not enough breakdancing

Do you have vanity license plates? We don’t. Is it warm where you are? It’s cold here. Have you been to Italy? We haven’t. The boys share recent DMV experiences, trigger words, and double pirate dogs. PLUS, Brandon gives his review of  James May’s “Our Man in Italy”. Spoiler…he likes it.

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Brandon

Collin  00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Colin, and Aaron. On this week's show, not enough breakdancing. I spent and not insignificant, no pretty insignificant time part of my day, standing in line at the DMV. And if one of the really wasn't all that bad, I was kind of shocked by it today.

00:33

Wow, you pick a good day then? No,

Collin  00:36

actually, well, no, I picked a good day to go there to retitle a car. Everyone else there who picked the day to get a new ID or to renew their license? Not a good day. Very fact. Worst day. We walked in and I was like, Oh my gosh, because there was people like lining the walls. There are people sitting outside there. And then the guy looked at me he's like, What are you here for? And I was like, your title. And he's like, Oh, just go step right in there. And I like went basically to the very fun. Thank goodness. It's like, Oh, good. You won't yell at me. But I'm pretty sure he was thinking like, oh, oh, great. I can tell you what you need to know

01:15

that, ah, and I had the

Collin  01:22

we have a loaner car. And I was like,

01:26

they were like, do you?

Collin  01:28

They said some words that I wasn't expecting to hear in this process of like, do they need like, who's to they need to be on the title? And I was like,

01:38

I don't know, do they?

Collin  01:43

Lady was like, well, they would have told you that. And I went well, they didn't. So I was like, I don't know. And so she was like, well, you're going to have to find out. At which point I said, How do you want me to notify you about that? And she was like, well, they just need to tell you and I went a letter, an email, like a carrier pigeon, like how do I need to get that information to you? And she was like, Oh, just tell me what they tell you. And I was like, really? Like, like, fish? Or?

02:21

Yeah, it's a very not. Yeah, it's a lot less involved in like, you think it's just just write it and this just write it on this blank.

Collin  02:29

It's really much all she wanted. She was like, I just need the name and address. And I was like, so if I in my head. I'm like, so if I just hear like, hold up my phone. It was like, boop, boop beep boop Yeah, sure. Let me call just a minute. And I'm like, Oh, no. Oh, sure. No, they say it's fine. They don't to be honest.

02:45

My morale like

02:48

just, I don't I just seemed really weird. It's not ready for that. I

02:53

just Yeah.

Collin  02:55

Because I'm expecting It's so strange. It's the DMV, so I'm expecting them to be like, Why don't you have the full recording of your third grade? Yeah.

03:04

100,000 proofs of address. But like, Man, I just write it names box.

Collin  03:10

Exactly. I was so like, Are you like I really, I was really like telling me, I'll go do it. I could do it. It's like

Brandon  03:18

you weren't in the license line. So in the license line, that's when they need like, your mail. And like 17 proofs of who you are. All that. And the other line. There's like, All right. Here's your one paper. Right. But

Collin  03:36

then I realized like, yeah, because they're doing like, oh, you pulled like, oh, you pulled a a 1920 Model T car body out of out of a ditch. Okay, yeah, here, we'll give you a new title for it. That's the only way. Like they're, they're used to people walking in there with nothing, you know, like weird stuff. Like, yeah, yeah. Or the guy who was like, I see. I know, it's just mostly because of where we live. But every time I have been into the DMV, it is I don't know, it's not technically the DMV anymore. They're licensed bureaus are there but like, everybody is licensing their trailers. Like so many. There's so many trailers out there. And all the time. Like, even when I was there, three people next to be we're getting trailers done.

Brandon  04:30

So you have to do the trailer every year. I think you have to do the trailer every year. I think that's probably why there's like other stuff. It's like whatever, you just do it and then it's fine. Like your car and LSF need license. You can just like a lot of stuff you can do online now they're saying, okay, whatever. But yeah, most trailers are the same way when you have to do trailers like all the time. Yes. I feel like it's a very constant battle. I don't know I don't own a trailer. listeners. Full disclosure. I've never driven a vehicle with a trailer attached to it. You've never trailer anything. Oh, I want to have trailers something got even for like with a canoe rack or something

05:08

if I ever transported a canoe I hide it to the top of whatever I was driving. This is weird. I mean, I mean for living in Missouri it's very abnormal yes but like in the general scheme of things I don't think it's that weird to have not

05:23

rested for trailered vaulted now when I say I

05:26

live never driven in

05:29

a trailer I mean, no judging other than

05:31

a tractor I guess. But I was only driving forward so like around a yard

05:40

I don't think that count and getting yelled at

05:42

so probably Yeah, that was definitely

Collin  05:47

yes, trailers have to be done quite well more frequently. And there's just always in there and so and then then I understand again, like parsley again wherever you live of like there's there's a trailer for everything right there's a trailer that the sprayer goes on the trailer that the boats on the trailer that the you know, the for the logs and there's the tipper trailer, and then there's the trailer that they use to haul the other machinery around. So one small farm can have five trailers pretty easily and so I got that taken care of. I did not go for a vanity license plate.

06:26

Thought I mean, get his own brother fit on a license plate, right? You put that out there, right.

06:37

Oh, bro. Yeah, bro, bro. Oh, bro. Whoa, bro. Poco.

06:45

Ah, ah.

Collin  06:47

Oh, yeah, I did think about it. I was like, should I just go full on? Like, do something with pet care or something like that? Obviously, I didn't, I didn't. And then here's the other thing that I know, you know, when you buy a new vehicle, a lot of people don't like, oh, you get the trade in. So you can get money off of that off of the total purchase price. The the money goes toward seminary. Everybody's the DMV, they all talk about it as Oh, did you sell a vehicle to get a discount on your taxes? Because when you buy a vehicle, you know you have to pay sales tax on that vehicle purchase price. Yeah. But if you sell a vehicle, you get a discount on the sales tax from the purchase vehicle.

07:37

Oh, I did not. I was not aware of this. I guess.

Collin  07:41

I wasn't either. But the guy next to me again, I was there for a little bit because of the whole debacle about the the guy next to me was like, Oh, he sold he sold a car in February and bought a car last week and they were gonna give him a discount for it.

08:00

In the same fiscal year.

08:01

I was like, All

08:04

right. So that's it. Okay. I resent licensing yours.

08:11

Yeah, please. Yeah, whatever. I

08:12

don't know. So I,

Collin  08:15

I was like, this is this is new to me. I guess I you know, I guess that at that point. It's like, okay, maybe the trading does become worth it, because you get a little bit off the front end and the back end to

08:26

true. So this is something I didn't know. At all. So Oh, well. They're interesting.

Collin  08:35

I Yeah. The more you know.

08:38

Yes. Yes.

Collin  08:41

Do I Do I sound different?

08:43

I mean, no, other than amazing. I mean, yeah. Okay.

Collin  08:49

You were supposed to say yes. You sound so crystal clear. You can obviously tell that I am in the home office.

08:55

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, definitely. Yes. I don't hear the sound of macaroni being made. Not anywhere near you. Shocking, isn't

Collin  09:04

it? I know. Yeah. So So yes. Yes, I am. Recording from from home office. Wow. With all my stuff and things for the first time in like,

09:15

a month. 70 years because we're good.

Collin  09:19

We're good. I forgot how nice having a second monitor is and like, mouse and keyboard. All these niceties. flopping it

Brandon  09:34

we're all good. Yes. All right. All right. It's nice. Nice. Yes. Yes, yes. I'll tell you my exciting car story for this. Oh, fun. Car times. So he Yes, sir. Yesterday Yesterday. What's today Wednesday? Yes yesterday in the lovely

Collin  09:56

warm early morning hours. While I was driving to work, yes in the in the not warm

Brandon  10:05

listeners, it decided to all of a sudden, like, skip the rest of fall. It's like not willing to now. Oh my god, like the high this week has been like 35 It's been so bad is more on that in the moment. But okay, so I have a side note about that. So we're driving down the road, right? We're blah, blah, blah, we turn and all of a sudden, we hear America's favorite noise. Dude. Oh, now Yeah. So like, the tires go flat, right first, like, what the heck is that? Because just started randomly, are still like driving normally, like nothing. And so we pull them to the side of the road, and we're like, cursory like, walk down and look stuff. It's like, okay, well, all these tires appear to be inflated. So that's odd. So we drove a little bit further and pulled into a parking lot at yield YMCA. Right. And it took me a minute to figure out what's happening, but like, what did the front driver side tire it was wearing too much on the inside, right? Like your tires are cambered out slightly too much. So we're getting those realigned next week. But

11:29

so what happened was, like, part of the rubber, like, stripped off the very inside, you know, oh, and it was like, still attached to one part. So we're just like, flipping around inside the wheel. Well, just like smacking everything. So that was exciting. So I'm sitting there in a parking lot. And what was his unique strip of snow? It was very small, very small. It was like a quarter inch Maxa. Right. Maybe less. I'm, like, sitting there going. Hmm. All right. internationalist is probably five mil, right, five, six mil maximum. Not big. Thank you. Thank you for that. Yeah. Um, you know, I want all of our international friends standing here. So we're sitting there like, Okay, well, I have to cut this off. But I have nothing in the car currently. To cut to cut it with. Right. So going. Dang it, right. Normally, I have a box knife in my backpack. But it's just at home right now because it didn't need it for work. I need to take it to work actually. But I haven't done it yet. So like that would have been ideal. And so I'm going What the heck. And so Susan's like, well. What if I run inside and ask the why do they have scissors and I was like well, I mean number one I don't know if they'll give them to you. But you can

13:12

just some random off the street. Give me says yeah,

13:14

like yo Coronavirus is real quick. I can be like, I gotta go cut something. No. No, frantically digging around in because again, I'm the only person in all of Missouri that doesn't carry a pocket knife with them. 24/7 And like all this stuff, right? So I'm digging around in the car. And would you like to just take a guess at what I found to MacGyver myself into cutting, being able to cut this little strip of rubber off my tire.

Collin  13:45

I'm mildly terrified for what you do. I know there's a number of things like I don't know was there like a really sharp guitar pick that you had?

13:59

Oh, no, no, that's good. Yes.

14:03

I don't know what what what did you find?

14:08

You ready for this? I don't know. But here we know. packing tape dispenser. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we had like a little roll of packaging tape right with the little thing on the top. And it was just enough to be able to saw the stripper rubber off of my tire. That's pretty intense. Yeah. It was to the rescue. Yes. The packing tape, the packing tape, the humble packing tape. save the day. My next day it was not really beer or something. You drove to work and then called and then dropped the car off that it had been moved Monday it was been Monday. It was Monday morning has happened as we got the car back today. Yeah, we drove it to work and then just took it to the car that fireplace after, but, yeah, packing tape to the rescue. They're new. Yeah, got me. But

Collin  15:14

Well, I'm glad you got that solved. Because that's tariff I get wigged out anytime I feel like I think something's going wrong with the tires of the front end or the wobble or whatever you're like, Okay, this is it. This is this is where it all goes downhill. Yes. Do you remember? Were you on the you're on the the Boy Scout where you are in the Boy Scout trip where the blue Suburbans tire, blue a tread or whatever? And it got that big bubble in the middle of it. Do you remember that?

15:51

Where the internal wiring

Collin  15:54

restructure whatever failed, but the integrity of the whole tire didn't so there was just a big like wart said Do

16:02

you remember that happening? I don't think I was there when it happened. Okay. Yeah. And then we have a lot of tire trauma in my life. So I would have remembered that.

Collin  16:11

So then, we had to drive for like, many, many more miles to get to a shop to get it fixed. Right. So it's like, it's definitely broken. And you can only go so fast. It's just gonna put the whole car it's like shaking violently. Right now. It was fun. Good stuff. I

16:32

had one time like my tire. I don't even remember what car I was driving. But like the the whole tread peeled off. Oh, right. And like so there was the you could all that was left was like the wire in that like real soft rubber that's underneath. Like, outer the outer tread just like sheared off the tire. Wow. Yeah, it was not exciting. It was basically a magnification of what happened on Monday. Right? I'll go the little tiny strip. Right? Yeah, it was like, the whole face of the tire. Just like if I healed and was just started smashing around inside my cars like what in the heck? That is? What is going on? Wow. terrify after the chair. I've had too many flat tires.

Collin  17:33

I don't Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll get off that topic here soon.

17:37

Anyway, back to the other topic. So the window update right? To my classroom windows. Right. Yeah. Still not done. Nobody's come back and fix anything yet. And I don't know if they're going to but I say there's no sir. Because they don't fit in the window frame properly. So they're like, the frame. Since these are like they replace old existing windows. There is a monumental gap between the window frame and the wall. Right. Oh, and so like, it's sealed on the outside? I guess because it didn't rain in my room the other day. That's good. But this week, it has been so

18:17

incredibly cold.

18:19

I guess. Like I cannot write cool because you're right by the wind is there? Yeah, my desk is right by the window. I felt like during my playing time is a fair school and I've been like grading stuff. It's so cool. Oh, chi is

Collin  18:35

just terrible. So they just didn't finish it out basically with like the trim around

18:39

it. I don't know I need some like, oh, in there, I need something. Like I if they're not going to do it. I'm going to because as for while I was gonna go to the maintenance guy be like, Yo, where is the foam? I was praying. I was dying. I was like, 30 and I was like, No, I was sitting at my desk grading papers with my colon. Like, nope, nope. Can't have not living over here to see. So Oh, horrible.

Collin  19:20

Again, you said they they're giving you an update that didn't say hey, this will be done in XYZ time. Or in fact,

19:25

now all I heard was they won't be coming when there's kids in the spilling. So I mean, that's good. You don't want to be like in the middle of a class and they don't do that side. Like ripping your window out. That'd be real awkward.

19:37

Yeah, so hard to come.

19:38

I mean, maybe I don't know what that means. So I don't know what you're going to be like, on the outside of the building. There's just like several windows just like leaning up against the building. So clearly, they're not finished. Like they're not done with all the other rooms on the the wing that I'm in they're like not done. And so I don't really know what's happening but wow, that's a you've got

20:10

time ahead to figure that out.

20:13

Maybe Yeah, nothing will happen and I'm just gonna freeze to death and I'm gonna have to get my own spray foam it's like cramming in there.

Collin  20:22

Yeah, very likely that's what that that's what that means. I

20:25

wouldn't because man it's it's been rough it was yesterday it was so bad it's so cold all day and Leah died

20:42

today I specifically since I did not have well we didn't have outdoor recess anyway takes us like, feels like temperature was 26 degrees. So when I specifically wore a slightly smaller jacket, it was more comfortable so I could wear it while cheese

20:59

be able to move and breathe and

21:01

yeah this is a comfortable and so I can sit here and grade these things but like move my arm better.

21:16

Tight so constrained. Yeah, it's also constrained

21:19

across my chest because I had to zip up jacket up is the right hand side of my body is colder than the left hand side here because I'm next to the window. Why

Collin  21:29

are you only wearing a glove and have your coat on your right side of your body?

21:35

If I had the heater on their thing? I still felt like Bob Cratchit in there like she's

Collin  21:47

she just hum over an Earth? This is my island in the sun. Oh, it's fine. I gotta watch that movie now.

22:03

Ah, yeah. has been my big assignment, freezing to death. And retire giving out. Mostly partially a little bit. Ah, yeah, so yeah, we had to go we have to go back to the tire. We had to go. We had to schedule the alignment because like, we just dropped it off and like, we need new tires. He's like, okay, that's easy. But he's like, bring it back later. And we'll because he didn't have he was booked up with people, like, bring it back and we'll get it fixed so that it doesn't do that. Yeah, you know, it's,

Collin  22:37

I see some cars. First off, I'm always reminded, anytime I see cars with the camber going out a little bit further. Clarkson on top, you're talking about how he had positive camber? Because he walked funny. And it helped him corner well, right because it's when the hammer just saying, you know, I have followed you around, you know. Eric airport terminals across the globe and I see this lumbering Oh, you know, with your walkie walking weird, and he was like, it's kind of got positive camera cornering. I think of that. It's one of those things that, like, intrusive thoughts. I don't know, you know, how often you have those of like, well, I was thinking about it that day, but because I saw some tires that were slightly leaning outward. I now

23:27

do something about that the other day. Like, I was like, Excuse me, I don't remember what it was now. But like, I have those like, there are certain words that trigger reactions like that in my brain. Right? Just like it just that's just I hear a word. And that's like, something comes to mind. Something like that. Like I have, like a very, like, I have like a specific reaction to the word like every time it's the same thought about that, too.

Collin  24:00

Always like, and I never remember, it's always random. And I never anticipated to come on otherwise, I guess it wouldn't be one of those like, oh, wow, that's interesting. Oh, I'm now thinking about this, because I saw that. I never remember that coming up to it.

24:17

But anyway, it's my big one. The one I think about something my head is is out.

24:25

It's related to a movie title. Whenever somebody says, like something to write, you know, like whatever to my brain says Electric Boogaloo. Of course, in reference to the classic film, breaking to break in Electric Boogaloo. Yeah. Great movie. Breaking ones get to let's be real, but like I have this reaction. Every time somebody says like, is something too I will just like sometimes I even say it out loud. People look at me and go, What? Their mind? Their mind is fine. Don't worry about it. Like, yeah, when somebody says like, oh, yeah, something too. I just say, Electric Boogaloo. Like all the time I think about braking and braking to, which are hysterical movies. I mean, great. But like, they're,

Collin  25:28

they're really great. And I mean, they're yet I want yet again, one of those movies. I mean, mostly from the era that they're from of just man costumes and the clothes.

25:42

The costumes of that movie are absolutely insane. Just yet breaking from Nike ad for the original. So we're ready for like, yeah, it is. Debbie's crazy. Like but yeah, I think about that all the time. I can't remember which one is like. Yeah, they're just so weird. I don't even remember a lot about them. Just remember, mostly the costumes and there's just dancing all over everything about the plot. Just costumes dancing.

Collin  26:22

Man, what glorious costumes these are. I mean, this is just this is just a these turned up to a whole nother level.

26:29

Really? Is ice T's film debut. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now one of the longest running actors on television. But got his film debut in rakin. Yeah, take that. And break into Yeah, yes. Oh, man. So good.

Collin  26:57

Wouldn't interesting in universe explanation to him go from that role to now? You know, serving the law?

27:03

Yeah. I think that's very I gonna have to haven't quite worked out the headcanon for that yet. But you know, we'll put that in the works. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is what I thought. All right, that, that breaking too. Okay. I was just trying to make sure I had this straight in my mind. Because in my brain, they merge together and become just the same thing. Right. This is how this works. I'm breaking two is the classic. We have to save the community rec center from the evil developer, right? This is yes, so most 80s have plots. Right? This is a very 80s thing. Absolutely. These movies came out in 1984. Somehow that's intriguing. But yeah. Suspicious? Yeah, that is that's the one that's like, we have to save the the Rec Center developers ah you know the sad part about this not a lot of rec centers left that means most of the 80s was in vain and evil developers one

28:21

did Oh, no. Oh no.

28:24

How am I living in the worst timeline? How did we not save the rec centers? We did not break dance. No.

Collin  28:30

This is the lesson that I'm learning from that.

28:33

Or that that one Baywatch with Hulk Hogan. We did not defeat Ric Flair in a wrestling match. In a cage. enough times. Vader Vader's in that one too? Yeah.

Collin  28:47

I'm gonna stick with the not breakdancing enough

28:50

time. Yeah, that's true. We can all break you all can't wrestle. Ric Flair. Ric Flair and big van Vader in a cage. Right? Yeah, we can all break dance. Right? We all can. Yeah, yes. Yeah. We actually have

Collin  29:07

our dog just say on the community center. We have a relatively new one. We've been in there handful times.

29:14

Okay, good. Good. Don't let the evil developers win.

Collin  29:19

Well, it is one of those things of of we know we had to the city had to pass a a bond right and raise taxes to make it work. And then every buddy lost their mind when they found out they would still have to pay to use it.

29:38

I mean, I could see how they would think that but like, like that. The A lot of the bonds have pays for the building and building they still have to upkeep and the using and the employ electricity and yes, people that work there. Yes.

30:00

This is my thought of like, how much did you think was gonna cover like? Well,

Brandon  30:07

I mean, you think like, bond is in perpetuity, right? Like, it's just going, like there's no you don't think about like it stopping, right? Yeah, just think about like, Oh, we're raising this tax and then that will be raised forever. Whereas once it's built, it's done. But you have to like raise the money for the building and like that being like having the bond means that then you it's very complicated and annoying bureaucratic process. But like you have done that means that you can get loans based on your blah, blah,

Collin  30:41

blah, the bond and the payment that you're that you're generating, right. That's all that you're doing. And,

30:47

and the bond pays for the payment. So basically, you have to take a big fat loan, and then the bond is paying for the payment on loan. Yeah. So if you weren't doing anything else, then you do need a charge to use it, because then you have to pay for utilities and employees and cleaning and all that stuff. So yeah.

Collin  31:10

Now, Now eventually, you know, how once something does get paid off or close to it, this is where they may restructure the bonds to reduce that to other things. But yes, it was like,

31:21

Can we transfer this funding to blah, blah, blah,

Collin  31:25

right? Yeah, yes. So yeah, they were very, there was so many people in uproar of like, you what, we raised this thing, and we're doing this and why am I paying for it? This doesn't make sense. Again, I was

31:39

one of those things of just not really

31:43

understand. And

31:45

like, I'm imagining that these things were not discuss

31:49

communicated well to the public. D they were not.

31:55

That seems like a thing that would happen, right? Like you did.

Collin  31:59

Yes, this was another issue of that was not discussed of like, and I get it people who are bureaucrats and whatever, like their job is just to get stuff done. And they don't really want to try and talk through the the niggles and the minutiae, of, of these big, complicated things. But then what happens is, once it's built, and doors are open, and then that's when people find out how much it's gonna cost for a daily pass or whatever, like, that's not good marketing. That's real bad. That was it was,

32:33

yeah, no, because if you want people to use it, you have to be transparent upfront and put that out there and tell everybody exactly what to expect, because they don't like surprises in that field. Right? So everybody's least favorite surprise, the monetary surprise in which you have to pay for things, and people don't like that. So

32:53

they'd rather just bury the lead and hope nobody asks,

32:56

ah, yeah, it's like, oh, yeah, here's my $4. Like, like, What? What? For what? For? What? Yeah.

Collin  33:11

I, on boarded, many a staff recently, and one of them had the most fun, interesting day, first day of anybody who we've had on, so that was fun.

Brandon  33:24

Quick, quick question. Did they have a second day? Yes. Okay. Okay. That's good. That's good. Sometimes. Over exciting first days. Lead To know more data. Oh, no more eyes. No. Yeah, no. First need to be like, super exciting, because that can be.

Collin  33:47

What happened was, it was a very late Friday night visit. And these dog's names are Bruno and Chanel. Chanel is a 16 year old miniature dokkan. Bruno is a Oh, I'm gonna lose it. He has a 16 year old. I'm staying at his spaniel not a King Charles Spaniel. And he, he like, very other Spaniels, very special speckles in her life. What was a one eyed pirate dog?

34:16

Yes, yes,

Collin  34:17

that's kind of that's kind of spam. And anyway, he, we would go out, and Chanel would run around the corner of the house and smell around the grill, and I would just call her back over and she would come over to me. This has been going on for a couple weeks. And two weeks. And then finally, this past Friday, I was like, you know, Fine, let's go over. It's late at night. It's 10 o'clock at night and I go over I've got a flashlight, and she's smelling around the grill and Chanel, whatever. So I pull the big it's a big one of those big grills that nobody needs to have, but everybody thinks you need to have one of those than it's got the big cover on it and ever thing and it's pushed up against the wall, the brick wall the back patio and so I pull it away from the wall and shine my flashlight down and trigger warning people massive pile of maggots come down like a nice avalanche. away Oh no. And I went oh no, no, no and I went Ha ha, maybe it was a hamburger, or like a steak or something. Or maybe it's a bird right the birds at the time. So I threw off the cover and I'm looking around and I'm lifting up everything I don't see thing and finally I'm like whatever I just quickly lay my head down immediately on the bricks and shine my flashlight underneath it why would you go the worst option or staring back at me a mere like three inches from my face? desiccated cat corpse? Staring at me.

35:59

This is better than the first option of why did you not clean your grill? No.

Collin  36:04

This is what I Yes. I was expecting. Yes. Right. No, it was not a like, they'd never clean the grill kind of thing, which would have been slightly better. Slightly better. Not like a lot better, but

36:16

slightly better. Oh, yeah. There's still a chicken on my grill from two weeks ago.

Collin  36:24

Yeah, that's honestly what I thought was going to happen of like, I was going to find a steak that was either on or had fallen down across the backside of it. Or there was gonna be a dead bird there because those were options. Not full on like humongous cat underneath this thing. And so I was like, well, it's 10 o'clock right now. I don't have time for this. I will take a photo and text client and let them know. So

36:52

the next day like hopefully your text was like you don't have a cat.

36:55

Right? Check it was just the dogs right

37:01

Did I miss something? I

Collin  37:02

miss reviewing my notes. I noticed you said no other animals. I just wanted to verify that that's correct.

37:09

You have a cat. Boy I have some bad news for you. Yeah,

Collin  37:13

I have an interesting so and they were like they were freaked out by that and obviously and so the next next day I was like stick there I was like hey, cool. This is brutal. This is Chanel we've got some work do out the back grab the shovel and I'll get oh no so I didn't have her hold anything but I just set the trash back down and got a shovel and scooped up the cat and everything else around it I

37:50

keep the dogs away from it is the dogs gonna be inside for the summer came over there. And

Collin  37:56

it was one of those now it was okay, I've got the majority of the issue taken care of. But like I still have to clean up the stuff that's on the bricks but also it is 21 degrees outside. Yeah. Not turning on a hose. Right. So I found a five gallon bucket that we filled up with in the kitchen sink. Cup sloshed it under wash it got it. Got a good mixture with that with some bleach and slosh and then scrub with a with a broom and then slosh the

38:35

restaurant we put the bucket and then like sling it across the kitchen floor and then squeegee it all and mop it and yeah, no squeegees but definitely yeah, we'd like get the water like the scalding hot water you could get like mix the cleaner in there. Yeah, and the sink and then just like pulling it at the floor and the baseboards like under the thing so it washed all that in get under there and scrub that with the thing. Good times.

Collin  39:02

Yeah, so that was fun. And that was a Yeah, so she she was like, a little horrified at first and I was like look, this doesn't always happen and honestly, this is the first time this is a

39:13

matter of fact, this has never happened. Never happened.

Collin  39:17

But you know, remember that part where we said other duties as assigned this task? It says other duties and they are surprised Oh, and then oh gosh. And then then Mr. Bruno had his he's got the one I was good I but he started have some issues with it. And he's had to have it taken out now and his other eye so now he's he's a double pirate. Oh no. Dog and so he's learning how to be a double pirate. And and he's really, really sweet and special. But his the Uh, when they remove the eye, obviously it's a big ordeal, right? Yeah, it's very intrusive. And like, we would take as we were coming over four times a day. And every time we were over, we're taking photos of it. And we're like, Hey, this is the status of it. This is what the this is the swelling. This is what's going on. You know, we're doing cold compress, give medication. And like, one night, I was like, it's looking really especially swollen today. And all they were doing is they're taking our photos and they were emailing them to the vet, the vet was reviewing them and saying, No, it looks fine. Well, then are late night, 10 o'clock at night, come in. And the one thing they were like, hey, just let us know if it starts like leaking. Now. Like it's leaking just a little bit, but we all know where this goes. And a lot of it, it dies. And so they were like, well, we can't do anything because it's 10 o'clock at night. We'll get to it first thing in the morning. And I came in that next morning. And we have been putting in a, an elevated playpen for like babies to keep him because it's got the soft corners and psi and stuff. And it's because we didn't want him to get start bumping into walls and stuff where we weren't there and whatever. So kind of just cocooned him into little area. Well, he had spent the whole night like just wandering in a circle. And so the leakage from his eye had been like, just all over the wall of sides. And you're like, Ah, so it was like I was like, Well, hey, good news, swelling is down bad news. Um, it's all over the place. So so we got got him, I drove him to the vet and got him on some antibiotic, new antibiotics, and some new medications and stuff. And that seemed to help a lot. And then I had to go back in, scrub down to play pin and like, throw all of his bedding into the washing machine and get it replaced. Because it replays

41:59

like,

Collin  42:00

Oh, poor guy, poor guy. And again, that was with a different staff member. And I was like, so this is fun, right? Like your this is enjoyable to you. Right? Like have fun. It is your health. Look at us helping. So that was that was good. Good times. And it's all for that same client. So I was like, this has been a week. Oh my gosh. All the fun this. Yeah. So excited. Yeah, no, no, no. But you you've been busy watching and reviewing things, not involving cat corpses, I assume.

Brandon  42:53

Yeah. Yes, actually, that's true. I think make sure you don't want to live anybody here. Thanks. Thanks. Yes, I remembered. Finally that James vase. Maybe your show was out? Because timely reviews are what we do here on the show ladies, gentlemen. Timely, appropriate views. Things that have just come out and you haven't watched already.

43:26

Yes, this totally didn't come out in July. I don't know what you're talking about. 1420 Thank you. That didn't happen. Yes, I watched the new season of James May our man in ellipses this time? Italy. Yeah, last time he was in Jan Han, right? Yes, that was that was brilliant. Yeah, that was really good. I really liked the Japan one a lot. I probably should have gone back and watch that too. But I was slightly distracted with other things so but yeah, I really like the James Mae formula right I just like James May right let's be honest. There are a lot of things I've watched so many of his things like his solo things like there is a certain James like flavor that's occurring. Right? That you recognize you recognize like what he does like their little title cards like they remind me very much of like give watch the MATLAB show. Or he would just do like here in our office we're going to make this like pneumatic bank system type system to deliver chips like weird stuff like that. There's a little title cards with like announced what's happening next. And then this one he does though they're their little title cards with like an Italian word. It's like it seems ran Then, but it like shows up in the next segment somewhere, not unlike the titles of our episodes.

Brandon  45:08

Yes, it's very interesting like this. It's like this weird. James May ask travelogue of Japan right he himself states that the show is basically a mixture of things that he wants to do and find in string. And things the producers want to see him do because they think it'll be funny. So like that.

45:33

That's the balance here, of kind of like everything that he does, right through the whole thing. Like, he plays this like, strange medieval game that's like, kinda like volleyball, but not. And in this like, ancient mountainside town, right? In Italy as one does. But then another later thing he's looking at, like, a robotics laboratory, which is like very James II, right? There's like this, these constant swinging back and forth of all the different stuff. So it's very interesting, like, and one thing that I now say here, is like, maybe I say this in the end, but like, what are things that James does like the way it's like not? Well, like, I think the reason like the Japanning was so good, right? It's definitely not like your normal traveling show. Right? Where it's just like, here's the highlights. Here's the thing. Here's some food done, right? Where you watch it, and you go, Oh, that's kind of cool. And then like, you're kind of good. You don't I mean, like, right? There are certain elements to it. Like the things that James is talking about. You're like, I want to be in Italy. That's what I want in my life. I need to be in Italy. Like he kind of does that his goal is like he's like stated goal is like searching for what the Dolce Vita means, right? What does that mean to Italian, so I love blah. So he has this like, kind of overarching, like, slightly poetic quest, like James does, but it's delivered in a way that's very self deprecating and hilarious. So like, you know, like, it's very, like, gets to the spirit of like, lots of Italian things, I think in a in a way that like other shows don't because like the thing with Italy, right is if you've ever seen a travel show, they've been Italy, right? It's kind of like, overdone to death. A lot of it is right. But this goes without it. And wait, it's like it's very different. Right? The James twist is like very different. And like, interesting, right? And if you're a fan of just James way, in general, then it's good. You're gonna like it. You'll be like, Okay, this is great. I love it. Let's do it.

Collin  48:04

You mentioned the the title cards, and I love how he and the producers that he works with use those to great effect in in all his solo ventures I especially reminded of the is a cook cooking program. Yeah, where it's where tarot cards and subtitles were used for a lot of like, insider jokes, and very much in the Monty Python esque of like, you know, sharpen a toothbrush kind of thing. And yes, it just, it really adds to all the layers that you have there love, like, there's a, there's more information here, we're going to make this much more experiential, as you move through this. And I do agree that, like I mentioned before, when watching Top Gear or the grand tour, trying to listen to what the hosts say it's about and going with that, like, Okay, this is their, their framing device on this, and then they are going to take it and try and get to that in their own way. But you have to always remember what what the original goal was. And point back to that, because otherwise it does keep you can get lost. I think sometimes it's good to be like, what's going on? Like, why is he doing this without remembering referencing back?

Brandon  49:31

Yeah, and I think that's, I mean, that kind of gets back to what we were complaining about the other day, we were talking about the new Grand Tour episode was that the framing device was sort of gone. Right? Partly because of the near death of James bank.

49:49

Could probably change the last stuff, you know, but like, because this is just James I guess, and because he's probably got a bigger hand and it's a very, like tight kind of narrative, right? And the way that it's presented is, is very cohesive. And you're not losing sight of that. And he, he always does. Like, like you said, he's always referencing things that happened like, earlier, like, not even in the same episode, like two episodes ago, he like brings up the stuff that he did before, in reference to something that he's doing now. Right. And he's always like making these jokes or some connections about it, they'll just be like little things, he'll be like, you know, we don't need to see that again, Dewey, and then we'll just like flash to whatever he's talking about. And then it moves on, right, like, and that's just like, but it was like a thing from like, Two episodes ago, it was like, as you've already heard me saying, once, I'm gonna spare you this time, like, and then you remember, Oh, he did that before. Right? You know, like, it's a very, like a cohesive narration style, plus the occasional, he still finds time, even in this to just make jokes about Richard Hammond. So that's important.

Collin  51:05

I will say I do like that. And they all three do this and all their own their other all their solo work, they find time to reference back and poke fun at their other co workers, even though they're not even involved in this at all. Nowhere to be seen, it's no like, it is man like it is delightful, because it does. Sure it might be a bit of pandering to those who are so heavily involved in these people and for the past, you know, 20 years, but

51:36

it is it is good. It does make you laugh. Because I'm so I have not seen our man in Italy. But it sounds very much like, again, his the way he orchestrates this. Another series that I really appreciate it and really enjoyed of his was James made cars of the people similar to that as well, of every episode was an extremely opinionated take, you know, not even right or wrong, it was an opinion. And the whole episode was going to be digging, digging down to that about a particular car or take on a car and reason. And I think that it's just it's just really nice and refreshing to have that and then like okay, now make your case and show it to me. However, you know, weirdly you want to do that.

Collin  52:28

Did you? Did you? How did you feel like this stacked up against our man in Japan?

Brandon  52:33

Um, I think I can't Okay, so it's real close. I couldn't because I didn't go back and watch I made in Japan, which I might have needed to, like, I couldn't remember if I like it better, or not than this one. Right.

52:51

But this one is really, really good. Like, if it's like, if it's not as good, it's like only by a very marginal amount, right? Five or six millimeters probably, like very slim margin. To that because like, the Japan one was interesting, mostly just because like Japan is weird, right? Especially to like a Western. I write things that happened in Japan are odd. Uh huh. You know, and so you're like, very inquisitive about what's happening, because it's just so different from like, what you are exposed to in your daily life. But like in Italy, right? It's just like, a lot of Italy is just like, oh, yeah, that's, you know,

Brandon  53:37

that's a hillside. That's a, that's a forest. Even mirage. At one point, he was like, going on a truffle hunt with these things like, this reminds me of walking in the woods near my house. It's like the same. Like, it's like, you know what I mean? So it's like, even though like the architecture is different, like you're more you're I as a western audience, is more used to seeing

54:02

that type of architecture, like sure that Italian Renaissance architecture makes sense to your brain. Right? Because you have been exposed to it much, much more. Right now, that is definitely changing in like the modern era. But like, when you see, like 17th century Japanese architecture, it's still like, very Whoa, whoa, what does that right? So you still have this, like, you're not used to it? Right? I guess, as much so like, there is that part? There's like a, like I said before, if you've seen a travel show, they've gone to Italy, so there's like a danger, because you're like over familiarized almost, you know what I mean? Like, he still finds all these ways to like chop through that and get to these interesting things and like, see this weird stuff? And like all these things that are in because his like, Oh, his theme again, his theme is the Dolce Vita, right? The life of Italians like what is It means to be like an Italian, Italian. So he's always doing these like weird things. And like the best part like he, at the end, he's making this list. And he's like, he's like, I asked the top 10 reasons, you know, the things, the top 10 things I found, of what it means to be Italian. And he gets to seven. And he's like, that's the list. And that's the joke is that's kind of what it means to be Italian.

Collin  55:26

Like, what do you mean? Whatever. Like, yeah, that's that you would have to be paying it, you have to pay attention to get that joke. Because other otherwise and it's interesting that you, you point out about the difference event like Not Italy, and then Japan because I know some critiques that came through of of him in Japan were just how odd he was, I think some viewers took him to be like, I don't know if like petulant, but like, annoyed about what was happening or going on or not, I'm really invested in it. And, and one I know that's not true, because I know, James May loves traveling and appreciates, like all cultures and everything. But the other one other thing you have to come at that is exactly what you had said of like, I feel like a lot of the framing devices used in that were James May, being a fish out of water, and like kind of definitely kind of playing that up, to play into that of like, have to help bring along the audience into what's going on. And to see how not how it wins them over anything, but just to

56:43

let people know, like,

Collin  56:46

you're gonna feel like this, or it helps humanize it a little bit. Because, again, when you watch a lot of travel shows, it's somebody up there going, well, I know everything and look at all this wonderful stuff. And here's my well rehearsed thing, and blah, blah, and it's a little, it's not like that at all.

57:00

When you're watching somebody could have just experienced it in real time with us that it's like not edited to be like, clean, like, yeah, James has never like really presented as the experts. He's always just like, here we go, we're gonna see what this is about now. Yes. Every once in awhile he like knows about something. But like, that's just kind of like, also happening, right? You know what I mean? Like, that's never like the primary drive about what's going on. And he does that in this too, because he's when he's talking about Italians and talking about them. Like, he's always he's, a lot of times he's comparing them to himself. And he's like, I'm British. And I don't understand this, because British people are like this. Right? And like, he kind of is still playing into it. But there's also this part, there's some parts where he's talking about like, things and it's kind of like the, you know, like, there's, there's an ongoing joke about having to stop to eat lunch every five minutes during the show. A big but it's kind of like, there's this stereotype about Italians taking forever to eat lunch. But he's like, the joke is like, No, it's true. Yeah. Like, this is real. This is not, it's not a joke. People are telling you the truth when they say, Yeah, can't escape without lunch. It's impossible.

Brandon  58:21

He makes the references. Sometimes he's like, I can't remember which episode it is. But he's talking about the Italian language and like how Italians are talking to each other. And he goes, the biggest problem with Italians is they love the sound of Italian.

58:34

So it takes you 75 hours to say something. And everything you say is a production.

Brandon  58:42

Which is even funnier coming from a British person. Because like, as we've talked about before, if you watch like, British television, like the biggest compliment a British person can possibly give you in the history of ever is.

Collin  58:56

Oh yes, that's very nice. Yes.

59:00

That's it. Yep. That is the highest praise you're going to ever get remedies person. What do you watch like British cooking shows? That's all they always say like, well, that's quite nice. Yes. That's it. That's it. That's the height of compliments. So like hearing a British person who is coming from that background talk about and very overzealous boisterous Italian kind of hilarious, right? Like it's

Collin  59:26

but again, there's there's layers there that depending on what you're how you're watching it, and I hate to be that guy. I was like, Oh, you're doing it wrong kind of thing, but not but

59:40

not necessarily art, but

Collin  59:43

these can be experienced on different

Brandon  59:44

levels. And yeah, that's very true. Like, yeah, I understand that. As somebody who like has seen a lot of James made production and is just like a fan of him in general. Yeah, this show is great, because it's just definitely him all over. Right. If you've never heard of Dave's name before, some of this might just be like, right, it will kind of not track all the way. Because he's spending a lot of time making fun of himself. And so if you don't know his self, right kind of is lost in that. And then

Collin  1:00:20

if you come in this expecting like a Rick Steves, take on it alone, no.

1:00:25

Want to watch one of the Yeah, if you want to put on something to fall asleep to. Yeah, that's,

Collin  1:00:34

that's a very different expectation that's going to be broken down. And I like the whole framing device or just again, of the of the whole series of the arm and end of the like, this is a local, or you know, our person in a different place reporting on what it's like, right? Because that's, that's what the news, how the news would phrase that, like, our man and cobbler, our reporter in downtown Detroit, or we have somebody who's over there, and they're going to report back on something to us. And so it very much is a that just that, that lets you know, it is a this person's kind of out of their depth a little bit over here. And we're we're going to be learning through them.

1:01:19

And their experiences. Yeah, like the the episode it was episode, I have to pull up here to where he's in Naples. So he does it similar to Japan, where he basically just starts at one end of Italy, and just goes to the other end. Nice. So he just starts in the south in Sicily. And then he ends up in Venice. Right? This is how it goes. Yeah, he just bear he goes up the whole he's in a Fiat Panda the whole way, by the way, which is very important to this, right. Like it makes me happy. So what else would he be driving? Oh my gosh, exactly. Nothing. He does end up at Ferrari headquarters. As one does, or as one does. Yeah. But like, in the in the Naples episode. He's making pizza. Right? And so he, he's making it's a very like, is watching this guy. And then he's like, I have an idea. He's like, we're gonna do some British Italian fusion. So basically, he tries to make an English breakfast. Pizza. Oh, and yeah, it goes exactly pretty much how you thought and they basically like the joke is, you're not allowed to Naples anymore. You know, driving his fastball around, like, you know, there's like, No, get out. He's like, having been banned from Naples. I move on.

1:02:48

To have beans on my piece of pizza. Yeah. Who would

1:02:51

have thought that would be a bad idea? Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. And, like, you know, there's all the jokes are great. Like episode three. He's like, it's like, as he's like, as I'm on a road. There's only one place I could end up. Ha ha ha, ha ha, ha. Do all that stuff. It's great. Like, if you've never seen the episode, I have, again, an episode four is in like Tuscany in Florence. But he goes to like a cheese place. Like a, like the warehouse where people bring their Parmesan. Right. And it gets like approved to be

Collin  1:03:40

like official. Oh, yeah, it gets Yeah. graded and certified rare. Yeah.

1:03:44

Yeah. Great and certified Parmigiano Reggiano or whatever you have. It's like graded and certified at this place. But he's making all these cheese jokes because it's a meme that comes from his like, internet show about cooking does like food tribe stuff. But yeah, I've been renamed something else. But like, there's like the James made cheese meme that came from that show. I mean, it's like he's at the cheese factory. It's great, right? It's hilarious. Just watching him be like interacting with cheese and do other stuff. And of course, because he is like many of us, perpetually 10 years old. He's he's talking to these like official, like cheese certifiers. And he goes, I've been dying to cut the cheese ever since I arrived here. And then she just realizes what he said and just collapses into a fit of hysteria. Can't stop

1:04:54

like the translators have to like tell these people like what is happening and they're like, oh, Okay, hahaha.

Brandon  1:05:02

Oh my gosh it's hilarious. Yeah. So there's things like that. And then he even like, you know, when he's in Venice, he's talking to Venetian people about, like, you know, a lot of the serious issues of Venice like, oh, yo, it's like, you know, Venice is a city that,

1:05:25

you know, he basically asked them he's like, why should Venice still exist? Because like, you know, you hate tourists. You don't want tourists here. Yeah. There's nothing else here though. Like, what? What else do you do? So they talk about that, like, important? Struggle, you know? So you have it juxtaposed between like that. That action, right. And then when he's in Milan, he goes, and has personal shoppers, shop for him. Which is exactly as great as you think it is. Oh, my gosh. He does a thing where he's like, alright, I'll go pick out some things that I think are good. And you guys go pick out things that you think I should wear. And then they like, compare the outfits I find? Brilliant. It's basically just me like, look at this and then going no, no, no, why. Great. So made you want to

Collin  1:06:27

travel to Italy. It sounds like

1:06:29

it really kind of does. Right? Like, like, I'm saying, like, a lot of travel shows you watch me go cuz I was kind of cool. can eat. But like, it doesn't really make you want to go here. I mean, like, you've had this, like, this happens to me, sometimes you're like, Okay, that's cool. But like, you didn't really show me show me like the coolest like the pretty stuff. But then like, I don't really want to go now.

Collin  1:06:55

Right? Well, because they focus on my mind, a lot of superficial stuff, of, hey, look at this place, and this place, and then look at this place. But traveling is so much more than just looking at things. It's a lot of what experiences and it's learning. It's It's learning about different societies and cultures. And

1:07:19

taking all of that in is not what a lot of travel shows. I love. They try and highlight culture and like, hey, let's learn about it. And let's learn about the history of this place. But not that's experienced this and the here and now kind of thing. Like that's a different

Collin  1:07:41

take on the same thing, like traveling to an area to experience versus traveling to learn, I think kind of sets you up for

Brandon  1:07:49

having a lot. We have different takeaway from that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and I think that's what this one does. A lot of it kind of like just shows you. him just like because he's always with, you know, he's always with somebody too. Yes, he's usually with somebody and he's having like, an ongoing conversation with them about being Italian, you don't mean or like being from key this or whatever, you know. So like, those recurring characters, you can see as well kind of like, navigate the weirdness that is James, like, doing stuff. And being odd. And like, you know, talking about that stuff, too. So you get that other details. So you get that level of detail. And then you just get to see him, like

1:08:41

in a Roman gladiatorial School, which is great. So like, you know, it's nice

Brandon  1:08:54

yeah, you add these all these layers, and you talk about, like, stuff like that. And he goes to one of those, uh, you know, Italy has a problem with people are leaving certain parts of Italy, because there's nothing there. Yeah. And so you have all these, like, really historic towns and like, 12 people live there. So, you know, there's that thing a few years ago were like, you know, you can buy houses in some of these villages for a euro. Wow. So he goes and looks at one and he's like, talking to people and like, what does this mean? Like, what does this do? He like talks to the mayor and like, or somebody in the city and like about like, Why what is happening? Why are you doing this? Like, you know, kind of talk about the strings like, okay, yeah, you buy it, but then you also have to, you know, part of the contract is within X number of years, you have to have invested so much money and bringing the building up to a certain standard of quality for the rest of the town or whatever, like, you know, but it's also these like very, very, very rustic buildings that are really kind of cool, like, know, what kind of people are doing So what's happening? What's going on? Like?

1:10:05

Kind of interesting. While like weird, random stuff like that, and James is nothing but random, right? Yeah, it's very random guy. So that dynamic that also that dichotomy of him like, constantly, because like I said, it's back and forth between things that he wants to do and find interesting. And things, the producers think it'd be hilarious for him to do. Yeah, is really great, because the variety of things that he gets into now are very broad indeed.

Collin  1:10:38

Well, I was gonna say the whole, like, there's all this chaos and fun stuff and funny things. And then there's this hyper focused, real issues kind of discussion. I'm reminded of the Top Gear special when I came over to the US to drive to New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. Oh, yeah. Right, where it was like, it was nothing but like mayhem and chaos along that entire way. And like, the whole, like, getting shot at and rocks thrown at him and having like, that whole debacle, and then it ending on the Note that it did have, like the devastation, and then just the humanity and the connections that they had with just real human people. And kind of like, that was the whole story all along of what they were really trying to tell us all along the way of, yeah, there's all this crazy, kooky stuff. But these people are hurting. And this is real. And this isn't this isn't funny. That was a, that was a roller coaster of a show of an episode, I remember that very distinctly of just being like, Wow, all this is the same one. I think it's very interesting. I think it's really good to do that to set something up, and then kind of knock that down or set something up, and then reinforce why you thought that in the first place, and then point out, you know, problems or other things going on with that as a way of guiding people through that experience. Yeah, and

Brandon  1:12:10

out of the, this, the show is really good. Because like, a lot of times, there's like a theme for the episode. Right? So there'll be kind of like a general theme for the episode that's kind of happening. And then plus, that's adding to the theme of this series, where like, yeah, it's building to this, like, we are, you know, because as you're going through these regions, right, you're kind of learning about, like, the way that he kind of breaks down in some, some episodes, it's clearer than others, because he's staying in certain hot spots. But like, you know, when you're talking about, what does it mean to be, you know, in Naples? Like, these are the things that are important to Naples? These are the things that are important to Rome, right. These are the things that are important to Venice, how does this come together into the overall theme is what is important to Talens? Right, Italy as a whole? Right? Like, you know, that's the kind of stuff that he's talking about, you know, overall the whole time that's kind of going on, like, there's this theme of like, you know, and he's in the, he's in the Ferrari factory, you know, he's talking about, like, he's talking to the Italians, like, one of the guys is like, you know, the, the interesting thing about Italians, I've always found is like, whenever it comes to the minut details, like things are very fastidiously taken care of, right? Things on the micro level are like super detail oriented, and done in a certain way. It's like, but when you zoom out to a macro level, that stopped happening, right, and they're talking about, like Italian bureaucracy, and government structure and all that stuff. And, you know, you know, and the guy even says, like, you know, everybody in the world wants to be Italian. Except for the Italian sometimes.

1:14:18

The noise, right? Like there's this, this, that kind of narrative is like, sprinkled in through like, what is how do these out of these different things fit together to make a whole, like, even if it's not cohesive all the time? What does it mean? Like how does this work? This is very cool. I like it a lot. Yeah,

Collin  1:14:39

there's a lot more narrative there that stuff together.

1:14:43

Yeah, I think we're having you know, six episodes about Italy instead of like, you know, selection options if you'd like one, you know. You also get more narrative because you're doing it that way.

Collin  1:14:55

Yeah, yeah, you can see those different, those different pieces and how they fit together.

1:15:00

Yeah, sounds good. I like it a lot. Now highly recommend. I still don't know if it's better than the Japan. But it's really good. I really like.

1:15:14

Okay, well, maybe that's what you can report on next time.

1:15:19

Find some love to watch. I'm currently I know how like Yeah, mate, we'll see. rewatching like, I don't know how this happened. But like I, like I said, when I was watching this reason what reason I found this because I was, I discovered that house was on Amazon Prime. Because I've been watching a whole bunch of house. We talked about that later. But there we go. Because here the fee I can't remember which season house starts to get lame, but it's not season four. So still waiting? Well, that's halfway through the row. And I think there's a season. Somewhere in here, we're starting to get this rib down. So we start to use the thread as bad as it goes on too much. But we can talk about that. Really? Yes. Another

1:16:15

another one. Yes, yes. Very good. Well, thank you for that. And we'll see what happens. Next one. All right. Love you.

1:16:29

Love you too.

1:16:30

Bye bye.