operation cat extraction
Collin was in a foyer. Brandon had a workday. We’re talking mech anime.
Foyer frolick
Personal escape
Teacher workday
Vicious cat
operation cat extraction
Mech Anime
Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Skin_Panic_MADOX-01
Haiku
Reaching for a grape
My pretzel shatters, skitters
The grape was not worth it
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Collin 0:05
Welcome to Oh Brother, the podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts Brandon and Collin on this week's show, Operation Cat Extraction. Ahoy! Ahoy! How's it going? Pretty good. How are you? Ah, man, it is doing well. Doing well, I think. What day is it today? Yeah, I think we're fine. Okay,
Brandon 0:34
sure. Good news, Muga. Good
Collin 0:38
news.
Speaker 1 0:39
Collin is fine. Quote. Right.
Collin 0:41
Think fine.
Brandon 0:43
Yes. So far.
Collin 0:46
Well, see. The
Brandon 0:47
wait. If wait. Hold on. Worldwide listeners, right? So if you are from the Midwest, right? You're supposed to say, "Are you doing all right? And you're supposed to say, "Well, no one's told me any different,
Collin 1:01
or that's the
Brandon 1:03
official that's the official correct response, right? Is that
Collin 1:08
here's a let's try this again, Brandon. I want you to say you want to say how's it going. Hey,
Brandon 1:14
oh wait, oh I don't know. Hey, how's it going?
Collin 1:17
Yeah, you know what? Can't complain, but would wouldn't do me any good if I did, you know. Oh,
Brandon 1:22
another classic, right? Like there you go.
Collin 1:26
That is that is my go-to. Oh, people! Oh, they love that so much. It's so. Oh, it is
Brandon 1:38
good. Gets them every time. It's relatable. Everyone eat it up.
Collin 1:41
Everyone relates to it, and you just ugh makes so many friends stuff. Thanks. I was at a networking event tonight. Oh, shock
Speaker 1 1:53
surprise
Collin 1:55
because that's you know that is is what my lot in life is these days. What you do,
Brandon 2:00
you know. I
Collin 2:01
interview people to hire. I tell people I'm not hiring them, and then I go to networking events, and that is my how I make how I start. What
Brandon 2:11
an interesting cycle you found yourself in. I don't know.
Collin 2:13
Literally, all my weeks are from basically interviews to things. I know, but to know now tonight, I went to a little chamber event where they they host these. They're called patio parties. But that
Speaker 1 2:29
sounds great.
Collin 2:30
I've been yet. I've yet to be one that's on an actual patio. So what the heck? I
Speaker 2 2:35
don't. How
Brandon 2:36
could you have a patio party with no patio?
Collin 2:39
Well, because here's the thing, they are. So if you are a business in the chamber, I guess you are allowed. Well, you are allowed to offer to host one of these, and it doesn't cost any money. So most people who have a brick and mortar store are like, "Yeah, I will host this store. Yeah, yeah. How many of those stores have patios so far? 0% Yeah, zero of them actually have a patio, so it's more likely
Brandon 3:05
until the beer garden hosts exactly the chamber event.
Collin 3:10
The beer garden there will be no
Brandon 3:12
patios. No,
Collin 3:13
for so now we have the foyer frolic. I don't know. I need to figure out a way to yes come up with a better branding for this. That's true. At
Brandon 3:23
least some more accurate alliteration, right? Like, I know.
Collin 3:28
Someone's like, "Oh yeah, patio party. That sounds that sounds so much fun. And then I get there and I'm like,
Brandon 3:34
"Oh, it sounds cooler than it really is. Sans
Collin 3:37
Sands patio.
Brandon 3:38
Sans patio. So that's a problem.
Collin 3:41
Not even a, not even a, not even sand on the patio. No, this is just oh dang
Brandon 3:46
rough. That's a
Collin 3:48
patio on the party, and I, I, I don't know. I, I, my technique. I don't know. I try, I try different things periodically. Of do I want to do the thing where you go and go? I am going to try and talk to every single person in this room, right? That's a strategy. That a lot of people are like, this is what I'm going to. Or do you like? Do you post up with the group that you think or that person, and and you're just going to spend your entire time talking to them. It see,
Brandon 4:26
I think I think option C, right? Post up at a table, and so people will come to you. You you attract
Collin 4:34
you post up, you send out the vibes. Yeah, you send out the
Brandon 4:37
vibes, and then the people will come to you. They'll be like, "Oh, that guy's not talking anybody. I'm gonna go chat him up. Boom,
Collin 4:45
don't have to do anything,
Brandon 4:48
right? Play it nonchalant, right? Like, you know,
Collin 4:52
honestly, it probably wouldn't hurt. But gotta mix up the
Brandon 4:56
strat, though. You know, you don't want to do that every time.
Collin 4:58
No, right. No, because then, because then that will tell you like, oh, who, like, because sometimes if you do that, people will be like, hey, I saw you last time, and I want didn't get a chance to talk to you. I'm glad you have some time. Like, ah, I did this just for you. Yes, because yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Mix it up. So no, I I went to this this fun fun foyer frolic foyer thing, and I just decided, hey, I'm gonna find the people who kind of look like they know each other already, and then I can insert myself. I was like, I'm gonna
Brandon 5:35
look for people with dog hair on the pants, and I'm gonna talk to them. Absolutely. I see you have a pet.
Collin 5:45
Yes, Sherlock Holmes is me for the powers of my deduction. No, today I went with. I'm gonna go with a group of people who kind of look like they already know each other because then that's an immediate in to to a wider friend group. That's true. That is true. Infiltration.
Brandon 6:05
Yeah, that's what we call that.
Collin 6:06
Instead of doing a one for one thing, I am now able to just zip right in, and I get my immediate connection to like four or five people. Yeah, yeah. And I did. Okay, good plan. Good plan. I think it worked out pretty well because then in the middle of this, we-if you're a large enough group, if you can maintain a large group size, you get the people who are trying to talk to every person, and so they. That's true because they'll come
Brandon 6:36
to you. So I see. I see the show.
Collin 6:42
So this, this is what happened. We were there, and I was talking, and we were, you know, I, I'm a, I don't know, I can, I can hold a spotlight pretty well. Yeah. So, but it's important this to not be the share, right? Yeah. You can't talk the full. Yeah. You don't want to be that gay. No. Because I. I will say I have gotten better. There is a line that says, "To be interesting is to be interested. True. And so, like, no, no. You tell me how long you've been doing this. Like, oh. So and then as we're standing there, then like the four or five people who I can tell they were on like a major time crunch, and they're just like, "Hey, I'm over here, you know, going to the glad handing kind of thing, which which is fine. Like, okay, you just get exposed to it. So it's it's um, and I then, I then was in a group. I try and avoid this when, in all, in all honesty, I was in a group of marketers. Okay, so these are a group of people where they are the marketers for the businesses that employ them. Okay, so I'm there, and I'm getting all the inside scoop and dirt on their favorite and least favorite networking events and things to go to. Oh, and I was like stealthily
Brandon 8:14
taking notes on your notepad, like definitely because these are
Collin 8:19
these are the people where they are in again, they are in sales. They were hired to sell, and so their business that they hire them says you must you know so many leads per month, so many you know sign ups, so many whatever whatever, and then they're kind of given free rein to just make that work. Yeah, they're doing the cold calls. They're doing the door knocking. They're driving all around creation. They're they are finding every last networking and niche interest group in the area. Yeah, leaving no
Speaker 1 8:55
stone unturned, as it were.
Collin 8:57
As it were, and so they, you know, and they're just like, this is what they live, eat, and breathe. And to me, that is a life that I don't, I don't know.
Brandon 9:10
I'm afraid of. I'm
Collin 9:12
so foreign to and zero interest in. These are the kind of guys and gals who are like, whatever. Like I will sell anything. You tell you tell me. It's like the the art of the sale is what they love. They don't care about the product. They don't care about the service. It's just what do they get to? They get to actually do this.
Brandon 9:38
You are you are describing our late uncle, I just this is
Collin 9:42
this is I realized
Brandon 9:45
that is
Collin 9:46
I was talking to versions of Uncle Keith, yeah, yeah, in front of me, like they just like and I'm sitting. It's just so hard again. It is still so hard for me to connect with on any level of like. They just-that's
Brandon 10:01
fair, but
Collin 10:03
but it's also fascinating to see how they think about the sale process and how they think about where their next thing is coming from and how they don't really care. Like some of these some of these people are-they need that immediate, quick turnaround for whatever product they're selling, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1 10:23
depends on the product, obviously, right?
Collin 10:25
And like some of these people are like, like you know, like hey, I'm I'm an account manager person for the local bank, and I my job is to get so many signups. They they don't care if it's you, your children, your grandchildren, or your great grandchildren-they will count whoever signs up in your family line as a win. Like they are here for 10 years from now. When you're like, I need a bank loan for this such and such, and if they call you, they'll be like, "Yeah, it's because I took you out to dinner that one time, right? You know, like this is the kind of thing that they are thinking thinking about, and again, that is obviously just next. Like I different different timeline, but I did make an amazing move. See, you always want to be memorable when you're in a group like this. Okay, that's true. My my signature move is to be awkward. This is what I tend to. Oh, oh, totally
Brandon 11:31
on purpose. I bet right. This is planned.
Collin 11:34
Absolutely. So, so what what had happened was is I. I? They had given out these little. They're called charcuterie cups. Okay, so it's like imagine a little cup with with the little bits of charcuterie in it. So you have a little cardboard cup, and how big
Brandon 12:00
is this cup?
Collin 12:01
Like a coffee, like a to-go coffee cup.
Brandon 12:04
To-go coffee, okay. I didn't know if it was like solo cup, like small dentist cup, right? But to-go coffee, okay. Small to-go cup, okay, got it.
Collin 12:13
Yep. And inside is so again, whoever packs these in the very bottom are two grapes and a blackberry. Then there is a. Then on the side is a pretzel stick about the size of a cigar sticking out of this, which I know it's
Brandon 12:35
too big for a pretzel stick.
Collin 12:36
I'm not going to eat that thing because my mouth will be dry for years. Don't worry, Collin. There's a grape
Speaker 1 12:42
in there. I know.
Collin 12:44
Did you have to eat through the cigar stick? Yeah.
Brandon 12:47
Side note: the there is a maximum diameter that is acceptable for pretzel stick, right? When you start getting to like half inch, you have gone way beyond, right? The acceptable means for what a pretzel stick should be.
Collin 13:06
Yep. Also, in this cup is a spear of it's got one of those like bamboo spear things, and it's shish kebab of of things where it's like the little thumbnail size square of cheese, and then a folded over piece of pepperoni, and then a cheese thing, and then a folded over piece of salami, and it's all speared through. And each cheese is a different. You know, this one's cheddar, and this one's Colby Jack, Swiss, and they're all it's so tiny. Whatever, it was there for hors d'oeuvres, it wasn't there to feed us, but I'm holding two of these cups as I want to do, and I have gone gone through one shish kebab of of things, cheese kebab, cheese cheese and meat slice kebab, and I'm trying to reach my fingers down to grab the grape, but in order to do that, I have to get my fat, large hand in this tiny cup past the cigar-sized piece of pretzel stick down into that. So I grab the grape and I gingerly pull up, but then I moved my hand too quickly, and out came my hand, and out came flying the pretzel stick. No pretzel stick came flying up. It came crashing down to the ground, and here, here is the best part. Okay, the pretzel stick, the pretzel stick. Okay, the pretzel stick hit, and then like the ends shot off in different directions. I was not expecting that. Not gonna lie. Broke into the three pieces. Okay, so the middle third stayed exactly where it landed. It just like thud. It just stuck to the ground, and both ends shot like six. Away, away from this thing. It's so weird. Direction. It was
Brandon 15:10
all, all perfectly choreographed. Obviously, as you intended, right? Yeah. This is all. Yeah. Everything's going according to play, guys. It's fine.
Collin 15:19
Each, each piece I had pre-engraved my phone number on so that the person who picked it up would be getting my no. I was oh no, is this your card? Yeah, no, no, it's no, it's fine. Put that in your pocket. So, so of course I have to leave my group for a little bit and scurry around to go and find my pieces, and then get them up and throw them away. And of course, you know people notice. You know they're laughing, and one person, you know, was like, "Oh, you know, can't bring you anywhere, and you know, and so I, you know, was like, "It's my first time out of the house in a while, and everyone, you know, was laughing. Came back, then I on my way back to my little group. I took the other pretzel stick and threw it away in the trash because I'm not having that happen. Not doing that again. Not about to do that in my life.
Brandon 16:09
And then I was approached by a man with a cleaning company, completely unrelated. He was like, "Hey, you look like a guy that can use
Collin 16:18
you should probably I
Brandon 16:21
own this laundromat. Oh dear!
Collin 16:24
Do you have? I will tell you the number of calls I get from companies who want to clean the rugs in my business is immense.
Brandon 16:37
Do you have a lot of rugs in your business?
Collin 16:39
I don't use any rugs. I was gonna say. I
Brandon 16:42
was gonna say. Wait a minute. You don't even. Is the
Collin 16:44
problem? But again, there's salespeople. Their entire goal is. Hey, here's a business with a business line and an office. I bet they have rugs or you know those entryway mat things.
Brandon 16:56
There's more than one rug service company.
Collin 17:00
I yes, yes, yes. Okay,
Brandon 17:03
that's weird. I've only ever seen like the Cintas dudes.
Collin 17:07
Not hashtag. That's like budget. I know. Yeah, hashtag
Brandon 17:10
not sponsored. I've never like. Those are the only people I've ever seen do this.
Collin 17:17
Well, here's the other thing. Maybe that is because
Brandon 17:20
I work at a school, and we do have like a billion rugs, and they like they come. But like, even at other places, that's the only rug service company I know of.
Speaker 1 17:29
Yeah,
Collin 17:30
here's here's what it is. There are a lot of laundry services. Okay, who will do laundry services for private and public individuals, where you can, let's say, you know, so I imagine they are calling a lot of groomers, a lot of boarding facilities to launder their things, and so they are also. This is a service that they are also either trying to add on or grow. I take time sometimes to ask people, like, is this what you do? Is this is this hey, is this all you do? And usually it's a no. We're like a cleaning etc. kind of company. Okay,
Speaker 1 18:11
okay, okay.
Collin 18:12
You know, because we also
Speaker 1 18:13
have this service. We we
Collin 18:14
are also trying to also yes offer this as a service to people, and that is where I go, okay. Well, you know what? Good luck. I have no need for this.
Brandon 18:27
I don't have rugs, but
Collin 18:30
and I never will. Yeah, true. It's kind of it's kind of like you know. My
Brandon 18:36
clients don't come to me. I go to the
Collin 18:39
yes, whether they want me to or not, I mean, they do
Brandon 18:42
want you. They do want you to. That's why they called you.
Collin 18:45
Hopefully, it's like the IT guy that I was talking to tonight. He was like, "Oh, you know, I'm in IT, and I'm like, "Oh, that's cool. I don't need that. He's like, "Well, yeah, but like, how many employees do you have? And I'm like, "Lots. I still don't need you. And he's like, "Well, but device. I'm like, "We use personal phones, and he's like, anyway, run away.
Speaker 1 19:05
That's true, you know. Yeah, that's fine. I know.
Brandon 19:09
I can't wire those together. Run away.
Collin 19:12
I don't want to be doing that on personal devices.
Brandon 19:15
Escape.
Collin 19:16
So, yeah. Anyway. Oh man. So it's always it's always fun. It's always interesting to to see my here's okay here's the if you want to know if you're trying to extend a conversation and you have run out of things to say because there's only Brandon there's only so much interest that I can have in an insurance salesman. I just it's. Oh, I mean,
Brandon 19:50
yeah, I understand this. I only like. I only go down like we have to go talk to the people like once a year to just like re-sign up.
Collin 20:00
Oh sure,
Brandon 20:00
right, and like they talk to me, and I'm like, just do what I did last time.
Collin 20:07
Stop, please stop. That's all. Whatever
Brandon 20:10
I did before,
Collin 20:11
etc. Do that, etc. Yes, well, you know, and he's here's this person, and it's like, what do you do? And they say, oh, I I sell insurance and blah blah blah, and then you're like, cool. I, I don't care. I don't. I like. I'm sorry. I just so like. Then it's like, okay. Well, how how long have you been doing that? And oh, and then you have to be like, okay. Well, somebody if they if they're looking at me and I think they're in their like 30s or 40s and they say they've been doing this for 20 years, I'm gonna be like, okay, you've always done this, but if someone's like,
Speaker 1 20:43
yeah,
Collin 20:43
I got into this, you know, seven years ago, you're like, oh, what'd you do before?
Brandon 20:49
Why? Why did you do?
Collin 20:51
What keeps you here? And then I
Brandon 20:53
just love scamming people. I mean,
Speaker 1 20:58
wait, fat
Collin 20:59
checks I get from keeping you all in, royalty checks, you know. And then at some point, you just have to be like, even it doesn't matter what they say. Here's here's what you're here's what gets people talking a lot. You go, man, I bet that's harder than a lot of people realize, and that you will get so many stories. Just
Brandon 21:21
sit back and sit back,
Collin 21:23
and you cash that credit and trust that you were building, man. Just days. You find out so many things, and you don't have to put in any more effort. And hopefully, by that time, someone else has entered the room, and you can turn and talk to me. That's come. You
Brandon 21:40
can flee the scene. Their interest will be distracted by a newcomer, and you can escape, or
Collin 21:48
or by Collin's perfectly timed pretzel drop. That's true. That's when you.
Brandon 21:52
That's when you hit the pretzel drop.
Collin 21:54
Yeah.
Brandon 21:54
You say, "Oh no, I need to. I'll. I need to clean this up. I'm so sorry. And then you like run away forever. And then when you or when
Collin 22:02
you come back, you take that opportunity to look at a new person and say, "And who are you? And just I
Brandon 22:08
remember this. I'm gonna remember this for our next like teacher in service. I'm gonna I'm gonna go for the strategic pretzel drop, right? Like, oh man, it's gonna bring some pretzels. Just have them in like a like a bag of like airline pretzels, right? Just like half in my pocket, and when I don't want to talk to people anymore, let's just take them out and start eating them, but then drop them, drop the whole thing, and be like, "Oh man, that's I really wanted these. I go throw these away and then like swamp off, right? That's what. Oh man!
Collin 22:43
Is that a picture of you just pulling out a Ziploc bag of pretzels, slowly turning it upside down, and letting everything fall into the ground? Okay, now that
Brandon 22:51
does seem like something I could
Collin 22:54
do. Oh no! Let me go. Like,
Brandon 22:56
oh no, they have fallen.
Collin 22:59
Anyway, this is what I'm waiting for.
Brandon 23:08
Yes, like just without breaking eye, like direct eye contact, and just like slowly dump it out.
Collin 23:15
Yes, this needs to happen.
Brandon 23:22
That's better. I'm gonna do that.
Collin 23:27
Oh yeah, I agree, man. So that that was my that was my evening. That's literally all I feel like I have done recently is is do is do that. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 23:42
Wow. good.
Brandon 23:49
No, what have you been up to? Well, let me tell you about the Great Cat Rescue of Tuesday, right?
Collin 23:54
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe Great Tuesday Cat Rescue texted Brandon something like, like what I oh yes like you just said at 905 quote I started the day helping to get a cat out of a car in the parking lot fun times LOL it's the first text of the day yep
Brandon 24:20
got to catch them unaware, you know. So I get we showed like Tuesday was the day before school started, so it was just like a teacher work day, right? There was no like there was a only a couple scheduled meetings for like certain people, and the rest of it was just like prepare yourselves, right? And so we're coming in and doing stuff, and pull into the parking lot. And for it's important to know that like fifth and sixth grade is all in one hallway, right? So we're all together, right? We're together like all the time. We like hang out. Okay, it's the best hallway, obviously. Anyway, so I come. We pull. In and like all the fifth grade teachers are just standing there, and then they turn around and they point at us, and we're like, "What is happening? So they point at me and Susan. So we get out, like, "What are you doing? And this lady was like, "I think there's a cat in my car, and obviously I was like, "Is it your cat? And she was like, "I don't know, I can't see it. And I was like, "What do you mean? So this thing had climbed up under her car and ridden somewhere between seven to 10 miles in the car, like under the car, and then has had arrived at work, right? And so, like, I was like, "What? What? And so, you know, stood there for a minute, and you could start like hearing it in there, like making loud, like meowing noises. And so, it was like really wet and like rainy at this time. So we were trying to like look under the car and like not become like super wet, so I ran to the ag shop and got the creeper thing.
Collin 26:09
Oh, yeah, right. What is brilliant?
Brandon 26:16
This brilliant move, right? Really, so I got the creeper and I laid it down and I scooted myself under her car, and I was looking around, and I saw this foot just like poke down.
Collin 26:25
Oh my gosh! What the heck? What?
Brandon 26:30
So this little foot pokes out, and so like under her car, she has like, you know, like the thing is they kind of like seal up the underside with that like kind of like it's not like plastic or rubber, but it's like that material thing, you know. Like it's she has a bunch of that under there, and the cat was just like up in there, right? And so we were trying to like once I found it, it kind of like poked its head down and looked at me and like stared at me in the eye. Then it like, you know, I was so I repositioned myself. I went over to like the side, like under the driver's seat, right, because that's kind of where it was. Was like up in there, and so I just kind of reached my hand and then just started like tapping the thing, or I just kind of like tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. Just kind of be like, "Yo, you should not be in there. Nope. And cat like eventually, like it hopped out, right, and it hopped out like an inch away from my fingers, obviously, and like stared at me, and then like walked around, and it like kind of ran out from under the car, and then one of the other ladies was trying to like get it, and it ran under another car, and up into that car. Oh, so I slid the creeper over there because this one you could see it was like sitting on the A arm thing, like right under the engine block, right? You could look, you see it right there.
Speaker 1 28:08
Sure.
Brandon 28:08
And so I'm laying on the ground. All these people are standing around the new car to like if it jumps out to like get it. Sure.
Brandon 28:16
And the lady who owned that car came outside, and we're like, "What are you doing? We're like, "They're prepared. Okay, don't worry. worry, we're not like robbing you, but there is a cat in your engine, and she was like, "Okay, shall we open the hood, right? We looked out; we could see it down there. Yeah, I again scooted around to the side, and I got like she gave me like a ice scraper, right? Because I like couldn't get my hand up in there.
Speaker 1 28:48
Sure.
Brandon 28:48
And also at this point, I didn't know if this was like a vicious cat, and so I didn't want to just like stick my hand up in there and get chomped upon. Yeah. Not real interested in that. So I
Collin 29:01
even if it wasn't a vicious, a scared cat can do a lot of damage.
Brandon 29:05
Yeah, right. And so I got the like an ice scraper, and it's kind of like nudging it, like poking it, like little tap tap tap, like just kind of like gently, sure pushing it to be like, hey, you want to get down from there, right? And so I did that for a little bit. While we were doing that, Susan went and got like a like a blanket out of the trunk. Actually, it was an old seat cover, right? We had in there, and she grabbed that. And so there again, there we're surrounding the car. Okay, it hops down again, runs Back behind, like under the back axle, right, and then under the neighboring car.
Collin 29:50
Wow, this is a third car.
Brandon 29:53
Yes, a third car, and then we. But this time, it like it went to. The back of this other car, so there was like no place for it to hide, so it just like hopped up in the wheel, right? Okay, and so like it was on the other side of the, but this is like a a big like SUV thing, so like it was sitting kind of like on top of the brake rotor, but you could like see it through the wheel, right? It was like alloy wheels or whatever, so you could like see through it. And so, by this point, somebody had returned with, I think it was Susan. Maybe she ran inside to one of the teachers' rooms, and they with the other teacher, and they brought out they had some chicken from the refrigerator, like little packets of chicken that they had beating like for lunch or whatever, and so we were able to coax. Not we. One of the different lady was like she like got she was able to coax the cat out just enough with the chicken, and like it like its head it came through the spokes of the wheel right. So once it got its as a you know, it's a cat. So if I get its head through, the rest of it's coming through, right? So it like it was looked really silly from the angle I was at. Like she had one hand with some chicken in it, and then as the cat stuck its head out, she like pulled it away a little bit, and so it stuck its neck way out. And then she was like, yeah. And he did not care at all because he was like, "Yo, chicken, all right, what up? Oh, really? The cat was just like 2030, minutes trying to get this cat out. Right, I missed it once. Everyone, some of them missed it once, and chicken finally got it out, and she like snagged it and pulled it out of the.
Collin 31:43
Does amazing! This is so good.
Brandon 31:49
So finally, Operation Cat Extraction finally came to a conclusion, and then we had to convince Operation. Oh, now what? So
Collin 32:04
we, you know, because okay, so here's here's the thing. Step we don't want cat in
Brandon 32:12
another car, another car,
Collin 32:14
and you don't want cat in any car. But the problem with getting the cat extra, you know, extradited from the vehicle is that now.
Brandon 32:24
Now what?
Collin 32:24
You have a cat.
Brandon 32:25
Yeah. So one of the girls called her mom, and mom came to get the cat and like just try to like deal with it and take care of it, right? And like, you know, at least give it a place nearby, like barn cat status, right? Potentially. So, like that
Collin 32:49
is okay. Although,
Brandon 32:51
although the update the following day of what happened to cat is well, it escaped from mom's house.
Collin 32:58
Oh no! I didn't
Brandon 32:59
ask today. Like current whereabouts that morning, unknown. So we don't know. Check the cars, right? That's all we got. Yes. Check under all the cars.
Collin 33:09
The cat is really good at this. So just be with people.
Brandon 33:14
Yeah. So, oh my god,
Collin 33:17
this there's
Brandon 33:18
a whole thing slightly rainy that morning, and so that was awkward. Like it's wet everywhere. The one day it's wet. Like what's happening?
Collin 33:29
Of course, it hasn't rained like that for a long time. And yeah, the one
Brandon 33:33
day it rains, we have to the operation cat extraction, right? So that's great. Oh my gosh! So yeah, that was the that was the big excitement this week, right? And then Wednesday school just started, so like you know, whatever. Like it's.
Collin 33:55
Did you remember what first day was supposed to include?
Brandon 33:59
Yeah, sort of. Right. It took me a while to be like, "Huh, what am I doing? I also have like, I I was looking through my labs that I do at the beginning of the year, and I'm like, I made a new one last year to do. I maybe have to go back and listen to some episodes here because I seem to have not written a procedure sheet, and so I have a lab data sheet.
Collin 34:25
Oh,
Brandon 34:26
but no exact recollection of what on earth the experiment was. Oh no, because I like did something new to like try it out, right? Yeah, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna try this, and then I think I forgot, or if I wrote it down, I can't find where I put the procedures.
Collin 34:47
This is perfect.
Brandon 34:48
Yes, this is a very me thing to do, right? I remember the other one, right? Pretty good, but like this one, I was like, hmm, what the.
Collin 35:00
What happened? Now hold on,
Brandon 35:03
hold on, wait a minute. I had
Collin 35:07
no. What was my
Brandon 35:10
plan?
Collin 35:11
I thought I had. So I
Brandon 35:12
have this lab. It's like dumb that I have a lab sheet, but I seem to have no procedure sheet for this. So I have. So I'm trying to remember. I remember vaguely, but I don't remember like exactly how we did it. I'm trying to like reverse engineer it from my data sheet that I made. Like I think I think
Collin 35:32
you need to make the kids do this. This needs to be their assignment. Oh yeah,
Brandon 35:37
write down the steps that you guys did today
Collin 35:40
that you think goes to this, yeah,
Speaker 1 35:43
it'll be good. It'll be good. Uh huh. I may have talked about it on the one of these episodes, so I'm gonna have to zip back through and see if my see if I talked about it before. Don't know.
Collin 35:54
We'll have to keyword search here. Right. Hold on. Let me.
Speaker 1 35:59
Yeah. Search. Search. Search. search.
Brandon 36:01
So I might do that, but that-that is the other goofy thing that I've done. I seem to have messed up my, or just like forgotten my procedure sheet for my lab because I'm brilliant like that. That's
Collin 36:16
rough.
Brandon 36:18
It's just funny. It's like the most me thing of all time. Oh yeah, where did that go anyway?
Collin 36:25
Of course. Wait a minute. This is none of this makes any sense.
Brandon 36:30
Because if I would have written it down, it would have been on like a note card.
Collin 36:34
Yeah. And
Brandon 36:35
then I probably would have gone. I'm gonna stick this in here.
Speaker 1 36:40
So I'll remember where it
Collin 36:41
is. Yeah, and then
Brandon 36:43
the now
Collin 36:44
the here.
Speaker 1 36:45
Yeah, yeah,
Collin 36:48
yeah. I have lots of notebooks, and sometimes I have to break one down. And man, there's there's lots of amazing stuff in there that would have been really useful whenever I needed it. But
Brandon 37:00
yeah, you're like, oh, there it is. Oh, sorry, got it. RCB. Oh no. So yeah, that was a big thing. But first day of school was pretty good, right?
Collin 37:17
Good.
Brandon 37:18
Um, then today was second day, so it was. But we just like second day, we just like start doing things. So it was a little better, right? A little less because first day I don't like try. We'd like talk about stuff or go over all the procedures and then do the things and blah blah. So there's there's a like I don't make the kids do any like getting to know you stuff or whatever, because like all the other teachers do that. Like their specials teachers will do it, and like the English teacher does that, obviously, because that's like a big thing. That's like the thing that you do when you come back in English class. So like, sure, I don't really do any of that because they they don't want to do it again, right? Then we'll do like the same thing, like over and over again. So, so we don't really do that. We sort of like go over procedures, talk about stuff, right? Like school things, blah blah. So, and then like there's like you know just a few minutes into class, we're like, you guys just hang out and we'll just just chat and like whatever. Like that's kind of how I do it. Just like no idea, whatever. Just to get you know, I'm not like make you work today, whatever. Today though, I was like, get your science binders out. Take a note. Go. I did. That's what we do. That's our first.
Collin 38:37
So mean making it
Brandon 38:38
work. Well, the notes are all about like, like today, the notes were like, so, what is science anyway? Sure, you know, it's kind of like my first like. It's my way to do the like in education. You have like the first 20 days thing, right? And this is like a a a methodology that like it's like your first unit is like teaching about how the class works. You know.
Collin 39:15
Yes. Well, you're giving them. It's the class. It's really it's a true class orientation.
Brandon 39:21
Yeah, it's like a class orientation, right? Yeah, and so this is like my sixth grade science orientation. The unit is about like it's reviewing like observations and the scientific method, right? But in there is like some disguised stuff where it's like I talk about like, well, we're gonna be doing science all year. What does that mean?
Collin 39:44
Sure, right?
Brandon 39:45
Like, what is a good scientist? Because you're basic. You're gonna be a scientist this year. You're doing all these science experiments. You're a scientist. It's fine. So, how do you be a good one, right? But it's also. Like class expectations, because like it's like you have to be safe, you have to follow directions, you have to know how to research things, you have to, you know, blah blah blah blah blah. Like it's like all the things that you have to do to be a successful student. It's like secretly the same things, right? Yeah,
Collin 40:16
no, it's it's a it's a fair. You're right. You um, it all is tied together, and this is the this is the point that many people miss. Of when they say things like, "Well, I was never taught how to be a student, or I was never taught how to manage my time. Like I heard this all the time when I was teaching at the college level, of so many people, they got through middle school and high school because they were kind of naturally gifted and talented enough, and and to to make it through without having any real systems or anything like that in place, and then they get into oh, like you can't just go off. Like you are truly in a place where you are out of your depth and you have nothing to fall back on. Then that's where so many people crash out.
Brandon 41:10
Yeah, yeah, and so like that's kind of the secret disguise because you know one of them is like you know a good scientist like overcomes obstacles, right? They don't give up, right? They don't go. Well, that didn't work. Oh well, guess better quit. Yeah, right. That doesn't make. That's not a good scientist. That's also not a good student.
Collin 41:32
Student, right? Right. Yeah. Like we can't
Brandon 41:34
just like crash out and give up. Right. That's not going to work. Well, like a good scientist collaborates well with others. Sounds like good student material to me. Like good teamwork. Yeah,
Collin 41:49
turns out. And
Brandon 41:50
like the beginning of the year labs, like they're nothing like elaborate or big or anything. It's just like when it is like, hey, here's a we're gonna do this experiment today. Here's this paper. Here's this like procedures. Like when the paper's done, where's it go? Right. Whenever you're working together, do this. Like, how do you got to work in a small group to complete this task? Right. You got to follow these directions, or you're going to get it wrong. We got to be safe because you'll knock some water over. Right. Nothing like dramatic, but like nobody wants soggy lab paper. Yeah, that's gross. So, like, that's kind of the beginning. Yeah, it's like real short. It's only a couple weeks long, and then, but that's like the what I wanted to do at the beginning of the year because, like, it's just like introduction stuff, very basic stuff. Like today, we talked about like ideas and like ways to or keep your science binder organized, right? Like we talk about, like they never listen. But like you know, skip lines between entries. You know,
Collin 42:48
yep.
Brandon 42:48
If you run out of room, just go ahead to the next page. It's fine, right? The next day when we write, you know, skip a line or two and continue writing there. Don't just pick a random new page and start writing because that won't be very useful when you need to go back and look at your notes, right? Like
Collin 43:08
sequential ordering. Yeah,
Brandon 43:10
because I, you know, try to tell them like we're not we're the reason we're writing the notes is so we can use them again for later. So like we need to do a good job the first time, so we can find it again. Otherwise, we're going to be confused. There's always some that are like, "I can't read this. I'm like, "Yo, me neither. So, like, I don't.
Collin 43:34
Yeah. Do you know what? That's you. Yeah.
Brandon 43:36
Yeah. Same, buddy. Same. I have no idea what that says? Is
Collin 43:40
there a lesson we can pull from this? Hopefully, yeah, I
Brandon 43:45
think there might be. So it'll
Collin 43:47
be, man, because you always think, oh, I'll, I'll remember exactly what this was. I'll remember what this was. Yeah,
Brandon 43:56
like I'll remember what my lab procedure was.
Collin 43:59
No,
Brandon 44:00
You won't. It was a year ago. Numpty. So, so I'm gonna look for tomorrow to see if I can find more of that. But yeah, so that was pretty much it. Nothing, nothing too dramatic, right? First days are pretty chill. Nothing insane has happened yet, so that's good. Just gonna keep and then keep going. So, so yeah, cat rescue, big, big thing of the week. So, so. Ah, but Collin.
Collin 44:45
Ah, yes. Ah,
Brandon 44:48
can I tell you about another mecha anime that I watch?
Collin 44:53
You know what? I would love that. Absolutely. All right.
Brandon 44:57
So this one, this one, short. Okay, this is one. It's like one OVA from 1987. All right, it's 41 minutes long. It is on YouTube. You can watch it. All right. I recommend that you watch at least the first two minutes because the opening two minute animation sequence of this is insanely good.
Speaker 1 45:18
Okay.
Brandon 45:19
So this is a mech show. This is called right. It's a very intense title. Are you ready? Metal Skin Panic Maddox 01. Whoa!
Collin 45:30
I sorry. I thought you were done three times. No, there's
Brandon 45:33
more. There's more. Metal Skin Panic Maddox 010.
Collin 45:39
my gosh. Yeah.
Brandon 45:41
What excellent name?
Collin 45:43
What I really okay, okay, what? Sorry, what in the world is because I when I think mech, I guess this is the metal skin. I'm presuming here,
Brandon 45:58
right? Or like the Pat Labor. It's like an eight meter tall thing. This is just like a small mech, like it's barely larger than the person. Okay,
Collin 46:06
yeah,
Brandon 46:08
and so this one, the the opening sequence is like the test. It's like an anti tank, like close quarters urban combat vehicle, right? So like the opening sequence is like this test thing, right? And like the developers of the mech are going against this like tank commander guy, and they like whoop up on him, and so now tank commander guy is like super mega salty, and like I'm gonna. You can't beat my tanks. I'm gonna get revenge on right. This is okay. Boom. There's your premise to done. Right. Love
Collin 46:50
this.
Brandon 46:50
Now, now we're gonna throw a throw a wrench in here. Okay. Okay. The mech thing is on a truck, right? Truck gets like lost, right? Ends up with this other, this like random mechanic kid, okay? His name is like Koji, right? And he like finds this box, and he opens the box, and it's the mech, and he's like, "Yo, this thing's pretty cool. And he like is checking it out, and he like is trying to read the manual to figure out like what this is. But when he gets inside it, it like shuts and locks, and now he's stuck inside it, and he can't look at the manual. So this random guy is just like stuck inside the mech, right? And he can't get out. He doesn't know how to get out because he only read the first page of the manual.
Collin 47:48
Okay, this is really funny. Okay, wait, it
Brandon 47:50
gets better, and now he's like, "Oh, dang it! What do I do? I was supposed to meet my girlfriend across town because she is going away for school and she wants to talk to me. Well, I can't get. I can't miss that. I guess I just better go like this.
Collin 48:08
Oh no!
Brandon 48:10
He starts journeying across town in the mech, like he's like off the subway. He like goes to the gas station. The mech takes diesel for some reason. I don't know, right? He like you know
Collin 48:24
what? Why not? Why not? You know, this is and of
Brandon 48:28
course because big millet was like little military machine going all over town attracts a lot of attention, right? So the the people that made the mech are like coming in after him because they think that he's like some sort of terrorist that stole it, and tank commander guy who is looking for revenge on the mech is like there it is now's our chance we're gonna destroy it, and so there's these two factions like chasing this kid and he's just trying to cozy his girlfriend. Yes.
Collin 49:03
Oh my god.
Brandon 49:04
And like they're chasing him. He's just like all the time. He's like, "Why are you chasing me? I'm not trying to do anything. And then he'll like blow him up.
Collin 49:14
Wow. Yeah, because they have they have no idea what is going on. Yeah,
Brandon 49:18
they don't know either. And then finally, like he fights another mech, and it's like the lady who's like part of the design team, and she like figures out, oh, oh, this random kid is stuck in the mech.
Collin 49:34
Oh, they finally get there.
Brandon 49:36
Yeah, and then she like gives him some tips, and like she was like, "Well, you're not going to get out of situation unless you beat crazy tank guy. So they have like a powwow, and then there's like a because he won't stop because he's crazy and he wants to like destroy the mech. And so she's like, "You're going to have to destroy the tank, and he's like, "But I don't care about the tank." And this this goes to like the ultimate climax fight scene where it's really funny, but like he he like I don't know I don't want to spoil the fight scene because you might watch this because it's nice and short. So so you do that, but we go to the final like showdown at the top of the tower between like crazy tank guy, who has a hover tank or whatever for some reason. Anyway, and Koji stuck in the mech.
Collin 50:29
This is amazing.
Brandon 50:30
Who will survive the encounter? Will Koji make it to talk to his girlfriend? Find out by watching 40 short minutes of the most goofy things.
Collin 50:41
All of this took place in on like in like a couple hours. Oh my gosh! Yeah, it's like real
Brandon 50:48
time. This is like a that might actually be like a real time, like 40 minutes, right? It's just like
Collin 50:56
I think that's even better.
Brandon 50:58
It is. It's not like this big lawn drawn out. That gets literally like he's trying to. He gets stuck in the mech, realizes he's late, and he's like, "Well, I really need to see her, and then just decides to go across town while in the mech.
Collin 51:15
Jeez,
Brandon 51:17
it's so silly, but the animation is so good. I love
Collin 51:25
that. Well, and really
Brandon 51:26
hilarious.
Collin 51:27
Well, and especially because it doesn't. It sounds like it doesn't take itself too seriously, which is something I always absolutely does not. Oh yeah, same. Yeah, that's great.
Brandon 51:40
It's so funny, like it just-it's nice and short and sweet and to the point. And the premise is like really simple, and the premise is also really goofy. But like, it carries itself well. It's funny. The action sequence is hilarious. You gotta just chuckle every time he's like, why do these guys keep chasing me? And then he like fires a barrage of Gatling gun at them. I wonder why. Jeez. There you go. It is free all over YouTube, right? Again, nice and short. Boom, boom. There we go. So that that is this week's mecha anime.
Collin 52:25
I love that so much. Well, and again, I think it's this. What I like about that is kind of well, kind of like the one that you talked about last week too. Of it's not all space and like super crazy battles amongst a planet or in the stars, yeah. You know, it's a city street. Yeah, it
Brandon 52:44
is. It's like a subway tunnel. It's an elevator at one point. Like, what is a parking garage? Yeah, this is not the Gundam space opera insanity, right? Right. Of like, oh my gosh, what is happening? Why? Like, where did that guy come from? Why are there 8000 characters? Right, like, no, it's like this whole movie is like four people.
Collin 53:13
I love that so much.
Brandon 53:19
There you go. Just had to report on that one because holy cow, it's hilarious! No, there you go. There's there it is. There's you the segment of the week. Boom!
Collin 53:27
I love it. That is perfect. Oh man!
Speaker 1 53:34
Oh, there you go. Well,
Collin 53:35
well, I have a. I can I can round us out with a with a good old haiku. Let's do it if you want. Absolutely. Guess guess. You'll have to just figure out. Okay. Where this came. Context
Speaker 1 53:49
clues. Okay, here we go. Inferencing. Talked about that today.
Collin 53:53
Yeah. Oh man. Well, they can. You can have them. You should play back this episode and and wait for the tie-in. I'll be very confused,
Brandon 54:00
but it's okay. It's hardly to keep them.
Collin 54:03
Reaching for a grape. My pretzel shatters skitters. The grape was not worth it.
Speaker 1 54:29
It's perfect. I
Collin 54:31
thought, you know,
Brandon 54:33
absolutely perfect. You encapsulated the vision I was having in my mind as you were telling the story beautifully. There you go.
Collin 54:42
Done. That's uh, just you know, hang that, hang that one there. Capturing
Brandon 54:47
the moment, indeed. Indeed,
Collin 54:49
in its purpose, fit and done. So yes, yes. Now, oh man.
Brandon 54:58
Well, I just I've decided. That if we if when we if and when we publish these, it should be formatted to be like the margins of a notebook with little sketches in it, right? Like lined school paper with haiku written, and then like a little sketch or two around the outside about it.
Collin 55:15
Oh my gosh! I've
Speaker 1 55:16
got the art design going around it.
Collin 55:19
Yeah, I love that. Okay. Yeah. Well. Okay. Yeah. Okay. We gotta talk about that for sure. Okay. I just got. I'm just gonna draw the gotta draw the little grape falling. Yes. Okay. Perfect. Well, we'll we'll do that. So. Well, we'll try this again next time. All right, and go from there.
Brandon 55:42
All right, sweet.
Collin 55:43
Okay, love you.
Brandon 55:44
Love you too. Bye. Bye.