not the pie I wanted
We have our mute buttons at the ready! Collin explores furry hats. Brandon explores new culinary adventures.
Betwixt noses and throats
Nobody enjoys respiratory distress
Massive mosquitoes
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La Crosse or Lacrosse
Lacrosse…explain…
Visiting the Arch!!
Hats should not be furry
Brandon recovering from a 4 day weekend
Sandwich based disagreement!!
Culinary adventures!!
Increased the number of things I sort of know how to make
Brandon learns to cook things!
French Onion Soup
Do the variations even mean anything?
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SPEAKERS
Brandon, Collin
Collin Funkhouser 00:04
Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast where we're trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon. And Colin. On this week's show, not the pie wanted. Oh boy.
Brandon 00:19
Oh boy. How's it going? Well, everything is going okay, but my nose is running faster than the rest of me currently, so.
Collin Funkhouser 00:29
Oh, no. Sorry. It's bad.
Brandon 00:39
That's not wonderful. Oh, yeah. Have you been prepared?
Collin Funkhouser 00:42
That's fine. Yes. Well, you have the mute button for that. I have it for the return of my, my cough that just seems to never want to leave my body. So ah,
Brandon 00:51
yes. Fun times. Now, I think like, basically all of November.
01:03
That was what season was dealing with?
Collin Funkhouser 01:08
It's not, it's not a fun one. That's for sure. That's for sure. I mean, a lot
01:15
of fun things.
Collin Funkhouser 01:16
Nobody likes to be ill.
Brandon 01:18
No, nobody enjoys a respiratory distress. So is a shocker for you. But no. The wild temperature fluctuations finally caught up with me. And I think the trees are starting to be like, it's spring. What? Okay, go for it. No, okay, February, but you could like, do that, buddy. That would be that'd be great. Like
01:46
it would be really nice if they didn't just immediately dump all the pollen right away. It's weird. It's it's a weird springtime right now in like fall spring in Missouri. Because also, we were out in our front yard today. A and there were massive mosquitoes everywhere.
Brandon 02:05
That is not a right. That is something that we don't need in our life. Okay, right. That's, that's no good.
Collin Funkhouser 02:10
Yes. This was quite it was quite disturbing when we were talking to our neighbors. Because all of a sudden, Lillian came up behind Megan and went, Mom, what's that? And we looked down. And it was like, Oh, those are some of the largest mosquitoes I've ever seen in my life. Run away. Rotten. Yeah.
Brandon 02:30
Yeah, so good. We don't like mosquitoes.
02:34
Because we don't like malaria. Right or just West Nile
Brandon 02:41
River, West Nile. Don't forget about West Nile. Oh, come on now.
Collin Funkhouser 02:46
Oh, no fun. Yeah, well, yeah. Lots of lots of mosquito borne illnesses. That's true. So yeah, terrible side effects here of early spring has been really wet early spring, too. Kindness. It's weird.
Brandon 03:03
It's like rainy seek.
Collin Funkhouser 03:07
My brain. My brain is and the chicken Nanga or whatever virus like my brain is just going down this like how newsreels I've seen with I mean, there's a lot right? Oh, dang
Brandon 03:17
a fever. That's the that's the I definitely don't want that one.
03:23
No.
Collin Funkhouser 03:26
Just now I'm now I'm on now. I'm on. I'm on a site. Yeah. Malaria, West Nile, dengue. Zika yellow fever and show you.
Brandon 03:35
How Did ya get about yellow
03:37
fever? Ah, right. Yeah, this is and
Collin Funkhouser 03:42
then and then of course, they're always like, what's on the horizon of like, what other terrible things to know about that?
Brandon 03:48
I don't tell me about all the things that I could potentially get right. At that in my life. I
Collin Funkhouser 03:55
love. I love CDC. Okay, so the CDC has a website. It's not the title is not mosquito borne illnesses. The title of this page is other mosquito borne illness. Oh,
Brandon 04:11
oh, no. Oh, no.
Collin Funkhouser 04:15
Oh, that's bad. Real bad. It's such a long list.
Brandon 04:21
I forgot I forgot about the all the exciting encephalitis, right. Yeah. Did you know first of all, here's a fun fact. three varieties on this on the Texas Department of Health and Human Services because they need to worry about mosquitoes and Texas for sure. We have Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Western Equine Encephalitis. And don't forget St. Louis encephalitis. Oh, no.
Collin Funkhouser 04:52
What? Why hold on my own
Brandon 04:56
we don't want our own Missouri based no No, this is not okay. Back out here with that bad St. Louis.
Collin Funkhouser 05:03
Why you got to represent us like that? That's not the
Brandon 05:07
No Come on. We do not have we want to be more we need better things here. Right? No, no, no. homebrew encephalitis get out of here? No,
Collin Funkhouser 05:15
this is not. This is not okay. That's gross. Oh,
Brandon 05:23
the other very big list here I found from mosquito borne diseases is of course from our friends in Minnesota. Right. Sorry, Minnesota, right this time Don't you know, they have large lists because again 10,000 Lakes breeds a lot of mosquitoes. So yeah, no, no good here. Lots bad lots bad they have even more on their list. And I there's a lacrosse encephalitis Well, no,
Collin Funkhouser 05:55
I was just thinking about lacrosse. The other day of how why
Brandon 06:00
that's we live in the wrong part of the country to ever be thinking about recruitment, but across there's not very like we don't live in, you know, Maine. So
Collin Funkhouser 06:11
I was thinking about to lacrosse Wisconsin, right? Isn't that a town? Oh, that was gone. I
Brandon 06:16
was at
Collin Funkhouser 06:17
the sport with Oh, no, no, no. Oh, it's even weirder about lacrosse Wisconsin. It's one of those. It's one of those. Okay, so it's one of those towns that if you were, oh, if you are on like Google Maps on your phone, and you zoom way out, you see what you see like the capitals are the major metro. Right? It's one of those that you have to zoom in just enough before you hit like all the tiniest towns across the area. But it's it's large enough to pop out just after some of those the biggest towns there. And I was just
Brandon 06:55
like on an Oshkosh level, because that was Yeah,
Collin Funkhouser 06:59
and it's like, it's like right around what the Missouri River right there's at the Missouri river that runs through
Brandon 07:07
let me find out Hold on. If only I had a map app on my phone. Oh, but I do. Oh, ah. Hey, they
Collin Funkhouser 07:14
go river the
Brandon 07:15
gas. Oh, sorry. It's a zoomed in quite far on. Going whoever everything going? Yeah. Let me back out of my Italian village peruse moment here are completely unrelated reasons, obviously. Course. Yeah. Let's see in what section of the state am I going to be
Collin Funkhouser 07:35
zooming? Ah, it is. It is a lacrosse Wisconsin is up in the northern West Northwestern quarter as its western as it borders with.
07:48
Ah, ah.
Brandon 07:51
It's right on the border of Minnesota.
Collin Funkhouser 07:55
Nope, come back down. Come back down. It's Iowa. Ah. Oh, Iowa is
Brandon 08:02
right. Yes. It's right. It's right on there.
Collin Funkhouser 08:04
Okay. Right on the border. Yes. Sorry. My brain was like, I just might completely die. She's
Brandon 08:10
like we said it's on the western border. And I said with Minnesota. You said no, I was like, which direction do you think it's West? Collin, are you okay, hold on. We can't We can't be a part of the Midwest and you not know that Minnesota and Wisconsin are neighbors right? No,
Collin Funkhouser 08:28
the other West. Okay. The other the other West? Yes. That's the Mississippi River. Mississippi.
Brandon 08:35
Missouri reds over through Nebraska. Right. Yeah, sorry. Yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 08:38
Okay. Yeah.
08:39
So anyway, so it, it just,
Collin Funkhouser 08:42
it sits right there. It's tucked right along the Mississippi River. And it's just like this cool cute little town that freezes over and like the the river will freeze over parts time there and it just it's like, it just looks too nice. I want to go Ready go. Well, you
Brandon 08:57
can fly to the La Crosse Regional Airport. See that's I'm talking about though you might have to worry about another homebrew mosquito illness. Yeah, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, right. So yes, whenever I think about lacrosse, I of course think about the weird sport that I don't really understand the rules to right like we just
Collin Funkhouser 09:18
we it's like hockey, but it isn't but it
Brandon 09:25
totally is but
Collin Funkhouser 09:28
but it's also not but it's
Brandon 09:29
not very
09:31
confusing.
Brandon 09:33
I don't understand how lacrosse works. So listeners in the northeast and that helped me out right I did not do any lacrosse based investigations this summer. Maybe that is you know my downfall here. I think you know why those out perusing the, you know, Massachusetts and Connecticut right didn't do to just stop by likes just shouldn't have walked into a pizzeria like so. The cross? Yeah, you guys have some explaining to do. Please tell me why.
Collin Funkhouser 10:08
Oh, I have. I have a I have a joke. I could insert here but we're not going to. Okay.
Brandon 10:13
Yeah, Family is fine. There go.
Collin Funkhouser 10:18
Yes. You had a great opportunity to be educated far more than you would ever wish or I
Brandon 10:23
always have these. I always have these regrets. Right. The things I should have asked. Just ask like, Okay, I need you to explain the cross. Why? Why why?
Collin Funkhouser 10:35
Explain? Yes, exactly.
Brandon 10:44
Oh, next time, maybe, hey,
Collin Funkhouser 10:46
you know, you've got more opera to ample opportunities. I'm
Brandon 10:49
sure true, too. Yeah.
10:50
Because, you know, totally next door, so it's fine.
Brandon 11:03
So, other than being be set by many mosquitoes?
Collin Funkhouser 11:07
What have you been up to?
Brandon 11:09
Fending them off? I guess fending off the mosquitoes? Well,
Collin Funkhouser 11:13
I will also say that in keeping with the St. Louis mosquito connection, we also did venture out to go see the arch.
Brandon 11:24
i Yes. This was just the sole reason for your
11:30
trip was this elger image
Brandon 11:31
to the arch official cover of a
Collin Funkhouser 11:35
Moscow to I mean, no, not nominally it was to go see the arch, but also one of Megan's favorite restaurants. The Old Spaghetti Factory is also within walking distance of the arch, and so she could get her mizithra cheese fix,
Brandon 11:51
or why well, this is important as well, that you had to, like a two pronged approach. Right? It's, you know, because it's hard. It's, you know, driving all that way for like a thing. Yes. You know, kind of like, it's hard to justify. But if you have at least two things to do. Wow. Wow. Now on the bow, now it's on right. And,
Collin Funkhouser 12:15
and we've we've been it was this part of discussion of like, we've been, we've been West a lot to Kent city, like quite a bit. We haven't gone east at all, really, as a family. And we should, we should just go like, we should just do it. And then, you know, we leave at 7am because it's a three hour drive to get to the art. And we our tour tour. Well, so that was I was I was gonna lead with that. But and then I had another joke that I forgot it. It was okay. We Yeah, we drove out. And it was, ah, it's a long, very boring drive. So I got to drive on this stretch of highway where they're going to expand the interstate from four lanes to six lanes for no reason that I can tell, because the
Brandon 13:12
governor has construction brands confirmed confirmed speculation. Hey, don't come at me. Right.
Collin Funkhouser 13:21
I was driving, you know, this is also this is also the stretch of I 70. That is notorious for like, just terrible wrecks. And so maybe that's why maybe they're like, Oh, we know that wreck percentages per mile go down on as X percent per, you know, with three lanes versus two lanes and blah, blah. But I'm like, also, they get a lot of snow up that way. And that's just more things for me not to not take care of so I don't know about this, right. But whatever. I'm not. I'm not a road engineer, person. So whatever. But no, we made it out. And, you know, trying to explain what the arch is to kids is really hard. I realized
Brandon 14:03
it trying to explain that what the art is to anybody, not from Missouri. Like a little bit difficult, right? Like, you know, like, well, but why? Like, yeah, is it for like, but it's the gateway was that with I think it was like a song in middle school. Right. The gateway to the west. You must show me that is a mushroom Elementary School choir song that I'm guessing.
Collin Funkhouser 14:30
Rather than a poll.
Brandon 14:32
I think there was a distressing amount of Maypole in my life. I don't really know why. awesome that is.
Collin Funkhouser 14:41
See aforementioned location in Midwest.
Brandon 14:44
Yeah, like, why are my main polling in Missouri that doesn't make any sense.
Collin Funkhouser 14:50
Elementary choir teacher.
Brandon 14:51
Anyway.
Collin Funkhouser 14:52
It's called. It's called culture. Yeah,
Brandon 14:55
I guess. Well, yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 14:59
Anyway, yeah. just trying to like it also, it's weird. Like, no, this is literally the tallest structure that you will have ever seen. But like also trying to explain to them like, no, but we were still two hours away. It's not that tall. It's like no, no. Okay,
Brandon 15:13
yeah, gotta be able to build it up like that. Like it's the tallest thing ever. Like, Well, okay, maybe not like that's a tall
Collin Funkhouser 15:19
spotlight structure you have ever seen is way taller than all the buildings in you know, our little town it's a, it was just very, very interesting to to walk through that. And then get close Park. And then and then it's cool being down at that part of St. Louis because then you're like, No, these cobblestones are hundreds of years old and like, it's a very, you know, Frenchman put these here whirling his mustache. Yeah, you know, he put these down here and said suckley, blah, whatever. And so probably not. The last time I was at the arch was 12 years ago, when Megan and I came home for a Christmas and they had it closed down because they were redoing the visitor center. So Oh, yes. And prior to that, I had not been in the church since like, oh,
Brandon 16:22
I don't know exactly where the last time you were in the arch. But before that, I'm sure it was probably the last time I was in the arch read. The only time I've got is somewhere around 1993
Collin Funkhouser 16:41
I was Yeah, I was pegging probably around like six
Brandon 16:46
so feel like it was somewhere in the 90
Collin Funkhouser 16:48
Or no, no, it was 93 because that
Brandon 16:53
was the it was the flooding year. Oh, and you know those big steps that are over Yes. Because the water was like way up the steps like I was at the top Yeah, and that's where yeah, like those were the flags are yes. Do this Yeah. flags on the water was like up there. Right.
Collin Funkhouser 17:10
Okay, so I was five right I was five so yeah, it's it's lit it's been 30 years since I was up in New York 3030 years white and like you don't remember
Brandon 17:25
how fun that elevator is? Well for the four of you in here and then I
Collin Funkhouser 17:32
can put this into perspective like oh wow. Like Noah is the age that I was when I was here like oh wow wow that's big wow yeah really puts that into some like Stark perspective are normally and so the the new visitor center is way cool like so I can't like trying to
Brandon 18:01
remember what the old visitor said it was like so I don't
Collin Funkhouser 18:09
yeah so what I remember in what in speaking with with Megan and her dad it was like oh, it was really like dark and like just concrete everywhere and looked really like Not whitening inviting right and so this one doesn't
Brandon 18:36
make you want to visit for some reason. Yeah. Oh,
Collin Funkhouser 18:39
wow. This looks like more like a dungeon like great. We were taking me further down into the depths one mil but no this one like they've it's like ultra modern entryway with like this huge sweeping glass entrance and like it's really lots of light. And then you walk through they've got these huge panels like almost Florida ceiling with projections of people walking in the like grassland with a with a
19:08
cap.
Collin Funkhouser 19:11
horse and wagon whenever. The old Yeah. And they with a sound so like it's, oh, it's the Go west, right? It's the westward expansion. It's now or when the trail Yeah, now now we're just just between you and me. The entrance that you walk in on is on the west end you walk into the visitor center going east. So look, it's not
Brandon 19:44
a critical oversight. Now.
Collin Funkhouser 19:46
I will say you're now on the east side of the art is a river, a massive one. So they couldn't really go that way much with this because this is a huge expansion project for this thing. It is a massive Visitor Center with. And what they've done is they've made these big alcoves for different, just like 100 year periods of the history of St. Louis, all the way up to the building and construction of the arch. So it's really like really puts everything into context. It's really cool. A lot about fur trapping. So much. So
Brandon 20:21
being trapped. That's literally what St. Louis's job was for now. Why now? Alright, so for listeners who may have absolutely no idea why we're prattling on and on and on about a bit Oh,
Collin Funkhouser 20:32
sure. Sorry. Really important.
Brandon 20:36
The REITs Colin, go ahead and talk. You alluded to, like, explain to the kids why the art exists. Maybe some listeners, right. I'm sure its friends in Singapore might be interested to know what on earth you're talking about? Like, yeah, is there an Arch in St. Louis? Right. What is this? What is this we're talking about? And what does it for? Me take for granted having driven by it 700,000 times? Yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 21:00
All the time, like about this thing. And so basically, what happened was they wanted to commemorate this, and I look, I sat through video, and I don't remember any of this really nice. But like, but it's to commemorate the, the, the westward expansion of, of the United States is really what this is. And as as, as the starting point for the, you know, the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, right is another aspect of this too. And like, and so they wanted to to commemorate this spot, as far as like St. Louis, really the launching point for this exploration and the growth of United States through this time period. And they actually went out and submit got, like six or seven different models, or different like, pitches for what they wanted this to be. And in the end, they, they they show this in the museum, they show the alternatives of what people thought they was kind of trippy. Okay. It was a while
22:09
back on how bad
22:10
could it have been? Okay,
Brandon 22:12
what could we have been stuck with instead? Right?
22:15
They would.
Collin Funkhouser 22:16
What about an obelisk?
Brandon 22:20
Boring or like a Washington DC.
Collin Funkhouser 22:23
Or like, oh, they The other aspect, too, is that this is the smallest national park or monument spot. It's only 91 acres. It's the smallest in the country. Um, so they don't have a whole lot to work with. So people were basically like, oh, we'll just have a big like, open lawn with some like, six or seven pillars here and like a fountain over there. And like, none of them were really inspiring. Like, seriously, like, you look at what was being built. And you're like, right, that is 1950s 1960s. Like, that's what we're like, that's how we
Brandon 22:54
build. They just tried to copy they're just like, they moved that idea to the University of Missouri campus. Yes. What some sticks and pillars. They're fine. Everybody's fine. Don't worry, right?
Collin Funkhouser 23:03
And then this guy, Saarinen, Serenata, or whatever his name was, I can ever say, I don't know how you say two A's in a row. But he's this architect. And he's like, arch? Arch? Massive arch? What if we did an arch that was 630 meters tall or whatever? What is it? 1630? What if? What if we did that? Something like that? meters? Six, sorry. 630 feet? 192? meters? Sorry, not six.
Brandon 23:33
That's good. Okay, there we go.
Collin Funkhouser 23:34
What do we do? Like I just looked at that word. What if we, what if we just did a massive arch? And what what if we did that? And it was oh, and it was stainless steel on the outside? So it's now shiny.
23:47
So shiny. It's so shiny. It's crazy. And they went with it? Yeah. And it's it's just, it's one of those like, Oh, right. This is not meant to really be a thing, because it's a monument. And that's what's really, it's not a building. It's not as a functional piece. Right? As much as because
Collin Funkhouser 24:10
because the tram was added later to the design. Like that's the other aspect. Like this wasn't designed initially to take people outside. And so
Brandon 24:21
the when I did that conversation, somebody's like, yeah, we can. Yeah, I think it's big enough. We could show a tram and advise.
Collin Funkhouser 24:28
I don't like and, and it's the way it's designed is just also really awe inspiring, because it's not like a typical steel building, because you can't build it like a typical steel building where you make it internally. That
Brandon 24:46
part. Right. So listeners, the exciting part about this is if you're an engineering enthusiast, right, first of all, we should get out of the way. I know somebody's out there asking also students of history you should probably just clip this in Just review this for your class, you're free. You're welcome.
25:01
Right? But you can
Brandon 25:05
it's technically a catenary awaited catenary curve. Yeah. Which is like if you hold a rope upside down, and you're gonna ask like old uns of rope, the curve that it makes, that's the shape of the arch, but they just like flip it over. But in order to make it like Colin was alluding to, you can't just build it straight up, they had to build both sides at the same time, and then insert a keystone piece at the top, and just sort of like, hope it fit and weld it real fast. So it didn't fall there.
Collin Funkhouser 25:39
Yeah, so they've got these giant cranes attached on the outside of this thing as it gets larger. And then they have to have the cross for support structures, bridging the gap between them, so it doesn't collapse in on itself. Because the only reason it's going to support is because it's going to have a keystone. So the whole thing is actually, as a unit, it is strong. And there's no real internal support structure, because also the outside stainless steel skin is part of the support. So
26:12
like, yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 26:15
And it's Yeah, and the shape of it is also misleading, too, because it's not like a nice, like, even curve, right? It's not like a rainbow, like you're talking about there. Like it truly is, like you said that, like if you hold a rope upside down, that's where he was inspired by that, by that structure.
Brandon 26:33
that's shaped like the in the legs. Like their act. They're not like, they're like they look they're like really, really big like trapezoid almost. Right? Like, it's a weird shape. Yes. Real close to it. It's not like it's not square, obviously, because that will bend. Right? It's almost like this weird, like, kinda it's almost like trapezoidal. Is it kind of like curves up?
Collin Funkhouser 26:55
Right? To the top? It's,
Brandon 26:57
it's wild.
Collin Funkhouser 26:59
Yeah. So it's, it's really cool. And to think that this was a design that he came up with in 19, like the late 1940s like, crazy, crazy idea of this. Because then, you know, then you've got to actually build it. And this supporting structures that go super deep underground
Brandon 27:20
to keep the big footers Oh, yeah. Because he forgot about that. I saw I remember that picture from that picture from the old thing. That huge, those huge footer big. Because
Collin Funkhouser 27:30
Oh, also we can't remember, I'm sorry, we can't forget that. less than less than 100 yards. Next to this is the giant Mississippi River. You know, so we're nice right here. And, you know, we're not sitting right on top of bedrock.
Brandon 27:47
Also northern Missouri, so it's like Glacial Till soil is right. It's not like, sturdy.
Collin Funkhouser 27:52
No, no, no, no, far from it. Far from it. People. Yeah.
Brandon 27:56
And farming, but that's about
Collin Funkhouser 28:00
it. Yeah. So just lots of you know, they have, they have the only surviving scale model that he built there as well. So you can see that and he was a really well known architect and designer of chairs and stuff to I guess like another one was his like, he designed it the Tula base chair, you can look that up. That's his waist, there's
Brandon 28:25
always a chair.
Collin Funkhouser 28:28
Why do we Why do our designers love chairs so much? I don't want to because I think it's because it's a challenge of like, Oh, you think you know, a chair. But like, do you know my chair? Like, I think it's them? Perhaps they've you can flex your or
Brandon 28:42
your design skills by like reinventing the chair. Right. Like, yeah, that's what I think being on it. Right. Like those weird Bauhaus chairs. Yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 28:53
Exactly. Where they were like, well, anyway. So yeah, so seeing the, so that's what they came up with with this. And then they added the, the the carts that go up inside it, and then that thing is, that's another aspect of just engineering marvel of again, this is all happening, where you have this weird curve, and that you can't take an elevator up in. You also can't do an escalator because you can't have people stay on and that's the way too awkward to and not safe as you steep to write. Yeah, so they, what they decided was, we're going to take an elevator, or we're going to make it a circle. And then we're going to put that circle on bearings. And so as it goes up on the conveyor, it will auto adjust in level as you go up so that you're always stay
Brandon 29:52
in the rock side, the side of it.
Collin Funkhouser 29:56
Yes, now, and prior to this, I think they And it was very rudimentary. Now they have a little bit more smarts on it where, like, right before you the big doors open for you to enter exit. The whole thing goes like you hear like this, where it actually like auto levels like you feel that like, shift in lock into place as opposed to
Brandon 30:22
did not have that in it. 93 No.
Collin Funkhouser 30:26
It was like it was like what angle? Are we departing? Who knows? Like? wherever it lands
Brandon 30:33
it's like stepping on a rolling ship deck. Like, Oh, where
Collin Funkhouser 30:36
are you gonna land? Oh, and that's the other thing to the maybe you would remember this more than me? I don't. The doors to the little. The little hearts, whatever. And again, only five people can fit in these in one in one go somewhere big. Not very big. Do you remember those doors? Were they solid? Or could you see through them? Because he knew they had window? Okay, they had a little window? Yeah. So. So now now they're Florida sealing Plexiglas than it was before. Like imagine.
Brandon 31:11
They were like weird, like just what you think like old tram metal doors would look like. Yeah, how they were like with a rolled edge door. And you could like see all the working on the inside. But they did have like little windows on them. So you could see like the stairs and like the struts inside there. And I'm sure,
Collin Funkhouser 31:27
yeah, so now I think they took that and expanded that from that little like porthole now to see the whole thing. That's better. It's more so
31:34
yeah,
Collin Funkhouser 31:35
you know, you go up there and you see the little, little windows at the very top and get to look down. And so that was cool, too. Because, you know, obviously, as you're walking up to it, you want to get your picture taken to it by the leg. And then when you get up top, you can turn and go, Hey, look, we were right down there. See the green trash can. So that was cool. And then of course being able to look out on the Mississippi and see the barges going up and down. And the historic churches and the old or the courthouse down there and everything. So that was that was a lot of fun to get to go. Go see and explore. And yeah, so it was a it was quite a long day. It was three hours there. We spent four hours on site and at lunch, and then it was three hours back. Imagine a 10 hour travel day. That's a saddle. Thank you. That'll put the hurt on.
Brandon 32:38
Yeah, no kidding.
Collin Funkhouser 32:39
Especially, especially when somebody who won't be named me. My brain, my brain decided that 330 In the morning was when I was gonna wake up.
Brandon 32:55
That was what a plan that is.
Collin Funkhouser 32:57
That was no not. Not a good not a good day. That Sleepy. Sleepy. horrible time for waking up. Yes, General. But yes. I've traveled a lot. Yeah. Yeah. But
Brandon 33:13
it was it was a lot of fun. Excited about catenary curves and westward expansion. Yes.
Collin Funkhouser 33:19
Yeah. I couldn't wait to see the Yeah. The gateway to the west. Yeah. The the location of the founding of the city of St. Louis is what I was excited to, of course, of course, yeah. Right. Do. But yeah. So that was a was really, really fun. And again, just trying to get the kids to like, again, what exactly is going on with this? And it's fun. But yeah, they have a weird stats. Like, they'll say things like, It's the tallest manmade monuments. In the Western Hemisphere. Yeah. And that's the other thing too of going. It's not the tallest building a monument. So that also puts it in weird categories. And I've said that twice. But like, it really is important to note that like, this is nothing really, it's, it's just supposed to symbolize something. And then because we in America are like, You know what we could do? Like, we need. We want to experience that. So let's put some windows and let's really go it's been millions of dollars making the world's craziest elevator so we can get up there because that's what we need to do. Yeah. Really, when you think about it,
Brandon 34:38
the only reason it exists? Is because of hats. Right? Yes. How weird is that? How weird is that? Did the St. Louis Arch is there because that's
Collin Funkhouser 34:53
hats people I know.
Brandon 34:59
Well, Oh, it's so weird. Like, I guess. Europeans need pads. So better make some trade routes. Boom St. Louis got um, there we go. Arch can arch exists now that's what
Collin Funkhouser 35:18
I have of in it's just the heavy jump it really is it really is. Wait because I'm trying to explain all of this. There's a moment in the visitor center where they're like beaver hat would you like to touch one? Like, of course I want to see touch of beaver hat.
Brandon 35:37
Let's see what the whole hype is about you know the whole reason we're here you touch
Collin Funkhouser 35:41
it you literally have it they just have like they don't they have a hat there with like a sample of the beaver skin on it like it's not actually made. But then behind the glass, they have an actual beaver top hat and you're staring at this thing and you're like that. That is the most hideous piece of clothing I've ever seen. It's
Brandon 36:04
very water repellent though. So got that going for it. It's
Collin Funkhouser 36:07
very unnerving hats should not be furry. This is what I've decided hats should like. I'm a hard no on furry hats. I'm sorry, you're taking a stand on it. Just to hats should not be free. Well,
Brandon 36:21
it's a very 2024 opinion of you think 1824 They were like No, bro. Only for
Collin Funkhouser 36:34
Yeah, all of this that you see before you shall come from the motoring of large aquatic rodents.
36:39
Yes.
Brandon 36:43
It's weird. I mean, not just the It's okay. This is even weirder. Like Missouri kind of exists because
Collin Funkhouser 36:49
the hat. Yeah. Right. Think about that. What other guy? What? Yeah.
Brandon 37:03
Like they don't tell you that foreign school. They talk about the trade and like the looking for natural resources. And they talk about like beaver
37:11
fur and stuff. Like
Brandon 37:15
nobody ever breaks down like No, no, it was perhaps though. Like Matt Matt. Like what they they kind of don't tell you what the beaver fur was for at least I didn't when I was a kid, right? I don't. I don't want to be that. Like, they don't want you to know, they don't want to be that guy on the internet. Or like, when I was in school, right when we learned about this westward expansion stuff. They never mentioned hats. Right? Maybe that's why I'm so fixated on it currently, but like it's all about, like, Missouri kind of exists because of a fashion trend. Right? That's just mildly upsetting when you think about
Collin Funkhouser 37:48
look, yeah, that's how that's how a hip in in it. We are. We continue to be so
37:53
Yeah, except for
Brandon 37:56
no fur hats now. Right? No. Murder brands when I heard starting in the 90s for someone to throw red paint on you or something? Probably. Well
Collin Funkhouser 38:11
yeah, I'll do all good stuff. There's, there's these laws around it to like, well, obviously, like the FAA back in 1960s was like, Oh, and by the way, like after it was built. Here's a built in. It was it was
Brandon 38:25
it was it was built in the 60s.
Collin Funkhouser 38:28
Yeah. 60s. Yeah. Shortly thereafter, the FAA was like, oh, yeah, by the way, don't fly your plane through it. But yeah, nobody, obviously I'll put it
Brandon 38:35
because you know, watching it going? Oh, I
Collin Funkhouser 38:39
think I think like within the year the first pilot drove it looks like of course, it's you just know you're flying around. You're like welcome. Like it can't
Brandon 38:51
think about if you think about what is on the exact opposite side of the river. It's nothing but farmland over there thing, right? So you know, all these dudes in like crop dusters. You're like, oh, yeah, they're like flying around dusting crops, like, rubbing their hands together, as it's being built and like, soon see, like nighttime
Collin Funkhouser 39:16
that they're just sitting over there. flying back and forth. Just staring back across. Yeah, one of these days. I'm
Brandon 39:23
gonna just gonna say is when I'm done Destiny's soybeans.
Collin Funkhouser 39:26
I'm just gonna turn. I'm just gonna do Ah, yeah. And that's, well, that was so that's how we ended our day, actually. So after we had lunch, soybeans, yeah, we drove around a little bit. And then we were so close to another state and the thermians. Like, they're like, we've got to go over and of course, Megan's dad was like, okay, look, okay, so I'm gonna say this. It was all due respect. And we're driving around and we're like, well, we gotta go over to Illinois, to assure tech guys you Why? He goes, You mean East St. Louis?
40:05
No, no, no, not there. That
Collin Funkhouser 40:09
No, no, not that far. We're not going over that. We're just gonna go real quick zipped up. So we jumped over there's a speedway or something over there that we pulled over, which was got some gas and we got out and tap danced on Illinois and then ran away. Gas was very costly and then came home.
Brandon 40:30
Just bought the beef jerky instead, right should have that Missouri gas.
Collin Funkhouser 40:34
But also I was at a gas symphony. Okay. Okay, fair. Okay. Let's move on to push across the really cool bridge.
Brandon 40:42
That sounds exciting.
Collin Funkhouser 40:47
Yeah, don't do that. No, no. So yeah, that was our that was our big adventure. This week on a big adventure. Quite a big adventure. I'm still I'm still very tired.
Brandon 41:01
Yeah, you know, it's three o'clock in the morning to Illinois for some reason that you know, you're gonna be well and,
Collin Funkhouser 41:08
and, and tomorrow we start our grand, grand journey down to Texas where the were the biggest heartaches are? Oh, that's her.
Brandon 41:18
Right. To go somewhere. The yellow roses are yellow roses. Yeah, yeah. Yep. And so lots of lots of
Collin Funkhouser 41:24
stuff. But yeah, so that's, uh, that's it. We've been doing some Missouri dive Missouri history. We've got some Illinois in Cahokia Mounds from a distance. And
Brandon 41:34
ah, yes. Over there.
Collin Funkhouser 41:38
They're over there. That over there. I could find out.
Brandon 41:45
Yeah, it's a whole other thing over there. Like
41:49
so do ya? Yeah. But other so have you? Have
Collin Funkhouser 41:55
you been exploring any rich Missouri history? This this fair week? Now? Yeah, okay. They're
Brandon 42:04
doing much right. I'm trying to reorganize myself after we had a four day weekend. Right. All Brian? So like, yeah. And so after, like, that was already planned. And then the week, you know, we had surprise snow last Monday or whatever. And so like, this week was all about going. What was I doing? What?
42:26
How does school? One of my
Brandon 42:30
going on here? Trying to sort of reorganize myself and
Collin Funkhouser 42:34
be like, what? Yeah. Is happening. Right? Yeah. Just go to think what? Huh? That was? Yeah, that's
Brandon 42:46
basically been it. Right. That's okay. But it but Susan, I did have an argument. Right. And so I need I need input on this. Now when I say argument, right, of course, I don't mean like, actual, actual argument. But we did have sandwich based disagreement. Ah, right. And so I want your opinion, listeners you can right in tell me if I'm wrong, or whatever. But
Collin Funkhouser 43:11
I mean, no appropriate. Sauce, toppings. Oh,
Brandon 43:15
sandwiches. Right. Here's what here's where it gets tricky. Right? Had the classic dilemma of what condiment do you put on a sandwich? Hey, so if I say to you, like
Collin Funkhouser 43:32
turkey sandwich. What are you putting on turkey sandwich? Oh, well, I'm probably well, I put on mayo with the
Brandon 43:39
turkey. Fish. Yes. This is financer Susan agrees.
Collin Funkhouser 43:42
I agree. Right. A ham and or pork sandwich. Ham or pork ham. Okay. Yeah.
Brandon 43:50
I was eating uh, the reasons came up was I was eating like a pork tenderloin sandwich with leftover I use the leftover pork tenderloin for my lunches
Collin Funkhouser 43:58
this week. Okay, what do you put on that? For a pork tenderloin? I mean, I, I I would probably put like a especially if I was reheating it. I mean, I made I don't know, I may throw barbecue sauce on that to do that kind of thing. But then I'm uh, I'm kind of weird. So I try Yeah, yeah, I don't know what what what was the what would you guys say? Well,
Brandon 44:25
here's where the argument human Susan says mayonnaise for everything. Oh, I said no, no. Ham or pork. Which requires mustard.
Collin Funkhouser 44:35
Oh, you went the mustard route. Yeah.
Brandon 44:39
Right. And then this is where the disagreements are like
Collin Funkhouser 44:42
why me? No, no. Like, I feel like you need the little bit stronger.
Brandon 44:50
Because hammer hammer the pork based pig based sandwiches, much stronger flavor.
44:55
Right?
Brandon 44:56
Can I need like a stronger sauce mayonnaise just
Collin Funkhouser 44:59
doesn't really cut It doesn't cut the mustard, if you will. Yeah.
45:11
Anyway
Brandon 45:16
I couldn't help it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I couldn't help it. It's fair. But just wanted to bring that up as well. Your opinion. Okay, let's see where we're at. Right? Because as we were like, she was like, what? Why are you so wrong? We
Collin Funkhouser 45:31
see, Megan is a hard is She's a mustard fan as well. Like she that's her go to when we talk. Okay, so. So we, we have we have condiments at the house. And you have taught sometimes, sometimes they're well, so sometimes there is a disagreement as to which ones we should bring to the table for a certain
Brandon 45:53
dinner. Oh, yeah. See ya. Yeah.
45:55
So like, do you
Collin Funkhouser 45:56
bring out the yum, yum sauce? Or do you like this is this is my secret Cotu by the way of like, always try the yum, yum sauce, even if you don't think it's gonna work with try the sauce? Or, you know, or is it just a ketchup thing? Or like, do we have barbecue sauce? Or can we add a ranch to this? Or do we need to bring out the mustard. So what we have is we have placed all the condiments into a bucket, a little like stainless steel pail and the pail just goes into the fridge on the top shelf so that when you're ready for dinner, you just grab the bucket to take it to the dining room table. Yeah. At the end of the day, we sandwiches a lot. Right. I will put I actually secretly liked barbecue sauce on my turkey sandwiches.
46:41
Okay. Yeah.
Brandon 46:42
It's pretty good. Right? Yes. Yeah, I would agree. I like that. But yeah, we have that set. We have like a bunch of beers so that we actually, the only other thing we did this week was we returned to the Asian market because we were out of the sweet chili sauce in the crime. And so we had to make sure we
Collin Funkhouser 47:01
you must must have that. Yeah,
Brandon 47:03
it goes really good with a lot of stuff. Or Chicken. Chicken. Yes. Yes. And literally anything else? But we had to restock on that.
Collin Funkhouser 47:15
Yeah, I mean, I'm a I go through phases where I'm like, sauce on everything. I must have a sauce to put on something. Some aspect of Didier will have a sauce with it. And then there are other times I'm like, No, I don't need anything on this. I don't want anything on my, my potatoes. Stop touching them. Yeah, I just gonna eat them like this. And then I realized that no, I do need to have some soy sauce or give me some of this because that's that's what is necessary.
Brandon 47:39
We don't need to do it with dinner. It's we use we are what I guess maybe it's just what we make for dinner and stuff like that. Like, we are more I would say sauce aware for lunches. Right? Sure. I think that's I just I'd maybe it's just what we're eating. But like, we're definitely I'm even more I think about it more my lunch, right? Maybe sometimes dinner already has like a sauce because you'd like make it with thing or whatever. And I'm like, sure has integrated into the design of the dish. But are we eating a lot of soup recently, too. So you definitely don't eat sauce for that. But no. But like, lunch is a lot of like stuff that needs a lot of sauce.
Collin Funkhouser 48:19
Right sometimes. Is a question.
Brandon 48:22
It does salsa count as a sauce. controversial topic alert.
Collin Funkhouser 48:27
So I will say that I use it as well. Yes. I would not have said that. It did. Until we bought a um, we were we grabbed some sandwiches to go just from a little convenience store. And they came with a sauce packet in them to add to them. And in the sauce packet was salsa. And I was like, What is this? And? Ah, yeah, it was a I was I was expecting it to be like a mustard packet or a mayo packet. And it was like, No, it was a salsa packet for your sandwich. And I we ate it. It was very delicious. So I would say that yes. It's also can definitely be a condiment
Brandon 49:11
for your sandwich. I think also because I again, for sandwiches specifically. Sometimes I will just be like, I wonder if I can put this on a sandwich. And I just like go for it right? I'm very I'm very experimental with my sandwiches. Right? Because sandwich is the ultimate food because you can literally put anything on it. It doesn't matter. Right there's no rules. But yeah, so I have put salsa on this like a turkey sandwich before to get like a like a nice cheese and Turkey and things of sauce on there.
49:44
Actually, pretty good.
Brandon 49:47
So
Collin Funkhouser 49:50
Agreed, agreed.
Brandon 49:54
So sometimes I will be like, Ah, I wonder what else I could put on the sandwich and I'll just sort of rummage around into the door of the refrigerator and see what else is in there. Like
Collin Funkhouser 50:05
I could try that. The
Brandon 50:09
pro tip listeners if you're gonna go sauce heavy on the sandwich, you gotta make sure you toast whatever sort of bread you using. Right? It's a pearl is toast the bread, okay? Otherwise it's too soggy. And it does that thing where like sticks to the roof of your mouth are bad. And it reminds me of elementary school lunch and no one wants that. Okay. Yeah, right, you know?
50:36
Oh my gosh. Soccer Brando,
Brandon 50:38
whatever your mind. You really don't ever want to be reminded of elementary school cafeteria in your life ever.
50:44
So?
Collin Funkhouser 50:46
No, it's really disturbing whenever the bread is in that like, is in that state of Is it a solid or is it a liquid? Like it's really like building
Brandon 50:53
blocks all day? Or I sitting on the counter in the cafeteria all day? It's just like
Collin Funkhouser 50:58
mushy? Yeah, you know, I don't? Yes.
Brandon 51:07
Again, our friends across the world who have much better cafeteria lunches are like laughing at us again. Like, what losers eaten grilled sandwiches for lunch? Like they had like fresh soup and salad curfew, right. Are you were
Collin Funkhouser 51:21
you in your fresh foods that ah, goodness,
Brandon 51:25
you probably didn't have a red light on in your cafeteria that could talk
Collin Funkhouser 51:35
you did? I don't know. Let
Brandon 51:37
us know. Let us know how it was. But
Collin Funkhouser 51:44
yeah, you and your fresh foods and we're our cafeterias are run by the dairy industry.
Brandon 51:52
Just highlight dairy new, trying to find
Collin Funkhouser 51:55
new and inventive ways to use milk and milk byproducts in process cheese.
52:01
Right.
Brandon 52:03
The government powdered eggs. We'll put this in. Although I will say some of those who cooks extraordinarily creative individuals. Oh my god give them credit. Yeah, sometimes they came up with some winners. Yes. You know, they did. not their fault. They're working with what they had. Okay. Don't hate on the cafeteria ladies. Some of the some of the bay sometimes they were given trash to work with. Okay. Yes. And they can't. You know, there's no,
Collin Funkhouser 52:31
no, but some of the genuinely sweetest most wonderful people on the face of the planet. Always very kind and wonderful. So yes, not that it was not their fault. Yes. It was not their fault. It was there was yeah, it was the school's fault. School administrators fault But speaking of
Brandon 52:59
culinary adventures, i Dad was the other thing. Right? I have increased the number of things that I sort of know how to make two like three there. Ah, oh, there we go in the in the continuing saga of bread and learns to cook things. Like this added. Added French onion soup to the list? Yes. Yes. And yes. Boy, this looks amazing. It was really good. I was a little scared. Okay. It's very labor intensive process. Well, not really labor intensive. There's a lot of standing near a pot of onions. It has to happen. So Susan was like, Oh, you work so hard. I was like, not really. I just sort of stood near some onions for like an hour. And then that was it. I didn't realize it.
Collin Funkhouser 53:51
But I stared at them really intently. Why?
Brandon 53:53
Why did you decide to go after this dish? Because that's I was mostly curious as to why you picked this one over another kind of soup. I don't know. It just sounded really good. Okay, okay. It just sounded like something that I really wanted to eat. And so I was like, Well, I'm gonna try to figure this out. And we're gonna go for it. Right? And so that
54:15
it's one of those like, just like I
Brandon 54:16
randomly saw some somewhere and I was like, Ah,
Collin Funkhouser 54:19
I want to eat that. But then, you know, like, I can't, I can't like find it places to eat. So I was like, Well, I'm gonna have to make it. And so
Brandon 54:32
I went down this rabbit hole of trying to figure out how to make French onion soup. And I will tell you that sometimes the internet makes things maddeningly difficult. Because I probably watched and or read, like 30 French onion soup recipes. Oh, right. Maybe not. 30 Maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but I read a lot of them to try to figure out like
Collin Funkhouser 54:57
to wrap my brain around like kind of the process Yes.
Brandon 55:00
Because again, when I say don't know how to cook things, there's a lot of like cooking skills that I
Collin Funkhouser 55:04
don't possess. Sure. Right. So I've, you know, like,
Brandon 55:09
every single one of the recipes is different. And that is really annoying and weird. Oh,
Collin Funkhouser 55:21
I tried to, like what?
Brandon 55:25
They all have, like, weird variations, and they're like,
Collin Funkhouser 55:29
What did? What did I mean? Well, that's a, that's also I'm sure. I'm sure they're inextricably different as in like, There's no rhyme or reason for them to be slight that for the slight variation between that tell you I'm Brent. Yeah.
Brandon 55:50
They would be like, Oh, we're gonna put this there.
Collin Funkhouser 55:52
What? What, what? Why? Well, and especially we're going to do this. Well, what what I, what I envision is the Yeah, like, well, I don't know, enough to know what difference that's going to make the outcome and whether I would like, yeah, difference or not?
56:12
Yeah,
Brandon 56:14
this is this is the other problem, right? Because I am so ignorant as to like, how these variations change the end result? It's sort of like stymying to be like, Well, which one of these do I do? Because I don't? What do I want the end result to be? Right. So that means that dictates the road that I have to go down? Right? But like, I don't know which road to pick because there's like 75,000 roads, and they all kind of get me to the same spot, but like not really, right? It's kind of like if you want to go to like Dollar General and you end up at like, Dollar Tree. Like, that's not quite what I was aiming for. But yeah, it's it's fine. Right? Like it's like,
Collin Funkhouser 56:55
alright, well, and you just don't know any better. So you're like, Well, I, because that's so frustrating, because then you go well, yeah, is is Do I not? Well, I would say this this way, like, well, do I not like French onion soup? Or do I not like French onion soup that was made this way? Right? Yeah. And then you have to go well, I guess you need to try another way. And then it's like, oh, yeah, that's decorative. That's received frustrating.
Brandon 57:18
Yeah, it's real weird, right? Because, again, the general premise of how to make the soup.
Collin Funkhouser 57:25
Not just like, super difficult. It takes like, a long time. But like,
Brandon 57:31
it's sort of designed I did learn in my research, right? Well, summary, this is sort of designed to be like a very,
Collin Funkhouser 57:39
like, non labor intensive process. Right. Okay.
Brandon 57:44
So like, one person that I saw, they said, again, I haven't bothered to fact check this before I said that repeat on the internet, but I'm just giving you the morning. They mentioned that like, a long time ago, like in France, it was one of the things that they say that people would make like after like, midnight mass. They just like kind of throw it on. And then like, make it for like late night food, right? Because it's like, you know, whatever. This sort of makes sense. Because it is at its heart.
Collin Funkhouser 58:16
Like brown onions, throw in stock simmer. Done. Right? That's kind of
Brandon 58:23
the really, really condensed version. Right? But it all comes down to like, how long? What else do you put in there? Gives me French so there is butter involved? Obviously that's important. But like
58:41
how much of that? You know,
Brandon 58:43
don't burn the butter. Right? Oh, gosh, over that said you know what that right? So? Being like, is that oven? Is the stove too hot? No doubt. Yeah. Right. So there's a lot of like fidgeting with things. And just sort of trying to figure out the nuances of what's happening. But again, because I don't exactly know what the in the end result is supposed to be. Right? We were like eating onion soup. Like before, but not like recently.
Collin Funkhouser 59:08
Sure. But yeah, like it's not something that it's like, oh, I have a well, well discerning palate for these kinds.
Brandon 59:15
Yeah, it's not like I'm an expert on what a good French onion soup is supposed to be like. So yeah, like, Okay. allergy. It's not really Yeah, yeah, I don't know. So I was like, hum.
Collin Funkhouser 59:32
I guess this
Brandon 59:33
is a bit of an amalgamation of things, and kind of just like put them together and came up with a result that Susan said was good, so I'm gonna take her word for it right. As the official taste tester, she approved so that was good. So she ate it all. So that must be good. I must mean it was fine. Yes,
Collin Funkhouser 1:00:01
I think so. I think that definitely, well, yes,
Brandon 1:00:04
I think that is a good sign that that it was it was done well. True. The other problem that we did run into of course, is as someone who does not own a dining table we did have to bust out the car table to eat on, because after you, you have to throw the bowl of soup in the oven. So it's like a billion degrees. So this is not like I'm just gonna chill out on the couch and eat this bowl of soup. No, so
Collin Funkhouser 1:00:35
yeah, it's it's, you're taking your life in your hands to some extent the first time
Brandon 1:00:39
so we had to bust out the car table and put the we did the old put the seatbelt on the plate on the table.
Collin Funkhouser 1:00:48
Yes, yes. So as not to damage or melt through. Yeah, melted plastic car table. That
Brandon 1:00:53
would be awkward. Oh, no, my suit and melted my table that would be a weird thing to happen. So
1:01:04
but all in all, it's pretty good. Oh,
Brandon 1:01:07
there's a long time of standing by some.
Collin Funkhouser 1:01:13
And sometimes that's a good analogy for life. I think that's just sometimes you just need to stand by somebody else for a while to
1:01:18
get soup. You know,
Brandon 1:01:20
I think that's true. I think that that's track leave it to the French to have a life lesson in the food. Look at that.
Collin Funkhouser 1:01:28
Not at least their eyes at all, they're resorting to type a little bit of foreshadowing for what will come with next week's episode. Is a shadowing is a is a I don't know if it's not really a long term review. But it'll be a more high mileage review of a Nissan Sentra. So that that review. Okay, there we go. People
Brandon 1:01:57
oh, by the way, on that note, did you know there's a new episode of the grand tour? I didn't know there's a new episode of the grand tour out so okay, I didn't know that till today. Yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 1:02:07
So I did not know that until today, either. So. Alright, so we
Brandon 1:02:11
got the same Amazon notification,
Collin Funkhouser 1:02:14
I think might have been what? I think that's what happened where Amazon was like, you should be watching this. You've liked and watched literally everything, everything else.
Brandon 1:02:24
I didn't know. So that was on my mom's in the spirit of that.
Collin Funkhouser 1:02:29
Yeah. So in the spirit of that, and maybe we'll talk about that next week too, as well. I don't know I will be a bit busy. But
Brandon 1:02:34
yes, you're gonna be busy. I won't but
Collin Funkhouser 1:02:38
Oh, yes. Expect a review of a 2022 Nissan Sentra with 36,000 miles. That's
Brandon 1:02:47
an edge of our seat stuff. What we want to know also is we also need a road trip snack review. Again, this is the important Oh, yes. Right. Where did you where do you stop and get snacks and what did you buy? This? Is? This isn't the other part of this review since your greatest? I know. snack options, right? Yes. Yeah, I asked gas station snacks are becoming a much more intricate dance than they were when I used to drive a lot and do that right like yeah, it was like I was gonna drive to be drinking some chips. Oh no, no, no. Now now well hold
Collin Funkhouser 1:03:27
on. It's a veritable wonderland of now. Yeah. Now there are other things five different versions of beef jerky, some of them may even be local. There may be the different kinds of hot rollers and yeah, pizza that doesn't look
Brandon 1:03:41
horrible. No no no there was always things in the hot roller but they did not you didn't want eat them
Collin Funkhouser 1:03:47
no they did not look good now they're like yeah in the fresh wraps that are out there now with like, you know Chicken Caesar wraps that you find and what else do I see there? Yeah, yeah there's a lot of different right but those are very rarely my go to so I'll have to try still really want
Brandon 1:04:01
a sandwich cracker right like she likes really? Oh, yeah. Still called me like what do I really want? Sandwich crackers, maybe something from one of those bags? And like those big bags of like mix nuts or something like that?
Collin Funkhouser 1:04:14
Yes. Oh, yeah. I gotta get no Yeah, so whenever you're when you're looking at snacks, some sort of
Brandon 1:04:20
candy bar. Sorry. Sweet. You also need something that's actually filling that's where sometimes be tricky or the nuts come in because yes. Do you actually feel like you ate something? The honey
Collin Funkhouser 1:04:30
roasted peanuts are a clutch for those because yes, you're like, Oh, I could get a candy bar or like these weird crackers things. But also Yes, peanuts or the mix. Things are going to go last night to make sure
Brandon 1:04:41
you don't accidentally grab the corn nuts because No, no no legal ORS
Collin Funkhouser 1:04:51
or the one time there was like a jalapeno roasted peanut bag next to the honey roasted and then Did you
Brandon 1:05:00
just like quickly grab it and don't look? Yeah, yep. Literally sure they're fine. But like, not when you're expecting something else. Yes.
Collin Funkhouser 1:05:09
Right. Or when you're not somebody who particularly enjoys jalapenos. I mean, that's true, too, then it's,
Brandon 1:05:15
but it's like, it's always much better when you're expecting it.
Collin Funkhouser 1:05:18
That's right safely, whenever it's like has been an error. Then it goes bad, right? Like, my classic go to example. This
Brandon 1:05:27
is one time, a very, very long time ago.
1:05:32
We didn't we Donald's.
Brandon 1:05:34
And they ordered something and then like the apple pie.
Collin Funkhouser 1:05:38
Right. But
Brandon 1:05:42
this was at some point they were they had some other kind of thing. And they gave me some other fruit pie.
Collin Funkhouser 1:05:47
It was nice. Oh, what I wanted. Oh, no,
Brandon 1:05:52
I don't know if it was like pumpkin. I don't know if it's like pie. Maybe it's pineapple. I think it was at some point. They were doing like a pineapple thing. This was like 15 years ago, or whatever is a very long time ago. Whoa. And I had that. And I was like, oh, man, I ate my cheeseburger. And I was like, and I was like, Oh, this pie. And I bit into it went oh was not the pie that I wanted. My mouth was saying apple pie. This is what I want. My brain was expecting apple pie. And I got some other horrid thing in there. That was not Apple and I just couldn't accept that. And I'm sure it might have been fine by design by itself, but I definitely just threw it away. Because
Collin Funkhouser 1:06:35
well, no, at that point, you're just too too hard to to Shirky. Like ah, no. Yeah. Right. The whole day started off at that point, you guys will go back to zero. To do hard restart. Yeah. Yeah, can't handle it.
Brandon 1:07:05
Yes, yeah. That's the snacks are okay. crucial.
1:07:10
I will, I will keep a tally and tab on this. And then the cool part is, is that I am I am driving down. And then Megan is flying down because she has a fundraiser thing that she's part organizer for tomorrow. So she has to go to that. And then we're going to be riding, we're going to be driving back together. So you also get the snack to her from
Collin Funkhouser 1:07:33
that about Hi assumptions, more snack apps or I get more snacks.
1:07:38
So yes, perfect. Right. Yes,
Collin Funkhouser 1:07:42
look for Word to the Nissan Sentra review. It's for the SV trim. Not that that literally means anything but you
Brandon 1:07:53
know, yeah, it doesn't really it's a letter. Two letters to all do zarza your letters? Yes. V
Collin Funkhouser 1:07:59
is yes. Yes, yeah. So look forward to that. I mean, okay. Yes. How exciting. Indeed. Look forward to you. Indeed.
Brandon 1:08:12
Are you going through mostly Arkansas to skip the horror that is Oklahoma roads? Or are you like I don't what part of Texas are you? Actually
Collin Funkhouser 1:08:20
I'm going to just north of Dallas and Louis. Okay. So I'm going to go through
1:08:25
Oklahoma.
Brandon 1:08:27
Okay, pay $25 to drive on roads that suck horribly bad.
Collin Funkhouser 1:08:31
Well, right. And because I have a rental. I love all right, you can just drive through. And they'll they have to bill you because anyway. So that's that's
Brandon 1:08:44
your I guess you have to stop at the toll plaza. Although, you know, sometimes, you know, you talk to the toll where people get a house go well,
Collin Funkhouser 1:08:51
and again, if you want, and you want to do that, because when you drive through in a rental, they they will they will gladly pay it for you. And then they will send you a letter with the toll fee with a service charge a service charge and the convenience fee, which is sometimes twice as much as the rental or the fee. So it's tough as well. I hate stopping at Tollbooth, I also don't like paying lots of money to drive on.
Brandon 1:09:23
And then extra money to the rental car company. Yes. That's the worst part. Right? They're just like automatically billed to you. Right? That was a but now you want to build to a third party. No, no, no, no,
Collin Funkhouser 1:09:37
no middlemen of this. Yes, we're going out going down through to Oklahoma to take us to do fancy stuff. And do that for a couple days. Come back and jump right on into a busy week. Next week, we had a brand new client that set up going through the onboarding process, and then casually let it drop that. Oh, yeah, they were also they were broken into last year while they were home. Good Lord, and I was like, I'm sorry, what? Now? Here's where some context comes in. They live in a very gated community. Their home is very north of $1 million. And she was explaining that well, because our house is made out of concrete and foam. You just can't hear anything. It's so silent. That we didn't hear them break and shatter to windows while we were asleep at night. I was like, Uh huh.
Brandon 1:10:51
Okay, right.
Collin Funkhouser 1:10:55
Oh, we won't do that while you're gone.
1:10:59
Yeah. Good gravy.
Collin Funkhouser 1:11:05
Oh, and they had done that was also whenever she told me that in their in their other house out in out in eastern Missouri. They had just remodeled the kitchen and the cat had jumped on the stove and had turned on all the the pot No, not the burner the pot filler. You know the really fancy homes who have that ball? thing? Yes. It turned that on. Oh, my gosh. completely flooded.
1:11:36
Because
Collin Funkhouser 1:11:38
they were just going to be gone, quote, unquote, for the weekend. I'm pretty sure the cat jumped on there. Like, immediately
Brandon 1:11:45
after the laughter they laughed. Yeah.
Collin Funkhouser 1:11:49
Pretty 48 hours. 36 hours it just
1:11:54
Oh, no. So
Collin Funkhouser 1:11:55
is the water bill. Yeah. So now now when they leave, they always shut off the main which is, which is fine. But now like we have to turn on and off the main water valve.
Brandon 1:12:09
Like I'm going to build a water dish. Go go into the closet. Find the thing. Yeah, we'll bring the bottle just like visual ones fill up like a gallon jug. Like I
Collin Funkhouser 1:12:24
support that. Right? Well, that was so Anyway, anyway, I was just like, okay, yeah, we'll do we'll do that to man. And then while I'm standing there, she then proceeds to tell me that oh, well she's gonna have to tell her friend about our services because our friend had a co worker who was cat sitting for them last year but then they got some cameras so they could watch their cat and then that's when they found out that the person person was coming over as soon as the hood into the hub would immediately strip nation to take care of that's a it's a plan right?
Brandon 1:13:16
Why would you do that
Collin Funkhouser 1:13:22
she was like there's my friend in horror. Yeah. As her coworker payment says I'm sticking there and I'm like again like we won't be doing that. We will be doing we have we have a fully policy
Brandon 1:13:44
yeah no shirt no shoes no service. No
Collin Funkhouser 1:13:48
we won't service right like it's part of our pre flight checklist when we've
Brandon 1:13:57
or your shirt All right, let's go go sit some pets ferreted
Collin Funkhouser 1:14:02
I've never felt so awkward standing at somebody's house because they're not only have they told me that they're freshly broken into but now that was their friend and
Brandon 1:14:13
just wandering around the house naked like what the heck? What
1:14:16
is going on? Why so? Anyway? Things People it's
Brandon 1:14:25
it's not okay. That's all right. Good grief
Collin Funkhouser 1:14:35
right. Wow, like it's a weird. Yeah, it
Brandon 1:14:38
was a weird it stressed me greatly.
1:14:40
Various. I can't
Brandon 1:14:50
Oh, good grief.
Collin Funkhouser 1:14:55
Well, speaking of distressing things,
Brandon 1:14:58
I have a haikus. It all plays out on here.
Collin Funkhouser 1:15:02
Okay, okay. All right. I'm sure it's not that bad. It's surely it's stressing. Right, maybe the subject matter. Okay, we go. So I'm gonna go ready. This is a slightly more mirthful
Brandon 1:15:23
interpretation of Haiku than my previous ones. And tells
Collin Funkhouser 1:15:27
a bit of story though, right? Oh, you don't have one. They're so easy to use. You're one of us now.
Brandon 1:15:45
Yes. Just like a well, a bit a brief update on the airfryer saga. Oh, two people this week.
Collin Funkhouser 1:15:55
All right. So to
Brandon 1:15:58
do this thing, they are also they are for real listening, because because of that, maybe Google is listening to me as I speak about this because I also had like, three recommended ads about how to use my airfryer that I don't own.
Collin Funkhouser 1:16:15
So there's, I mean, it's a plot it's a plot. I'm okay. Well, we may have to go, you know, dark dark after this, just to kind of clear the airwaves to go get make sure that you can get free of this.
Brandon 1:16:33
Yeah, I was like, after joking about it. Like, two other people brought up a conversation. I was like, Oh
1:16:39
my gosh,
Brandon 1:16:41
is this bad?
Collin Funkhouser 1:16:51
Oh, no, that's fine. Because this week we were in we were in Walmart, and we were in the appliance aisle just passing through. And every single aisle was sort of like pletely like what? Well, no, every aisle like in that area. Like there was nobody there. The air fryer aisle had like seven people standing in it. No, yeah, yeah, they were they were definitely coming to their altars like this is growing Yes. Yep. The pulse the public altars are real i i think that some people should introduce some legislation to do something about this. I'm saying
Brandon 1:17:26
yeah, this is a problem so write
Collin Funkhouser 1:17:33
your congress people people and they can care we'll
Brandon 1:17:37
continue the fight here at the resistance lives on
Collin Funkhouser 1:17:41
Yes, crossed the airwaves across the land we're here right to bring butter back into your life
Brandon 1:17:51
you don't maybe that's why I was so drawn to French onion soup. It's like the ultimate anti airfryer
Collin Funkhouser 1:17:58
Exactly. Oh yes. The pieces the rebellion things exactly.
Brandon 1:18:04
As is there's a kins on take our works out that works. But
Collin Funkhouser 1:18:13
they'll never take okay
Brandon 1:18:17
yeah, yeah, right. Okay. Let's start with tricolori the back we
Collin Funkhouser 1:18:23
obviously obviously bad Oh and you and you very daintily carefully eating it out of it doesn't melt your face off because it yeah oh the all the more perfect napalm weapon with a horse fighting against them. Because what does they have? They can't it cools before it even gets to us right. We can lock these things. Molten Salt onion molten Grier and
Brandon 1:18:53
onion. Boom right it's
Collin Funkhouser 1:19:00
getting too choppy. I just launched. Lots to put together here. We got a lot of work to do.
Brandon 1:19:09
There's definitely a sticker in there somewhere.
Collin Funkhouser 1:19:14
Love it. Okay. Well, we'll do this again soon. All right.