking by and they saw it in the hallway, and they're like, oh yeah. And they just like, walk off, bro. What are you doing? Oh, no, that's my table. Man, what? So, yeah, no labeling everything. I'm not about to have that happen, right? Every once while that some like, they'll accidentally put it back in another classroom. That's a different story, right? Because there's like, 20 billion things on the hallway. Some you know, oh, well, you actually got put the wrong space. Okay, whatever. That's easier to fix. But sometimes it has been known to happen, not to me knock, but like, it has been done to happen where things just like, kind of walk off, right, just kind of disappear into the ether, and it'll be like, where did my who took my chair? What's going on

Collin 37:27

I had with when Noah was getting ready for his baseball this year, we had to go through and label all of the items, not because we were worried about that with him walking off, but like, in the dugout of, oh yeah,

37:45

they're sitting there. It was like, third

Collin 37:47

and fourth graders, everything, like, it's just going to get tossed around and like, somebody's going to pick something up at some point, and it's not going to be theirs, and it's no malice or anything. It's just it's going to get, you know, take it away, and so, yeah. Or it

Brandon 38:03

could look similar, right, like, right. And it's like, oh, here's a black thing. I have a black thing. Is this mine? Oh, right.

Collin 38:10

Or, like, the one bat that I see everybody have is also the same bat that we have. Like, yeah, okay, so I'm gonna put initials on, on the handle, also on the top, also on four points on the side, and all in different colored marker paint, yes, so that doesn't blend in and that we can, you know, whatever, just it doesn't easily rub off. Yes,

38:33

there can't, like, smudge it off with your thumb.

Collin 38:38

Good, sir. No. Who's this is right, right. Like, we'll have none

Collin 38:44

of that.

38:44

No, no.

Collin 38:48

Well, I'm glad you're good and cleaning is underway, and as best as it can be or your tower creation,

Collin 38:54

tower creation, my checklist. I have my end of your checklist basically done.

Brandon 38:58

I have to go print that off tomorrow and then go to the cafeteria and be like, I need you to initial that. I don't owe you any money because I haven't eaten in the cafeteria for like, five years. So we just please write your name to say, like, I have paid all of my you know you have to, like, clear out your lunch balance and all that stuff. Sure. Yeah. So like, yeah, I don't have a lunch balance.

Collin 39:25

Look, I've cleared it for you.

39:26

Yeah, provide,

Collin 39:28

yeah. I can let kind of thing accept payment for this.

Brandon 39:33

Yeah, I don't need lunch the cafeteria. So I don't have a lunch balance. Please, just initial this and tell me that I can go turn on my paperwork. Please. I get it out of here. Yeah, please. I have to track her down tomorrow, if I can remember to print that off when I get in school. Just to do that, that's I think that I don't know that was the one that annoys me the most, just because I don't eat lunch. Cafeteria. Come on, although it shouldn't, because am I? Was I when I used to eat the lunch cafe deteria? Was I guilty of forgetting to ever pay my lunch balance? Yes, absolutely, yes. Oh,

Collin 40:16

so this is so this is some holdover, is what I imagine. Just

Collin 40:19

now, everybody has to do it. It's not just me. They're not just targeting me. I'm like, Ah, yes, oh no. I'm saying have to target your thing. Well,

40:28

I mean, it might not be.

Collin 40:32

Maybe talk to some other people. Hey dudes, yeah, paper,

Brandon 40:35

yeah. Do you have this on your tricky like, What's going on over here? I don't know that's hilarious. So, yeah, you know, whatever. But so I do that, and I think I'll be done, and I can take my little paper down and turn it in. So here you go. There it is, pad, Pat put in a pile. Do they ever look at it? I don't really know the answer to that question, but we're I have in the pile, and it's fine, yeah.

Collin 41:09

Should be okay, yeah, I guess. Oh. So. That's pretty much it. What do you mean up to other than writing a son's name on all baseball accouterments? What?

Collin 41:30

Oh my gosh, so many, so many things have been done,

41:36

and this year

Collin 41:38

is or this this year that tells you, that tells you everything you need to know about how this week has been so far true. Oh my goodness. Now we are just in. We a very busy season with the with the business. It's been, it's been intense recently, kind of feeling like, oh, okay, there's, there's a limit. Found it check. But I think, really, what it is is we just have some people who have taken some extended time off, have we've had more overlapping time off than we've ever had, and so, oh, you know, and I it's a it's our promise to our to our clients, is that we'll be there whenever they need us, right? We're flexible for them. And so an internal promise that we have for our team is like, we understand right, things are going to happen, and we will always do our best to accommodate. And we We accommodated maybe a little too much. I should have said no a couple of times. What we got in trouble with was we have the perfect number of people to have backups for everybody. But what I failed to do a couple times was have a backup for my backup. Yeah, so when they got sick, or when they were like, hey, actually I can't, it was

43:08

like, Oh, dang it, I'm three

Collin 43:11

deep on my bench. And so that's been, that's been intense. Gotta go the fourth string. Oh

43:21

no, that's me. Oh no.

Collin 43:26

Well, I had like, we hired some people, and then all of a sudden it was like, Oh well, remember how I said I was available all the time. I want to say not available any Thursday or

Brandon 43:42

not all the time, yeah? Someone was like, part of time you're missing, yeah? Or they were like,

Collin 43:47

actually, I don't want to do anything on on Saturday, so they just went, like, blocked off all Saturdays. And I was like,

43:56

Oh, here's the thing, yeah,

Collin 44:00

actually, was scheduling you for things on Saturday,

44:05

kind of an important day in the pet sitting world,

Collin 44:09

yeah. So that's been pretty interesting, I will say. So we're managing that. We're almost through that period, though. So their time off is, is all ending for some of the people, so it'll be fine. Well, Sir

44:27

five, okay,

Collin 44:30

yes, yes, yep. And Noah had his first baseball game. We are Yeah, we are taught. We did talk about his game, but, oh no, we didn't, right?

Collin 44:46

We talked about, no, he said he was going to Yeah, yeah, first

Collin 44:50

baseball game yesterday. Now, something very important. Okay, sorry, technically second, technically Second. Okay, whatever. I. Something that's very important to remember is we as a family try to go to bed early. And this is mostly because my kids naturally wake up at 6am 6am right? They wake up at 6am their wake up time? Yes, yes. People, I have to have, I have to tell my kids to stay in bed longer in the morning, because otherwise it would just be out of control. And so they have these little lights in their bedrooms that turn on at they turn green at 630 and this means they can come downstairs, or they can do other things. Maybe

45:39

this like skip to generation, because this is a very dad

Brandon 45:42

thing to do, right? Like, I gotta get up. Like, I'm just gonna get up. Like, Yeah, but why 40? What are you doing? Just

Collin 45:50

go ahead and get up. Just go ahead and rise, yep, and like, like, yeah. Because it was like, No, you can get up at 630 like, get up at 630 and they're like, Well, no, I'm ready to leave by 630 and I'll be downstairs at 631 I'm like, No, this is not happening. If this works,

46:10

this is not how. So, yeah,

46:14

but what about No, though? Yeah, who didn't do

Collin 46:16

that? So I have to have colors, like, basically, like, I have, we have red, green and yellow to do to signify when we can leave. And so we go to bed early, like the kids are in bed at like 730 like that is when I'm kissing their forehead on their pillow and I'm turning off the light is at 730 that's when Noah's games start.

Brandon 46:42

Oh, yo. This is even worse than my problem of that thing starting at seven, because that's when I eat.

46:53

This is way, way more problematic way.

Collin 46:55

So now I'm like, Oh no, I have to. We have to figure out some way to like so his game went till 830 we didn't get home till nine bed till like 930 after he kind of did a quick shower and rinsed and brushed his teeth, and then he was up at 615 this morning, because that's just whenever he woke up, right? And I'm like, Oh my gosh. So he was really dragging today, and so we did as early of a bedtime as we could, and I we've delayed all the I pushed the lights out even more. I said, look, it's not seven. You wake you wake up at seven? What time? And I was like, what time you gonna be downstairs? And he was like, seven. And he was like, seven. I was like, no, no, no. See, we're still still operating on the old system. It's a way eyes awake at seven downstairs by 715 let's say

47:56

701. Got

Collin 47:57

it seven to one. Oh my gosh. And so just like,

48:03

man,

Collin 48:04

the game was fine. The game was fine. They really started functioning as well as a team. The last two innings really started finally, finally jiving with it. But so they did not win, but that's okay, because nobody's really keeping score. And I also realized that at this age they limit, they limit the number of runs per score or per inning, yes, so that one team just doesn't get just like, a

Collin 48:38

billion, yeah, like 15 to five, like two, like, yes, they limit it

Collin 48:41

to four runs. So once you get four, that switch, that's, we just switch. That's you switch it for that's handy. That happened twice.

48:52

It's not

Collin 48:53

important. It's not important. He's been playing, he played catcher, which he said he really liked, I'm like, really like, I I just think you remember hating playing catcher, like, I remember it's awful. I remember crying whenever I was there. But that was, that was me. It's not

49:17

hot yet either, so

Collin 49:21

just wait till it's still sweltering at 7pm Yeah, that'll be fine. But they've been rotated. They rotate positions throughout. So he was first base one time. He was an outfield. He played third base, he played a shortstop. He played they have, they, they have a pitcher position, somebody who basically plays right in the middle to catch the ball that come into, like, field, yeah, yeah. Real, real short. And played a catcher and, and one of the kids on this team is, like, really good at playing catcher, like, has the stance per. Faked hand behind his back glove, right in front, like, caught a ball that got tipped up off the the bat and spun up. And he, like, dove for it, caught it and got the guy out. And even the UMP was like,

50:13

oh, like, what's happening?

50:16

Okay, somebody's dad is way too serious about this, like, Do

Collin 50:22

you need a break? Kid?

50:30

Oh, man,

Collin 50:32

so that was so we are. We are preparing for have another game tomorrow and another game Friday. So back to back. Edge was rough. Yeah, this week is really heavy. We have a game yesterday, game tomorrow, game Friday, then the next week. It's just on Monday so and then we'll practice on Wednesday. Maybe

Brandon 50:56

I feel like, I feel like for summer ball for small children, I feel like they should just be, like, we're having games every Tuesday. Oh, right? Like, I feel like that would make more more sense, right? Like, why do you kind of have when you're in, like, elementary school summer ball? Why are you like, yes, four games a week.

51:18

I know I would think our high school baseball team plays that much baseball per week, right? Like, I don't,

Collin 51:25

I don't know. I don't know why they insist on playing this. Because we'll even play like, I think we're even playing some games, some

Brandon 51:32

teams twice play like, the same kids, like, twice a week. Like, what's the point in that? I mean, I know it's just to get them like, Yeah, but I feel like their rational is probably it gets them game time experience, but like, again, elementary school doesn't really matter. Like, I just feel like it would be a useful thing if it was just like, games will be on Tuesday or Thursday or something, right? And then you play a game, and then next week you play a different team, like you don't have to play, you know, 80 games. You can play eight. That's fine, you know, that's okay,

Collin 52:13

yeah, you don't need it's not as, I don't know that's it's pretty intense.

Collin 52:21

But like an MLB schedule, it was like 180 some games. Like, here you go. Yeah,

Collin 52:25

we're playing every team seven times. Yeah, the series, right? A series, series

Collin 52:30

against Jim's pro lube, right? Like, oh my gosh, exactly,

52:34

exactly.

Collin 52:37

Oh, man. But what we did do was we did realize that Noah's glove was too small, so we did have to go and purchase a new glove. And while we went to go and we have a local sporting goods store, did I talk about this? I feel like

Brandon 52:53

I believe, yes, I slide for me, we did go, do I

Collin 52:57

think that we were going to go do this, but I had done it this time. Okay, so Mike, we were gonna go to this local store. Yes, I talked about going to get socks. I am so sorry. That's how my year has been so far this

Brandon 53:07

week, I remember, I remember, you did say that he put his hand in he like, put your hand in more. And he's like, Yeah, my finger, I think he doesn't

Collin 53:15

go in here anymore. Yep, go. We did go get one. And I am so thankful for our little sporting goods store for in the area. I don't know how they are still in business. I genuinely don't. There is nobody in there, ever, ever, but they're always very kind, always fully stocked, always have great things to buy, different all the sorts of options and stuff like, I came in, and I was like, ball, you know, glove size. And he was like, 10 and a half. We tried that. He was like, try 10 and three quarters. We did that. He was like, yeah, that's perfect. I'm like, really quarter of an inch. What? What is this? What is this madness? And I was like, you know, do we need to worry about different sizes or configurations? And he was like, not at this age. And then he motioned over to the wall. There's a whole other wall of adult gloves that were like floor to ceiling, like 15 columns of various gloves and gloves.

54:11

Yeah, it gets insane, right? Yeah. And I

Collin 54:13

was like, he was like, You're not he's like, don't worry about it. Okay. So this nine says to myself, self, we need is we need to get a bucket of balls. Because we're practicing. We're intense now. I'm learning to throw, and I'm tired of going and collecting five balls every time, because we just have

Brandon 54:31

so I was like. I was like, Hey, I

Collin 54:39

I need to buy a bucket of balls. And he said, Oh, we don't sell bucket of balls anymore. And I was like, why? He said, Oh, all the manufacturers would put their cheapest trash balls in the buckets, and they were just really poor quality because they were trying to hit a price point, yeah. And so we don't sell anymore. He goes, I can sell you a bucket and I can sell you the balls, but I can't sell you a bucket of balls. I was like,

Collin 55:06

okay, somewhat disappointing. I was, was

Collin 55:10

really hoping to walk out with like, 50 baseballs. And I said, Okay, well, how many? Because do you want to buy some balls? I said, Sure. What do you sell them by? He goes a dozen, selling by a dozen. I was like, oh, okay,

55:24

how much are they a dozen?

Collin 55:27

Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. How much are they a dozen? And I'm thinking, 20 bucks, right? Like, how? How expensive kind of a dozen baseballs for the like, little league practice balls, like, I'm not going big time here. And he said, Oh, those are $55

55:52

I win what? He said,

Collin 55:54

I can get you some strikeout ones through for better, they're $65 so I got the feedback. That's worse, that's not better. I think what he was trying to say was, well, the strikeouts mean that there's a blemish on a higher quality ball, and so you get a higher quality ball for a cheaper price. And in my head, I'm like, but it's not cheaper than $55 so, yeah,

Collin 56:16

that's kind of like, it's not cheaper than what I yeah, I understand it's not that much cheaper. It's

Collin 56:22

cheaper than full price for the ball before it was, striked out, like, struck out, like, great, understood. But I was hoping for like, 20 bucks, you know. And he's like, No, we sell these. So I was like, okay, rat,

56:43

how much problem? How much is a bucket? Okay?

Collin 56:50

Any idea how much a slightly taller version of a five gallon bucket is with a lid?

Brandon 57:00

I think I'm going to be upset with this answer, right, because I feel like it's not what I think it's gonna be right. I will tell

Collin 57:09

you you can go to Lowe's right now and buy a Lowe's branded blue bucket or just a no branded blue bucket for three to $4 yeah,

57:18

that's kind of what I was thinking, right? Like,

Brandon 57:21

take what let's see. So if we're asking if this is, this is probably an official baseball

Collin 57:29

says Rawlings on it may say, yeah, some say Wilson, because you can use them for tennis balls too, or whatever. Yep. Yeah. So

Brandon 57:42

are they $23.27 blood bag for a bucket. Holy cow. And he

Collin 57:55

said he started to pick one up. I was like, oh,

57:58

put that down right now, so I don't need, no,

Collin 58:02

no, no, no, no, we have a bucket at home. I just realized

Brandon 58:07

we'll be fine. Yeah, that's, that's quite all right. You can just, you could just keep that. That's upsetting, right? Like, oh no, never allow that. I'm, I'm, yeah, how much are baseball? We can't these are this? This is a bit because of baseballs for $70 yeah, what on earth? Expensive for baseballs? Single baseball, let's go this one baseball was $10 why that? I know. What's the point of that? This 112's Ah, no, it's got it's gone wrong. I know, 13, yeah, 14. Ah, yep, you can get them.

Collin 59:01

You can, you know, Dick's Sporting Goods has them around. That's what I'm looking at. $7 for some basic ones. Yeah, it's five to $7 for, like, the normal

Brandon 59:12

baseball balls. But I'm just like, some of these other ones are, like, this is, like, 12, $13 baseball. Yeah, that's insane. This is a disposable product. I just want you to know that disposable product, yeah, okay, this does not last forever. And even it is also really weird to have to google baseball, ball. That's awkward. Well, no,

Collin 59:38

it's Yeah, namespace pollution. Even Walmart will sell you like, I'm like, Okay, well, usually with volume, they go up, but like, I'm looking at a bucket of balls. It's Wilson branded.

Brandon 59:49

For $230 you'll get 36 of them. That's nuts. Yeah. And I'm like. Oh, that's, that's six and a half bucks a ball. Oh, my gosh, like for disposable product, yes, right? Because baseballs certain sports, the balls are actually a distressingly large number of sports, the ball is disposable, right? Like, oh yeah. The smaller, okay, okay, hold on, hold on. I think we've just discovered the official Oh brother, sports ball relationship here, there. There seems to be an inverse relationship between size of ball and disposability, right? Because your larger balls, your bowling ball, your basketball, soccer ball, these are durable goods.

Brandon 1:00:49

These are non disposable entities, right? You keep these for a very long amount of time, right? Footballs, right? As you start shrinking down in size, softball, baseball, tennis ball, all the way down to the most disposable be golf ball, right?

1:01:05

Joe, you hit it into the

Brandon 1:01:07

woods and you're like, Well, I'm never finding out again. Anyway, I'm just kidding, yes,

Collin 1:01:13

yeah, and golf ball prices, also, yeah,

1:01:16

those are astronomical insane, right?

Brandon 1:01:19

So also, yeah, we have this, like, big, if we, if we, if we cast aside the bowling ball for a moment, right? Because that doesn't really fit into this part of the theory. But like, yeah, these like, highly disposable balls, like, the price is, like, very high for the size, right? The like cost per surface area of ball is kind of insane. And throw in that, it's highly disposable, right? Like, what is this? What is this game? Oh, gosh,

Collin 1:01:51

I know. And so I There I am, stay with with Noah holding a dozen baseballs and his glove on top. And I'm like, Okay, we will, we'll get the we'll get the balls. I will use it. I have them already holding them. I have have a bucket at home. It's, it's fine, probably more than one drawing. No, I know. Plus the balls you already have. Yes, okay, so we have, we have 17 balls now, which is now

Brandon 1:02:24

you can just buy, like, a ball to add to your bucket, right? This is you already have a bucket. So, like, you know, you can just buy one or two more balls

1:02:35

and add it to the pile

Collin 1:02:36

every year or two. Yeah, right. Exactly buying, if something's on sale, or something, exactly, something, oh,

1:02:43

in the fall, right? There you go. Yes, there you go.

1:02:48

This is what I want.

1:02:50

Yeah, so about November?

Collin 1:02:53

Right? About November, just seeing what I can get. And because, again, these aren't game balls. I these are just, oh no. We're practicing hitting, we are practicing catching and fly balls, and we are practicing all of those things. And I just want him to be able to practice that. So anyway, I was just like, I'm standing there. And one of my someone was like, Oh, yes, members of our church, they're like, man, baseball is expensive. I was like, I don't know. I've never played it seriously, so I have no idea. And I'm sitting there in our little sport, good start going,

Brandon 1:03:32

Man, this is expensive. Again, what am I doing? It

Collin 1:03:37

turns out baseball is expensive. What the heck? Why is this happening? I knew that bats were expensive. I know this because I know many, I talk to many, like middle school

Brandon 1:03:48

ball players, right? Okay, baseball and softball, right? So I know that bats are a stupid amount of money, right? Like

Collin 1:03:59

and that, yes, we have not invested in bats. Totally fine. I feel like that's okay, yes, yeah, that's I feel like we need to get like he he needs to. Right now, I think we are in the stage of like, we upgraded the the glove because it was physically not working for him. And I think that's the next thing. What we're going to do with the with the bat, of like, this is physically too small for you, so we will upgrade then, like, I'm not

Brandon 1:04:30

going to go, oh yeah, oh yeah. I think this is a perfectly reasonable and fair plan, right? Like, we don't need, you don't need, like, 90 baseball bats, because, again, because that's an actual durable good, right? Your bat's not going to wear out, right? Or it's not going to, like, get lost.

Brandon 1:04:49

You're not going to smack it out into the field and never able to find it again. So, oh,

Collin 1:04:58

I just found. Out. I typed in price of baseball bat for kid.

Brandon 1:05:03

Oh, you know, yeah, it's not gonna be pleasant. I'm sorry. No,

Collin 1:05:08

what? Okay, okay, okay, parents, stop it. I know. Parents. Cut it out. No, I am looking at a bat right now. Parents have ruined

1:05:16

this, right? Like, who

Collin 1:05:17

two of the people on Noah's team have this bat. I'm looking at it. They have this one, okay, this is, this is a $300 bat.

1:05:33

Yeah, it's insane

Collin 1:05:35

for the children. Yeah?

1:05:39

Why? Yeah, on the Dick's Sporting Goods

Collin 1:05:42

website, I just typed in baseball bat, and the first result is $500

1:05:48

Right? Like, this is the

Collin 1:05:50

junior one. This is,

Brandon 1:05:51

yeah, I just, I just hit bat, right? But, like, Oh, that is the, that's the first, okay, yeah, that's insane, right? Like,

Collin 1:06:07

yeah, okay, well, anyway, yeah. And I'm like, sure, like, at this rate, I'm like, Okay, I spent $55 on balls and and, and his glove. That's the other thing. It's club, it's fine, but it's like, Oh, yeah. Like, it's important. Like, you that's a tool. Like, this is, this is a tool. It's, he's going to use it. It needs to be used and abused, and it's going to help, like, absolutely. So investing good quality stuff. There it was the balls, like I would the baseballs, where a ball

1:06:37

is kind of exactly the same, right? That's nuts. I

Collin 1:06:41

don't care, I'll give you the cheap balls. I'm just throwing these up in the air and he's catching them. They don't need to be fancy balls for that, people. No, no. So anyway, yeah, I'm like, okay, yeah.

1:06:55

And I just, yeah, get

Collin 1:06:56

a bat. Like, 80 bucks. Sure. That makes sense to me. I can see this

Brandon 1:07:01

one. I found this one. This is a youth bat, and it's 60 bucks, yeah, and that again, that's that sounds okay, right? In 2025 that sounds about right, perfectly reasonable. I don't think again. An elementary school baseball player does not need and this one has all kinds of different links. Different lengths and weights and whatever, but it's just the same, like Easton bat, right? Whatever. $60

Collin 1:07:28

No, no, it is only getting Louisville slicker after this.

Brandon 1:07:32

Hey, there you go. Well, they have some, well, yeah, but here's a Louisville Slugger also for

Brandon 1:07:37

$60 you know? Oh yeah. They get all grumpy about wood bats. I don't know. Baseball players don't make any sense to me. They're like, No, we can't do that. Whatever. Because, yes, because, uh, youth players definitely cork their bats. Obviously, that's actually, actually, actually, actually, I take that back based on the fact that the parents are buying their children $300 bats they're at the parents are absolutely cheating at youth baseball, right? Like

Collin 1:08:06

they are 1000

Brandon 1:08:08

Absolutely, probably steroids in their Cheerios, right? It's gonna get sprinkling, right? Get out here. Got these little kids looking like Roberto Clemente out here. Like, what the heck, bro,

Collin 1:08:21

what is this? Absolutely they do. So anyway, I'm just and they're walking around. They've got the back, they've got the special backpacks, and they each have like, two or three baseball bats sticking out of them, and it's a backpack. Like,

Brandon 1:08:41

okay, again, it's some of our high school baseball players and softball players do that, which, okay, you're in high school. You're been playing forever. You play all the time. Like, yeah, this makes it like you are playing, like, four to five games a week. You're going to, like, districts and stuff like that. Travel ball with Right? Like, okay, this is you've decided baseball is your thing, okay? But like, in elementary school, like, you, are you gonna really commit to a thing already? Like, well, the parents gotta wait for a little bit. One of your you gotta wait, you know, you kind of, there's other things. Like, you can't, you can't fully hardcore commit to a thing when you're like, nine, right? That's a bit premature, you know, like, there's other things, right? Maybe, like, Oh no, the thing right? Either, absolutely. It seems a bit asinine to have two, potentially $300 $600 worth of baseball bat in a backpack walking around when you are sub 10 years old. That's kind of insane.

Collin 1:09:57

This is right. No, this is, this is. I'm just staying there, like, and again, I this is how, how over the over the head, over my head, all of this is, I'm just like, Oh, I'm finally realizing that this, there is a lot of, okay, well, duly noted, duly I mean,

Collin 1:10:16

if you, I mean, you picked up on how over my head. This is I dropped the Roberto Clemente reference, okay, this is how far out of my depth I am, how far out of date my baseball reference.

Brandon 1:10:33

Yep, Google that guy. Kids. All right, you'll see where I'm at here.

1:10:41

Ah, here he is,

1:10:46

baseball card. I've seen his baseball card before.

Collin 1:10:47

Yeah, I may actually have that. I think,

Collin 1:10:51

I think this is where I have seen this card of him. He's wearing. He played for the pirates, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen that card somewhere. I'll include a link to his baseball reference page. Oh yeah. There says I can click this over here, rubber now, there we go. Oh, so anyway, so that's what we're we are gearing up for for this week, and then we have a little ball, and then Lily begins volleyball. Oh, and we are going to be those parents where she's going to be in two different leagues this summer. Oh, dear, she's going to be in the parks league doing that, and then she's going to be with a school league to the school that we used to attend. They can go back and play with them. So should we go with some people there? So it'll be interesting. We don't have no idea about any of the schedules, so I have no idea what we've actually signed up for, but

1:12:01

we shall see. Nice, yeah, that's,

1:12:06

that's all I have. That's

Collin 1:12:09

many things, right? I did, I

Collin 1:12:12

did go to a networking bingo this morning, and bingo what? Here's the thing. Okay, so they said this will be my last thing, because I know they Oh, it was for networking for businesses to go, and it was put on by the Chamber of Commerce, and they had a sponsor. So we had a sponsor, they listened to their little, little spiel,

1:12:34

and then

Collin 1:12:36

you were each given a bingo card. And the bingo card had things on it, such as like, such as have been skydiving. And what you're supposed to do is, if you had been skydiving, you were to raise your hand, and then people would come to you for you to sign.

1:12:54

Oh, okay,

Collin 1:12:58

okay. Now what you were also supposed to do, which was not explained until the last quarter of this was when you walked over to that person who raised their hand, you were supposed to give them a business

Brandon 1:13:13

card. Oh, yeah, that does seem like something you need to not save to the end to make sure people understand

Collin 1:13:19

well, because the people who were putting it on had thought that everyone else had been to this before, and they had forgotten that. A, nobody remembers that kind of detail. And B, 90% of the people in the room had never been to one of these before, including me, I had never been to one of these before. And so towards the end, somebody was like, Oh, how many business cards do you have? And was like, Oh, I don't have any. And then the person running it was like, oh, oh, you haven't been handing out your business cards. And we were like, No, you didn't tell us to, and it wasn't written down anywhere. So okay, so

1:13:52

then

Collin 1:13:54

it was awkward, having to, like, go back to the people and remember, like, what their signature looked like. And it just turned into like, going down the line. Be like, here's a card. Yeah,

1:14:10

that is for you. Yep, yeah. Oh. So,

1:14:15

hey, people

Collin 1:14:18

give directions. Okay, good. Good directions, too. Yes, bang, oh, man, that's funny. That's, yeah, that was, that was my event today.

1:14:29

Had fun. Nice, very nice, goodness,

1:14:40

oh, man, oh

Brandon 1:14:41

my. Well, since we're all full up on the fair and you're still brainstorming books to read,

1:14:49

yeah, we will continue

Collin 1:14:51

this in earnest. Okay, so we can get started, because I know you're about to break so we need to kick this into high gear. And you're like traveling for. An extended period during the summer, but not until July. So like, well, that's gonna come really fast. That's fair,

1:15:05

that's fair, that's fair. So, okay, fair enough. Yeah, we have to think that's only

Collin 1:15:12

eight, eight episodes until you were gone.

1:15:15

Oh, crap. Okay,

1:15:20

okay, we'll do that seven.

1:15:24

Yeah, no, sorry, seven, okay,

Collin 1:15:26

oh yeah, okay, we're gonna have to double up quick then All right, okay, we'll get that going. Do some things here. I do have a potential returning segment for you, surprise for you at some point, possibly next week, if I should have some time. So I've been, this is a license and pop returning segment not done. I haven't had one in long time, right? So forward to this, you know, surprise. You know, teaser there for next time. So I will leave you with my Haiku within the week here definitely takes some liberties with syllables and formatting. So it's fine, though, everything's fine. Experimental, okay, don't worry about it's an avant card haiku a little bit, a little bit right? It's a little bit jaunty. So, yeah, okay, new memories etched into the classroom wall, not easily removed, like that. Yeah, that's good. So, okay, close out the year. Yeah, like it. I like that one too. Again, the syllables are a little it's a little bit wonky, but it's fine. It's fine.

Collin 1:16:57

Syllables check, look, they're there.

1:16:59

I'll get them typed in there. So,

Collin 1:17:06

very nice, very nice. Another successful year in the books, indeed. Okay, well, good with that. Yes, I think we should move aggressively forward with picking a book off offline here and try and pick it up for a next recording, because we should have a little bit of time between now and then, so I'm sure. All right, we'll see how that goes. Yeah, recording is kind of early down. Yeah, we'll see, yeah. I think, Okay, well, we will, we will see what we come up with.

Collin 1:17:36

All right, we'll do okay, yes, we'll talk about, yeah, well, offline. We'll figure out shortlist, and then we'll go from there, right? Yes, I like it, all right? I like it, okay, very good. Love

1:17:49

you. Love you. Bye, bye. You.