peak foliage

Collin has confusing office locations and has unlocked the least effective business growth strategy imaginable. Brandon, having attended a wedding, a Quinceañera, and another wedding, is a bit tired. Collin has quite the diatribe against AirBnBs, and they try decide what a DnD version of CarQuest would be. 

  • Office office

  • Cheese office

  • Macaroni enthusiast 

  • Growth hack!!

  • Peak foliage 

  • https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/projects/fall_foliage/whenandwhere/

  • A busy busy week for Brandon

  • A wedding

  • Stamina for Mexican festivities

  • Quinceañera celebration

  • Purdy Power Couple

  • Wedding part TWO

  • Inadequate belt syndrome

  • We don’t like AirBnBs

  • Collin drove a Tesla

  • It’s a bit odd

  • If CarQuest was a DnD game

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SPEAKERS

Collin, Brandon

Collin  00:04

Welcome to Oh, brother, a podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out. It's your host, Brandon, Colin, and Aaron. On this week's show, peak foliage. Hello. Oh boy. Oh boy. It's finally happening. We are here. Oh my gosh. Yes, I am right, like so much. Like goodness, I'm recording in the office location, that secondary office. I don't know what this place is called. And so the office location office, I think I haven't, but I have an office in my home too. So I don't know. Okay, so Well, that's called that's why you call it a home office? Yeah, I'm gonna just say office. Okay, well, now you have to delineate because now you do have another office, right? You've you've spent so long with only the home office. But now you have like an off site office. Like Office Office. Office There we go. Yeah, you have to re rehash your vocabulary here.

Brandon  01:10

Yeah, okay.

Collin  01:15

Re clarify or a redefine the redefine the limits. Yes. I think I'm gonna call this the cheese office since it's close to craft that's what I'm going to

Brandon  01:23

call it office through get those code words

Collin  01:27

so that whenever I send out secret messages like only some people will understand what an extra that's what you need to do

Brandon  01:33

you have

Collin  01:36

if you know what you get free obviously those little like microwavable Kraft Macaroni cups, so you can put them in there. Sure. Right. So they can just stare out the window at their home like, actually remain there. Look at that

01:47

rock in the shadow of craft. That is where you were born. Yeah. Here's where your life ends.

Collin  01:54

I could put them up at my window. Because it looks at the crack. Yeah, that'd be just the box right when you're done with it. Just put the little cup up there to stack them up. Yeah, man. How weird would that be whenever like when employees who's just like moving a forklift around just like glances over? What is going on? It'd be kind of weird, right? Like,

Brandon  02:19

what is the take was mocking me. Crafted through easiest, right? Exactly.

Collin  02:29

Yeah. Why did you choose that location? Oh my gosh. Big big craft epic cheesehead. Literally. I mean, I seem to recall when you were very young you were macaroni enthusiast.

02:40

I still Yeah, there you go. So alright,

Collin  02:43

just I want to clarify here. I'm basically all my I was basing all these assumptions off of like very very old information. So just to clarify whether or not I was still correct okay. Right. Update Collins still likes macaroni Okay, good. Good new transparency don't think I need to be transparent about that. But I am not ashamed of my name Rooney. The light right good. So busy week lots of white dogs and or cats. I guess I don't have cats yet. Chicken yet. I haven't no one no walking of chickens. No, it's just here is the here's the best way to get really busy. I've cracked the growth hack. Okay, you ready for this?

Brandon  03:33

Have staff quit?

Collin  03:39

And then everybody wants to travel.

03:45

Only after the staff quits? Yes, of course.

Collin  03:46

And I don't know what it is. September was like dead. I mean, comparatively like it was just it was just not very much going on. And then all of a sudden, this week. We get we're getting tons of bookings for when when you guys is it Thanksgiving? No Christmas. No. Over Halloween. Also. No, no. It's like the first week and a half of October. People are like we're traveling.

04:14

But where are you going? Are they like foliage enthusiast? Is that what's happening here? We're going to see the leaves like covered

Collin  04:21

but they're not even that pretty in the area. So no, they're not. Yeah, there's pico foliage in Missouri is supposed to be the end of October like October 20. Something Right? Yeah. So are they all doing for navy or they would call going up to Bangor Maine, maybe? Like just lobster rolls and foliage. I don't really know.

04:40

I don't know. I just

Collin  04:44

Oh, you know what, generally northern Maine is at or near peak conditions the last week of October into the first week of sorry last week of September into the first week of October. This is from remote.gov

04:58

Of course. Where else would it be from? Oh,

Collin  05:04

oh, man. So this is this is my this is the best that I have my going theory of what's actually going on? Because everybody's traveling. I mean, like, we're booking just like sneakily put in a field in your application. They'd be like, where are you going anyway? I try not to we don't make it like required. Just like, just curious. What are you doing? Why is Where's everybody going? Right? It's like, a little sneakily put it in there, like, it is reason for leaving. Yeah, reason for leaving emergency foliage tours. Emergency foliage tour, obviously. I don't know. But I was just like, it was like a deluge. And then this week, I've started to brand new staff. And it's been kind of a struggle for me, because when I have staff members who cut the train staff members for the morning, and then we have evening staff members, well, who has to train them. Me. So I have to be there for both the 7am and like the 10pm visits? Oh, yeah, those are not fun.

06:08

But I,

Collin  06:10

I realized, like, we have training protocols that I designed for when we were just starting out. Alright, so when when staff get hired on with us, I say, I will shadow you for at least five visits. Now, that sounds like a lot. Until you realize, within the within the six hours of my staff

06:34

starting to day, there's probably

06:36

seven visits. We

Collin  06:39

did, we did eight visits. And so it was like a lot. So it was like, Okay, well, maybe I don't say number of visits, maybe I say number of days, because that's kind of better. But even then, then I'm like, Well, I'd hired I trained my staff. I did all I set out everything on Monday, everything on Tuesday, everything on Wednesday, and then I start to let go on Tuesday on Thursday. So that's a bit much that's a bit too long, right? Supposed to be doing like nine visits a day, right? It's a little well, yeah. So we were but on the other hand, it's such I mean, it's yeah, some days it might be like four. Right? So some days it might be two. Yeah. This is the other thing of like, I can't just say days, because then it you don't know it's not a it's not a

07:31

number of hours. Yes.

Collin  07:35

Yeah, until you've accrued number of hours, which is what I was going with the number of visits? Because I mean, that's the guess. Right there. Yeah. Because in the beginning, we had nothing. And so it was like, you're going to do one visit on Tuesday. And then I will see you again next week to check on a visit. But now that I can get five visits within one morning. Yeah, like, come on. So I realized I realized that I was shadowing my staff member on a visit today. And I still try and chat with them on brand new visits that come up because repetition is good. So they're going to cut their teeth on a lot of repetition for existing clients. Oh, yeah, yeah. But the new clients, or clients that book once every four months are going to come up. And to have them confident enough to tackle that doing a cold walk in, is not, that's different. That's different. So I'm still gonna shatter them on those. So I did that today. And I realized I was like, Oh, my staff that I'm shadowing on this visit has done what's your, what's your, like, almost 40 visits?

08:47

Fine. So I

Collin  08:49

free. Okay. And yeah, it's a That's right. And weirdly,

Brandon  08:56

only one of the visits this week were vacation clients.

Collin  09:04

Which, which is not normal for us. So this week, so we have some but we have a gentleman who books us for a walk in the morning at like nine and then a walk at seven for his dog. This week. We also had a lady who wanted us to let her dog out at 10 and 130. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we also had somebody who wanted their cats checked on and then another person who other cats checked on and then we had like, and then like that we quickly were having like, like the mornings were just so stacked and I was like these people are still here. Like they're not like this is this is kind of like we've never experienced this as a business before because we have only ever done vacation clients.

09:50

But now we're not.

Collin  09:52

Now we're getting now we're getting dailies, and my dailies are now competing with my vacation clients. So I am now I'm going, Oh, well, I think I'm going to have to hire a staff member who just does like Vaizey visits. And then does this. Oh, go ahead. Sorry, you're fine. Keep going for the staff because I was slightly twisting. So Oh, and then another staff member, or two staff members who who does like the morning visits, and then the evening visits. So that way, they're kind of freed up with their schedule. Because a lot of this is like, if you have a daily at 10, and one, and if I can't hard to get new stuff in there, like a vacay. I was gonna go vacation for a week, like there's no room, you can't squeeze him, right? It's hard. It's really hard plus, because I know that that client is coming back eventually, that same day, I can't move those times around too much. They become irrelevant, right? Let's say that 10 I'm like, Well, I can do a letter. Well, now, you know, 11 to one, that's only two hours. And but if I move the one out an hour, that's two, they're coming home at four, like, not really white. So

Brandon  11:04

scheduling all of a sudden has been like, kind of weird. This is weird. This is true. These do you think these are people that are like, going back to the office now? And I like, ya know,

Collin  11:15

I like to walk my dog and all these times, and my dog is used to it. So keep walking my dog at these times. So like, wearing bellies daily is just like up here from like, what what? I don't, some of them? Well, one of them was the lady who, um, she's a teacher. And she was originally planning to get her Chesapeake Bay Retriever for winter break. But the breeder called the breeder Contact us now and was like, you can have it now. And she was said yes. And then she said, Oh, seriously, she had the dog in her car going home. And she called us it was like, so I have to go to work tomorrow.

Brandon  11:57

giant dog. And,

Collin  12:03

and then we have one coming up. And this is actually an increasingly increasingly popular request. And I don't know how we are going to be able to meet this. And even if we should I, an elderly lady who is showing early signs of Alzheimer's. Her children, and the care facility that she works at it's an independent living center, have all decided that what she needs is like a kind of like a comfort dog therapy dog ish. But she, she can't take care of the dog. Like she can't be relied upon

Brandon  12:41

to feed dog, bathe dog, do stuff with dogs. So

Collin  12:49

they contacted us. And we're like,

12:52

no, easy answer.

Collin  12:54

Could you do this? And so I am doing a meet and greet tomorrow to review this information because I want to I need to figure out what they're looking for. Because if they want, like, three times a day, like a 7am, a 2pm and a 9pm. I can't do that. Because those are my vacation client hours. Yeah. But if they're like, Oh, if you could do like a nine, one and a four, like, okay, I can probably do that. But I don't know. So I feel like I feel like the answer this question is a hard no.

Brandon  13:31

Because I'm so here's my

Collin  13:36

realist side of the brain talking like if if

Brandon  13:40

the family thinks she needs one, but she can't take

Collin  13:46

care of it. The family is the people that need to take care of it. Right. Like I understand that. I understand that. Nursing Facility is not in charge of that, because there can't be responsible for dog to but like,

Brandon  14:00

yes. Yeah, I mean, so counterpoint.

Collin  14:07

Counterpoint, none of her family lives in town, except for one of her daughters. And she's still working.

Brandon  14:12

I mean, then it's like it. This seems like just like, I

Collin  14:22

don't know, it's to non standard request. I'd be like, No. Yeah. So we've got I've got I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna, I'm not going to

Brandon  14:30

own your dog for you. Right even even

Collin  14:34

like basically as far as like, would you own this dog for this lady who just wants to pet it? I understand exigent circumstances and all that. Okay, I get it. But like,

Brandon  14:44

that's weird.

14:45

Yeah. You know, I mean, like,

Collin  14:46

this is not the first time we've gotten this request of my mom is in her late 80s. And she we want her to keep the cat or we want her to keep the dog

Brandon  15:00

Yeah, what do we do? Right? And just like,

Collin  15:05

that's really tough, because they do view it as this is a quality of life thing for them.

15:10

That's true, I guess does make I feel like it's different. If they're living, I feel like the differences. Are

Collin  15:15

they living in assisted living? Or are they at home? Right? I feel like they for some reason, to me, that makes a big difference, right? If you're living in an assisted care facility, like, yeah, yeah. But like,

Brandon  15:28

if you're at your house, okay. Yeah, there's still a level of it.

Collin  15:33

And yeah, and cognitive ability, I think is a big thing for me. So yeah, part of my discussion with them. Tomorrow is going to be like, what happens when I just walk into the house? Like, what?

15:43

What's that? Like? What is like, because I've got to,

Collin  15:47

I've got to come in, you know, in this practical things to like, how do you want me to interact with your mom? Like, how I don't, because I don't know, like, I don't know, what her what her mental state is, or what that fluctuates looks like. And, you know, this also puts an untoward pressure on your staff to be going into a home with a person

Brandon  16:12

there. Well, right, because, like, if there's a medical emergency, yeah. Like, you're there,

Collin  16:23

you know, or you are discovered or have, like, if they fall, right, like,

Brandon  16:28

now, that's you're also taking all that responsibly,

Collin  16:33

as well. You're not even though it's like tangentially related and you're not like officially taking on that responsibility. You're taking on that responsibility.

Brandon  16:42

Right? Of what happens to them.

Collin  16:46

What happens if I show up and they there felt they had an accident, they're stuck in the you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah, like, now, that is a pressure and stuff added to you, that you didn't really sign up for? Because you're just here for the dog? And like, this is? This is not, but still, obviously, you have to do something right. You got to do you got to call 911. You gotta do a whole thing you got to but if obligations are like, Yeah, I mean, just human decency, obligation, right? You're not gonna be like, Okay, walk your dog by and like, leave. You know what I mean? Like, that's not what you're gonna do. But yes, that is a lot of pressure on you, in that situation as well. Yeah. So this, these are all factors that I have to consider of like, what's our responsibility? What's our role and expectations? And then yeah, going, is that something that we're comfortable with? Because we're already in a, we already take care of one dog whose owner is has mobility issues, and he's wheelchair bound. And so he needs us to walk his dog twice a day. So we interface with him. And actually, we came over one time, and my staff member couldn't get in, couldn't get in couldn't get in. And like a few minutes later, the EMTs arrived because he had fallen out of his wheelchair and had called them and then was unable to notify us because he has a little just that. Although Yeah, yeah. And so my staffer was standing there, like, with the EMTs being like, well, I guess I'll take the dog out. While

18:21

Yeah, it'll be a real awkward,

Collin  18:23

like, I'll be right back.

18:27

As a real weird, right. No, but yeah,

Collin  18:30

it was real. So yeah, I much prefer clients who are not home. We are starting to get more clients who are working from home but still now want their dogs walked. And so they are like, meeting us at the door with their dog with the harness on and leash handing them over to us. Which is weird. I don't know. It's very odd for me. Again, all within the past like week and a half all these things were just like, Oh, yes, ever all the time make please. And so I was like, Well, you know, I'll just have strange It has totally strange like the business that I'm running right now looks nothing like the business I was running three weeks ago like so surprised? Yeah. But are both both new hires are now officially out in their own little fledglings doing their own thing. So please, bye.

Brandon  19:32

Just their own stuff. So that's, that's all good. Luck good.

Collin  19:37

Finding those those people who have another job is really important. But at the same time being able to be like, like one of the one of the new hires going, yeah, like your first day you got six hours of work, like, I was not able to do that. But uh, yeah, go you know, yeah.

20:00

Yeah, four months ago, like,

Collin  20:02

it's kind of that's kind of intense to realize like a little scary, scary, but it is. It is. So anyway, we're working towards that we're doing stuff. So that's, that's been my week. And so yeah, each evening was like, the reason I had to keep pushing it off because something new kept being booked.

20:21

And surprise. And then I

Collin  20:25

had to go shadow a staff or like walk them through stuff or do the meet and greet or do this other stuff. And so it was just so Today Tonight, in about a few minutes, a staff member is going to check into the visit. And we're all good. And so hopefully, we'll be okay yeah, it's been more than up to a little intense. or what have you. You've been doing? It's been very busy last like three weeks for me, I think. Oh, yeah. Right. Like, this is the first weekend where I don't think I have anything to

Brandon  21:06

do. Which is a nice change of pace.

21:10

It does feel a bit odd.

Collin  21:12

Is that because of like, extracurricular things or social things or school things? Right sort of both so like the wildlife so it's a three weeks ago, Susan's mom was married. We're up to big party right now.

Brandon  21:27

My babies like a little

Collin  21:29

ceremony all stuff. Right. So we did that. Video is very nice. Oh, yeah. Very short, right that he was did not lying this time. Like he didn't.

21:39

Let's take a minute.

Brandon  21:41

75 years later, like, Come on, man. We do. So anyway, that was good. Then, then next weekend, we were invited to a Kingston, Janna. Ah, you have to go to that. Right. Yes. So a girl from school that really known for like, forever, just like kindergarten, right? I have a picture somewhere of me holding her

Collin  22:05

up on my arm when she was like in kindergarten. Oh my gosh. To her keen, say her 15th birthday party. And so we did the whole we went to that mass, the beginning. Right. So there's a big at all. Very Yeah, I went to the official they were like, well, you know, you know. The whole thing is I do it. Okay, so this is going to, we'll start here. It's a very long day, right? I don't have the stamina. For Mexican festivities.

Brandon  22:35

Oh my gosh, I can't I don't know how to do it. I I don't have the stamina for this. So they have the mass it like one. Right. And it's a Catholic mass ceremony. So it's like, forever long, right? And then there's a break of some amount of time. And then there's the like, party part like the reception with like food and music and a print. She comes in and there's a whole thing and then like way later, like a dancing part. Oh my, this is like 12 hours

23:13

of axon.

Collin  23:16

Yeah, it's crazy man. Like they got they. We talked to her the next day. And she said the dance got over at like 3am.

Brandon  23:24

Right. So this is like 14 hours of celebration. I've been bad. They don't play. They're not messing around. Okay, this is some serious celebrating. Alright, not not like little namby pamby like, oh, throw a small party, no serious business. Okay, so we went to the mass, and we went to the reception for a long time. And so it was clearly I see a bunch of like her family and her brother was there who was in school to see him a long time. And stuff, we kind of sat and we saw a bunch of people, we ate too much food, right?

Collin  24:02

Whatever. So like, the way that these work is you will come in the door. And someone will just say sit down and I'll bring you food. Yes, that's it. So I just like okay, and so you find a table, there's just, it's just like a banquet hall. Right and there's just tables. And so we just sat with some random people that we didn't know. And I think there were like some of her parents friends cuz she didn't really seem to know them very much either. But like a

24:27

nice time

Brandon  24:30

they came and they just

Collin  24:32

brought this like a massive plate of food. And they'll bring around some drinks. You won't drink here you go. You know in the end, they'll come around later. Hey, wants more. Okay, you go right is it's crazy. There's like the friendliest group of people in the whole entire world. Right, just hanging out. being super nice and chatting and stuff. So he's got a bunch of kids that are currently in school or had graduated a long time ago. So it's fun. She made her grand entrance and address that I'm not entirely sure how she made through the door.

25:03

Massive,

Collin  25:05

like dress right? And had a sweet mariachi band.

Brandon  25:09

It was pretty cool. Right?

Collin  25:12

So that was two weeks ago. Last week. I have a quick question. Oh, yeah,

25:16

go ahead. I was keeping it apart. Okay,

Collin  25:17

go well, no qingsiya? What kind of I have I've never attended one for what are there any, like symbolic things that are done? Or, like, I'm just thinking like at a wedding, you know, there's the bouquet and there's other stuff that kind of that go along with it? Do they have any sort of those kind of? Well, the mappings that are done mass part is a lot more symbolic. Okay. So it was kind of like a mass part is where it's like a, like a rededication to the church. Right? Because you're grown up, you're kind of like a grown up now. You're like, 15 rack, so you're rededicating to the church a little bit. They're like, they talk a lot about the importance of family, and stuff like that. So that all there's a lot of that stuff in there. Like, okay, there was like a, like a read dedication and dedication to family, and then the

Brandon  26:18

priest kind of like, talk to the

Collin  26:21

other friends in the audience about how important like school and learning and church and family was, right. It's kind of like a message to the community. You know, like that. Yeah. And then, so there's a lot of that stuff in there. Gotcha. So that's, that's what the big message was, and then and that's like, celebrating the family in the church. And then the reception is celebrating like, her, right, with her party and her cake and her all that. But, like, there's a few things like the giant dress of doom is a part of the thing, right? Soap is amazing, right? Just that kind

Brandon  27:01

of stuff. Like there's later on, I think, if that we didn't stay for the dancing bit, because again, we don't have the stamina for this. But there's also some like traditional dances happen. And like group dances, because there'll be like, when they go in, there's like it's similar to a wedding and that there are that are similar to like, maid of honor and groomsmen but they're like just for her. Right? So there's procession in and these days young guys that are kind of like her school age and like her friends are. They walk in, like female friends and like this big procession thing, and that's cool. Later on in the evening, there's like a dance where they like do a whole dance. Like, the boy is like, beads a dance thing and stuff like that that's some of the stuff. Okay, cool. It was really fun to do that, so

Collin  28:09

I was curious about Yeah, so So you've got the wedding Kinsey here.

Brandon  28:16

Last weekend. Okay,

Collin  28:18

so then the Friday we had the people team did a thing where they like

Brandon  28:27

came around school and they presented jerseys to their that so the players presented a jersey to teachers that they thought were important to them. Right. So I was like, this is like a new

Collin  28:41

thing. I don't think I've ever done this before. It's kind of sweet. So every everybody on the team picked a teacher. That was like important or impactful in some way. Yeah. And they gave them a jersey to wear to the game the next night. Game for like thing. So Susan and I both got one. Oh, winning so that's called power couple the party dad. Yeah, obviously like it was super cool. Susan like melted in giant puddle of tears. It was really horrible. So we went to a baseball game on the Friday. So that was last weekend. Go today. So last Friday. And then last Saturday.

Brandon  29:17

Reading part two.

Collin  29:21

Oh my goodness. Yeah. So

29:23

it was a wedding

Collin  29:24

the wedding of a former student. Right. And a another Mexican wedding. Oh boy. Oh boy. Are you fully recovered from Dickinson Oh, just barely. Oh my lands it was very intense more stamina required. For this one, so Mexican wedding last weekend.

Brandon  29:51

Very exciting. I was really cool. That was really cool. Because like, you know, that was less

Collin  29:59

girl, the girl Got married was like she was in like fourth grade when I first started working at school, right. So like when I first was like reading code, she was like in that group of kids. Yeah. And so she just got married. And like, she was like, Yeah, you guys are coming. And we're like, what? Yes. All right. So I was little shocked to be invited to that very excited and not sad in the slightest.

Brandon  30:22

So again, very long Catholic wedding,

Collin  30:25

they did do a really sweet thing where they have like, a, they called it the lasso. And it's basically like a double rosary that they

Brandon  30:35

put over each other at the altar.

Collin  30:38

Right? It's it's like, big, giant thing. And when they're sitting up there, sighs Yeah, it's like people. So it's like, and it's like, joined together at the end. So it's like, one goes over one end goes over her. And the other end went over him. And then it was like, join together in the rosary thing. In the middle. It was kind of sweet, right, like, awesome. So they did that at the wedding. And he graduated from pretty as he graduated from high school as well. So like,

Brandon  31:10

so we know him too. And then we

Collin  31:13

did that. And we came home for a little bit, and rested and then went back to the reception for that. And that was there for a really long time. We were there for ever, we probably were at the reception for like four hours.

Brandon  31:28

And like, there was a ton of people there that like

Collin  31:34

we haven't seen in a long time. And oh, that's nice, like other random students and like, stuff like that. So that was really cool. turnout. That led to the library. It was there too. So we sat with them. Her and her husband. They're just kind of hanging out and saw like 10s of billions of people. So that was fun. Really cool.

31:55

I was surprised too, because

Collin  31:56

there was a couple of people, like one of the people was like, Oh, my gosh, I heard that you were going to be here and I'm so excited. I'm so glad I got to see you. And it's like, alright, well, I wasn't expecting that. Thanks. That was really cool. You I think they'd heard that I was at the past in the morning. I didn't get a chance to see them.

Brandon  32:19

I see. I see. Like so, but again, very long. Very long time. Right. And we

Collin  32:29

really do need to recover and oh man. Yeah, it was crazy. Sorry. Geez. Oh,

Brandon  32:33

very fun though. Java, there's like it's very interesting.

Collin  32:40

There's really fun. Lots of really like friendly people, like really complete strangers like being like, Hey, nice to meet you. Here. A lot of stuff is like really cool. So also important observation.

Brandon  32:51

If you are ever in a room full of Mexican dudes.

Collin  32:58

The first thing that you will notice about yourself is that you're belt is inadequate, inadequate.

Brandon  33:04

Severely right? You will feel terribly underdressed. In that regard. You're like, wow, I don't I just need to leave

Collin  33:15

because I just there's no way that I can be cool. Like legitimately like I can't. I was gonna recuse myself because I can't hang in this crowd. People. Just not cool enough for this. I can't. It's not gonna happen. I like suffering from IBS. Inadequate. Yeah, syndrome. Yeah. All right, let's just not just not gonna, okay, he's not cool enough, right? If only I could be half as cool as that dude over there, then my life would be complete.

Brandon  33:49

So Alas, I am not. It's not a question. The question is

Collin  33:57

what has been shipped to your nothing? Nothing. I can't compete with this. Okay, no way.

Brandon  34:04

It's impossible. Right? I can never be able to dress

Collin  34:07

as awesome as that. I'm just gonna have to deal with it and live my life and sadness, I guess. I don't really

Brandon  34:17

know, you know,

Collin  34:18

that way. You can maybe work up to it. Like one little belt at a time? I don't know. But yeah, that's the other day the big observation here. But he had a mariachi band playing for many hours. And he had some cool stuff. There was allegedly going to be some traditional dancing, but I don't really know when that was gonna start and we've already been there for like, four hours. We're like, Okay, we were just gonna go home now. Tired, like it's 830 and the party is just now getting ready to ramp up and move me and just I can't

34:53

I don't have the stamina for this.

Collin  34:56

I was driving. So driving around town. Late at night, I realized just how not late at night it is anymore, but just how tired I am. And I'm driving past places, you know, like, clubs or nightlife or stuff here and it's like, oh my gosh, it's, I'm really tired. I'm ready to go. It's like eight o'clock, and there's nobody in the parking lot. I'm just like, Oh, that's right, because nobody shows up until much later. Well, the fact that like this celebration initially kicked off at like, at like, one o'clock in the afternoon. That's and then like, here, it is, like 830 and it's just now ramping up to get started. Like, Okay,

35:34

I gotta get out of here. I can't deal with

Collin  35:37

that is something very. That's updates. That is really intense.

35:42

I don't have I don't have the ability to hang.

Brandon  35:46

Like, I can't deal with it. Like I'm not cool enough.

Collin  35:51

Again, I gotta go. You don't have a good night have a wild party stamina, you're tired. Don't have a sweet shirt, right command and just not. You just never gonna be as cool as like an old Mexican dude. That's just facts, how big facts of dollars and brightly colored for those shirts, man. They're amazing. You're just never gonna be that cool. The hats that some of these dudes have all my lands. They're just magnificent. Like,

Brandon  36:18

I can't do it. Just Well, I'm just just not cool enough. So it's like, I

36:28

need to go home. Scrolling, just gonna go home for a little bit. And now I'm just gonna go home and soak in my sadness, my misery like

Collin  36:45

let's do it. That sounds like you've had quite the eventful past. I mean, right? Yeah, no kidding. Yeah. So like, Alright, my social stamina is just completely wiped out. So I'm just gonna stay in. Anyway. Well, even even even extroverts. Have you reached that point. And especially for introverts where you reach that point where it's just like, there is nothing in the social tank anymore. And I just need to drain out. I'm so drained. And I and you just have to, like I say, just recharge with some quiet moments just as much as you can and then

37:28

get ready for the next one.

Brandon  37:30

Yes. And so it's like it's just very exhausting. For me. Like, blocking it. Go. Calm down. Sit.

Collin  37:40

Just gonna sit and stare at this wall. See this little wall and be just incredibly full because I can't I just ate so much food. They just kept bringing you. It's not. It's like okay, so the lady that was catering. It was another former student went to school. Oh, yeah. Oh, man.

Brandon  37:58

Oh my goodness. She's, she's like a former career. She graduated from school and she like is now going to school and she has like a full time job. And we can she does catering. And, you know, it was so good. I was

Collin  38:16

like her mom, and her aunt or somebody is like

Brandon  38:21

their sister. Oh my gosh. Oh, that's really neat. Yeah, it was really cool.

38:30

And again is the same thing.

Brandon  38:31

We're bringing some food. Okay.

Collin  38:37

I'll just be over here ago. Loosening my belt. That's not as cool as that guy. Over here. Sitting Yeah, no, definitely.

Brandon  38:45

Not as sweet as that dudes. Were like the groom's dad's belt. Oh my gosh, so amazing. Like, what in the world? Is it?

38:52

Anyway, talking like,

Collin  38:54

size color rhinestone. Like

Brandon  38:57

now it was like I don't even really know how to describe this thing.

Collin  39:00

It was just immense. Like it's

Brandon  39:05

okay. I don't

Collin  39:06

even know the basics of my jeans would be sufficient to maintain such an immaculate belt right? I don't think it'd be the thing. Like it's it's incredible. Like, fair enough.

Brandon  39:26

But yeah, that was really fun. Yeah, they've been doing a lot so now it's like okay, stop is nice. Hopefully you can relax now. Hopefully,

Collin  39:42

it was really funny because like so I wouldn't we walked in there two of the first people I saw were like, some girls that are in my class currently, and they're just like, stare stared at me like,

Brandon  39:51

What were you doing here? Yeah, like, Wait, um, she

39:55

invited me What are you? Yeah, You tell me

Brandon  40:01

they were just like, why are you

40:08

probably like a jock? Like No, not him. What is he doing here?

Collin  40:13

Trying to get away from you.

40:15

Yeah is really funny. You're like,

40:21

what? No

40:28

suggestions are hilarious.

Brandon  40:31

Start on the funny. Like, what are you doing here? The bride invited me. So

40:36

I'm here.

Collin  40:37

So I'm gonna sit here.

40:40

Yeah, I'm gonna sit here and hang out I guess.

Collin  40:44

Chill. Right? Nothing you can do about it. Yeah interesting news. So across from our house is an old it's a commercial lot, but it's a small very small building originally it was a florist with an outside greenhouse then it was turned into a trophy shop by the owners and they did engraving. And then she turned it into a one bedroom, two bath to

41:17

180. Yeah.

Collin  41:20

But she kept the old greenhouse. And what she did was she actually made it into a garden with a sitting in a walking path inside. And so like a lot of the original pains from the feminine have fallen and aren't there anymore. So it's it's a very open feeling. But she put up a privacy fence kind of along the walls. So people who are on the street can't see into the greenhouse. But if you walk up close, you can see which is what we've done, because we've been curious. And it's very nice. It's a pretty area. Well, this was recently put on the market and sold. And we were very excited about this, because we were like, it's a commercial lot. There's been rumors about what it could be. And for the longest time we were like, it's going to be someone actually said, we talked to a builder and he was like, Oh, I think it's gonna be a restaurant. And I was like, that will be the coolest thing. Because it's in the neighborhood. And as long as it doesn't become like, you know, a dive bar or something, I think I'll be fine with this. But it would be a really nice addition to the neighborhood because it's just surrounded by houses, but it's just one commercial lawn. Well find out. It's not a commercial property anymore. I know it's not a private residence. What has it been turned into? Can we get

42:43

pottery studio?

Collin  42:44

No. Airbnb, oh, now beautiful property, this beautiful property has been taken off the market entirely. So that could it provide permanent housing for somebody who would like it? No. So that somebody could turn it into a business and raise property taxes and help the city out? No, it's going to sit vacant for 98% of the year until the one week where they need it for the fair and then people will rent it out. And that's all they're going to do. And I am so angry so angry about this I cannot even begin to tell you

Brandon  43:23

saw so bad that's terrible. i That's why I don't like it. So this is a good idea. theory by going to like without your own house.

Collin  43:50

When you're gone by the sea original idea. That's makes sense to me. It's fine. If you're gonna buy properties specifically so that you can rent them out to other people as Airbnb. Debt asinine, right? It's just

Brandon  44:03

ridiculous. Right? Yeah.

Collin  44:08

Again, the fact that I could like what it was originally conceived, it was hey, you've got an extra room in your bed in your house, rent it out for people coming through. This has now been contorted and bastardized to the point where a whole investment firms will purchase down to downtown office buildings and convert them into apartments and they run apartment complexes on on the on Airbnb and but they say oh it's an Airbnb and then you look at it and you go oh no, this is actually just an apartment complex. That that you run button all of a sudden it's in Airbnb. And it's it just destroys the available housing for people. All and you can't, you can't compete like this is this was a pretty, you know, somebody could have bought this and live there. But what they did is they just turned it into a rental effectively. So it is it's, you know to say, oh, it's sexy because it's an Airbnb. No, it's another rental in the city that you can't that normal people can't get access

Brandon  45:20

to. Yes. And it's just like, there's already not enough housing. Right. And that problem is

Collin  45:28

exacerbated by some one random person being like, Oh, I own like these idiots on the internet, right? There's like, oh, you will own 39 properties like,

Brandon  45:42

Why? Why do you own 39

Collin  45:45

rental properties? Like one person does not need to own 39 houses? That is ridiculous, right? And so these people own like, hundreds of houses.

Brandon  45:58

One person does not need to own hundreds of houses. This is absolutely

Collin  46:06

ridiculous, right? But it's because of the loopholes in like, property tax. And like all this nonsense, all these business tax loopholes where you're like, Well, you see, I bought one. And then I made this much money. And then I put this in escrow. And then I used that money to buy another one. And then I just like cycled through this whole thing. And now I have like 7000 billion dollars and 100 houses. And that's 100 places where people cannot live. Right? Yeah. Because Airbnb is, like, well, and the Airbnb is like, so the Airbnb is take that entire step further. And basically, you know, because you can still live in somebody's rental property. Yes, right. Yes. But Airbnb, you're there for like, a week is ridiculous. And a, a rental property owner has, you know, again, there are some that do not do this, but they have an incentive to get that rental and get people in it right and have them stick and stay and make it appealing to them. And like there is some incentive to do that. Airbnb is all about turnover. Yeah, it's grimy, right. It's like a grimy type of business. Because you don't you don't want them there that long, and you just want to get them in and out as much as possible. Right again, it's like, do you like that house over there? Oh, man, it'd be beautiful. Can I rent it? No. But you know, 11 other people are going to rent it this month, because they're passing through town and you're like, oh, yeah, like, I can rent it for a day. That's, that's your thing. Oh, you know what? This is about making me really angry. And I don't I should not do this. I really need to figure out how much they're charging for this. Oh, if you don't you don't do that. Don't do that. You're gonna you're gonna like shoot the windows out. Don't do that. It's probably not. Oh, you know? I'm

Brandon  47:59

just gonna be real bad. Somebody's real bad. I'm gonna. Anyway,

Collin  48:05

I'm gonna I'm gonna really not like myself here in a minute. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Zoom in. Zoom in on the good old street here.

Brandon  48:15

Anything? Oh? Yeah. Look what you did. Oh, so, so frustrating.

Collin  48:27

Why did I do this to myself? Yeah, but it's it's slimy. And like, when you see those videos, because this is this has become popularized because one person did it. They posted a video online about how easy it was to make a whole bunch of money doing it. And then like, now a ton of people do it. Right? Those same kind of dudes it like, they still seem like dobro II type of dudes like these are the kinds of people that do this that I like, I'm glad that your personality is zero. That's really exciting. But like it's just like, it's I don't know, it's just slimy it really rubs me the wrong way. It's just like,

Brandon  49:06

like, it's ridiculous. Like I can

Collin  49:10

Okay, you ready for this? Okay, I'm just gonna put this out there. This building, it's a excess it can hold up to six guests. It has six beds in one bath. This is not okay, whatever. beautiful on the inside, but it is $245 A Night to $145 times let's say 29 nights in a month that is over $7,000 a month in like if this were a quote unquote like mortgage like if you're like, Oh, yay, they're like that's what I wouldn't be on text in that like seven grand a month for this thing. And I know exactly how much they paid for it because I thought it we thought about buying it and converting the open lot next to it into a dock run but anyway, that's beside the point. But it's just like, it's just so it makes me because it doesn't do anything for the neighborhood, it doesn't do anything for the community doesn't do it does adds no culture, it adds nothing i That's for you, there's not a lot of value to the community that it lives in. That's the other problem. Because obviously, because it's also not bringing people or tax dollars into the community, because the tax dollars are going to wherever the owner lives, which could be like, you know, hundreds of miles away, right, some dude in Chicago, right? Like, doesn't matter. So the tax dollars are also exiting the community, if there's even any taxes to be paid, right?

Brandon  50:39

That's the like, the sales tax

Collin  50:44

of the property goes there. But then all the tax on all the transaction goes to wherever the bank that the owner is in. So the bank's probably in the Seychelles. So it doesn't go up where, you know, it's just like, second money up into a void. And somebody you know, there's gonna be those people. Somebody's gonna comment on this,

51:03

like, we'll go toe wealth is made, right? You take a loan out at the bank, and then that's new capital that gets put into the economy.

Collin  51:13

Yeah, yeah, I know, I took econ one also. Alright, calm down. This isn't. Yeah, and I'm, like, the city is well documented on here, my thoughts on the city and how it has struggled with doing things. But now I'm looking at all this stuff. And I'm going, it doesn't like it doesn't doesn't make it a better city. And that's what I guess that's the point where I'm at thinking about a lot of this stuff of like, a restaurant would have been amazing.

51:50

Like this, right? Yeah. Something

Collin  51:53

you know, and I understand, like, people are like, pottery studio, pottery studio, you know, like, exactly like, it could have been something that would have brought culture and something fun to do in the community. But no, instead, it's a rental for $245 a night. Which is just asinine looking at the other prices in here. And it's probably the whoever bought it, it's probably their like, 112 rental property. Anyway, that's it. They just, they don't actually own it right there. Their LLC owns it. Oh, yeah. Or like there. Yeah, exactly. Like, it's an asteroid. So they don't even have it. They don't even pay personal property tax on it. Because it's owed. Yes, this is what you weren't touching poles. You, you form an LLC. And this is how you form an LLC, you file a piece of paper with your spouse, there's like nothing, right, like, and then you start putting that name on everything. And then you don't technically own it. But the LLC does. You just appoint yourself to manage the LLC. And then you get people like, I have some friends who would do like they were going into, they were actually going into renovating houses. So like a construction company. And they just formed an LLC, it was like, I forget what it was called, was something really funny. And they just, they paid it opened a bank account for the LLC, they all put money into that. And then that's the money that they used to renovate houses with. And they share in the profits from it when they sell them. But they don't actually own the house. And so I wouldn't be surprised if they if this person doesn't actually own it. And it's it just now I have two from my front porch, stare at this house. And it's always really anger me every time. Every time I

Brandon  53:40

see, you shouldn't look at how much it costs. Yeah, to yourself. So you

Collin  53:49

know, but to make myself happier we went and we drew it, we did drive to drive a Tesla, which was very bad.

Brandon  53:54

Oh, yeah. So like,

Collin  53:58

you texted me that while I was at the wedding reception, so we didn't really have. So so we are obviously in the market for a car. And

54:10

speaking of well documented,

Collin  54:13

not going to include those show notes. Because it's too many. It's like every episode for the past six months was a side note on that the car is still not fixed. And I called the repair company and they are going to be paying my car rental until they go to that's fine. Now their LLC is going to be paying it'll just be built as classified as a business expense. It'll be a tax write off, right? I'm sorry. That's the other thing too, right. Any renovations you do on your rental property is write off his taxes and you get that capital back in your thing and you don't actually have to pay anything to it. And so if you're paying taxes at all, yes, yes. I know how it works crypto bros that are going to comment on this. I honestly am not some noob okay. Yeah, so we So I peruse, right I have alerts set up maybe for certain things across many different channels and a birdie popped up and said, Hey, this might be interesting to you. And I said to myself, I says, this is very interesting to me. And unfortunately, it popped up at the one. It's like, I don't know what this is. It's the one car dealer where all of the cars are that I want to drive. Show up at this one car dealer.

55:30

They're just sending me alerts straight to you.

55:32

I know. But then I'll search like shadow internet's like, here. He is, like five

Collin  55:36

other car dealers in the area? Do they have interest in cars that don't drive? No.

55:40

Is that the one that you went to?

Brandon  55:43

What is it the one that you went through that one time?

55:45

Yes, it is. A ha, your boy from Ohio knows and he put you in a database and he's just sending you all this stuff? NATS

Collin  55:56

but then I'm like, well, but then what I do is like, I'm gonna go and search. Like, I'll go to the the other car lots like actual pages and search their inventory. And I'm just like, none of these are interesting. It's just this one car like, I don't understand. So anyway. So I got connected with the guy. Again, he's he's local. He's not that original guy. And I was just like, hey, is this one still available? And he was like, Yeah, really? Literally just got it in this morning. Do you want to test drive it? And I was like, Yeah, we're on our way over right now. And it ended up like, we just show up. And it was beautiful. Because he was like, Hey, I'm, I'm busy with like three other clients right now. I've, you know, he's been on like, seven test drives with me if it's been perfectly

56:43

because I know you're not gonna just come back. Here you go. So he said, Just like, whatever, you just go for it.

Collin  56:52

Thanks. So just a minute, let me go get the keys for you. I'll get it pulled around for you. You got two car seats out, and we'll put in. And then he was literally like, he pulled it up, he jumped out and he was like, see it a bit. jumped in. And he was like, Oh, okay. So these are all well documented things. But just a couple side things. The complete lack of physical controls is very off putting like, a very off putting, and I did not actually know this. Or if I did, it slipped my brain in order to shift so steering wheel. What does the little stock on the right hand side that comes from the column? What does that usually do

Brandon  57:36

the stock on there saying that the windshield wipers

Collin  57:39

wrong. This is the shifter and you, you click it up or down. And it's like

57:47

an old school like column forward like

Collin  57:52

like a column shifter, but you don't like you don't have to grab it with the reverse grip and like shove it up or down you'd like yeah, to like, slam the clutch into the floor and like jerk on it really hard. That's how there's always work to like, instead of just lightly tap it up or down with your finger. And then when you want to park on the end of the stock is a little button and you just push it in that puts into Park. That's really a terrible design. Because I like hit the turn signal or hit the wipers on my car, like all the time when I'm driving

Brandon  58:20

because I like move my hand.

Collin  58:25

I can move my hands like a real person. So like, I don't, I don't tend to like they

58:31

told me Driver's Ed right. I

58:32

don't do that, like.

Collin  58:34

So that was weird. And then when you look at the steering wheel, it's got these. It's not necessarily a D pad on both sides, but it's kind of a D pad or you can go up down, left, right and enter on both sides of the steering steering wheel. These don't do anything. When you're just there. In order for them to do something, you have to go into the center console screen, go into setting and then they'll do stuff. So if you want to change the mirrors, the side mirrors this is what I was looking for it like I can't figure out what the side mirrors are. How I do adjust those. Well, there's a button on the screen that you press to go into settings to adjust side mirrors when you are in that mode. The stocks, adjust the side mirrors

Brandon  59:18

when you are

59:21

it's mode dependent.

59:22

Yes, that's annoying, too.

Collin  59:25

Yeah. The other thing about this that is kind of cool is when you go to reverse, the side nears automatically angled down just a little bit so that you can see the back of your car better, which I thought was an interesting touch. For looks at the side mirrors when you're backing up

59:41

what is that about if you're going

Collin  59:43

into a tight parking space you gotta find the other thing about this. There's a singular vent that goes from the across the entire dashboard from left to right. It's just one massive open vent. There's no little sugar sugar like deflect or whatever it may be saying,

1:00:02

which Tesla were you driving?

Collin  1:00:04

This is a Tesla Model three.

Brandon  1:00:06

Okay, that's what I need to know.

Collin  1:00:09

So you may be asking, Well, how do you shut off airflow? Well, good question, you press on the screen, and then you can drag your finger around to point the air in the direction that you want it to blow

1:00:21

you and which is

Collin  1:00:32

less than ideal, like I know that is sub optimal for sure sub optimal. Now the the roof is all glass, which is really super cool. Like that is a very that's very nice. And then the other thing that just takes so long to get used to is the regenerative braking. That it has two modes it has like, basically like low and high. ICE was driving it on high. This is so severe that if you were driving at 78 miles an hour down the highway, hypothetically, if Brandon, if you're listening Brennan not Brandon, but Brennan, if you're listening, I wasn't driving 78 This is just a hypothetical situation.

1:01:16

Oh, yeah, clearly not, you know, no one would ever do that.

Collin  1:01:19

No, no, but if you're driving 78, and you just let off the gas, you will come to a stop within a very shockingly amount.

1:01:30

That's weird when it does that. I think that's odd. Like

Collin  1:01:34

I understand because people that it is allowed, it increases your range when you do this effectively. And so there are people who drive Tesla's that don't ever touch the brake, because you don't have to if you have this mode, so basically, it's just feathering the gas at all times. Which kind of sounds exhausting to me, or does kind of terrible so, because then it's like, you can't like what's fine like you speed up the hill and then you just coast like crazy downhill can't do that in this you will stop like three feet down the hill, you will just get hit by somebody. The the driving screen is incredibly distracting, because it it animates the cars as they pass you or is there a fire behind you? And it's just like, that's that's kind of too much like that's, I wish I don't know if there's a setting to like, cut out that because I don't need it like I don't need to know that a car is on my left because I can see it. Like it's kind of so weird. kind of ridiculous. So things about it though that are obviously really neat.

Brandon  1:02:46

It's the dual motor so it's all wheel

Collin  1:02:49

drive, which is something that I I really like and let's be honest, the acceleration is is immense I never done anything like this. I've just like near instantaneous like 3.9 seconds zero to 60 like supercar territory like just straight up and you're doing it on a highway in just a four door sedan silently as well. It really is quite possibly partiers Isn't it like no noise like yeah, no we did we just turned everything out.

Brandon  1:03:24

Off and yeah, took

Collin  1:03:28

all the music off all the vents off and just drove around in silence for a little bit. It was just it was very

1:03:34

Did you feel like dad? I guess

1:03:36

dream is dad's dream car it

1:03:38

makes no noise

Brandon  1:03:41

at all perfect.

1:03:44

Exactly what he wants but

Collin  1:03:45

even even more shocking from the zero to 60 is something that I learned on Top Gear is like the 40 to 70 right like the passing when you think you like to report and no one has the passing game properly. No, everybody read about this all the time when we're going to work because someone will try to pass and then it's like get in the left lane and then they go

Brandon  1:04:06

well we like no no foot down

1:04:11

go around.

Collin  1:04:13

This is something I have been struggling with immensely in the Corolla as I have been driving around of like the passing gear you're at immediately 7000 rpm and it's just breaking and like falling to bits. So it's just not it's not a pleasant experience. A really wonderful noise is like why it's so like I'm so sorry you're not buying but oh my god for that machine, but yeah, the passing in this is is I it's almost it's it's shocking that and I turned to Megan I said this feels dangerous is what I told her. Of like, this feels like something that most people should not have access to, because of just how intense it is. And you really have to really have to recalibrate your brain when you're like, I am accelerating, because then all of a sudden, you're like, I am about to hit this person in front of me. Yeah, that's true. Everything. It's like those stories of, you know, what are the whatever they're if they're not true or whatever, but like, of like, the people who were seeing trains come by for the first time, and we're hit by them because they, their brains couldn't comprehend that they were traveling that fast. Like, I mean, this is still like, people get hit by trains, right? Because they're like, oh, I can totally make it across from a training plan. Like that's playing, that's how it works, right? Because you can't judge the speed. It's, something's coming at you. You know, that's just how it works very, very hard. And and, and so you can't because it's just so so crazy. Like it really is a you have to change everything. And then the more I was driving this, I was like, you know, this what would probably be really frustrating to me is driving this. I think going back and like having a normal car. Right, like I'm going to drive the Jeep around. Oh, no switch between these especially with the braking like the doubt that part

Brandon  1:06:11

valuated Yeah.

1:06:14

Take out the region machine and just go normal mode. Right. Yeah. So that's not caused pandemonium.

Brandon  1:06:28

I, it was insane. Do it that was my

Collin  1:06:34

that's my experience with it. And she, it was a it was really, I did come away going from it going, I don't think I should have done that. Because it does kind of ruin every other car to in some things that like, sure the seats aren't as comfortable and the finishings aren't quite as nice. And the user interface is just shockingly complicated. To be like, I want to change my mirrors, I have to click Settings, sub settings, mirror now control stocks. It's like there's no like shortcut or anything like that. Like, that's awful. So, but then, like, the acceleration, the electrical ness of it, and all have that we're very good. And I'm just still wrapping my brain around this. And

Brandon  1:07:34

so they're just they're just too expensive, unfortunately. True, some of them are. There are tears now. Right? So I don't know what they are. Because I don't really know about Tesla very much, but

Collin  1:07:51

they're fine.

Brandon  1:07:57

Some of them aren't so bad. But you know, yeah, that doesn't sound appealing at all. Like I mean, I don't like driving

Collin  1:08:07

anyways, we're also well documented, so like, I don't know, it's just not new.

Brandon  1:08:13

Information, like just, I was

Collin  1:08:17

thinking about my old car where you said that like, you want to move the near you roll down the window and stuck your hand out and grabbed it and like, oh, there we go. That was got it. Yes. Was it didn't always work. So he just like opened the window, stuck your hand out the window and went Alright, there we go. Dad, let's go. Let's go. That's how that's how my, the the, my Cherokee was is exactly like the little stocks on the windows that you just kind of was like sugar, sugar. Yeah, move around.

Brandon  1:08:44

Um, but, you know, it's like, it's just it's kind of like this is a unnecessarily complicated right now. Which is whatever. Yeah, it does seem a little bit but you know, whatever. I mean,

Collin  1:09:00

it's the wave of the future. So any future Scott make your cards way so much more we dice it you know, that's the part that's like weird to me like

Brandon  1:09:10

that like,

1:09:11

even like with gas powered cars,

Brandon  1:09:15

right? Like, if you didn't have electric seats, electric windows,

Collin  1:09:24

electric displeasure that your car would be like hundreds of pounds lighter and get better gas mileage,

Brandon  1:09:30

right like that. It just makes sense to me. Like there has to be a way to do this, like,

Collin  1:09:39

feasibly not like we're not talking like Cavalier levels of Cavalier levels of minimalism where like, what do you have in your car? Nothing sorry, but like, there has to be a way to make these things way less. Because all these electric motors all these wiring cars have made your car so heavy and it just will weight will murder your gas mileage. Right, that's just physics. Okay, it's just how physics works. More weight means more gas use because you have to have more energy to move it forward. Right? Like that's, well, this is the problem, right? This is a catch 22

1:10:14

of the, of the,

Collin  1:10:19

the batteries of electric cars, because how do you get more range? We have more battery, what happens when you add more battery? via my way? Right? Which a lot more Right? Which does what? To your range? Raise your dad, right, decrease it. There are some interesting, like batteries, like the I was reading the other day about several new types of battery that could become like, you know, more efficient and all that stuff. But like, those are still those aren't here yet. So like,

Brandon  1:10:50

you know, kind of waiting on that. Yeah.

Collin  1:10:53

So it was just a very got me thinking about a lot of things. And was like, it's very exciting to think about. That's true. And I mean, it's a good idea, right? And I know people there's the people that will be like, Yo, well, probably you're going to charge those cars, huh? We call in the power plant like, Okay, well, that might be true, but you know what you can control more effectively, the pollution from coal from one power plant than from like, a bazillion cars on the road? Right? Like, those two things were like one of them is a much easier point of control than the other. Right? So thinking about that myth, it's not even that bad. Like, it's, you know, it's not as bad as you're making it out to be. Well, it's, yeah, I think that centralized part of it is, it's definitely I think it's a distributed like you saying, like, you don't have to worry about don't have to really worry about as much transport although you do some extents, but it's just from an experience wise, like

Brandon  1:12:00

if, if for like, driving like, it's very nice.

Collin  1:12:06

And I was doing a bunch of calculations of like, chargers chargers in the area and miles. And what's nice about this one is like, it gets like, I mean, it's it's used it's it's two years old, but it still gets 200 or 350 miles on a charge, which is a lot right. So you can do quite a bit yes. Yeah. And you know, sure when you go when you go pick it down, you have to sit for a minute, but anyway, it was just a interesting experience. And I had to tell them no, thank you, but I can I don't I don't have Tesla. I have Tesla in V but they don't have tests. So appreciate it. Caught up again later. But that was the excitement we had it's quite exciting. The quest the car quest continues right? It does have a Pax I got sponsored by carquest I just realized that's an actual thing sorry What an interesting they should I don't know why they haven't made a board top table game made it d&d style. Man, you like go to the junkyard and you're like

1:13:24

you have to find like carburetor for like a 1972 Nova right you know like

1:13:33

Exactly, yeah.

Collin  1:13:36

And you have Yeah, you can choose to be the mechanic the salesman the racing driver

1:13:43

the Driver Yeah, man. That way

1:13:45

all the class bonuses

Collin  1:13:51

if carquest d&d game

1:13:53

sounds very exciting

Collin  1:13:58

on let me think about that online.

1:13:59

Okay well, I think that's probably

Collin  1:14:16

think that's yes. Time to go and recharge for tomorrow. Yes, we'll see what else we get done. So sounds good. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? Yeah, not me. That's for sure. Hopefully nothing. That's what I need a Saturday. I've actually nothing happening. So we'll see how they love you. Bye. Bye.

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